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VOLUME XVI.
OREGON MISSOURI, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1881.
NUMBER 41.
Mound City has a moot court.
Ex Governor Hall, of St. Joseph,
bus gone to tho Hot Springs for health
Nenl Holilltzcll, of Craig, goes to
Mnltland to llvo. And will proceed
forthwith to build thoro.
Maitlnnd, by nil accounts, Is going
to beat any town In Holt county at
building t his spring.
Married on Thursday Inst, at Or
gon, Mo., Mr. Henry Fuorbnch to Miss
Sarah Howard, daughter of L. N. How
ard, Esq.
frof. Hill it Is said wants to bo U.
S. Marshal for tho Western District 0
Missouri. He is capablo of worthily
filling any place- ho may ask for.
Mavyvlllo, ns well as most other
places Is out of hard coal and almost
out of soft, and no hope of a supply,
soon. Take our advice in last weeks
Issue
Nodaway county Is to have a new
Court house and Jail, Hoth are badly
needed thoro, but hor peoplo wore wise
to wait until thoir population justified
building something worth while.
Press last wock picks out several
locals, and manufactures ono or two
for us and then says they are false. Wo
ran over tho Press to koo if we could
find something objectionable, and
could'nt find anything.
A brhlgo over tho Miesourl Hlvcr is
to bo built at Nebraska City this spring.
Ily the way wo have it from dipt. Eads
direct that next to the St. Louis bridge
that at St. Joseph is tho best over the
Missouri Klvor.
The first installment ot what prom
ises to beeomo a vast Influx ot Immi
grants, from the cast arrived last Fri
day. Three families from Indiana put
in "their appearance here, and they fay
more are coming from tho old neigh
borhood Welcome to them.
A tellow was arrested lat week for
stealing a coat and pant at Forest City.
He had married at Forest, and within
an hour was arrested. Next day after
Id arrest it whs found ho was a deserter j
Irom Fort Leavenworth, and that Ins true
name Is Sevmoiir. Ho was taken back
o tho Fort.
At last ths railway to tho Pacific
Ocean is completed by tho Santa Fo
routo. Tho Southern Pacific and tha
road from Atchison met at Tucson, Ar
izona, March 8th. The Union Pacific
officials are there already to sou to keep
ing up prices. But it is to bo hopod tho
groat monopoly Is ended.
Dating hay pays. Last fall a sharp
fellow from tho East was looking
around out on tho Plalto Diver, and
seeing hay cheap, ho offered a higher
nrico. collected a mountain mass ot it,
went t work bullng and cleared from
fivo to six dollars on ovory dollar In
vested. Was even one ton baled in
Holt?
There are throe accused pat ties in
Jail, William Morse, Albert Crook and
Goorge Hrinkloy, Morse en chargo of
. killing Taylor at Coi ning last spring;
Crook is serving a si months sentence
or stealing a horso (ho Is a boy of 14)
and Brinkloy is there charged with
carrying concealod woapone. Ho be-
longs on tho Island opposite forest.
Last year Mr. Joseph Scott, who
Jiastttlno peach orohard sold threo
,.irnii tiiiahnis. He received from
one dollar to ono dollar ninety cents per
bushel for them. Ho took tho pains to box
and ship thorn by oxpress. Muanwlillo,
many persons lu this county lost nearly
all thoir poach orop by negloctlng to
ship. Thoy waited for customers to
come to thorn. This year Mr. S. reports
Uo will havo no poaches, all tho germs
having boon killed by cold.
It is2o wonder that pooplc get so
iragcdlnd disgusted at Wo spectacle
That Corning sale of jstock,,ctc, takes
place on Saturcay tho 19th, instead of
the date given last week.
Died very suddenly at St. Joseph,
Mr. Walters who left hero week before
last cause-rncumntlMii froui exposure.
Maryvllle gavo Clark, tlw Poet
Songster, another .hearing rlcht after
the first one, so delighted were ttio peo
ple. Starving quails have been led by
putting sheaves of wheat .and .oats in
the hedges, at many places in the country.
Tho Missouri Pacific leaves St. Jos-
anli for St. Louis at 12.S5 A. M. and
2 30 P. M. arriving thero in about seven'
tccu hours.
Married: at the residence of tho
bride's undo near Nowpolnt, by tho
Dov. J. A. Showaltor, James Payne to
Miss Elizabeth Shaw.
Huyors of saw mill property will
havo a good chanco with T. J. Peters
who is going to leave us and will sell
out. See his advertisement.
Geo. Gaga was put in jail hut Fri
day night for lion payment of a fine of
$2.60 Imposed on hlui for disturbing
tho peace at David Foster's houso dur
ing a dauco.
The uost of a fence, of Kelly barbed
wire, three wires, is, for wiro and sta
ples just 823 for each quarter mile a
few posts and stakes mako It a littlo
more. Cheap fencing that.
Who was tho lady who could not
visit her neighbors because elm had no
timo to sparo from practicing her music ?
Sho is the i-istcr to her who could not
ceaso from praying long enough to visit
the sick and help the needy.
On Sunday last some more hum!
crants from tho East camo to town
Some of tho late arrivals Intend to buy
places In tho bluffs, South or Soutcast
f town, mid tro Into fruit raisins. Tho
best idea in tho world.
With but ono very brief exception
tho last of Fob. tho mercury at iiinrlso
March 11th standing at 44 degrees was
higher by many degrees than it liat
ever been In tho morning slnco early in
November.
-HenryStorrcttsoldto N.J. Kygcr
thn lots opposite tho Southwest corner of
tho Public Square. These lots will
make a splendid building site niul
doubtless Mr. Kygcr Intends to Improve
them.
Robins wore singing last week and
blue birds warbling their pleasing notes.
Wo observo some of our cotemporarles
speak of the blue birds as having lately
arrived. This is a mistake, for tneso
birds arc hero all winter and visit tho
uplands on every warm mild day of
mid winter
-A Mr. Whltetord noar Guilford
Nodaway Co. wants to pasturo a thous
and head of cuttle, guaranteeing plenty
of grass and water, at sixty two cents for
throe year old, fifty cents for two year
old, yearlings thirty seven cents, per
month.
A correspondent is glad wo rcfuso
to print tho names ol persons at parties
and lists of prosonts mado
oh tho occasion of marriages, but
takes us to tak for Eivlng titles to
everybody. For our part we havo par
sisted in it as much to show its absurd
Ity as for anything else Now it otjjcr
swill quit wowuirstop.
Married: at Graham, Mo by tho
Rev. S. H. Euyart, Mr. S. W. Tanner
to Mary E. Cottioll. Tho brido'ls Mrs.
Mary E. Coltrell, (wldew Qof
Daniel Cottrell) whoso many
frinnils hero will romombor hor. Nio
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was left a young widow with a laij
family of little onos whom she oxerti
horsolt to educate respectably and sue
Grain goes quicker by barges from Rev. Mr. Miller will preach In Ore
St. Louis to New Orleans, than It goes gon on next Sabbath at 11 A. M.
tho siinio distance by cars to Now York- j v0 think It would bo well to have
We notice that Judge Ilerrcn of , an oidlnance prohibiting snow balling
Savannah Is trylnsr to sell his farm that j In the .streets.
Is situated near that town. Yesterday, tho 17th, ,wih bt. Pat-
-Water. Iron and salt, at tho rate of j ricks day: "St. Patricks day in the
That enterprising firm of Mound , Forest City.
City, Corsatit & Meyer, nro on hand Martin Saeger and NcUon Hannah,
acaln for the Spring trade- with a I thu former from Tippecanoe county
a pint of bran per gallon of water mako j morning. f
the cow give moio milk tliau all else, i There aro twenty-eight in charge
Don't get down hearted about tho 0f Philip Kolmcr at the Poor Farm, In
stormy March. It is the best sign of a eluding ten children,
good spring for farming. Thu mmo ,)f ,lmt Arizona town
The waters am all out over tho bot- tM1l nim. M, ()ftcl, .spoken, Tucson, is
torn just below Danks's spring, and arc ,,ro,mneu,i as though written Toos
knee deep In tho old Miwon homso. onR
Garth's farm Is threatened. ,vu) ruMlk. the Missouri
-"The pe-wco Is a huiiibusr, says , iro nw nllng with great
tho Maryvllle. Republican, otir 1 e- j msMy jo weat1l(ip lN ,,!,.,., ,or
woo is one of the "more yr i
splendid lot or new goods, See their
advertisement.
Thcro will be n temperance mats
meeting in the Preliytoriau church on
next Sabbath evening, with thu follow
ing program: Opening address by
Rev. Mr. Miller, ami esiays by Mrs. S.
Q. Go-lln and Mrs. A. K. Irvine.
Speaking of baling hay. It certain
ly would pay a company to combine,
get a machine and bale hay lu this cotm.
ly. Who would go lugging about such
bulky stuff, when it can be carried as
easy "us wheat In a sack, by baling?
-JAII wlin m to Foiest City should
Indiana, and the latter from Howard
county, In thu same State, with tlmlr
families arrived here lakt week. Thoy
' hare rented tho old Oregon Houu and
will remain there until they can secure
farms. They desire to rent.
! The "Stix-1 Gang" Is at work again,
land it will not be long until thu entire
' line of tho K. C, St. J. & V. II. rail
I road will be laid with steel rails,
j J, A. Doiuuth has a large contract
; for iron work to fill for parties in Kir
win Kansas, lie h.is just completed a
large bill for a plow shop in Hamburg,
Iowa.
Adrian Hob lUoll has departed
ennii
dally pri
and w
and fifol
ontod bv some men, coloreu
spondtaglSo broad, doming
of their families for whisky
What is a husband and fathor? Ho Is
tho broad wlnn for his wife mid littlo
onos, who look to him alono for nour
ishment, and havo a right to expsct
from him tho very best support ho cau
Tliodlmeslie earns aro his sole
Aud yet to thl:$
it means "more yet" of winter.
Ml.tako -that sale at Corning takes
daco on the ltlth of thl month Instead
of 30th. lluyorsand bidders will take
notice.
A littlo M Is put on tho silver dol
lars as a guard agalmt counterfeiting
mid now the newspupors are setting
everybody to look for It.
Tho Thunder shower on Monday evu
was a reminder of what Is following after
the severe cold. Some f tho discharges
were grandly terrible.
A warm time may bo looked for at
the meeting of thn Institute next Sat
urday, if certain questions shall be
mooted.
The little skreed of snow that fell
here last Saturday morning proved to
be ono of tho worst storms of tho wholo
yuar at some points. It seems that a
heavy storm Is sure to follow every
dear warm day this i-priug.
Word from the upper Missouri aud
Yellowstone tells us thoso rivers are
again rolling vat volumes of water this
way, with enormous quantities of mow
yet to miclt on their banks and at their
sources. So stand from under.
Mr. J. U. Laughlln, late of Iowa,
now of this vicinity and co-operating
with Mr. N. F. Murray in the fruit lino,
is offering somo very splendid samples
if alt tho fruits, berries, evergreens,
and ornamental shrubs wu havo over
swell. 1
A tablo spoonful or so ot clean bran
In a glass of water, every morning no
foro breakfast is bettor to regulate the
bowels than all tho medicines in tho
world. It may bo taken at night, a lit
tle before retiring, nnd If peihcvercd
lu cures the most obstinate conciliation.
IS It tilt! Cl.MIKOf ttie Willi MUXl'V
Is It the Iinllnii's yell?
Tliatioiiiuli l tin- mlny clnamliiK
I.Ike t tie loll ot a far off bell.
Yes, at last the welcome sound of that
voyager to Arctic waters,thowild goose,
Is heard. Ho knows that the waters of
the far north aro opening nnd his flh
lug grounds aro ready.
Tho Talbott boys were hastily ro
moved from tho jail at St. Joe. to that
at Savannah on account of rumors of a
deep, dark plot among Mime outsiders
tn l.n.itk lail and free them. Hy tliu
wav wo read that one of tho boys Is tu
bo man led in jail on tho veiy day set
for tho execution, SMh Inst.
Nebraska's Prohibition Act forbids
treating I Treating is a silly American
custom: but to abolish it bylaw! ridlc
ulous! Hotter laugh, deride, contemn
It out of cxlsteneo. Really thero is just
as much sense m asking a frlond to
take a nill with one as there Is In ask-
mg him to tako a drink.
Vcnnor, the infallible, tells us we
shall havo one severe cold spoil this
month between tho mlddlo and last
also two moro great bitow storms, ono
of which will bo thn worst of tho win
tor. ono about tho 20th tho othor to
look in nnd sec. the splendid Spring
tlild full itt mini ntnl mini! to Ore
1 , . . , it" (.? vm f-j
this and next week will depend the Stock of goods at Mini oinim
question of n big overflow. I those who arc not going, ougni w m, , 0fr;0 p,,,,,,,. ms full control of
. m i ,, t ie list o iporiuniiy, jui uim , .i lu i .....t v ir t , now.
-County Court n.el JJ Lul,msc. Farme,,, especially, who want ''' StMI ling eotnpany of
three of tho judges pre e n .1 udR. I rl,uUuril, ought to call on , (lii ),uco al, & nf
MricmwiiMnii"" - . ,1,.... ,w. iivcrvtiuns' in uiai , , . u
. ..... t.,r......l j .. , iinrnu mo iinim wum i. mvi
,o are Informtd. HC( thu lStmlt)lmker wagons I . .. .() 0 (Irywomli
... , . ! . 1 . " " .
A rise ot tno river very muu im.n. ami grass hccoK.
Our readers will see that a new
firm, "lloblltzrll & Pinkbtoti" has
staitcd In business at Oregon Thero
lino Is Lumber selling a business much
needed at Oregon. They have our
warmest wMics for their succors. They ! j,,,..vtCCB to his dying friends who con
fnrmers nnd learn from them that the i nro ctiergctie, honorable, accommotlat-, tumiiluto n:uimr in their checks.
winter wheat is In a good condition as ing men and are Hound in make irauu
on tho ico wo are Informed.
moro
than usual coming on top of men wa
tor in several f our small streams will
Hood tho whole Missouri Yailoy from
above Corning to Forbes.
The Maryvllle Times says: We
have mado inquiry ot a numbor of our
Moorchcad Hrauch has been booming
for several days.
John Crittenden, colored, who claims
to bo related to Gov. Crittenden has
been appointed Sexton of the Union
Oemetery association. He prof.'ors His
. . ..u .nn
ever known, nnu mo prifcm.
bids fair to withstand future drawbacks.
We havo not heard any one say that It
was Injured In tho least.
Thcro are threo boys and two girls
at tho County Poor Farm to be given
over to whomsoever wants to raise
them or any of them, ns Mr. Kolmcr
the .Superinteiidant tells us. The boys
nro nged nine, tlx and three jears re
spectively : tho girls are eight and six
years. They aro all good looking,
healthy children.
What will become of us in tho U. S.,
when a few'of our big railway compan
ies get as large as an Kugllsh one, tho
London and Northwestern, which em
ploys fifty thousand hands? They can
then out vote and out fight us. Suppose
thn Government owned the roads then
tho Government could crush down too
people, any timo. It wont do.
Dr. J. R. Kearney of New Point
eturned last Sunday movning from
ew York, where ho has been attending
the Ilellevleu Medical College during
If posidblo.
star mr aim.., - , , ,g juU(.t
u-i-nlc tn imiku it h s future homo andh .... ..
to join his brother Otho who has buen j
tho past winter and from whloh ho bus there for nearly 2 years
cedad In dolmr so amid all the dlfilcul-wards the last. His prediction of those
.i..r ....-,,..., g lv lir- Iniliistrvlstorms unnlv to tho west. Hut ho as
UU3 Ul Ullliun ..w.i., "j j m -
and economy. Tho best wishes of ticrf sures us oi a very lavoramu firing
mve
means of doing this.
of fathors whose chlldron aro poorly
clad and fed; of husbands whoso wives
diudgo for them In want ana coia,
spending ono dlmo for this oozo of hall,
strong drink. Wo havo latoly hoard of
two or threo easos whoro tho patient
wlvos havo robolled nnd forblddou any
morosalosto their good mon. Good!
Hut although our opinions on this nro
pretty strong wo aro not going for every
reform by law.
friends will go with her to hornow
homo wherover it may bo. Mr. I amior
will bo remombored as tho skilful ar
tist who resided hero a fow years ago.
Mrs. Eliza Dreher, wlfo of William
Drohor and dpughter of David Mind
Margaret Dablers of Soneca, Kansas,
diod on Saturday morning. March 12th,
1881. at her homo noar Nickoll's Grovo,
aged 21 yoars and 13 days. Uor Infant
iiin died lust threo days before Hor
funeral was preached on Sunday. 13th
lust., nt tho German church at Nickell,s
Grovo and her remains Immediately
afterwards interred in tho adjacent
comotory. Sho had boon married but
llttln moro than a year. Hors was a
sweet and lovely disposition, and, ns ro
raarkod by tho Minister who proached
hor funoral. "sho had not an onomy In
tho world." Hor alllloted husband and
relatives havo the heartfelt sympathy
of all thoir acquaintances. Seneca,
Kunsas, papers ploaso copy.
A correspondent objeets to reform
itatlon from tho pulpit. We differ
(III 1 . f . it.. L
ry mucn. mo pmpi, me rsim
ad the press are tho grand levers of re
nil, as is the homo education th
eato-t provcntlvo of ovlls in society
tho preachers aro not to bo tVio toacn
ers of hlghost morality and the denun
ciators of soolal evils what are thoy for?
Now. about advertising! How
much would the peoplo of other phi'
ccs learn of tho business done ut Oro
gon from Its newspapers? Naturally
thoy will look at tho advertisements in
our papers sont to thorn by frlonds
Thoy will loarn that' thoro are no storos
threo or four lawyers and dootors. Thoy
will soo that there are two or threo oth
or towns that havo stores, shops and
professional men. Thoy will learn that
Oregon Is tho county sont nnd that
must bo a good opening tor bnslnoss
mon, morchants, drngglsts, tinners,
clothiers, hotels, etc., otu.
Thlumph.
Snow Is nearly all gone.
The lanes aro not open yet, nearly
all tho traveling Is done by going
through farms.
Mr. Fcusel is going to have a sale and
sell off all of his stock and rent hW
farm, and is going to move to some
town to spend thn rH of his days.
Mead & Lcssley orougtit to their feed
lots Ut week 300 head of hogs lrom
Pettis county.
Tho Hodgin boys Iuitc full sway on
tho PatterMi.u farm.
George Nichols has bought tho It. II.
Russol farm near tho old Indlad ford.
A few of tho jenng folks went to Mr.
Johnson the other night and partook of
Oysters.
Mr. J.C. Denny late of Tarklo Sta
tion, Atchion County, Is In this vicini
ty, visiting relatives. He Intends to
Dakota icr. tins
Leach, William Gates, 1). C. Everhart,
Ed Delaney. Messrs Yanlloot & Shlel ls
havo built a largo black-smith shop lit
ths hut two weeks, and Davo Is pouud
ing Iron as happy as a lark.
Messrs Whltoei Dull hare enclosed a
two story wagon and palut shop.
On Feb. 2Sth a young M. U. took up
his residence with Dr. R. C. Wnytnan.
Dr. Palmer had tho misfortune to lose
his Infant daughter on lnt eve. It was
but ton days old, but In that short spaeu
of time had so entwined Its little self In
the hearts of lu parents that It cost a
bitter struggle to give It up.
Mrs. Palmer Is at tho prc-cnt timo
lying very low of fever.
" Thy quiet littlo vll iagu of Graham
had a cutting advertisement to day.
Wo did not learn tho particulars except
that one young gentleman had an open
ing for the Doctor on his right shoulder
about six Inches long and three deep,
all over a little game at snow ball. Ono
of the parties has gone to Kansas to
hunt up evidence In the case, and tho
other to bed.
Mead Dros. unloaded throe hundred
and twenty five head of stock hogsi
shipped lrom Sallno county to tollow
thoir cattle Naziu.
Corning.
Our merchants havo Just finished
opening tho wagon roads leading to
town, and fanners aro cming In with
their grain aud live stock once more.
North end of tho T. V. R. R. has
washed out, and trains can only run as
next Sntur-
Klmsey N:tcs.
Wo haven't much from Klmsey this
week, as the news, llko tho world, has j (ftr m x,u.k0 uilv
boon frozen up. i a large crowd Is expected to attend
I will not trouble you with nates on j lno iubllo Sale of swine, cattle, ponl-
tho weather, only to say for the last fow
days winter seems to havo somewhat
relaxed his ley grasp, the tops of the
mountains are beginning to appear, and
every little rill is bearing its waters to
swell our noble stream, whlshwill soon
bcupuu to it mouth, except what im
pediment is caused by drift piles.
Mr. T. J Mckinnoy has dug a ditch
which ho will
nst (rriuluatod with hiirh honors. Ho
has resumed tho practice of Medicine at
New Point and Tun County Papkh
has no hesitation in commending him
ns a thoroughly compotent phjsieian.
h I there was an old wltcliof Malacca,
Who mokeit such ntrnelout tobneeu,
When tigers came near
They tr.mbleil with four
Anil did lint attempt to sltacc t
And that tobacco was old long green,
raised in Holt ceuntv. Wo swelled
somo whiff of it tho other day that
would kill men and plzon skunks. n
thought tho odors of tho big slaughter
houso opposite Atchison were something
to bo remembered bu tl,ey ilr0 1,0
whur.
Our correspondent from New Point
gives some good adviee to farmer? as to
sowing clover In the snow, we iiiiuk.
A few hints, seasonably given, ny a tew
practical farmers of our county In letters
to us will bo thankfully accepted.
The problem of how M drain tho
waters from the bottom south of here Is
a hard eno to solve. Wo hope, if a big
iver conies, It will bo allowed to settlo
It in its own way. A vory big river
might maka a way that would dralu tho
waters.
At this writing ever) thing out doors
has tho appearaueo of spring. The rap
Idly melting snow, tho running eavos,
the Mild, warm air, tlio suit skies, tuo
brilliant mm. tho songs of birds, tho
flight of wild fowl far up in tho sky to-
ward the north all deelaro mat winter
is retiring.
Peoplo habitually abuse whatever
climate they llvo in. This has been a
hard winter tho world over and thero
must bo many cold, backward spells,
vory discouraging. Hut complain as
wo will, thcro Is not ns good a llmato
as that of tho uplands of North Mlssou
rl, oast of tho Rocky Meuntains. For
any oblectioiiallo features of our cli
mate hero, regions North, East or South
havo worse ones.
Tho question of a Railroad, ovor
tho old road bod from Savannah via.
Fillmore, and Intersecting the Nodaway
Valley Railroad is now bolng strongly
agitated. Dr. W. E. Urown, oi mi
moro, lias a letter showing strong pro
babllltv of the road bolng built soon,
Tt will bo standard cause. Dolk.
Horald.
Mr. T. O. Davis was out to His oiu
home.
Mr. Frank Craig Is out among us
again.- He Is going to work for Mr.
Patterson
Grau Kcrng is on tho sick list.
Mr. Davis took tho lead this winter
in getting up wood from over tho river,
he thinks that being a Gri cnbackos was
l ho reason. He says Hurrah for Weav
er In 1881. You bet wo do.
Olu 100.
New Point.
Both merchants and farmers, aro iu
good spirits; merohants besattse their
try, houshold goods, etc.,
day tho 10th.
Our fashionable shoemaker "skipped"
tho town last week, leaving a saloon
bill f somo two hundred dollars be
hind him.
Several of our citizens nro making
arrangements to move to Waterloo,
Nebraska, about twenty miles West of
across a big bend, uy wnicii no win ; onniha.
shot ton tho route by water, besides re-' llrothor Million called on his friends
claiming somo valuable land. n our town a lew daysngo.
Tho overseer with a set of hands mado I Mr. Hlnklu has purchased tho Dan.
the approaches to tho Weiglitinan icrs property and opened his shoe shop
bridge the other day, which will be a therein.
great convenience to tho public. ) '1 ho voice of the lark, robin and red
I would like to suggest through your ( ijr,i s hfurdln town, end our gardei.es
columns, tho propriety of driving piling . i,llVe commenced their annual search for
for tho loot of tho aprons, ns they olten ' scc,is Mn onion sets. Many find notln
mir but hulls and the paper In which
AllhoiiL'h tho winter is not over aud raiincd last fall mice
gone, still thu noise of tho singing of ; (mvu uj.ou un tnc j,,, outof them,
birds is come, and tho voice of the tur- j. s. Hill has reopened his hotel,
tlo will soon be heard on the creek. Ah! ,'0v we have threo taverns and a half
How little you city folts know of the ozjii privato boarding houses aud
music of our "rocks ana nils, our
woods and templed hill," you imagine,
because you havo heard tho great and
good "Sarah," that you havo heard
music, but como with mo dowu to Hob
Devors, and listen to tho dulcet strains
of the saurud turtle, as ho climbs up on
sumo neighboring log and pours forth
his soul in melody to his Dulcinea on
tother log. O git out! dou't talk to me
of town music.
Tho young folks of Klmsey had a
nice time Monday evening at Mr. Allen
Wood's, and as no one knows how to
business Is lively; Farmers because o , hm Un(
tho old proverb "heavy .now. - AUun a hu 0lmablu fftlnUj, r ne
elects; many large potatoes and beets. I o ,mJ ft ,umllll trao w
u'n foi.l .nlmnit safe III savlne wo aro
sure of a zood crop of winter whest, aud
the predictions are a good crop of spring
wheat will follow wherever sown.
Last week some of our merohants wout
ti St.Juseph lor new goods, Messrs. U.
F. Haines, E. S. MoDonaU and A.
Schwartz. Somo of them brought on a
yery large stock.
Jno. Kirk left, a short timo ago, for
his homo in Kansas.
Joseph P. Dunean, has sold his prop
erty, a few miles northeast f New
Point, and is going to McPherson conn
ty, Kansas. He leaves with tho good
wishes of many Iricnds.
Joe. Henry Is now keeping bachelors
hall, ono hulf nillo east of Now Point,
lu a large, hatuUotno hmtso, appearing
erv eav without, also within, save ono
ploeo of furniture- ono ornament and
that tho most useful ana lovuesi oi uu,
tho "Frau."
Farmers, this Is certainly a good
timo to sow clover seed bofore tho suow
goes off. Incrcaso tho value of your
farms by sowing moro ot tins vaumuio
pasturago. umf.oa.
Rivers, Floods, etc.
Tho Omahas aro looking lor the big
rail road bridge at that placo to bo car
rled awav by tho Ico. Great floods of
water aro coming down from all North
urn and Western regions. Tho Ropnb
llcanls hlgho. than ever known: tho
Platto Is fearful, and ttorlcs como from
tho upper Missouri and Yellowstono
alarming to think of. Meanwhile
every threo or four days moro snow Is
piled up.
say wo nad a sr
plenty of good music, Mr. Wood him
self furnishing the music. I am glad
you have shut down on tho absurd prac
tice of naming all tho guests at parties.
I looked for this before.
Hut I must tako you to task for a cus-
threo lunch rooms.
It is a loregone conclusion that our
ci izens will wage eternal war against
tho issue of any moro llconso to sell
Intoxicating drinks in our town.
In an interview with Uncle Horace
Martin concerning the prospect of high
water on the Missouri valley, ho gavo
your corre-pondcHt tho following data:
For twelve years the river has been
cutting away the farm of O. II. Walter,
and has reached tho head of tho slough
that heads Walter Lake. During tho
hltfh water In 1878 June 8th tho
Undo i nm. ovcrtlowecl its banks at that point.
nceu i flooded the lake tu Its greatest capacity
ItU I , il,.. ,,,,rMnl friMii tin, rii-m' r:ili UU
I the Corning ditch. Tho water was
within four feet and eleven inches of
tho rails whore the K. C. track crosses
the ditch.
Mr. Martin lias reason to believe
that tho wators lrom Nihna, Mill
torn just as bad ; that of bestowing titles i t:rpok nml Tarklo wll all flow away
on plain American citizens, such as j ;)ofo e the tldo of tlo Missouri reaches
Judge, dipt., Hon., etc, Tell us what lls uniu.s3 heavy rains occur on tho
head waters of said streams, but in ca.-o
tho tldo ot tho Missouri reaches us bc
fnr tho "local" water escapes, tho
Company Capt. Kaucher couiuiondedr
Of what Is Judo Zoofc, Judge? What
makes Stwkcs IlouorabluP With ro-
Maltlaac;.
Still wo boom. Tho following par
ties havo dwellings in courso of con
structlou :
II. K. Kollys Hiulj Sf Napoleon, Clms.
across tho Tarklo and It is now going,
down very rapidly, and unless heavy
rains set in from above, uppor Holt
wilt soon be cloar of water. Huuton.
spect to such distinctions, I think it ' whl.ie Vlln..v from Nlalina to Forest
ean truly bo said that tho persons who j cly wlll proi)rtbly bo inundated. So.
most usually uavo it lutacnou to muir f Wll,,.r ms 0t been lush enough
mimes, generally acquire It by dishon- to st01, tvavel-except from tho East
orable means in tuo suapo oi woikcu up
conventions aud electioneering tricks.
Now at the risk of being denounced
as au iconoclast, I am in favor of drop
ping tho list of presents, aud also of
thu presents themselves, many an ono
giving prosents whou their own motnor
wants a pair ot shoos, it aiso seems
to mo to bo in vory bad tasto, this
maudlin and Indiscriminate flattery,
that calls every bride an elegant and
accomplished lady, or briaogroow, a
most estlmablo and highly ostoomcd
vonnir man. If wo pronoituoo every word
In readlnc. with onual forco, thore Is no
omp'iasis, and so It Is with Indlscrim-
iniitn nraiso. ouuiu,
March, 13th 1881.
Report of Rising Sun school for tho
term ending Fob. 25th 1881 :
Andorson F. . . .99 Anderson E ... .75
Hart nun Ida.... 80
Cotton Hattio... 93
Cotton Julia... 02
Davis Ona 91
Dawsou Ketta..98
Dawson Goldio.99
Johnson Etta.. 98
Kerns Nettie... 95
Loffer Norva. . .94
LotTor Llhy....97
Powell Sallio ...94
Uartram W 75
UlazerSewoll...9
Cotton Thomas. 96
Cotton Eddlo.,,98
Cotton Joo 96
Dawson Isroal..9S
Dawson Hymn. .90
Dawson Edmund 97
Dawson W. A. ..98
Dawson Hilly.... 98
Davis nudd....97
Glenn Elinor. . . .92 Johnson Elmer, 98
Kerns Charley. . .92 Kerns Robert. .90
Korns Ralph 95 Loffer Jennie.. 98
Cooko Edwin... 09
LinuiK Swajn Teacher.