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THE STOLEN SILKS. LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS; OR THE. STATE OF KANSAS VS. HEN-I BY LEWIS. Under the above caption th Lawrence Gazette has the, following very sensible adice.

Lawrence has had much good luck lately, and every good citizen For two days past the District Court has been principally occupied in considering the above case. The evidence introduced by the State was to the effect that Lewis had been found in the po-session of the goods stolen from Geo. Innes Co. of this city, in the city of Chicago. He said he had traded mining stock for them in Denver, Colorado, when first taken, but afterwards said he had bought them in Kansas City from a man by the name of L.

P. Wilson, who.represenred to him that the goods had been smuggled, and paid seven hundred dollars for them, six hundred down and one hundred to be paid in Chicago, and a man by the name of Steward, who Wilson introduced to him before leaving Kansas City. The defense admitted that he was found in posession of the goods stolen from Innes but claimed that he bought them in Kansas City not knowing that they were stolen, and accounted for his first story on the grounds that he, the defendant, was afraid that the goods would be confiscated by the Government officers as being smuggled. The attorneys completed their arguments about A o'clock yesterday afternoon when the jury retired, and in the even ing they returned with a verdict Of guilty of burglary in the 2nd degree, and grand larceny. There being no one sleeping in the store the offence could not be burglary in the 1st degree.

The sentence has not been given, but it will be between 8 and 15 years in the penitentiary. A pretty dear ni ght's work. May the quick retribution be a lesson to others. hopes and prayes that the same, may continue indefinitely. That it is the duty of all to make every honorable endeavor to improve our city in every respect, none will deny.

Something more is required, however, than merely not to deny. Active work is re-. quired. We claim for our city that it is an attractive place for mere residence. We must make good this claim.

We must make it comfortable, beautiful and healthful. We must provide such modern conveniences as cities of smaller size and pretentions all over the country now posess. We must offer our citizens every facility for making their homes attractive and their environments agreeable. We must make our. streets clean and our system of drainage complete.

We cannot afford such occurrences as that of last fall in the family of Pi of. Canfield. We need street cars. We need better hotel accommodations. We need a new North Sfcle depot.

We need an inproved park. We need water-works. We need improved approaches to the University. We need more houses and ones. We need also a thousand minor improvements, which need not be enumerated here.

We must have water-works. It makes little difference whether we have the Holly system or the reservoir system. For a city of this size one system is practically as good as another, providing the cost be the same. Every small outlay on the part of the city would induce expenditure of large capital in our midst which means' permanent work for, many of our citizens. Substantially the same may be said with regard to street.cars.

As for hotels, all the world has decided against us, and. we must, THE CARPENTER 'DIVORCE case: The Leavenworth Times comes 5wn rather rough on Col. Carpenter. We clip from it the following: We have said very little about this case, for the reason that Colonel Carpenter is hardly responsible for anything he does. He is not only conceited, but very disagreeable in many ways.

He has got the big head. He was "ailing'' six or seven years ago, and applied for permission to go with our editorial excursion to the Rocky mountains. We invited him to go, and he did go in company with a long, lean, lank, dark colored woman, and he stuck to her as close as a sick kitten to a hot brick. The party passed him by at the time with little notice, because it was said that he was threatened with softening of the brain. It was generally supposed that he married Miss Armstrong because he thought she had money.

After the marriage and while his wife was away from home the gallant colonel found a memorandum or will made by his wife, giving her property to her sister. This it is reported enraged the colonel to madness. Colonel Carpenter swears that he was collector of internal revenue, and he also swears that the only article he ever bought for house-keeping was one coffee-mill. He also swears that from the time of his marriage he never bought his wife a present of any kind, although he bought finepres-ents for another lady. His con-duct with this other lady was always considered very strange it was worse, it was stupid, silly, foolish.

Colonel John is evidently a little off in his head. He was not off a bit, however, in taking his suit to Neosho county and bringing it before his friend Judge Tal-cott. The judge has had, it is said, three wives, and in the language of the defense he was divorced from his first wife for Uble reasons, if anybody knows what that means. Then, again, it is generally supposed the colonel thought he could safely depend on the judge, for the reason that they were both in the same boat and must stand by each other. Carpenter won his case without a particle of evidence to sustain it.

Everybody who knew the circumstances, and who knew the colonel's relations to 5 the judge, knew he would. The judge simple threw the law and the facts aside, and gave Carpenter a verdict. The judge ought to be A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. A humdred years hence, What a change will be made, In politics, morals, Religion and trade 1 In statesmen who wrangle, Or ride on the fence How things will be altered, A hundred years hence Our laws will be then Uncompulsory rules Our prisons be changed Into national schools. The pleasures of vice Are a silly pretence, And people will know it, A hundred years hence I All vice will be seen, When the people awake.

To rise out of folly, 'Tis all a mistake. The la wrers and doctors, And ministers too, Will have, I am thinking, But little to do. Their careful attention They then may bestow, On raising potatoes Or turnips vou know Or any employment They choose to commence, For arts will be many A hundred years hence. And you and reader Where shall we be found Can any one tell, When the time will come round? In transports of pleasure, Or sorrow intense We'll know more about it, A hundred years hence! The seven wonders of the world, in ancient times, were the pyramids of Egypt, the Pharos of Alexandria, the walls and hanging, gardens of Babylon, the temple of Diana, the statue of the Olympic Jupiter, the Mausoleum of Artemesia, and the Colossus of Rhodes. The seven wonders of the world, in modern times, are the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, the Daguerreotype, the telephone, the photograph and the electric light.

The so-called "seven wonders" of the ancients were mere tiifies, compared with those of the present time. The Brooklyn bridge, lor would make the hanging gardens of Babylon a mere toy, while the whole seven wonders put together would sink into insignificance, could the builders have seen a lightning express train at full speed. ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL SERVICES. Springfield, 111., April 16. Memorial services on the eighteenth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln were held at the catacomb of the National Lincoln Monument under the auspices of the Lincoln Guard of Honor.

The program embraced religious exercises, music, reading President Lincoln's Sunday order to the army and navy, an oration by General Thomas J. Henderson, of Princeton, Illinois, and the reading of an original poem by John H. Bryant, brother of William Cullen Bryant. At the conclusion of the exercises the catacomb was opened, and a large concourse passed in and placed flowers and. evergreens on the MURDER ON GOV.

GLICK'S FARM. Atchisony April 16. James Dobbs, in a family quarrel this evening at the farm of Governor Glick, six miles from this city, shot his brother, John Dobbs, severely and perhaps fatally wounding him. Dobbs remains on the premises, and has not been arrested. He claims to have acted in self defense do something to have the verdict set aside.

We must encourage our shcools; build np our churches patronize our newspapers; throw aside personal politics, and in many other ways join hands in the good work of building up ourselves, our homes, and our city. There is a movement the Germans of the eastern district of Brooklyn for the formation of a Plattdeutsch settlement in Kansas. Fifteen families have pledged themselves to the undertaking. The boom in building and real estate is" just now in Earls Addition, in the southeast part of town Levi A. Doane is engineering it with his accustomed energy and ability.

THE LEAVEN IS WORKING. A large number of leading Republicans of the Second Kansas district met here Monday and organized the "Republican Revenue Reform Club," with the Hon. Edwin Russell president, Prof. James H. Canfield, of the university, secretary, and Hon.

R. W. Woodward, Dud. Haskell's protective policy was roughly handled. The object of the organization is to be the centre for the formation of, free trade clubs throughout the district, and furnish lectures therefor.

and it is expected.that the colony will consist of at least twenty-five families. The Plattdeutsche are people from the northern and northwestern portions of Germany. How would you be if Hp, which is the top of judgment, should but judge you as ycu are? Shakespeare. Do Not Fobget that the office of The Daily Hand Bill is prepared to do all kinds of Job Work in an artistic and business like manner. We run three job presses and give constant employment to -six printers besides extra help..