Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1889-09-26


B. F. Stevens is assisting
Collector Seabaugh on the tax
book.
Rev. N. U. Sewers preached
in Marble Hill Baptist church
Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Kimmel of Cape
Girardeau has a fig tree which
bore nice figs this year.
Sheriff Huskey took Mon
roe Lasater and John Cash to
Pennington Jail last week.
Henry McMurty of Madison
county is under arrest charged
with passing counterfeit money.
There are eight cases pend
ing against the ex-Treasurer
of Madison county on
his official bond.
Robert Caldwell left a few
ears of as fine corn in our Office
D few days ago as we have
seen in this country.
"A case for disturbing the
peace was tried before a JUS
tice's court Saturday. The
State will pay the cost.
F. E. Seabaugh and family
Of Sedgewickvills were visiting
The family of Collector Sea.
baugh Saturday and Sunday.
Two cases were tried in
circuit court last week on an
indictment against a druggist
for Illegally selling whiskey.
Both cases were lost to the
State and county, except the
costs.
Hon. James P. Walker, H.
w. Hickman, J. M. Anthony, D
L. Hoffman and G. w. Edmonds
have been invited to address
tho people at Latin on the Bird
Of October.
Now is the time to paint
your house, and we have got
An elegant Stock Of all kinds of
paints. Also, brushes, window
glass, putty &c. Come and see
US at our New Brick Drugstore,
Lutesville, Missouri. Jaques &
Son.
The Collector of Madison
county has just succeeded in
collecting the taxes against the
Mime La Motto domain. The
company has been lawing for
sometime against paying the
taxes, but the courts have sus-
tanned the Collector.
Go to DR.. Jaques a. Son and
get a box of their justly celebra-
ted improved liver pills if you
have never tried them. They
are the result of years Of study,
and are made especially to suit
the climate. There are thirty
pills in each box, regulation
SIZE. They do not grippe you
nor make you sick. Sold al
wholesale and retail. Agents
wanted.
Anton Schrock who lives
two miles north of town tells us
that be raised 100 bushels OF
the early Burbank potatoes
this year on one-ffth. of an
acre. Some of the potatoes
weighed one pound and a half
Who can beat this!
Collector Sea baugh informs
us that he prepared 1877 tax
bills upon which to bring sui
at this last term Of Circuit
Court. For some req sou action
was only taken on some thirty
or forty. Somebody is sadly
neglecting duty in this matter
Chris Sander and Lindsay
Spencer left last week will
their families for Plainview
Texas, where they contemplate
making their future home
They took with them lumber
nails and so forth, with which
to erect a habitation on the Tex
as prairies.
The individuals who thinl
or say, "Well, if n" one did an,
mole wrong than l 40, ther'
would be but little done," ar
the individuals who breed NOR
wrong and scandal, and wh'
are doing more to fill our Jail
and penitentiaries, and doins
more to put into contempt tn
Christian religion than thos'
whom they criticize. If thi
pinches you, you deserve to b.
pinched.
Mr.. Winchester Harris, o
whom we made mention a coup
le of weeks ago as having beeI
bitten by a dog supposed to b
mad, sent to Poplar Bluff an
got a maidstone. He tells u
that he applied it to the woun'
on his finger and it took a hol'
at once. After removing tn
stone II was put into a pan
water and discharged therei1
Its contents which were Of
green, Shiny appearance. =
John Barrett, q neighbor VIII
has seen mad.dogs and witness
I'd the results Of their bites, on
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