The Cyclone from Concordia, Kansas • 1

THE CYCLONE. No 4. Vol I CONCORDIA, KANSAS SAT. SEPTEMBER 17 1881. nobody will -ay a word, and there wont be an officer to be found within a hundred miles.

We like to see them treat all 1 THE CYCLONE. Nutter Sturges Prop's Subscription One, month in adyence 5 cts FM-PLAY. The other day as we were coming up from swimming, we saw down bj Chet Lewis blaok smith shop, a wagon with a drunken man in, lying down as siok as a oat, and three more abuut as bad, A little further up we saw six more drunk as eould be, swearing and carrying on like brutes and people passing them and never oariug nor COURT REPORTS. We thought at first we would give a full report of every oase tried at thej last term of Spurt, and we did give nearly all the criminal eases in our seeond number. But it has been so long since Court, that we are afraid any! more would not be interesting.

Mr and Mrs D. H. Judy and. chil- ireu, ana Mrs. (teonre tsiaKely re- notioiing.

That very night, Saturday a turned on Tuesday Morning after a man was shot we think, by the parties very plesant visit uf fouriweeks, in Fairview. Indianna. They report corn about the same as in Kansas. Pastures are bare as ihe floor, and oattle are looking verv bad. They also say Illinois aod Missouri' have suttered much more trom the drought than Kansas.

They attened while gone, a negro camp-' meeting the FairatXenia. Mr Judy Waves again in a few days for Chicago to buy a large stock of goods for fall and winter. we saw. The country out here is getting more barbarous than a little while ago. Men can shoot, or get drunk, or keep saloons, or do any thing to break the law.

and they wont be touched now unless they do some harm to a saloon keeper, or a politician, except they are a boy or a dog i If two or three little boys go over and play Ground the briek kill) the Marshall and Officers will arrest them for trespassing on the bricks, and have them brought up to Court and fined. And their poor mother will have to' mortgage her stove and things to keep them oat of jail. Or if a little stray dog comes into town, all the Marshalls and Officers will buckel on their guns and pistols like they were going to war, and go and shoot that little dog. Bat men (may shoot and fight, and sell whiskey, and get drank: and lay around the streets like dead hogs and HUMORS OP THE TIME. A hording house mistress like the rest of us, has her strong and weak points, the weaK point being her tea and her strong point the butter.

A1 mother advised her daughter to oil her hair; and fainted away when the candid damsel replied: 'Oh no ma; it spoils the geutlemans.