The Stafford County News from St. John, Kansas • 2

niL: STAFFORD COUNTY NEWS. KINOR BARDRICE, Fearful Slaughter! M. Friedman Son, Dashes from Oar Correspondents. AVc do noi read anonymous letters am? The name and address of the writer are in all cones indispensible which will invariably be published w'-ih the article, no aom Ue plume permitted. We desire nost, news of occurences happening in various localities.

Write only on one side of the paper. Short are preferable to long ones. Never abbreviate words, but write them ont in full. Articles must reach the office, not later than Monday morning, to insure their publication that week. JTjIt mast not lie understood that the editor endorses in all instances, or is for the opinions of his correspondent, from the simple fact cf their appearance iu these columns.

Hare eommenre.1 the on mm stiucHTER -if all IJKOWVS GKOVE. Work on a dam and grist mill here, will be commenced this week. The dam is to be fifteen feet in height, and the dimension? of the mill about thirty by forty, one story and a lialf and basement -with four run of stone, two of which will be put in this season and the rest as occasion demands. E. A.

Johnson of Cottonwood Falls this state, and D. Y. Sabin of Brown's Grove are the parties interested. A sufficient guarantee that the work will bo pushed forward to an eaily completion. The school children indulged in a picnic, in the grove last Friday afternoon.

Interesting exercises followed at the school house, a most pleasing feature of which was the excellent music furnished by Prof. Baker's band, and several pieces finely executed on the organ by Miss Lettie Rowley. These exereises over the rest of the afternoon was spent in the grove by old and young in swinging, playing croquet, and listening to the music furnished by Baker's hand. Credit is due to the teacher II. S.

Trancisco, for the excellent programme and the pleasant manner in which it was carried out. eftflPEHTER WORK. Parties wishing to build Either Town or Country Will find it to their advantage to givn' J. It. McCollister a call If you want Store Fronts, Front Doors, Window and Door Frames, Etc.

Screen Doors made to order, and in a mechanical manuer. Now is your time to Have good work at low prices. Call at iTcCoVUter'' Factory, Cor Fourth and Street, Larntd; Kanxat. 1SJ The report of the American Uible society for 1878 show receipts, $162,274. Of this amount $112,255 were from legacies.

During the year, at the Bible house, there were 1,055,761 copies of the Bible manufactured printed abroad, 145,500 purchased abroad, total, 1,266.958 copies. Issued at home, abroad, 288,040 copies When one rea ls in a book on longevity that an oid woman whose diet is said to have been buttermilk and greens, lived to be 117; that an old man who leached lot, drank a pint and a half of London gin daily; that an Irishman who did not die until 111, imbibed till the last freely of ruin and brandy; the temperance editor may possibly need to reinforce his urtruuients with some new facts. A couple of Bucksport, were married by a justice. He afterwards discovered that his term of office had expired at the time of the ceremony, and that it was illegal. The "husband" proposed a second marriage, but the woman said she believed she did not care to, that she had enough of married iife for the present, and persisting in that opinion she left town the next day for Boston.

A war in South America is such a common occurrence that little notice is usually attracted. At the present time Chili in tighting Peru and Bolivia on account ot a misunderstanding concerning disputed territory. Peru is very enthusiastic, and money in considerable sums hns been offered to carry on the war. The Chilians are very active and energetic. The South Americans Jo not right with great skill or desperation, but are excellent hands at robbery, arson and bushwhacking.

A long letter from Liberia to the Herald says that Ungluud and France are ready to absorb tli.it republic, and there is a necessity for protection. It Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods, and Hats, AT THEIR ROOM. NORTH BROADWAY, SIGN OF THE RED FLAG. jVO TE THE PRICES choice of prints 5c per yard good muslius-lje. por yard aa upwards -1- good Cheviot Shirtings, 8jc per yard and upwards.

Good pant Goods, 11c. per yard and upwards. Good dress goods 8 per yar.l. Our former 50c. dress goods down to 33 l-3c; onr 35 to 25, our 30 to 20 "our 23 to 15c.

per yard. Victoria Lawns, 10c. old price 17c. Victoria Lawns, V2ic. old price 20o.

White. Percales, 7c. old price liic. Whi.e Marseilles 10, 15 and 20. old price 15, 20 and 30.

Toilet quilts, $1. 15, old price $1.65. Spring shawls. $1.00 to $4.05, old price to 7.50. Whit? shirts, 50 and 75 cts.

just half price. Good working shirts 25c. and upwards cheap at twice the money. REMEMBER This is a positive sale, and all the stock.must be sold within 30 days. Come Early and secure your choice of the Stock.

Larxed, THE "RED HORSE" SALE AND FEED A. B. LINN, SON, Props. Keep constantly on li.nul and foralo a rood asortmnt of first -olas Horses, Mules, Ponies, Work Cattle and Milch Cows, The Little Randolph Header, THE BEST HEADER IN THE STATE. The liglitsst el draft, and the ensiegt to handle.

Can And linn cut where the Hodge ami IlsioA have awamoed Head wlaat th.o Farmers say I.ARXEI), April anth I coaflrlpr the Randolph Header" one of the host headers in use. Iran -ul where others fail. I cut alsaprsido the Hodjfe with f.mr horses, while they had on six heavy hoie. I have doue good onttinif with three horses. I have cut as nnu-li as twenty-seveu acres In one dar and ni it in stack.

Any hoy years old can handle tlie Itandeljih 1. W. AKNOI.ll, Seven miles north-west of J.arned. In connection with this we have The El wards The Boss Harvester WITH THE IJEST WIRE ItlXnKKIX THE WORI.I1. OK A TWINE IHNDEU IF I'RKFKKKED All for sale and warranted to give satisfaction liy A.

11. AC. L1NX. -Stable on Fourth Street, East of ltroadway kinds of- I.arned, Kansas. 16.V.

who is a graduate nl Phaiinacr and h.i I. a 1 establishment in the east. Jle can he loiiu.J 110 BROTHERS, Retail Dealers in B. GRABE KANSAS. DEALERS IK Hardware, Iron, Nails, Stoves Tinware, Fonce wire, Pumps, Wagon Woodwork, Tloje, Glass, Paints, Oils, Tinware etc.

Keep the largest and best nclected stock of STOVES, AND Builders Hardware ia the CITY. Tin Roofing and spouting done on Notice. All wanting anything in th HARDWARE LINE. will find it to their advantage to oall and examine goods, and prioca before purchasing. Onr expanses are light, and will sell lowei than any other houio can.

W. E. ADAMS. H. E.

SALMANS. Adams Salmans, General Real Estate ana Insurance Aqents. Boy and sell on commission, Farms, improved Land and City property. 400 TOWN LOTS In Adams' addition for sale at low prices on reasonable terms. Government Land Located.

Loans negotiated on Real Estate securitf. No trouble to show land. Lamed Kansas. Sctoier nl ton LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE Fourih Strppt, West of f.arnp'i Honse. Have junt opened up a new Large and Commodious building with stable room for 100 HEAD OF HORSES.

GOOD CARRIAGES AND HORSES TO HIKE. 90 The Kansas Is now ready for the spring trade, with the largest and most complete atock of Harness ever This City. in Consisting of double and single carriage harness, heavy and light farm harness, Ladies' and Gent's Saddles, Bridles Collars, Whips, Haltei-s and everything usually kept in a firtt-class Harness Shop. Harness Makers furnished with anything in the harness manufacture at reasonable rates. Have also a small lot of Buffalo and Lap Robes THAT I WILL SELL AT COST.

Repairing done neatly, cheaply and promptly. Do not forget the place, one door south of Patten Stokes Livery Stable, and north of the Red Front meat market, where I shall be glad to wait upon all old and as many new customers as can favor me with a call. Samcel Reed, Lamed, Kansas All Goods first-class. Nothing but good material nsed and nor bnt experienced workmen cm yed. S.

JOHNSON, Manufacturer of silver MOUNTED and FLNE wagon and Dealer in SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS. WHIPS, SPURS, Farmers Outfitting a Specialty. Repairing DONE WITH IEATNE88 AND DISPATCH. HARNESS SIP H. IJiMAS, KDITOIl.

FIK.ST. This hciijg our first i.s;io it becomes liflcessary for us to hoM out oar right l.e.uil fellowship and declare onr anx-i 't to shake with nil those people'- who liuve the fiood interests of Stafford county it heart. Wo intend to he feur-1; in adherence to right, and Htrike out from the shoulder at anything that mry be hidden under the fence, not careing where the particular fmico may be. In politic wo are Republicans, not radical, but all wool and a yard wide. If our principles are satisfactory we would like to euter your name on our lists.

S7. John Publishing Co. North. II ir, 11 is Ke.iil- worth I st John Hii-Ci ter 14 Living A. Above wo present yon a map of our new Stafford county.

(Showing; the many towns and their correct location. One which the people may rely upon. Just remember, we nay you )na; rely upon it ai being correct. We say this forcibly, because we arc led believe that ic.h aspirant for county-neat honors will claim to be iu the immediate center. I ll tillNTllVS UAN'OKK It wan long ago remarked that a man's fneinics nro of his own household.

This is most deplorably true iu the case ot the American Nation. The germ of tho terrible conrliet which is convulsing Congress of tlie supremacy of the States over that of the Union, was born and nursed by vile pnra.sites who found their treacherous way into the vitals of the Government which had sheltered ami warmed, and clothed them so to speak, instead of hanging them, (as they richly deserved) there to breed the foul disorder that is now festering and gnawing tit the life-springs of its prosperity. It is certaiuly to be that every man should have a clear idea oi the government under which he lives, and which in all honor aud duty, he is bound to sustain. Every man is his own politician, and free to criticise the government and its ministers, from his own personal stand-point, but it rc pares no wonderful amount of sagacity for men to understand that the United States is Nation, and not a mere Confederacy The State is second to the supreme pow-er of all the States vested in tho execution tmd co-ordinate branches, and not 2(tarmou7ituH the Brigadiers tonld have it. It was the supremacy of the Union for which the war was fought, and the people are not tacitly going to submit to an entire perversion of the principles) frr which they voted treasure and gave their soi's.

The safety of the country lies in the ballot at the next Congressional election, and we are much mistak-if tho people, like the "Romans of old when besieged by the Carthaginian's, will not rise in their might, and sweep the ultra IJourbonism of the South out of existence, as Carthage was swept off the face of the earth. 1USCISSION OI' THIS CUItRKNT VENTS OI'' TIIK WKKK. Congress has now been in session nem ly two months, and in tho business for which it was called is where it was nt the beginning. It has advanced -rab-like in the estimation of the country. The biilauce of trade in our fnvor has increased from for the year ending March 31, 1S78, to $281,000,000 for tho past year.

This is among the better indications of the times. The municipal expenditures of Paris are forty-one million dollars a year. Its debt is In the matter of expenditures this beats New York by twelve million dollars. Its indebtedness is only onc-fonrth that of Paris. Alexander II.

Stephens wants to relieve the distress of the country by an unlimited issue of bullion certificate. If the country were only relieved of the distress from which he is- suffering, it would bo iu a fair way of recovery. A general strike throughout the country, to begin 5th, is threatened by tiiu Socialist leaders and trades unions of Chicago. Tho strikers ill demand tho universal adoption of the eight hours' system, and will settle the matter of wages after the eight hours' system is Brooklyn lias a wonderful child. It is two years old and has a head thirty-one inches in circumference.

It iB healthy and intelligent. At birth the head was normally developed, but on the day following the head began to swell, and has continued to grow ever since. The southern cities are ready for another visitation of yellow fever. The sanitary condition of Memphis is fearful, and New Orleans is little better. The seeds of the disease still lingers iu hose cities, and the possibility of a return of the plague this summer is admitted by the physicians of the south.

The growth of Kaunas is startling. During the fiscal year of 1878 eighty-seven new postoffices were established in the state, and during the lint eight months of the current fiscal year one hundred and thirteen new ofiices have been established. About 2,275,520 acres of land Lave been taken up during the current fiscal year. The managers of the Woodruff scien-tific expedition announce a temporary abandonment of the grand affair. They have spent $10,000 and receive nothing in Those who have conformed to tlie plan Had have paid theirfcooking fee to Meaara, Drexel, Morgan an withdraw the easce upon applica ticaat their office.

DOUGHTY BULLOCK, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HK Keep constantly on baud the largest and best assortment of Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Tobacco, Cigars, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Toilet Articles, In the Upper Arkansas Valley. Dealers viU do well examln onr WHOLESALE PRICES. SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY. May ICth, 1S79. Editor: On my way down to Sim City this week I noticed the wheat crop is a tot.u failure; with almost every man, the fields are plowed up and re-sowed to millet and corn.

Corn looks real good, think unless there are some drawback we will not be paying fifty cants for corn another year. "What millet and oats I saw are beautiful. Cattle are all in good condition on Turkey and the llediciue. They are much higher iu their prices on stock than here. Stosk dealers told me they sold Texas yearlings for twelve dollars and a half; two year old, tweuty to twenty-five dollars; three year old, thirty to thirty-seven lollars.

and a half cows, twenty-five to forty, dollars. I stopped at Johnston's Stiles Bro's mill it is running lively f'lour is twenty-five cents cheaper on the hundred than Lamed. There is a store there now, owned by Johnston Our friend Mr. Brown while sharpening plow-share with a hatchet, a small piece broke from the hatchet and struck him iu the eye-ball, and stuck there till ho came to Dr. Conduitt's, and onr friend Dr.

C. not having bis instruments with liim, and being an expert at the business, slit from his wagon tongue a piece of hickory and made a kind of nippc-rs. I held the gentleman's head, and the piece of steel was soon extracted and he returned home rejoicing. D. Mokeow.

rOV' TWESTY-TIIHEE, UANGS SIX- TKliN. Ed. Ciiroxoscope As your former correspondent from this place (Joe Blaine) has departed for greener fields and pastures new, 1 thought I would drop you a few lines, and let your readers know that we still flourish Joe Blaine has gone to Granada, where he has accepted a situation on the S. F. R.B.

He expects ioou to "wind up the company's business." There have been several new arrivals of late. Mr. Crider has settled on section thirty-one, where he is busily at work building a substantial residence. He is going to break and hedge the whole section as soon as possible. Section thirty-three also boasts of a new settler, Mr.

Ames who comes prepared to tear up the ground with his two yoke of oxen and eighteen inch plow. And last but least was the arrival of a boy at the residence of Mrs. Huston's on the 17th. Asa has adopted him into the family and is going to raise him as one of his own. Mr.

Prose has been on another ante-lopa hunt. He returned on Saturday, bringing two of the wary animals home with him. Our literary and debating society is a grand success. Mr. J.

Harrah of your city was out looking at his timber claim Sunday. We had a nica rain on Saturday, and also ono on Sunday, which revived caops amazingly, and made farmer's look happy. Dr. Condnitt Las completed his house on section thirty-four, where he expects to reside hereafter. William King has traded his claim in section twenty-eight, to Charlie Hough-tan for a house and lots iu Lamed, and has left our quiet neighborhood.

Wit Wilcox. JAMK9TOWX, V. May 12th, i879. Presuming that some of the readers of the Chuoxoscope would like to hear from the east, I have a few words that I will give you. The past winter has been a long one, and very severe.

Ice yet remains in Lake Erie very much obstructing navigation. Farmers have been plowing for the past two weeks, and will be ready to plant when rain comes, which is very much needed. Only two showers yet this season. All are done talking about "Dronthy Kansas" and applying that title to York State. People will complain, it makes no difference whether they be in the State of N.

or Kansas. "When I was last in Kansas I was told that my neighbors were all trying to sell ont and get away from the drouth I thought I would see how badly they wanted to sell. The three neighbors that I asked would not sell unless they could get doubla the price that their claims had cost them, Pretty good profit, one hundred dollars, and since the rain has come, I presume farm property is at still grtater premium. Of course there are still some croakers looking skyward for grass-hoppers. I am doing all I can to influence people here to "go west." Many have already gone, and more are on the road, while many more are getting ready.

I am satisfied that no one will ever truthfully say that I have misrepresented the "Arkansas Valley" to them. Some people go west and get homssick, for an excuse they will say the country was misrepresented to them, and the agent gets the benefit. Frightful stories come to ns from the "Arkansas great suffering.and in view of the great drouth before you. people here are expecting to be called npou to contribute to "buffering Kansas" until such time when rain will come that they may plant a little-corn and don't yon know corn biead and sorghum is what Kan sans lire on. Well I must stop and give now foryour county correspondence.with their words of cheer.

I expect to be in Kansas accompanied by some Chautauqua ns within a few weeks. E. I. Smoss. I am pleased to note the arrival of Geo.

K. Lee of Wataga, 111., who with his brother purchased five quarter-sec tions of railroad land a year ago. 2tr. Lee brings with him a car load of thoifr-onghbred Durham cattle, with a couple car loads more to follow. He proposes to make a model stock ranch making the higher grade of stock a specialty.

This is a step iu the right direction, and his efforts will be watched with interest. In addition to the mill improvements now going forward, Mr. Bargar has commenced building a dwelling house upon a lot purchased by him the past week. When completed the house will be occupied by Dr. Chas.

Hardman and farrily. There was a pleasant gathering of young people at W. L. Brown's, last Thursday Evening. A large number were present, and an enjoyable time" was had in dancing to the delicious strains of music furnished by Baker's string band.

Mrs. T. M. Hardeubergh was severely iujured a few days ago by the kick of a horse, but is now doing well. A valuable horse belonging to D.

Y. Sabin was lately severely cut and scratched by becoming entangled in a barb wire fence J. B. Bratton and Tom Collins of Lamed, and Wm, Gunison and Briggs Monroe of Kinsley, wore registered at the hotel last week. Col.

Jacob Bowman also made our place a visit last week. The case of H. M. Bowman M. against Joseph V.

Cater, all of Ness county, was tried before H. J. Young, Saturday last. The jury bringing in a verdict for plaintiff. Quite a heavy rain visited this section Saturday and Sunday, doing an immense amount of good to spring crops Winter wheat is almost past help.

C. S. Olmsted. ANSWER TO GEOGRAPHIC Ali PUZZLE OF LAST WEEIt. Ansicered correctly by King Ens-sell of Lamed.

Henry and May were to be married. They invited Charles, Augusta and Elizabeth to the wedding. They were just being served to a fine turkey, when suddenly all became black and. the things all vanished and left them sitting alone and desolation settled over them all, when a large negro came in and bade them follow him; they did so, and he led them to a large cave and taking down a large white dish, he kindled a fire in it, and instantly a strong odor floated around the room, and soon a great slave came in, with the very turkey they had been eating, and sat it down before the negro, who said that all this had been caused by a fairy whose ill will they had gotten by killing the turkey she was saving for Queen Charlotte, and the spell can only be broken by hei asking the fairy and the Queen to dine with them. How can we? asked they.

I will do it for you said the negro, so saying he took down a beautiful orange, and opening it threw the seeds in the instantly the odor became so strong that they almost suffocated, and a beautiful fairy and Queen Charlotte stood before them. Why are we um moned? asked the fairy. The ne gro told her and said that they were willing that she and Queen Charlotte should dine with them, and they found themselves in the very room they were eating in and they all sat down to the turkey which jumped off the platter and ran out the door. Wise Legislation. The Ohio tenate has passed a bill limiting charges which drawing rKm car companies may make in that state.

It provides that there may not be charged for any distance of 300 miles or less more than fifty cents for each single chair, berth or sofa, seventy five cents for each section, two dollars for each state-room, and for each berth made np for the purpose of sleeping therein not more than an additional twenty-five cents It provides that the penalty for violation of the above rates shall be forfeiture and payment for each offence of not more than $300 nor less than $100, and that the property of the sleeping car company shall be liable upon execution of said forfeiture. It provides that sleeping car employes shall be compelled to admit persons owning tickets or offering to pay the sums above stated into any car belonging to, or run by, said company, or shall pay the penalty above stated. It also provides that first class passengers may have seats in sleeping cars when the common coaches are over-crowded. And their ejection or refusal admission shall be punishable by a penalty of from 1 100 to $300. This seems to be a reasonable H.

H. Reed, Dealers in HOrSTAIX, FOKT SCOTT, WSAGB, CABBO DALE COALS, ETC. Sell cteaper for cath thmn any da1mr in the TqXicy. LarweiKant. TTTT1 Is under the eenernl charge of II S.

Bullock, venrs experience in different retail dm te at the dniff store da or nisrht Earned, Kansaii, November 2fith, 1878. LOWREY Wholesale and Hardware, Cutlery, Tinware, Wagons, Building Material All this we have, together with the best and aiost durable line of Ranges and Cook-inir Stoves eyer brought to Larneri. "We keep tlie celebrated National and Banner Ranges which rankf? above all'others on (heir own merits. We also have a choice collodion of the latent improved standard. Farm Implements.

We II.1T0 a Large Tin Shop in Connection with otir Establishment, with ample facilities for manufacturing allkinds of Tin, Sheet-iron and Cop per ware We desire to ideas our cns'omcis and sel them flrst-class goods atliving prices. 170 B. F. F.VAN3 Co. D.

H. SCOTT, LAMED SHERLOCK, KS. DOES A GENERAL Real Estate Business Has for sale a large list of Improved Farms, Deeded Lands, and Cheap Claims At all points on the line of the A T. S.F R.R. west of Pawnee Kock.

Buy and Sell fcr Non-Residents. Locate Government Lands riiDEIl THE Homestead, Timber Culture, and Pre-Emption Acts. ZiOCATES SOLDIERS' HOMESTEADS By Power of Attorney. Town Lots and Houses Breaking and Surveying done on short notice. BRIHKMAH BROTHERS, DEALERS IX LUMBER Keep constantly hand a well aelected stock Sash, DOORS, Blinds, SIDING, UOULDINGS eta and will seH Lumber CHEAPER THAN EVER BEFORE SoM ia the Arkanaaa Valley.

W. H. BR1SJLMAS ciarte. mi mm is asked it the United States will permit her foster child's ruin. Certainly, il the child isn't able to take care of herself.

It does not appear that we are under any obligations to defend Liberia, nor that to fall into French and English hands would be very great hardship. One of the foolish measures on the books of Lugland is the law pro-hibiting marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Many efforts have been made to secure its repeal but bigotry has been too powerful. Tuesday night the matter again came up before the house ol lords and tho Prince of Wales presented a petition regarding it. He thought that if the marriages now prohibited were legalised, it would be of great advantage.

No doubt it would, but thi-lords thought otherwise and the bill wai-defeated. This is to be regretted. The detestable law was conceived in ignorance, nourished bv bigoti and this be- iug an age of enlightenment it ought to die by limitation. The Afghan war is ended, it originated last year. Lord Lytton the English viceroy, sent an embassy with a formidable escort to Cabul, and demands that the envoy should be allowed to remain there permanently.

On September 21, Siiere Ali's troops refused to allow this embassy to proceed through the Ivhyber Pass. Further negotiations proved abortive, and the Ameer not sending a reply, to the British ultimatum before the date sjiecitied, an advance of the Indian troops is ordered. On November 21, three columns were in motion toward the lltdan, Koorum and Khyber Passes. The first blow was struck successfully. The two main columns achieved signal victories.

Shere Ali died, anil the collapses of the Afghan power followeSl. Alum is sometimes used by bakers to make a good looking loaf from an inferior quality of flour. The danger of using it freely has often beeu adverted to, and notice that an eminent English medical authority says that the general use of alum by bakers is one of the most fertile causes of dyspepsia, liver and bowel complaints in adults, and of debility and rickets in children. Bad teeth and their early decay is another consequence of the daily use in alum in food. It is claimed by physiologists that when there is alum iu flour, the bone matter of the bread (phosphate of lime) instead of becoming assimilated by the system, is either wholly or in part converted into a salt alumina, which is useless and incapable of appropriation.

The death of the Princess Christiana, sister of the late Queen of Spain, closes nnotlier chapter in the romance of the Bourbons of Prunee and Spain. When King Alfonso, of Spain, married Mercedes, granddaughter of Louis Phillippe of Frauce, it was said the dream of the old French King was realized in the union of the two branches of the family. On the death of Mercedes, it was said Alfonso would marry her sister Christina. While the gossips were busy with this rumor the Princess was taken sick at Seville, where she died on Sunday. General 33.

F. Butler offers to give twenty thousand acres of good farming lands in Wisconsin to colored refugees, if they will go and live on them, and Colonel Bob Ingersoll offers to devote the proceeds of his new lecture, "The Problem of the Exodus," to paying the way of colored oeople who desire to settle on Butler's Wisconsin lands. General Butler claims that the negroes will prosper as well in Wisconsin as in Kan-pas, and cites the prosperity of slaves who escaped to Canada as proof. His plan is to divide the Wisconsin lands into small farms, accommodating in this way some four or five hundred families. In New Orleans the chief of police has issued an order requiring all colored preachers to close their services at 10 o'clock at night.

Under no circumstances, says the order, "must they be allowed to hold services after that hour, and affidavits may be made against preachers violating the order, for disturbing the peace." Nothing is said about closing the. gin mills and gambling hells, but they, of course, in the eyes, of the chivalrous southerner, are the two chief instruments of civilisation and should not be restricted in their influence. If he would remember, however, that the constitution makes a certain provision regarding the free exercise of religion, it would be discovered that the order is null and void. Speaking of the reported discovery of typhoid fever among American hogs landed in Liverpool, the Philadelphia Record says: ''The statement is supposed to refer to a consignment of 400 hogs which wore shipped by the steamer Autonio, of the Blue Star line, about a month ago. The animals were sent to this city by a firm in the west, and were not examined prior to their being placed on the steamer.

Typhoid fever among hogs is something new to shippers, al though several batches of the animals, which have been sent over at different times have suffered more or less from the complaint lenown wrhog cholera. The opinion is freely- expressed that the allegation is only made with a prohibiting American irrfportetions of live hops, to the benefit of the English raisers." Perhaps our En-rlish cousins will some day object to the weather they eet from this country and try to hedge it out with prescriptive regulations. But American Hows always were too heavy for the Johnny Pulls. Tinware, Agricultural Implements and Keep a generl assortmet of Cutlery, Stoves, Glass, Pm. Rope, Hoes, Shelf de.

tVood and Willow Ware of every description. Staple Groceries. All Goods at Eastern Prices. Call and price our goods before purchasing. We will not be undersold.

Ilemeniber the place. COR. 4THAXD BROADWAY STREETS, LARNED, KANSAS. CHARLES Merchant Tailor, (Broadway, opposite the Co.nrt House,) Kerpt cofudanthj on hind tht ftnrmt ttek of DRESS HATS AND Philadelphia Also the Finest and Largest Assortment of Woolens for Gent's and Boy's Wear in the State of Kansas. LARNED.

Sells, Gleason Van Horn, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ila Tfce faest stock, tmd greatest Tarietj m4s la the Cttj. fuotnsiOKS or Ait AT THE LOWEST LiriXQ BATES. CALL ASD SEE VS. Scfanaek Brick Block, Larsed Kmu. r-', 1.