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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

First look at tho Exposition building
Put pompous guards at each o. its doors
Float American flags from its every prom
inent point and make the crowds gather
around it like so many swarms of human
bees. 1t IS Of brick end stone and was
built for the st. Louis exposition. This
exposition is held annually and this
grand hall is owned by the people of st.
Louis. 1t pays its own expenses, and
each exposition brings into the pockets of
Its stockholders about $50, 600, The stock
Is divided into small blocks. think the
shares are so, and there is a rule that no
ono man can own more than 81 900 worth
of stock
The building itself is 1873 feet long, s3S
feet wide, and 10S feet high. 1t took
1000 600 bricks to makoN, and COO tons Of
iron were used in it's construction 1t has
$3.50 electric lights, pnd lis music hall is
one of The finest IN tho world, seating
1000 people.
The convention hall is being drapcd
with flags and banners about 1900
chairs, of the plain wooden seated kitchen
variety, fill its floors and galleries. and It
looks like g Gothic cathedral of the mid
die ages, decorated with I'LL tho eXtrava-
gances Of modern political enthusiasm.
II is made up Of three long halls, with a
pitched glass roof upheld above it by
Gothic beams of iron. The three side
halls are separated from the central one,
which is the convention hall proper by
great pillars reaching TO the roof, more
than 100 feet above you. and it is on these
pillars that the galleries are fastened.
The stand for the chairman and secreta
ries is very small aud its pulpit will be
draped, | am told with an American flag
just below this are the seats for the hun
dreds of newspaper men who will be here,
and back, on a rising foor, will sit the
delegates. Fifty telegraph wires have
already been put into the building, and
by the time the convention meets there
Will be an electric center here, the wires
Of which will touch every village in the
United States, and the work of which
viii reach to the ends of the world.
~
But can St. Louis accommodate the
people?
Yes, think it can. 1t has good hotels
and the town is ever accustomed to
crowds During its carnivals every fall
there are tens of thousands of strangers
in tho city, and for seven weeks The town
is packed, and its peoplePaint the heavens
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

There is no such picture as this of any
of the great leaders of that period. Stone
wall Jackson, on the battlefield, has been
described rs such a man, and undoubtedly
had a remarkable power of transmitting
enthusiasm to his troops.
No general rose so rapidly when he once
got an opportunity as Phil Sheridan.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

claims to have the biggest mue market
in tho world. and when you come from the
convention and see the kicking, surging,
braying mass of donkeys and mules of all
varieties you will imagine that you are
attending another convention in which
jackasses rather than men are making
confusion. M.
Historically, st. Louis is one of the
most interesting cities in this country.
Founded in 1864, it had become lively
Indian trading post a dozen and more
years before the Declaration Of Independ-
ence was signed The city was at first
French, and descendants of the Brench
settlers live here today. There used to
he an old French market, and the traces
of the French origin of the town may be
plainly read in the French names over the
stores and in the directories.
The head of the expedition which came
from New Orleans up the river to found
st. Louis was Pierre Laclede, little,
why, dark skinned man, who, born in the
mountains of south France, came to
America to seek his fortune. He was a
daring fellow; enthusiastic, fond of nd
venture and an ardent trader. He sailed
In scOw from New Orleans, and when
he came here he said that this would be
world, and doubt not he considered it
the coming capital of future French ma
ton of the west. He called it St Louis
after the name of the king of France, and
was predicting great things for it when
the news arrived that Spain owned all
this country, and that France had given
up all idea Of maintaining an empire in
the Western World.
Laclede. however, went on with his
colony. He had about a score of traders,
mechanics and farmers, and he had a big
stock of goods to trade with the Indians
for their furs. He opened a fur store
and his town steadily grew. A fort
was built and park was laid out. The
town had its place d'armes, and it was
the hope of the settlers that it would be
thoroughly French Then the Spanish
governor came, and finally, in 1903
through Thomas Jefferson's bargain with
Napoleon, we got the whole of the Louis
lana purchase for S15, 000, 900. We bought
what is now worth more than as many
billions for this sum, which is actually
less than the amount of money owned by
single citizens of st. Louis today.
Since then it has steadily grown and
the growth still goes ON. 1t has an i'm
mense territory undeveloped, which must
lenu TO increase IL III the future, and
while it does not grow like that young
giant, Kansas City, it will always be a
big town and rich one,
1t is the oldest town in the west and
perhaps the soundest as far as finances
are concerned. 1t antedates PittsbuIg
by twenty years and It was twenty four
years old when the first settlement was
made at Louisville. Cincinnati was laid
out in 1889 and Chicago had no existence
until 1880, when st, Louis was entering
its sixty sixth year Of age. 1t is a town
worthy of study, and the visitors here
will find much to read between the lines,
FRANK q, CARPENTER.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

1t Is curious fact that for 500 years
ribbons were worn mostly by men rather
than by women, especially during the
the long period Of eiTeminacy in the male
attire. In the Fifteenth to the Seven
teenth centuries their use in England was
restricted to the royalty and gcntcs by
Static. In the time Of Charles If and
James II the whole attire was covered
with ribbons. A flop in those days was
described as wearing more than would
stock half a dozen shops or twenty
country peddlers." 1t is another curious
fact that in the manufacture of ribbons
tho self acting loom was in use 100 years
before Cartwright's invention, and that
added in that branch of the silk industry.
London Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

You ARE feeling depressed, your appetite is
poor you are bothered with Headache, you
are iidgetty, nervous, and generally out of
not with stimulants, spring medicines, or bit
tiers. which have for their basis very cheap,
bad whisky, and which stimulate you for an
hour, and then leave you in worse condition
than before. What you want is an Alternative
that will purify your blood, start healthy ac-
ton of Liver and Kidneys, restore your vitality,
and give renewed health and strength. Such
and only 80 cents bottle al Beaupre Low
rey's Drug Store.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

there are eleven hundred acres of virgin
forest, and where the woods arc rs wild as
when the Indians trod them. Shaw's gar
den is one of the finest botanical gardens
in the United States, and Lafayette park
situated now in the heart of the city, will
compare with the most beautiful parks of
Europe. 1t has grottocs, II miniature cas-
cadc, fountains, lake and bronze statues
of Senator Thomas H. Benton and George
Washington.
St Louis is very proud Of its bridge
over the Mississippi, and she ought TO be,
for she has to pay for it. Every posacn-
ger on IA railroad train which goes over it
pays twenty-five cents for the privilege,
and you get a bridge ticket with your
railway ticket. This bridge was, 80 it is
said, the finest in the world before the
great Brooklyn bridge was built. 1t is
made of stc'l, and it took five years to
build it. II cost $4,000 0OO and its
architect was James b. Eads, the civil en-
gineer who made the ictties at the mouth
of the Mississippi, and who planned the
ship railway across the isthmus. This
bridge is n mile long, and it is two story
affair, tho lower of which is devoted to
railways and the upper TO ordinary traffic.
Tho convention visitors will want to see
this bridge. and there will be other things
outside of the political crowd worth see
ing. The biggest plug tobacco factory in
the world is located here and another to-
bacco factory which pays every month
500, 900 in revenue taxes.
~
Tho northern delegates will be inter
ested in the st. Louis cotton congresses;
for this city is the connecting link be
tween northern and southern commerce,
and varieties of business will be found
here which you find in no other cities of
the United States. These congresses arc
immense affairs, which work by hydraulic
pressure and take a bale of cotton and
squeeze it into one-ffth its size for pack
ing and shipment. 1t does not injure the
fiber to 50 pack it, and the cotton is thus
sent to Europe. The shipping of st. Louis
in this connection is also worth seeing,
and a walk to the levee will show you
many of the scenes of Mark Twain's Life
on the Mississippi The old passenger
traffic. the fine boats, the races with
anegro on the safety valve and bacon for
fuel have gone by, but the immense traf-
fc on tho great river still goes on, and
vow may here realize the truth of the
statement that our internal commerce by
water surpasses the ocean commerce Of
nearly every nation of the globe.
The biggest cracker factory in the
world is located here. and if you like out
' of the way sights of travel you will visit
| the St. Louis mule market. This town
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

ST. LOUIS FROM THE ILLINOIS SHORE.
red and yellow with 100, 900 gas lights
shining out Of colored globes. Miles
Of streets are thus illumined, and the
parade of the Yelled Prophets brings thou
sands of the trades and other organiza-
tions into line. ~.
Such delegates as have never been to
st. Louis will not find it such Il city as
they have supposed it to be. II Is bigger
and better than it gets credit for being,
and it is having steady growth. Its
population is now between $50, 600 and
SOC, 0O0, and it is built to stay. The bust
ness part Of the city, extending for miles
slong and n little back from tho river, is
substantial, and its buildings compare
well with those of the other big cities of
tho United States. It's people are substan-
tial too. and there are many milionaires
among them. John r. Davis, of the big
dry goods firm, is said to be worth $50 000,-
900, and one of the Granite Mountain sill
yer mine owners who lives here has, it is
said an income Of $500 day.
st. Louis is more like Philadelphia than
any other of our big cities. 1t is very
old town and the grandiathers and great
grandidthcra Of some Of the old French
families of st. Louis today were living
here at the time of the revolution. There
are many such wealthy families who have
sent their wealth down from father to
son, and who now make up the conserva-
tive part Of the st. Louis aristocracy. l
doubt whether this element helps st.
Louis as much rs would a class possessed
of less blue blood and more thrift and en-
terprise AS it is the town is very quiet
compared with Kansas City, which huns
a. loud as Chicago, and it is pious, God
loving town, too, At least it has two
hundred and more churches, and its peo-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

ward. He then
weighed about 1870
pounds; his figure
was small. his face
rather thin. He
a ! w avs had the
same S pl e IL d i d
black eye, A di-
vision general,
where there are
corps commanders
and the general,
commanding the
army over him, is
a mere executive
officer. He is but
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

pie are Of an eminenuy social nature.
The club houses of the city are very fine,
and the people here, as a rule, own their
own homes They do not live in flats and
rent to the extent they do in eastern
cities Of the same size, and the residence
streets Of the western suburbs have mag
n.dcent homes with great grounds about
st. Louis is city of parks, and the
delegates will find many pleasant drives.
There are two thousand acres of parks on
the edge of the city, and half hours
drive will lead you to Forrest park, where
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08
Great Slaughter in Prices on Dry Goods

We this day made special table Of Dress Goods at
40 cents yard that is without doubt the best bargain
this It's filled with goods that have been
selling for G5 Is, s. cents and ST 90 yard AS the
spring is well advanced propose to begin clos
ing sales which for the next 80 days shall continue
in every depal tment We have lots of bargains and
shall make prices without regard to profit.
We offer to, day 1000 yards Crinkly Seersucker at
7 2 cts yard that is worth Is cts.
Our prices on Jackets and Wraps is much reduced
in prices that feel safe in saying prices are low
than any that advertised at cost.
Our display of Parasos large this
For rain shine styles please them all and
with close profit added to cost feel guaranteed in
saying prices the lowest.
We without doubt offering the best Jersey Gossa
mer Vest for % cts in town. You will them quoted
and tickets them by others 20 cts but we actual
ly give better at % cts.
The prices on Satines, Choies, Scotch and American
Ginghams broken.
In fact general reduction in prices for the closing
month of spring season.
NOW Il THE TIME TO BUY.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

Lincoln whom ne wanted TO command Jne
cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, had
thought of some one else, Sheridan would
probably have died comparatively I'M
known. As it was, he came out the most
striking figure for spirit and quick, nerv-
Gus work of the war.
Gen. Horace Porter has given in The
Century Magazine for November, 1887,
vivid picture of Sheridan az he appeared
at one of the closing scenes of the war,
before the enemy's earthworks, near the
White Oaks road in Virginia. The move
mcnt was slow and Sheridan got impa-
tient. Sheridan says Gen Porter,
"chafng with impatience and consumed
with anxiety, became as FESTIVE as a racer
when he hears the line and is struggling
to make the start He made every posi-
bic appeal for promptness; he dismounted
from his horse, paced mp and down, struck
the clenched fist of one hand into the palm
of the other, and fretted like Gagged tiger.
at o'clock the formation was com
pleted and the order for the assault was
given, and the struggle for Picket's in
trenched line began Sheridan
now rushed into the midst of the broken
lines and cried out, Where is my battle
flag AS the sergeant who carried 1t
rodo up Sheridan seized the crimson and
white standard, waved it above his head,
cheered on the men and made great efforts
to close up the ranks. Bullets We're hum
ming like swarm Of bees. One pierced
the battle flag, another killed the ser
geaut who had carried it, another wounded
Capt. MctiOnigle In the side. others struck
two or three Of the staff officers horses
All this time Sheridan was dashing from
one pOnt of the line to an0t her wayinr
his flag. shaking his fists. encouraging
threatening. praying, swearing, the very
incarnation Of battle 1t would be a sorry
soldier who could help following such a
leader. x*x
Sheridan rode Rienzi, the famous horse
that had once carried him twenty miles
from Winchester The general spurred
him up to the angle, and with bound he
landed him in the midst of line of prs-
oners, who had thrown down their arms
and We're crouching close under their
breastworks. Some of them called out,
'Whar do YOU want us to go toy Then Sher-
idan's rage turned to humor, and he had a
running talk with the 'Johnnies' as they
filed past. Go right over there, he cried
pointing to the rear; get right along now
drop your guns; you'll never need them
any more. You'll all be safe over there;
are there any more of you? We want
every one Of you fellows.
There is no such picture as this of any
of the great leaders of that period. Stone
wall Jackson, on the battlefield, has been
described us such man, and undoubtedly
had a remarkable power of transmitting
| utluSiaSm to his trOODs
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08
ADVICETO MOTHERS.

Mrs. WINsLOw's SOOTHING SYRUP should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes TIE child, softens the gums, elays all
pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for diarrhna. Twenty-Five cents Il bottle.
IA m f&wlv
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08

two grades above Lac LII 'iifi'iD1NN'
colonel and one above brigadier gen
eral He may fight his men well, but no
planning, nothing original is expected of
him. If Grant, when asked Ivy President
Lincoln whom he wanted to command the
cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, had
thought of some one else, Sheridan would
probably have died comparatively I'M
known. As it was, he came out the most
striking figure for spirit and quick, nerv-
Gus work of the war.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08
PHIL SHERIDAN,S DASH.
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE DURING
THE EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR.

Lost Under IIalieck, Buell. and Rosecrans
in the Wcst-A Gagged Tger--The Very
Incarnation of Battle-The Northern
Stonewall jackson.
Gen. Phil Sheridan always had about
him more of the dash, more of the mag.
netism of general than any of the others
who in the end came ont the great leaders
of the war For the first three years of
the struggle he occupied subordinate posi-
tions, and his transition from captain
and quartcrmaster to one of the three
most prominent leaders of the war was
even greater than that of Gen. Grant, from
colonel of volunteers to general in chief.
As division commander in the west
Sheridan was never heard of; but he seems
to have attracted the attention of Grant,
for it was Grant who called him from the
west to take command of the cavalry
forces of the Army of the Potomac.
When Sheridan was commanding di-
vision in the Army of the Cumberland he
was not the stocky person he was after
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08
EHE CONVENTION CITY.
6E LOUIS AS 1T LOOKS OUTSIDE
THE EXPOSITION BUILDING.

Ats Business and It's Pcopic--A City of
Churches and Old Famiiics-'rhe Great
Steel Fridge Its Zig Plug Tobacco
Iactori.,.-1 iulo Markets.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
An Ancient Burial Chamber.

In the neighborhood Of Stonehengcs
England, mound exists which anti
quarians had long suspected to be a
"barrow." A trench has now been cut
through the center Of it, laying bare,
at depth of four feet, large slab.
This stone formed the cover OF burial
chamber, the sides and ends OF which
were composed of smaller stones set
on edge. The interior was filed with
black loan, surrounding the skeleton
Of 4 man, who must have been six feet
in height. At the right hand q the
remains sword and aspear-head were
found, while the bones Of che left hand
grasped shield, the convex side Of
which is incised with characters unde-
oipherablc through age. On further
examination it was found that the
knee-ioints of the skeleton were sur
rounded BY osseous growths uniting
the upper and lower parts OF the leg,
into one continuous limb.--N 4. Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
CHURCHES:

M. E. CHURCH, Cor. Reynolds and
Mountain Streets, o. w. ROSE, Pastor. Res
idence: Ironton. Services every Sabbath at
II A. NJ. and 1:5o P. N. sunday I ochooi 9:oo
Glass Meeting Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
At Graniteville, I'd and 4th Sundays at 80
p. NJ. Ladies' Prayer Meeting Thursday,
3 P. NJ.
nolds and Knob Streets Ironton. d. A. VIII
SON, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at IL A.
M. and 7 P. NJ, except the 9TH Sabbath A NJ.
and 1st and Sd Sabbaths P. NJ, which are
given to Graniteville. Prayer meeting We'd
nesday at 1880 P. NJ. Sabbath School at $3.50
A. NJ.
ST. PAUL's EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Cor. REYNOLDS and Knob Streets, 1ronton.
CHAs. G DAVIS, Rector. Services second and
fourth Sundays each month, at 1t IL A. NJ; ai ana
Sunday, services at De Soto; Third sun
day, services at Crystal City.
M. e. CHURCH, SOUTH, Fort Hill, I,
between Ironton and Arcadia. Rev. l.:
PULLIAal, Pastor. Preaching on the 1st, I'd
and Sd Sabbaths in each month in the morn
ing: also, in the evening on the 1st ana 80
Sabbaths. Preaching at Pilot Knob ON the
Second Sabbath in the evening. Preach
ing at Bismarck on the 4th sabbath IN eacn
month, morning and evening; also, Saturday
evening preceding. Prayer meetings at US
ual times.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, Arcadia College
and Pilot Knob. A. G. HAPPE, Pastor, p. {.
High Mass and Sermon at Arcadia College
every Sunday at O'Clock A. NJ. Vespers and
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 0
O'Clock P. NJ. Mass and Sermon at Pilot
Knob Catholic Church at 80 O'Clock A. NJ.
SUNDAY School for children at / 80 O'Clock P.
n.
BAPTIST CHURCH, Madison street,
near Knob street.
LUTHERAN CHURCH, Pilot Knob.
Rev. ROBERT sMUcKAL, Pastor.
and Washington streets, Ironton. A. AB-
ANATHY, pastor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY IRON COUNTY
COURTS:

Il -
CIRCUIT COURT is held on tht
Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
First Monday of March, June, Septembe
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the Firs
Monday in February, May, August and No
gember.
OFFICERS:
a. W. HoLLoMAN, Presiding Judge Coun
ty Court.
Jos. G. GARRISON, County Judge, South
ern District.
r. J. HILL, County Judge, Western Dis
trict.
j. S. JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
s. f. BUF0RD, Collector.
w. A. FLETCHER, County Clerk.
JOS. HUFF, Circuit Clerk.
FRANZ DINGER, Probate Judge.
WM. I'll. WHITwoRTH, Treasurer.
p. w. WHITwoRTH, Sheriff.
5. p. REYBURN, Assessor.
w. N. GREGORY, Coroner.
J. L. AXE, Public Administrator.
A. w. HoLLOMAN, Surveyor.
j. b.. SCOTT, School Commissioner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
Notice for Publication.

LAND OFFICE AT TRoNToN. Mo-,
August 29th. 1888.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed his intention to make
final proof in support of bis claim, and that
said proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver at Ironton, Mo-, on Thursday,
October II, 1888, viz: Albert L. McIntire,
Homestead Entry No. TAO. for the southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter, section 10
and southwest quarter OF the northwest
quarter, section IL, township "a, north range
two east.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
William Ruddock, Frank Thompson, Lewis
Ruddock, all of Belleview p. o., Iron county,
Mo JACOB T. AXE, Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
Notice to Republicans! !

The Ironton Harrison and Morton Club
will meet
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, at s O'Clock,
at the Courthouse until further notice. Per-
sons wishing to join this club will find club
lists in the hands of j. N. Bishop. VIM. Hills
and w. T. Gay. A. S. PRINCE, Chairman.