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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23
The Prisoners Story.

Gov. Rice is asked to pardon one
O'Donnell, of Millbury, from Charles
town, and a gentleman who recently
visited the State Prison thus tells his
story: Gentlemen" said the Warden,
81 want to bring before you one of the
most remarkable cases we have in the
prison. We call him the man who
never Smiles and l wish before he
comes in to tell you his story. He seems
to be man of more than ordinary
ability, one of the better class of sub
stantial, frugal Irish citizens, who
owned a small place in one of our man
ufacturing villages, where he resided
with his family of grown-up sons and
daughters, all permanently employed
and in comfortable circumstances. The
old man had fine garden on which he
bestowed his leisure hours, in part of
which was fine lot of cabbages. 1t
seems that the boys in the neighbour
hood had habit of trespassing on the
old mans garden, until he had deter
mined on getting rid of them by firing
his gun to brighten them away. One
night, hearing some one in his garden,
he took down his gun, and, getting be-
hind the hedge, fired into the garden.
as he claims, without aim or seeing any
one to aim at But the report of the
gun alarmed the neighbors, who, on
rushing into the garden, found the life
less body of young girl shot through
the heart. The old man, when told
what he had done, was struck dumb.
He was arrested and sentenced to inn
prisonment for life. He has now been
here for ten years, and his face has be-
come as marble; there is no hope; moth
ing but the sad remembrance of that
dreadful night. In Ireland they have
a superstition among the young girls
that whoever on Halloween shall place
a cabbage over the door will marry the
first young man that enters the door
afterward. And this, it proved, was
the errand of the young girl in the old
mans garden. But instead of wed
ding, she found grave. "-Springfelo
Republican.
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0nr ponng aoMs.
JACKS LETTER.

JACKS LETTER.. -
DEAR AUNTIE:
Did you ever have t.'a
little baby brother? ....
l have got one, and don't think
III ever want another. -f
He is not big enough to slide,
Or play with hoop or ball;
And mother has to tend him so
she cannot play at all.
It's always I" Hushr' and Jack, be still!
The baby is asleepr'
And everybody in the house
On tiptoe has to creep.
wish you'd let me go and stay
With you and Auntie Jane;
And when the baby has grown up
could come back again.
I'm almost six years old, you know, t
SO tall they say, I've grownl
And since the baby came sleep.
All in the dark, alone.
I'd be so good, dear Auntie Kate,
And never answer back.
OH won't you write and ask mamma
To let you take your
JACK?
p. 81 left this letter on the desk,
And mamma read it through;
And then she looked so very sad
l cried and kissed her, too.
And so my boy would go away.
And leave his darling mother,
And cares for nothing but his play,
Nor loves his little brother.
And"-but can't tell all she said,
Only it meant. 1 know,
That could help her when she's tired,
And that She miss me so.
don't think can 60 Aunt Kate;
But mamma says may oh.
Hold baby every day an hour,
And that's as good as play.
Hrs. Blanchard, in The Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23

The Brooklyn (Mass.) Chronicle has
this tribute to departed worth: "Mr.
A. A. Cheney's Newfoundland dog,
Tige, recently deceased, paid a poll tax
of two dollars year, and was better
qualified to vote than the coward who
poisoned him." H.#f
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LEGEND OF THE FoRGErME-AoT

When flowers first bedecked the earth,
In Eden's happy bowers,
The Lord, tbs said, in cool of day,
Came down among the flowers.
To each He gave its fitting name
To each a loving word,
And blessed the garden He had made,
Beholding it was good.
Again He came, in cool of day,
And walked among the flowers;
But one He saw, a blossom fair,
Was sad in Edens bower.
The loving Lord bent tenderly,
And raised its dropping head,
When: Lord, my name have forgot"
The blue-eyed blossom said.
No bitter word the Master gave,
Forget me not, said He,
And, smiling on the sad, sweet flower,
Lol this thy name shall be-"
Mary b. Hardy, IN Vicd's Magazine for Marcel
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BoREAs will occasionally turn an UNI
brella-but nobody ever returns one.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23

NORTH CAROLINA will spend 1000
to exhibit her products at Paris.
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Good-for-nothing? Yes" saidJohn,
with laugh; "and no better ac-
quainted with the classics or bellies
lettreS than then, Judge. had but one
talent, and came very near burying it
for life. Whenever l hear boy de-
spond because he has not dozen tai
ents, say: 'Look for the one talent,
boz! Look for the oaer ''-RebeccG
Harding DaviS, IN Youths Companion.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
Senator Ingalls,.


The Detroit Post and Tribune, the
leading Republican paper of Michigan
in its issue of the 9th inst. says of the
Senat orial election in Kansas:
The Republican sentiment OF Kansas
seems to be decidedly in favor of the
reelection OF Hon. Join j. Ingalls, to
| the United States Senate. Mr.. Ingalls,
has attracted attention by his ability
and bearing, and his displacement
| would be viewed with general regret.
Although representing one Of the
youngest Statcs-a State vet in its
formative periodic is excelled by
none of his colleagues in scholarship
and in that special aptitude for affairs
which is The ruling trait of all useful
and successful public men His speech
es have been uniformly on the side of
humanity and progress, and the hes;
interests of the people. He is no
trimmer and no falterer. lie has gen.
uine courage of opinion, and his con-
victions are not only never concealed
or denied, but always and openly
av0wed with clearness. force and skill
Such man can poorly be spared from
the Senate at amy time. bat particular
" now, when qualities such rs his a-e
imperatiye,v needed
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
State Printer.


We see it stated that Il. z. Baker, oil
the Commonwealth, will be a candi
date for State Printer. Well, why
should he not be? George Martin, the
present printer is n splendid man,
sound every way, and has done the
State honest work. But he has had
the place three terms already. The
Commonwealth has always been a
Woodworking, conscientious Republi-
can paper, and the profits of the State
work for term would add to its use
fulncss, and the party wants the best
possible morning daily at the capital
George Martin is very successful
worker and personally popular with
al. and he may have the matter fixed
beyond question for another term but
If he has not, for one we should like
to see the profits go TO the enhansing
of at least one or the other of the To-
peka papers, and the Comm onweo'th
being the oldest aud longest in har-
ness would no doubt gladly accept.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
a Leading Paper.

The Kansas City journal OF Com
mts'cc, established in 1854, by Van
Horn g. Abccl, and virtually owned
and controlled by those gentlemen
yet, has stepped to the lead Of west
crn dailies. It's corps of editors and
reporters has been increased, new
dress donncd and first class doubl,
cylinder press added, aid in every
way, and in every particular the
journal rivals the leading dailies OF
ST. Louis and Chicago. Kansas City
is a great and growing city, but the
Journal as a newspaper is not whit
behind. After twenty-four years OF
patient labor the JoUrnal company is
to be congratulated, UNNECESSARILY
so Mr.. Abeel, the business manager,
and Van Horn, the old Republican,
war horse of the border.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
4 Sad Sunday.

A special dispatch to the Inter
Ocean Of Tuesday morning gives the
following tonchiHg picture of scenes
witnessed in the Memphis cemetery
last Sunday:
Yesterday Elmwood Cemetery was
.hronged with people; the old and
young were there, looking at the hun.
drcds of new-made graves, and mourn
ing fol the loved aud lost. In several
instances persons were unable to find
the graves Of their lost ones. Nest of
the visitors yesterday had recently re-
turned to the city, and this was the
first opportunity to so TO the graves
of their dead. Many Of the graves are
unmarked, and, as consequence, it is
not easy for the visitor to find where
lie the remains of lost friends or rcla.
tiyes. Sad faces and bowed forms
could be seen lowering over the graves
all through he cemetery. 1t was a
sad sight indeed, aud too truly tells
the fearful havoc wrought by death.
and also attcsts in eloquence more
touching than human pen can write or
lip speak the sublime heroism and
noble martyrdom of the men aud wo-
men who faced that terrible siege.
Eulogies could be written and mouu-
meats raised, but none can ever pic
lure so vividly aud So deeply what
Memphis has suffered as this sad Sun
day at Eimwood.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
The Yellow Fever.

The disease has nearly disappeared
but il is predicted that not having run
its course it may appear again next
season a few warm days resulted
in new cases. An incomplete list OF
the public subscriptions for the beDe-
fit of the yellow fever sufferers in for
ty-eighi cities in this country, CaIadn
and Europe, shows a total of 81 259,-
900. New York stands 81 tie head
with 1896, 900, bat this docs not ill.,
Guide the subscriptions of the various
churches, Masonic and other societies,
and from private individuals. Phila-
delphia gives SlS2. 000: Chicago, $780,
600; Boston, So, o0oi Cincinnati, $685.
900. Ii is estimated that the entire
amount contributed exceeds 2,CO0,-
pln
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For the EAGLE
A Few Observations ef Political Terdsncy

ED. EAGLE:-Thcre seems to bs
some dispute in regard to what caused
the defeat of the Republican party in
the Ninety-second district. OF course
l.. \. Woodcock is good man, and
should have received the support o.
every Republican. Ia nay opinion the
defeat of Mr.. Woodcock can be ex-
planned only by saying that he was
against Uncle Billy Greifeustein. You
know he is one Of the old settlers cnd
there is sort of brotherhood among
the old settlers, stronger than poli,i.
cal convictions. The early settlers
who together have endured the hard
ships, which none but the first settlers
have any idea OF, will remember those
who stood by them in these trying
times. even though be be a Democrat.
This is not the first time the Repub.i-
cans of Wichita have defeated a reyu-
lar nominee OF their party. II YOU re-
member, cur friend "Bi:i- Williams
once received the nomination OF bis
party for ti.e Office OF sheriff. The
of Wichita defeated aim. /
have thought perhaps ii our Beni- I
mating conventions were Republican
u fact, these bolts would not occur ;, I
The Republicans Of Wichita have |
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
Te- Chief Clerk.

We are gratified to learn that Hon
II. b. Emmert will be candidate for
Chief Clerk of the House of Repre-
scntatives. Mr.. Emmert is well and
favorably known 10 every old resident
Of the State, having in times past been
prominently connected with the Re-
publican party in its early struggles
and having held many positions of re-
sponsibility and trust. For years he
was connected with the press. He has
served with distinction in both branch
cs of the Legislature. AS to the po-
sition for which his friends will urge
him, the Chief Clerkship Of the House,
he has filed the place in the past with
great accepiabflity. In truth, in that
position he has had few equals. Be-
ing splendid reader he would prove
invaluable TO the lower house this
winter IN its work on the revision OF
the laws. Mr.. Emmert, Of late years,
has met with financial rcverscs, bat he
just as sound, mentally, and as hope
full and consistent as ever, and the par
~ would never regret the action if il
should recognise in so substantial a
manner an old wheel horse OF the Rad |
ical party in Kansas, Mr.. Emmert,
since his residence here, has won the |
confidence and respect of all, aad as
practitioner before the United States
Land Office he stands high. We be-
lieve Southwestern Kansas, at least
this section, will ask nothing else al
the hands of the next Legislature ia
the way Of personal preierment, and
We sincerely hope this place may be
granted our old friend. II
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21

this 70 ~ II their defense: :. They ar.
not properly represented in our con.
vensions. III an not mistaken, WITCH.
ita 1as never had more than twelve
delegates in any eonvention. Now,
the delegates in those conventions
should not represent territory, bui
voters. For Instance, if Rockford
township with City Republican voters
is entitled to three delegates in con.
vention, why 10 mot the Fourth ward
in the city Of Wichita with $50 Rcpub.
lican voters entitled to nine delegates.
II Attica township, with thirty-three
Republican votes should have two del
egates in convention. why should not
Grant township with lis Republican
votes have At least six delegates
The rule has been TO give every
tow nship at least two delegates in con-
venticn. Isuppose if one of the town
ships should give only one Republi.
can vote, he could elect himself dele
gate, and then by vote of the con-
ven'ion he might cast the vote of his
township.
Now, l propose that the next nomi-
mating convention of the Republican
party be Republican convention.
FARMER DOoLITTLE.
November II. 1873.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21

One of General Grants numerous
broihersii-law. Mr.. Corbin, states the
story of the Generals connection with
the iannery business is erroneous, AMI
he does not know how il originated.
General Grant never was a tanner, ANA
was never in any manner connected in
that trade. AtchiS0n Pdtriot
Ii strikes Us that the General was
engaged in the tanning business for
some tiiee or four years. Most of his
material being Southern long horns.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21

ing the ropes for IN election q Senat-
or. IL would BE- relief 70 have on
Governor who didn't want to be Sen
atOr. Our COngressmen, with rare
exceptions, have been aflicted with
the same mania just - soon q I
man is elected to the House, he eoes
to schemeing and working for ~ cleo
ton - Senator. Congressmen Brown,
Haskell and Ryan are, 10 think, the
ouly men ever sent to the House from
Kansas who were not known to have
this maggOt in their heads.
Why can't politicians be content
with one place, and do their duty in
that place, resolutely aud with the
single purpose Of deserving the conf
dence and honor bestowed upon them
by the people.
John A. Anderson is, we think, one
OF the best inen in the State. We like
him thoroughly and respect him. We
believe him to be man of genuine
ability, integrity and energy, and we
are confident that his career in Con-
grcss will reflect honor upon his con-
stitaents. Blu: he 10, in every sense
OF that term, = new man in politics.
He is destitute of legislative expert
ence. As u politician aud representa-
tive, he has everything 10 learn. And
We want him tried in one place before
he seeks promotion. He is young aud
vigorous, and the probability is that
he has long life before him. He is
now III position to show what there
Is III him. Ii he is the man we take
him to be, there is no danger that he
will be forgotten, or that the people
will fan 10 appreciate him. Let him
do the work that he has been elected
TO do, during The next two years, and
he can go back to Congress again and
again. And when he gains what he
now lacks, experience in legislation;
when he has mastered the details Of
his new duties. aud proven that he is
capable and useful representative, AS
We believe he WILT will then be
proper for him to expect and ask pre-
northumberland
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Ksrsas as She will Be.

This, from late number OF the Chi
cago Com morciai 1idrc5tiser, is wei
put:
What the tomorrow Of Kansas will
be i hard 10 estimate, but the present
rate of immigration continued until
1881 will give close to IL million people.
The present rate OF increase in wheat
and corn growing will make her the
first wheat State and the second corn
Slate in the Union. By the same rule
of increase, Kansas will have become,
at that date, the fourth State in cattle
growing, the the third State in her
swine product, and one of the fore.
most in wool growing. The rcmarka-
BILE development OF agriculture, the
wonderful increase Of the fruit inter-
ests, the uncxalnpled increase in guam
iity and Improvement in quality Of
live stock, not less than the social, in
telligent, commercial and moral ad-
vanccment OF the State, are the pride
of Kansas, "A stumbling block for ecsn-
omists and basis for the belief and
prediction among Kansas people that
the great central State" is destined.
at no very distant day. to lead the
West in the race for wealth aud power.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21

Hon. William d. Kelley is one ol
the original Greenback men ia Con.
gress, aud Oh that side OF the finance
question the ablest in public life. lie
has just been reelected for the tenth
time, AS the nominee of both the Re-
publican and Green5ack parties in his
district. In a letter bearing date three
days before the election, he makes the
following remarkable predictions:
"The impending financial crisis in
England, which will be even more Sc
we're and protractei than that which
was produced by the forced resump.
ton of specie payments in 1923,
will involve US, and-mark the predic-
ton !--if the Nations do not hasten to
remonetize silver, the entire system
OF National credits will be overthrowm
and the United States Will be the only
Nation, or rather the leading one OF
the very few that will extiuguish Its
debt by the process OF payment in ac-
cordance with the promise of the obli-
yatiOuS
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Judge Ksllcy---Silvsr.

November II, 1873.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21

Senator Conkling is in Washington
on Supreme Court business. His fig
ures in regard to the New York AS
sembly are interesting. OF l2S MEM
beers 100 are Republicans, and most OF
them for him for Senator. There are
twent, six Democrats, and only two
Grecuback men. There are thirtv-liye
standing committees in the body, aud
so not enough Democrats to pnt one
on each committee.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-11-21
The Vote Of the State.

Sixty-eight Ct the seventy-scven or
ganized counties of the State hav.
been officially heard from. The couu-
ties yet 20 he heard from will incrcas,
the Republican majorities, probably
800 TO 1000 The vote, as far as heard
from Up 10 Sunday morning, footed
up: 81. John, Republican, - ,20l:
Goodin. Democrat, 36,5e3: Mitchell,
Greenbacker, 1886. ST. Johns ma.
iority over Goodin, 35,e9S; over
Mitchell. 1925; and over The aggre-
gate vote OF both Goodin and Mitch
ell, 1922.
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ACTION or rHI FARMERS CLUB.
They Adviss Sale Il Stick aad q Basten
Conuoetioo.

WICHITA, November 16, 1873.
EDITOR EAGLE:-At . special meet
ing of the Farmers Club, held at this
place for the transaction Of business,
the following resolutions were adopt
ed:
Resolved, That this Club request
the County Commissioners to make
sale of the stock this county holds in
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe rail.
road, a. the best terms possible; aud
if the stock is Q lid the amount recciv-
ed therefor be held as tender to the
first competing east aud west road
that builds through Scdgwick county
Rcsolred, That the Board Of Trade
be requested to meet with us at our
next meeting.
The next meeting of the Club will
be on Saturday, November 30ih, at 10
o'clock a. ni., at which time the SUBJ
| iect of an east and west line of railroad
will be CO sidercd, and we cordially
invite all interested to meet with us.
r. u. FoUTs, Sec.
TScdgwick county docs not hold any
stock in the Atchison, Topeka s. San
ia Fe railroad. The county, includ-
ing the territory now composed by
Harvey county, subscribed for $500,
600 worth Of stock in the Wichita &
Southwestern railroad, which she paid
for in bonds of equal amount, running
thirty years. That stoak we at pres
ent hold. During the late stock ex-
element, when The Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fc railroad stock went up TO
ninct, seven cents on the dollar, our
stock, or Wichita g. Southwestern
railroad stock reached fiity-,wo Or fiji
ty-thrcc cents. Our judgment was TO
sell and use the proceeds in buying
up our outstanding bonds. bat we en-
terrain doubts as to the Commissions
ers' ability to dispose OF the stock in
the absence of Legislative enabling
act or vote of the people. But in this
we may be mistaken. Lyon county,
and we believe Shawnee county, sold
their stock in pursuance of o special
act of the last Legislature. Mr.. Steele,
the chairman of the Board, received
an offer, IN response to considerable
correspondence. of $4,000 for the
coun,y's stock during the late excit cd
market. 1t is a matter that should be
carefully looked into. The other orig.
imal stock holders in the Wichita Il
Southwestern railroad sold their stock
the dollar. The thirty-year lease
made by the original company to the
A,chison, Topeka & Santa Fe pro-
vidcs for pr0-rafe on earnings and
expenditures of the entire road, if we
remember rightly. That feature was
valuable so long as We were the west
crn terminus, but a drawback now
tn at the road has reached out over
four hundred miles further. We hope |
our State Senator and Representatives
will look up this matter carefully and
giveus the needed legislation, for the
time ia not far in the future, in our
Judgment, when this county will be
TO take decisive action with |
reference to their present and future
interests-ED. EAGLE
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The Democratic press seems more
anxious to know who is to be the Re-
publican nominee in 1880 than who is
to lead the disgrun,led Democracy.
Cipher dispatches in the north, red
shirts and shotguns in the south, will
make bad foundation for national
platform.
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The Chicago Commercial Convention.

A commercial convention, called
sometime since, met in Chicago last
week. Thos. Ryan, member of Con
gress from this district. Gov. Antho-
ny, aud two or three other Kansas
gentlemen. attended the meeting with
view Of looking efter the interests
of the State, and should occasion Of
fer, TO set forth cur claims and advan-
taces. Delegates from many large cit
les and nearly all the States were pres
emf, and the commercial world was
agog for some coup d'efot. Blu, after
proceedings showed pretty clearly that
the whole thing was gotten up to nd
vance the chances Of the Southern Pa
ciiic snosiby gobblc which has long
been hanging fire in Congress. The
New Yc,k Herald claims that the
Northern Pacific interests ard the Bra
lillian mail scheme subsidy also were
interested. Gov. Anthony told them
that the Atcbison, Topeka g. Santa
Fe was building to the Pacific without
government aid and Tom Scott had
better do likewise. A lively discus
sion ensued. which constituted about
all tue interest developed by the cou-
vcntion. The Herald observes: "a
subsidy 20 The Texas Pacific Railroad /:
a subsidy 10 the Northern Pacific: a
subsidy for line of steamships To
Brazil; a subsidy for another line be-
tween San Francisco and Peru; an APP
preparation for improving the naviga-
ton aud strengthening the embank
ments of the Mississippi river, aud
similar appropriations for other west
crn rivers are among the projects
which are TO be harnessed together in
one gigantic team for carrying such
measures through Congress at the
coming session.