The New Century from Fort Scott, Kansas • 1

WHATEVER CONCERNS HUMANITY CONCERN ti VS. VOL. 2. FOIIT SCOTT, BOURBON COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1878. NO.

8. THE NEW CENTURY ISSUED WEEKLY, No. 21G South Main Street. One Dollar a Year, in Advance Providence. Rhode Island has a temperance lecture Bureau.

The proprietor of a at Hartford says 'his business has fallen off one-third 6ince Moody and San key came. The Prohibitionists of New Hampshire have nominated A. S. Kendall as their candidate for Turkey has as yet received no invitation to send a delegate to the Congress which is to settle her fate. R.

W. Taylor, first comptroller of the Treasury, was stricken with paralysis yesterday morning, aud died shortly after being taken home. Milburn Hammell Wagon, well ironed, well painted, well built, easy running and fully warranted, by J. R. Detwiler, Osage Mission.

The New 'Hampshire Green-backers hold a St.ite Convention at Portsmouth, on Mach Cth, to nominate candidates for the coming election. In' New Hampshire 05,000 have signed the total abstinence pledge. There are four times as many grog shops as churches, and they are maintained at twelve times the cost. The South Kansas Conference of the M. E.

church meets at Garnett, March 7th, Bishop Bowman, presiding. The Californta Rescue asserts, thatduring the first fifteen days of the temperance relorm movement in San Francisco, some 10,000 signed the pledge. The Living Issue says that too many of our girls are marrying drunkard. Young man is there any danger of your girl marrying a drunkard. The following, from the Leavenworth Times, should serve as a warning to the people in general Last night shortly before 12 o'clock, several people who were passing along Delaware street, were attracted by the appearance of a drunken woman, who was sitting on the steps in front of the United States express office, at the corner of Third street.

As no police officer was in Moonan, who had noticed her for a long time, took her in charge and escorted her to the calaboose, where Deputy Marshal Daveron took charge of her and found her to be Rhocia Morgan, one of the unlortunate inmates of the "Rose Bud" on lower Main street. Before she was taken down sfair6, limp and almost crazed as she was, she seemed to 'comprehend her situation Address SARGENT Pubs HO B323 THE MONEY. How goes the money? Well, I'm sure it isn't hanl to tell It goes for rents and water rates, For bread and butter, coal and grates Hats, caps and carpets, hoops and hose And tliat's ttie way the money goes? How goes the money? Now I've searoe begun to mention how, It goes for feathers, laces, rings, Toys, dolls and otheibaby's things, Whips, whistles, candies, bells and bow, And that's the way the money goes. To complete the picture we add the following And still you ask how goes the cash? For whisky straight, and brandy smash, For bogus wine, of doctors, drugs, Or brisk champagne for bigger bugs, Fr ale and lager with a feather, Ho man aud money, go together. Parsons, Feb.

19, 1878. Ed. Century I wish to call the attention of Lodge, County and District Deputies to the following: I am required by R. W. G.

Secretary Williams to make out aud forward full statistics of our order in this State, on or before April 1st. In order to do this I will ned the assistance of every deputy in the State. 1 desire to make full and accurate returns, showing the condition of the order in this State February 1st, 1878. I have no means of ascertaining the condition of lodges except through the deputies, but if they will all be prompt in forwarding returns t'jr last quarter the task will be light. We ought to report two hundred lodges, and a membership of 8,000.

I do not like to report a lodge unless I know th condition of it and as before stated my information must come through the deputies. More than fifty lodges have already reported for quarter ending January 31st for which deputies and' secretaries have my thanks. Now let me urge those that have not yet reported to forward returns at once. Please do not delay in this matter as my time is limited. Let county deputies make an effort to ascertain the condition of eaclr lodge in their several counties and induce those that have not reported to do so at once.

I hope to receive reports from all county deputies before March 15th. I hope District deputies and officers of District conventions will also aid me in this matter. I will be under obligations to secretaries of the several con. ventiona if they will forward proceedings of the same to me as soon as practicable. Any information from any member of our order relative to the condition' of any lodge will be thankfully received.

I return my s'ncere thanks to the membership for the fraternal relations that have heretofore existed and for the assistance rendered in the discharge of my arduous duties, and feel assured of further; assistance in the matter above presented. Who will be first? Jab. Grimes, G. W. S.

"All who sell liquors in the common way, to any that will buy, are poisoners in general. They murder His Majesty's subjects by wholesale; neither does their eye pity or spare. They drive them to hell like sheep." John Wesley. The Milburn Hamniell Wagon is well built, well painted, well ironed and fully warranted by J. R.

Detwiler, Osage Mission. Pennsylvania had the largest representation of any State in the country in the Greenback Convention at Toledo. San Jose, California, has a new temperance paper called the Christian Ballot. It advocates Prohibition and Third-party action, Farm and Spring Wagons Carriages and Buggies of any style and finish, warranted as recommended by J.R. Detwiler, Osage Mission.

The Grand Lodge of Good Temylars of Wisconsin, have adopted a resolution asking an amendment to the constitution, prohibiting the sale of Alcoholic Intoxicants in that State. There is something absolutely shocking terribly blasphemous in the audacity of theso who persist in ranking Christ among distillers and wine manufacturers of this age. Wagons, Bugeies, Plows, Corn Drills, Cultivators, Planters, Sewing Machines, Repairing, at J. Detwiler fc. The New Jersey State Temperance Alliance have resolved to organize voting leagues in ev.

ery county, pledged to vote for no man for the Legislature who is opposed to a prohibitory liquor law. So vast are our effirts, so vast our labors, and so regardless of cost, which we lavish oa a liquid which deprives man of his rea son, aud drives him to frenzy and the commission of a thousand crimes. Pliny, the elde The all-wise Creator made millions of springs of water-many of them nmieral springs possessed of medical value for the cure of almost all diseases but nowhere-is found a beer spring, an ale well or a natural distillery. Drunkenness has for long years ben punished as a crime, and why should not drunkard-making belong to the same cla-s? Drunkenness is a disease drunkard-making is a deliberate, moral crime, superinduced by tke most selfish and mercenary motiver. The Shield.

"I made $10,000 by rum selling in five years," said a well known reformed liquor selbr, at a meeting a few nights ag'j; "During the past five months I have returned that aud $5,000 besides, to the families of men I knew were wronged by the place I kept, in helping forward the Murphy cause I will use all I have if necessary. The Chicago Inter Ocean preaches an effective temperance sermon in a few words, as follows: Another murder was committed in Chicago yesterday. Ex. Oh, yes; we don't miud such things much we license 3,000 manutacturies of just such luna. tics.

The murder spoken of was a kind of semi-legalized affair, the responsibility equally divided between the city, who issued thw license, and the devil, who Mr. Bland lias introduced a bill into the House of Repre sentatives to authorize the free coinage of silver dollars. i i f- The temperance workers of Southern Kansas are cordially invited to call at my place of business, whenever they visit Osage Mission, as I am always readv to talk up temperance measures, and glad to hear how the work is carried forward in various localities. Yours Respectfully, J. 11 Detwiler.) Thos.

Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, was sentenced yesterday to two years hard labor in the State penitentiary. A suspensive appeal was granted returnable to-morrow. Vice-President Wheeler gave notice in the Seuate yesterday that on account of his health he would be compelled to be absent for several days. He leaves to-day for Pittsburg on a visit to relatives thpre. The Silver Eill Given to the President.

Washington, I). Feb. 25. The Silver bill was delivered to the President this afternoon. A telegvam from Rome says that the new Pvpe has not the iberal yiews attributed tc him, and that the views ot Cardinal IVcea are not those of Pope Leo XII I.

Mr. Conkling, in the Senate, prosentea a petition from James Gordon Bennett, asking Congress to aid him in seeking" new discoveries at the North Pole. Friends, in asking for your patronage, 1 do not pretend to sell goods at cost nor to have the onlv good goods manufactured, as there are four other firms in our town who are coubtless pre pared to furnish goods in our line of real merit All that I claim is that my goods are as represented iind that my prices and terms are as favorable as can Ue had elsewhere. Thank ing the public for past favors, I am respectfully, J. it.

Detwiler. The Skinner Riding and Walking Plows are as good as any oll'ered in this market, being expecially noted for the lightness of draft. Every plow warranted to be made of good material and to work to the satisfaction of the purchaser. J. R.

Detwiler of Osage Mission, is selling these plows and gives the above warrant. Representative Scales, chairman of the House Committee on Indian afluirs, in reporting favorably upon the bill trans ferring the Indian Bureau from the interior to the War Depart ment show that the cost to the government by doing so will be about half what it is at pres ent. ai.d in the most piteous accents moaned, "Oh, my mother 1 My poor, poor mother 1" Drilling Corn. Farmers in this State are drilling a great deal of corn, which they claim yields ten or twelve bushels more per acre than that planted in hills. The Sucker State Com Drill, having a runner in front and a wheel to follow, is undoubtedly the best invention yet produced for planting corn.

It may be seen at J. R. Detwiler's, Osage Mis- sion. An English maid servant, twenty-one yeais of age, named Harriet Harrington, has been admitted into the Infirmary of the Prefecture of Paris. She is reported to have drunk, during the month of January 95 quarts of wine and oOquartsof brandy, to have been suddenly seized with trembling, and to have uttered for some clays no sounds but those of barking like a dog according to Dr.

Durand, an effect of over drinking. The Excelsior Reaper and Mower will be again offered to the farmers of Southern Kansas by J. R. Detwiler, who already sold two hundred and fifty of the machines, and who does not hesitate to state that the Excelsior is as good a combined machine as any now manufactured, and refers to all those whoowuaud operates the Excelsior to substantiate the above claim. The Excelsior is specially renowned for the excellency of the material and workmanship used in its production.

For the quality of work and ease of its management both for the team and operator. Senator Thurman for President of the Senate. Washington, D. Feb. 25.

The Democratic Senators held a caucus this forenoon to select a candidate for the position of president pro tem of the Seriate, and unanimously agreed to cast their ballots for Senator Thurman. Fort Scott Marble "Works Scott A. Ft. Scott, K.h I. Moody, Proprietor.

OF Foreign and American Marble. 13 BnBT Parties can make contracts with travelling agents atthesam figures us tit the Marble U'orks. 2-t The temperance people of Par sons will prooaoiy put a tem perance ticket in the field for the ensuing spring election. Parsons Eclipse, n-rit The leadiug temperance men of the District of Columbia are moving for the formation of an association of the advocates of Prohibition in the District. The public opinion in politics is rapidly maturing for a final and victorious conflict for the overthrow of the legalized drink ystem.

Rescue. Gold and silver have been dis' covered in Wilson county, Kansas, and there is great excitement there in consequence. The place is 19 miles west of Cha-nute. The members of the Prohibition State Central Committee of Missouri meet in St. Louis, on Wednesday evening, Febru ary 27th, for the purpose of arranging the time and place of their State nominating convention.

A German gentleman who is anxious to put down the immense trade done in deleterious wines, has had many samples bought in hotels and restaurants analyzed, and tome contained no juice oi the grape whatever. The leading temperance work ers of Chester county, Pennsyl vania, have called a Convention of all the Temperance Societies of the County, for the purpoe of prohibitive political action. Ihe convention is to meet at Winchester, on Friday, the 22d. Nearlv Killed In a Street Fiffht. On the night of the (9th) va party oi men wno had been drinking in Owen (ieoghegan harroom lought in front of the American Museum) at 103 Bowery.

Charles Crow was alterwardj found lying on the sidewalk with his skull fractured. He has been uncon scious most of the time since?) Acting Sergeant Mekin and Roundsman Cosgrove yesterday arrested Wm. R. Fleming of 391 Cherry street and James Sulli van of Governeur street as Crow's assailant's. I4iAMI In the all-night session of the Senate on the Silver Bill senators are reported to have appeared on the floor drunk.

"They were," say the dispatches, "unable to keep the run of the proceedings nnd made a frightful exhibition of themselves." The statement sterns to be true, and if true is most shocking. We ndvisethat in each State careful inquiry be made whether either of its senators thus dis graced it, and that the fact' be remembered against each man whoso far forgot his dignity and that of the Senate. The facts had better be known. countersigns thera all..