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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-09-25
Meeting of the Board
of County Commissioners.

AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE BOARD
"a of County Commissioners of Boise county VIII
he held at the Auditors office IN Idaho City on Mon
day, August Goth, 1877 for the purpose of opening
and consl dering the bids for the improvements and
repairs to be made the Auditors Office and side
walk, and the building the bridge across lsaacs
or smith creek. in tile Upper Payetie valley, and
the awarding IF contracts for such work, and Tor tile
transaction of such other business may properly
ccme before the Board.
By order of the Board JAMES MORIARTY.
Aug. IA. ~ Clerk
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-09-25

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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-09-25

for Washington from Oregon.
Affairs are still in disturbed con-
dition in Southern California.
President Hays has paid Indiana a
visit.
The strike IN the American Iron
Works, at Pittsbhrg, Pa, is at an end,
the men returning to their work at the
old rates.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-09-25

In the fighting around Plevna the
Turks are said to have lost $4,000
men, and the Russians $4,000.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-09-25

HARRY MEIGGs, the Peru railroad
king, is dangerously i'll.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
For the EAGLE.
The Land Of Beauty.
HAYEsyILLE, SALEM TOWNSHIP, !

HAYEsyILLE, SALEM TOWNSHIP, I
May ), 1877. !
Mr.. EDITOR The EAGLE being
somewhat anxious to try its digestive
powers, we drop it the following
crumbs OIL trial:
Our hoppers are busily employed
(mill hoppers), but our g. hoppers lay
lank and stiff over the green fields Of
wheat, and but few still linger to tell
the tale of their sad existence. The
late cold weather was a joke they
could not solve.
We will not grnmble at our sister
townships prospects for wheat, nor
will we say ''our wheat looks weH,'
because as yet we have failed to see
its eyes, but if our eys do not deceive
us we think of filling the big end OF
the sack this fall.
The Dosomethings have about all
finished planting corn. There is yet a
large surplus Of old corn on hand in
this township. Among the largest
holders are Nelson, Cutter, Mars and
kreibel.
We had a short interview with the
editor of the Spirit Of Kansas, Steph-
ems, who has been perambulating our
young city and surrounding country.
He SAYS saints may talk OF the land of
"beauty," but man can never find such
like resemblance as he can i'll Sedg-
wick county.
have been asked several times OF
late. in what manner did the County
Commissioners buy the Eli Paso bridge.
If the Commissioners bought the
bridge for taxes why should they pay
more than the amount due the county
from said bridge company, as person.
al property is not appraised when sold
for taxes, but to the highest bidder.
and it was 4 known fact that the
county did not want the bridge. Will
the Commissioners County Attorney,
or somebody who knows, make this so
plain that the blindest fool may not
err therein. CORN COB.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Atchiscn Daily Champion.


The Atchison daily Champion seems
a little 'sofilsh' toward the Arkansas
Valley of late, vet il is the most ably
edited daily in the Siate.-HatchinSoa
Interior.
Our neighbor is evidently mistaken.
No daily paper has devoted more at
tention to our valley than the Champt-
on; besides, Col. John A. Martin, It's
editor, is so happily constituted that
he could not, even if he would, do in
justice to any section of the State with
which-his entire life has been SO close
ly identified. We have always been
proud OF him and his steadfast, enter
prising and reliable journal, than
which, in those particulars, none ex-
eel. His last Sunday mornings issue,
for instance, consisting of forty col
umns, IS not only a credit to him but
an honor TO the State of Kansas.
Wen trust getting justice at the hands
of John a. Martin.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Why and How cf Russia's Strength.

The New York Tribune, speaking OF
the causes of the eastern war, says
.Since The fall OF the Eastern Empire,
Russia, whose sovereign assumes its
tile of Cesar (Czar), has considered
herself its legitimate heir. Through
her The Greek Church lives and in
Guides onc-fourth of Christendom;
and it is the Greek Church which has
been called upon to endure the bar
baritics and the indignation hcaped
upon it by The triumph of Islam. Rus
sia's sympathy with the Christian
subjects Of Turkey is thus inevitable.
Nc doubt she has always sought to
turn il to her political advantage; but
If this were not possible, the sympathy
would none the less exist, for it is
grounded in, the deepest faith OF her
people,"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Chilian Mission.

Our information from Washington
is that the appointment OF Minister to
Chill still hangs fire. From our own
State, Governor Osborn, Governor
Harvey, Judge Halderman, and DR..
Logan are applicants. Halderman has
large Kansas endorsement, as also a
large endorsement from prominent
men of other States. but Osborn has
been recommended by our delegation
in Congress. This il would seem
gives him the advantage. But if he is
to be appointed. why has it not been
done already? This delay looks as
though the President or Secretary Of
State did not want him. Harvey is
urged by many of his old colleagues
in the Senate. Logan has possession,
though we learn change has been de-
termined Oh. Fitzpatrick, of New Jer-
sey, and Fisher, of Massachusetts, are
also candidates. From ali appearances
it would seem that Osborn, with the
Kansas delegation demanding his APP
poiutment, has the best chance, though
Halderman and Logan are on the
ground, and Harvey lot far of, ready
for the fray when the command is
given Learenscorth Times.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
Parson Browrlow Dead.

Another famous man is dead. Rev.
William G.. Brownlow, Familiarity
known as. Parson Brownlow, died at
Knoxville, Tennessee, or Sunday,
April 29th, in the seventy-second year
of his age. He was remarkable and
all eccentric man. He learned the
trade of carpenter, then became a
preacher. and afterwards an editor and
politician. lie was originally n Wing
and always bitter opponent of the
Democracy. During the rebellion, he
was an active and outspoken Union
man; and after the close of the war,
he served term as Governor of Ten
nessee, and six years as United States
Senator. lie was o rorgh-spoken, but
honest man.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
----
For the EAGLE.
Hints to Teachers.
Ell PAso, May 5, 1877.

Ell PASO, May 8, 1871.
l. Don't talk too much during school
hours.
2. Require of your pupils prompt
obedience, at the earliest practicable
moment.
8. Be firm, deal gently, let it be ex-
plicitly understood that you mean
what you say.
4. Some promises should never be
fulfilled, but if you promise any thing
give what you promise.
5. Don't ask pupil to do any thing
unless he knows how it is done, OF
show him how to do il and then see
that he does 1t.
6. 1t is best not to punish pupil,
but would for willful disobedience
not in anger, and under no circum-
stances strike pupil on the head.
Z. If you are irritable and easily lose
your sef-command, never let your pu-
pills see il.
s. If pupil is angry and attempts
to move you by tears or threats, never
yield, wait till he becomes calmer then
show him the impropriety OF bis con-
duct. Deal mercifully, but justly.
9. If you have forbidden pupil to
do certain thing, under like circum-
stances forbid him again.
10. There is great difference be-
tween being good and appearing good
tlsSaefere teach your pupils to be good.
IL. Tale-bearing is the bane, the
moth, the gangrene of school; use ev-
cry reasonable exertion to prevent 1t.
IL. If real conjunction has been
eyinced for committing errors, never
allude TO them again.
IS. Do not speak III q scolding or
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
Democratic Profanity.

Scene in the Tefft House: Joe Will
son--''D-n the administration"
Marsh Murdock-"G- d. the admin
istration." Sid Clarke aud John Guth-
RE applauding the sentiments.-Atch-
ison Patriot
1t is unnecessary to say that the
above language comes from the pen OF
Democratic editor. They even use
profanity to give currency to a false
hood. Marsh Murdoch has not been in
Topeka since Hayes inauguration.
Anyhow when he saw the glory OF
God in the defeat of Sam. Tilden, he
quit swearing-even at Democrats
Wichita Eagle.
Well fake your word for it and say
that our "reliable information" wasn't
at all reliable. Now, the fact of the
matter is, up our way, that the Demo
Gratis have quit swearing. We laugh,
we do; but if you want to hear some
tall swearing come TO Atchison and
we'll show you some of our Hayes &:
Repubicans.-Atchison Patriot.
When Democrats quit swearing and
laugh over the policy of a Republican
President, how in the name Of thu
memory of departed Hnnkers do yot
determine them to be Democrats?
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
What For.

The New York Times, in discussing
the declared purpose of the Russian
Government, says: This must mean
to drive the Turks, as rulers, from
Europe. Nothing short of this will
protect the Christians now subject to
Turkish power from the abuses of
which they complain. Russia cannot
govern the Christian provinces
through the Porte. because the Porte
could not, If it wished to. govern
those provinces in any other way than
that in which they are now governed.
The power of the Sultan over the local
authorities is q shadow, for which he
may fight, but concerning which he
could never give any satisfactory
guarantee"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
That Baby.

Our readers viii remember the case
Of Mrs Hull, Of Leavenworth. who
claimed child as her own, but which
the officers Of the Home for the Friend
less alleged belonged TO one Mrs
Wiley. The case went into the courts,
and on Thursday the judge decided
that Mrs. Wiley was the mother aud
entitled to the child. It was accord
ingly surrendered, amid the sobs ard
shrieks OF Mrs. Hull, who finally
swooned in the court room, creating a
great deal Of excitement among the
spectators. Upon the birth Of an heir
depended a large fortune, and it Is
supposed that this fact prompted her
deceit. But she certainly acted the
part. If Il was acted, remarkably well
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
THE LATEST FROM TEE FOREIGN WAR
ENGLAND AID FRANCE BECOMING INVOLVED
DEEPER EACH DAY.
The Taking Of the City Of Ksrs and 1s,OOC
Turkish Prisoners.

Each day but the more surely in
wolves all the great powers of Europe
in the quarrel of Russia and Turkey.
The peace party in the English Gov
ernment are sadly in the minority, and
because of so many conflicting inter-
ests the British lion is growing omi-
nously.
The Russians attacked the fortified
city of Kars with an army of $1,000
men last Sunday and Monday and took
the place with 10000 Turkish prison
ers. An army of $4,000 are marching
on to the Danube.
The Turks are maintaining block
AIDE of the Black Sea ports.
France puts on war paint and now
declares she will take hand in the
general .nuss. She will dispatch troops
to Algeria.
The Greeks are growing red hot
Large numbers paraded the streets o
Athens Oh Saturday shouting. "War
Warln
Turkey notified the United States
that the charge Of prosecuting CHRIS
tiaus is not true count.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10

0. W. Holmes on the Present Age.

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes deliver
ed a lecture before the Boston Micro
scorpical Society, Friday night, and in
opening said: "To men of my genera
ton this modern world, which most
of You take as a matter of course, it
being the only condition of things of
which YOU have had experience, is 4
source of wonder-a standing miracle.
Science and art have in our time so
changed the aspect of everyday life
that one of certain age might well
believe himself on another planet, or
in another stage of existence. The
wand of Prometheus is in our match
boxes; the rock of Horeb gushes forth
its streams in our dressing-rooms !;
the carpet of Arabian story is spread
in our Pullman car; our words flash
from continent to continent, our very
accents are transmitted from city to
CITY: the elements of forming worlds
are analysed in our laboratories; and
most wonderful and significant of all,
the despotic reign of tradition has re-
ceiyed its death-blow when the angel
of anesthesia lifted from womanhood
the worst terrors of the primal male
diction."
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
For the EAGLE.
Sheep Raising in Sedgwick County.
KECHI. May 5. 1877

KEcHI, May 5, 1877.
ED. EAGLE:-That Sedgwick-Har-
vey county railroad bond case has re-
ceived considerable notice through
your columns and no doubt Represent
alive Baldwin can and may yet tell us
some things new of its history aud
present condition. But in our estima-
ton there is another question of far
more Importance to the county that
receives no notice. ] refer to the
sheep and wool-raising interest.
Where stands fifteen or twenty thous-
and dollars to the importance of this
branch of industry if it becomes what
it ought to be. And yet it must be
abandoned unless some legislation can
be had Tor its protection and that
pretty soon. Last fall $500 head Of
Missouri sheep infested with the
"scab" were trailed up and down the
county for a month or more and final
" peddled out to the farmers in lots of
forty head and upwards. OF course
they were sold as healthy sheep.
What the result throughout the entire
county amounts to, | can not say, but
the fatality among sheep and lambs in
Kechi township directly from this
cause is not less than 1000 head. Say
ing nothing of this loss, which the
losers must feel keenly, the township
could have paid its six or seven hun
dred dollars of those bonds with less
hindrancc to the general prosperity
than to have this branch of industry
receive such,a blow. There can be no
better time to start in the sheep bust
than after years depression in the
price of wool, as it seldom has remain
ed at low figure longer than a year
at time. And surely those already
i'll will be 10th to abandon it while the
johnny Bulls are calling loudly for
our mutton, and Gas the Kansas Farm
er tells us) the United States is paying
out eight million dollars annually for
imported wool. a Spanish proverb
says: 'Sheep have golden feet and
wherever the print of them appear the
soil is turned into gold" This, in a
measure, has been true with many an
eastern as well as western farmer, but
as some of our neighbors can testify.
it cannot apply to the disease-smitten
and scab-ridden.
And now, Mr.. Editor, changing the
subject slightly, goodbye grasshopper.
They have vamoosed, gone. Whittier,
who knows? Crawled into their holes
say some. Dead, say others. But nei.
their i'll the earth nor OH the earth can
be found one, dead or alive, to each
thousand of the festive sporters of two
weeks ago. The damage to our town
ship is even less than we were made to
believe it was when writing you last
We have left, to remind us of theii
visit, few bitches, q yawning pit &C
casionally, aud Frank Carriers ma
chine. These reminders are worth
something to US, as they are the true
: index to the spirit in which the farm
ers had made up their minds to mee'
them. And now il looks almost as i
/ we could afford fair this coming fall
Let the newly appointed directors ant
other officers all be at the meeting mex
Saturday afternoon, that each may
sweep clean in front of his own door
in regard to this fair business.
FARMER X.
P. Sin response to Mr.. STEMS no
tice, | will report two acres of cult
waited forest trees on my place.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Ashtabula Disaster.

The annual report Of the President
aud Directors of Lake Shore q Michi-
gan Southern Railroad Company gives
these particulars Of the Ashtabula
disaster: Number of persons on the
train, 159, including nine children
number killed outright, IS, and who
died subsequently of their injuries
besides these, 65 were injured in vari-
Gus degrees of severity, and out of the
entire 259, only eight escaped unin-
jured. The report declares the cause
Of the accident to be wrapped in mys-
terry, and virtually disclaims any re-
spousibllity on the part of the compa-
ny for the terrible catastrophe.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The First Man for HAYES.

The man who first thought of Hayes
for President resides in Kansas. lie
has stopped lending money at twenty
five per cent. and commission fees, and
is now waiting for an appointment
Kansas city Times.
The first man in the State of Kansas
who declared for Hayes was Hon. Geo
e. Peck. The first newspaper that
came out for him was the Wichit9
EAGLE. Neither Peck or the EAGLE
ever loaned money at twenty-five pei
cent. nor is either of them suffering
for an appointment.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10

The Cincinnati Commercial says
1--WE see nothing in the declarations
and actions of The President indicating
the least desire 70 abandon one iota OF
the Republican principles which apply
to questions of political expediency or
human rights. He has, in respect Of
the southern States, simply dropped q
policy that has ceased to he useful, and
was an obstruction to the restoration
of peace, and made an experiments
venture of something adapted to tho
times, and likely TO work more salts
factorily."
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE, |

WICHITA, KANSAS, April %, 1877.
The Board OF County Commissioners, OF
Sedgwick county, Kansas, met in regular
session, pursuant to adjournment, the follow
ing members being present: j NJ. Steele, o.
G. Jacobs aud J. A. Nelson.
A. Whitecotton, William Mendenhall and
Jacob Hays, resident househoders of Payne
township, Sedgwck county, Kansas, were
| appointed by NJ. H. Bruce, County Superin-
tendent, to appraise the southwest quarter OF
section sixteen, town twenty-siX, range two
east. The appointment was confirmed by
order of the Board OF County Commissioners
The resignation of William Woodruff,
treasurer of Union township, was accepted,
and Horace Carpenter was appointed to fill
the vacancy occasioned by said resignation.
petition was presented asking for The Or
ganization of township tweLty-nlne, range
four west into a municipal township, to be
known as Comoro township. The petition
was laid over for an affidavit showing that
said township contained fifty legal electors.
The contract for repairing the Ell Paso
bridge was awarded to William Leho for $3.50
dollars. SO of which was ordered to be de-
livered upon the certificate OF j. A. Nelson
that the lumber for repairing said bridge has
been purchased and delivered on the bank OF
the river at the bridge, the balance to be de-
liyered at the next session following the COM
pletion of said bridge, and J. a. Nelson Is
hereby appointed a committee Of one to eX-
anime and inspect the bridge when completed.
The bridge across the Little Arkansas river
at Weidner's ford was accepted from the
hands OF the contractor, l.. S. Allen, and the
amount of the appropriation, viz: $500, to-
gether with So for extra work, was ordered
to be paid.
A petition was presented properly signed,
requesting the Board of County Commits
sioners of Sedgwick county to call an election
in Greeley township. in SAID county, TO vote
upon the question of issuing 100000 in bonds
in aid of the Solomon, Arkansas Valley &
Eastern railway company. The Board being
satisfied upon the legality of SAID petition, an
election was ordered to be held on the It'll
day of June, 1877, and the sheriff is hereby
ordered to make proclamation thereof.
A petition was presented, properly signed,
requesting the Board OF County Commission
ers of Sedgwick county to call an election in
Alton township, IN said county, to vote upon
the question of issuing $4,000 in bonds in
aid of the Solomon, Arkansas Valley East
ern railway company. The Board being sat
isfied upon the legality of said petition, an
election was ordered TO be held on the 9TH
day OF June, 1871, and the sheriff is hereby
ordered to make proclamation thereof.
The following bills against the county were
audited and allowed, and orders against the
county fund were ordered to be drawn there
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The First Battle---Russia Victorious.

A message from Vienna gives the
following account of the battle OF kars;
The center Of the Russian army, 40
coo strong, under Melketf, attacked
Mukhtar. five miles from Kars. Oh
April 29th. The Turks fought despe-
rately. The Russians, supported by
pow erful artillery, succeeded in dis
lodging them from their position
Mukhtar called out all his reserves.
and attempted on the 30th to recover
his lost ground with 60,0O0 men, but
was defeated and driven back under
the guns of Kars. The Russian loss is
considerable. and that of the Turks
enormous.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10

Reports differ as to the Importance
of the engagement at Teheruchon or
Tchorukson, in Asiatic Turkey. One
report makes il skirmish, another a
two DAYS battle. This is in the valley
of the river Tchoruk, or Joruk, near
the strong seaport town of Batoum.
Grand Duke Michael's army moved
nrOmDtlV
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Russian Commanders.

The Grand Dukes Nicholas aud Mi
chael, commanding the Russian armies,
are the brothers of the Gar, and both
participated in the Crimean war. The
Grand Duke Michael is in command
of thesarmy operating in Turkey in
Asia, and now confronting hars,
while the Grand Duke Nicholas is in
command of the army in Roumania.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
The Extra Session Of Congress Postponed.

The President has concluded, after
repeated consultations with his Cabi-
met, to postpone the converting oil
Congress in extra session until the 10Th
dav OF October. The change will sur
prise the whole country which had
been led to suppose an early conven-
ing of that body necessity. What
win become of the army and navy in
the meantime we. are not informed
The President says what the country
most needs is repose from political
and financial agitation.