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may be successfully trans Splinters I. ZEISER, State Items. TUB LABOR HOTfJIEXT planted in the autumn if the weather be THE MIRROR. DEALER IN It cannot be denied that the Labor Reform movement is assuming forniiaable proportions throughout the country and is destined to play an important part in the neat Presidential canvass. In this Wichita spends $500 per week for ice.

A Harvey county girl aged 17 weighs 275 pounds. A donkey kicked a mule to death in Howard county. moist enough to ensure their rooting. Alter the ground has frozen, or in the beginning of winter they should be mulched to prevent heaving from freezing and thawing. We should prefer spring planting when large quantities are to beset.

CHAS. LARZELERE, Bus. Manager. naTmnsasT Thursday, Ausust 22, 1878. Groceries and Provisions, Give tho poultry, shade.

Mulch newly planted trees. Tomatoes are good for chicks. Whitewash poultry houses often. Eradicate weeds by hand picking. -Cucumbera of slow growth are bitter, Not work, but wages, says the tramp Think, read, and meditate, then write.

Provide good pure water for live stock. movement are men of all shades of political faith who claim that the working-men have no representation in Congress; 1 that all legislation is in favor of the non- Owing to the extreme warm weather, The Kansas Manufacturing Company, at Leavenworth, expect to make and sell 6,500 wagons this year. A man named Holmes, in Winfield, Cowley county, who had a wife and sis children, went over into Sumner -county, WINES producer who enjoys everything, and and the great danger of extensive sick nes from some malignent disease.it against the producer who enjoys nothing; and nquons. i KANSAS secnls of the greatest importance that that capital has grown arrogant and dom Texas has 9,000,000 acres of cotton land Do not attempt to auceeed oats with recentlv. and married another woman.

HrpHkllcan MUttc COnvrnttn. A Delegate Convention of the Ri puWicnns tif Mut State of Kansas will be held in Representative Hall, in the City, of Topeka, on WediitMliiy, the 28tliday of August, 1878, ntthe hourof 10 m. for the purpose nominating candidates for the following oflices, (iovernoT, Lieutenant Governor, tiur.relury of Slate, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Pnl)lie Instruction, Chief Jsutice. of the (Supreme Court, ineering over labor: that the purchasing every parent watch carefully the diet ot The first wife raised a row about it, but their children-. As a rule, children diet ATHENA, wheat.

consists mostly of milk. If you will was bought off by wife number two for $100 in cash and the assurance of $8 per No two countries, produce the same scald the milk when it is first dehverd at quality of wool. month for the support of the children. the house, you will not only preserve it value of money has not increased in proportion to the decrease of wages; that labor is at a discount and thousands of mechanics and workmon forced to tramp in order to save themselves from starvation. These and other things are complained of and, if true, should be remedied in the Sprinkle air-slacked lime on turnips Wife number one sold her brute ot a nus- sweet much longer, but do the most im to destroy the "turnip flea." band for a good price.

But don't they Silver and Greenbacks; taken at Par OTTO O. JOITES7 STO-VJEJ A.JSFD TIN STORM portant thing possible for the health ot The temperature of a stable should be have anv law in Cowley county? The basis of representation in the State Convention will be one (1) delegate and one (1) alternate tor each 300 votes cast for Wal-for Presidential Klector in vour child. Scalding the milk entirety 65 deg, and free from moisture. The receipts into the State Treasury for thn week endinfir Aueust 15th amounted removes from it many of the impurities proper way, namely, by the ballot. This, The cash value of farms in the United whir.h must necessarily be in all cows the workingmen say, they intend to no.

States is set at $9,262,803,861. to the disbursements 1878, and 1 ad itional delegate audi alternate lor every fraction thereof of not less than 50 votes; provided, that in all organized counties in whieh less than 50 votes were cast for said Simons, such counties shall be entitled tol delegate and 1 alter Wathena, Doniphan County, Kansas. One ltttle town in Denmark sends milk when they eat everything found on nur nrniriaa in hot. weather. Mexico is 2.000.000 eggs to London yearly.

The number of Germans who haye set noted tor its universal heilth, as regaids Pigs and pou ltry are omnivorous; hence tied alone: the Santa Fe Railroad during nate each as follows: they may become scavengers. The ninth Congressional Convention of Missouri meets at Cameron to-day to dominate a candidate for Congress. The contestants are Gen James Craig, and J. II. R.

Cundiff, both old citizens of St. Joseph The Jim Burns ring, which champions the cause of Cundiff, is making ft nasty the tast fire vears is estimated at 40,000 Counties. Delegates Litm, No farmer can afford to grow a ton of Counties. Delegates Allen, A nrteisoii, Ati'Mson, Emooria Sun Irish potatoes 25 cents acute and malignant dueascs, and it is a rare thing in Mexico to see a child sick with any the numerous bowel complaints of this country. I know of no reason for Lvon, De Cheapest an' de Best STOVES Oil hay per acre, though many do it.

Der bushel; sweet potatoes peach If a man be kicked.by a cow may not es applcB, choice, and Carb apbles, In Bis yer Market, shuah same price; tomatoes (SOcents per bushel; be said to get a free milk punch? It is reported that fish die from eating fight on Craig, who is the choice of the Union Democrats and in my Republicans this, greater than the fact tliat they never give their children "raw -milk." They would just as quick give them poison. I Marshall, MeVherson, Miami, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morris, Nemaha, Neosho, olums oer quart, 10 cents grapes, per tiotato beetles, because rb. 5 cents butter 15 eggs 8M cabbage, also. Gen. Craig is a man of ability and wish I could impress upon the minds oi influence, has served in Congress before, 5 cents per head green corn 5 cents per those who have the care of "little ones, The fall cricket, called by some August cricket, was first heard on the 26th u't.

Abushel of grain, after distilling or Ness, Norton, but is a railroad lawyer, and a tool bf the dozen; melons 5 to 10 cents each; pump the necessity of this important yet simple Osage, kins 5 cents each. Wall street monopolists and money sharks. But he was a Union man while Osborn, (ttawa, Lawrence Standard: On August 1st a and easy task. You will be well paid for your trouble. Ex.

brewing, makes about 40 gallons ot slops, A new 'treatment for chronic catarrh nnnifffniwht ftsainst the flag of his Pawnee, party of forty colored men left here, for work on the La Junta branch of the A. Philips, consists of injections of cold water. country. The Democrats are hpting Santa Fe Railroad. They were hired their nartv bv this thing of rushing ton Some green crop should be grown now for, cows for the mouth of September.

The Beloit Record "The matter is now settled, and Atchison is to have sn.000 racking house, The build- Harbour, Barton Boui'hon, 1 Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clay, Cloud. Coffey, Comanehtf, Cow lev, Crawlord, Davis, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Kdwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Kovd, Franklin, (ireenwood, Harper, llarve.v, Jaeksorc, Jewell, Johnson, Kinanism, Labetto, Leaven worth, federates to the front for high official by a contractor named Munroe, who A well fatted Berkshire or small York honors when there are plenty of Union agreed to furnish them transportation at ina is to be 160 feet square and four shire has very small percentage of waste Pottawatomie, Pratt, lleno, Republic, Rice. Riley, Hooks, Rush, Russell, Saline, Sedswick, Shawnee, one cent a mile to the point where they Democrats to All the places. stories high. It will take 1,700,000 Drilling has produced ,80 bushels ot were to commence work.

When about 50 miles this side of Trinidad the boys were wheat per acre; ry drill husbandry with brick, 1,200 perch of stone and feet of lumber to construct this TUOS.CAVAS4IGH. The above named gentleman is a can told that their tare would cost them diilatfl for re-nomination to the office of heat. Saltcylic acid cannot be safely used mammoth establishment. St. Joseph $6,35 each, ana $1 a day each would be and Kansas City both endeavored to Secretary of State, subject to the decision as a tooth wash.

It to injurious to th charged them for rations, consisting of a- Stoves and Tinware Cheap as can bo Purchased in St. Joseph. Come and bee Guttering, Roofing and Repairing a Specialty. Job Work promptly done I WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD BY ANY ONE. teeth.

slice of ham and eight crackers per day. of the Republican State Convention which assembles at Topcka on the 28th Smith, Sumner, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wilson, 1 Woorlson. secure this establisnment, dui ianeu, and we are glad bf it, from the fact The principal varieties of wheat raised Twenty -six of the party refused to goon of tho house will all No one is better qualified to discharge ia Minnesota are Red Chaff and when they were told this, and started the duties than he is. He is now serving Wyandotte Lost Nation. back on foot.

They divided into three be from Kansas and should be kept in a Kansas town. We do not like this Lincoln, his second term, and we believe the Re tt tit lit. Mia nrimarv meet there is no egg of a bi rd known which gangs, three in one, five in another, and thin of buildina up Missouri towns HEN BY A. rOCKHORN, "WATHENAj A.NSAS. ,,3 iJ publican party should act upon the principle of keenine its best men in office, ing fo the purpose of electing delegates to the State Convention herein called, be held on Wednesday the 21st day ot August, eighteen in the third.

They sunerea ffot good food, or which comet not bo eaten bv a hungry man. with Kansas entc: prise and produc fearfully from hunger and thirst, water and therefore retain our very efficient and tions, but do believe in building up a It is estimated that 45,000,000 eggs beimr obtained only at points 15 or gentlemanly Secretary of State. consumed every day in the United miles apart and food so scarce that but DEALEU IN 1878, in such manner anil at seen uouis as shall be designated by the several County Central Committees. No person shall be entitled to a seat or vote in the Convention by virtue of holding the proxy of any delegates elected. J.

C. WILSON, Chairman. Phil. Q. Bond.

Socretary. T. W. Henderson, editor of the Colored little could be had. At ono time they States.

New York alone consumes 40,000,000 dozen annually. Citizen, asks the nomination of Lieut walked, in four days and nights, a distance of 53 miles without food or drink. good commercial point within our own stfte, and as Atchison is well located for commercial purposes, we should like to see her built up; therefore, on the present occasion, we extend our congratulations to her and her enterprising citizens." A horticulturist of 41 years' experience Governor from the Republicans ot ft.an says that he has been" tafem1 in; nearly as not as a reward for personal service, iNativG Lumber, both Hard and Soft, Two of the party died; their names were lHit as a recognition of the colored voters every time he ha purchased a new variety of fruit." Sam Chi Ids and George Hogan. ine third, a stranger, gave out and was left. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.

First District: of the State, and their rights to a place on The party of five traveled together until the ticket. As the Republican party A. SELOVER. GROCERIES and PROVISIONS, Hardware, Iron, Nails, Woodenware, Etc. J011K HIER.

r.haniDlonS the one of their number was lost, wnen me remaining four joined the larger party. aUUUMldi am.mj i of the colored race, the coming con JOHN A. ANDERSON. Riley County Second District: DUDLEY C. HASKELL.

County Third District: At Las Animas they boarded a train vention should consider the claims of but all execot two, Henry Jones and Geo 7 IIIEIt Sc SELOVER, Proprietors of Empire Mills, Mr. Henderson abd put him on the ticket as an act of justice. THOMAS-RYAN Shawnee County Thomas, were put off. They managed to Min POSITION. (Successor 10 n.

v. uum. TVTCATF.U work their way through to Lawrence, riding most of the time on the breaks un The St, Joseph Gazette has donned a With this issue of tlieMrwidit, the un new dress. Under its present manage der the cars. From Henry Jones wc AND DEALERS IN ment the Gazette is a readable newspaper learned the above facts.

He says that designed takes charge of its business management. It will continue to be a Republican paper and work for the interests of the party so long as I have con peaches out there sell at three pounds for 25 cents, and potatoes 20 cents per lb for the first time since the rebellion. It is newsy, spicy, well made up, and possessing that freshness and vigor which so Fancy Flour of all Rinds, corn Meal, ana CHon reel Custom Work Done, HARDWARE, CUTLERY Plows and Agricultural Implements TLASTERING HAIR, BLACKSMITH'S GOODS, All Kinds of Seeds, Etc, and after this he proposes to stay in a civilized country, where he can get some anil Satisfaction Guaranteed, trol of it. All accounts for subscription, facinates the public. There are so many dull, st.ur.id, insipid newspapers publish thing to eat.

Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat ed now days, that It is really a treat to advertising, job work, will be paid to mo. Hoping the people will sup A rattle snake five feet long, five and- a get hold of a live, wide-awake journal. half inches in circumference, with fifteen rattles, was killed recently near tur port my efforts to give tlicm a readable The Kansas City Times says, in speak ned. paper, I remain-, respectfully, CITA8 LARZELERE. G-EIFFITH HOUSE, ing of tho defeat of Phillips "The poll-of the First District have retired NT? DAN the ablest representative the Republi- cuinVAL COJfVKWTIOX State Farming.

Chetopa Advance: Most of our farm A tr A. Anderson, President of cans in Kansas have had in uongress. air Plullina was the leader of the Greenback ers have commenced plowing for wheat State Asmcultnrul College, was nomi WATHENA, KANSAS. URIAH GRIFFITH, Prop, Holton Recorder The oats crop, ow naiA for Consress at Manhattan, Aug 15, movement in his party, and honest in his ing to the rust in some localities of the by a vote of 72 tor Anderson to 41 for convictions on tho financial question. nminttr will make a herht vicld.

Home THIS HOUSE HAS RECENTLY BEEN RENOVATED ANDRE-; St. Joseoh is about to be taken by the VU UMVJ SJ fields reported tho yield large. 40,000 hogs whieh. r-oam the streets of Miami Republican: The flax crop is DRUGGIST APOTHECARY, 7 410 Felix Street, St. Joseph, Missouri.

FURNISHED. AND ISJNUW UrtUN iu mill nvn.v invj PUBLIC LI VERY 'AND FEED STABLE IN CONNEC- TION WITH THE HOUSE. CHARGES MODERATE. Phillips, on the twelttn uatioi. The eleveth ballot stood Phillips, 42; Guthrie 22; Anderson 17; Leland 14; Baker 11 Morrill 9.

Up to-the twelfth ballot the counties nf A tehison. Jackson, Osborne, Phillips tbatcitv in "maiden meditation iancy averaging about 12 bushels per acre. Some nieces are making as much as 18 Dusncis free," gobbling up gardens, rooting down imc.es. and Dlayiwr the deuce generally. The Wichita Eagle reports the yield The Tieonle "Oh.

for an iron-clad hog of two lots of wheat containiug 7 and 8 l--r- vet the citv Council is ueai to acres, threshed in that neighborhood, as PRED. HECKBL, Wathena, Kansas, I ii tn hows wore master of running up as high as 35 to 45 bushels the situation at latest advices. OHIO VALLEY PIANO CO. per acre. A tram runs from Wichita ev ery morning loaiied with wheat; it has The Conoressional fight in the Ninth -A-ISTD DEALER HSTJk and.

Russell voted solid for Guthrie; Cloud, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell, Republic, Rookss Saline and Sumner counties for Phillips; Brown and Nemaha for Morrill; Dickinson, Ellib and Riley solid for Anderson; Leavenworth solid, for Baker; Doniphan, Mai-shall and Norton for Lelan6. Jefferson county gave Guthrie three, Phillips one nd Leland ono Jewell county gave Pal been named the wheat train. 1 he tram Missouri District promises to be rea ot consisted of 30, 32, 81, 14, 81 and 37 cars We shall nrobably see Uol. J. a.

n. tun in as many successive days. Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, ni all Kinds of Leather Goods, diff, Col. Harrison U. lirancn, wen.

Jim Uraig, a Kepublican and a Greenback candidate all in the There'll be The local correspondents of the ltussel County Record furnish that paper the following crop notes will sell as low as St. Joseph dealers. Call and see me before you mer three and Phillips-two; Washington ftnthrie three and Leland The corn crop promises an abundant music ven der pand pegins der blay. Let the dance goon. if.

olnnd'o friends stuck to' him in vield. JOHN BRAZELTON, Some of our farmers are snipping tueir The anti-Phillips delegates then went into secret session, and after' balloting for DEAf.EE IK own wheat. ilil. UVlMuv. the Congressional fight, but he could not make the riffle.

But then he is young, irnral hours aarced on John A. Anaer Wheat is threshing out about eighteen bushels per acre; the yield is not so hca- vv as was expected. vigorous, and healthy, and may live to make it yet. If at first you don't suceeedy Try, try again. Cherokee county will have luu.uuu Clotliing, Boots and Shoes, bushels of peaches.

Doniphan county son as their choice. Fhillip new strength all through, but tho opposition massod their forces against him and he was forced to yield to the inevitable. The nomination is a good one, and gives general satisfaction to all nnitins as it does the factions which Perry Kurtz have started a new Dem will have four times as many. HATS, CAPS, GLASSWARE, QUEENSWARE, STONEWARE ocratic paner in Kansas City fn opposi Wichita promises to ship 2,500,000 tinn to Crisn. the Times' candidate ior bushels of wheat this year." Con gress.

Just think of Leslie ay run- Highland Sentiucl: Peter Vanwinkler Boots and Shoes a specialty. Highest Price Paid for Country Produce. nintj a Democratic paper! wee wnizi OF MANUFACTURKES threshed' his wheat last week, and got 2020 bushels from 40 acres. 50 bushels per acre. Prof.

Frederick W. Bardwell, mathe wore bitterly hostilo to Col. Phillips. We believe the nomination of Mr. An-to be fair and square as far as he is con he made no promises whatever, offered no bribes, and stands before the poople with, clean hands and.

a clear conscience. The Manhattan Convention was a big matical author and professor of astrono The "Valley Gem" and Grand Scale Pianos, Dodue City Times: A cucumber i my and engineering in the University of feet in raised Ford county, is TTnnaiifl. died at Lawrence on trio ltn on exhibition of Dr. McCarty's-drug. store lust.

Boat it if you can. imorovomont on tho ono at Abilene two The political canvass in Kansas this IMI. MAIER. BOOT AND SHOEMAKEH, (NEXT DOOR TO MEEKE HOUSE,) WATHENA. KANSAS.

Karl Hilt, of Brown county; has thresh Pall promises to be tho hottest known ed 50 acres of fall wheat which averaged IirPLISY, OHIO. These Pinnos arc Acknowledged to bo among THE BEST' INSTRUMENTS QF THE KIND NOW MANUFACTURED. yoars ago whon Guthrie led tlw bolters and created an almost fatal schism in the for manv vears. Robuhlicans wreenoacK 40 bushels per acre. will each strivo for nartv.

Had Mr. Guthrie abided the re Lawrence Tribune: We learn' that in suit of that convention, he would have the mastery. many cases In this city the early peaches eaneciallv the richest and best flavored, I AM FREPA1.ED TOMANUFACTORE "OOTS ND SIIOES OF Tho voilow fever is raging with una held his strength and the rcspeot oi me poople, and no doubt haye besn the choice ti.n Monlmtfnn (Innvention. have been punctured and if not cared for butod violoneo in the South. It is epi PRICES LOWER THAN ANY OTHER FIRST-CLASS PIANO, Tifi.w, th Convention, ttdiourned it ANY QUALITY ON bllUKi inui BOOTS AND SHOES OF ANY STYLE DES1REI) AL-W ATS ON HAND.

ALL GOODS WARRANTED. and taken in promptly will bo eaten up domic at New Orleans, Memphis, and oth bodllv bv a swBrm of hungry bees. Tbcy or places, and the death rate is fcartul. Wt passed tho following resolution Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that U. S.

Grant be tho standard bearer of the Republican party in do not make a vory slow job of it either, Dvring the last ten. years Kansas has but will consume and devour the whole AND ON THE Most Favorable Terms. invested' or expended for education an of a eood sized peaoh in abouthalf a day. AUG. H.

FUELLING, 1880i aggregate capital of 117,830,188.60. Wonder if the bees have not becomo de Tho State Convention moots at Tope- EVERY INSTRUMENT FULLY WARRANTED FIVE YEARS i kaon the Anthony will probably 20,000 acres of State Normal School lands have been sold since the first of April. CASH DEALER IN l.n succeeded bv Martin and a now deal had all around. We hardly think nny of moralized by the hard time and taken a lesson from tho tramps. Judge Sheldon, ot Illinois, owns 5,000 acres of land in Dickinson county, Kan.

During the late flood in whole fields of wheat in the shook wore swept away by tho waters. Fields of corn the Dresont incumbents will be re-mnm I Illnstratod Cataloyuo mailed freo on application th OHIO VALLEY PIANff COMPANY, ui, RIPLEY, OHIO, or ST, JOSEPH, MO. Inutcd. Rotation in oflko is a healthy A new paper called tho Telephone has been started in Bt. Joseph.

Hisnamols John A. Anderson. Now GENERAL MERCHANDISE. thins, ftud should bo insisted on by the convention. Tho mchino politicians were also badly damaged; bridges swept sit.

ttm niw convention nonnnato a away and many hogs should stand buck and (jivo the people Uruuc..