Osceola Herald
Osceola, MO
Wednesday, 22 August 1866

The trial of the Negro who killed a Deputy Sheriff in this county some time ago, takes place this week, before the Circuit Court at Warsaw. Att’y Waggoner, of this place, has gone to defend him. – Clinton Advocate.

Serious trouble is apprehended along the Kansas border. Stock men are in that vicinity with thousands of head of cattle from Texas; they are nearly fat enough for market, and the owners swear they have got to go thro’ Kansas to market – fever or no fever. – Clinton Advocate.

A fellow got drunk in Carrollton not long since, and fired a revolver in a crowded ball room, inflicting a dangerous wound in the knee of a young lady. Fears are entertained that amputation will be necessary for her recovery. – North Missouri Messenger.

Two little girls, daughters of two of our leading citizens, were unaccountably poisoned a few days since. Medical aid was promptly called, and we are glad to learn that both are now out of danger, and doing well. – Warsaw Times.

A mover from Texas, whose name we did not hear, died very suddenly at the Fulbright Spring, near this place on yesterday morning. He had been unwell for several days, and on setting down to his breakfast yesterday morning, complained of being sick, and went and lay down. In a few moments he was dead. The City authorities had him decently interred. He left a wife and a large family of children, but in what condition we are unable to say. – Springfield Journal.

A Singular Circumstance. – On the 20th ult., a dog brought to the house of Mr. D. Roberts, in Buffalo Township, seven miles southwest of this village, the leg of a man. There was a shoe on the foot, and a brass spur, which was untarnished. A party was made up to search in that neighborhood for the remaining portions of the body.
Additional. – Since the above was in type, we learn from Mr. Akers, a resident of Buffalo Township, that the dogs, (two in number), were first discovered by Miss Roberts, who happened to be in the garden. They were eating the flesh, which they had got almost entirely off, leaving little but the bones and the skin of the foot. Mr. Akers and several others made a thorough search in the neighborhood, but were unsuccessful in the attempt to find the remaining portion of the corpse. The shoe was a No. 7 and almost new. The spur was bright, and but little worn. – Neosho Tribune.

For Congress – 5th District, Col. Joseph W. McClurg, of Camden County.

Our Friends (?) Abroad.
From persons who have been traveling about more or less for the past few weeks, we learn the fact that the stories circulated by our friends (?) on the Railroad, and in rival towns off the railroad even – as well as our political friends (?), who would try to make the people think St. Clair County is a rendezvous for murderers and cut-throats, because, forsoeth, no person living within our limits, appeared to take interest enough in the political questions agitating the minds of a few of our citizens throughout the District, in behalf of the aspirations of that man Tom Price – are obtaining credence.
We are not all surprised to learn that every endeavor would be made by all these parties referred to, but are they to be lasting? We say emphatically, No! Emigration to South-west Missouri is pouring in steadily, and while we think our county is receiving but a small portion of the emigration – although we see every day numerous faces entirely strange to all of us, good honest countenances, who inform us that they have come here in spite of the stories that are circulated to hurt our county, and, who say that their friends are to follow as soon as their letters contradicting these false reports can reach them.
While these lying reports for the present injure us, we are sure of seeing and end to them; for parties cannot settle near us without learning their falseness – and in the tide of emigration that passes our borders and settles southwest of us, we find our heavy trade, anyway. Parties coming in and passing us now (if many there be), are no better than the class of emigrants that are to follow them, and we know that when St. Clair County squares herself this fall, she will show to all hunting homes, that she not only possesses the best facilities for good homes, but that her citizens are of that class and character, that all honest men are apt to wish to settle amongst – conservative-railroad-rival-town bugbear stories of blood-and-thunder-and-ground-tore-up, to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Governor’s Message.
On the second page, we give the Governor’s Message. Space forbids us were we disposed to talk at length of it. We must say however, it is a plain comprehensive document worthy every man’s time to read and digest it. The language seems to be chosen for the purpose of conveying the ideas to the most simple, and at the same time every thing is very expressive. All in all, we pronounce it a sound document.

Justice To The Citizens Of Osceola.
Copperhead Statements Denied by Conservatives.
Last week we denied the statement of Gen. Tom. Price, & Co., that they had been driven out of Osceola, after we had joined others in the silly belief of their story.
We do not regret what we said while entertaining that belief; for we desire to go on the record as in favor of freedom of speech, but we do regret that we have had no more worthy subjects to defend. Residents of Osceola, (which being a strong Radical town, bids fair to become one of the best abused towns in the State), have been here since Price and his friends left. One of them is known to all of our readers in this county as a consistent Conservative, and he denounces the statement made by those men that they were not permitted to speak, and that they were driven from the town, as stupidly and maliciously false; and he does it, too, in stronger language than we care to use. This is in effect the same denial we made last week; but Gen. Price has since been put in nomination for Congress, and we desire to show what qualities best recommend themselves to the party which has put him forward. These things are suggestive, and particularly do they come home to honest men.
Imagine, (if it were possible to do so – the case not being a supposable one), that col. McClurg, Gov. Fletcher, or C.D. Drake should perpetrate a similar outrage. Does anyone – even the most prejudiced Conservative in the country – suppose, for one moment even that they could retain afterwards the admiration, the love, and respect of the masses of the Radical party? If they were detected in a single instance of deliberate malicious falsehood they would be despised as heartily as they are now respected; the luster of their noble deeds would be tarnished, and their high positions would only serve to intensify still more the people’s scorn.
And if there is one thing that we thank God for more heartily than another, it is that we belong to a party which cherishes Truth as its brightest jewel, and spurns the deliberate falsifier from its counsels with as much contempt as it would a malignant and venomous copperhead. – Warsaw Times.

A movement is on foot in Philadelphia to erect a new and commodious hotel on the plan of one recently commenced in Boston, and to be somewhat larger than it.

Cholera.
News from St. Louis shows us that the “King of Terror”, after a rapid and ruthless death-dealing march of a couple of weeks, is fast disappearing. The books of the Health Office showed for the twenty-four hours ending at noon on Thursday, 142 cases reported, of which 48 were fatal; for the twenty-four hours succeeding only 14 cases of which only 3 were fatal.

Laid Over.
Owing to lack of room in this issue we were compelled to delay the appearance of the Law of Bounties, but we will lay it before our readers in our next issue. It will be found of unusual interest to all who have served during the late war in the Federal Army.

Cholera – How To Prevent It.
In today’s issue will be found a long communication from “Junius”, containing many wise and useful hints in regard to the mode of prevention and treatment of this terrible disease. At this time it would be well to observe a degree of care, and obey the strictest rules of health.

Financial.
Gold buying at 150 1-2, selling at 151 1-2. Silver buying at 51. Union Military Bonds buying, for issue of 1863, 107 1-2; 1865 at 98 1-2; 1866 at 94 1-2.

St. Louis Stock Market.
Market dull. Cattle steady and sales of 900 head at 4 1-2 to 6 1-2. Hogs steady, sales of 400 head at 9 to 9 1-2. Sheep steady, sales of 900 head at 1 to 6.

General Marmaduke wants to leave Mexico. He says it is a hell. That’s what he tried to make Missouri.

The President has appointed Andrew Faulk of Pennsylvania to be Governor of Dakotah.