Fort Scott Land Record from Fort Scott, Kansas • 1

tfl vr 3 AS 3 PUBLISHED BY VANOSSEN, MISTLOVE CLARKE, BM VOL. 1. FORT SCOTT, BOURBON COUNTJ, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER, 1870. NO. 11.

ii mum, Jim irnu -f. T-r T-7- Rnlos Governing Onr Tho Slate Agricultural College. Kansas litis reu.Kon to bo proud of her schools. Her system compares favorably with that of Massachusetts and Michigan, and its development promises even richer results. Wo build for the nges, with the successes and failures of others us our guide.

Lawrence is justly proud of the rising star of the State University. The graduates of Emporia aro eagerly sought by well-informed school directors, nnd her sister tho younger Normal, is just rising, like Venus from the soa, chid with all attractiveness. But the oldest, the most riclilv PRIDE. uv joiru saxb. Tis a curious fact oh ever was known liiit often In human nature shown, Alike in cast le and cottage That pride, like pigs of a certahl brood, Will manage to live and thrive on food As poor as a pauper's pottage.

Ofnll the notable things oi earth, The queerest thing is the pride of birth Among our "fierce democracy A bridge across a hundred yours. Without a prop to save it from sneers Not uvea a couple of rotten peers A thing of laughter, tlings and jeers, In American aristocracy 1 Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you cannot ascend, Without good reason to ama-cliend Iliclerto fi Fort Scott R. It. Sonic six weeks sinco wo received a letter from an old friend, enquiring as to the status of tho Laelodo Fort Scott Railroad, with a view of making a proposition to ironi nnd equip Ou. n.

Clark. Fort Scott Land Record Published Monthly by TAN FOSSEJi, MANLOYK CLARKE, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Office: No. 11, Wall Street, VANDAL I A. JtOUTE EAST. INDIANAPOLIS SHOUT LINE, The Pioneer Through Line and Shortest Route to New York.

Tour Trains Daily Leave the Ticket Office northeast corner Fourth una lliestuut tsireow, as iouows 8:40 a. m. (Sundays excepted) Chicago Ex m. (Sundnyscxcepted) Day Express Th's train is our hour faster to New York and all Eastern cities than any other morning train from Ht. Louis.

Are- cllnlng car runs through to Louisville without chanee. and a close connection Is raado with a train of the same cars for Cincinnati. SriOp. in. (Sundays excepted) Aecom'tion m.

(Saturdays excepted) Through i. express. JPullman's Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping (Jars. Rnn in this train via Columbus. Pitts- bnrn and Philadelnhin.

to New York without change. A sleeping car also runs from St. Louls to Cincinnati, ana from St. Louis to Louisville. This is the only Route Running Trains Ihroughto New lorle, All trains for Chicago and Indianapolis Wn through without change of ears.

lose connections at and Beyond these points VI Union depots. The track of this road Is well ballosted, smooth and in perfect condition its eauinment is new and first-class, and it will at alltimes offer the nubile better ac commodations and faster time than any Other route to the East. Tickets for sale at the F. 8. G.

K. Ii. Depot, Fort Beott, Kansas. GEO. CLARK, Ticket Agt.

Ono. B. Hai.l, Wes. Pas. Agt.

Kan. City. F. Uiiam)Lkk, Gen. Ticket Agt.

St. Louis, II TO ALL rOINTfi West, North, East and South. Trains leave Kansas City Station going East 0:25 4:50 p.m., li.jia.ni. -W CONNEOTIONS At Ht. Louts, with all Rail and River Lines, to all points East, North, and south At Centrafia, with Columbia Branch Trains At Macon, with Hannibal St.

Joseph Railroad At Ottumwa, with Burlington A Missouri River nnd ties Moines Valley llallrnods. for Des Moines. Fort Dodge, Omaha, California, and all places AVoft At Bruuswick, with Omaha and Chllliitnthe Branch, for Chillichothe.etc- At Itlehmond Lexington Junction, with Ht. Loum Ht. Joseph linincn lor ijexmg- aaalMty, St.

Joseph Council Bluffs Kail-road, lor Leavenworth, Atchison, etc. At Ht. Joseph, with Kansas City, St. Joseph Council niuils Kallrnad. forOmaha.

Union JPaoittc and Central Pacific points At Kaunas City, with Kansas Pacific, Missouri Jtiver, Fort Scott A Gulf Railroads, etc.for ort Scott, Lawrence, lA'n ver, and all points West. Pullman's Palace Cars. Hon through betweon St. Louis and Kantian city, St. Joseph, and Council Bluffs, without change.

The Short Line "between St. Louis and Kan las City anil St. Joseph and between Ottumwa and St. Louis and Ottumwaand Kansas City and St. Joseph.

8. H. KNIGHT, iencral Superintendent, St.Iuls. JAMES CARLTON, Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent, St.

Louis. I1EN-HY V. WICKER, Gen. Freight Agent. THE GREAT Through Passenger Route, IS VIA THE OLD RELIABLE Hannibal 1 St.

Joseph SHORT LINE. Connecting at Kansas City UNION DEPOT with the Ho. River, Fort Scott and Gulf RAII KO.iD. Three Daily Express Trains Crossing the Missouri at Kansas City and Mississippi at tlnincy on New Iron Bridges, run from KANSAS CITY TO QUINCY Yllioc. change of Cars, connecting at yulucy Union Depot with Chicago, Burlington and Quincy AND Toledo, Wabash and Western Rati roads, to all points KAST, K03TH OR SOUTH Py Hit Lineal.

Omnibus Transfer and "-i In Ke encountered on other Lines are Vo i. ftud the following advantages in gained i FROM KANSAS CITY 1 HI ATLANTIC ill. riven 11 hours In advance nf Trains by any other line, lenvlng Kansas City In me morning to Chieur Sri, Detroit, Toledo, Lafayette, Toronto, t. Wavne, Milwaukee, Montreal, Ac; Connecting with the celebrated Fast I xpress, which ariives 12 honrs In advance to Philadelphia, New Vork, and 1 oston. 1 If KAHT EXPRESS arrives 4 1 I alt hours in advance of trains t-y any other line leaving Kansas City In ttie evening to Chicago, Js-trolt, "'oledo, Lafayette, Toronto, Ft.

Wayne, iillwaukee, Montreal, and otherjviints Kast too mi memo to mention. Pullman Sleeping Palaces on this Train, J'he above facts will be apparent by i paring the time table of thell nnnlbal nd St. Joseph R. R. Line, with those of UlUBI line ui IV--.

C.nn If ForQnlncy, Hnnnllial and V.OV 1 ht. Lou la direct. BAQOAQE CHECKED TI1R(T Jlsk via Hannibal St Joseph it attheTicHetiMlliT-s, Missouri River, Gulf H. R. IwpoU.aud at Kan-minx, Lnlon fivfa VETn oy r.B.

GROAT, yeneralSupt. Gen. Ticket Agt. D.J. VaiFomm S.

Mxtov, Real Estate Business. 1st. Wo will berefttlcr place no property on our list held for sale by other ajionts. We must have the exclusive agency of all property left with us, lor a stated length ot time 2d. We muko no charge for advertising any property iu the Land Owner.

3d. When property is left with us for sale, we require tho owner to si''n a written contract. When this is not done on account of tho absoucc of the owner, or any other cause, tho property is considered left subject to the rules of the office. 4th. When property is placed upon our books for sale at a given price, and afterwards sold by the owner at a reduction on the original price, we will charge commission on the price given us as if the sale were made by us.

Dtn. When property Bom Dy tho owner, and it can bo shown that the proporty was brought to the buyers notice through us, the regular commission will be charged. 6th. For exchange of property ne gotiated by us, regular commissions will be charged both parties on the value they place upen their property in exchange. The consideration is what we charge our commission on, and that may be money or proporty.

7th. We show ail property lelt with us for salo. frco of charge. 8th. No property can be drawn from our list unless thirty days no- tice is first given.

9th. Our commissions are due on the completion of tho sales. Strawberry Culture. Tho Iowa Homestead givos tho following account of the liev. Mr.

Haines' method of cultivating straw berries noar Pes Moines He selects naturally rich soil.tind then manures it heavily and plows dcop reduces the soil into a mellow condition, and plants in in rows four feet apart, and aoout two feet in tho row. The first season he allows the runners of these plants to fill all the ground in tho tail he covers with buckwheat straw, pro-fcrrinff this to any othor covering, as it lies loosely on the plants, and besides it is better than wheat straw. Mr. II. says that the importance of hisrh manuring must not be lost sight of, if a good crop is expected, Alter ono crop is ou, jitr, Haines plows directly through his bods a space of four feet mg it with mannro, ana loaves it in mellow condition lor the runners of tho adjoining strips, and by fall the bod is again entirety filled, and ready for a full crop the following ing summer.

This strip of plowing is done immediately alter tho fruit ing season, iho toiiowmg year tne remainder of tho bed is plowod up and treated as before described. In this way, and by liberal manuring, Mr. Haines continuos to keep his strawberry beds thinks that he will never abandon the same nioce of land that ha commenced on, thus saving tho labor of planting new beds, unless it bo to extend the plantation as ho has done this year, avmg set out about now plants. While Mr. Jlaincs ground is most thoroughly dry, being a sandy loam, yet his observation and experience has taught him that tho suriace is somewhat ridged up by tho plow, the plants do better in winter or summer, and ho always gathers tho best crop in loose and mellow soil.

Bio Corn. Tho Augusta Cres cent is responsible for the following tall corn story: 'A stalk of corn measuring 13 feet high, 6 inches around the butt, and woighing 9J pounds, was left in our olhce by ICev. JS Wiluams, who says that it is an averago specimen of his field. Mr. W.

S. Snodgraes, ot iilttlo alnut, left a stalk measuring 13 feet high Mr. 0. N. James, also loft a stalk, which measured 12 feet in height, nd was but eight weeks old, l'ret- good for the tircat Amoncan Desert.

We think that Kansa may safely isk her reputation as a "corn coun try" on tho above. After all that can be said about the advantages one man has over another there li still a wonderful duality In human fortunes. II tne heiress has booty for her dower, the penniless have beauty for theirs If one man has cash, the other has credit if one boast of his Income, the other can of his influence. Mo one is miserable hut that his Heigh- ho want Komcttiina lie possesses; and no one so mighty hut that he wants another aid. There is no fortune so good but It may be reversed; and none so had but it may be bettered.

The sun that rises in clouds may set in splendor; and that which rises in splendor may set in gloom. We have always for sale Good Bargains in the Best rroperty. All business in onr line entrusted to our care, will bo attended to with fidelity and dispatch. endowed, and perhaps, as yet, the most tuny developed or our Ktatc institutions, is the Farmer's Col lege, at Manhattan, lic'gun in lSlio, it tins steadily Kent pace with the development of the iStnte. Struggling, up to the oresent year, for the lack of funds, and hav- ug Deen carried, during mnnv dark hours, only by great self-sacrifice on tho part of its ablo and devoted faculty, it lias enrolled, during tho past academic year, 173 Btuaents.

of whom thirty-two are in the col- ego class proper. Twentv-two counties of tho six States besides Kansas, were represented in the institution, and the first clnB Military science was graduated. Jsorty-tiiree thousand one hun dred and forty-six of the endowment lands have been sold, for $180,979. from which the income this year is about and the en- lanced value of the remaining lands aises tne prospective endowment to over a million dollars, every cent of which is pledged as perpetual investment for the free education of the masses. This is emphatically the people's school, where the industrial classes may train their children for the activities of life, "without monev and without nrice." Manv of the students, both ladies and gentlemen, are supporting themselves as they climb the hill of science.

And delighted crowds assemble to witness the perfection of drill, and the accuracy and rapidity of statement at the searching examinations and yet, this is but the day of small things. As an incidental matter, liinty-flve teachers have gone forth from its halls to Instruct in the schools of the State; but in the not far future, hundreds of scientific and successful farmers will point with laudable pride to the Agricultural College as their alma mater. Wo believe the interest of this valuable institution are in good hands. The board of regents aro an able nnd earnest body of men, several of whom are notj unfamiliar with tho plow, and we nro glad to know that lUey are maturing plur for tho practical development of the college. It is a pity that their hands ore so tied by the lack of means to properly opgn a farm and laboratory.

The State of Michigan, with half the numbor of students in her Agricultural College, gives it 140,000 this year and $40,000 next year, for buildings and improvements. Kansas employed an agricultural professor last year, at a salary of $1,800, and, although he had neither barn, nor team, nor tools, granted him $200 with which to open up and run the State farm. This year he has only 000 to use on the farm. Our readers will understand that the endowment of this institution Is strictly confined, by legislature enactment, to pay for teaching not even a hoe or a broom can be nought with it; and the $30,000 granted, last March, by the Legislative, can only be realized out of the surplus income after all teaching bills have been paid. Although thus restricted, the development of the farm is progressing, and a number of experiments are iu process of trial.

The city of Manhattan lias given to tho regents the city park, forty-five acres of choice second bottom, for an experimental farm, and probably another year will witness a decided advance in tiie industrial development of the college. Meantime, the academic year of 1870-71 opens September 8. Tho regents have purchased the boarding house, and are thoroughly refitting it. Rooms in it will be free, and board at the low rate of $3.50 per week, AVhen the best 'of instruction Is thus furnished free, with rooms thrown in, and board nt cost, parents are culpable who allow their children to grow up in ignorance. A pool woman used to give an elephant, who often passed her stall in the market, a handful of greens, of which he was very fond.

One day he was in a great fury, broke away from his keeper, and came raging down tne mamet-piace. Every one in her baste the market-woman forgot her little child. But the furious elephant, instead of trampling it to death, picked it up tenderly and laid It on one side in a place of safety. Do you think she was sorry she gave him his handfulofgreensashe went by? Jio. Weneveriose by a kind action, no matter to whom it Isc done.

Information Wanted Of Mr. Josiah Hill, who left Falls county, Texan, about fifteen months ago, with a herd of cattle. He was last heard from at Pawnee, on the 13th of January last, but since that time has not been heard from. He left behind him four small children, and his land is in litigation. As he has no legal representative to attend to his affairs, It would be an act of charity to his children to give them any Information of his whereabouts or fate.

Address Jas. B.Jones, (care ofllenryStoneham,) Calvert, Robertson county Texas. State prww please eopy. A fhirtoen-foot. ftirelofnn tiaa been exhumed near Milton, Wis.

and sold to a speculative doctor ff You may lind It waxed at the other end liy some plebian vocation Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued somo worthy relation. Ilecauso you flourish in worldly affaiis, Don't be haughty and put on airs, With insolent pride of station Dou't be proud and turn up your nose At poorer people in plainer clothes, But learn for tho sakeof your mind's repose That all proud ilesh -wherever It grows Is subject to Irritation. Josh Billings Papers. TIGHT BOOVS. I would jist liko tew kno who the man wuz who lust lnventid tile boota He must hev bin a narrow and kontracktod If ho still lives, i hope ho haz re ported ov hiz sin, or iz enjoying grait agomo ov sum kind.

I hav bin i a grate nienny tite spots in mi life, but generally cculd manago to male them average but thare iz no such thing az making a pare ov tite boots average. in knn't git an average on tho pinch ov a tito boot, enny more than yu kau on the bite uv a lobster. Enny man who kan wear pair uv tito boots, and be humblo and penitent, nnd not indulge in profane literaturo, will mak a good husband. He will do more than will do to divido up into several fust klass husbands, and be made to nnsur fur a whole naborhud. Oh fur the pen ov doparted Wm.

ShaksHpcar, to write an anathema agaiust tite boots, that would make anshunt Rome wake up and howl agin, az she did ouce beforo on a previus ockashun. Oh for the strength ov Ilerbulis to tare intu shu strings all lh tite boots of creashun, and skatter them lu the 8 winds of huavco. Oh fur the buty ov Venus tow mako a bigg foot look hunsum without a tito boot on it. Oh for the payshuncc ov Job, the Apostle, lu nuss a tite bute and bless it, and even praforono a sizo smaller and more pinchful. Oh for a para ov butcs bigg cuulT for the foot ov a mountain.

I hev bin led intu tho abovo assortment ov "Oil's" from having in mi posseshun, at this moment, a pair ov numbor nine boots, with a pair of number eleven feet in them. Mi foot are az a dog's nozo the fust time he wears muzzle. I think mi feet will eventually choke tho boots tu deth. I liv in hopes they will. I supposed I hed lived long onuff not tu bo phooled agin in this way but I hev found that an ounce ov vanity weighs moro than a pound ov reason, cspeshily when a man mistakes a bigg foot for a small one.

Avoid tito boots, mi friend, as you would the grip of the meny a man haz caught for life a fust rate habit for swearing by encouraging hiz feet tu hurt his butos. I hav promised mi twu feot, at least a duzen ov times during mi chockurd life, that they should be strangled agin, but I find them today az full ov the sturauk ako from a sudden attack ov tite butos. But this iz solemnly the last pair ov tito boots iwill cvor wear; iwill horcafter wear boots as big ts my feet, if i hav to go barefoot to do it. I am too old and too respectable to bo a phool enny moro. Jiasy boots iz ono ov the luxuries ov lifo, but i forgit what the other luxury iz, but i don't kno as i kare, provided i can get rid cv this pair ov tito boots.

Enny man kan have thoni for sev en dollars, just half what they kost, and if teey don't make his feet ake woss than an angle worm in hot ashes, he ooedn't pay for them. Metbusoles is tne only man that 1 kan kail to mind now who could hev afforded to ware tite boots, and en joy them he had a grate deal of waste time to bo miserable in, but life now days is tew abort, and tew fall ov aktuol bizzinefs to phool a way enny ov it on tito boots. Tite boots is an insult to enny man's understanding. lie who wears tite boot will hav to acknowledge the ccrn. Tite boots have no bowls of mercy thoir insides are wrath and promisk- ous cussing.

Beware of tite boots. N. Y. Weekly. Htrive to obtain the approbation of the good and if even you con-not serve all men.

show at least, br a gentle, kind, courteous, ant so far asduty will permit, a conciliatory Ix-sring, that you are not nnwnrthv of the esteem and honor of all your re now creatures. ficala-COOMIlM'Mr Bn VtnUrud A A Vtofin iAr Our Railroad System. The railroad system of Fort Scott is, pehnps, second to no othor town in Kansas. Our citizens have labored with a will and unanmity sel dom or never equaled by any com munity. I he citizens of iort bcott by their zeal and energy gainod a prominonoe among railroad mon and capitalists, long before wc could prosont any real or tangible reason for extending railroads in this direction.

It is true that tho trade of Fort Scott was always very heavy for an inland town, and this togeth er with tho fine agricultural country surrounping us did much toward bringing us into favor among the nilroads ot the West, It is true that wc have givon lib. rally, but not loss liberally than ny other counties in Kansas, which avo not half as much to show for their investment. Bourbon County has given 000 of her bonds in aid of tho Missouri Iiiver, Fort Scott Gulf road, and there will soon be a demand for $150,000 in aid of the K. T. road, which will givo the county two roads for $150,000 each.

Thore is still voted 8150,000 fjrtho building of another road from this plauo west, which will cro long secure to us another road. Cheering word reaches us from Lebanon the work is going on briskly down there, and we cro assured that tho money hns bcon so-cured for grading the entire line from that place to Fort Scott, and that arrangements have been effect ed with one of the leading railroad corporations of tho West. This road, and the one leading from this place west, will be completed within eighteen months from this date. We will then have four separate and distinct railroads loading to this place and if we wore to count a continuous line passing through as two roads, as our neighbor in Missouri, wo would have six railroads only one less than that place Kansas City. Two of theso roads Kansas City would call them four both passing through our from north to south and one from cast to west, aro, we moy say, already completed.

We can safely say Bourbon county will have secured more miles of an 1 ri. A 4Vtt Vt sa wrtnrtntt (lifln TT other portion of Kansas. Our roads are also the best (hat could be built for your leading town and When these roads are all completed, Bourbon county will not have less than 80 miles of railroad in the county, which alone will become tax able proporty to the extont of 000,000. Wx are almost daily selling and receiving new property, consequent ly continually changing our list, so that persous desiring to purchase should not neglect to give us a call, as we have places not advertisod, and they may find something that may suit, and recollect that we do not charge purchasers lor informs Hon, and we can generally satisly every party if they will give us an opportunity. Oen.

Cousin-Montauban, Count of Palikao, the head of the French Ministry, Is seventy-four years of age, having been born in lie distinguished himself in his youth In Algiers, wnere lie attained tne rank of General. His title of Count was bestowed upon him for his services in the first expedition of the French and English agamU Pekin In 1860, in which that city was taken and pillaged. The St. Louis Democrat thinks the population of the large cities will stand about thus New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, 400,000 Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans below that figure.

All persons introducing their Property for sale to out customers, in our office, or at any time when we are engaged with a purchaser, will bo liable for commissions on the sale of their property to such purchaser. The State Fair. One year is a long timo for Kansas, Tho wealth and population of the State have increased beyond that of any now State in tho Union which gives a guarantee that the coming State Fair will be tho grand, est of any wost of the Mississippi. These gentlemen told us that they were daily in receipt of letters from tho Eastorn States asking questions about our State Fair. The reputation of Kansas and the notoriety of Fort Scott will bring a larger concourse of pooplo to our State Fair this year than ever boforo.

Farmers of this Sjate little know what they owo to the exertions of snob men, who are spending their money and Urne in the intorost ot agriculture, because they love its noble calling. It is pleasant to meot such men and hoar their practical views upon this noble profession, The peoplo ot ion hcott and Bourbon county havo appropriated six thousand dollars to fix up their grounds in elegant order, which they are now doing with rapidity. Wo havo not yet seen a plan of their buildings, but can only assure our people that they will bo on a grand scale, meeting every requirement of the btato hocioty. aro ashamed to conloss that some of tho people of our old coun ty have acted almost criminally this matter but by tho enterprise of such mon as O. A.

Crawford, ii. F.lleplerand J. 15. Campbell and others, every difficulty has been overcome and the party of progress and improvement has triumphed, and tho people of the whole State can roly upon seeing one ot tho grandest fairs over held in the West at Fort Scott this fall. The people of Crawford county should not forgot that the State Fair this year is to be held near them, and they should be prepared to do thoir part.

Crawford county should be represented in every product of tho farm, gardon and dairy, as well as in her stook. Let our people tnako up thoir minds that they must all go to the State Fair. We can go in squads or circles, take along our own grub and camp out, having a glorious pic-nic of three days, not only entertaining and pleasant, but contributing to the interest of the great and noblo calling of Agriculture. Let us begin now to make our calculations and form our companies. At least one hundred families from this county should be in attendance during tho continuance of tho Fair.

Let the question be asked in overy neighborhood and at every house, "Are you going to the State Fair?" We are told that thousands anxious to visit Southern Kansas from the northorn pari of tho Stato will avail themsolves ol this opportunity and visitors to our State I1 air will be in attendance from every State in the Union. Tho people of Fort Scott know how to entertain their guests. This has beon tested on many former occasions. No ono need fear being left in tho cold. Their hotels and private houses will bo openod and prepared to receive guests and fnrn-uh them with necestaries and comforts of life.

They have always shown a pride teldom witnessed in any othor locality to make all comfortable around them and especially those from abroad. Girard Press. Wo buy and sell lands and city property on commission, pay taxes for non-residents, examine titles, furnish abstracts, moke collections, attend to renting and collecting rent, and promptly attending to anything entrusted to our care in our line of business. Deeds and all legal instruments made out, acknowledgments taken, ke. Persons seeking homes or investments will save time, labor and expense by' calling or corresponding with us.

No exjyente or charge, to pvrcJtatert of pmprrty, tijlitn- any circvmttanrit. An American is using his life insurance policy as a trrcat success, In Germany. said road. We laid the letter before tho Bo rd of Directors at their late ineoting, and to-day we are pleased to anuounco, that in our judgment but little doubt need bo felt that through tho ooinpnny represented by our correspond' curs on the Laclede Foil Scott Railroad, will be running, to and from Fort Scott, iiihido of ono year. We aw in posse sion of a proposition which will bo submitted to a fpocial meeting ol'tho Directors njxt month and one which wo think no hositan- cy will bo exhibited in accepting.

Thoso of our readers who have traversed the country through which this road will run, will hail this announcement with pleasure. South- wost Missouri has long enjoyed the reputation of being rich in agricultural, horticultural and mineral resources, and tho counties of Vornon, Cedar, Polk, Dallas, and Lnolcdo aro unrivaled oountics of that section. Upon the oastern end of tho line some seven hundred men are em ployed, and tho contractors, Messrs. Burgess this week advertise in the St. Louis papers for a thousand more laborers.

Tho county bonds hnvo been hypothecated for cash nnda fresh impulso is being put forth in St. Louis regarding this pro ject, and we ropoat what wo fully be lieve the road will be in business or-dpr a yoar from this date. Alsace and Lorraine Alsace, one of the most fertile and productive provinces of France, is separated from the Orand Duchy of Baden by the river Rhine its southern boundary is tho canton of Basle in Switzerland, while toward the north it borders on the Rhenish Bavaria, It has belonged to the German Empire since 870, and formed Dart of the Duchv of Suabia from 960 to 1208. The French have divided it into two departments, the "Bas-Rhin" with Strasburg and the "Haut-Rhin" with Colniar as capitals. Lorraine is situated between the "Chamnaene" and Alsace, nnd ex tends toward the north to the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, and the Prussian Rhenish provinces, in the south to the "Frenoh-Comte." It is divided into four departments those of the Meurthe, the vosges, the Moselle, and the Meuse.

Both these provinces are described by travelers to be perfect gardens of beauty and fruitfulnss. A certain statistical writer gives the following fleures concerning the provin ces, by which it would appear that the uerman population preponderated over the French. In the Department Bas-Rhin the entire population is computed according to the census of December 31. 1801, at 677,574 inhabitants; 571,0, in 532 communities, were Germans. In the Deparment Haut-Rhin there lived 645,802 inhabitants, of which 636,443, In 3-59 communities, were Germans.

In the Departments Meurthe and Vosges were found in 174 communities 101,663 Germans, or a total of 1S9 communities and 844,128 inhabitants, and in the Department of Moselle, in 844 communities, there were Germans, or an aggregate population of 446,457 inhabitants. To sum up: Out of a total population in the five Departments of inhabitants, 1,350,158 were Germans. It is related of the Empress Eugenic that on her return from Cherbourg, at dinner at St. Cloud, she surprised all present by proposing a toast. The fortunate mortal thus honored was no other than M.

Thiers. The assembled guests could not believe their cars. Ilcr Majesty condescended to explain: To M. Thiers, to whom we are indebted for the fortifications of Paris, a work which now enables ns to send to the frontier 100,000 men, who, otherwise, conld not have been spared." All kinds of proporty bought and sold. Interests of oon-residcnti promptly and faithfully attended to.

Largt lists of city, suburban and country property always to be found ur office..