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KANSAS NEWS. Last worth. year Eureka improved ?200,000 Anthony is to have a three story -stone hotel building. LeRoy has ha3 organized a Building and Loan Association. Co. K, State Militia, of Abilene, have received their arms. The first directory of the city of New ton Ls being compiled. The first circus which ever exhibited in Nickerson showed there recently. The Osborne City Cheese factory is making 2,500 pounds of that staple monthly. The School Board census of Burrton, eays the Monitor, gives that town a popu lation of Valentine Staffer, a cow-boy, was killed at Garden City by the accidental discharge of a gun. Col. E. C. Culp, of Salina, has been ap pointed In?pe ctor of U. S. Land Ofhces on the Pacific coast. It is said that Gen. Logan will attend the Old Settles' meeting at Bismarck Grove, September 2d. Yates Center, according to the lrua, has been cleaned, the first Kansas town to undergo the ojeration. In repairing a threshing machine, Os borne county, two men had malted Bab bitt metal thrown in their eyes. The Sumner County Agricultural So ciety announces a bull fight as one of the attractions of their county fair to be held there this Fall. A sixteen-year-old son of J. II.Lefiing well accidentally shot and killed him self at Corning, a short time ago. The funeral was largely attended. The Serdinel says, Kenneth has less number of dogs and rats than any other county seat in the State, there beingonly one canine and one feline in the town. Hon. Nelson Adams was shot by the Marshal of Lamed. He struck the Mar shal twice with a heavy cane before the ,tter fired. Local politics caused the disturbance. Nortonville, Jefferson county has fee cured articles of incorporation as a city of the second class. The first city elec tion was held recently, and a mayor elected. A. W. Ruoff, a German, established himself in a garden on an island in the Arkansas, twelve miles west of Dodge, and the high water kept him a prisoner there for two months. Girard lress: The McCune postoffice has also been declared a money-order office. This makes eight money order offices in Crawford county. What other county in the State has more? In one issue of the Oberlin Herald there are advertised one hundred and sixty-eight tracts of school land of forty acres each, tor 6ale. This is a a total of G.720 acres brought into the market at one time. A severe hail and wind storm is re ported as having visited th northern part of Atchison and the southern part of Douglas counties a few days ago. The damages to houses and crops was con siderable. Hon. S. II. Fullenwider, of Butler county, has been appointed an agent of the Government, under the pleuropneu monia law passed at the last session of Congress, at a salary of $2,400 per year and expenses. His duties are connected with the safely and healthy transporta tion of cattle, etc. "Wyandotte Herald: The case of Lead better againgt the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company for the re covery of $10,000 damages alleged to have been received bv the rjlaintitt while in the employ of and through the negli gence of defendants agents, occupied the attention ot the court f r four days The jury gave plaintiff $5,000. A shooting affray occured at Lakin, Finney county, a short time atio, between James Oreen ana one ot his men by Clay Cooper, an employee of the liarwood Cattle Company, which occur red at Wagonbed Springs, on the Cini aron, four miles south of Lakin about noon to-dav. Green was shot twice through the breast and is not expected to recover. Cooper was unhurt. The Oklahoma Chief, published at Rock Falls, just over the Territory line near Caldwell, says: "Their is a vein of coal from eiht to ten inches thick crop ping out in several places on our town site. A company is being organized and will soon commenco to put down a shaft for & thicker vein. Old coal men think that it can be reached from eighty to one hundred feet, from four to six feet in thickness." Emporia Republican: A box of fossil specimens was received the other day bv Mr. Harry E. Norton from the offi cials of the State penitentiary. They were taken from a coal shalt 730 feet be low the surface of the ground, and show plainly petiifiictions of wood and beauti fully preserved traces of m ss, leaves fish, etc. As geological specimens they are very- valuable. lne stones were accompanied by several very fine photos of the penitentiary building and officials. Mr. W. C. Ilindeman, of two famous Arctic expeditions, is visiting Iriends in Madison, Lyon county. Mr. Nindeman eailed with obout twenty otheis in 1S71 in the ''Polaris," under the command of CapL Hall. He reached that Winter the latitude of Sl 35' north latitude. The next Winter he spent around the east Eide of Greenland, at a latitude of 82 16 the highest point reached during the expedition. In 1S79 he started from San Francisco on the Bennett expedition . and wintered in the ice drifts of Bear ing's Strait, in the latitude of 74 45 After drifting around for months they finally landed on an island in the Arctic ocean north of Siberia, and thence made their way down through Europe and home. j Atchison Glule: The case of little Jesse Graham, who was bitten by a spider some weeks ago, has developed into a very peculiar one, and one which tallies medical skill. He was bitten un der the left eye, and nothing was thought of it at first, the only niark of the spider'a fangs being & little pimple about the size of a pin head. But this gradually be came inflamed until both eyes were closed, the skin about them turning black. The wound was very painful, and the little fellow had to be held by main force whi'e the doctors were operating uprn it. He has now lost the entire use of his left eye, the pupil being reduced to the size of a p:n point. The riyhteye, however, has been saved through the skill of Dr. Campbell and good attention. Caldwell Journal: "Win. Corzine spent a night at his ranch in the Territory, re cently, and slep- out of doors, as is the custom. . About 12 o'clock he was awak ened by a cold wind blowing on him from th north. He got up, and while skirmishing around for more blankets probably twenty minutes the wind changed to the southwest. This is not a 6trar.ge thing for the wind to do in this country, but the strange part of it was that the southwest wind was as hot as though it came from the mouth of a fur nace or bake oven. This wind continued for just half an hour. The cause of it remains a mystery. Hot winds sometimes prevail in this country in the day time, but never in the night, as this did, unless it had been prevailing during the day. Arkansas City Traveler: An accident of the most heartrending nature, and re sulting in the death of two well known residents of Bolton township transpired last week. The fa-ts are a follows: A short time since Mr. Bristow purchased a farm about two miles south from Gue da, and upon said farm was an old dis used well, some forty-five feet deep, which it was desired to have cleantdoutand fit ted for use. With this object in view Mr. Biistow and his nephew. C. W Crank, left home on Thursday last and proceed ed to the old well, which Mr. Crank at once descended and proceeded to work, but soon complained of the gas hurting his eyesand requested to be drawn up. This Mr. Bristow tried to do, but the wed bucket having become lodged he was un able to draw him up, when Crank at tempted to climb the curbing, but be coming overpowered by the gas, fell back, whereupon Bristow decended by the rope to his assistance, his wife and boy, in the meanwhile, raising an alarm. It would seem that both men were over powered by the gas, and, notwithstund- mg every effort, it was nearly two hours before the bodies were brought to the surface through the heroic efforts of Messrs. Willard and Tompkins, but un fortunately life wa extinct. STOCK. byTJXBS. Points and Items About Kansas Stock The Polled Angus bull, "Judge," be longing to J. S. and W. R. Goodwin, of Beloit, was drowned recently. He cost the Goodwins $6,000. Dodee Citv Globe: Smith & Elliott sold to Green & Cogill, of Las Animas county Col., last week three hundred and filty head of yearling heifers at $16.00, a very fair price. Clay Center Firebrand: W. Carpenter, of Blaine township, has a yearling bnll that weighs 700 pounds. He has weighed it every week for ten weeks and it has made an average gain of 35 pounds per week, during that time. Dodge City Globe : Messrs. Crawford, Young & Co.. of Hamilton county, who have been in this market for several weeks, made a purchase last week of eight hundred head of yearling heifers from Mr. Suggs at $16 per head. They will be located in the western part of this State. Lincoln Banner: Oa the sheep ranch of Green & Smith, about seven miles northeast ot the citv, a ram was born re cently having four horns, two properly placed and the others between them. It seems that even the sheep of this county are willing to take another horn before breakfast. Kansas Farmer: Some persons are of opinion that cockle burr plants will kill hogs if eaten by them. Experiment shows that hogs will not eat these plants except when very young and then no injury results. In test cases hogs refuse to eat the burr plants after they are about 6ix inches high. They are fond of the plant while very young. Emporia Republican: Recently about twenty head ot cattle were stolen from a herd of 700 or 800 head, being herded by W. A. Smith on the edge of Chase county, southwest of Emporia. The stolen cattle belonged to Gerahty Bros, and Jas. O'Byrn. A vigilant search is now being made to recover the cattle and secure the thieves. So far as learned there is notslue. ' Dodge City Globe: John Powers, who is interested with Doc. Day in the cattle business in the Panhandle of Texas, has six hundred and thirty-three beef cattle here ready for shipment. Mr. Powers had 2,000 head of yearlings on the trail bound for the North, which he has turned back and will winter them with the Dickey Bros., on the Canadian river, having made satisfactory arrangements for the same. Cattle kings are no longer to have un disputed swav in the stock world. Cattle queens are coming to the front, as we see by the last issue of Cowboy, which says: Miss Lee Jackson, of Denver, Colorado, is a guest of the Dodge House, and has purchased several thousand head of cat tle which will be placed in the hands of Chas. T. Carroll, of New Haven, Conn., and B. Brinton, of Philadelphia, rela tives of the young lady. Salina Independent: D. B. and J. L. Po ers are starting a horse farm at Ells worth, and while at Zinesville, Ohio, re cently purchased for the farm three young blooded horses from J. II. Jewett, paying $3,0 0 for them They aie Fan cv Almont (filly), 3 years old; Jocosta (filly); Herod (stud), 2 years old all Irom Almont Chief. Almont Chief is also the sire of Westmoat, the fastest pacer in the world. Herod is a full brother to Geo. E. Hutton's fast trotter, Clifford. Hon. Geo. Y. Johnson, General Super intendent of the Agricultural and Cattle Departmen's of . the Great Woild's Cot ton Exposition, at New Orleans, has just appointed two chief assistants. J. H. Sanders, editor of the Breeders' Gaz tie, Chic-agu, is to be Superintendent of the Cattle Department, and Hon. Dexter Curtis, of Madison, Wis., Superintendent of the Horse Department. They are ex pected at Topeka in a few days to con sult with Mr. Johnson about arranging the pieffiium list and other important matters. Clay Center Time: Win. Lockhart, of Oakland, reports an increase of sixteen Eure bred calves to his herd of Short orns this season. Of these ten are females and six males, making his herd number forty-six at this time. Mr. Lock hart has been breeding Shorthorns for about six years in this county, and is considered one of the most successful and intelligent breeders amongst us. His cow, Muse atoon 2nd, gave two and one-half gallons of milk per day after the calf had taken all it would. For beef, milk, butter and docility the Short horns rant with the highest, Clay Center Tunes: J. W. Carpenter, one of the most successful farmers and stock raisers of this vicinity, reports a gain of thirty-five pounds a week for the last eight weeksof a grade Shorthorn one year old bull. His feed besides grass has been oats and corn chop once a day during that time. He also has a two year old filly that weighs 1,200 pounds. Mr. Carpenter says nothing pays so well on the farm as good stock, and that he is going to buy only the best in the future and get rid of his scrubs as fast as he can. The experience of such men as Mr. Carpenter is stock raising is very extensive, and their example worth following. HAMS AS FAKMCi'G. Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers of the State. Potatoes are a drag on the Clay Center market. The potato crop of Barton county will be immense. Yaes Center yens : On the 15th day of May, 1SS4, M. Bathbun, of Liberty township, planted a certain field in corn. Tuesday of this week, sixty-seven days after the corn was planted, Mr. Rathburn measured several hills and found the av erage height to be twelve feet and nine inches. Wichita Eagle: W.T. Jewett, who came in a few days ago from his farm near Valley Center, says that crops are look ing splendid. lie has three hundred acre3 in corn, which will yield fully six ty bushels to the acre. The same ground last season was in corn and averaged fifty bushtli. This year the stand is much better. Halstead Independent: Joseph Cook brought us in a small branch of an apple tree, of Cooper's Early White variety, planted in 187S, being at the time of planting one year old, which was loaded to beat anything we ever saw. The branchwas one-half an inch in diameter and, in a space of 3 inches, had put out twigs which bore 17 large, fine apples. The fruit hung in a cluster, one touching another, yet all large and well formed. He also produced a twig of a Keifer Hy brid pear, showing a cluster of nine pears. This had been grafted into a large pear tree in 1S82. Dodee City Cowboy: The other day we had a talk with E.B. Cogswell, of Sterling. Mr. Cogswell is an official agent of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, whose official duties are to investigate the business of the sorghum industry of Kansas and to furnish such information and suggestions to the bureau as will tend to the promotion of that industry. He has strong faith in the outcome of sorghum, and believes that the bulk of the sugar consumed in the West will be manufacured from sorghum. He left at this-office a sample of the sugar made at the Sterling works by the Kansas Sugar company. The grade is "Extra C," and seems to possess as much saccharine matter as sugar of the same grade man ufactured from tropical cane. The Ster ling works last year declared a dividend of 7 J per cent, on a capital of $50,000. They "can be operated about ninety days. Under the present process of crushing cane only forty per cent of the juice is extracted. A new process of extracting juice called "Diffusion," has been invent ed, which will be thoroughly tested at Ottawa, Kan., this season. An appropri ation of $40,000 for the purpose of obtain ing machinery for making this test was made by the last Congress through efforts of Senator Plumb. Under new process it is expected that 98 cent, of the juice will be extracted. Cogswell has faith in the future of ghum as feed for stock and says all is wanted to make it perfect stock the this per Mr. sor- that feed is thorough curing. As late WTinter and Spring feed he would have the sorghum cut before maturity. Rank cane, fully matured, will not hurt stock if eaten late in the rail or in early Spring. GRAND AK31Y GLEAXINGS. Particulars Pertaining to the Posts. A new Post has been established at White Cloud, Doniphan county. The newly elected officers of the Sons of Veterans Camp at Ellsworth were in stalled at a recent meeting. Sumpter Post No. 168, of Winchester, has adopted resolution indorsing the recommendations of the Pension Com mittee of the Grand Army. Winneld Courier: About twentv-two names have been signed to a petition re questing the institution of a Grand Arm v Post in the prosperous little village of Udall. Leavenworth Times: The survivors of the first and second Kansas regiments, veterans of the late war, will go on an excursion to Atchison on the 10th of August. Independence Call: The old "Vets," of Llk and Chautauqua counties contem piate holding a reunion sometime in September. We learn the place of hold ing the same has not been decided upon Sedgwick Pantograph: At the last meeting of Stephenson Post No. 255, G A. R , an invitation was extended to the wives and daughters of the members to meet with them on the fourth Friday evening oi each, month. Leavenworth Standard: A call for court martial has been issued by Custer Post, G. A. 11., to meet Thursday after noon at turee o ciock in tne lioard oi Trade rooms to try Comrade J. Mohr. O. 1L M Nary i3 present and H. Mile Moore, Judge Advocate. Atchison Chamm on: The veterans of the First Kansas htld a meeting recently, and effected an organization to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Wilson creek. The anniversary falls on Sunday, ana proDaoiy trie celebration will occur on the 14th. Lin wood Leader: Francis Mathews has een allowed an increase of pension, dat ing back to 1S65, making a total which he will now draw of $2,361.37, and here after $50 per month for loss of sight and scrotal hernia. This increase was secured through F. M. Adams, with the assist ance of Hon. P. B. Plumb. Mr. Math ews 13 a member of the G. A. R. Post here, and they also were largely instru mental in securing him his pension. A correspondent writing for instruc tions in the formation of a Relief Corp?, well says: -'We think we might get a great deal of instruction and pleasure out of it, besides being ready whenever there is a call for our assistance, as there is sometimes at annual encampments, or Decoration Day, or sometimes a sociable, when no one is readv. What" is every body's business is nobodv's business and not being organized we are like pany of soldiers without an officer, and do not get things to harmonize." Burr Oak Reveille: It would our G. A. R. bovs should - takft a lively interest in the comine Soldier's Reunion. It will certainly be a trrand affair. The location of the grounds in the timber near the railroad track and between Mankato and Jewell Citv. is certainly favorable for us, the train goes uown in tne mornins and comes back at night. It is almost certain that John A. Logan will be there, while the presence of such orators as Gen. B. M. Prentiss, and Commander-in-Chief an-im- devoort, will make the occasion an pressive one. KANSAS WOJIIX Various Things Concerning Them. Minneapolis lays claim to havins the prettiest girls of any city in the State. Mrs. Maria Powell, of Halstead re cently celebrated her eighty-first birth day. Miss Mary E. Huntv superintendent of Public Instruction of Chase county, died a short time ago. At a school house bond election held in Windham, McPherson county, Mrs. C. M. Case acted as one of the judges, and Mrs. Fred P. Halt and Miss Dixon Hall performed the duties of clerks, and a neater poll list, it is said, was never found anywhere. A good $3,000 school house will now be erected. Fress : A young married woman liv ing in the suburbs of Girard attempted suicide a few days ago, on account of do mestic troubles. bhe took a dose of morphine, went into a darkened room, and, with her little baby in her arms. laid down on the floorK expecting never to raise again, fcne was discovered bv other members of the family, antidotes administered, and a physician called. By strenous efforts her life was Baved. but if she had been left alone only a lit tle while longer it would have been too late. Emporia Republican: Lyon county will soon see what ladies can do in the way of farming and agricultural pursuits. Some time ago two ladies came here and began looking for a farm. When they made it known that they intended run ning the larm themselves, they were ad vised to give up tne project as impracti cal, but they would not. They have ac cordingly purchased a tract of land about six miles northeast of the city, and will begin operations at once. Humboldt Inter-State: One day last week a little child of L. Wilbite was playing near their cistern, and it raised the lid and fell in. Mrs. Wilbite climbed down into the cistern on the email rop- which they drew water with, and hang ing by that until the child came up for the second or the last time she caught and held it in that condition until their nearest neighbor came to her assistance and Helped both out. ine cmid was saved, but by good presence of mind of the mother. Osage City ree Fress: A few days ago Mrs. Patrick Kelley, living in Craigtown, lust south of this place, left her child, eighteen months old, with a neighbor to be cared for while she made a visit to another neighbor's. The child was left with another child alone for a few mo ments, when it started to follow its mother. As it was crossing the railroad it was caught by a coal train and cut in two near the center of the body, and the mangled part thrown six or eight feet off to the side of the track. Feeding Young Pigs. Prairie Farmer. F. D. Curtis tells farmers the best way to handle pigs is too let them run with their mothers until the mothers dry up, and to allow the young ones to go into an enclosure by themselves where they can be fed on extra milk, or wheat ground and mixed with milk or oatmeal. Any of these grains are good, and so is barley ground and mixed with milk, or ferment ed slightly. By feeding and suckling at the same time there is no sudden change and the pigs will hardly miss the mother, and, in fact, they may be weaned when six or eight weeks old by being fed in the manner described, and they will be con tent in their feeding pen when kept en tirely away from their mother. Wheat, oat, or barley meal may be cooked for the young pigs, but it is essential to have it fermented. The feedings should be often and a little at a time, and this should all be eaten up clean, or less should be given. To feed young pigs six times a day is better than to do so less often. By "a little" is meant enough to fill the stomach moderately full, but in no case to the ex tent of stuffing or gorging. This latter manner of feee ling will destroy the ap petite or produce an inflated or poddy condition and stunt the pig. "Blind staggers" are caused by disordered stomachs, Rubbing turpentine on the top of the head causes an active evapora tion, and no doubt has a stimulating ef fect on the whole system; but the best remedy is more in feeding, and feeding in such a way that the stomach is kept in a vigorous and healthful state, and then there will be no rush of blood to the head, but it will be equally distribut ed ail over the body, and the stomach will retain its po lion. Young pigs should have an opportunity to get to grass or some other sort of green food, as it helps them wonderfully. They like to root in the ground, and this, too, is a natural condition. They will eat more and thrive better when they can have these benefits. A sensible farmer will try to have the surroundings and f od for his pigs conform to their natures as much as possible, and in so far a3 he does ne will beueht himself. A pig ap preciates ail of these things as much as any animal, and far more so than most others. Irrigation is of so much consequence in California that a State convention has just been held to consider the subject. Irrigation is only in it3 infancy in the State, and yet there are from 200,000 to 250,000 acres of irrigated land in the San Joaquin valley alone, and there is no part of the State, except the extreme northern counties, in which irrigation is not & live question. THE SPANISH FEVKTm An Ofiiclal Keport from Dr. A. A. comb,- the State Veterinarian, to noi- Got. Glick. Dr. A. A. Holeomb, the State Veteri narian, who had been up to Manhattan investigating the Spanish fever in Maj. Adams' cattle, returned to the city yes terday and wrote out his official report to Gov. Glick, which is as follows: July 31, 1SS4. To His FLccellency. the Guvtmor of Kan sas. Sir: I have the honor to report that in response to your telegram of the utn insi., wnicn reached me at Ottawa, Franklin Countj', I proceeded at once to Manhattan, Riley County, where I ar rived on the morning of the 30th inst An investigation revealed the following facts: Major N. A. Adams purchased in the Kansas City Stock Yards on the 20th mst. 220 grade steers, which had arrived that morning from Caldwell, Kansas. On the evening of the same dav thev were loaded and started, for Manhattan over the Union Pacific road. Just after they were weighed in the yards the pur chaser noticed that one of the best steers seemed distressed and unsteady in his gait. Calling attention to the fact the condition of the animal was explained on the ground that he had drank to ex cess of water; but when the bunch was shipped west this one was left behind. and, as was afterward learned, he was the first to die. When the train reached Topeka it was found that a large num ber of the cattle in one car were piled on top of each other, and that some of them were badly injured and in danger of being killed. Accord ingly this car was cut out and left at the stock yards . in North Topeka, where all but three of the most seriously injured were unloaded. The remaining car loads were taken on to Manhattan, where they arrived on Sunday. On Monday all but six of those which had been left m Topeka were forwarded to their destina tion; the remaining eix died. During a portion of Sunday, Mondav and Tuesday deaths were quite frequent and the na ture of the disease was soon suspected. On Wednesday morning I found the en tire herd which reached Manattan held in quarantine by the Sheriff in the stock yards, adjoining commons, and in a field of full grown corn, all situated west of and adjoining the town. In the yards were seven which had died during the night, two that were too ill to stand up, and two others which were rapidly grow ing weak. The dead were being dragged away to the river bank, where they were buried in holes dug eight feet deep in the sand and covered with quick lime and soil. Between thirty and forty were crumbling to ashes in a pit where they had been burning for many hours, in the adjoiningcommons was one very sick steer and th e carcass of one which had d ied during tne night, in tnecornneld were the remainder of the lot purchased. Of these, one was dead; one was quite ill and the rest were in different parts of the enclosure feeding. An examination of the yard showed that the feces passed by the animals which were first taken sick were somewhat hard, dry and cov ered more or less with mucus streaked with blood. Those wrtiich were sick at this time were, as a rule, having loose, thinnish passages from the bowels, a con dition no doubt to be attributed to the green corn they had fed upon and the medicine with which they had been drenched. The temperature of the two most ill, which x were confined in the yards, were respectively 102 F., and 102 1-5" r .; while the temperature oi the one which had been sick for but a Bhort time stood at 105 2 5 F. The two which were lying down were upon the broad side, witn tne head extended, tne eyes staring and glassy, and unconscious to the irritation of the nies whicn swarmed around. Occasionally the muscles of the extremities would twich, the chin be drawn down toward the chest, the legs doubled up beneath the body and the patient would moan as though in great pain. Jbrequent strainings, as if to void some feces, were, as a rule, productive only of a protrusion of the rectum, accompanied sometimes by the passage of a little blood-stained mucus. Sensa tion of the surface was lost, for the ani mal would not respond to the prick of a sharp knife blade. When the disease is first seen to attack the animal he appears tired and walks with an unsteady gait. The head droops, the ears lop down, the hind legs are scarcely lilted from the cround. the patient cares not to move but is left behind in the herd and soon seeks a place to lie down If he is stand ing the back is arched, the hind legs straddled apart and carried forward be neath the body, the fetlocks are partly flexed, the muscles of the flank tremble the belly becomes tucked up and the head hangs very low. In the earlier stages of the disease, when excited they may chase the attendants for a distance but as a rule they prefer to remain quiet and often stand with their head pressed hard against a fence or other immovable object, while the body is swayed back and forth. The pulse increases in the rapidity of its beats, while the breath ing is fast, irregular and oftimes labored The urine in every instance was nearly black and passed in small quantities The opportunity did not offer to take the temperature of the healthy animals and those first snowin signs of the disease; but, as has been seen above, the temperature of thos about to die was nearly normal 102, One steer, which was first seen to be sick on the morning of the 30th at o'clock p. m., showed a temperature of 104 F. He was unconscious to all sur roundings, breathing with rapid, jerking respirations, the pulse scarcely percepti ble and death evidently rapidly av proaching. With the consent of the owner he was knocked on the head and a postmortem examination made at once The left carotid artery was laid bare and an attempt made to mi some common glass tubes, which had been hermeti caliy sealed and heated red hot, but the blood coadjulated so readily that they would not nil. The abdomen was then opened, showing the fat in all parts tinged witn a yeuowin brown color, The spleen was enlarged in every direc tion, and twelve hours after removal weisrhed four pounds and ten ounces It was softened and filled with a very dark-colored blood. The liver was con gested and larger than normal, but was not weighed. The gall bladder was dis tended with a dark brown viscid bile. Both kidneys were nearly black and filled with blood. Tne bladder was about half filled with & very dark, sticky urine. The small intestines were congested throughout and when washed showed that some of the smaller blood vessels had ruptured. The large bowels were congested in patches and the lining membrane here was very red. In the fourth stomach were found marked congestiun and some ulcers, varvinir in size from run l.p,l ir ten cent silver piece. The manyply was haed with green corn s'aiks. n-. c, in a natural condition. The rumen or paunch was rartlv tiled with fWl and seemed entirely h'ealthv. The mt was very dark brown in color, less firm than in health, and possessed of the pe culiar odor so often noticed in this dis ease. The heart. lun and nervous sys tem were not examined. ORIGIN OF THE OUTBREAK. At what time and in what place these animals became infected with the germs ot tne lever are not known to me; but if the information I have received bearing on this point is correct, they must have come in contact with the poison before they were shipped from Caldwell; for I m told that they went direct from the point of loading to Kansas Citv and that they were in the yards there less than twenty-four hours, and that the cattle betran to die with this disease in less than fortv-eiiiht hours after arriving in Kansas City. If these statements are true, and the period of incubation is not less than seven days, as a rule, then these cattle were not in fected after leaving Caldwell, but Mere diseased at that time. IS THE ADAMS HERD DANGEROUS? There is much apprehension felt bv the people in the neighborhood regarding the liability of the disease to spread to other herds, and the probability, or pos sibility, of permanently infecting for the season the grounds over which these animals have passed or shall pass. In the light of past experience it would seem to me that there is but one ques tion to be answered regarding these cattle, and that upon this answer must be baed all future measures for the control of the disease. If there are any Texas. wild," "untamed" or "through" cattle in the herd then surely they are a danger ous lot; but if they are all "grades" or native cattle, or if they have been win tered north of the line of permanent Texas fever infection, there is no danger to be apprehended from their pretence. I confess that my opinien as an expert in judging of the nativity of these ani mals might be valueless were we to be confined to the external form of the animal alone; but there are other evi dences, I think, that these cattle are not capable of spreading the disease. In the farst place they all seem to be of nearl the same grade, accustomed to each other, and from appearances they have, at least, been wintered together. If they have been together for that length of time, then the fact that the disease has not appeared before this date, in a atitude so lar south as the lerritory, would seem to prove that none of these animals were "Texas" cattle, capable of conveying Texas fever. Another point is, these cattle are all branded with tha same brand and judging from the immense bize of the scar, they must have been branded when quite young at least two years ago. it these cattle have an been branded, but one year even, with the came brand, they have no doubt been together that length of time, and conse quently cannot now be dangerous to each other. Lastly, no sane man would send Texas and native cattle to market in the same bunch at this season of the year, unless, perhaps, he knew they would be butchered inside ot a week. To send stock cattle to market in such a way would simply invite an inevitable disaster. i.he only con clusion then to which we can come is that there is ho danger to be appre hended from this outbreak, further than the losses which will be sustained in the infected herd. How great these losses may be cannot now be determined, but judging from the appearance of the cat tle last evening it is proDabie tne major ity of the infected animals have already died. About sixty-six had been buried up to 6 o'clock last evening, and about fifteen others were sick, ui these iast fifteen several were improving and prom ised to recover, so that it may be reason able to hope the losses will not exceed 40 per cent, of the total number. ACCIDENTAL EXPERIMENT. An experiment was accidentally insti tuted during my presence on the infected premises, if such they may be caned, which in a few days time, should satisfy every one as to the. probable danger oi these animals infecting others. 1 refer to the unexpected appearance on the grounds over which all these animals had passed of some of the town cattle. If they become affected, then the whole question of danger is settled. 1 am sir, your obedient servant, A. A. Holcomb. The Panama Canal and leads' Snip Railway. The latest advices from Panama are not all encouraging, and there is no doubt thatthe digging of the canal has not made the progre-s in the season now coming to a close which was anticipated a year ago, both by the officers of the general company and by the contractors The delay seems to be due entirely to the local circumstances of disease, diffi culty of repairs to machinery. The3e ob stacles to progress are of importance in the order mentioned, and it is also to be feared will ever be present as constant elements in the practicle solution of the great problem set by M. De. Lesseps. Meantime more machinery in large quantities is still being shipped t the Isthmus, increasing in great part the dead capital on the spot. If more energetic rneasu: es are not soon adopted to push the work to a more promif-ing isdue, Captain Lads will have considerably less difficulty in raising the additional fuads necessary to build his ship railway, the building of which will certainly not in volve the loss of life, which i- an unalter able concomitant of the digging of the canal. It is said that Captain Lads lias been quite successful on his recent visit to England ' in financially interesting Englisti capitalists in his project, but au thentic reports are not at hand. His scheme has rec eived the indorsement of the highest English naval and engineer ing authorities, and inasmuch as such in dorsement carries more weight with capitalists in England than in our on . country, we are quite ready to believe the report that the bulk of the neces sary capital is subscribed. It would add to the many triumphs of Captain Ead3 if his ship railway would be an accom plished lact before the canal is finished, and it must be confessed that such an outlook appears more probable-to-day than a year or two ago. "That Husband of Mine" wa3 lying on the lap of a young married woman on the train the other day when a base ball dude and would-be masher leaned over the seat, read the title of the book, and then looking around in monkey pantomime simpered out: "Ah! where is he?" Minding his own business, I hope,' was the crushing reply. Wilmington Star