Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1889-12-27

-English capitalists have in
vested two million dollars in Ma
con county coal lands.
There are now six demo-
Gratis, who want Mr.. Vests place
in the Senate. They are David
Il. Francis, Judge Norton, Jeffer-
son Chandler, Judge Sherwood,
Richard p. Bland and John
O'Day.
The Russian Influenza has
reached st. Louis and they are
having a sneezing time down
there. Democrats may now get
out their campaign bandanas, for
the disease may reach this point
at any hour.
The symptoms of Russian
influenza, the disease now prevail
ing in this country, is headache,
with chilly sensations followed by
high fever; after the fever violent
sneezing begins, and is kept up
till the disease has run its course.
The Senate Committee on
Territories has about made up its
mind to recommend the admission
of Idaho and Wyoming as States.
The Democrats will very likely
oppose the measure, as the new
states would probably be Repub-
can. The former have a lively re-
memberance of Washington, the
Dakotas and Montana.
Some of the Republicans
are attempting with pretty fair
success, to fix the moral, if not
the financial responsibility of the
Silcott defalcation upon Ex-
Speaker Carlisle, whom it is
charged, permitted the faithless
cashier to serve several months
without giving bond. 1t is held
that Silcotts bondsmen are not now
legally responsible for the ex-
cashiers short comings. The
committee to investigate this
affair has virtually agreed to re-
port bill reimbursing the VIC
Tins of the swindle.
1t seems that the confess
sion of Armour, before the COM
mittee investigating the beef COM
bine, that he cleared 100000 last
year, aud that the net profits on a
single beef was only SI32, has
stirred up the English blood. The
English capitalist has been get
ting only a small per cent on his
investments, and to read Of profits
like the above causes him to lose
sleep. English capital has been
buying up all the breweries in the
United States, because of the i'm
mense revenue yielded by them,
and now a new departure is con-
templated. A gigantic slaughter
ing establishment is to be erected
near Montreal, Canada, which is
to be supplied with cattle from
the Chicago market. This will
make Chicago the greatest cattle
market in the world, and, when
Johnny Bull and Columbia begin
to struggle for supremacy in the
beef business, we may ex-
pect to see the beef combine, if
there has ever been one, speedily
go to prices.
We have heard it reported that
Kirksville has a dancing club,
with teacher, and that every
church in town is represented in
it. We don't know whether this
is true or not, but if it is the
church members should get out of
The club or out of the church. If
.hings go on at the present rate
much longer the devil will need to
erect a lot of new furnaces in which
o roast his converts.-Kirksville
Journal.
TO read the above one
would conclude that the writer
lad been either suddenly convert
I'd or was using a vast amount of !
hypocrisy. Has the writer forgot
ten that only a few short months
lgo, as manager Of the Opera
House, he brought shows of ques-
ionable morality to Kirksville
and advertised them in his paper
rs being worthy of public patron