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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30
The WeSfvMe Suicide.
Full Particulars from A Special
CORRESPONDENT.

OUfIGS pOHu6HI.
Last Sunday afternoon John Baer
came to VIM. Clark's, justice of the
peace In Clark township, requesting
him to 60 to the residence of Jas.
Compton for the purpose of holding
an inquest over his body, which had
been found dead few yards from
the house.
The particulars, as nearly as could
be found, are as follows: On Satur-
day evening before he told his wife
he was going to the creek to drown
himself, he said that he was "done
lawIng." She persuaded him not
to go, and enacted a promise from
him to that effect "for her sake, -
but he added he would kill himself
some time. On Sunday morning
she related what he had said to her
to boy, his grand son, that was liv-
ing with them and told him to watch
Mr.. Compton closely through the
day. The boy had a razor in his
possession which Mr.. Compton bor
rowed to shave himself that (Sun-
day. morning.
No thing unusual was noticed in
his manner during the forenoon, and
after dinner the boy went to neigh
bor's house, Mr.. Johnson, but kept
watch on the Compton place, John
sons house being in sight of Comp
tons, and in a short time Mr. Comp
ton was seen by the boy to go to the
barn. He then started back, trying
to keep him within view, but soon
lost sight of him, and on arriving at
the barn could still see nothing Of
him. He searched through some
brush and other places, but without
finding any trace of Mr.. Compton,
and finally started to inform Ben
Compton, son, and Jas. Baer, a
son-in-law, of Mr.. Compton, Of his
disappearance, but before they ar
rived Mrs. Compton had found bin
short distance west of the house in
a fence corner, dead.
Upon examination, his throat was
found to be cut, the jugular vein be-
ing cut into and his neck cut almost
third through. The body was in
kneeling position, the arms for
ward, and the head bent lo6. The
suppositIon was, from the position
of the body, that he was in stoop'
ing or squatting position when in
flictlng the fatal cut, and growing
weak from bleeding, had gradually
fallen on his knees. The razor he
had used in the morning was found
under his arm, but could not he seen
until the arm was moved. The blade
was fastened back with a string to
prevent It's sprInging. The jury re-
! turned q verdict OF suicide.
Mr.. Compton was one OF the "old
settlers" of Clark township. One OF
his pleasures seem TO consist In be-
ing in law SUIT, and lately he has
been involved in several, most ot
which againsth him and it was
supposed, by many, that this was the
cause of his committing suicide.
E c.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30
After the Sun" Man..

That scavenger sheet, the Kansas
City Sunday Sun, edltorlally remarks
that we are "a liar, thief and q
fool" says the North NisSowyian.
We can stand being called liar and
a thief, but when man calls US a
fool we are going to scrap. The fetid,
putrid and embryotic intellect that
smers it's weekly COB of filth and cor
ruption through the columns of that
nefarious and despIcahle sheet may
yet hear from us,-Boauiiie Star.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30

Joseph V. Dory, Warsaw. ILL.,,
was troubled with rheumatism and
tried anumber of different remedies,
but says none of them seemed to do.
him any. good; but finally he got
hold of one that speedily cured him.
He was much pleased with it, and
felt sure that others similarly alfiict-
ed would like to know what remedy
1t was that cured HIM. He states for
the benfit of the public that it is
called Chamberlain Pain Balrn.- Il
Is for sale by Agee & Bro, Dalton,
at 80 cents per bottle. e aea
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30
Guaranteed Cure for In Grippe.

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We authorize our advertised drug
gists to sell you DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for consumption, coughs and
colds, upon this condition: If you
are afflicted with la grippe and will
use this medicine according to direc-
tions, giving it fair trial, and eX-
perience no benefit, you may return
the bottle and have your money re-
funded. We make this offer be-
cause of the wonderful success of
DR.. Kings New Discovery during
last seasons epidemic. Have heard
of no case in which it failed Try it..
Trial bottles free at w. G. CASTOR $
drug store. Large size bottles 50cts
and 81.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30
Importance of Education.

EDITOR SOCkIEh - lSooS ih~
space In your columns for me to say
a few words in regard to education.
1t is a very useful requirement we
can do nothing without it.
Young friends, we should educate
ourselves, and not sit supinely down
and wait for some one to give US
boost.
My young friends, you cannot al
ford to drop behind In the race of life I;
you can not afford to enter the busy,
active world uuprepared for bat
tie. If you do, lifelong regret OF
neglected opportunities will ever
hang over your head and darken
yoar pathway with cloud which,
though otherwise unfettered, pros
perlty can not pierce.
Stop and think: Suppnse that
forty years of your life was streatch-
ed out before you, have you time to
spend one year in school, that 1t
may bless the remaining thlrty-Eine
years? Have you time to spend two
years in school that they may more
surely bless the remaining thirty
eight with halo of light brighter
than any that ever encircled heav-
emily body?
You can not, my young friends
afford TO neglect the opportunities
that are before you. You should now
select such studies as you think
may prove most useful through life,
and apply yourself to these with a
determination to lead-not follow in
life's struggle. Mentally declare: ::
Il Will do my own thinking, for the
acts of my life must be governed
thereby"
Here is the crisis in life. 1t is the
important time. Its destinies hang
in suspense on your correct decision.
Parents, you whose affections and
hopes are centered in your children,
can you not inspire them in their
search for knowledge, that they may
gladden. your gray heads by their
conduct and success?
l trust that your declining years
may be gladdened by the reflection
of your children's lives. Can you
not say an encouraging word to your
hesitating son or daughter for their
temporal and eternal good? If so,
speak to them.
An investment in a practical edu-
cation always pays the best rate of
interest, and declares its dividends
daily.
The present age demands higher
edcuation than any preceding one.
1t now requires more thought to man
age farm properly, and also that of
Its machinery, than 1t did that of a
generation ago. 1t requires better
thought to transact the business of
to day than it did that of fifty years
ago.
LIES duties are more comp llcat-
ed, and hence require more mental
force to master the intricate problems
of the present decade.
Young friends. your lives are op-
ening out before you and you must
meet the busy requirements, prepar
ed or unprepared. Your mind is the
swaying scepter that should win the
victory in this age of great intellect
ual contests.
Ignorance stamps indeliblY the
word, failure" upon the victim
which means a life of continued en-
barrassment, If not misery and
eternal woe You must he educated oil
/ you will perish under the ruins OF
profound ignorance and absolute
failure.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if this finds it,
way into the press l will be greatly
encouraged and hence contented.
Yours Truly,
A. l.. ASHLEY.
Guthridge Mills, Mo.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30
The Only Guaranteed Cure

for all blood taints and humorss pim-
Iples, blotches, eruptions and skin
diseases of every name and nature.
is DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. A certificate of guarantee
from a responsible business house
warrants it to benefit or cure, or
money refunded.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30

J. c. JOHNSON, for eleven years
surveyor of Pettls county, died last
week at Sedala of softening or the
brain caused by la grippe.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-04-30

If they should be the cause of anyone
making deeper research and more
thorough investigation into the same,
my object will have been completed
md the attentive student qualified
to cast his ballot inteIIigently ia
1892, when these live issues are {,
met and decided by the American
people.
Respectfully,
w f. WnToS
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
IMPORTANT POINTS.

The supreme court, now in session. is
expected to take under consideration at
once the case made up as to the consti-
tutionality of the MCKINLEY tariff act.
The points raised are of the highest mo-
ment. and if definitely decided, will
make the case one of the most cele-
brated in the judicial history of the
country. There are three material aver
ments made by the plaintiffs in this
case. The first is that the bill signed
by the president was not the one passed
by congress. The latter contained a
clause in regard to rebates to tobacco
manufacturers that had disappeared be-
fore the enrolled bill reached the presi-
dent. At later period congress passed
n supplementary bill covering the miss
ing provision, but this did not change
the fact alleged that the bill signed was
not strict copy of the one approved by
the legislative branches. If it is held
that the omission did not invalidate the
act, an avenue is opened in dangerous
direction. Designing parties may tam
per with the work of any legislative
body.
The second point presented relates to
the bounty question. and is of more i'm
mediate and practical interest. 1t is de-
MED that it is constitutional to tax all
the people to add to the prosperity of IL
portion. 1t is insisted the money OBJ
tanned by the government is derived
from the people at large, and il is unjust
and misconception of the fundamental
law to enhance the private business of
the few at the expense of the whole. If
this power is affirmed, only policy and
votes will be in the way of those farm
ers who would have the government put
in their hands public moneys to enable
them to carry on their business to better
advantage. Those who are getting two
cents a pound to encourage them to pro
duce sugar have a material interest in
the judicial solution of this conundrum
Possibly there will be measure of III
terest by those in other avOcations that
fail to remunerate the participants tC
their satisfaction. Farmers who grow
cereals and not the sugar elements, anC
find the rewards not to their needs
will object to discrimination adverse tC
them. So with various manufacturers
If there is no barrier to the exercise o.
this power congress will be beSiegeC
by the subsidy hunters.
The third point is the reciprocity
feature. 1t is denied that congress cal
delegate 10 the president the right Il
decide whether a tax shall be imposed
or not upon the essentials OF life. By
he terms of the MCKINLEY act the
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
n Redeeming Virtue.

Chicago Herald.
He was tho office boy, round-faced,
under-SiZed boy, who seemed to live in
a neighbOrhoOd where water was scarce
and soap an unknown article. He had
high-pitched, strident voice that made
ones ears ache. And he always
talked. He was a disputatious boy
aud would argue with the head
of the firm on points which
the head salesman, who got 5000 a year
and went to Europe, would not ques-
ton. The boy wore ''lOng pants" and
suspenders and cape Overcoat. He
"cheWed" gum. He was the bette uoir
of every one in the establishment.
Suddenly, by few words, this pesti-
lential boy made himself favOrite. He
and another ''kid" were working in the
ofjee. The Office force was sitting
around waiting for the time to go home.
The two kids were disputing.
Il never sass my mother back" said
the tiresOme Office boy to the other, who.
up to that time. had BEEN regarded as
pretty decent
You don't. eh?" sneered the mice
boy" with contempt in his tone.
No, l nave too much respect for
her." said the boy we thought a nui-
Sance. There was an inaudible remark
from the nice boy and the other re-
piled:
Because l was raised that way
And we forgave him mis- squeaky voice
and his Shuff1ing gait and his disputa-
tiOus propensities, because lie respected
his mother too much to sass her back. !"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
NEWS DRIFT.

formal announcement will be made in
Austria today of the removal of the prOhibi-
lion on American pork.
Tine general assembly of South Carolina
has elected General Attorney Y j. Pope as
soeiate justice of the supreme court
Gov. Hill has removed the county clerk of
Onandaga county. \. Y. for refusing to
countersign certificates of election of Dem
ocratic candidates to the legislature.
Gen. MeCook telegraphs the war depart
ment from Fort Bowie, Ariz., that the re-
ports of Indian troubles in Arizona are with
out foundation as far as he can learn
The condition of Dom Pedro, the deposed
emperor of Brazil, who is i'll in Paris with
chills ana diabetes. has improved and his
physicians believe that all danger is past.
Hon. Wiley P. Harris, one of the most dis
tingushed citizens of Mississippi died last
night. aged seventy. He was a member of
congress in the ffties, and has for forty
years been prominent figure in the state
The newspapers of Eastern Germany con-
tain frequent complaints of OntrageS by Rus
sian soldiers on the frontier The Russians
in garrison near the border of East Russia
appear TO be peculiarly lawless set.
The mystery of where the money obtained
by Edwin NJ. Field through the re-hypothe-
cation of securities on which he had made
loans. or which, as in the case of Mr.. WEIGH
ers, had been on deposit, has not yet been
explained.
The three Atlantic provinces of Canada,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Ed
ward Island, are considering the adviSabilitv
of combining their interests and forming one
province. About S500.0 900 a year would be
saved by the consolidation of the three gov
erDmentS
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
"QUEER" MONEY.

Even a tramp would be justified in re-
fuSing one of the ''split crow" quarters
OF the new coinage. No Self-resDecting
waiter will accept one--New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Counterfeiting the new subsidiary
coins will be impossible. There is only
one genius who could make anything so
hideous, and he is in the government
employ.-Philadelph Times.
There is complaint that the new de-
signs for the fractional currency are not
handsome enough. A good saying to
bring to bear upon this situation is
Handsome is as handsome does. -
Chicago Times.
When one looks at the designs of our
new CONS he no longer wonders that
congress made it a penal offense to
print pictures of them. There are some
kinds of pictures that ought not TO be
printed.-New York World.
1t was decidedly unkind i'm congress
TO forbid the printing of pictures of the
new coins in the newspapers. Under
the new law great many editors never
will know what the coins look like
Chicago News.
The face of the goddess on the new
subsidiary coins has distinctly ill-tem-
DcICO lOOk. Ills ID Dul lie
model was a Philadelphia girl, and the
idea of circulating so rapidly as a half
dollar does must have been distasteful.
Chicago Times.
The critics OF the new coinage are as
serting that the designs ON the subsid-
iary coins are all insult to good taste,
which leads the way to their following
the example of Pooh Bah. and in the
emo demonstrating their willingness to
pocket the insult.-Phiiadeip Dis
patch.
Why cannot some able designer get
up representation of the eagle that
looks something like that glorious bird?
The spread-wIng idea is unnatural and
absurd. 1t is only because of its antiQ-
uity that it is tolerated. An eagle that
would spread its wings and legs in an
attempt to symbolic peace end war de-
serves to be shot. A fine design of all
American eagle at rest. peTched on Il
cray or limb of tree. would not he a
bad one for our silver Cineinnati
Commercial Gazette.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
NOT THE ISSUE.

There is some truth evidently in the
statement that the representatives of
the press are largely biased in favor of
CRISP for speaker. The affabilitY and
recognition he has accorded the fra
ternity has much to do with it. There
is no doubt as to his great personal pop
ularity with those he comes much in
contact with, and his strength as a can
didate is personal and not related to any
views upon public questions attributed
to him. The attempt to connect the con-
test with the candidacy of CLEVELAND
or HILL for the presidential nomination
is great strain upon the facts. If there
were really any such well defined issue
the vote would be divided very differ
emily from what it is. as indicated in the
reports. Whatever the personal pref
erenee, it must be conceded that
the party is with remarkable una
nimity looking to Mr.. CLEVE-
LAND as the nominee. This is
shown in the expression of the
press. Even in New York there are but
posed to CLEVELAND, although some
prefer HILL, if be is in the field. The
New York Sun has always opposed him,
in 1884 boiling to BEN BUTLER. 1t
amuSes rather than influences Demo-
Gratis. The Herald is talking somewhat
of Western candidate, more to indi-
cate its independence than to oppose
CLEVELAND. Harper's Weekly, the
unadulterated exponent of mugwump-
ism. did not follow Mr.. CLEVELAND in
the late campaign, and was sore at his
participation in the contest. Yet it is
unable to reach any other conclusion
than that 1.-The autumn elections left no
Democrat so prominent that he is likely
TO contest with Mr.. CLEVELAND the
party nomination" 1t will palpably be
misleading then to infer the status of
either of the gentlemen named as presi-
dental possibilities from the voting for
speaker.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
Old LACE.

Why do not people have their old lace
made clean before wearing it? There
are so MANY well known ladies who,
possessing lovely old lace, desecrate it
by wearing it in very soiled and con-
sequently unattractive condition. They
would not dream of wearing anything
else that was in the least soiled, or that
could even be for moment suspected
of being so. Why not have the lace
cleaned? Ii can be done by good hands
without the slightest danger of injury
to the fabric. How the beautiful old
meshes must hate the dirt that eIlngs to
and encumberS them. and how degraded
they must feel when they remember the
bright freshness of their early days,
when they were not nearly so valuable,
but ever so much stronger and cleaner.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

Trades unionism was never very strong in
China. There are too many rat Offices.
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Carrythe news to Pat Donan; Minneapolis
has raised guarantee fund Of 100000.
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Edward NJ. Field brings the gray hairs of
his father down in sorrow to the grave. Too
much Wall street and not enough filial duty.
~
New York has temporarily suspended oper.
ations in raising monument funds, and will
defect the bulk of her large capital into a
movement to suppress the Louisiana lottery.
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DR.. McGlynn announces that he has MOTH
ing more to say. In view of the fact that we
now have the speakership contest, the worlds $
fair and two national political conventions
to occupy our minds, the subsidence of DR..
McGIynn could not have occurred at a more
opportune moment
The man who developed the Concord grape
Is still living. but the man who invented the
Concord coach has long since handed in his
pass and resigned in favor OF the railroads.
tits said that the London tailors have capt
ured Paris. TIE little meeting of the three
tailors of Tooley street appears to have been
germ from which has sprung a mighty
crusade.
Nothing, apparently, stands in the way of
Jim Blaine and the presidency-but Demo
cratic votes.
New York paper is surcharged with the
opinion that in convention matters in Min
neapolis it viii be a case OF first come first
served. This is true only in the case of B.
Harrison. 1t makes not the least difference
in the time he gets there.
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As Bob Ingersoll truly remarks. 'thsre are
great many men in this world who are not
so smart as they think they are"
1t Will be readily recalled that when Alexan
der the Great sat down and wept for other
worlds to conquer he had not licked one side
of this world yet
Everything comes to the town that waits.
Seattle has just had an earthquake.
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The Chicago Times starts a presidential
boom for Gen. Nelson a. Miles. cen. Miles
is a soldier and a scholar. Doubtless he has
also the elements of a statesman, but really,
when it comes to question of thepresiden-
, "
@.*
Novelist William Dean HOwels attended
the YaleHarvard football game, but admits
that he couldn't really understand what it
was all about. Probably not The game of
football, scientifically played. contains a
plot, also sequence, continuity and catas-
trophe.
A Chicago paper has an editorial on ''How
Will the Ex-Speaker Be Treated:'' If treated
according to Car Reeds rules he will be
maltreated.
Contrary to lingering. last summers i'm
preston, it is now thought that Jim Blaine
is ready at any time to trade health for votes
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On account of its mosaic politics, the New
York Sun deserves all the black eyes that can
be given it. The election of either Mills or
Springer to the speakership will give it one
The Chicago Herald says: Anthony Com
stock is in Chicago broken in spirit" Is Chi
cago morality really so disheartening?
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Closely following on the heels of St Louis
application for the national Democratic con
| vention comesthe news of Il So 900 train rob-
berry in her suburbs. AS an advertising ex-
pert st. Louis is too radical.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
LY TTON'S SUCCESSOR.

1t is now denied that Lord Dufferin is
to succeed the late Lord Lytton as Brit
lsh ambassador to Paris. 1t seemed
from this distance that DufferIn is too
well qualified for the place to get it
New York Advertiser.
If Lord Dufferin succeeds Lord Lyt-
ton as ambassador to France, as is pre-
dicted, 1t will be case of the right man
in the right place. For though England
has had many duffer in her diplomatic
service, Dufferin is not one of them
New York World.
Lord Dutferin will probably succeed
Lord Lytton as British ambassador to
Paris, but if so some of the mildewed
old fOgies of the foreign Office will feel
outraged at the idea of another of those
Literary fellers" stepping over their
diplomatic heads.-Philadelphia Times.
Lord Dufferin, it is now said. will
succeed Lord LyttOn as British ambas-
SAILOR at Paris. The able dipIomatist
who won golden opinions as governor
general of Canada will belle his former
record if he does not make the relations
between England and France to over
flow with good Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The published newspaper portraits of
the late Lord Lytton made him look
singularly like James Russell Lowell
and somewhat like Lord Salisbury, the
griZZled British premier, though
younger. of course. Few sons of emf
nent fathers have made so creditabIe an
effort as he did to add some additional
luSter to the family fame, and though
his father name doubtless helped him
in his diplomatic cal eer, the name be
made III letters was entirely his Own.-
New York World.
Lord Dufferin must be one of the men
whom the offices meet half way, for
since 1860 he has been British commits
sioner IN Syria, under secretary of state
for India, under secretary of state for
war. chancellor of the duchy of Lam
caster and paymaster general. governor
general of Canada, ambassador at ST.
Petersburg. ambassador at Constantine
pie, British commissioner to Egypt.
viceroy of India and ambassador al
Rome.-Boston Transcript.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-04
TODAY,s WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Forecast till p. m.
Friday: For Minnesota ana Iowa: Threaten
ing weather and snow; colder, with cold
wave in eastern portions; high northwest
erly winds; clearing during the night and
fair Saturday. For the Dakotas: Occasional
SHOWS, brisk and high northerly winds; colder.
For Wisconsin: Threatening weather and
rain or snow, with severe local storms; high
southerly, shifting to westerly winds; colder
Friday night
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT-
URE, WEATHER BUREAU, WASHINGTON, Dec
B. Gas p. m. Local Time, S D. m. 18th Merid-
ian Time.--Observations taken at the same
moment of time at all stations.