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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-09-03
An Interesting Note.

Considerable curiosity Was aroused
yesterday by dainty perfumed note
in feminine hand writing picked up
near the NJ, K. & T. general offices.
1t reads:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
An Old Lady Burned to Death from a
Spark from . Pipe.

MANsJR, Ga, April e.-Robert
Shiedler and his wife we're driving in
town yesterday when spark from
Shiedler's pipe ignited the clothing Of
his wife, and as the wind was blowing
a stiff gale, she was enveloped in flames
in . instant. Terror stricken, she
jumped from the buggy on one side
and her husband cd the other. He did
a1lhe could to quench the flames, but
to no avail.
The grass took fire around them, and
Mrs Shieldler was completely envel-
oped in fiery shroud, and died before
her husbands eyes.
Shiedler's hands were burned to the
bone. He was brought to town and bis
wounds dressed, bnt it is feared bis
hands will have to be amputated. He
is nearly crazy from the shock Of his
wife's death and his own pain, and his
physicians say he will die.
The family is one Of the oldest in the
county, having been here for thirty
years. Mrs. Shiedler was sixty-fve
years old, and her husband seventy.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
Save the Trees.
Manufacturers Record. |

Manufacturers Record.
The marvellous growth of the South
has called many new towns into exis-
tence, and many more will follow.
Men of enterprise, capital and tact
often find in the business of town build
ing charms beyond any other. The
plan usually pursued is to purchase a
considerable area of wild land, eligibly
located on an existing or projected rail-
road, then to have it surveyed, plated
and mapped, after which the trees are
cut down on all the designated streets,
stumps are extracted and some grading
is done. The town is thus made ready
for its future population to enter in
upon and possess it. Most Of these
new places are covered with stately
trees, often Of many varieties. In
ninety-nine cases out of hundred the
town founders and the incoming citi-
zens vie with each other in efforts to
get rid Of these as soon as possible. It
is in fact hereditary American i'm
pulse derived from the original necessi-
ty ofcleaning lands to make room for
agriculture. We have seen many
places where this has been done so
thoroughly that not single tree re-
mained of the original growth, but
where the people, realizing when too
late what blunder had been COM
mitted, were trying to correct it by
setting out young trees at considerable
cost. Now why continue this foolish
practice? All other things being equal,
that place whose streets are lined with
stately trees, whose lawns and PARKS
are thus adorned, attracts and holds
new corners much more than another
where the comfort of shade and the
beauty of forest reminders Is lacking.
1t is a very simple matter for a civil
engineer, when running lines for streets
and avenues, to keep in mind the de-
STABILITY. Of saving trees enough for
their decoration, and when bis lay
out is completed. to mark those that
are to be retained. The chief beau
ties of New Heaven, Of Cleveland, OF
Augusta, of Savannah, Of Newberne
and Asheville, and Of scores of other
we'll known cities, are the long lines OF
elms, NAPLES and other trees on the
sides or in the centers of their principal
thoroughfares. Few of them were ma
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
WAR OF DIFFERENTIATION.
Seventy Starving Families to be Thrown on
the Road In Donegal.

LONDON, April 9.-Evictions upon a
wholesale scale are threatened on the
Olphert estates in Donegal, where the
tenants made such gallant fight a few
months ago. Scores of the brave fellows
are now in Jail for the crime of defend
ing their homes upon that occasion, but
their fate has not intimidated others,
and already preparations are being
made which may result in bloodshed
upon a scale which was averted last
time only by the strenuous exertions of
the Rev. Father McFadden and the
Rev. Father Stephens.
The evictions are to commence on
Thursday, and the situation is clearly
conveyed by the following telegram,
which 1 have just received from Father
Stephens at Falcarragh:
1.-THE war of determination is about
being resumed. Seventy families, COM
prising 350individuals, are to be thrown
on the roadside.
"What inteEsifes the sad situation
immensely is that these poor people
have been brought face to face with
famine owing to the utter failure of the
potato crop. The families to be evicted
have been living on Indian meal since
last Christmas. The priests of the dis
trict have been providing seed from
money supplied by private charity.
Father McFadden, the parish priest of
many of the people to be evicted, is a
prisoner in the Derry Jail, and must
leave the district on Thursday to attend
my trial under the coercion law at Let
terkenny on Friday.
"Wefeel, therefore, that the time is
specially chosen by the authorities
when they believed the people would
be left defenseless."
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
THE PROMISED LAND.
Boomers Crovding by Thousands to tho
Borders OF Oklahoma-Beconins
Impatient.

ARKANSAS CITY, KAs., April IL
The population of this city has increas-
ed one-third during the past week.
Two thousand eager boomers are here,
and at least one thousand are along the
line south of here. Six hardware stores
have sold out their entire stock, and
the demand is not half supplied. The
boomers are forming into small colonies
of 25 to so persons, and are devising
schemes to outwit their neighbors and
get into the heart of Oklahoma by the
appointed time. There is feeling all
along the border that there will be
general forward movement into the
territory on the night of April 20. The
boomers who have been here all win
ter have picked out their land, and are
suspicious of new corners. They don't
propose to have the land they fought
for jumped by recent arrivals. They
have pickets in hiding in Oklahoma
woods who are keeping them posted.
Word was received to-day that BOOM
ers on the Texas border were becoming
very impatient and were reliable to
march in before the 22d and seize their
claims before daylight on that date. A
panicky feeling prevails all around.
Old boomers claim they developed the
agitation that led tothe opening of the
territory, and that now the land sharks
are trying to get possession of their
property. The state line'for hundreds
of miles is dotted with "prairie schoon-
ers." All are preparing for fight into
the promised land. Many settlers
whose geography is faulty are already
from ten to seventy-fve miles in the
territory, and still claim they are in
Kansas.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18

John Smith is the happiest man that 1
know,
But wasn't be blue, though, not three
months ago?
"My wife's running down just as fast
as she can,
And the doctors can't help her," and
then this poor man
Almost cried as he thought Of the poor,
suff' ring wife
Who seemed to be losing her hold upon
life.
"Smith, + know just how you feel"
said a friend to whom he told his sad
story. my wife was troubled precise
" as yoursis. don't just understand
it. because I'm not q woman, but her
back panied her, and she complained
of dragging-down feelings, and q gen
eral weakness and know that she had
some of those diseases women are sub
iect to, and had 'em bad, too. I read
about DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton one day, and the first time was at
the drug store bought a bottle Of 1t
and took home to her. It worked won
ders. In short time she said she felt
like another woman, and she began to
hope that there was relief for her, after
all. She kept on taking the medicine
for time, and now she's well. Get q
bottle Of the Prescription and try iton
your wife"
II will" said Smith. And be did,
and it cured he and that's why he's 80
happy to-day.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
Bad Accounts Of tho North Carolina Emil
grants.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
When certain Mississippi and Louis
lana planters commenced importing
negro hands from Alabama and North
Carolina, We warned them that labor
of this kind very uncertain and unre-
liable, and that the hands they brought
here were only too likely to leaye
them, as they had left their first EN-
ployers. They had contracted to work
for the North Carolina planters for a
year, but did not hesitate to break
these contracts and come South at the
first offer from Louisiana and Missis-
sippi labor agents. We do not see why
the latter or the planters who engage
them can be surprised at this second
desertion. 1t is no surprise to learn
that the men brought from Carolina to
work on Louisiana plantations were
enticed away by negro agents after
reaching Vicksburg, broke their con-
tracts and made for the Yazoo delta,
leaving both the. agents who brought
them South and planters who had en-
gagged them in the lurch. Negroes of
this class, willing to break contracts in
North Carolina, are equally willing to
break them in Louisiana, they are the
most unreliable and untrustworthy of
labor and are never to be depended on.
Quite number of them have been
brought to this State during the last
month, but they have never "stuck, "
and the planters who employed them
have been invariably "left" in the end.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18

WASHINGTON, Ppril 1.-THE Star
this evening prints the following:
"The Presidents policy with reia-
ton to Southern appointments has.
been made clear to Southern Office
seekers here, and there is not little
unavailing discomfort. He has de-
clared his intention to select none but
men who have the respect of their
neighbors andwho are intelligent and
capable. He wants to recognize young
men and progressive men, who can do
the party good and will not act merely
as clerks for the party because of what
they can get out of it. Any distin-
guished and capable man, who is Re-
publican in principle, whether so by
avowal or not, may be selected for
appointment. The idea is to get rid
Of self-constituted leaders, who bring
the party into disrepute and to let
down all the barriers that keep white
protectionists out.
1t is reported that the President
spoke very plainly to Southern
''leader" who called with a delega-
ton lately to see about the appor-
tionment of the patronage Of his
State. The same leader had been
there many times before, and was
assuming to control the patronage Of
his State. "Now," the President is
reported as saying, after listening to
him for a moment, "you have been
here several times, and I have heard
you. I know you, Mr.-, and
know of you very well. I do not
think you are the sort Of man to dis
tribute the patronage Of that State"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18

tives. Most of them were transplanted
years ago, aud cared for through many
seasons before they attained their
height and beauty. It is more than a
century since James Hillhouse planted
the elm that have been for several gen.
erations the pride and the chief adorn-
ment of New Haven, Conn. Had the
first colonists, when they laid out the
thirteen squares which are now the
center ofthat beautiful and prosperous
city, left standing all the trees that
need not necessarily have been re-
moved, they and their descendents for
generations would not have been de-
prived of the enjoyment, nor their city
robbed Of the beauty which only came
back after the work Of the public spirit
Of one man, and the emulation inspired
by it reached its full fruition.
The beauty and variety Of Southern
forests are admired by all lovers of
nature. Town founders, remember
ing this, should remember also that
full grown trees once destroyed cannot
be replaced. Lowell once wrote:
.'Who does his duty, Is question
Too complex to be solved by me,
But he, I venture the suggestion,
Does part OF his that plants tree"
To which may safely be added that
he who saves one from destruction that
his fellows may enjoy its beauty and
delight in its shade, is entitled to still
greater credit for duty well done.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
TROUBLED BY DEAD HEADS.
how the New York Celebration Com mit-
toes are Hampered-Some Details OF
Preparation.
Especial to the Baltimore SUM-

Especial to the Baltimore Sun.
NEW YORK April 4.-The centennial
committee on the plan and scope had
meeting this afternoon and received re-
ports from the several subcommittee.
A carriage and four horses have been
engaged for the use of President Harri-
son during his stay in the city. His
carriage, together with carriages used
for the members of the Cabinet, will be
the only carriages in the military
parade. Admiral Porter has been in
vited to act as the commander ofthe
naval parade and review. Sec
retary Tracy is cooperating in making
it a splendid success. The committee
will erect FIVE stands along the route Of
the civic parades toaccommodate 900
people, seats on which will cost from
25 cents to s.. The 25-cent stand will
be at the City Hail and hold 10000 per-
sons. Gen. Daniel Butterfeld will
marshal the industrial parade, May J.,
which will march down town from
Fiftieth street to Park Place. Ward
McAllister has resigned as secretary
and manager of the entertainment COM
mittee, and Governer Morris has taken
his place. The ball and banquet have
been given in charge ofa committee Of
fve-Messrs. Winthrop, Stokes, Fish,
Olin and Jay. The cash receipts of the
finance committee have so far been
1857, and the total subscriptions
amount to SAL, 400.
New York Is one ofthe worst dead
head towns In the country, long
abuse having made up legion OF all
sorts of people-oficials, e1-ofEcials
and their hangers-on-who expect to
get free entertainment at every public
celebration. They are the originators
of all trouble over the details of the
commemoration. The citizens on the
committee not only subscribed literally
to the expenses of the affair, but will
paw their own way at all the public
gatherings, in addition to giving their
time free 10 all the committee work.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18

They have scaled the free list to the
ball down to about 500 persons, mostly
officials. All the rest Of the five thou
sand tickets must be paid for at $40
piece. At the banquet there will be
about 800 free tickets out of the total
800. These tickets cost SIS each. Some
of the personal attacks on the members
of the committee in the local papers are
actuated by meanness Of the smallest
kind and from motives entirely out
side any connection with the celebra-
tion. Their instigators were willing to
wreck the whole project of grand
national jubilation just to crafty petty
spite.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
SORRY SIGHT.

Standing on the hillside above the
quarries, 1 looked out on a scene of
desolation. The patches Of snow in
spectral whiteness stared blank in the
gray of oncoming night, and across the
gray, rocky sleeps weary men were
plodding homeward. The valley was
flooded with water, even to the foot OF
the next mountain, and over the long
foot bridge that led across it still other
quarrymen were hurrying to the "Big
Soos," as the dreary rows Of tenements
are named. The title is derived from
the French sault, meaningjump. They
are long, plain, bleak structures, most
OF them old and rickety.--1n some
there are as many as fourteen or ff-
teen houses, Of three OF four rooms each
where families are sandwiched in. The
buildings are raised upon mounds Of
dirt, since the solid rocks which COM
pose the soil offered no hope for the
laying of foundation. Shaky steps
lead up to the shaky doors.
Before one Of these sQualid, tumble
down, time-stained affair." stopped to
talk with yretchedly clad woman
who was chopping wood to cook her
husbands scanty supper.
AoUARRyXAN's WIFE.
"You dou't live very we'll here, do
you?" I said to the woman.
"No," she answered. "You can
hardly call it living. We manage to
get along. There.is little or nothing
ever coming to..us at the months end.
Very little Of it goes for clothes, too.
"How much do the houses rent for?"
Different prices, from $3.50 up to
$40. This tenement is cheap one.
It's pretty old, and it ought to be cheap.
We pay more than it's worth. It's no
kind of shelter at all. The winters
in these hills are rough ones. They're
no California winters. We have to
patch up the houses with old papers
and scraps of cloth, and whatever we
can get, to keep it anything like COM
Portable. There hasn't been any re-
pairing done on it for g great many
years and the wind just whistles
through it some nights" She showed
me the interior Of the old house, with
it's bare floors and wretched furniture,
its table minus a cloth and set with a
meagre meal.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
Russell Harrison Arrested on Account Of
an Alleged Libsllous Publication
IN His Newspaper.

NEW YORK, April ll.-Russell Har-
rison was arrested this afternoon in the
Office of Judge, in the Potter building,
on the charge of having published in
paper, the Mountain Live Stock Jour-
nal, an article taken from Buffalo
paper accusing Ex-Governor John
Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, with
having stolen jewels from Washing
Lady. Harrison came on from Wash
ington last night for the purpose OF
having the papers in the suit served on
him. The warrant was issued by
Judge Beach of the Supreme Court,
who fixed the bail at $1,000. Stephen
B. Elkins, Vice-President Rice of the
Park Bank, and w. J. Arkell, of
Judge, became Harrison's bondsmen.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
DEMOCRATS MUST GO.
Policies Are Paramount-Party influence
an Indispensable Factor in Procuring
Office for a Candidate.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-There are
plenty Of signs that the administration
does not intend to allow itself to be
hampered much by the civil servicela law.
Men are occasionally appointed without
civil service machinery to places in the
classified service, but this is such an
open violation of the law that it does
not occur often.
A much better plan is for the politi-
clan to get his friend examined, and,
when he is on the eligible list, get hfs
name certified the next time there is
vacancy, regardless ofthe fact that the
candidate is at the foot of the list and
his States quota is full. If the appoint
ing officer wishes to oblige the states
man by appointing his friend, this
scheme can be worked very well.
Commissioner Tanner has made it
understood in the Pension Office, that
the Democrats will be weeded out as
fast as practicable, and about a hundred
discharges are awaiting issue. 1t is only
justice to Secretary Noble, however, to
say that he was misreprssented in an
interview in local paper to-day. The
Secretary never spoke of ex-Confede-
rates and had no disposition to single
them out for removal. Nor did be
speak of the $50 special examiners and
say he understood they were all Demo
Gratis and that they would have to 60.
What he did say was that incompetent
employees, whether Republicans or
Democrats, would be removed, and that
in making appointments he should
appoint only Republicans so far as the
civil service law left him free to make
selections. In the Treasury the appoint
ment division is making up lists of
clerks, the dates of appointments, by
whom recommended and their political
proclivities.
The place Of superintendent of the
cabinet shop in the Treasury Depart
ment is under the civil service regula-
tions, but three men are seeking itwith
purely political influence, and there is
every indication that one of them, who
is backed by Senator Quay, will be sue
cessful.
In the railway mail service, however,.
the Congressman are getting little ben
eft from the postponement of the ap-
plication of the civil service system.
Removals are being made rather
slowly, and agood many things besides
political influence are requisite to pro-
cure appointments.
Superintendent Bell will not reap
point men who were in the service and
dismissed by the late administration if
they are over so years ofage. He will
not make any original appointments
of men above IS unless they are old
soldiers, when he will give them few
years grace. But this cannot amount
to much, as there are few survivors Of
the civil war under ~ years old. The
chances are that more original Harri-
son men than ever will now come to
| the front.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
JEFF DAVIS CAPTOR.
He Takes Out License to Marry . Widow
fPhiladelphia.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

One of the original fourteen men,
bers of the Fourth Michigan cavalry,
who captured Jeff Davis on May IA,
1865, in Irwin County, Ca, yesterday
applied to Clerk Bird for a marriage
license. 1t was Casper Knoble. He is
a trapping Swiss, who was born in the
Canton of Berne in 1S48. He is now a
moulder, and lives at 1884 Coral Street.
He is also a widower, and intends to
marry widow Ami Stoll, Of 1851 Coral
Street.
Mr.. Knobel proudly displayed the
memorial medal presented to him and
his thirteen comrades for the great
capture which they made. In speak
ing of the event he said that only one
of the captors was dead. He told how
Colonel Pritchard had detailed them
to hunt for the President of the Con-
federate States, who was trying to es-
cape to a seaport town with his family.
After two days hot search they over
took Mr.. Davis. He was in an ambu-
lance with his wife and children. There
were also two wagon loads of retainers
with him.
Mr.. Knobel says that Mr.. Davis was
not arrayed IN pettieoats, as portrayed
at the time, but in full gray suit of a
Confederate General. He was 6 realty
surprised, but took his capture very
philosophically.
Mr.. Knobel made a prize of Mr..
Davis shirt collar, which he expects to
wear at his approaching wedding.
Mr.. Knobel also said that the govern
ment appropriated 81 500 to each Of the
captors, but that he received only $500.
He says he would like very much to
know who got the balance.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
CLEVELAND'S CANDIDACY.
His Positive Dec1ination Of any Nomina-
tion-A Significant Interview With
North Carolina Man.
Correspondence of the Greenville
News.

| Correspondence OF L0e GreenVllle
News.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., April LEX
President Cleveland passed through
Goldsboro' last Friday en- route home
from his trip to Cuba. A citizen of
Goldsboro' boarded the train and to-
day quotes the ex-President as saying
that be will never again be candidate
for any Office and that he positively
will not accept the nomination for the
Presidency in 1892. Nh. Cleveland
was told Of the love and esteem the
South has for him and that he would
be the unanimous choice Of the South
ern delegates at the convention in 1892,
but he replied under no conditions
would he accept the nomination. The
ex-President said he would continue
the practice OF law until he saw fit to
retire from active business.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
A Pointer From the President.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The intima-
ton which it is alleged the President
gave to prominent Democrat recently,
to the effect that he would appoint no
free trade Democrat on the commission
fixed by law to be composed Of Demo
Gratis and Republicans, created a great
deal of discussion here. The declara-
ton is regarded as indicating the policy
which the President will pursue, not
only in the South alone, but also in re-
gard to all national appointments.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-18
A Great Fort Building.
TSan Francisco Standard. I


A very small proportion of the people
of this country are aware that the
strongest fort on the American CONT
nent is now building on the Pacific
coast. When completed it will rank
next to Gibraltar among the worlds
Notifications. 1t commands the en-
trance to Puget Sound, the second port
of entry on the Pacific coast, and one of
the most importantin the United States.
The British will soon be able to close
this port at any moment. No other
nation in the world would permit the
building of this great fort to intimidate
a peaceful neighbor.