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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-08
The Saline County Journal.
9e1ir "a. Hanses.
THURSDAY, JUNE s, 1876.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Mrs Bender has not been captured
after all.
Mr.. Moody's sermons are said to be
carefully prepared and written out be-
tore delivered.
The attendance at tho Centennial Ex-
position is increasing, and the hopes of
a financial success are fattering.
1t is not considered probable that
Congress will adjourn before the middle
of July.
Thuriow Weed thinks Tildon will be
nominated at the St. Louis convection,
and he thinks Washburn likely to be the
candidate at Cincinnati.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil
visited Mount Vernon and the tomb OF
Washington last Friday, and were at
Niagara Falls last Monday.
Abdul Aziz, late sultan of Turkey, is
dead. Whether be committed suicide
or was murdered, is question for can
investigation committee" TO determine.
The fire at Quebec was under control
at midnight, the both inst. The num-
Der of houses destroyed was 700. Tho
people rendered homeless nurber about
1000.
The New York San thinks the follow
ing ticket represents the wishes of the
present administration For President,
Roscoe Conkling; For Vice-Prcsidsnt,
B. IL. Bristow.
G.. w. Martin has engaged John S.
Rastall as editor of the Junction City
Union. He was contributor to the
Kansas Magazine, and is regarded as a
good man and good writer.
Company ID, Fifth U. S. Cavalry, has
been skirmishing with two hundred In
dams at point seventy-fve miles north
west of Fit. Hays. The troops were not
strong enough to accomplish much, and
q courier was sent to tho commander of
Ft. Hays for reinforccmcnts.
The English Channel tunnel has been
actually commenced, shafts In the chalk
on the French side have already been
sunk to depth of one hundred and
thirty feet. If the chalk formation
seems favorable for the enterprise the
work will then go on for certain.
Col. Cobb stated to us the other day
that be was confident the Republicans
will carry the Second Congressional
District. lie Attributes his own defeat
two years ago to tho fact that RepubIi-
can voters did not become sufficiently
interested, and tailed to go to the polls.
The New York Sun finds great en-
couragcment IN the signs of the times.
The agricultural interest was never in a
soundcr condition. The crops have been
abundant, and our great staples find
abroad ready markets at remunerativo
prices.
Jarrett & Palmer's special fast ex-
press train, running from New York
across tho continent to San Francisco,
arrived in the latter place last Monday
having made the trip in oighty-two
hours and fourteen minutes. at one
time its average rate was one and enc
half miles per minute.
According to the Commonwealth, three
members of the royal family of Austria
are travelling in Kansas. They have
been interviewed by Commonwealth re-
porter, and have, for this reason, started
off on the Topeka, Atchison & Santa Fe
railroad happier and wiser men. A
Prince, Count and Baron constitute
the party.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS ADVS.
NOTICE OF SALE.
OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER,
SAfINr InrrNTY XMAS

OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER,
SALINE COUNTY, KANSAS,
Salina. May 10th, 1876.
NOTICE is hereby given that on
Monday, the I2th day Of June, 4. d 1876,
will offer at public sale, the following described
tracts OF school land situated in Saline county Kan
sas Said sale will be held in my Office, in the Court
house in Salna. and viii commence at 10 O'Clock, II.
m. Any person may have the privilege OF making
bid for said lands, but bid will be received for less
than the appraised value thereof At least one-tcnth
ofthe purchase money must be paid at tie time of
sale.
e. L. FAULKNER,
County Treasurer
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

siderably strengthened. AS soon as the war
broke out there would probably be truce
with the Carlists and the whole Spanish feet
be sent into the Cuban waters.
Another reason why war is improbable un-
less it should be begun before the meet
ing of the Republican National Convention
is the impossibility of fcreating ornaments and
making preparations subsequent to that date.
Congress will adjourn about the time when
the political conventions are held, and the
President has not only no authority to de-
clare war "a difficulty which might be got
over by provoking one), but he has no power
to raise q soldier or spend dollar without the
sanction of Congress So the President will
be helpless after the adjournment of Con-
gress, and any illegal or extra constitutional
measures would be fatal while he was rum
ming as a candidate for a third term. A sur
vey of these disabilities justifes the conclu-
sion that we shall be pretty safe if we get
past the political conventions and the ad-
journment of Congress without war. All
the danger lies within the ensuing three or
four months
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
The Danubian Empire.

Austria is less diplomatic than she might
be in what is put forth as her first thought
on the occasion of the presentation of Count
Andrassy's scheme of reforms at CONSTANT
nople. She seems afraid that the world will
not recognize in her the natural protector of
the Sultans Christian subjects, the Power
with a mission" to carry the civilization of
Western Europe down the valley of the
Danube. Doubtless it will be all the better
for the success of this mission if less is said
about it at Vienna. Russia and Prussia have
accorded to the Vienna government a sort of
primacy and representative character in
their dealings with the Sultan, partly be-
cause these dealings are of no great conse-
quence and partly because the outrages that
are the occasion of the diplomatic interven-
ton Immediately affect the tranquility of the
Austrian frontier. But if Austria under
stands this as an assent on their part that
she should become the executor of the de-
funct Empire or if out of the position ac-
corded she endeavors to assume the role of
the great Christian protector of the op-
pressed people, events will proceed less
smoothly 1t would be much better course
on her part to assume the protectorship as
far as she may quietly and talk about it when
she gets it; for all that she says about it in
the meanwhile, though it will not startle
the Turk, will excite some susceptibilities in
st. Petersburg; and against st. Petersburg
Austria can only have the whole valley of
the Danube when she sends word to Berlin
that she is ready to surrender her German
Drovinces
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

The AMNESTY BILL met its coup de gracein
the House yesterday through the brilliant
tactics of ex-Speaker Blaine, who, in all this
contest of words that are not things, has
shown himself most accomplished matador.
Very few ifany ofthat great public whose sers
wants the windy orators upon both sides are
supposed to be will fail to understand
that the entire debate was for political
effect, without any reference to the merits
of the question, and the speeches will be
received at their proper value. Meantims
the fact remains that the very great mass Of
the people of the North are in this, the cen-
tennial year, in favor of complete and uni-
versal amnesty, and they will be slow to for<
get the demagogues who, for their personal
advancement, have raked up the ashes of thu
dead past to its defeat.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
Now Elemen,. in one south.

Before the war nothing more strongly
marked the distinction between the civil
lizations of North and South than thd
methods of public discussion. The South
erner, and especially the Virginian who
did not go to Congress, was unused to
debating with political opponents. Groups
of colonels and majors gathered on tavern
porches, and, being agreed as to the
general subject of discussion, had only to
wrangle about little details and to split con-
stitutional hairs. They read English books
of the Tory school in preference to Northern
books. They were isolated, feudalistic,
naughty, and, though usually broad on
distractions. were usually narrow on pracx
tical subjects.
Two new elements are now entering aa
leavening into Southern civilization-tha
lyceum system and the evening newspaper.
Our readers will be surprised to learn that
the evening newspaper, which is considered
less as a luxury than as q domestic necessity
in most Northern cities, is rarely known In tho
South The Northerner can hardly fancy
life which does not include an after-suppeu
local journal But the newsboy is beginning
to cry his cuckoo notes in the twilight OF
Southern cities The result will be to make
the sitting room rather than the inn porch a
place for evening gatherings. The system OF
public lectures, which has had great infu-
ence in making Northern communities dem~
ocratic, and in connecting widely separated
localities in thought, is beginning to find
operation in, the South. We welcome this
innovation as one which will aid to join the
two sections in sympathy. If Boston and
Richmond can be stirred by Anna Dickinson
in the same week i; if Wendell Phillips
eloquently talking of "Lost Arts" can
soothe American buncombe in Cleveland and
Memphis in one fortnight; if even Josh
Billings can excite laughter from Savannah
to Philadelphia there will besuch brothers
hood and such a community of interests be+
tween the two sections as we have never had
before
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

The CASE OF LA PAGE--La Page, just
convicted in New Hampshire of the murder
of schoolgirl, experiences the benefit of a
peculiar law, which is certainly not in ac-
cordance with the common idea that Justice,
to be effective, must be swift He is sem
fenced to be hanged in one year from the
present time, the law of the State providing
that criminals under sentence for murder
shall have one year in which to exhaust all
the possibilities Of the law as to stays and
exceptions and new trials. Indeed, it ac-
cepts the fact that there will be delays. and
fixes to them remote limit, but certainly a
limit. That murderers are ruthless and sud-
den is no good reason why the law should be
without mercy; but certainly the terror of
the law must come to culprit's ear with q
softened sound when the Judge is compelled
to tell him that he shall be hanged in year,
particularly if the prisoner has the sanguine
spirit that can fill every one of the interven-
ing three hundred and sixty-five days with a
chance for escape.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

THE ASSEMBLY is busy laying out the work
of the session, and already some of the COM
mittees are reporting. Mr.. Bergh's bill to
prevent injury to horses was favorably re-
ported yesterday by Mr.. Strahan, and bill
for the safe storage of combustibles in this
city was also favorably reported. Another
matter of local interest was the calling up of
the resolution asking Comptroller Green for
information in regard to salaries in this city.
The resolution was amended by Mr.. Sloan
so as to declare that when the salaries were
fixed the financial condition of the country
was better than it is now, and that, as the
prices of commodities have fallen. salaries
should be reduced. 1t was referred to the
proper committee, as was also resolution
protesting against the imprisonment of per-
sons suspected of crime without judicial ex-
animation. Both houses adjourned until
Monday evening.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

REPUBLICAN FEELING IN FRANCE is strong,
without excess or extravaganza, as is evident
from tho reception which Is accorded to
Marshal MacAIahons proclamation. Even
Gambettas organ regards it with favor and
finds in its tone and purpose confirmation of
the Republic. All this we regard as among
the best signs we have seen in France at any
time since the establishment of the present
government Moderation in the Republic is
the surcst safeguard against either the
monarchy or the Empire, and this spirit
seems to animate even the radicals just now,
but il will not hurt to have Hugo and Blanc
in the Senate. Such republicans in their old
age cannot fail to be worthy Senators Of the
Republic.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
BIaine's Mischief.
provinces.

Marc Antony, in the play of Julius
Cesar" is not lovable character. To his
great qualities, his courage, boldness and
wit, are allied an insidious demagoguery
whose cunning display is one of the greatest
triumphs of Shakespeare. Dangling the
pierced robe of the dead Caesar before the
eyes of the Roman rabble, he stirs their
hearts to mutiny while deprecating any tu-
multi He brandishes C@sar's will, and as
the inhamed populace rush off to burn the
houses of the conspirators he rushes down
and cries with fendish exultation:-
Now let 1t work Mischief thou art afoot,
Take thou what thou wilt
If James G.. Blaine, after his Andersonville
speech, had sat for the picture of Marcus
Antonius, the poet would not have changed
line Between the "curled Antony" and
Blaine there is, however, a striking differ
ence. The one held up the robe of Caesar,
newly slain; the other gesticulates as, with
nimble fingers, he holds up the mouldering
grave clothes of the Union dead whose
corses he turns over in their sepulchre to
get the makings of party flag. Outside of
the minority in the House of Representatives
who cheered deliriously at the willy speech,
we may ask, Can Blaine awake any other feel
ing than disgust as the sacred cerements of
the dead Union soldiers drop to pieces in his
busy fingers? The dead Of the Union shall
never be forgotten, but the ghoul who robs
their graves to make party flag shall not be
thought hero. The flag to sweep the coun-
try must be of fairer bunting than can be
woven from the ''bloody shirt" of Morton or
the ''grave clothes" of Blaine.
There is one other view of Blaine postur-
ing as the republican Marc Antony which
must not be forgotten, for it is, in Mr..
Blaine's eyes, of the greatest moment
namely, How will it tell for BlaineP Able
and cunning, with the Antonian flavor of
ostentatious bluntness, he lets his wishes
appear as the undercurrent, rather than the
tide, of his speech. Like Antony in his most
ELUSIVE sentences he would be read between
the lines. When he fed precipitately to tho
cloak room to dodge the third term vote he
let his halting excuse of delicacy on account
of being spoken of as Presidential candi-
date tell the under story that he only re-
Trained from striking Grants ambition be-
cause he loved Grant 1t is the fault of such
men to reason too finely with themselves,
and expect the world to be cozened with a
half-uttered thought Mr.. Blaine knows
that his fight with Mr.. Hill, in which the
latter deserved to be beaten as much as
Blaine deserves to be censured, is a doubtful
advantage to himself Brutus said to An
tony at Philippi =
The posture OF your blows yet unknown;
and this may be repeated 20 Blaine; for as
Antony was but clearing the way for young
! Octavius Caesar to mount the throne over
Antony's corpse, so the blows of Blaine may
tell for Grant. whom Blaine loved too much
to destroy as Presidential candidate-s
delicacy that Grant is not likely to recipro
cate if the gate to q third term is but left
ajar.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
oognizsnce of such cases under the law of
The Annual Report OF Harvard Uni-
VersitY.


President Eliot in his annual report, says
that the average age of the Harvard under
graduates at admission has gradually IN
creased throughout this century, being now
about eighteen years and half; that as
many come of poor as of wealthy parents,
but that far the larger number are from the
respectable middle classes; that sixth OF
them are sons of widows; that culture is
more hereditary than wealth, and that the
educated insist that their children shall be
equally or more favored. Also that Harvard
is gradually reaching out of New England;
that her number from the Middle States
grows steadily greater, one-eighth of her
whole list coming from New York alone.
Professorships of music and of the history
of art have been founded and are encour-
aged, and the latter aids the student
either of the classics or of the mod
marked change in the last years record is
the introduction of voluntary attendance by
the Seniors instead of compulsory as ordi-
narily While the effect on the scholarship, as
tested by the examinations, is not marked
either way, it is found that healthy emula-
ton has developed among the professors to
each make his branch of especial interest,
and that the students are pretty certain to
choose those branches really most valuable.
Meal times have been changed so that din
ner comes at six instead of noon, and reci-
tations are wisely through at halfpast four,
leaving an hour and half for exercise. Re-
port of progress at the gymnasium is
omitted, probably, as usual, because, as in
those of most of our colleges, there has been
none. Four dollars and half a week boards
the majority of the students at commons, in
the great Alumni Hall. The Divinity School
has doubled it's advantages but its number
of students has fallen off sadly COM
Law School intends to demand here
after that the candidate for admission
must have some academic preparation
and the resulting mental power The Medi-
Cal School will do likewise, and we will have
fewer poor lawyers and doctors, as all men
of the right stamp, if such a condition is i'm
posed, will fill it. One hundred and thirty
four thousand dollars out of the two hundred
thousand wanted for the new Warren
Museum have been subscribed. The library
can no longer hold all the books, and as
nearly ten thousand are added yearly it is
to be pieced out. The financial condition of
the University is reported as satisfactory.
Dr. McCoshs suggestion that Princeton
sadly needs debating societies holds equally
good of Harvard, and as the English Univer-
sity debates, in which so many great men
have figured, are daily telegraphed to the
press, and the statesman and every intelli-
gent person naturally like to know the
opinion of Young England, so, and even more
so, would they in this land that of Young
America. The press is ready; will the
stndenrs do their mart 2
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
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The New York herald., 1876-01-15

CRUELTY AT SEA-Following closely upon
the stories which we recently printed con-
cerning the captain of the jefferson Borden
is the sad and singular tale of the British
bark Island Belle which comes by cable this
morning. Cruelty at sea is becoming almost
as common as it was in the era when mutiny
was a common offence. The revelations in
this case and the haste with which Captain
Aarlsen, of the Norwegian bark Prinds Oscar,
was acquitted upon a charge of murder, are
further proofs of the necessity of an interna-
tional maritime tribunal which shall have
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

The PORTE has yielded sufficiently at last
10 listen to the representations of the Great
Powers, and the proposed Turkish reforms
will now be guaranteed by stronger arm
than that of the Sultan. To this complexion
it was necessary the affairs of the Ottoman
Empire should come and the feint of resist
ance has happily ended, we are led to be-
leve, after very faint attempt at keeping it
II,
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

THE STATEMENTS made by Captain Jen-
nings, of the steamship Adriatic, and those
of his officers, touching the collision had on
the night of December 80 are quite contra
dictory, to say the least. The Captain
first says that the whole story about
the Harvest Queen being the collid-
ing vessell is fabrication, and then
he goes on to say that the strange vessel
simply carried away the steamers. boom
and he adds that, hearing a cry he lowered
two boats, but nobody was found in the
water. The language of Captain Jennings
in speaking to the reporters was reprehensi-
BILE, TO say the least OF it, and his careless
ness in not reporting circumstance which
was probably a serious disaster calls for care
full inquiry.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks showed
The effect of further manipulation, but were
nevertheless, irregular. An outside element
Of strength is still wanting. Money on call
was supplied at and 5 per cent. Gold ad-
vanced to 49, Investment securities con-
kinue strong.
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

In THE TwEEp SUIT the question now is
whether the Court has power to summon
talesmen to complete the jury The ques-
ton would not arise, perhaps, if Mr.. Tweed's
friends were sure of the good fortune which,
attended the selection of the twelfth juror i'm
the play of ''The Crucible."
The New York herald., 1876-01-15
Nursing n King.

The Prince of Wales has witnessed series
of elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and ram
fights at Baroda, and the English newspapers
four a man might be thought old enough to be
treated as man, but the gravest of the Eng
lish journals are never tired of dry-nursing
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who may
some day be King of England. He has been
thirteen years married, and has handsomely
provided for the direct succession, which is
about as much as could have been expected
of him as q prince; but still the wise old
Sairey Camps must occasionally take him on
their knees and shake their fingers at him
and tell him he is good boy but he mustn't
be falling down and soiling his white pima
fores, so he mustn't. All this may be very
comforting to the proverbial British pepchant
for having something to patronize. SO well
typifed in the blacking manufacturers wife,
who used to say, 1--WE keeps poet" The
Sairey Camps say, "We keeps little king;
and if we keep telling him he's a little pet
and he mustn't make mud pies it's because
we want him to be a goody, goody king,
To the outside world it looks very much as if
the English people were all the time sur
prised that the Prince of Wales is not q fool
or prize-fghter, blackleg or burglar. If
he lays the corner stone of a hospital for
debilitated hunchbacks the newspapers
apologize for his speech and praise his
smiling bearing during the reading of
the Directors address, as if they were as
tonished that be could string half dozen
sentences together without shouting ''houp
la p in the middle of them; and that, instead
of listening like a martyr to the fulsome
praise of his father, his mother and himself,
he had bonneted all the old professors and
wound up by playing leapfrog with the
fifteen specimen hunchbacks, brought to
the ceremony for the purpose Of shedding
tears of gratitude at the proper moment
The English people have paid the expenses
of his trip to India much as they send
their children to the Crystal Palace in care
their royal baby who wears long beard and
is growing bald wants to see the Indian
elephant" in all its native glory and not
stuffed skin so he went to the young Gui-
cowar's show without thought of the Berghs
and old-horse-loving societies of Great
Britain that would 90 into fits at the news
As a consequence the cry has gone up,
There our good little Prince is puddying
his pinafore again r. He does not deserve
this treatment The young gentleman is
comparatively harmless and might be hence
forth let alone, while-and we commend the
idea to the English press-his eldest son,
who has the correct royal marks upon him,
would be fit and fresh subject for the
coddling of the Sairey Camps.
No CoUNcIL~-It turns out that there is
to be no council after all, and the decision of
the differences between Mrs. Moulton and
Mr.. Beecher, in the language Of Judge Van
The New York herald., 1876-01-15

THIRTEEN GUILTY DIsTuLERs have SUBJ
mitted to their fate in Chicago. AS only sins
teen were indicted but three remain to bG
tried. 1t will be seen from this that the
Chicago triumph is to be as great victory
&c that at St Iouis