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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

EDITORS OF JOURNAL All the citizens
of our city and vicinity should be inter
ested IN its peace and welfare, and no
one person, or class of persons, should
be allowed to disturb the rest of the
community by engaging in any business
or pleasure which is derogatory to the
welfare and quiet of the public at large.
The usual quiet of our city was dis
turbed on last Sabbath by the almost
incessant whistle Of the "BeIlc of Sail
na." In church or Sabbath school, at
home or on the street, its sbrill note
was heard, putting us in mind of the
"time TO 90 to work" whistle OF o fac
tory. The ring of a blacksmith's anvil
on Sunday would not have been as OBJ
jectionablc nor have grated so unpleas-
antly on the ear of the average citizen.
presume no one objects TO the "Bcllc Of
Snina' rs pleasure boat on our river,
but large-and | will assert-the most
respectable portion of our community
do object to having il run as Sabbath
breaking and disturbing means of
amusement. If il was run silently, ii
would be an improvement on last Sab
bath, but if not run at all on Sunday IFS
owners would be bat obeying the fourth
commandment, and cease 10 do violence
to the feelings of our citizens, who GER
tainly have q right to be protected in
the peaceful enjoyment of the Sabbath
+. Rom.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

A Delegate Convention of the Republicans OF the
State Of Kansas will be held in Representative Hall in
The city of Topeka, Wednesday, the 18th day OF
August A. ID, 1876, at the hour Of p. for the
purpose of nominating candidates for the following
Offices, to-wit
Governor, Lieutenant Governor Secretary OF State,
Auditor Of state, Treasurer ef State, Attorney Cen
cral Superintendent OF Public Instruction. One Assoc
Justice of the supreme Court, Five Presidential
Elect rs, and State Central Committee.
All counties entitled 10 representation In the House
Of Representatives for 1876, and Others VIII be en-
titled representation IN said convention as follows
to-wit Two delegates from each representative dis
nict
1T recommended that the primary meetings for
the purpose Of cectng delegates TO the State conven
fion herein called he held Saturday, the 9Th day o.
August at such hours may be designated by the
Central Committee of each representative district, OF
in the event that there Is such committee that II
shall fail 20 act by the Central onmittee OF the county
IL is also recommended taat in addition TO the dele
gates herein provided for alternate be elected for
each delegate.
No person will be entitled to a seat vote in this
convention by virtue OF holding The proxy Of any OF
the delegates elected.
JOHN GUTHRIE. Chairman.
j. JAY Buck, Secretary
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15
A Good Celebration.
/ tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
never gave YOU kingdoms, CALI you children
You owe me no subscription.
But yet call you seTvile ministers,

I never gave You kingdoms, call d you children,
J You owe me subscription.
/ But yet call YOU seTyile ministers,
! 1hat viii with two pernicious daughters JOIN
| Your high engendercd battles 'gainst a head
! 80 Old and white as this. on Oh, lis FOUL
-ShaEespeare's Kin1 Lear
EDITORS OF JOURNAL When reading
in my boyhooG days that Elijah went
up by whirlwind into heaven, | envied
the good old prophet his beautiful ride,
and often wondered why such was not
the universal mode of exit from tbi,
rough world of physical and moral
strife.
When / stood looking the other day
at the curious funnel-shaped things, and
beheld with wonder and admiration
their rising and lowering, and their
elephantIne trunks sweeping so males
ticaily in the heavens, prayed for one
to come aud take me up like Elijah of old /;
but when, an hour later, in answer to
my prayer one came crashing across the
Smoky, twisting, tearing and breaking
huge cottonwoods in its path and taking
them up in an aerial voyagc, and made its
way to the prairie schooner in which
three of us had as we supposed safely
ensconsed ourselves from the raging
elements, l instantly countermanded
my desire, jumped from the schooner
and made the quickest running prayer
on record-mostly with my legs-and
concluded not 10 60 20 heaven just then,
but await the next conveyance. 1 have
now decided that, however much / may
envy other people in life, shall never
again envy the baidhcaded, naked,
bruised and battered condition OF poor
Elijah upon his reception BY the angels.
Distance lends enehantment TO most
thinss-and most especially 10 whirl-
winds. ] hope soms one viii tell all
those little Sunday school children that
are now reading about Elijah, and won
deriug how be ever could become 80
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

While on his way 10 church last Sab
bath, in Washington, cx-Spcaker Blaine
received what was supposed at first 10
be an apopectic stroke; but afterwards
his physicians attributed his sudden ILL.,
ness TO cerebral depression, produced
primarily by great mental strain, and
secondly by the action of excessive
heat. Sunday was a very oppressive
day in Washington, and people there
generally suffered from the heat. The
news Of Mr.. Blaine's sickness caused
considerable anxiety, until it was ascer-
tanned that he was getting better, with a
fine prospect for an early and complete
recovery.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

good as to go up to heaven in a whirl-
wind, not to be too anxious TO be just
what Elijah was, nor to make any seri-
Gus prayer to 60 up just as Elijah did,
for we have tried it in Kansas and con-
clude that the old, well trodden Jordan
path is preferable, though it is hard
road to travel.
We read that in the days of Elijah 80
great and strong wind rent the noun
tain and brake in pieces the rocks, and
the Lord vas not in the wind" The Lord
was wise in standing to one side; but
poor Eljah-what twisting and grind
ing he must have got in q wind that rent
mountains and brake rocks. But he
went up, and so have few in Saline
county, and no longer need our assis-
lance, but those who went up and came
down again-to find themselves stripped
| of homes that an hour before rested in
peace and prosperity-do need our SYM
pathy and aid. The eternal law of
necessity is destructive and disintegra-
ting, while it is mans mission TO assist
and build up his brother thus destroyed.
| Now, would it not be wise for every
instead of spending hundreds of dollars
in selfish qualification, throw it all into
one common fund for the relief of those
unable to help themselves. Some are
left without change of clothing, or
dollar of money. Let US all subscribe
something, and also put every dime and
dollar of our celebration money into
this fund, rather than expend them for
cigars, saltwater, lager-beer, steam
boat rides, fireworks, and other usual
modes of using money upon such holt
days. Can we not be as ready to relieve
as those terrible engines of the ele-
ments are in causing suffering? If de-
structiveness is an attribute of matter,
bencvolence is higher attribute OF
mind. The changes of material life are
lessons by which tho spiritual nature is
cultivated. With no suffering, there
would be but little growth and with no
feeling for others, but little real man
hood. Let each and all of US put our
expected celebration expenses, and as
much moro as possible, into q whirl-
wind fund, believing that by so doing
we are perpetuating the principles upon
which this Republic was founded and
upon which il alone can stand-that OF
universal brotherhood. Our fathers es
tablished the union of States, in which
they hoped and expected their sons TO
create union of races and bind together
in one unit the universal family OF man.
The suffering Of one is the suffering OF
all. There is no man in this county
capable of real happiness so long as be
knows he has made no attempt to re-
Iieve the sufferings of those unfortunate
ones who have so terribly suffered by
those cyclones.
Let us then turn our supposed Fourth
of July expenses into this merciful, rea
sonable and just channel, and we shall
not only have the approval of our own
conscience, but those who founded this
nation upon the natural rights and unity
of mankind will in the still small voice
declare their approval and satisfaction.
l.. l.. RUGGLEs.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

AS there have been rumors abroad
that the wheat is affected with rust,
there has been called forth q discussion
over the different kinds of rust and their
effects. 1t is stated there are two kinds
of rust. One, red rust, which gathers
on the leaves Of the stalk, washes off
easily and does not effect the wheat.
The other is the black rust which
gathers in the time of heavy dews or
fogs, accompanied by warm, murky
nights and days. IL begins near the
bottom Of the stalk, eats into it and
keeps the grain from filling. Tho red
rust is harmless. The black cannot
prevail on account of the dryEess OF
Kansas atmosphere.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

ALI the Lands of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company;
ALI the Lands Of the National Land Company;
All the State Normal School Lands;
all the King Bridge Company Lands;
ALI the Amos Lawrence Lands;
AL the Scotch Colony Lands,
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15
100000 Acres Owned by Private Parties.

100000 Acres Owned by Private Parties.
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Waered by three Rivers and 800 named Creeks and mbered
to meet all requirements.
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50 Sections Of Land Of GAO acres EACH for $3.50 Section
W. 'ssgss. ' - for ale a'. a . a'"'
required 50" ~ ~ - @ ."
We Offer for sale about one half Of the Town
Of BrOOkyilie, in this County. Whole
Blocks OF Lots, and Lots Any.
where.
WE ofs 1 E E SaEE 6 5 F sD lST SAIL
WHEREYER DESIRED.
offer or 300 In the city Of sana; fDpror.d
property of creTy description.
you ss'I S3 Ssssa a Il. sI CALL
roc "a 70 BY t'O ''o ,9 9Id 5 sz s"o o"' eAla AZ m ~
We asass. # o~as 3. s ~ ~. 81 ,E.s
CITY LOTS SOLD ON MONTHLY PAYMENTS.
sEsD FOR A cory or THE
KANSAS CENTRAL LAND JOURNAL.
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Office ofthe Etna Fire insurance Company.
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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-15

", offer y sec'o q iand ~ a boiy, 70 IN bolg
% sfcti@H % rH bdyers Thsy al ~ei wacrei sol
fOr colonies. stoc< TalcieE extensive fauns.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
NORTH AND SOUTH AND BhN HILL.

Ben Hill, of Georgia, made a speech
few days ago at Atlanta, in which he said
that RadicalIsm is sectional and Democracy
national, ana, referring To these facts, be
When two sectional parties were oBce or
ganized, one in the North and the other IN
the South, you will observe that the antog-
onisms of these two sectional parties con-
tinued to increase irritation uhCIl secession
followed and war was waged. Then, my
fellow eountrymeh, here is tie grand point
70 which want to-call your attention now.
1t is this, that the late war was between two
sectional parties. The union, represented
by thai tag, was no party to thar war save
as u weeping, bleeding victim. Applause. J
True, after the leaders of eacn sectional
party got control of their respective sec
tions tO SUCH an extent that war resulted,
the Union people of each section went into
the armies of their respective sections, and
neither ought 10 be blamed for that.
Thousands here who had NO sympathy with
secession, went into the service of the sec
ttoual party of the South, against u sec
Iional party North, but they did not GO
Inru it u strike At single principle repre-
sented by that flag. Applause. Thou
sands, hundreds of thousands of patriotic
Northern men who had no sympathy with
the original sectional Organization that led
them, when the crisis came went bravely
into the Hghr, as they honestly believed,
for the Union, and they acted pstrioncally
and nobly, and we cheerfulIy concede
TO them pensions, and all the benefits of
their apparent Union position. Each side
die what 1t thought night in standing up to
its own side IN the sectional war. Thou
sands in both armies, whi4e staying each
other in sectional fight, woulo have gwen
their lives for the true common American
Union. Our Northern friends bad the
crest advantage of being in possession Of
the government, an advantage which they
reaped more from cur own folly than their
own wisdom, and they used that govern
ment TO help accomplish their sectional
purPOsss. and that was the great Advan-
t4ge they had Of us.3 saa
But, my fellov-eitizens, il 10 with no
ordinary pride thai 1. who nave opposed all
these seeIional parties. can stand here II the
clty OF Atlanta, IN The very ccnter Of all our
soErows and raise my voice, feauRg no
successful contradiction, when faffirm that
the Enion never made war upon the South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05

dawnIng with the second centennial when
Demosthenes and Cicero aud Clay and Web
ster will liveNonly as myths of q rude and
uDcomfortableNage. If any doubt this con-
SUNNI alton they need only wander
among the endless, files OF 5000 newspapers
printed in every town, hamlet and county
and city of these vigorous, progressive COM
mon wealths, and open TO inspection in the
newsptper building al, Philadelphia. The
newspaper even precedes progressive tides
of migratory population, and the great ora
tor of the frontier that stands up in the
place vacated by Sitting Bull is a rousing,
blowing, thunderous editor. His style may
be as rough and his taste as crude as that
of the population he addresses, but the
oratorical frontIersman is no more. He
breathed his last when Crockett fell, and
the newspaper, after defeating his aspira-
tions in Tennessee, sent him into exile, and
at last reared faultless monument in mems
memories 10 his matchless heroism He
was th2 last orator of the frontier, as he
was, perhaps, the noblest and truesr imper-
sonation of the virtues and pecuiarities of
the class he represented. Even now, in the
midst of popular excitement, perhaps un
precedeRted in Indiana, as modest news
paper as the STATESMAN commands more
hearers each day than Morton can gather,
even where ignorance is most besotted and
sectional passion fiercest. The tide of in
tluence runs steadily in one direction. and
the day is not distant when he who would
control the action of men can only reach
and affect their opinions by controlling the
sIeepless, ever-tslkiDg newspa-
Dpr mr. (
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05

1t was not the Union, my countrymen. that
slew your children; il Was not the Union
that burned your cities; it was not the
Union that laid waste your country, invaded
your homes and mockei at Your calamity :
1t was not the Union that reconstructed
your States; it was not the Union that dis
franchised Intelligent citizens and denied
them pevticipstion in their Own n government.
No. no! Charge not these wrongs upon the
Union If your fathers-eveTy one of these
wrongs was iuhicred by disbolicsl section
alism in the very teeth Of every principle #
the American Union, [Great Applause. ]
So equally. say thE Sou never made war
upon the Union. There has never been An
nour when nine out Of ten OF uS would rot
have gwen our lives for this Union. We
did not leave that Union btcause We were
dissatisfied with 1t: we did not leave lha
Union to make war upon tive left il be
cause sectional party had seized it, and
We hoped thereby to svcid a confir., But
If war must come, We intended To fight
sectional party and not the Union. There
fore, the late war, with all its disastrous
is the direct result of sec
tionalism in the North and sectionahsm in
the South, and none, repest none of our
wrongs are chargesble to the Union.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05


The Burnet Bulletin, commenting upon
the disorderly condition of affairs in Llano
county, tells that q few days ago the sher-
If Of Burnet county called on the Govern
or, at Austin, and asked hip, ts llsgat bis
disorders, ''but," says the Bulletin, ''his
excuse was that the Legislature of Texas
had left him powerless to act in such cases. "
Governor Coke can not dodge behind any
such assertion, for it is u matter of record
that he placed himseltin opposition to Boyd's
bill, Grains bill and all other measures
coming before the Legislature whose object
was to put an end TO the disgraeeful state
of sffairs even then prevailing in Texas.
We do not propose to say that Governor
Coke loves disorder, but do say, that his
purpose was to shift from his administra-
ton in all things expenditures and taxa
ton which the times demand. His policy
has been to sell bonds and to sppropri-
ate school moneys to current demands
upon the State. Much has been lost in this
way, while a considerable debt has been
created, and the people, temporarily re-
lieved from settlement, will soon be com
PEELED to pay double what would have been
required in cash revenue to preserve the
State from heavy Indebtedness.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
TIE GoLCOND> OR 1HE OINTMENT
q, A>D OUR GhEAT KAIL HAY.

Don Francisco MoIcs writes to the San
Antonio Herald that Louis Napole n and
British scientific expeditions and experts in
mining have concurrently stated in official
reports of unquestioned authority that sill
yer and gold, especially silver, abound in
chihuahua, Sonora, Sinalos and Durango
70 an extent unequaled in any other portion
of the inhabitable globe. To gain this
wealth, which for so many years filed the
Golfers of Spain and made her the grandest,
richest and most arrogant government in
the woild, Napoleon staked and lost his
crown, the Emperor Macmillan his life and
Csrlotta her reason. To secure it finally
will be the good fortune of those who en-
ter Mexico as the International road ad-
vances towards the Pacific from Austin.
As long as Spain possessed Mexico, open
ing everywhere rich mines, her treasury
Was full, bat when she lost Mexico she lost
her chief source of wealth, the government
became bankrupt, and the Ouee prOud and
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
NO. s
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

l. begins to look, a letter-writer says, as
if Commodore Vanderbilt might even re-
sumo control of his great railroads. What
a Isrk it would be if the Commodore. on
whose death brokers have been gambling
for maAihs, should turn the tables and once
Wall street behemoth! The newspapers,
Ivy the way, are getting very tired of keep
ing the old mans obituary in type, and
thev are becoming still more ured Of keep
ing u brigade of futile repnrters around his
house. The Vanderbilt illness will cost al
most as much IS the Beecher trial. Every
morning paper in New York employs three
reporters whose exclusive business it is to
do Vanderbilt. They serve in relays of
eight hours each, and one for each paper is
constantly on guard. There are some If
teen at 3 time in one aggregate. AT first
they hung around the front door, ques-
toned the doctors, visitors and servants,
interviewed the butcher, baker, candle
stick maker and others, or climbed the
lsmp-pOst in viyacious rivalry and obtained
furlIve glimpses through the blind when a
zephyr stirred the curtain. Now they oc
cupy two rooms assigned them in the uni
versty opposite, and they have festive,
not to say carnival time. They despatch
picket or two to patrol in front of the
house and get the news, and the rest send
out for peanuts, ginger ale, lager and even
more enticing luxuries and they play poker
with upflagging zeal 1t improves the en-
vironment. When the Commodore looks
through his blinds now, instead of seeing
platoon of pink-faced reporters waiting
for him to die, he hears the cheerful click
of chips, and eager voices remark: "Ante!"
pass the buck" "Straddle the blindr
Ten betteri" ''Clsw in the pot" and
other plaintive observations which show
that this is, indeed, vale of tears.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
THE DIEFkRENCE.

The Ierds Neao Yorker critcises the
STATEsMAN's conduct because it has persist
emily preferred Huntington to Scott. 1t
says We may have redSOHs-peculiar reasons
for this preference of road through Texas
terminating on the Texas sea coast, to Tom
Scott's road, which begins at Philadelphia,
passes through st. Louis, bends down far
enough into Northern Texas to steal the
richest heritage of the children Of the great
commonwealth, and then, drawing every
thing from the State and giving it nothing,
plumbers the whole Union, Of which it de-
mands loan of forty thousand dollars per
mile. The whole wealth of California and
Oregon, drained by every railroad west of
the Sierra Ne vads, would be emptied into
Texas by Huntington's road, almost finished
in this direction to the confines of Arizona.
The difference between the STATESMAN and
the NeW Yorker consists simply in the fact
thar the Te.nas NeW Yorker is an Eastern
and the STATESMAN genuine Texas news.
paper. The New Yorker. would upbuild
Philadelphia and New York at the cost of
Texas, while the STATESMAN would serve
it's own people and State. .. ...
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-05
THE CHANCES.

The New York Herald, because Of the
Ohio to the Democratic party in the pend
ing local contest, Is moved to say that the
probabilities are very strong, if Washing
ton authority and Chandler suffer the peo-
pie to have a fair election, that ONO will
vote the Democratic ticket. The chances
for Democratic success are even brighter in
Indiana, and now that the effects of Sey-
mour's nomination and declension in New
York are forgotten and the Tilden income
fraud allegations are disposed of, there are
strosger probabilities than ever before Of
the election of Thden. The stupidest Rad
ical in Indiana and OHIO will surely learn,
before the presidential election, that he is
only furnished by his leaders with lies.
Radicals never hear the truth from the
South, and their adhesion rs Hayes is based
simply and solely upon the assumption that
the South is IN open revolt against the
Union, and that the next Congress, Il TIL
len triumph, will bethe same humid, milk
and-water concern that was sort of mad
/ house in 1S64-5 at Richmond. Northern
people have a month and half in which
to recover from the ''big scare" which
Morton and Blaine and Andersobvile and
Ben Hill have begotten. They will learn
| that the South could neither be wheedled
nor forced nor even kicked into another
| rebellion,l aud that the negroes, save when
organized and maddened and made drunk
in the savage juDgles of Louisiana or ma
| lArial rice fields oi Carolina and made TO
| wage war upjn the white rice, are as safe
and infinitely mnre. generously Cared fol
and respected IN the South than IN Phils-
delphIs OF New York city. - -.-..
| But the importance TO be attached TO the
| H.raLds assertions sfectiDg the chances of
| Tilden in Ohio and Indiana will be uDdeI-
stood when we remember that the HeraLd's
predictions have been steadily favorable
\ to Mr. Hayes as = man aud candidate. The
great newspaper evidentlSdisiikes Tilden,
| and while il vibrases from Sne 70 the other
candidate that it may be COPIED, and thus
advertised first by Republican and then
By Democratic newspapers, itc1nld not
fail to see and present the pain facts
which none question when confessed by q
paper occupying the HeraLfs posiipn and
affected by the HeraLdis confessed 1Esju-
dices. .-