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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-11

School Commissioner.
L.. b. SMITH
Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana,
has vetoed the Infamous lottery
bill.
The House and Senate have
reached an agreement upon the
silver question.
Much damage has been
done by storms and tornadoes
during the week. Fargo, N. D., was
almost wiped out of existence
Monday, and a number of persons
were killed.
Whenever an Individual
complains that the country is 60
ing to destruction, you may safe
ly put 1t down that that individu-
al is either a political or financial
failure. or both.
"A young man of this coun-
ty has spent one thousand dollars
with the Louisiana lottery. He
has been trying to draw one Of
the big prizes that the Kirksville
Journal has been advertising as
having been drawn in other
towns.
The Census returns give
Kirksville apopulation of $500 in
round numbers. This is a gain of
more than so per cent in ten years.
This is splendid showing and 1t
is probable that no other town of
North Missouri has done half SO
well.
Macon has a population of
5000, gain of $50 in ten years.
Kirksville's gain is 1900 in the
same time. Macon has the repu-
tation Of being a town of push and
enterprise, and boasts of support
ing seven saloons. During the
past ten wears KlrksyiIle has been
without saloon the greater part
of the time.
--Unionville boasts that thir-
ty houses have been built in that
town during the spring and sum-
mer. More than hundred build.
ings have been erected in Kinks.
vile, including some of the finest
business houses in this part of the
state, and the work still goes on
as actively as at the opening OF
the season.
For five years there has
been a depressed cattle market,
during which time COWS, calves,
and all kinds of cattle have been
dumped into the market until
there has been shrinkage in the
United States of at least forty per
cent. This has so reduced stock
that prices must come up. The
cattle interest is bound to be pros
porous from this on.
-Kirksville is the only coun-
ty seat in north Missouri that has
been almost constantly without
saloons. We have frequently
heard it asserted on the streets
that saloons make business and
build up town. If the assertion
is true, the census returns should
show that kirksville has fallen be-
mind other towns of the same
class since the last census.
Original package houses
are in full blast in Kirksville, and it
seems that nothing can be done to
stop the business. The blood
curdling declaration made by a
certain seditor, when the original
package was talked of, it was
thought would strike terror to the
hearts of the original package
men. But it did not. They came
aad opened up business, and said
editora has never raised his
voice or hand against them. His
meak submissiveness has only
served to intensity the belief that
he is only big noise that
has no terrors for anything or
anybody.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-11
W; bash Excursion.

Democratic Tariff Reform Pic
mic Plattsburg, Mo-, July 18th,
1890. One Fare for the round
trip. W. e. NooNAN, Agt.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-11

5O-RoMAN HIPPoDRoME RIDER:
Forty Horses Refined and Ridder
by one man, The Hame of Merit
and the birthplace of novelty. A
Circus as pure in its Character
as the Home Circle, Chaste, Ele
CANT and refined.
300 PHENOMENAL Performers
A most remarkable display of
Japanese, Arabian and other
foreign Acrobats and Ath-
letes in a series of
wonderfully thrilling acts & feats
Only Aquarium of Monster Ma.
rine Marvels in America. The
Children's Dream of Fairyland
Sumptuously exemplifed.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-11

Two Leading of the Nation Travelling and Exhibit
ing One!
Big Men3grs Big Blsyasd eva Stages R Big crsnses Big
2 Big Railway Elupages.
The only Show America having anything to offer Entirely
reconstructed vastly improved greatly enlarged and absolutely
undenabl and indisputaby the great boom d the
country No long haired bulwhcke chasing lazy filthy Indians
ring called Wild West nerve-shockng and
dangerous shooting canvass bua well connected
bright popular exhibition of the pendors of the Orient
and the wonders of the Occdont.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-11
The WEEKLY GRAPHIC.
rE. SUBLETTE, Proprietor,
FRIDAY. July IL 1880.

x,RKsvILLE MISSOURI
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19

Woeltjen couldn't see their birds, and
didn't finish the shoot Martin killed
every bird. and Sir. duBignon, who was
shooting a strange gum" as he put it,
missed hts third bird aud got but seven. Ed
OCOnnor tied him, killing all his birds but
the seventh. He proposed TO shoot of the
tie, but Mr.. duBignOn declined on account
of the darkness, and il had grown 50 dark
that the birds couldn't be seen at all. Hearn
took third money, killing all his birds but
the fourth and sixth. Nelson, the enthusi-
astic captain Of the Brunswick team, went
all TO pieces in this shoot, missing four
straight and missing his seventh bird.
THE VISITORS WELL LOOKED AFTER
the Fores, City club had refreshments on
the ground for their guests and the visiting
teams, aud Messrs. Nelson, duBignon and
Dart said last night at the Pulaski that the
Forest City club had treated them most
Hospitality and royalty. You can just say
for me, on behalf of the Glynn club" said
Capt Nelson to MORNING News reporter,
that for genuine hospitality and warm
hearted welcome Savannah is the boss.
Savannah has been beaten In the regatta
and in the shotgun tournament, but there
isn't city in the country that can beat her
for hospitality. Another thing you can say,
and that IS team can be made up from the
Forest City and the Glynn club that will
beat any team in the United States"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
RAIL AND OROSSTIE.

RoadMaster Marvin of the Central is in
the city.
G. F. Grady, train dispatcher of the Sa-
vannah, Flo ida and Western at Dupont,
spent yesterday in the city.
The colored people from Gainesville and
Live Oak, Fla, had an excursion to Savan-
nab yesterday, arriving here about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. A number of white peo-
pie took advantage Of the excursion.
The Central railroad employees will have
an excursion to Tybse to-day from Column
bus, Macon, Atlanta and points along the
route. They will come with their wives
and children to enjoy the day at the sea-
shore. There will be fifteen or twenty
coaches full
The statement of the Louisville & Nash
vile for the year ending June 80, 1890, esti-
mated, shows gross earnings for 1890 of
SlS, 500. 5l3 against SIG, 500, 396 for 1899, an
increase of 81, 261, III; operating expenses
for 1890 of 81, All, 100, against SO, 326, O6S
for 1889, an increase of 81, 145, 034, and net
earnings for 1890 of 1889, 1893, against
Sc, 273, $40 for 1889, an increase of 81, lie OS3
The total fixed charges for 1890 we're
81, $50, ISL, against s., DOG sos for 1899, de-
crease of SO S24. The surplus for 1890 is
S3,0S5, 1913, against 81, 943,S14 for the previ-
Gus year.
Association a Birmingham passenger agent
says Of its troubles: ut has been secretly
known among railroad men for some Tina
time that the Southern Passenger Asso-
ciatiation would soon go to pieces. The
reasons are plain for this. The association
has been, since the withdrawal of the
Louisville and Nashville and one or two
other strong lines, composed almost exclu-
sively of lines controlled by the Richmond
and West Point Terminal Company. Now,
since the Western and Atlantic has been
leased by the Louisville and Nashville, that
road, which has been a most important
factor i'll the association, will be with
drawn, Of course This will cause break
in roads entering Atlanta, as heretofore all
Of them have been association members,
and the collapse of the body will follow
Another thing is that at the last annual
meeting there was very small attenda ce,
30 small that there was no election and no
business transacted. The meeting was ad-
iourned for a month, and the agreement
under which the association ex-
lists was extended to September
l. In the last few days this action has
created great deal of talk aud is now re-
garded as being virtually the thirty days
notice required under the constitution before
the agreement can be dissolved. The
expenses of the association are very heavy
and the talk is that the railroads are tired
carrying it. The next meeting will be held
on Aug. 6, and it is possible that the roads
will let the agreement expire by limitation. ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
They Must Be Worth Eating.

]. J. Reilly recently had made a large
number of refrigerators to bring here from
Melrose, Conn, high type of sweet Jersey
cream-something almost unobtainable in
the south. The venture proving quite a
success, Mr.. Reilly has let out contract for
additional refrigerators, so as to bring from
100 TO l5O gallons per week. He also an
nounces this morning that he has put in
power churns, ETC., which he viii drive by
steam, and that he is prepared to fill orders
for ice cream made from this sweet cream.
This will be very acceptable news to the
public, because there is nothing that will
supply the place of good ice cream on a
warm day. This ice cream must be good,
because the cream from which it is made Is
an elegant article. --Adu.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
Lunatics in China,
From the London Evening standard.


In China acts of homicide or murder COM
mitted by luUatics are rare. In that coun-
try the iron hand of Justice works
inexorably, and the plea of insanity is not
admitted as mitigation of punishment.
In the last Imperial Gazette laborer was
sentenced to death in the usual manner
appointed for the crime of parricide while
the relatives, who had neglected to inform
the district authorities that the man was
insane were each sentenced to receive 100
blows with stick. According to western
ideas this punishment of lunatic is cruel,
but there can be little doubt that the sever
ity adds largely to the protection of the
public, as is evidenced by the rarity of
crime by lunatics in China. There are few
lunatics so mad as to be altogether deficient
of self-control, and the knowledge possessed
by all Chinese that, whether mad or insane,
they will be punished for any crimes they
may commit, acts upon all alike as a deter
rent. In England we have gone to the
other extreme, and the slightest evidence
showing that a man or woman's mind is
unhinged upon certain points is considered
sufficient to shield them from the conse-
quences Of any crime they may commit,
even when that crime is perpetrated with
an amount of cunning and forsthought
sufficient to show, beyond doubt, that the
person committing it was perfectly aware
of wrongdoing, and was sane enough to
adopt every precaution against discov ery
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
TIE CHAMPION sNoRRR.
He Comes From Macon and He VIII
Get the Medal


There are snorers and snorers, but the
champion has been located at last The
guests of the Hotel Tybee are confident that
they know the man.
Shortly after the guests Of the hotel re-
tired Thursday night and had fallen into
tine deep sleep which comes to all who
sleep at TyDee, they vera awakened
by a serieg Of strange, unearthly
noises, for which there was no accounting.
Some thought 1t the rumbling of an ap-
preaching earthquake, Others trembled "a
the thought of another tidal wave came
into their minds, while Others, less timid,
pronounced It the roar of a coming thun-
derstorm.
The noise seemed TO emanate from
within the house, however, and an invest
CATION was begun. The sounds were located
IN room on the first floor, and with the
assistance Of the night clerk and the porter
an entrance was effected.
There slumbered in sweet ignorance
wealthy business man of Macon, unmindfui
of all the disturbance which he was Great
ing, while from his throat poured forth
sound resembling, but excelling, the roar of
Tybee train, the grand march Of Cobb's
brass band and the sound Of the waves in a
storm, all in one.
The sleeper was aroused, notified of the
disturbance he had created and left with a
request that he slumber more quietly. All
was quiet for awhile, but not long. The
noise soon began again and rose TO louder
pltcn than before Again the sleeper was
awakened and he promised most faithfully
that not another sound should escape him.
Did that Macon man snore any morel
Well, ten times he was awakened at the
request OF lrats guests who threatened to
burn the house down or murder the anorer
After each time was the snore renewed in
greater volume, and the suffering boarders
were left to spend sleepless night, conjur-
ing up their plans OF vengeance. Nobody
within nelghborhood of ten rooms of the
snorer got any sleep that night.
young man in the room above the
snorer dreamed that an engine on the Ty bee
road had exploded and blown a COW from
the track through his window, and that she
was moaning at the foot Of his bed. He
awoke to find that it was the Maconite in
the room below.
A MORNING NEWS reporter met q weary
eyed man upon the streets yesterday morn.
ing, and upon his haggard face was the ex-
preston OF man whose revenge is near.
He drew forth little copper medal, neatly
suspended by blue RIB N, and handed 1t
to the reporter. 1t was Inscribed:
CHAMPION SNORER- HOTEL TYBEE,
July Is, 1890"
After the sufferer had related his story he
said: II came up TO town for tuis medal
this morning. 1t VIII be presented to the
gentleman tonight. IL you hear of any
thing startling from Tybee tonight you will
know the reason
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
Talmage Held the Train.
From the Kansas city Times.

Rev. DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage is as much
ut home in a sleeping car or hotel as he is
when in his own favorite study or sleeping
room in Brooklyn. He never worries over
trifles. often writes his sermons and lectures
while travelling on steamboats, or trains,
and never bothers himself over missing con-
nections. Yet he does not always have the
good fortune to catch a train that he had
Dr. Talmage found, just before reaching
Toledo on the Wabash train. that the only
train over the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
North Michigan railroad would leave half
an hour before his arrival. He was booked
for lecture at Ann ArbOr that night and
the Outgoing train was his last chance
With the characteristic nlodesty
for which T. Dewitt Talmage has
always been noted he telegraphed Gen. J.
NJ. Ashley, president of the Toledo, Ann
Arbor and North Michigan road, asking
that the train be held half an hour and
signing the telegram "Talmage." The train
was waiting when the reverend doctor
arrived at the depot and he reached Ann
Arbor in time for the lecture. Unless he
sees this he will not know-tor the angry
Ann Arbor officials were too indignant to
tell hiuI--that the name ''Talmagen that
held the waiting train at the depot for half
an hour was not the lecturer and preacher.
but his brother, the Wabash railroad mag
nate. The Ann Arbor officials had detained
the train expecting the railroad man at a
time when all the orators in America could
not have kept it waiting at the depot half
an hour. Yet some say that there is no
value In name.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
Visitors to Boston

Win be glad to hear that "Parker's," the
famous. is to be conducted henceforth by
J. 4. Whipple & Co., who are also proprie-
tors Of the celebrated "Young's hoteln of
that city. This important change Of man
agement has just been consummated, and
nothing but the best results can follow. 1t
is certainly a pleasure to feel that the old,
reliable Parker house will continue on it's
prince of landlords, the hotel is most con-
veniently situated, has been thoroughly
renovated and newly furnished throughout.
The table retains its longtime excellence,
and the house will now seem more like the
Parker house under the late Harvey D.
Parker's management than at any time
since his death. This house has for years
been considered one of the institutions of
Boston, whose citizens and visitors are to be
congratulated that the house has passed into
such excellent hands.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
AT THE COURr8.
Gossip Picked Up Here ana There IN
the Court Rooms.

vic SCA- @NOCA7s
James Furgerson Ccolored) was turned
over to the city court yesterday by the
mayor, charged with the larceny of a pistol
aud two razors from George Linder's bar
Der shop. Henry johnson. was before the
mayor on a charge Of stealing pistol from
Warnock 81 Whites store, and his case was
continued for further investigation.
a jury In the superior court yesterday
found A. II. McNish guilty Of larceny after
trust with recommendation to tine mercy OF
motion for a new trial
Remitters from the supreme court were
filed in the superior court yesterday in the
case Of James Harrington against tine Savan-
nah, Florida and Western Railway Com
pany, and in the case of E. Y. Ham against
John Mclaughlin. trustea.
VIM. Lee (colored) was turned over TO
the superior court yesterday morning bg
the mayor 70 answer to the charge of
burglarizing the shoe shop Of Emanuel
Ruiz.
WIN. Barrett, who figured in the Butti-
mer- McMurray ARRAY in the Old Fort, is in
the hospital dangerously cut. His assailant,
II. w. Thomas (colored), is under arrest at
the barracks, awaiting the result Of Bar
rett's injuries.
In the superior court yesterday Il. W.
Johnson, student in Lawton & Cunning
hams office, passed an excellent examina-
ton and was admitted to practice. The
examiners were Judge A. p. Adams, r. G.
Erwin, Esq, Capt. II. c. Cunningham and
Solicitor General Fraser.
j. W. Ratcliff was appointed COM
merciaI notary public by Judge Falligant
yesterday.
The sealed verdict in the damage suit of
Lucy Green (colored), against the City and
Suburban and Coast Line railroad compa-
MES, was opened in the city court yesterday,
and was found to be for the plaintiff in the
sum of Sl,75O The amount sued for was
$4,000. The plaintiffs husband was killed
by one Of the companies trains on the
bridge near Bonaventure during MAY
vvaak y
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
CITY BRBVITIES.

The Republican Blues propose holding a
bazaar, opening about Nov. 8 and continuing
one week, for the benefit of the company.
Southern residents who do business down
town are using the cars of the Belt Line to
get 20 the Coast Line railroad depot. They
get off at the corner of East Broad and
Gwinnett streets, which is only block from
the depot
Yesterday was very quiet day at the
barracks. Only one arrest was made dur
ing the day--a colored woman for stealing
a basket of clothes from colored man
named Jack Robinson. Two more arrests
were made after o'clock last night, one
for disorderly conduct and one for fighting
in the streets.
In driving the pipe for driven well at
the temporary convict camp near Minis
swamp recently a quantity of large broken
gravel and whole pebbles, some of the latter
three-quarters of an inch in diameter, were
pumped up from distance Of about twelve
feet from the surface Of the ground The
ground is said to be Of the character In
which diamonds are found, but there were
no precious stones in the contents of the box
cent to the county commissioners office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
AT THE Y. M. @. ASSOCIATION.
The Associations Religious and Physi-
cal Work

The Associations DELICIOUS and Physi-
cal Work.
F. T. Galloway OF Atlanta will lead the
meeting for men only tomorrow afternoon
at $50 o'clock. Mr. Galloway is a young
man, looking forward to religious work,
and comes highly recommended, aud no
doubt the meeting will be one Of great in
terest,
The cornerstone of the new building at
Newburyport, Mass, was recently laid.
The building il 62x75, will be two stories
high besides the basement, the walls will be
of brick, with brown stone trimmings and
granite basement walls The family of the
late George II. Corliss the great inventor,
Is having it erected in memory of him
During his life Mr.. Corliss expressed the
desire to erect this building, but died before
the plans were ready.
At Augusta the old base ball grounds
have been leased by the Young Mems
Christian Association for athletic sports.
novel exhibition vas recently given at
Charlestown, Mass. Every member on the
programme was dressed in farm costume
and took his exercise with farm imple-
ments, and did the work as farmers would
do it; short sticks were used for dumb bells.
rakes and hoes for wands, tin dIppers for
Indian clubs and imitation pumpkins for
medicine balls
The association ball nine will play the
amateur nine at the bail park this after
noon. The game will be called at 4:3O
o'clock
Tha fnayoa ara.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
THE MELON AS A WEAPON.
a Railroad Conductor Nearly Kille,
With One.

Railroad Conductor Nearly Killed
With One.
Many people are aware that the juicy
watermelon is responsible for a great deal
of trouble physically at this time of year,
but it has never been considered heretofore
as weapon of offense or defense.
A prominent lawyer in this city had a
client the other day who related a story
which shows that the watermelon may ac-
conplish great damage when used as a
weapon under certain circumstances.
The lawyers client is a conductor on a
Central railroad freight train. A few days
ago, as the train was going up the road at
a speed Of twenty miles an hour, the con-
ductor was standing in the top Of his
caboose looking ahead out of the window.
with his head resting on his arm. The
train rushed by small station where a lot
of watermelons were being loaded into
some cars.
As the freight train passed one of the
hands engaged in loading, in a spirit of fun,
pitched one of the melons at the conductors
head in the window in the cabOose. His
aim was well taken, and the conseq uences
we're disastrous. The melon struck the con
ductor squarely on the face and arm,
knocked out three teeth, cut his face open,
and almost broke his arm. The joker'S
melon almost finished the conductor. The
speed at which the train was running was
responsible for the unusual force Of the
blow.
The conductor is now preparing to sue
the party who threw the melon. The man
who threw it says he only wanted to treat
the conductor to a melon.
The law prohibiting the carrying Of con-
cealed weapons should now be enforced
against watermelons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
COL NICHOLAS POSITION.
The Ex-Congressman Will Not be al
Independent Candidate.

The Ex-Congressman Will Not be an
Independent Candidate.
A gentleman we'll posted in political mat
ters received letter yesterday from Col
John G. Nichols in response to one of in
quiry in regard to his position in tho con-
gressional campaign, and especially inquir-
ing what he would do in case he should re-
ceive the nomination of the alliance backed
by the republicans. The writer of the letter
is a warm friend of Col. Nichols.
Col Nichols answer was decisive. He said
he would not be an Independent candidate,
but would support the nominee of the demo-
cratic convention. He says: There would
have to be a condition of affairs that does
not now exist under which I would feel it
my duty to ignore the fiat of a convention
before l would consent to enter the national
capitol as a member through the back
door"
Col Nichols friends are we'll pleased with
the stand he has taken. He is as he has
always been straight out democrat, and
the rumors that he would accept a nomina-
ton by the alliance and republicans COM
bined are, it seems, untrue.