The Weekly Visitor from Baldwin, Kansas • 4

We learn that the codling moth has done much damage to the apple crop in this county. How far their ravages extend over the state we have not been informed. We had hoped that this pest of the orchard, east, would not trouble us in Kansas for many years to come." We notice in the vicinity of Baldwin, many orchards where half the crop seems to be lying on the ground, and the apples brought The Weekly Yisitor. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1884. J.

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Office over Dugprer Bros. Grocery House, Baldwin, Douglas county, Kansas. to our market are more than half of them infested with worms. Mr. W.

h. Barnes, proprietor of the Vinland nursery, says when the codling moth comes, it comes to stay. We hope, however, that, like the grasshoppers, it will have its daj Meantime let horticulturists make a diligent search for a remedy whereby wo may get rid of the pest. The Courier-Journal in speaking of the Blaine scandal says: "We leave him out. If all be true which is charged, that which remains is the least discreditable act laid against him.

But it is not true. It is a vile falsehood and its real object is not Mr. Blaine. on party lines. Only as an independent issue can the friends of prohibition count on a full vote.

While John A. Martin may not suit radical Prohibitionists, elected, as he will be, on the platform upon which he stands, we have no doubt but that he will give us an honest administration of government, and that is all an honest man can ask. Let every Republican and every Prohibitionist vote for him to a man as the best leader that, under the circumstances, could be put in the field. Side issues, likes and dislikestmust be laid aside for the common good. There will be a grand celebration by the colored people of this state at Bismarck Grove, Lawrence, on the 22d, in honor of the Emancipation Proc-lamrtion issued by President Lincoln, wherdby millions of slaves were released from bondage.

Thorough preparations have been made to insure the success of the celebration. People without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude, are invited to participate, and the assurances are plentiful that it will be one of the largest gatherings of the masses that will take place in Kansas during this season of political enthusiasm. Senator John J. Ingalls, Col. John A Martin, Hon.

Geo. R. Peck and other orators of Kansas, will be present and address the people. The Inter-State Fair is booming this week at Kansas Citv. The fol-lowing, which we clip from Wednesday's Journal, reminds one of the lair recently held at Bismarck: Every varietyof side show, game of chance and lunch stand which could tempt the nickels from the pocket of the unsuspecting were scattered about upon every side.

You could lose your money without any apparent effort, betting upon anything under the sun, from the presidential candidate to the rings on a coon's tail." Why these sharks are permitted to infest the grounds of otherwise well ordered fairs is an unexplained It would seem that a fair, where, more than anywhere else, the unsuspecting and unsophisticated congregate, ought to be free from such pests. Mrs. Blaine is a noble!" high-minded, woman, lias made her husband a good wile through more than thirty years, has presided over a happy home, and the sole effect of 'this slander, as far as The farmers of this county have, this year, an overplus of corn, and are short on hogs and cattle. This means that corn must either be sold below the cost of production or stored till stock can be secured to consume it. In either event the prospect is not very flattering to the producer.

However the consumer is in luck. Hon. E. H. Funston's appointments for Douglas county are as follows: Baldwin, Monday, Septf 22, at 7 p.

m. Eudora, Tuesdaj-, Sept. 23, at 7 p. m. Lawrence, Monday, Nov.

3, at 7 p.m. We trust the citizens of Baldwin will give Mr. Funston a good audience next Monday evening. Let every voter be on hand. Never, since the campaign of 1860, has there been so much confusion in national politics as at the present time, nor has it ever been more difficult to guess at the result.

We have a third and a fourth party, which, under the circumstances, can not bo left out of the count. Dissatisfaction with the management of the two great parties is too widespread to be ignored. While Butler or St. John will not, in all probability, carry a single state, they will decide the fate of one or the other of the leading parties at the coming election. This same condition of affairs exists in reference to our state ticket.

However important a factor the prohibition question may be in the state, the prohibition vote will divide it can have any eliect, is to mortify her and wound a household of innocent children. In this respect it is the basest and foulest job of scoundrelism that ever found its way into an American canvass, and hence we have stigmatized it, and all honest Democrats have disowned it." The Criterion has increased its editorial staff," and this week at the head of the editorial column appears the name of Mr. R. M. Fish, father-in-law of L.

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