Halstead Herald from Halstead, Kansas • 1

1 M. H' II ft Bv Sllil VOL. 1,. NO. 16 HALSTEAD, KANSAS, SATURDAY EVENING, APIRL 2, 1837.

H. E. Editor and Proprietor. FOR 8 ALU. LOCALS, -0 Reliable information has just been obtained that tho Santo Fo It.

11. Co. have run a lino from Newton to Kingman under tho name of Union Pacific, and that the managers have decided to build this line at onco. nDo not forget to vote. II Trego, for mayor.

Tlie Following from tho Newton ItepuWicaii will apply to every City and Community. Our citizens onght to mitke it a point to cultivato the acquaintance of strangers when they daily moot about town. There is nothing that speaks so well for a community as the social and Morally habits of the people. Think yourself, of your visits to dif Kingman News. Wre do not seo their object in run W.

11. Lamka in iu Newton to-day. 0. J. Wright, of Pierce City, Mo.

is in tho city. ning their road from Newton and thus parallel their road to Halstead. The road is to be built from HaLsload and not Newton. registered at L. Cowan of Mo.

is the Central. ferent placos in your travels do you not remember of having been in Residence property with fccrvlot lot wale, cheap. H. 8. UILHAM3.

f77'For. Sai.bA spun of good, young fcoik mules for sale at reasonable terms. 1'ktkh Bhbokb. A. good lot tot sale in southeast pact of kwn, one block from future Pun'ufiudlu de-ot.

For prices and turms cull ut iluiuLD bflloe. umr.lG-tf, The Herald office him two lota in weiit-Vapkrt bf town for sale at $125 per lot. Xou can buy GARDEN BEED8, iu bulk, from Ilio Kansas Seed house, of R. H. CO: The most seeds for the least money nt Post (Mice: Throe young full blood bulls ami Bpnn of good horses, enquire of Bergtholdt tf.

Farm and city property fr Bale cheap. Inquire- of Borgtholdt. tf. To-morroM's Churches. At the M.

E. Church, as usual by towns whero in a few hours yon felt that yon were well acquainted with Practical joking. tho Oro Way Iu WUJcli Mm AllrtrwJ llmuurof fcugllwhmeu MimUcnU Itself Tho worst of English humor ia that it is so npt to tao a practical form. Practical joking in generally considered, nxcept, Indeed, hy thfl im fortunate- victim, the cream of English fun, nnd is tolerated in Kugland to an extent that eecms to a foreigner in-credible. The abominable, form of practical joking is undoubtedly tho li.cix, and during the last few yonn hoaxing seems to havo been on Ihu increase.

It ivw only a short while ago that a lively gotitlemiiu la ono of tho London snburl was iinod five pounds for sending a telegram to a friend's wifo to say that that friend had sariotisly injured himself by bum and had gono to the ho iji'tal. Never a penalty hitter (h'SOfvoil; and tho culprit's ardor for practical joking will probably have cooled considerably by this time. A still more sonsele. and cruel hoax was perpetrate 1 a short tlnin before, when a man Was informed that, a Newcastle gentleman whoso lifo hn had once saved had left him an oslato worth a thousand year. Needless tf) sta'o, tin message was untrue A lit grosser casi wa Rev.

L. M. Hartley. Mornings text: "Temperance." its people, whore business ineu welcomed you end took an interest in pour presence among them Then At the Presbyterian church a9 usual Tho ico cream season opoued at J. W.

Pierces to day. Wo move for rain. Who will second it Murry Benson invested in a lot in Brown's addition jostcrday. Slurry Wiest purchased a lot of Frank Brown yesterday. by Rev.

C. K. Lehman. you havd visited other places and left The Monnomte as heretofore by Rov. David Georz.

fooling that you had not met a friendly man there, whore all was aelfiKh-nosa and cold indifference to the stranger, and you had a life long At the primary laat night the following tiiet was plaoed in nomination! aversion to the place for this simple reason. DO up. neit, showing line-' small hand wtii h- I to mi ring, which, when closed, cairenl hands (o oltksp, inclosing heart which was affixed to thocrntral notched ring. It was cmloniHry lo break these ring asuudcr iu a solemn manner over the Bible. It Was always done in thn preKfliico of a witness, who kept the center ring, tho betrothed ample ic.

serving the two outside links. When the marriage contract was fulfilled at the altar the three portions wore united and the ring used in tho Week! if. CAREoV CLOTHING. Soma viioirouifl Advi in the KnlJ oti fur rtoth Wonitii mid Meu. The proper care of uionN us well as women's clothing has a great deal lo do, not only with its hxiking well, but with the length of timo which it l.isK Clothes of wool which are r.tivly brushed and never hung out of doors soon come to havo an appearance of long ufl, when tho same clothes if carefully brushed every day and frequently hung out of doors will always be fresh, and will knop their good looks very much longr.

Care should be used to select a brush-broom or wkNk of fine broom-corn. It will cost mor-, than the coarser ones, but in the end will hn a paving, the coarser ones wear the clothing moro Coats and cloaks should bo hung always on tho little wire 'S, costing but five or ten cent1', which com" for that purpose. The frames should first be covered with some soft mat-trial to prevent the garments from hroalring over Mie'r If made of wood this is not nnoosanr; the woolen ones, however, are a lit'-'e more exp'ms'vo. It is better lo hang than to fold almost pll dresSJB, i one has stiOieient room, but if the loom is limited and tho dresses crowded if hung, thou they should be 1 led, as any thing if better than the "stringy" look which dresses crowded together in a small closst may soon ac-qn ro. If a dress of woolen material has any drapery it will be found to keep its freshness very much longer if tuo skirt, is always bottom upward.

With a lit Therefore bo social and friendly to FOR KENT. the new men you meet, and take a few minutes talk with them and Sirs. Rosa Kirk was a caller at this oflico a few days ago. The ladies took in $7.20 at tho coffee and cake festival last night. It i'h reported that Chas.

Sayler is married, to a lady from near Wichita. Hon. E. L. Thomas of Now York: make them feel that they, are in a laud where courtesy and politeness Fob Mavok, S.

II. Trego. COUKCILMEN. W. D.

Hoover, E. Utz, C. C. Hoyt, E. Harbeson, T.

W. Lehman. Police Judge, W. C. Hinkle.

that S. H. Trego is on both tickets, are among tho leading characteristics A Good five room hoore, stable and six acres of laud in Tibbot'a addition for rent on reasonable terms. Inquire at Hks-ald Oiiice. mar K5-lw.

We have a good dwelling hoimo to rent, on Main street, at fi.50 per month. Herald office. Three good second story rooms, Sonth Main street. IIehald office. of the people.

Ii cost3 nothing to make this kind of an investment, City made this city a short call and it pavs better than almost any thing we can do. Another dog lost his lifo to-day, through the instrumentality of Mar 1ST the Liverpool hoax of last winter, when an advertisement was ins-Tied in the papers for a largv. number of working-met) to help in preparing tlio Exhibition ground all candi for em-ployiuont to bring spades and iekaes. There were a great number of men out of work in the r. crowd of thorn stream od out to the exhibition s'te, uiv of them having purchased, out of the remnant? of their savi'igs, tho required tools; and when, a we uy walk, they reached the ground, they found tho whole affair was a hoax.

Can senselessness and barbarity in a so-called practical joke go much farther than this. Of a more harmless kind was the their ia no doubt but he will be our neit mayor, and a better man for tho place -o- could not have been chosen. No one doubts but what he has the welfare of our city at heart as much as auy citizen tWroin Ho is solid on the temperance quastion 'and we bespeak ft our city, a prosperous yotii'. Sworn In. Washington, D.

C. March 31. Messrs. Cooley, Movington, Schoon maker, Bragg and Walker, of the inter state commerce commissioners, visited tho interior department this afternoon and took tho usual oath of office. The Two City Tickets.

REPUBLICAN TICKET. mayor; shal Crouch. Mr. H. W.

Anderson, representative of the Wichita Beacon, was in town yesterday. Messrs. C. Helda and L. Goodrich, of Wichita are visitors in town to day.

W. F. Franklin is the happy possessor of a lot in Brown's addition Tho purchase was made to-day. Do not forget to go and hoar the temporanco sermon at the M. E.

church to-morrow, at 11 o'clock. Tho transfer depot is tha scone of much activity and any uuiount of work these days. H. L. Yoco brougfh in a huge pelican, to-day, which he killed at the Arkansas river yesterday.

L. D. Brower will have it stuffed. We understand that the Midland folks are going to Hutciiinsou instead of Burr- No Blacklisting. Madison, March 31.

Among the bills passed by the assembly yesterday was one providing that any employes combined to blacklist their wnployrt shall fined not los3 than $50 or imprisnment for not more than twelve months. Rcmunibor that at Burnett's Gallery 1r plueo to get your fine work done and that they are taking Photographs cheRpor than any other place in the city, mar 16-lw 83? The Panhandle Restaurant is in run-nng order. ESFBod ticks tilled and delivered at your door by. Wm. Ai.lk.n.

BSFCaH at the Panhandle for your menla. We furniHh meals at all hours. 2irCall on the city diay for jobs of transfer work. Wm. Allen, Propr.

rfTry the celebrated at. and Tick's. pSfFor school Books Stationary, etc. oall at the Seminary book store located at D. v.

Uilseh Co'a Drug Btoro. 5Sf To Teadk We have an opportune to triide a li. tOO stock of groceries in Illinois for a farm hero nayono wishing to trade will do well to call at tho Hekald Offlca. 2B cts. Butter 12.

cts. a lb. at Hiesen Dyck. Garden plowing douo quickly and cheap as any by Wm. Allen.

Downing g'ree't hoax of last July, whoa several furniture vans from different firms arrived so it was said at Mr. Gladstone's ofiieial residence shortly after his resignation, to remove "oil cMlars, hats, coats, and similar ef-fo-jls;" such, any rate, was the object named on the post-cards they had received. is tolerably well known that for an undergraduate to be abroad in the evening without cap and gown is an off.tnse agair.st the laws of his uiii-versi'y, a'id if in his transgression 'by the proctors, the oUVisdhg Cantab or Oxonian is invited to on tlio proctor next morning to malic a mothist contribution to the university finances. In case In does not respond to the invitation with alacrity, a form is filled in requesting fo attend without; delay. In 1STU, at Oxford some evil-dispose! person pur A Revolver.

Emporia, March Ml. Little Ida Clark a daughter of a citizen cf Emporia, was severely injured to-day by the explosion of a forty-eight ci.Iiber cartridge whioh sha was phiying with. It seems that sho was chopping it with the hatchet when it exploded, sending tho ball B. H. Trogo.

cohn oilmen: W. D. Hoover, Uhr, T. Wr. Lehman.

E. Harbeson. C. C. Hoyt, POLICE judoe: W.

C. Hinkle. CITIZEN'S TICKET. 1-04 MAYOK S. H.

TREGO. CODNCILMEN W. D. Hoover, Baxendalo, ii. P.

Krehbiel, G. Biirkemeyerj D. Goerz. POLICE JUDOE I T. W.

Lehman. The Railroad tou. What will become of our neighbor into the abdomen and inflicting an injury city if tney fail to go tnrougn it which, it is feared, will prove fatal. JVnver the New Military Post. Washington, D.

March 81. Lieut Editor Ashbaugh has but very little to say ahout railroad minors tle practice and arn this will be easily done, and the eivases prevented which come so quickly in the best of materials from the folds inging' always the same wav, both when in woar and wlioti not. Naver sit down in a damp dress if it can be avoided, for nothing so successfully cronscs it It. should be at one taen off and hung in a good position to dry. Careful attention should always be pnid to dress braids and facings.

If braid is replaced as soon as it commerces to wear tho facing will in many instances lx saved. A dress brnid should always be put on by hand, and, in most instances, "rolled on." If sewed on by machine more timo is eoitsutiied in ripping it off, when it requires replacing, than in both sewing on and ripping off a braid sewn on by hand. If one has to be much in the kitchen woolen dresses should not be worn there. They hold the "odors and sun ke, and soon boo.omo grimy and Finoky. Closets in which clothing is kept should be aired every day.

If dress, are to lie in trunks or drawers they should be folded with great cave, and slways right side out, parttetilary if lined, as the dress material, folding over the lining, prevents in a measure its creasing. Dresses which eau be hung right side out crease and string much hiss that tho'so av.i httug up wrong side out. They may oasiiy at present. He has crawled into the hole and pulled tho holt: iu after John Rnpplojias.a.two.horse potato planter and any one wanting potatoes planted will do well to give him a call. mar 10- him.

Rev. George Enzeroth. of Warren enant General Sheridan has returned to Washington from tho Went. While absent ho visited Forts RushoHs and Riley, accompanied by Inspector General Baird and Colonel Sheridan, for the purposa of inspecting them. At Dencer, he selected a situ for a new military post- to be located in the west.

A number of hites wore proffered to General Sheridan by a citizens' committee, from which he selec loined a number ol riie-o Linns, tu'eu t'lem in, and sent them to some sixty sr seventy iitiderra luat.es; a I he icene on tin proctor's stair-cne next morning may be better imagined than lecribed. But perhaps tho most notable hoax jf recent years ab iut two years back. An American cotton planter in the milieni Stales had, it'was cards at tf. See the beautiful easter Mrs. Knox's book store.

town, is in on a short visit to his old friend Kev. Mengor. He will preach at the German, M. E. Church If you, want to buy ahorse or mule call bu Erown Bros.

to-morrow. ted a tract, and will proceed to complete the purchase of the tract and forward the cheap and F. Fenn does dray work promply. Now for the Rock Island proposition alo'je, nouo of your omnibus business, papers to the department ot justice tor approval. General Sheridan believes that If you want your baby's picture tak We swallowed tho bitter dose because the the establishment of a new post, which will to A member of the railroad committee informed us this morning that the railroad propositions now before the people of this county would be on, F.

Waters' "Art Car is place diser.ee neeowtnted it, not from liking of be regimental, will result in considerable it. We now think the disease is remedied. economy in expenditures, as the purpose go. Pahtuke. 1 have an 80 all fenced which L.

M. Hart ly will preach on toni- is to consolidate, under one administration at Denver, at least three and proba I wish to rent to some person who cun pas- bly "four of tho smaller 'postft. thro cattle thereon. E. J.

Swan. peranco at too M. m. cnurcn noxt Sunday evening. AH should go and hear this sermon as he is au eloquent A Noted Burglar Caught.

Chicago.Ill., April 1. A fipcial from Atlanta, says: The recent burglaries which created such a sensation throughout the state, have speaker and never fails to handle the subject in a thorough and pleasant mar 163w. Dont forget the dray of F. Fenn when needing hauling done. tf.

If you want to buy or sell city perty call on Brown Bros. Call upon F. Fonn for yonr dray work. tf. manner.

report-id, lifter years of Uess attempts, succeeded in crossing the cotton plant and the okra, a species of lljinp. Tho result had exceeded all expectations. The new plant only one blbsaoni, of large size, of a fra-g-ra uce similar to tlio magnolia pink first nnd gradually fading to white. When this fell off, its sced-vessj swelled and swelled; till at last, when ripe, it burst and repealed a largo mas-i of cotton at least two pounds iu woight, quite free from tin troublesome seeds, which which were at tho bottom of the pod. The account was copied from one tp into another; showers of letters cairn beseeching tin lucky planter for a'f ew seeds, and ll was confidently predicted that the cotton industry would lx) revolutionized.

The Rlnndard and other English newspapers devoted a leading article to the new discovery. And after all this discussion, it turned out that the whole affair was the invention of some waggish Southern editor at a loss for a subject in the holiday spawn. Cluitnbtrs' Journal. withdrawn because bf a change made in the petitions after they had been circulated. He stafod that he had a letter ironi Mr.

calling attention to the illegality. The mattor has been under to-day but we do not know that any Conclusion has been reached. If the Rock Island proposition had been accepted in good faith when we brought it to the people of this city and county and carried on its merits everything here would have been in better shape than it is today. If we are now right, let ua go ahead. If we are wrong, let us get right as soon as possible Newton Republican.

Now that this bogus onnibus busi been engineered by the notorious fur robbers who first came into notice in Cleveland last January, and subsequent)" murdered Officer Halliiiaran protected from dust by lunging sheet or a curtain made of calico over them. Hats and bonnets should bf. kept well brushed with a soft manilla brush. Whisks are too stiff and bar A to bo. used.

When, not in uae they should be kept in 'a box or close closet or drawer, if one chances to have thm of suKcient depth. If summer dresses rf wash materials nre a'w'ays folded smoothly on takiug th-m off they will require, unless iietfially soiled, much less frequent laundering than when hung. Treated 'in this way by a moderately careful person, a linen lawn dress luay some times be wore every day for two weeks, Notice of Dissolution. Tho partnership heretofore existing between B. Irish and L.

Allen, under the the firm namo of II. D. G. is this day dissolved by consent of both parties. E.

B. Lush, L. E. Allen. Come in and subscribe for tho Tae Halstead Circulating Library was to day moved to the Post Office.

All persons having books from the Library are requested to return them at once. D. S. Picket, Librarian. O.

H. Smith is in from Partridge for a few day's visit among friends and relatives. Mr. Smith is not wholly estranged from Halstead and still likes to call here often, where his host of friends are glad to greet him. We hope he will conclude to return to this city.

The Daily Herald keep? him posted on Halstead matters. ness is over and tumbled through the on a train-, near Ravenna, One of the burglars, Pat Hamley, ss in the Hall county jail, desperately wounded, while another is in the Worth county jail ia the sanio condition. About March 1, six strango men visited Atlanta. They soon perceived that they were watched and disappeared. A week later a systematic series of burglaries began in two directions.

Within three weeks a (loioa different towns were visited and plundered The sum total of money secured thought to he over roads will bo voted for on their several merits. The Arkansas Yallev road Daily Heeald only Iu cents per week, and delivered by earner. was only a fraud got up to dofont the propositions and now that it has ac Brinff in vour old pictures and complished its purpose this will prob ably be tho last of it, and the Union have them enlarged at j. F. Waters' azi car" Halstead.

Kansas, mar. 30 tf. Pacific will go through without ob jeetion. it seems that one scratched one of the petitions and thus it was all defeated. If you want a brood more call on WEDDING RINGS.

SlsnlQonsve of tli Used by th Lowrs or Ye Olden Times. It was a protty custom, long ago, foi lovers to exchange rings. The gentleman did not have to spend a mouth's income for a pretty trinket for which he got no return, but he also wore and ehcrished a souvenir from his sweetheart Chaucer describes a heroine as giving her lover a ring on which were engraved suitable love-mottoes, and receiving a like one in return. Shakespeare makes more than one allusion to this custom. In the "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Julia gives rioteus a Brown Bros.

Brown Bros, real estate oflico is on the street. Call upon them. E. J. Cnill closed his school in Lake township yesterday.

A large number of tho friends and patrons of the school wore present and a fine, "large" time was had by all. Mr. Crull is a splendid teacher and never fails to give to all concerned. We would earnestly recom J. F.

Waters "Art Car" is elill in 1 lie dress, However, muss rave iwon well done up tu commence with. The cr.ro of boots, shoes a id which do their full shaio in giving one a tidy, wfll-drcs-ed a'r, must not be forgotten. 'Firstly, never allow a boot or shoe to become run over at the heel. No heel 'is better than a run-over one. If you can not afford to keep them straight by frequent 'rebuilding cut off the lift each timo one become, run over.

With groat care this habit of running over heels may be almost entirely cured. A greater a. than nails dn the side rim over is to have a small wedge forced between the layers of tho heel on tho rnn-os -r side, thus forcitiz tho foot to tread the other way. If this is persistently kept up, the "hoot will soon show a great improvement A boot should never be worn with buttoius off or with knots iu the shoestrings both being untidy. No matter how old a boot may be, even if patched, if tha buttons are all on, tho heels straight anil it is well blackened, it has a tidy, woll-dressed Slippers above nil things must ba irreproachable' in the ay of bairur m-i-ola and' well blackcnud.

Halstead. Call and examine work. Work done ruin or shine, mar. 23-w Iho men worked in two gaoge. In an affray at Harmony Grove Hanley was shot and captured, and says he will plead guilty when his case is called.

Photographs of Hanley were sent to J. W. Schmitt, superintendent of police at Cleveland. There is no doubt about his being one of the men and that the other three rre Charles Morgan, Billy Harrington and Mathew Kennedy. Last week the sheriffs of three counties organized a party to hunt down the other band.

Cominc upon the burglars at Baeonton they had a battle, in which Sheriff Hurst was severely wounded, as wad one of the burglars. Newspaper Passes. Chicago, March 31. The general managers of tho western railroads were in sesson hero to-day trying to arrange some uniform system in regard to newspaper passes, both state and inter-state. Some of the lines have instituted milage books and Contracts, while others stick to the old style of passes, believing that the latter are givon for services rendered and not with the law.

No agreemant was arrived at and each road will act on the matter according to his own judgment mend him to any school district, no matter how particiilar or in what shape, for he will make level the rough road and all will run smooth. I want my pound of flesh says Tommy Lame or blind I waut my money, I care not if she beg or die, My pound of flesh I still will erf. I have made arrangements to handle bread and buni from the Bon Ton Bakery of Newton. Givo me call and try the bread. R.

Tajsbet. 'mar. 30 2 w. Cabffktv WakiXd. This office ia sadly in nel of carpenter.

Who can give ns llftf ring, saying. "Keep you this remembrance for thy Julia's sake." To which he replies: "Why, then, we'll make exchange; here, tike you A "gimmai" or liuked ring was then invented which gave still greater force and significance to the custom. It was made of a double and often triple link, Vhieli turned upon a pivot, tf could.