The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-07-30
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pension. Peter says he is about ole
enough 10 get married and he il
looking aboHt for a woman 10 sui
his fancy.
August Wittenborn, Il former
citizen of this city died in st. Loais
Tuesday. The deceased had R stove
and lin store in the building now
occupied by NJ y. Scott as Il rcstalI-
rant a few years ago.
Tho body of a co!oTcd boy who
was drowned in the Mississippi river
at Grand Tower last Sunday was
caught in the river here yesterday.
-Baincy Gill las purchased the
Mcflor1 property i'll the Giboney-
Houck Addition.
Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Mahcr viii
leave the city Saturday morning for
Los Angeles, California. where they
vii! go TO reside pcrruantly.
1t was reported on lie streets
Yesterday that another attempt at
suicide WAS made in the city yester-
day morning but the report was
false.
Now Scott County watcrmelOns
are coming 10 the market at the rate
oil three or four wagon loads per
day.
Mrs. Fred Glover had a slight
touch OF sunstroke Yesterday. She is
improving to-day and Will soon be
ali right again.
Col. Ben Filing Is still in the city.
and lie is looking much better than
he looked the day he landed here.
lie is drinking Cape beer, a drink
that Is the pure stuff.
We r informed that q steam
boat put off $4,000 wheat sack. al
Gray's Point last week for the farm
crs in the New York settlement and
in the vicinity of kelso. Nearly all
the farmers in that section of scott
county haze resolved 10 ship their
wheat TO It. Iouis. Heretofore they
brought their wheat here and did
their trading with IL merchants, but
this year they viii spend thcir money
elsewhere.
We are informed that Rev. Hum
ter and a few OF the Democratic poll
ticians held a secret meeting in Jack
son yesterday. Hunter is working
the Democratic office seekers for all
the pocket change they have about
them. He makes them believe lac can
control the colorcd vote of this city,
but he can do nothing of the kind.
There is moi an intelligent colOred
voter in the city who will beilttlc
himself by voting the Democratic
ticket.
An Iowa woman has named her
twin daughters Gasoline and Kcro-
sene. The old mans name is Pete
ItoieWn. We hope the babies viii
grow up a paraiine girls. The man
who marries into that family will
strike oil. But we fear that sparkling
in the immediate Beighborhood OF
the girls in question will be a very
dangerous pastime.
Taking the yield into considera-
ton the farmer is getting a better
price for his wheat this year than he
got last wear. Last year the average
yield was about eighteen bushels 10
the acre, while this year thirty bush
els TO the acrc was the average yield.
The steamer ldlcwild took on
orc thousand sacks of wheat al GrGy's
Point last night, and we are informed
that there are about ten thousand
sacks more ranked up there waiting
shipment. As a wheat market for
Scott county we arc not in it this
year.
Father Cuddy, manager of the
College farms, has purchased a port
able steam engine which he proposes
to use as a moter Tor gang plows.
lie thinks he can plow by steam pow
er cheaper and better than by horse
power.
-Mcgrimine is the only guaranteed
permencnt cure for headache and
neuralgia. Relieves in 90 10 80 min
utcs. a great blood cleanser and
stimulant that in time positively cures.
Sample bottle free. The DR.. Whithall
Megriminc Co, South Bend, Ind.
Sold by druggists.
"A telegram from Poplar Bluff to
Tuesdays GloJe-D Democrat says: THE
County Court has granted to Louis
EIouck, of Cape Girardcau, the right
to 10000 acres of county land to be
used as a right of way for the new
Poplar Bluff and Cape Girsrdeau
Railroad. As soon as the additional
$4,000 bonus has been secured worl,
will begin. The road will run from
this city to Wappapello, in WAYNE
County, and there connect with the
st. Louis, Cape Guardian and Fort
smith Railroad at Cape Gi:ardcau.'