The Baxter Springs Examiner from Baxter Springs, Kansas • 4

THE STATE IN BRIEF. First National J3an7i-: FIENDISH CRUELTY. 'lraClMBlB? 1371. JASBS HOTEL, AT hem quarters- 0.1 W. MlW Hi I WHAT THE FLIRT, SAID.

If I made think me voprs, wa'c tst kind, Sic sj tlirBot mean lt-r I'm enc-sgvd to mil my wooer. An I you bad not ba blin a. Van would bare teen it. I in far loo much for one; fro. yon fee, 1 mnt divide, And take a dosen Nov with yon what shall be doce? Be a twelfth, or eUe decide To be a Come, don't let my words offenJ; 1 And your anjry heart reliwre, And aay: "Von flirt, yon:" Take mi band and be my lrtend.

While I ullyou that I grieve Sly folly hut yu! ROW ON, ANNIE. Ton know Annie, Chainung little Annie; Benltby little, aancy little, jollj little Annie! Shewiii row yon, any day, FJp the river tar away, Winning easy, I abonld lay Clever little Aanie. Wholesale A "KT tOC WW' And sole proprietors mm Dealers in s-. of Hartwig's celebrated nifiis, 2-ly, P. J.

Corner "Main and sheridan sts. BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS, Thos. Haite. Wholesale 1 mm Dealers in XL- AND AGENTS FOR Rye and Bourbon Distiilorioo, Cloud county has organized an agricultural society. A new Methodist church is be erected in North Ottawa.

-1 to A negro married a white girl in Jefferson county last week. The Catholics of Iola arc tak- ing steps for the erection of a neW house of worship. 1 Lawrence has raised 10 for the Kansas Homo of Friendless Women. A Baptist church has been or- ganized at Coneburg Marion Trith seventeen members. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas road will be finished to Paola bv I the middle of September, A coal and minipg company has organized at Pleasanton, Linn county.

vonnson countv Dronoses to towards a new court house at the next general election. There are said to bo but two vacant claims on the south side the Arkansas, in Sumner coun- An effort is making to induce Lacede and Fort Scott company to adopt the three-foot gauge. 'Sir. Chapman, who lives three miles east of Fort Scott, has a hog which is three feet ten inches high, an! eight feet long. Capt.

John Smith Pocahotas John has no monument Virginia, and the papers are insisting that one 6hould be erected. The time between Leavenworth and Chicago will be about twenty four hours, when the S. Yv, in full running order. It is rumored that the Kansas Pacific Railway Company wilt commence work this fall on a road from Carson to Santa b'c. A new town has been laid out the 6alt springs, in the southeast corner of Somner county, called Salt Springs Geo.

TV. Harpell, a butcher of Neodosha, fell prostrate in that town a few days ago, and died the heart. The Montgomery county bond case has been decided in favor of the county in all points except the jurisdictional one, which will re-argued at St Louis in October. The narrow-guage? railroad in Colorado is successful, though but three miles and a half are in operation, heavy trains pas3 over with ease at the rate of thirty miles an hour. At Topeka, the State Fair Grounds are now completed, and entries haye commenced being made.

The secretary and superintendent will be on the grounds from now till the fair closes. The Lawrence Tribune says We learn that it is the iutention of our shool board to employ a colored teacher to teach in the colored grammar school, vice J'. Murray, resigned. TJieteraporary injunction is-sned by Judge Delahay to restrain E. L.

Farnsworlh' from building iron bridges in this State on the ground that they were an invasion of the Zenas King patent, has been dissojved. WTbe Emporia News says that Samuel Sowers, seven miles northwest of Americus, has nine stands of Italian bees. He makes specially of raising queens and soiling them at S3 each. He sella beet at 20 a stand. Tho L.

G. railroad company donated to the Douglas County Agricultural Society tho sum of $200 to be used in defining the expenses of the county fair. The Kansas Pacific company are expected to make a like dona, tion for the some purpose. MA man bythe name of John TurleyJ who is fifty-two years of age and living five milc3 southeast of St. Louis, Miami county, had tho funeral sermon of his deceased wife preached, on the last Sunday in July, and married the same evening to a blooming ls.as-m-4iv.een.

11 M. C. Page, while diggirg a well upon bis farm, a short distance from Salina, came upon the most perfect fossils yet found in this country." He found wonderfully perfect specimens of oak, walnut, maple, and pine leaves, which would be of great value to museum. Mr. Page has also found good indications of coal upon his place.

Tho contract for the transportation" of government stores posts in the Indian Territory, was let at Fort Leavenworth on the 18th. of last month, to Graham of the M. K. T. road, at the following figures Leavenworth to Fort Sill, $4.10 per hundred; St.

Louis to Fort Sill, $4.15 per hundred. Tb6UtiawalTnivcr3ily case has just been tried in the District Court at Ottawa. Tho oral arguments in favor of the complainants were made by Mr. Nevi-son and Shannon, Messrs. Sears Stoughton and Mr.

Max-wellof Ottawa, being also in the case. Those of the defense were made by Mr. Benson, on tho brief of himself, Defordand Mason, and by Judge Thatcher. Tho case was tried on a demurrer befort Judge Bassett. Tho Judge holds the case under advisement.

NEWSPAPER BORROWERS. -This wretched class of small parasites is again hit off by one tot. our exchanges, as follows "Of all things contemptible, a man wbo will read a newsnancr at bis neighbor's expense is the most contemptiblo especiolly it that man esteems it his duly to lower papers collectively, and editors generally. They alwaj's meet the carrier nrst, paper, and after greedily devour ing every muiei ui iicvyb iu uvu- tuins, tnrows asiue, saying, with a contemptuous curl of the lip 'What trash; it is really fit for nothing but waste And yet day after day they Heem as anxious to gain gosscssino ol the papT, and seem disappointed at its non arrival as the good pay ing subscriber, who ever wel comes it as a pleasant visitor. Strange world, this The Mexican Government is offering large bounties for Apache I I itho to of is of a hi.

OS BLOCK EAST OF DEPOT. Baxter Springs, Kansas. Armstrong,) W1LKERS0N Proprietor. GO TO THE 1UHST. CHEAPEST AND BEST! SPALDING'S commercial rollege The most practical and best established a tual business college in the 'Country, located in the Diy Goods Palace Buildins No's.

712 and 71 Main ICansas City, Mo. Established October 25, A. D. 18G5. Incorporated Julv 11, Capital Stock7 $1 0,00 0 The College'room." are six in number the largest, bes ventilated and most elc utly furnished in4he West, and will accommotiate 4m Students.

-V. Students can enter the College at any time, tuition than nt any other JQPUe Mire to'vWt or address this College before going elsewhers. JF. Spaldixg, A. M.

1'iesid. nt. The Baxter Springs A PAPER FOR THE The Examiner is thoroughly devoted the interests ol Sputlicastern Kansas, anu is a THOROUGH Newspaper in every particular. OPPOSED TO IVIONOPOLIE IT "ILL EXPOSE CORRUPTION With unsparing hand independent ol party alliliiations. In connection with the paper, nleto We are prepared to execute anything in mejou printing line, trom a Wed-dinjr card to the largest sized poster.

S- TJBSO R1BK FOR Til EXAMINER, -V i VJ'J ANNUM "in advance. Offi je on Military street, North of Wiggins House. second door NO. 817 MAIN STREET OF Baxter Springs Kan MILITARY STRF.E1. Capital, $150,000.

DIRECTORS: O. VAX WISK1.E, W. A. BOTKIN. G.

G. GRKGG, G. DftSTOX, 11. KEITH, II. S.

CLAK. II. E. I. H.

WKIGHT. D. B. DY K. JlEUTZS.

OFFICERS: O. VAX tVIN'KLE, Pres. n. S. CI.AkE, C.i.h'r.

I. O. WH1GHT. Pr't W. A.

BOTKIN, Ass't Does a General Bankinj and Ex-chvtlge Busute-s, Buying and selling Domestic and Foreign Exchange, Gold iJust, Gold, feilver. Un ited states Securities, and ail kinds of City, County and State indebtedness, x' -Receives Deposits, Allowing Interest on Time Beposits, LOAiSTS MONET. EJfXotes purchased and monev invested lor other parties. COLLECTIONS at home and upon all accessible promptly attended to. points POSSESSING FACILITIES For the advantageous conduct of our business, we promise to all our customers ihe favorable rates and the promptest attention.

4-y NEW 11) P. BIGGINS CO. Military street, opposite the Bateman House, is the place where tju can find every thing in the grocery line. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Dried Fruits, Canned and Glass Fruits and VEGETABLES, Jellies, Pickles, Preserves, Jams, Sauces, And a full line of staple goods. The highest market price paid lor COUNTRY PRODUUB Call at the New Grocery store purchasing elsewhere before 4-y ris.

Ceark, Sells Cheaper, and more Lumber for the IsL ZtT IE IrT, Than any other Tard in lOUTIIERN KANSAS. t'SL DOORS, BLINDS, SASII And all other kinds of LUMBER Constantly given to on hand. Special attention OAK FRAME STUFF. 4-y TEXAS MACHINE JIND SMITH SHOP, Two Doors West of Public Square Every description of Agricultural Machinery and Implements repaired on short notice castings or Kxtras furnished if tlesircu. fpectal attention puiu to J111 work UO LL 4-lv Baxter Springs, Ks.

Lone Star Saloon. Military Street, south of Cherokee Co. Bank. The BEST of Wines, Liquors, and Cigars always on hand. 4-ly.

Robert Vaughan, Prop. RANCHE Billiard Room, Opposite to First National Bank. 4-y J. H. Garrett Wholesale and Retail Dealer in CIGARS, TOBACCO AND SMuKERS' ARTICLES.

Mili'ary street, between Sherman and Sheridan, Baxter Springs, Kansas. 4-y I Boy Whipped with Wire, Brand ed, Burned with Live Coals, ana btaobea in tne Head with Nje-dles. Ahe AdaniS 0lsJf acV8: warrant was issued last Thursday for the arrest of two men and a woman in the town 01 jEaston for the most shocking and inhuman treatment of a little 0. some eight or nine years old. at of resPect for Ihe'relatiw and friends of the accused, we, for present, suppress all names.

The circumstances, as related us by several persons, are a-bout these: The little boy who was so cruelly abused is a child the woman by a former husband, and the strangest part of the story, and what seems most incredible, is that the unnntnral mother was the moving spirit in inflicting upon her child all the horrible cruelties ho had endured. Parties who have examined tho boy say that the skin on his back literally cat into shreds from the whippings inflicted upon him with a 'heavy iron wire, so that there'is scarcely afinger's breadth sound skin upon his person, from his neck tohis heels, that the poor boy has been branded with a hot iron upon his neck and different parts of his person, and forced to hold live coals in one hand until the flesh and'mus-cles are scorched and shriveled up; that his mother has stabbed needle or other, sharp instru-mcnTinto his scalp in almost innumerable places, until it has como inflamed and the hair is fail ing off; that in addition to all these suffrrinirs the abused child his been made eat his own excrements. Such aro reports, and if the statements aro half true, they form a story of such strange, unnatural, inhuman and dcvlish a trocity as scarcely has a parallel in civilized society. When brought to the notice of the public, the authorities promptly took the matter in hand, though it was with difficulty that the neighbors of the guity parties wero deterred faom visiting sum maty justice up on them. No doubt tho reports aro exaggerated to som3 extent, but the affair will probaly soon be investigated, and the truth made known.

THE SLAVE-TRADE. Earnest Efforts for its Suppression on the East African Coast Suggested. The English select committee oh' tho East Africa slavo trade in their leport that they are strongly of opinion that all Iegft" iuiate means should be used to put an end altogether to tho slave trade on the east coast of They believe that any attempt to supply slavss for domestic use in Zanzibar will always be a pretext and a cloak for a foreign trade, and they reccommend that it be notified to tho sultan of Zanzibar that the existiug treaty provisions having been systematically evaded, her majesty's government will, unless further securities can be obtained for the entire prohibition of the foreign slave trade, feel itself compelled to abrogate the treaty, and to take such further Iegitin ate measures as it may find necessary to put an end to all slave trade whatever, whether foreign or coasting. The committee think that an increase in tho consular establishment is necessary, and there should also for a time be an increase in the strength of the naval squadron, which ought, if possible, to bo provided with efficient and trustworthy interpreters. If the sultan will enter into a new treaty the committee recommend the formation at Zanzibar of a depot for liberated adult slaves; but if tho sultan opposes this step, the committee suggest that a depot should be established at the Seychelles islands.

Tho committee recommend that tho services of the present acting political agent at Zanzibar should be retained, and that no technical rules of the scrvico should bo allowed to interfere with his appointment as political agent. They also suggest that the co-op- Germany, France, America and Portugal, in the suppression ot the slave trade should bo invited, and that negotiations should be entered into with the Persian government to secure, if possible. for her majesty's officers greater facilities ot search in vessels suspected of carrying slaves. Tho people of Woodside, N. have presented Mrs.

Abby Sage Richardson" with a "costly set of writing material and an album containing autographs of the givers, as a token of the esteem of the residents of the village. "WHOLESALE DEALER IH STAPLE AND FANCY PBoyisioNS, WOODEN AND WILLOW NEOSHO STREET, Next door to Arthur Daigler's Flour and Feed Store. BAXTER SPRING KANSAS. Without mentioning the particular kinds of articles kept by me it's enough to say that I intend to keep everything usually found in a FIRST CLASS GROCERY STORE, and will SELL FOR LESS PROFIT than any other house in the City as I have no rent to pay. HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE.

6-ly. L. F. Established 1868. JOS.

BENOIST, Dealer in all kinds of Hcuse50 SO. Two Stories. Large and commodious WAREHOUSES corner ol Xeosho Military streets. BAXTER KANSAS. As heretofore, I have constantly- on hand the largest and mo-t complete assortment of general merchandise in the ate.

With over twenty years experience, as a western merchant, and ample means to pay promptly lor Ml! I buy. I secure the very lowest prices in making my purchases, and give my patrons the benefit of correspondingly low prices. My brother (Pole) attends to the sale of Drv Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes. lints, Caps, Clothi Notions, Stationery, Provisions 4 Etc. Mr.

DICKIE, Has cWitrol o' the Hardware department, and ill take pleasure in showing you an endless variety of Shelf Hardware Heavy Hardware, Irony1 Steel, Nails, Window Glass," Castings, blacksmith's Tools, "Wagon Wood Work, ja.cTicultnrallmpIem ts I'nmns, Water Wagons Etc. Also a full line of COOK, PARLOR HEATING STOVES of the most approved style and design. manufactured and sold at St. Louis price list and discount. Mr.

LEVI PJSELING, a practical cabinet maker, has charge of ine urnuure department, (up-Ktairs) where will be tound.a large and well, selected stock of Furniture, House Furnishing -Glass and Queenswarc, Caipets, Oil Cloths, Mattrasses, Bedding, Looking lasses, Window shades, Wall Paper, Bird Cages, Coffins, Caskets Metallic Cases, Burying Clothes, Shrouds From 700 to 1500 Bedsteads alwavg on hands. Collins made rcadv for delivers it 15 minutes notice, at all hours of day ir night. Strangers are invited to exaui-ne our immense stock and get our pricey ciore buying, 3-v A Fortune to be Made. SMITH FILLMORE, Successors to SMITH BRO. Vould say to all wishing their line of anything in LATHS, WINDOW SHINGLES DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS To call and see them, us they are offer-'ig Great Inducements to buycre in price nd quality, than ever was oflered ii ilaxter We alio keep all kinds of HARD WOOD In connection with RIME LUMBER We are thankful to our Mends for pas( avors, and hope they will still remember where they can get Good Lumber nt Low Prices, and gentlemanly treatment.

Respectfully, SMITH FILLMORE. -1 y. The Favorite Route EAST Hannibal' Joseph Chicago, Burlington Quincy Through Express Trains. miles the And tho only route from KANSJiS CITY TO CHICAGO Without Ferry oi Cars. Passengers going Fast by this route have 1 lie advantago of a daily line ot Pullman' I'alace Cars Irom Deliver, Abilene, .1 unction City, Manhattan, 'I opeka.

Lawrence, and all points on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, to Chicago withi.ut rbange. With new And elegant day coaches and two daily lincs of Pullman's Palace Cars leaving Kansas City morning and evening, running through from Kansas City to 6'hicugo without change. Passengers have choice of four different routes from Chicago to all eastern cities running lourteen expre trains daily and the advantage ot live daily lines of Palace rslrom 6'hic-ago to Jicw York without chauge. For salely, comfort and speed, mouth and perfect track, magnificent cars Hid uood eating houses, you should be particular to ask for tickets via Quincy nd For sale at all the pri'icipa' otlicesin the West. In KuilS.s City at Hannibal St.

Joseph Kaiiroad ollice corner Main and Fourth ttrects, and at Union Depot. Fare always as low as by- any other rOUt' ROBERT HARRIS, Gen. Sup't. Chicago: F.M.Smith, E.A.Parker," Agent Kausas City. Gen'l Western Passenger Agent, Chicago.

RAIL WAY. The short, favorite, and only ail Kail Itoute, to Denver, Golden City, Longmont, New Memphis, Villa la Font, Greeley, Green City, Salt Lake 'City, Reno, Marys vi lie, Georgetown, Erie, Central City, Colorado Sp'ngs, Idaho Springs, Cheyenne, Elko, Sacramento, San Francisco, AND ALL POINTS IN Kansas, Colorado, the Territories and the Pacific Coast. miles the shortest line to lOO Denver. 1 thi- "hottest line to Pue-fcj bio, Trinidad, Santa Fe. and ail points in New Mexico and Arizona.

Uemi ruber, this Is the great throujrh Line, and there is no other ad Rail route to above points. No o-unibus or ferry tlr.s route. Pullman Pa'ace Cars run through be tween xuinsn vtty, ueuver Chev-ccne without change, Passengers by this route have an opportunity oT stopping oer at Denver, and visiting tho rich Mining. Agricultural and Grazing Districts ot Colorado. Close conuectiQns made at Kansas Ci'v with all trains to and from the East, North and South.

Trains leave the Union Depot at Kansas Oily for the West, aa follows: Mail Train to Brook vilie and intermediate stations 9:20 am 7opeka Accomodation to Topeka and intermediate stations 5:10 pm Through Express to Denver, San Francisco, 10:15 Express trains run daily. All other trains daily, Sundays excepted. Be surt to ask for Tickets via Kansas Pacific Railway, and purchase them at the Company's office, No. 13 5th street, from Lyman McCartv, Passenger and Ticket Agent. BEVEKLKY i KEIM.Gen.

Ticket At. i-DM'D. S. BOWES Gen. Sup't.

Gjneral Oflices Kansas City, Mo. SHORT, SAFE, SURE O.UTE! THE Mo. River, Ft. Scott AND GUXF IS THE' DIRECT CHEAPEST ROAD TO Chicago, St. Louis.fr East and West.

CONNECTIONS AT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, wifh the KANSAS PACIFIC, HANNIBAL AND ST. JO. NOR Til MISSO URI, MISSOURI PACIFIC ST. JO. and COUNCIL BLUFFS R.

Palace Sleeping Cars ON ALL NIGHT TRAINS! 2 DAILY PASS'ER TRAINS- LEAVE BAXTEB SPRINGS, Mail 7:35 a. Sight Passenger 7 p. ARRIVE AT BAXTER SPRINGS, Mail 6:20 D. tn 1 ight Passenger 8:.5 a. Freight ....11:00 a.

in B. S. Hennixg, Superintendent, II. J. Hayden, Gen.

Frt. Agt. THE Great ThrougJasenerRoute, TiiE OLD Jt ELI ABLE Hannibal and St. Joe. SHORT LINE.

Connecting at Kansas City Union Depot with M. 11., F. G. Daily express trains, crossing the Missouri at Kansas City and "Missis-sitii at Ouincv on New Iron Bridgets wilh Pullman Sleeping Palaces and ind Pali.ce Day Coaches lroin Kansas City toOuincy; Without Change of Cars, Connecting at Ouincv Union Denot with Chicago, Burlington Quincy and Toledo, Wabash Western Railroads to all points East, North or Bv this Line, all Omnibus Transfers, and' Ferriage encountered ou other Lines are avoided, and the following advantages in tune gaiue trom KANSAS CITY! A. Atlantic.

Express ar-J rives 11 hours in advance ol Trains by any other Line leaving Kansas City in the morning to Chicago, Detroit, Thiedo, Lafayette, Toronto, Ft. Wayne, Milwaukee, Montreal, connecting with the celebrated Fast Express which arrives 12 hours in advance to Philadelphia sew York and Boston, 4i P. M. Fast Express arrives J4t hours in advance ol Trains by anv other Line leaving Kansas City iu the evening to Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Lafayette, Toronto, Ft. Wayne, Milwaukee, Montreal, and other poiids East too numerous to mention.

Fullman Sleeping Palaces on this Train. BSfThe above facts will be apparent by comparing the time table of the Hannibal St. Joseph Railroad Line, with those ol other lines out of Kansas City.g3I 8r-a P. Fast Cincinnati and yj Louisville Express A through it run nn this train from Kansas City to Cincinnati via Quincy, Lafayette and Indianapolis, making this tho most desirable route from Kansas City to Southern cities. Baagaqe Checked Through.

itriT9 Ask for Tickets via Hannibal St. Jnnh Iilrnnit- at the Ticket offices Mis souri River. Koit Scott Hull Itailrond Depots, mid at Kansas Cilv I'nion Depot. 1 It. GKOAT, G.

II. NETTLKTON. Gen. 'Picket Act fen GREAT GHOCEKIES, At Wholesale Retail, ave being sold at tlie lowest figures at S. C.

Henderson's on Neosho strei North side, a lew doors west of litary street. Baxter Springs, Kansas. Highest market price paid for all kinds ol market produce. 3-y SUBSCRIBE FOR THE EAST SIDE. Take heed, Annie, Darling little Annie, Careltta little, tboughtlesa little, fearless little Annie! Weeds enlace the river There be deeps and shallows too.

Perilous alike to yoo. Helpless little Annie. Bow on, Annie, Pretty little Annie; Winsome little, laughing Utile, lonely littie in- "el In a tint and trim "two pair" I with thee would gladly share Joy and sorrow, mirth end care Down life's river, Annie. Englun Magasin. MISCELLANEOUS- Here are some curious specimens of hvmnology: take the ptl-O take the pil- take the pilgrim home!" "0 catch my flee- eatcta aoy ftee- 0 catch my flcrtisg for a nun-O for a man- for a mansion in the skies!" And givo me sal-Andcivemesal-And give me salvation to-day!" Some teetotalers "'won Id ven prefer yratery grave to preser vation irf spirits.

Secretary and Mrs. Hamilton Fish will spend a portion of the fall and winter in Europe. The Hon. Garrett Davis will not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate from Kentucky. A healthy appetite, a pare love an easy conscience makes men ms lly a women angelic.

The assessed valuation of Bos- 4 r. fwAn am iroi than it i A 6 i fifteen years ago. Capt John Smith Pocahontas John has no monument in Virginia, and the papers are insisting that one should be-erected. "Do you like novels," asked Miss Fitzgerald of her backwoods lover. "I can't say," he replied '-I never had any; but I tell I'm death on -r It is said that one "of the best lawyers in Columbus, could not read when he was nineteen years old.

The majority of lawyers can't read their own writing when they are forty years old. If a cat doth meet n' cat upon the garden wall, and if a cat doth greet a cat kneecf theyt both to squall fc.s.Ever-Tommy his Tabby, waiting on the wall, and yet she welcomes his approach by an unearthly yawl. And if a kit ten wish to jCQjixJa'Cat uponla don'c he sit and sweety smile, and not stand up and bawj, and lift his precious back up so high, and show his precious teeth, and moan, as it 't were colic more than love that made the feller groan Among the train there is a swairp---his voice is known full well bat what'shis or where's his nhame, tho deuce alone can tell. Ho's sweet upon the other sex, his amorous passions rise he catrt resist the tender glance of their seductive eyes; and so, with groans and horrid threats, he rends the evening air, and makes those midnight rcn-devous impossible to bear. Maternal Rooster The CharitoifDmocfidi says Mr.

Dane, who lives near 'Garden Grove, has a rooster that has brought up a brood of chickens the past summer. When the little chickens were only two or tbree days hen was killed by the hoes, ran df Mr. Booster be came their spr0tector Hftiiias never d'c-ST'reA In cm until lately. and now ho is "weaning" them. He would pat on all tne agony of a motlreTjtvilw; the? littje-'ebjick-ens aaddjfeVjut asjiatur'ally as any hen7He always gathered them under his wings at niht, and has labored, most zealously to bring them up in the- way 'that they should go.

Mr. Dane would not part with the tender-hearted rooster for any consideration, and should he ak a. notion to.layeggs, nextyer be. abla to dis poso of them at remunerative prices. IS IT'A MERMAID? A Strange Being Discovered in Texas River III A.

A. Freeman, mem ber elect trom Haywood to the next Legislature, made ta one of the editors this paper, in presence of several well known persons, the following remarkable story: J. B. Moxley, an intelli gent citizen ot Jtselrs Depot, in this county, and keeper ot the hotel at that place, and for whom A. A.

Freeman vouches as relia ble, and truthful, was fishinr in a canoe on juiy na, in Forked T-k -r r. xjvvi river, near joeii JJepot in that part of the river be ween the railroad and dirt road mdg es, when his attention was galled to an object in the river some fifty yards distant, which "presented the appearance of man drowned. Jiaxer-rowei hft hoi within ten feet of the object, and saw a remarkable creature, as the following description wiiM testify: It had a face nerfoctlv white, with features like those of a human being. It had something like moss on its head instead ot hair, and its neck was longer than the neck 'ofa man. Its -body down to tho waist, or so much of it as was exposed, was covered with black and white snots.

It was as largo as an ordinary man, and had black eyes. Maxcy was within ten feet of it for ten min ute-. He did not see any arms It looked atliim and slowly turned around and in the water. Thomas JSeal. told Mr.

Freeman that he saw the same thins at the same clace about three years ago, but did not tell it because he" thought he would be lau'hed at. James Xeal and jbeen 1 of the fs at of be it S. a a I THE JOB Military street, 2nd dpor BAXTER SPRINGS, KAS. t. i Our facilities for doing all Cards, Letter and Envelopes, Circulars, Dodgers, -Programmes, Posters OTP, north of Wiggins' House, kinds of Joh work, including excelled.

orders from Physicians, Ilotel-keeperS WORti moderate prices, at this office Are not "We moJicit Merchants, Artizans, And business men generally, with tho assurance of GOOD Expeditiously executed scalps. Isaac Ward say the same thing..