Oxford Independent from Oxford, Kansas • 1

71' B.NBENT. wmjj)vsjf OXWffiB A Weekly Home Journal of Local akd enseal News, asi Ame2icas Devoted to the Interests of Soctjiebx Kansas and ueb People. OXFOBD, SUMNEIi COUNTY, KANSAS. JUNE 13. 1878.

VOLUME 2. NUMBER 52. J. ABBOTT, Publisher. HOTELS.

OFFICIAL DIItECTOIlY. HOTEL DeBARNARD. The Jealous Lovers. A Tkfe Fresch Story. Two wedding couples presented them STATE OFFICECS.

working side by aide with the men; of. ten having a little nursing baby along, wrapped in an old quilt and laid on the ground, and sometime working 4ip fc within a few days of motherhood. Thus they brine into tbe worli a feeble, nunv A. II- Barkarh, Prop. selves at the Mayoralty in a suburb of if WELLINTOS, KAXIAS The proprietor is one of the first on Kansas soil, and one ot the first in this county.

Hi long experience in his business enables him to lead the trade. Especial attention given to eomjertial men and their teams. tWGood sample rooms. 33 babe, without vitality, and this grows "Grace Creenwood'e" View of Bob IngersoU, Froei a Washington Letter I ha? feeling that tbe whole upper part of the building at least, may go down yet, perhaps carrying a woman's convention with it, for we have about the biggest crowds ever gathered there. I suppose I hardly need fear after it has borne tbe strain and the stamping of such audiences as Robert Iogersoll brought every time to bear turn ki db courses heavily charged with such aua ctoue heresies as are popularly supposed Oovenor.

(iKO. T. AKFOON V. l.ieuL Uovenor. M.

4. iller. ecretary of II. CaVaxaugk. Attorney 5eneral.Wii.L4Kn Davis.

tt-ipt. Pub. last Am.kn R. I.kmmon. Treasurer of State.

ions Fkancia. Auditor ol State. 1. Bo.VKun Stata "riiiter. Geo.

W- Mahtin. Adjutant General II. E. Bekmas. fcteto Librarian.

I). DickIxsox. upt. ot In Departmant. ORKIX WELCH Chief Justice A.

II. Houtoh. D. M. Valentine.

Paris to carry out the civil portion ol tbeir marriage contract. They ranged theaiielves on opposite sides of the Mayor's official throne, and faced one another. The Mayor was asking a question of one of the bridegrooms, whofe attention was thus distracted from Lis bride. On turning round to look at her when 1 i. MORELAND HOUSE, P.

MORELAS Proprietor. This House ias lately changed hands and is now well calculated to accommodate the traveling public: patronage solicited and satisfaction fiuaranteed. Good sample room in ciinectiou witii house. noil COUNTY OFFlCEBSi. he had answered the question, he caught "He Knoweth Hit Wheat.

Standing together aide by side, Tares and wheat in tbe Master's field, Each with Rs Wade of shivering green, Each wHhtbe grain iu its silken eliield. The wheat was sown Ly the Master's hand, The seed was good and sown witii care. But while men slept in ilie summer night, A ti enemy came and scattered tares. Side by side in the cheerful sun, Each refreshed by the soft'iiing shower, Alike they wavo in the balmy breeze. And bend their heads in the evening hour.

JVaitUig together till the harvest time. Tares and wheat in the Master's field, -The reaper comes ith his sickle keen, -And each to his shilling bludctnust yield. "Cast forth the tares, iu the fire to lumi," But, saith the Master in accents swct, "Into my barns, with thanksgiving and joy, Gather my beautiful, golden wheat. Master's harvest field The tares and wheat grow side by side. He sendclh Ilis sun, lie sendeth His rain, Blessings he scattereth far and wide.

patient soul, in the harvest field, Wait, oh, wair, 'till the Master come," He kuowetli His wheat from the enemy 'is tares, His own Will lie hear to His harvest home to "tempt Providence." I heard bis fal her makipg "sheep's eyes" at the bride- groom opposite. Uemg ofa jealous temperament, he laid his baud roughly on her arm and said sharply; 1' 15 Ti A Ii HOTEL, (Formerly Oic Ilse.) WINFIELD, Kansas M.U0K, VWfE Proprietf-ri. This ifouse been thproMglily rrnovated and remodeled, and is furnished tlirotighouj with bran new 'furniture. Special accommodations to Commercial Men. "8tages arrive and depart daily 9 Made in oitfelie which of the two's bride T.

A. 1Umiaki. ndjfe 13ttt Judicial Dist. VV. i'.

CaMC- BIXL. Jnox Wmice. Hoard Co. Com -amcki. Bain.

jIII. T. County Clerk. S. B.

loc glass. Countv Treasurer A. Ii. AIayhkw. MierULt K.

Mvkks. arkafIHst.Ooiiit-J. If. PGroiticjsry. ProbateJudge.E.

Evans. County Attorney. U. N. Caldwell.

Itcgister of Deds. T. Hickmax, ComitT Biu vevor. G. T.

Walton. Supt. Pubiie V. Joxkb. Coroner.

Joiis II. Folks. COLLINS Ct COLLINS. Proprietor. Oxiord Kansas.

Ooud sample room. JJvery, sale and feed stable in connection. carried to all points at reasonable rates. vl OXFORD TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. Trustee.

T. R. Dost-tv. Clerk. Gun.

Hosiok. Treasurer. B. F. Smith.

iO.T. Walton, Jul' ice of rcacp E. It. Joxls. (J.

M. BlSIMT. w. Coi.K. ate you? You ara mine' I believe; then oblige me by conlining ycur glances to me.

The bride was a young woman of spirit, and. resenting the tone in which the reprimand was made, retorted: "Ah, monsieur, if you are jealous, already, I am likely to lead a pleasant life wilh you The jeuloui bridegroom made an angry reply, and then the other bridegroom must needs put bis oar in "Pab! monsieur, why shou'd you make such a fuss because mademoiselle chooses to favor me with a glance?" Thereat his brids turned savagely upon him and exclaimed: "Ha, monsieur' it would seem, then, that you like to have ladies make eyes at you Now I know what to expect from you; but yon might at least have had the decency to bave kept this proof of your faithlessness concealed from me here." And wilh this fierce thrust she burst into tears. In vaio the Mayor attempted to pacify both parties. The bride mous lecture on but though almost carried away at the time by the wicked witchery of its eloquence and wit, I remember little about it now, It was such a dazzling, stunning sort of a thing, with its keen flashes of satire and its thunderous denunciations of "6U perstition and The splen did physical strength and abounding vitality of the man impressed me. If be cuts himself off from immortality, he crowds an immense amount cf the live' liest life into his mortal existence.

Lacking 11 purely spiritual perceptions and aspirations, or having them still dormant, his intellectual and physical energies have the more full and joyous play. lie disports himself, he revels as "a free rover on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe," as Harriet Marti ueau has it. This is well in the summer time of existence, when the animal "Lightly draws it3 And feels its life in every limb." But when the winter time comes on, and he is old, it may be he will turn for shelter and companionship to the corral of some religious faith, and hunger for the fodder which now seems to him like dry husks. If ever honest doubt or conviction comes to Robert Ingersoll even it it be at the last hour he will ayow it. He is too brave a man to pride himself on "dying game." CHCECH DIRECTORY.

VALLEY HOUSE, It AY A GREGG, lMtOWUETOJtS Joiix Rosa, Clerk. WICHITA, KANSAS The Valley House h'is been refitted, painted, and renovated generally and placed in first class style-, and being (rriiteftil tor past fa ors would solicit a continuation of the same. Charges satisfactory. 47Pw W. A.

KICHEY. J.C JtlCIIKV. itlCTIEY HOUSE, Doujrlas Avenue, near depot. WICHITA, KANSAS. KICHEY KROS.

Proprietors. No lins and from depot. This House has been thoroughly refitted and refurnished, stable in connection with the House. Terms only yer day 49 DOUGLAS AVENUE HOTEL, Corner I)ous'as Avenue and Water Street Wichita, Kansas. J.

C. WALTERS, Proprietor. M. K. 'titircti; mrt'lc every alivrn stv Sal-bstti a.

in. J. STEWA'tlt, 1 'aster. Christian Church: services tir-t "and third Lords in each inontli. at II a.

m. Ei.kkk J. K. Cain. Fust or Presbyterian Church, services wind and jJoiirth Sunday in each month.

V. A. 1'ATTON, Tastor. FRATERNAL CARDS. A.F.&A.M.

-Oxf rd Lodge, No. Id. Tree and Accepted Masons, meets in Mmic Hail on fuumluy on or before pkcIi lull iinmn wo week thcrtaficr sit 7:30 p. in. Muster Masoiit in srood standing cordially and Ira'ernally invited.

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O. O. V. OXFORD LODGF. No.

Meels fvrrv grooms stormed at each other, and the MISCELLANEOUS. A Parody on Maud Muller. Oh. don't you remember Ihe orchard, Maud. And the old gnarly tree by Ihe gale, And the apples that came when the blooms were gone, Which the worms and the children ate? Oli, I don't remember how it struck the worms, dear Maud, But I mind just how awfully 1 felt, When they carried uie home in a bow-knot, Maud, With a peck of upples under my belt.

Oh, don't you remember the meadow-lot, Maud, And the brooklet that rippled from the spring? Where the butter cups gleamed ihe clover, Maud, And we' listened to the meadow larks sing? Oli, I've down there iii manhood's days. But I got up and when I found That I'd sat (low right where some bumble bees, Maud, Were just coinii.g out of the ground. Oh, don't you remember the hill-side, Maud, Where we hunted for (lie thrush's And the lit lie red nuts by the million, Maud, Used to crawl up a fellow's Dowser legs? I could talk of the happy old limes, dear Maud, From now till the middle of November, But a man of my age can forget, you bet, A blamed sight more than he'll remember. Burlington brides, between their hystetical sobs, mutually accused euch other of peifidy. What was to be done? At last the Mayor, losing temper, JAMES i.

AilTCHLLL, Dealer in "Tfla iiinj at )la-'ini IJ, iii. in 0 up on a meagre diet of "bog meat" and corn bread, to be a lank, miserable creature, alike mentally and physically fee- bl. So the Southern people deteriorate in every way, like their land, yar by year, until, take them as a class in comparison with other people, and tbeir inferiority wjuld be laughable if it were not so pitiful. One cause of the desperate poverty of the laboring classes there is the gro eery stores. The store keeper advances them provisions and seeds, and sometimes farming implements, taking therefor a mortgage on the crop, and then, all through the season, he furnishes pork, calico, at his own prices, always charging double, and at the end of the season takes the crops at his own price weighs them upon his own scales, and it is a rare case for a man to come out even on a years work.

It isn't to the storekeeper's interest to have him coma, out even, for as long as he is in debt ha is in the storekeeper's power, and is not permitted to buy in any other place. It is a unique experience to set a court held there. The judge, jury, prisoners, lawyers and all, lie about in the easiest and most unstudied attitudes, spit rir ers of tobacco juice, and get up horse races after the trial. In Yalhermoso, court is held in an old barn, (Circuit Court it is) and the corn makes beds and lounges euch as the Southern juries delight in. It is a beautiful and interesting sight to see lovely and delicate young girls with little "sweet-gum" snufl sticks in the corners of their mouths, and see the graceful meauderings of the amber juice as it trickles down tbeir chin it is pleas ant to sec little school children with their wagging jaws full of "wax;" but it is the most ennobling and soul-inspiring sight to see fair ladies of golden locks chewing "fine-cut" or "natural and ejecting the spittle with unerring precision into a particular "hollow, down by the glure" in the open fireplace, Josh Billings Telia About the Gosling.

The gnslin is the old goose's young child. They are yellow all over and soft ns a ball of worsted. Their foot wove whole, and they can swim ax easy az a drap of kastor oil on the water. They are born annually about the 15th of May, and never was known to die naturally. If a man should tell nie he saw a goose die a natral death, I wouldn't beleive him under cath after that, not even if he swore be had lied about seeing a goose die.

goose are different in one respest from the human family, who are sed tew grow weaker and wiser, whereas a goslin always grows tufler and more rboolish. I have seen a goose that they sed wuz 93 years old last June, and didn.t look an hour older than one that was only 17. The goslin waddles when he walks and paddles when he swims, but never dives likd a duck out of sight in the water, but only changes ends. Tbe food of the goslin iz rye, corn, oats, and barley, sweet apples, hasty pudding, succotash, and biled cabbage, cooked potatoze, raw meat, wine, jellsy, and turnips, stale bread, kold hash, and buckwheat cakes that are left over. They ain't so particular az sum pholks what they eat, wont get mad and quit if they kant have wet toast and lam chops every morning for breakfast, A Model Tramp.

i i. i.t cried out: "Am I to proceed with thia A IT Saddles. Undies. Collars. Whips, Lap.Robos.

-idankets, lirusiiej, rU. Repairing promptly attended to. Jfini doors wtst of Richie House, 31 Wichita, Kansas. 3ni ceremony or am I not The two brides, with one accord, screamed, "No!" Fault-Finding. It is some times necessary to censure and to punish, but very much more may be done by encouraging children when they do well.

Be, therefore, more care J.1VEQT, 1EEII acd SALE STiBtE, flW "Perhaps," said the Mayor, whose wrath bad again cooled down, "you Jlam street. iord, J. Kill. (. A.

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WELLINGTON l.opfi.:. Xn. K-0. A. F.

A A. wect in tl'fir Hall in Wrling- on ti 2d and tlii Saliirdiir of eaeh nionlh. at scvi-n o'floek ji. in. AJJ licotlu'tf in snd ktiiiullns Hre in- iteNIo Hltmt IlKNliV-S.

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V. I WEM.1XOTON I.OnOE.No. 133. Meet every Wedtiecdiiy evpnin in Masonic 1111. Wellington.

All hrotlirrs In jrooU tiindir.g are cordially invited tu iiK-et witli J. ILCnity. N. () T. C.

GaTLIKF. 8noretai v. 7 ful to express your approbation of good could arrange matters between yourselves conduct than your disapprobation cf bad if vou were left alone. The clerk will WlXlTF.I.D A it II III I. Horses l.iiuglit and so'd.

First class him outs furnished on short notice with or with out driver. Horses boarued by day or week Charge reasonable. n27 Nothing cen more discourage a child than a spirit of incessant faultfinding on show you to my private room. I will give you half an hour." the part of its parents; and hardly any thing can exert a more injurious influ At the expiration of that time the parties were summoned to appear before ence upon the disposition of both parent ATTORNEYS. and child.

There ttre two great motives C.ro. T. Walton, Tell W. Walton, Comity Surveyor, Dep'i'y Co. i-urvcy'r Notary Piiblie and Justice of the reiicc.

OXFORD. KANSAS. CiVRVEYIXG. LOCATING SBTTLEK8 or any business connected with lands in the count v. title to school laud a specialty." influencing -human actions hope and fear.

Both of these are at times neces the Mayor. "Have you settled your difficulty?" he asked. "Yes, Monsieur le Maire," exclaimed both bridegrooms at once. Irish American Partiot ism. sary.

But who would not prefer to have J. 1.. ABBOTT, A TTORNEV and Counsellor at Law. Will piMetice in tlie District and Slate Courts, fipocial attention to land litiration and. all questions conreriiiiig title oroouiidary t.

rta Slakca eolleotioiin tlie Mate. Promiil attention to ltisiiics. for noli Tdent. Olfiee nest side Sumner Avt'ivm-Oxford. Kantd.

vlnl her child influenced to good condnct by "Oh, then I may proceed with the a desire of pleasing rather than by fear of Mending? If a mother never expresses her gratification when her children do ARCHITECT AND BUILDER. GEO. THICK. OXFOIID, KAN. Tlan, EVtimates and Specifications fur nished at reasonable lates and on short notice.

All work warranted. Call on or address me at Oxford. Kan. Ivl8 well, and is always censuring them when CIIAS. W1E.IE.

A TTOUSF.V am' Couii llor at Law: Ox-'lord, 8uinner county. Kansas. Will practice a'l Hie eourt of the state. 1 she sees anything amiss, tbey are dis O. E.

KIMBALL, ONTR ACTOR and builder. is prepared to do all kinds of Carpenter work. Material furnished if desired. Kesi- couraged and uuhappy; their dispositions become hardened and soured by this ceaseless fretting, and ot last, findiug that whether they do well or ill, they are equally found fault with, they relin When war between England hd1 Russia seemed ioevitible.a patriotic Irishnmu wrote as follows. At present writing it seems to be a foregone conclusion that England will soon be involved in a terrif ic struggle with Rnssia that the Lion and the Bear will speedily be measuring powers.

We hope so for several reasons. When the United States was involve ed in a struggle for national life, England gloated over the prospect of a dismemberment of the Republic. Its press and people openly sympathized with tbe enemies of this Government, and predicted the disgrace aud defeat of the Starry Banner, ami the decline and death of the only Republican government on earth. Privateers were fitted out in her ship-yards, and with the prayers aud cheers of Joh a Bull launched upon the waters to prey upon and despoil our commerce. English capitalists declined in qtiish all efforts to please, and become heedless of reproaches.

JNO.T. SIIOWAI.TEB, TTOKNEVS ATI.AW.lteai IM ate and InHiiciiieR Ajfeats, Wellinvjton. Kansas. pecLd attention gtvcu to I'oJkctions and ittigatlon. via W.

A. M'tiOXALD. 1. HACKNEY. J.

WADE M'lHiNALI). Mcdonald, hackxky m.donald, TTORSEYS A'l LAW, Wellington. Kas. a uppcialty. AIo furiiisli lslraet to all lands in Sumner count), PHYSICIANS.

V. W. KlMB.lTTMTli ceremony "Yes, Monsieur le Maire but but "Well, what is it?" "We have effected a change, Monsieur le Maire." "A change I What do you mean "A change of brides, Monsieur le Maire." And so it was the jealous bridegroom bad taken the jealous bride, and the young lady of the fickle glances had taken tbe gentleman who liked ladies to "make eyes" at him. The astonished Mayor looked at them in silence and amazement for a moment or two, but they met his look unabashed, so he shrugged his shoulders and said "Well, if you are satisfied, it is no business of mine. I will proceed with the ceremony." And married they were.

The Sunny South. wltat a nohtherx woman saw Therk. ilcncc on Myrtle street. Tint I. It.

HONS A LL, ARKANSAS CITY, Kansas. The only place in Kansas where Hallotypo arc taken, a picture surpassing oil paint-inirs for heautv.finish and truthfulness. J'Wl'hotoitraplM ot ail styles colored in oil or water colors. Particular attention paid to making copies of old daguerrco.typos and otlu-r picture. ItUI FrofT T.

.1. JiTne of the Chicago Champion A I'a'nt Shop. Rouse. Sign and ornament I Fainter, it'intield, Kansas. vln have a Candidate.

Must Southern Kansas must have a candi date for gubernatorial honors; she is without doubt entitled to it. We may fV F.N DEI 5 hip professional sfrvices to tl.i 1 citizens Ox foul ii nd viuimtv. Sp-cia l.e S.V.CIfll not succeed in electing our man, but BLACKSMITH, there is no law against our trying to do atlpulinn jfiven tn ciii'ntiic diKHa-cs. Oilice Wct ile Suinrnr Avenue, Oxford. Kane.

TAT IT. SMITH. BLACKSMtTiiixo and all kinds of Wajfon Work done to order Terms Mnetly Cash. vlnl it. This is the main plank in the plat form of the Southern Kansas Republic vesting in United States' securities, whi ('FJllttiK DLOKR.

ans. We have not a great many with nluck enough to face the music. The J. A. I.

J. AGO PaVSlCIAXH, SfWiliOXS ani ACCOITIIEIIRS Special xttculion Riven to diseascnof women and I'liildreu. Office in drnjr ntore on ewt side, ol Sumner Avenue. Residence-, CoHins UoteL lrc. 3tr OXFORD.

Kans. House, Sign and ORNAMENTAL A I T. OXFORD. Kansas. Olive Harper in Somerset Herald, I Puiior Hanging and KuUaminlng While I wab still a resident of the they delved deep into their coffers to provide money for the Confederacy.

Leading rebels were lionized in London and Liverpool where they went for material aid. As Benedict Arnold found refuge under the Union Jack, so traitors and deserters sought and found security under the same flag during the late rebellion, and no rebel felt worse or more humiliated" st Appomatox than did Johnny Bull when he recieved the news that Sunny South I did not write anything regarding what I saw there, be Dnitu on short notice. Satisfaction guarnn-tccil. 2-3 WELLINGTON NURSERY. Wellington, Sumner Kans.

1 take pleasure in statin? that my Nursery Stock lor the snriug ol 1878 is very tine. My cause, being a woman, I have a high re. grad for my back hair, and also think a canvass seems to have undefined and un-definable terrors for the average politU cians in this part of the State. North ot us they have any quantity of statesmen, ready to sacrifice themselves, but here modesty is the prevailing vice. If we have any "route, inglorious Milton" we wish his friends would trot him out.

We do not want to go into the canvass without a candidate, and if this frightful spell of backwardness holds on much longer, we shall be compelled to support some fellow from Atchison. Tbey breed thorn there for all sorts of offices from the beauty of my throat would not be W. 11. DAVIS, M.I)., pnYSICIAS. Surgeon and OHi4clrMaip.

Wiutield. Kan. Special given to fciscHseH of Womeu and Children. Culls ftniwercdat all hours oral any dirtane. Hesi-deuce Q)poaite OtHce.

jui DR. I. S. BOWF.RMAX, CUrtOEOM DENTIST, Will he atOrtord. (Ovtord Hotel) the tlrat Tuesday ot cacli luontli la remain three day.

2 HOIIX WUITEMAS, SURGEON DENTIST customers may rely on trees and plants being furnisheb ot the best quality, true t' name, and unusually thrllty. and warranted superior to shippeb stock, A personal inspection is requited and spomlenre solicited. A. 0.. SMITH.

enhanced by a knotted rope being drawn around it, and so I refrained; but now that I am safe from the tender mercies VU UUO ui Itio uuiueBi unjro ibsi niuin, a German man called at a house and asked for something to eat, saying be had just come from Kankakee and his feet were frozen. The lady gave him something to eat, medicine for his feet, and a pair of socks. lie went away, and nothing was seen of him until the other day, when he returned and wanted to pay for the thing he had received last winter. He would not leave until the lady had taken fifty centa with the prom ise that abe would feed the next poor fellow who came along. He then went awsy satisfied.

"the Star Spingle Banner still waves." We bave not forgotten these facts, nor are we christian enough to forgive the cowardly bully. The Baptist ministers of New York have informally deoided that women may preach if they have the necessary gifts, grace and other accomplishments. But why cant the same restrictions be put on men? Bulletin. of the high-toned chivalry, of the noble sons of the reconstructed South," I fee' free to express my opinions. The women work out in the fields, plowing, harrowing, planting and harvesting, even clearing land and LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE, Corner Dt and 41 Streets, WICHITA, KANSAS, West of Wlctlla Elevator, W.

L. Johnson, Proprietor Good good rare and low price Special air at iiift.ts to nu.n i eiah- lcj. si: Kansas. WINFIELD, constable down to United States senator or judge of the supreme court. Ft.

Fcrdt Mop iter. One of the ahsve named gentlemen, will be St Oxford, the third Weilncday in each until, unit remain threo din. i III.