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, 1877-01-06

TIE PoLiTiCAb SiIyATioS.-N ljhm
the last few days precepub.e pro-
cress has been made toward that can
did temper Of mind through Which
alone IT is possible TO reach a satlSlac-
tory solution Of the present comiNeA-
ton. We believe that more depends
Oh the tone and spirit IN which The
questions are approached than nFon
sagacny and acumon IN he discu-s.on.
ItIequires no extraordinary talent 10
deal with such subjects a. are now III
dispute. TO canvass and count the
votes given IN an election Is simple
operation, successfully performed every
year in every State by men ot the
most ordinary faculties Election laws
are never complex, They are always
framed to be administered not by !aW
yers ard iu7ir,s, bat by such plain clu
zens Of moderate education as are
chosen inspectors in average election
precincts Al that IS needed iur ascer-
taiuing who has been elected PresI
dent is honesty and fairness IN hose
appointed to make the investigation.
If the returns from any State are IN
correct it is not because its election
officers and canvasSing board were in
competent, but because hey were dis
honest. 4 fax minded committee,
seeking Only for truth and resolved L.
accept the und!slOrjed truth, 10 mat
ter which party it may help OF harm,
ean ascertain by djligent inquiry who
really had the majority in any disput-
ed State. But the investigation must
not be conducted for the purpose Of
finding evidence to support q toregone
conclusion, for in that case il will be
so warped and colOred by the bias Of
the committees aS to be Of DO value.
, 1877-01-06


The PErsIDENcY.-We inIorSe hearli
ly tie following extract from the Gin
cinnati haqtjr.r:
"There IS not an honest man in
tbs broad land 10 day who does not
know that the people Of the United
States have chosen Samuel J. Tilden
to the Presidency. States that have
cast lhei: votes Tor him, have been
denied hlm by illegal partisan boards
organized 10 cheat and swindIa. Be
cause certain States Of the south were
once IN rebellion the leaders or The
republican party assume that ;hey
have 10 rights, and that iui!ginlliss
can be put upon them with impuuily,
which would drive other States In
20 open revolt. Committees Of Goa
gress, headed by democrats, have
been organized and sent in;o the three
disputed Southern States 20 ascertain
facts. They Viii investigate ani re
port in = week ar tWo. II their re- port
shall be conclusive Is 10 She point il
is>uc-if they declare ;hat MIR. TilIen
has honestly cai;ied either of The
States in dispute-we are in favor of
the Inauguration of Nj. Tilien at any
and all hazards. We want the evi
deuce to 20 10 the people. Afer HAT
we want our Representatives in Con
gress and the leaders of the party 20
re3Se themselves TO see Justice dcne.
The people will respond when they
know tAey are right. The rights Of
men are a. dear now Is they were In
The days Of King John, and repnb!i
cans Institutions are worth Just as
much now IS when our fathers bat
tied from Lexington To Yorktown
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GOV. GROVER, on bis arrival in san Fran
CISCO. wss rendered the compliment OF a public
reception. This is the Iaaa the Portland
hoOdlums hung in etfgy
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her husband new years present and have
tbs Ill ssnt 10 hin, Is cause for a divorce.
, 1877-01-06

BOISE Chr monopolizes more than
half the Offices within the gift Of the
lgo legislative branches.
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s. go RE w ARD:

4 GRAY MARE AND FCAI. have st-zyei ON
= tie uu.,-sSl-Iel, Icr TIE return OF yr... a r.
wtfi Of IL si3 DOLLARS VII l= Qsi!. TIE
Mare Il branded vI.l capita, ! over ID H. on the
lrft shoulder, and WIS last IN iE- n-ishiorLoJi
81 ii Ha.l = els, IA SpsILs Valley Tie aiOys Te-
U i- VIII - pad -uy who lll return tie s4Il
Mare ana .0lI % the Lewiston Stage Barn. II Wal.a
MaIld.
Ai-a, a GRAY MARE, hr4I-ei 7. on tie LIT
shoulder; shr streyri from Eau;-.!'s fGr1E or Ru-
sli CI=ek >i= = W.. known - Henry cclCIls LIZ
! viii pay TEN go DOLLARS 10 any one who
vii return her u liz lewiston Stage Barn. II W,si.a
ala
NTT Z u MI I II.
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UAEFN Up ly tIC suhsrT Ter, living IN Russell
Gre h pIr-iut. Nallt Wal Fl county. ". T.. one
B'-k Ho;-e brand & u on the left -hlul1ar; seven
years oil or th=Ta-boats fourteen hru'~ n9h-
JOHN L. HILL
TarU4ry p, ISL 5-2t
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:" us AT' f-s ties, l. s i
p. Dozen, $50 H,-
Is pr dozen SII5.
New York.
'-l the general trade laS
t staple OIswn.li,i,, lavr.
lL'.-Dtt : -O Gar ls ir41-tuE


Although the general trade laS been very duh,
lE-t-> "i staple oIIlw0.litig> lavr as q rule, heya
Vel Ft,lt' .LCtt -o ilr cas- irlsifstJEs are ugTn-l
here h.- Del something CT "a leyivt; ct the export
ulie, N.,A ln advance ot 5.t1 cents on Wlefr, S.3
cUf> on corn. AID l=..2U cents cu fasr- Uuc-r the
lttturne- If stronger 1Iyiegs f-um E-rguE and the
tst. hest sod 10 % s, SOC, 50 fpr n. 20
No J, aI.i winter % s S5al 5i. Prim, shipping
'rn is mp 90 o. "a cents and shipping -four On s. %
$50 So t'U~I eripi= what has been itr..it "a store
here on Western ac1UUut fr an iuyt~tE1.n nj. the
strength 81 'A- b-i,st or SlIl muT substantial AZ
vance to--la..n c.rn Is being slipuol 10 Eulaps
from FIRST hands uUlar a :. ke iInurt-siuu.
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LATEsT MknsFr ororArroNs.

'tt',- afen tAA tu-t ID gil4 - 10 2 tuf rrtnug
lots payable in silver.
Wheat Round bots choi-e cannot Je ser-lrel less
than e. Is shiupiu, s Iz-
B1riey-Sl 3r5yl b brewing. ? = t..-r "a f,-f
NA''-S a-ff4 s1 I1- ie-i . ! ga . f1r uiil'ir-
Cori-l-i1se yellow Rfra az a :. Z J % silver.
Astoria.
our 're,on City, xxx, r lbl - extra fam
nL, :, Nii-1ne,'e Superior, s. F; Graham, $.
NHiiGn-~-FaJ t1a. s1r.
Corn N-sl-r.e= auEsr-l. 81
nr9Uai Barley Der taa. SIS.
Onions per o.. st2sc
P'ta;os> pr r. lElL
Eu-isr- St>tf-r, iu tuis, 90; clo:ce r0'l, Sssi,
tHe--a-Uer pound S.,25c
tHsri Nts'>-i Hens, rfr pound. iGllS, s;les, l6
Y. % S..'ti---. ilr' G7rakftst taeCa, l.siS
s-a's-. ilei. Dc r1:n- lgf 6.S go-.si pork ..
I.'r4-!a t.l- and cs ,',ss, l. Is,3.
A-ss- pss 3,zan $50 Co.,,
tL..ECGS pr dozen sl-l=
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ENIGiT EUEESE.

T-IiEN mp Ly the subscriber living IN Russell Creek
/ precinct, 01iB Naia county, ". r., ai.- DARK
Pay Horse, y-4ls Dii. Ii' ianiS high, h.al f--F
yii.-c brJU1- on :l-Trr..; S.ga. le u.= tam wit
T. u.s. Al-o, one Gray Horse, Is miS hi.h, II yeI.s
OF, branded Ui,A figure ON tIr lrrt jaw.
=. +. EENoYER-
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
A Physiological View of MarrisC

Gude to Wedlock and confidential Treaties
on the duties of marriage and the causes Or II un-
ut for 1t the secret of Reproduction and the dis
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On all disorders of private Nature arising
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with the best means of cure, "a large pages,
price so cts.
A CLINICAL LECTURE on the above di eases
and those of the Threat and Lungs, Csfsrrh,
Rupture, Opium Habit, &c. price 10 cts.
Either book sent postpaid on receipt Of price
or all three, containing 500 pages, beautifully
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Address DIR. BUTTS, No. IL ". Sth st. Louis Mo
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company

AS there are many reports in circu
lation regarding the affairs Of the Mis-
souri, Valley Life Insurance Company,
we have obtained the following infor-
nation, from the officers of the COM
pany i'll regard to Its condition
In O recent examination of the COM
pany, values of securities were consid-
erably reduced from amounts hereto
fore allowed, and some assets were
thrown out entirely. If the same as
sets had been allowed, as heretofore,
and at the same values, the company
would show surplus.
The amount of the impairment as
calculated by the Missouri Depart
ment was $57. 76S.90. Tho company is
putting its unadmitted assets in con-
dition to be satisfactory to the de-
partments as far as this can be done,
and is preparing to make up the BAL
ance by the time named by the depart
ment on November 9Th. 1t should be
understood that the liabilities of the
company were calculated upon an ar
bitrary basis. By the standard by
which Missouri now tests the solven-
cy of companies chartered in that
State the Missouri Valley would have
4 surplus OF about fifty thousand dol
lars. 1t would seem that the COM
pany has the ability to carry out its
contracts with its policy holders, and
we think there is no occasion for
alarm on their part.-LeaUea,Oorth
Times.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
Sensible Advice.


The Commonwealth says: east
ern papers, III estimating the wheat
crop this year, put down Kansas as
being twonty millions of bushels. This
is over six millions more than Score
tary Gray estimated it in his last re-
port, and we guess that his means of
information are better than those of
the spectators. IL the yield in other
States is magnified as much as in this,
it is evident that there is not near the
amount Of wheat III the country that
is reported. Then the corn crop, even
in our own State, is not as large as a
good many would try and make US be-
lieve. There are many fields that
will yield immensely, and there are
many others in which the crop is light.
We do not desire to mislead, but are
of the opinion that the estimates of
corn and wheat that have been put
forth during the past month are much
too large and in the interest of the
buyer. We can't, therefore, advise
haste in marketing grain. We don't
believe that it will be lower, and the
probabilities are that it will be high
err. Better sell than to hold it and
pay interest, or to keep it unless it is
well housed, but if the holder is in a
to keep it, it is not best to
be in a hurry
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27

We'print elsewhere extracts from
the speech of Senator John j. Ingalls,,
of Kansas, made on the occasion OF
dedicating a monument to the memo
ry of John Brown, at Osawatomie, a
few days ago. Senator Ingalls,, it will
be observed, hasn't adulterated his
Republican principles with strange
policies. lie is sure III his beliefs and
doesn't want other people to make a
mistake about it. There is marked
appropriateness in his talk OH the eve
of dedicating the Boston Soldiers
Monument, when it is meet for us TO
recollect that the people of this coun-
Try did not sacrifice their children
that their assassins might step in and
gather up the fruits of the Nations
victory.-Boston ITareler.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
The Speaksrship.

Virginia will present two candi-
dates for the Spcakership of the next
House,. G. Walker and J. Il. Tuck
err. She had third candidate, John
Goode, but he has withdrawn. Penn
sylvania has candidate, Sam. Ran
dali; New York has one, S. S. Cox;
Illinois has one, w. r. Morrison; Mis-
souri, has one, A. III. Buckner; Ohio
has one, Milton Saylor; and there are
probably q dozen others hanging on
the ragged edge.
The latest statement we have seen
Is to the political complexion of the
next House is that Clerk Adams fig
ures up a Democratic majority of
eleven. There are about twice eleven
candidates for Speaker, so that it is
difficult to tell which will be likely to
come out ahead.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
For the EAGLE.
Items From Keohi.
Scntembar q. ]

September "a, 1877.
EDITOR EAGLE The weather, OF
late, has been fine, consequently the
farmers have mostly finished wheat
sowing and are preparing to attend
the fair this week.
There has been quantity of good
hay stacked in the valley this season.
Early planted corn will soon do to
crib.
There seems to be quite a demand
for threshers this fall, consequently
the only sure way of getting wheat
threshed is for each farmer to have a
machine of his own.
understand that the festival which
was to be at Lee Summit school house
on last Thursday night was postponed
till after the fair.
| noticed in your columns, last week
a communication signed reformed
Bach's Son." suppose he must be a
Young America, he seems to see so
much more than his pap; but his re-
marks about the goggles seems sure
evidence to me that he must have q
number one pair, as he would be COM
PEELED to look through a five inch
wall, large Usage hedge, number
of sunfowers and other Instructions,
to know that the ladies were never
out of the wagon. Therefore, consid-
ering the hard times and not being
prepared with those eye magnifiers,
sonny would oblige me very much if
he would condescend to loan ME his
on such an occasion.
With best wishes for district num-
Der fourteen, ladies in general and af-
fectionate sonny, l conclude and re-
main, A. REFORMED BACH.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
Foreign immigration.

immigration has added 9,726 500
souls to the population Of the United
States since 1873, of whom it is esti-
mated that but quarter Of a million
arrived before 1920. The smallest
number of arrivals III any subsequent
year was 6,354, in 1928; the greatest
449, 4SS, in 1872. Since the latter year
the arrivals at New York, which re-
celves two-thirds of all new Corners,
have fallen eff five-sixths, and do not
promise to exceed $4,000 this year.
This change is accompanied by an
other in the nationality of the immi-
grants. Through the last thirty years
the Germans have been 4173 aud the
irish 35.75 per cent. of all those landed
at New York, and have made q larger
per centage elsewhere. But in the
last four years 10000 Mennonites have
come from Russia, and Icelanders,
Swedcs, Fins and Norwegians hav c
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
For the EAGLE.
Our Own State.


ED. EAGLE Our teachers should
have a better knowledge of our own
State; not only geographical, but po-
litical and historical. The United
States history NOW in use i'll our pub
lie schools tells when Kansas was adj
mitted into the Union as State. and
that is about all. The geography tells
the boundaries, mentions the principal
rivers and the cities and towns that
were in existence some ten or fifteen
years ago. The political geography
of Kansas has been utterly ignored. l
will venture to say that not one in ten
of the teachers in our public schools
can tell any thing about the manner in
which the laws of the State are made,
or even mention the different offices of
the State, county and township. Be-
cause l advocate a knowledge of these
things for lady teachers as well as men
| presume some will call me "strong-
minded; but by politics l do not
mean party. Will not some enterpris-
ing person undertake the work and
furnish US a book that shall satisfy
this want? A book that shall contain
complete geography of the State of
Kansas with the necessary maps and
cuts and intersperse the whole with
history. And then, by way of supple
ment, he might add the constitution.
Such q work would be real benefit
to the teachers and schools in particu-
lar and the public generally. More
over, it could not fail to be a success
financially. If gotten up in a neat,
compact style, every teacher would
want one and many who are not teach
ers. DEWEY.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
The London Times on HAYES.

The London Times, commenting ed
itorially on President Hayes southern
tour, says, that in little more THAI.
half year President Hayes has sue
cecded in beating down compact
mass of prejudices and allaying host
of conflicting passions. The visible
triumph of his policy is now being as
serted. He has this week begun a
journey through the southern States
which is intended to show that the
work of pacifcation is not far from
certain and that the Federal Govern
ment has no intention of interfering
in the local administration of the
southern States. The southern peo-
pie have no desire to disturb the great
achievements of the civil war which
have been embodied IN the constitu-
tional amendments, and the removal
Of objects of contention makes it easy
to establish friendly relations between
tho people.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
The Bankers Convention.

When the Bankers Association met
in New York last week, many of its
members, and especially those from
The cast, seemed determined 10 insist
on declaration in favor Of gold, and
gold only, as the currency Of the coun-
try. But these men soon found that
this sentiment was not as popular as
they imagined. Mr.. Groesbsck, OF
Cincinnati, in a very able speech, CON-
pletciy overturned all their arguments
and so carried the convention that in
its resolutions "gold" is not mention
ed, the word "coin" being substituted
therefor. This practically dcclar-
alton in favor Of the remonetiZation
OF silver, as the convention resolved
that in "the general use of coin, the
measure Of value, as formerly, will
alone secure those certain rewards to
labor and impart that steadiness 10
the value and price of all property
which Is required TO stimulate enter
prise and give proper encouragement
to every useful industry"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
The Famine in India.

Those who are of opinion that war
and famine will always sufficiently re-
duce the population must feel that
current events tend TO justify them.
For while the losses in the Russian
and Turkish war are enormous, the
famine in Southern India is terrible.
The accounts from that country are
appalling. "The railway" says a cor
respondent in Mysore, sis taxed to its
utmost limit, and is bringing four
thousand tons of grain week into
the province; but as this will only
feed million and half of people, tine
other three millions and half in Ny
sore must starve, as all the stores Of
grain in the country are exhausted.
Already the sufferings of the people
are awful. There is regular service
organized, III addition to the police to
keep the streets of Bangslore clear of
the dead and dying, but outside the
municipal limits dead bodies are lying
in all directions the lower castles are
cooking and eating the bodies" Ny
sore Is under British administration,
and 1t is supposed that half its popu-
lation will perish. The rain has fail
ed for several successive seasons. In
Madras nearly a million of people
were dependent at the last accounts
on relief works, and and another mil
lion were fed gratuitously. Cattle
are perishing, and an indescribable
calamity has overtaken the country.
Famine in India is periodical, and
those who hold that it is providen-
tial provision for depicting overpopu-
lation must also suppose that no hu-
man means can prevent it. The COLI
dition of swarms of people who live
upon bare sustepance is such that
they sink by thousands under any pri-
walton. Ii is estimated that the whole
power and energy of the Government
must now be supplemented by profuse
private aid to save even few of the
victims. The Lord Mayor of London
has appealed to the public generosity,
and the Times in alluding to the fact,
says that at the moment nothing is to
be done but to help out without stint,
and when the fear of immediate death
of people has passed, the methods of
prevention must be considered. 1t
seems TO think that the remedy does
not lie III huge store-hOuses of grain,
but in promoting easy and rapid COM
munications, so that the supply of one
part of the country may be made
available in another. And unles s
British sympathy with the Turk has
touched British fatalism, it will not
leave this problem long unsolYcd.-
HGTper's WeektY.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27

Pleasanton Observer: More pork
will go out of Linn county this fall
than during any season since the coun-
ty was organized.
Clifton items in Fredonia Citizen !:
The graGgers of this vicinity have, we
are told, formed a cooperative associ-
alton, and will soon open O store in
Buffalo.
Hutchinson Herald: In Troy town
ship, this county, gentleman by the
name of Washington Filey, this season
reaped 220 bushels of oats from two
acres of ground. The seed came from
Crawford county and was large white
variety.
Rice County Gazette: Tho cultiva-
ton of broom corn is rapidly becom-
ing one of the most popular as well as
q very pr ofitable industry in this part
of the Arkansas Valley. The fact that
with proper culture it never fails to
make crop, is greatly in its favor. 1t
brings the cash.
Marion County Record: From Twelve
bushels sowing, NJ. o. G.. Chapman
reaped and threshed ISL bushels of as
nice wheat as can be found in Marion
county. 1t Is called Odessa wheat.
Mr.. Chapman sowed it in February.
1t can be sown at any time-either fall
or spring.
Garnett Piaindealer: II, Young, ESD
who resides in Avon township, invest
ed $3.50 in sheep last spring, and let
them out to a farmer on the shares,
sharing equally in the wool and lambs
Mr.. Young has realized $3.50 for his
share of the wool, and has forty lambs
for which he is offered 1915 per head
making total of S21S in one year on
au inves tment of $3.50.
Chanute Times Complaint is made
that castor beans came up badly last
spring. Many are disposed to attrib-
ute the fault to the manner in which
castor beans are cured when harve, ted
piling them when fresh cut, into large
heaps where they often heat, when
spreading them out, thereby iniuring
the vitality of the seed to such an ex-
tent as to fail to terminate. 1t may
and avoid planting such seed i'll t..
future.
Col. S. A. Cobb, Of Wyandotte. has
e fruit farm near that city, of which a
correspondent says: He has ninety
acres IN the tract, with not a foot OF
bad land in it, and has on the place |
200 bearing apple trees of the most |
approved varieties ,four-fifths of which |
are laden with fruit. He will have |
q hout 600 busheIs of fruit a trrnot |
deal of which is the best winter varie-
ties, The Colonel has put up cider
presses and is making cider for vine
gar at the rate of two hundred and |
fifty gallons per day. His presses hold |
sixty bushels and give pressure of
seventy-five tons. Everything is III
apple-pie order, and the product of the
presses is the very best.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
President Hayes Trip.

From the receptions given by the
different cities in the south to Presi-
dent Hayes and his cabinet, one would
be led to believe that no Chief Magis-
trate, since Washington, enjoyed SO
fully the confidence and love of the
people of the south, but he is hardly
out ofsight before unreconciled news
papers call him naughty names and
apologize for the unwarranted action
of officials and masses. 1t is not so
hard to forget that Hayes, as Gener-
al, fought them, as It is that he helped
to whip them, besides, the ghost OF
'S to ~ will not down. But the cleo
tion of q Republican Speaker will
evince the wisdom Of the President.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
The Silver Dollar.

The following shows the weight and
fineness of the silver coins issued by
our Government since the year 1872,
when the coming law was enacted:
l. Under the law of 1892, the silver
dollar weighed 4l6 grains, s92 40 inc
and parts in same proportion. Weight
of 81, 900 S66,2 ounces.
Q. Under the law of January 1S, 1887,
the silver dollar weighed 412 10 grains,
600 fine, and parts in same proportion.
Weight of 81 900 S593-S ounces. This
is the dollar which was demonetized
in 1873.
3. Under the law Of March 8, 1858,
the half-dollar and smaller silver coins
were reduced i'll weight, the half-dol-
lar to 1872 grains, and the quarters,
dimes and half-dimes in the same pro-
portion; and $1,000 of these coins
weighed 800 ounces,
4. Under the law of February 18th,
1878, the half-dollar was raised in
weight to II grammcs (192 $40 grains)
and smaller silver coins in same pro-
portion; ST 900 of these coins weigh
s03 81 ounces. BY the same law the
trade dollar was authorized, it to con-
tain 400 grains: 81 900 of these coins
weigh S75 ounces.