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MMMRHB9ail Wl Abilene Eeeleotoe. Thursday, Jan. 10, 1834. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. : : : 51.50 . -?i . . . tlu Reasonable. One Coitt, One Tr.AB, " Six Months, Advertising Rates, S. K. STKOTHES. B. L. ETROTnEK. STEOTHER BROTHERS, Editors "' ViihUshcrs. Official Paper Dickinson Co. The "Beflector" An Official Paper. The democrats of Dickinson county and others who are not democrats will be glad to learn tliat the Reflector. for the coming year, will be an oflicial paper of the county. The Board of Commissioners, at its present silting, awarded the contract to the Gazette at legal rates, with the written agreement that the Reflector and Chronicle were to each receive one-third. Consequent ly, all county matters will be published in the three papers at no more than one legal rate. The Reflector returns its thanks to the Board for the considera tion shown it. Although two of the three Commissioners are republicans, the Board unanimously and justly ar rived at the conclusion that the demo crats of the county were numerous enough to deserve recognition in this matter of the county printing ; and that the Reflector, a growing paper of general circulation, should not be ig nored. A precedent has been establish ed which the Reflector hopes will be followed, no matter which party claims the Board. The present arrangement is eminently just and satisfactory to all parties, and should be maintained. Furthermore, the Reflector takes pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy with which it was treated by its esteem ed contemporaries. Editorial Ends Congressman A2tdersox has intro duced a good bill into the House pro viding for the adjustment of all grants of lands to railroads Kansas. doing business in The House committee on military af fairs has authorized Gen. Slocum to report a bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, and it is probable that that gallant and long abused officer will have justice done him. A reinstate ment, too long withheld, is due him. The Protected East. We read in Eastern journals that Xew Year's day "did not find the people so "prosperous and contented as they were "when the year ISSU came in." And we are further told that ''manufactories "of iron and of cotton and woolen goods "are working with a reduced force and "curtailing their product, or are giving "their hands the option of taking lower "wages or going without work altogeth er. It will thus be seen that the protected East has not been prosperous. Out here in the agricultural west, however, the volume of all business has been greatly increased, and the people have prospered. The difference in the con dition of the two sections may or may not be the difference between two in dustrial systems between protected business and legitimate business. Xor does the "protected"' workman have a bright future before him. Here in dead of winter, amid snow and with the ther mometer down below zero, he is given the "option of taking lower wages or "going without work altogether." And yet the only argument of protectionists is that the system elevates and dignifies American labor. The shivering, starv ing workman would be glad to have some one point out just how he is pro tected. Beading further on, we come to the statement that ""Wall street has never "before been so gloomy .at a holiday "season. The brokers are in no mood "for fun. From the top to the bottom "of the list stocks have largely declined "in price as compared with the sales of u j-.w. uju. uuuu uuu uiiu jiiu yum; "down together, the stocks of the most "prosperous and best managed roads "having dropped with the rest, though "their dividends may have kept up. "The aggregate loss because of this de "cline has of course been erroneous so "far as the market value of stocks is "concerned. 3Ieii who were counted "as the possessor of many millions last "Xew Year's Day. are to-day badly "crippled, and speculators who followed "their lead are now cursing them as the "authors of their misfortunes." The people see in this that a turn has been called in the speculating mania, and that a great deal of water is being squeezed out of stocks. The gamblers do not receive much sympathy from honest people who are engaged in legit imate business. Notwithstanding the depression, it will be seen that the divi dends have kept up, and the only con clusion left to the reader is, that the working people are the ones who are feeling the hard times. Gambling in stocks, in wheat, com, lard, pork and other provisions is no more reprehensi ble than gambling on a high protective tariff. The same principle underlies them all, and the poor suffer. The dark despondency of the protect ed East is made darker by the light of a prosperous free "West. Judge AW McCrary has resigned his position as Judge of the Eighth United States Judicial Circuit.and has accepted the general solicitorship of the Santa Fe road, vice ilr. George Feck, re signed. His headquarters will be at Kansas City. There seems to be a man ifest disposition on the part of the Kan sas roads to remove their general offices to Kansas City, when the laws of the State require them to be kept within its borders. The election of a Congressman in the SecondDistrict to succeed Mr.IlASKELL, which is to be held on Saturday, March 2nd, is assuming a national importance. All organizations opposed to a protec tive tariff, democrats, greenbackers and free-traders, have combined and will force the, fight on the Carlisle plat form. It is not too much to say that the tariff-reform candidate will beat the republican protectionist two thous and votes. The indications all point that way. Congressman Sprixger has accepted the position in theHousecommittteesto which he was assigned by the Speaker, and in the face, too, of the Republican clamor which beset him. The investi gation of the department of justice, he says, will be non-partizan and impartial, but as thorough as he can make it. Mr. Cox, ween heard from, will no doubt accept his position, and all prospects of a row which would be felicitous to our republican friends are dispelled. The democrats in the House are leading their parly on to victory. Thq extreme cold weather of last week extended to all parts of the coun try, and business in the trade centers was almost paralyzed. It was reported that the cold was the most severe felt for years. At Springfield, Mo., the thermometer marked 24 degrees below zero; at Jefferson City, 25 b.Imv; at St. Joseph, Mo., 26 below; at St. Louis, 23 below; at Leavenworth, 2S below, at Chicago, 27 below; Omaha, 3-1 below; Dubuque, 32 below; at Sioux Falls, Da kota, 40 below; in Vermont, IS below in Virginia, Delaware and Tennes see, heavy snow and colder than for ten years; in Kentucky and Ohio, JjS below; in Indiana, 24 below, in Minne sota, 34 below; and at Rock Island, 111.. 35 below. Republicans treat Irish-American cit izens the same as they do Genaan-A- mericans, or any other class of citizens. Gazette. How does the republican party treat the'Xegro, the main stay of the party? By an accident a colored man was elect ed Auditor of this State, and his duty has been intelligently and faithfully performed. But an effort is forming in republican ranks to defeat him for a re nomination. And the republican party, having control of this country, allowed O'Donxell, an Irish-American citi zen, to be hung unjustly. At ftie im portunity of a number of democratic Congressmen, the President sent over a faint protest to the dude Minister at London, but England laughed her scorn and went on with the most infamous hanging of modem times. And Irish voters ought to be republicans! Bah! .. good Must Accept the Issue. Mr. Morrison, Chairman, has called a meeting of the committee of Ways and Means to take into consideration the subject of tariff reform. He holds that it is the duty of the democratic party to take a decided stand on the question, and accordingly a bill will be framed making decided reductions, and pressed to a passage by the House. This action, all well informed demo crats knew would be taken, and it well comports with the popular demand, and is in accord with the generally received doctrines of the party. The gage will be thrown down, and the republican must accept the issue. "After paying all expenses and divi dends, providing for the sinking fund, "paying for all improvements to road "bed and new rolling stock, expensive "real estate, new buildings, etc.,"' the Commissioners found that the A. T. & S. Fe road hi Kansas had a surplus of S2.G21 ,691 remaining. They very prop erly made a new freight rate whieh de creased the gross freight earnings $2,000,000 in round numbers, but the Kansas City Journal, the republican or gan of the west, says that the commis sioners have done wrong, and that the road should be left undisturbed so that it could build more miles of road. The people, who have heretofore built the subsidized roads of Kansas, wiil think differently. The railroads should be able to take care of themselves and fur nish some relief to the overburdened people. The Commissioners are doing good work, and should take hold of the Kansas Pacific, which needs attention badly, It is with extreme pleasure that the Reflector welcomes its esteemed con empomry, the Gazette, to its new role of advocating railroad reform. The Reflector hopes that it is sincere, and that it will denounce and help the democrats undo the flagrant wrongs which its party has heaped upon the people. The republican party for the past twenty years has dealt with this great question in an abstract manner, but the abuses have grown and multi plied until the people have no confidence in its professions. According to cus tom, however, the fear of a democratic investigation causes the republican par ty to pose before the people, as a repen tant sinner; When the devil was eick. The devil a monk vonld be. When the devil was well, The devil a monk was he.1 Gov. Glick's tireless and successful efforts.to expose the land frauds which had been inflicted upon the people of this State under preceding republican executives, and the admirable direction which a democratic House has taken, have scared the republican part', and by a show of eleventh-hour virtue it hopes to perpetuate its power and the power of the monopolies which it feeds and supports. But the old trick wont win this time. To the Reflector's .challenge to discuss the tariff question with the Chronicle and Gazette, the latter paper says: "Some of the blow-wind' Bour "bon papers are trying to fix the minds "of their readers in favor of 'Free 'Trade,' but it is no go the people are "not inclined in that direction." To thus summarily dispose of a question which is assuming such a vital impor tance, pre-supposes ignorance in the mind of the reader, or else the writer does not understand the question or is afraid of it. So much for "a paper "that strives to benefit its constituen cy, and endeavors to be an instructive "and welcome visitor" and so on, ad libitum, ad naiiseatum. And the Chroni cle, that paper which "gives moreread- hiff matter and tries m every way to "make the best paper in the county," (without succeeding, by the way, since the Reflector occupies the pinnacle,) with a petulance and ill-humor which clearly betrays its fear of the great ques tion of American politics, says: "To sat isfy the curiosity of the young man of "the Reflector we simply remark "that the Chronicle takes hold of the "tariff question just as it wants to. At "present we prefer to remain a spectator "of the lively fight now going on in the "'democratic ranks over this question, "rather than take a hand." Just so, and your enjoyment of the fight may become so intense that you will "take a hand" when it is too late. But absent-mindedness soinetimes'covers very grave defects; it is very proper for a person to be afraid of a question he cannot handle practically and logically. Will The Truth Ever Be Known. Mr. C. P. JIuxtixgtox of the Cen tral Pacific and Mr. Thomas A. Scott of the Texas and Pacific appear jij 3, far worselight as coiTuptorsofCongressniep than did Mr. Oaices Ames in the Credit Mobilier business. Ames was a member of the House, and in hia dealings with his fellow members he managed to preserve some semblance of self-respect, both on the part of the briber and on the part of the bribed, The consideration for the infiuence and the votes of the purchased legislators was a share in the enterprise which Oaices Aies himself was engaged in prpmoting and protecting. Mr. Huxt ifiU'toii, .however, does not attempt to disguise thff theory on which he pro ceeded, and on ttbjwi, according to his reports to Cgltox, his vigorous adver sary Scott was likewise proceeding; 'y these men of affairs Senators and Rep resentatives were commodities in the open market, to be brought outright for cash, and to be owned hi fee simple by the purchasing corporation, like loco motives or railroad iron. The only dif ference, from Mr. Hidotxgtok's point of view, between a ton of steel rails as property and a Congressman as prop erty was that the latter was likely at any time to give his owner the slip, and sell liimself to the competing railroad, provided it offered higher figures. In Mr. Huxtln'gton's incidental al lusions to his friends the "good fel lows" in the Senate and House, and Scott's friends the "wild hogs" and "damned hogs," there is a bald, bold, and heartless disregard of the conven tional properties of the lobby which is likely to surprise and startle the states men in question. For the first time they see themselves exactly as they were regarded by the railway magnates who were so easy and liberal in person al intercourse, so affable at the dinner table, and apparently so considerate of the outer shell of reputation and self respect. It is a terrible warning to many legislators whose names appear in the Huntington correspondence. Lucky will they deem themselves if they escape with this warning, and nothing further. Mr. Huntington's letters, so far as published, lift only a comer of the curtain. There may or there may not be more damaging documents in the budget with which Mrs. Colton is ap parently trying to force money from her husband's surviving partners. These other documents, if they exist, may or may not ever see the light. Perhaps the chances are against it. Enough has been disclosed, however, to show what a valuable witness Mr. C. P. Huntington would make if he was called upon by the Sergeant-at-Arms to assist in an honest, thorough, and fear less investigation of the means used to procure legislation by the several Pacific railroad companies during the ten years just from 1S70 to 18S0. ABJLENE MAEKETS, The markets are corrected every Wodnetdpy at 12 m. Wheat No. 2 (oft.) CS Wheat No. 2 (hard) licut SO. "" ncttt ro, ' Rejected Wheat 23 Oats 1" Corn 23 K yc - -) Butter 2C&23 rhickensIncrd'ozV.y.y.V.y.V.V.y.'.'.'.V.V.'bloOSirj Flour, patent, nerlOOttis 3.20 Flonr, straight grade 2.75 Potatoes ..." " Turkeys, per $................ -- .1 Phirkon. nor lb ......... 0 Hops per UK) lb. ..... ..... ... 5.10(55.13 Catflc per 100!t - 3.00?.'5.50 Utibsfc'l hay. per ton 4.(X14.50 J. LANCASTER. , WcP.Qtt-BJ.r- QUILT ffl House Painting! Hard Wood ffigimshhicr! Carriage Painting. nun. mi contracts tilled "to the "dot." Satis faction fniaranteed In every respect. Give us a call. Shop over City Blacksmith shop, Imme diately west ol Bonebrake's establishment. LANCASTER & MCDOWELL. 5TIiE! .BIXjESTEJ S w M NEW ONE PRICE IE STOBK Hamaker's Old Stand, Bonebrake Building. Ladies and Gentlemen; fe ! I have come to this growing western ! western city, to be one of you and to stay ! with you. I have had thirty-fire years of ! practical experience in the Boot and Shoe bus- j iness exclusively. Eighteen years of that time has been spent in the great city of Chicago. I have brought with me a stock of the style and durability of which cannot be excelled, and my prices will be as cheap as goods of that class can be sold. "Wiiryou kindly do me the honor to accept this invitation to pay me a visit. Do not wrait until you are obliged to buy, but call and examine my stock, and test the proof of the assertion I make. It will cost vou noth- I ing to see my display, and I shall take pleas ure in showing it to you. "Very respectfully yours, 3 H 3 M - SHERIFFS SALE. . T TXDER AXD BY VIRTUE OF A SPECIAL 1 j anas oraer or sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court or Dickinson County, State or Kansas, in a cause pending therein, wherein Robert Chapln is plaintiff, and John J. Collins and others are defendants, I will, on 2Tonday, January 28th, A. D., 1S84. at the front door or the court house, in the city oi Aouene, county or uiCKinson, state or Kan sas, at 10 o'clock, A. M., of said day, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate, to-wlt: Lots number one (1), two (2.) three (3) and four (4), in block number nineteen (19) In Kuney and Hodge's addition to the tOTvn (now city) of Abilene, in Dickinson County, fctateof Kansas. The said real estate will be sold pursuant to the Judgment or the Court In said cause recited in said special alias order or sale Witness my hand this 26th day ot December, A. D. 1SS3. HENRY LITTS, 19 5t Sheriff or Dickinson County, Kansas. Farm For Sale. I offer for sale my farm consisting of 1C0 acre?, 2Va miles cabt of Chapman. 60 acres under culti vation, 50 in wheat, 3 in orchard, balance in corn land; also 50 acres in pasture, balance meadow. One stone house, stone stable, two good wells, wheat and corn field under fence. For further In formation enquire at my place. 20-3m JOnN'BALSIGER. 0. G. HAWK. JN0.M. GLHSSNEB. THE Pill DiLSl T 1 VllU, :o:- HAWK & GLEISSNEB, DEALERS IN PIUIRIEEIBJIJICIB Timber Farm for Sale. One hundred and sixty acres of land, 40 acres timber and 70 acres bottom land, In Noble town ship, Is offered tor sale at $25.00 per acre. A good house, barn, corn cribs and other improve ments on the place. Chapman creek runs through the farm, which can be utallzed ror agri cultural or stock purposes. For further partic ulars, apply on the premises. MRS. ISABELLE HAIRE. flufffft RATJB & JACKSON, XDen-tlsts, (Successors to Dr. Criee,) Dental Parlors cor. Broadway and Second Ste., j5.T:lle.o, 2Cn-n. All operation- known to the Dental profession performed in the mo.-t killfnl manner. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of local anaes thetics and gas. L. M. POTTER, Genera AUG tioneer Woodbine, P. 0., Kasfi Will cry cale of all kinds at reasonable rates. Saticfaction guaranteed or no pay. I. SHOCKBY, DEALER IN IHardwareJ TOILET GOODS, STATIONERY, &c. -:o:- A Full Line of Humphrey's Homeopathic Medicines, -:o:- Headquarters For Painters1 Supplied, Glass, Machine Oils, &c, &c. -:o: We keep at all times best Head Light Oil, 175 degrees test. CALL -A.2STID SEE TJS. P-7 sa. Hodge Brothers, Tin ware Pumps, Fanning -Implements, of all kinds. jgg ust received a car Joad pf barftej wire, whioli wall lie pplil afc fc&itpw prices. Agent for the Iron 3!on)tfU! Wind Engine. A TIN SHOP attached with the store. ST Call an see him. Cor, Broadway and 4th St. Xo. 13 tf. ABLLEXE, KAS. 1E KEELIHRS Champion HARDWARE, CUTLERY, NAILS, MECHANICS TOOLS, Acorn Stoves, BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, Tin Roefing and Spouting a Specialty Call and get prices before buying elsewhere, IJaye just received an immeiiBe atocjc nbovo goods and if you will call Ave will convince you that wo nro selling at low prices. Qf Buckeye Avenue, ABILENE, KANSAS. T. C. McINERNEY, K EE.1T E-EALEli IX BOOTS EAST THIRD STREET. ALWAyS QX IIAXD. Confectionary f ? Candies A SPECIALTY. ICE CREAM AND OYSTERS IN SEASON. LIYEBY AND SxxOSSi Gets all his Boots and Shoes made expressly from the best of leathers, and pn recommend them to be the best made, AT YEBY LOW PJUOE, ' HE ALSO DEALS H? HATS CAPS, and LEATHER FINDINGS. A Lowenthal. sWffe. lrmni ' I IfSS? Highest Cash Price Paid for Hides. Mclnerney Block. Broadway St. Bargains at T P Aim anil SMI STMI South side o pijfoad on Cedar St., D. H. Metzger, Pre. V Bargai ins at BUYTOCK GROCERIES or j Bargains at F. AUGUSTINf, BUYYOUB GBOOBRIBS AjP proprietor of Tamers' Home. n Bargains at BUT YOUB QUEEffg. 37ARB 0 Bargains at J, ff AUGUSTINE, Bargains at BDY JOEB QJJEEN3 "WARE COT 'Jfc ,