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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

A Democratic newspaper-the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, we belieTe-states
that while rilden is not paralyzed, he
has withered arm, poVerless and use
less, and that, while he is not blind.
he has one eye that squints badly,
which is so defective that he can
scarcely see anything out of it. Til
den is a slightly-built, little. frail old
man. lie weighs scarcely 100 pounds
and is Grabbed, sour and petulant:
speaks with a nasal twang is child
less and unmarried never respected
man nor loved woman, and has de-
voted his whole life 10 money-grabbing
and selfish ambition. He is now near
~ sixty-three years old, end lettering
towards his end. lie is not the man
the American people want for their
President.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
). B. ENG-M-E-RT,

Formerly Receiver Of Public Moneysls
Il a IT ID "A II OR m Il Y
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
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Latest from Washington.

The Senate resolution prohibiting
the supply OF special metallic car
tridges. to the Indians passed. Mr..
ingalls, said the man who would sell
ammunition to the Indians now should
be hanged to the nearest telegraph
pole or shot by drum head court
martial.
The Chair laid before the Senate a
communication from the Secretary OF
War, transmitting dispatch from
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan, recommending
an increase III the cavalry, and also
recommending an appropriation to
defray the additional expenses. The
dispatch was accompanied by bill
authorizing an increase and making
an appropriation of $l,6St,700, which
was passed. The bill provides that
not more thar $500 be enlisted under
the act, which was lost by a vote OF
yeas 81, to nays 80.
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the President pointing
out some of the defects in the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill in making
inadequate provision for some
branches of the public and none at all
for other branches. Among the former
being civil service, light house, etc,
revenue cutter service, public service
buildings, and among the latter being
proportion OF the Government fol
expenses of the District of Columbia
judgments Of courts of claims, exam.
ination of rebel records, and he did
not feel warranted in yetoing an ab-
solutely necessary appropriation bill
but in signing it he deemed it his duty
TO show where the responsibility be-
longs for whatever embarrassment
might arise in the public service.
The President has requested the
resignation of Supervising Archi;ec;
Potter. Chief special postal agent
Woodward is to be removed.
The following was passed July 31st,
from the Department OF the Interior
Congress having failed to provide
for the expenses of the Interior De-
partment.beyond this day, no obliga-
ton will be assumed on the part of
the Secretary, or other officers con-
nected with the service. EMPLOYEES
| who wish To continue in tho service
are at liberty to do so. at the risk OF
further remuneration by the Govern
ment. (Signed)
CHARLES. t. GoRHAM,
Acting Secretary"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Anthony and St. John.

1t is asserted. says a spondent
of the Girard Press in communities
tion discussing State politics, that the
fight for Governor will be between
Capt. George L. Anthony and Col
St. John, either of whom would make
creditable Governor. Ii is apparent
that Anthony is looming up. He is
sweeping the Neosho Valley aud the
Southwest, and will go into conven-
ton with a strong force, which will
carry him through, unless the politi-
clans and other candidates combine
against him. If it is true that the
fight is between these two gentlemen,
il Is to the interest of Southern Kan.
sas, and especially the 'bloody sec
ond," to have Anthony, as he is the
brainest man before the people for
Governor, and has past record that
no one can assail. The people want
men of brains, of known honesty, to
fill the various offices of the State for
the next two years. wilson County
Citizen
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

W. ID. Saunders 20 81 lie 6 81
IL acres assessed to
Mary Pierce. :. % q 1e 81 Go
GO ar lg- Ia A. IN
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
The Crippled Postal Service.

Postmaster James said yesterday, in
regard to the withdrawal of the fast
mail trains: sit is great public ca
lamity, and will most certainly be felt
throughout the country. The estab-
lishment of these trains by Messrs.
Vanderbilt and Scott was magnifi-
cent contribution to the public, and
was undoubtedly greatly appreciated.
The increase of postal matter after
the starting of this system was fully
one-third. At first the newspapers
will feel the discon;inuance most, but
in few days merchants and bankers
will be especially embarrassed. 1t dis
arranges very many of Our plans, and
makes necessary the employment of a
larger force, not alone in this city, but
in almost every post Office in the land.
The New York mail left Chicago on
Saturday evening at 10 p. m, ON the
last cast-bound mail train, and arrived
here Monday at a. III. Hereafter the
Chicago Monday morning mail will
take exactly forty-eight hours TO ar
rive in New Y ork, an enforced delay
of seventeen hours
Assistant Postmaster Pierson aud
General Superintendent Youmans also
express most decidedly the opinion
that the discontinuance of the fast
train would be an immense loss to the
community.
Ii. n. Vail, Superintendent of the
Railway Mail Service, who is still in
the city making arrangements for the
transmission OF the mails, said: cit
is popularity supposed that the fast
mail trains have alone been discon-
tinued, aud although this itself would
be most serious hindrance to the
rapid transmissions of postal matter.
still we have received another check
by the stoppage of regular postal
train, which left New York daily. BY
the curtailment of the necessary APP
preparations, the post office depart
ment has been reduced to the state in
which it was ten years ago, aud all
the reforms since that time have sud-
denly been swept away"
Mr.. Vail said that 100000 would
have sufliced to retain all the facilities
which had been enjoyed for the last
six months, and in the end Congress
would find that it would cost more to
abolish the fast trains than to run
them. Without them there would be
a decided falling off in postal matter,
and general dissatisfaction would be |
shown.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

The dam at Lawrence has been SO
far completed as to admit of power
being furnished the mills by Golfer
dam. The Douglas county and Della
ware mills will be running again in a
few days. The bridge pier has been
completed and is awaiting the SUPER
structure, which will soon be COM
pleted. a short time VIII suffice TO set
all things to rights again in better
and more substantial condition than
before.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
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Grant at the "GIades."


The President sits aud smokes, drives
and talks, listens and answers tele-
grams here He has an older and more
settled and more antagonized look
than formerly, but is still III stout,
complacent health. He is now NOV
ing ''by the force of attr;tion, if in no
other way" ON the DISCUSSES and
masked batteries of &. II. Bristow, who
needs all his brashness and cunning to
beat man that never was beaten.
Opinion is settling, as it seems to me,
that Mr.. Bristow has established an
equal character for audacity and in
sincerity. He moved TO his ambition
panoplied in mail of cheap newspapers,
the sneaks of the profession, who
never wrote an interesting line, except
to trail somebody on something small.
Old Grant is a good deal like Wash
ington on Braddock's field, fired at on
every side, till it hardly seems we can
miss him, and still he rides on like
something of superstition. Every fell
low has pulled a gun at Grant, and
every time the gun went of it killed
another person. He has been very for
tunate in his enemies.-COr C,nciR-
natl Enquirer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
A. L. Williams, Of Topeka.

We see the statement that ex-Attor.
nev General A. l.. Williams, of Tope.
ka, will be a candidate this fall fol-
the position he so honorably and sat.
isfactorily filed for four years. If the
fales should be against the present in
cumbent, the Hon. A. NJ. f. Randolph
no man in the State would rore fully
command our hearty approval and
support than that able jurist and safe
man. Archie Williams.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Greenhack State Ticket.

The Independent Greenback State
Convention. held at Topeka,on Thurs
day, nominated the following State
ticket and Presidential Electors :
Governor-M. E. Hudson, of Bour-
bon county.
Lieutenant Governor-Judgc j. A.
Beale, of Pottawatomie county.
Secretary of State-W. NJ. Allison,
of Cowley county.
Auditor of State-H. L. Shelton. of
Franklin county.
State Treasurer-Amos McLouth, of
Jefferson county.
Attorney General. d. Brum-
baugh, of Marshall county.
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion-Thos. Bartlett, of Allen county.
Associate Justice-Wilson Shannon,
of Douglas county.
Presidential Electors. n. Linz
booker, A. G.. Barrett, S. A. Riggs, 5.
j. Crawford and John Richie.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

Z Poor Wheat Crop in Iowa.

Reports from different sections OF
Iowa confirm the opinions which We
have already expressed, that the wheat
crop in thas State will be almost fail
ure. A letter to the Chicago Journd
from Charles City, says:
The intense heat in our part of lows
has blighted thousands of acres OF
wheat that would have made hall
crop but for the severe heat. The bar
ley crop, that looked fair before, is now
crinkled to the ground. Corn has re-
ceiyed decided benefit; we now look
for a decent crop. Oats, generally,
look well. bat hate oats are rusting,
Wheat in Floyd, Chickssaw, Cerro
Gordo, Butter, franklin and Bremen
counties is poor, and we are told that
it is even worse in other parts of the
State. There is maggot in the straw,
at or near the joint. One-half OF the
crop, thin as it was, is already crinkled
down, although green.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Turks Annihilatei.

LONDON, July 31.-The Turks en-.
gagged on Friday, near MEDIUM, num-
bered $4,000. They were driven to
Podgoritza and lost two guns. The
supporting batallions were annihilated.
The atrocities of the Bashi Bazouks
create intense feeling throughout
Greece, and the relations with Turkey
are becoming aIarmingly serious. OPP
position newspapers of Greece demand
that the country be placed in a posi-
ton to command the respect of its
neighbors.
A Vienna dispatch says the abdica-
ton of the Sultan is imminent. 1t is
expected that Abdul Hamid will be
proclaimed to-day.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

Three Black Hills miners captured
by the Sioux, last winter. saved their
lives by consenting to marry two or
three squaws apiece. joining the tribe
and promising to fight for Red Cloud.
They effected their escape TO FIT. Lara
ME in June, and after remaining there
a short time, started on their return
journey east. arriving at Pittsburg on
the Goth inst. This remarkable tale is
vouched for by the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Kansas,

England has an area of 80 900 square
miles; Ireland, 1854; Scotland, 3d.
6S5; and Wales, 1925. Kansas has an
area of over $4,000 square miles. The
area of Kansas, therefore, exceeds that
of either England and Ireland, or
England and Scotland combined.
Kansas has population of only about
100000, about one-fourth that of the
city of London. Yet the State is ca
pablo of supporting as large popula-
ton as that of England and Ireland
combined. Kansas needs capital and
inhabitants. She has everything else
that goes to make prosperous COM
munity-a mild and healthful climate,
a soil of unsurpassed fertility, good
water in abundance. timber, stone,
coal, salt, gypsum, etc.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
A State Ratification Meeting.

By the Hayes and Wheeler Club OF
the capital it was decided, on last Sat
urdav, to have grand ratification
meeting on the day of the Republican
State Convention at Topeka, August
18th. OF course il will be enthusias-
tic, but because the campaign is Sc
nearly all one way we are not in favor
of crowding our Democratic brethren
too hard. The Democrats Of the west
are pretty sound and little encour-
agemeat in their direction will do nc
harm, and they shouldn't be deprived
of their moments pastime OF 'rahing
for Tilden and Hendricks.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
HAYES thouoh I.

Governor Hayes, though a man OF
wealth, never owned carriage. Til
den, on the other hand, dimes on moth
ing less divine than RULED grouse Tin
season), stuffed with truflies, looks at
the world through the rosy atmosphere
of sherry and champagne, keeps doz-
Ell blooded horses and cuts swell i'll
Albany that might excite the envy of
the Prince of Wales. If the country
is ever to come back to old fashioned
republican simplicity and primitive
economy, it will find no difficulty in
naming the man who is to set the ex-
ample in the White House.-kansGs
City Journal.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Bad Memory.

Bluford Wilson, in his testimony, re-
fcrs to the celebrated letter Endorsed,
''let no guilty man escape" and gives
an account of it, which is, to say the
least. misty. Yaryan also refers to it
in his story, and enlarges upon the
hard work he and Bristow had to get
the Presidents Endorsement. Wilson
refers to it as s'Barnard's letter."
Now, we have it in our power to put
both to refreshing their memories.
The letter was written by w, ID. w.
Barnard, Of ST. Louis, to the Presi-
dent. 1t was private letter, written
as personal friend, and was sent to
and received by the President at Long
Branch. 1t contained some very start
hing information. After reading, the
President was so impressed with its
contents that he Endorsed it and for
warded it 10 the Secretary of the Treas
ury at Washington. Mr.. Bristow, nor
Mr.. Wilson, nor Yaryan, nor any one
else ever saw it until then, or ever had
word with the President in regard to
it, till long after the Endorsement was
q proverb all over the country. This,
despite any ones swearing, is the fact.
That ind basement was as follows:
''JULY 20, l875.-Referred to the See
rotary of the Treasury. This was iu-
tended as q private letter for my in
formation, and contains many extracts
from st. Louis papers not deemed
necessary to forward. They are at
tainable, and have no doubt been all
read by the federal officials in ST. Lou
is. | forward this for information,
and 10 the end, that if it throws any
light upon parties to summon as wit
nesses, that they may be brought out.
Let no guilty man escape if it can be
avoided. Be especially vigilant, and
instruct those engaged in the prosecu-
ton of fraud to be against all who IN
sinuate that they have high influence
to protect them, No personal consid-
Grafton should stand in the way of per-
forming public duty.
["Signed] q. S. GRANT"
Now that Endorsement shows that
the story of Yaryan and the insinua-
tions of Wilson are both very clear
cases of defective memory. IL cannot
be thoroughly understood until read
in connection with the letter on which
it was Endorsed. Look at the date. ana
then look back at the beginning of
these prosecutions, and you will not
be inclined to doubt the statement that
this was the beginning of the end
that it was the first reliable and intel
ligent data which the Government had,
and upon which it successfully pro-
cecded in the detection and punish
ment of fraud: and that it was upon
this and by the order of the President
in the strong language given above
that action was had at ALL What, then,
becomes of this miserable twaddle now
put forth and called testimony
1t may yet become necessary to pub
fish the whole of that mueh-talked Of
letter, which, if given, will make a
sensation aud set some persons to cor
recting their own records, and ire
trievably destroy many fair fabric of
honesty, which has been OH exhibition
before an adnliring people. 1t is the
determination of men who have the
facts to vindicate the innocent, hurt
where it may This much we are per-
mitted now TO say.-Joa2ndl Of Com
fleJce
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
The Ravaging arasshOpper.

Minnesota is again being devastated
by the grasshopper, especially the west
err portion of the State. The dis
patches have SAID nothing of the ca
lamify until last Saturday, when they
admit that the damage done is incal-
euiable. Some counties are covered
with The deyouring pests. and they
have already extended into Eastern
Dakota and Northwestern Iowa. The
serious question arises, are these pests
going to deyastate the Northwestern
States Something must be done TO
exterminate them, at whatever cost.
A northwest prevailing wind might
again bring them TO Kansas, and we
want no more grasslloppers in the Ar
kansas Valley.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Our Exhibition.

Joaquin Miller, in the last number
of the New York Independent, speak
ing OF our little show at Philadelphia
says: Putting all things together
buildings, designs, display-all thai
goes to make up an exhibition, and
Kansas and Colorado, without doubt
outstrip all competition. You seek in
vain," be adds, speaking of the STATE
building, 'for any achievement that
can for moment compete with the
wild country out yonder on the edge
of the world, that was but last year
devoured by grasshoppers."
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

VIM. McNally, well-known Dem
ocrat of New York city. and men,
Der of the Tammany Hall General
Committee. has sent in his resignation
to the organization named, and with
it letter, in which he says:
Il viii oppose to the utmost of my
ability the nominee of the so-called
Democratic party. Seeing in him a
thoroughly corrupt. vicious and bad
man, and one whom | believe would
entail lasting disgrace and suffering
on the people of this country, if elect
ed IFS chiefmagistrate, recognize him
as the associate and companion of one
of the most desperate bands of ruff
fans that ever cursed any civilized
community. For years he aided and
abettcd them in ali their rascally raids
on the municipal aud State treasures,
and the still greater robbery Of the lib
critics of the people by stufiing ballot
boxes and guessing at the contents
thereof, caneelling the votes of honest
voters opposed to them"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

The London Daily Telegraph an
nounces that letters from Henry NJ.
Stanley, the famous explorer, have
been received, dated April oath, fifteen
days march from Ujiji. The world at
large will be gratified to learn that
Stanley has been found-even though,
as il seems, he had TO find himself.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03

The attention of the statesmen who
are worrying over the enormous prof.
its of the National Banks is directed
TO the following extract from the
financial report from the Chicago IN
ter Ocean, July 9th.
1t is not to be wondered at that the
stock OF several of our National Banks
is quoted 9s low as eighty and ninety
cents on the dollar; it takes all they
can make, over their office expenses
to pay their taxes, and the tendency
of the present hard times is to drive
them out of the business, or oblige
them to consolidate III order to reduce
Office expenses. The National Banks
now have largely adopted the policy
of having the smallest amount of CAPT
tai stock admissible under the law,
and putting the bulk of their real cap
ital into surplus, which escapes taxa
ton; but even this is at best an uli-
satisfactory policy in some respects,
and unless there is a reduction of tax
alton good many small banks in all
parts of the country will DE obliged
to gradually wind up.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Who is Hayes, and What of Him /?

He is plant of the Ohio soil; was
born in Delaware, Ohio, In 1922, and
grew up a boy of promise. lie wa:
educated at Kenyon College, o., and
graduated with the first honors of his
class in 1912. lie studied law in Col
umbus, o., and afterward, in 1915, took
his degree in the law school of Har-
ward University. In. 1915 he was adj
mitted to the bar at Marietta, aud CON-
mcnccd the practice of law in FIRE.
mont, Ohio. In 1919 he removed to
Cincinnati, and practiced his profes-
sion about nine years, in the meantime
declining nomination for Judge of
the common pleas. From 1858 to 1861
he held the important office of city So
iicitor, first by appointment and after
ward by election. In 1861 he enlisted
in the Union army, and with the rank
of major took the field, and served I'M
til the fall of Richmond at the close of
the war, having been repeatedly wound
ed in battle and had four horses killed
under him and, in the meanwhile, rose
by merit from the rank of major to
that of major general. While he was
yet in the field, in 1864, he was nom
mated for Congress, in the I'd district,
and elected by large majority, not
withstanding his refusal to leave his
post to canvass the district. AT the
close of the war he took his seat in
Congress and served two wears, and
was again elected in 1866. In 1867 he
was elected governor of Ohio, served
his first term, was reelected, and
served the second. He was again elect
ed governor in 1875, and is now in the
midst OF his third term. lie has been
in the public service, with one brief
eighteen years, and is now, in
the fifty-fourth year Of his age, a can
didate for the last and highest office..in
the nation. And here it is proper to
notice two peculiarities IN his history
First--He was never known to solicit
IN Office or promotion, great or
small, in his life. Second-In all the |
offices lie has held, whether civil or
military, he has never failed, not even
through accident, to perform his duty
With fidelity, wisdom aud success.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
ROCKFORD TOWNSHIP

sw Or ne qr& NV or
Sc or Il lots Is 3
Except town site OF
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
Will Speak for Hayes and wheeler.

Ex-Secretary Bristow left Boston
July 3lst, for Vermont, where he will
speak for Hayes and Wheeler, at some
of the larger places, then pass few
days on the White Mountains and
finish his trip in this section by brief
stay at East Hampton.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-08-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Notice
STATE OF KANSAS,
cd, Enuufv

STATE OF KANSAS, l.
Sedgwick County.
In the Probate Court, in aud for said county
In the matter Of the estite Of Charles x. Stearus
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters of adminis-
tration have been granted 10 IKE undersigned OIL
the estate Of Charles r. >tearns, late of said
county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate
Court OF the county and state aforesaid, dated
the 3lst day Of July, 4 D. 1876.
Now, all persons having claims against the said
estate are hereby D1tified that they must present
the same to the undersigned for allowance within
one year from the date Of said letters, or they
may be precluded from any benefit of such estate
and that if such claims be not exhibited within
three years after the date of said letters, they
shall be forever barred
SARAH STEARNS,
ADMINISTRATIVE Of the estate of Charles x
Sfearns, deceased.
Wichita, July 3lst, ls76. ISL