The Parsons Eclipse du lieu suivant : Parsons, Kansas • 1

i i i ill 7J J) Va LAMB TAYLOR, Editors and Proprietors. ur7f. "TVJy MatfstrU'- One Dollar and Fifty Cents FER Anntjji VOLUME I 1'xVIlSOXg," KAKSAS, TnUIlSDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1871.

NUMBER 32. 1 1 Vienna SimonIst from whom the moral from the fate which ha3 over- PAKSONS ECLIPSE; time, as they have been jealously guarded by the Mennonites, and DISENTHRALLED. Kansas has been drawn under the aken Blunt, ne is a victim of the PARSONS ECLIPSE, Published Etkbt Thuksdat, at PARSONS, LABETTE-CO-. KANSAS. J.

R. WOODSWORTH, i Attorney at La7, OSAGE MISSION. KANSAS. 1 many are the conjectures as to the demoralization brought about by the 'THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1874.

sect takes its name, wa3 a contemporary of One year after that great reforraer bad openly proclaimed his uiidamental articles of juggernaut of partisan and malevolent feelings for the last time. present enlightened and humane government of Alexander should THE DISCIPLES OP MENNO DIRECTORIES. Practices in state and Federal Court. 7 protestaaism ilenno war, and even his worst enemies will concede hini many redeeming -qualities. He is essentially a bravo man, and will not be likely to ask any one's sympathy at this juncture.

His conviction, is significant of one SIMON. f.S'l adopt measures that must result in the complete abandonment of the colonies, if the religious principles of "the colonists cannot be demor gathered about him Holland, and disciplined into a distinct confessional society, all the elements created C. F. nUTCHLNGS, Attorney at Law, to CnUBCHES. CONGREGATIONAL Rev.

P. M. Griffin, Pastor. Residence, Forest near school building. Church, corner Denison and Hetmonl Ave's.

Services every Sabbath at 11:30 A. and p. it. Sabbath school immediately after morn In? service. Prayer-meeting, Thursday evening at 7:90 o'clock.

A Most Important Accession by the great reform movement of fact, that all attempts to make mon the1 Wealth and Industry of Kansas- that age whose peculiar features ey dishonestly in public trusts is i' alized. Is it because the government has suddenly resolved to be alike just to all citizens? or does it calculate that a less scrupulous peo OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS. rought with serious danger, and Henceforth Republicans will have to face the music the vital issues before the people. The stock in trade of Republicans, during a political canvass has been "Rebel!" "Traitor!" "Sympathizer with the Rebellion!" And the word "Democrat" has meant all these. But, thank God, Eastern Republicans have thrown off the hatreds engendered by the war, under party oppression and misrule, and Kansas will partake largely of the reanimating influences which liberating ideas always infuse.

The Republican leaders, therefore, in hat hereafter it will be profitable to HALL HILL, FULL. AND TRUSTWORTHY ACCOUNT were non-combativeness and baptism after spiritual maturity. The Mennonites had to suffer great persecutions jfn warHkejtimcSjat be honest. OF. THE FIRST BAPTIST No pastor at present.

Prayer meeting every. ednesday evening In Methodist Tabernacle at 7 o'clock. Habbath school every bunday morning' at ft o'clock la the City Halt. Attorney 'sit Law, 1 ple will readily settle the highly cultivated steppes, which the Mennonites have no right to sell, unless it is their own flesh and blood? Be that the hands or the governments and the established churches; they were Our Common School. We would like to enquire a lit tie The Mennonites in Kansas.

5. Cor. Main and County Streets, OSAGE MISSION, NEOSHO KAN. PROTEST ANT-KPISCOPAL Rev. B.

F. Mower, Rector. Herviccs every Sunday, (except the first Sunday of the month,) at Jive o'clock r. at the Congregational AJnurcn. about our common schools.

Wo compelled to wander from one country to another, until the great Fred- From the Topeka Commonwealth. as it ma the Russian policy redounds to the profit of our country. The late change in the military or L. Stillwk ix, R. N.

Baylies. One of the largest bona -fide land procured a school book according to instructions, from the teacher as we supposed, and on examination it erick'of Prussia, in whose dominions every one was permitted to go to STILLAVELL BAYLIES, PRESBTYERIAN Church corner of Forest and Bell avenues. Rev. Mr Farmer, Pa tor. Services at 11 a.

and 8 p.m. bunday School at 9i a. x. ganization of the empire compel all this State will have to change their song, or sing it, like the swans, as they float to oblivion. subjects alike to do their share of heaven after his own fashion, ex AttorxLoyo at Law, turns out that the good old Roman sales ever made in Kansas, perhaps in America, has just been concluded by the Atchison, Topeka and! Santa Fe railroad company with a commu military duty; but the Mennonites alphabet is materially changed, and The contest in the second Con OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS.

LODGES. MASONIC Parsons Lodge, No. 117, A. F. tended his hospitalities to them.

Their first settlement in Russia dates back to 1790, during the reign of the just what the alphabet is, that is gressional District, was carried on of Russia are of -the most orthodox class, and will never submit to have a A. M. Stated communications held on used we will not undertake to say W.B.GLAS3E. by the Republicans in a shameful H. G.

Webb. fiat unlay on or preceding the full of the nity of Kussian Mennonites who landed in New York during the month of September with the steam emperor Paul, and it continued dur but will say that we profess to un their sons instructed in the use of the sword, nor will they consent to do military service of any kind, noon In each month and the second Saturday thereafter. All Masons in good stand log are Invited to attend. G. GABRIEL, W.

M. A. C. Peck, Secretary. derstand all the different alphabets ing the reign of Katharma 11.

Very liberal concessions were made and partisan manner. It was "Democrat" and "traitor" from beginning to end. The lies St. John told about Goodin at the very last mo- ers Cimbria. Teutonia and City of "WEBB GLASSE.

Attorneys at Lav, OSWEGO, KANSAS. now in use in Europe, except the Irish, and it is not any that comes Richmond, and most of whom have to them here. Each family of the I. O. O.

F. Parsons Lodsre. No. 91, meets spent the last thirty days arid a good whether as combatants, nurses, teamsters or mechanics. Before they renounce the essential article "Choridtz" colony which was formed very Tuesday evening, iiuit nrsi oiock south of bank.

All members of the order within our More than that, the speling of some of the many of their rubles in our city. In good standing are Invited to attend. M. O. BROWN, N.

G. O. Flktcukb, Secretary, ment, will be remembered to his shame for a long time. The issues before the people were shoved aside, and a crusade of personal and parti WM. RACER, PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE in 1790, was granted a lease for themselves and their heirs forever on sixty-five dessjatines (about one Their land purchase amounts- in words is altered, and they are spelled round numbers to about one hundred thousand teres of railroad land, aside from a number of improved farms, hundred and seventy-five acres) of Parsons Business Directory.

san politics carried out to the bitter in a way that has no precedent, except it might be from our old neighbor Taylor at Wyandotte. More than that, we are informed that the JDealer in Oval and Square Frames. Por land, together with diverse privi end. The triumph of Goodin, there traits. Porcelain lectures.

Ambrotypes, all lying north of the stations of Dr. W. E. GOSLING, fore, shines radiantly forth as a tri I Ueuis, ure-size riioiograpns, views, sc Cor. Johnson and Riggs PARSONS KANSAS Florence, Peabody, "Walton, Newton, children are taught to pronounce uraph of truth and.

justice over i of their faith, they abandon their magnificent homes with heroic self-denial and begin anew in a new country, as their fathers and forefathers, have done many times before. Previous to the departure of the last two great parties of emigrants, offers of compromise were made by the czar, through Gen. Von Todleben to the effect that Mennonites shonld be allowed to serve as surgeons, nurses or mechanics, that Resident Physician. 4 Ilalstead, Burton and Hutchinson leges, as for instance, the establishment of their own breweries and distilleries. During the year 180-4 a special reservation was granted to the Mennonites, of one hundred and words in a way that is not guaran wronsr and fraud.

Joined to the suc Thanks to the untirins energy and Office at residence on Morgan street, two B. B. MIESSE, teed by any authority whatever. cess of having a legislature clearly doors east of Denlson avenue, orders left fit Holmes' drug store will be promptly at- the extraordinary liberality of the A Now, as Parsons is in direct com and soundlv reform, the people of TOBACCONIST, leuueu to. PARSONS, KANSAS.

munication with the rest of the the State can lay claim to a substan T. S. F. railroad company, this means to Kansas, and particularly to twenty thousand dessjatines of land, oippn which their second colony, that Wholesale and retail dealer In Cigars, To tial and enduring victory. Over United States, and as the English is the language, of the country, we bacco ana ipes.

stocK always full and complete. of the Moloschnoi Was founded Marion, Harvey, McPherson and Be this triumph at. the polls the people E. W. WOODSON, Physician, Surgeon and Dentist, NO.

12 FOREST A PARSONS, KANS. no counties, an acquisition of about they should do duty only in the im rom here their tollowers spread would suggest to our Board of Edu of Kansas can The over Opposite Hews' Opera Hall. one million and a half of capital and over the entire country adjacent to whelming Republican majority of ftespectfully offers his services as a Medical a wholesale addition to her produc perial workshops and forests, instead of taking the field but these offers were looked upon bv the the Black sea, comprising the prov cation that these books be thrown out of school, and that our children be taught to read and speak English between 30.000 and 40,000 in this u-gloat and iK-nun mi vistr aim pracntiou fr tj the people of Parsons and vicinity. ing population of some two thousand inces Taurida, Kherson and Ekater- ABliAM JOXES, Merchant Tailor. State is pilled down to between 4)ITU-e opposite St.

Hotel, ia Buford like other people. 000 and 5.000. In this district the iiocit, roresi venue. i inoslav. The nomadic tribes of Tartary clothlnsr cut and made on bishops and elders as being calculated to gradually corrupt the conscience of the rising generation, and souls.

From tte Cottonwood river to the Little Arkansas, a scope of magnilicent prairie country fifty gain is over 10,000 the gain in Phil Priced low and satisfaction Gentlemen's short notice, guaranteed. Dr. G. W. GABRIEL, The South.

who had hitherto pastured their lip's district is fully G.0U0, and in Brown's district it is put down at miles in length, is now one colony gfnysician and Mirgeoxi Forest Avenue, have not been generally accepted. One of the most powerful in composed of the thriftiest and most PARSONS 10,000, Another pull like this and herds of horses and sheep in those regions, soon disappeared beyond the Volga. Compact settlements telligent class of foreigners that ducements to bring the Mennonites where will the Republicans land? U. S. Examining Surgeon for pensions.

OFFICE AND RESIDENCE )pp. Pioiicci Huiue, LARSONS. KANSAS, Another contest gives the offices of the State to the Reformers. This is ever landed upon our shores; and "iu three years" to use the language of one of their ocean r- what will be gained by the splendid II. A- WADE, UNDERTAKER IN PLASTERING And Mason Work.

Head quarters at City Hotel, PARSONS, KANSAS. KLEISEU VAttKES, and villages sprang up, surrounded by grain fields, orchaids and groves. Just as it is in the great Arkansas valley there were no forests to clear; the ground wa3 ready for the plow and yielded abundant harvest -at efforts this fall, notwithstanding that we had arrayed against us the of grass will be transformed into an Oiiean of waving fields of grain, just as we left our Molotschnoi colony." official Datronasre of the btate and PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. ARSONS, KANSAS. Htrtrtwrto Dr.

Van Meters drugstore. Kansas will le to America what the Laundulet Williams's scheme for carrying the south by outrage rumors, failed to fire the northern heart, and failed to be appreciated by the colored people upon the plantations, at least one fourth of whom Voted against the carpet-baggers. The Chattanooga convention failed, "the glorious record of the past" failed, brass buttons and blue coats failed, everything failed. This has been a miserably off year in politics. And now the people have spoken, and their opinions are known, we want to see what the old historic party will do.

For the present they seem stupefied and dizzy with the fall. Tne civil rights bill and the to Kansas has been the passage of an act during last winter's session of the legislature, amending the milita law of 1SGS that all persons who, on or before the first day of May, in each year, file with the clerk of their county an affidavit that they are members of a religious organization whose articles of faith prohibit the bearing of arms, shall be exempt from milita duty. A translation of this amendment has been published by the A. T. S.

F. R. R. with Nation with the strenuous work of CARL BRADLEY, once. The old seaports of Odessa, Postmasters, Deputy Marshals, and country of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov is now to Europe her wheat and Kertsoch took a new Taganrog CITY AUCTIONEER, other State and Federal officials.

C. B. KENNEDY, field. start new ports to accomodate the colonies were necessary, and so the cities of Fedosia, Berdiansk, Maria- With a removal of partisan war fare in our elections and of the con And Collecting Agent, The Mennonite immigration into Physician and Surgeon. straint of the people in the express ol and others sprang up, and are Office oyer Woodruff's store.

KANSAS. parsons. Kansas began shortly after the return to Russia of the first delegations that had been sent to the United ion of their views on important pub now important through their grain pamphlet descriptive of Kansas lic questions, a new order of things PARSONS, KANSAS. JAMES PEERY, States and Canada on an exploring ands which has been sent to Russia shall spring up. The remnant export.

The wheat of southern Russia, commonly quoted as 'Odessa" governs the market of the old AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION tour, about a year A few single by. that company, and was well cir the Republican party will be scat third term went out of sight with families of considerable wealth fol- SALESMAN. culated in the colonies. The fact Dll. HENRY DU D'HUY, (Late of Brecken ridge Ky.) Surgeon AND OBSTETRICIAN.

world, and its fluctuations are felt he going' down of the sun on the lowed'the advice of their delegates, Office with Hervey Jones, Real Estate eered to the winds when next the people meet the office-holders at the ballot box. Lawrence Standard. on 'change in Chicago. While grain that a good portion of the most influential of the different colonies Agenw, Kiggs Avenue, rarsons, Kansas. night of the third, and we do not suppose they will ever be heard of has always been the staple produc- Orders from the Country will receive who had examined the entire west, and selected several sections of land in the vicinity of Marion Centre, prompt attention.

lave now settled in Kansas and are Office at A. Wunderllch's, next to Ed. ion of the colonies, other commod- toley's. again this side of the crack of doom. Instead of these there are many of well satisfied here, will go far to in A Disgraced itansan.

ites are not neglected. The mul KANSAS. PARSONS, duce the bulk of the immigration, berry tree was found to do well, and the Republican leaders who will PIONEER HOUSE, Rlggs Avenue, PARSONS, KANSAS. where they made substantial improvements at once. This initial step was followed about the close of which is expected during the next have all they can do to save them silk culture soon became an important branch of industry, some far J.

G. PARIvIIURST, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Corner of Rlggs and Johnson Avenues selves from disgraced imprisonment. If the party will use all the tima This hotel has been thoroughly repaired last year by the purchase from the year, to come direct to Kansas, as it i3 the chief aim of these people to re-establish their former relations, and most of the late comers have and fitted up for the accommodaton of T. S. F.

railroad company of mers producing from one hundred to five hundred pound of raw silk travelers and regular boarders. hey have left, in devising measures. 43,000 acres of land in narvey and W. P. SO.DIBE Son, Proprietors.

for the relief of the country, and Kansas. Farsoms, putting in speedy operatives, it will. eft near relatives behind. Next summer will show wonder Under such favorable circum McPherson counties on the part of members of the Mennonite community at Summerfield, St, Clair coumy. CITY HOTEL, ful changes in the region between stances, many of the Mennonites acquired considerable wealth; some Riggs Avenue, Between Johnson and Skid- Gen.

Jas. G. Blunt, who is familiar by name, at least, to every old citizen of Kansas, is in very serious trouble. A special dispatce from Salisbtry, North Carolina, says that he has been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States out of a large sum of money intended for the Cherokee Indians in that State. The case is one of five years standing and Blunt's connection was in having a man named wetland, now dead, appointed special agent to disburse the Indian trust fund, and in then becoming one of his bondsmen when the latter defrauded the gov be well; but if they persist in the course they have been following, nothing will save at least a dozen of EDWARD C.

WARD. ATTOIUIElf AT IAW I1L, who also took a controlling in dy streets. Cottonwood and Little 1 Arkansas rivers, till now 1 most devoid of hab enterprising men purchased large terest in the town of Halstead, wbicli PARSONS, Kansas. tracts of land from the crown or will no doubt become the trade cen these great statesmen from impeachment at the hands of their successors. Table supplied with the best the market Kaksab.

from noblemen, and went into the tre of the Mennonite colonies in affords. T. J. Todd, Proprietor. PARSONS, County Attorney, itations.

Even now the busy hum has begun. Long lines of wagons with lumber, household goods and implements are passing out from the Kansas. Parties of from five to wool-growing business, which developed 'into a very iarge interest. At the small town of Kung Lung Stoddart Hotiise9 forty families have since arrived We are told by one of our Mennon frpm Russia, mostly from the Cri Kent ia the most approved style by railroad stations. The carpenters in the province of Hupeh, in China, the wife of a man in affluent circumstances lately gave birth to a ite friends, who is now located near are busy putting up the first tern mean peninsula, some coming first to Kansas, but most of them not until E.

M. DONLEY, ATTORimiT AT mw PARSONS. KANSAS, WILLIAM ROUSH, Proprietor. Hutchison, that a brother-in-law of porary The Atchison, Te peka Santa Fe R. R.

co. is erecting his, whom he expects in Kansas Cor. Main and County they had examined other states. AH the Mennonite communities in this OSAGE MISSION. KANSAS.

five immense emigrant houses at next yearj owns about 80,000 acres of land shears upon an average "Tractlccs In the State and FederaV Courts. country are becoming interested in MILLER CUSTIS. convenient places for the reception 000 sheep of improved breed. the settlement of this people iu Kan CORY KIMBALL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE, ernment and the Indians of a large part of the money entrusted to him. The government maintained that there had been a conspiracy between Blunt and Swetland to effect this very pnrpose, and the conviction of the former has just been secured and he is now in jail at Salisbury awaiting sentence.

't The people may remember an im 1 wniie nearly every Mennonite in son. The midwife employed on the occasion stole a hundred taeht from her employers, and being accused of the theft by her mistress, denied and was required to attest her inno-1 cence by an oath. "If I stole your silver, may I die by thunder within a few days," wa3 the security given by the woman, who in her turn required an oath from the mother. sas, and tne movement is rapidly County Osage Mission, Kansas. gaining in magnitude.

of new-comers. The mowers that have been laid by for the season are brought into requisition again to cut the waving grass for the thousands of work horses, oxen and milch cows ATTommirs at i.aw Omnibus to and from all trains. Dally I Tr.tr Indiana PfmnavlvnniA Russia is a land-holder and farmer, many of them are skilled mechanics besides, such as carpenters, wagon- Mall fitixu Tlru.t. trill oo- I and Canada have furnished large other day. Passengers carried to any part PARSONS KANSAS ox tne country.

makers, machinists, etc numbers of land purchasers and set Ria and Johnson Avenues, np stalra. THE OWENS HOUSE, a tiers. party which has arrived The village schools are of a high pudent letter which Blunt wrote to to subsist on during the short winter season car load after car load of breaking" plows and other 1 imple and this latter prayed that if she had accused the midwife' wronsr-' elmentary standard and exclusively Horace Greeley when that great GoorJ Beds oncl Good Fore. itt Topeka -in the last thirty days, and who have now left for their fu Wixjjuld Davis, V. P.

Talbott. German, which accounts for the fact Situated on Countv street. mrth of the philosopher swayed his subsoil quill on the old Tribune by ture homes numbers about two hun Public Square, Osage Mission, Kansas. This hotel is neatly fitted on for the ac DAVIS TAXBOTT. commodation of travelers and boa: iers.

dred and fifty families, the majority white house visions about this very mat tne language well preserved among thecal Their 'preachers are usually men of deep thought fully, might Heaven slay her sou within three days. Now upon the midwife devolved the duty of wash-' ing the child, and' with a view of helping neaven, she run a long nee- Attoraoyo at IiaT7f of whom have belonged to the cele J. T. Owkns, Pre irietor, ments are sent down the road, and it seems as if the working season for the farmers "had just begun. The wild prairie is to be broken doubly deep in October yet to receive a dressing of wheat and rye.

No one thinks of drouth and grasshoppers brated Molotschnoi (Milk River) col eOSWEGOr HQUSE, and fair culture. They are chosen from" among the members the PARSONS, KANSAS. matter. It wa3 relative to an article which appeared in the Tribune severely animadverting upon Blunt'a relation to the Cherokee trust und3. ony, in he governmental district of die into the stomach of her nursling; Corner Merchants Street and Fourth Ave Taurida, of which Crimea is a part.

church, for life." When a. preacher OSWEGO, KANSAS. The colony comprises sixty-five Vil- which shortly after But while bringing the" child to ita'- is needed, a season of praver and DAVID KELSO, gATjjORNEY' AT LAW Blunt's letter was as forcible as unblushing effrontery and bad gram XgjTOmnibns to and from the Cars, lages and is considered the wealthiest meditation Is iasting some everybody is hopeful and energetic, and hope and energy will find their reward, Stages leave daily, East and West, mar could make it, and in substance of the German settlements of South Russia. Emigration from that place times Tearing ffchi3 sea son theman, most 4t VJ. orjhe posi mother, and claiming its death as a' proof of her innocence and the jus-i' tice of Heaven, the midwife was suddenly struck dead by a clap of KANSAS.

OSWEGO, is D. W. CLOVER, Proprietor. coneveyd" the; famous query ef triumphant: "What are you going to has but just set in, and as fast as the One Stick for Nothing. "How much for candy said a little boy.

tion and it fa" held that people can obtain their pas ports God himself, through the manifes E. R. STEVENS, 3IONITOR 99 and onbeing taken up two shoes of sycee wets found in her from the governmhnt so fast wil do about it?" Several slow-going simple folks who: believe in honest methods ot "getting money, tation of his spirit, points out the jUZTZCIZ of 'tho PEACH they leave that country for America. proper person. hands.

At the same time the nee- slow and uncertain, read with pecu Among thei special privileges The writer has, during his enter- Blank qk HanuTactory die shot forth from the child's stomy granted, them by the government liar pleasure Mr. Greeley's terrible course with tnese people, learned was that of perfect liberty, OSoe, Aveaue, first door south, of much of their peculiar traits, their "Six sticks for five cents," said the dealer. "Six sticks for five cents, ell, now let me see; six sticks for five centsj five for four cents, four for three cents, three for' two cents, two for one cent, and one" for nothing; Til take, one' mister." He got it, but the dealer is still "in "a state of bewilderment, and jcan't tee how thatcan.be.'' excoriation, Gen. -Blunt, -and it was copied at, 'er the country for ach and he lived again, General Sheridan has bceny elected President of tha- Army pS- jet tuguu exemption irora military service political and religious position in FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. for themselves and their children its literary merit a pattern piece V-V Alt.

Russia, and the causes that brough B. WHEAT, of sarcastic invectiv for all maintainehce of their about the present the Cumberland for the- easing; JusTica of tiio phace It is not in a. spirit. of triumph own local government and of their threatens to carry with it the Ger year. PAR5QN3, man colonists in Russia of all other over a fallen man that we thus refer to this matter, nor; do we desire the Every description of MagJijine Binding neatly and promptly executed.

Orders left at tha Kcupsj: office will promptly at- is to bei Tm? wiffl of Ii'Cs' -i ovrr O-r rt' A Atohliion own German schools These privileges has been as faithfully honored by all succeeding- monarchs to this denominations as well as the Men Isara ware suire, corner of Riggs aud Forest ordered out rTrencv teitory. elf righteous victory of pointing a Cosie to this office for job printin nonites in Prussia and Poland. Aveno-4 F. R. LASIIER, Supt..