The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30
LOCAL GOSSIP.

bench block" In the southeast corner OF
the market house. 1t is about is inches
above the surface of the walk.
Agent Mckenzie insurance
was Introduced only 24 years sgo, but on
account of lis slow growth during the first
Is years it is really very modern institu-
ton. Ii is a boon TO railroad employees
who, on account OF the hazardous nature
cf their employment, are almost barred
out of regular life insurance companies.
NV company, the Fidelity, is constantly
paying losses on tn, Gould system, varying
in size from s. to 500 on account OF small
injuries sustained by our policy holders.
Now and then we have a big loss on ac-
count of the death or permanent injury.
Nearly all railroad men carry accident
policies and as 8 rule, railroad men are
the best insured class OF people IN the
country.
An old soldier 1t may not be generally
considered by readers of war stories that
very necessary article and one much used,
| is gunpowder. The battle of New Orleans
was DELAYED several hours by reason OF the
| fact that Jackson was afraid TO begin the
| fight with the small amount OF powder he
had. He expected more powder every day
! and was getting very much worried be-
cause il did not come. Finally two men
/ and boy appeared with a raft on which
| they had large quantity of the longed-fOr
article In barrels. This pow Ter was made
/ In Blouut county, Tennessee, in a cave on
| Little river, RATED down Little river TO the
Tennessee, down the Tennessee to the Ohio,
down the OHIO to The Mississippi, and
down the NJ ssissipps 10 New Orleans.
An old citizsu-I haven't mosquito-b@r
nor a screen door about my house and Vet
| there are seldom any dies and never any
mosduit. e. about il. l learned the secret
| Of successful warfare az inst these pests
when living in the swamps OF Louisiana,
where, summer or winter, mosquitoes
swarm. For some years life was unendur-
able, and no meal could be eaten In p, ace.
But all at once there was a change Tor the
better bars and screens were often out OF
place. but there was almost an immunity
from insects. / was bathing at the time,
and had lust changed my colored boy.
The newcomer explained to me how he
kept the CRITTERS" away. He burnt email
pieces of gum camphOr on the cook stove.
When got married and came to Missouri
| impaired the secret to my wife, and, as
there is no patent on it that know OF, L
would advise all fellow-suffsrers to go and
do likewise. The gum camphor is ample
for the purpose, and needs only to be
used two or three times day.
J.H. Heston, of the Missouri Pacific
store house-This building is quite small
and not very imposing, but the stock con-
tanned in it will inventory from S4o ,OO9 TO
$4,000. The stock embraces almost every
thing except groceries, principally hard
| a. ~ 1ru dc
consists Of a bolt or two OF muslin, bunting,
flannel, tape etc. We stock up once a
month
City Attorney Hoffman, have held the
Office of city attorney nearly four years
and have secured the CONNECTION of nearly
1000 persons in the police court. Ii the
office paid fees like the county prosecutors
nv Office would be the richest In the
ounty, if not the state. The city attorney
is paid salary aud no fees are taxed
against the unfortunate in the police court
for his benefit. In fact no costs are taxed
except witness fees and the cost OF the pris.
oners meals.
Railway patents-It is very seldom day
passes that there does not trombone to three
men come to Supt Fley's office with a
patent railroad switch coupling or some
O. her devise for the improvement of cars
or track. As railroad managers are al
ways on the lookout for Improvements
Sups. Frey carefully examines each device
offered aud If il appears to re valuable he
} Iakes steps to have it tested by actual use
and often his office resembles q railroad
supply depot. The thing most needed nov
; and will bring fortune to tina successful
inventor, is a cheap and effective device to
prevent the nuts on the bolts through fish
plates from working of and and yet can
be removed easily without injury to the
, bolt or nut. 1t looks as if the Diff
Guilty could be easily mastered, but so far
the inventors have failed although there
are dozen inventions 10 use, none, how
ever, satisfactory.
Davis David, a Confederate Railway
Mail Clerk like to look at the mail
cars-especIally the fast maitland see the
slick way they handle the mail. When |
, come to town / always spend an hour at
the Sedalia depot watching the boys. L
served the confederscy during its entire
life as q railway mail carrier between
Charleston and Columbia and Wilmington
and Charleston. / was In the service on
, the first named run when South Carolina
went out of the Uni q. / took the oath
of allegiance to the state and afterwards
J to the confederacy and continued my runs
as usual. For year there was no change
in the appearance of the mail, the county
, being then well supplied with stationary.
Toward the close of 1862 the quantity be-
. gan to dwindle until we did not have to
, exceed adozen letters between Columbia
|, and Charleston. A boy with single mail
/ pouch took nay place and boy was sent
to the Wilmington run. The appearance
, of the mail showed that tough times were
{ beginning to come. Rough looking letters
) written on wrapping paper enclosed in
: home made envelopes began to appear In
/ our pouches. At first they attracted con.
siderable netice, but at last they became
, the only kind We carried. Even the gov