The Longton Weekly Ledger from Longton, Kansas • 1

ONGTON 'WEEKLY THE 'BI JPST, AND FEAR NOT. A. Reynolds, Editor Proprietor. Two Dollars Put NUMBER 28:. VOLUME III.

LONGTON, HOWARD COUNTY, KANSAS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1873. Local and Miscellaneous. THE LONGTON WEEKLY LEDGER. Between two thousand and three The Official Paper of Howard County, thousand head of Texas cattle have for ten dollars. Now sonny, go right in and wash up, and tell your mother to put a rag on your finger.

And Johnny, don't let me hear of you fighting again." I never see any one down on fighting as the old man was, but somehow he could never break me of it. been brought into the vicinity of Long- UBLISHEj. EVERY SATURDAY MORNING ton lately. This is a good thing for our citizens as it gives them a chance the M. K.

T. A little over a week ago these two gentlemen were at their respective posts of duty, on different trains running in different directions. It being night a collision was the result. Cars thrown from the track, several wounded but no one killed. Our two friends were glad to raoet but would have prefered, postponing it could they have avoided the collision.

From the Sonlh Kansas Tribune of December 3rd: We are informed that one of the old Poughkeepsie $10 counterfeit bills was passed on one of our business men last week. Dealers must be on the lookout. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy I year, i. $2 00 On copy 0 00 On topy 8 60 Single sopy, BATES OF ADVERTISING Sckm. 8moa.

12mo. l4" ta 00 $9 00 $15 00 00 16 00 26 00 1-2 15 00 26 00 4 5 00 25 00 46 00 80 00 Business Cards, per year, 110 00 to dispose of their surplus grain and hay. Won't Contest. We have recently received a private letter from Dr. E.

B. Hibbard, who was the Farmer's candidate for County Treasurer. He says he has concluded not to contest the election with W. W. Jones, as at first In Canada they have two official languages, English and French.

Every motion made in the Canadian Parliament must be put first in the one and then in the Mother language. No clerk is eligible who is not conversant with both languages, and every mem 'Beyond the Jordon." And they came to him, mothers of Jiidah, Dark-eyed and in splendor of hair, Bearing down over shoulders of beauty, A nd bosoms half hidden, bal bare. And they brought him their babes and besought him, Half kneeling, with suppliant air, To bless the brown cherubs they brought him, With holy hands laid in the hair. Then reaching his hands, he said, lowly, "Of such is my Kingdom and then Took the brown little babes In the holy White bands ef the Savior of men Held them close to his heart and caressed them, Put his face down to theirs as in prayer, Put their hands to his neck, and so blessed them, With baby bands in his hair. Joaquin Milltr.

by nuen Miuta. ''Nae ehoon to hide her tiny toes. Nae stockings on her feat. Her supple ankles white as snaw Of early blossoms sweet. 'Her simple dress of sprinkled pink, Her double dimpled chin; Her puckered lip and baumy mou', With nae ane tooth between "Her eeh sae Rk her mither's een.

Twa gentle, liquid things Der face sae like an angel's face-Were glad 2he has nae wings 1" ber may speak either French or En AU Legal and Transient advertisements 10 cenU per line for the first Insertion and five cento for ech ad- contemplated. Weextract from his letter, which is dated Grant Creek, iltlonal insertion. SubscriDtions and transient advertisement to be paid strictly in advance standing advertisements payable quarterly. Howard Kansas, Nov. 28th, 1873, as follows: It is gratifying to Terrible Catastrophy 'at Srsv.

On the morning of the 23d of last month the Villa de, Havre, a French packet ship, second in size only to th Great Eastern, and plying between' N. Y. and Havre, France, collided with the British ehip Loch Erne, from' London to New York, in latitude 47 deg. 21 minutes. -Ji A dense fog prevailed and the sea was rough.

The French packet was struck amidahip and sunk in twelve minutes carrying down with her 226 human victims. Tbe excitement on the deck of the vessel after she was struck is deeeribed as terrible. 1 Two boats of large' capacity filled with the unfortunate passengers and crew were crushed by two falling raasts before they could be launched, mangling many of the inmates of the boats. Among the unfortunate victims were a number of prominent members of the Evangelical Alliance who wero on their way home from New York. Prominent among these were Rev.

Anthonea Cassaseo, of Spain, Prof. E. Provier, of Genevar Switzerland, and Rev. N. Weiss, Emile Cook andMr.

Lorreis, of Paris, France. The boats of the Loche Erne saved 87 persons, all but three of whom were afterwards transferred to the packet jLamountainand landed at Cardiff. The Loch Erne was very severely injured, and as she was due at Qucenstown last Saturday, and had not been heard from since the Lamoun-tain took off the rose ued passengers, fears are eutertained that she foundered atj sua after the Lamouhtain parted with her. LONGTON DIRECTORY. glish, as he chooses.

In New Orleans French has also a sort of recognized official standing. In Switzerland the Legislature conducts its proceedings in three languages, German, French and Italian. I Hungary, Latin was for along time the language of the law. A Short Session. The papers are begining to volunteer their advice for a snort and economical session of tho Legislature.

The advice will be followed about as usual. me to be able to say that where I was best acquainted I received the best support. My thanks are therefore PHYSICIANS. Why is it? During the past ten days several disgraceful rows have occurred on tbe the streets, and in no instance has our City Marshal been on hand to make arrests. We do not wish to complain too often, but it does look as if he had a convenient way of absenting himself from scenes of difficul-ty.

Col. York at every appointmont is meeting with a cordial reception and large audiences. As will be seen on our first page, the Chicago Tribune gave him a very flattering notice, and now comes the Gazette of Janesville, Wisconsin, with a lengthy review of his lecture in that city. As a popular lecturer he is proving a success. Taxpayers.

Beware of the Bond fraud sought to be perpetrated on you. tendered to my friends of Jefferson, DR. A. P. SEARCY, PHYSICIAN AND SURWEON, LONGTON, RAN-sas.

Office at bis residence on Kansas Ave. Centre, Greenfield and Caneyville DR. ROB'T H. REED, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, LONGTON, KAN-sas. Office at his residence, on Filth street.

townships, and especially to Longton township for its interest in the Farmer's movement, and for the support The session will continue the full fifty H. STEPHENS, M. "pHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR, Longton, Kansas. given to me, an entire stranger to them. Let us continue the battle un OH, NO! If bine-birds bloomed like flowers in a row And never could make a sound, How wouid the daisies and violets know When to come out of the ground I They would waitand wult the seasons ronnd Never a flower on earth could be found.

And what would birds and butterflies do If the flowers had wings to fly Why, birds and blossoms, and butterflies too. Would stay far up in the sky And then the people would droop and sigh, And all the children on earth would cry. St. Nicholatfor Novembtr. til Fraud and Corruption shall trem A TTORNBTSNOTART PUBLIC.

ble at the mention of the name of Farmers. Our city has now issued bonds in excess of the limit allowed by law, and should we be so unfortunate as to have N. B. CARTMELL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, NOTARY Public and Collection Agent. Longton, Kan.

this 10,000 bonds saddled upon us, Yours E. I). Hibbard. days for which the members will receive pay, and perhaps a day or two over. The first two weeks will be occupied with senator making, and a good deal of the remainder, with investigating rascalities.

The usual amount will be spent for newspapers and postage a long list of uncalled for appropriations will be made and bonuses will be granted to dead beats, who have up some big scheme to make a living without work. By the supe they could not be sold for $3,000 and we wonld have to pay the full SJ 10,000 with eight per cent, interest. Wormy Corn. Many of our far J. V.

FULLEN WIDER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LONGTON, KANSAS. 8PE-cial attention given to collections. M. V. VODER, 5 A TTORNEyIaT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC.

4, Ottice one' door south of postofllce Longton, Ks. From Montgomery County. We clip as follows from the Kunsan of December 4th JUVENILE PUGILISTS. BY MARK TWAIN. 'Yes, I've bad a good many fights in my time," said John Parky, tender mers find their horses getting sick, and not a few dying, and sometimes fail to The Independence Lyceum meets JOHN Q.

BURCHFIELD, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER, LONG-ton, Kansas. find the cause. Mr. Altaffer suggests on Friday nights at the school house. There is a grain elevator going up MERCHANTS 4 MERCHANDISE that it is caused by feeding chinch bug and wormy corn, as he has lost one from that cause.

Farmers will do well to investigate this matter and apply the proper remedy. near the depot, and the scales are already up. rior shystering of designing members, the repeal of obnoxious laws will be prevented by the superior obtuse-ness of a largo portion of the "Reform" members, number of fresh frauds N. MOMMA, From the Coffeyville Courier we RY-GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS SHOES, HATS and Cups. Notioiisand Gentlemen's Furnishing! oods.

Sign of the "Beehive," Longton, Kansas. learn that Captain Blanton is plowing up the old town site of Coffeyville with FROM WILSON COUNTY. will be enacted. If any retrench the view of making a tarm ot it. ment is made, it will be at the expense of men who labor while leeches and Our streets are again infested with another lottery soap man, who is taking in the green and unsophisticated, C.

II. E. CANNON, DRY-GOODS, MILLINERY GOODS, HATS CAPS, Boots Shoes, Groceries, Hardware Stoves. West side of Kansas avenue, Longton, Kansas. J.

G. ALBRIGHT, HARDWARE, TINWARE, STOVES, GROCERIES, Provisions, Glass Queensware. Longton, Ks, ALEX. SEDGE. GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, NAILS WOODEN-ware.

Sign of the "Big Ox," Longton, Kan. blood-suckers, whether in the shape of individuals or "institutions," will get what they ask for. During those fifty without much use of tbe article We learn that during the eold snap of last week, a man froze his ears while playing pitch in the south west corner days, a lot of favorites of certain members and officers will be appointed to J.G.CRAWFORD, of a saloon on Main street. imaginary clerkships, with nothing to EN ERA DEALER IN GROCERIES PR0VI8- Practicable and reliable men who lous, Longton, Kansas. have examined the river where the C.

F. NIECE, riRUOS, MEDICINES, WINES, LIQUORS, PAINTS, Oils, Dyestuffe, Notions and Toilet Articles West side Kunsaa avenue, Longton, Kansas. do but draw their pay and when the Legislature adjourns, the State will be none the better for its having met. This will be about the resnlt of tbe short and economical session. Troy Chief.

Mayor proposes to dam it up, says that there is not enough fall of water to give any power. The old Parker depot is being re WM. DR IS COLL, DRUGS, PAINTS, OILS, DYE3TUKFS, PATENT Medicines, Wines Liquors, Tobacco Cigars, Glass, Putty, Lamps. School Books, Stationery, Toilet Articles and Notions. Longton, Kansas.

moved to this place and will be attached to the depot building here, which will add thirty feet moro, giving room for a parlor HOTELS. While Henry Murrill was handling a revolver last week, between this ci ty and Coffeyville, it accidently went LONGTON HOUSE, A. BAUGHMAN, PROPRIETOR, LONGTON, KAN-. sas. Good stabling in connection.

STAR" HOTEL. COULTER, PROPRIETOR, LONGTON, KANSAS. Good accommodations on reasonable terms. Proposed By Laws. An Indiana chap wants the fol lowing penalties established For kissing a pretty girl, one dollar.

For kissing tin old maid a ma shall forfeit his entire possessions. For ladies kissing one another two i dollars. The tax is placed at this rate in order to break up the custome, together, it beiug regarded by our M. C's as a piece of incxcusablejabsur- dity. For every flirtation, ten cents.

Every young man that has jmore than one girl is taxed five dollars. For courting in the kitohen, twon-, ty-five cents. Courting inthe parlor, one dollar, Courting in a romantic place," five dollars, and fifty oents for each of-' fense thereafter. For courting a girl after she hat been escorted home from church by another young man, twentytwo dollars. Seeing a young lady home from 1 church, twenty-five cents, i Going to churoh without, accompanying a lady, five dollars.

Seeing a lady home from the Mite-Society five cents. For ladies who paint, fifty cents. For wearing a low neck dress, one dollar. For each curl on a lady's hoad above ten, five cents. For an unfair dovice for entrapping young men into matrimony, five dollars.

For wearing hoops larger than eight feot in circumference, eight cents for each hoop. Old bachelors over thirty, are taxed ten dollars and banished to Utah. Each pretty lady to be taxed from twenty-five cents to twenty-five dol-' lars, she to fix the estimate of her own beauty It is thought that a very large sum will be realized from this provision, especially in this 1 Each boy baby, fifty cents. Each girl baby, ten cents. Families having more than eight babies are not to be taxed, and for twins a premium of forty dollars Will be paid out of the funds accruing frorav the tax on old bacbolors.

Each Sunday loafer on the street, corner, or about church doors to be; taxed his value, which is about two eents. off, one of the balls taking effect in the shoulder of John Duncan and another hit the arm of Mr. Day. Business transacted at the United CARPENTERS BUILDERS. States Land office, at Independence, Kansas, for the month ending November 30, 1873.

G. A. CLARK, CONTRACTOR BUILDER, LONGTON, KANSAS. Terms reasonable. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

BANG! Almost every boy who goes gunning, if he can find nothing that he wants to bang away at, considers it the best thing to kill a few woodpeck ers. They look so funny, wrong end up on a tree, and whacking around tho loose bark, that the temps tation ra strong and the poor little bird has no friends so bang and down be comes, and he is given to the dog to play with and tear to pieces. The poor little bird, if over a year old, has killed and eaten many hundred thousands of bugs' larvae, in tbe form of grubs and worms, and almost every one of a kind which is injurious to vegetation. The cat-bird, ono of our finest singers, and a bird that is always sociable, if ever permittod to be so, eats a cherry occasionally, and of course he must bo banished or suffer death. He pays a better prioe for every cherry be oats than any fruiter would demand in the market, in the MARTIN HANSON, CARPENTER, BUILDER AND UNDERTAKER, Longton, Kansas.

Number of patents delivered 190 Number of letters received from Commis'ner 61 Number of letters sent to Commissioner 69 Number of letters ssnt to different 83 Number of filings 0. 8. T. D. R.

Lands 83 Kuniberof Government 2 No. Acres. Cherokee lands entered at tt per 1304.16 ly manipulating his dismantled nose, "and it's kind of queer, too, for when I was a boy, the old man was always telling me better. He was a good old man and hated fighting. When I would come home with my noso bleeding, or my face bunged up, be would call me out to the woodshed, and in a sorrowful and discouraged way, 'So, Johnny, you have had another fight, bey How many times have I told you it was disgraceiul and wicked for boys to fight It was only yesterday that 1 talked to you an hour about the sin of fighting, and here you have been fighting again.

Who was it with this time With Tommy Kelly, eh don't you know any better than to fight a boy weighing twenty pounds heavier than you do, besides being two years older than you? Ain't you got a spark of sense about ye I can see you are determined to broak your poor father's heart by your reckless conduct. What ails your finger Tommy bit it Drat the little fool I Didn't ye know enough to keep your finger out of his mouth Was trying to jerk his ch eek off, hoy Won't you never quit foolin' 'round a boy's mouth with your fingers Your'e determined to disgrace us all by such disgraceful conduct. Your'e determined to be nobody. Did you ever hear of Isaao Watts that wrote let dogs delight to bark and bight' sticking his finger into a boy's mouth to get them bit like a fool? I'm clean discouraged with ye. Why didn't you go for his nose the way Jonathan Edwards, and George Washington, and Daniel Webster used to do when they were boys Couldn't 'cause he had you down That's a purty story to tell me.

It does beat all that you can't learn how Socrates and William Penn used to gouge when they were under. It seems sometimes that I will have to give you up in dispair. It's an awful trial to have a boy that don't pay any attention to a good example nor what 1 say. What you pulled out two or three handfulls of bair H'm did he squirm any? Now, tf youd'e a give him one or two in the eye but as I have told you so many a time, fighting is poor business. Won't you for your father's sako promise to try and remember that? H'm I Johnny, how did it ahem whioh lioked "You licked hira I Sho I Really 1 Well, now, I hadn't any idea you could lick Tommy Kelly I I don't believe John Bunyan at ten years of age could have done it.

Johnny, my boy you can't think how I hate to have you fighting cverjf day or two. I wouldn't have bad him lick you for five, no, not FVRNITURM CABINET WORK. Osago T. 4. D.

K. lands at $1.25 per 447.25 We clip as follows from the Fredo-nia Citizen of the 5 th in st 1 The population that creates a demand for soothing syrup is again rapidly on the increase in Fredonia. Most of the Grangers in the county yesterday celebrated the sixth anniversary of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry. The L. L.

G. R. R. makes it -a rule to imploy no men in any capacity who get drunk, and certain ones were recently discharged for getting on a single spree at Ottawa. Longton is a city of the third class and the Ledger will have a good thing for a few weeks in the way of publishing ordinances.

N. Momma, formerly of Neodesha, is Mayor of the new city- A great many chaps who class themselves among the "highly educated" occasionally have the duty of furnishing manuscript for the papers and so far as our experience goes we can say nothing very commendable of their productions. Not one person in fifty of those who ever write anything for the papers furnish manuscript that would not reflect unfavorably on their ability as writers, were the printers to "set it up" per copy. The great difficulty with such contributors lies in the fact that they have no practical knowledge of punctuation, capitolization and the correct way of putting down many roper nouns, and perplex the printer abbreviating, making unnecessary paragraphs and indiscriminately using punctuation points and capitol letters, thinking the while they are fixing it up just right. The "Hell, Hell G.

Railroad" is what a native of Albion, living in this vicinity, calls the popular rail through-fare that runs from Leavenworth to Coffeyville. ll County Treasurer Hunt says he has issued more tax receipts thus far, this year, than he did up to the same date last year. This is encouraging, considering the depression in the times generally at present, and is evidence that we are better off than most people believe. Parties from Humboldt passed through Fredonia this week in search of a traveller who, on Saturday night last, stopped in Humboldt and on tho following morning hitched up to a new wagon instead of his ownan old one and wagged on. The persons in per-suit found no traces of their would-be victim, and continued their Bcarch southwest.

Something over a hundred head of hogs were driven through town last Sunday, destined for Howard county, where corn is not so high in value as in other localities. We did not loam where the owner of the swine was from. Final Homesteads uatt.it Homestead Kutries Ceded Lands entered 100 THOS. GARNICK, MANUFACTURER OF ALL KINDS OF FCRNI-ture. Turning done to order.

Longton, Kan. From the Democrat of December W. J. SKINNER, 4. 9 It.

11 CIV, (CABINET-WORKMAN, LONGTON, KANSAS. Work solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. 5th: Mr. Van Bennett from Texas retur blacksmiths: ned to Independenoe, last Tuesday evening. JNO.

S. TROXEL, BLACKSMITUINO OF ALL KINDS. SHOP ON North side of Fifth street, Longton, Kansas. Look out. Several of our citizens iave been victimized by counterfeiters in the last few weeks.

M. L. STOWELL, worm be destroys, and throws in a complete bird opera several timet a ENERAL BLACKSMITH. SHOP ON EAST SIDE of Kansas avenue, Longton, Kansas. It is reported that a farmer living few miles north of town mysteriously isanneared a short time since, At he day In the bargain.

S. Nichols, MISCELLANEOUS. had roalized upwards of SJ800 from the sale of his farm a day or two before, Ex-President Filmore, and four and bad the money on his person at the Z. W. KIRBY, PROPRIETOR OF THE LONGTON STEAM SAW Mill.

Manufacturer of nd dealer In Native Lumber and Corn Meal, Longton, Kansas. surviving members of hit old cabinet time of bis disappearance, the beliet is that he baa been foully dealt with. Conrad, of Louisania, secretary of One plan to eato up the hard times i Keep your noso out of other people's. FERD. BISHOFF, 00T AND SHOE-MAKER, NORTH EAST COR.

The hunt of some of ouroolored cit nor Kansas avenue and Firth St. Longton, Ks. izens in the Indian Territory, week war Hall, of New lork, postmaster genoral Graham, of North Carolina, secretary of the navy and Steward, of Virginia, secretary of the interior- business and attend strictly to your own, and be industrious and economical and endeavor to pay your debtt. before last, was the cause of two men being accidentally shot by the same bullet, it passed through one mans are expeoted to visit Washington this The County Treasurer started out shoulder and enterod the other one's winter for friendly reunion. DAVID ORE," BILLIARD SALOON.

WEST SIDE KANSAS AV-enuo, Longton. Kansns. Pure Wines, Liquors, Beer and Cigars always to be had. W. R.

VERCH, HARNESS-MAKER SADDLER, LONGTON, KAN-sas. Repairing promptly and neatly done. MRS. SEAVY, DRESS-MAKER, LONOTON, KANSAS. 8EWINO of all kinds solicited.

side, lodging there. On the arrival of the party in Independeno, Dr. Tho mombcrshin of tho Presbvteri- on Monday of this week for the cot lection of taxes in Verdigris, Fall Ri-. ver, Duck Creek and Talleyrand town. fhurch in Kansas has more than Jharls a.

More probed the wound and removed the bullet. quadrupled in five years, while a cor ships. Next week he will visit Neod The other day in Texas, two of our responding increase in ministers ana organized churches hns been made. esha, Newark, Chetopa, Pleasant Val- A. REYNOLDS, fOB PRINTER.

LONGTON, KANSAS. WORK KN-' trusted to him will receive prompt attention ey and Cedar townships for the same Independence boys met rather suddenly and under rather disagreeable circumstances. John C. ilomick and A nnmmittoeon teachers. N.

purpoBO, and the remaining townthipi THE LONOTON TOWN COMPANY, FFKRS SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS TO PARTUS schools submitted a report setting out -i -i 0 John 11. Andrews formerly of this the following week. Wilson County Desiring to locate In a thriving town. Sixteen rinsons why imiuibh-. i i i place, are brakesman on the same tlnen.

ment should be restored to mc scnoois. railroad viz the Southern division of LEDGER, LONOTON, KANSAS, BEST PAPER IN Howard county. Only Two Dollars a year..