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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-08-22

Still hot.
Wheat coming in lively.
Brookvilles prices the top.
L. c. Warner has received the appointment a. pos:
master.
". H. Gentry is again out after weeks sickness.
Several car losds of cattle have been shipped during
the past week, from here.
The merchants. have raised subscription in view OF
repairing the road to Dry creek. Work will be COM
menced Immediately.
pleasant party occurred at the residence of N d.
Nc comick's, Tuesday evening. The young people
trpped the light fantastic until the early hours
morning.
Mrs. Presbrey spent part Of Wednesday IN town
We regret to learn she has decided to remain in Salna
What will be Brookville's loss will be Salinas gain.
Last week our town was favored (O with Dramat-
ic and ventrlloquist entertainments. but few were
out to either entertainments. Boz.
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The AZOr..Blunders, or Worse.

There has been gross Encouragement on
the part Of the bead men Of the Liberian En-
odus Association. First, they allowed IT to be
had not been bought, and hundreds of negroes
locked to Charleston from different parts OF
the State, expecting To find the promised ship
at the wharf. This was bad enough, but the
responsibility could not be placed. sQuarely
upon the Association, and the leading menu
beers did undoubtedly exert themselves to the
utmost to give shelter to the ne4r arrivals, and
TO procure employment for them. For the
second mishap there is no excuse. The ca
pacity OF the Azor was known. There was no
difficulty in ascertainipg how many passcn-
gers she could lawfully carry. Yet, after she
sengcr lists had been made and re-nade, II
was found that she had aboard forty
passengers more than her complement:
Forty-nine unfortunates were picked out and
sent ashore. The next morning these forty:
nine and some others had mystertously found
their way back 10 the Azor, and the process
through with again. Until yesterday, when
Capt. Holmes and the Collector Of Customs
took the direction Of affairs, there was no
regularity, no system, no punctualty:
been sent ashore appear to have paid for their
passage. These have their household goods
in the depths OF the hold, where they cannot
Whole Ss dea e 8 " Adds t to the eSS disappoinsme aas
which they endure with q composure akin to
despair, Is the actual loss for Q time OF clothes
provisions and implements. The Association
promises to take care OF those who arc left
behind, and to furnish them with nccessaries.
In this business. good heartedness and bad
management go together.
1t Is difficult to comprehend that there was
nothing more than laundering in the conduct
OF the Exodus Association, In connection
with the passenger lists. At leastit would be,
II the actors were other than colored people.
These have no sense Of order, no business CO.
pncsty. Their aims are so exalted that they
pay no heed TO small things. The trouble Is
that talk about q higher civilization will not
appease hunger or quench thirst. tits evil
dent that much money has been wasted in
delay and bungling. and 1t Is certain that. in
its present shape, the Association Is wanting
in both foresight and judgment This can be
remedled later, If the experiment about To be
made shall prove successful. Our hope Of Its
success Is weaker, now that we have seen the
emigrants. They are not OF the stuff OF which
pioneers are made. They seem to he quiet,
patient docile people; but where are the
young, stalwart intelligent laborers and me-
chanics whom one would expect TO lead the
a OF the migration of a whole rnce from one
Continent to another? The number Of wo-
men and children Is excessive. For the most
part the best OF the emigrants are the oldest
and most mature, those who physically are
ill-fitted for the struggle with the diseases. the
dangers and difficulties Of Il new settlement
in q new country. We hope for the best
Neus 0na Courier.
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New Trial.

Supreme Court, November Sd, 1877. F. NJ.
Pope, ct al. VS.. r. A.. Griffin.-Onlnion.
Willard, {. j. In this case there was u qucs-
tion OF fact, as TO whether the defendant had
rendered himself liable for goods sold and de-
}lvered toa third party. 1t was the province
Sf the jury to determine, as matter Of fact,
from the testimony, whether there was a vcr-
bal promise TO pay for goods sold and deliver
ed 10 such third person, and to determine the
character OF such promise under instructions
as to tho law, whether 1t was IN original pro-
mise or o guaranty Of the debt OF another,
and whether the promise extended to O single
transaction, or to- series OF transactions; and
II to O series OF transactions whether il was
subject toany Limitation as to time. These
facts were to be made out either by direct
proof or as reasonable differences from other
facts proved.
The judge charged, that II the Jury should
find that the original responsibility was upon
the defendant, for the account of 1873, his lin
biiity. continued upon tho principal OF agency
Established, until the same should be reyoke ed
by the principal.
TO 1874, and did not embrace 1875. The charge
virtually takes away from the jury, the aues-
tlon OF fact, whether by the terms Of the ar
gument. IT was TO extend beyond 1874; virtu-
ally holding as o broad proposition OF law,
That II the defendant authorized the sale and
aeliyery or the goods In 1874 that was iI1tself
sufficient authority to sell and deliver in 1878.
and that the onus OF showing express revoca.
ZION ire reS h,at on te defendant: On the contra
e. oa.oSh Was vi kie ptatHtlU y OF snow
ing that the terms Of the transaction were
either general and uulimitee, or that thcy ex.
tended to 1875. TIL charge relieved tho
plaintif from this burden. and Imposed an
improper burden on the defendant ii Is there
FIRE erroneous.
The proposition which the defendant re.
quested the judge TO charge are open to the
objection Of calling on the Court TO deter.
mine questions Of fact.
The charge made upon the plaintiffs re
quest was calculated TO mislead the Jury rs "a
the nature OF their duties. In the same dircc.
tlon towards which that portion OF the charge
already noticed tended.
There must be n new trial.
Mc1ver and Haskell. Associate Justices, con
cur. 80.
Filed March 9Th, 1878.
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New York, with her II, 120; sPennsyl-
vanIa, with her 81, 10S; Illinois, with her
ALTO; Ohio, with her 1870; and. Indi-
ana, with her 1858 illiterates, need more
teachers and more schools, and less labor
strikes, and would get q just proportion
of this national bounty.
One of the highest duties imposed up
on the National Government by the con-
stitution is, "To promote, the general
welfare, and secure the blessings OF lib
erty to ourselves and our posterity."
How can Congress do this more surely,
economically, and safely than by appro-
priating the proceeds OF the sales of the
public lands to lifting the nation out Of
the sales Of the public lands to lifting the
nation out of the depression, dangers, and
] 600, 900 illierate adult citizens? That is
n load no free government can long car
nv it is O disease so widespread that,
unless cured, it will certainly be fatal to
liberty, and its only cure Is the free COM
mon school. This is q que ,tion more vi
tai to the interests OF a free Government
than tariffs, banks, money, or politics.
Compared with it they lie upon the sur
f,ce, while this goes to the very root and
narrower the Republic.
The restoration of the Southern States
to equal prosperity with the Northern,
though it may be aided from without,
vet 1t must spring from within them
selves. and not from without; tho vis
nncdicat,ir nature must be their W
readiness. and willingness in public edu-
cation to march up abreast Of the most
enlightened nations of the nineteenth
century, and keep step with them. This
healing power must come, II it comes at
all, through the education and training
TO industry and foresight Of her indolent
and ignorant masses. These states now
have full opportunity to do whatever they
wish to do and can do; and the rest OF
The country is willing to aid them in all
right efforts. But neither they o We
should expect their restoration, that is
their regeneration, in less than at Least
one generation. Ignorant suffrage a in
that time he extirpated by laws so just *
the individual ~ to deprive no one of q
right he now possesses and'so preserVa
tive of free government as to admit NJ
one to the right OF suffrage, after a Ger
tain date, who has neglected to learn to
read and write. Peace, prosperity, ant
genuine democratic republican freedom
will then return to these States, and CAPT
tai and immigration. will no longer g
two thousands miles west to find q home
b ut will seek to enjoy the mild china n
and prolific soil Of our Southern 8 .ates.
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Is it Deception or a Strange Pheno.
mena?

Two negro boys, aged respectively sixteen
and thirteen years, the sons OF Benjamin
Washington, who lives In the vicinity OF
Central station, lp this County, were brought
to this place last Saturday By County Com
missioner Johnston. Their disease oratfiiction
tif 1t Is either,) is the most singular we have
ever seen. They have, at intervals, what they
call "spells,'' and when the "spells'' COM
mence coming on, they begin to growl like q
dog-from O growl they barking,
md soon become perfectly furious, biting and
swapping &C everything within their reach.
we say one Of them bite q piece out Of the
edge or q square post, and also bite Off the
end Ola single which was held to him by a
gentleman present They frequently make
ut PERSONS within their reach, n 1t becomes
necessary to hold them to prevent their
biting. We saw them bite mouth fulls out OF
the clothes OF their father who was present.
The only change we noticed in them from the
Hctiohs Of the dog, was D disposition OCCASION
ally to kick like a horse. They would turn
their heels towards the object Of their hatred,
and standing on ~all.fours, kick with all the
TheDfs. Earle. gentlemen OF high medical
reputation and who, as above stated. exam
ined thei9 give 1t az their opinion that The
disease isg form Of epilepsy. bordering on In.
j. was!a cifeaafNcase OF deception, but the opin:
Btaggers us: nnd IL 1t is not deception. II is
certainly the strangest phenomena. we have
ever seen or heard of. The boys are now con-
fined In the jail at this place. and will be, on
The certificate of the physicians, sent TO the
asylum wberi we trust these cases will un-
dergo O tboronsh scientific Investigation
',JPickens SsRlinsET T. ~.
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Wednesday,, April "a, 1878.
ucati

In another part of this issue Of the
Press and Banner we publish a exceed
angly interesting speech delivered before
the american Social Science Associa-
tion- at Saratoga, New York, by Dexter
A. Hawkins, Esq, of New York Bar.
This essay is replcte with valuable infor-
NATION and affords much food for re-
Election on the most important question
now before the American people-the ed
ucation Of the masses. He clearly
proves, aside from the actual advantages
to society in the elevation Of individual
members, that as a matter of public econ
omy that it is cheaper to educate tina to
punish. The author when speaking of
the South calls things by rough names
sometimes, but nevertheless, upon the
whole there is but little in it which we
might not endorse in q somewhat modi-
fled form.
We know no reader will regret having
read, the able speech of Mr.. Hawkins,
and we doubt not the following figures
in reference to what Abbeville county is
doing will be interesting. We give the
number Of school children from the last
enumeration in 1875, and the amounts to
be collected from the Auditors assess
ment of taxes which he will commence
collecting on the first of next month:
Children attending school......""..5,293
not attending school...-...".4,552
Total number of children ...-"...9,S
TO educate children the Constitution Of
the State levies an advalorum tax of two
mills upon all the property of the State,
Besides setting aside the capitation tax for
the same uses: In Abbeyille county
Two mills Observation-Disclosures 81
Polls assessed ............ $4,000
Making q total of."..--.-... $l6,672,5l
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PARLOR sU1TEs.-six Chairs, Hair Cloth
or Reps. S2l, 81, S2. -. y

PARLOR sU1TEs.-six Chairs, Hair Cloth
or Reps, 81, S2, s8. IL,
PARLOR ROCKERs.-Carved Top, Hair
Cloth or Rep. 5000, SlI.00, Sl4.00, $780,,
MISUNDERSTANDING and Cotton, $3.50,
$500; Shuck and Cotton, S3.755, SIZE; Cotton S9.O0
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tops. so, s25, $50, SIS,
$40, s+5, $50; Marble tops upwards TO sl5O. 70 t,
PARLOR SUITS.-Seven pieces, Hair Cloth
or Reps, SIS, $50, $40, $40, $50, 500, sl0O, sl25y Nine
pieces, Leather or Cane, $50; Eight pieces,
Fine, upwards to $50. r.-I .r.- So. /,
.., CHAMBER SUITS.-Imitation Walnut or
Oak. $50; Ter pieces, solid head, carved top,
s24, SO, $34, $40, sI5, $50. M n"-1
Ct. DRESSING CASES.-Ten pieces, s40,s 3l5,
$50, SD, $50; Ten pieces Walnut SO, $50, 800,
500, ten pieces Walnut upwards to 5000.
CHAIRS.-Cane seat, per half dozen 1915,
Cane sent, Dining half dozen, $s.75, Cane seat
bent Dining. per half dozen $1,000, Split seat
ner half dozen $3.50, Best Cane seat, $40.
ROCKERS.-Wood Sent Arm, $500, Wood
Sent Nurse. sl:0G; Cane Seat Nurse, $3.50 Cane
Seat Arm, S.75. ~ ~ ~.
WALNUT BUREAU sUITs.ATen, pieces,
enclosed Wash Stand, So. s45, $50; Ten pieces,
Marble top, enclosed Wash Stand ,S45, SD, So,
$50, SOS; Ten pieces, marble top upwardsto 8l2O
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TERMs-Twe Dollars a wear, in advance
or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if pay
.nient is delayed. ,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be inserted at
he rate of Ono Dollar per inch for the
first insertion and Fifty Cents for each
subsequent insertion.
Greatly reduced rates will be given to
those WHO advertise by the quarter or by
the year.
All obituary notices, tributes of respect,
and other matter OF a personal or private
nature will be charged for at the usual
advertising rates.
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Iwhite cold. total.

rzliteracy Above the Age of 81 IN the
Territories IN 1870.
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white. l~colorcd. total.

Wite7acy Abovc the Age Of 81 IN the
Northern States in 1870.
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TO THE PUBLIC.

My customers know that have heretofore led the Furniture trade ofthe South,
STYLE quality and prices. 80: efat . tgEr ~ gu%S# ~sDHt5e
The time has com when these goods can be purchased as cheap from m Q asin
the North and West. Z ...0 .grtt7gzs b@@f61 49,
I do not 90 backwards but continually raise the standard Of my goods, and add
new styles I have made Iedue sksn in prices ice, wherever Ssysr possible a and spared no Z
l respectfully invite you TO ean and examine my stock and prices before urchas-
It would make the list too large to describe and copy all the different prices OF
Secretaries, Dwarf Libraries and Book Cases, manufactured by me, and Therefore,
this list contains only few Of the prices Of goods kept by me. #n% Igss1 go
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October 81, 1877, IL m.

No charge for freight, drayage II packing. 10y
~ 20 Thanking you for past favors, I remain yours respectfully. 1900.
q " .y~@aeo! @. V:@DeGRAAF.
October 81, 1877, 12 m. 4H.taai :'aAk E2a@s 94n8ssE3
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and "knowing, dares maintain them"
The State of South Carolina, and indeed
the entire South has not upon the floor OF
Congress, a truer friend, a more earnest
and devoted advocate, or a more faithful
public servant than the distinguished
gentleman whom I now have the privi-
lcge and pleasure Of introducing,
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken
our immediate Representative at the Ma
tional Capitol.
Col. Aiken was received with great ap-
plause, and entertained the audience for
half an hour in his inimitable style,
giving q brief account of his steward
ship while in Congress at Wash.
ington. He related his contact with
Hewitt in a most satisfactory manner 70
the audience, full of particulars of which
had however been previously published
in tho Press and Banner. He thought
the South had more friends among the
Northern Republicans than We had
among the Northern Democrats, but be.
lieved that Dur friends in either party
were few. He conveyed the idea that the
South was a political orphan, without
friends anywhere. He said that South
litical party in Congress. The Republi
can Representatives had the numerica
majority, while the Democrats had thu
greatest intellectual weight.
He believed that a move would soon bt
made to pension all the soldiers VIII
taught on the wrong side in the late war
The speaker said that the contest o
O'Conner, of Charleston, for the seat nov
held by Cain had been dismissed becaus
O'Conner had not complied with the Law
in reference to taking of testimony.
The contest between Smalls and Tilmal
Rainey and Richardson is still before tn
House. The Democrats he though
would not be admitted, but he believe
the seats Of the negroes Smalls and Raj
ney would be declared vacant at the clos
: of the session. g -.
! Our space and brief notes forbid an ex
: tended. account of the Colonel's speech
for which omission we must crave tn
. readers PARDON
t The President appointed the followin
named delegates to the next Count
Conventions. Hon. A. Burt, J. s. Cotf
ran, w. Fl. Parker, B. w. Barnwell, N
l,'P. DeBruhl, 8. G.. Douglass, w. A. Lee.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-08
DID MOVES COMMIT PER
- sUA
A Fiat Denial Under Oath ls efuted
ny over ~ \ Aelnning Evidence.

JURY
A FRAT Denial UnAer Oath n xefutea
by over ~ wAelming Evidence.
From the Atlantic Constitutional
When Noyes was before the Potter
Committee he swore positively that he
had never been clOseted with Stearns
and the Republican members of the
Returning Board of Florida. This de-
nial was made in rebuttal of state
ment made by Judge William Archer
Cooke. We referred the other day to
Judge Cookies letter in which he said
that he was ready to 60 before the
committee and prove that Noyes had
lied. Mr.. Rippey has already sustain.
the editor of the Albany "Advertiser,"
who was stationed in Tallahassee dur.
ing the count as . newspaper CORES.
pondent, comes forward with his testi.
mony, which 10 that Of an eye.witnsss.
Mr.. McIntosh, the editor alluded to,
called upon Judge Cooke at the State
House one morning for the purpose of
obtaining ticket Of admission to the
deliberations Of the Returning Board.
He found the Judge pacing the Aoor
in the front of the Office of McLin, the
Secretary of State. In response to an
inquiry, Judge Cooke told Mr.. McIn-
tosh that McLih and Cowgirl had lock-
ed hun out. He appeared to be much
excited. Shortly afterward, while the
Judge and the newspaper correspond
ent were talking in the hall, McAin's
door opened and N0yes and Stcarns
came walking out together. Now,
thia IN the featimOnv of an ave. witness
"a gentleman who was compelled by
the duties of his profession to know
Noyes at least by sight.
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To the charge that the Democratic
party is hostile to the Union soldiers.
which is SO often reiterated by the
Radical papers and politicians, Sena.
tor VOORHEES, in his late speech made
the following reply:
"But in addition to all other ACCUSE
tions, Democratic members of Con-
gress, and especially those from the
South, are continually charged with
disloyalty to the Government aud with
an nnfriendly spirit toward Union
soldiers.. call attention of the SOL
diers of Indiana to the record of the
last session of Congress on the subject
of their pensiOns-s bill for the pay.
ment OF all arrears TO pensioners, If:
living, and in case of death to their
heirs. 1t also provided that all PEN
sions ON account of death or wounds
received or diseases contracted in the
service Of the United States during
the late war Af the rebellion, which
have been graated, or which shalF
hereafter be granted, shall commence
from the date of death or discharge
from the service of the United States
The Seaate refused its sanction to this
Just aud humane measure. The bill
TO enforce the law giving disabled
soldiers the preference in places Of ap-
pointment /; the bill increasing the pen-
sion of soldiers who lost an arm below
tho elbow, or leg below the knee the
bill giving TO children of . deceased
soldier the pension Of the widow upon
her remarriage; the bill doubling the
pension TO persOns who lost both .
hand aud foot, or had both members
90 injured az to permanently disable
them; the bill giving peraons who lost
both hands, or both feet, or both eyes,
q pension of $72 per month; also, the
bill giving three mon hs extra pay to
the soldiers Of tho Mexican war. All
these and other bills of kindred char
acter originated In and passed that
body which 10 60 often stigmstized %
The Confederate House; and but few,
II any, of them commanded tho sup
port of the Senate. On this record
invoke the candid Judgment of those
Who periled their lives to preserved
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-08
STATIsTICIANs who have thoroughly
studied the subject set down the entire

STATIsTICIANs who have thoroughly
studied the subject set down the entire
indebtedness OF this country, national.
state, municipal, railroad and individ-
ual, at $lS,C0l,O0O,CS0. The interest
upon this amount at ten per cent. is
81, ,SC9. .Co9CJ0. This is the amount
that the working, producing people of
this country are taxed for the benefit
of the privileged capitalists. This
crushing debt was msstly created un-
der an inflated currency. and now
under the Republican system of finance
the currency has been constantly con-
trscted with the purpose OF making
this vast burden payable upon the
narrow basis of gold standard. The
people are loud in their
boasting that they have got rid of the
OF negro slavery, but If this
policy, this system ofrobbery
is to prevail, the Calling yoke has only
been transferred from the shoulders
of the negroes to those of the millions
of white toilers in the land, who will
become the mere hewers Of wood and
drawers of water, to . class of priyi-
legel, non. producing tyrants.
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THE bullionists are boasting that re-
sumption has already been accomplish.
ed /; that though some four months
will intervene between this and the
taking effect of the ResumptionAct, the
difference between paper and silver
and gold is substantially wiped out and
the three kinds of currency are nearly
on par with each other. If this be
true, why do they so bitterly oppose
the Repeal of the Resumption Act,
which seems to have been so unneces.
sary to the accomplishment of resump-
tion, as, according to their assertion
that condition has come about before
the law takes effect? The people have
little faith that resumption can be
maintained, but believe that after the
act goes into effect the premium on
gold will go jumping up and the debt
or classes will be again at the mercy
of the money lenders, and they de-
mand the unconditional repeal of an
act which has thus far wrought so
much ruin and distress in the land.