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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

dreay sppearance but this was not general There
many nne houses but mostly small with flowers in front
Of most of them. They had homeIike appearance
Bellevle the County Seat is slightly place, being
avery nigh prairie Their public buildings but tem
porary but with six stores two hotels two churches and
fine stone school building &c make the town The
County has population of 1000 and polls 100 votes
The crops here remind the fall Of - in Doniphan
think District No. co should be moved here win
ter.
After travelling over the most of Republic County,
drove south 10 SePo where the great salt marsh
covering several thousand acres which is eoYeredmOre
less with salt
We next came to Clyde, on the Republican River, in
Cloud County. We then passed Clifton and Morgan and
came to Clay Centre which is the County Seat of Clay
county This is the terminus of branch of the X p r r.
which makes the lumber and grain trade immense for
this is the trading point number of Counties vest
The country here is fine farming country-I think the
best We passed over after leaving Brown County We
passed through Dickinson County which is owned princ
pally by spectators.
We next came to Junction City the County Seat of Da
Wis County. Northeast of the city we saw Fort Riley
which Is kept by twenty soldiers in honor Of the past
There are some fine business and dwelling houses in the
city but there many vacant that it makes the
place look forsaken.
Here crossed the Smoky HILL and thirty-six miles
brought us to Council Grove the County Seat of Morris
rock than soil We but few houess; chickens
prairiedogs, jackrabbits; few wolves with buffalo
bones and horns, all had look at The country
is not worth looking after until you get Council
Grove on the Marias des Cygne.
Council Grove to Usage City. forty miles. The first
twenty has the most natural pike in that dis
stance Along the streams there fine farms with
good crops The boys had fine sport shooting chickens
while crossing this rocky country We came to Usage
where they doing big business in the of digging
and shipping coal We rested here day, and started
home going by way Of Burlingame which has had the
County Seat voted away it TO Lyndon, little town
about like Geary City.
Next we came to Topeka Having been there years ago
we but little but while there, took look
through the State House. thinking at the time how many
Ofhceseekers had been disappointed in those halls.
From Topeka to Atchison, the crops poor indeed
think they off than District No. co. for they
have no one to write out their begging papers.
As came Troy, the crop began to look good
After taking trip sixteen Counties came to the
conclusion that there is years surplus raised in those
Counties this year. TRAMP
August 90 1875.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
Ponder This,

Probably the chief evil growing out of a spe-
Gle basis bank currency, are high and huctua-
ting rates of interest. Eluctuation in the rates
of interest is precisely the same thing as fuctu-
ations in the value of currency, as we have pre-
viously demonstrated in these columns If A.
borrows q, 900 for one year at ten per cent in
terest and b. borrOws 81 900 for one year at six
per cent. interest the result at the end of the
year is the same precisely as if A. used money
that was only worth ninety-six cents on the dol
lar as compared with BIS money. In other
words, AS notes amounted TO 81 100 at the end
of the year, while BIS notes amount to only ST.
06O.
But our principal purpose in this article was
to show the wonderfully rapid rate at which
high price for money will absorb the wealth of n
people, and to point ont the astonishing differ
ence a small variation in the rate per cent. will
make in a series of years. Most persons will say
that six per cent. is Just twice as much rs three
per cent or that ten per cent Is Just three and
One-third times as much as three per cent. So
it is for one ear but let take say 100 years,
and see what difference it will make in the re-
suits.
The following figures show the amount of one
dollar compounded annually at different rates
of interest for 100 years:
81 at per cent. 5 10 81
81 at six per cent. 339 80
81 at per cent. 2,199 76
81 at 10 per cent 1880 81
Thus we see that six per cent. is more than
seventeen times as much as three per cent; ten
per cent is more than six times as much as eight
per cent. ; and ten per cent. is more than 10
times as much as three per cent. Did any of
our readers ever hear banker one of his or
gan grinders deprecate high interest," Don't
they tell you that 10 per cent. is cheap enough 7
Some one who has made the calculation as
serts that one dollar placed at 10 per cent inter
est the day that jamestown, Virginia, was set
tied, and compounded annually up to the pres
ent time, would amount TO more than the total
assessed value of all the property, real and per-
sonal within the United States If any of our
readers have the curiosity to prove this, let them
make the calculation for themselves. Money at
ten per cent. will double in seven years and thir-
ty-six and half days.-IddiGRdpolis Sun.
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Runconbe Refor1rl.

There seems to be an uprising in different
parts of the country, at the present time for the
Suppression of bawdy- houses An immense pub
lie meeting was held in Atchison, few evenings
since, to consider this subject, and it resOlv-
ed, with great unanimity to coutinue the war
until every known house of ill-fame was broken
up.
So far, well enough; for such houses are no
credit TO a town. But why scalp the young
wolves, and leave the old ones to breedi Baw-
dy-houses, demoralzing as they are, are not the
one-thousanth part as corrupting as the private
bawdy houses, carried on by the upper circles,
by people who move in the most respectable So
ciety. These are what are undermining society
The public bawdy- y-houses are supplied with theiI
material by these aristocratie establishments
After having served an apprenticeship here, and
having been detected and exposed, the guilty
ones are cast out, to become inmates of regular
brothels.
In this same Atchison, as the story goes, a
leading brother in a certain church was discov-
cred Ia the act with a leading sister of another
church. After efforts to suppress the scandal,
the churches found that some action was necessa-
ry. The brother was hauled up before the church,
when he confessed his guilt. This rendered it
necessary for the other church to haul up tho
the sister. She confessed her guilt but dared
the church to do anything about it, At last ac-
counts, the church had not. The inference is,
that she could have squealed on too many of the
leading members. This scandal has never been
limited at by the Atchison papers, except to
Indignantly declare that they cannot be made
vehicles for such stuff, when their attention has
been called to it. Those same papers, by the way,
published all the disgusting details of the Hoke-
Marbourg affair." from the first scandal to the f.
nal trial. But there is dead-line Of aristocracy
beyond which they dare not venture.
While these practices are carried on, and lead
ing citizens attempt to conceal rather than expose
them; when society has reached such stage, that
in passing the gaudiest places, one cannot with
certainty point out which are the abodes of vir-
tue and which are private assignation houses, it
is the sheerest balderdash to bold public meet
ings, and get off resolutions of sound and froth
against houses of prostitution that boldly hang
ont their sign.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

THAT UNION PARTY.-We have received a
package of the circular address issued by the re-
cent meeting in Boston, convened to form Ma
tional Union Party. The address was by some po-
litical demagogue, and the names of one hundred
Union soldiers obtained to attach to it, such as
Simon Mulligan, Dennis Crowley, Michael Dono-
hue, ct al. 1. calls upon the people, especially
the soldiers, to discard the old parties, and unite
fer the establishment of an honest Government
and fraternal feeling between the sections.
There happens to be a party in existence, that
proved itself Union party just at the right time.
Had it not been for that party, there would to-
day be no Union. And after conquering the foes
of the Union, it displayed a magnanimity never
before witnessed since the creation of the world.
1t pardoned those foes restored them to all their
rights and did all that men can do to restore
fraternal feeling. But the South, under the lead
of the very men in whose interest this new party
is being organized, rejected this friendship, and
have been keeping the spirit of the rebellion
alive. Do those one hundred soldiers who have
permitted the use Of their names in this address
know that, whatever parties may be organized,
the private soldiers of the Confederate army will
almost unanimously vote the Democratic ticket,
Mt the dictation of the rebel leaders 7 They will
surely do SO; and as fast as the Democracy adj
vances in power, in that proportion will the
leading spirits Of the rebellion be exalted, and
the Union soldiers ignored. If the Union SOL
diers would like to see their pensions taken away
or reduced, and the pensions of widows and or
phans of Union soldiers, or pensions granted to
the soldiers who fought to destroy the Union; if
they would see laws passed, under some false
title pretence, for the punishment or annoyance
of the men who fought in the Union ranks; if
they would see the country loaded down with
taxes to pay the losses sustained by the South in
attempting to destroy the Union-f they want
all this, let them throw away their votes on such
a fraud as this new Union party, or, by shorter
cut, vote the Democratic ticket. But if they re-
ally want to accomplish what they call for in
this address, their best and only is to vote
the Republican ticket
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Arkansas CITY, CowIzr Co, KANSAS, Aug. %, 1:

ARKANSAS CITY, CowLEr Co., KANSAS, Aug. 26 1875.
EDITOR KANSAS CHIEF Thinking it would be interest
ing to many of the readers of paper to read report
Of the crops in Southern Kansas write you this letter
for publication The wheat crop of Cowley Sumner But
ler Howard and Sedgwck Counties this year is very,
heavy and the crop extra good Irish potatoes and
sweet potatoes plenty and cheap In Cowley County
the gardens filed with every variety of vegetable
that the farmer raises to eat Besides this watermeons
and plenty that the people cannot sell
them any price There being great amount of wheat
hauled up the Arkansas Valley to Wichita, will enable
the grain dealers there to ship part of the surplus
to the needy of Northern Kansas As is well known in
Northern Kansas the above named Counties nfes
ed with grasshoppcrs aa year. and the people suffered
greatly from their ravages
JOHN CURTIS JR.
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

A LUXURIOUS BEGGAR.-A communication
from MillertOn says that man by the name of
William Mowers, and his family consisting of n
wife and two ciiildren) have been supported by
the town nearly all Winter, because (as he said)
he could get no work, and his family were suffer
ing. Last week he was offered job of shovel
ing snow by the railroad company at 50 per day.
The poor starving man refused to 90 to work un-
less they would give him S3 ''for it was real
hard work to shovel snow, and he shouldn't
work for no 81! not he he would do nothing
first" He was then offered job at choppng
wood, but with oath he refused, saying ''that
was too hard work for him he did not like to
chop wood" When given $40 order from the
town to get provisions for his family, the first
article he called for was some canned fruit and
some pickles, necktie for himself, aud two
dresses for his starving wife. He mourned his
inability to procure set of bosom studs and
fiuger-ring TO stay the cravings of his empty
stomach. few days ago this needy man left
MillertOn for parts unknown, owing poor man
$50 for rent. His family are to be taken to the
poor-house on the 1st of April.-Poaghkeepsie Ea-
gle.
This case can be duplicated many times in
Kansas and Nebraska; and it is this class of
dead beats that has been in the way of render
ing aid to the needy and deserving poor.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
II Speaking of Atchison. the Cha,

VI -I1SIIISeIIf OIttIHlpFUW
She has either asked secured special privileges
favOrs from the Legislature. What has accomplish
ed and she has has been by her
efforts and work.
Does the Champion forget how Pomeroy lied to
divert railroad from its true course through
the Northern Tier and take it to Atchison; how
Atchson struggled to cary the scheme through the
Legislature, as the Henderson Amendment; how
they gave the their solemn pledge that the land
grant should be used to build the road to Tope-
ka; and how they afterwards diverted it to build
the Central Branch Road, which has been run
into the ground somewhere out on the Blue and
will always stay run in the groundi Oh, no;
Atchison never asks special privilegesl
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

n There is great excitement and distress
throughout the Pacific Slope, over the failure of
the Bank of California. The President, Ralston,
committed suicide. There is no telling how
many widows, orphans, and laboring people have
lost their all by the failure. No coin, is the
trouble. Those bullionists, who wanted re-
sumption, and had no faith in greenbecks, can
not pay in their favorite currency. Even green
backs would be acceptable to the depositors now.
Amidst all the uproar and distress caused by
those swindling banks failing and defrauding
their creditors, let the people remember that
greenbacks cannot break until the Government
breaks.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
Destitution in Doniphnu Couufy-Expinna
liOu by j a. HaIi.

Ed CmEF:-As Bones stated, did fully intend going
into the hay business and very busy that labor
the present time Sickness of my sister her husband and
two children, delayed me for time but thankfully.
"as well" again, and nothing to prevent labor. As
CARDS DEsTITUToN, will say that when we left the
Point, in July the CHIEF full of petitions for aid
and when here and found plenty of every thing
wrote did for your paper and had intended to do all
could for your people The unexpected sickness of rel
atves delayed long that felt compelled to publish
letters received and any farmer who felt that he
could, to aid the destitute in District No. 60.
With this explanation let the Iowa Point Bones rattle
Yours, j. A. BALL.
Barclay, Usage Co., Kansas.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

The Atchison Champion remarks as follows in
reference to the late trial of the editor of the
Marysville Neucs for libel:
The jury failed TO agree, but if the Waterville
Telegraph reports the charge of the Judge correct
ly, it is evident that he did not interpret law as
common sense and justice dictate. For instance,
the Telegraph reports that the Judge charged the
jury that it was not necessary for the proseou-
tion to show that the thing done, was wilfully
and maliciously done. That it was done at all,
was sufficient evidence that it was wilfully and
maliciously done; as a criminal act always car
ried with it pre-supposed malice. This is sheer
stuff. Under such 4 decision the liberty of the
press in the State would be utterly destroyed. A
criminal act does not carry with it pre- supposed
malice. Exactly the contrary is true Malice is
the very essence of libel, and of all criminal acts.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

SENsIBLE.-Heretofore it has been our custom
to publish gratuitOusly great deal of matter,
which in all justice and reason should have been
paid for. Resolutions of respect, notices of
church festivals, and benevolent gatherings, and
many similar matters have been freely given.
We need not say that this has been n heavy
drain upon ms. We have frequently published
matter of this kind gratis, which at regular rates
should have paid us from fifty to seyenty-fve
dollars. No merchant or other business man is
ever expected to make an equal donation of his
wares upon any such occasion. Our advertising
columns are all we have to sell, and upon them
have therefore decided it necessary to make n
change in this respect and hereafter all such
matter, and all matter not strictly of a news
character, of the class we have referred to, will
be charged half rates. We shall claim the right
to donate our bill when we feel an inclination TO
do so, but our standing rule will be to charge
We trust parties interested will govern them
selves accordingly.-St. Joe. Herald.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
Notice of Petition for Sale of
Real Estate

In the Probate Court, Doniphan County Kansas
THNO Creditors and others Interested IN the Estate ~
Il Isaac Edwards deceased. late Of Buchanan COUNT
State Missouri: Take notice that on the 9Th a ~
September A D. 1S75 the undersigned Administered On
the Of Isaac Edwards deceased ed In the Probate
Court Of Doniphan County State Of Kansas his petition
the sale private sale Of the following real estate
situate said County Of Donphan wit: The north
west quarter section thirty in township three south Of
range twenty-five east and the southeast quarter of sec
tion eight township four south Of range nineteen east
The said petition ordered by said Court to be heard on
the 20th day Of September, A ID. 1575.
THOMAS EDWARDS.
Administrator Of Estate Of Lsaae Edvards decd
By ALBERI PERRY. his Attorney.
September O. lS55-2w. Prs fee, q.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
Attachment Notice.
Administrators Sale Of Real ESTATE

In the Probate Court Of Doniphan County State of Kan
sas In the matter Of the Estate Of Lydia A. Holman
deceased. -
NOTICE is hereby given that by order of the Probate
~ Court Of Donphan County, Kansas will offer for
sale at public auction Tor cash at the north door of the
Court House in Troy in said COUNTY on The otb dar ~
October 1s75 at oeloek NJ, the following described
property Of the said Estate situate in the County Of Don.
phan State Of Kansas to wit: The undivided bsIf
of the north half Of quarter section
t5eight lSel township ioar ~ range twenty, CsOD
NATHAN PRICE. Administrator
September 9, 1s75-5w. Prs fee 81
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

BRECKINRIDGE AND THE COUNT OF VOTES IN
1S6l.-The Springfield RepEblicaR wishes it to be
always remembered to the credit of John C..
Breckenridge that he refused, at a time of wild
excitement and in the teeth of no ordinary pres
sure, to lend himself to the execution of n dis
honorable partisan plot. 1t was in the Winter
of 1861. Mr.. Lincoln had been elected President.
The plot was to prevent the formal count Of the
electoral votes in joint convention and declara-
tion of the result Mr.. Breckinridge, Southerner
and beaten candidate, sat in the chair of
the Senate. He was approached; his Off
cial position made his assistance indspensa-
BILE to the success of the programme. He was
piled with sectional and partisan arguments.
And John C. Breckenridge, Kentuckian and Sc
cessionist, utterly refused to have anything to
do with the dirty business. Mr.. Lincoln had
been elected, he said the Constitution required
the fact of that election to be formally ascertain
ed and made public; his official duty in the
premises was plain, and he proposed to perform
it. There would be time enough afterward to
see what was to be done.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

PoLTuCs.-It is less than two months until
election. Many Counties are holding their
Conventions; but here in Doniphan, we have
not heard Convention mentioned. Surely, the
offices are not going begging. If there are to
be Conventions, it is high time the preliminary
steps are being taken; but if it is to be an open
field for every man who wants to run, the candi-
dates should be letting the people know what
they are after. We would consent to spare room
in our columns for such announcements-for the
usual fee
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

p The Republicans of Ohio have removed
the financial question to the back ground in the
campaign, and are now making the principal is
sue upon the school question. 1t is to be hoped
that they have not made this movement too late.
The people are with them upon the school ques-
ton, but not upon the financial question, as set
forth in their platform.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

E Last Friday, the Pastime base ball club, of
ST. Joseph, was scooped, as usual, by the Water
vile club. Walt Johnston, of the Pastime club,
was umpire; but the Gazette says his umpiring
was not satisfactory. 1t is thought that john
ston was too intimately acquainted with the
Deputy Sheriff of this County.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

V Several papers having made favorable
mention of Judge Price for Governor, the Wa
thena Reporter ruins him by telling everybody
that Price attended to law case for Jack Selover.
Everybody in the State is interested in the per-
sonal fight of the editor of the Reporter upon Jack
Selover; and all he has to do in order to play
out any candidate for Office, is to cry "Jack Sell
ovarf0
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

q The Bridge Celebration at Atchison, last
Thursday, was the biggest thing ever seen in the
State. We had two kind invitations to establish
headquarters, and several others waiting to
catch us up; yet, as is usual on such occasions,
we could not go. No adequate description could
be given in the space that we could spare for it,
The Atchisop papers are full of it.
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Some Postmasters Who have been PrfyateI,
RnlsinG Their Own saInrie..

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The following named
postmasters have been dismissed by the Post
master General for improper disposition of
postage stamps, and unjustly increasing their
salaries thereby:
A. A. Freedman, Altoona, Wilson county, Kan
sas L. +. Williams, Blue Mound, Linn county
Kansas; James r. Ford, Forest Home, Franklin
county, Kansas Mrs. A. Turner, London, Sum-
ner county, Kansas; C. S. johnson, Dresden,
Otoe county, Nebraska; Frank J. Austin, Macon,
Franklin county, Nebraska; A. L. Holbrook
Ridgely, Dodge county, Nebraska