The news boy., 1895-09-21
SOUTHEAST NOTES.


The Perry County Republican is
six years old and says it wants
money awful bad.
Howell county peaches which reach
New York in prime condition sell at
50 and s6 per bushel.
Several cases of diphtheria at
Whiting had the effect of breaking
up protracted meeting.
The Marvin Collegiate Institute at
Fredericktown, its new location, was
formally opened last Thursday.
Carrying brass knucks cost a JET
ferson county youth 500 or work to
that value on the rock pile last week.
A corn-cob pipe factory is Charles
tons latest. The plant is on the
gro,gad, and the cobs are all over two
counties.
Mississippi cdanty farmers are
turning their attention to potato
farming and next year will put in
big crop.
Southbound freight trains on the
Iron Mountain carry long strings of
empty cars for the movement of the
cotton crop.
The contract for building the court
house at Dexter has been let, and
Stoddard county will soon have two
temples of justice.
Notwithstanding the big corn crop
hog are likely to sell high this year.
There are very few in Southeast Mis-
souri,, at any rate.
Jackson is not proud of lot of
lazy loafers who wear the grass off
the courthouse yard. Not the court
house officials, we hope?
One of the cars of the missouri
en- Wheels outfit is to stop at Char
lesion next week for samples OF
S ,utheast Missouri products.
The Liars Lair at Charleston has
opened for the season and will do its
lrvrl best to hold down the Blodgett
Ananias Club. 1t will have to hustle.
Dexter had her Fair this week.
Two Fairs in Stoddard county, and
Scott. Mississippi and New Madrid
without one among them! Why is
this thus?
A couple of green country boys put
distractions ON the Iron Mountain
track, "iust for fun" They are in
IA in default of 81, 500 bonds. That
ism quite SO funny.
What with fine samples of apples,
pears, potatoes, ETC., pouring into
his office Bro. AXE, of the Iron Coun-
ty Register, should be living high
and cheaply these days.
Freestone peaches 8 inches in cir
cumference made the editor of the
Poplar Bluff Citizens teeth water,
but he only heard of them and no
samples were submitted.
Miss Margaret Stephens, the affi-
anced bride of Col. Paul B. Moore,
of Charleston, lost $500 pair of
earrings in the Planters Hotel at
St. Louis. Sneak thieves.
Hillsboro has bad reputation for
diphtheria, which breaks out there
regularly every fall. The physicians
are puzzled how to account for such
an untoward state of affairs.
The trial of Newsum at Jackson
last week for the murder of q one
Gray in New Madrid resulted in a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree and sentence of fifteen years.
Alfred Henderson is the name of
another Dunklin county man whose
haste to be rich has brought him into
collision with Uncle Sam. He is one
of the Brandon-Rice gang of coun-
terfeiters.
The fight between the Marble Hill
Press and the Lutesville Banner is
an old one, and was inherited by
Bro. Hill from Tom Allen. Unfor-
tunately it is now the chief feature
of the Press.
''Wild Bill" Evans is in Obion,
Tenn, and indulged in his usual per-
sonalities from the pulpit last week,
for which he was Knocked down and
pommeled by Prof. Brown, of Van
derbilt University.
Why, Bro. Gale, we had that
school director story from man
who has large proprietary interests
i'm Pemiscot county and who assured
us that the said director had been
pointed out to him on the street.
His name and postofhce address we
did not learn.
Dunklin Democrat: Dunklin coun.
ty taxpayers want circuit court;
they want that jail cleared of prison
ers; they want to avoid the expense
of SO many continuances in criminal
cases; they do not want court ad-
journed to suit the convenience ol
any lawyer who happens to have 2
bad case on his hands or who has not
prepared for court; nor do they want
court adjourned 1t the instance ol
people who have been indicted OF
-who fear indictment. A hatched-uI
smallpox scare will not work this
month.