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The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Rey nard Items.


ED. / INKS.
This weather reminds us of the
available supply of fuel to be found
in Hudson township. Besides a vast
amount of timber to be found along
its streams and on its mounds. an ap-
parently inexhaustable supply of coal
is to be found not far beneath the
| surface, in fact appears at the sur
face in some places. Draw line
through the center of the township
| from north to south and from east to
| west and the greater amount OF the
| black diamonds so far eXposed) Will
| be found in the southeast part. Upon
| the lands Of Mrs. Mary Norton, some
where about the center of the town
ship, a mine Is being operated. The
coal is found in a vein Is inches thick
| of rather reddish color, soft, and
about feet beneath the surface. One
mile to the southeast another bank
| Is being mined upon the lands Of Miss
| Mary Towsv. Here the vein deepens
to "a inches and is hard and black,
and about 10 feet beneath the slate
and dirt Just across Panther creek
| is one worked by its owner, VIM. Lee,
"A inches thick. Then about one mile
south Jim Is. Holt has a splendid vein
Of hard black coal 36 inches thick
and ten feet under the ground.
About 3 miles to the southwest is
| found the well known banks of John
| Ford and the Kansas Coal Co.
| which is practically one and the same
| just the public road between the
mines. One east of the road owned
| by Ford is vein of fine black coal
from ) to q feet thick and lies about
| l2 feet beneath rock and slate. David
| Peeler operates the one on the west
! >ide of the road to the tune of about
! Al, 900 bushels per annum. This does
not materially differ from the Goa
on the east side save that it has a sui
phurous streak in il, and has about
the same kind of roofing above it. All
of these banks are operated by re-
moving everything from above them
and is called ''scraping" and it re-
quires a great deal of time and labor
to open them up, in proportion to
the amount of earth above them. Be
sides the operated banks | have
spoken of, hardly a farm in all this
region but what has its coal and per
haps some day will see it more prop
erly mined. But Hudson's available
wealth is not all beneath the surface
| dIlicouTt UTlSRs - ietGiii. d ldE Re
amount of cattle and hogs; as is aist
Bailey Bros.
Jno. W. Gilbreath has 46 head Of a.
fine cattle as were ever fed in these
parts. averaging about 900 pounds
Geo Brown has 90 head also. of fine
900 ID cattle. f. E. Holt Is feeding
nine head of fine cattle. Then there
is Jas. Wilson with 10 head of nice
D. ha
John B. Brown a ear load. jas VI
Williams d car load. Ava f. Page
isustains his granger reputation with
a flock of sheep. Of course all the
feeders have their full quoro Of hog:
after the cattle. and all told amounts
to thousands Of dollars.
The dry weather of the past fall
and winter has been instrumental in
getting this section on "a much better
footing as regards water for all pur-
poses In many instances old wells
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Trustees S ale.

Whereas John d Durrett and Ara Durre,t
ms wife, by their deet of tYHs. dated Sep
sember 18th. Iss5. ana recorded In tie
recorders ofdcs within and for Bates
county. Missouri, in book No. 26 page 80 con-
Eeyed to the undersigned trustee the follow
ing described real estate lying and being attn
aied IN the county Of Bates and stase OF Mis-.
souri. ts-wit:
The east half Of the southwest quarter of
section six tsj IN n wnship forty t48J Of range
thirty two f325 containing eighty gs,, acres
more or less. which conseyance was mad.
in trust TO secure the payment Of one certasn
note fully described in said deed Of ,ruet. arc
whereas default has been made la the PAYMENT
OF The Interest On said note which de-
fsnlt according TO the terms and condition. or
the said trust deed renders the whole OF sa.d
dess due and payable at once Vow
thsrsiore+ a. the request Of the legal
holier Of said notes and pursasn1 to the cor
aiiio6s Of said deed Of trust j will proceed l.
sell the above described premises AZ uuntsr
FeBdne 20 the highest bidder for cash Al th~
east 'front.' door Of the cour. house ia the city
Of BUtier, county of Bate. and sts.e OF Mn
soarI, On
Friday March 9th. 1894.
between the hours Of nine O'Clock in tb. eo,s.
noon and d Sc O'Clock in the Afternoon or ta.,
dag, for the purposes Of satisfying saia deLt
= 81 j. d. ALLEN. Trusses.
} ID ,Durrett has here ofoTe coaveyed ssid fso3
snbisS. 70 this trust deed.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

Topeka, Kan., Feb S.-Tbe Su-
prone Court decides that Gov Lew.
cling had no right to remove Mary
Ellen Lease from tho Presidency Of
the State B ,ard of Charities.
Mrs. Lease saws she will not le.
sign, having heard the administra
tion will bring charges against her
of bribery IN the letting of contracts
for State supplies
4 Carthage Lawyers liaiiucination
Carthage, Mo. Feb. 1O.-William
T. Green. Republican politician and
lawyer, vas yesterday adjuged in
saue by the county court and taken
to the as,lum last night. He recent
|, took II liquor cure and al anti fat
treatment, aud to these are attribut.
ed his dement.d condition. He im-
agiues that he 10 q wonderful physi
c,an with magic at bis finger tips,
aud during the last few weeks has
been giving curbstone entertain.
ments.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
The Modern Invalid

Has tastes incidentally. in keeping
with other luxuries. Aremedy mus;
be pleasantly acceptable in form.
purely wholesome in composition,
truly beneficial in effect and entirel,
free from every obiectional quality
If really ill he consults a physician;
if constipated he uses the gentle
family laxative Syrup of Figs.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Lane & Adair.

which have eked out Il sorry exist
ence for years, We're sunk lower and
an inexhaustable supply of living
water found.
Mr.. John Tishell of Marion, Iowa.
paid a few days visit to his brother
inhw, Jno. NJ. Briney last week. He
went away with a good impression
of this section and thinks he might
become a Missourian some of these
days.
,5orn, to the wife of Thos. c. Hines
on the 31st day of January, girl.
Frank Diel went to Butler last Sat
urday to deliver a pair of mules to
Harris & Lyle. This firm is getting
the most of the mules from here
Sickness has laid IA heavy hand
upon the family of $. |. Williams
Mr. Williams has been prostrated
with pneumonia for six or seven
weeks, and now his son John, is strick-
en- with the same disease.
Mrs. Kinder has been on the sick
list for some time, suffering from
fever
Hines and Pegg have opened out a
saw and grist mill west of postofiide,
on the farm of John N. Briney
Our churcn-going people have not
been idle this winter. The Baptist
brethren at their spacious church
| conducted two or three meetings in
the last three months, and have
| given the wavering ones a chance to
| join i'll the fraternal brotherhood of
christianity.
! The members Of the New Prospect
which are of the Presbyterian per
| suasions, have held series of meet
lngs and we hope much good has
! been done.
! Reynard has a fiourishing literary
| society this winter
| Charles Colman, Of H.. was out on
"isit to his sister, Mrs. John b.
| Brown, recently.
| We near that there is q probability
! of Reynard having an NJ. D., soon.
| A good doctor would not come amiss.
| Politically, our township to all ap-
| pearances, has gone TO the dogs, a
| the "demies" We're not Sin it in last
| springs election, and consequently
| We have to bear with good deal Of
assumed authority. For instance,
the learned assessor was so overhead
Gus in making the township show UP
| in wealth that hogs on an average
run TO six dollars in the township.
Hogs were figured at 5tc per pound
and at full weight, while good mules
worth 800 were put down at s35. The
absurdity of the thing appears the
more when We find that the average
price put upon hogs in the county is
only three dollars. But this Is only
an instance among napy, and the
! question is, ought they not To pay
the costs of righting their mistakes.
$
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
u. mocratic Campaign Workers Con
fer.

~ ulVttn ntC SahpdiSu NuIAcIe Sou-
Washington, Feb 1O-The Dem
cratic congressional campaign com
mittee held Il meeting for organiza
ii Ii nt the capitol yesterday. Sen
ator Faulkner of West Virginia was
elected chairman, Lawrence Gard.
ner Washington secretary, and
James L. Norris of Washing ton
treasurer. Those present were Sen
ators Faulkner and White of Cali
lorna and Representatives McRat
OF Arkansas, Pigott of Connecticut
Mallory of Florida, Maddox Of
Georgia, Formau of Illinois, Aver o.
Iowa, Goodnight of Kentucky
Compton of Maryland, Richards, I
of Michigan, Hall of Minnesota
Kyle of Mississippi, Rrvan of Ne
braska, Layton of Ohio, Mutchler O.
Pennsylvania, Lapham of Rod,
Island, McMillin of Tennessee, Shell
of South Carolina, Bell of Texas ane
Anderson of West Virginia aod Dele
gate Rawlings of Utah.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Release Of Americans Demanded

Paris. Feb. 10.-A Constan tinople
dispatch to the Temps says the
United States minister has demand
ed the immediate liberation of two
Armeniars who are American citi
zens and are imprisoned at Iskan
derum. He threatened, in event of
arefusal, to send and ironclad to
that point
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

Rheumatist2 racks the system like
thumb screw It retreats before
the power of Hond's Sarsaparilla,
which purifes the blood.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
AYERS
Cherry Pect0ral
Prepared by DR.. J. c. Aver & Co. Lowell. ::ass.
Prompt to act, sure to ce:sG

DltUaW g. PerciU0l of this
czty are saUing the farm
ers Of Bates county t/tolt-
sunds of dollars BY eiUine
them the benefit of their
LOlCer rates OF interest on
farm loans.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

r. S. Catron insures growing
cops against hail, also writes fire and
tornado insurance Alb If
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

When Baby was sick. We gave her Castoria
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria
When she becam. Miss, she chung to Castoria
When she had Children, she gave them Castora
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Farmers of Bates County.

Remember that G. F. Pharis is
now fully prepared to take poultry.
eggs and butter in exchange for dry
goods at the highest price. I pay
cash also. c.. F. PHARIs.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

Subscribe for the booming TIMES.
81 year
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
Dress Goods

cannot be surpassed in quality, quantity nor price,
look at them 50 feet of shelving filled solid with d
the finest line of black goods in the city Beautiful lin
cloths for making capes; beautiful lin" of Scotch
for making ladies Just take look
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15
D0UBLE-W!D?H PEP

Never before they sold for the offer the
anything you want in of musinS annes ginghar
shirtings, caicoes, toweng at big reduction until aft
taking our inventory. Don't lose sigh of the big
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

ties. Now all the sores. scabs and pain have
vanished and am enjoying perfect health.
think Hoods Sarsaparilia Is se-~- to none and
gladly recommend il to all suf, humanity
VI. L. CHEUyEoST, Leonard. Mis- ri.
The Butler weekly times., 1894-02-15

Aood'3 Pills act easily, yei promptly and
efficiently, on tie liver and bowel. &c.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
COURT MEETS TO-DAY.
Judge Speer and His Retinue to Be
Here This Morning.

Judge Emory Speer will arrive from
Macon this morning and hold sessions of
the United States district and circuit
courts. Marshal Eeverett and Deputy
Ayres came down last night. The court
will convene at 10 o'clock this morning.
The following cases on the docket will
be called for assignment for trial during
the present term:
Common Law-Waldron & fainter VS..
j. H. Johnson; Boykin, Conner g. Co. VS..
W. B. talks r. S. Norris VS.. D. L. Mon
roe; Gladstone & ComforJh VS.. Powers
& MCGEE; George S. Keiser VS.. Jesse
Paulk; j. j. Marcher VS.. Robert Breis-
wick; Jasper DeLaughton VS.. Valdosta
Times; H. w. Hopkins VS.. S. r. Van
Duzen; Julia Bernheimer VS.. David S.
Sinclair; George w Bandy VS.. Phoenix
Insurance Company; B. E. Wilcox VS..
Greenwich Fire Insurance Company; B.
f. Wilcox VS.. Hartford Fire Insurance
Company.
In Equity: Everett p. Wheeler VS.. East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
Mary d. Lanier VS.. Alison & Britain
Sylvester Mumford VS.. Henry Clews
Strong & Goodwin vs.. Macon and Bruins
wick Railroad Company; e. A. Gillette
VS.. Martha A. Bowen; Isabella T. Elkins
VS. Caroline M Lathrop; Norman w.
L
Watson VS.. Donovan ~ Perkins Edwards,
Trenholm Il Co. VS.. Virginia l.. Huisan;
David Baird VS.. Empire Mills
Company; Steam Gauge and Lantern
Company VS.. Palmer Hardware Company;
Interstate Commerce Commission VS..
Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah;
Interstate Commerce Commission VS..
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas rail
road; United States VS.. Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Cases in Admiralty: Hamilton and
Fraser VS.. Strauss X Co; United States
VS.. Steamer Northern Gustavo Sabio VS..
Bark Nevada; Fl. M. Conner, receiver VS..
Schooner Joseph Souther, etc
Criminal Cases -United States VS..
Henry Kemp; United States vs.. S. r.
Williams; United States VS.. II. X Salter
ct al; United States VS.. G. W. Newburn
OF al. United States VS.. G. w. Ricketson
ct al. United States vs.. F. A. Brown;
United States VS.. J. J. Jones; United
States VS.. Thomas H. Davis; United
States VS.. Charles Harlow; United States
VS.. Jim Sherrod; United States VS.. M.
H. Pearce; United States VS.. Lem.
Shcrrod.
The traverse jurors of the criminal and
district court will report to-day.
The grand jury will meet Wednesday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
LOSS.

Total value of property involved. 81, 22S,-
040; loss by fire and water, Sl72, 1886; per-
centage of loss, ~. Total amount of
insurance involved, S97S, 400; total amount
of insured loss, $161, 628; percentage of in
Sured loss, no.
In calling attention to the loss by fire
during the past year, Chief Puder states
that the loss, as compared with the
amount of property involved, is the small
est that has been known in Savannah for
many years.
SUGGESTIONS BY THE CHIEF.
The total number of men employed in
the department is 81.
During the year fire designations were
received and accepted, and it was found
necessary in the interest of discipline to
cause nine dismissals.
The total value of the department prop
erty on Dec. 81 was $l06,2
The expenses of the year were as fol-
lows
For cost of operations .............. $50 25s 90
For additions and improvements. $4,000
Amount of budget appropriations . $4,000
Unexpended balance. .............. s2,O48o on.
The department had on hand at the be-
ginning of the year Z 1000 feet of hose, con-
siSting of $500 feet of fabric hose. almost
condition.
The department has thirty-one horses,
an increase of one during the year.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CHIEF.
In recommendations the chief renewed
several recommendations of last year
He earnestly appeals for an ordinance reg
ulating the stringing of overhead wires. He
asks for additional hose stations at Stew
art and West Broad streets for an auxil-
larry tow boat service, and requests that
South Broad and Abercorp streets be
paved the former from Abercorn to East
Broad, on one side and the latter from
South Broad to Liberty street.
In closing his report, Chief Puder
recommends a system of examination into
the qualifications of men seeking employ
ment in the service of the fire depart
ment. He says men engaged in this
service should be strong, able-bodied and
healthy in every way, thoroughly de-
veloped muscle, honest, intelligent and
courageous, young and active, eye-sight
and hearing of the best. sober and relia-
BILE" Applicants are now required to pass
a satisfactory examination by the health
officer before entering upon the digcharge
of regular duty, but there are other
equally important matters worthy of con.
sideration, such as age, hight, weight
and intelligence, governing which there
are no rules.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
TO PROTECT THE GAME.
Georgia Sportsmen to Meet in savan
nah Next Month,


The Georgia State Sportsmans' Associ-
alton will meet in Savannah Feb. %. The
meeting, it is expected, will last two
days. Distinguished naturalists and
sportsmen viii read papers on subjects of
Importance to lovers of the birds an ami
mails of America.
When the State Sportman's Association
held its first meeting Oct. II, it adjourned
subject TO the call of its president Com
mittees were formed at that meeting
which will not be able so make satisfac-
tory reports except to the assembled asso-
citation, and issues have recently arisen
which can only be satisfactorily arranged
by full meeting of that body The game
law which was recommended to the leg
lslature by the sportsmen's committee on
legislation and which passed the House,
was so amended and changed in the SEN
ate that it is practically worthless.
In his call for the adjourned meeting,
Secretary Brown says: In order to get
the next legislature to enact useful laws
for the protection and propagation of
game and fish, it is necessary that we
should begin in time. We recommended
no measure last year for the protection
OF hsh, and 1t is necessary that a bill
should be prepared looking to the in
crease and protection Of this important
food supply
MANY OF our counties are still unOr-
ganized, and it is necessary that they
should organize as early as possible and
whether regularly organized or not,
should send full representations to the
meeting, in order to become identified
with the association. Every man in
Georgia who hunts or fishes, or who is
willing to aid in the protection of game
and fish, is eligible to membership in the
association, and should attend its meet
ings.
lit is therefore to more fully perfect
our organization, to receive the reports of
our committees on constitution and by
laws, and our committees on LEGISLATION.
and TO prepare measures for recommended
ton to our next general assembly, that
the Georgia State Sportsmans Associa-
tion Is called together again.H
The meetings will be held in the ban
quet room of the De Soto. Every men,
Der of the association is urged to attend
and every sportsman in Georgia who is
not now a member is urged to attend and
become member
From the call for the meeting it will
be seen that the sportsmen of Georgia
are not only interested in good game laws
for Georgia, but request their brother
sportsnen from other states to Join them
ana endeayor TO recommend to the legis-
latures Of all the states laws that will
not conflict along state lines They do
not want Georgia pot-hunters TO claim
that game found in their possession CON
trary to Georgia law was legally shot in
Alabama, Florida or the Carolinas.
You need not be afraid of the twinge of
rheumatism when you have Salvation OIL
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
a CENTURY OF HISTORY.
The First African Baptist Church's
1o6th Anniversary.


The First African Baptist church cele-
brated it's 106th anniversary yesterday.
The church was packed to overlooking
at both the morning and night services.
Two sermons were delivered by the pas
mornings sermon was THE Church Ad-
monished TO Determine Constancy,"
the text being BE not weary in well
doing" Galatians 6: 9.
The pastor, Love, gave a history of the
church IN the morning sermon. 1t was
organized in Brampton's barn, three miles
west of Savannah, Jan. 20, l1S8. 1t is the
Oldest negro Baptist church in the state,
and probably the oldest negro church in
the United States.
Three years after its organization it
moved to the city, having secured a build
ing on the lot on Bryan street now occu-
pied by the First Bryan Baptist church.
In 1882 the church bought the lot
which it now occupies on Franklin square
from the white Baptists and removed
there the next year. The removal brought
about a split in the church, and after a
council it was decided upon the advice of
the white Baptist church, TO allow the Sc
ceders to occupy the old building on
Bryan street. This offshoot was the be-
ginning of Bryan church. The present
commodious building of the First churc h
was erected in 1859. 1t will comfortably
seat 800 people, and accommodated
nearer 1000 last night.
The record of the pastors of the church
is remarkable. In the 108 years of its
history it has had only five pas
tors, four of whom served till overtaken
by death and the fifth is still in service.
Rev. Andrew Bryan was the first pastor.
He served the church twenty-four years
and was succeeded by his nephew, An
drew Marshall, who was pastor for forty
four years.
w. J. Campbell was the next pastor and
served twenty-three years. He was sue
ceeded by Rev. George Gibbons, who died
in 1884, after seven years service. The pres
emit pastor, Rev. z. K. Love, has served
the church since 1885, and bids fair to
maintain the record of his predecessors
as to length of service.
The history of the church has not been
altogether peaceful one, and it has been
frequently torn with dissensions. The
first split was in 1882, when the Bryan
Baptist church was formed by the sece-
ders. At that time the church numbered
2,427 members.
Another split occurred in 1859, when the
Bethlehem church on Cuyler street
was formed. The church split again
in lS17, but the two factions
reunited in 1888. The latest upheaval.
which occurred only few months ago,
resulted in the formation of another
church on Cemetery street.
The First African Baptist church is not
only the oldest, but it is the largest negro
Baptist church in the United States, hav-
ing a membership, according to the
church books, of over 5000
The subject of Pastor Loves discourse
last night was The Christians War
fare, - his text being BE not weary in
well-doing"
The pulpit was handsomely decorated
with japonicas and other flowers. The
collections for church expenses during
the day amounted to S240.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
RAIL AND CRossTIE.

The Atlantic Coast Line has just thrown
out of it's shops, in Wilmington, an old
boiler which has been in service there for
many years The boiler has quite his
tory. 1t was the boiler of a locomotive
called "The Spark, and which was used
by the federal army in transporting
troops, munitions of war and supplies on
the York River railroad during the civil
war. The confederates gave this loco
motive many chase, and it was finally
captured by them on the bridge over the
Pamunkey river. After the war The
Spark" became the property of the Sea-
board Air Line and was rechristened
"The John M. Robinson" The Atlantic
Coast Line subsequently fell heir to the
old locomotive, and after she had been
discarded from service on the track, her
boiler was used TO furnish steam in the
machinery department of the shops.