The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-23
DestitutiOn I'm Kansas.

DestitutiOn in Kansas.
ATCHIsoN. November 2l.-Thc Daily
Champion publishes from advance sheets
of the official reports made TO the State
Board of Agriculture, some statistics
showing the destitution existing in sew
eral of the frontier counties of the state
In seventeen counties in which an ag-
gregate of 15S, 900 acres had been planted
IN corn, produced not bushel. Of this
cereal, five Of these counties produced an
an average crop of wheat, rye, oats, barley
and buckwheat and are abundantly able
to relieve any individual cases of desti-
tuition in their midst. The other twelve
counties having an aggregate population
of 23,S8l, as shown by the State census
taken last June, are all on the remote
frontier, and settlements with them have
all been made within the last three
years. The eight. in which the greatest
destitution prevails, have all been popu-
lated within the past year or two the
greater part of their population having
settled within the limits of either last
spring or the preceding fall. These
eight have an aggregate population of
1886. The settlers generally had their
first crop planted. They had expended
all their means in building their homes
and putting in their crops. The drought
and grasshoppers have wrought total
destruction Of everything they had
planted, leaving them totally destitute.
They are without either food, clothing
or fuel To sustain them until
they can produce something on
which to live. and must be- sustained by
the charitable contributions of the peo-
pie in other sections Of the State and
country at large. The Champion COM
putes the humber of destitute in the
State at from 10000 to 25,0O0, but of
these many are located IN older counties
where crops, with the exception of corn,
were fair average, and more fortunate
citizens are able and willing to help
their destitute ncighborhood; but i'll
eight counties the destitution is very
general, and almost the whole popula-
ton need more or less assistance. At
least 800 people must be assisted dur
ing the winter, and until another crop is
grown.
Union Between the York and Scot.
fish Rites.
CINCINNATI, November 22-Thc
union on II cordial irntcrnal footing. of
The York Rite and Scottish Rite MasonS,
in the reception given yesterday to the
Hon. Josiah II. Drummond, the highest
National official in both orders. is regard
cd here by MasonS with great satiSfnc-
ton, aS an indication that the barriers to
q perfect fratcrnal feeling between the
orders had been broken down.
The Weather.
4 brisk rain commenced early this
morning, and has continued all day and
evening.
An American Archbishop takes up
GIadstOne's Gauntlet.
New YORK, November 22.-Arch-
bishop Bailey, Of Baltimore, has written a
short letter on the statement made by
Mr.. Gladstone in his late pamphlet. He
SAWS that since the Vatican council has
defined the dogma of infallibility of the
Pope, every Catholic is called upon to
renounce his mental and moral freedom,
and place his civil loyalty and duty at
the mercy of another. The Archbishop
SAYS: when person tells me that my
religion requires me to be diSloyal to my
country the old Adam comes up in me
and | feel more disposed to pull hi, nose
than to answer him politely. The only
thing have to say about Gladstone's
declaration, is that it is false, II shameful
calumny. and | would appeal with per-
feet confidence as to the truth of my n
Scrtion. To the confidence of every Cath
Ollie over the face of the earth. 1t has
no foundation, either in words or decree,
nor in any possible logical deduction
from those words. The thought even
that it would have any such bearing, |
am certain never entered into the mind
of any member Of the Council. The Va
ticun Canon didn't change in one Iota the
relations of Catholic Church to civil power
any more than it changed those of the
Protrstants. 1t left that important mat
ter ~ connected with the order Of civil
society, where the New Testament leaves
il: where our blessed Lord left il when
he told us t. "Render to Caesar the things
that are Caesars, and 10 God the thing
that are Gods. Ever since Gladstone
committed political hari-kari, by dissolv-
ing Parliament, he has been soured and
disappointed man, aud there
is no being on this earth
more mischicvous and dangerous than
an old politician turned out to grass.
Everything hr has don" and said and
written since shows that he Is as anxious
to get back into the Gag" ~ Polar lear
is an1iou, t. get out of hi. and :" he
has taken tn what an old English divine
used 10 call his Cheshire cheese the
"no Pop"ry" cry which Little Johnny
and many Others have tried before him,
and is cndeavoring to raise the whlrI-
wind in tn" hope that it may blow him
back on to the Treasury benches. it will
b" NOR" likely to bloE him out to sea. BY
this publication Gladstone has paid but
poor compliment to the good sens" and
intelligence Of the English people, and |
have INV doubts whether they will dance
10 Ills UlAFif. II Nv was SlAAdb'A I'M
Bismarck, and could put a soldier along
side Of every honest citizen to make him
dance CrriH he, nil he, then there would
be some sense in the thing.
Opening OF n New Church.
CHICAGO, November 22.-The new
Trinity Episcopal Church, erected in
place of the one DESTROYED By the great
fire, was opened for public worship this
morning. Rev. DR.. Schenck. formerly
rector Of Trinity, but now of Brooklyn,
preached the drlicatory sermon. The
new church Is one Of the most substan-
tial and beautiful in the city.
THE WEATHER.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
TrrUp nErrTER I