Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1889-08-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Probate Court begins Mon

The sick Of our town are
c0nvalescent.
County Court convenes
next week.
Some of the boys had a
tussel with Mr.. Barleycorn
Saturday.
Mrs. Martha J. Hopkins.
widow ofex-Sheriif John Hop
kins. deceased, died at her
country home on the 30th nit.
---Slanderers and liars are
twin brothers born under the
same star, living OF the same
planet, governed by the same
unruiy member-the tongue.
Any one finding n folding
door key and leaving the same
at this Office will be well re-
warded. tt
The hottest weather ever
known in the United States
was felt at Phoenix, A. T., in
June, 1883, when the thermom-
eter marked 119 degrees.
"A Bombay newspaper an
nounces two marriages, in cne
case the bride being 2 years,
and in the other ID months,
while the bridegroom was 80.
Rev. Thomas Marshall, who
has been making quite an ex.
tended tour through Egypt,
China and Japan, sails from
London to America about the
10th of August.
There are in the Treasury
vault at washington nearly d
pint of diamonds and other
precions stones that were pre-
sented to various Presidents by
admiring friends.
"A Kentucky man killed
himself because he did moi
want to hold the baby, and a
Chicago man ended his life a
day or two since because he
couldn't hold his wife. Tastes
differ.
The most original swindlel
of the day is the one who has
been telling the colored people
Of Georgia that the world will
come to an end August 16, and
has sold 150 pairs of "angles
wings'' at $40 a pair.
j. H. Lutes of Lutesville is
now prepared to furnish Ice tt
any and all parties on short no
tice, he will deliver ice aktht
depot at one dollar per hundred
He is handling the choicest ict
and solicits your orders.
Glen Schafer lost his barr
and its>contents by fire OIL tht
1st, instant. His entire whea
and oat crops was burned. Al
so, all his farming implem ents
As Mr.. Schafer is a poor ma,
this loss will fall heavily upor
him. Mr.. 5. lives on Dry creek
1T does not pay to be a hog
Two thieves appeared at ;
house near Montreal, where ;
peddler was spending the night
and demanded money. Thu
peddler gave them his pocket
book and contents, but they
said this was not enough t,
pay them for their trouble
whereupon he shot them botl
dead.
AT Keeney,ille, Pa, a MAJ
who was startled by a cannon
cracker which an urehin ex
ploded behind him, wrnt across
the street and kicked down
young man who laughed at til,
affair, and then paid him $1'
to settle the case.
AT one factory in th,
United States there are man
ufaetured between two AM
three tons Of postal cards a dal
all the year round. The larg
est order ever filled for one citl
was 100000 cards, or abou
twelve tons Of paper, for New
York, There are 45O,OOO,OOI
postal cards manufactured an
nually and their use IL increas
ing daily.
An Oklahoma hack drive
purchased two lots on the da,
after the opening, from men
who decided there would ney
er BE- a city, and who were 60
ing away in disgust. For on,
..e paid $40, and for the othe
he traded a we'll worn six.shoot
er. One Of the lots he has sine,
sold for S1,100, aud he Is hold
ing the six-shooter lot for $1,000
While tearing down an oil
chimney in Nyac, N. ", las
week, the workman were as
tonished to find imbedded Il
the mortar a toad In 4 some
what inactave condition, bu
still Aliye. Il had bean ppn