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TELE TOPEKA PATTiY CAPITAJ; SATXJBDAX HORNING, JANUARY 5, 1S8. publican party as well as the success of the commission demand that Mr. Turner, the present Republican member, be seconded by a man cf first-class ability. The council has before it a difficult task, it will be conceded. Tho people will, we believe, endorse any selection it may make that places fitness for the duties of the office as the first requisite of November continued with a somewhat intermittent brilliancy during the month of December.

Mb an T5IPsatijke 33.72 degrees, which is 4-12 deg. above the December average. The highest temperature was 63 on the 12 the lowest was 3.5 deg. above zero, on the 2lst giving a range of 9 5 deg. Mean temparatare at 7 a.

27 37 at 2 p. .41.41 at 9 p. 43 06 deg. Rainall including, melted snow, 0.77 inch, which is 0.83 inch below the December average. Either rain or snow fell on 8dijs, Rain alone fell on 4 days snow alone on 4 days.

Toe total depth of. snow was two inches, which is 4 05 inches below the December average. The entire rainfall for the year 1883 has been 40 75 inches, which is 6.40 inches above the annual average for the preceding 15 years. Mean Cloud i xe 33 13.24 per cent, of are issued the country will go to the dogs." The caller leaves delighted and takes back a favorably report to his county. Caller: "These greenback cracks have driven the country to the verge of ruin." Echo: "The greenback cranks have driven the country to the verge of ruin." I When prohibition was beginning to be-! come an issue, a red-faced, red nosed I member of the House called on a very oily incumbent of a fat office.

Red Note: "They are talking a good deal about prohibition in my county," and we want to know how you staud." Sxeet Oil: "Well. I keep in wih the temperance cranks, of coarse, bat I always go out with the boys and have a good time, jast as we have always done." Soon Rt d-no3e went oat and reported. He was the president of the Temperance Sabbath School union in his county and had never taken a drink in his life. Is is due to Sweet Oil to say that he rarely makes such a "give away" as this was. These few lines from the hand of a veteran who has held several offices, are humbly commended to young men who wnt to "catch on' They can do it, bat office seeking is a vocation, and the beginner must pay strict attention to business.

No foolishness. In Kansas the office has never, in a single instance, "sought the man." If it had hunted him it would have found him away from home, seeaing office. Aggressive and positive men have rarely been elected, and if elected have been shelved. This is not an Andrew Jackson State. If you are a candidate for Senator, Governor or Congees, you must have "rooms" rooms in an inn, with steerers to rope members into them, and attendants to palaver before admitting the delegate to your own private sanctum.

You must pay the board bills of these steerers. Candidates for other offices are not compelled to have rooms; the offices may be called the on-room positions. We have always been a non-roomer. It is your business to sea personally every delegate and tj ask him to vote for you. It is trying to the voice and the legs, but it has to be done.

Yon must have your county for ym and your section for you, and the moat effective speech yon can have made for you in the convention is a ge igraphical howl. "We come hsre demanding our rights as sovereign voters of the great North-south, and I tell you plainly, gentlemen, we have submitted to tyranny, injustice and despotism for the last time. (Cheers and howls.) For the last time. We come up here to-day and we come united. Ap plause.) We present to you Bill Jones the gallant knizht and noble patriot." (Overwhelming applause.) country, and were looking to the Democratic party as their champion the same party that held out encouragement and false hopes to the slaveholders, and miserably failed them when the crisis Tens of thousands of conservative men, who favored noninterference with slavery, and all needful protection of it when it existed, when the issue was forced npon th9m, took the ana-slavery side.

So it will be with the whisky issue, Thero are thousands of men in all parts of the country who have no love for whisky, but who are willing to allow the traffic in it, under a jast license and proper restrictions; but they will not consent that the whisky men shall rale or dictate the terms npon which they will conduct the traffic. The Liquor Dealers' Association of Ohio met in Columbus last week, for -the purpose, in plain terms, of giving the approaching Democratic Legislature its orders what to do on the liquor question. They reminded the Democratic party that the liquor men gave them the State, and demanded that the Scott law and all license laws be repealed, and free and unrestricted traffic in whisky be allowed, the same as in other commodities in other words, that whisky be given the same privileges as bread and meat, sugar and coffee. The Democratic Legislature will have to comply with these demands, or something equivalent, or lose the whisky support, which will be ruin to them; and if they do comply, they will be ruined by a popular uprising, euih as often sweeps the country over, for even Democrats sometimes revolt when dirty work is crowded too heavily upon them. If the liquor men had been wise, they would have acquiesced in the Scott law, and been thankful for it.

This law is satisfactory to a large majority of the people, and amounts simply to a license, which liquor men in most of the States would willingly pay. But in Ohio, the liquor men feel that they have won a victory for the Democratic party, and they mean to work the party for all there is to be got. It is the old, old story as eld as the flight out of Egypt, of men engaged in a bad cause, elated with power and success, driving headlong to their own to eauh of thecouaty shsriffi tha district. The regular annual mealing of the Board of Agriculture will be held ncrt Wednesday, at which time the arcnil election of ofSsars will take plsca. Tho ofScer3 to elest are president, vico-presi-dent, secretary and treasurer, and five members of the board.

The Sapreme court adjournal yesterday until February. The latest application for th ositioa cf railroad commissioner i3 ex-Gov. Caraay, of Leavenworth, who enters the race as a "dark horse." A petition signed by all tho Siato od. cer3 was forwarded to Washington yesterday asking for the appointment of Jude J. D.

Brower as Judge of the United States Circuit court in place of Jada 11c-Crary, resicned. Tbe Closing: or the Emua Uud Case THE VEEDICT. From the Glofce Democrat, Ja. S. After suppsr thera was a raih for tha court-room in anticipation of hearing tho verdict.

Nine-tenths of those present were citicsns of Montgomery county, and they chieflly residents of Hilliboro. Judge Phillips informed the pres3 that a verdict had beea agreed upon. A few minutes later Pettus and Clementi came in and took their accustom places. Directly afterward John Montgomery walked in through the crowd. Ha had evidently heard the rumor, for he showed considerable agitation.

Pettus and Clementi bora themselves as they had during the "who! a trial. Judge Phillips then the s-eembly in the following language 'In order that public justice should be recognized, it is necessary that the verdict of a jary should be respected. The jury in this case have heard the evidence according to the facts and the law, and their verdict should be recognized without ap plause or disapproval. After a long and remarkable trial, the officer has informed me that the jury has agreed upon a verdict. When it is announced let there bo no applaass and perfect quiet until after the business of the court has b3en concluded." ACQUITTED.

At 8:23 o'clock the jury was brought in. They stood up in front ef the seats they had occupied so long, and were polled by Circuit Clerk John J. McLean. "Let the defendants stand ap," said the Court. They arose to their feet, and then the Court read the verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendants not There was no applause.

The judge complimented the for the faithful manner in which they had done their duty, and discharged them. Tho discharge of the defendants came Eext. Each of tbem stepped up to the jurors, and a general handshaking ensued. Thero was very little commotion other than ths congratulations, showing that the precautionary remarks of udge Phillips were not without effect. A canvass of the jurors showed that they stood seven to hve for arquittalon the first ballot.

At supper time changed to ten. for acquittal. The jurors a thpy based their acquittal chitily upon the alibi. They also considered it impossible for Miss Bond to have recogaizd John Montgomery as she says Rhe did under the circumstance. Judge Phillips heartily approves the verdict, and add3 that time will prove that justice has been dono.

Within an hour after the verdict was rendered reports came over tho wires that a mob was congregating at Litchfield, twelve miles distant, and intended to make their way to Hillsboro to night. Greats excitement followed among the court ofli-core and they exercised special caution to euppress any rumors of tnat kind. All day long citizens of the town and officials were besieged with telegrams requesting that the verdict be wired at the earliest possible moment. SPBBADINO TBS NEWS. The news was not long in reaching all the towns within a radius of fifty railss, and on this account there were grave apprehensions of danger.

The telephone and telegraph were brought into requisition to ascertain the tru9 state of public feeling. A message from Litchfield domed the report of a mob but admitted that the result of the trial met with di favor. This information was received at a private telephone in the Circuit clerk's office, where Judee PhiUini OFFICIAL STATIPAPER. RA1E3 OF BCB3CRIPTI0N Per year, by 58 CO EIx months, by mail 4 00 Three months, by mail 2 00 Address, J. IIUDSOBT, Editor nnU Proprietor.

SATURDAY MORKISG, JASUARY 1881. THE NEW YEAE'3 EDITION. The eixteen-page New Year's edition of the Daily Capital was pronounced on all hands to be the most thoroughly representative Kansas paper ever made. Thousands of copies are being Eent throughout the East. The demand dar-leg New Year's day and yesterday was large beyond our expectations.

A few hundred remaiu ucsold. The price is 50 cents per dozen. Any person enclosing the amount in postage stamps, together frith a list of names and postofSces the papers will be promptly sent, postage paid rom this office. Abilene Chronicle: Several good men ere mentioned the successor of Haskell. Eugene Ware, of Foit 8cott, is a good man, and so is E.

H. Funston. Ware is probably the abler of the twe, but Funston would be stronger before the people. The contest in the Second district greatly interests the people of the whole State. The party can be greatly strengthened by Csle sting the man who will carry the district by the largest majority.

Clay Center Dispatch: Ex-Governor George T. Ai-tbony will return to Kansas in the spring. The probabilities are that he will take a hand in politics next year. They do eay that the climate of Mexico has thawed tte old man out and that he is now companionable. The Leavenworth Time does not credit the story-It is to be hoped that the rumor that ex-Governor Anthony will return to Kansas to engage in politics is not true.

Admired for his acknowledged ability, he succeeded in alienating nearly every old political friend he bad by bis cold blooded selfishness and his supreme egotism, before he left the State. Beside i this, we always have one Anthony with us, and that is more than enongh for a State twice the Biz9 of Kaneas. Tho Lyndon Journal: Keferring to Major Hopkins, the lata Railroad Commissioner, an official of the Santa Fe railroad fiaid to ue: "There is no question about it, the man killed himself by hard work. Conversing with him at the Copeland house I put to him a proposition regarding freight tariffs between competirg points and asked a eolation regarding the matter. He passed his hand wearily through his hair and replied, that he had labored hard upon that very proposition and was giving himself I little rest, but it was a matter too deep for early mastery.

'This freight business he said, 'cannot be understood by any commissioner the State may pick up and put in office; it requires study, and in order to compete with the railroad official with whom we come in contact upon jast such questions 83 you have propounded, one must nnderstand the matters as thoroughly as they do. This is almost impossible without constant effort. The State has lost a good man in the death of Mjor Horkins. BATLTtOAD COHIIISSION. James Leete, of Leavenworth, and L.

M. Btiggs, of Atthioon, art being pushed forward to fill the vacancy i the Kilroad Co ru mission tmcsed dj tbe death of jit Hopkins. The Toper. Uommonvoeal Is pushing forward T. B.

Xtuidock lor the position. Mr. Murdoch's appoint mer would give the beet 66th fiction to Ke-pufelicans thro tbe Mate anyone yet mentioned. Burr Oak Herald. The Commonwealth is not by any means alone In urging the appointment of Mr.

Murdock. He probably has the best backing of any gentleman whohea bten named for the place. He would be a worthy coadjutor cf the other members of the l.7i. We have personally none but the kindliest feelings for Mr. T.

B. Murdock, but a matter of fact, apparent to 6very man iBCquainted with both gentleman, it must he conceded that Mr. Legate has more genuine ability for the position of railroad commissioner than a half dozen like Mr. Murdock. The position is one requiring a judicial mind, keen, analytical and of such breadth and depth as to successfully master the questions that this great transportation problem brings to the front.

railroads secure euch talent as Dillon, McCrary, Williams, Peck and officers of the highest business capacity to take care of their business interests. The State of Kansas must have equal ability in her railroad commissioners. This is a question of business sense, not one of pap, and the Capital will protest against the appointment being given to a mftn simply because he has been a "rustler" in county conventions or because he wants an office. The commission is cot a political hospital nor an asylum. Let the strongest and brainiest Republican in Kansas be selected.

There is a political side to this selection to be made by the executive council, and it is this: The present members of the railroad commission consist of a Republican and aDamocrat. The council to make the selection is five Republicans and ono Democrat. The new man will ba a Re-. publican. The law was a Republican nessure, the majority of the board will ba Republican, and the responsibility for a wise course by the cersmksion will rest largely with the Be-rzhlicaa party.

The Democrat now ba lib beard, Judge Humphrey, i3 reccgnhei r.j ca abla member and an honor THE ECHOES. Abilene Gazette The Topeka Capital came out on Tuesday morning with a magnificent holiday number, containing sixteen well-filled The Capital is a credit to the Capital City and to the State. Troy Chief: The Topeka Capital issued a New Year's paper of sixteen pages, seven columns to the page, with choice local and general reading, most of it original, from the pens of Kansas writers. It was a success. Saline County Journal -The New Year edition of the Topeka Capital was fall of Kansas history and articles pertaining to Kansas in general and Topeka in particular.

Manhattan Republic- The Topeka Cap-tal of January l6t is a paper that its energetic publisher may well be proud of. Its sixteen pages contain a vast amount of information that is of interest to every Kansan. It has contributions from several leading citizens in this State on subjects of local importance. Mr. Hudson is to be congratulated on his New Year's edition KANSAS ACADE2XT OF SCIENCE.

MUSEUM CAPITAL BUILDING, TOPEKA. To the Members of the Kansas Academy of Science Leaven worth, January 1. Below will be found the list of commissioners, and the names of parties who have been appointed for the ensuing year. It is earnestly desired that the members of the commission will give it their special attention, so that full and complete reports may be presented at the next meeting. Attention is directed to subjects that pertain to Kansas, such as the animal and plant kingdom, geological and miner etc.

All members of the Academy are expected to prepare papers and aid in every way they can to farther the advancement of the Academy. Geology O. H. St. John, Robt.

Hay, and Joseph Savage. Mineralogy G. H. Failyer, Geo. S.

Chase, and E. S. H. Bailey. Chemistry E.

8. H. Bailey, H. E. Sadler, and J.

D. Willard. Physics J. T. Love well, E.

L. Nichols, and H. M. Aller. Meteorology F.

H. Snow, J. T. Love-well, and J. D.

Paxker. Astronomy and Mathematics L. Nichols, D.E. Lautz, and J.ATLippin-colt. Uotany w.

A. Kellerman, J. H. Car-ruth, and E. N.

Plank. Eatomology E. A. Popenoe, F. H.

Saow, and F. W. Cragin. Ornithology F. H.

Snow, N. S. Goss, Gos3, and L.L. Dyche. Ichthyology I.

D. Graham, F. W. Cragin, and D. B.

Long. Herpetology F. W. Cragin, F.H. Snow, and H.

R. Morse. Anthropology A. H. Thompson, Frank Riser, end J.

R. Mead. R. J. Bbown, President, Leavenworth, Kan.

FACTS AS they; ABE. Emporia Republican: It is evident that Emporia and the State at large are near-ing an important period in the history of prohibition. It is not long now until coutt will commence a new session and another jury ba selected. Consequently a very perceptible degree of uneasiness is felt on the part of our whisky sellers. They undoubtedly feel that the day of reckoning is gradually drawing near, and it becomes our people as a prohibition community to stand up in their might and demand of this evil "to be gone." The county attorney is determined to exercise the fall authority of his office to clear the city of the incubus, and is accumulating evidence against the various guilty parties that cannot but convict, and secure the imposition of each fines as whisky sellers will find it very hard to pay.

It is understood that the whisky men themselves are divided. It is difficult to git the best qualified men identified with this interest to become the bondsmen of the low retail dealers. The recent municipal election of Topeka has 6et the people to thinking upon this subject again, and it is found that the honest temperance sentiment is, after all, much stronger than many croakers would have others believe. Now is the time for the people of Emporia to demand a full enforcement of the existing laws. At the present time F.

H. Macke is petitioning Governor Glick for pardon, being confine 1 in the county jail for selling whisky in default of baiL We do not believe that the chief, executive cf the State will grant the pardon but it is well enough to show him that it is the wish of this community that he refuse to do so. AN CONFLICT. Sol Miller in his Troy Chief: It is strange that certain classes of men do not know when they are well cL The slave holders lacked this knowledge when they tried to extend slavery into free territory, and make all the people of the nation slave catchers, and finally rebelled because they coald not do so. The result was the utter destruction of slavery in the United States.

Such will ever be the Heal result cf a conflict between right and wrong. It looks as if the liquor dealers were fcrcicj the game irrepressible conflict upon tha the sky, the month being 5.44 per cent, clearer than usual. Number of clear days (less than one-third cloudy) 14 half-clear (from one to two-thirds cloudy) 7 cloudy (more than two-thirds cloudy) 10. There were 6 entirely clear days and 8 entirely cloudy. Mean cloudiness at 7 a.m., 51.29 per cent.

at 2 p. 4S.13 per cent. at 9 p.m., 41.29 per cent. Wind S. 38 times; N.

times; N. 14 times; 8. 5 times; 3 times. 3 times; 3 times; twice. The total run of the wind was 13,630 mile3, whuh is 1,995 miles above the December average.

This gives a mean daily velocity of 441 29 miles and a mean hourly velocity of 18 39 miles. The highest velocity was 55 miles an hoar, from 8 to 9 a. mn on the 16th. Barometer Mean for the month, 29 199 inchef at 7 a. 23.209 at 2 p.

29.170 inches; at 9 p. 29.219 inches; maximum, 29 612 inches on the 15 534 inches on the 26tb; monthly range, 1 023 inches. Relative Humidity Mean for the month 63 at 7 a. 81.1; at 2 p. 50.3; at 9 p.

greatest 98, on the 21st. leist 23, on the 15th. There were two fogs. A Correction. To the Editor Daily Capital.

In your kindly teport of the "Annual meeting of the new church society" in yesterday's isue, I notice an error which you may be willing to correct. After speaking of the election of six trustees, the names of bat foar are given, two of which are incorrect. The trustees of the society are Messrs. Edward Wilder, J. F.

God-dard, O. H. Brown, J. F. Scott, T.

L. Con- ant and C. A. Peab.dy. D.

Tbe Weather and Other Topics. Yesterday was the coldest day of the season, the thermometer early yesterday morning standing at 10 below zero. Toward noon it became somewhat moderate, and the mercury ranged the greater part of the day about the zsro point. Last evening the weather became much colder again, the thermometer dropping to 14 below zero at 10 o'clock. All day a keen, cutting wind was felt, making the weather much more disagreeable than it otherwise would have been.

Last night the streets were deserted early, on account of the extreme cold weather, and everybody went home. Many of those who did go home early, eurprued theomlves exceedingly. The surprise was not intentional bat owing to the fact that the saloons, and other summer and winter resorts were closed, they could do nothing elae but go home. A cold wave has apparently struck the city, in several respects. Yesterday was a cold day all round.

It was a cold day for whisky and other drinks. It was alio a coll day for saloons and other resorts. Even the "cold lemonade" dodge, which some of the retired saloon keepers have been playing, froza yesterday, from the fact that the police "spotted" a few of the "lemonaders." It is confidently expected that the "lemonade" will grow colder as the weather moderates. STATE HOUSE. Items of Interest from the Capitol Building.

The follow ioz notaries were appointed yesterday by Governor Glick: J. K. Da-moss, Neodesha, Wilson connty; John Severance, Axtell, Marshall county; F. P. Baker, Topeka, Shawnee county; J.

E. Cribbs, Independence, Montgomery connty; L. S. Camberon, Erie, Neosho county, and M. Sheldon, Barlingams, Oaage county.

The Congregational church of Satphens Mills, Dickinson county, and Caldwell Lodge No. 176, 1. O. O. F.

of Caldwell, Samner county, fihd their respective charters yesterday with the Secretary of State. The Producers club of Wheaton Station Pottawatomie county was incorporated yesterday under the State laws. The capital stock of the club pi iced at 14,000, and the purpose of the company as expressed in the charter is "to ship grain and stock of members and others, buy goods needed and transact any other basinets that may come before it." Twenty directorj have been chosen to control the business affairs of the company. The Mount Olive Cemetery association of Topeka has lieen orgarrixsd, and on yesterday filed in articles cf incorporation with the Secretary of State. The incorporators are Thomas Johnson, Anderson Harelson, Martin Ojebbv, Andrew For-geson and Newton Baker.

Fifteen copiescf the Governcr'a proclamation, calling an elsctioa in tha Ei'coad Ccsec3ssl tzzt THE CHANDLES CASE. Below will be found the charge given by Judge Martin in the case against Chandler, tried in the District court of Pottawatomie county, and appealed to the Supreme court, where a decision was given on Thursday, and published yesterday morning, fully sustaining the position of the lower court. The case has excited some interest in legal circles and we print Judge Martin's charge in order that the points may ba compared with the opinion of the Supreme court The State of Kansas ys. A. L.

Chandler. Gentleman ff the Jury: In answer to your questions I state to you: 1. That it is none of yonr business as to who does or does not testify as a witness in this case. That is a question for the court alone to determine, and it is your duty to receive and act npon the testimony of any and every person whom I permit to testify as a witness upon the stand. It is my business and province to decide all questions of law arising in the progress cf this case from beginning to end, and as to whether I decide rightly or wrongly it ia none of your business.

It is simply your duty to i yield a respectful obedience to and govern ycur actions by the law as declared by the court and the evidence of the witnesses given in your hearing, and when I permit a witness to testify that is the end of the question. It is your ashless and your duty to receive and act upon the testimony. 2. I farther instruct you that if a parson goes into a saloon or other place where liquors are kept for sale and sold, and calls on the keeper or person engaged in disposing of such liquors for whisky, and tbe person so addreesud in response to Euch demand, and without anything further being said by either party delivers to or sets before the per an calling therefor a liquor or drink of some kind and such person then buys the liquor to set before him for whisky, and then drinks or uses it as and for whibky without objection or protest that it was not what he called for, in such case the presumption of law is that he got what he called for namely, whisky, and whisky is an intoxicating drink, and this would be so notwithstanding that such person when called as a witness may swear that he didn't know or is unable to say whether the particular liquor so obtained and drank by him was intoxicating or not. 3 I.

farther instruct joa that a present payment of money or property is not necessary to constitute a sale, but if a person goes into a place where an article is kept for sale and sold to customers and calls for each article and the article so called for is delivered to him by the seller or the person in charge of it, as an ordinary business transaction or in the usual course ef business and the purchaser or caller thereupon takes and appropriates each article to his own use, in such a case the law implies a promise on the part ef the person so obtaining such article to pay for it and this in law constitutes a sale, notwithstanding that such person when afterward called on as a witness may swear that he don't know or is unable to eay whether he paid for the article or not. 4. I farther instruct yon that while yon mutt take the law from the court, yon are the exclusive jadges of all questions of fact arising in the case. Jonar Martest, Judge. September 21, 18S3.

WEATHER EEPOET FOB DECE2I-BEH, 1833. Prepared by Prof. P. H. Snow, of the University ox Kansas, from Observations taken at Lawrence.

Only three Decembers in' the past 16 years have been milder than this (in 1875, 1877 and 1831. There wars very few days during the month in which building operations were not actively pushed. The sky was clearer, the wind was higher, and the rainfall was more than 69 per cenUsmalkr thin the December average. The remark-abb prolonged crimson and crania racist glow whisht was chterred ia the list vtzlz ABOUT A IiETTEE A COEBECT STATEMENT. Manhattan Nationalist.

Every prohibition paper in the country, probably without a single exception, has stated that Gov ernor Glick, of Kansas, wrote the following letter, although there ij no evidence that he did "Of course we cannot stop or prevent prosecutions, but we must not assist them in any way. We stand recorded against prohibition, because w.e believed it to be wrong in principle and subversive to our personal rights, and no defeat can change ua." The Commonwealth says there is not a word of truth ia it. Mr. Heery, the acting mayor of Topeka, and to whom it was stated that he wrote the letter, says it is a lie, and that he never had a letter from the Governor on this or any other subject. 'Junci ion City Union.

The assertion made in the first sentence of the above is a malicious lie made out of whole cloth. Not a single prohibition paper in the State has made such a statement. The language quoted was contained in a letter written by Tom Moonlight, Glick's Adjutant General.and was prefaced by the statement "The Governor desires me to say." The letter was written published and re-published in the Democratic Standard, of no one has questioned its authenticity, or the cor rectness of its author's assertion that it was written by authority. In addition to this letter the Topeka Capital published a report of an interview between Governor Glick and Mr Heery, the acting mayor of Topeka, according to which the Governor urged the acting mayor who is a Democrat not to issue a proclamation ordering the saloons closed, for the reason that it would injure the Democratic party. We have seen no statement that this interview was not correctly reported, and the statement in the Commonwealth was an attempt to deny both letter and interview by mixing them np and then denying its own false statement.

Bat no amount of lying will obliterate the fact that Governor Glick has tried to shield the dram-sellers of the State from punishment. GETTING OFFICE In the Hiawatha World of this week Web Wilder has a rich editorial upon getting and holding office in Kansas. The article is in reply to one by Sol Miller who in the Troy Chief made some remarks closing as follows: "For God's sake give other men a chance occasionally, and when one man seeks and secures an office, make him be satisfied with it, and everlastingly sit down npon him when he begins to grab for something better. And change around occasionally. Let a man stand aside after he has held office long enough, and give those a chance who have not held any." With this for a text, the World in a pointed, personal as well as a humorous article upon the tenacity with which office holds on to a man, says many good things.

We give the conclusion of the article: And Sol Miller realiy thinks that there ought to be a change. Sol is a fanny man. Changes only come when the men out of office are as persistent in getting in as the ins a re in holding on. The art of pleasing everybody, of agreeing with everybody, of premising effice to all who want office is a ery great art. We have tried it and failed.

Sol. never tiied it. We knew one i prominent officer, now no more, who made friends by never differing in a word from any caller from any Kansas county. Oilier-. "What we need is more currency; unless more greenbacks are issued the country will go to the degs." Xlo: MUnlss3 acre sxeenbicka was surrounded by the cfScers of Montgomery county.

An Lour later, fears of danger were allayed. Residents of the town were in bed and the streets were quiet In the court room the lights shone brightly upon Montgomery, Pettua and were there talcing to the jurors, most of whoa spent the night there. Montgomery told the Globe JDmo-croi correspondent that he intended to return home in the morning with his faaiiy, and that Pettus would accompany them. Clementi was heard to say that he would make his home with friends at Irving in this county. 8hortly after 11 o'clock the three men left the court room and were piloted to new quarters, where they will spend the remainder of the night.

It is likely that their whereabouts will be kept from tho public nnt'l there has been time for a reaction cf sentiment. At midnight all i3 quiet, tha now ii deep and the weather too cold to be favorable for a mob. LATCH. The accused, it if learned, are the night in the court house enrrsur icd by the sheriff and his deputies. It is thought they will leave on to-mcrrow'a 5 o'clock morning train.

If they clsy hero or go home or any placa in the Eleis, trd it is known where they are, it is fcirel there may be trouble. Fears ara entertained here for the morrow. Justice 7elb Conrt, In the case of the State vs. Sarah Oiter-hout, and others, charged with dlsturtlr the peace and quiet cf Isaac Heel, cjz! family, the jury rendered a verdict el guilty. The court then fined llrs.

and James Night C30, and tha defendant, Brewtter, 23 nd ceets. A colored man in Uenry cenntj, got fitty-eaven pessnssaout cf cio fccllow tree; he sold them ail end ths Cnl be purchased rr a bottle cf Dr. Esli'j CacshrSyrnp, tto crly f-Jj rceecJy yr mtumm 4 'iAwii 7Sy. Cij hihni cf the.