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JEFFERSON CITY, MO., FRIDAY, MAY 21. 1875.
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WEEKLY STATE JOURNAL,
PaUit&ii &7try Friday
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N. C. BURCH.
A 'r ' Trm or subscriptions
' Clubs of ten per year 1 25
viuM or twenty, per year 1 00
' ' INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Dr. 0. A. THOMPSON,
' " WILL ritACTICE
MEDICiffE AND SUR6ERY.
Rcom 3. Frank Schmidt's Building.
DR. JXTO. BAKF.R,
Physician & Surgeon.
(Office and residence in Lamkin's
new building, opposite National
Exchange Bank.
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HENRY NITCHY
RE'L ESTATE AGENT,
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
T"UYS AND SELLS LANBS ON COMMIS-
D sion, Pay Taxes, Redeem Lauds Sold for
Taxes, procure l'atents. c.
Office over .White Jauvier'8 store, ITigh
FRED ROMMEL,
DEALER IN
Books & Stationery
PERIODICALS, BLANK BOOKS, CHRO
mo8. Wall Paper and Pictures. Picture
Frames made to order. Agent for Fairchild's
Gold Pens. All orders will receive prompt at
tention.
HIGH STREET,
c.27.'72-iv Jefferson City, Mo
: Busch & Beckers.
Chicago Lumbe Yard
;, Jefferson City, Missouri.
I A LARGE STOCK OF ALL KINDS OF
' XX Lumber of a Superior Quality.
Always on hand, and for Sale, nt the Cheap
est Kates. ucc.ai.cMV
MADISON HOTEL,
RH. McCAKTY & SON, Prop'rs.
Main and Madison Sts.,
Jefferson City, Mssouri
THIS NEW HOTEL HAS BEEN FUR
nished in every Department in a Urst class
manner. It has unequaled accommodations. The
traveling public can be better suited nowhere in
the city.
Table at all times supplied with the very best
the aiarket affords. dee.27 72-ly
IE. IB. KIEL,
MANUFACTURER OV AND DEALER IN
PLAIN AND FANCY CANDIES,
Toys, Notions, eto
WHOLESALE AND HE1AIL.
K KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
large stock of Pluin and Fancy Candies ot
his own manufacture, which be is supplying
to the trade at reduced prices. Store room in
Popp's building. High street,
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Jefferson City, Mo.,
CAPITOL HOUSE,
COR. WASHINGTON AND STEWART STS
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
', Mrs. EMMA SANFORD & CO., Prop'rs.
Dr. A. C. D.S.VIS02T,
OFFICE AMD EESIDEXCK,
Cor. McCarty & Jefferson sts.
' JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
. Offlee hours 8 to9 A. M, 1 to 2 r. M.
P..M. ,
Jan. 10-1 v.
DeWYL & NAGEL,
; (SUCCESSORS TO MRS. BERRI.)
DRUGGISTS AND AP0THECARE5
1 ' ' HIGH STREET, , .
JEFFERSON CITY, 310.
THE BEAUTIFUL BONO.
There's a long in the air!
There' a star in the sky I
There's mother', deep prayer
And a baby's low cry t
And the star rains its Are while the Beautiful
sing,
For the manager of Bethlehem cradles a.Klngl
There's a tumult .t ,oy '
O'er the wonderful birth,
For the Virgin's sweet bey
Is the Lord of the earth.
Ay t the star rains Its Are and the Beautiful sing.
For the manager of Bethlehem cradles a King.
In the light of that star
Lie the ages impearled;
And the song from afar
Has swept over the world.
Every hearth Is aflame, and the Beautiful singt
In the homes of the nations, that Jesus is Kingl
We rejoice in the light,
And we echo the song
That comes down through the night
From the heavenly throng.
Ay ! we shout to the lovely evangel the bring.
And we greet in his cradle our Savior and
Kingl Anon.
Number 777.
There was a time when lotteries were
very common things, quite legal, and by
no mentis disreputable, and when very
worthy people bought tickets and made
no secret of the matter.
It was a good while ago, of course, and
you would haye to look long tor the wor
thy gentleman who one night about dark
walked into a lottery office lor the purpose
of buying a ticket. He had tight boots
and light trowsers with straps, and the
iur collar of his coat stood up above his
cars, and he wore that nwiul thing, a
stock, about his throat, and he was in the
height of that year's iashion, and was re
garded by those who met him rather with
admiration than with the stare of astonish
ment, with which we should greet him
now with which, indeed, we should greet
any of the ladies or gentlemen ot that
year ; the first habited as above, with cur
ly bull-shaped hats upon their heads, and
twisted canes in their hands ; the latter in
coal-scuttlo bonnets and leg-of-mutton
sleeves, and two straight breadths and
two gores in their skirts, which were short
and showed low slippers and silk stock
ings, and with long stringed work-bags
on their arms, and big parasols over the
big bonnets, before which hung for mod
esty's sake, curtains of black or white lace
which they called veils.
Mr. Rogers, for that was this "gentle
man's name, stepping up to the counter,
asked to look at tickets. Perhaps he held
the superstition that that there was luck
in odd numbers, for as soi.n as they were
spread belore him he decided on the num
ber seven hundred and seventy-seyen ;
paid its price and walked off with it in his
waistcoat pocket. As he turned the cor
ner the big poster on the wall seemed to
be written especially for him,
"Capital prize, ten thousand dollars.
Tickets five dollars each. Don't delay.
"I had a, dream that meant hick last
night," said Mr. Rogers to himself; "and
I have n fancy that I shall draw the reat
prize. That's a splendid numfcer."
Then he turned another corner, and
spied a face peeping out ot the window of
a small brick house. The lace of Mrs.
Rogers, who feared that Mr. R.'s favorite
dish was spoiling.
"That reminds nie," said Mr. Rogers.
"I must not tell Esmerelda. The luck
will bo spoilt if ono tells of the ticket ; and
she'd talk so much ot it women will talk
so much.
So Mr. Rogers drank his tea and said
nothing of the lottery ticket, which ho hid
at the bottom of his trunk, a bulging, hair
covered thing, with T. R. on tho side in
brass nails.
But, though ho said nothing, his mind
was full of it ; ho thought ot that capita)
prize of ten thousand dollars while he ate
his breakfast; he dined off it; he dreamed
it. He was a schoolmaster, and while
ruling the boys' copy books and sotting
copies tor them ho was so filled with the
idea that all the boys who had readied P
had Prize written for them, and all tho
boys who had come to D had Draw,
Drawn, Drawing before their eves, while
those with T's copied Tick, Ticket, Tick,
Ticket, all the writing hours.
Little Mrs. Rogers, who was much
youngr than her husband, saw that some
thing was on his mind, but did not dare
to ask what it was, He tossed and turned
in his sleep, and scribbled sevens on the
newspaper, and on tho backs of letters,
and even wroto the magic figure on his
nails with lead pencil. And once, in a
moment ot excitoment, caused by some
body asking the first day of tho month,
said with groat feivor:
'And I only wish it was tho first of next
month!"
"Why, dear P" asked Mrs. Rogers.
"Oh,'' said Mr. Rogers, "it's it's my
birthday, you know,"
"Oh yes, so it is," said Mrs. Rogers, 'but
I never knew you cared for birthdays, my
dear."
And Mr. Rogers, did not tell her that
the lottery drawing took place ou the first
ot September.
It was breakfast time when this remark
was mado, and Mrs. Rogers sat over tho
table long alter her spouse bad lett, won
dering what sort of present she could
make him for his birthday. She had not
a penny of hot own, nor had she any
means ot earning one ; and to send a man
a birthday present for which the bill must
come into hini might not be considered a
delicate attention even from a wile.
"I don't suppose I can give him any
thing nicer than a pen-wiper or a pin cush-
ion." she said with a sigh ; "I'll do that at
1 lnt
And then she rummaged out ot her bag
ot odds and ends black cloth and scarlet
velvet and a few gold bond. gilt, rather
and bid them nt the bottom of her work
basket. There were onlv three days be
tween that and the first ot September ; an
when she had remembered the desigu of
a tine pun-wiper a butterny. gorgeous
with red and black wings and the gold
eyes and body, she set to work on it dill
gently ; and needing a card for the centre
ot the affair, peered Into boxes and draw
era, until nt the bottom of Mr. Rogers'
hair trunk she tound the very thing sli
wnntcd. a yellow, dingy, thumb-marked
thing with 4 77 upon It, and made use
it nt once. Then sweetly smiling and quite
unconscious ot what she had done, she lin
ished off the pen-wiper witli antennie o
gold thread and hid it until the birthday
should dawn.
On th&t day, the wonderful first of Sop
temtier. Mr. Rogers arose betimes; so did
his wile. hue presented him with hi
pen-wiper, he accepted it with a kiss, and
pretended to feel thankful, though it only
reminded him ot his desk, his copies the
slavery ot his lite.
Now that this time had come, he tell
sure that ho had only squandered money
that 777 was a blank. He dreaded the knock
ot the news-carrier the glance nt the col
umn ol the paper in which the prizes
would be published. Ho groaned and hid
his tace in his hands.
"Are vou ill, dear?'' asked Mrs. Hog-
ers.
He only groaned again.
But at this moment came the paper
man's knock, and wuli a sudden revulsion
ot feeling he rushed to the door. He took
the paper into his shaking hands and
spread it on tho table, and the first words
that met his eves were :
777. capital rinzE $10,000.
The effect ot this announcement on Mr,
Rogers was tremendous. Ho started to
his leet and danced about the room. He
shouted "huzzh !'' and gavo three cheers,
as though ho had been at a political meet
ing. Then ho rushed to the table where
boys' copy books lay piled, and seizing
one by ono Hung them into the open grate
yelling:
Ao mora school teaching, no more
slavery, lluzzah !"
hilo Mrs. Rogers, weeping and wring
ing her hands, besought him to conic to
his senses, and felt fully assured that her
husband had suddenly bucomo a raving
maniac. Finally ho finished by throwing
tho butterlly pen-wiper on the top ot tun
pyre, and falling into a chair weeping.
Then little Mrs. Rogers came out of her
cornor, and with botli arms about his
neck, besought him to tell her what ailed
him.
"Seven hundrod and seventy-seven
Capital prize !" said Mr. Rogers. "I've
drawn it, Esmercida."
"Esmerelda rushed for tho paper, found
the list ot prizes, read the announcement
and sat down, gasping for breath.
'That's why you burned the copy books,'
sho said, "lint, oh, why need you have
burned my pen-wiper f It was so pretty
1 thought you'd care tor it. I declare 1
could save it. I believe it is only scorch'
ed.
lint Mr. Rogers was not quite himself.
"Hang pens, pen-handles and pun-wi
pers!" he said, and jammed his boot-heel
into tlr coals. Til never touch one again
Mrs. Rogers felt hurt, but still sho mado
allowance for her husband ; and tho fact
of the prizo was just beginning to dawn
upon her.
"Are you sure?" said she. "Oh, do
show me tho ticket ! Perhaps you've mado
a mistake, seven hundred and . Uh,
dear, I can't find it."
"I'll show you," said Mr. Rogers, wip
ing his forehead. "Here Esmerelda. '
lie walked into the little bedroom, and
knelt down by his trunk. He felt down to
tho bottom. He felt at the sides. He toss
ed things out. Ho glared widely.
"It's here," he said. "I know it's here ;
but I can't find it."
"Oh ! Rogers," cried his wife, "what
was it like P Tell me !"
"Yellow square dirty, Esmoraclda,
you haven't done anything with UP"
Esmerelda gavo a shriek. Sho Hew to
wards the gate.
"Tho pen wiper save it!" she scream
ed. "Hang the pen-wiper!" criod Mr. Rog
ers, and he jammed his heal into the coals
once more, and the flames burst hot and
red over tho halt-burnt butterfly and con
sumed it in an instant. "Can't you think
of anything elso but that confounded pon
wiper P The ticket ! Look for it Esme
relda !"
"It's in tho butterfly. How did I know P
You never told me 1 I thought it was an
old cardJP said Esmerelda. "Oh, why
didn't you save it P"
"In the butterfly P What buttorlly P"
cried Mr. Rogers, staring about him.
"Butterfly pon-wjper I" cried Mrs. R.,
and fainted away in tho corner,
It happened to be a Saturday, The
school had holiday. All day long the mas
ter sat and started at the fire. All the day
long his wife wept and bemoaned herself.
He took no pity on her. He said :
"I hate you, and never can forgiye
you I" And she thought of suicide.
They had no dinner. At night sho made
tea, and they drank it with averted faces.
Then she crept away to her little spare
bed-room up stairs, leaving him by the
fire,
The church bells rang sweetly, but
neither of that wretched pair wo.il to
church. It nevor could bo forgotten, that
miserable Sunday, by cither ot them; and
worst oi all, Montlay morning was com
ing, nnd tho school boys and tho work of
the day. About dusk Mr. Rogers be
thought him to walk out. Generally they
walked out together. Nov Mrs. Rogers
sat and heard the voices of the holiday
ranking pcoplo in llie street, and felt, as
sho said to herself, as though sho were di
vorced. When Mr. Rogers returned his
tea was on a stand, and Esmerelda was
shut up in the spare bedroom again.
Both rose next morning unrctreshed
nnd miserable. She felt like a animal ;
ho as the very vengeful ghost of a loullv
murdered man might be supposed to feet.
He nsked himself aloud a number of sin
gular questions.
As: "Why do men marry idiots, who
make pen-wipers of ten thousand dol
lars ?" ,
"Why don't sho poison mo ; better than
beggar me," he said still to himseil. still
aloud, "but sho shall sutler for this,"
And then Mrs. Roger wept: her noor
eyes bulged out ot her head. There was
a big s.vollen vein down the middle ot her
lore-head. Sho was the most wretched ol
little women.
As he sipped his coffee, ami sho criod,
the morning paper flew into the window
which stood open, it was the carrier s
way ol saving time.
It fell at Roger's feet. He took it up
and opened it with a bitter remembrance
of his last opening the p iper. And these
were the first words that med his eyes:
"Special Announcement. Tho mana
gers of the Eagle lottery desire to rectify
a grave mistake in Saturday's report.
No 777 did not draw tho capital prize. It
was drawn by No 775. The lault was the
printer's."
"Hang the printer !" cried Mr. Rogers.
"Esmerelda !"'
"Oh !" said Esmerelda.
"I f-rgive you, my dear," Mr. Rogers.
"I'll never say another word about it,
never."
"Oh, how noble !" sobbed Mrs. Rogers.
Then Mr. Rogers went to his schoolboys
and his copies, and tho liny who had come
to F had 'Fool, folly, foolish, foolishness.'
on the top lino of his book; and the boy
wlio had come to I, wrote "Idiot, idiots-
Idiot, idiots." after his master's pattern.
all tho writing hour.
Old Buildings.
Speaking of tho Tower of London, the
Builder says: Mr. Hopwurth Dixon, who
has dono so much to unravel its mysteries
aud strange histories, contends strenuous
lv that even as to "length ot days" tho
Tower of Loudon "has no rival," even
among palaces nnd prisons: the origin of
it, ns he maintains, boms like that ot the
"Illiad and tho Sphinx" lost m tho nebu
lous ages, nnd in times long, very long.
before our definito history took shape.
uui writers date it trom tho nays ot dinar
a legend taken up by hhakspeare : in
deed the name of I'iesar's Tower remains
in popular use to this very day. A Roman
wall can even yet bo traced nero to ijmo
parts ot the ditch, nnd certainly some of
the existing wall masonry ef Roman
wall building "precedent." It is men
tioned, too, iu tho Saxon Chronicle. A
Saxon stronghold may indeed have exist
ed on this very spot whereon tho Tower
stands. But tho main and contral build-
ng, as wo before said, tho White Tower.
was commenced bv William Norman, and
tho scries ot apartments in Ciusar's Tower
were certainly built in tho early Norman
eigns, and actually mado use ot as a
royal residence by our Norman kings.
What, then, says Mr. Dixon enthusiastic
ally, can Europe sliow to compare against
such a tale P Why, most surely nothing.
Set against tho Tower ot London, with its
eight huudred years of historic lile. its
nineteen hundred years of traditional
amc, all other palaces and prisons for it
must not oo lorgotten that it was both
the orle and tho other appear like things
f an hour ! V cry, very true, and what a
thousand pities it then is that we can not
indeed, seo all this "antiquity" or nt any
ato tno remains oi it. mil, uias : it may
bo interesting to note a fow of tho oldon
things of continental tame and antiquity.
The oldest bit of palaco in Europe would
seem to be that ot tho Burg in Vienna.
date of Henry III. ; the famous Kremlin,
Moscow, and the Doge's Palaco, Venice,
are of tho fourteenth century. Tho So-
agho, Stamboul, was built by Mahomet
II. Noxt, tho oldest part of the Vatican
commenced by Borgia, whose name it
bears. Then the old Louvro, commenced
in tho reign of Henry VIII. ; The Tuiller-
ios, in that ot Elizabeth. Tho Spanish
Escuriiil belongs to tho seventeenth en-
ury, while such palaces as those ot
Alliens, Cairo, and the Hersia'd Teheran,
are all of them of quite modern date, so
that it is no Idlo boast, tho hoar antiquity
ot the Loudon Tower Palaco. Then, again,
as1 to the "prisons," nono of them, with
tho single exception of St. Angelo, Rome,
can compare with tho Tower Prison. Tho
neyor-to-be-torgotton liastilo, ot which,
by tho way, there are some curious records
on paper, is a tiling ot tho past, as all
know. The Bargello is a museum. Tho
Bargollo is a museum. The Piombi, ot
poetic lame, are removed from beneath
the Doge's roof. Vinconnes, Spandau,
Spilberg, Madgeburg, aro all modern
compared with it. Again, we wish to see
this old Tower of London and compare
things.
Gardon hats and Maria Antoinette flats ot
Leghorn braid.or of chip, with very wide tlai
brim of equal Width all around, but curved to
droop in trout aud back.
Osoar G. Baroh,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND
CONVEYANCER
Jefferson City, Missouri
I3T Office, State Journal Building, 211 Mail
street, Jefferson City.
ALSO, REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING
Leading Insurance Companies :
Franklin Fire Ins. Co. of Philadelphia,
Assets tn.noo.oon
Continental Fire Ins. Co. of New
York, Assets 2.B0O.O00
Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York,
Asset SU.OOO.OftO
fee. 27 72-t
It. II. JOHNSON.
J. 8. IIOTSKORD
JOHNSON & BOTSFORD,
A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W
Jefferson City, Missouri.
WILL GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO
Cases in tho United States Circuit ami
District Courts.
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W. It. HOPKINS,
ATTO 11 N E Y - A T - L A W
Ileal Entitle and CnUcciii'j Aginl.
PAY TAXES AND ItKDEI'M
mds sold for taxes in unv eountv in the
Slate.
Refers to Messrs. Currv & Kirhv. Bankers
Jell'ersim City, Mo.; Hon. S. S. Bin-dot t, M'C
Mo-; lion. Mack. J. Learning, Si-dala. Mo
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o. jl. vv nj.4jO,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
HARNESS, SADDLES
COLLARS, BRIDLES, WHIPS,
BLANKETS, FLY WETS, ETC,
No. 2H, East High Street.
JEFFERSON CI T Y , MO
REPAIRING NEATLY
Work Warranted.
DONE
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Zuber's Marble Works
VICT OP- SUBSH,
MANXKACTfKKK OF
Foreign & American
MARBLE MONUMENTS.
GRAVESTONES AH D TOMES ;
North side of IIIkIi stoect,
Between Jiffcmon and Washington SU
nio.;;i-iv.
JKFKI2R40X CITY. O
S W. COX'S
Fire Insurance Agency
Jefferson City, Missouri.
Insurance Company of N.merica, Pennsyl
vania, vaA eapital $3,500,000.
Imperial Fire lniuranee Companvof London,
England, cash capital, sold, $l0.00o',000.
Gerinauia Eire Insurance Company of New
York, cash capital $4,000,000.
American Central Fise Insurance Company o(
St. Louis, cash eapital assets, 1 ..VW.OOO.
Saint Joseph Fu-o Iusur inue Company, cnh
capital $')00,000.
Traveler's Accident Insurance Company o
Hartford. Conn., cash capital 61V)0,000.
8. W. Cox. Notnrv Put. lie. 't!c.27.72-fiui
N. C. BURCII, O. G. PURCn
Att'y at Law Notary Pub. aud C -u -yanoor
. C. BURCH & 2E0.
Real Estate Agents,
JEFFERSON CITY. MO.
BUY AND SELL LANDS ON COMMH
sion, Pay Taxes, Hedeem Lands Sold for
Taxes, Procure Patents, Examine Titles, Fur
nish Abstract, Eto. Have tho only Ahstract of
Titles for Cole, county.
HOT Office. Stato Journal Bulldlnc. 211 Mala
street. dec. 27. l.-72-if
C. W. LOHMAN,
(Successor to W. II. Morlocli.)
JEFFERSON CITY. MISSOURI.
TUB attention of the public Is called to hi
tine stock of trv Good, (iroouiies. Hard
ware anil Notions. Hoots and Shoes. Hats unit
'aps, Jto. Highest market price paid lopirmr
Produce an.I0-.173f
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE
STABLE.
BENJAMIN MoGILL
ir0ULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM THE
T y public that lie is now prepared ! accom
modate them In the Livery businoss at the oor
nerofMaiu nnd Monroe streets, where he will
do a general livery, feed and sale businesr.
Horses kept by tho day, week or month. Riding
and bugxy horses constantly on haud and of the
best. Give me a call. Jdoo. 87. 1873-1
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