The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-02-11
LEAD PENCIL 5ogFNes,
Mamorandasns Mado in the Re.
poTter's Waaderinea.
MONDAY.

q relative. Tn his way home b
stopped in Washington and spent
couple OF days .eSing the sights. II
says he met Hon. Marshall Arnold an
Senator COckrell and spent 4 da
very pleasantly with them.
If the farmers keep on scllin.
their hogs TO stock buyers who ar,
buying and shipping to the 81. Loui
market there will not be hogs cnoug
left in the county 10 supply the HON
consumption OF meat atxt year.
In our announcement column to
hay appears the announcement o
Prof. Is. L. LIsk. who is n candidate
for reelection to thb office OF Count,
School Commissi ,ncr. Prof. Lusl
has held that Office for two years al
he has given general satisfaction boil
10 teachers and the people. lie is
yonng maj of ability aud will DO hi
dntr wherever he is placed. II re
elected the people a rest assured
that the office of County Schoo
Commissioner will be filled with al
honorable and worthy man.
The people Of Scott county want
n railroad from Commerce to Morley.
aud We are isseFed by a citizen OF
that county that they will have such
n road and that in the neal future,
too. We would be glad to sec Il rail.
r0a;l constructed from Commerce 10
Morley for we believe i: would be cX-
tended on up the river IA Cape Cir
ar!eau. Our people could l!ct afford
e. have > road from Noricy will.
tommcrrp "a its terminus. st least
that is IL opinion.
Born. in thII city February ::h.
I'a2 TO Mr.. and Mrs. GclImscirr. a
hnuncing big hoy. Mother and G:iId
az both doing wslt. billy came
dnau town this afternoon wearing a
smile that reached all the way across
his face. lie says the boy is 4 printer
fro:n tin word 90.
Born. February 81. 1898. to Ir.
alI Mrs. John F. Vogc!sangcr. Il
bouncing big boy. John saws his lit
~ girl wants 10 call the little nett
tnmer Grover Cleveland, bat tkst
vii not be- his ZANE.
Ef"C. q. &. Certain CtiiI9 Cures
Ea1t t&c -: r@E.tiy YHE aG-e
rgsr Esd for CE3i;;s ana Fever
:ozr 4CEey viii ice refunded.
E'is2EsHt 20 axe. Large sc1.ssn
CO e6at5.
Fer ssle by ". II. Coerver. druggist
Two new locomotives for the st.
LDuis, Cape Eirardcau Il ftit Smith
H..ir0Ii were transferred across the
river lhi: morning. Ond Of the new
engine. we understand, is TO be sent
down 20 the krnnctt road.
Judge Ross to-day appointed
Deputy Sheriff Henry Hopper, custo-
dian of the court rooms in the court
house in this city. When the ROOM
hrc wanted by the public application
will have to be made To Mr.. Hopper.
We predict that we will have an
Ott.er railroad Will q terminus il this
city within two years from now. We
ito not claim I'd be a prophet, but III
making this prediction We think We
know what we are talking about.
Make a note of this aud see how a
We comic of a correct prophecy.
The Common Pleas Court adj
5yurncd to-day at loo 10 Wednes-
tlay, the 18th day of February.
Tom Allen. of the Marble Hill
Press, gave the DEMOCRAT a call this
morning Tom is making the Press
an interesting country newspaper.
The DEMOCRAT has always been
IN uncompromising advocate of home
enterprise and it will continue in that
line, but when & home corporation
undertakes TO run the town without
regard to right or wrong the mana
gers OF such corporation or enterprise
may expect to be criticised. We are
for home rule just to the extent that
no partially be shown when it comes
to the general welfare of home peo-
pie.
Thousands of railroad ties are
piled up on the river bank from the
railroad depot down to opposite the
machine shops awaiting shipment by
river. The tic carriers will have
work this year, all they want. The
tie carriers make from two dollars to
three dollars and fifty cents per day
and every cent of 1t remains in this
city.
MAYOR Peironnet and City At
tornev Green returned home from
jefferson City yesterday, where they
had been attending a convention Of
bird class cities. The convention
prepared a bill for the government OF
cities of the third class which will be
Introduced at the present session of
tie Legislature.
lion. George Houck, OF Bloom
field, is in the city.
When the Street Car Company
increases its capital stock to ten
thousand dollars it will be an enter
prise entirely too large for the mental
lslihre Of one Of it's officers.