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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
VOLUME Nv.
MY CALENDAR.

A book whose like you've often met,
With menths and days In order set
Brief record of the changing year
A calendar / carry here.
But see Within each tiny space
NY busy pen has left its trace,
The story OF the days to mark
For some were fair and some were dark.
Note first cross as black as Jet.
II tells OF bitterest regret
For all the words did not say
When parting with friend that day.
That star-a precious letter came,
Twas thus marked the writer's name,
The tender words brought only bliss
sealed that record with kiss
Now ciphers stand in drear array,
A long, dull evening to display;
Kind, prosy soul too meek to see
My smile was worn unwillingly.
These dots, that faint and fainter grow,
tale OF weary waiting show.
The torture Of hope deferred
Was mine-t0o keen for sign or word.
Next, brackets. three brief days enfold,
Whose flying sands were mixed with gold
Oh sweetest days of all the year,
Ye bring again one presence dear
So, marking cares Of joys or woes,
Onward my little record gees,
Till with December's latest day
The tiny book is laid away.
The penciled leaves once shut from sight
Perchance may never see the light,
And hurrying years must soon ehace
What now 1t pleases me to trace.
But he who portions smiles and tears
Keeps truest record of our years
Writes there the oft-sought "reason Why"
And makes all plain beyond the sky.
-Neio York Commercial Advertiser
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
A Tunnel More than a Mile Long.
[San Francisco Bulletin.l


A dispatch reaches us that the work
of cutting through the San Francisco
Tunnel, on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
has been completed. This is one of the
greatest achievements in railroad con-
struction accomplished on the Pacific
Coast. The length of this tunnel, cut
through the San Fernando Mountains,
is six thousand nine hundred and sixty
six feet, or one mile and one thousand
nine hundred and eighty-six feet. With
the completion of this work the Southern
Pacific Railroad between San Francisco
and Los Angeles will soon be opened for
traffic. There have been some remark
able specimens of engineering skill in
building this road. The tunnel through
the Tehachipe Pass is unique, from the
fact that in the windings of the tunnel
one part of the roadway is over the other.
The San Fernando Tunnel is by far the
longest one on the Pacific Coast. The
longest on the Central Pacific in crossing
the Sierras is not more than one thou
sand two hundred feet, not fifth of the
length of this one piercing the San Fer
nand0 Mountains. The work has also
been carried out with unprecedented
dispatch. 1t is not two years since the
first borings were made. Many Difficult.
ties had to be encountered. San Fernando
is the petroleum region of Los Angeles,
and there were some fears lest in tunnel.
ing the mountain the workmen might
come upon some vast reservoir of petro.
leum, or some equally noxious fluids and
gases. The great obstacle has been the
character of the rock, and the enormous
pressure upon the timbers placed as sup
ports. To obviate this pressure, the
tunnel will be lined with masonry oil
strong resisting power.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
s difficult to convince an Enelis]

TT is difficult to convince an English
Jury that a man has not an inherent
right TO be eccentric. In the will case
of Purdon against Lord Longford it was
shown: First, That the testat0r, Adolf
phus Cooke, did not believe in Christian
ity; second, that he believed in the
transmigration of souls, and would not
allow dog to be hurt, inasmuch as the
soul of his grandfather was in the ami
NAL third, that he used to have twigs
carefully collected to save the crows the
trouble of looking for them to build
their nests; fourth, that he had windows
shaped like fddles built in his house !;
fifth, that he bequeathed his property TO
as on of the Earl of Longford, and left
the heir-at-law, the plaintiff, out in the
cold. The jury decided that these
eccentricities were not proofs of mental
alteration.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

NEW ENGLAND sailors assert that
potato-bugs walk the sea as well as the
land, and that millions of them have
been seen on the waves. This will
scarcely be believed by people who have
supposed that this interesting insect con-
fined itself to fields and gardens, living
only on love and potato-vines,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

1T Is stated at the Bureau of Internal
Revenue that it will be impossible to
collect the tax on whisky, in consequence
of the twenty. five per cent. reduction to
be made in that Bureau under the act OF
Congress. Additional detectives will be
employed, who must be provided for In
the Deficiency Bill next winter,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

The Prince of Wales lost lots of cash
at the Goodwood races, and now his
friends insist that the Government must
pay his debts. He IL q bad better,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

The Baptist Churches have 4,344
members in Nashville, Tennessee. the
population being forty thousand show.
ing that the Baptist membership em.
braces more than one in ten of the entire
population
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07

DANGEROUS advice that was q Baptist
doctor of divinity gave to would-be ora
tors at the camp-meeting at Martba's
Vineyard. Said he, "Get yourself
chuck full ofthe subject, "knock out the
bung, and let nature caper,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
wHYf
ny MARY KELLEY BoUTKLLE.

Why do love you don't knowl,
They say love never gives reason
But that he has one don't doubt. 80
Do your You dol That's downright teason'
Not always, let me tell you, sir,
Love practlced such excess OF prudence
Twas once his custom to explain
The why and wherefore TO his students.
And how TO solve each puzzling case
He taught by rule and illustrations
But skeptics, such as you, have made
Love shy Of giving demonstrations.
Why foolish mortals love at all,
Why we two hold each other dearest
How long I will last, and where Y will end,
You'd like to know, you precious querlst2
You never will I'll tell you that,
You still maintain my first assertion
Love understands what he's about,
And blinds you, first, for his diversion.
All, why love you If knew,
would not tell you,-no, no, never!
For souls like yours were made to seek,
And mine TO hide, you see, forever.
There's little, sir, you don't find out
But since that little makes life pleasant
think I'll keep II secret STILL
And 30 keep you, too, for the present.
Atlantic for September.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
MINOR TOPICS.

The Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayane writes that "orders for
$3.50, 900 worth of lemons have been re-
ceived in France from Philadelphia. To
supply the 100000 lemons required
to fill this order and to make the 100, 900
boxes wanted to contain the fruit have
thrown the whole Franco -Mediterranea
coast into high fever; for twenty miles
from the italian frontier to Nice nothing
is talked of, nothing is thought of, moth
ing is dreamed of, but this Oncle
d'Amerique, this Stephen Girard, with
millions bequeathed to my heirs in
France French fruit dealers will clear
$50, 900 bv this order"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
For the Eagle.
A Democratic lie About @. A. Van Ness Square
ly Nailed

Nj. NJ. MURDOCH do not often pay
any attention to mud singers, but an
article in the Beacon says that G. A..
Van Ness, while employed in my Of
flee, used his position to speculate in
county scrip. 1t knew it was lying.
Section "a of chapter %, General Stat
utes, of the State of Kansas, makes
the traffic in county scrip by the treas
urer or any Deputy or Employee of
his Office crime punishable by fine
and Imprisonment. For all violations
of which statue the treasurer is held
responsible. Now, | repeat the Bed-
con knew these facts and knew that it
was making charge that was not on
ly Indignantly false, but that it re-
fiected more heavily on me than any
one else, as the law makes me respOn-
sible for the acts of any employee in
nv office. defy the Beacon to pro-
duce single man that ever bought or
sold county scrip who will say they
ever had any encouragement from me
ever sold or bought from me any
scrip. Without the proof before me,
il would have been hard to pursuade
me that the editors of the Beacon had
lent themselves to work so dirty, to
the circulation of falsehood SO infa-
nous, that they have not only without
provocation, laid themselves liable to
prosecution but have shown to what
depths of cowardly infamy a Reform
ed paper will sink itself to elect Re-
form candidates. Respectfully,
l.. N. WooDCOCK.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
The German Vote of Sedgwick County,

Ii has been for weeks dinned about
by ubseasoned striplings, with more
lip than brains, that the German Re-
publicans of Wichita and Sedgwick
county were all going back on George
L. Anthony TO vote for Copperhead
Martin. Its Democratic lie. Some
of the best Germans in this city, men
of means and influence, bave told us
within a week that they never for a
moment contemplated such a step.
They deem it Unnecessary to 60 around
correcting the misrepresentation of
irresponsible boys and youngsters who
cannot appreciate the sacredness of
the ballot or the worth of principle.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Wichita Betting on Results.

The spirit of the great Democratic
patron saint, John Morrisey, seems rife
in our city. Upon every conceivable
proposition and upon all kinds OF
combinations, where it is imagined or
adjLdged that the issue is doubtful,
including general results, results OF
different States, as well as their majo-
rites and minorities of given candi-
dates, has money been staked by men
of this place. Many of the wagers are
dictated by partizanship or have been
based upon the wishes or desires of the
men who venture their money with
out the least regard to existing facts
or even common sense. Hundreds OF
dollars were put up yesterday and the
day before which so tar as the parties
to one side are concerned might as
well be given to their opponets. All
this tends to undue and unhealthy ex-
citement with no possible good to
come out of it, therefore all wrong.
The laboring man who will allow him
self 10 bullied into betting his money
upou proposition of another party,
about which he knows nothing COM
paratively, lacks good hard sense, or
moral courage, or both.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
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An Important Bill to Settlers.

An act to extend the time to pre-
emptors on the public lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representative of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled, That whenever any pre-
emptor on public lands or Indian res
ervations shall make satisfactory
proof, at the local land Office, under
rules and regulations to be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior, that
the crops upon the lands occupied by
him have been destroyed by grasshop-
pers within two years prior to the
passage of this act, the time within
which such pre-emptor is required to
make final proof and payment, is here
BY extended two years.
Approved May %, 1876.
Thus it will be seen that the act ap-
plies to the Ossage Indian lands, and
there are, no doubt, large number of
worthy settlers on these lands who
had their crops destroyed during the
year 1874, by grasshoppers, and who
have not been able to pay for the
same. To such it will be great re-
lief, and we are obliged to Mr.. Walker
of the land office for furnishing it to
the EAGLE.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
price and said he did not want to sell
al oil n ID Arrv NnCp

price and said he did not want to sell
at all. ID. p. ALEXANDER.
Here is "a man preaching honesty
and decrying high taxes who has been
listing beef cattle for taxation at 81 60
per head, less than one-half the assess
ment of the average farmers ordinary
stock in the same township, and at the
same time failing to list about one
half the herd at any price, and while
in the city of Wichita his notes, ac-
counts, law library, household furni-
tnrc and agricultural implements are
worth at least 81 900, he returns them
for barely enough to be covered by his
exemption, leaving balance of So, .on
which he pays ten cents tax. While
the farmers of Wichita township are
paying tax on their horses at an aver
age valuation of $45, Fisher, who is so
very penitent Of other peoples short
comlngs, returns his horses at SIS
apiece. 1t is no wonder that at every
election where Fisher has presented
his claims for office, Republicans and
Democrats alike have rejected the
claim by such overwhelming MAORI.
ties.
The 9TH day of November will dem
onsirate the fact that the people will
rightly appreciate the claims of dem
agogue who so Justify cries out against
high taxes, while meanly and con.
temptably swindling the public out OF
his own. Oh consistency thou jewel
Respectfully, w. E. STANLEY.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Another Wichita Democracy Dodge that VIII
be Checkmated.

To what desperate purposes the
Democracy of Wichita have arrived,
s'no fellah can find out" But some
things have been found out and here's
one of them To make good all bets
and brags, an arrangement has been
entered into whereby number of
Democrats holding claims on the west
ern townships are TO be here in the
morning of the election and vote in
The First and Second wards then go
home and vote again. The little game
was disclosed TO a prominent citizen
of Wichita under a misrepresentation
of his politics, and a number of the
names were secured. Wichita is under
u Democratic administration therefore
no fear. Such parties are warned in
time. There is law in this State and
there is penitontiary too. We believe
every man has moral right 10 vote
once-eyery citizen sure, has the legal
right so TO do, but no such game a.
that can be played. The Repub licans
of Wichita have determined upon
fair vote and they will have men at
every ward to sec that none but legal
votes 90 IN.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Probate Judge.

One fact should suggest itself to the
mind of every candid voter, whatever
may be his political faith, and that is
the necessity of having lawyer for
the Probate Judgeship. The gentle
man whose successor is to be one of
the two candidates now before the
people has made one of the best Pro-
bate Judges in the State, for the SIM
pie reason that he is lawyer by pro-
tession and practice. and when he en-
tered upon the duties of that Office,
which is among one of the most i'm
portant in the county, he knew at
once how to perform them.
The gentleman placed in nomination
by the Republican party is a young
lawyer of good ability and will contin-
ue to conduct the proceedings of that
court in the same careful and correct
manner in which they have heretofore
been conducted. His opponent is not
a lawyer, does not pretend to be one,
and could not possibly make SO COM
petent an officer as Z. b. Jewett, the
Republican nominee.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Boss Hopes Circular.

Mayor Hope is one of your old-time
Democrats. He believes in running
things according to the old regime.
AS the head and front of the Democ.
racy of Sedgwick county he wants no
nonsense upon the part of The rank
and file, but is determined that ambi-
tious understrappers shall know and
keep their places. No second fiddle
for him, If you please, hence his pri-
vate circular of printed instructions
to his Captains. which, no doubt most
of our readers are aware Of by this
time. "You are expected to stay at
your polls all day and see that no op-
portunity is lost to secure vote for
the Democratic ticket, especially for
John Martin, and report Immediately
upon the count to my headquarters in
Wichita" Um--um-um James G..
Hope is a cool one and his New York
city political schooling no doubt was
thorough, but when he comes TO tight
en- down on western men-even if they
are Democrats-we shouldn't be sur
priscd to see little kicking out of the
traces. Still we think the Mayor will
in the event of Tilden's election. par.
eel out the Federal offices of Sedg.
wick county.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02

The Colored Men of Wichita.

The colored men of Wichita, with a
single exception, will vote the straight
Republican ticket next Tuesday. In
stinctive self-protection as well as
principle impel them to stand by the
party, that while it saved their coun-
try to freedom, lat the same time struck
the shackles from their race and de-
clared them men. We would like to
ask that exception, how he would re-
lish the idea of helping TO pay his old
rebel master for his own flesh and
blood and that of his wife and child
ren, which he will do if the late enc
mics of tie country get the control
they are so anxiously seeking. This is
free country, and every man should
vote his convictions, but colored
man voting the lash into his old mas
ter's hands is queer anomoly.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Gems from Bob Ingersoll.

From Gen. Bob IngersolFs speeches
the following red hot sentences are
culled, Nobody but Ingersoll would
have ever said them in just so many
words:
| Every man that denied to the Union
prisoners, even the worm-eaten crust
| of famine, was a Democrat.
The man that shot Abraham Lin
coin was a Democrat. Every man
that was glad of it was a Democrat.
Every Union soldier that has scar
upon his body to-day, carries with
him q souvenir of the Democratic
party.
The Democratic party says, "Let
by-gones be by-gones." never knew
a man who di;. decent action and
wanted it forgotten.
Every enemy that this Government
has had for twenty years has been and
is Democrat.
The men who burned orphan asy-
lums in the city of New York, were
Democrats.
The Democratic party is incapable
of any thing but prejudice and hatred.
The Democratic party does not
know that the world has advanced a
solitary inch since 1860.
Every man who hated to see blood
hounds cease to be the Instrumental
ties of free Government-eyery one
was Democrat.
The Democratic party admits that
il has record, and it says that any
man who will look into it and tell it,
is not gentleman.
Every man who was sorry to see the
institution of slavery abolished. every
man who has shed tear over the
corpse of human slavery, was and is
Democrat.
Every man in the Dominion of Can
ada who hates the great Republic
would like to see Tildcn and Hend-
ricks the next President and Vice
President of the United States.
Every enemy that this Government
has had in twenty years, every enemy
that liberty and progress have had for
the last twenty years, every hater OF
our flag, every despiser of our Nation,
every man who has been disgrace to
this great Republic, for twenty years,
has been Democratic.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
STAND BY YOUR TICKET.

The Democratic nominees for the
various county offices, finding their
efforts to reform the voters of Sedg-
wick county vain and fruitless task,
have retired from ali open contest be-
fore the people.
To carry the county for John Mar
tin is now the sole aspiration of the
Democracy. To attain this object no
effort will be spared, no sacrifice too
great, no obstacle which they will not
endeavor to surmount. Trading, and
every means known to political trick
sters, will be resorted to, to gain votes
for him.
That our entire county ticket will
be triumphantly elected, there is not a
shadow of doubt, the opposition hav-
ing virtually abandoned the field /;
hence, no good can possibly accrue by
trading any man OH our ticket, which
would result in adding to Martins
strength.
The election of our standard bearer,
Geo. T. Anthony, is assured. 1t will
be only question of majority.
Let every Republican see to it that
the man who has labored for twelve
years with indomitable energy, in the
interest of the farming community, to
whom we are indebted for the mag
niicent display made by our State at
the Centennial Exposition, a display
which excites the admiration and " on-
der of the civilized world, a display of
the productions of our soil, which has
induced thousands to look with long
ing eyes towards the fair fields OF
Kansas for home and haven of rest,
shall receive the entire party vote.
NJ. w. LEVY,
Chairman, Central Committee.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Sedgwick County's Vote.

For the first time in the history of
Sedgwick county and of Wichita has
a canvass settled down to fair and
square party contest. There will be
little or no varying. If Republicans
can't vote the whole ticket they will
scratch without substituting the DEM
ocratic nominee. The same thing will
be done by the Democrats. 1t is a
test for the future contests of the city
and county The Democrats hope to
make it so close that if Tilden is elect
ed they will have no trouble. Let
every Republican in the county vote
the straight Republican ticket, but in
no event substitute Democratic
nominee. Better scratch off a name
entire than do that.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
Kansas City Times Lying Supplement.

A Copperhead sheat that never
knows its own mind from one day 10
another, printed in Missouri, known
as the Kansas City Times, defender
of Missouri bushwhacker and cham
pion of the James and Younger BROTH
ers, is scattering broadcast through
this county its so-called supplement
containing all the lies manufactured to
date against Geo. t. Anthony by his
personal and political enemies. All
these SANDERS have been proven false
to the satisfaction of every honest
man. They are moi even vouched for
by SO much as a responsible name, but
claim to be all address from the people
of Leayenworth. Hundreds of the
best men in Leavcnworth, over their
own signatures, have given the lie to
this pretense and declared that "mal-
ice" should be written all over tie vile
assertions. No Republican will be de-
ceived by this contemplate supple
ment. printed in Leavenworth but is
sued by the aforesaid sheet from Mis-
souri,
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
For the EAGLE.
Republican Voters Of Sedgwick County Read
This,

Ed. EAGLE:-The Beacon of this
morning true to its instincts, contains,
among other infamous falschoods, the
assertion that have been engaged in
the buying and selling county scrip,
and that used my position, while in
the Treasurer's Office, to "gather in
the nimble sixpence." desire to say
that each and every one of the Bea-
cons accusations are unmittigated ma
licious lies, false as the unprincipled
gutter snipe who penncd them. lnev-
er bought one dollars worth of scrip
in my life, never sold dollar in scrip
except such as l honestly earned as
trustee, or judge of election, some of
which l was compelled to sell at fifty
five cents on the dollar, under the re-
formatory influence of Democratic
Board. | challenge the Beacon to pro-
duce one scintilla of proof Of these
charges, that have ever directly or
indirectly, personally or through au-
other, speculated in county scrip. 10
the value Of anything.
C.. A. VAN Ness.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-11-02
A sEDGWICK COUNTY FARMER ON GEO
T. ANTHONY.

Mr.. Concklin, who lives on the west
side of the river. while standing near
n Democratic squad on Main street,
listening to their denunciations OF An
thony. last Saturday, said: Gentle
men, know little of Anthony's record
in Kansas, but when any man, or set
of men say that George L. Anthony
was considered anything else than a
patriotic, conscientious and honest
man in New York, they simply lie, for
| not only know the man and his
record for years previous to his COM
ING west. but was employed for sew
eral years with the very firm that the
Democrats claim he had dcfrauded.
That Democratic meeting dispersed.