The Western World from Leavenworth, Kansas • 2

THE WESTERN WOULD. 2 TOPEKA BLADE The Westtrn Rural, Milton George a th aotieal ami pueccpsful firmer, and for several vfurx connected with the editorial DAILY AND WEEKLY. LEAVENWORTH, JANUARY 15, 1877. HtHfl'of the Tur Western Rural, lm fiecome the owner of that popular and sterling Farm it and Weekly, and has reorganized it upon Has come to hp on of the Institutions of Kansas reputation Is World-wide, It hiu a brnier basis than ever belore. Jt is now greatly KXrOHUUK OP AX INNOCENT." MAlilv TWAlN'ri INFAMOUS l'ltOCKKWNCiS ON HOARD TUB "(iUAKEU CITY." "One of the first persons," said Capt.

Duncan, of tho steamer Quaker City, in a lecture at New York on last Thursday night, "who made application for a berth in the Quaker City, when in the spring of 18(57 I organized this grand excursion, was a tall, lanky, unkempt, unwashed individual who seemed to be full of whisky or something like it, and who filled my office with the fumes of bad liquor, Ho said he was a Japtist minister from Sun Francisco, and improved, and has the ablest and bent editorim start' nd list of contributors to be found on any agricultural paper in the country, It is also the ginned that Point of Popularity nnd circulation where it can afford popular prices, so that the masses may have it, Champion of Cheap Transportation and equal THE WESTERN WOULD, LITERARY AND JAMILY EWSPAPER, Published Mont lily, ROOM 15, MISSOURI VALLEY BUILDING, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, THE WESTERN WORLD ITBIISIIIM COMPANY, Proprietors aad Publishers. justice to all elapses. Combining its practical in Ono Year, $3 0i 1 00 IttIIy llluclo, WoeUly llu do, ftfSemi for Sample Copies, formation on Rural Amaru with its entertaining and instructive literary departments, and make it the most complete Farm and Family Newspaper extant, The price is 2.00 per yf ar, wilh the rest of '76 J. CLARKE SWAYZE, Topolta Kunaiirt. -The (Maim has boon set up, through the agencr desired to travel for his health.

I knew him at once, it was Mark Twain, and I said, 'You don't look like a minister or smell like one I don't intend to say ot secret circulars to advertisers, that other miners lmv Tkhmb To Singly Subscribers, per year, in advance, 1 (id. tli.un Ratkh Ten copies, one your, Jul (Hi, with bu extra copy to tliu duo who sends tho club. pnfl by Ihe Publisher. The Western World Tublishing T. 0.

Box ft I Leavenworth, Kansas. mi fi um-iimu'Mi iii i ufit'Kti man wie ui.fvie. we desire, in thin pulilio milliner, to nay that the Made has at leant double the circulation here of any other paper, and upon this tact was made the official paper of the oily. MUSICAL. IJfe Jusiiranre, much of Mark Twain, but I will jint relate a single incident.

We used to breakfast at eight o'clock every morning, and everybody was always punctual except Murk Twain; he was late. One morning he came straggling in tardy as usual, and jacking up his cup began to abuse the oolTee. He blamed RATTY PIANO I II From Grand Square nnd lTpright. I I. Carter, publisher "Southern 1) tho Hon.

gis. Ashville, Ala. We have received from tho mnimrw. From the Leavenworth Business Review, Jan. 1 77.

Tho benefits of Life Insurance are well free to mn subscribers. Less to clubs. Address THE WESTERN Chicago, 111. THE "IRON Tit A IL." A spicy ske'eh descriptive of a trip over the AtchNon, Topeka, and Wanta Fe Railroad, the beauties, scenery and pleasure resorts of the Rocky Mountains, by Nym Crinkle," the musical and dramatic critic of the New York World, sent free an application, together with the Sui Juan Guide, maps and time tables of this new and popular route iiom Kansas City and Atchison to l'tieblo, Denver and all points in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and the 8an Juan Mines. The finest line of Pullman Sleepers on the Continent between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains without change.

(Special round trip tourists' ticke's from the Missouri River to Denver at $50, good to stop off at all points. Addiess, T. J. Andfrson, Gen, Passenger Agent, Topeka, Kan. Hirer, Daniel F.

Heatty, one of his square pianos. It. is it thing of beauty, hut not more exquifito to the eye is tho finish of its workmanship, than oliarming lo tho ear is Ilia sweetness of its melody. The piano combine llm hiMi. established and universally acknowledged, the steward, he blamed everybody, and after 1 1 1 1 11 it 1 that it is almost useless to ask any man to in est excellence, to which nil first-class manufacturers of musical instruments aim.

To all who wish to invest in a flrst class piano we have no hesitancy in advisin" them to send their money directly to Wefspealc from actual experiment, and it is with pleasure we hto this evidence of the reliability ot Mr. Realty amfhiH instruments." liest offers aro given. Money refunded upon return of piano and freight charges paid liy me (Daniel V. tleatty both ways if unsatisfactory, after a test, trial of five days. Pianos warranted for mix years Agents wanted.

Send for catalogue. Address, I'iamki, F. Bkattv, Washington, New Jersey, U. S. A.

an it tunica out mat me couee ae nau round fault with for being so weak, was an excellent cup of tea. In relating this experience in his book he says, 'that passenger made an ingregious ass of and I think as much." This cut appeared sufficient or the Captain, and he proceeded to pure history, only once more attacking Mr. "Twain," and sure his life. The only question is, in which company and upon what plan to insure. No father who considers the welfare of his household, will remain even a single day without having his life insured.

It is his dut' to leave for those for whom he has to care an inheritance, to save them from want. Life Insurance oilers such an opportunity KATTY's PARI. OR ORGANS, Elegant stvles, with JVnl liable Improvements, new and beautiful SoloSlonu tins for an outrageously libelous paragraph in "Innocents Abroad," wherein it stated Over one thousand Organists and Mimieinns indorse thesa organs and reeommend them as Strictly First-clang in THE SUN. that Capt. Duncan, at the great Fourth of lone, flieenanism ana jmraniuty.

Warranted for six NEW YORK. 1877. 181" years. Most elegant and latest unproved. Have hern awarded the Highest Premiums in competition with oth.

ers for Simplieity, Durability, Promptness, and piano like action. Pure, sweet, and evenly balanced tone orchestral effects, and instantaneous access which may ba htd to the Reeds. Send for price list. Address. Damisl F.

Beattt, Washington, New Jersey, II. S. A. an opportunity within the reach of everybody. The duty of insuring one's life is universally acknowledged we all know we have to die once the only question to ask is where and how to insure.

The Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company (our own home company) offers all the advantages which the best and safest companies can offer. This company organized in 1807, and but nine years old has, during this short period, earned a reputation as one of the The different editions of Tiik Sun during the next year will be the same as during the year lhat has just passed. The daily edition will on week days be a sheet of four pages, and on Sundays a -July dinner, made the following speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, may you all live long and prosper; steward, pass up another basket of champagne." There is no truth in it," said the libelled Captain; "it was the speech Mark Twain was hankering for me to make, but if I had made any I would have said something sensible." Applause. "I used to be proud of 'Innocents added the Captain, "until I discovered how unreliable it is." sheet of eight pages, or 56 broad columns while HATTY'S PARLOR OROANSt Est. in 185H.

Aiv first-class Sign Painter and Letterer can learn something to his advantage by addressing the manufacturer, Dan jbl F. Bkattv, Washington, New Jersey, U. S. A. the weekly edition will be a sheet ot eight pages RATTY PIANO! Grand Square and upright.

I -A gents wanted everywhere. Address, Dasjkl Bkattv, Washington, New Jersey, U. S. A. "I1EATTY Piano A Oman.

Best in use Daniei, K. i nest aim surest mo insurance companies or the country, and has increased its business year by year and issues in this State more policies than any other life insurance of the same dimensions and character that are already familiar to our friends. The Sun will continue to be the strenuous advocate of reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution of statesmanship, wisdom, and integrity for hollow pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the administration of public affairs, It will contend for the government of the people by the people and for the people, as opposed to government by frauds in the ballot-box and counting of votes. J) Bkatty, Washington, New Jersey, U. S.

A. dee7 The Pittsburg Dispatch says that a bottle of yeast recently exploded in Sacramento, California, which leaven horse power." That levcu beats a dozen ordinary buns. AGENTS WANTED For the only Complete and Satisfactory enforced by military violence. It will now en LIFE OF DR. LIVINGSTONE EVER PUBLISHED.

The merry jingle of the sleiVh bells, say deavor to supply its readers a body now far from a million of souls with the most careful, complete, nnd trustworthy aecounls of current events, and will employ for this purpose a numer the Brooklyn Argus, the sparkle of the crystal snow in the lambent lijHit of the The whole storv vf the Great Explorer's enrlv life on, I moon, and the confiding creature that nestles of his Travels, Adventures, nnd Wonderful Experiences in Africa, as told by himself, in his personal narratives and last journals. The best Belling work ever issued. For terms and circulars, address j. c. nnsi HERS.

The llentjul Storm Ware. yrom (lie Gstette of India.) In an crea of some square miles, out of 1, persons suddenly thrown into more or less of danger, 215,000 must have pcriaiiuij. This, of course, is only an estimate; the exact number cannot be known yet awhile, perhaps never will be known. We found in some villages per cent, of the inhabitants lost, in others 50 per cent, in some even 70 per cent. There was a severe closely to him beneath the buffalo robes, tenderly clasping his left hand in hers while Apr.

'77. HIS L'leust Pt. Louis, Mo Ins right holds the reins, constitute the winter night's poem that is floating through the ous and carefully selected staff oi reporters and correspondents. Itsi reports from Washington, especially, will be full, accurate and fearless; and it will donbiless continue lo deserve and enjoy the hatred of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury, or by uisurping what the law does not give them, while it will endeavor to merit the confidence of the public by defending the rights of the pe 1 1 1 against the encroachments of unjus-tilied power. The price of the daily Scn will be 155 cents a month or a year, iost paid, or with the doting lover's soul and leave him in doubt whether to let go long enough to get us draw his coat-sleeve or handkerchief out, across his nose.

cyclone in the Lay of Bengal on the night of Sundav edition. a year. The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, jji I CENTRAL ROUTE! Houston anfl Jexas Central Railway The CONNECTING LINK Between the Trunk Lines of the NORTH and EAST, and the GULF OF MEXICO ON THE SOUTH FORMS THE Great Tliroiih Route AND Main Artery of Commerce and Trade a vear, post paui. The ekki.y Run, eight pages of 50 broad columns, will be furnished during 1877 at the rate of Jjtil a year, post paid. the or October.

IJut, it was not the wind which proved so destructive, though that was bad enough; it was the storm wave, sweeping along to a height of from ten to twenty feet, according to different localities; in some places, where it met with any resistance, it mounted even higher than that. In the evening the weather was a little windy and hazy, and had been somewhat hot; the people, 1,000,000 or thereabouts of souls, retired to rest, apprehending nothing. But The benefit ot this large reduction from the The righteous plumber has at last been di-covered, and of all the unsuspected places in the world, in Buston. for last Sunday by a resident of the modern Athens, whose water pipes were frozen, the plumber shouldered his "kit," went to the house and removed the difficulty. But when the citizen wanted to pay him he firmly refused, remarking that while ho could not refuse to obey such a call on Sunday, as delay often caused damage, he could not conscientiously accept money for work done on that day.

previous rate for the can be enjoyed by individual subscribers without ihe necessity of nuking up clubs. At the anie time, if of our friends choose to aid in extending our circula TO ALL POINTS, tion, we shall be gratelul to them, and every such person who sends us ie.x or more subscribers from one place, win tie entitled to one copy oi me paper lor himself without charge. Atone dollar a year, postage paid, the expenses of paper and printing are barely repdd; and, considering the si.e of the sheet, and the quality of its contents, before 11 clock the wind suddenly freshened, and about midnight there arose a cry of "The water is on us!" and a great wave hurst over the country several feet high; it wits followed by another wave, and again bv third, all three rushing rapidly southward, the air and wind being chilly cold. The people were thus caught up before they had time even to climb on to their roofs, and were lifted to the surface of the water, We are in receipt of the half-century umber of the old Western Farmers' Almanac, published by John 1'. Morton Louisville, Ky.

It is replete with original articles of substantial value we are confident ihe people will consider Ihe Weekly' Sun the cheapest newspaper published in the world, and we trust also one of the very bes1. Address, my77 XII SUN, New York City, N. Y. to every reader, and especially so to the larmer. The article on Butter Dairying by A.

Witlard and the Kitchen Garden Ca endar are alone worth THIS PAPER IS ON F1XK WITH more than the dime the bojk eosis. The Western Farmers' Almanac is the olde; periodical, except VP. together with the be 'ins and thatches of their cottages. When the storm burst there was an abundant rice crop ripening for the harvestthe well known deltaic rice crop, which is much beyond the needs of local consumption, and affords quantities (measured by thousands of tons annually) for exportation to distant districts. A part is lost, that in ing he old "Thomas Almanac," in this country, and seems to be as popular as was the fatuous "Poor Richard's Almanac" of the oldest time.

We advise our readeis to send a dime to ttie publishers and get a copy. nnd offers the Best Routes, on Quick Time, with more Comlorts, better Accommodations and Greater Security than any other Line. Passing through the richest and Most ISeiuiliiiil portions ot the Great Empire STATE OF TEXAS, it gives to the Passenger a view of the Grandest ficenerv Finest Agricultural District and Great Grazing Grounds of tlm West lis Passenger and Freight Trains are surpassed bv none in the State. Pullman's Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping Curs leave St. Louis daily via the K.

at II A. Hannibal at 10:110 A.M., m.d Sedalia at P. running through to Lenison, Sherman, Palls Hearne, Austin and Houston without change. Conned tion is also made at Sherman wilh the Texas Pacific B'y for the above named points. the connections of this road with the K.

4 at Penison for St. Louis, Hannibal, Chicago, Fort Scott Kansas City and all points North and East; with the Texas Pacific at Sherman for St. Louis, Cairo, Memphis nnd all points East and South-oast, and at Houston with the G. II. S.

A. lor San Antonia, the G. H. H. for Gal.

veston, tho Texas N. Orleans Ry. for Beaumont Orange, Ac, the Morgan Mallory Steamships for all points on the Gulf and Atlantic coests, and the Liverpool Tex. as Steamship Line to Liverpool, Havre and other European cities are perfect, while its freedom from dust and heat on account of the nature of the soil and the open prairie country over which it passes, with its cooliti sea treesio, pleasant scenery of broad prairies, beautiful groves, well cultivated fields of cotton, corn, small grain and fruits, render it especially desirable and advantageous to travelers and shipper in preference to others. Buy your Tickets and ship your Freight by the Houston and Texas Central Railway.

The following Offices and Agents have been established by this Company, where information mav bo had concerning not only the H. A C. Railway, but'Texas generally. F. L.

MANCHESTER, East'n Passenger Agent, 417 Broadway. N. Y. Where Advertising Contracts can be made. which the plant had not advance beyond the vitaoro of Uowerinrr.

a. nnrr. is siifn at ill fcETC Ia Of? a Week to Agents. Samples FREK. UOD lO Ui P.

O. V1CKERY, Augusta, Maine. jy77 GEO. T. IJEYEtf, Agent.

Il'd quarters Missouri Brands of Flour FLOUR AND GRAIN DEALER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT. i that in which the grain had formed or begun Uo form. If even one-third is saved, that would suffice for the population now on the land. Tho wealth lost was alnost entirely agricultural crops or cattle. To this, however, there is io noticeable exception, namely, Dowlutkhau, a rich trading town, clean destroyed, wilh loss of miscellaneous property and valuable records.

It had 8,000 inhabitants, ono foiirth of whom perished perhaps No. 222 Street, Leavenworth, Kansas rnai'77 OUlt HOME is the name of the most elegant French (Ji! Motto (Jhroinoever issued. The motto is surrounded by one of the most exquisite and ricbly-colored wreaths of beautiful (lowers on dark background, and is perfect in ail its delails. Jt is 11 15. send this inolto ehromo and the liOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE, a large eight-page family, story and news paper, with agricultural, chess, puzzle, household, and all popular department, 3 months, for only 60 cents.

Chromo and piper, 6 months for $1. A beautiful holiday gift. Agents wan'ed. Address, WEEKLY GLOBE, .38 Washington BOSTON MASS. E.

J. HUMPHREYS llealers in Gen. .1. B. ROBERTSON, Pass.

A Immigration Agent. 113 North Third Street, St. Louis, Mo, A. ALLEE, North-west'n Pass. 101 Clark Street, Chicago, III.

NICK HOLMES, South-east'n Agent, No. 2 Burnett House, Cincinnati, Ohio J. R. COFFIN, Southern Pass. Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Information may also bo had at the agencies of the M. K. A T. Hailway, in Now York, Hannibal and St. Louis.

WAT.DO, Gen'l Pass. Freight Houston, Texas. 1TJTIAPSI, Geu'I Houston, Texas. decT7 Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, Horace Gkeeley said that of the thousands he lent, the most he ever received back was a $5 note inclosed in a letter, and upon tracing out the writer of the letter he found it came from a lunatic in the Utica Asylum who never owed bin a cent. Funcy and Toilet Articles, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Window Glues, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

'lieiijM-M HoiiHC fu the City. feb77.