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The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A CT clone of Robbery i'm New York 1.
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There seems to have been something like
cyclone of robbery recently in New York
city. The pillage OF the Manhattan bank
in open day of millions of treasure, the
scooping up of sackful of watches and
jewelry from Johnson's establishment in a
similar manner directly after, to be follow
ed on Its heels by the resurrection of the
body OF the late A. 7. Stewart from its
quiet resting place in church vault near
ly in the heart of the city, exhibit degree
OF audacity scarcely paralleled in the an
mails OF American crime. Yet New York is
the center and seat Of wealth, culture, INTEL
ligence and a high-toned religious senti-
ment and action. Heretofore it has been
claimed by the good people of the East that
the West is paradise of unpunisbed ras-
cality. No crimes of such magnitude, such
bold audacity, however, have ever been pr
pstrsted in the West since it began to make
for itself history. A country bank, in a
lonely country village, may be robbed of
few thousand dollars with no very great
risk, and the plunderers escape. A silent
cemetery, removed from the center of
great population, may be desecrated and its
tenants carried away beyond detection.
But in New York, surrounded BY nearly .
million and half of people, in broad day
light, under the eyes Of . numerous police
guard, once, twice within few days booty
enough has been gobbled up, 10 enrich .
score or more of avaricious men. And no
one knows who did it There Is no clue
to the robbers" week after the crimes have
been perpetrated.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
THE SCOTCH WAY.

The President, six managing directors,
and secretary OF the City of Glasgow Bank,
now in custody Of the Sheriff Of Lanark-
shire, of which Glasgow is the capital, are
charged with having been guilty actors,
art and part, of the crime Of falsehood,
fraud, and willful imposition committed in
Glasgow" as aforesaid. They have sever
ally been examined by the Public Prosecu-
tor at considerable length, as to the mis-
management Ito give it 4 non-committal
denomination of the unfortunate bank. In
England, when person charged with
crime is brought before a magistrate, it is
optional with him whether he shall make a
statement or reserve his defense" but the
line OF procedure seems different in Scot
land, where the accused is asked all man
ner of questions, and regarded with grave
suspicion if he should decline or hesitate TO
answer each and every one Of the same.
The legal authorities IN Glasgow are evil
IDENTIFY determined to press the law as hard
ly as possible against the men who have
reduced SO many OF their fellow citizens Of
al degrees to a deplorable condition Of
pecuniary involvement and loss. The pris-
oners are kept separate, and when before
the preliminary court, are not allowed to
sneak TO each other.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14

The latest elections give the Republicans
promise Of majority OF the electoral votes.
If three tickets should be in the field, and
the division of parties should be such az it
has been in the elections of this year, the
Republicans would have a decided plurali-
ty and would choose electors in twenty
States, casting 2l3 electoral votes. 1t must
be remembered that in Ohio, although the
Democrats secured msjority of the Con-
gressmen by an Infamous eerrymander, the
Republicans elected their State ticket, and,
had Presidential electors been chosen,
would have secured all the electoral votes
Of the State. In Indiana and Oregon only,
the Democrats could have chosen Is cleo
tors; in California, though Democratic
robbery of the people has made the
delegation in Congress equally divided, the
Republicans had 6,793 majority for their
c Congressional candidates, and may conf
IDENTIFY expect in September next to elect
three members, with only $50 msjority to
overcome in the remaining district. For
years, California has never Civ
en- Democratic majority at Presiden-
tial election, and it il, moreover. very
radical hard-monsy State. With three
parties in the field, then, the Republicans
may safely count upon California, and ev-
ery other Western State except Oregon and
all, 1OO electoral votes. On
the basis Of the latest elections, they may
count on upon every electoral vote from
New England, New York, New jersey and
Pennsylvania, 113 in all. There remains
for the Democrats the Solid South, With
l3s votes, and Indiana and Oregon with
Is votes, or 156 in all.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
TIE INDIANS.

The Indian question is attracting Il ccl-
siderable degree Of attention, and there is
a fair probability that some positive action
will be taken on the matter by Congress
this winter The Philadelphia Record says
The Indications are increasing that at the
coming session OF Congress some sort oil legis-
laiion in regard 10 the Nations Indian wards
will be entered upon. Whatever is done
should he thorough and calculated 10 effect
permanent reform. II is obviously more
economical and advisable on every ground
TO carry out contracts faithfully, and TO Keep
the agency Indians well supplied with food,
than TO pursue the opposite policy, and thus
endanger the lives and property OF the rapid
lv increasing population on the frontier.
Even a hungry white man is at all times dan
gerous, and IL Is folly to expect a wild Indian
10 quiet his wrath under like conditions.
General Pope now adds his testimony 10 that
of General Sheridan. The former, in his re-
port TO the General of the Army, says that
the late Cheyenne outbreak was caused b.
starvation, and, speaking of the Indians
around Fort Sill and IN toe Indian Territory,
he adds: "I think there Is constant lihel.-
hood of their break ing away from the reser.
walton in a body, rot for war, but for food"
II Is plain that through continual neglect of
AN important subject Congress VIII next win
ter have in handa serious problem.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
Truth Continue. 40 be Stranger Than
Fiction.
New York Herald, 81

The story which was outlined in our
cable dispatches of yesterday concerning the
alleged effort of Lady Gooch TO palm off a
child upon her husband as his heir, that
child noticing his or hers, brings to mind
the plot of Charles Reade's well known
novel, "a Terrible Temptation" Where
great estates are involved in the lineal sue
cession of family, where failure to pre-
sent heirs male may send the property to a
distant branch of the family, or to branch
which has been estranged by family quar-
rels, the temptation is very great,
indeed. for a woman to seek a di-
rect successor by any means possible
Before Charles Reade's novel was written
many were the strange stories circulated
in whispers of noble and wealthy families
to which heirs had been denied in the
usual course Of nature, and wherein va
rious methods had been adopted to place a
spurious heir in the empty place, to the
confusion of expectant relatives Of many re-
moves of blood. In the novel the childless
Lady Bassett adopts. with many precau-
tions, the offspring of her gypsy nurse, and
rears him as her own. The boy, a. he
grows up, is so different to the fair haired
Bassett, that the Baronet's brother, who
covets the property, casts suspicion upon
the wife, believing and alleging the boy to
be the son OF a clergyman. Out of this
material Mr.. Reade has wroughta very ex-
citing romance bht the plain lines Of .he
story of real life which the cable indicates
may prove OF greater interest still.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
Ben. BUTLER,s RRUrUS.

Kearney now declares that 1t was he who
defeated Buffers election in Massachusetts,
and most people will be inclined to agree
that he had great deal TO DO in bringing
about the result. He pretends, however,
that he only made up his mind that But
Ter must GO about three weeks before cleo
tion-day, and that he made incendiary
speeches ostensibly in behalf of Butler, but
in reality to inju:e him. The Chicsgo
Tribune SAYS:
This pretense is preposterous In the ligh Of
all the facts, and siiu as that kearney is try
ing TO save his credit with the Frisco hood
lums by confeSsing himself sneak and a
villain. The truth is Buffers fate was sealed
the moment kearney opened his mouth on
Massachusetts soil, and every speech he
made thereafter lost Butler hundreds of
votes. The story given out TO sand-'ot au-
dience in san Francisco Saturday, that he
labored to draw OF votes from Butler by ma
king incendiary speeches, is much too thin
for any but home consumption. He made
nothing but incendiary speeches during his
entire Eastern tour, and never failed to dam
age any man or cause he advocated.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A MINT EHE WOODS.
The REV Legal Tender Dollar CCsn-
ter;eiied In Placer Conntf.

An attempt 10 counterfeit the pes legal
tender dollar and the half 3OlIsr has hen
brought TO Light, and the Illegal mint where
tie WUTk was carried On vas Discovered ia
rather an unlikely place-a cabin il tie
woods some SIX miles from Auburn. The
counterfeit money was offered In Auburn,
where 1t was at once detected, and Sheriff
Crosby and his deputies traced the guilt
home 10 a youpg man named VIM. Brown
whose ostensible business was that OF a wood
chopper. In Browns cabin were found
quantity Of material, crucible, an the plas-
ter of Paris dies with which the spurious
coin has been made. United States Detec-
tive Finnegass was communicated with and
fastened the guilt upon Brown. "You
rpust have confederate in this business"
said The detective, some one who taught You
the trick. Who wss he?' At first Brown
declined to give any Information, but the in
sinuating style Of the detective soon brought
him around, and he made an open confess
ion OF his connection with the crime. He
said that abou. month ago a sick man
came to his cabin, which is lOxl2 feet in
size, and asked the privilege of stopping
there for a short time. Permission was
gwen, and after he had been there a couple
Of weeks, he told his host that he had been
arrested by FinnegasJ for counterfeiting
and said he could show him how to get a
living easier than by chopping wood. The
only name by which he knew the man was
Jim. This individual confded his secret
| TO the prisoner and went away. Young
Brown then procured materials, as before
stated, and started in business. He said
the first counterfeit coin he had attempted
TO pass was that which "gave him away"
On Sunday night Detective Finuegass ar
rived in this city with Brown in his Gus
| tody. The latter has been quartered in
Jail, awaiting the action OF the United States
Grand Jury in his case. This is the first
known attempt to counterfeit the legal ten
der silver dollar on this coast. Brown is a
| very intelligent Young man, and is said to
belong to an excellent family.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
The Most Powerful Disiufs Giant.

Recently, according to special series Of
experiments instituted by the Academy Of
Sciences, Paris, it was ascertained that the
first place among the agents destructive of
infectious germs should be assigned to hy-
ponitrous acid-though, being very poison
Gus, it must of necessity be used with much
caution. 1t is said to be peculiarly appli-
cable in the disinfection Of apartments in
which cases of smallpox, yellow fever, or
other grave diseases have existed. Before
using this substance, all crevices of the
doors, windows, and flreplaces should be
carefully pasted up with paper. Acid
fumes are to be generated by placing two
quarts OF water in earthen vessels of about
ten quarts capacity for small room, and
adding to the water about three pounds of
ordinary nitric acid and ten ounces of cop
per filings; If the room be large, proper
tionally larger vessels are to be employed.
After starting the operation the entrance
door should be carefully sealed, and the
room left undisturbed for forty-eight hours,
great care 10 be exercised on entering the
room, after the operation, 60 as to avoid
breathing the acid.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
4 WaIg of the Pesti.encc.


Among the common places Of the yellow
fever scourge al the South, has been the OBJ
liberation oil entire families, only the shade
of name remaining. The orphaned and
the widowed OF the plague are almost those
OF a war, and when the mind is brought 10
bear on such wholesale bereavement it be-
comes difficult to separate il by imaginative
process into those smaller groups TO any OF
which the sympathy Of the soul would go
out instinctively. Suffering must be
brought near TO our own circumstances to
be able TO grasp it. When the sad story
which We print elsewhere is read, and the
poor mother, with her babe, is seen fleeing
from the stricken city where father, broth
er, husband and three children have been
hurried to their graves, we can almost pic
ture the gaunt Death stretching its lean
arms to grasp them, 10 matter how hast
ily or how far they would flee.
Both are smitten with the fever, but
both survive. See the poor mother,
careless for herself, unsettled in her reason,
still flying from the visible death. She
feels it overtaking her; she moves the fast
er, one object alone being definite with her
amid the wreck OF all that she lived for a
few short weeks ago. To the mother who
has lost all else clings, through the madness
that is enclouding her, the one thought,
safety to her child. She leaves her baby at
a door she knows will be opened TO it-that
but for her whirling brain she might have
known would open TO herself. She is mad
and she dying, and still onward she flies.
At last she comes. The great desire that
kept its hold when everything beside was
slipping away had been fulfilled. So she
went forth in peace The little waif or the
pestilence has found loving care, but who
shall measure its loss in seeking to set any
tenderness from Others against that moth
er's love.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
OUR TICKET, EXACTLY.

The Boston Trureiler makes the following
remark, which, if submitted to vote OF the
American people, would be carried by a
very large msjority:
New Workers like TO take their music plain,
they being of Ife opinion of the English
MayoresS, who exclaimed, Rot your Italian
oS, ] likes plain, simple ballad" We hon
or them for IL. There may be simplicity in
their choice, but certainly there is sense in II.
Scientific music is about a appropriate for
most of US as a lecture in Sanscrit would be.
If our good friends who furnish mucic
for the public would cut out the foregoing
lines and paste them in their respective
hats and bonnets, and he governed by the
suggestion therein contained, the result
would be, better pleased audiences and bet
ter filed houses. Soaring soprano,-beilow-
ing basso,-theres money in it.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
Farmers Review.I

The merchant, the banker, the engineer.
the inventor. the business man OF all classes
has before him an ideal which he strives
body.
But Is this SO with young men born On the
iarm and who intend 10 spend their lives
there ? Do they start out in life for themselves
with the firm resolve 10 be the best farmer in
the neighborhood, the township. the county,
the state? Inspired with this l,u!sble am
oitition, DO thew labor persisiently with
brain and muscle to this end? Dothey read
caicuIate, observe, question, study, with this
single purpose always before them:
The farmer who is enthusiastic in his yoca.
ton, imparts his enthusiasm to everything
around him. His wife does not lead the lifs
OF drudge, slave, but she walks side hy
with him, her heart full of hope her active
mind suggesting and plsnning for Others 10
perform. The children are inspired BY the
example everywhere before them They
take delight in their active out door life. and
deep interest in the success of everything
going on around them They are born farm.
ers, and there is nothing that can allure
them from farm life. The very domestic ani-
mails have an air of enterprise ana thrift.
and every acre OF the farm seems AMBITIOUS
to respond to the efforts and hopes ,f the
0wnera.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A. GOOD PLACE To LEAVE.

The statement has been published that
very many farm laborers in the English
counties Of Kent and Suffolk get only 2s
Cd about 90 cents a day A leading ag-
.iculturist of Kent denies this, saying that
his men get from 81 II toS65O week, and
beer in busy times. 1t is proposed by
some employers 10 cut down the minimum
wages to 1915 week. The rent paid by
these Iaborers for their cottages is thir-
ty-seven to fifty cents a week. The price
is not extravagant, but perhaps full az
much as their restricted and poor accom-
modations are worth. An emigration
movement would be good thing in that
locality
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
HOME MARKETS.
LEsyENwoRTH, November I:

LESyENWORTH, November l3
me eorditipn of the market yesterday was
.'''1'ns and firm. The receipts of produce
i'''i 'He 'uhtry were good in quality and
N'ie uie' "S aoernand beyond the average.
WHEAr-The wheat market. though low.
Is steady, with a slight firm feeling that de-
notes an upward movement We ouo,a fror,
millers, No. 2, choice, zoe; No. g. extra "a.
No. 4, % rejected, IS. Areport to the s,,act
that weevil had injured some lots caused !.
slight check among buyers for a few d.v,
out utinvestigation proved the reports ground.
less.
CoKS-The receipts of corn have been du-
ring the past week mainly confined TO choice
miiiins qualities, and consequently the
prices paid were a trifie above shi,nsrS.r.,.s
Average selling price for new white o2c.
Old. none offered, As the new crop ia q, q hs,'
ter quality, having been thoroughly crrea hx,
the dry weather. The crop is, as a rule. ex-
cellent.
HAY-The demand for hay in a local way
has been good during the past three weeks
Prices have been steady, however at - 50 and
S1.Oc per ton.
forAToEs-This market has been compara-
tively steaUy since the new crop has been
gathered Early Rose plenty at 30 cents per
pushei wholesale, and peach blows quoted
from uwagons at 10 and 50 CENTS k,hoies
Government contract are probably 10 cents
higher, owing TO the fact that the finest only
are selected and are only received I'm sacks.
oArs-This market is steady so far as the
local trade is concerned, the supply being
fully up to the wants of buyers. Prices quo
ted are wholesale, from WAGONS Is cants.
dealers, I9c retail, aOc.
Other articles of produce are but little cham
ged, they are quoted as follows:
BEANS-sl 25 per bu.
RlE-S5c.
APPLES 81 so per barrel.
EGGS-isc Tor chO'c,a III sh retail 2nc
LARD-6l9c per pound
CtEEsSE-kanssts, l0c. Home demand
good
Wholesale. choice Esmi,vyyyx
2S %; Golden Eagle :. So: Western RoSs'
81 .: Waldror w., s. IS; Premium NSXX'
e 80; Rose 81 IS
BUidth-M nolesale, lsc, strictly choice,
BRAN-ss per ton.
SHIP SIUFF-slU per ton
ONnONS.Per bushel, soc. Retail, 55c
CABBAGE-Per Dozen Soc
POULrRf-ioung chickens, 81 5OaI rs.
BRo0MCoRN-s5o per ton, for choice green.
BACON-Retail loo, for sides; hams, lie;
country hams 49,
HONEI-gc per pound
ORANGES-S Ol1g 50 per b0x
LEMONS-sy 80 az IL er Dox
Stock Market.
BEEF COws-2iLnSsLc
BEEF SrEERs-25433lxc
NEAI.-iC nc.
MUrTOS-2Lx93c
hOGs-214g21sc. Packing begun.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A bad CASE STATED.

A gentle Miss, once seized with chill,
Was feeling most internal Ill,
When came Nd. for TO know
II y. y. service he could do
40, cried the maid, (for scared was she),
ADO you In. Tenn. 10 murder Me. ."
Ia" said the Doctor, 81 Kan. save
You from a most untimely grave,
IL you let me Conn. your Case
And hang this liver pad in place"
"Am Ia. fool 80 the patient cried,
az cannot Del" the brute replied:
But no one can be- long tim. III.
Who Tex. a patent blue Mass. pill"
"Ark. - shrieked the girl, "ITl hear no
Mo-,
Your nostrums are N.J.-No go"'
81. LCuB JOUTdnl
"Ohi o-ho.r he yelled so ga,
"But Miss. lii. Col. the same LOT Pa"
:. nd. human brute" she creid, u Wy.
Ale Minn. 50 full Of wrong and RI >"
-Iuffr- (le.UQ
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
Pr0fes, iOnal isls.

The grave robbers are getting thick.
Thursday night the body Of an old and
wealthy citiz IN of Huntington County, In
diana, Jacob Peyton, was found in the Me
dical college at Fort Wayne. The college
officials say the deed was done by a gang
of professional resurrectionists, who have
been robbing the grave-yards of that vicini-
ty for some time past, and shipping SUBJ
jects to Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, and other
points. They assert that not less than
thirty graves have been ri1ed in the vicipi-
ty within the past two weeks. They profess
to be entirely innocent of any completely in
the affair and say that the body was left
there with the purpose of getting the college
into trouble.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKEr
NEW YORK, November l.

FLoUR-Moderate business; superfine westn
s3 25d3 20; common tO good, s. s5S5 30,
good To choice, 81 OO9Si so; white wheat ex-
IRA, "a 55tg5 %; II Louis, sS 6na5 IS.
"HEAr-Heavy N graded winter red,
81 I3t4dl u. No. =, do, 81 Uslal o.. ungrs-
ded amber, si ID yHl Us ungraded " nite, 81 70
al 10; No. d., - Ootagyl %.
RYE-heavy 30. :, Western, 50.
bARLEY-Heavy-
CoRS-Heavy ungI9Led, i21is7gc; No. 3,
Eagc; round Yellow, 6sc.
OATs-Flrmrr, mixed western, SJdjlizc
white western, JidiUc
CoFFEE-ttIiet and unchanged.
SCGAK-DuI.
NuLA>SES-No -NominsEy unchanged.
RI-E-SIeady and III Iai demand.
EGGs-tT Tu, stern, = .I25c.
PORK-Ftrusr, mess, e. JIs.1 70.
BtEE-tlul"t ana Hrin.
Cur Enthusiastically.
MIDDLEs-Long clear, F4c; short clear,
&c.
AgD-Firmer; prime steam, O. 30 u 22255s.
BCTrEK-Qulcf western, b4ZS.
Enthusiastically western, JsJc.
NHlskN-sl %.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
THE IRONY OF FATE.

I; - Ihe very irony Of fate tnst Wade
HAMPTON should have escaped with his life
through 50 many 'carfnl battles, though
Scared with eleven wounds only 10 tndan-
ger his existence by the freak OF a miserable C
mule.-iUgttsfd Chronicle, ..
The full-blooded donkey is tie Demo
cratic animal, and distinguished leaders Of
the party, north or south, always get into
trouble when they tamper with his step
brother, the mule There's Hewitt, frin.
zfancp
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
AIDEI.,yaS GRAHAM.

i brother OF Major J. q. Graham oi this
city, was elected Alderman in Brooklyn,
last Tuesday, and the Uaion-Argp, says:
1t would appear that Mr. "Garry" Cul-
len, Of the Eleventh Ward, partially msde
GOOD his threat 20 secure the vote Of tie
c,lored men of his section Of the city for
.sRiley and CulIen' by making the mig
gers dead drunk on election morning. y
Free whisky and free beer flowed in the
Eleventh Ward to help ''the policy OF econ
omy and reform" but happily there were
enough Of honest, intelligent and decent
men left after the liquor vote had been
polled 10 elect Mr.. Graham Alderman oi
the Eleventh.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14

If Prot. Edison wishes to reap the fulles,
possible benefit from his marvellous discoy.
cry OF the means of lighting whole cities by
electricity, he must secure his patent rights
with the utmost possible dispatch. In 81
Petersburg the authorities have already de-
termined upon the Jablockcff electric can
die for the public streets and squares, and
IN London the experiment is to be upon the
yhole length of the Thames embankment.
Ihe Eesonia says that gas stock continues
% decline in every great city in Europe.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-11-14
A Reasonable Explanation.

There is a tendency in the Democratic
newspapers OF this State to charge the DIS
asters of Tuesday to the quarrels of the
brethren in New York City. The point
made is that if Tammapy and anti-Tam-
many would only keep the peace there
would be no trouble in carrying the State.
There is some truth in this so far as the
State ticket is concerned, but it does not
cover the enormous Republican gains in
the Assembly, and the almost equally sur
prising gains in Congressman. The able
editors will find an explanation for these
reverses in their own silly efforts 10 howl
down the cipher revelations by yelling
bogus"