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4 Constitutional Amendment.

Representative Maish, of Pennsylva-
mia. introduced in the United States
House constitutional amendment en-
bodying a rather cumbrous but ingenious
plan for dividing the mass vote of State
for President 10y the number of electoral
votes possessed by the State. and credit
ing TO each candidate his share Of the
electoral votes Of such State obtained on
the basis of the electoral average reached
by the division of the mass vote. For
example, let the mass vote of New York
be 100000 this divided by thirty
three would, in round numbers, give 3d.
600 as the electoral average. The Hayes
vote divided by this average would have
shown sixteen electoral votes for the Re
publican candidate, and the Tilden vote
SO divided would have given the remain
ing seventeen votes to the Democrats.
| The plan has at least the merit OF insur-
1 ing q certain recognition 10 minoEiticR,
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or for Australia.

The first load Of immigrants from the
United States 20 foreign country left
New York lately for Australia. The
colonial government of New South Wales,
desirous Of obtaining large number Of
men to work upon the projected railways
that await construction in that country,
authorized n firm in that city, TO provide
for the shipment Of men of the right sort,
who were 10 bc charged $40 each for their
passage to Sydney. A large number Of
applicants appeared in answer to the adj
vertisement for immigrants, from which
number nincty-nine were selected and
assigned to berths on the bark n. Boyn-
ton, of 800 tons, commanded by Captain
Blanchard. The quarters assigned the
passengers were between decks, aft of
the main hatch, the berths being hunks
roughly raised on either side, three tiers
high. One corner of the deck was par
titioned oil for the women and children
Of the party. A crowd of people gathered
at the end of the pier along the bark 4
side to bid them goodbye Another
bark will soon follow with another load.
Very few Of the party of the Boynton
were native Americans,
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Manrcen C0NhA nliaS.

Msureen CoSha nhas
Yer the purtest lass
Ever walked on shoe losthor or dhrove a hoy
mad;
For your wee little feet
And yer figure SO sweet
Are too much for the brain of poor Irish lad.
Maurcop Cosha nhas
When l see yc at mass,
Saints above I'm am afraid that its { yeh l
pray:
An IN crown q my hat
When look 81 that
Has yer purity face there, Wild the dimrles at
play
Maureen CoSha phas
Thin The MEDIA ye cross,
TO your fathers nate cabin just under The
hin,
Tn diyil we're tould,
Tempted Tony Il ould
Wild a woman Bedad we've the pattera s,4n.
Maurcen Cosha phAs
tYcr's Ia sly little lassl
Wild Yer "Top O IA mornin', thin yeh 50 On
VI. way
But yer party ewes dance
And yeh gives me glance
That ser "pinny, sgra have yoh uotllin
s4yg"
Msuroou Cosha phas.
I'D not let yeh pass
IN next time meet seh at fair or az wake;
Me pace ygh destroy
An that's hard on a boy
Thatud light whole faction and die fer yer
sake.
Msurrgn CoshA phaS,
Wen SIT Oh the grass
wid me arm round yer waist, and tear in Yer
eve,
And yth III say "DATla Dlanls
SPake 10 Father MAEluuis;
Shure IL raytlsr 90 that, NOW, nog think tha,
ye'd die
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A Productive Country.

Sicily was in early times notable for
its extreme productiveness, and Italians
hope that with all the restrictions on the
importation Of corn removed, and under
an energetic government, a good time
il coming-morc especially If the brig
and nuisance can be suppressed. OF
the islands 5000. 900 acres, $500, 600
are under wheat, about ], 800, 600 in pas
ture, ESQ, 900 in vineyards, olive yards,
orchards and garden, and 170, 900 in for
est. Tie rest lies waste or is built ON.
The net rental is estimated Mt Sl3, 600, :
600. The church and nobility are the
principal owners The agricultural
population consists Of yoemen, small
farmers and peasants. OF late the con-
dition Of the latter has been greatly inn
proved by the abolition of the sort OF
serfdom under which they labored and
the rigid system Of entail on large es-
tatps
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A tree toad, dressed In apple greer,
Sat on mosey log
Beside a-pona, and shFilly sang
"Cume forth, my Folly wog
My Pol--my Ly my Wog.
My pretty Folly Wogi
I've eomathinR very rwect 10 aay,
MY slender Folly Wog
"Tho mir In moiss---tho moon II hid
Behind heavy fuR.
No stars are ont to wink and bliAk
A you, my Polly wog
Ny Pol-my Ly-my Wog,
My graceful Polly Wogs
on, tarry mot, beloved onei
My precious Polly Woglr
Just ihcn away went clouds, and thoro
A-nitting on the log
The other end, maaH-the moon
showed angry Polly Wog.
Her small eyes flashed -sho Fweliad until
She looked almost frog
BIIow dare You ean me, Gr. she asked,
Your precious Polly Wogf n
why, 0ne wouid think your life waa SPENT
In some low muddy bogi
I'd have you know, TO strange young toada.
My names Mlas Mary Wog.
ons wild, wild laugh that tree toad gave
Aud tumhlhd IN the lng,
ia on tie ground he MI cked and screamed
Oh, Mary, Mary Wog
Oh, Ma OBI, Ry oh, Wog
oh, proud Mias Mary Wog
Oh, goodness gracious what ioke
HurrAh for Mary Wog
-Mra. Moygaret EgiiAgei IN RcrI5neF' :.
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Their First Difference.

Before we were married, said he to
a friend, "shc used to say 'bye-bye so
sweetly when | went down the steps
"And now what does she say?' asked
the friend. "Oh, just the same, ex-
claimed the man. buy, buy
"Ah, ! see, said the other "she only
exercises u little different spell over
Won.
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Probabilities: "When YOU see n man
going home at two o'clock in the morn
in and know HE wife is waiting for him,
Il is likelY 30 be stormyln
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A Curiosity Of Numbers.

"a curiosity of numbers can be
shown to good advantage in the following
table:
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After the Rain.

Last night the fragrant lily,
no stately, wan and stilly,
Held high her palhd chalice, gathering
Whiteness from the moon.
And standing like warden,
Beside III enchanted garden,
The tulip trees tossed high and free his
Yellow stars of hloom.
And swept their golden hashines through
The armament Of June,
While the plain
Of the shivoring breeze
And quivcriuE trees,
Forotold the coming rain.
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Mrs Partngton says that Ike has
bought horse so spirituous that he nj
ways goes off in decanteri
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THE FIRST STATE ELECTION.

Il was the morning of the first State
election in California that the first rain
Of the wet season came. 1t poured in
cessantly all that day and until noon of
the day following. For about two weeks
the coming of election day had been the
leading topic. The prefect of San Joa-
uuin district, Captain Nelson Taylor,
had visited the camp, made official proc
lamation of the election, appointed the
alcade's tent as the polling place, and
three OF the most prominent men 90 OH
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1s 1t not curiosity in the way Of null
tinlieation 2
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.rrnrhrrrIr. mud Fruit Trcc..

II Won have not mulchcd your straw
berry beds don't fail to do il before the
snow goes of. February. March and
Arril are the times that try the plants.
II is thc thnwing that kills. Put on q
blanket Of marsh hay or clean straw, and
leave ON all that the plants can get
through in the spring. To keep the
ground moist and the berries clean, q
covering Of about two inches or just
enough TO cover the plants from sight.
Keep an eye to the rabbits pay the
bovg ton cents each for every one they
Kill. II you have trees in danger of IN
jury by them, wind the bodies with news.
paper, or cut rabbit in pieces and rut
the bodies and limbs with the fresh blood
aud meat. Tramp the snow firm about
your trees TO keep off the mice.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-09-27
r. Il. f.
Radwa,'s 8eady Relief
CUaE. THE:woRsT:FAINs
In from one to Twenty Minutes.
NO ONE HOUR

After reading this advertisement need any
one suffer with pain. Railways Ready Relief
is cure for every pain. II was the iTst and is
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A FriShIful Runaway.

A team of horses belonging to j. Il. Pitts,
living near East LSavenworth, started from
he alley on Sixth street, between Seneca
and Miami, and before the driver could OBJ
tain control Of them he was thrown to the
ground and they dashed furiously down Sen
eca street toward Fifth. They took 10 the
sidewalk when about middle way OF the
block, and when they reached the corner of
Fifth al d Scncra, the wagon struck the avn
ing attached to Kelley's building, ANA used
as a shoe shop, tore it from its fasiHingS and
throwing ii Violently against the building,
scared the Shoe maker nearly out of his wits
From there they continued their mad career
to Ed. WalsiI's stable and made an assault on
one of the doors, which they succeeded in de-
molishing to a great extent. They were cap
tured at this point, but the wagon was COM
pletely used up and the horses will be unable
to work for a week. II was very fortunate
that no one was injured as the streets were
crowded at the time.
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The Kan.a. CITY Races,

A reporter ofTHE TINES returned from Kan
sas City at l. O'Clock last nigh, ami brings
the following report of the races.
In the free for all there were four entries
Little Fred, Dictator, Capt. Jack, and Cosetie
being the horses.
In the first heat Little Fred took the pole
with Capt. Jack, second, Dictatori third and
Cosette fourth. The heat was won by Little
Fred in 226. Captain Jack being distanced
The second heat was opened with Little
Fred AT the pole, Dictator second and Cosette
third. The heat was won by Dictator in 81,
Little Fred second and Cosette tnird
The second heat was won by Dictator in
2-26, Little Fred second. and Cosse;te third.
The fourth heat waS a repetition of the
third, Dictator winning the heat in 80, Lit
tie Fred second, and Cossettc third.
There were four entries in the running
race: Big Fellow, John Baker, .Tanpico and
Tom Ryan being entered. Big yellow won
the race in 20.
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More About the Train Robbery.

The Council BlnGs NOnpdrea has the follow
ing particulars with regard TO the late train
robbery on the L. p. Road: We learn a few
more facts concerning the great railroad rob-
berry at Big Springs Tuesday night. The out
laws got about 81, 1Jp out of the one coach be-
sides many watches and chains. A Texas
cattle man, who was on the train, had over
three thousand dollars with him but who for
tunately managed TO secrete il. When the
train was stopped one of the robbers, with re-
volver in hand, undertook TO get into the en-
CINE cab, but the engineer promptly told
him TO get of, and when he did not threw
piece OF coal at him. The robber at once re-
turned the salute by firing his revolver at the
engineer, but did not hit him, and then
boarded the engine and put the fire out
While the Williams were engaged in their work
freight train No 10 arrived and Conductor
Patterson was allowed to go ont and signal IL
TO stop, but was accompanied by a body guard
rs far as the rear of the passenger train when
they suddenly disappeared and about the
saihe time the balance ofthe gang left. Mr..
Patterson at once dispatched the engine of
the freight train 10 Ogallala, nineteen miles
get assistance. Superintendent $. :. H. & ark
Is doing all in his power 10 have the robbers
captured. He doubts If II is the same band
Hills coaches. He said that it was a hard
blow TO the railroad, and, combined
with the other disasters of late would
take nearly $4,000 of the company,s
funds. The temporary repairs TO the bridge,
with the sum paid the Burlington and Mis-
souri, for transportation, amounts 10 a round
SS.U0, while the riprapping has already cost
$1,000, with more repairs Yet to be done. A
large sum of many thousands will Yet be
needed to construct the two new spans TO the
bridge. and altogether, although the company
will not be at all embarrassed, IL Will come
very severity upon their finances.
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Meeting Of the Leayenw orth County
Horticultural society.

Leavenworth County horticultural Society
met at the commissioners rooms, Mt the
court house, with Vice President Bidgood i'm
the chair.
As several prominent citizens proposed to
give money for special premiums, at the
fasr, committee of two was appointed 10
collect special premiums, to be awarded for
plates of extra fruit, and collections of both
fall and winter Fruit
This will be so arranged that persons giving
fruit TO go into the Society's general display,
Will draw special premium for themselves.
The committee will report at the next
meeting, when the special premiums Will be
arranged and announced
DIR. Siayman exhibited a new apple, called
brilliant" from James Truitt, Quincy, Kan,
which was tested by all the members pres
ent, who unanimously voted it worthy of
general cultivation. Apple very large, and
of fine appearance and texture, quality very
good.
Mr.. Pete- Tascheita presented the Society
with a large plate Of sood-sized yellow cling
stone Seeding peaches, raised on his place.
They We're considered very fine, and well
worthy OF Discrimination.
The society adjourned TO meet In one week,
y. u CuANDLEE, Secretary.
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READ FALSE And TRUE. !"

esnd . Letter aamP . Radvay Z Co. No =
Wauen, emner Church aEegt, New Yosk.
In1bgwnf1oa WoEe1 th0n1n11s VIII b aeut
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MEDICAL.
PRESCRIPTION FREE.

k'OR THE SPEEDY CURE of Sem
a inal Weakness, Lost Manh,Od and ALI
disorders brought on by indiscretion or ex-
cess Any druggist has the ingredients. Adj
dress DR. JAQUE x CO., Cinci matt, Ohio
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RESOLUTIONS by the state Bar.

The meeting of the State Ear at Topeka, fol
the purpose of taking proper action ON the
death Of Wilson Shannon, passed the follow
ing resolutions:
The Hon. Wilson Shannon having departed
this life since the last term of the Supreme
have this day sselnbled, to record their pro-
found sorrow at his death and their regard
for his memory.
He was for fifty years i'm almost constant
practice of his profession, The interruption :
of professional labor were to discharge IL /.
high duties OF governor of state and a terri
tory, minister To Mexico, and member of con-
gress, and into these high places he carried
that great fidelity he gave to his clients and
labOred earnestly for the public good, For
twenty years he has been the senior of the
Kansas bar in years, practice, and ability
and during all this time his never-failing
courtesy 10 all, and especially TO the juniors
at the bar, had won for him the esteem, adj
miration, and good will of every lawyer in
our state.
ResoiUed, That the members of the bar of the
state of Kansas sincerely deplore the death o;
the Hon. Wilson Shannon, and will alice
tiOnately preserve, and forever remember his
many virtues As a man and his great quail
ties as a lawyer
Resoiced, That the Supreme Court Of the
state and the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of Kansas, be requested
To direct that these proceedings be entered
transmit a copy thereof 10 the family of the
sincere sympathy of the members of this
m p,fi
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the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.

every drop of the SarSaparilian ResoIvent
communicates through the blood, sweat.
urine and other fluids and juice of the sys-
tenn The Nigor of Life, for it repairs the
wastes of the body with new and sound ma
terial. Scrofula, syphilis, consumption,
glandular disease, ulcers in the throat, mouth
tumors, nodes in the glands and other parts
of the system, sore eyes, struinorous diSchar-
ges from the ears, and worst form o skin
diseases, erupfions, fever sores, scald head.
ring worm, salt reuhm, erysipelas, ache
black spots, worms in the flesh, tumors, can
GERS in the womb, and all weakening and
painful discharges, night sweats, loss of
sperm and all wastes of the life principle are
within the curative range OF this wonder of
modern chemistry, and few days use will
prove to any person using IL for either of
these forms Of disease its potent power to
cure them.
1.-THE patient, daily becoming reduced by
the wastes and decomposition that are con-
tinually progressing, succeeds in arresting
material made from healthy blood-and this
the Sarsaparilh,n will and does secure-a cure
is certain; for when once this remedy COM
mences its work of publication, and succeeds
in diminishing the loss of discharges, its re-
pairs will be rapid, and every day the patient
will feel himself growing better and stronger,
the food dgesting better, appetite improving,
and flesh and weight increasing.
Not only does the Sarsapariliian Resolvent
excel all remedial agents in the cure ofChron-
ic, ScrofulOus, Constitutional and Skin Dis
eases, but IL is the only positive cure for Kid
ney and Bladder complaints, Urinary and
Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, DropSy,
Stoppage OF Water, Incontinence of Urine,
BrightS Disease, Albuminuria, and in all
cases where there are brick dust deposits, or
the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with sub
stances like the white of an egg. or threads
like white silk, or there is a morbid, bark, bill
ious appearance, and white bone-dust depOs-
its, and when there is a prickling, burning
sensation when passing water, and n pain in
the small of the back and along the loins.
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KANSAS CITY ITEMS.

Enporia is happy. Its brass band took the
first Prize of sloO at the Kansas City Fair.
Fifty policemen were On duty in Kansas
City during the fair. Thirty-iy is the regu-
lar number.
Goldsmith Maid will appear in the west for
the last time.
g. X. Jennison is running gambling estab-
lishnent at Kansas City, and says he is max
| ing Il 900 a night.
The Fair at Kansas City has been n finan-
ciitl success, otherwise it was a failure except
in regard 10 horse racing.
We are under obligations 10 the gentlemen
connected with the press of kansas City for
courtesies extended TO our reporters during
the fair.
The crowd that attended the horse races at
Kansas City, "Wednesday and Thursday, was,
although large, greatly over estimated by the
Kansas City papers.
Dennis Malloy, 70. me-ly OF this city, fills
the position as captain of the Metropolitan
police force in Kansas City to the entire sat
isiac.ion OF the authorities.
A little boy, named Elmer Todd, was pass
i'm. near shoe ing gallery at the Kansas
City horse races Thursday and got a bullet in
his jaw. He will probably die.
While i'm Kansas City, Thursday, we while
visiting the various newspaper offices, found
that nine tenths OF the fiattering personals
published had been asked for.
A Denver man nsmed Mac Thorn alias
Blindman, forged a check for SO on a man
named Carr, in Kansas City day before YES
ter,iay and escaped with the money he got
out OF il.
There was during the races at Kansas City
such great discrepancy in tile time of the
races as taken by the time keeper and old
horsemen who were bystanders, that no reli-
ability can be placed on the reports that man.
ayers of the Fair have caused to be made pub.
lie through the papers.
The Jealousy which exists in Kansas City
toward Leavenworth was every where APP
parent at the Fair grounds Thursday. The
insult TO our military officers who attended
the races on "Wednesday was also the subject
of general condemnation by the six hundred
Of our people who We're on the grounds.
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AN IMPORTANT LETTER.
AsSHARRop Mich .nril n Is

ANN HARBoR, Mich, April 20, 1875.
DIR. RADwAY-kind sir: 1 have been TAX
ing your Resolvent, Regulating Pills, and also
using the Ready Relief for about one year for
ovarian tumOrs on the abdomen, which the
most eminent physicians of our medical col
lege pronounced incurable.
They were like knots on a tree. When
was sitting in a chair they hung almost to
the floor, and my weight was go pounds
when commenced with your remedies, and
now IL is 30 pounds, but they are not all gone
yet. have taken twenty bottles of Resell
vent, nine of Relief and twenty -four boxes Of
Pills. I get the medicines from &c. Grenvil ~
Please send me your book "False and True
MRS C. KRAPF
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Grammar School Choir,

ca cts, or 80 dozen, by W. :. TILDES, provides
admirably TOR the needs of the Upper Glasses
in Grammar Schools. Just out. Carefully
prepared by practical and successful teach
cr. Music in |, ., 5, * parts, and the best
quality.
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Goldsmith Maid.

The following is the history of the fayorite
of the turf:
Goldsmith Maid is a blood bay, fifteen and
one-quarter haEds high, foaied in the spring
oflso1 by Alexander's AbdaIlah, dam by Alb
dallah. She was bred by Mr.. John Il. Deck
er, of Orange county, New York, who kept
her upon his farm without grain or handling
until the winter of 1865. In February Of that
year Mr.. Decker sold her to his son, John II.
Decker, jr., for $50, who, on his way home
with her TO Another part of the county, sold
her TO William Tompkins, Hampton, Orange
county, New York, for $50 After her pur-
chase Mr.. Toinpkins drove her in harness Or
casionally, and she proved FESTIVE and ner-
vous, % much 80 that ON the 18th of March Of
the same year Mr.. Tompkins sold her tn Mr..
Alden Goldsmith for S650.
Mr.. Goldsmith took her in hand and com.
menced breaking and training her for the
Hoesing turf Her hish-strung nature vouId
IA hsook he whip, but Mr.. 0oadsuith mr..
49, hg high tampW ana nervouume~ nv
l111nnA 1aAnG14 ~ - - - -
$3.50 saawsa : pssni11 =
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KauSaS Women.

Talk about energy and enterprise, there is
young woman tyet i'm her teens) in this VIC
unity, who has not only kept house for her
father, taken the sole charge of a younger
brother, and earned enough money by work
ing out TO buy lot and purchase lumber for
n house, but has actually helped To build the
latier-and all within the space of two years.
And, just by way Of extras in the meantime
she has added TO her worldly accommodations
half dozen head OF cattle, the hay for which
she assists in cutting and ricking for winter
use. She is a perfect bundle of energy and
perseverance, but no one, to see her in pub
lie, would suppose She had performed such n
herculean task; for her physical organization
seems rather delicate than otherwise. Here's
a prize for some go-ahead, honest young man
worth striving for.-EmlOrid Ledger.
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