Harvey County News from Newton, Kansas • Page 1

County Volume 1. Newton, Kansas, Wednesday, January 26, 187 6. Number 27. Episcopal Church. The Reverend Thomas H.

Vail, Bishop CITY and COUJVTRW JLocal and General Jcws. C.S.BOWMAN, IF 1 J3 J2 fRce In Foy Arnold's Block, Newton, Kansas. WM. EBEELE, Fashionable Barber. SJIAVIN.

IIair-lr-njr. Ilair-cnttlng, and SltamiMI2 done in the best manner. Stand Pot Cnticc btlildimj, Newton. Prove ITp Papers. IX compliance a xvrw general demand, I procured the necessary to enable me to take the prf of parties wishing to Prove Up on their laud, and thu cave them the TfK-nc of taking tw witnesses to Wichita.

reasonable, tilve me a call. VJ i. W. CRAWFORD. Game of all kinds are being brought into the city for our merchants who have advertised for the same, through the News.

Gold is being found in large paying quantities in Wyoming Territory. Miners are making One Dollar per hour. The Ellsworth Reporter is advocating the building of the Memphis and N. tailroad. Messrs.

Puterbaugh Williams, formerly of this city, have opened a flour and feed store at West Las Animas. The State Board of Agriculture met last week -in Topeka, and elected George T. Anthony, President; G. W. Glick, Vice- President and Jos.

C. Wilson, treasurer. The Chase County Courant is still being published, although Sam Woods who held a mortgage against the material, endeavored to close the office, but did not succeed. We are pleased to know that Ttmmons Co. are again all right.

We were favored with a call from David Beach, editor and proprietor of the State Sentinel, a papci devoted to Temperance, and printed at Lawrence, Kansas. A race come off, Saturday last, on the Newton track, between horse belonging to Shuster, and owned by Kelly of Whitewhater which race Newton sot away with Whitewater. It has just been found out what makes money so very scarce people are getting ready for the Centennial Exhibition, and of course are saving up the money for that purpose. The cutting in rates on cattle, between the Santa Fe and Kansas Pacific, has been closed. The old rate of 70 per car from "West Las Animas, Carson, aud Granada, to Kansas City has been re-established.

Do not throw your money away by sending it to the Atchison Lottery all Lotteries are nothing more than swindling schemes. That big "Villa" requires cash to back it hence the Lottery, Kansas Imi. gration Scheme. There was a hard-up man in Louisville the othsr da3', trying to sell, as valuable relic, a three cent postage stamp which he declared was from one of Paul's letters to the Corinthains. Improvements.

From the number of Lots and Blocks sold in this city during the past six months, and from the character and ability of the purchasers, we have reason to believe that there will be more ana tar oetter improvements macio in Newton during the present year, than has been since the town was started. Peace, Rice county, has a new paper, with E. 13. Cowgill as editor and proprie tor. The Rice County Gazette is a 7 col journal, and the number before us presents a respectable appearance.

It may be getting monotonous, this con stant talk about the weather, but then did you ever in all rour born days see anything like it? Two of the winternionths nearly gone, and during both of them we believe we have not had a hre in this office, twenty-four hours! Marion Co. Record You must be all-fired stingy with your coal! Up this way the weather has been just as fine, if not a little liner than where you hang out, and we were obliged to have fire nearly ever3r day. The Peabody Gazette 8oliloqui7.es thusly 'The Newton newspapers do not set an example of high toned journalism that 3oung publishers ought to follow. We are of the opinion that both the Kansan and the News have said things of end other that they are heartily ashamed of now. If not they certainly ought to be We learn of the explosion of a lamp at Mr.

Pierce's, on Main street, last evening, which was in danger of resulting very seriously, as things were catching in flames rapidlj; but one of the jChampion Fire Extinguishers did the work very finely; and where, but a moment before all was brilliant with the light of fire, it was soon shrouded in darkness. Those Fire Extinguishers are inestimable articles to have on hand in time of Building. We are pleased to note that Doer. J. II.

Seaton formerly of Sedgwick City, has commenced the erection of a neat frame residence in South Newton, and if the weather continues favorable will have it in readiness for occupancy in ten or fifteen days. As Doct. Seaton contemplates making our city his future home, we extend to hiru the right hand of fellowship, and wish him success of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, has as we learn, written to Judge Muse, that he has directed the Reverend A. Beattt, Episcopal Missionary on the line of the T. S.

Fit to visit Newton at an early day and take steps to organize and establish a parish in this city. This important step was made by Bishop Vail at the urgent solicitation of many of the lead ing citizens of Newton, and we trust will be crowned by success. "As soon as the wish has been established, it is hoped hat our friends will look to the early erce-ion of a neat and substantial church edifice. Substantial Improvements. Messrs.

S. Lehman have purchased of Muse Spivej the Lot just north of their Hard ware Store, and as soon as the weather will permit, and arrangements made, erect thereon a substantial fire-proof store-room, two stories high, and fully eighty feet deep. Still Another. We are informed that our enterprising fellow-citizen, Wil liam Vickrey, is already contracting for the erection of a fine two-story brick or stone building, for a Store-Room, to take the place of the one he now occupies. It is to be the finest in the city.

Success to the enterprise. Tin-: Board op Trade. It is to bo hoped that the Board of Trade will complete their organization at an early day. and go to work, as much depends on their labor. If properly worked up, Newton will soon come out like the Phoenix from the fire blighter than ever.

The revival meetings which have beeu in session at the M. E. Church in this city, for nearly four weeks, are still being con tinued with ho little interest. They are being conducted by three very able Ministers Brooks, Garrison, and Brown and their labors are being rewarded. Arrivals.

Mr. Mrs. Collister, of New York, the parents of our fellow-townsman J. 8. Collister, have arrived in Newton, and contemplate making our city their future home.

They come veiy highl3r commended, for worth and respectability and we welcome them to our midst. Still They Come. We arc informed that Mr; Henry Kettle, of Pleasant Township, has purchased a Block in South Newton, and will at an early day erect a neat cottage thereon. Wo welcome all such enterprising citizens to our growing city. The new well of E.

Hart, aflords us many a quenching draught, it is nice-stoncd and covered, and has an entire new apparatus for drawing. One of the great est conveniences is, the water needs no. lie, or salsoda to break or cleanse it, as it is soft of it-self. Gen. Sheridan stopped in Peabody, while on his way west, a couple of weeks ago.

Gazette. Well, suppose he did, what then? Is the millenniumjany nearer? Why didn't you tell your readers that Phil, stopped at Peabody to partake of some excellent hash that had been prepared for him and other passengers. F. W. Clapp, of Massachusetts Legislature, has refused a R.

R. pass. "I believe," he says, "that no meaiber of the legislature can receive favors of this kind consistently with his duty to his constituents." If the mere acceptance of a Pass would weigh anything in the scale of duty with the above member, it is evident that tin: brain he possesses is not of sufficient weight to guarantee him in accepting a Pass. Sliull Witnesses he Protected? A correspondent of the last issue of the Chicago Tribune asks the pertinent question: "Has any attorney, in a closing speech to a 'jury, any right to attack a witness or a testifying expert, and to slander and abuse him in any way he chooses, no matter whether he is entitled in the slightest degree to a suspicion of that man's character?" Our correspondent is not alone in his interrogatory. It is being asked by many people, and there is a strong probability that some day some one may answer it in a manner convincing to those legal ruffians who make a practice of insulting and vilifying witnesses, who being compelled to testify or called es experts, aver what they conscientiously believed to be the truth.

In the recent Davis trial, a respectable physician who did not believe in the farce of the murderer's insanity had the manliness and honor to state his honest belief, for doing which he was grossly abused and maligned, and called a quack aud a perjurer. Every witness has a right to protection, and it is the duty of every Court to give him that protection. A judge who sits ily by and. listens to such abuse without reproving the leagal slanderer whoy does hardly does his whole duty. What Children Do for Us.

I "We hear a great deal about what parents do for their children (says an Exchange) and how much children owe them there for in love and obedience. But it is some- hncs well to look at the otber side of the question, and sec what children do for heir parents and for the world in general. Children first give to life its real value. There are many things which make life many which bestow on it the same pleasure and variety, or which are necessary to relieve the all absorbing care of a family; but there is nothing so worthy of our continued exertion. If it were not for children the principal inducement to useful activity of our life would be wanting, and a good share of our work would be left undone.

We often think the obligation is all on one side, because the father procures the food and the mother prepares it for the table. But to how many hungry hearts has the love of a little child been consolation and help! How many are there who would have been con tented in selfish indifference, or in all pos sible dissipation, if the wants of a little child had not prevented The trouble and labor spent on the edu cation of children have produced just as good results sis they would if spent in cul tivating good farm or garden produce, But even if this were not the case, and we had not the slightest assurance that well- bred children were increasing in number, to our joy, then men and women should, for their own sake, take to themselves the amy 01 cringing up cmiaren. juen or women know little of the fullness and richness of their own minds until they are brought to a full conciousncss of it by the exertions and sacrifices (which, in their love, are not considered as such) made in bringing up children. Is it not with a feeling of satisfaction that a father looks on his well-brought-up little daughter? When tender little hands press those of the mother, and warm soft cheeks rest on her bosom, are not husbands conscious of a love which equals that for the mother? The San Francisco Alta of the 3d inst, says: 4 'During the year 1875 the rai brought us 74,772 persons, and took aAvay 29.835. leaving a cain of 44,937 The sea brought 33,827, and took away' 12,592, leaving a total gain of G9.172.

One hundred and eighty thousand five hundred and ninety-nine arrivals in one year indi cate certainly a growing interest in the Pacific States and Territories, particularly in California, for she retains the most of them. The net gain of our population, by excess of arrivals over departures, ha: been, during the past six years, 212,702 persons. Texas will send a seven inch cen tipede having one hundred feet, to the Centennial. It is to be walked against Weston. Kansas is to sent: a grasshopper weighing four pounds, and ahead of cabbage weighing tint teen pounds.

The hopper is to eat up that cabbage without stopping, which will tickle the Kansans, and astonish the rest of the world. Prof. Worral is training the animal to stop when he has finished one head, and not look around for a lence- post or two. Deacon Smith's Horse Stop.y. Deacon Smith, of Wilkinson county owns, or did own, a horse, which one time in its life saved him an in calculable amount ot raonev by its horse sense.

The deacon says him self snd wife, while partaking of their noon -day meal, were very much surprised at the actions of their horse, which was loose in the road near the house. It would run up to the gate, neigh vociferously and then run off again, This was repeated several times, and the deacon arose from the table to ascertain the cause of its strange coifduct. lie reached the door and looked out, and saw away off in the direction the horse had run a dense smoke. He seized his hat and run to the place. "Gentlemen," said he, "lightning had struck a tree and set it on fire, and the flames had communicated to my fence around my com field containing about 800 bushels of corn.

The fire had consumed about a dozen panels of fencing, and reached a branch. My horse when I arrived, was standing in this branch dipping her tail into the water, and throwing the water on the burning fence." The crowd looked inerednlons, the deacon said, "Gentlemen, if you don't believe it, you ask Mahaly. J. W. IDT.

JOHN REID. AD IIEI1), ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND NOTARIES PUBLIC. Office West nde Ma Street, between Gth Broadway, Newton. Kanas. A.

BECKER, Justice of trie Office over Lehman Co's Store. Deeds, Mortgages, draws and acknowledged. BOOTS, SHOES, SHOES, SHOES. BOOTS, BOOTS. 1IjFX.

SIHJEMjIMS, PRACTICAL BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, 3Iaiu Street, next door South of the News office, Xewton, Ilansaa. j. i tcrial and manufactory and I permit jo WbrU to leave the Shop TflAT DOES NOT SATISFY MY CUSTOMERS. Z3T REPAIRING of all kinds well and neatly executeu. CAUL AND SEE ME.

ALEX. SHIELDS. APPLES By the Barrel, Peck, or Mckel's worth! And Home-made and Christmas CANDIES. Fresh Apples, Lemons and Oranges ree'd daily by RYNEARSON DEALERS IX CHOICE STAPLE FANCY ooenes, FRUITS, NUTS, CIGARS, Tobacco and Confectionery Main street, NEWTON, Kansas, Next door North "of the "NEWS" office THE BROWN STONE FRONT Heading Room AXD- Billiard Parlor. Main Street, Newton, Kansas.

The success of Mr. Marsh thns far, in meeting a treat public demand, induces him to increase his en'orts in the interest of the thirsty public, and to continue to cater to the wants of our people. MARSH'S STORE, so well known to our citizens, and to travelers on the T. i. P.

li. is the coolest, neatest, mutt commodious and most inviting PALACE in Western Kansas. The weary, enervated, dust covered, thirsty way-farer will here find refreshment for mind and" bodv, and he will eo hence with renewed physical vigor and strecgih of purpose. THE MIXT is tastefully arranged, and supplied with every thing necessary to afford comfort and refreshment to his patrons. The best brands and choicest goods are kept on sale.

The Mint Billiard Parlor is supplied with two new Billiard Tables, of the best patterns, and the room, in all its appointments, is arranged for the convenience and comfort of guests. Here is rest for the weary. TJertns to One and All, Cash S. MARSH. Grl? Bv W.

II. Newton, Kansas. IOFFEU MY SERVICES TO THE BUS-inoM men si ml citizens ol Newton and Mcir.iU"- AH articles of Merchandise, Express Packages, Boxes, Trmiks, 'oal (from all the Lime. delivered to any part vf the city, ut reasonable prices. bItJRTON HOUSE.

ISurton, (Harvey Kansas. Travelers will find commodious apartment, clcau and many other comfort ami con-vwiiicnccft to be secured in a First Class House. A. A. WOODRUFF, Proprietor.

$500,000. TO JLO.IJT tin Improved Farms and Desirable City Pro n--rtv, for a term of ears at reasonable rates, in Snn of Si.) to Call on or address N. J. BURD1CK. OTSce over Marsh? store, adjointuk Court Room.

HUNT MOORE, J5urton7 (Harvey Kansas', Dealer in Groceries, A full stock of treasonable Jwds always a fiar.d, and sold at bottom prices. O. S. BASSETT, Jeweler, dealerin American aud Swiss Watch s. Clocks anl Jewelry, 3Iain street.

Fast side. Newton. Hausa. A Large Stock for the Holidays Watches, Clocks Jt Jewelry repaired and cleaned. COX, 'Sedgwick, Kansas,) Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY DHY GOODS, GROCERIES, WOODEN and WILLOW WARE, SPICES, etc.

A full line of Goods always on hand. ROBERT WALTON. BlacfeiitMug lap Mm, Fifth Street, West of Main, NEWTON. Ties set. Shoes sharpened.

Plows mended. Horses shod. Wagons manufactured and Repair ed, and all kinds ot Blacksmitmng ana wagon uorkdone at reasonable figure. t-Rememoer thd place Fifth street. West ot ickrey s.

DAILY Meat Market Second Door North of the News office, Weet tide Main Street, Newton, Kansas. Messrs. TARBET A KINS have opened a lit Newton, and will supply FRKSII MEAT Daily to the citizens of this city ana vicinity. Fresh Beer, Fresh Pork, Fresh 3Iutton, Fresh Sausage, And Hams, Shoulders Bacon Kept on hand at all times. We butcher every davofthe week (excepting Sundays.) and famish the REST MEAT the country attbrds.

We solicit the public patronage. ARRET fc AIKEN. Newton. Dec. 15, 1875.

PAINTING. EORGE WRIGHT offers hi s. ices to ITtbe citizens of Newton and vicinity as jj Having many years or experience tn the business, I can safely warrant my work to be equal to the best. AUo. Paper Hanging, lazing and done to order.

A good supply of School District Kec-ords, at the offico of the County.