The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-30
SHORT TALKS.
A Column of Conversations
With People Here and
There.

Rev. X. S. Hunter. presiding elder
of the Sedalia district of the NJ. +.
Church, South, returned to Clinton
this morning.
Mr.. Hunter entered the Methodist
ministry in East Tennessee in 1853,
and was expounding the Gospel to the
hardy mOuntaineers of that region in
1861, when the Civil war broke out.
The young man-in fact, nothing
more than vacated his pulpit
and joined John Morgan's command,
where he was known As 'the hoy
chaplain" Mr.. Hunter was equally
handy with pistols and prayers, and
was ever found in the front with the
great Kentucky cavalryman.
If the Worlds fair should depend
upon patronage received from this
part of the country it wouldn't last
many minutes.
Assistant Ticket Agent McLain, at
the union depot, saws that not more
than dozen railroad tickets to the
Worlds fair have been sold at the
local office since the opening of the
exposition. He also stated that nearly
all other towns along the Missouri Pa
cific line have had an experience sim
liar to that of Sedalia. Of course,
with the coming of June and better
weather, and when all the conditions
are more favorable the passenger bust.
ness will be large.
There is a historic house still stand.
ing five miles east of Boonville. 1t Is
owned and occupied by George W.
Adams, a wealthy farmer.
The traveller passing by will see in
the east wall, just under the caves,
two circular spots-if they may be 50
called-about the dimensions Of
the bottom of an ordinary water
bucket. They are the patched up
holes made by two cannon balls from
Federal batteries, which penetrated
the wall. within three !eet of each
other, during the engagement in
which General Lyons routed the Con-
federa,e troops of Colonel Marina
duke, June II, 1861.
Lyons had several guns, which
had been brought up on steamboats,,
and which were plantedina wooded pas
ture some 400 yards east of theAdams'
house. About the same distance
southeast Of this dwelling, in a wheat
field, is the site where DIR. William
Quarles, father of Reed Quarles,
formerly of Sedalia, sacrificed his life
in the Lost Cause"
Colonel Thomas Houston, of Hous-
tonia, arrived in Sedalia this morning,
accompanying his wife, who continued
her journey to Smltbton, near which
place she will visit her sister. Mrs.
Judge Chiffon.
Colonel Houston claims to have
been a pupil of Marshal Ney, in North
Carolina, some sixty years ago. He
has made a close study of the assertion
that Ney was not shot, but escased to
the United States. after the overthrow
of the empire, and settled in the tar
heel state. where he taught school IN
til his death in 1916.
Colonel HoustOn's contributions
upon his favorite topic within the past
twenty years, have been voluminOus,
widely read and convincing. He in
formed the writer that Rev. j. A.
Weston, of Raleigh, N. c., has in
press volume, which is meant to es-
tablish the identity of Ney as the
teacher whose school the colonel at
tended Mr.. Weston not only thor
oughly investigated the matter in this
but visited France. where he
had access to valuable historic archives.
The book will contain a chapter or
two by Colonel Houston.
William Hoffman has been appointed
as postmaster at Longwood, vice James
Smiley, resigned.