The Triumph from Ottawa, Kansas • 2

I rin. -i- i. r- t- i E. H. SNOW.

Editor'and ifrffrieXor. a-jto should be bestowed on those upon whom you are dependent for patronage. In that way you are building up an interest from which you may some day derive something: in return," no matter what your business may be. It is better even to pay a little more for an article sometimes, than to be draining your section of its circulating medium by sending it off to foreign parts. If others would serve you so in your I FORECASTING THE FUTURE.

Improved Prospects of the Third Term. From the Baltimore Gazette The probabilities of Gen. Grant's nomination are greatly increased. He occupies before the country the most conspicuous position in the Republican party. He was seventy thousand office holders to work for him his veto of the inflation bill will command for him the support of the capitalists and bondholders his Hcs Moines majority, (72,000) contains stringent provisions for regulating the roads that have given so much trouble to the good people of that State.

The railroad companies charge the Grangers with having imposed these fetters upon the freedom of monopoly and extortion, and the Grangers are unquestionably the active cause of the reform, but that body could not have achieved it without a majority vote of other people. It is not the Grangers' organization that the railroads should blame for these provisions so offensive to themselves, ease, epizootic. Good shelter and care are the best medicine. Farmers be careful and not overheat your horses afflicted with the disease. This is the way they put it out in Jackson county "It is rumored that Jason Dickey's office that of township clerk has cost him about.

$5. As the office only pays a salary of 2 per annum, we fail to see where he will make much." The State National Bank, of Topeka, better known as Col. Veale's bank, has gone into liquidation, and organized under the lav of the State as the State Savings Bank of Topeka, with Geo. W. Veale, President Charles N.

Rix, Vice President, and J. P. Eunis, Cashier. The Secretary of State would be pleased to receive from some of the older citizens the Secretary of State's report of and the Treasurer's report of 18G- to complete the list for the use of the State in the Secretary's of MIXED. There are 20 Republicans iu the New York Senate 12 70 Democrats to 58 Republicans in tho Assembly.

An exchange says that Rev. I- H-Kalloch thinks that there, is no mora sin in going to a theatre than in goinif to a church festival, but that young men should not go to cither when their washing bills arc unpaid, "That clock, stranger," said a Missouri farmer, "was the best kind of clock up to t-ix months ago, when my daughter began to have beaux, and now the blamed thing is always too hours slow. The arrest of a gang of horse thieve? at Iowa Falls the other day, developed the fact that an extensive gang havo been operating through Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Dakota, working under a systematic organization. One of their headquarters was at Des Moines. If the Ohio election result was a victory for hard money, honesty, and buti- and larger or wheat.

Mr. fcfcoville, of Cherokee county, this year raised ten acres of cotton, which will yield an average of a bale to the acre. A bale of cotton to tho acre is a better paying crop than an average yield of wheat at seventy-five cents nor bushel, or corn at fifteen cents. The Kansas Farmer says "A good farmer and a good citizen as well for they very closely follow, just called to get some papers to wrap around his apple trees; hv said "I have no borers in my trees, and I have never lost a single tree by rabbits. In the" spring I wash them with soap, lime and Hour two-thirds soft to one of lime, with enough flour to give it the consistency of thin paste.

In the fall I wrap the trees with paper and can rest perfectly easy aliout my orchard, which is really doing fine. I have my fire guards out and now as soon as I get my trees wrapped, I am ready for cold weather." The noint has been raised that the amendments to the Constitution mak- ing the regular session of the Legislature biennial, being adopted took effect immediately, and would prevent the holding of a session this winter. The Governor asked the opinion of the Attorney General, and received an answer in the negative. The following is the concluding paragraph of the Attorney General's opinion "lu my judgment, the adoption of amended sections 25 and article 2 and 3 of article 11, and section 29 of article 2, of the Constitution of this State, has not deprived the Legislature thereof of its constitutional authority to meet at the State Capitol and there to hold a regular session, commencing on the second Tuesday of January, 1870. Respectfully submitted.

A. M. F. Randolph, Attorney General." Rev. Mr.

Ziegler, the lately installed Episcopal clergyman at Lawrence, is doing a good work in his parish. He is reported as bringing his church society together in fine style. Earnest, devout and energetic, all his parishioners praise his efforts and aid him willingly in the gooel work. The Lawrence Standard is informed that Mr. Jones, of Seneca coKiity, Ohio, who has been sojourning in Douglas county, has determined to locate and engage extensively in sheep husbandry.

Mr. Jone-s is one of the largest sheep raisers in Ohi and already owns several large flocks in Missouri and Texas, and probably understands the busincs; as thoroughly as any man in the try. WISDOM. Lovely flowers are tho smiles of God's geKxlne'ss. Wilber force.

There are follie-s as catching as contagious disorders. Rochefoucauld. It is easier for the generous to forgive, than for offenders to ask it. Thompson. Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering, yet hoping all things.

Mrs. Hemans. Forgive-ness is commemiable, but apply not ointment to the wound of the oppressor. Saad i. True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guide's.

Addison. Fortune is as brittle as glass, and when she is most refulgent, she is often most unexpectedly broken. Publius Cyrus. Love anel esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either ot the two is wanting. Budgell.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. Drydeu. Fortune is ever seen accompamdng industry antl is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. Goldsmith. We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to le delicate in its demands as te be ample in its performances.

J. F. Boy.es. Sure there is none but fears a future state; and when the nnst obdurate swoar, dt not their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. Drydeu.

Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again wisely iin- prove the present it is thine; go forth to meet die shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Longfellow. Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great jkjwcts. I treasons, but is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels eleeply antl fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

Whipple-. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than lieauty. It shows virtue in its fairest takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and knper-tinene-e supportable. Addison. It passes in tho world for greatness of minel to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties, but it is one thing to know how to give and' another thing to know how" xto keep.

Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it it must i be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how. Senee-a. So near are the boundaries of pancg- rie and invective that a worn-out sin- ner is sometimes found to make the best deelaimcr against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions whjeh, in his unrcgencrate state, served to influ- enec his appetites in his new province of a moralist, will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those thr mr.i. thicker stand i I I i OTTAWA, THANKSGIVING.

Before the next regular issue of The 'fun-m nr. the dav net anart bv the President of the United States, and the Governor of tlu h'tale, ns a day of general Thanksgiving for the year 1.S75, will be in the rear of the dividing line between the present and the past. The day will be observed in this State it never has before. Not prosperity nluno makes the heart thankful. AVe can only appreciate a blessing by tho knowledge and the dread of Its opposite, lie cannot fully appreciate the comforts of a warm fire, who has never smarted and squirmed under the twitching of a biting frost.

The farmer whose bins and cribs are filled with golden grain, whose children are happy in their warm new suits, whose taxes are paid, and whose creditors are not continually at his door, may indeed feel thankful that his lines have fallen 1 i. pleasant places. But if he has seen the reverse of all this, and how few of our farmers who have not, if he has the cold November winds set up tin mournful cry of winter around a home unprovided with bread if he Iu'is seen wife, and the loved ones eow-or before the mertiles and chilling blasts of winter for want of proper wrappings; if he lias had the wind wliis tie through his empty corn cribs, mid' seen his cattle bogging pitlously for tho accustomed nubbing; if he has saen the inevitable last day for the payment of taxes swinging round without a dollar in his pekct, and heard the grating voice of the collector's jioiii), as farm after farm, and home after home, was knocked under the chilling cover of a tax certificate if he has been down in the valley of despondency, how thankful must he now feel on the uplands and in the cheerful sunshine of plenty Let us all feel thankful. Our merchants have had a good and remunerative trade: our mechan ics are busy, and everybody who wants to work has plenty to do, and at good cash wages. Kven the printers are happy and thankful Taking all in all, the season has been very propiti-wis, and Kansas may well spend one secular day in giving thanks to Him who ha -tenderly provided for His thnnkJesa aiul ungrateful creatures.

Let us not forget, however, that there are those in our midst who bear abejut with them heavy hearts. Misfortune has still been abroad in the community. Bad management and fhiftlessness have brought many a family up to the very opening of winter, without sufficient clothing and with no fuel. A truly thankful heart will manifest itself by works, rather than long prayers and big dinners. Lotus not forget the poor.

"WHAT IT MEANS. A resumption of specie payment -mean to make mortgages and notes that were giveu for a depreciated currency, payable in coin at a profit of fifteen or twenty per cent to tho creditor class. Two-thirds of our people are debtCTM, and became so when currency was at a discount, and by the resumption of specie payment the debtor class will le made to pay these demand in ld value. Notice what efforts are be ingmadu now, and have been made during the past ten months, to place money on real estate on long time, all over the western States, by the capitalists of the Kast. They make the borrower par seventeen par cent on the money loaned, and when re-Bumption takes place they realize twenty per cent more.

No wonder that the money kings, who have capital invested in stocks, notes and mortgages, are anxious for a speedy return to a specie basis. Kvery dollar of these Investments would thus be increased in value just the difference between the value of paper money and coin. Th farmer who mortagad his home-Mead for a thousand dollars in paper money would be compelled to pay it in gold, at an increase; of gold value. The moncy-loaucr will have just picketed that per without any valuation, and the farmer must pay it without any remuneration. Only another plan of fleecing labor for the benefit of the moneyed monarchist.

OUK HOME INTERESTS. We find the following sensible re-markr going the rounds of the press, nod as they are equally applicable to this locality, we present them to our readers, hoping they will think iiMn tho matter and in future govern them-Mlves accordingly. While self-interest generally predominates in the human family, we should not forget, while aiming to Improve our own condition in life, that we are not wholly independent of our fellows. We are dependent brings at best one upon another; ami we should remember that when we get into a tight plaee for some article of family use, and have not the money by us to pay for it, we often get accommodation from tho merchant or mechanic of our own city, who waits until it is convenient for us to pay it. But then again, when you have some funds ou hand, do you think of this, and go and spend j-our money with those who havo accommodated you, and thus keep the home currency in circulation where it ought to stay Or do you make up an order, getting others perhaps to join you, nd forward the cash to a distant eity to swell the cof-fors of those from whom-you never derive any benefit or faxxr? Each class dependent en the other, to some I'd mutual bvjr-fit; and putrou- KANSAS, NOT.

13 of a a of line of business, how wouid you live? Patronize homo interests hist, it you want to prosper mrsflves and see others prosper. POPULATION OF KANSAS. We are in receipt of a table showing the population of the State for 187.3, according to the census returns of last spring. The table is published in sheet form, to supply numerous applications, as the Secretary of the State B.ard of Agriculture informs us, in advance of the publication of the fourth annual report The population in 1860 was in 1870, 314,303 increase in ten years, 239 per cent, or 23.9 per cent per annum. Population in 1875, 528,437 increase in five years, 3J-per cent, or 6 per cent per annum.

The average annual iucrease in the United States from 1800 to 1870 was 2.22 per cent. On the first of March, 1874, the population of tho State, as returned by the assessors, was 530,367. This included an estimated population of 1,950, as follows: Commanche, 2o0 Harper, 300 Kingman, 300 Ness, 200 Pratt, 300 WallacCjGOO. These counties are not included in tho official returns in foregoing lab'e. Deducting this estimated population of 1,90 from the official returns of 1S74, we have The ofiicial returns of this year 528,437, show an actual increase of twenty, from 1874 to 1875.

Owing to tne locust visitation last tail, there was quite an emigration to other States to spend the winter. The census was taken on the first day of March, before our people returned to any great extent. If the census had been taken on the first of May, instead of the first of March, several thousand would have been added to the population returns of the State. THE CORN MARKET. A week ago the Times warned the farmers to take care of their corn, to save and house every ear of it, and to rest assured that there would be a remunerative market for it all.

They were leaving it out in the field, despondently saying that there Avould be no demand for it, and that it would not pay to gather it. The effect of the latest reports from Europe is felt already. There are now in this market from all parts of the East immense orders for corn, and not a bushel to ship. All who have merchantable corn ready for market, will find a steady demand for it from this time on. The winter tariffs of tho railroads may keep down the price in the West for a few months but still the prospect of cheaper freights and a brisker market in the spring will cause a speculative investment in well housed corn all over the West.

The current demand for immediate shipment will make a fair market for all who are obliged to sell, and those who are able to hold can do so with a prospect of commanding better prices in the spring. But there is no telling how or when foreign demand and railroad combinations may affect the price. The best plan is to be ready to sell at any time. At any rate, take care of your big corn crop. "There's millions in it." K.

C. Times. The Herd Law Question. The following points in favor of th enactment of a Herd Law, are from the Topeka Commonwealth, and are well put, and successfully meet many of tho strongest objections urged against such a law. There can be but little doubt that the enormous cost of fencing requireel in the eastern portion of the State is one influeuce that induces the bulk of the immigration to seek homes in the central and western portions.

Indeed, the fact that those counties where the Herd Law prevails are increasing from 50 to 100 per cent, in opulatioii faster than others, is somewhat conclusive on that point. The Commonwealth says The great cry among a certain class of men is that the adoption of the herd law will drive the business of cattle! raising into the hands of a few rich i men. The experience every e'ounty where it has been tried is right tho ep-posite of this. Under the present system the poor man, witn a few acres, poorly fenced, has been at the mercy of the large cattle owners. Their cattle have broken in anil destroyed the poor man's crops, and there was no remedj-, because in nine cases out often the fence has not been up to the standard to make it a legal one.

Under the herd law system the rich cattle owner must take ere of hU stenrk, and if it trespasses on the premiises of the poor man, he must pay the damages. The final clincher on the part of an-ti herd law men, is to ask, how a drove cattle is going to be driven through county without fene-es In answer, wo say that in counties where there is herd law, there is no trouble experienced and that ought to settle the question. By the way, it is the experience every county that has adopted the herd law, that its most bitter opponents became its staunehest friends after a trial of a single year. This is un- lversal. There lias never been an instance known where a county has gone back to the "fence out cattle" system where once the opppsite system of every man's taking care of his own- cat-tU hav been in.

vng ic. 'but their own headlong- folly in vibus ing the confidence and patience of the public and forcing tho adoption of the new measures self-defense. The most important of the "railroad see-i tions" of the Missouri constitutions di- rects tI ijCrilature to fix maximum 1 e. rates of freight -and passenger fares i from time to. time.

There are other sections forbidding the consolidation of parallel lines also unjust diserimina-j tfruis in the form of drawbacks and preferences in furnishing cars. But the one empowering the Legislature to regulate the maximum rates is the sec tion which goes to the root of the dfn-culty and makes the monopolies writhe in rage. The only hope of the companies now is to elect a Legislature that will work with them but the majority that adopted the constitution will take care to obtain control of that body. Next winter will witness the practical operation of new railroad laws in Missouri, and the result will probably be to stimulate pedo of other States to adopt similar safeguards against the unscrupulous ambition of railroad kings. Loving a Lie.

Tt is well known that the habit of lying is chronic in a Republican newspaper. But one would suppose that having obtained their sweeping majority in Kansas they wou'd be content with the true figures, and would not seek to make their victory greater than it actually is. This, however, is not the case. Buch statements as the fol lowing are cases in point The Reform majority in Miami county last year was 403 this year the Republicans elect their ticket by a handsome majority. "In Neosho county Cusey had a majority of 021 This year the Republican county ticket is elected." The Republicans did not elect their ticket in Miami county this j-ear.

There were eleven offices to be filled in all, and the Republicans elected but four, the other seven being carried by the Reformers. The aggregate major-ity for the Reform candidates execsed that of the Republican candidates by some two hundred votes. The same remarks are true of Neosho county, and other counties where the Reformers had a majority last year. On the other hand Democrats and Independents are elected in quite a number of counties wlicre Osborn had good majorities last year. Atchiaon Patriot.

The Lesson Taught hy Ohio. Tho great battle which has been looked upon as the keynote of the Presidential campaign has been fought, and as has been forcshadowc Id and corruption has triumphed. The result, while it is a cause of sorrow, was no great surprise, for never perhaps has a more unequal welfare been waged. It was not a simple contest between the Democratic and Republican parties in Ohio, but a conflict between Democrats and the all-corrupting influences ef golel. The Democracy went into the fight unaided.

Their opponents entered the field backed up by the gold of the foreign bondholder sustained by the money of the Federal government and upheld by the lavish contributions of the national banks, nor was this all. Prom the opening of the campaign, the Democrats of Ohio had arrajed against them the c-ombined influence of every Democratic paper in New York and New Fiig'v-nd. Theso journals, always influential, devoted their heartiest energies to the work of elefeating er nor A lien. A tpca f. i KANSAS.

Girard is infested with sneak-thieves. The Junction City Union is touching up the "old settlers" question. A good many calves are ilying in the southwest part of the State from a elis-ease calk'd the "black leg." Two prisoners escaped from the jail at Girard last Monday. One was sub- seejuently captured on Wednesday. John E.

Rourke has purchased of Geo. Sprague the farm known as the "Dr. Sprague farm," lying two and a half miles west of Netawaka. The new kiln the Burlingame i Pottery Company is ne'arly completed, The company will soon be ready to I simply all Kansas with stoneware. Lawrence has lost another of its old landmarks in the elestriction by fire of the old Durfee house, known recently as the National Hotel.

It was built in 1S5G. The Concordia Empire says: We take pleasure in giving Mr. T. R. Sprague, one of our eredit for a twenty-seven pound head of cabbage.

The Americus cheesa factory has suspended on account of the delinrmen-ek'sof the cows. Asa Bower, the assistant cheese maker, starts for his home in Illinois this week. The boy hcrse thief, Wiiiie Gibson, says the Holton Recorder, was sentenced by Judge Morton to twoyears in the penitentiary. Sheriff Williams took him off Thursday. The Holton Recorder and Express says G.

B. Waynant brought us a splendid sample of sorghum, light in color, clear, and of good flavor. He informs us that he has made about 2,000 gallons this season. We learn that many Indian jmnies are afflicted with the prevailing dis i a it speeenwasan aaroit oiu io. me port or tne eiergv ami an uenomina- tions but one.

The position lie has taken on the Cuban question brings into sympathy with him the anti-slavery sentiment of the eastern states, ana mu niahuum ioa eenam e.xiein, 1 Ml 1 1 A. A I J- A. popular with the loose and reckless spirits who are always eager for excitement and for fresh fields of adventure and in addition to these it will rally to him all the contractors, manufacturers and producers, who expect to be benefited, even if war should be averted, by the heavy sums that would be expended in preparing for such an emergency. The Denver Tribune has received a letter from a "prominent citizen of Denver" visiting in which occurs the following significant passage I met the President this morning, October 29, and had an extended conversation with him. And now I want vou to mark mv words.

Hen. Gran-will, by some means or other, before the end of next spring, be before the country as a presidential candidate on a hard-money and non-sectarian school platform, and the Republican convention will be compelled to take him up. The Whisky King. The pleas of guilty entered by thirteen of the distillers and rectifiers, and two of the revenue officials, indicted for whisky frauds on the government, dissipate all doubt about the existence of a colossal conspiracy for the fraudulent manufacture and sale of whisky in this district. To insist at this stage of the proceedings, and in the face of the stacks of evidence which tho government has, safely stored away in the city, that there is no whisky ring, is ridiculous.

There was a whisky ring, and the whole world knows it by this time. Any continued effort to maintain the contrary must rebound on those who make it. The confessions of fifteen ex-members of it are ready to be offered to the government in proof of the fact. Tho establishment of the. fact that there was a whisky ring is one important point gained but tlvere is another demand, a full revelation and its h'story.

Nothing short of the whole truth will satisfy the reasonable de-mauds of public opinion. As yet, the public knows next to nothing about it. It lias waited patiently for the facts, and it will not be satisfied till they are furnished. When the ring was organized by whom for what pretended purpose who were participants in its profits how much these profits amounted to by whom they were distributed why its existence was not discovered ago-these ara the points that the country needs and demands full and complete information about. An exhaustive revelation will have to be made, and it might as well be made at once.

The End of Railroad Rule Approaching1. The question of the supremacy of the People or the great railroad corpoi-ations of the country, is one that has for years severely agitated the West, and that agitaiton is now reaching the East, as the cost of transporting Western products to the East and Eastern manufactures to the Wcsl is becoming eiuite as burdensome to the people there as here. Tho action of the managers of the great trunk lines, at Chicago on Saturday last, in increasing by fifty per cent, the tribute laid upon Western producers ami Eastern con sumers, immediately upon the removal of water competition by the close of navigation, is but a sample of the policy that has been jursutcl for mauy years. It is this policy, more than anything else, that has stimulatcel, and is now stimulating more and more from year to year, the establishment of manufacturing industries in the West, which in time promises to do away with the necessity of a large part of the transpor- tat ion of the present. In this way the railroad management will in time see.

as some of the companies elo now, that they are literally killing the oose that lays tho golden egg, just as tho people and manufacturers of the East already see that it means certain eleath to their manufacturing industries, antl starvation prices to their consumers of Western products. i In our neighboring State of Missouri this controversy has culminated in a radical and healthy provision of their new constitution, empowering the Legislature to establish maximum rates, of fare and freight for the protection of the people. That Kansas and other States will soon follow with similar provisions, there can be littlo eloubt. To show the interest the people of the East are beginning to feci in this subject, we extract the following from the New York Journal of Commerce on that subject The great cpiestion whether the railroads shall govern the people or the people the railroads, is not wholly thrust out of sight hy the newer issues of the day. It has been a very lively question in Missouri during the campaign just closed, and is now settled in favor of popular supremacy over the roads.

The new constitution of Mis- souri, ha just been adopted by a large fice. In making a statement of the money sent in by the different county treasurers to the State Treasurer, we ought injustice to havo stated that the treasurer of Wabaunsee county sent in the funds in his possession before Treasurer Lappin issued his circular. Commonwealth. Tho country is full of cattle buyers, and they all seem to have plenty of money and to be willing to pay reasonable prices for cattle. The abundance of corn and other feed for stock make the farmers a little independent about selling.

The Netawaka News says "Letson -Liebag are building extensive corn cribs, and are buying a great deal of corn to fill them. They will crib to 15,000 bushels here, and as much at Wctmore. This firm is fast regaining the large country Netawaka had lost during the past two ears. A gentleman who went to Jewell county four vears ago with four hun dred dollars in money now has 390 acres of land, 170 under cultivation. He has 175 bushels of wheat this year, considerable corn, and 200,000 hedge plants.

Has ten aeics set with cotton-wood and box elder trees, 225 apple trees, 1,000 peach trees and mauy other things. His oldest boy is hut sixteen years old, but he has hired but two month's labor this season. Clay Center is damming the Republican. There arc now four newspapers in Cowley county. A Mark Twain Reading Club" is proposed at Windfield.

Thousand of bushels of pure salt have been made this season in Walton township. Sumner county. Mr. E. E.

Heath, teacher of the colored school at Junction City, reports the average scholarship 82 on a scale of 100. A Kansas man writes back from Oregon to Pottawatomie county, "I am not homesick, but I do not want to sell my Kansas lands." The Douglas county jail is nearer being empty than it has been for ten years. There are now but four persons confined, and two of the'se are crazy. Two hundml and eighty -seven car loaels of wheat, oats and rye have bee-n shipped from Newton already this season, for which the sum of about has been paid to farmers. Tho Wichita Beacon understands that a colony is being organized to settle in Clarke county.

Clark is an unorganized county, and with the exception of a ranch or two o- the Dedge and Camp Supply road, has no inhabitants. It is said to be a good country, and if opened will settle up very fast. The Blue Rapids Times says "We regret to learn that Messrs. Curtis Durant, hardware dealers at Water-ville, have been compelled to make an assignment in favor of their creditors. We hope to hear that this fimf surmounted the difficulties' that surround them, and will soon be free of all entanglements.

No better business men are to be found in the State, and no charge of unfair dealings can be brought against them for this step." The following is from the Wichita Beacon "The most destructive prairie fire that has taken place in this county, occurred on Thin selay last. It burnt over a large portion of the southeast part of the county, sweeping away hay stacks, corn fields ami hedges. F. Ftzgerald lost 150 bushels of potatoes. Joel Johnson lost between 200 anel 300 bushels of corn.

Wm. Bennett lost 12 tons of hay, five acres of corn, chicken house and 300 fe'ct of lumber. Perry Silknitter lest 300 bushels of wheat Hugh Baker, all the hay he had, amounting to about fifteen tons, and Mr. Miner lost about the same, together with a lot of hedge. Af.

ter while people will learn to plow fire guards around hay and other property if they wish to secure ample protection against the carelessness of the fire bug." A very light snow fell here 'last night, but it was almost all melted this morning. We were just in the edge of heavy storm, however, as fifteen mile-s northward the snow was three inches deep. Standard, Saturday. A correspondent of the Abilene Chronicle says that there is much dis satisfaction among the tarmers of Dickinson county with the treatment received from the Abilene grain bmxrs, and that there is a strong feeling among them in favor of building an elevator of the-ir own, and doing their own grain business. Mr.

Gooel win, of Dickinson county, sowed three pecks of oats to the acre with his wheat. The oats came up thick and heavy, "and served as a mulch for the wheat during winter, protecting from the severe wind by hoi ling the 9oil to the roots. The result wa a Nness stability, how is it that, ever sine-e the election, there has been a continuous succession of failures of bank, insurance companies, and business houses? Troy Chief. Joyce was sentenced at Jff.rson City on Friday last, to three and a half years' imprisonment and two thousand dollars fine, for complicity in tho crooked whiskey. frauds.

He stoutly asserted his innocence to the last. An ingenious contrivance to evado the Maine liquor law lias been discovered at Bangor. I consists of a barrel within a barrel, furnished with a faucet which, when turned one way, supplies sweet cider, and, when turned iu another, supplies lager beer. Maine has ten Governors living, and all residing in the state. Their nauieis are Crosby, Kent, A.

P. Morrili, Hamlin, Williams, L. P.Morrill, Washburn Coburn, Chamberlain and Pcrham. Pmr are over seventy years old. A woman in Columbus, Ohio, cursed with a drunken husband, has applied for and received the appointment as guardian of the beast, under a law passed in 1S7L This is one law of which our sister State may well be proud, anel which other States would do well to place upon their statutes.

A lifting match took place the other day at Eureka, Nevaela, between tw men for a prize of $200, the winner be the one who could lift a fifteen-pound dumb bell at arm's length tho greatest number of times. One man's strength gave out when he had raised it 1,130 times but the other scored without exhausting his strength. There are of that gsioral philanthrophy and easy which the world, in contempt, generally calls gtKHl-natured, who seem to hi sent into the world with the sjiino ele-sign witli whie-h men put little fish lu a pike-ponel, in order to be devoured by that voracious water hero. Notice of Final Settlement. STATK OK KANSAS, Franklin County.

In the Probata Court in ami for 9ai 1 County. in the Ksiato of Jan.ei T. Mitchell, rod: anil all other jit-THon intcrc'ttl in afoivs.iiu K-tttt. nrt-hnt'ljy notilU-il. tnt IK'ix-mixT, Wj, 1 aj.i Court for a full aul linul stMlnm-ut -niii stait; SL'lUK IKVeMiK.

Administrator of the Estate of Janu-8 X. Mia hoU. leoeasetl. ovcmher 12, A.I. If I.

LEGAL, NOTICE. To A. Stone, C. It. IVjoj anil Enoch lls.

JJeore J. lltrker HaUitv, lor Ottawa joha Uivnu'i, ti. W. ILmjcy, Kmily II. Mary H.

Woo.irovv, Olive OwhU11, Tiiotuu.i Lgit-ton ami CharIc- K. Snavi-r and io Vi'heeli-r, Kdward Hunter, John Davenport. Machine Conij.nnv, J. XjccolJj. Ilnrohl S.

Peck. M. O. Siierrick, jv. W.

Swu.ey, O. A. McMillan, Hsvuen Hilton, Jitrattv. Jolm VanAU-ttr. iit National U.ti.k of.

St. Joseph, Mo IS. C. Alva Smith, 1. T.

Haver and A. Srnw, I. Wells and W. it. shu'e, II.

II. T.itdiitTon, fd.uc and Mjor. T. II. Carnun-tn, Uuy, K.

J. Smith, Sarah lireirKH, J. U. Uriiett, heirs at law of of li. I.

-i-e llr-rtnjron, W. I. I le, Jo en Stevr W.8. 1) up and W. II.

Kvans. TOV and e.irh of yon, are Iierebv that O. W. Iiuldw iu, Frank 1'or and John under the 11 1 ui name tJi Vr Baldwin did on the 'Jtth da of Octol-er, 175, i-rexent to the Jude of the Oiitrirt Court of Franklin comity, of Kansas, tiwir 'iitioi netting forth their intention to erect ami luaiutsiu a mill darn aero the Ma rats de C'vpnes river, iu the rity of Oitawa, i. said eountv, jnl upon their land iii sai-l cutio i decriinl, tlic i eiht to inch said dam will lie rai-ed, the ii.ui.o of the owners nod numbers or the laud, and uumhtraof acres to be overflowed, and the water raised br the erection of such dim, the 'jurjst-s to whica sui water will lo npnlsed.

and all other facts Decenary to show the object of said ixtitiou. in pursuance of the provisions of tite law Sta of Kansas in such east; made and 'I hat tiie undersized appoint! by the Hon. Owen A. lijr-sett, Jude as aloiw-I ui 1, uon said petition, will meet on the 3d dav of January, A. 1.

le7C, at So'elnk a.ia.. a't the place where said 'Lira i-t proposed to lte e-ect- u.1 1... i said City of Ottawa, and will then and there proceed to examine the point where said dam i pr posed to fi erected, and the lands and real above attd below afciiw the aud ttrUrtUarie, which will probablv bo injured ly the eits-tioti of said dam. and hear the testimony of all partie interested ami iroeed to inike a l.mi whi-h lu revisit to any pes son by tho erv tiouofs ii.tcj,, jts utitnteuaoee foivvet and to inquire touchinif the matter ji.it-. in (CTirion now on tile in the of the ierkof the IL-trit Cnnt of aid cou Nimdry p.eces aivl parcels of land owne claimed by ymi, the covered persons above nu le-pecrively, are described in iwid petition.

stutained in s-iid pef itioa now on tile jn the olliro oltne ierk of the IL-trit i fmt of aid countT. meces aivt oarcels Un.t J. aural may he affected bv the luit Km ...1 mri wurj is eeortimrljr tivvti to yon as or said eountv, upon the i. law. Mud that Vou miv l.e lr, r.l as provided by Dated Novciubw Kouinsot.

Cjra. II. UitlWOt, GREAT WESTERN HOTEL BE HORSE ST R. C. CAMPBELL.

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Always wfc iiiktivih lijue, ir rou want eajest and best. AMF.UICA rLTRAH PJN WORKS, itti ra iV.cr-f Vc-v k..