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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03
LEGISLATIVE.

TOPEKA, January 27.-The Senate wa,
President. Prayer by Rev. F. S. McCabe
p. ID.
A number of bills were reported back
from standing committees.
Senator Bauserman moved that Senate
joint resolution No. Z, which provides for
revising and codifying the school laws,
which had been reported back from the
judiciary committee with . recommends
tion that it be rejected, be printed and or
dered for consideration in committee of the
whole, which was carried.
House concurrent resolution No. q,
thanking MeArs. Blaine and Caul6eld and
other members of Congress for their exer-
tons in defeating the motion for restoring
Jefferson Davis to citi1enship, was read.
Senator Parkinson moved that the rules
be suspended and the resolution considered
now.
Senator Crichton objected.
The motion to suspend the rules prevail
ed, and on motion Of Senator Parkinson the
resolution vas adopted.
House concurrent resolution No. Il, in
relation to railroads, directing the Attorney
General to commence suit against railroads
that do not have their Offices in this State,
was read and concurred in.
On motion of Senator Simons the Senate
went into committee Of the whole, Senator
Mcmillan in the chair.
Senate bill No. 8, an act to authori,e
the Board Of County Commissioners Of
Leavenworth county to iasue boods for the
purpose Of funding the Outstanding indebt-
edoess Of the county and for other purpos-
- vas read By sections.
Senator Parkinsou oppoeed this bill he
had not undentood that there was any
body in deps in Leavenvorth county.
S.eator Johnsoa alyed Tie passage Of
ths bill, s.ying thas ahs people Of Lsaven-
vssth daised this Dsas1se, md he sup
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Plcy PAY.

Hon. ". A. Phillip, CT this District, IN
troduced bill in the House OF Representa-
tives on the I2th inst, for an appropriation
to pay the claims OF laborers and mech anics
at Fort Leavenworth.
When the law WIS passed, making eight
hours legal days work, by artisans and
laborers in government employ, the pay OF
workmen employed at Fort Leavenworth
was correspondingly reduced. 1t was con-
tended by the working men that such re-
duction was not contemplated by the law
and bill was subsequently passed by Con-
gress providing that no reduction oi
pay should follow the reduction of the
hours Of labor. The working men then
asked that they should be paid the twenty
per cent. of their wages which had been
kept back from the time the first law was
passed until the second, allowing full pay
went into operation. 1t was not the inten
tion OF the Government, in passing the eigh
hour law, TO reduce the pay OF the men, al
the supplemental act cleary showed, anC
hence the Justice Of their claims cannot b
disputed, and the bill OF Mr.. Phillips
which We print this morning, making pre-
vision for the payment OF these claims, vii
meet with universal approval.
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LET IT BE REPEALED.

We are unable to see any good reason
why the provisions of a registry law should
be confined to Leavenworth city. A regis
try law, properly framed, would work well
in all parts of the State, but the present
law is not good, for city or country, and
We trust the Legislature, at It's pres
ent session, will repeal the act. Give
us a general registry law, applicable alike
to all parts of the State, and one that is
practicable. The present law has been
amended and patched up 50 much it really
is OF no use whatever, and only serves to
give honest voters little annoyance, while
il offers no bar to fraudulent voting. Any
man can register his name by simply
making oath that he is voter.
Let the Legislature repeal this law, and
give us one that will work all over the
State and will afford some protection TO
the ballot box, against illegal voting.
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The people of Kansas will read the spe-
cial telegram on the first page from Topeka
10 The TINES, announcing the nomination
OF Mgor Henry Hopkins for Warden OF
the Penitentiary by the Governor, and his
immediate and unanimous confirmation by
the Senate yesterday afternoon, with more
than ordinary qualification. The Governor
has acted in obedience TO the expressed viii
of the people, instead OF his per-
sonal feelings in this most important matter
aud is therefore deservedly entitled to the
thanks of those who favor an honest ad-
ministration of affairs in our public in
stitnions. The people and the press OF Kan
sas were unanimously for Hopkins. They
said that amid all the dishonesty and cor
ruption in public officials during the past
few years, no taint of suspicion existed
against Major HOPKINS and they therefore
said, let well enough alone-try no more
experiments. The lessons of the past have
been needed. Governor and Senate have
done their duty. The will OF the people is
expressed. Four years hence will find the
Kansas Penitentiary, as it is now, the model
institution Of the kind in the west. Conf
Gence is maintained, and the public Is salts
fed. BY this'appointment the Republican
party is also shown to be the friend OF in
tegrity and purity in its ca.cial acts.
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BACK PAY.
Copy Of Bill Just introduced in Congress
by VIM. A. Phillips.

| Copy Of q Bill Just introduced in Congress
bywm. A. Phillips.
Mr.. William A. Phillips, on leave, intro
duced the following bill
To amend the act entitled "An act maxim.
appropriations for the service of the Gov.
ernment for the fiscal year ending June
ihirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.
two, and for former years, and for other
purposes" approved May eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Be Il enacted BY the Senate aad House Of Repre-
sentatires Of the UnIed States of Imeica,
II Congress assembled,
That section two of the act entitled "An
act making appropriations for the service
of the Government for the fiscal year end
ing June thirtietb, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and for former years, and for
other purposes" approved May eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and
the same is hereby, amended, 50 as to in
clude, in the settlement therein provided
for, all accounts for the services of laborers
workmen, and mechanics, employed BY, or
on behalf of the Government of the United
States between the nineteenth day Of May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the
date when full payments were commenced
for eight houns' labor without reduction
on account Of the reduction of the hours
Of labor, BY the act approved on the
eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred
ond sixty-eight, when il shall be made to
appear that the reduction Of the hours of
labor was the sole cause of the reduction
of wages; and sufficient sum 10 hereby
appropriated out of any money in the Trsas-
ury not otherwise Appropriated.
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SENATOR HALDERMAN's JUDICIARY
RIY.Y

From the Conamoageukh's s summary of Leg.
islative proceedings, yesterday morning, we
copy as follows:
The bill limiting the right of appeal
from Justices Court in cases where the
amount in controversy is less than $50, or
from the District Court to the Supreme
Court where the amount Is less than $40,
was adopted. The bill was reported against
br the Judiciary Committee and has been
hanging fire for some days. Senator Halder-
man introduced il early in the session and
has finally engineered it through. If this
bill become law it will tend to decrease
county expenses largely, which is much
needed. The argument against it is that it
will deprive poor people of an opportunity
10 have their day in court"
As indicating how Mr.. Halderman's bill
is regarded by the press of the State, We
copy the following paragraph from an edi-
torisl in the Atchison Champion, OF yester-
day:
Nobody knows better than the lawyers
in the Legislature that this thing Of carry
ing petty cases form court TO court, and
com pelling the people generally to pay the
expenses, is an absurdity and an outrage.
Aud vet we find nearly all of them making
an attack on the bill proposing to put
stop to this custom. They do not propose
a measure to remedy the evil complained
Of. And they make the plea-purely fc-
tit;ous-that it will deprive poor men Of
their rights. The reveEse of this Is true.
Rich men, sble to employ and pay attor-
news. are those most likely to take advan-
saee of the present Law, and, BY frequent
appeals, 10 SO worry those not able 10 bear
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PARSON NEWMAN.

One OF the best abused aPpointees oI
President Grant was Rev. DIR. Newman
who recently made tour OF inspection o
our consulates He was before the House
Committee on Expenditures in the State
Department about week ago, and sur
prised the committee with the extent OF hi.
knowledge concerning our Consular system
The result OF his examination gave the lie
to the stories set afloat in the so-called "in.
dependent" press, that his appointment was
made simply TO provide him with pleas
ure tour abroad at the expense Of the Gov
ernment. His statements were such as TO
lead to the conclusion that the proposed
reduction OF pay OF our diplomats is great
mistake
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Sleeklp Dimes
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1876.
REPUBLICAN CONTENTION.

A delegate convention OF The republicans Of the
state OF Kansas wi bs held in representative hall N
the city OF Topeka on Weine~iay, the 2ith day OF
Hsy, \. ID. Is16 at the hour Of two ociork T. NJ ioT
the purpose OF choosn: ten delegates and Ten alter
mates represent the republican party OF Kansas m
the Ungn Republican National Convention 10 he
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, the 1fth day OF June,
prox, for the purpose Of nominating candidates Tor
President and Vioe-President oi the United otzies-
Each representative district enred 10 Representa-
lion in the Legislature Of 1871 shall be entitled 10
tSO delegates
1t is recommended that the district conventions
for the purpose OF electing delegates 10 the STATE
Convention herein called, he held on Saturday, the
18th day Of May, 1876, at such hour may be des-
ignsted by the central committee OF each repres.n-
tatye district; IN the event that there be no such
committee by the central committee Of the county
II also recommended that in addition 20 the dele
grtes herein provided for alternate be elected
lor each delegate
No person will be entitled a seat vote in the
eonrention by virtue of holding the proxy Of any
the delegates
BY order Of the committee.
JoHS GUTHRIE, Chairman.
j. Jay BUcE, Secretary.
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THE EARTH Is TEE LORDS" &C.

If ST. Paul, when he passed around the
hat among the Gentiles, could have taken
a few collections such as the one mention
ed below, it is possible he never would
have made that remark about the foolish
ness of preaching" We copy the following
item from an Eastern exchange:
Probably the most remarkable collection
ever taken up at single religious gather
ing was that at the closing meeting OF
Messrs Moody and Sankey in Philadelphia
last week Mr. Moody had announced at
a previous meeting that there would be a
collection taken up, and his hearers appear
to have come prepared to respond to the
evangelist's call for funds. The result OF
his appeal was collection aggregating
about 100000. There was also one sub
scription OF 5000 and gift OF valuable
diamond ring, a gilt to the donor, for
which 81 goo was realized.
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CAPITAL MOVING.

Pennsylvania is again agitating the
question Of removing her State Capital to
Philadelphia. \ proposition was before
the legislature last Friday to submit the
question to vote of the people OF the State,
and providing that the authorities of Phil
adelphia shall file with the Governor a
legal and binding understanding on the
part of said city TO furnish and vest in the
State the necessary public building with
out cost to the State.
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BARBARISN OF SOCIETY.

The New York Nation makes the follow
ing thoughtful suggestion: "We wish, for
our part, from the bottom of our hearts,
that we thought the recklessness of South
erners about taking Human life had its
root in the present condition Of politics.
We fear it lies far deeper, and lies where
neither Morton, nor Conkling, nor any Of
the Senatorial group can get at it, with
either infantry, cavalry, or artillery. viz,
in the barbarism OF society,-a barbarism
only to be got rid of by time, education,
industry, and the growth of population"
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the expense OF litigation, that they are
glad TO compromise on any terms, or quit.
And aJbody knows Ihis better than the
lawyers.
The objection TO Senator Halderman's
MEASURE is 4 lawyers ohieciion,-itis is "bus-
iness,' pure and simple. livery argument
OF night, Is on the side ci the bill, and
only the argument oi "ioes" against it. Mr,
Hzlderman deserves lhe thanks OF has con.
stituents for the faithful manner IN which
he is devoting himself to the interests Of th'
reor,lp
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Wide-aWake Modern Journal.

The News columns OF THE TIMES will
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reports of all interesting events Transporting
in any part OF the world, up to the hour
OF going to press.
The miscellaneous columns Of THE
TIMES will always be replete with care
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OF all classes of readers, and including
items Political, Commercial, Agricultural
Scientific, Literary, Educational, Religious,
Fashionable and Humorous. Able cores
pondents in various parts of the country,
especially in our own State, will contribute
10 it regularly. Its department OF State
news will carefully report everything of in
terest occurring in the State.
Competent and energetic reporters will
bring to its local department, from day to
day, full and reliable accounts of all events
of public character in the city, while its
editorial columns will always reflect the
best talent the State affords.
THE TIMES Is offered to subscribers at
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Address,
II r ANElONX.
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CoLUMpus o., is to have a new Dem
ocratic daily. One thousand voters of that
party are to subscribe nine dollars each,
and when thst number sign and pay up,
the paper is to appear, and at the same
time there will appear in Columbus O.,
an illustration OF that old adage about q
fool and his money.
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Established On a Paying Basis.

THE TIMES will continue to be, as it
has always been, bold and fearless advo-
cate OF the principles of the Republican
Party, and will be always ready in the fu-
ture, as it has always been in the past, to
expose corrupt measures and oppose bad
men, wherever they may be found.
The publisher of THE TIMES will
spare no effort to make this journal the
best daily and weekly newspaper in the
State OF Kanaas, and has fixed its price at
50 low figure that every family in the
State can afford TO take it.
THE TIMES will be, in every respect, a
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03
RADICAL AND RIGHT |!
Fhe Oldest Daily Paper in Kansas,
The Cheapest Daily Paper in Kansas
fhs Best Daily Paper in Kansas.
fh3 Leading Daily Paper in Kal'aS
THE TINES.
LEAvENWORTH, KANSAS.
LEAvENWORTH, KANSAS

THE TINES enters upon the centennial
year with fiatteriDg prospects. Having abb
sorbed all its rivals, it is now without COM
petitor; its subscription books represent
the combined circulation OF all the daily
newspapers ever published in Leavenworth,
and 1t is the only paper in Leavenworth that
publishes the Associated Press dispatches.
1t has now reached the point which so few
OF the many thousands OF newspaper ven
tures in this country ever attain. and Is
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03

4 CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Herald, writing from Washington, advises,
on the score of economy, the removal OF
Gen. Sheridan's headquarters from Chicago
to Fort Leavenwerth. This correspondent
regards Fort Leavenworth as the finest post
in the country, in point OF beauty and loca-
so,
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This ID . bad time to depose faithful
and capable officer, and put IN untried
man in his stead. There vas that little
experiment of choosing San. Lappin in
place Of John Francis. It il . warning
that 10 not Without use. The Governor.
when he comes TO sppoint Warden for
the Ssats PenitentiaSy, had better sivs il
heed.-AseAisos Coaptioa.
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FOREIGN.
ADVANCING INTO THE HEART.


SAN SEBAsrIAS, Spain, February L.
Advices received here announce that Gen
Msrtinez' Campos is advancing into the
heart OF Bu'1en Valley, driving the Car
lists towards the mountains Of the frontier.
A great panic ia said to prevail among the
Carlists at Vera, and at other points on
the 8idaga river. Gen. Mariana contin-
ues the movement he commenced yester-
day.
REPCLSED.
TorosA, Spain, February The Carlists
deny that they were defeated At Santa Bar
barx. They claim their general, Penda,
rePnlsed the Roy alist., and pursued them
70 Puentie Ia Reine that the Royal di-
vision advancing on Torca was defeated
and retreated, and that Gen. Marian re-
ceiyed q severe check on the 18th of last
month";
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AlSFoRTUNEs, ETC:
HoRSE-THIEvEs UANGEI

HoRsE-THIEvEs HANGED.
AICHIsoN, Kan, January 3i.-Ore of
tie vInmerciai travellers from this city has
lust returned from the Solomon Valley,
and reports that six horse-thieves We're
hanged near Stockton, Rocks county, iew
DAYS ago, by a vigilant comnittee. The
men hanged included Hutehinsos, Cox aud
Csaaughiy, well-known characters on the
frontier. They were surrounded In their
cabin at night, Just after their return from
Nebraska, where they had been to disPose
OF some stolen stock. Alter their capture
n Lynch court was formed, and the prisor
ners were tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged. The sentence was carried into
execution Immediately.
A HORRIBLE MURDER.
New YoRK, January 3l.-The horrible
murder and mutilaIion OF w. w. Simmons,
in brooklyn, Causes great excitement In
this neignborhood. An. Fachis, wife OF
the murderer, tells this story VI the butch
cry: '1Simmons came 10 the house about
nine o'clock, bringing doll for her little
yiri. There was some brandy and beer IN
the house, and after drinking beer, Fuchs
Z
went out To get three pints moro All OF us
drank beer, and Simmons said he was
ashamed to 60 home drunk, 80 l said he
might stay and sieep with Fuchs. and i
would sleep with Ellen We had only two
rooms; Summons agreed to this. My hus-
o""u l.. = -, I,.,rL
tina, knew nothing Of it. My husband
and child put me to bed, and while they
'a.. an. Jn;ua 90 fsl, on the aoor and cut
". u ,h. n,o,r;ng s.v the bodv
my L. a., ni ,b. k;,cben and Fuchis.
o :, \. ,bs h.s,s dr,yye,i IL into the
tI - ON, :, nm When 1 sxw i'll
s.i.S 49,, .Ws x;il h.. hmm, - but Fucbi.
-:I o LA 80. :, Ill r,ybt drank
," ,a noh Er;d,v and did NOT zee the body
W., w. ~ ,ha ,oman told the storv abe
~. . aP 60 -, ain and ag.in that
:; Up o Ia - - sohar the murder
vould mot have been committed. Andrew
Fuchs, or Victor Kretz, as the murderer
calls himself, SAYS he had known Simmons
and worked with him for three years, but
had once had a difficulty with him,
on account Of which he left the
mandatory for six months. He said
Simmons was in the habit OF visiting his
wife while he was at work, and that about
SIX months ago ne mao oe'ec'u nn, IN
crime Ct, he said summons came 70 NJ. nous
ih9rsaay evening aoout nine oc'A, anu,
a: as ne had some oeer, oo'n urank o' IL,
summons 'heh gave nun money yus
otvl' anu ~nen IN he returned me ,o"na ~a,,;n, ms
his step-child, Ellen, who was asleep on
the bed, as a witness OF her mothers crime,
he seized a hatchet which lay behind the
stove and struck Simmons dead with one
blow on the neck; he dragged the body
into a bedroom, and cut il up, packing
pieces away in different places, until he
could get rid Of them.
pected fuchIs apartments, reported
that there were pals IN the kitchen anu
bedroom containing meat, which they
thought might be pieces oil picked pork
\ close examination oil the premises was
eu' vas ioanu So! ~ -
ooie o.oouy Sans; anu :..
sa"' sT.Psu WIN .an o.oou .I.a Inu n s'I h,ah
u,'' " nan I mel 49, Wei. ,.. a,so s.,a III
fragments @ oi a human body, cut into
pine ohe =, uy1u III every P1i' "'
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-Isaac Mitchell, Jr., of Guilford, Wilson
county, recently returned from illinois with
sixteen head of Short Horn Durham cattle,
and boasts, of having the finest bull in the
State.
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Id. X. ANTHONY.
THANKS TO GOVERNOR AND SENATE.

L Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03

The residence of David w. Skidmore,
near Deer Park, Long Island, was destroy
ell by fire last night. All the occupants
Mr.. Skidmore, F. Weeks, an old man VINO
lived with the Skidmores many years, Mrs.
Titus, the hOusekeeper, and her husband
burned to death. Skidmore WAS AN old
man, almost constantly III law with his
neighbors, and had, it is alleged, a great
many enemies. The supposition is that h.
was murdered, and then the premises tired.
the other occupants being unable to escape.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03

LAWRENCE, Kansas, February 1.-The
occupant Of house On Massachusetts,
street, which was found on FIRE about a
week ago, has been arrested on the charge
of arsen
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03

ST. LOUIS, Mo, February 1.-The
Times Jefferson City special says fire
there tonight destroyed the furniture ware
house of Hendricks Rro's and the residence
adjoining. Loss, $4,000. Insured in the
London Il Globe for $500; Home, n. u,
81, 800; Franklin, $1,000.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-03

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