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II! 1 i I i m m I BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES IiTOR A!f PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUi SCKIPTIOX: The Weely Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any t dure one vear, postage paid, tor $1.2?. BXTTLEK. MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5., iSW-f. OUE RENEWED OITEB- Kmit weeks afro the nricc ot the I Sutler Weekly Times was re duced to the verv low sum of sev FNTY-FIVK CENTS from the ISt O March to the 1st ot January next During that time a large number o people availed themselves ot the op portunity to subscribe for the paper, knowing so well its superior worth as a reliable county newspaper and a correct exponant of genuine Democ racy. In fact quite a boom has been worked up, and its main force being just now upon us we cannot well shut it out, and have, therefore, de termined to extend the sevfnty-five cent offer for a short time longer We will also continue to send the I jouisville Courier- fournal wth the Times the former one year and the latter ten months to those who de sire the two, for one dollar and eighty-five cents. The money on either proposition must be in ad vance. To all present subscribers who are in arears one year and over, we will give the advantage of this special of fer, by them calling and settling up. ORGANIZATION- Now that the time and place of holding the National Convention is fixed, is it not about time the inactive rank of Democracy were aroused and the drill commenced? Considerable has been said already about the State and county cam paign, but the talk has been chiefly ot candidates, and not of organiza tion. Thorough discipline has been demonstrated to be more important in campaigns than even the selection Ot candidates, and is too often lost Sight of by the Democratic party. This promises to be an exciting campaign from President to Coroner. The Republicans realize that it wiii be a grapple with death their lasi fight unless victorious. They occu py every important position on the ground of their ovvn chosmg for the battle, and past experiencee has taught them that a ctubborn stand with fixed bayonets scares the enemy uvu mc iiciu ii 11 uosen r cause them to surrender outright. They can be forced from their works only by skilled Generals and a well dis ciplined army brave enough to meet bayonet with bayonet and contest the position as long as there is a man !eft. TIlJIfAlM . I I ... uviviuic, even mougn ir oe ear had an origin or any connection whatever, with the defunct Confed eracy. Southern war claims, by whosoever presented, are coldiy re ceived and adversly considered by American Congresses. "The county seat papers seem to be very timid about agitating the new jail proposition which the court has made an order for. If this is for the benefit of the tax-payers, why don't the great journals at the county seat speak out in meetin' ? And if it is not why do they remain suent ami allow the people to vote unintelli gently?" Rockville GVobe. We apprehend our neighboring friend doesn't read the 1 imes very closely. In our issue of February 13th we gave some reasons why the people should vote $10,000 to build a jail, and certainly we didn't show anv timiditv in our position. The , j 4 Times is usually on one side or the other. It has no record as a fence- rider. Watch the Times Mr. Globe and you will see something more on the jail question before long. Eleswhere the Times presents a good likeness and biograhpy of Lieur. Winfield S. Schley, of the United States Navy, who has been selected to command the expedition in search ot the Greeley party lost in the ; Arctic regions several years ago. The expedition will sail in three vessels about the first of April, and will consist ot 150 men with supplies to last two years. If our venerable tutor down on North Main desires the portrait of this brave commander for the benefit of its readers, the Times will be pleas ed to loan the same free of any cost. umn paper, all home print, and will be devoted to the interests ot Archie and surrounding country which com prise southern Cass and no-thern Bates counties. Politically it will be Democratic, of course. have received about the same atten- i making a silk quilt, the blocks of tion as a load of wood in an out j which are filled 111 with pieces of the POLITICAL SPARKS. house." Springfield Herald: Assistant Engineers, J. F. Hinckley. siaft of the Frisco, are in town prepared to Space being no object in the Re- bc,n the survev ot a ,,cw r'n,tc to , - r .t,: . i Bolivar, thirty -one milt-s north. the late report of the Grand jury to be set up in advertising t pe occupy ing a space of two column. This is Only another method of "filling up" 01 "doubling" a word more famil iar in the Republican composing room. The following list shows the total taxable wealth of some of the south west Missouri counties with Bates county in the lead : Bates. Jasper, Henry, Vernon, St. Clair, Benton, Cedar. Hickory, Dallas, $ 7,929,784 7,468,402 6,650,120 5,966,250 ? 749979 2,721,810 2.351,240 1,649.310 1.310,941 Farmer Funston. the Republican candidate for the unexpired teim ot Congressman Haskel, deceased, in the Second Kansas district, was elected Saturday over Riggs the Democratic nominee, by a majority ot about 5,000. !"-Bg Hon. William H. Hunt, Minister to Rusia, died at St. Pettersburg, on the 27th of February. The deceas ed was from Louisiana, and was Secretary of the Navy under Have s administration. ihe expenditures ot ot. L,iair county tor the year ending January 31st 1S84, foot up $11,067,95. The assessed valuation ot the county is less than halt that of Bates count v. The total expenditures ot Henry county, for the year ending Februa ry 1st, 18S4, are $34,075,39. The taxable wealth ot Henry county is $6,650,120. Isn't it about time the Democrats were taking action toward electing two members of the city council to till the places ot those soon to ex pire. The Republicans will hold a coun ty convention in this city 011 the 29th inst., to send delegates to the Seda Ha convention to sit April 9th. Judge E. II. Norton has written a card to the St. Louis Republican in which he positively declines to be a candidate for Governor. Once the valley of the City of Mexico, near the Capital ol our sis ter Republic, was covered with beau tiful forest trees. The ravages of time and the axe or its counterpart in the hands of by-gone genera- j lions, have together destroyed every vestege of forest timber in that lo cality. The Government wants the valiev replanted with trees, and to that end has recently let the contract at a cost of $4,000,000. It appears that our neighboring city. Rich Hill, is overrun with gam blers and prostitutes. The loc;il press denounce the authorities for al lowing such nuisances to exist, but to very little effect. Such things dont exist to a verv alarming extent in the Electric City. We dont mean by this that there are none here at all, tor that would be incorrect. If Col. Boone knows what he . , " j " uuune Knows wnat ne is ly, let the work of systematic and talking about, and we think he ought thorough organization be commenc ed. Democratic club should be or ganized at every school house in the county and State that the old ones may be kept firm and proselytes - nadc. CONFEDERATE DEBT We are in receipt of a pamphlet published iti London England by J Barr Robertson, a prominent finan cier of that country, setting forth the conditions of the bonded debts of ihe late Confederate States, and fix ing their status as claims against the United States Government. The writer concludes by arguing in favor of the oayment, by this Government, of that class of claims held by European citizens in what is known s the Dollar Bonds, issued to them upon the breaking out of the war for private debts or property in the Southern States. These claims con tinues the writer, were never pre sented to the United States Govern ment for allowance, but intimates ibat they will be, and asserts that 4bis Government can not in justice ref use to pay them. Wc think Mr. Robertson will find up-hill business prosecuting any claim against the United States, that to know. Major Salmon will surelv be a candidate tor the Governorship As to what will be the course of the Bate county Democracy, in the event ot Salmon's candidacy, we are not permitted to know, but its cluty is plain to those who give the sub ject of politics any study. There appears to be a misunderstanding-as to the date of the meet ing ot the Mo. Press Association at Springfield, in April. Some have it "heSth. others the 15th; and we see it stated last week in a --spring-field paper that it was to he the 22nd. Will some member of the Executive Committee, who is informed, give us the correct date. The newspapers are alter Gover nor Crittenden again. This time it is for exercising a prerogative that didn't belong to him as executive ot the State. He is reported as having kissed Patti while in St. Louis. This is a matter that should, and doubt less will, be settled Sy Mrs. Critten den m a wife's usual way of settling such things. NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES. Appleton journal: Fanners re port wheat as being in good con dition. Appleton Journal: Clinton is having trouble with her gas. Not a lew of her citizens have discontinu ed its use, on account ot bills run ning too high. Appleton lourtial: Mr. on. D. Orear, at present connected with this office, has received part ot the material, -vitli which, he intends es tabhshing a paper at Montrose. Harrisonville Democrat:. Emery, charged with the murder of Mr Carson, at Pleasant Hill has waived an examination and will be held to await the action of the grand jury. Clinton Democrat: Dodge City, in the prohibition State of Kansas, has 17 saloons, so we are informed by Prof. Milton, who is now teach ing in that city. Prohibition don't seem to prohibit. Appleton Tribune. Prisoners convicted over in Bates county have to be lodged in the Henry county jail for safe heeping. As good and as wealthy a county as Bates ought to have a first class jail. Springfield Express: On April 7th Barton county will vote on U proposition to restrain sheep from running at large. A good move, but it is not understood that it in cludes everything that wears wool. Lamar Missourian: The third annual oratorical contest for the $75 gold medal offered by Col. C. C. Allen, will take place at Carthage. June 19th. Alex Sherman was vic- I tor in the first place for this trophy. Lamar Missourian : A petition has been circulated in Jasper county. Work is to be pushe 1 vigorously and the bflmch completed this season. It was suggested, indirectly, that Boli var would be but a temporary termi nus. Appleton 'Tribune: It is, we might say. a foregone fact that But ler is to have zn agricultural imple ment factory. Give us water works and the different manufacturing en terprises will soon follow. Apple ton should not lag behind in the mat ter of making such public improve ments. Appleton Tribune: The iSth of last November Thomas I- fourdon of Howaid county, was about to ship a lot of hogs when one escaped and fell in an old ice house. On the 3d of February, 1SS4, the hog was found and taken out of the house, when he walked about 100 yards and ate heartily. Clinton Democrat: Samuel Jack son of Fields Creek township, lost three cows last week from a disease similar m several forms to dry mur rain. The cattle were in good con dition and had been well sheltered the past winter. We also learn a mysterious disease has made its ap pearance in the northwest part of the county, resulting fatally to three well fatted beeves. ."Stockton uournai : j man over in Polk county has refused to pay his dog tax and the collector has lev led upcu his mule to enforce the pay ment ot same. The case has gone into the courts and a number of far mers who oppose the dog tax have clubed together and will make this case a tesfof the constitutionality of the law imposing the tax. It will be taken to the Supreme Court it necessary. Appleton Tribune: The local press at Butler arc having a lively tussel over which paper shall do the city printing. This is a matter that does not effect the press of Apple- ton; don't have an item ot citv print ing that there is a nicklw in plenty ot free puffhng. O.ir pockethooks would be as devoid of lucre as a billiard ball is of hn'r were we to wait tor the "root f all evil" to come in from the city printing. ev,i M democrat: .apt. V.va Page. Deputy Grand Lecturer of the State Grange, asse-n by the Democrat at the depot. He has been busily engaged organizing new Granges through the Southwest and says the order is now m a flourish ing condition, since the office seek ers and professional statesmen have been given a back seat. The order will now proceed to fulfill its mission that of being of mutual benefit to the tillers of the soil. dresses of more or less distinguished Capt. Tjgartl for Stat Trasa women throughout the country. The j and Co I. Phillips for pieces 111 the quilt go up into the i Governor. thousands Among the latlies who ; kindly furnUhed her specimens aie: j Inten-esting Interviews with Frtai Mrs Grnt, Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. j Nesb u and Col. Boone. Gov. Knott, Mr. LanRtry, Fannv j QR Lox Davenport, Ellen lert v, Clara Mor- J ri, Maggie Mitchell, Kellogg, Bern hart, Lotta, Anna Dickenson, Mrs. Hendricks. Phurbe Couzins, Mrs. Fletcher, Mis. Medill, Mis. Story, Thos. C. Fletcher, Mis. Carlisle, Mrs. Watlcrson, and Mrs. Critten den. Springfield Express: The valu ation of property in this county, as given by the recent assessment, is as follows : Land Town lots Personal property St. Louts & San Francinco Railway Company Springfield & Southern.'... Kansas Citv, Springfield & Memphis .'. Springfield Si Western Mo. ft. Scott, Southeastern i Memphis 6 477 $2,SS6 025 i.ois 769 -.281 35 155 195 7 6-5 40 35 57 333 Total $7i 470 080 The above is an increase ef $I,iS6. 127 over the the assessed valuation for previous year, which was $6,283,93. Lamar Rustler: Sunday morning about 1 o'clock, Drs. A. Van Meter and Drake were hurriedly sent for to go ' to the Commercial Hotel, where.it was stated that Miss Burkey, daughter 01 the proprietor, and Miss Cole had been discovered in their room suffocated by the fumes of burning charcoal. On the arrival ot the physicians they found the girls in an unconcious condition, from which however, upon the application of the proper restoratives, they soon recov ered sufficiently to be able to tell their story, which was to the effect that the room in which they slept was without a stove, and in order to warm it they had procured a pan of coals before retiring and had closed the doors and windows and went to bed. About midnight or shortly af ter, some on- in the house heard a groaning in the girls room and uoon investigation they were discovered as stated. They are entirely out of dangwr. but it is safe to say that they will not try the charcoal method soon again. Louia Springfield Express: The body of a Jead white infant (male) was found wrapped up in old clothing and weighed down with rocks on the ice at the bottom of an oh! well in the southwest part of North Spring field last Monday. Coroner Van Hoose held an inquest, at which the jury returned a verdict to tne effect that the babe died by foul means at the hands of unknown parties. An other theory, developed at the post mortem examination, is that an abor tion had been perpetrated. The matter is still under investigation by the authorities. The Times .vill soon benn the ... x.- . 11 win ne ;i sv co I- citizens of that ADDietOn .V I n is cur! tn Ii4in 1 publication of th Herald, at Archie ! been Dermhr t, ' r; j c ' I Clinton Democrat : In the Henry circuit court records for the Novem ber term, 1S51, Waldo P. Johnson presiding, with F. A. Pinneil clerk, and J. M Var.hoy sheriff, there ap pears a motion made by Dewitt C. Ballou, that Foster P. Wright be asking the Uounty Court to make a Permied to sign the roll as auattor- special levy of 15 cents on the $100 j ney- Nearly one-third ot a century for road purposes ; the wretched con- Jas clpsed since the motion was dition ot the highways m Jasper 1 mare matter of record. Ballou county rendering this step imuera- ted m ,5 at Sedalia, where he tive. j was just beginning a lucrative prac- Joplm Herald: "The magnifi- ' t5ce- Jude Johnson makes St. cent library donated to ApnTetoa i Lms ,hi ..home- and Jl,dS Wright City by the publishing house of D. f ' in Jeferson City- Emporia "Bee Line" to St. From The Clinton Democr.it. It comes to the Democrat from a source worthy of consicdration, that the proposition to build a railway from Emporia east to St. Louis, is again being agitate!, and with prom ise of an early success. The neces sity for such a road to develop the resources ot the country, has several times been mentioned in our columns. This road would take a course through Walnut ami Butler in Bates, and thence through Clint"ii and Ver sailles. 111 Morgan county, making a direct, and almost a bee line to St. i Louis. This route would divide the section between the Missouri Pacific and San Francisco, and through a tar better country than cither road. Besides it would make a moie di rect route, and cost one-half less to ronstruct. The country it would piss through possesses a kingdom of wealth in agricultur al resources stock, coal, iron, tim ber, etc." and besides this in a route that nature has provided tor, the lav ot the route being sufficiently north of the spurs of the Osage: to make it feasible, and of easv grade, and placing it almost through the centers ot the great toh! held of Henry a.id ) Bates counties. :nd at a point where j it will reach farther east. There can I be no doubt that thi line would run j a tor Vest?' over more coal than any other, as it j CoL D- "l tl ,,ot bclicVC would run over continuous coal fields I Senator Vest will meet with anyop from the western part of Bate coun j os'ion n his Prtv." tv. in the vicinity of Walnut, through ' Kc- 'U',U "enrv C"UMtV P" Bates and H-nry, to the eas.en. por- ! "c,,t candidate for Congre, ut h tion of Benton county, and bcin I btrK-tr about an equal distance from the six j Co1' U' r'ui Cl and eight foot veins in the vicinity of hc hrnW Windsor and Lewis station, part.cu- j we Jl h've ,K cnM tte 1 a rly adapted for steam purpoe, j Ri:nt- Appleton Journal-. The nan ol Capt. F. J. Tygard. ot Butm. has been hoisted tor State Treiw er. If he concludes to make tin race, he will doubtless giv jj( Gentry a close deal. Lamar Democrat; John f Phillips is the last name 011 the ia for Governor. He is a good ),, tor the position, but we have no; been able yet to see anything th would cause us to change our numt in regard to the candidacy ot Han Salmon. Nevada Democrat: While visiting St. Clair county, the Democrat W pleased to meet Mr. Frank , Xesbitt Vernon's choice for Secretary 4 State. Mr. Nesbitt stated that hit prospects were more than brilliant He had already visited a number of cities mid towns in the State, aad met with splendid encouragement everywhere. He could shortly visit Vernon county and become mort intimately acguamted with our pe pie. He is making an independai canvass and was not combining hs strength tor or against any n& date for a State offiec yet mentioned He thought Mr. Lesseur's 'strengta considerably crippled on account ot the tact that every county in Lesseun Congressional district had a candi date for Secretary ot State. ' did not consider Mr. McGratb at strong as an informer contests, oa accout of his making the race fur 1 fourth term. The Democracy farort rotation in office, and it is a real benefit to have an occasional change ot administration. He was not pos itive as to Maj. Salmon's candidacr for Governor, but said it would not ntertere in any way with his own. A reporter of the Nevady Demo crat, recently interviewed Col. & G. Boone of Henry county as fol lows. COI.. BOONE SPKAKS. Reporter. "Colonel, I noticed that you stated at the late meeting of Ihe State Central committee that Major Harvey W. Salmon would he a candidate lor Governor ; did Mi- jor Salmon authorize this announce ment?" Col. Boone. "No sir ; Major Sal mon did not authorize me to an nounce his candidacy, but I feel pretty well satisfied that he wiii make the race Rep. ''How about yourself, arc you again in the race lor Attorney General?" Col. B. "That dedeud ent:rclv on circumstances. If Major Salmon is really a candidate for Governor ot course I will not be a candidate; otherwise I shall make the race. have the strongest and best .assur ance from all sections of the State that I can .be nominated. . Even some of Mr. Mclntvre's former strangest supporters assures me of their desire to support me m tlir event of my candidacy Tliev fe' that I should have the office at ,r thi time." ;r;; Rep. "What will be the leading issues in the State campaign?" Col. B. "Well, the ' Democratic convention will endorse the Carlisle tariff idea find advocate- it in their platform. I do not believe that t' prohibition question will plav aJ figure in the Democratic rank." Rep. "Will the prohibition Dem ocrats vote for the resolution of So- anil the celebrated gts coal tht lies ' Milo MiWre, tvh tk fwrr:ishiti immediately south of this line, f.nd ... . , , ' . " . . - ' I milk tor the Clinton Creamery, h place. Appleton Tribune: Miss Mollie W illiams. a voun? ladv 11-in!?- near The books j t. Joseph, Mo., has just finished 1 which extends to Brown mgton. As : realized this month, cold as it ha t!UVrrl,tV a-nd- qTl,ty, uf th been, a faction over $4-' "ch coal, the former is inexhaustible, and j - the latter not to hc surpassed. of hivowi 1