The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-02
BAZOO GOSSIP.

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The Gossiper wants to know what
has become Of the court house band
stand propositian? The Sedalia
bands are wiling to volunteer their
services on summer evenings. and it
only devolves on the county court to
do their part. Concerts in the court
house square would be hailed with de.
light by hundreds Of people.
A certain eminent Sedalis lawyer,
invariably wears a rosebud or a
small flower of some kind in the lap
pei of his coat. The Gossiper has
been told that his excellent wife pins
it there every NOR ling before h.
leaves home for hi. law Office or the
court room. The custom is a pretty
and pleasurab,e one. and might with
all "sweet reasonableness" and pro-
priety be practised by many other
wives in Sedslia.
Have you thought Ct the striking
similarity in the manner Of the death
of Secretary Window and that Of
Judge Breckenridge? Both of them
died within a few week. of each other.
Secretary Window had just closed a
remarkably able and eloquent address
before q large as-emblage Of gentle
men in New York City, when death
smote him and he fell back in his seat,
never to utter another word.
Judge Breckenridge had jus. con.
cluded a powerful address to the
Presbyterian general assembly at De
troit last Friday afternoon, when be
relied from the platform and fell pros
t-ate. dying in less than ten min
utes."
Both Window AMI Breckenridge
were men Of national reputation,
we're fine speakers, and both
arose in glowing spirits and robust
health to deliver what they did mo-
suspect would be their last u.terauce.
Of any kind on earth.
James Whitcomb Riley, the In
diana dialect poet. ha. many admirer
in Sedslia and his books are to b
found in numerous local libraries
In reference to his contemplated tril
to Europe, Eugene Field writes thu
foliowin.
i We wonder how much truth Their
is in the port that James Whitcoml
Riley, tee Hoosier poet, is going t
visit Europe. Answering that que:
ton, Consul General New rema-ke,
10 the writer about . year ago
"What under the sun would jim
Riley do here in Londou? Why b
'icouldn't fiud his way from ,hs,Stran,
INTO Fleet street! We would have I
force Of Scotland Yard on his trail :
prevent him from getting lost!
Know Jim Riley better than anybod,
have had him in tow for abou
fifteen years; and l tell You that il
i 'ffairs of the world be is q veri,abl
child. He wouldn't be here in Lon
don twenty-tour hours before he'd
begin to beat like hungry calf fol
the p sure lands and pawpsw grove.
of Indiana"
There are two ex.Confederate resi-.
dents in Sedalis who went into the
Southern army, from Lynchburg,
Virginia. One Of them, Mr.. GeoI &c
Turnell, was learning the printer
trade when Sumter was fired on. He
was but sixteen years old at the time.
He Joined j. E. B. Stuart's famous
cavalry, participated 10 the battles Of
Bull Run, the Peninsula, Chancel.
lOrsville aud others. In q bloody
cavalry engagement at Aldie in June,
1868. between Stuart and Kilpat.
rick, he Was captured AMI taken to
Jobnson's Island, where he was
held prisoner twenty-five
mon;hs. He came out of the
war a frs. lieutenant.
Captain Holland. the other Lynch
The story Of the tragic death of
Homer Rogers boy sixteen years old,
in the recent Boone county cyclone,
as related by Mason Jarman, was
overheard by the Gossiper:
'Br. Their Tom had gone over tn
John jar mans about half a mile AWAY
and Homer Rogers, who was visiting
US. was with me on the place. When
the storm came up We went into the |
house. We soon rallied that the |
building was going to he blown away
md when the roof was lifted off We
IAN on, the door. 1t was simply aw.