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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06
MISSOURI NOTES.

There arc 400 patients in the
asylum at St. Joseph.
"A good many farmers in Missouri
have bnen accused this season of burn
ing their wheat straw.
"A man living near Nevada has a
pig with FIVE feet. Such hogs are
preferable for souse to the ordinary
variety.
The excursion business on the
Missouri river is unusually lively.
The Big Muddy" is not showing its
sand-bars this season.
One St. Joseph girl slapped an
other st. Joseph girl in the face for
making fun of her slippers. 1t makes
almost any st. Joseph girl mad to
even look at her feet.
An apple tree at Carrollton con-
tains blossoms, green apples and rife
fruit. There is also something grow
ing on one Of the top branches that
looks like all apple dumping.
The crusade against the dagoes
at st. Joseph still continues. anu it
looks now as if it might be prosecuted
TO the extent of precipitatiDg q war
between the United States aud Italy.
"A Hannibal preacher delivered a
discourse last Sunday on the story of
Jonah aud the whale, and even the
old men and women who sit up in the
amen corner couldn't keep from smil-
ing.
Jefferson City Tribune: 1t
would be policy on the part of the
city to repeal the ordinance prohibit
ing stock from running at large. The
bows and mules would eat the grass
and weeds which hide the streets, and
and the pigs would act as scavengers
in the alleys.
IF the pictures are accurate Whit
the papers have printed of Howell,
the school teacher who has been con-
victed at Linneus of the murder of
Mrs. Nettie Hail and her four chill
dren. the women will carry him more
flowers than he will know what TO do
with.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

time recognition was vouchsafed to
a western city and none can be found,
so far as location and other advant.
ages are: concerned, that can for
moment equal St. Louis. st.
Louis has demonstrated her ability to
take care of vast crowds, and while
she has not the wealth of New York,
or the push of Chicago, she has tina
which is better, she has a hospitable,
large hearted people, she has direct
connection with the greatest interior
country in the world and her bound
aries border closely on a magnificence
of resources, which the west only can
produce and which the east never can
approach under any circumstances.
What idea could foreigners gather of
what a people and what country We
pcssess if they are limited to
New York City alone? What could
they discover there of the miles and
miles of cultivated farms, the scenery
which lies in the wonderful Mama
Valley, the prairies of Illinois, the
towns, which like chain of gold held
together by gems, stretch across the
Continent? An Eiffel tower in New
York might display houses and vet
more houses, but an Eifel tower in
St. Louis would show not only
houses. but miles upon miles of a
country surrounding it which not all
Europe can equal. The central locs-
ton would make St. Louis accessible
to everybody, and, as vas said before,
every newspaper in the West and
Southwest should put all prejudices
aside and help the press Of St. Louis
to secure the Worlds Fair for that
city.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

FoR wHosoEvER SHALL DO THE
WILL OF GOD, THE SAME Is NY
BROTHER AND MY SISTER AND ny
MOTHER.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06
MEN AND WOMEN

| John Morrisey went 30 congress.
Why should not John l.. Sullivan be
mayor of Boston?
The terrible charge has been
brought against Mayor Filter, of Phil
adelphia, that he writes poetry.
The king of Senegal is one of the
notables now in Paris. He talks OF
making a visit to this country.
jay Gould. Alonzo Reed and
Mrs. George Westinghouse went to
school together. They were all com.
paratively poor in those days.
Robert Browning is writing a vol.
ume of "semi-humorOus" poems. The
half that is not humorous will be
more than semi-Opaque.
Earl Dudley of England is an
inveterate gambler. He recently lost
$50, 900 at cards in Paris. He will
have to look about for an American
heiress some day.
Minister Palmer, our representa-
tive at the court of Spain, is getting
on rapidly with his novel. He finds
plenty of time and inspiration for lit
erary work in Madrid.
Russell Harrison is climbing the
social ladder on the other side. Hav-
ing dined with the queen of England
he was considered worthy of Buffalo
Bills hospitality In Paris.
Col. Frederick Croker, of San
Francisco, has agreed to defray the
expenses of the Lick observatory ex,
petition to Cayenne, Guiana, to study
the total solar eclipse on Dec. 90.
Warner Miller, formerly a promi-
nent politician of this state, is said to
be extremely fond of lobster. This
confirms the general impression that
Miller has not yet passed bis salad
days.
Martin Farquhar Upper, the
once famous author of "Proverbial
Philosophy" is still alive. He lives
in handsome country house in Eng
land. He bears a striking resem-
blance to Longfellow in his old age.
Upper does not agree with his old
school-fellow, Gladstone, on the ques-
ton of Home Rule-not a very i'm
portant fact. by the way.
Gen. VIM. b. Franklin, who is
in charge of the American exhibit al
Paris, is receiving much adverse crIti-
cism. The fact is. franklin never
was and never could be a popular
man. He is naughty, unapploa cha
bic and cares nothing for public opin.
ion. In Connecticut he has few
warm friends. His record at Paris
will not compare favorably with Sen
ator Hawley's management of the
Philadelphia Centennial.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

Nevada confesses herself pOlltical
vagrant, without visible means to sup
port her Ststeship, and asks to be
taken care of by being sent to the fed
eral almshouse as a dependent Terri
tory, or else amalgamated with some
self-sustainingscomnuri;y. The ar5r'
ment that annexation to California
would loose the Pacific Cost two votes
In the United States Senate will proba
bly, be fatal to that plan, and extinc
ton of "the rotten borough" as pc
litical factor can only be accomplished
by union with contiguous community
not yet State. Incorporation with
Utah is objected to as simply bringing
two rotten boroughs together, and a.
forcing to the front perilous socia
issue with which time is dealing effec
tually under territorial organization,
Idaho may be useful in the solution Of
the problem of the composition of 8
new State.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

The Fair association is receiving
letters of inquiry every day relative
to the great Interstate twenty-mile
race and the other attractions which
the fair will afford, and the interest is
growing more widely spread every
day. 1t looks now as if Sedalia would
have the greatest fair ever held in this
part of the country.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

An interesting suit has just begun
in the courts of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Little, the
widow of a commercial traveller who
lost his life in the Johnstown flood,
has sued the members of the South
Fork club for $50, 900 damages. II
it should be carried to a successful is
sue the result of this case would mean
the practical ruin of the members OF
the club, although there are said to be
something like fifty millionaires among
the members. A verdict for the
plaintiff IN this case would have q
wholesome effect in making fishing
clubs more careful as to the strength
of dams they maintain in positions
dangerous to life and property.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

One Of our contemporaries seems TO
be very sensitive about doing harm
to other people. Perhaps it is haunt
ed by memories of Alfred Carr, late
insurance commissioner. Meanwhile,
if it will pay more attention to its
own business and less to other peoples,
it may be able to pay the money it
owes this Office some time.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

The Globe Democrat and Republic
of St. Louis are booming St. Louis as
the proper site for the Worlds fair in
1892 and it is to be hoped that every
effort will be made by the western
and southwestern press to back them.
New York and Philadelphia have
both had the Worlds fair and it is high
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

And now it is reported that Maggie
Mitchell is to marry her leading man,
Mr.. Charles Abbott and hence the
sympathy which her husbands inf
deity provoked, might as well have
been spared. 1t does seem as if
hardly man or woman of the stage
today has the slightest regard for the
sacredness of the marriage tie and
now that Maggie Mitchell, who OF
all people was supposed to be exempt
from that sort of thing, has gone over
to the majority, it is not much won
der that the stage is considered by
moralists, beyond the publication
which always has been held up as a
possibility of the future.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

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He Went Ont All the Same,

Washington Post.
A gentleman who used to be Post
master, but who is not working at il
now, was at the Ebbit house last even.
ing.
$50 you have rendered your resig.
nation, have your" asked a friend.
"No," said he, 81 have had my
resignation rendered 10 me-"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06

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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-06
Help cut the fair.
Boom the trades procession.

Not a fly will come within 500
miles of the Fair association.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
To the Farmers of Montpelier and
Vicinity.

What are you going to do with the vast
quantity of hay that lies for sale within the
short distance Of four miles of Montpelier
depots? AT present it is almost impossible
to sell ton of hay, and if one is so fortunate
as to Slip in before some one of the cloud of
people who are looking for that chance, he
feels happy and as though he had been
smart. The feeding out of this large crop
of hay will bring just nothing, and most
farmers know by this time what nothing
means: If you keep your hay and try to
sell it for home consumption, you will get
but trhe more than nothing. 1t seems a
strange thing that an Old state like Vermont
should have to sell her principal crop for a
price that will hardly pay for harvesting
But this state of things has prevailed for so
long time that people have got somewhat
accustomed to it and seem to have forgotten
that there are railroads and hay presses,
and places where they don't have to quite
give their crop away The writer has been
informed that at recent auction in Warren
as good hay as was ever put before horse
was sold for five dollars per ton and that
sale was doubtless better than to have
brought IL to Montpelier, where if you should
be so fortunate as to sell half a ton of it,
every spear must be calipered to a thou
Sandth part of an inch or the buyer will
straighten up smarter than " whole tribe
of Indians " and order you to draw il off his
premises. Some even want it done up in
tin foil each bunch numbered and the eX-
act number of spears marked on each bunch.
Now, if hay was worth something here, all
this would be changed OF course no one
can get more than the market price for his
goods, but he need not try to sell goods in a
market already glutted as the hay market
is in Montpelier a good hay-press will
press about twelve tons per day; a car will
hold tons enough so that the freight to Con-
cord, Manchester, Lowell or Boston will
not be over three dollars per ton and you
can get it pressed at a total cost of $3.50 per
ton, making the aggregate cost of pressing
and freight not over $3.50. The price of
hay in any of the lower cities is from SIS to
S2l per ton, so that if you sold for $50 it
would net you S14.50 at home and if it was
of inferior quality and did not bring but SIG,
You would still realize S1050. 1t is evident
that your hay must be pretty poor not to net
$40 at home, and most would probably net
Sl4 or SO, which is a triie better than So
or SIS, and the privilege of being danced on
thrown in just get your hay-presses let
few Join together and "do something"
and you can get better price for this crop,
and make room for the next at prices higher
than if this is allowed to remain here, Even
IS or 50 for pressed hay is better than if you
allow the present immense crop to lay here
for consumption. FARMER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Montpelier and Vicinity.

c. C. ABBOTT of Underhill is visiting f.
II. Bascom.
THERE will be a baptism at the Baptist
church next Sabbath evening.
A. G. HARLOW and wife started last week
on a short trip to Fort Payne, Ala.
THE party of gentlemen who went to Fort
Payne a short time ago has returned.
A NEW furnace has been placed in the
building of the Church of the Messiah
ORRIN DALEY has returned from White
River Junction to reside in this village.
A CARPET store has been opened in the
old Montpelier House by Bernard Green
wood.
QUITE number of Montpelier people at
tended the races at Barre on Saturday af-
ternoon.
FRED W. BANCROFT and Mrs. f. |. Pitkin
will attend the choir festival at st. Albans
this week
The fair under the auspices of the band
will be held at Capital Hall, November II,
10, IA and 10.
GEORGE HAcKETT and Miss Myrtle Cross,
daughter Of NJ. V. B. Cross, were married
Monday evening.
THERE was a pleasant family gathering
at the home of Mrs. Charles Il, Sabin on
Monday evening.
FRED r.. STEVENS has purchased from II.
on Terrace street.
A SPECIAL train was run from Barre to
Montpelier and return on each evening of
the fair at Capital Hall.
G. e. CHENEY of Fargo, Dakota. we'll
known musician, is visiting f. w. Ban
croft and George III. Wilder.
The number of arrivals at the Pavilion
| for the week ending last Saturday was $40,
and at the Montpelier House 260.
THERE was no session of the Union school
on Friday of last week, the teachers attend
ing the state convention at st. Albans.
THE Chautauqua Circle meets with Mrs.
+, d. Dewey on School street next Friday
afternoon at a quarter past two o'clock.
Il. p. JOHNSON, of the firm of johnson &
Cotton, has gone on a trip which will in
clude Boston, New York and Baltimore.
MRS. w. G, TAPLIN went to Orwell on
Saturday. She will attend the Christian
Endeavor convention at Rutland to-day.
AT the home Of the brides father, Hon,
b. #. Fifeld, Burnside b. Bailey and Miss
Fannie ii. Fltield were married Saturday
noon.
THE choir of the Unitarian church sang
| al the funeral OF the mother of Professor
Charles Dudley at East Montpelier on Sat
urday.
7. j. BoYNToN, chief inspector OF the
post-otiices of this district under the Cleve
land administration, was in Montpelier
yesterday.
ALBERT JoHoNNoTT is having vacation
OF a week or ten days. He will visit Phia
delphia, and possibly extend his trip tC
Fort Payne.
IN response to a telegram announcing thu
serious illness of her brother, Mr.. Edward
Sweet, Miss Elizabeth Sweet left for New
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Vermont Bar Association.

The Vermont Bar Association held its
annual meeting at the courthouse on Tues
day evening Of last week. Reference was
made in our last issue to the literary exer-
oises, which consisted OF papers on " Trial
by Jury in Civil Cases." by President p. X.
Gleed of Morrisville, and "The Life and
Services of the late Charles H. Heath of
Montpelier" by Ashton r. Willard of Bos-
ton. The latter paper was read by the sec
retary, George W. Wing The following
attorneys were admitted to the association
James NJ. Slade of Middlebury, H. S. Peck,
d. j. Foster of Burlington, b. III, Bullard
OF Underhill and John V. Sprague of Barre
At the close of the literary exercises, the
annual banquet took place at the Pavilion
There were about seventy gentlemen pres
ent. President Gleed acted as toastmaster
introducing the following speakers; Judge
James NJ Tyler, Governor w. i. Dilling-
ham, Judge Loveland Munson, Congress-
man John W. Stewart, ex-State's Attorney
Frank Plumley, =. M. MeldOn Of Rutland,
George w. Wing of Montpelier Hon.
Daniel Roberts of Burlington and George
A. Harmon of Bennington. Congressman
Stewart questioned the success Of the pres
ent system of jury trial in criminal cases,
noting the verdict Of acquittal in the recent
Rutland case, where murder was undoubt-
edly committed "We have been taught TO
hold life more sacred than they do in Ken
tucky," said Congressman Stewart. "The
peremptory challenge is abused for the pur-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Obituary..

CAUsrIc.-The funeral of Nellie Blanche
Caustic, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
e. Caustic, took place at Lynn, Mass, last
week, 1t was attended by a large number
of relatives and friends of the little girl, who
died of spinal meningitis at the children's
hospital, Boston, Sunday afternoon, the
Goth instant. The floral tributes were very
beautiful and very appropriate. Nellie was
a beloved child, who lived to the age of
four years and four months, being cut off
in budding girlhood to the intense sorrow
of all. In life her ways were ever good and
pleasing. She suffered continually, but
was patient and resigned, and those who
knew her in babyhood days can never for
get her many endearing ways.
THoMPsoN.-Hon. Sumner S. Thompson
of Lyndonville died at Frankfort, Mich,
last week. He was born in Halifax Mass,
in 1928, but removed TO Vermont ia 1886 and
became "A railway contractor and lumber
dealer. He built most of the Passumpsic
railroad from Lyndonville TO Barton. car
ried out large contracts on the Grand Trunk
road, was director in several railroad cor
pOrations aud large owner in the Wood
stock road. AT the time of mis- death he was
engaged in the construction of the Frank
fort and Southeastern railroad in Michigan,
and was president of the corporation. He
represented the town In the legislature from
1860 to 1867, was senator four years, and he
was e-president of the First National
Bank at st. Johnsbury and president of the
st, Johnsbury Publishing Company. When
the Lyndon Institute was built he furnished
funds to the amount of about S25 900, which
he subsequently gave to the institution. He
was man OF great public spirit. Mrs.
Thompson, who resides in Lyndonville,
reached her husband before his death. He
leaves two children, Mrs. s. w. Mccall of
Manchester, Mass, and Mrs. q. S. Lebou-
neau of Lyndonville.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
The Supreme Court.

The general term of the supreme court
began on Tuesday OF last week. when the
case of Benjamin B, Hatchs estate, Ellen L..
Gordon appellant, was heard and referred
to Chief Justice Royce. l., f. Wilbur and
Il. II. Gordon were counsel. The case Of
the executors of Catherine Fosters estate,
appellees, as. Joseph ID. Shaifer and Della
S. Dickinson, appellants, was heard on the
same day. harrington & Ross and Hillard
& Burleson were for the plaintiffs f. j..
Ormsbee, j. Z. Lamson, Wilson 4 Hall and
Cross & Start for defendant. Judge Royce
was given the case. The case OF the Yer,
mont & Canada railroad company and
others u.s. the Vermont Central and others
was heard and given to Judge Powers. In
the case OF the Rutland railroad company
as. Joel M. Haven, Prouty and Bennett
were for plaintiff and Dunton for defendant,
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NUMBER AZ.

The case was given to Judge Rowell. 'gThe
case of Mary Conklin us. George ID. Niles
was heard and referred to Judge Rowell.
Judge Tyler was assigned the case of Ada
n. Barber u.s. II. w. Bennett, and Judge
Munson took the case Of Henrietta Andrew
rs. George Andrew. The court adjourned
from Saturday noon till Tuesday morning,
when the case of Horace w. Thompson u.s.
the American Home Missionary Society
was heard and given to Judge Ross. In the
case of George E.ROyce u.s. Ira j. Young and
others, A. f. Walker and f. G.. Swinington
were for the plaintiff and Davis q Enright
for defendant Referred to Judge Powers
The case of Gardner S. Melendy rs. George
A. Ames was given to Judge Taft. Watson
and Fay for plaintiff, Hyde and Shurtleff
for defendant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Barre Races.

There were two very good races at Green
Mountain Park, Barre, on Saturday after
noon of last week. Although not adver-
used till the preceding Thursday, there was
far-sized crowd in attendance. The first
race was iree-for-all, in which there were
but two entries: Rocket, owned by Homer
Brewster OF st. Johnsbury and Mr. Rich
ardson of Littleton, and Factory Boy,
owned by Charles Ballard of White River
Junction. These are probably the two best
horses in Vermont, Every heat was close
and interesting Rocket, however, broke
in every one and lost the race. Factory
Boy won three straight heats, He took
strong and steady pace from the start and
stuck to it to the finish. Those who saw
the race felt well paid for attending. The
time was 229l, 2.31 230. The last half
mile of one heat was made i'm LII.
The other race was for 2:30 horses, and
the entries were Little Harry, Rocket and
Tommy Dean. Rocket is well known in
this vicinity, having beaten Harry w
week before. Saturday, however, Little
Harry took the honOrs, winning three
straight heats. The first two were pretty
close, but the third was easily won. Little
Harry is owned by Richard G0odall of East
ST. Johnsbury. The summary follows:
R2Gket Fi,, ,a ti:,,.
Tommy Dean.
., 235' 2;33
The notable fact about these races was
the presence of the veteran trackman,
Charles Taylor, who drove Factory Boy.
Mr.. Taylor will be eighty-two years old
next December, yet his eye is as keen and
he sits in his sulky as firmly as ever. He is
without doubt the Oldest active trackman
TO he found anywhere He has been in the
service of Mr.. Ballard for thirty years, and
for twenty-hine years he has driven in the
same sulky that he had Saturday This is
the sulky that Snow Flake used in cam
pagning through every state of the union.
1t will be remembered that Snow Flake par
ticipated in about 32j races, losing less than
twenty. The sulky is painted white.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30

HARRY IL. MAY has been engaged as in
structor Of vocal music in the st. Johnsbury
public schools.
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