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B CHARITOH COMES. a P. VATTDIVXIt. and Prop. KEYTESVILLE, - MISSOURI. Eatrrvd at th pott-o3c at KejtMTiJJe.SI o. atronI-clA mall mattei. FiiJaj, Spt- 21. 1531. Border Countv Notes. IIOWAKD. Arc? tror.g will Lave a lair Spt. 28th and '2'Mh. The Faytt. publio fchool had 304 pupil 1h'? T.it w,vk of its open ing this yc-ar. Co!. Win. !IekT, f many years a rrsiJont or liownr 1 county, reevnt ly c!ibrnted his 80th birthday. The old M. E. church building i being torn down in Glaow, pre paratory to building a rvi ler.ee on the fit". The", editor of the MLocrian, at Glasgow, wa presented by the famous fcorticulturnlist nnil gardm er, 11. Schnell, with enmpb bunches ol 13 varieties of prop, 1 st wirlr. Jmjge Field, of the Siline Co.. circuit court, rendered a d.cisiou in the cafe of Dauttl. of Glasgow, vs renylvacia Fire Insurance Co., in favor of plaintiff in n tu:n Aggregat ing $1,075.25 The city council, of Fayette, has passed an ordinance, prohibiting the running nt large of all kinds of stock. This i in conformity to the county stock law which require all etock to bj kept tip. Uio Smith, while on his way home from Fayette had the misfortune to be thrown from hi horse and had his left bg broken near the thigh. Heretofore hi right bg hse ben broken live time making him acrip- pie for life. Misers. Uorton, of Salhury, and Tooley, of lliggin?y:i:o were guests of Mre. C. Maupia la?twefk. Mi?ees. Edith Hurt ami Daisy Johnson, two charming young la lit s of Chariton countv, came over last Thursday to Tisit Mre. J. U. Fugate. Armstrong Herald. A. W. i:ran, of near Armstrong, shipped J30 head of feeding bogs and pigs froru Nebrarku lat week. lle eold quite a number of the pig to the town people at To cents to $1.00 per had. The hogs wen? of good stock and in good condition. The car in which they were shipped cost Mr. K vane $0.". Free-State Spring, located 12 miles north of Fayette, is growing in favor ns a hrnlih report. A stock companv with C'JO.OUO capital has been formed to erect a large and handsome hotel on the blufl over looking the premises for the accom modation l all who may go there ia quest ofhraltLor plensure. Fayette is said to have a young xnan who ia subject to epulis of hfart troubl whenever hi s.es his brst girl. His malady, however, doe not prevent his beting her occasion ally. To b on the safe side he take bia physician nlohir when he call, so that rv?tor itivis may be readily administered in casj of ua attack. Justice Cock nil court, nt Glas gow, was Cllcd'to overflowing on Tuesday of last week with anxious spectators to hear the trial of John Johnon charged with maliciously maligning the gooJ name of oue ilre. Amanda Neul, the vc;U of a llaptut ministrr. The jury could not ocr-v and t!;- ra-iwill be tried again th 2Cth The parties to th - it as vMi ..- witnesses live at Li-' on. Mr. M. 1 I. ty has in hi -pnpers und Anakti? A.;.-' z. of Howard coun- - -ioa two rare old ., volumes of the the litter pub- lished ia Thii n!. Iphia. ia 1813. by 11. Thomas. TLa nowepap-rs area copy of tl.p XlLsouri Uaz'.tie, pub lished in St. Louis in lt;0, out of which gre the SJUyOuri Kepulllcan, nov the St. Lrfiuis HvpvbUc, and the Jfew Orl-ana da'Jy Vclta bearirg data Jut: 17th, 1S17, nad contain ing much valuable information ion ccraicg tht Mexican war. YLi:b:iikiogth3 calisoa for the Chicago und Altcu railroad, at Glas gow, tLcra una Icand at the bot tom of tin riv"- Irfded in four or five fet i ' ih.v i i-. . to I " . I 1 did.-. . '.- tra 'i -La 1 ! '!gr i i.lk h ; (i r,M ! mi:i utnuy lo-s o ' ..id i liIf iloza i tobaL.s, .acT-jtie, whva BteamLoatj ' were nearly always load in tr or un loading at her whait or ia eight of the city; when she did an extensive trade la all kinds of laerchandie and packed more pork than either Chi cago or Kan as City. LIXX. good ia adjacent buildings, removed thir goods for safety, and in o doiujr had their Ptocks more or let a injured. Carl Hud row, of MarceliaesoM to Geo. NYbite 10 shoats, 4 montha and 17 clays old that averaged 1C1 pounds, at 3 1-2 c nts pr pound. Th HaUvtin Faya corn is turnicg out better in Linn county than wr.s exp-ctoJ. Th people of the entire county nr rejoiced over thir rt'ent gooJ rain-. The Taylor brother, in jail at St. Joseph for killing th.? Mcks family, are eaid to be very tired of prison lif, and ar.? anxious to roturn to L!nn county and ctanJ their trial. Some time sine? 'Vorren Wolf killed a dog f uppysd to t mad. Since the death of the dog the ques tion of madn-s ha bca settled beyond doubt. Mr. Wolf valuable bull and two hoga went mad, two or three dogs in the neighborhood were taken with hydrophobia and had to be killed. A very d-trnctive fire occured ia Marceline on Thursday morning of last week. It orignated in the gal l?ry of J. A. Nickols.but how, no one 6?erc$ to kno.v. When discovered the Cr- had mnK such progress that no attempts were mad to save the building. J. T. Wallar had u stock of groceries ia the lower story of the builJing, vnlned at ?G,000 insured for? 1,000, but little of which was eavrd. J. A. Nickol'a atore was vnlued at $1,300, insured for 1, 000. T. A. Smedly and C. M. Kcn drick hnd ctlicca in the upstair of the building, and their books and papers were lost, no insurance. The building burned belonged to Dr. Cart?r and A. Una, and cost 5,000. Several other parties who had L1VISUSTOX. Some rnte rprising citizens are get ting measures on foot to test the vulue of the fire clay found in great abundance about Cbillicothe. The railroad section men, at Lud low, to tho cumber of 100, v.-ere served with en injunction last Sun day wetk to quit work upou Sunday. Mat Spears, the widly known and highly respected colored veteran of Cbillicothe, difd on Thursday of last wtek of heart failure, aged 70 years. Twdve students left Cbillicothe of late to attend different schools in Missouri. Some go to the univer sity whilj others go to tho different church t-chool. Chiilicotho boasts of h musical prodigy ia the person of Blanche Shcrmuu, who use is 12 years. Sh? can sing and play to a queen's t&ate besides having composed an opera. A rattle snake, measuring 3 feet long and 9 inches around the middle of ita body, with 20 rattles captured at Hot Springs,Ark.,pased through Cbillicothe I'ist week m transit to a druggist, at Futtont-burg. TTLil- Noah llau'ie, of Sampa?! township, was attending a country dance one uight last week, some one cut off the tail of his horse clear up to the backbone. The hor?c vaa a valuable oue and prabably w ill not live. The Cbillicothe Constitution says: "The recent rains have served to re duce the sick li?t considerably. The bad vatcria the wells has been the direct cmus of a grcar n my of the cases of typhoid f which exist throughout the city.' Attliclat- 1 1 LoTicr.Itural meet ing, in C .:;.. otlu', i : was decided that winte- p;l.-s ougiit to be COcts per l)U?bci t::s fall, 'and that the fall s?aon was the best timo to plant apples trees, and that orchards ought to be plowed every year. Or.eoftb- Texas etctrs that es cap l from tho railroad wrtvk rear Chiilicotho last week wa so detf rm incd to locato permanently oa oue of the thorough! ires of hat town, that he had to be kill jtl in order to be re moved. Little L'ulaii Hfg-ins. of Chilli- c iti.e.is never likt-ly to have a special I "S inr l.e". Miij l,t r I il'.- brother were turret Ik.- ia a u.-ihburiii j ard, aiid seeiag a bee hiv th LrotL-r procee led to stir up the iniects with a eti:k, lostead oi stinging the boy they ventured upon the little girl. She was badly stung but will recover. Jhn Kennedy was tried before Commissioner Chapman, last week nndT a charge of selling whiskey without a 0. S. license which resulted in his being held for the U. S. grand jury, and being placed in th- Cbilli cothe jail for saf keeping. Amos Hargdoll, of Livingston county, wb ha reached the'three ecor" and t-n mii pot in lif' jour ney," aud for many years a resident of that part of th moral vineyard, predicts that next winter will lo a mil l one, as that is the kind that ut:ally follow i.'roathy summers. We rt collect home fenrlnlly cold weathrr that f'.)il;5il u Jrouth hpre ia 1S71: perhaps that wus aa cxcei tiun to th rul-. A father and dinghter connected with a gatig of movers, got into a Cht near Lmllow. For some of. fenej tho father pave hi.- daughter, a grown young woman, u teveie chastisement, which so uutrerrd hr that f-be sriz -d a club, and dealing the lather n heavy blow laid him oat by the woodside. This o enraged the father that h; called two other men out of the gang to his usist-anc-, and h mother of the girl coming to help her daughter, a ter riblbattleeusued,in which the women were badly beatn and thrown by the wuyside. The moving train pto cerdrd without them. The injured women went to Ludlow und bled in mation against theirungnllant assail ants, which resulted in their arrest aud being held in durance vile to answer for their unmanly conduct. The Cbillicothe TribuneMus repub lican oran, gave a very meager no tice cf the I'opulist convention held ia that town. The Constitution, the Democratic organ, gave a full ac count of the same- convention, and now the two editors are quarreling over their respective action. Tho Tribune ofcVrs as a reason for ita si lence on the subject the following: "We did not wish to humiliate our selves by letting the world know, that there was even u small number of men in Livingston county who condoled cr sympathized with a party who had conspired against the government as has been done during the strike and whoso leaders ara now before tin? courts being tried for their mtscoudnct. Tin con dition of things where the Fopulista have bjen in control will bring the blush of shame to tho cheek of uny good citizen, and the Tribune does not intend to tuk cugnizanc of any uch a party exept to show its per fidy." Wo think the prominent need for a newspaper is that through it the people may loaru the news. The news the paper gives may not be ol the character to please the ed itor or many of its readers, but it must ba glwn or the pap-r fails to fulfill its mission. RANDOLPH. D S. Turcey and son are opening up a nw dry goods store ia Mober ly The business men of Moberly, or iganzed a new board of trade last week under very favoruble auspices. Tom Moody, of near Jacksonville, will be laid up for several weeks on account of a painful wouud inflicted in bia leg by a knife of a corn cutter from which he fill whil cutting corn. Messrs Durrtl! & Jordon. of Mo berly. each bnt a barn by tire on the night of the 12th inst. The origin ot the fire is unknown but it is sup posed to be the- work of an incen diary. Moberly and Mi Idle Grove will ia u short t ima be coitnect'-d by a daily mail carried by hack instead of oa the M. K. Tc T. railroad asheretofora from Moberly to Evansvill., thence A warded Highest Honors Worlds Tair, 1 t: i f MOST MADE. a pure G.aj-a Cicm cf Tartar TcwJc. re; 'rem Pszir.. -viz, Alum cr any ether idulL - REMEMBER there 'are hundreds of brands of White Lead (so called) on the market that are not White Lead, composed largely of Barytes and other cheap materials. But the number of brands of genuine Strictly Pure WhtP T 13 limited. The following brands arc standard "Old Dutch" process, 1 - " - f and just as good as they w ere when you or your father were boys : "Southerns-Red Seal," "Collier." Toa CoLcai-rXational Lead Co.'i rnre tite Lead Tinting Colors, a one-pound can to a rj-ponnd l.c cf Lead and mix your ovm rainis. Saves time and annoyance in matching shades, and Insures the best taiat that it is roiiil.e to put oa trood. Send os a postal card and gtt our Look oa paints and cc!or-card, free; it U1 probably save you a good many dollars. NATIONAL LEAD CO. St. Louis Branch. Gaxk Avenue aad Tc&Ui Street, St. Louis. by privuf Grove. conveyance to Middle The will of Joseph A. Wray, of Iltudolph county, among the be qupstc, gav to his daughter, lilancha llichard?on, of Chariton county, .'00 and on?-?izhth of the property of th testator not ctler wise disposed of. Sone evil disposed person shot n pony Jiclotiirig to D. C. Iloltsinger, while running in hi pasture, near Moberly. Whether it was accident ally or purposely done is not known. The phot to:k ffct irj tie nos' of the little animal and may not provfc serious. Mr.l A. K. Dixson, of Samner, Mo., is down on a vii.it to his daugh ter, Mrs. Jams Wilson of the vicin ity or Cario. is looking hale nnd hearty nnd reports crops good in his vicinity, and says in the vicinity of Cario thy aro just splendid. II was greeted lv many ol I friends of this city. Moberly Monitor. C Fr'ldenh?:m?r, of Moberly, tells the Monitor, that h. ha just receiv ed a letter from his brother, in New York, who writes that in all his ex perience he naver saw such a decrease in prices asked from cah buyers in eastern markets. Goods are at least "0 yrr ct or. cheaper than he has ever eaw th-m in tis whole bus iness career, and that the change of etyl'-j is eomothing remarkable. J. VT. Tedford, n etockman rf Iiandolph county, gives it nt his opinion that the good prices of fat cattle will by maintained, on account of the scarcity of feed. On the con trary, ato'.'k cuttl. will not advance for the same reason. Fat hogs are up in pric nnd will remain so for some time, us there is not corn enough to be ha i at a reasonable prica to fatten any more hogs. When Mr. James Davis, of Kan- dolph county, was building his cab in, ia 181'J, he chanced to cut a sy camore handstick, which after using ho stuck in tin" ground near a gurgling brook. This etick took root, and has ia th 73 intervening years grown into a majstic tree. The farm on v.hich this tree has grown to such stately proportions is uo'.v owned by W. J. Ferguson, who eays ii" long as he or any one con nected with the Davis family owns th lar.d, the tree shall be spared. S. I. Uesset, of Moberly, late ma chinist, went to St. Louis recently, taking with him a working model of Lis improved cow catch.'? for loco motives, or as railroad mea would pay. pilot lor engines. lie expects to interest several live? men who have capital and know a good thing when thy ere it. Thf nw pilot will glvi pasengr trains immunity from cattle o:i th? track whether etanding, lying down or fastened in cattle uard or tnstle. M--U who are ju.!g.s ol e::h things regard It as the best naf-'ty nppliauee that has bru brought out (-iao the invention of the air brake. Tha Moberly Monitor with its characteristic push, is advocating, with a good propcct of succe?y, the building of the narrow pauge rail road fron thre to Marceline. We know of no region of country ia the state that is more ia need of a rail road, than the one to be traversed by this proposed road. It id not only rich n agricultural re&ourcts, but every foot of it is underlaid with coal of good quality end inexhaueti- LI in Quantity. hen ' contem- plr.'td ioadisbjut,it will no doubt pass through dome portion of the northeastern part of Chariton coun ty, thereby giving our people the in creased market facilities for both agricultural, products and "black diamonds." SALINE. George Shoemaker, of Slater, whi!e attempting to put some new wheels undr a car at Clark had his left leg broken. , .jorj&niuu und uick bmitherman jeachhad ahand severely mashed while coupling cars last week, one at Alma . and the otber at Marshall. Tfce Democrat-yews says; "II. A. Kirby, living eight miles ' east of Marshal, left three ears of white corn at this oCic Monday that were eye openers. One had 1000 grains, another 1120 and the third 1152." Saline paprra think Marshall stands a good show to sneure the Odd Fellows' Orphan IIoni. Th" contest is between Mershall, in Sa line county, and IJutlr, in'Dats county. The former offers a pi re and 8,2o0, the latter a eite and 8,000. John A. Sparks, of Otterville, and M.;s IVrlina J. Ilayner, of near Slater, were married at the latter place one day last week. The con tracting parties are deaf mutes. They both are highly educated.bav iug been students in the deaf and dumb asylum for several years. While playing ball, at Miami, lest Saturday, the bat being used by Prof. E. E. DanWt, slipped from hie hand and struck Willie Kite, n(d 13, a fearful blow on th? nose and over the right eye, cutting a long :ih through the eyebrow and knocking him senseless. While se vere, the wound was not dangerous, and Willie is recovrsing rapidly. MACOS. James Andrew Elder, a prominent official in ' the Plaiaview Christian chuicn, died Sep. 10th. An old citizen of Macon county pays he never eaw as large a corn crop being cut up ia the county as is being dons tbis'year. Ilav. Sam'l. W. Johnion. the last year's pastor of the Macon circuit, goes to Vanderbilt university, at Nashville, Tenn., to take a theologi cal course, lie is a son of Dr. B. F. Johnson, cf Fayette. Kev. Kuch, a euperanuated minis ter of the Missouri! conference of the M. E. Church, South, died at the residence ot ti3 son-in-law, Dr. A. ii. Miller, in Macon City, on the 10th iut. lie was 71 years old and had been a member of the conference since 1831. The ministers of the Protcstent churches in Macoa have a meeting each week which they call the "Local Union." that seems to bodoing good work acd creating increased interest ia the causo of religion. "Uehold how good and how pleasant it for brethren to dwell together in unity." Without any aetming provocation, Johnny O'Brien 6truck Jack Push- ker in the face with a rock while the latter wa3 passing along one of the streets of Macon. The blow stun ned Pushker and he fell heavily against a post. While Pushker was down several persons ran to his as sistance and 6ome one relieved him of $30. O'Brien was arrested and gave bond for 300. CAKKOLL. Carrollton is to have a new house for its fire department. The g late Gianjre meets at Car rollton next month. Nortner. a Carroll countv stal lion, owned by Messrs. Goodson, White and Quee nberry, won in the stallion trot at St Jo last week; time 2:22 1-2, 2:19 1-3 and 2:21. The whitj public school, of Car rollton, opened on Monday of last week with a total enrollment of C73 pupils. The number of pupils in the colored schools is not mentioned by the Carrolltoa. papers. A young boy about 1-1 years old, giving his name as Frank Waters und claiming to have come from Brunswick, has bet-n arrested charg ed with having set flra to the out building in the rear of the Democrat ofii;o Monday night. He admits be ing there at the time of the Are, but says he saw a man pour coal oil on the building and touch a match to i t. Carrollton Democrat. ' About nine o'clock Tuerday night fl.-v H2(i discovered ia one of the up 'stair? led roouj i?f Q. C. Atkirs.ho- 3Irs. J. H. IIoesxydei:, l52raciSc Ave, Santa Cruz, Cal., writes: " When a girl at school, in Heading, Ohio, I had. a severe attack ct brain fever. Oa iny recovery, I found myselt perfectly bald, and, for a Ion z time I feared I should bo permanently 0. Friends urjjed mo to use Ayer's IEair Visor, and, oa doing so, my hair Began to Grow, and I now haro a3 fine a head of hair a3 one could" wish for, bcins changed, how ever, from blonde to dark brown." "After a fit of sickness, ray hair came out in combfulls. I used two bottles o Aye if s Hair igor anil now my hair is over a yard long and very full and heavy. - I have recom mended this preparation to other3 with, like good effect." Mrs. Sidney Cany llCOKeginast., Ilarrishurg, Pa. " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for several years and always obtained satis factory results. I know it U tho best . preparation for the hair that is made." C. T. Arnett, Mammoth Spring, Ark. J flyer's Hair Vigor Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ay cr & Co-, Lowell, IXaaa. tel, at YvaWnda. It was d;Vovred ? rt timn nnA rmf rm wit twin r. ':T'ff dainsfre. Two hours later tire was uiseovprr-ti in Miotar room up stairs. It hal gained some h.ad-s way before bping discovered, .and the buinpsi m-: i i t ?i lj lining buildings baa t.i uiov?. thfir goods uui, vtj-i uitr Jw iijjuisuyu befnre frettincr oat of th hotel flstr- rcllton Democrat. John A. Malay is fattening 18 fine hogs on soaked wheat. Lie weighed them beforo ha began to foei and will weigh thea when thpy are ready for market. Tby at about two bushels of wheat a dav und are do ing splendidly. We lived 15 years in California und sav thousands of a9 big fat hogs there as we ever saw ia Missouri that never eat a grain of corn m their Uvps. They were raised and fattened nn wheat, barley and wild oats, but not the kind of wild oats a great many young men here are sowing largo crop of. "Gourd Seed" correspondent of the Carroll ton Democrat. The Xevv Franklin Echo tells of a visit to that town of a Mrs. Snoddy who has lived continuously near Uoonsboro pines- 1809, and has never been out of Howard county as much as six we?ks in all intervening years. J. S. Snoddy.her son, was witb her. Lie was born on the farm now owned by James Ausworth, in. 1820 and hae lived in Howard 74 years, lie reports of having fed wheat to his Log3 last winter and realized 80 cents per butdi? for it. Let ever y Democrat in the employ of the school board be promptly bounced by the Republicans who control the board. "Love your ene my, but first knock him out and down," is the law of brotherhood in politics. Globe Democrat. If tho D-moerats wtre to follow this sort of rule, thfre are thousands of postmasters and other llepubli can officials who would soon have to pack their carpet bags and vacate. . PAY UP. All parties indebted to the undersigned are requested to call and settle at once. I am preparing to get married and. need every cent due me. Joe Held, The Shoemaker. What do you think of an old sol dier voting the Democratic tick et.? ChWicothe Tribune. Uo 4 K i n L -r c u o mr fict TirrVifi do as he please?, an J Wt are the last to suggest a policy that would in any way abridge this right Uat'cj cl Kcxova.?. I bavo moved ray office from tbe Winfrc j bnilJin? to the front room up utaira over Aee Bros.' fjrocery store, wUro I am better prcpired than ever to R rve those in noca of Uentcl work. Soliciting your patronage, anI guaraDtrping mitisfaction, I am, Rtppctfullv, Dr. H. D. Broaddns.