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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11
,oRpNe to the Herald Of Heaiih, marble-top

ACCORDING to the Herald Of Health, marble-top
stands are 10 be avoided. 1t says: They are cold,
rapidly absorb the heat and vitality OF the body,
ro6oing II OF Its life. We have heard of one in
valid whom the doctor could net cure. until one
day he noticed that she used q marble stand, and
suspected 1t had something to do with her ILL.,
health. So he forbade her touching it. Soon she
was cured. We know healthy people who feel
twinge OF pain in the shoulder by sitting near
one: rhey are handsome, bat unhealthy for all
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

A writer in the London Field recommends
the use of carbolic acid in pigeon aud poultry
houses for destroying parasitic insects. 1t nei-
ther Injuries the birds nor drives them from their
nests. He dissolves two ounces of common car
bolic acid in three quarts of water, and applies
once q week with q watering pot to all parts of
the poultry.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

LAMENEss in hogs is caused sometimes by the
large pores in the back part OF the legs getting
clogged They are a little above the knuckles
in the back part of the legs. Wash the lame
legs with soap and luke-warm water, using astif
brash and rubbing hard till the pores open, and
when the pores are washed open the lsmeness
will leave
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

"MANNA, where do the cows get the milk ~
asked Willie, looking up from the foaming pan
of milk which he had been intently regarding.
% Where do you get your tearsf was the answer.
After thoughtful silence he again broke out:
" Mamma, do the cows have to be spankedf'
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

RUDE fellow told Barnum that he had never
exhibited anything that was not q barefaced
humbug. "Yes, / have,r said Baruum, the
bearded lady wasn't barefaced.n
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

THERE is much wisdom in q few words spoken
Sy an English farmer, who advised ito feed land
before 1t is hungry, to rest before it is weary,
and to weed before it is FOUL
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

ure of length when rules are not present four
Of them, placed edge to edge, measure just three
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

TIE prominent feature on the winter face of
SHOWS.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

FoRIUNE.-Howf By Specializing In sss~k.
and gold Capital so 10 800: win paw 500 n n oo
month f1A explanation sent free W. r. HrRRFTT
: CO Bankers and Brokers, % Wall Street New Yo1I
= - aug1ew4
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-02-11

Esf c Al 1s TiSkErs BLANKS CIRCULARS &C.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Isn't it getting to be about time to
send some one out into Africa to discov-
er Stanley?
-Carruth, the Vineland editor shot by
Lands, is still living, and his physicians
are now growing confident of saving his
life.
-Darwin's inherited income is $40, 900
year. That's what comes of having
a monkey for your ancestor.-Boston
Post.
They are going to centennate Chats
a new word) Daniel O'Connor, who was
born 100 years ago, come August
next"
Col. John Hay, who perpetrated
"Little Breeches," has tried to make
amends by composing a religious poem
and naming it Blind Bartimeus."
The banquet given him by his friends
probably saved the life of Carl Schurz.
He was to have sailed by the Schil-
Ter, but had to take the Pomerania in.
stead.
morous periodical, is to be started in
Edinburgh, to confute the ancient joke
about Scotch heads and surgical opera
tions.
Charles Willis, who, a month ago,
weighed over $50 pounds, has died in
Albany, N. Y, of quick consumption.
He lost 300 pounds in weight during his
illness.
What will they do hundred years
from now for word to express the kind
of centennial that will be? Webster
forgot to make any such word as " BIZ
centennial"
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has pre-
sented the chair and table used by
Charles Browne (Artemus Ward, when
connected with that paper, to the Cleve-
land Historical Society.
Mr. Abraham, of Beaver County, Pa,
is man worthy to rank with any of
your old Hebrew celebrities He has
accumulated through long life more
than 800, 900 and never had lawsuit
=" Kicking Bird" at the head of the
Kiowas, in the Indian Territory, is a
dead bird. He has kicked the bucket
Those supple legs with which he was
wont to kick the female Bird are still.
DIR. All King, the Chinaman who
lately married Lansingburgh, N. Y,
belle with such great slamming of
gongs, has been sentenced to the Peni
Tertiary for two years for having other
wives in this and his own country.
Kate Chase Sprague, upon learning
that the library Of her father, the late
Chief Justice Chase, was to be sold at
auction in Washington, has telegraphed
from Europe forbidding the sale. She
intends to purchase and preserve it in
the family.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

them all put on the cart She SAYS there
is plenty of room, and the things will
come useful some time, and they don't
take up any room anyway. And just as
the cart is moving away she rushes after
it with a secondhand peach-can stuffed
with debris, successfully introduces it
into the load, and then comes back in
triumph. And while the carman is gone
she is just as busy as she can be telling
the woman next door that she can put
three times as much stuff on that cart as
is on it, and if she has to move again she
believes she will give up and die.-Dan-
burn Ne1os.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
THE WEST.

A KANSAS CITY (Mo.) special Of the 14th
says the feud between the James boys and
the Youngers had been settled, and they
were again operating together, having recent
1y purchased some Of the fectest horses In
the State with view of committing further
robberies. They have been joined by two
other desperadoes.
DISPATCHES of the 14th state that in East
ern Kansas and Western Missouri grass
hopper panic already prevailed. The pests
had started on their line Of march In north
westerly direction, and were destroying every
thing green In their way.
WHILE the steamer Senator, plying be-
tween Portland and Oregon City, was being
loaded at the former port, a few days ago,
her boiler exploded, rendering the vessel a
complete wreck, and killing the Captain and
several OF the crew The engineer has been
placed under bonds TO answer to the charge
Of mansaughtcr.
THE great May musical festival in Cincin-
natl this year was magnificent success. 1t
closed on the 18th.
The Andrews Wharton Black Hills party
captured by the military on White River and
+ Akcu W FOTb vi tiC iotu HaNc, VIII
the exception OF two OF them who refused
to sign the parole, been, by order Of Gen.
Sheridan, released on parole, and their arms,
horses, wagons and outfits restored to them.
THE citizens of Council Bluffs, Iowa, joined
In public demonstration and a torch light
procession on the night ofthe 18th to rejoice
over the recent decision Of the United States
Circuit Court at Des Moines declaring the
former city to be the eastern terminus OF the
u. p Il. X.
Col. j. III. BRITToN (Dem.) has been elected
Mayor OF st. Louis, pice Arthur b. Barrett, de-
ceased. The vote was: Britton 1851; Henry
Overstolz (lnd) 14,994
THE Governors Guards, military compa-
ny OF Springfield, Ill, won the prize banner
at the competitive drill on the occasion OF the
late soldiers reunion in Chicago.
THE Governor of Missouri has issued a
proclamation calling on the people Of the
State to observe Thursday, June 3, as day
OF humiliation, fasting and prayer, informa-
tion having come to him from all sources that
the State Is threatened with the grasshopper
.pontilence, to be followed by failure OF the
q ps, great distress and possible famine. He
recommends that the supplication OF the peo-
pie be raised for divine relief and protection.
Gov. TAYLOR has issued a proclamation APP
pointing the 29th inst as Decoration Day In
Wisconsin.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
An English GrOwI.

The Americans have been celebrating
the hundredth anniversary of the battle
of Lexington. 1t was not a very big bat.
tie, but it was undeniably a very inn
portant one; and it would be absurd to
grudge them any satisfaction which they
may derive from firing the usual salvoes
of congratulatory orations, poems and
festivities. 1t is melancholy to think,
however, that we are probably entering
upon round of such celebrations. Next
year WILL of course, see the biggest OF all
possible celebrations of the inevitable
Fourth of July. Wepity the unfortunate
orators who are perhaps even now cud-
ceiling their brains for something new to
say upon an event which has already been
the pretext for an unparalleled quantity
of nonsense; but we admit that the per-
Americans are going to make all man
ner OF fine speeches about the great days
of 1776. Why should not we Rave some
thing to say upon tie subject? Let us
have dinner of herbs and water instead
OF turtle soup and champagne. Let the
Lord Mayor and the Prime Minister and
the popular speakers of the day walk in
procession through the streets, APP
pareled in their shabbiest clothes,
and drink in solemn silence to the
memory of departed empire. And
let a speaker arise, not to pour out floods
of gushing sentiment and declare that
everything is for the best in the best of
all possible worlds, but in lugubrious
and depressed spirits endeavor to pro-
woke tears rather than bursts of repeated
applause. Let him think upon the short
sightedness which lost great empire,
or upon the folly which, If the empire
had to dissolve, caused the dissolution to
be attended with bitterness that has
not yet died out. Let him dwell upon
the stupidity which threw away British
armies upon hopeless enterprises, the
want of unity which paralyzed all our
plans and the stupidity of Parliament
which ridiculed Burke and Chatham,
and believed in the wisdom of North.
Let him point out that we have no right
to shift the blame off our own shoulders
upon those of poor George Ill, inasmuch
as the people were quite as stupid as
their rulers. And then let him ask
whether we are so much better now !;
whether we have the true spirit for
ruling great empire; whether Parlia-
menl is more given to action and less to
talk; whether our military efficiency has
improved in proportion to its costliness,
and whether, If our ancestors had
Wilkes to represent them, we have not
kenealy- London Saturday ReoieD.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
rHE s0uTH.

CANNoSs were fired at Little Rock, Ark, on
the 18th in honor Of the proclamation OF
President Grant one year ago recognizing
Baxter as Governor.
GEN. AND Ex-VIcE-PREsIDENT JOHN G..
BREcKINRIDeE died at his residence in Lex
ington, KY, on the evening Of the nth, Of abb
scess Of the liver combined with consumption.
During the war he was struck by fragment
OF shell, which inflicted an injury that Is
supposed to have aggravated the disease of
which he died. He was little over fifty
years Of age.
Gov. JACOBS, Of West Virginia, having be-
gun the moving Of the State Capitol from
Wheeling TO Charleston In compliance with
the law to that effect, an injunction was
taken out against the movement, and a tele-
gram Of the 18th says the injunction had been
partially complied with, and the contemplated
change would probably be delayed for some
time.
THE funeral Of Gen. John G. Breckenridge
took place at Lexington, KY, on the 10th, and
was attended by an immense throng OF people.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
THE EAST.

IBnE fASIs
Four conyicts at Sing Sing jumped on ar
engine which was passing through the arch
at the prison on the 18th, and presenting re-
yolyers at the engineer and firemen com
PEELED them TO get off, and then cut the en-
CINE loose from the train and ran it Of, max
ing their escape. They crippled the engine
before abandoning IT,
THE New York Assembly has unanimously
passed resolutions calling upon the Govern
ment TO recognize the belligerent rights OF
Cuba.
WHISKY seizures were made in Boston and
Brooklyn by Government officers on the 18th.
FIVE new national banks were authorized
on the nth to commenc business in various
places In New England, and one In Allegheny
City, Pa.
Gov. WESTON, of New Hampshire, and four
or FIVE OF his Council have decided that the
votes cast for Matt" Head, Republican can
didate for State Senator from the Second
District, are to be treated as blanks, claiming
that his name is Nathaniel. They also threw
out the vote cast for the Prohibition candidate
for State Senator, declaring him ineligi-
bic on account Of not having been resident
OF the State as long as the law prcscribes.
This gives the two disputed seats in the State
Senate 10 the Democrats
A WnKEsBARRE (Pa.) dispatch Of the nth
says the prospects were exceedingly favorable
for a speedy resumption OF work In the mines
throughout the valley, including those at
Kingston, where there had been the most
trouble.
THE arguments Of counsel In the Tilton-
Bcecber suit were begun on the 10TH Judge
Porter opening in behalf Of the defense He
was very severe in his denunciations Of Mess-s.
Tilton and Moulton, the former Of whom was
present during the entire days proceedings
GOLD closed in New York on the 10Th at
116L. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, Si.19Q0l .201a; No. 2 Milwaukee, s1.21
@122; No. 2 Northwestern, $l19@l 81 (;
Barley, sLA0(0l.45; Oats, Western Mixed,
7611l07S1&c; Corn, Western Mixed, S7gS7alc;
Pork, New Mess, s2Ls0; Dressed Hogs,
one; Lard, 15%c. Flour, good TO choice,
s5.GO(a590; White Winter Extra, s590C06.s5.
The cattle market ruled firm, but rather
slow, ranging from lie TO 13Ic for COM
mon to extra. Sheep, clipped, brought AZ
(95Nc, and unshorn 61z@7Ne.
Ar East Liberty, Pa, on the 10Th, cattle
brought; Best, s6.75e0725; good, $4,000
625; common, s50O@5.5O. Hogs sold
Workers, S7600770; Philadelphia, $500
s75. Sheep brought $4.0O(9550 according
TO quality.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

AT Western spelliug-ma'ch on re
cent night only four persons were pres
emit, but the next day on the public
green more than 400 citizens found time
to witness game Of quoits with horse
shoes.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

SIXTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY NINE persons were banished
from Russia to Siberia between May end
October last; 1850 women and children
over fifteen years of age, with 1869
young children, voluntarily accompanied
the exiles." Ii this sort Of thing con-
tinues, Siberia will rapidly become the
more populous and powerful district and
begin banishing its criminals to ST.
Petersburg.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

10 SToP LEAKS IN BARRELs.-Melt
such quantity of tallow as is necessary
while moderately hot stir in air-slacked
or new lime and apply. This will stop
leakage in the chime when other rem
edies fail
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

JUDGE PIERREPoST, the new Attorney
General, took charge his Office in Washing
ton on the 18th, and was called upon by the
heads OF bureaus and others.
THE Postmaster General, under authority
OF an act Of Congress, has ordered
that the rate OF United States post
age on letters sent to or received from
foreign countries with which different
rates have not been established by postal con-
yention or other arrangement, when for
warded by vessels regularly employed In
transporting the mail, be reduced from ten TO
five cents for each half ounce or fraction
thereof, to take effect July /, 1875.
MAJ. r.. w. BINGHAM, Indian Agent at
Cheyenne, arrived In Washington on the 18th
with Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and seven
other Sioux Indian chiefs and an Interpreter.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has issued
a call for 100000 coupon bonds, upon
which the interest will cease on and after
Aug. Is next
THE Sioux Indian delegation was received
by President Grant on the 10Th.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

THE largest field Of pine-apples In the
world Is probably one In the eastern dis
trict Of New Providence, In the Bahamas.
From one spot can be seen at a single
glance 1 ,20000 pine-apples growing.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

ROME has 656, 1853 inhabitants, accord
ing to the last census
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON arrived at Leay
enworth, Kan, on the 18th.

IcE-PaEsIDEST WILSON arrived at Leav-
enworth, Kan, on the 18th.
WHILE Mr.. and Mrs Mcpherson, living
eight miles east Of Columbus, Neb., were alb
sent from home on visit, on the 10th, their
house caught fire and three of their four chill
dren were burned to death.
SERIOUS fears are entertained that the
hordes Of grasshoppers infesting many sec
lions OF Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska viii
later In the season extend their rayages into
Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
IT was reported on the 18th that the Mexi-
can banditti were again raiding on the Texas
border in the vicinity OF the Rio Grande, COM
hitting many depredations and outrages, and
capturing cattle and driving them into
Mexico.
In Chicago, on the 10Th, several criminal
prosecutions against persons implicated IN
the whisky frauds were tried before United
States Commissioner Hoyne. Two gaugers,
named Rutishauer and Watson, were held to
bail in the sum CT 5000 each. Messrs. Col
son 81 Eastman. reetifiers, were each held in
the sum OF $4,000.
Mrs. LINCOLN, widow Of the late President
Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by a jury
in the Cook County Court at Chicago, and
was, on the Goth, removed to private insane
asylum at Batavia, ILL., The Chicago Tribune
says the long years Of painful brooding
over the dreadful homicide Of her bus-
band had gradually produced the ne
cessity for the action now taken. That
paper also says: "As will be seen from
the evidence, Mrs. Lincoln's mind has been
for ten years the prey to growing madness,
and this fact, now made public, VIII east a
new light on many Of her past actions, which
were harshly criticised by those who did not
know her, and which, while understood by
her personal friends, could not be explained
by them, since TO have done so would have
been to have exposed her mental condition,
which twas then hoped might improve
ASA b. MATTHEW'S, Collector Of Internal
Revenue Of the Ninth Illinois District, has
been appointed United States Supervisor Of
Internal Revenue for the district embracing
the States Of Illinois, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, nice d. w. Mum, removed.
In Chicago, on the 10TH spring wheat, No.
2, ruled weak, closing at s1.001z(Q1.01H
cash. Casn corn cloSeu aL ooIac iof new NO.
2 and 66c for rejected. Cash oats sold at
62@6214c; June options were sold at 62s4c.
Rye brought $i.041lC0l05. Barley, No. 2,
$133(Dl34. Cash mess pork closed at
s2OsbC920.sS. Lard, s1495@l500. Choice to
fancy graded steers brought $630@6.S7f;
prime to choice native stock, $550f96.0O;
Texans, s2.5005.50; scalawags, s300C9400.
Hogs brought s750t@S.25 for good to choice,
and sS,5D(008 rs for extra.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

Never run in debt; walking is more
dignified.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DIVERS examined the wreck of the Schiller
on the 14th. They found her broken up--a
confused mass OF iron and timbers. None OF
the specie was recovered and no cargo was
visible.
A SAETANDER dispatch Of the 14th says the
Carlsts had shelled Guetaria and inflicted
the fort and from five men-of-war In the har-
Dor.
HALF Of the city Of Peshawur, Afghanistan,
has been destroyed by fire.
THE trial OF Count Won Amin, on appeal,
has been fixed for July1.
BERLIN dispatches OF the 10Th announce
the release of the priests lately imprisoned at
Posen. The alleged principal In the late con-
spiracy against the life OF Prince Bismarck,
one DAMN, has been arrested at Cracow.
THE Roman journal La Voce Della Verita
has been suspended for publishing the Pope's
address to the German pilgrims.
On the 10th the Carlists shelled the city of
Pampeluna. The garrison made sortle and
repulsed the insurgents.
Two OF the Podgoritza murdcrers have
been executed.
A BARCELONA dispatch Of the 18th an
nounces the capture of an important Carlist
position at Montserrat, with Government
loss Of ninety three killed and wounded. The
Carllst loss was unknown.
TwENTY-oNE members of the Committee
Of Thirty In the French Assembly resigned
on the 10Th on account Of the failure of a
measure advocated by them.
A SAN SEBASTIAN dispatch OF the 10th says
the smallpox had broken out in the Carlist
camps and was raging violently.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

THERE are 102, 154 trees in the avenues
and other public thoroughfares at Paris,
and the yearly expense of their mainte-
nance amounts to $4,000. They are
more than worth the money in the health
and pleasure they afford to the citizens,
apart from their adornment to the city.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-05-27

A DAY LABoRER who saves three dol
lars week is capitalist. If he puts
his savings In horse and dray, or into
a chest OF tools, or into candy shop, he
reinvests; and now his capital is, pri-
marily, his own productive force-that
is, himself--and, secondarily, these new
means of carrying on business. Every
step by which he rises from poverty to
competence is in the direction of aug
mented capital. Every prosperous
workingman is proof to himself that
there Ia no need of conflict between
labor and capita1,
The Portland daily press., 1875-06-21
badness dawned on earth, it found them hap

gladness dawned on earth, it found them hap
pier still.
1t was on the first delicious evening spent
In their new home that John broke silence
and told the tale of his treasure-trove. They
sat together by the fireside, and Flossy turned
the worn pages of the diary with tender
touch.
''Dear shabby old thingp' she murmured.
''Yet it brought us togetherv'
"And to think how searched for you in
all the shops of the cityv'
'Shops? Oh, didn't go to the shop, you
know. Aunt Marion died the very week aft
err wrote that, and left me two hundred
dollars because was named for her. l felt
so rich to be able to take Alice to the sea-
shore. How little we guessed when you
came, and we grew to be friends, that all that
time you had my old diary in your pocket"
"And how little guessed that the 'Flossy'
1 had hunted for and dreamed about was
close at hand! You'll make me Toms pud-
ding some day, won't you, although apples
are eXpensive?'
Marion raised the little green book to her
lips and kissed it. Then she kissed John.
The Portland daily press., 1875-06-21

Watches, Jewelry, &c.
j. w. & III. Kk. MCDUFFEE, Cor. Hiddl
e. u MON SITS.