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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

FOURTH OF July YNUMBER.-Our outside pages,
this week, are devoted principally to the Fourth
of July, and is becoming the Centennial year.
There may be found poetry, romance history,
biography, and anecdOte. By the way, the stu
dent of history will find subject for criticism
in the Fourth of July sketch, by George Lppard.
Thirty years ago, Lippard was in the height of
his popularity, as writer of romance of pecnl-
lar style. His great forte was in writing Le-
gends of the Revolution. He was a careful
searcher of history, and his Revolutionary tales
were all founded upon actual occurrences, with
proper names of characters, but embellished with
just enough of fiction, in his peculiar style, to
make them exciting and entertaining. But in
this sketch, he has made an unaccountable error
He makes Patrick Henry the leading actor at
the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
on the Fourth of July, 1776. He puts speech
into Henry's mouth, which speech carries the
Continental Congress by storm, stimulating the
patriotic, and nerving the wavering until they
were unanimous and enthusiastic for the Decla-
tion. The speaker is then represented as sign
ing the paper, Now, by reference to any authen-
tic copy of the Declaration of fntfepe nieuce Il
viii be discovered that Patrick Henry's name is
not among the signers. He was not a member
of Congress st that time, made no such speecb
and did not sign the Declaration of Independ.
ence, although one of the first and foremost in
the advocacy of Independence. Mr.. Lippard did
not purposely make this blunder; but how he
came to mix things so at all, is unaccountable.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

Judge Hubbard got up testimonials of juries.
Some facts relative to the testimonial of the ju-
ry in this County have just leaked out The tes-
timonial was got up at the last September term.
The jury had been discharged, when Judge Hub
bard, recolleeting that he had neglected an i'm
pOrtant part of the business of the Court, di-
rected the bailiff to get them together again.
The bailiff, supposiDg it was an official order of
the Court, FASTENED to obey. The jurors were
scattered, some of them starting for home, and
it was hard work to find them; but they, also
the order from the Court was peremp-
tory, obeyed the call, when they found that the
Judge wanted to treat them to an oyster supper,
and had little paper for them to sign!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
This Cooperismi

LAT week mentioned that the mission of
=, Hudson, Master of the State Grange, and
r. Stevens, of the Kansas Spirit, was chiefly a
noitjcal one, to try to induce the Oranges to act
together as political party in this Falls cam
naign. A member of the Order has since given
MS the points Of scheme promulgated BY Mr.
Stevens, which seemed to have its origin among
the leaders of the movement in which he is en-
gagged Mr.. Stevens said it was proposed, through
an agency established by the Grange, to
borrow money for the Western farmers in Eng
land, at per cent. The Western grain c"uld be
shipped direct to England, To be sold by this
agency and the same agency will purchase az
ricultural implements and other supplies IN Eng
land, and sh ip them here for less cost than they
could be bought for at home.
This is truly delightful scheme Mr. Stevens
was a delegate to the National Greenback Con-
vention, and We suppose this is one OF the hnan-
cial wonders evolved by that Convention.
They are in favor of Greenbacks, therefore they
will deal exclusively with England, which is a
hard-money country. The money they borrow
will doubtless be handed over to them in green
backs, but they will give their notes for gold,
and that g per cent. interest must be paid in
gold. As their grain will be sold IN England,
their money will be kept there to pay their in-
debtedness as it becomes due, and they won't
have the least trouble in handling it. Their
agent in England will transact all their business,
and keep all the money. He may, now and then,
on holiday occasion, give them little spend
ing money, if they behave themselves, as the
Southern masters used to do with their slaves.
Then, the implements mustbe paid for IN gold,
with tariff duty added. And ~hen ifgets home,
they will discover that English farm machinery
is inferior to American, and wholly unsuited to
the wants of the farmer
This is the Centennial anniversary of Ameri-
can Independence of England. This political
Grange, Peter Cooper, Greenbaek party propose
to signalize it by declaring its independence of
America, and becoming financial and business
dependency upon hard-money England.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
FROM TH. aIsT JOHNSON.

The case of Philip Knowles vs. Mary Knowles is wor
thy place among the celebrated decisions of this Dis
trict Mary Knowles, by her attorneys p. L. Hubbard
and S H. Glenn brought suit for divorce against Phil
Knowles for cruelty Phil filed BILL charging
adultery. This in 1860 and the decree granted
to plai n and she awarded the custody of the chill
dren In 1874, she had become prostitute and
proceedings by habeas corpus
the custody of the children by Phil Knowles. His Hon
had passed from the rank of being her attorney
being Judge and he held habeas corpus would not lie,
but that Phil. Knowles should proceed by motion.
on accordingly made to vacate and modify so much
of the decree gave her the custody of the children
Pending final hearing of this motion, temporary
order had been made the visible custody Of the chill
dren and at length September 7th 1874 the motion
up for hearing and thereupon the Court delivered
herself of the following very remarkable opinion which
is here published exactly written, verbatim ReratH
spelLatiIn, ct punetuatin.
p L. Hubbard having been Of counsel in the case
livered the opinion of the Court which is follows
Philip Knowles
Mary Knowles
this motion coming for hearing and being lily
advised in the premises by the evidence filed herein do
for the present. But not fully satisfied thas the
order has been fully and in good faith complied with
misunderstanding what the order really is-the
order among other things Required that there should be
about her seeing her children at all times and without
the presence or Of any person whatever
90 I and IN rsspee SaSs the same y %
caring for and enjoying their society the same Is
tended to the Father tsave the absolute custody And
it is the duty Of John Knowles and his family 70
these children TO respect love aud honor their mother n
receive other persons She is still their mother
and olght to be respected by them such. And if it
Of that this order mas in good faith been perform cd
then the custody of the children will be chan .el
ling the sending the chilli
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

Pnf snRIPHA, June IL, 1876.
ED CrIRr :-Toay being the snnis ersary Of the bat
tie of Bunker HILL IL is being oss rved a. holiday
some The chimes in machinery Hall under the
aOement of Prof widows have been peang out the
anthems and songs Of hundred ago making tn
hills echo the sweet strains from end Of Fairmount
Park To the other and down its lovely wales We took
an early stroll around the grounds before the buildings
were opened and noticed that much of the grass
dried and sere from the insuciency Of water rain
having fallen to amount much for the last three
weeks The flowers and shrubbey appear bright enough
for they are within easy hydrant and
diligently attended to by careful men every day.
The main building is filed with visitors every day. to
whom its wonders of pleasure and
instruction We notice that the ladies' linger great
deal more at the beautiful pavions wherein exhibit
ed the rich and artistic exelry and handsome and
tastofuy arranged dress goods and many coored mag
peept carpets passng y in apparent disgust the iron
ores and Calling guns, not even stopping read the card
on the one marked number two which describes this
wonderful engine of destruction 1t was fact of little
to them il ii could discharge from 900
900 balls per minute at a range Of two miles We won
dered when they voud cease gazing at the pn In the
shane of feather the necklace and earrings all of
which were composed of silver gold and diamonds and
which eould he purchased for the sum OF sl9 OOO at the
-, III, e Jss,, e. 20 Of N,r yort Tha
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
WILL JOHN NO oRMILE EXPLAIN,

EDITOR OF THE CHIKP:-Mr. John Normile claims that
he got mp the Hubbard testimonial last Fail and sup
pose he is truthful man, and did il without anybody
helpng him. There is however large number Of pc
in this County. who would like John Normile to
plain on the following points
First How is it that the really great jursts Of the
world such Coke Blackstone, Seden Story Kent and
Marshall had thought of this way getting rep
utation great Judges
Second How Is it, there Is scallawag upon the
be nch who has resorted to this method Of keeping
himself tberef Forexample; When Delahsy the
point Of impeachment for various judicial faults his ures
ready testify to his entire fitness for the
be Deh and the jurors gushed him In that
would probably make Hubbard blnsh.
There Is Judge in this State who forged the
tieate Of his admission to the bar disbared for
but got the decision reversed and by getting the Grang
take him up prosecuted individual elected
Judge As the time approae he'd for this modest
enter the lists again. behold the Of thing broke
forth in his District that exists here John Nomiles
rushed around the country resolving before the ju
ries that just filled the bill for Judge that
the peo pie would mad II they could always have
this for Judge The juries certified he knew more
law than any they that he the right
man in the right place that he had the knaek Of ealing
the attention Of the jury TO the very point dispute
that is the one he said disputed and was also
greatly skilled in getting verets from juriss without
any regard the fooshness Of lawyers their books
and briefs, &c
Third I would ike for John Normile explain IL he
talked with anybody about the testimonial before he
wrote IL, and who corrected it for the pressi
Fourth Who suggested that it should be forthwith
pu bbed and did the thing I'm regard to the others
Fifth Did you. John Nernle. writs the rough pencil
draft you showed the ohes jnrurs and get them sign
before you had your oysters and eigars the Highly
House or after and did you show the puff the
other jurors that publs he'd I'm the Ck that
pu very materially changed after il signed. before
It's appearance in pnt Some Of the jurors whose
appear to paf say IL Is not you drew it, but
was changed the signatures Did you have anything
to do with this changei
sixth who examined the records for yoa and disclosed
to you that the docket you had Just cleared mp was the
Largest evil and criminal docket ths; up in
this County before any Court n and did you examine the
records Of Atehison County to and that sPssiag
Of nearly hundred cases. tmosty by coatinnaacs,
was good vorki .sf = - s !.
Seventh Did Sos pat In the Atehise fesolutieB that
beautiful dea about the cieasss vith which yea apply
the u % The very point in dspase similarly express
ed m the TrOy resol uions sbou: in general senHlyzg
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

II The Seneca Mortgage will take notice that
the only Republican paper in this J Judicial Dis
trict that squarsly opposes W. w. Guthrie for
Congress, the AtchisoH Courier, strongly adyo-
Gates the re election of Judge Hubbard, for tn 8
avowed reason that his nomination will weaken
Guthries chances. If it is helping Guthrie, to
nisrepresent all who oppose the imbscile Hub
bard for reelection, just 60 ahead and see how
yon come out There are Republicans in this
District who do not propose to have Hubbard
forced upon them, if they can prevent it; and if
GuthrIes advocates intend trying to run them
through together, it will he to Guthres disadvan-
tage.
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with their requests at different times in explaining the
law to them T.
Eighth Did you put in all these resolutions that CEN
trail idea to the effect that You the right man IN tne
right place and most earnestly beseech you 70 10
come candidate for reelection We most earnestly hope
vou n, lang ocnnue occupy the hosorable Office you
now 30 boporabiy, faithfully and mpartally i'll :"
N;n,h Wbx did YOU not tickle the lower extremity OF
,h inal elnmps Of the Cler Sheriff and County At
,orpev of Brown County with this same feather where
with rou did tickle the efficient officers OF Donphan and
Atehson Counties
don ma the DELAY in showing how reputation as great
JHdBe ('I is made:
Froaa the Chief Oct IG. is75.l
TESTIMONIAL
To N, Hon p L. Hubbard, Judge:
PIsas. yonr Honor the Jury attending this term Of
the 6sf fr,et Cont deem il duty ourselves
and this Court I" present to you an address OF
peetiTe homes for the consideration that have
shown to US while serving As Jurymen When We take
thai M in this County before any Court and
your courtesy and justice to plaintiffs and defendants ana
a ss aTF e in sspn the sA law ls % hope
you may occupy long time the high and honorable
with aud with as much justice In the future have
the past And bid yon adieu hoping that you Will
enjoy your present position for many years ." come
We at the same time return sincere thanks to our
County Attorney Mr.. W. ID. Webb, for his efficiency
frnness and courtesy to aud We confident that
the business and interests of this County are
John Sprmile Allen Mellott,
j. b. Holland, Joseph Crippn,
Joseph Kent, W. Symns
Alex. McCahon. RP Willis
H. l.. AcAdams, james balowin,
j. d. Hier J.B. Maynard.
The same night these re. utieus were read his Hon.
or there oysters and cigars the Highly House p
L. Hubbard bon ght the oysters: p. L Hubbard paid "
for cooking ther there party of lawyers up stairs
: 49, of
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

THAT CALL.-In what we have said in former
issues OF our paper in relation to the call for the
Judicial convention, it is insisted that we have
done Major Morrill, injustice, and by one whom
we supposed was wronged by the call. We CON-
planned that it was signed and sent to one of the
candidates, who could keep it until ready for
use. 1t is said the call was already signed by
two of the members of the Judicial comm;t,as
when it reached Major Morrill,, and that ba was
asked to sign it and forward it to Judge Hpb-
bard, and that when he did this, he had mo
thought that any injustice was being done any,
body. We are willing to accept this as the true
statement of Major Ms connection with this
business
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

rR-The Champion endeavors to give David Martin q
good send U this morning. but bec0ming afraid that
Hubba I'd and Perry lind fauf aus the latter
in few lines and then winds up By singing the praises
Judge Hubbard Still il is not in state OF mind about
the nOminatiOn.-Atehisoa Patriot.
The Champion could not, with consistency, re-
fuse to announce David Martin as a candidate /;
but after doing SO, it did what iteould to neutral
ize it, by making the article more of a puff of
Hubbard than compliment to Martin. The
Champion cannot go back on the royal line, and
the mutual admiration society.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
Notice by Publication.

In the District Court Of the Second Judicial District of the
State Of Kansas sitting within and for Donphan County
Albert Perry, Plaintiff.
Elan Rice,
David Rice,
John Rice
Alfred Rice,
Samuel Rice
johanna Youngs and
Eliza j. Combs, Defendants.
TNAKE notice. that the I'D day of June 1876 ths
said plaintiff sued In the said Court; the object
and prayer OF the petition therein hled Is OF
yon said defendants the Of s500O0 and interest
thereon from December 7h 1878 for serV
ees rendered by plaintiff attorney at said price
agreed upon by and the said plaintiff about August
l0h ISIS in an action wherein Samuel Poynter plain
TIN and and others defendants and appeal OF
said case by you to the Supreme Court Of said state
Your property to wits the north half Of the north
quarter Of section No. in township No Of range No.
in Doniphan County has been attached Ia satisfy said
claim OF plaintiff and the OF said suit You
quired 90 answer said petition by August l7h Is6 the
same VIII be taken true, aid Judgment rendered for
said and interest," and for the sale Of said land
isfy the same and ths costs of said suit.
ALBERT PERRY, Plaintiff.
July Q, 1e76-5w. Prs fee, sf2.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

70 Tom Ewing feels his oats considerably, and
is regarded as one of the big guns of the Ohio
Democracy; but in the st. Louis Convention,
iildens barrel rolled over him with scarcely
jar Van Bennett and Ike Eaton whooped it mp
IN the Kansas Democratic Convention, not giving
their opponents chance to whimper; but in the
st. Louis Convention, these two worthless were
of no more force and elected no more notice than
hill of piss-ants under the tread of herd of
huffalo
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

~ Some one, who hastened from the tele-
graph office to take the announcement of his
nomination to Gov. Hayes, found, when he came
to open the paper, that he had. in his hurry
grabbed MP report of the cattle market. Had
it happened to Tilden instead of Hayes, there
would not have been much of a mistake, for he
bought up delegates like cattle, to secure his
OminatiOu.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06
LuD o. MAssY,- Sundays Atchison Champion,

LUD o. MAssY = Sundays Atchison Champion,
received promptly Tuesday morning, las dig
at Sol. Miller and C. w. johnson, evidently from
the pen of a red hot candidate, in which the
Chief is rebuked for "going ont of its way" to
compliment Col Phillips, and closing with the
intimation that some folks up this way may be
ground to powder in fooling with W. W. Guthrie.
And has it come to this, that newspaper can
not compliment public officer with the simple
truth, without "going out of its way" and being
threatened for itf In that article, Mr.. Gnthrie's
name was not mentioned, nor alluded to. We
have said three complimentary words for Guthrie
for every one we have said for Phillips; yet
when we seek to do Phillips simple justice, it is
"going out of the way" and We must be threat
ened. Did we go ont of the way, few weeks
ago, when We published half column compli-
mentary article of Guthriei Did we go ont of
the way, when we drew the rotten garlic and
kraut of the Hessian of the Courier upon ourself.
by defending Guthrie against its attacks, because
the Champion refused to do 1t ID Oniphan County
has never yet got anything that Atchson could
deprive her of, unless at the came time Atchison
reaped some equal advantage; and gentlemen
at Troy" are not to be badly scared by her When
the Guthrie Hubbard outfit get their upper and
neither millstones in working order, ready to
commence grinding Doniphan County, let them
just turn OH the steam, and see where the pow
der comes from.
Mr.. Guthrie has many friends in d oniphan
County, who were disposed TO 60 along quietly
and do what they could for him, which was not
a little. But as reward for this service, they
do not relish being told by some of Guthrie's
warmest friends that they propose to force Judge
Hubbard upon them, Knowing how distasteful
he is to them. This threat of forcing Hubbard
through has been made by those who were first
and foremost in advocating Guthrie's claims for
Congress. They must remember that other men
besides themselves have their likes and dislikes,
and that some, although friendly to Guthrie, are
not so Jealous that they will stomach everything
if they can only have Guthrie. Common sense
ought to teach them this. Ominous illusions to
upper and neither milstOnes will not reconcile
the opponents of Judge Hubbard to accepting an
insult in payment for favors to Guthrie
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

II Henry Wattersou, the Temporary Chair
man of the St. LOuis Convention, was q rebel Of
ficer OH Gen. Joe Johnston's staff; and Bishop
Marvin, who made the opening prayer, was
rebel Bishop of the Southern Methodist Church.
And they talked of nominating Hancock in such
a crowd!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

E- We think we understand the Sabetha Id
rance now, and We are sorry We misrepresented
it. What it intended to say about the scandaler
was, that he was an open, honest advocate of
Greeley, and therefore scirnder Republican
than Perry or C. W Johnson who also voted for
Greeley. Yes, we understand all about it now.
But how's the seat of your breeches by this time
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-07-06

HASN'T HELPED live this week publish the
communication of "Juror," trying to explain the
consistency of the act of convicting man of a
crime, and then asking for his reprieve. He had
better left it unsaid, for he makes it worse than
it was. Some of the jurors (himself evidently of
the number) had grave doubts as to the guilt of
a man charged with crime; in fact, to his
mind, the man was not proven guilty. Yet, be-
cause they were tired, and sleepy, and hungry,
and wanted to save the expense of other trials,
they compromised mans character and liberty.
They, under oath, declared man guilty whom
they believed not to he guilty, at least doubt
ed it, as it had not been proven. But they were
tired and sleepy, and in order to get discharged
and go home, they would agree to an unjust ver-
diet, trusting to the chance of somebody else
making the sentence light! And this is what q
mans character, his liberty, even his life, is
worth at the hands of a jury. "Juror" should
be ashamed to tell il, and call it an "honest diff
ference of opinion" If he had said he believed
the man to be innocent, or had no evidence to
declare him guilty, and that he alone stood for
acquittal, and was determined so to stand until
doomsday before he would consent to convict an
innocent man, there would have been some cred
it in appearing in print; but there is none in
bringing in an unjust verdict, and throwing the
responsibility upon somebody else to make the
punishment light. We can understand how men
may disagree and compromise upon the question
of amount of damages some litigant is entitled
to, or any other business difference between two
persons; but how juror can compromise upon
the question of the life or liberty of man whom
he does not know to be guilty, and when the
law says he shall he shall have the benefit of all
doubts, is more than Juror" can make clear to
our comprehension.