The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-04
everybody but footmen are charged q

ates tree, but II ne goes on as mucn
$. say ten miles, into somebody else's
he has to pay TOLL /
"There are numerous instances"
aid The gentleman, "where people
rho are too stingy to patrorize the
likes, resort to all sorts of tricks to
scape the toll. They will enter.
hange privileges Of going across one
mothers fields and down lance, but
his class Of Kentuckians Is looked
lpon with great contempt"
Mr.. Miller thinks that this Ken
lucky blue limestone would make
EXCELLENT paving for Sedalia streets.
Hon. NJ. E. Ferguson, who repre-
'ented St. Clair county in the lower
branch of the general assembly, was
IN Sedalia Yesterday morning and was
met by the Gossiper.
Mr.. Ferguson is strong democrat,
and served throughout the evil war
10 the Union army.
Forrest captured me at the battle
Of Guntown, Mississippi" said Mr..
Ferguson, "snd I was taken as a pris-
oner to Andersonville. There l was
confined in the stockade three
.Ot course much blame is attached!
to the Confederate government be :
cause the prisoners were 60 poorly fed,
but the fact of the matter ia, there
was no produce to be obtained in the
surrounding country. The land was
exceedingly poor and unable to raise
little more than black-eyed peas"
"There were 1000 of us in the
stockade and the whole camp covered
not over nine acres. You can easily
see, therefore, how crowded We were.
Our daily rations were a few spoons
full Of meal, washed down with water.
Occasionally We had ration Of peas
issued to US"
"Tbe mortality among the prisoners
was dreadful, especially in the months
of July and August, when the daily
deaths averaged about 108. During
Sherman's bombardment Of Atlanta
We plainly heard the roar of the guns
and knew that our release was near at
hand"
j. E. Cooper, the owner Of the
mammoth Forepaugh shows, ia a
small, quiet, unassuming man, who
lets his people do the paradiIg while
he remains modestly in the back.
ground. No one seeing him, even
about his own circus, would suspect
him of being the head Of one Of the
grandest amusement combinations in
the world.
While in Sedslia, be and Mayor
Stevens entered into quite anAcquaint.
ance and just before the evening per.
Torrance he and the mayor were down
among the stock tents, dickering over
horse trade Mr.. Cooper had fine
sor,el race horse, which a groom was
engaged in exerciaing and which was
The animal under consideration.
Said an extensive furniture dealer
of this city to the Gossiper last eve
ming: II buy goods in both Grand
Rapids, Michigan. and Rockford, Hi.
nois. The former place makes q
specially of bedroom suites, willie in
Rockford deska, bureaus and the like
are manufactured and at prices which
defy competition for the reason that
water power is used in the factories,
and besides this, the work is largely
done by cheap foreign labor. 1t has
been . practice also for these same
foreign mechanics, after accumulating
modest sums Of money to 'chip in,
organize a stock company and open
factory"
A prominent Sedalia minister
stepped into the BAzoo Office one day
the past week, and as he looked al
the large photograph standing neal
| the doorway, remarked:
THAT reminds me of the fact that
some years ago, it fell to my lot to
give Mr.. Edison, the inventor of the
machine, perhaps his most important
pointer or idea in reference to thu
photograph
The Gossiper urgently insisted upol
the gentleman relating the story, bu
the modesty Of the minister prevailed
against all opportunities.
| BARDSFINE PURCHASE.
The Lexington News containes tn
following paragrah, of ocal interest:
| Mr.. Walter Waddell, on Saturday
parted with Albrino, by Allegro, hi
fine single driving brown horse. H
was sold to Mr.. w. E Bard, Jr., o
Sedslia, he paying $3.50. He secures