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Z. W. PAT5E, Proprietor.
MEDICINE LODGE. BARBOUR CO.. KANa
CURRENT COMMENT.
Justice Bradley, of the United
States Supreme Court says, bo far as he
is concerned there is no truth in the re
port that he intends to retire from the
bench to make room for Secretory Folger.
It is estimated that the cotton crop
this year will amount to 7,000,000 bales,
the largest ever raised. This will bring
a great deal of money, and if cotton is
not King it will "loaf around the
throne" pretty closely at least for a time.
Henry Kuiin, of Brooklyn, recently
attempted to kis a young mi?s of six
teen, to which another young man named
fJrovcr objected. This so enraged Kuhn
that he furiously attacked the youth
that prevented his attempted osculations,
and in the struggle Kuhn was thrown,
struck his head upon the curbstone and
was instantly killed.
It ia stated that Postmaster General
Howe has "boen debating the propriety of
recommending, in his annual report, the
establishment of a Fostoflice Savings
Bank in connection with the money or
der system of the Postomce Department,
and has finally come to the conclusion
not to make such a recommendation, but
to leave the matter to Congress.
The Collector of Customs at Toronto,
Canada, recently seized and confiscated
an importation of Tnine'a complete theo
logical works, consigned to a bookseller
of that place. On the same day, how
ever, thousands of Chicago newspapers,
containing Ingcrsoll's Sunday sermon
against Christianity, passed freely
through the mails into the Dominion.
Fifty-one merino sheep of the cele
brated Bambouillet breed, worth $500
apiece, arrived in New York recently
from Havre. This is the largest number
of this breed ever brought to this coun
try At one time.and the only lot that has
been imported during the last thirty
eight years. They will be shipped to a
great sheep ranch in Texas and used as a
cr?s with the domestic sheep, with' the
tfxjcct:ition of producing a grade of wool
oven finer than the merino itself.
The Contract Office of the Postofiice
Department is beginning to receive bids
for carrying mails on what are known as
fctar routes. These contracts are in
the States of Iowa, Michigan, "Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and Illinois, and run from
JulyUt. 188.1, to June SOth, 1887. They
amount in the aggregate to about $2,
000,000. Awards will be made in Janu
ary, rnd at the name time contracts for
routes in several States and Territories
for shoiter periods will also be awarded.
New York papers are severely criti
cizing Mrs. Langtry as an actress, some
of them declaring that curiosity led
many to go to sec her who afterwards
freely admitted that she failed as an
actress. The New York Times says:
"Judged by her work and by her pre
tensions, she is a charming woman with
out talent or the promise of talent. The
exhibition of her merely as a good-looking
woman is a groys vulgarity, which
should humiliate both Mrs. Langtry and
an intelligent public."
The plucky wife of a wealthy Colo
rado man recently put a quietus to her
husband's attentions to a Denver grass
widow by taking their only child, a five-year-old
loy,and boarding the train for
her former Eastern home. When thehus
land discovered that he had lost hiswife
the charms of the grass-widow suddenly
withered, and becoming alarmed he im
mediately telegraphed her to return and
he would settle upon her 820,000 to use
"just as she pleased." But gold was not
this injured woman's only dream. She
ixmtiuucd to widen'thc distance between
them at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
Failing in this he telegraphed the Sheriff
l a county in Kansas to arrest her at all
hazards. The officer was promptly at
the designated stition but the bird had
escaped. She had got an inklimr of what
was ahead, and watching her opportuni
ty had jumped from the train with her
child before reaching the station. Th
passengers enjoyed the affair and doubt-
Jess sympathized with the lady.
A rilYMClAK of Erie. Pa., and awim
tine co-laborer, have made application to
tho Patent Office for a patent on a re
cently discovered process of preserving
tho dead, supposed to be the long-lost
rypuanari. ihey claim that, partly
by accident and finally by experiment,
mcy nave discovered a certain combina
tion of antiseptic elements whirl if
diffused through a dead body, even when
ana in n au vanccu stage ot decomposition
will destroy all corruptible matter and
convert the flesh into a cartilaginous
state, the denser parts of the body, such
as me gristly part of the ear. beinrr mn
verted into a horny substance, retaining
iU natural appearance. In one of their
experiments they, by the aid of cWtnVi
ty,applied the chemicals to the dead body
of an infant at the alms-house fit Tvri
Ten weeks after tho body had been rt
inovea irom all contact with the chemi
cauuie flesh had become like rubber.
me checks were full and pliant to the
touch, and the cars had bceom
there was no odor, and it seemed to have
no more properties of decomposition than
a ruuoer doll.
THE WORLD'S DOINGS.
A Summary of the Dally New.
POLITICAL AND PEilSONAL.
It is laid that an effort will be made to de
feat the confirmation of General Pope, as Ma
jor General, when It comes up for action In
the Senate.
' Dr. Ganz, who represented the American
Socialist at the Hague Congress of Socialists
In 1SS1, baa been sentenced to two years
Imprisonment by the court at Rotterdam
for obtaining- goods by fraudulent advertise
ment At a meeting of the Arbitration League In
Washington recently, a resolution was adopted
appointing a commission to soggest to Presi
dent Arthur the propriety of his calling the
attention of Congress to the resolutions adopt
ed by the National Arbitration Convention held
last May. The resolutions referred to ask
that Congress may endeavor to provide for a
settlement by arbitration of all difficulties
arising between the United States and foreign
nations.
The Governor of Mississippi has issued a
certificate of election to Manning as Repre
sentative elect from the Second District of
that State. On the face of the returns
Chalmers had a majority, but the Secretary of
State, in canvassing the vote, found that in
Tate County 1,472 ballots bad been cast for
"Chambless," and his decision was that Man
ning received the highest number of votes
cast. Of course Chalmers will contest.
The President has announced that he desired
all Cabinet. Officers to withhold their annual
reports until after his annual message is sent
to Congress.
Congressman Hall, of New Jersey, 6ays he
believes his bill reducing letter postage to two
cents will pass this session. The committee
has given the bill a pretty careful study and
will, he believes, report favorably, and in
view of the fact that the Postomce Depart
ment has now a surplus, believes Congress
will pass the bill.
In a letter to the State Battalion which
tendered its services as escort upon the oc
casion of the Inauguration of Governor-elect
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, that gentleman
said: "There is no reason that I can see why
the mere taking of an oath by a citizen called
by the people to execute a public trust should
be made the occasion for scenes of pageantry
ami demonstration. I am determined that,
so far as I can control the matter, my inaugura
tion as Governor shall not cost the people of
Pennsylvania a dollar."
Caleb Museer, City Assessor of Springfield,
Mo., has disappeared leaving a number of
mourners to whom he was indebted.
It Is stated at the Chinese Legation that
there is no foundation for the statement that
the Chinese Minister and suite will be with
drawn from the United States on account of
the recent legislation restricting Chinese
immigration.
Thurlow Weed, the veteran journalist, died
at his residence in New York on the 22d, hav
ing just passed his eighty-fifth year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tariff Commissioner McMahon died In New
York on the 21st.
W. L. Thorpe, professor in the female col
lege in Sommerville, Tenn., recently had a
quarrel with his brother-in-law, James Burton,
over some family matters, when Burton
threatened to kill Thorpe. Subsequently, while
Burton Mas in a saloon playing a came.
Thorpe entered with a shot-gun and shot his
brother-in-law dead.
Chester Waite, son of lion. II. C. Waite.
State Senator, while on bis way from St. Cloud,
Minn., to Cold Springs, was stopped by
masked robbers, who presented a rifle to his
head and compelled him to surrender $1,G00 in
his possession.
Malignant diphtheria Is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Frankford, a manufactur
ing suburb of Philadelphia. It is feared the
disease may become epidemic.
illiam II. Cunningham, a workman at the
Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling Mills, left work
and walked over to the Alice blast furnace,
ascended to the mouth of the stack and
awaited the moment for charging. When the
ball was raised he threw off his hat and leaped
head foremost into the furnace. The deceased
came formerly from Kentucky.
The cut in passenger rates between Chicago
and the Northwest has about renrhprf th
minimum tickets having been sold t. 11
from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago.
n,. t u . . ii .... ... i
1 he freight traffic Is also getting the benefit
of the cut in rates, grain being transported
for about one-half the ordinary rate. In fact
h nas now Deconie a contest for the movement
of this year's crops, and will, lead to a free
fight between the rival lines, which, it Is be
lieved in railroad circles, may last thirty days,
or until the crop is moved.
Secretary Teller will not. In his annual re
port, recommend a reduction in the cost of
obtaining a patent. He is pursuaded to this
course, It is said, from the fact that our patent
laws are now the most liberal of anr ronntrr
in the world, and he does not helleve that k
reduction would materially increase the num-
ocr oi patents taken out or stimulate inven
tion, as the small fee now required Is within
me reacn or. an.
The Congregational church at "Rlrhmon.l
Mass., a large wooden structure built oi-pr
100 years ago, burned recently.
becretary Teller has reauested Seerptarv
Lincoln to place a sufficient force of soldiers
at Hat Head Agency, M. T.. to rrevent h
railroad constructors now nearingthat reserva
tion irom entering It and Interfering with the
Indians.
A serious conflict occurred near Format Citv
N. C, between two parties of the most prom
inent citizens or the County. During the
fight Barnes King shot William Suttl. th
latter In turn nearly blowing off the top of
iviug b neaa witn a sbot gun. He died soon
after. Gaither Front then shot KW t
the body. John liar re 11 dangerously wounded
William Suttle.
Edward Jacques, his wife and Charles Smith,
were arrested in West Philadelphia, charged
with a number of robberies In the past four
months, amonjr others that of robbW PiW.ni
McSorley of Staten Island of $40,000 In bonds.
iu iu uu tomcTaiuaoie papers.
Wm. Black, living in the Kaskaskia Bottom
near Chester, Pa., went to town recently to
get a physician for a sick neighbor and for the
first time in fifteen years got drunk. Return
ing home his dwelling burned and be was de
stroyed by the flames.
Twenty-five persona, including three for
eigners, have been arrested at Lyons, France,
charged with being members of the associa
tion formed for the purpose of fomenting
strikes among workmen.
The United States Cattle Commission have
purchased a site In Waltham, Mass., for the
imported cattle quarantine. In accordance with
the recent act of Congress.
The trial of CapL Howard, commandant at
the rensAcola Navy-yard charged with the
desertion of hla post . at the appearance of
yellow fever at Pensacola, U now progressing.
Howard claims that be left before the fever
broke out, because of bis illness which pre-
vented bis discharging the duties of bis office.
He has a physician's certificate of disability,
given three weeks before the fever broke out.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and SL Paul Com
pany sold tickets from SIouz City to St. Paul
for twenty-five cents,' and from Sioux City to
Chicago or Milwaukee for $1.25, to meet the
cut of the Omaha and St. Paul Railroad.
Judge Advocate General Swalm decided
that future failures of army officers to satisfy
an indebtedness fairly contracted, would not
be a violation of the sixty-first article of war.
Hock Viesen's flouring mill in Detroit lateh
burned. Loss $20,000; small insurance.
Snow fell at Atlanta, Ga., the 20th.
Domestic trouble caused Mrs. Mary E. Evs-
linberg, of Louisville, Ky., to take poison and
kill herself, cue ieit nine cntiaren.
The Boston Board of Health has prohibited
public funerals, owing to the existence of
diphtheria and other contagious diseases.
The Postofiice Department decides where
communications by the kektograph process
are mailed as circulars, without evidence of
the fact, the matter is subject to first-class
rates of postage.
The body of Newton Ashton, aged twenty
four, was found recently in the woods neat
Martin's Ferry, O., with a bullet hole in the
right temple. Investigation revealed the fact
that he had gone there and shot himself be
cause the young lady to whom he was soon to
be married had returned his ring and wished
the marriage postponed.
The St. Charles, Ma, Car Works, an exten-
s ive car manufactury with a capacity to make
twenty cars per day, has shut down and dis
charged about 500 men. The cause of the
closing is simply lack of orders. There is no
financial embarrassment.
The starch manufacturers of the West, met at
Chicago recently and formed a pool to prevent
over-production. All the factories except two
joined the movement.
The annual report of Fourth Auditor Beards-
ley shows that the aggregate payments on
account of the navy for the fiscal vcar that
ended June 30, 1SS2, were a little less than the
aggregate appropriations made by Congress
for that year. r or the support of the service
in foreign waters bills of exchange were sold
amounting to fl,77G,723, of which $1,353,137
were drawn on our agents in London and
$412,580 on the Secretary of the Navy. This
latter sum is more than double that of the
previous years and indicates an improved con
dition of our foreign trade and credit.
The Election Commissioners of Tate Coun
ty, Miss., have certified to the amended re
turns from that county, which gave Chalmers
1,472 votes and Manninjr 1.1G0 votes. This is
the county whose vote was thrown out by the
Secretary or State for being defective and the
certificate awarded to Manning. It elects
Chalmers beyond all doubt.
The St. Louis limited express East, on the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Road, was
wrecked near Union Station, Ohio, lately, by
a rail which had been placed across the track.
The engine pitched down an embankment over
thirty feet, turning twice over and landing In
a field. The two postal and baggage and pas
senger cars were thrown to the bottom of the
bill la a confused wreck. Six persons were
seriously injured, and many slightly.
Ludwig Stallmeyer, a cabinet-maker of Con
nersville, Ind., recently had over $4,000 in
Government bonds solen from his trunk by a
room-mate.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, has issued an
unconditional pardon to Martha White, sen
tenced for two years, from Lafayette County
for infanticide.
To punish the St. Paul and Omaha road from
Sioux City, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul announce that they will carry passen
gers from Omaha to St. Paul for $1.
The four other men on trial at Dublin for
the murder of the Joyce family, plead guilty
and appealed to the clemency of the Court.
The Court sentenced them to be hung Decem
ber 15th the same day that Casey, who was
found guilty, is to be executed.
The Postoffice Department announces that
after December 1st, torresjondence for Rus
sia will be sent in closed mails, made up in
the New York postoffice four times a week.
These mails will be dispatched via Great Brit
ain instead of Germany, as heretofore. Cor
respondence from Russia for the United States
will come via Germany.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Hopkins Hughes and Patrick Rochefort
were instantly killed and James Roberts,
William Hayes and Thomas Watkins, con
tractor. nrnhahW fatnllw I
accumulated ice falling to the shaft of the Ox-
r ti. v ti. .
iuru 1 1 a. i couierv. wnere the men w ere at
work.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has sub
mitted his annual report to the President..
The statistical division estimates the following
as the yield of cereals for 1$$2: Corn, 1,G35,
050,000 bushels; wheat, 410,000,000 bushels;
oats, 470,000,000 bushels; barley, 45,000,000
bushels; rye, 20,000,000 bushels; buckwheat,
12,000,000.
The cashier of the First National Bank of
Denver, Colo., has sent out a circular charg
ing that wholesale robberies of the United
States mails between there and New York City
have taken place within the past year. He
says: "Commencing in December, 1881, and
continuing up to the present time, we have
lost, on an average, about one entire mall
each month for New York and England. Some
months they take two, as in October, when
they stole entire those of the 2nd and 31st."
Chicago bankers who received the circular
say they have lost no money during the time
mentioned. Denver parties claim that the
robberies in drafts and bills of exchange ag
gregate $000,000 during the time mentioned.
A man giving the name of James T. Wilson
recently swindled the banks of Buffalo, N. Y.,
out of $5,100 by means of two checks raised
each from $17.
A fire at Morris, Minn., recently destroyed
business houses to the value of $150,000.
Affairs in Jamaica it appears have reached a
very serious and critical stage. Public feeling
Is .fiercer than ever. .The whole colony is
united against the Governmeut and the indig
nation of every class, creed and color is poured
forth in violent speeches, at public meetings,
which are now held in every township in the
colony. These demonstrations against the
Government are attended by planters, negroes,
Creoles, Europeans, freeholders and laborers.
The Postmaster General has decided that
canned meats. In soldered tin cans, weighing
not over four pounds, will be admitted into
the malls as fourth-class matter, at a postage
of sixteen cents per pound.
It Is reported that Senator Beck Intends
offering a resolution as soon as the Senate
convenes providing that the usual holiday
recess shall be. abandoned this year.
The steel mills of Scranton, Pa,, have noti
fied employes of a reduction of wages Decem
ber L The reduction Is made to keep the
mills running through the winter. -
Rev. R. N. Woodruff, who was arrested in
Baltimore some weeks since, while bis con
gregation was waiting for his arrival at church,
upon the charge of opening a letter addressed
to another party, baa plead guilty and been
fined $250. ' : -
A movement Is on foot in -Texas to put a
line of cattle steamers from the Gulf Porta to
the Eastern cities and Liverpool in connec
tion with the Gould roads.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
B Fish Commissioner, returned
recently, having thirty-six hundred German
carp for distribution in Kansas. His trip
with the fish from Washington, D. a. was en
tirely successful, not having lost any of them.
Mr. Long invites application to him at Ells
worth, Kansas, for whese and more, to be dis
tributed to individnals in lots of twenty. At
least five hundred more applicants can be sup
plied at a merely nominal cost; that of the
car and express charges, In all not exceeding
6eventy-flve cents.
Sergt. Eugene Butz, suicided lately at a dis
reputable house in Leavenworth. His body
was taken charge of by a detail from bis troop
and conveyed to Fort Leavenworth, where he
was buried with the usual ceremonies.
Jack Jones, for many years a sailor, was
found drowned In a pail of water at Frcdonia
lately. He was known there as the general
court house roustabout, and occupied one of
the jury rooms. He was found sitting in a
chair, with a pail of water occupying another
chair, in which he had laid his head, and it
was nearly covered with water. It Is thought
that he had attempted to drink from the pail
and was attacked with a fit.
Ralf Johnson, a colored man of Wyandotte,
who had separated from his wife, went to her
place of abode one day last week and raised a
disturbance, when his step-son shot at him
twice, one ball taking effect In the hip, in
flicting a dangerous if not fatal wound.
Postoffice changes in Kansas during the
week ending November 11, 1862. Established
Newark, Wilson County, Ogden Clegg, Post
master. Name changed Beaver, Smith Coun
ty, to Reamsville. Postmaster appointed
Whitfield, Graham County, Robert Ivers.
The following charters were lately filed in
the office of the Secretary of State: United
States Stage .Company; place of business,
Atchison; Baptist Church of Walton, Harvey
County.
Theclerical force of the State Treasury
were engaged last week in clipping the cou
pons from the permanent 6chool fund bonds
and notifying each County Treasurer in the
State of the amount due from each 6chool
district.
Messrs. Becson and Hammond, of Atchison,
have been awarded the contract to build eighty
seven miles of work for a new railroad corpo
ration in Northern Mississippi, which requires
the handling of over 2,000,000 cubic yards of
earth.
Two boys, Ike Smith and Charley Taylor,
went to theDelmonico restaurant in North
Topeka recently and ordered oysters. While
the proprietor was in the back room preparing
the oysters the boys went to the money
drawer and took about $35. Hearing the sil
ver rattle, the nroDrieror invpsHn-fltwi ni
lound that the money drawer had been
robbed, ne locked the doors and accused the
young rascals of the theft, when they showed
where they had secreted it and he permitted
them to go unpunished.
As M s. Martha Murk, living near Indepen
dence Creek, in Atchison Count-, was return
ing home in her light spring garden market
wagon, last week, the horses became scared
and ran away; turning the vehicle over, which
threw her to the ground, rendering her sense
less. Her injuries are considered very 6erious.
The Leavenworth Times is authority for
the statement that Col. S. N. Wood proposes
to contest the election of Judge Peters as
Congressman-at-large.
Sam Sherman, employed as line repairer on
the telegraph system of the Missouri Pacific
& Omaha extension, fell f rom a pole at Avoca,
Jackson County, recently, sustaining severe
bodily injuries and cuts on the head, besides
breaking both arms at the wrist. His injuries
were considered quite serious.
Officer John Schott, of Leavenworth, was
arrested and put under bond recently for
cruelty to a prisoner, who was one of the street
gang in his charge. The officer had given the
prisoner a shovel and direction to do some
work, and while doing it Schott knocked the
man senseless by striking him over the head
with a gun.
Oscar Nilson, a Swede, was recently arrest
ed in Wyandotte for robbing a countryman
named Peterson of $181.
A tramp who gave the name of Howard.
was picked up in an insensible condition near
the penitentiary one morning last week, by a
iarmer. lie had boarded a freight train at
Lawrence and jumped off at the penitentiary
thinking it was the city. He declared that he
had not had any food for three days.
The citizens of Atchison, irrespective of
party, recently gave Governor-elect Glick a
banquet and reception in that city, which was
considered by all a grand success.
Quails are reported as being slaughtered by
the car load and shipped East.
The Northern portion of the State had the
first snow storm of the season last week.
Mr. C. Lovelace, of Wyandotte County, has
an apple tree one-half of which is loaded with
fruit and the otbtrhalf covered with blossoms.
The widow of John Brown lately had a re
ception in the Senate Chamber at Topeka,
which was largely attended. Gov. St. John
presided and addresses were made by a num
ber of prominent men.
The business af the Wichita Land Office
Indicates alarge Immigration to that part of
the State. Since the first of January 1S82,
over 1,000 entries have been made, covering
about 240,000 acres. This, divided into quar
ter sections, represents 1,500 farms, the most
of which are in Harper and Kingman Coun
ties.
A charter was recently filed with the Secre
tary of State for the Omaha & . South
western Railway Company. Route, from the
Northeastern part of Washington County
through Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Saline, Ells
worth, Rice and Earton counties to a con
nection with the A. T. & S. F. Railroad either
In Rice or Barton county. Capital stock, $3,
600,000. The cigar factory of Conrad & Leonard, in
Leavenworth, was recently destroyed by fire
and several adjoining buildings more of less
damaged.
While skating at the Leavenworth Roller
Skating Rink, a few days since, William Nutz
fell, and when picked up was found to be par
alyzed. Whether the fall caused paralysis or
paralysis the fall, could not be determined,
but he was not expected to live beyond a few
hours.
Fulton, Bourbon County, will build a $2,000
school house at once.
Newton polled a heavy vote.
Sedgwick . County stands second In the
State for the manufacture of butter and
cheese, the whole amount being 505,174
pounds.
. The wheat acreage of Sedgwick county is
about the same as last year and looks we'L
The State Temperance Union which met at
Topeka last week, discussed the question of
prohibition, and all agreed that there was no
occasion to deviate from the straight line of
prohibition, but to adhere to it In the future
as in the past. It was decided to issue a cir
cular to the voters of Kansas on this subject;
and also to call a Convention of the temper
ance people at an early day. ; .
An old colored woman was recently found
dead near berbntin Bourbon County, her bead
bavine been split open with an axe.
OFFICIAL TOTE OF KaSSAS.
The followlngls the official vote of the StaU
except Pottawatomie and Labette counties:
Govxrxor, ILt. Governor
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5 3 5 9 5
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1035 1014 80 1279 842 68
W2 710 3G8 1109 613 410
1530 2K 124 20S4 23 ft W
241 295 81 292 273 63
722 1064 145 874 972 136
3W7 1686 192 1922 lf)20 206
1C7S 1376 156 1684 10K3 124
1530 1554 405 1944 1227 431
498 537 345 690 343 363
897 816 370 HS1 622 305
1517 1639 106J ITU 1058 1474
1067 902 456 1415 469 593
1100 1241 438 1588 557 KQ
K!9 1229 232 1348 857 220
1995 1627 280 2253 1364 346
1474 1585 371 1701 1323 453
434 831 125 773 439 189
257 204 27 240 142 28
1112 1437 247 1638 948 310
769 1952 91 1760 1083 33
1S61 1455 322 2291 1137 3:5
147 190 89 194 152 83
826 795 321 1012 576 403
292 603 ?1 421 491 23
564 902 111 834 674 100
253 663 16 377 540 16
1404 782 1143 1609 680 1242
201 93 171 274 62 152
904 809 275 1077 689 296
380 317 242 414 230 306
lOlOj 1047 188 1520 584 220
157 87 65 183 72 62
1006 985 84 1217 812 89
1251 1815 78 1688 1493 74
1187 528 1169 1420 297 1213
1227 1492 335 157v 1223 342
392 268 83 481 211 64
115 ..
1468 3455 150 1920 050 111
&-5 815 157 694 429 223
1148 805 769 1504 415 873
1664 1280 227 r'065 811 315
762 848 137 1063 650 163
1502 1851 182 1804 162 1 2
1285 1127 392 1664 652 530
1182 1701 3S0 14S2 1452 427
774 1076 406 1225 577 484
1509 1819 235 1725 1598 306
713 840 63 974 579 75
949 1749 127 1409 1469 33
1068 1154 298 191 1041 328
268 57 173 322 34 157
327 139 315 424 111 260
1781 149J U35 2286 970 1000
656 538 364 1028 164 346
769 843 331 083 304 617
427 308 3 519 239
596 347 461 075 288 471
i50 137 '69 'i77 "'i08 79
85 94 48 113 81 45
1057 997 156 1428 664 -164
1017 663 548 1335 492 462
926 916 48 1001 742 160
67o 827 350 930 428 515
488 261 441 605 150 453
259 339 63 345 284 61
269 657 101 504 372 1&S
1256 1427 14 1933 793 16
1508 2082 177 18S3 1769 213
3020 3282 163 4548 1865 196
22 50 Si 34 30 33
810 489 543 1052 3 7 499
265 329 42 431 181 29
1433 1517 304 1712 1363 289
224 116 27f 266 82 31
681 942 32 1051 649 1
1065 1346 357 1531 917 372
1179 1097 262 1431 908 283
604 542 111 797 542 112
1493 2017 203 1925 1620 198
71973 80232 2051294251 5S740 22792
Corsnzs.
Allen..
Andenxjn. , . ... .
A tchiwiv.. , . . .
garbdur
Barton
Bourbon-... .
Brown
Butler
Chase
Chautauqua... k
Cherokee
Clay.
Cloud.
Coffey.
Cowley.
Crawford
Bayis
Decatur.
Dickinson-
Doniphan ... .
Douglas
Edwards...
Elk
Ellis
Ellsworth.
r ord
Franklin ,
Graham ,
Greenwcod.....
Harper. .,
Harvev ,
Hodjreman.
Jackson
Jefferson....
Jewell
Johnson
Kimrmnn.
lAbctte
Leavenworth...
.Lincoln
Linn
Lyon
Marion
Marshall
McPberson
Miami
Mitchell
Montgomery....
Morris
Nemaha
Neosho
Ness
Norton
Osage
Osborne
Ottawa.
Pawnee
Phillips ,
Pottawatomie.
Pratt ,
Rawlins ;,
Reno ,
Republic...
Kicc
Kiley.
Rooks
Rush
Ru spell
Saline
Sedgwick
Fhawnee
Sheridan
Smith
Stafford
Sumner.
Trepo .
Wabaunsee....
Washington...
Wilson
Woodson.....
Wyandotte..,
k Unofficiul majority.
The total vote for other State offlcerss was:
Secretary of State.-Jzmea Smith, Republi
can, 95,247; Samuel Gilbert, Democrat, 57,790;
A. P. Elder, Greenback, 22,909.
Auditor. E. P. McCabe, Republican, 82,511;
W. C. Brown, Democrat, 63,304; W. A. Gar
retson, Greenback, 23,523.
Treasurer. Samuel Y. Howe, Republican,
W,819; E. C. Gifford, Democrat, 57,587; J. II.
Ludlow, Greenback, 22,892.
Attorney General W. A. Johnson, Repub
lican, 95,117; II. Miles Moore, Democrat, 54,
433; J. D. McBrian, Greenback. 22,499.
Superintendent of Public Instruction T.
C. Spcer, Republican, 95,2-23; D. E. Lantz,
Democrat, 57,492; J. 8. Whitman, Greenback,
22,794.
Associate Justice Supreme Court D. J.
Brewer, Republican, 94,757; Joseph W. Green,
Democrat, 57,938; L. C. Uhl, Greenback, 20,
974. Congressmeri-at-LargeS. R. Teters, Re
publican, 95,905; E. N. Morrill, Republican,
93,976; Lewis Hanback, Republican, 93,659; B.
W. Perkins, Republican, 93,968; C. A. Leland,
Democratic, 54,547; J. O'Flannlgan, Demo
cratic, 55,955; S. N. Wood, Independent, 80,
742; II. L. Phillips, Greenback, 23,729; Allen
Williams, Greenback, 21,308; John Davis,
Greenback, 25,513.
Congressman First IXstrict John A. Au
derson. Republican, 39,289; Charles H.Moody,
Democrat, 17,590; L. F. Smith, Greenback,
451.
Congressman Second District Dudley C.
Haskell, Republican, 21,592; Nelson P. Acers,
Democrat, 17,490; Alfred Taylor, Greenback,
5,899.
Congressman Third District Thomas Ry
an, Republican, 80,169; John C. Cannon, Dem
ocrat, 17,723; D. J. Cole, Greenback, 7,466.
The Legislature.
Later returns elect John Shaver, Democrat,
In the Sixty-fifth Representative District,
Chautauqua County; V. A. Reeves, Republi
can, in the Seventy-ninth District, Republic
County; B. B. Carr, Greenback, In Harper
County; J. B. Craney, Republican, in Osborne
County; J.N. Venard, Republican, In Ness
County; Albert Woodson, Greenback, in
Graham County, and L. F. Warn trt Green
back, In Norton County. The Legislature
will therefore stand, Republicans, seventy -one ;
Democrats, twenty-four; Greenbackers,. four
teen; Independent Anti-Prohibition Republi
cans, eleven; Independent Republicans, five.
Agriculture and Population
The quarterly report of the Kansas 'State
Board of Agriculture has just been made pub
lic. According: to this report the crop exhibit
for 18S2, shows winter wheat produced was
83,943,393 bushels, against 19,164,896 bushels
in 1881; spring wheat 1,791,448, bushels as
against 1,314,793 bushels In 1881; corn, 157,
005,722 bushels, against 80,760,542 bushels in
1881. The oat crop aggregates 1,946,284, that
of 1881, 9,900,768 bushels; rye, 4,456,400 bush
els against 986,508 in 1881. The barley, yield
was 224,888 bushels, or a little more than dou
ble that of last year. Kansas raised 4,787,440
bushels of Irish potatoes in 18S3, 294,165
bushels of sweet potatoes, and the sorghum
product is estimated at 6,181,020 gallons; cas
tor beans, 499,790 bushels; broom corn, 56,
716,820 pounds. The millet, Hungarian and
timothy crop will aggregate 1,091,337 tons,
while the prairie hay is put at 2,095,779 tons.
The population of the State shows a net in
crease of 37,144 for the vear
The "Western tornadoes kill at Icn
ranse. Mrs. Gifford of Westfield, if
Y., was so frightened ' at an approach
ing storm, recently, .recounting the
frequent recent devastations m the
West, that she urged her fzmVy to take
to the cellar, and fell dead from her
chair. Detroit Post: ' ?
In London artists' are employed
to paint meat and fish exposed for sale
in thQ markets. A cook who has pur
chased a fresh-looking . salmon is dis
gusted to see the, spots and red that
boil off, leaving a plain codfish in thf
poV
SACRIFICED HIS SON
A. Slormon Father Kill 111 Child
m rririj i n r - -
JoslahTJ. Smith, the father who killed his -
boy because, he said, he had a revelation from
the Lord to do so, is forty yeara old. Ho came -.
to Westminster tire years ago, and since then V
with his wife and family, has been picklna up
a meaner subsistence by odd jobs. Finally tho
family settled down to fish'nsr, establishing
their horn.) on a desolate Island off the coast,
which could only be reached by a boat. It was- ,
1 .1 . !!. 1 A. 1. m AsV.M.
men, who hired the boat which tho murdered!
boy had charm of. , Tho murder was-
committed on the 4th Inst- but was'
not discovered until last v Thursday,,
when o party of hunters who called out
from the shore for the boy. were told by old .
had been inspired by the Lord to kill hi
child. The hunting party secured the services
of a younger boy, and coolly went on vrlth
their sport, only reporting the crime io .the
authorities that night. A constable and
doctor went out next day to the scene ot tho'
crime. They drove down to tho beach' and
shouted to Smith, and he rowed over to them. '
On making tho object of the visit known he
gave himself up quietly. The mother an
children were then brought from, the island
and the entire family taken to Westminster
Friday morning. Beforb tho officers arrived
the boy had been buried about thirty feet:
from tho house.
On arrival of tho prisoner and family at
Westminster, an inquest was ordered, and
Justico Aldridgc, accompanied by Dr. James '
McCoy and others. Smith included, returnedV
to tho beach and rowed across to the slandL
Smith pointed out whore tho body was- '
uuuv-u, kiuvo was openou, a rougn oox,
which the father had made, was raised and.
tho lid lifted. The sijrht is ' described as most
sickening. Decomposition had set in to such '
a degree as to render tho moving of the body '
a rtiffirmlt o-n1 iHoorMA.Mii nt . rrt.. .... -
natural parent looked ou complacently and
spoko of tho murder with no feeling. Finally,
.n reply to a question as to how ho struck theV
blow, ho stooped over tho corpse, thrust hla
knife Into it, and drew it out of the cavity
without a sign of emotion. The weapon was
an eight-inch butcher knife. Mr. McCoy care
fully examined the body, but, aside from tho
fatal cut, found no sign of any violence. One-death-dealing
blow was struck Just in the cen
ter of the chest, and with sufficient power to
cut tho breast bone and enter to the full length) -of
the blade, making a horrible gash, eight
inches deep and four inches long.
A few weeks ago Smith gave up fishing, and
being asked why, replied that tho Lord had
commanded it, and had promised to hereafter-
provide for him. From that time on he has
made, and has commanded his family t
mako no effort to gain a livelihood. Tho boy,W
however, put no faith in his father's belief
and from time to time purchased tea, sugar,,
eta. with his own money. On thn Wrr1nptftv
before the murder the boy purchased und took:
home some sacks of tlour, which angered his
father, and this was found emptied upon tho
ground, together with some' other provisions,,
close to tho spot whoro the murder was com
mitted. Excent a few Brrcen' ODDles. nothinor
eatable was found in the house.:
Tho crime was committed about three hun
dred yards from the house. The boy was
taken out behind a clump of bushes, bath
parents being present. They claim that ho
knew he was to bo sacrificed, and made no
resistance whatever, but calmly knelt before
them, ready to be offered up. While in this
TJOSition. tho fathor struck th fntnl hlnw
One of tho first questions asked, on the ar
rival of tho family at Westminster, waa
whether they would mako further sacrifices
of their children, nnd both father and mother
replied that if tho Lord called on them to-
sacrifice oil, it would have to be done. At
the examination neither Smith nor his wife
made any effort to conceal anything, but
told tho whole story in its horriblo
details. Smith pleadod guilty as charged, and
was committed for trial on the charge of mur
der. He is now imprisoned in Los Angeles.
From tho first the murderer has shown no feel
ing whatever, and regards the crime no moro
than he would tho killiug of a hojr. He has
been quite a purchaser of Canada lottery
tickets, and said the Lord was going to send
him money from Canada to pay f or burying
the boy. The ramily are Mormons in gool-
standing. They have been considered cccefcK
trie, but not crazy. The mother begins to feel
great remorse, and to doubt the divinity of their
inspiration. San Francisco Special to St. Louit
Globe-Democrat.
Army Education.
Washington, November 17.
The annual report of Chaplain Muliins,inv
charge of education in tho army, has reached
the Secretary of War. It shows that 105 mili
tary posts and camps arc supplied with teach
ers. and tho schools wera attended during the
yeaf by 1,500 enlisted men and 1,703 children.
At thirty-two posts there are no teachers.
At 147 posts and camps there are libraries,
with a total of 7,709 volumes, being two
and one-half volumes to each enlisted man.
i KiiuiBuus me numner or . books
viiumw.u p;i minim is ,ox, Dei ng , an
average of one and a half volume) pec
man per month. A large number of papers
and periodicals ara also received and placed
m tne reading-rooms, to which tho average
daily attendance numbers 4,:r75. The report
recommends the passage by Congress of a
biil authorizing tho employment of 150 teach
ers with rank and pay of Commissary Ser
geants, $34 per month, with j allowance for
rations, room, etc. Chaplain Mulllns joins in .
the recommendation of several officer that.
the system of compulsory education bo en
forced among a certain class of men. In ap
pealing for larger appropriations for lights to
be used in tho nightrschools the Chaplain aaya
that to furnish lights for colored schools re-
quires at least one-third more business thahA
for the others. -
'' - ? A Brave Blacksmith.
A most heroic action, which, however, un-.
fortunately resulted in tho death of tho hero
occurred at five o'clock Saturday afternoon '
A team Of horses attached to Oeorgo Coats"
float be amo frightened at the corncrof St Jo
seph and Carondelet streets. Madly the'ro-
iracxory animals cashed up Carondeict street
dragging the heavy lloat, used to remove ironv
safes, behind them.. At tho corner of Calllopo
street they wheeled and ran out to Dryadcs
thence to Clio street, where the fatal accident:
occurred. Two little boys were playing in the
street, so interested in their play that Ihey dldL
not notice the team coming rapidly up the .
street and were unaware of their danger. Johr
Metzler. a blacksmith, residing at No. 284 Call
op street, saw tho boys when tho animahv
were almost upon them. Ho sprang Into tho
street, seized one of the boys and threw himv
umui s way. iuc uiucr.ooj, agea uur
tteen years, named Dan Dowiinjr, he next
seized. Tho horses were upon them, but the
heroic man thrust him out of the reach of tho'
horses, while the wheels on tho heavy vehicles
Just grazed his side, only slightly Injuring
him. . Metzler, however, was struck on the
head by the pole of the wagon and fell," tho-
Wheels of the float passing over his stomach.
He was conveyed to his home, : and' yesterday
morning at eight o'clock was admitted to thcr
Charity Hospital, , Hq had received such eW
vere internal injuries, however, that, despite
tho skill of tho physicians, he expired at
eleven o'clock. N, O. Picayune.
- Touxo man, if it Is eleven o'clock, and sh
goes to the piano and plays a few bars of the
"Sweet By-and-By," you may consider thcr
scene over for the night.
Vb ucorgia xowu has voted . that saloon'
keepers must pay a license of tVO per year.