The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-28
BACK AGAIN.
Colonel CELSIUS Price, Who Has
Been Missing for Four Years,
Turns Up Again.

A reporter saw and conversed wit
him last night. He has been absen
for over four years, and during tina
time great deal of gossip has beer
INDUCED in and some ridiculous storie
have found place in the newspapers
The true story of Colonel Prices de-
parture from and return to ST. Loui
is strange one and full of interest
especially for the thousands Of people
in st. Louis and Missouri who have
known and esteemed the son of "PaI
Price" the famous confederate soldier,
as well as for the thousands who
though not personally acquainted with
CELSIUS Price, have known him bp rep
utation or have become interested In
him through the reports of his depart
ure from the land of his birth under
circumstances of peculiar interest
ing character.
The return of CELSIUS Price to St.
Louis is fraught with interest to the
thousands who were friends in former
days of bis brother. Quintius Price
and DR.. Sylvester Nidelet, whose
names are associated with his, and in
fact who disappeared from the sight,
though not from the memory of their
friends and associates at the same time
CELSIUS Price was lost to view. Though
Quintius Price and DR.. Sylvester
Nidelet have not returned, CELSIUS
Price brings tidings of them that can
but be gratifying to their family and
friends.
In order to thoroughly understood
the signular story it is necessary that
the readers recollection should be re-
vived by brief recital of past events.
CELSIUS Price, Quintius Price and DIR.
j. G. Nedelet. disappeared from St.
Louis in the early spring of 1887. No
three men in st. Louis were better
knewn. CELSIUS Price, now 80 years
old, son af Sterling Price, once gov
ernOr of Missouri, and man who hav-
ing served the state in many capaci-
ties, earned national, if not not inter
nationals fame as pap Price" during
the war of the Rebellion. CELSIUS
served on his fathers staff during the
war and his title of Colonel, as well
as his spurs, was won on the field.
lie made a great deal
of money in mercantile pursuits after
the war, but his desire for time to
pursue studies In certain lines caused
him to abandon bis grain and commits
sion business, the firm being Price &
Marmaduke (John S. Marmaduke
subsequently becoming Governor),
and accept the Office of Insurance
Commissioner under Governor Har-
din. His official term expired in
1876, and he engaged in real estate
speculation, losing considerable money,
but he still retained a sufficient guam
tity of worldly goods to place him in
what is ordinarily considered comfor-
table circumstances, and his family
was wealthy. About the close of
the war he married Miss Celeste
Price, a cousin twice removed,
daughter of Thomas Price, who was at
one time Lieutenant-G Governor of the
State. Her death seemingly directed
his mind in religious and spiritual
channels and he soon became very
deeply interested in the study of spir-
itualism and kindred subjects.
His brother Quintius, though less
prominent in public affairs, was quite
as well known in professional and So
cial life.
DIR. Sylvester Nidelet was a physi-
clan of prominence and recognized
skill and learning in his profession.
Like CELSIUS Price, he accepted official
position in order to get away from the
exactions of regular practice and to
have time to devote to studies. He
was a surgeon in the regular
army, but resigned his position at the
outbreak of the war and joined his
fortunes with the Confederacy. In
this way be and CELSIUS Price were
thrown together, and the similarity.of
their inclinations towards spiritualism,
mysticism and the occult soon made
them fast friends. Nidelet served as
coroner about the time that CELSIUS
Price was insurance commissioner.
In the early spring of 1887 these
three gentlemen, as well known in
business. professional, official and So
cial circles. were missing. There was
nothing to attract especial attention
to their absence. There were no bust
ness complications or social sensations,
and it was said-and, in fact, CELSIUS
Price confirms the report-that they
said farewell to their friends and
quietly announced that they had con-
consecrated themselves to the service
of God and would probably never