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TJIE SEDAUA WEEKLY BAZOO, TUSEDAY, JULY 19, 1881.
DIXIE'S LAND.
L Graphic Description of a Fart
of the Sunny South The New
Rich Region of Tennesee.
Martin, Tenn, July 2.
The backwoods of Dixie are not es
pecially inviting to a visitor, unless
he is seeking a place to decay with a
comfortable but certain decline of en
ergy. This is a southern backwoods
region with all conceivable slowness
and stagnation. The town of about
six nunarea numan ooaies nas a saw
mill for centre, rows of country stores
for radii and residences back in the
woods for circumference. Logs, lum
ber, old boxes, broken-down wagons,
hogs, weeds and mud holes adorn the
town common. And here is found in
all the beauty of his full development
that unique example of inertness a
southern country merchant. On the
portico of his 8250 raerchantile estab
lishment he seats himself on a goods
box, slowly rolls his quid of tobacco
from right to left, produces his pocket
knife and begins bis day's work of
whittling. He is proprietor, you
know, and does the talking, which is
the main business of the place ; and a
skinny boy a sort of Uriah- Heep
is ready to wait on the ten cent cus
tomer. He is the easiest man in the
world to interview, the hardest to get
an idea from ex nihilo nihil. You
see the countrymen come into town,
in sallow complexions and homespun
clothes, with a remark about the
weather and the desire to buy a "plow
pint' a plug of tobacco and a "leetle
snuff for the old 'oman." Who could
blame a traveler, disgusted with the
hotel (except the dining room), made
sad by the sight of such men and de
pressed with the general languor, for
swearing in his wrath, that nothing
good can come out of Nazareth ?
Just a mile from town in a beautiful
cottage that might match those.at
Long Branch, surrounded with acres
of native oaks and a paradise of lawn
a gentleman resides whose home is
more tasteful in all it appointments
than the houses of the richest men in
St. Joseph. Well dressed, intelligent
children were playing in the piazza
the evening I called. A lady was
entertaining some of her friends with
a selection from classical music on'an
instrument of a singularly sweet tone.
I found pictures that had been bought
in Europe, books in three languages ;
good books too. And evething was
arranged-with the taste that indicates
not only wealth but culture ; but the
gate swung on one hinge ! The gen
tleman I met he was an old country
gentleman of the south ; that sums
him op. We sat in the cool air on the
piazza and talked, talked, talked. He
would have talked all night. The
Tennessee debt, Conkling, Jeff Davis,
the negroes, newspapers, books, news
paper men, (he lived a season in Paris
with "Gain"), the comet, Calhoun,
the yellow tever, states' rights, ex
Gov. Phelps, the Mississippi river
old times come again ; here was a man
who could talk, would talk and did
talk. I felt that he didn't have any
other business. And he talked well.
Of course he didn't finish, and he made
an engagement to talk to me the next
-day about the state debt, "when he
would have time to discuss it more
fully!" As if he had not already
.given three hours to it.
I have found out something about
West Tennessee a section with an
interesting future. Until recently
these twentv seven counties of Ten
nessee and Kentucky that lie between
the Tennessee and the Mississippi
rivers were owned by large land
holders, chiefly Virginians and Car
olinians, and it could not be bought
nor cultivated. The region, there
fore, is now for the first time really
open to settlement.' Of course it is
"the garden spot of the world I
t ' i .i .
despair oi ever seeing a piace mat
isn't. But it is as fertile as any part
of the great valley. Tobacco as
2jood as Virginian, cotton as good as
Miaeiasippian, corn as good as II
linoisan, all grow here. But yet
there are thousands and thousands of
acres of timber poplar and oak.
The lumberman is needed first of all.
He is already beginning to appear.
Tkey ship lumber from this region to
City and Leavenworth as
well as St Louis, aad even to Chi
cago. Yet the lands here are not ad
vertised, and only a few lumbermen
know anything of the region, as .nu
merous as the lines of railroad are
There is a steady but very slow im
migration, chiefly from the eastern
part of the state and from Virginia and
.North Carolina. You see the genu
ine old Tarheel here, as happy as the
day is long, as thriftless as the "black
jack" growth of his own- highlands,
hard and as knotty as a pine and as
enduring as a leather string. The re
gion needs immigrants, immigrants
3by the thousand. A man with an ax,
a. mule and a plow can get rich here
"before he can build fences in Missouri,
or get his underground pipes laid
across into Kansas. They need some
body like Dr. Stringfellow and his
resolutions to set forth' the truthful
side of the story, and a Kansas immi
grant pamphlet to do the Ivine. But
they will never have either. Every
man I talked with thought it would
be well to have immigrants. Yet not
one of them will clean the town up or
sweep three feet m front of his door.
The richest of them will not invest in
red printers ink and placard the
world with advertisements. The
hinges of their knees are not supple nor
have they a superfluity of elbow grease
Now the question is, will this slow
southern immigration ever develop the
country, or must the Yankee come
down ? There are no "old fields here.
It is a first chance. This section will
in a great measure be a test of the
ability of southern enterprise to show
itself. It is showing itself somewhat
but there is no denying its slowness.
We must be patient with it and let
time show the result.
While I was writing the foregoing
the hotel clerk rapped at my door and
announced the president nau been as
sassinated. I went down to see a
strange agitation among these old Rip
V an inkles. I thought they hardly
knew who" was president and surely
did not care. But now thev were
gathered about the telegraph office
and were sending dispatciies of in
quiry to Nashville. For three or
four hours we thought the president
was dead. Every man was for exe
cuting the assassin. One said that if
he wasn't lynched he ought to be ; and
a conservative cool old fellow replied
that the law must take its course but
the result would be a scaflold, which
was too good for the villain. They
said that Mr. "Garfield had thus far
made a good president, and had been
just and manly. There are no stal
warts here. Never in my life have I
seen such a change so suddenly made
in men. Their indignation was as in
tense as if they had been the personal
friends of Mr. Gariieid. They were
nearly all his political enemies. But
nothing was said about parties. By
night dozens of countrymen had come
in from the country to hear further
particulars. A flag was run up in a
conspicuous place with crape attached.
Are. these men unloyal ?
When another dispatch was caught
from the wires at 9 o'clock p. m., say
iug that there was a chauce for re
covery, they gradually dispersed,
every one declaring with feeling that
he hoped for a speedy recovery. They
were making preparations here early
this morning for a little Fourh of
July celebration. Now they do not
know what the character of the pro
ceedings will be.
I heard one old man remark that he
had not seen his neighbors so much
excited since he saw them in gray
jackets, looking at the battle field
where a part ot their number lay.
W. H. Page in at. Joseph Gazette.
Boucicault Details.
The flight of the demoralized dram
atist was certainly well timed, since
the order of the court in the divorce
case is one of a very exciting nature.
The defendant is to pay his wife 8500
for expenses in beating him, this pay
ment to he made within thirty days
from date of order. He is also to pay
her as alimony, $3,000 a year, but as
the payments are mouthy a slight
abatement is made and the sum is fix
ed at at $2,900, or 241.6G per month,
insead of 3250. The plaintiff is also
to have full access to her children.
Mrs. Bouicault indeed has won a com
plete triumph, and her miserable hus
band only escapes the sheriff by ab
sconding to London. He has met the
most complete defeat sustained by
any member of the drama in such an
action since the famous Forrest di
vorce case. Forrest, however, had
real estate, hence could not escape the
verdict. Boucicault, on the other
hand, has nothing but personal prop
erty, consisting chiefly of the royalty
of his dramas. Hence his wife will
hardly be able to collect anything.
This will be a great disappointment as
she is in much need. There was a
time when Agnes Robertson could
draw $200 a week as a erformer, but
that day is past, and now, as Mrs,
Boucicault, she is an object of pity.
The lawyers who undertook the case
on speculation, are also disappointed,
and the Boucicault case only proves to
be a victory on paper. This leads to
the remark that marriage among the
dramatic community is hardly recog
nized as a bond, being generally con
sidered a convenience. This class is
continually under motion, and is so
incessantly mixed up that new at
tractions constantly occur. Hence the
idea of fidelity to matrimonial vows
often seems almost absurd. If a suit
for divorce were to follow such viola- J
tions the whole dramatic procession
would be in litigation. N. Y. letter
to Cincinnati Gazette.
It is annouueed that Baron Hatherle
(Sir William Page Wood) is dying.
He was Lord Justice of the Appellate
Court, and afterward, from 1862 to
1872, during Mr. Gladstone's admin
istration, held the office' of Lord
Chancellor. He is in his eighty-first
year. &
PRETTY jGAITERS.
Can they be Shown at the Glas
gow Avenue Presbyterian
Church?
There is a wild rumor to the ef
fect that society of Glasgow Avenue
Presbyterian church is 'all tore up"
over the gaiters of the ladies of its
chair. The choir of the neat little
church named are located during ser
vice on a platform at one end of the
auditorium, and alove this platform
is no protecting railing. When the
choir stand up to sing a close ob
server can easily see the feet of the
singers, but it was not known until
recently that the congregation con
tained a close observer. It appears,
though, that one ot those ladies of
uncertain age, whose mission in life
is to devote a scrutinizing attention
to the affairs of others, infests this
particular church and that recently,
looking at the choir, she detected
the gleam of bright colors at a point
directly beneath one of tiie prettiest
singers. It was the gleam of a
striped stocking around a shapely
ankle. The lady of uncertain age
was shocked. She continued her in-
estigations and saw that other feet
were visible, and after services were
over she confided the scandalous mat
ter to her acquaintances. She talked
long and loud and got an adherent
. f .a a
or two, and this band ot reformers
insist meml)ers of the choir must
wear very long dresses. There is an
opposition group who think nothing
very bad has occurred it the congre
gation have occasionally seen the feet
of the singers, and there are report
ed to have been sharp passages at
arms. The question of how much of
her toot a choir singer can show is to
be settled, and if the old lady who is
so shocked cannot be gagged, the mat
ter must apparently go lefore the
synod. St. Louis Chronicle.
The True Tale of William Tell.
William Tell ran a hav ranch
near
Tell
Bergelen about 580 years
ago.
had lived in the mountains all his life
and shot chamois and chipmonks with
cross-gun till he was a bad man to
stir up.
At that time Switzerland was run
principally by a lot of carpet baggers
from Austria, and Tell got down oh
hem about the year 1307. It seems
that Tell wanted the government con
tract to furnish hay at 845 a ton for
the year 1306, and Gessler, who was
controlling the patronage of Switzer
land, let the contract to any Austrian
who had a lot of condemned hay
farther up the gulch.
One day Gessler put his plug hat
up on a telegraph pole, and issued
order 236. regular series, to the effect
that every snoozer who passed down
the toll road should bow to it.
Gessler happened to be in behind
the brush when Tell went bv, and he
noticed that Bill said: '-Shoot the
hat and didn't salute it. so he told
his men to gather Mr. leu and put
him in the refrigerator.
Gessler told him that if he would
shoot a crab apple from the head of
his only sou, at 200 yards, with a cross
gun, he would give him his liberty.
Tell consented, and knocked the
apple higher than Gilroy's kite. Old
messier, nowever, nouceu anotner ar
row sticking in Williams girdle, and
he asked what kind of a flowery break
that wa
TeU told him that if he had killed
the kid instead of busting the apple,
he intended to drill a hole through the
stomach of Mr. Gessler. This made
Gessler mad again, and he took Tell
on a picnic up the river in irons
Tell jumped off when he got a good
chance, and cut across a bend in the
river, and when the picnic party came
down he shot Gessler deader than a
mackerel.
This opened the ball of freedom,
and weakened the Austrian govern
ment so much that in the following
November they elected Tell to fill the
long term and a half-breed for the
short term.
After that Tell was recognized by
the ruling power, and he could get
most any contract that he wanted to.
He got the service on the stage Hue
up into the Alps increased to a daily,
and had the contracts in the name of
his son Albert.
The appropriation was increased
$150,000 per year, and he had a good
thing.
Tell lived many years after this,
and was loyed by the Swiss people
because he had freed their land.
Whenever he felt lonesome he
would take his cross-gun and go out
and kill a tyrant. . He had tyrant on
toast most every day till Switzerland
was free, and the peasants blessed him
as their deliverer.
When Tell got to be an old man he
would go out into the mountains and
apostrophize them in these memorable
words :
"Ye crags aud and peaks, I'm with
you once again. I hold to you the
hands I held to you on previous oc
casions. To show you they are free.
Thy tyrant's crust is busted, so to
speak. His race is ruu, and he hiw
self hath scooted up the flume. Sic
temper McGiunis, terra firm a nux
vomica Schweitzer kase. Timbutoo
erysipelas, epluribus unum sciateau,
multum in parvo, vox populi vox
suockemonthegob." .
Limnings.
Thejnmst gigantic Thackaeray would
say, prodigious, piece of star route
business is practiced l)etween West
Point and Kensett, this state. The
two places are only four miles apart,
and an old crippled colored man is
employed at 850 per mouth to carry
the mail. The other day a man,
while going over the mail path, met
the black carrier limping along with
two letters and a postal card.
"Git outen de way, sah, de New
whited Suites mails ur comin," aud he
lifted his red eyes, intending them no
doubt to serve as danger signals. The
man, amused at the carrier, stepped
aside and asked :
"is this a star route, old man ?"
"Course hit is, when it ain't cloudy.
Taint no star route in de (lav time.
She's a suu route den, in course, takin'
in ter cideration de absentness ob de
clouds."
"How long does it require to get
the mail over your line ?"
"Cordon' ter de wedder, sah."
"Can you read ?
"I doan hatter read. All I'se got
ter do is ter snatch up ds mail an'
shufHe. But good day, sah, I must
!egwine. Dem Post" office directors
is liable to slip up on a man at any
lime."
"Hold on a minute. I've got some
stuff here iu a bottle," He jmt his
letters 'on the ground, saying: "Lay
dar, New-whited States, till I engage
wid dis mau." As long as the con
tents of the bottle held out he re
mained, discussing the mail service,
suggesting improvement, such as put
ting foot-logs across streams, and the
propriety of himself leiug furnished
with a new crutch. "A Jold-fashined
crutch iu this wide-awake day won't
do," he said. "Ef de New-whited
State wanster shine, let her gin me
one ob dese crutches wid a silver nob
on it."
When the last drop, like a small
liead, left the bottle, the old man
gathered up his mail and hobbled on
toward the post office. Little Rock
Gazette.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Made from Grape Creaju Tarter. No
other preparation makes sifrh light, flaky
hot breads or luxurious paltry. Can be
eaten by dyscptics without tear of the ills
resulting from heavy, indigestible food.
Sold in cans, bv all grocers.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., N. Y.
TUTT'S
PILLS
INDORSED BY
PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AN!
THE AFFltCTEP EVERYWHERE.
THE GREATEST MEDICAL
TRIUMPH OF THE AGE.
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
Pin intheHamd.with a duilaeniatkm in
tbm back part. Pain under, the ahonlday.
bUd. fnlln iw after eatinfwith dkin
ciinsnon to exertion or body or mind.
Irritability of tomperTXow apirita. IiO
of inemory, with a feeling ofnaving neg
lected eome duty.weaxinea. Jftisinees,
Flntterinc" of thVBe4Kt,DoU before the
eyee, Yellow 81rin. Heexiiche, Beetleee-
latnignt, nicmy colored urine.
IFTHmWAJUrnrOfAJtEUITHZZ
SERIOUS DISEASES WMl SOON K DEVELOPED.
UTIPI WTt.XM are especially adapted te
lack eaaesaeae done effects Michachaace
aacn emaea.one done
ef feeltac aa to aatoniah the nuflercr.
They teeeeaee tke nnpetlte, and canse the
body to Take am gleam, thtu the system is
eaaneandbytbPirT leAetl onthe
Blaeettre eiiiai. aalaiswela arenro-
duced. Price S rents. 3S Xarrajr tt. Jf.T.
TUTT'S HAIR DYE.
OftavHaiRorWiiisKKits changed toaOtossv
IIlacx By a sinirle application of this Pyk. It
imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously,
tfold by Druggists, or nt ly exTs on receipt Ci ft.
Offle( 35 Murray St., New York.
9. TCTTS XASriL ef TalaaM faforMtfaa m4 m
iImmmv0B!iZ!aWlBmV
If. STOMACH A
bitters
Feeble &nd Sickly Persons
Kecovrr their vitality by pursuing a course of Hos-
tetter': Stomach Bit'tor. the mo?t popular in viuo-
rani ami alternative medicine m tine. (ineraU
rheumatism, ami otin-r maiaitie are completely
remov d by it. Ask those who have used it what
It lia.x done for them.
For fnte hv all dmszist and dealers generally
For Yon.
Madam,
Whose cmlezMM betrays
mm hmfliatisg iMjperfec
tk, wktse Bdrror tolls yo
that jo are Taned, Sallow
aad iMnred in ceantenaoce,
or hare Entptioas, JMbms,
Kooghaefls or uwhetesoaie
tiats of coafflexioa, we say
use Hagaato Magnolia Balm.
IttoaMkatealuumleaaaiid
delfehtfal article, prwlacing
theaMstsUtnralan entrant
ing tints, the artildality of
which no observer can detect,
and which soon becoam ncr
nwneat if the Magnolia Balm
is jndkionsly used.
SALE IX PARTITION.
e
In the Circuit Court of Pettis County, Mo.
Cameron D. Garrett, Plaintiff, v. Rich
ard M. (.iarrett, Defendant.
BY virtue of an order of sale in parti
tion, made in the above entitled cause at
the regular May term, lSSI, of said court,
aud to me directed, 1 will, on the
13TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1SS1.
at the court hoine door in the City oi
Scdaiia, expose tt sale at public auction,
to the highest bidder, the following de
scribed real estate, viz.: Lot nunilter 4, in
block 88, in Smith & Martin s 2d addition
to the City of Sedalia, aud also a certain
tract of land situated in said county, and
described as: That part of the west half
of the e;ist half of the uorihwo: quarter of
the southeast quarter of section 3, town
ship 45, and range 21, lying south of
Broadway, a street in said City of Sedalia,
more particularly deseriled. viz.: Com
mencing at the point iu the south line of
said Broadway street, 520 feet west of the
east line of said northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter, running thence west 50
feet, thence south along the east line of
1L Jakcmau's lot, 120 feet, thence east 50
feet, thence north on a direct line 120 feet,
to the beginning, upon the following terms:
One-half cash ; one-half on a credit of
six months, with eight per cent, interest.
Itoth tracts sold subject to encumbrance to
Building anil Loan Association on each
separately. The amount of each will be
shown bv me to anv one upon application.
- THOS. P. HOY,
7-12-w3t Special Commissioner.
C eOflpardayathon- SaaTa worth 15 fras,
9tf II AdaiUmsaOM a CO.. IVxUaad. SUiae.
tfft
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY !
4FwnYmlma.Jlv ZSaSHHT s7tR3
F. G. CROWLEY & CO.,
NO. 305 WESL flAIN STREET, SEDALIA, MO.
PURCHASE FOR CASH.
BUGGIES, CARRIAGES & WAGONS
OH THX WHITE,)
From the Largest Manufactories in the United States.
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THEY QUOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES :
Model Business Buggy, without top $ 80 00 to $ 90 00
with top 112 00 to 125 00
Corning Buggy, Leather top....: 155 00 to 165 00
Brewster side bar, Leather top 155 00 to 165 00
Uppenheimer Platform Wagon 200 00 to 225 00
Tennessee Farm Wagon, 3-inch Thimble, complete 61 00
" " " 3J " " 64 00
" " 3 " " :.. $s oo
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These goods are all firstrclass, made by manufacturers who have millions
of dollars invested in their works, it is utterly impossible for small manufac
turers to compete with them, either in price or quality, and we openly defy
any Competition to give a price within $20 on aay article here mentioned,
material and workmanship considered. Work built to order. Repairing
done with neatness and dispatch. 727dfcwly F. G. CROWLEY & CO.
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And correct all derangements of the system
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Don't to the system with Arsenic or Qainiae which
r? ant only expensive but ianrou mediciiM. who
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of .h-awtyr Ah-Mrption w n..t aly an unJupu.l fst.
bat the Mltllhnwit of a natural law. and i :erUut fa
late tha place.in alanw decree, of interna! aii:ine.
T!i action of the Lion Part upon a tlUordrd stom
ach aifct Liver, an.t it thorough extermination of f
versof every ort.nt the value of the Piaster in a.
frtim: the action of the IV!. especially when tber-Lt
pam in the hack or -n.!. or col.! extremities, make th
ronilna.! K-mely not only the cheapest bat theSafa?
aai Bsr erar presented to the public.
The Whole Treatment Combined.
PAD, BODY A FOOT PLASTERS.
FOR ONE DOLLAR.
I tte tkia BmeIf trial ; it i certain to help t.
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POPULAR EVERYWHERE
rr Bale im Every Ctt? mm Tvm
ia the Umita
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8EDAL A. MO.
HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE.
The BEST SALVE in the world for Ci:r$, Bruises
Sores, Ulcer, Salt Khenm. Tetter. Chapped Hand,
Chilblain. Corns, and kind of ak.n eruptions.
Freckles and Pimple. The salve is guaranteed
to gtw perfect satifac:ionin ewrvfasM or mouey
rfr.nd-d. B sure you got HENRY'S CARBOLIC
SALVE, as all others are imitations and counter
feits. Price i5 cents.
DR. GREENE'S OXYGNATED BITTERS
is the otdest and test remedy for Drspepia, Bil
iousness. Malar::. Indigestion, al! disorders or
the tomach, and :
.'..' iiiiiijjriiuui till ui.UiUCi? Ul
ich, and all uiseas indicating an impure
of the Blood. Kidney, Lier, Skin, etc.
condition
DURNO'S CATARRH SNUFF cures Catarrh and
nil arlection of the mucous membrance iu the
head and throat.
DR. MOTTS LIVER PILLS are the
in Regulators.
t Cathar-
ropular iliu.str.ttcu i ok zoo payesj oti
Manhood! Womanhood! Markiage!
impediments to Marrhse; the cause and
cure. Sent stcutely i:aisut post-paid, for 5a
cents, by Dr. C. Whitties, 617 St.
Charles Street, St. Louis, Mo., the greaf
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