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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
ABOUT THE PLATFO Il N
Parsons Sun, 81

And this is what Col. d. r. Anthony, ed
itor of the Leavenworth TINES, says about
greenbacks and the State platform Of the
Republican party. Kansas has had no
bolder, ADLER and more consistent advocate
of the greenback than Col. d Il. Anthony
As 20 the pres ssnt State platform: Miit
Reynolds was the chairman of the commit
tee on resolutions; lie bad prt Won ly stated
in his paper that the platform ought 10 be a
ringing greenback document, that IT ought
to take advanced ground upon this import
ant question, and that il ought to be drafted
by the editor of The TIMES Though not a
member Of the convention We were invited
by Mr.. r ynolds To sit with his commit, e,
and lie advised with Us upon every point
bearing upon this question. The platform,
as Mr.. Reynolds reported il 10 the convention,
was good greenbsck pat tfoIm as any
greenbacker could ask for, and in that shape
it met the hearty approbatiOn OF at least four.
fifth of the convention.
THE TIMrs Claims, without ee0tism, that il
has done fully as much as any other agency
TO build up a healthy GreeEback sentiment
in X snsas, and IL doesn't about tack"
We are pleased that Milt Reynolds, one
of the genuine currency refcrmer OF Kansas,
endorses our statement
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10

Nearly all the political orators now on
the stump on both sides in the north con.
fine themselves almost exclusively to dis
cussion Of the currency question, regarding
that as paramount to all others, but down
in Dixie they have another issue quite su-
perior to any financial scheme that involves
hard or soft money. Gen. Toombs, of Geor.
gia, has published letter in which he says
that the first and greatest work to be done
by the Democracy is the destruction of the
Republican party" and the Atlanta Consi-
tp,on indorses the declaration of Toombs,
and adds that at il the only issue now be-
fore the country" Possibly, as soon as
these gentlemen get through with this little
job, they will turn their attention next to a
discussion of finance, the tariff laws, civil
service reform, the labor cspital controverl
sy, and other questions that seriously con-
Germ our material prosperity. The de-
struction of the Republican party in the
South has been already pretty we'll started,
it must be admitted, owing to bulldozing,
rifle clubs, ku klux, and other similar in
strumentalities, but Its ghost, in the shape
of an Independent movement, already
stalks abroad in every Southern State TO
frighten and worry the inhabitants. Mr..
Toombs and his Southern Democratic yoke
fellows will find the Republican party in
the North very lively corpse fer some
wears to come
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
'lG They Will Only Let MS Alone u
New York Herald, 81

1t is Director Potter OF the broken Glas-
gov bank, who AXIS TO be 'let alone" He
who, with his brothers of the board, saw
the millions of other Peoples money in
trusted to their care poured out in the wild.
est speculations upon phantom securities,
now asks to be "let aione." They were "let
alone" too long. When the bank was TAX
ing acceptsnces BY the hundred thousand
pounds at time they wanted very much
to be "let alone" when these highly re-
spectacle people were le' ding money upon
cattle on the hoof, ranging the Pampas Of
South America they were unspeaksbly anx-
ious tn be "let olone." A burglar a. the
bank safe week ago would also have
prayed, if he ever did pray, to be ''let
alone !" but with all the opportunity to
steal that he could desire he could
in the deposits as these eminently
of business managed to make during
the long time they we're "let alone" They
were ''let alone" when cooking the balance
sheet. The wealthy and 'canny" people
Who got out of the sinking craft, getting
their poorer but thrifty fellow subjects of
Her Britannia Majesty to take their places,
are happy in the thought that they will Se
"let alone" when the assessments for losses
are sent around. Indeed, all concerned in
the management Of the bank did so much
toward bursting it when they were 'let
alone that there ia little chance Of their
being unmatched when they are picking up
the fragments 1t is the most refreshing
thing for years, this Director Potter's "if
they will only let us alone" 1t is, how
ever, approached in GOODNESS by the official
who congratulates the British public that
loes of four and half million dollars out
Of the grand total of fifty millions falls
at prerent upon the Rothschilds $50 n,uch
clear gain to puir Scotland
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
WHERE rs ALIENS.

Some Of the newspapers are inquiring
what has become OF the Grand Duke Alex
is, second son of the Gar Alexander, who
cut a figure in New York fashionable soci.
ETY. five or six years ego. The New York
Times takes up the question, and re.
marks:
About the time the Turco- Russian war be.
gan he same over here with several vessels,
and at last ccoun;s had sailed from the wa
tiers of san francisco to the Red Sea, 10 OBJ
serve naval movements in the Deighborhood.
That Is more than twelve months ago, and
nothing has since been heard, directly or in
directly, of Alexis, TO whom a certain senti-
mental interest attaches on the part of a
number of young women, who danced
aud fiirted with him mildly while he So
journed in this city. There used 10 be sun
dry stories of his romantic passion for a
pretty Russian girl in humble station, whom
he wanted TO msrry-he did marry her, &C.
cording to some sccounts-and of his impe-
rial pa pa sending him on distant service for
his emotional indiscreiion. Is it possible
that he has eloped with his inamorta, or
that the Gar has thrown him into q my ste /.
rious dungeon, or banished him secretely to
Siberia, after the hidden and enigmatical
manner peculiar TO Muscovy: Whatever
the cause, Alexis has passed into so deep and
impenetrabie a shadow that the scores of Eu-
ropean correspondents, on the alert for every
bit of news and gossip, have not been able TO
bring him back to The light
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
BcU THE ICEBERG WAS MELT.

Governor Anthony is one of the most gen
ial, unassuming men We ever met, and i
some one will explain why lie should b'
Gale a huge ice berg We will be under a last
ing obligation.-Pran County Press.
Your question is perfectly in order. The
refrigerative cognomen referred to, was ap
piled to His ExCellency at period wher
not the slightest trace Of a shadow hae
arisen to bedim the fruition of his Ions
cherished hope. At the State convention
however, the conquered hero was detailed
upon an expedition up Salt Creek, which
had the effect Of thawing out the old gentle
man considerably. And as the chemical
affinity of salt for ice is very great, proba
bly, by the time he made his visit down t.
Pratt he vas thoroughly melted.-Hutchin
SON Interior.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
An Honest CongessiO,.

The grain crop OF Kar sas this year will ag-
gregete the enormous amount of 30,O00,OcO
bushels of wheat, and lOO,0oo,oc0 bushels of
corn, ranking her as the second grain pro-
ducipg State in the Union-and not twenty
years old as State, Think of it.-Linle Rock
Gosettc, 2s
Yes, think of it. Oh, think Of it, that
the Say ayhawking," Republican border State
of Kansas, only seventeen years old, should
beat and so immensely distance its chivalric
bourbon-ridden, Democracy-cursed neigh
Dor Ar-Kansds early three times as old.
But then, there are no rifle clubs in free
Kansas. Elections there are free and un-
trammelIed, thanks to repubiioan ideas pre-
vailipg. And yet, the vile, lying, deceiv-
ing, venal Democratic sheets published in
Arkansas spend all their time and what
little brains they have in denouncing that
which makes other States prosperous and
the want of which keeps Arkansas down,
viz: Republican principles and Republi-
can rule-Fut Smith, Ak, Nn Era.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
MISSIONARIES FOR AMERICA.

The japanese are an enterprising people /;
indeed, they have been described as tie
Yankees Of the East. In striking contrast
with their stereotyped neighbors of China,
they have made more advances toward con-
formity with Western civilization in quar-
ter Of century than the Celestials have
done in three Centuries. Bot they are not
content with borrowing They wish to re-
turn the favors they have received. An
enthusiastic sect called the Nishi Hoganii
is erecting school houses near its temples
where English will be taught IN addition to
the usual japanese course. The schools
are intended only for educating priests, Of
whom select few will be sent as mission
aries TO America and Europe when their
education is finished. Nishi Hoganji
churches and colleges may be fOurishipg in
our cities not MANY wears hence.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
4 "a BE-

The cypher disps ohes which passed be-
tween tie Tilden managers and the parties
who were engineering the scheme to cap
ture an electoral vote, in Oregon, are said
to have formed part OF the large mass OF
kilograms submitted to the Morrison Com
mittee OF Investigation. The important
dispatches having been selected, the re-
mainder were returned to The Telegraph
Company, az supposed. But it is now al
legged that those relating to Oregon were
sent 70 Gen. Bu:lcr's room, end he retained
them. These, 1t is said, be disposed Of 20
the T-i5gle, receiving assurances that in
co.'s liberation uf this favor no attack should
DC made upon him on account oi any
course he might pursue in his game to cap.
ture the Governorship OF Massachusetts,.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
a Dlsg1stinG speech Properly CTiii.
ciEe0.
IArkansas City Traveller, 81

The Democratic speech last Friday night
was failure, completely disgusting every
man in the room. The Democratic portion
of our community is composed of men Of
too much sense to believe any such stuff
and blackguard az Mr.. Maynard, of the
Leavenworth Appeal, relieved himself of on
that occasion. His TRADE on Abraham
Lincoln would have sounded better down
in the swamps of Arkansas, during the war
than among the civilized citizens of this
State who, without thought of party, stood
eide by side in defence ofthe administration
Mr.. Maynard 80 foully slurred. Whatever
class Of men this gentleman (?) from Leav-
enworth has been in the habit of addressing
in his Democratic gatherings, We would in
form him that in this section of the coun-
try the Democrats are men of culture, and
are friends of the Union and honest govern
ment. At the close of the meeting he was
an object of pity to the half dozen people
that remained to hear him out.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
A GOOD REASON.

The Garnet Journal thinks the LaCygne
Journal, which is a hard money paper, has
substantial reason for the faith that is
in it, ard ssys:
The LsCygre Journal is hard money Green.
back redeemsble in Coin, q Ia John Sherman
and State Platform.) We do not know of q
paper in the State that has more reason 10 be.
Out Of the abundance Of the peoples woes
cccasioned by the policy of contraction that
the paper now advocates, it received about
twenty-fo columns of Sheriffs sales in one
batch this year. The delinquent tax list
took nearly two and a half pages, and now
the editor is running the foreclosures
by the County Attorney under tn new de-
nnquent tax collection act. In all we will
venture the guess, that the IACygne Josraal
gets 81 500 for playing the hard money fiddle
for the Redeemable in Coin Republicans Of
Linn county,
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
The Secretary Of state PerpetPases q
Joke ON the President.

Secretary Evarts is not success as a
story teller, but he sometimes sspires to a
joke. He perpetrated one at the Presi-
dents expense the other day, when at a
Cabinet meeting he presented the creden-
tials of Chin Ian Pin, the Chinese Ambas-
ssdor. They were written in Chinese
characters similar to those seen on tea
chests and packages of fire-crackers, on a
yellowish strip of paper about seven feet
long and one foot wide, neatly rolled on a
stick Of sandal-wood. The characters were
very large and heavy, being about three
fourths of an inch in hight. When Ev.
arts commenced to read TRANSLATION,
which had been made by Yung Wing, the
American educated attache, he gravely
handed the original to President Hayes,
saying: "Will you be SO good as to look
over the original, Mr.. President, to see if
the TRANSLATION is literal"
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
Fire In the Sal, Lake Po.,.Omce.

salt Lake Tribune, D.
Salt Lake last night had another very
narrow escape from terrible fire calamity
About 1l:30 o'clock three Young gentlemen
happening to call at the Office for their
mail, were much surprised to find the whole
room filled with smoke, and knowing thas
the stove ii anywhere would be within the
enclosure, looked through one of the boxes
and saw a mammoth heater in a red hot
condition from top to bottom, and the floor
beneath in fierce and spreading blaze.
Alarm was at once given. One of the
young gentlemen made dash at the regis
try window, another broke in the delivery
opening and night vGtchman Dobson and
Heath with several others threw themselves
against two Of the outside doors, and, the
whole crowd forming themselves imprumptu
into fire department made raid on the
water buckets and taps, and with rare
presence of mind soon had the fire ex-
,inguished. After all this was accomplish
ed, they awoke the young man who was
sleeping a few yards from the stove, and
threw him into cold sweat by explaining
how near the Postofiice, Wasatch Hotel,
and all the adjoing buildings, had come to
being totally destroyed.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
.CaDEnY OF SCIENCE

The eleventh annual meeting OF the
Kansas Academy of Science will be
held at Topeka, October Sth and 9Th,
1878. The following is the order OF exer-
cises:
Tuesday, October Sth-- 800 p. NJ
Business meeting at rr. A. A. Thompson
Office.
7:3OP. M.-Iu Representative hall, lee
ture by Prof T. F. Nudge, of Manhattan.
Subject: "The Rocky Mountains and their
fossils"
"Wednesday, October 9th 800 A NJ.
and 200 p. Mn Senate Chamber, reading
of papers on scientific subjects.
i. Connection Of the fossil, forests Of the
Dacota group in Kansas, with the fossil
forests of Greenland, by Prof. Il +. Nudge,
Manhattan.
>. On a new form of rain gauge, Prof J.
T. Lovewell, Washburn college.
3 On some Kansas minerals, Prof. Geo.
+. Patrick, State university.
4. On recent additions TO the list OF
Kansas Coleoptra, f. A. PoPenOe, To-
deka.
). On recent additions to the list OF
Kansas plants, Prof. J. II. Curruth, Law
renee.
6. On the dermal covering Of the Mos: =
sauroid reptiles of the cretaceous formation,
in Western Kansas, Prof. +. III. Snow, state
university.
Z. On the relation Of insects TO plants,
Miss A. +. Mosley, Wyandotte.
s. On the bite of the rattlesnake, Joseph
Savage. Lawrence.
9. On the habits Of Richardson's Spher-
mophile, 5. W. Wiiliston, New Haven,
Conn.
10. On the 80 called "Alkali" Of West
ern Kansas, Prof Geo Z. Patrick.
IL. On additions TO the catalogue Of
Kansas birds. Prof. +. III. Snow
II. Notes ou the antiquity Of mar, DIR.
A. III. Thompson, Topeka.
Is. On Dinosauri, :. W. Wiliiston.
IA. On the gas wells of Kansas, Prof. Il.
F. Nudge.
Is. On the remains of the mastadon in
Douglas county, Joseph Savage.
IL. On science popularized, Marcus Sfy-
Ter, Lawrence.
II. On the fishes of the Marais des Cygnes,
William Wheeler, Ottawa
Is. Geological exploration in the year
1878, Prof. L. +. Nudge.
IS. Botanical notes, +. A. Popenoe.
20. On the Giants Causeway and Fin
gals Cave, Prof. c. d. Merrill, Washburn
college.
p. On sound transmission by electricity,
Prof. j. T. Lovewell.
% On the recent discovery OF mounds
in Leavenworth county, Hon. +. &. Adams,
Topeka.
%. On the discovery of fine specimen
of saurian in Colorado, II. c. Towner,
Denver.
Wednesday, October 9th $50 p. min
Representative hall, lecture by Prof. Snow,
State university. Subject: "Ihe Birds OF
Kansas"
The Kansas Pacific viii sell round trip
tickets for one and one-fifth fare from
Leavenworth, Kansas City, Lawrence, Man
hsttan and Tonganoxie.
Reduced rates are given at the Teft house
and Gordon house to those in attendance
from distance
The public are cordially invited to at
tend the various exercises of the academy.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
GuCo TIMES FOR THE SHERIFF.,

The pc ople of Jackson county had no ides
how hard the times were and how terribly
they We're oppressed until told, last week, by
ID. Z. Mitchell. With our cribs full of corn
our gransries full OF wheat, our vast acr6s OF
ripening grain, our prairies covered with
stock, our debts ''growtng smaller by de-
grees, and beautifully scarce" our children
well clothed and well fed, being educated and
growing Up in intelligence, we were laboring
under the bl!ssful delusion that We were
pretty well oh.-Holon Recorder.
From the appe9rence of the Recorder,
with its columns, week after week, well
filled with sheriff sales, we should judge
that the Recorder is speaking ironically
when it talks so glowingly. OF universal
prosperity in that county. Contraction and
taxation undoubtedly make rosy-hued
prosperity for the lawyer, the sheriff, and
the printer, but possibly the prospect does
not appear so bright to the poor victims
Manhattan EatcTIriSe.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10

An entire family in Adair county. &C.
cording to Kentucky paper, is afflicted
with leprosy, and its memhers are pitiable
to see. Their hair has come out complete
ly, and the scalp has the appearance of
polished ivory. They have no eye-lashes
or eyebrows, and their skin, which is of a
scarlet color, peels off in dry fakes of the
size and appearance of a fish's scales. They
are such hidious objects that they are shun-
ned by everybody, and yet they drag out
year after year living death, and are de-
MED the consolation of diving. If these un-
foriunates we're in California they would
be pronounced Cinnamon, and pointed
out as examples of what people of the State
mi ght, and probably expect would become,
unless John and his whole tribe were sent
back tothe Flowery Kingdom,
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
rrrE Cns-NrY EOMMIS>ioNERS.

The Board Of County Commissioners yes,
terday transacted but little business out.
side the usual routine. The people Of the
county are thankful that they are men oi
sound judgment and nerve enough to pro-
tect them iEom the enormous tx which
the bondnoIIcrs demand. Niuety-nine
hun5relths Of the people heartily endorse
their action, and in order 10 make them
strong, the people should aid and sustain
the wise position they have taken, always
stand hy iaithinl servants.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
Tar i..sSrTsIH ocCORs.,
ss..ss2s ia siA- r sSGsiSs Jfs.E Ours
iss.IiHg .i.c si-~s.s moLth.


'ss.rIig shc si-~s.ss moLth.
Providence Journal
.iI,..gn will r-tail during lie nc nth Ire
pre-enilence OF baing The most ir.eresliD.
planet among TIE brotherhood. Having ~
recently passed his oppo-ition wi,h the sun,
lie II still u, ariy at his brightest phase, and
Is a'so very fayoraDly situated for observa-
ton. His rises now about o'clock in the
afternoon aEd reaches the meridian at IL.
At the close OF the month he will rise not
far from o'clock. He is therefore visible
throughout the whole night, and is readily
recognized in the eastern sky as soon as it
is dark enough for the stars to appear, by
his steady light and the absence OF other
stars in MS immediate vicinity.
Jupiter remains during the month an
evening star, and the most brilliant object
-. ong tie myriad stars that stud the sky,
siiI,""sh he has passed beyond his best po-
-Iliau iDr observation. He reaches the me-
r.dian about O'Clock, and sets Just before
Md light. At the end OF the month lie will
e.i about 10 O'Clock.
Venus still leads the morning stars, and
Is ftS approaching the sun. She rises now
about h III past four, little more than an
h.,,.r b,i fore sunrise. At the end of the
Il nth she will not rise till nearly 6 o'clock,
snd will be then so near the sun as to be
almost eclipsed in his rays The close
proximity Of Venus and Murcury have
made them objects OF special interest to
star gazers during the last week of Septem-
Der.
Mercury is morning star until the 24th,
and on the first OF the month rises and acts
at almost exactly the same time with We
nus, but ia too near the sun to be seen. He
is in con junction with mars on the 18th, in
superior conjunction with the moon on the
25th, but as thes phases are invisible they
are not Of much practical importance.
Mars is numbered among the morning
stars, but as he rises about half past five,
he il still too near the sun to be seen in the
morning twilight. At the last of the month
he rises not far from six O'Clock, nearly
three quarters of an hour before the sun,
srd bright eyes may possibly catch a
glimpse of the ruddy star.
Uranus cannot he seen in October, unless
it be with a telescope in the early morn
ing.
Neptune is at his brightest, for he comes
into opposition with the sun on the 3lst !;
but II requires a GOOD telescope to get a
sight of tins star, whose mean distance
from the sun is m're than 2 2,7O0, ,OOO, 600 Of
mills
The October moon comes into conjunction
with Saturn on the 9th, two days before her
full On the 25th she is near Mercury, We
nus, and Mars, but as this is the day for
the new moon, the celestial quartette will
only be visible to the eye of the imagina-
ton. The planetary phenomena of the
month are singularly monotonous, but all
days cannot be field days in celestial an
mails, and the months are swiftly passing
that will carry us to the opposition Of Mars,
in 1879, as well as the years that will in
i-rvene before the transit of Venns, in
1880
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
POLITICAL ClRCl =.

The Democratic canvassers in one OF the
Missouri districts are travelling over the
country with a sort of political circus,
which the st. Louis Times refers to as fol-
lows:
The Democracy of Jasper have adopted the
camp meeting style OF canyassing that coun.
ty. They have what they call a "hickory
buggy, twenty feet long. covered with duck
ing cloth, and 2 nag stan floats the stars and
stripes. They lake with them also Q tent,
camping equipages, have their own driver
and cook their own meals on their travels
from point to place. Elch day they camp"
near the place Of speaking. and the proceed
ings over, they fold their tent and march on
for the next appointment In this way they
expect to "whoop up the boys" all along the
line. and not interfere with private families
during the campaign.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
DEsL.y.ES HUMAN FLESH.

From revelations made in Bridgeport
Conn, murder case, in which man was
deliberately murdered in order that his
body might be sold TO medical college, ii
would seem as if the crime were not an iso-
lated one. One person, a woman, testified
that she wanted to sell her body, and a
doctor directed her where she might
possibly find purchaser. That person,
said the witness, belonged to the Yale
Medical School, and told her to bring other
bodies, and that when she was dead he
would buy her corpse. An inference, de-
ducible from the testimony, is that body
selling in the East is a profession, and that
the people engaged in it are not scrlpulous
as to whether the subjects are dead or alive
a: the start in other words, men are xii ed
in order that their bodies may be sold.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-10-10
NiRGINI. IUsrICE.

The - Of Virginia prohibits marriages
between whites and blacks, and in case
recently tried the court held that such a
marriage, performed in another State,
where The focal Law sanctioned it was "ffGu-
dem Iegis OF the Virginia statute and could
not be pleaded in bar Of criminal prose
cution for lewd co-habitation. Persons
whose conjugal mates are not of the legal
complexion, had bs,ter steer clear OF the
Old Dominion.