Just to remind everyone -- Charlotte's "Pearls" are now archived permanently at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/mo_newspaper.htm -------------------------------- Jefferson Democrat Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri Part II WEDNESDAY , 17 MARCH 1886 Injunction restraining Mrs. Wilhemina BAST from removing timber from land of her deceased husband, was continued in force till next term. In the divorce case of Caroline STRICKLAND against James STRICKLAND, plaintiff was allowed $20 alimony, to be paid before May. John STEPHENSEN was found guilty of the charge of mayhem and sentenced to the penitentiary for twelve years. Last January STEPHENSEN attempted to drive Jacob DIEHLE off a tract of land DIEHLE had rented and shot him in the face with squirrel shot, putting out his eye, already being blind of one eye. STEPEHENSEN ------ ----- a great deal of trouble in the neighborhood, while DIEHLE has a wife and five small children. DIEHLE's family are in destitute circumstances, and he is unable to help them. Nearly everybody seems satisfied with the verdict, except Lawyer TATUM, who conducted the defence for all it was worth. (The paper was folded for storage, when microfilming was done part of the fold was copied, making it impossible to read what was in the lines.) Dr GUIBAR has another fine daughter at his house. Daniel BONACKER lost a great many fine hogs this Winter with cholera. March 13, 1886 DIED - HUSKEY - March 19, 1886, at St. Vincent's hospital, St. Louis, of cerebral apoplexy. Martin W. HUSKEY, aged 44 years and 10 months. Mr. HUSKEY was a son of D. L. HUSKY, Sr., and lived all his life near Hillsboro. He had been a member of the Baptist church fourteen years. His wife is a daughter of W.P. HAMRICK, Esq., and he leaves several children. He had been sick two or three months and was taken to St. Vincent's for treatment justa little over a week before he died. The relatives have our sympathy in their distress. DEATHS and BIRTHS - The following deaths were filed with the County Clerk the past week: Date Name Age Feb 25 James RYAN 4 1/2 months BIRTHS Date Name of Mother Sex Feb 16 Mrs. G.W.L. THOMPSON girl Feb 8 Mrs. Thomas Peter O'BRIEN boy Jan'y 2 Mrs. Frank SCHMIDT girl Jan'y 31 Mrs. Eif HAMERS boy March 2 Mrs. James F. DONNELL girl March 6 Mrs. William ROBERSON girl March 8 Mrs. Nelson SMITH boy March 12 Mrs. Edward McLEAN boy WEDNESDAY, 24 MARCH 1886 Willie CLARK cut a couple of his toes nearly off, one day last week, while chopping wood. Licensed to Wed - Adolphus F. FONTAN and Mary A. RUTLEDGE, George W. RUSSELL and Idell HUSKEY. Sheriff HURTGEN, with Willis WILLIAMS and R.A. MARSDEN, took STEPHENSEN, MARTIN and SHAW to the penitentiary, last week. Our friend Hermann STEMERS, thinks he is ten feet higher this week than last and all because a ten-pound girl arrived at his house Sunday morning. If each girl that arrived at our house had raised us ten feet we would be considerable taller than Lawyer KLEINSCHMIDT or Notary WALKER. Sheriff HURTGEN's absence the past five days was very mysterious, but it is explained now. He arrived Tuesday morning with Thomas MOSS, having captured him in Randolph county, Ark. MOSS is one of the three men, who are charged with the murder of Allan HENSLEY and Mack MARSDEN. The Sheriff saw a good deal of Arkansas while he was gone. He is retident as to how he learned where the accused parties were located. James MOSS and Alan MARSDEN, the two others indicated, he did not find. Some months ago a young man, probably 37 years of age, named William RICE, alias Buck RICE, came here from Erie county, Pennsylvania, and stopped with Mrs. GORDON, with whose relatives he was acquainted. He was a pretty shrewd looking fellow, with a pair of the sharpest eyes ever set in a man's head. It was known that RICE had a wife and three children in Pennsylvania, but it was presumed his absence from them was only temporary. One day last week he borrowed one of Mrs. GORDON's horses and rode off, and it was soon thereafter learned that he did not go alone, but was accompanied by Miss Dee McCREERY. They went to De Soto, turned the horse loose and boarded a train for St. Louis, since which time nothing has been heard of them here. Miss McCREERY is a daughter of Charles McCREERY, is of handsome face and well formed, and it is a pitty that she consented to throw herself away in such a manner. RICE is supposed to have but little, if any, means, and it is not likely that he will attempt to provide long for the unfortunate girl. Mrs. Thomas RAMEY of Head's Creek, came to Hillsboro last Saturday and swore out a warrant, before 'Squire SHEIBLE, charging her husband with feloniously assaulting her. She brought with her a stick, about the size of a hoop pole, with which she alleged was the instrument with which she had been assaulted. She also showed the 'Squire many varied bruises upon her face and body, which induced him to issue a warrant. Deputy Sheriff MUELLER went out last Monday, but found that the wife-beater had taken the team, during his wife's absence and drove into Franklin county. We congratulate our neighbors upon this acquisition. </HTML>