Western Mercury from Atchison, Kansas • 1

(Mv a i iCY Vu Vv AY AX Ay Ay PRICE FIVE CENTS ATCHISON, KANSAS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 18M ESTABLISHED 1H70, VOL. VUl. NO. f). is well established in this country by "JOSH" JOTTINGS.

many precedents. Mine. Huruos has The Mammoth Holiday Display raised the point in Trance, and the puono and the press seem to have decided in her favor. It remains to be seen what view AROVXIi TOWS WITH A tlimCUANT i' KX A XI) BIS B.I the tribunals will take. The man whom she killed appears to have been a despi- ol Atchison is at ndvaptfige did not in any instance reeeivo the concurrence of a Democratic Legislature or tho approval and support of a sin-gle Domooratio leader.

It is likely that, aokiug tliough they are in political wisdom and knowledge of the workings of our form of government, they have nit least mastered tho familiar truth that a niajor-ty of the States cau altor the Federal Constitution at will; and that being so, they may be supposed to argue, what is there, to prevent the Democratic party from undoing all these things which it eablo blackguard, and his slanders1 to have been particularly malignant and Nevertheless, tho French A Ike Truth Evur Told It Hurt No One, Though Oflru Nkln Hep-Brief Pointed Bemarki. The true friends of the drama have, us it seems, abundant cause for anxiety, to Bay the least, in regard to its future status and influonoe as a social institution. Not that the prejudice against the drama, as such, is increasing; on the contrary, this law, in its actual administration at least, insures much more substantial redress for assaults upon reputation thau our own. and that extent lessons the excuse of any slandered person tor usurping uie functions of the courts. The passage ol the divorce law, however, indicates a tried so hard to prevent, now that it has proved itself strong enough to carry twenty of the thirty-eight States in a national election? If it oan elect a President, may it not with the same votes, praotioally, amend and reverse the Constitution as it pleases? 1 It is by no means wonderful that the colored people should look at the willingness uoon the part of tho French legislature to assimilate its method of the prejudice is rapidly diminishing, ana no longer requires serious consideration.

Not that theaters are less patrouized than formerly on the contrary, this patronage was never more liberal than now, nor wero there ever bo many and so good thoators. Not that the dramatic profession is Gink-ing in public estimation; On the contrary, there never was a time when the best rep settlement of quarrels, between persons of different sexes to our own, and the tri umphant acquittal of MmeHugues would as also all the REALLY LOW PRICES MORE VALUABLE, PRACTICAL than can be found under any other roof in the city, and at Greatly Reduced Prices! GO AND SEE THEM. be a step in the same direction. matte in that way; on the contrary, there are reasons why, from their standpoint, that is quits the logical and practical view Josh. to take.

Am lOyeOpmcr Everyone ia now on the alert; the eye The Atchison Board of Trade has done scans shoos and windows as we scurry more to bring this city into promineuee through the streets; our minds drink in the scenes and then fall to speculating as a grain and lumber market, than any other organization within its history, what will be appropriate, at this joyous season of tho year, for mothor, father, resentatives of that profession were more highly respected or mora generously rewarded. The trouble lies in nu altogether different direction, and how to reach and remedy it is au exceedingly difficult question; nor is eveu the origin and root of this trouble easy to ascertain with any degree of exactness. Hut the fact itself is sufficiently plain and palpable, and nothing more need concern us now. The drama -and by that I mean not only the plays themselves, but the performances has, within the lust ten years, undergone most lamentable deterioration, almost equivalent to wholesale demoralization. It is no exiigeration to say that, taken us Doalers who cousign there shipments to our grain buyers and elevator men, know that the prices made daily on the Board, sweetheart, brother, sister or friends as a SOCIETY SCRA'PS.

Christinas present. It is not necessary to suppose that you have not made, up your govern this market as rigidly as do those of Chicago or St. Louis. Confidence has boon engendered by it, for a price once wiiATovn oir.v axoothkk rmt- mind for we think every one has done that, yet it is incumbent Upon ua to lead the grand army of our reiders aright in j'LFs feoplj: ark norsu. made is not deviated from, and the in- The RoiKuins King.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well seems to be the motto of the Atchison husinoss man. When he starts in, aud places his foot on the thresh hold, it means that he will see tho matter through, if it takes tho last crumb from the loaf. This feature and quality is recognised in Hulse Ballard who havo arrayed for the most elaborate display on next Tuesday ever given in this city in the queens ware and china trade. Their trcsts of the Bhipper and recoiver are mu The Socltil Minor Kefloctlng its Antlci hiallv During the brief exis In Common Visitor in and Out ol Our atet. tance of the Board, our' business in grain some instances and cheerfully suggest that you wend your way to the store of Henry Linn, No.

615 Commercial and examine his stock of goods. You will find all that you wish in rare and beautiful ar Ima trinled. which represents millions of Jack Quigley is at the St" James. The reputation of the Silver Kng is ticles in the jeweler's line, which he has dollars aa having passed through our banks and commission men, leaving a good return as profit. I understand that, owinsr to the lack of interest on the part sustained.

You will have an opportunity purchased particularly for this season. elegant and commodious store, well fitted to see him on Monday night. One feature Mr. Linn indulges is that for such an occasion, will be a bower of A. J.

Harwi, visited Troy tor a few of merchants in general in the city, it is of cruaranteeing his goods. By this he hours on business. gains your confidence, as he has no mani a whoie. at this country at least, the stage occupies a lower intellectual plane than at any previous period of its history. The plays that ara good are not new, and.

moreover, are rarely played, compared with the new ones; and these it would bo base Mattery to call indifferent. Damnable is a better and truer descriptive term for the vast majority of them, for if they haa been presented to tho thoator-goors of fornior days, pit, gallery and boxes would have visited them with prompt and Unequivocal damnation. They are trash of the poorest sort; the beet. of thorn --if there is any "best" where all are so bad W.nnfliiiir noon elaborate scenery and not improbable that this useful and necessary institution may coilapse. This Edwin Booth is 51 years of age, but fest desire to deceive any oi knowing doesn't like any one to mention the fact.

will never do, as our interest, as a city i beauty. It has been their custom to cater to the wants of the people of this city and surrounding territory with an eye to the good of the cause, their stock of Christmas goods comprising all the leading novelties in the finer grades of decorated and designed china, glassware, lamps, tinner and tea sets, toilet sets, cups, silver it would be to prejudice his future business interests. He makes specialty of deBiL'niniz and executing monograms, thia size, demands the rnaintainonce of an organization of this character. Without W. D.

Gilbert is on the Branch on legal business. Maude Branscomb is coming to the front again. She has just been photo- it. but little can bo accomplished, yet by which are now so popular; as au eugraver his equals are few and controls this line of custom. If you wish to make a gift of concerted action and its influence much follows, I remember when the cit and plated ware is the most exclusive and il rini.

iold or silver, or set iwi-ttl precious izens met H. Hoxie and Vice-President Olds, of the Missouri Pacific to talk over the matter of freight disorimin itions on tones, or of cuff -buttons, studs, ear-rings, Miss Lottie Copelan, entertained a number of her friends on Friday evening. The success of Mary Anderson at London is phenomenal. No other artiste, na-tivo or foreign, has ever equaled it. bracelets, chains, watches, silver or put tea ware see him before actually buying.

We mviting ever shown. This firm is energetic and wide awake and have never claimed more than they have been justified in doing. They request that you call and see their Christmas goods, ask for prices and we are of the opinion that you will leave your orders with them. trust you will do this before the rush; place your orders with him and he will deal squarely. Baron F.

H. Von Lindern a Holland capitalist, has been looking over Atchison for investments. The wedding of Miss Nellie V. George Robert Graham has written a play, and "isistting and fine costume, mid the worst upon startling situations which give am pie employment to artists, lithographers imd billposters. Who writes these tl li ngs, nobody knows and nobody cares; but -they are literally ground out by the score, anil any of them displays the smallest uparkf merit, it seems to be the result of accident rather than "Intention, Crude i sensationalism and clownish fun are the most prominent foatures, and the keenest eye cannot clotoct in them a single grain of that wit and wisdom once thought in-dispensable.

That they furnish a certain aort of amusement, is proved by the aud- the Omaha extension, that the sight of our leading wholesalers and jobbers brought about the deaifed; eifeef, and that in the matter of freights, we wero placed on a plane with Kansas City. That couli not have been accomplished by any individual effort. Tho membership is but $25. per year, a sum not equal to fifty cents pet Week. Yet how many men are there who are benefitted directly by it, who threw" away more money than will himself play the leading; role, a fact that will be sure to cause a failure.

and Mr. Halsey B. Prudden ocoured on Thursday evening at 6 o'clock in the Presbyterian church, Rev. D. C.

Milner officiating. Messrs. Winegar, Dr. Mo- The matter of the occupation of certain Indian lands by stockmen with their herds is treated at considerable length in Snrretary Teller's report, and facts are presented which go to show that a good deal of unnecessary noise has been made about an arrangement of a purely busi Mrs. F.

D. Mills, Mrs. H. T. Smith and Mrs- A.

11. Martin, spent Thursday in Kansas City. Victoria Morosini has had her portrait rented in thfi dramatio papers, and is this daily to gratify personal whims. ness nature, involving no injury to the Kelvey, Jewett and W. G.

Prudden, a brother of the groom, acted as ushers. The bride was attired in a travelling suit of brown silk, with gloves and bonnet to match. They have gone to Chicago on a "tour" and will reside here in future. Manv presents were recieved of a costly Indians, and no extraordinary or sinister advantage to the whitos. By legal con supposed to be happy it consequence.

On Tuesday the clebrated Thatcher, Primrose and West minstrels hold the board. This is the cleaverest and best organization on the road. Place your name on Roper Nesbit's list for a trood Christmas turkey, as they The bus! nes3 men of St. Joo have subsorib- ed 870,000 to the capital stock of their Board of Trada which isbeingusedin erecting a magnificent Chamber of Commerce building. Think of this, ye close-fisetdi iron-strapped duffers, tbat your hated rival Old Joo is doiug what you dare not contemplate.

To let this enterprise sink would be an advertisement of our commercial decay; we cannot afford it, for we have to many rivals, in a limited district, to lose one iot of supremacy. I under lenees gathered to see them; but it is an amusement which neither olevatcs nor refines, and which is calculated to degrade, if not destroy that sound and healthy taste which must in the long run, bo the (ttrontrest support of tho drama. Sensible men and women will not always continue to pay for seeing plays fit only to amuse children and fools; and when the sensible constituency is driven from the theate, the doors might as well be closed. nature. We extend with friends hearty congratulations.

erier' Greeting. Everyone knows our jolly, rubicund tract, the stockmen have obtained from the Indians the privilege of graziug their cattle within specified limits on lands which the Indians have neither necessity nor inclination to use, and which have heretofore profited them not a cont. The agreement does not in any sense touch the title to the lands, nor afford any oppor will nave. a large supply of. extra fine and at ones.

old friend Matt Gerbor. He has been nmon? us almost as long as Santa Claus. ohn T. Raymond has got a new play but it is doubtful if there are millions in tunity to acquire a hold upon them which it. as it is based on The Wooden Spoon.

stand that it is assorted that our grain can even remotely complicate the ques As Losreman Durs; have the hnest It ruav seem at first sight foolish that 7,. tion of ownership. It is not' even a lease, in the legal meaning of tho term, but selection of pork, beef, veal and meats iu the oity, you will oonsult your own purse i merely a license, duly recognized by the nnd anoetite by visiting their establish He has made more children happy, and oaused more shouts of pleasure to go up, than anyother man in our midst. As is his custom ho wrote Santa Claus many weeks ago to make his Atchison headquarters with him, aud the little old man, who comes with tho snow and rein-deer, decided to do so. To enter friend Ger-ber's store, one would naturally suppo se that the workshop of Kris Kringle had teen located there, for there is no count ment and plaoing your order in advance.

Christmas roasts in preparation. the colored people of the South should bo disposed to interpret the eleotion of Cleveland as a luonaoe to the rights and a suggestion that they may be thrust back into slavery; but after all, considering the facts of the ense and making reasonable allowance for the crude methods by which these people are obliged to deal with such questions, are they so to blame, or men should keep up the Board among themselves as they are the most interested. Granted that they are (it being an idle statement) thoy would' gladly do so if enough of them were located in Atchison, but they cannot be asked to sustain that which benefits the city by taxing themselves onerously. Caution no doubt is an admirable quality in business, but a too liberal uo of it has killed many an enterprise. Oiir Board is talked of and oomplimented by the dealers in Chioago, having reference to the single point of permitting stock to bo pastured on wild and otherwise useless territory.

Charlotte Thompson's new play, Phyllis is pronounced a failure, and the unfortu Clara Louise Kellogg's fathr is a sten ographer in New York, hale and hearty, though somewhat advanced in years. ing the drums, dolls, toys, whips, china Seoure your tickets for the Silver lung nate actress has lost a considerable sum of money in trying to muke it go. their feeling of alarm so very absurd; rubber jump-ups, tin wagons and at once. The chart is open and the seats i is I'hev can easily remember that when the oars, vases, cups, horns, canay, toys, You are no doubt ready to "see your are going fast. The play is to morrow night (Monday).

wheol-barrows, nuts, chair3, fruits, boxes Uncle" at some time. If you desire a of paints, candy eggs, and candies in St. Louis, Toledo and Kansas City as being one of the most effeotive in tbe West, outside of the cities named, why-then will our business men allow the hundreds of varieties. Indeed, you must Democratic party was in power in this country they and their wives and children were bought and sold as property, their earnings taken from them and every privilege of happiness denied them. There L'o down and see, for such an opportunity Board of Trade to sink? I trust they will to make your choioe to gladden the hearts respond heartily and take a re-newed in of the little ones is seldon twice displayed.

terest the matter. Remember Matt Gerber in your calcula Sarah Bernhardt's recent eccentnoities have ed her friends to fear that she is losing her mind. It certainly looks that way. Old King Cole was a merry old soul, is no doubt true, but Carey is a merrier old coal soul when you ask him for Black Diamond coal, whioh he sells regardless of its value. See him at once, for your bin is low.

It is again asserted that Maggie Mitchell will retire from the stage ut the close temporary loan, to help you over the tide for a few days, call on R. S. Davis on Third street and he will accommodate you. Valuable articles always sold below cost. Alfa Norman, the prima donna of the Carlton Opsra Compuuy, has made a great hit in the West.

She is a young woman, with a sweet voioe and as perfect a meth od ns can be found on the English operatic stage. The Carlton Company will not be here next week. tions. 1 No hostess is to be more dreaded than Miss Mabel, the thirteen year old the one who frets uudor her duties. If daughter of our esteemed townsman she is absent-minded at the table and W.

Dayers, was the recipient of a surprise cjnsoious of the blunders in the servioes party at the hands of her friends on n- she is an affliotion to all about her. Let dav eveuing under the direction of Miss was never a time under Democratic rule, they well know, when it was different-with them. only experience of freedom has been connected with the fact of Republican supremacy; and their most vivid impression us to the coming of emancipation is that it was brought about by the Republican party, against the desire and spite of the direct and desperate opposition of the Democratic party. Is it not entirely natural, therefore, for them with their humble way of thinking to have the notion that somehow this change from a Republican regime back to a Democratic one, forebodes mischief to them and their interests? Their rights loires have been secured to them of this soason. She has certainly earned mistakes go.

An easy, attentive bearing Cora Terry. The affair was a most en The W. C. T. U.

will meet to-morrow (Monday) afternoon in tho Congregational ohuroh at 2:30 p. m. This cold weather makes the palate joyable one at which games, dancing and is worth all tho angel's food and wine and iellv in creation; for is it not the essence a rest. The leaders iu minstrelsy are Thatcher, Piimrose West. Go and see them on refreshments were the omef features.

of the angel itself that which puts us thoroughly at our ease? Oblivion is an tickle for the lucious bi-valve. Drop in and interview the bill of fare at the Del- absolute essential after the guests are Tuesday night. They should have a big house. Bernhardt having set the fashion of nlavinc the sleep-walking scenes in Mao- motioo and leave your orders for oysters seated at the table. One must be unoon scious of mistakes if thoy occur.

I What to Buy. This may be a mystery you have not solved, but if in need of choice canned goods, nuts, fruits, candies, raisins, citron and the numerous other articles demanded to produce fine Christmas "goodies" for your table, we advise you to drop in and see Roper Nesbit at once and leave beth with bare feet, we may expeot a gen have known instances whoro an evening has boeu marred by tho obvious anxiety prepetually by the Constitution, to be sure; but are they intelligent enough to understand that these constitutional guarantees on the purt of the ladies that nothing should go amiss. In consequence, every VllLVP heon driven to them hf the Repuoli- your order. in every style. Do so to-day.

There is considerable agitation iu theatrical circles in favor of reviving stock companies. A leading manager of Chioago proposos to inaugurate the scheme next season. All of Patti's property iu France was given to her late husband by the court that granted the deoroe of divorce. It was estimated to bo worth in the neighborhood ot nan Affnrt and Republican votes ulone, eral epidemic in that direction. This is Carey's weather.

He has it made to order. While the people may damn him for it, but they are so good nat-tured that they purchase his famous Black Diamond coal by tho car lots. Gotham swells are wearing au overcoat with a short cape, like the Irishmen who appear in the melodrama. thing went wrong. Let us then have frequent entertainments aud less expensive ones.

nnd that the Democrats have resisted all such changes step by step, and denounced thnm after thev have been made as usur Patti's New York season has olosed. Col. Mapleson claims to have lost money on the venture, and bitterly assails the Academy Directors for refusing to pay over tho guarautoe fund. The right of the female of our species to perforate ber slanderer with pistol balls pations and outrages. They must know that these provisions tor Ihoir snffcy and.