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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

DoN PIArr.-Since this infamous wretch has
been indicted for sedition, the Democratic papers
have set up the howl that it is an attack upon
the liberty of the press. We give, below, All ex-
tract from the editorial that led to bis indict-
ment, to show what Democrats call liberty of
the press. 1t is frantic appeal for the assassin
alton of Hayes, and for Wholesale slaughter in
the South. Such appeals melted Booth to assas-
sinate Lincoln, and Weldon to attempt the as
sasination of Packard. Here is touch of the
"liberty of the press"
If q man [Hayes] thus returned to power ride in
safety from the executive mansion to the capitol to be
inaugurated We are fitted for the slavery that will
follow the Inauguration. We do not believe the peO-
pie of the United States of this servle sort We
do not believe that they prepared, without
blow, to part with their hard-earned oodstained
possessions. Notice il now served the citizens of
Louisiana and South Carolina that they must for
themselves. How soon lampp win bear fruit is
for them to say To the people of the north and west
notice is given that bondholders and monopoes may
fatten securely, that shrnkage of values in
order. If there is law for fraud there is for
violence, and to that We make our last appeal
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

The END-The Presidential election is over
at last and the new President insugurated. On
last Tbarsday, both Houses of Congress met to
complete the count, but the beginning was de-
layed by Democratic flibustering until after
O'Clock in the evening. Then scene began
that was never before witnessed in Congress. 1t
was worse than Bedlam broken loose, until half
past four O'Clock in the morning. Republicans
took little part in the scene, leaving the Demo-
Gratis to do the quarreling. The decent portion
of the Democratic members, in conjunction with
the Republicans, steadily outvoted the filibus-
tiers, and at half past four o'clock Friday morn-
ing, the last State was counted, and Hayes and
Wheeler were declared elected. <
The Inauguration took place Monday noon,
and all passed off peaceably. There was an i'm
mense concourse of people present, and the cere-
monies were the most imposing ever witnessed
in Washington.
The Cabinet has not yet been announced, but
it is stated BY those who claim to know, that it
will be about as follows: Secretary of State,
VIM. N. Evarts, of New York; Secretary of the
Treasury, John Sherman, of Ohio; Secretary of
the Interior, Carl Sehurz; Postmaster General,
David n. Key, (Democrat,) of Tennessee; Attor-
ney General, G. W. McCrary, of Iowa. The Sec
retaries of War and the Navy not yet decid
ed upon; but New England will get the Secreta
ry of the Navy, and perhaps Indiana will get the
other. 1t IS positively stated that Benjamin H.
Bristow will be appointed to the Supreme Court,
in place of Judge Davis.
If these speculations are correct, Hayes has,
in the commencement, avoided the error COM
mitted by Grant. He has appointed statesmen
of national and well established reputation, and
of known ability, to most of the Cabinet Offices.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

AXES TO GRIND.-We have receive a circular
purporting TO be resolutions adopted at special
meeting Of the Kansas Republican Association of
Washington, d. C., held on the evening Of Feb
ruary 26th. Their purport is as follows: That
the Republican party was born through the po-
litical travail of Kansas, and baptized in the
blood Of some of her best citizens; that Kansas
was the banner State for Republican majorities
at the late Presidential election; that Federal
patronage has hitherto been lavished upon
dorbai States totbe exclusion of Yelisble States;
and that united steps should be taken toward
securing the selection Of one or more Of our dis
tinguished citizens to fIl the highest positions at
the Federal Capital.
This Kansas Republican Association, common
ly know as the Mutual Admiration Society,"" is
composed of Department clerks, hangers on and
bummers from Kansas at Washington, holding
positions or subsisting by the favor of Senators
and Copgressmen. Their business is to work for
their masters, and their noses are found sticking
everywhere that Offices arc to be disposed Of
They were at the Cincinnati Convention, and
they will be on hand at the Inauguration, urg-
ing the claims Of distinguished citizens" To
see them sling themselves and hear them talk,
stranger would suppose that they owned Kan
sas.
The question arises, whose axes are to be
ground nowi Who are the office hungry ''dis-
are being orgauizedf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

= Citizens of Doniphan County will remem-
Der George n. Besbe, whilom . resident of Troy.
As o member of the Territorial Council, he made
q minority report against the prohibition of sla-
very in Kansas. He was Territorial Secretary
under Sam. Medary, and became acting Cover
nor. In his message, in 1861, he advised Kan.
sas to set up an independent Government, in
case of rebellion and civil war. He is now 3
Democratic member of Congress from New York,
and was chief among the flibusters during the
count At the famous "wake," last Thursday
night, he is represented as having mounted his
desk and indulged in some frantic remarks, but
as the confusion was SO great that not a word
could be heard, the world has probably lost the
benefit of his eloquent outburst
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

"yINpIcATED AT LAsT.-Tom Ewing ought to
be happy. Gen. Schofeld has written letter,
saying that the famous "Order No. IL was issued
by his command, and that Ewing, in issuing it,
only obeyed orders. That order was one of the
few commendable things that Ewing ever had
credit for; but as it was q great bar to his good
standing in the Democratic party, it must be a
great relief to him to have Schofeld take it all
upon himself. Having thus been acquitted of
the only really loyal act of his life, there is moth
ing in the way to prevent Ewing's becoming a
leader in the Democratic party.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

ts@ We occasionally find timorous Republic
can, who admits that he has no doubt great
frauds and intimidation were practiced by the
Democratic iparty in the South, but as SO many
votes were returned, they doubt the propriety
or justice of throwing ont votes, and changing
the result. Their clinehing argument is, that
'two wrongs do not make right" and it is
better to let it go. If Of these conscientious
gentlemen should have horse stolen, or should
be knocked down and robbed of his purse, we
presume he would not make any effort or use
violent means to recover his rshtful property.
The thief has got it; let him go.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-03-08

~ They call this corrupt and degenerate
age but when We remember that, ont of 1s5
Electoral votes, scattered all over the Union, Sc
lsctsd promiscuously firm. AL classes and condi-
tions, white and black many of them vergiug
upon poverty, and exposed to temptation, and
it was notorious that vast sums of money, run
ming up to the hundreds of Thousands, were in
readiness for the one who shonld bstray his par
ty, and give the single necessary vots to Tilden,
not could be found TO accept it at that price,
We must acknowledge that the age is not so cor
rupt as it has been represented. In all former
ages, aud in all nations, men have bsen found in
their country.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
NEEDLES,

The first suggestion of needles is given
IN the Bible, where it is recorded that
Adam and Eve sewed fig-leaves together.
Yes; but there was scarcely any sssew.
ing at that time, according to the pres
ent general acceptation of the term. 1t
was sewing" without needles. The
fibers OF plants flax is such a fiber
would supply the thread, and a thorn
spike, or any other small and sharp
point, would make holes in the materi-
ais. through which the fiber could pass.
The first needles used by the Egyptians
were eyeless, and made of bronze. Now
and then regular needle, though coarse.
was made. Its length was from three TO
four inches. 1t is generally believed
that needles were first introduced into
England in Henry the Eighth's reign.
Some years later, in the reign of Queen
Mary wife of Philip II, King of SPAIN,
they were comparatively plenty. They
were imported from Spain, which then
had almost monopoly OF the manu-
factu,e. These Spanish needles were
made of steel 1t has been stated, but
not On good authority, that the manu-
facture OF needles was recovered and re-
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
Capital.
Flood & O'Brien, Mackey

We have not exhausted the list by a
long way of men worth several millions
each, In fact, we have no means of de-
termining accurately the fortunes of a
considerable number of men who are
very rich. The number of men who are
millenaires in this State was never so
great as now. None Of them were rich
twenty years ago, and very few had fort
unes even ten years ago. Quite num-
Der of those who had large fortunes five
or six years ago do not now figure in the
list of millionaires. The ups and downs
OF mining interests have made the prin-
cipal difference. A considerable number.
also, who were not rich five years ago,
have large fortunes to-day. Financial
ruin in this State only means that
men In the hazards of business have lost,
with the strong probability that they
will more than make their losses good in
the future. If it is land of cups and
downs" there never was q country where
men got up SO soon as in this. There is
sp1ng, untlrlng energy-men who have
faith in themselves, in the country, and
in the good providence which is on the
side of all who honestly try to help
themselves.
We have purposely omitted from this
article the long list of men worth from
one to three million dollars. Room may
be found for this on another occasion.
There is not another country under the
sim where SO many men have made large
fortunes in so short time without CAPT.
tai for start. There is not another
young city in the world which contains
SO large a population OF wealthy mon.
These facts illustrate in striking way
the wonderful resources of this coast.
The men whose fortunes have been
enumerated are only middle-aged. It is
more than probable that some of these
or their heirs will be the richest men in
the world.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
A JEALOUS WTFEs UIsT5EE

Here is an amusing comedy of errors
with Partisan edge Nine. de Y. was
very jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One day he told her he
was going to Versailles, and when he
went ont she put Oh her bonnet and fol-
lowed him. She kept him in sight until
he turned into o passage which short
enel~ the way to the railway station,
where she missed him. She stood for a
few minutes in the passage looking
about, and suddenly saw a man coming
out of q glove-shop with rather over
tdressed lady. From the distance she
made sure the man was her husband
and without word of warning she gave
him three or four sounding boxes on the
ear. When the gentleman turned
around to confront his assailant she
perceived that she had made mistake.
and at the same moment she caught
sight of her husband, who had replen-
lshed his cigar-case at a tobacconists,
and was crossing the street. What
that she tainted IN the arms of the
stranger whose ears she had boxed.
while the other lady ran off as fast as she
could to avoid scandal The stranger,
who was comedian, was astonished to
find an unknown lady in his arms; and
while his ears were still tingling from
her blows he was again startled. A gen
tleman collared him, and shaking him
roughly asked him what he meant by
embracing lady in the street. "Why,
she boxed my ears and tainted %
Screamed the actor. "She is my wife, y
shouted the irate husband, sand would
never have struck you without cause -
The Infatuated gentlemen shook their
fists until the lady, who had been car
rieti into shop, recovered sufficiently
to explain how it had happened,
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23

IT appears from the very careful re-
port of Capt. Tyler, Government In
spector of the British Board of Trade
that the most potent cause of danger Oh
railroads arises from streams of traffic
running at different rates of speed, and
that they are easily prevented where only
passengers are carried. Thus, while on
the Underground Metropolitan railroad,
with traffic of 1855, 900 passengers pei
mile per annum, but no freight scarcely,
only four passengers were in 1875 in.
jured, out of 43,6OO,O 1000 conveyed, the
Midland railway, with passenger traffic
of only 24,376 passengers per mile pei
annum, but with huge freight traffic,
killed or injured 124 persons, out of 81,
764, 900 passengers conveyed. =
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
THE POTER OF EMORY

An Individual well known in London
by the name of Memory Corner
Thompson" was remarkable for an as
tonishing local memory. In the space
of twenty-four hours, and at two sit
tings, he drew from memory a correct
plan of the whole parish Of St. James.
This plan contained all the squares,
streets, lanes, courts, passages, markets,
churches, chapels, houses, stables, angles
of houses, and a great number of other
objects, as walls, parapets, stones, trees,
ETC., and an exact plan of Carlton House
and st. James Palace. He made out
also an exact plan Of the parish of St.
Andrew, and offered to do the same with
that of st. Giles, ST. Paul, Covent Gar
den, ST. Clement and Newchurch.
If a particular house in any given
street was mentioned, he would tell at
once what trade was carried Oh in it, the
position and appearance of the shop and
its contents. In going through large
hotel, completely furnished, he was able
veutUry from memory. He possessed IL
most mechanical memory, and he could,
by reading newspaper over night, re-
peat the whole of it next morning He
died in February, 1913, at the age OF Sc.
Mr.. Paxton Hood knew q man in Lon
don who could repeat the whole of Jo-
sephus; and William Lyon, like Thomp-
son, could read the Daily AdUertiser
every night and repeat it word for word
the next morning.
Mithridates, King of Pontus, had an
empire in which two-and- twenty lam
guages were spoken; yet it is asserted
that he had not subject with whom he
could not converse in his own dialect.
But in later times the royal inguist
has been eclipsed by the late Cardinal
Mezzofanti, who died in 1849. He had
a wonderful memory for the retention OF
words. and with grammatical intuition
which has never been properly
explained. He went on acquiring Ian
guages till, al the age of 20, he could
converse in upwards of fifty, besides
having an acquaintance with at least
twenty more.
He was at home in both of the dialects
of the Basque language, the most diff
cult in Europe; also, IN the different dia-
lects of German; with Englshnaen he
never misapp1ied the sign of tense.
Besides the foregoing, he was SO Tar
master of at least one Chinese dialect
that he delivered set speech 10 Chi
uese students at the Vatican. So con
yersant WIS he with all the dialects of
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23

sumed in the reign of "good Queen
Bess," and that the operator, German,
worked with great secrecy, in order to
keep the trade and profits all to himself.
About the year 1850, during the civil
war, and just after the decapitation of
Charles L, the art of matchmaking was
revived by one Christopher Greening, at
Long Crenden, a village in Buckingham
shire. The needles there and then made
were very coarse compared with those of
the present time. Finally, Redditch, a
small town in Worcestershire, twelve
miles from Birmingham, became the
center of the needle trade.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23

each tongue that he could at once detect
the particular country, province or dis
trlct to which the speaker belonged.
He himself was upon several occasions
mistaken for native of totally different
countries. According to his own words,
as related to his friend Cardinal Wise.
man, his method of studying Language
was to read straight through the grammar,
and when he had arrived at the end he
was master of the whole. He never
forgot anything he once heard or read
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
ITEaIs FOR MOTHERS


we hope that mothers will remember
that good brandy is a cure for summer
complaint; IN bad cases a teaspoonful in
milk three or four times day.
A flannel cloth wet in hot brandy or
better, canphor and brandy mixed and
heated, Will relieve the pain in the bow
els, If frequently laid over the stomach
and bowels.
Bits of scraped ice are better on the
tongue t',a1i drinks of water.
For stings and poisons, a strong solu-
ton of saleratus and water immediately.
and then frequently applied, gives relief
and sure cure.
For burns, an Immediate application
OF flour covering the burn and wrapped
so as 60 exclude the air; then burn lard
TIL tits quite brown, and apply, and re
lief and cure will soon come. Do not
wash off the flour if it clines. but mt
the lard over it.
Atnight, in extreme warm weather q
lemon squeezed in tepid water, to sponge
OIL the tlred-out little body, will give
rest to mother and child. SaIeratns is
good, but lemon is best. Even wasbino
of the little feet, neck end palms of the
hands in tepid, never very cold. water
viii induce healthfui sleep.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-23
FORTUNES PETS.
Rich Men of CdIifo31afa-4 List of q Ecu
of the Most Prominent.

Rich Men of CdIifo35aid-4 List of q Fetc
of the Most Prominent.
49, From the San Francisco Bulletin.]
No doubt the richest mining firm in
the world is that of Food and O'Brien,
Mackey and Fair. Their interest in two
bonanza mines, at the present depressed
prices, cannot be less than 500, ZOO, 900.
They own the Bank of Nevada, with a
paid-up capital of $40, O0O,0 600 and re-
serve fund of $1,000, 900. They are re-
puted to own $2O,OOO,OOO in United
States bonds. Their real estate and
other property in sight cannot be worth
less than 100000. Besides these in
vestments they own a controlling inter-
est in several other mines, some of which,
like the Best & Belcher, are believed to
be on the line of rich deposits, and may
at some future day be classed in the list
of "bonanza mines" Add these items
together and we have a total of $780,
600, 900, which is an underestimate of
their wealth, but how much so we can
not say. The annual income on this
property is not less than $40, 900, 900.
The individual interests cannot be de-
fined, but we should hesitate to indorse
the statement of the German fnanciers
in this particular 1t would not surprise
us, however, if satisfactory proof were
offered, that the entire assets of these
four men would foot up 500, 900.
Next in order, we should estimate the
wealth of the four principal owners of
the Central Pacific railroad and the
other connecting roads of California
Stanford, Huntington, Crocker, and
Hopkins. These men are the largest
owners of railroad property in the
world. Most of this property is incum-
bered by the issue of mortgage bonds.
But we suppose that these forrr men have
a clear margin of $5O,000,000. Besides
railroad property they own great deal
of land, town sites, alternate sections,
country seats, real estate, and SO On. 1t
| is low estimate to say that they are
worth $50, 100000 apiece. Prospective
ly they are worth vastly more. 1t may,
indeed, turn out, with their nearly 5000
miles of railroad and their large amount
of real estate, that six or seven years
hence they may be, if not now, the rich
est men in California or in the United
States. For the present, however, we
adhere to our estimates, and set down
the men who are the principal owners OF
the Bank of Nevada and the great bo-
nanza mines, as the richest men in this
State and set down the fotir men who
are the principal owners of the Central
Pacific railroad and connecting roads, as
ranking next in order, with the qual1f-
cation that we do not hold ourselves
responsible for these calculations. They
have at least the merit of shrewd
guesses, with considerable data to forti-
fly the opinion. No doubt other names
might be added to the following list OF
those of our citizens having fortunes OF
81, 600, 900 and upward:
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CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS,
THERE are 800 Baptist churches in
Mississippi.
The ringleader of the Cincinnati mob
gets two years imprisonment.
In this country the proportion of per-
sons having sound teethis one in eighty.
PEOPLE who use opiates have disa-
greeable breath and offensive perspira-
ton.
The most melancholy season of the
year is when we have dog days and cat
nights.
COMMUNISM has never taken any hold
in Holland, owing to the ardent love of
industry inspired into its inhabitants.
A COMPANY is being formed in San
Francisco for the purpose of erecting
and operating skating rink with arti-
fetal ice.
A TRAMP applies to lady for employ
ment. "I have nothing for you to do, u
replies the lady. "Ah, madam" sighs
the applicant, elf you only knew how
little work it would take to occupy me. ,
THE Austin (Nev) Reveille makes the
proud boast that of all the boys that have
graduated from its Office only one has
been hung, but three sent to states pris-
on, and not solitary one has been a
member of the Legislature.
On California ranch, recently, whea
which was standing in the ear at quar-
| ter before 5 in the morning was eaten
| as biscuit at quarter before 7, having
| been cut, threshed, ground and baked
in two hours.
MORE than 5000, 900 cans of corn are
now packed in Maine annually, and sold
in every part of the world, yielding q
business to that State of about 81 $50, 900,
and giving profitable employl,et to from
5000 to 10000 people during the pack
ing season.
Few persons know that there is such 6
church as the Congregational Methodist
Church in this country. There is such
an organization, however, and it is said
to have 10000 members. A newspaper
is published in its interest at Cave
Spring, Ga. The doctrines and usages
of this church are Methodist; its polity
is Congregational, under General Con
ference, which prescribes uniform rifles
| for the whole BODY.
THE County Commissioners of Law
renee county, in which the city of Dead
wood is located, have adopted an order
that, their county is overrun by Indians
and that as the Government has failed
to give protection, they (the Commits
sioners) will give " the sum of $3.50 fol
the body of each and every Indian, deat
or alive, killed or captured within the
boundaries of said county, upon the sat
isfactory proof being given that such In
dian was killed or captured within sait
county by the person claiming such re
ward"
A DIR. G. w. SIEMENs, in England, es
Inmates that the falls Of Niagara do a
much work in year as 266, 900, 000 ton
of coal, at the rate of four pounds pc
horsepower consumption in an hour
He considers that the falls might driv
an electrical machine, the current O
which might traverse a copper rod. HI
asserts that a rod three inches in diane
ter would transmit 1000 horsepower a
far as thirty miles, and that at the ent
the electricity could be used to Great
motion OF light. For the latter Their
would be sufficient to equal $1,000
candles.