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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
NO Traces of stewarCs Body Yet EsIs-
covered.

New YORK, Nov. 18.-EIeven days have
elapsed since the remains of 4. T. Stewart
We're stolen from the vault in the churchyard,
and still the mystery surrounding the rob
rumors are afloat at police headquarters, but
at q late hour Superintendent Walling said
there was nothing new and that the body
had not been found, and a gentleman familiar
| with every detail Of detective work from be-
ginning to end said to a reporter that no man
in the world, except the men who did the
work, knows any more of the whereabouts Of
Mr.. Stewards remains than you do.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
Am Hnstfs utfOn for the Silent.

JERSEY CITY, NJ Nov. 18.-The new Domi-
nican convent was formally consecrated yes
terday. The edifce Is built in the Gothic style
Of pressed Philadelphia brick, trimmed with
brown stone, and cost $4,000 Silence will be
maintained in the institution daily % out Of
"a hours, for lifes pleasures are there re-
nOunced.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
MF. stephens Supports the Policy and Dis
apprOYes of Mr. HILLS Letter.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-An interview with
A. FL. Stephens is published. He expresses
his approval of the Presidents Southern
policy in which he didn't understand there
was going to be any change, and his disap-
proval of Senator Hills letter criticising the
Presidents course.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
Gseath Resulting from Struggle In n
Mid Hole

JERSEY CITY, Nov. 18.--A terrible story is
told from Trenton of an old water cress gath
erer, Charles Yopp, who got into mad hole,
self. and he remained twenty hours Re was
at last rescued, but only to die subsequently
of exhaustion.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
ITALY.

The Pope Congratulates King Rumbert.
ROME, Nov. 18.-Pope Leo has sent King
Humbert his congratulations for the Kings
escape from assassination.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19

The Democratic newspapers in Maine that
went "Greenbacking" after the election In
that State are hurrying back to honest~money
doctrines.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
National labor Congress To Be Held
mt WashinECOn,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-The Workingmens
Assembly of this city decided tonight to
Issue q call for O. national labor congress, to
expected that various unions throughout the
United States will send delegates to the con-
0Tesg.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
The Argentine Republic Makes q Demand


LONDON, Nov. 18.-The Argentine govern
rnent have dem anded Of the Gillian authori-
ties the release Of the American bark Devon
SHIRE which was seized In the Straits Of Ma
gellan by Chilian corvette. The Charterers
have decided against the seizure.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
FRANCE.

Expulsion of vi. Fourtou From the Cham
ber.
PARIS, Nov. 18.--The Chamber Of Deputies
to-day invalidated the election of NJ. Four
tou: There was a very excited debate; M
Dufaure replied to some violent attacks Of
NJ FUurtOu.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
WEATHER PROBABILITIES,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 1 q. m.-For the
West Gulf States, clear or partly cloudy
weather; variable winds, mostly northerly,
stationary or higher temperature and pres
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
The Raltlnore and Osn1o galzroaa.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 18.-At general meeting
Of the shareholders Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, held to-day, the annual report
was read and adopted and the present board
Of directors reelected for the ensuing year.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-19
ing these demands reaches The correspondent
does not admit of q doubt Of its correctness.
AUSTRIA,
The Riots at seznfserg

VIENNA, Nov. ia dispatch from Lem
berg says thirteen influential citizens of the
place have been killed in the riots there Great
excitement still prevails.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Kansas Centennial Investment.

We do not believe the assertion can
be coutroverted that by far the larger
proportion of the vast number of peo-
pie who have moved to Kansas this
season from other States, had their at
tention attracted to our State by the
display made at Philadelphia, in 1876,
by the Kansas Centennial Commission
Is there any sensible person who now
doubts that our centennial investment
was judicious and profitable one
Alfred Gray, George A. Crawford and
Henry Worrall gave Kansas the best
advertisement she ever had-with the
aid of legislative appropriation
And there were several smart AL
ecks," who doubted the wisdom of
making that appropriation! Double
the amount would have paid even
heavier dividends than we are now re-
ceiving -Paota Spirit.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

in the kitchen floor if desired, or
wherever inclination dictates, and wa
ter is reached at depth of from SIX
to fifteen feet. A pump is placed up
on the pipe and in an hours time a
boundless supply of pure, cold, healthy
water is obtained.
HEALTHFULNESS.
Here is country in which malaria
finds no conditions favorable to It's
existence. Stagnant water is not to
be found either on or beneath the sur
face, The air, too, is in constant mo
ton; fresh breeze constantly fans
the cheek and brings health to the
lungs. In such an atmosphere as here
exists, the system is invigorsted and
labor is neither irksome nor fatiguing
These constant breezes also afford un
limited and valuable power for wind
mills of every description or for al
purposes.
CLIMATE.
Here is a climate which eXactl,
meets the requirements of the agricul
turist, whether he be farmer, orchard
ist, stockman or shepherd. In earl.
spring, when the soil is freed from tn
slender grasp of what little frost it i
subject to during the short winter, i
is in admiral condition for plowin.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Sweet Sixteen.

Web. Wilder. of the st. Joe Herald,
writing of the recently issued Kansas
Agricultural Report, which embraces
the Centennial Report, is moved to
say of the latter:
IfKansas should be blotted out of
existence tomorrow, this report alone
of her conquest at Philadelphia would
give her ali Immortality of glory. The
State went into the national arena
while in her sixteenth year and bore
away the renowned and peaceful vic
tory. There were States with two
centuries and half of history, and
the Union itself was hundred years
old, but they all united in placing the
crown upon imperial Kansas, the sweet
sixteen of the river, the prairie and
the mountain. Aud now the girl tells
her story of summer by the sea
shore.
The report contains seventy-eight
engravings, each worthy of Scribner's
Monthly. 1t is the only history of the
Centennial Exhibition yet published,
and is history of not only what Kan
| sas did there, but what was done by
every other State, by the general gov
eminent and by foreign nations.
! There are fine illustrations of all the
State exhibition buildings, and pic
| lures with brief record, of the Lon
don Exhibition of 1851, the Dublin In
ternational of 1858, the Paris EXPOSE
ton of 1867, aud the Vienna EXPOSE
ton of 1878. Many squatter in his
dug-out will now read his triumphs
over modern civilization for the first
time, and while he reads it OH the Kan
sas frontier, the same volume will be
lovingly perused by Dom Pedro, in
Brazil, by John WEIGH in London, by
the American people, and by the civil
lied world The Kansas book circum-
navigates the globe, and years hence
the traveller will speak with wonder
OF finding it in Pekin, at Calcutta, and
ON the banks of the Euphrates.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

Every train that comes to Kansas is
filed with immigrants. All the indi-
cations point to the largest immlgra-
ton this year Kansas ever had. From
every eastern State. from Ohio, Hi
nois, Indiana-from all around US
they are docking to Kansas. Pennsyl-
vania is contributing her thousands !;
Kentucky, Virginia aud other south
ern States, are furnishing their quota.
1t beats all. 1t beats gold fever. Why =!
Because these immigrants are coming
to Kansas to settle, to buy land, i'm
prove farms, raise crops, build houses,
make cities and grow up with the
country, They are the bone and siDew
of the land. Our wonderful crops,
our wonderful productive lands, and
yet so cheap, our growing towns, our
thriving villages, our educational adj
vantages are becoming known
throughout the country, and the re-
suit is perfect hegira from the older
States.
Susan B. Anthony, writing to the
Leavenworth Times SAYS:
at is perfectly wonderful to see the
people rushing out west to get away
from hard times, to your Eldorado of
the west, and on all the regular pas
senger trains have noticed the talk is
all about thanksgiving to Kansas. |
do not now remember of hearing any
talk of people on their way to any 9TH
er State. They talk up Nebraska and
its various advantages: but then its
climate is too cold, and that turns the
scale every time in favor of Kansas"
That's it, our climate is better. Our
soil is also better; everything is bet
ter in Kpnsas than it ia anywhere else.
We advise everybody to come to Kan
sas, for we have room for an empire of
standardization Patriot.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Kansas immigration.

Tie want of wise public policy was
never more emphatically exemplified
than in what is now seen at the Union
depot every day. Car load after car
| load. extra train after extra train, fill
ed with home hunters rolling out in
to Kansas, while Missouri finds land
poor owners vainly seeking purchas-
ers.
There are moral causes for this that
have been discussed before, but there
are also immediate causes patent on
their face. While the dominant party
press of Missouri are cursing Yankees
and insulting carpet-baggers, these
people, who comprise eight-tcnths OF
the immigrating classes, do not care
to be so insulted, and pass on to the
land of school houses and free ideas.
But there is an immediate cause.
The nation inaugurated an interna-
tional exposition in 1876, at Philadel-
phia-a great advertising bazar for
American products and resources.
Missouri has as tall corn, as heavy
wheat. as rich oats, as large vegetables
and all soil products in perfection
equally with our sister State of Kans-
as. But she derided the exposition as
Yankee show, and butsfor the efforts
of two or three men and half IA dozen
women she would never have been
known at Philadelphia. As it was.
! she was stuck away under a bill, and
we had to get guide TO direct us TO
| the place in order to mingie our hui
initiation with the SORROWS of Prof.
Tracy, at the scant show over which
he stood scntinel--far exceeded even
by the distant colony of Triggers" in
Liberia.
But the Kansas legislature erected a
commodious building and filed it with
the choicest products of her fat new
acres-a marvel of beauty and mag
nificent representative of all that
makes life desirable and comfortable
the evidence of a land overlooking
with corn, wine, oil, milk and honey.
1t was Differed by wide awake, intel
ligent men, specialists in all depart
ments, capable of answering any ques-
lions as to soil, production, mines. eli
mate, latitude or altitude, whether
asked by farmer or scientist. Not on
ly this, but week by week, from May
to November, as the season perfected
her products, the fresh samples flowed
in with unceasing regularity and abun-
dance.
The wonder of the exposition was
Kansas in 1876, and the wonder of 49,
rs is the immigration to Kansas, the
result of that remarkable advertise
ment. 1t is lesson in modern civili-
cation, and its own story to all who
have their eyes open provided always,
the eyes are not, as those of the Mis-
souri, rulers are, in the backs Of their
heads.-KansQs CITY Journal.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

Kansas is now declared and admit
ted to be the best corn State in the
Union. The yield to the acre is great
er and better in this State than in any
other in the United States. This is a
magnificent advantage for our grow
ing commonwealth. It is a grand
thing for the sturdy and industrious
farmers who have assisted Nature in
developing the fact, 1t is food and
money to the people. 1t will be the
means of inducing thousands of immi-
grants to come here and farm the
broad fertile acres awaiting them. The
news that Kansas excels all her sister
States in the production of corn will
travel rapidly. 1t will excite the Won
der and admiration of everybody. Ev-
cry man of intelligence will know that
to raise the most corn at the least ex
pense he must operate in Kansas.
There is money to be made from corn
in Kansas. This is fact that it is USE
less to contradict. Kansas, always
standing out prominently for some
great thing or achievement, with an
established reputation as the greatest
corn State, will hare far more promi-
nence now than ever, and her citizens
can be pardoned for a little boastful
pride over the matter.-Lawrence
Journal.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Average Rainfall.

The average rainfall Of the western
States compares favorably with that
of other portions of the globe similar
" situated. The average rainfall at
Fort Laramie for the past five years
was 23.03 inches, at Fort Dodge 22.29
inches, at Fort Hays $3.50 inches, and
at Fort Leavenworth 31.74 inches. The
average rainfall at Aberdeen, Scotland,
is 28.87 inches, at Bath, England, 5000
inches, at Paris 2264 inches, at Prague,
Austria, 14.01 inches, at Rome $3.50
inches, at st. Petersbnrgh 1908 inches,
at Brussels, Belgium, 2S.06 inches, and
at London 4.04 inches. 1t is true that
the larger the continent. other things
being equal, the less the average ram
fall. AS the greater portion OF the
rain is formed by evaporation from
larger bodies of water, it follows that
deserts naturally occur in the central
portions of the larger continents. But
the North American continent is SO d.
versifiea by lakes and rivers that the
primary causes of rain are largely sup
plemented by secondary causes, or IN
terror bodies of water. We, therefore,
find that the average rainfall OF our
great central plains is greater than ID
some portions of Europe situated near
or at the sea coast. The surplus is
sufficient to counterbalance, III large
measure, onr dryer atmosphere.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY.
Irs CAPABILITIES, FERTILITY AND DEVELOP.
NEYT.
Lands and homes for the Millions.

In this article We shall attempt CIV
ing the readers of this paper, living in
other States, and who may not con-
template coming west to make a home
Q practical idea Of the more striking
characteristics Of the great Arkansas
river and its valleys, for within the
valley are found the richest lands, 1.-THE
most flourishing towns and the most
prosperous people to be found, prob
ably, upon the American continent
Certain it is that it offers the greatest
inducements for home-seekers of any
yet remaining in, or belonging to the
public domain.
THE ARKANSAS RIVER
IL little less than 1900 miles in length
being one of the longest and swittest
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Pittsburg (Pa.) Gazette.
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY OF KANSAS.
The Finest Valley In the World.

Mr.. C. Detrick, Pennsylvania
who visited this valleys few weeks
since. gives his impressions as follos:
If you will give place in your valu-
able paper, | will endeavor to give a
brief description OF this country and
our travels since our departure from
the valley of old Wyoming.
Since that time we have Travelled
over a considerable portion of South
ern Kansas, and must say we are
charmed with this beautiful South
west. We have confined our travels
pretty closely along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe and
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railways,
dropping of at the different stations,
then taking run by pony or other
wise through the country.
Too much praise cannot be given TO
the country in the Arkansas Valley.
We visited Wichita, the county seat
of Sedgwick and terminus of branch
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad, in the Arkansas Valley.
This is the liveliest town we have seen
SO far in Kansas. They claim 5000 in
habitants. We were there three DAYS
and every business street was crowd
ed. The great trade kept rolling
grandly in from all directions, a per-
feet avalanche. Well, the people of
the city of Wichita can say ours is the
hveliest town in America. Here is
located the largest Touring mill in the
State. Large quantities of flour are
shipped from this point cast. This is
one of the finest wheat growing val
Ievs in the west. We were told sixty
bushels per acre had been raised, not
only upon one acre, but npon num-
Der side by side. The average is about
twentv-three bushels to the acre.
Corn is also raised, as fine as any IN
the State. Stock raising is a very
profitable business in Kansas. Stock
here reed more attention than in
Texas. Here they have short winter
and in Texas none, but it well pays
for the trouble, for you are near the
market when your stock is ready to
turn off, thereby saving cost of long
| transportation and shrinkage in stock.
There are thousands of acres Of land
| in Kansas that need actual settlers
| not spectators, but men and families
who ought to have homes on the vast
prairies that now lie idle. There are
hundreds OF thousands of acres of land
| all over the west that should be owned
md titled by residents. The east is
full of people; they crowd each other;
| there are thousands of men, old and
| Young, who would be doing well OIL
| farms who are now living close
| ,;noho1 lifa In tho oitioc of tho Init ed
States, because they are afraid to ven
lure out. We would say, in the Ian
guage of Horace Greeley, eco west
young man, and grow up with the
| country" AT a station on the line OF
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road two discharged soldiers came
aboard our train; the had served theil
ull time and were bound for Boston
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Tha Superiority of Kansas Wheat.

The Kansas City Journal says it is
now admitted that Kansas winter
wheat is the best that comes to the
eastern market 1t yields -four
which can be shipped to the tropics
without injury, and what is new for
that kind of wheat, it can be made by
the "new process" This has been a
quality hitherto confined to spring
wheat, the best tor the purpose beng
that of Minnesota, and tor which the
Minneapolis mills -heid the market.
The Journal says it is wrong to ship
this wheat in bunk to eastern markets
and dump it into elevators with infe-
rior wheats, and advises the building
of a half dozen mills in Kansas City to
manufacture it into -four, contending
that flour from our wheat will have
the whole world for market. That
is sensible advice and it might be
applicable to this locality, which is
shipping so much wheat TO Texas.
We hsd better ship the manufactured
article than the raw material.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

with the expenditure of but small
portion of his money; the balance he
may safely, usefully and probably in
vest in stock. The sheep or stock far
mer may here find extensive pastures
available the year round, with album
dant water at hand always and every
where, with no need to feed his stock
except during the few weeks in which
the usually short winter prevails; in
fact, he here finds the abundant grass
es of the north with the genial climate
of the south conjoined for his advan-
tage.
In conclusion we will unhesitating-
ly declare that no country is SO invit-
ing nor one that offers so great induce
ments with fewer objections to settle
ment than this great valley of the Ar
kansas, and in saying this the whole
story is told.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

The Champ,on,in the following note
only re-echoes what every farmer III
our State can substantiatc who has an
acre of wheat "The wheat fields of
Kansas never presented a more mag
nificent appearance, at this season OF
the year, than they do at the present,
and the promise of an abundant har-
vest was never more encouraging.
The stand is thick and the blades
green and thrifty. The area planted
last fall was very large-more than
double that of the previous year, for
the whole State. In this county the
acreage in winter wheat is fully three
times that of the previous year. And
with the prospect of large yield of
grain our farmers feel jubilant."
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04
Ingalls, Speaks for Kansas.

Senator Iugalls, in his speech on the
silver bill, said among other things,
as follows:
Mr.. President, the State which l
represent is almost exclusively an ag-
ricultaral community. Its history is
a marvel even in an age of miracles.
Its growth is unprecedented. Its de-
velopment has no parallel. Twenty
years have seen its population increase
from a few Thousand adventurous
pioneers along its eastern border to
three-quarters of million of people,
who are rearing to the remotest
bounds Of its fertile area the enduring
fabric of Christian society. Already
it has single counties that produce an
nually more corn than any State in
New England, and more wheat than
all the States of New England COM
bined. 1t has made the most liberal
provisions for education, the most he.
roic sacrifices for liberty. Men of all
races and creeds have assembled there
from every continent, amid the most
favorable conditions of nature, assim-
Hated and blended by common pur-
pose to build stately edifice, where
they and their children and all who
love liberty and order and law may
dwell in peaceful prosperity. They
are tolerant, thoughtful, progressive
and labOriOus people,
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-04-04

where they enlisted five years ago.
We asked them why they did not STAY
and take up their 100 acres of land
each, and take their deeds at once for
their farms. Their reply was, there
was nothing in farming; SO they will
90 back, only to be crowded out
again. No working and economical
man need be without a good home
long III this section if he desires to
possess one. 1t is frequently said as
these two soldiers have said, there is
no money III farming. We would say
to all such doubters, come into this
county, where you will find hundreds,
yes thousands, who have made all they
have by farming alone. And why not:
The lands are rich, easily cultivated,
producing annually good average
crops and all the garden vegetables
usually grown in the South, and all
bringing fair prices when put on mar
ket, and that almost and many times
at your own door.