The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-16

leather gauntlets.
Yesterday at Sicher's hotel, there
was . happy and unexpected meeting
between two f.iends-Prof: +. Y.
Billings, of B oonville, and Mr.. T. p.
Culley, of St. Louis. They bad
been employed in the same piano fac.
tory in Chicago and had learned
piano-'uning together. They were
warm bosom friends, but the exigen.
cies of business affairs had separated
them. For ten years they had Lost
all track of each other, and met by
the merest accident in the corridor Of
the hotel.
1t is useless to say that the two gen.
tlemen renewed their ancient friend.
chip with fragrant cigars and foam
ing-soda water.
Last Tue sday afternoon two lads
got into . neighbcrs cherry tree
while the family we're away from
home and helped themselves to fruit.
Yesterday the father found out what
his sons had done and proceeded to
teach him an object lesson that he
he will not soon forget.
The father brought his son down
the street and purchased four boxes
of cherries. He then took his erring
son to his office and compelled him to
eat every cherry in the
four boxes. The boy was quite
fond of the fruit and tackled the first
box with great relish The second
box was eaten With less enthusiasm.
By the time the third course was
served, the lad had about weakened,
and when, BY compulsion, he tackled
the fourth installment, the tears
flowed down his cheeks and he de-
clared that he never wanted to see or
hear of a cherry again.
Yesterday the Gossiper noted the
death of General John McNiell, in
St. Louis, the previous day. Nc
Nell became famous as
we'll as infamous because
of his execution Of ten southern
soldiers and civilians at Palmyra, Mo.
October 8, 1862.
Among the lamented victims OF
McNielrs strocious and bloody work
was the gallant Captsin Thomas Sid
ener, of the regular G ,nfederate ser.
vice. Before the war he was a resi-
dent of Monroe county, Mo. John g.
Ripper was then citizen of Gran.
vile, in the same county, and be bad
. daughter, Miss Ella Ripper. Some
time Immediately before or after the
breaking out Of hostilities, this young
lady and Captain Sidener became en-.
gagged to marry each other.
Both Captain Sidensr and Mr.. Kip.
per were arrested and thrown into
prison at Palmyra. Upon the d'sap-
pearance of Q certain union man in
the neighborhood, who was supposed
to have been killed by the guerrillas,
McNiell issued the order for the exc
cution Of ten southern captives,
Sidener being among the number.
Miss Ripper was then attending a
seminary in Palmyra and witnessed
from her window the solemn process
sion of death pass along the street
and out to the fair ground,
where the the civilians and
soldiers were barbarously shot to
death.
A short time after the butchery the
missing union man turned up, I'M
harmed and an extra ten men who were
thrown into prison and who were to
have been slot provided the union
man was not found in given time,
we're released, thus narrowly escaping
murder at McNielPs hands. Among
the number was John Ripper, who
knew no other reason for his arrest
and imprisonment than that he was q
rebel sympathizer.
| At the close of the war a young
man named w. D. Wallace removed
from Monmouth, Illinois, to Monroe
county, and there wooed end married
Miss Ella Ripper, whose lover had
lain down his life for the Confederacy
on that bloody and never-to-be-forgot.
ten day in Palmyra: :.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace are now resi-
dents of Sedalia, the husband being
the proprietor of . general merchan'
disc store on West Main street.
After the lapse Of many long years,
Mrs. Wallace vividly remembers the
horrible scenes of that CHASTITY day,
:. in which her lover bravely and I'M
ainchingly met his death.
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