Osceola Sun
Osceola, MO
28 November 1878

The Carthage Banner says that a young man of Carthage received a “dressing down” last week at the hands of two ladies for slandering them. They met him on the street when one of them drew a cow-hide from the folds of her dress and “lit in” to the young man, when he retreated into a store, followed up by the ladies, when he took refuge behind the counter, out of their reach.

Brother Walker, of the Windsor Review, has a very interesting dissertation in his last week’s paper with the sad title “Passing Away”. He commences the article with the beautiful and original sentence “Sie transit Gloria mundi”. Brother Walker is yet on the shiny side of twenty-one and when he expresses such grief and sorrow as he does in this article, we are firmly convinced that “she went back on him”. Don’t take it so hard bereaved one. Remember the old saying “if at first you don’t succeed try, try again”.

Hopkins & Woodbury are selling:
5 pounds soda for $.25
5 ½ pounds good coffee for $1.00
4 ½ pounds best coffee for $1.00
280 pounds flat hoop salt $1.65
10 pounds good sugar $1.00
9 ½ pounds best light brown sugar $1.00
8 pounds coffee “A” sugar $1.00
100 pounds 4x flour $2.00
At their brick grocery and drug house, Appleton City, Missouri.

Grand Temperance Meeting.
This evening there is to be a grand temperance rally at the Brick church. The following is the programme:
Song -- “Yield not to Temptation”
Address -- By James M. Pugh.
Song – “There’s a Light in the Valley”
“Rip Van Winkle”, founded on Washington Irving’s legend of the Catskill Mountains, T.C. Davis. Song – by Mrs. F.C. Nesbit.
Intermission fifteen minutes.
Select Reading – Miss Lelia Wright
Song by three little girls – “Have Courage My Boy to Say No”
Declamation – Mattie McIllhenny
Song – to be selected.
Address – by Mrs. Williams
Quartette – “Bring Home Your Money To-Night, Father”

A Horrible Murder.
In prices has taken place at Latz Bros., is every line of goods that they sell – and what they don’t sell is an enigma. Their Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps are sold for almost nothing.

Sometime, about next Christmas the undersigned will return to this place bringing a large stock of the following:
Rocking Chairs, $2.00
Arm Chairs, $1.00
Baby Rocking Chairs, $1.00
Table chairs (for children), $1.00
Water Stands, $1.00 to $5.00
Flower Stands, $1.00 to $5.00
Lounges, $5.00 to $8.00
Settees, $5.00 to $8.00
Locking Settees, $6.00 to $9.00
We make also bird cages, lamp stands, flower baskets, and in fact everything that can be made from hickory saplings.
Address all orders to H.H. Marshall, Burgin City, Cedar Co., Missouri.

One prisoner in jail, accused of murder.

Eggs at 12 cents per dozen at L. Conants.

Thomas A. Emerson will be Deputy Sheriff.

County Treasurer Wannacott is filling his bond.

Capt. A.G. Cornelius will be Deputy County Clerk.

Collector Lewallen has moved his family to town.

Prosecuting Attorney Jennings was in the city last week.

Eli Cooley, and enthusiastic Greenbacker has moved to town.

We are under obligations to Messrs. Dan’l Morgan and Jas. Pugh for favors received.

A water-cart run away was the cause of a good deal of laughter on our streets yesterday.

Hogs and cattle continue to leave this county to meet their fate in St. Louis and eastern cities.

Sheriff-elect John Gordon, was in the city last week, making preparations to take charge of his office.

Mr. R.M. Funkhausesr returned to St. Louis yesterday. He intends returning sometime in December, with his wife.

Fifty cents will pass yourself and lady into the grand supper to be given next Friday evening in Hancock’s hall. Don’t forget.

We are told that there will be services in the Brick Church this morning. All should turn out and attend morning services.

If our citizens would see to it that our streets and sidewalks were kept in better condition, our town would be much more attractive.

Some of our boys have at last learned how to behave themselves in a church. We are glad to see an improvement in this direction.

Thales Wright has been busy hunting the past week or two. He has thus far succeeded in killing a fine bull-frog. Who would not be a hunter?

Be sure and not look at Mr. J. English’s advertisement in another column. Be very careful and not know where you can buy the cheapest and the best.

Mr. Tom Davis promenades our streets with a new suit of cloths. Those who heard him throughout the county during the campaign would hardly know him now.

Appleton City Items.
Parson Smith of Osceola attended the conference last week and was a guest of G.H. Whiteaker.

Captain Donahue officiated as auctioneer at Sam Klein’s last Saturday. He has the rare faculty of holding a sufficient crowd to make bidding lively. His voice will be heard again.

Appleton City has more first class dramatic talent than any town in southwest Mo.
It is not developed yet, however. In case it ever is, due notice will be given.

W.H. Stone and A.M. Ferguson have entered into co-partnership and will open up a brand new stock of hardware in J.B. Egger’s old stand this week.
These gentlemen are well and favorably known and will command a good share of the trade in their line.

Sam Klein is closing out his stock of goods at auction preparatory to a change of location. Sam has been a resident of our town since 1872. His genial good nature, honesty and urbadity have brought to him hundreds of friends who will remember him kindly wherever he goes.

The Methodist District Conference was in session in town the latter part of last week. About fifty representatives were present. A considerable amount of business was brought before the Conference, which was attended to promptly and satisfactorily. Rev. J.K. Tuttle of Kansas City presided.

While the store of Joe Reid was crowded last Saturday Dan Hamblin (clerk) discovered an old man whose residence is in Bates county quietly and as he thought secretly filling his pockets with coffee.
Dan waited until the old man had got what he wanted when he called him up, made him disgorge, gave him a moral lecture and told him to go and sin no more. He went.

As an evidence that Joe Reid is an enterprising merchant we will state that when he heard that the Methodist were to hold a conference here he sent to the country and bought one thousand chickens for the occasion. The conference is adjourned now and the preachers are gone and they went away feeling good and looking like they had been well fed. The chickens are gone too and Joe has got his money back and is ready now to supply Christians, infidels and Jews with Thanksgiving turkeys.

Notwithstanding the statutes positively forbid lottery, gift enterprises, and gambling devices of all kinds, there is not a month in the year but what establishments of this kind are run in our town, not secretly but openly on main street and with license from the town board.
Last week was done by selling small pictures at 50 cents each, and the buyer to take the prize, which was a blank piece of pasteboard.
The week previous it was done by selling paddles to clubs of ten, the lucky man to take some worthless piece of queensware.
A heavy fine is imposed for a violation of the law pertaining to gambling devices and this little business needs attention.

Now we have the pleasure of itemizing the fact that at last the English in the Afghanistan war have advanced from Jumrood and bombarded Alimusjid. For the information of those of our readers who don’t know where Alimusjid is, we would say it is to be found at the foot of the Khyber Pass. Some of the enemy have also been seen on Shagal Ridge, which is within sight of Jumrood, which locality our readers knows more about than we do.

A Telephone.
(From the Bates County Record.)
Steps are being taken to erect a wire between Butler and Appleton for the purpose of connecting the two places with telephone. We learn that the total cost with instruments will not exceed two thousand dollars and that our neighbors of Appleton propose raising one half the amount. The matter is being worked up at the other end of the line by Mr. Ed. Mason, one of Appleton’s most prominent merchants, and while the matter has not taken any definite shape here as yet, three hundred dollars in stock has been promised by three gentlemen. Of course the balance will be speedily raised. It is a fact that a telephone answers the same purpose as the telegraph, and as the former can be operated much cheaper than the latter, is therefore preferable. Several lines now in operation in this and other states are giving complete satisfaction and are also paying good interest on the capital invested. This is something our people greatly need and we hope the movement will not stop until we are connected by wire with the outside world.

The Southern Horror.
Did not keep the firm of Latz Bros. From laying in a fine, extra stock of dress goods. All the ladies go into ecstacies over the new patterns displayed.