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A Kansas Tragedy.

A FARMER KILLED BY THE SON OF A
BANKER-REsULT OF BUNGLING Eff
FORT TO PLAY THE ROLE OF ROBBER.
From the St. Joseph Gazette
A Gazette reporter in conversation
yesterday evening with Mr.. A. Meyer,
cigar manufacturer and tobacconist OF
this city, learned that on last Monday
the Kearney National bank at Kearney
Junction, on the B. & NJ and U. P.
railroads, was opened short time before
the usual hour for opening the bank in
morning, by son of the cashier, who
is about fourteen years old. The little
boy was in the bank alone and stranger
entered in a slightly intoxicated condi-
ton and demanded the loan of So co.
The demand was refused by the the boy,
when the man came around behind the
counter and began to help himself. By
this time the boy became alarmed and
took up pistol lying close by and shot
the man in the eye, killing him instantly
1t turned out, on investigation, that the
man was farmer living not far away,
who was in town with his wife and ave
little children and really meant no harm.
The family Of the unfortunate man were
greatly distressed and considerable ex-
element prevailed among the citizens.
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How the Republicans viii Cam
VasS IiHe South in ISSO.
Chicago Tribune.}

chicago Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Nov. The opinion among
Republicans IN administration circles in re-
gard 90 the party seems to be that it comes
cut OF the election with all the causes of
difference buried, aud thoroughly and even
enthusiastically united upon the financial
question, add ready to begin the Presiden-
lal campaign with that as an issue. There
Is "a strong belief thdt it will be possible to
organize tor a vigorous and most effective
republican cam paign throughout the South
curing the Presidential campaign, and the
question of hereafter sending the most
prominent speakers and public men into the
south Is already subject of much talk. Ia
regard 70 the repetition OF political Outra-
yes I'D the South, it is believed that before
another paign the national administra-
uoh VIII have accom- plished much toward
preventing their recurrence. 1t is expected
lhat all promiuet offenders of the last cam
palgn Will be vigorously prosecuted as last
As they can be discovered and evidence
secured to fix their guilt upon them. 1t is
AIS" certain that if those Federal officials
IN each of the Southern States whose duty
II IS TO deal with offenders of this class are
not prompt and efficient in discharging the
uutleS which this class of offenses devolves
upon them, they will be Obliged to give
pace to those who will give full attention
70 a rigorous enforcement of the Federal
law.
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Port Gibson Reveille.l
How sad Christmas is coming When
the fires are sparkling, and merry max
ing is on the grand rounds" and all
shall seem bright and buoyant, the
thought will steal over US, like memory
of dreadful dream-where is the other?
Calmly, and forever reposing amid the
silent land of the sleepers, while tall
monuments stand sentry over the haIlow-
ed little spot-the flower decked hillock
and all around is as ''pale as moon
light statutes are"-there is the other.
1t the Christmas season could only be
yelled, we might forget that there are
dear tiny little stockings never again to
hang around the chimney corners, and
over the fireplace. Bit Christmas will
come, with all its conviyiality and carou-
sal, while thousands of sorrowing, and
bleeding hearts are beating, like 'muff1ed
drums" the dead march over blighted
hopes, shattered affections, and falling
tears.
What shadows we arel What shad-
ows we pursue
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Genius and Strong Drink hi.
VOFce0.

From the Chicago Advanced
The remark is frequently heard that
it is the most gifted, the ''generous"
fellows who are most apt to fall into
intemperance. The saying is neither
true nor useful. However it may have
been formerly, it has come to pass now
that, as Prof. Swing suggests, the tenn
perance reform has reached first the
minds that are most gifted. MANY
years ago." he says, cit was my good
fortune to serve my country by being
secretary of temperance society, and
In that official dignity addressed letters
of inquiry to Presidents of colleges and
Professors, to ask what was the quality
of the young men who, in those days.
married their college course by the use of
strong drinks. Long letters came from
President Woolsey, of Yale, and from
Horace Mann, then of Boston, and from
Prof. Mofatt, of Princeton, and they
all bore testim ony that genius in their
colleges and schools drank less than
stupidity that whisky was passing away
from the higher order of mind, and was
to be found only in possession of the
more sensual and less bright.
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THROUGH THE IVORY GATE.

L had dream last night,
Dream of friend that is dead,
he came with dawn's first light
And stood beside my bed
And as he there did stand,
With gesture fine and fair
he passed \ wan white hand
Over my tumbled hair.
SAying,-No friendship dieth
With death OF any day,
No true friendship lieth
Cold with lifeless clay.
Though our boyhood's play-tlme
Be gone with Summers breath.
No friendship fades with May time,
No friendship dies with death.
Then answer had made
But that the rapture deep
Did hold me half afraid
To mar that rose of sleep.
So with closed eyes | lay
Lord of the vision fair.
But when twas perfect day,
Only the day was there.
-Backwood's Magazine.
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Sad End of "a Romantic Marriage

Hartford Courant.l
A curious divorce suit now on trial in
Bridgeport introduces plenty of romance,
with the old moral against runaway
matches. Miss Elizabeth Adams wears
clanGestinely one Charles Z. Hill, who
soon after went as clerk to China She
kept up correspondence with him, but
her parents did not know she even had
his acquaintance. One day she started
on journey with her mother, but got
left at way station and disappeared.
She was not heard of for a week, and
then came letter that she had sailed to
marry Mr.. Hill. The ship was wrecked,
and for fifteen days she was tossed about
in an open boat. Finally she was res
cued and married Hill. Now she sues
for a divorce after all that she has en-
dured to get her husband. She came
home twice after marriage, and in 1866
her Chinese servants were the wonder of
Syracuse. Of recent years Mrs. Hill
has been abroad. Not long ago at
Bridgeport she filed bill for divorce.
He heard of it, and, being very rich,
wrote to a Maine friend to give her S75,
600 if she would make it a quiet separa-
ton Subsequently hearing that the
affair had become public he reduced his
offer to $4,000. His friend called at
the Sterling House to talk it over with
her, and forthwith she broke a pitcher
over his head and had him arrested for
assault. He also complained against her.
They are at it. Hill has filed a bill Of
divorce, and is on the way home to fight,
and there it stands. Scandal, disgrace,
discord, etc.--all the natural fruit of
the one-sided elopement of long ago.
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IN BINDING MIsTs.

-.,.,b+ TO keep the way of life-'twas
,,.-nsrb me yawued he darkness, wide and
- Tie binding mists around me sweep,
J "a .,,.c-ral forms Of fear the pathway
barred,
Nv footsteps to be"iIder and retard.
~ hin was ,ett. save on my knees to creep
g. -. 10 the crum bling edge, and cling and
weep.
,yf-b weary limbs, and hands all bruised
and Scared.
H. +bi.. methought, was iaith-with des-
perate trust.
r. grasp the vermont rellcs OF creed;
ra4Isd and fell-oh, where upon the
breast
.ofTove divine, and there. at peace indeed,
a.. ...3I iu heavenly dark ness lies at rest
- Lady Charlotte Elliott.
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FAITH IN woRKs.

Ny faith begins where your religion ends /.
In service To mankind. This single thread
Is given TO guide us through the maze Oh
life.
You start AZ one end the other; you
With eyes tiXt only upon God, begin
vat lo;tv faith, and seeking but 10 know
on find the slender aud mysterious thread
Leads down To earth, with Gods divine
command
To help your fellOw-men; but this 10 me
Is something strangely vague; / see alone
The iellOw-mrn, the suffering fellow
l ct with a cup Of water in my hand
FOR all who thirst, who knows but I one
day,
Following faithfully the slender thread.
May reach itS other end. and kneel al last
With You in heaven at the feet of GodY
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Not Guilty, but Must Return the
Sheep.

From the Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald
Apropos of the verdict in the Thistle
ton case at Los Angeles, which cleared
the defendant of libel, while the jury
signed paper declaring the prosecutor
pure and free from the charge in the libel,
we are reminded of trial that took
place in Justice Wilson's court, at San
Diego. A man accused of stealing
sheep was on trial. After the evidence
was all in the jury retired, and, as in the
Thistleton case, stood eleven for acquit-
tai and one guilty. Finally, the twelfth
man agreed to join the others. provided
they would sign a verdict as follows :
eve, the jury, find the defendant not
guilty, but request that he return the
sheep" Pertinent to the reason as
signed by the Thistleton jury, that they
did not wish to put the county to further
expense" we have another verdict by a
San Diego jury in a case tried before the
same justice. A negro woman had sued
man for assault with a stone. The
accused was put upon the stand, and ad-
mitted that he had thrown the stone.
Notwithstanding, the jury brought in a
verdict Of not guilty. In conversation
afterward, the members of the jury de-
Tended this curious verdict on the ground
that taxes were already too high and
they did not wish to put the county to
add tional expense.
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SECOND DAY.

RICHMOND, November 20 The American
Public Health Association was called to or
der this morning by President Harris. Pre-
Vious to proceeding with the regular order
Of business, the President laid before the
Association letter from Governor Porter,
of Tennessee, regretting being unable to
attend on account of official business, as
surfing the Association of his active sVmpa-
thy with the noble work in which
they are engaged and extending an
invitation 20 hold the next meeting at
Nashville. The invitation WIS referred TO
the Executive Committee for considera-
ton. After same routine business, DR.. Be
miss read the regular report Of the Yellow
Fever Commission, which saws that the vel
low fever was i'm ported into New Orleans
By the steamship Emily b. SOuder in the
month Of May.
The commission visited various infected
points in the Mississippi valley, and found
as result of their investigation, "A sad neg
lect and violation of the laws Of health ira
regard 10 drainage, inattentiOn to deposits Of
fetid matter and refuse animal and vegeta-
bic matter, and inattention t. purity Of
drinking water. The conclusions reached
are as follows:
First--We have not in a solitary instance
found case Of yellow fever which we
could Justihably consider as Of de n0U0 ORR
gin or Indigenous to its locality
Second-lu respect to most of the various
towns which we visited. and which were
points of epidemic prevalence, testimony
sHOWtup lmpQIbdblOn was QlFeCb ana COM
Vlncing in its character.
Third--The transmission of yellow fever
between points separated by any considera-
Bile distance appeared to be wholly due TO
human intercourse. In some instances the
poison was carried ia the clothing or about
the persons of people going from infected
districts. In other instances it was convey
ell in such forms cotton bagging or other
goods OF the same description.
Fourth--The weight Of testimony Is very
pronounced against the farther use Of dis
infectants. Physicians in infected towns,
almost without exception, state that they
are useless agents to arrest the spread Of
yellow fever, while some Of them assert that
their vapors are seriously pr,judicial TO the
sick.
Fifth--PeFsonal prophy lixis, By means OF
drugs or other therapeutic means has Prov
ed a constant failure. A respectable num-
Der of physicians think the use of small
doses of qainine of some use in prevention
Sixth--Quarantine established with such
a degree OF surveillance and TigOr that ab-
solute non-inteTcourse is the result. has
effectually aud without exception protected
its subjects from the yellow fever.
DR.. Cochran, of the commission then
read a paper giving detailed aecount az
the fever at Grenada, at which plaee inv.e-
LEGATION showed the intensely fufeotior1a
character of the disease,
pr. Lloyd Howard, Of the commission,
read report Of his Investigations.
Adjourned.
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1ntemperamce the HnStigatOr OfaII
Impurities.

Antemperance the AnstigatOr OfaII
Impurities.
The wine cup is the instigator of all
impurity and the patron of all unclean-
ness. So far as God may help me l
shall be its unending foe. 1t is the tes-
timony of the officers on the night of
our exploration that nearly all those who
frequent the houses of death come in
intoxicated-the mental and spiritual
abolished, the brute ascendant. Tell
me young man drinks and / know all
the rest. Let him become the captive
of the wine cup and he is the captive of
all other vices. No man ever runs
drunkenness alone. That is one of the
carion crows that go in a flock if that
beak is ahead, you may know that the
other beaks follow. In other words,
strong drink unbalances and dethrones
and makes him prey to all the appe.
tites that choose to alight upon his soul.
-Talmage.
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THE NEW CONGRESS.
How the Democratic Majority Stands
in Each Body,
NAMES OF ALL THE SENATORS AND REPRE-
SENTATIVES so FAR ELECTED.

Several of the Congressional Districts are
likely to remain in dispute for some days
longer. but it is pos sible TO make out some
thing like an accurate roll of the Forty
sixth Congress. which is given below, "a the
case stands, according to the latest tele-
grams:
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Senate.

Following is a list OF the Senate as 1t will
exist after the 4th of March, as far as elect
ed up 60 date, with an indication of the poll
tics of Senators not ser elected, as shown
by the political com plexion OF the legisla-
lures chosen. Republicans lin Rom2n), 33;
Democrats Tin itdLics,), AZ; Independents lin
SNAIL CAPS) total. 10:
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Only One Left.
SAD STORY OF A NEW ORLEANS FAMILY

SAD STORY OF A NEW ORLEANS FAMILY.
Special to the New York Herald
NEWPORT. r. L., Nov. "a sad story of
the recent yellow fever scOurge in the
South has just come TO light. A few even
ings ago IA Weli-dresSed babe about one
year old. was lefs the dOorstens of
well-to-dO citizen, Mr.. NewcOmb OF ProVi-
dence who found it there u pon answering
a sharp ring of the dOOr-bel. 1t had "A tinV
gold ring on its finger and gold necklace
with gold dollar attached around its neck
By the side of the infant Ca grI) was a
complete outfit of richly trim me ed clothes
letter was also found. in which the heart
broken mother, who had left it there, stated
that she had lost her father, mother, broth
er, husband and three children by yellow
fever in New Orleans, and that she fled TO
Cairo to escape the plague, with her baby
that both were attacked with the fever in
that place and recovered, though the writer
felt as though she was losing her memory.
and NJ doubt would soon be a raving mani
&C. 1t appeared she had known Mr. New
comb and the family. aud in the letter she
stated that fearing she would lose her den-
tity, she had made up her mind to give
them the babe, as she knew they would b.
good 10 1t. she urged them nor 10 look her
up Is she was going TO New 1oTk on the
midnight train, "there To- die unknown"
She signed herself NJ rs. Josie Hall. Mr..
Newcomb was greatly affected, for he hal
known the lady's family. who, he said, stood
high in the South, Mrs. Hall being beau
tiful and accom- plished lady. A letter was
received from her the following day, dated
Providence, she having written it before
leaving the city, which simply gave in
Structions for the car of her offspring.
THE MOTHER DYING.
Two days after the receipt of this letter
a telegram was received by Mr.. Newcomb
from Boston stating that Mrs. Hall was in
dying condition at a hotel in that city. He
Immediately started tor Boston and arrived
in season to receive the dying woman's in
structiOns. She begged him to be good to
her child and To send her body to New Or
leans for interment. She left some money
TO pay her funeral expenses and also some
for the care of the child. Tue remains
were forwarded to New Orleans.
FLYING FROM THE sCOURGE.
A letter received from the latter city
throws some additional light on the sad
affair. Mrs Hall, it appears, while de-
ranged with grief, had fed from the city in
her fathers carriage, accompanied by the
faithful coachman. and went to Cairo,
where the coachman died. After her arri-
val there her uncle and aunt also died. She
Immediately left Cairo and fled North.
The babe will be tenderly cared for, and
the mothers Instructions will be faithfully
carried out.
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Two Dollars a Year.

ardent strength, and in few days they
will be married for the second time.
Mrs. Moffitt, who, it is said, was the
cause of the cruel separation of man and
wife, died some ten years ago.
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House of Representatives.

The following statement will show at a
glance the strength of the Democrats, Re-
publicans and Nationals, with the losses and
gains of each in all the States, in compari-
son with the present Congress:
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what Can we DO 10 be Saved?.-
Only Vote the Republican Ticket

St. Paul Pioneer Press.J
The Southern policy of the President has
not been attended with the political results
that political optimists. and. among others,
the President himself, seem 10 have ex-
pected would follow from il 1t was safd
while Grant was President that the South
was solid only in its resistance to the policy
OF military interference with the arrange
mems OF the white leaguers for crushing
ont the carpet-bag governments, and that il
this policy was withdrawn the solid South
would dissolve into the sweetest kind of
molasses. MIR. Hayes took them at their
word. All the offensive machinery of Fed
eTaI interference with what is called local
self-gOvernmont at the South, which seems
TO mean government by the whites. was
withdrawn. The result is that the solid
South was more thoroughly soldiied than
ever before at the recent election. From
the uItra-Southern States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi
ana, which on n free vote would send a
large majority of Republican Con gressmen,
not a single Republican is returned Flori
da, whose small population has been Ieav-
eucd with civillZlng influences by large
accession of Northern immigrants, people
who have settled there for reasons of health
returns one Republican; North Carolina
three; Tennessee, one; Virginia, one and
Kentucky one There are at least thirty
Republican districts in the South, and these
are all that escaped the tyranny of sectional
sentiment, which in all the Southern States,
but especially in its cotton and sugar belt,
Droscribes all opinions and all parties which
are Rot sectional in its most uncom promis-
ing PROVINCIAL sense. Postmaster Genera
Key was right when he told Southern
man the other day that the North looked on
the solid South as a menace. Its evident
meaning is that the South proposes. by
crushing out all internal resistance to the
sectional party, and by the aid of its Dem
ocratic allies in the North, to capture the
gOVernm ent and to direct and control its
policy, and to make this Southern section
alism, with all its bigotry, the ruling spirit
of the national government. But the
Southern politicians mistakd the temper Of
the, North if they suppose they can through
this programme. They will find that if the
Northern people are magnanimous they are
not weak. They have yielded TO the South
all it asked-have yielded to it all the rights
and powers which ii demanded in the name
of local government, but they will
hold it responsible for the manner in which
it exercises those powers. A solid South
means simply that they have exercised
them with despOtic and intolerable disre-
gard of the rights of large majority of
their citizens.
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What Secretary sherman Says.

Sherman referred to the Ku klux outra-
ges, but eXonerated the Democratic party
of the North for them. That they existed
and did exist was not denied. The maraud-
ers had roved over communities, driven
negroes before them. and committed many
murders for opinions sake, and now as
effective. but milder sort of intimidation
prevailed. For three weeks in several States
the Democrats had been terrorizing the
negroes to prevent them from voting their
opinions. There would be no safety to the
Republic until every man was guaranteed
the right to vote at least once.
Either by intimidation or the substitution of
resorted to that vast population had been
deprived OF a voice in Congress. He spoke
of one or two prominent Southern men who,
he believed, were opposed to this policy,
but they had proved to be powerless to pre-
vent the existing condition of affairs "The
country" SAID Mr. Sherman, will not sub
NIT to that, no N after what may be said by
others about the class of colored Repu bill
can voters in the South. Even If they are
worse than their opponents represent them,
they are. nevertheless voters under the
Constitution and laws of che United States.
and should be unrestricted in their right to
vote" He was confident that If there had
been a fair election the Republicans in the
South would have elected quite enough
representatives to change the result in the
lower house it was now reported to
stand. He based this belief not only on
what he had learned publicly, but from
trustworthy sources of Information from
different portions of the South.
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The Banner of the Bloody Shirt.

.TgE VIEW DEPARTURE OF PRESI.
DENT HA YES.
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The Bloody Shirt Again.
THE RADICAL PRESS THREATENING A NE
WAR ON THE SOUTH.
New Norl- vTf,,,ae

WAR ON THE SOUTH.
New York Timesl
1t must now be sufficiently clear to them
lhat, unaided. neglected, as they are. the
S9ioFed men of the South are unable to
support the party to which they still de
clare their allegiance. Wade Hampton has
suggested in several of his recent speeches
taat becoming convinced of this. the men
81 this section of the country would be the
nrst to demand that the negroes be disfran-
Chlsed and the cotton States deprived of the
increased representation which is given
tnem because of their colored population.
GENERAL Hampton can hardly be regarded
as an authority on the prospective policy of
tne Republican party, and we give his sig
nincant suggestion only because it indicates
Tue general anxiety which exists in the
southern mind as to what course the people
VI the North will take when they become
lully alive to the fact that the colored vote,
under the control OF the White League. is
SIMPLY means to Dem Ocratic supremacy.
mat they will ever seriously consider the
propriety ofdisfranchising any man because
oi MS color is, Of course, absurd. They
gave the negro a vote. and they desire TO
protect him in it. OF this the Southern
democrats may be assured. There are in
e9leations that the Republicans of the Cotton
states have gone through the last contest
winch they will be obliged to go through
unassisted.