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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16
DeadWOOd''-The Indians
Have 1t ON the Miners.

Special correspondence to the
cheyenne Standard, dated Dead
Food, 23d ult., confirms the death
the hands of Indians of Isaac
brown, Charley Honllad, A.Smith
nd Don Mason; the first named,
om Virginia City, was one of the
RIM of Lee & Brown, owners of
he of the best claims in the Dead
food district, which has been av-
raging $1,000 a day forssome time.
(Olland halls from Sioux City,
bwa, and Smith was a preacher,
|te of Kentucky. Lon Mason, of
|enver, was killed while in pur-
pit of the party who killed Smith
p the night of the 22d. Dan Barn
Cincinnati, was shot and killed
y James Young, in a saloon in
(eadwood. News from Custer to
be same paper gives details of the
filing of four men near that place
b the 23d, whilst en- route to their
by mp,although no names are
wen. A party pursued the In
lans, who numbered by trail 90,
hd followed them to the hay
mp, but the Indians had been
ere and taken everything but q
indstone. The Indians, hiding
nong the rocks, watched for their
bproach, although all were not
lied at the first fire, as the bodies
the two men were found on the
cks whittier they fed. The COM
ete census Of Indians at present
Red cloud agency to whom ra-
pms will be issued in future falls
ort of 5000, and of grown males
boo
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16
Centennial Manners.

A few days agoa stranger at one
of our hotels asked for napkin at
dinner. The landlord refused to
give him one.
"But." said the guest, "that
man at the other table has one."
"That man is regular boarder,
and has just got back from the
centennial, and have to pander
to him for day or SO, but it won't
be long before he will be wiping
his mouth on the table cloth and
cleaning his nails with the fork,
like the rest of the gentlemen.
"No, stranger, we don't allow
any style here as a regular thing
but we can't help ourselves some
times."-[San Antonio Herald.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16
Beauty-Take Your Choice.

Socrates called beauty short
lived tyranny Plato, a privilege
Of nature Pheophrastus, a silent
cheat Theocritus, q delightful
prejudice /; Careades, a solitary
kingdom f; Domitian said that
nothing was more grateful !; Aris-
totle affirmed that beauty was bet
ter than all the letters of recon-
mendation in the world Homer,
that twas q glorious gift of nature;
and Ovid calls it a favor bestowed
by the gods.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16
Matrimonial Oddly.

BIT certainly looks a little odd
pen a married couple are visit
& at q friends house to see the
fe accidentally lay her hands up
a coal shovel and the husband as
by instinct, dodge behind the
hrest object that can afford him
btectiOn.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-09-16

"Has the jury agreed ?" asked the
judge of a sheriff whom he met on
the stairs with bucket in his hands.
Eyes," replied Patrick ''they have
agreed to send out for half gallon
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

the fault YOU can hear Of Is, that he prom
ised men office, and failed to fulfill his
promise: that he secured the removal or
sppoinl ment of some officer in way 10
displease those fellows Who think they
have right to dictate thee things; or
that he didn't give post-offce TO some lit
tie yelPer, who kept up din for him two
years ago, and he expected he would confer
some distinguished favor upon him in re-
turn, At the very earliest opportunity. On
ly this, and nothing more.
Col Phillips has taken an active part in
the various land questions Of such vital
interest to the people of Western Kansas.
He did good work in aid of Mr. Rhea's
bill appropriating $4,000 towards the pre-.
liminsry work Of building dykes to protect
the river bank in this county, adjacent to
the ST. Joseph bridge. He introduced and
carried through the House bill equalizing
soldiers bounties, similar to the one passed
before, which vas vetoed BY the President,
to the great injustice of thousands of brave
soldiers We might enumerate other acts
of Col Phillips, forwhich he deserves the
endorsement Of the people Of his district
His position on the currency question
meets the hearty approval Of thousands o.
his constituents.
We know that Congressman has harc
row tn hoe, in not being able to provide {
fat office for every tonceited being wht
happened to vote for him, and makes enc
mics, as far "a the influence Of such person
extends. But Col. Phillips has been faith
full to every interest OF his constituents "A ,
whole, and unfaithful to none, except it b
the personal interests Of ambitious place
seekers.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
FROM EDWARDS COUNTY.

hlNsLEn, June 20, 1910.
EDITOR TIMES Knowing the large circu
lation of the Leavenworth TINES, 1 take
the liberty of writing you letter, hoping
that some among your many subscribers
may be benefited by knowing something
about Edwards county.
Parties unable 10 buy, wanting farm,
should come here, for the reason that most
Of the Dest land is yet untaken.
You can get farm free. You don't have
to build fences. The soil will produce any
thing that will grow in the Western States.
The county is we'll watered by the Arkan-
sas river, Big snd Little Coon creeks, Saw
Log and its tributaries. We have an abun-
dance Of rain. Edwards county is at an
elevation of 1,50O feet above Leavenxorth
city. The air is light and invigorating !;
therefore healthy. The grazing is the very
best. There are now, Just across the dead
line in this county, $4,000 head of Texas
cattle You have all the advantages Of an
old county without heavy taxes. You have
q good market for all you can raise, Is
there is no farming done west Of here for
over $50 miles. You can buy your groce-
ries As cheap in Kinsley, the county seat, as
you can any place west Of Wichita. As ev-
idence Of what have said, the A., T. & S.
F. Railroad Company hold their land as
high in this county, as they do any place
for hundred miles east of here. Mr..
Miner, the wide-avake and gentlemanly
agent, sold, last week, five sections of land.
Edwards county expects to bridge the
Arkansas river At Kinsley this fall, which
will open up for settlement as fine . tract
of land Is lies west Of the Big Muddy.
And now let me say to those renting farms
in the East, who are not able to buy, come
west, get home of your own free, and be
VIEWER.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
The BOUNTY BILL

Mr.. Phillips bill to equalize bounties,
was reported favorably by the Senate Mill
tary Committee, a few days ago, but with
several important amendments. Sailors
and marines, and all soldiers borne upon
the rolls as slaves or Indians, are omitted
from the bill by the committee, and the
House proviso that State bounties shall be
deducted from the amounts TO which the
bill would otherwise entitle its beneficiaries,
is also stricken out The restriction that
only minor" children shall receive the al
lowances that would be due 10 their parents,
If living, is likewise omitted. As now re-
ported, therefore, the bill provides that
every private soldier, non-commissioned Of
fcer, musician, artifcer and enlisted wag-
goner, who received an honorable discharge.
shall be paid eight and one-;hird dollars
Per month for his total service between
April IL, 1881, and May 8, 1865, less any
and all bounties already paid by the Gen.
eral Government; and, that, in case of
death, either before or after this bills en-
actment, of any such soldier, &c, the allow
ance shall be made TO his widow, If she has
not REMARKED, or TO his children.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
Why he Is KNOWN.

Two years ago Samuel ]. Tilden was
elected Governor. Because il was the "Em-
pire State" that chose him, everybody has
watched his course, and knows something
of the man. So, when his name was bulle-
tined, people said: "Tilden, oh, yes; Til
den, the reform Governor of New York.
He's the man that made the fight on the
Canal Ring" And that is the extent of
their knowledge. That the man is almost
entirely without public experience, that
he is by education and long training
a railroad lawyer, that his associa-
tions have been with the very worst
and most corrupt rings in New York, that
his canal reformers have been largely
shams, that he is man without the conf
dence of his own people at home, they don't
know.
His reputation is a striking illustration
Of how much may be done, by few news
papers, provided they are printed in New
York. They have only to call man a
Reformer, spell the word with big initial
letter, stick his picture into their columns
few times, and the thing is done.
Contrast this mans sharp, tricky, con-
scienceles life, with the simple, quiet, hon.
est upright life of Governor Hayes. As
sincerity is worth more than chicanerv,
honesty than smartness, simpleness of pur-
pose than trickiness, devotion than shrewd
tesgiversation, 70 does the character of the
one man tower in manly dignity and worth
above that of the others.
: Hayes may not have been known in quar-
tiers where the memory of the man should
not have been forgotten. He has done h,s
duty always, in whatever field called
upon, whether that field was At South
Mountain or in the Second Congressional
District, or in Ohio. 1t has been his for
tune TO be on q more conspicuous
stage than that whereon Tildea has maneu-
vered. Bot his public services have been
- much more conspicuous than Tilden's rs
The stage has been les. He served in the
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

"Laertes," George Alfred Townsend, has
called on Gov. Hayes, and thus describes
him in the Graphic:
The person of the Governor Of Ohio is
both martial and gentlemanly; he is Of that
medium which stout and tall men contend
for, equal to cunning or to fishing. He Is
not church member nor a communicant,
but was reared Presbyterian. His wife is
Methodist. Hayes has no assumption Of
a sectarisn sort, and does not go about re-
buking customs, while yet alive TO the
honor Of the age and conscious Of its effects.
He is said to take his glass of Rhine wine
at jocose times, and to start off with his
gun and friend for a self-reliant week up
the Sandusky marshes or across to the
Canada side His amusements incline TO
the social life of an Eastern gentleman,
modified by the heartiness, and also by the
severer moral scruples Of the west. They
have better civilization, both in morals
and worldliness, in Ohio than in Connecti-
cut, for the west will grow anything IN
time, but wooden nutmeg slowest of ALL"
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

The convention could not tear itself away
from McClernand, the presiding officer,
without applying the salve Of . compli-
mentary resolution to the wound thus
ruthlessly made. McClemand, Who has
reached the apex Of earthly fame. to him,
can now retire to his Illinois home, and
mediate over the greatness that has rested
90 long upon his shoulders. He has . leg
acy TO leave his posterity, Who will in turn
rise up and bless the day that got them
from his loins. There are few men like
McCiernand, and no future convention can
duplicate him. As he himself remarked
to an ave-stricken youth who watched him
stride acroes the floor Of hotel in New
Orleans, one evening some years sgo ::
"i oung man, you can remember this occa-
sion with pride, for you'll never be privi-
legged to see another man like John Nc
Ciernard walk over these marble tiles
Chicago Times.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

army while Sam. Tilden was growing rich
from the fees Of railroad companies. lie
served in Congress while Sam. Tilden was
clamoring in Chicago for peace. He fought
against Thurman in the battle Tor negro
suffrage,whiIe Sam. .Tilden was giving smar,
counsel to Poss Tweed. He saved Ohio
from falling into the hands Of Pendle,
ton and all that the name implies, while
Sam. Tilden was still doing Tweeds bid
ding. This record should not have been
forgotten. And nobody can be excused foI
asking, "Who is Hayes?' after the cam
paign last fall, the hardest, most brilliant
and most productive in results OF any that
has been fought for ten years.
Had Tilden lived in Ohio, instead Of
New York, his name would never have
gone beyond the boundaries Of the State.
Had Hayes lived in New York, instead OF
Ohio, he would have been lifted into hero
long before this.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
Justice 70 Q Faithful esrvant
From the Troy Chief ]

Now that the scramble for office has CON-
menced, and every fellow who failed To get
. little post office, or land Office, or other
coveted positions, through the influence Of
the member Of Congress from his district
is clamoring for . change, it may be we'll
enough 10 see whether some credit marks
ere not also due to those Who have been
serving in Congress. 1t is at least due to
Col. Philips, the member from this dis
trict. 10 render him justice. And without
saying word against any man who aspires
TO his place, we assert that Col. Phillips
has made laboriour, efficient member, and
has attended faithfully to the interests Of
his constituents. Since he has been . mem
Der, he has spent almost his entire time,
both during the sesrion and in vacation, at
Washington, attending TO duties in which
the people of Kansas were concerned. He
has spent le1 time at home, or travelling
around fixing up for. his own reelection,
than any member Kansas has ever had.
Not q question came up affect
ing the interest Of Kansas, but
Col. Phillips has been an active worker
and speaker for the good Of his people.
And nov, vben ~ hear that the people are
% much dieetis6ed With him, What reasons
are given for tie diasatisfaction? Is i
that - has peglsc4ed any interest Of his
State q Disl1ic1 a has given his influence
egainse a.y 0eA inAssst? Not at all ALI
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
ALREADY UP.

The Kansas City 1Tmes man takes hii
"crow" with very good grace, and smile:
between his reichings. Hear this, for in
stance:
"Radicalism has got crow-feet in its eyes
by turning up its nose at Democracy for
eating crow. Next November the crows
will be eating Radicalism it will turn up
its toes, and then Democracy will turn up
its nose. The nose of that bright SsladIn
of Reform Democracy, Hon. John Morris,
sew, is turned up already"
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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enthusiasm, wo,,d b.v. b,rs, fo-,b :, ho;s-
ferrous demonstrations At the announcement
of the nomination of Hancock Hendricks
Thurman or Allen. hurried awav to their
homes. cbopfallen ard DISCOURAGED. They
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

slaughter of black men throughout that
State never equalled before, and that the
election was carried by fraud and violence.
Mr.. BAYARD said that what he had
stated would be hereafter corporated with
the testimony in case he las not here to
handy words with the Senator from Mime
scts, but that he WAS quite willing that
testimony should come 10 prove his Bay
ard's) assertion, and the sooner it came, the
better. He believed be would be thoroughly
sustained by the record, and he did not re-
ly upon this testimony Of the Democrats,
but 1bon the evidence # members of the
! Republican party. The white people of
Mis- s.issippi would have been little less than
men if they had not prepared to defend
themselves, and he referred to the Demo-
cratic executive committee in Mississippi,
and said the negouations OF that commit
tee had always been in favor OF peace,
Law and order, between the two races In
that State. The whole telegraphic cores
pOndence of the chairman OF the Demo
cratic executive committee had
been seized ainst the protest oil
himself and his colleague, Mcdonald, and
brought before the committee, but in the
whole OF that correspondence there was not
one WORD 10 inspire ill-feellDg.
Mr.. MCMILLAN said that he was as
tonished that the Senator from Delaware,
(Bayard), alluded TO the Mississippi inves-
rigation in advance of the report of the
committee, even il the Senator from In.
diana, (Morton), did sllude to it only in a
general way, and he was not member oi
the committee, while the senator from Del
aware was. He (McMillan). desired to re-
peat that the outrages in Mississippi shock
ed him, and he believed would shock the
| whole country.
Mr.. SALISBURY said he was not sur.
prised that his friend from Mime
sofa, Mcmillan, was greatly alarmed a,
what he beheld in Mississippi. as he came
| from a State where there was no colored
people, and he went to Mississippi prepared
to believe every shallow stery he heard
even stories of witchcrait He then spoke
Of the pending resolution, and argued thai
Pinchback had no equitable right to ths
money His case had already cost the gov
eminent $50 OOO1. He argued th.t the Dem
ocratic party was not prejudicial agains
| colored men, but was willing to accord al
legal rights before the laws OF the land.
Mr.. MITCHELL asked what privilege:
| had ever been accorded to the colOred race
| by the Democratic party.
Mr.. SALISBURY replied that hi
| friend need only walk over to the House o
Representatives and he would there see tha
colored men had been seated, although
their seats had been contested by Dem
| ocrats.
After the executive session, the Seuate all
journed until Wednesday.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
GERMAN PRESS.

The Illinois Stddts-Zeitung, referring to
the Democratic platform and nominations
at St. Louis, says:
The Democratic National Convention has
completed its labors BY nominating Hen.
bricks, Of Indiana, as candidate for Vice.
President. Regarded as a burlesque, il
would be very good, because in dong this
the double-facedness of the platform is also
transferred TO the ticket. In regard to his
political views, Hendricks is the exac;
counterpart Of Tilden Tilden is for hard
money-Hendricks is for soft money. Til
den is an enemy of all temperance laws
Hendricks has signed one OF the most in
famous and brutal temperance laws. Tilden
has shown himself as an active opponent OF
corruption-Hendribks believes in the su.
premacy OF party, and Is Of the opinion
that his own party cannot sin, but that the
opposition party is composed entirely Of
thieves and rogues. The shout, Tilden
and Hendricks, conform together like hard
and soft, salt and sugar, fire and water. If
We consider that in case of death or resig-
nation the Nice-President has to fill the
office Of President, then it looks like farce
to put two men upon the same ticket who
are so Numerically opposed to each other.
1t is generally presumed that men who
are placed upon one ticket on the same
platform coincide with each other in all
essential political questions, and have the
same end in view. This presumption must,
in this case, be entirely ignored, and reminds
US of one of Dickens novels, where a youth
goes to see panorama. He looks at the
painting of Daniel in the Lions Den,n
and as the figures Of the painting arc not
very clear, he cannot see which Is Daniel
and which the lions. He asks the show
men, who tells him, Whichever you
please, sonny; You pays your money and
you takes your choice" So in this case.
Whoever prefers hard money-for him
Tilden is upon the ticket. He who wants
soft money, has Hendricks. The one Who
prefers REFORM" will take Tilden, and be
who BY reform only means that the Repub
licans should vacate and make room for
Democrats, will vote for Hendricks. A
boarder lone who did not understand pol.
icy) once requested his landlady to serve
the butter and hair upon separate plates.
On the st. Louis ticket, butter and hair are
mixed.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
MR. TILDEN AND HIS PLATFORM,
ITrom the Globe-Democrat. /
THE NOMINEE.

THE NOMINEE.
Governor Hayes has been classed by su-
perticial observers among those who rise
to eminence by luck rather than merit.
Without attempting to discuss the relative
proportions of these two elements in the
makeup OF his career, We may taiely as
sert that Yesterday was the luckiest day Of
his life. The Democratic party, with that
genius for laundering which has been its
strongest characteristics for sixteen years,
came to his rescue with q nomination
which secures his election beyond the pos
sibility of a doubt. Ii the men who NOM
mated Gen. Hayes at Cincinnati had the
privilege of naming his competitor also,
they would have been lacking in either dis
cretion or sincerity if they had not selected
Samuel J. Tilden, for the simple reason
that Mr.. Tilden represents less strength
and more weakness than any other
man named as the probable or possi-
Bile standard bearer of the Democratic
party-les strength because of his
utter inability to carry any one of the
doubtful States, and more weakness because
of the intestinal strife in New York, which
guarantees the electoral vote OF that State
to the Republican candidate. With the
single exception of William Allen, no man
was put in nomination yesterday who was
more certain of defeat than Mr.. Tilden.
Hendricks would have inspired the West,
and Thurman would have inspired the
party. Tilden will inspire neither the Sec
tion nor the organization, except with a
forethought Of inevitable defeat He rep
resents nothing but quarrel between Tam
many and anti-Tammany' leaving the lat
ter victorious, but leaving the public in
doubt as TO which il the more honest.
They who prefer . blackleg to q bum
mer will ride with Mr.. Morrissey and
against Mr.. Kelly, and rioe rersu, while the
vast majority Of the intelligent masaes will
wonder why the dirty linen of New York
politics shiuld have been washed in st.
Louis, to the exclusion of all other articles
of Democratic underwear, and to the es-
pecial glory of the individual requiring the
1ergest amount Of soap for the extirpation
OF the stains upon his garments. Nj. Til
den's belief u assured in the fact that his
nomination guarantees Republican success
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06
DEATH OF BISHOP CUMMINs

By the death Of Bishop Cummins, on
Sunday, last, at his residence near Balti'
more, the reformed Episcopal church, Of
the United States, looses its ablest advocate
Bishop Cummins was formerly Bishop Of
Kentucky, OF the Protestant Episcopal
church, and when the rituallstic question
was exciting the church, he took strong
ground agains: it. He eventually with
drew from the Protestant Episcopal de-
nomination and founded the Reformed
Episcopal church, Of which he was the
aenior Rishop
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-07-06

The present condition of journalism in
New York city, as compared with that oi
any previous time, illustrates and enforces
the tendency to consolidation and concen'
traticn among the newspaperss-to fewei
papeis in number, of larger circulation
greater cost and greater power. In 1910
there were is dalies published in that city
with only 10000 aggregate circulation
now there are but l6 dailies published, with
an aggregate circulation approaching
500,000 copies.