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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-23
Western spirit,

Western spirfJ
There Is to be q reunion ~ inc sotf
the Ma,issrdes-Cygnes Mas>a- re ana ceieni%
,,ou Of their lsepiieih anniversary,
ssn. p. tso aIes i:st of Barnard Nay
,..,. The object, In addition u the Social
go a 20 gather together as many as Pr,
I'M. of the survivors. and appoint comiph-
- a rais- funds for the rurpose u erecting
monument, Good speakers VI D. IN "a
tendance. Everybody Is invited 10 pArue''
psse. -~o.,..,s-
fNarsan County Record, lol
TIL. canae,ous Presbyterian Church in this
-. On. crowded last sundss morning by
-, o,..n,tye and sympathetic audience, as
semblad 10 listen 10 the sermon os neN- :.
Nar,iudale, OF Hutchinson, In memory y,
Rev. samuel Woolpert, who y as assaesiaA'sp
In Pottawatonie county last Nsvsfnp@f. tn
the audience were the aged WIDOW ~ tet
murdered minister, and four OF Tue enilnie"'
hes.aes q few other relatives ana q hos' oi inc
ola acspsiniances and iriends oil 'ne
dead divine. gears as" 'he
tindaies and woo,Resis pfea peisn'
bors in indiana Together He siee'
Wa,,indsle and father WSelpert were Coz
| verted. and begun to preach. Ine fsmiiie:
| - Initiate friends The speaker OWED
~. own conversion largely TO the labors O
", voolpert. The discourse throughout va.
. ,.nder and touching tribute % this goot
"a man. of whom it may be truly said Non'
80 MIN Int 70 love him" Mr.. Aartinoai'
a. freouently compelled to pause to cain
hi. emotiousor wipe avay tear that CANT
unb,dden to his eyeA Besides haiIe tende
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-23

IDickip son County Chronicles, lsl
About four O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
our eitixens were startled By . thundez1ns
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-23

I'll. make business seems To lie ePidemie
,,hw.stern Kansas. Now cones Tie
Phiripsburg Herald with story iha' " " a. u,
r.n, Allen. living about five miles from iha'
place, killed 1879 rattIesnakes on his farm our ~.
ing a period of three hours. Just why ne
didp,t kill, another snake, and make IL an
even two hundred. the Heraii doesn't INFORM
us. They are trying to beat that Cloud eouh'
ty snake den.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-23
How HOrse Thieves Will pc "'
comed sn Allen County,
rIr,n,I,olht I'niOn. W.l

IHumDNIuF
Recently one Of our farmers mi ecu NJ
from his pasture. and rs the animal h"a
never s,rayed from his premises. he suspec.eu
that IL mad been taken away. WIN oss
of confidence, the farmer asserted MS oei,ei
J ,n., the horse WIS stolen and that he suspic-
tnnss a certain party. He might have been
n,iS,avea. ont the next morning the horse
-. found i'm h, pss;are. Now and then we
mar of people who are hpniins for hor>es
either shaved or stolen, and IRON their re-
,,.rrs we are let to believe that II would De
,.,se for horse thieves TO give Allen county
very vide perth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
OFFICE OF THE GRAND MAS
n4- 80. OE 1910

The Howard Association, so often
referred to in the dispatches, was
organized in 1853, to give aid in the
case of epidemics in New Orleans
and other southern cities. The Or
ganization included persons who
had had the yellow fever, and who
had had experience, or AT least care
full instruction, as to it's treatment.
The popular theory then was that a
person who had had the yellow fe-
yer would not again contract the
disease, and the nurses of the How
ard Association went to the infected
districts inspiring confidence, and
rendering efficient aid. This season
several nurses sent out by the ssso-
citation have been FRUSTRATED by the
disease.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
The A. T. & s, F.

There are now about 1000 men
employed in building the extension
of the Atcbison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
says the Railway Review, from La
Junta to EImore, including the num-
Der of men employed in tunneling
in Rattan Pass, They will finish
their work on that portion of the
road from La Junta to EImore by
February, 1879 On August 18th
he contract tor constructing the
road from Willnw Springs, New
Mexico, to Las Vegas, was let 1t
has been decided to build the road
from Las Vegas to Albuquerque.
The approximate earnings of the
road and branches for the fourth
week in July were $4,000, and for
the corresponding week in July,
1877, SALTS. The approximate land
sales tor the fourth week in July,
1873, were $4,000 acres, and for the
corresponding week in July, 1877,
17.152. The approximate earnings
for July were $4,000, and the &C.
tual earnings for July, 1877, $751;.
I42. The actual land sales for July
1873, were 79, 500, and for the cor.
responding month in 1877, SO. Ala.
The following is a comparative
statement of the earnings of this
road:
Earnings. LIST week Aug. '7S. .S95 .5OO.O
corresponding week in 1S77.... 4S, 1874 On
Increase ......... ....... 46, 766 o,
Land sales. 1st week Aug. 1873, 1880. o.
Correspondent week last year, OSLO
Increase ...... ......... 3,139 O
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HOW THE FEVER ARISES.
The Product Of an Invisible Poison

The Product Of an Invisible Poison.
WAsHINeToE, Aug. 16.-Surgeon
General Woodwork of the United
States Marine Hospitable Service, |
has issued circular regarding yell |
low fever. It is addressed to the |
medical officers of the service, and |
says that although the quarantine |
law was not passed in time for con-
gress to make an appropriation.
still everything is being done which |
is possible without the expenditure
of money. Medical officers are re-
quired to assist the civil health au-
Thorities when requested 10 do so.
The Surgeon General says:
The weight OF scientific evidence
seems to warrant the conclusion
that yellow fever Is produced by an
invisible poison, capable of self mul-
duplication outside of the human or
ganism, which it enters through the
air passages. The poison germ or
miasma is production of the trop
les. In this country yellow fever
has prevailed in most of the Gulf
and Atlantic cities, and in many of
the towns along the Mississippi riv-
er. In some instances it has been
carried inland by the people fleeing
from infected localities, but it has
never shown a disposition to spread
epidemically at points remote from
the continuous water roads of COM
merce, or to lodge in high, salubrl-
Gus places. The cities of the great
lakes have always been free from
the disease. Yellow fever cannot
be said to be epidemic in the United
States, frem the fact that in some
years it does not appear, though the
imported germ undoubtedly sur
wives the mild winters. 1t appears
to have as much resistance to cold
as the banana plant when the bana-
ia stalk is killed down by frost.
The yellow fever does not recover
until again imported. The germ is
transmissible. 1t is capable of be-
ing transported in the clothing or
personal effects of passengers and
sailors, but its spread from one city
to another is chiefly accomplished
by vessels, their damp, filthy holds
and bilge water being its favorite
lurking places. Confinement, moist
ure, and high temperature favor the
multiplication or virulence of the
poison. When a wharf or spot OF
ground or house becomes infect
ed, the poison at once commences
to spread, creeping slowly in all
possible directions. continually en-
largiDg the area around the center
of infection unless checked by dis
infection, as has undoubtedly been
done by the use of carbolic acid in
New Orleans in former outbreaks
Yellow fever is not communicated
from the sick to the well, the sick
and we'll being dangerous only as
possible carriers of the poison germ
or miasm. In support of this as.
sertion it may be stated that at quar-
antine hospitals, where the effects
of yellow fever patients are burned
or otherwise thoroughly disinfected
before the admission of the patients
the attendants do not contract the
disease. This has been demonstrate
ed many times. All well persons
whose effects have been disinfected
may be considered harmless after
, six or seven days have elapsed from
, the time of leaving an infected dis.
trict or vessel, as the period of incu'
: baton of tine disease lasts from two
10 six daHs
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From New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, Aug.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. ~.
The death list to-day includes
eight children under seven years of
age.
A dispatch from Port Eads re-
ports one death and three new cases
there. One of the Howard nurses
left there by DIR. Stone lie reported
sick. Collector Smith has been au-
thorized by the Treasury depart
ment to purchase 100 gallons of car
bolic acid to disinfect tho custom
house.
N. ORLEANS, Aug. 27.-The How
ard Association at meeting to-
night, adopted q resolution recon-
mend1ng full Endorsement of the
Peabody Subsistence Association,
and cordially approving tie same.
w. r. Nervine, News editor of the
Democrat, q native of Virginia, aged
30 and his little boy aged 5, died to-
day Of fever. o. r. Chase, night
operator of the Western Union tel
egraph company was taken down
with the fever to-day. DR.. Keyes
has gone to Vicksburg. A dispatch
from the Howard of Vicksburg tc
the Howard, of New Orleans, says
no more nurses are needed.
PoRT GIBSON, Aug. 27.-TwC
hundred and twenty cases of yellow
fever to date, and twenty-five
deaths.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 27.-The number
of new cases reported up to moor
to-day was 81 deaths, 80. ThG
weather is cloudy and threatening
rain, in the event of which, an in
crease in mortality may be expected
of the new cases occurring now,
large proportion arc colored people
among whom the mortality vii
doubtless be very great.
The North Market street publii
school building has been selected t.
accommodate several hundred sick
Six cases of yellow fever are re
ported among the refugees at CAM
Joe Williams. A hospital has beef
limprovised there, to which the sicI
are removed. The steamer Bell
Memphis which passed up this eve
ming. bound for St. Louis, tool
away about 100 refugees.
I To-day has been the worst thu
far of prevalence of fever, the death
aggregating 30 and new cases &c
Major Walthall, of Mobile, who Ia
bored so faithfully here in 1873 ar
rived last night and will take charg
of the infirmaries in various parts o
the city. The sick are becoming Q,
numerous and being scattered al
over the city 1t is believed the dee
titute and friendless among then
will fare better by being placed il
the inflrmaries.
VIcxsBURG, Aug. N.-Heav
showers last night and this mornina
There were lis new cases of yellow
fever in the past "a hours, and
deaths, among them DR.. d. "
Booth. The Howard Association q
Vicksburg wish to know Represeu
tsslve J. r. Chalmers address. D.
: Harris and Mrs. Graham, from GA
weston arrived to-day.
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Anross thu Border.

Galveston dispatches give the fol-
lowing statement of a recent move
ment of troops, as near as can be as
certained:
On the night OF the 10th Col. Young,
with two battalions Of cavalry, crossed
the Rio Grande, surrounded Newtown
early in the morning and charged the
town for the purpose OF capturing the no
torious stock thief, Areola, but he had
fed, riding of bareback, sans clothes OF
arms. The alcade Of NewtowD was in ter
viewed and induced to accompany Col.
Young to this side OF the river, when he
stated that Areola stole cattle from Tex
as, for a living, and took the stolen stock
to Mexico, where he sold it; the regui ar
Mexican troops being the purchasers,
the Mexican officers knowing the stock
to be stolen. The Alcade also gave in
formation duplicating high Mexican OH
Gals in robberies. Owing to the high
water, part OF McKenZie's force failed tC
cross, and the trail of the stolen stock be-
ing obliterated, Col. Young's command
was forced to return. Some Mexican
troops arrived at Newtown, under the di
rection OF Piedras Negras, on the 18th
but made no demonstration against the
| American troops
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
A Nan Clones with His First Wifa.

man htopeS With bis First Wife,
At the September term of the dis
trict court in 1876, Docia Penning-
ton, of Sheridan township was d.
vorced from her husband, John L.
Pennington. They had three chill
dren, the husband taking the oldest
and she retaining charge of the two
youngest. She left the county and
went to Illinois, and he shortly af-
terward married young woman in
Lsbette county, wLo bore him q
child about six months age. The
divorced woman remained in Ilii-
nois until this spring, when she
came back to the county. It seems
some correspondence had taken
plaza between her and her husband,
and on Friday last Pennington took
his wife No. 2 to a neighbours on q
visit, then went to his house, loaded
his household goods in q wagon,
and. in company with his little sor
by his first wife, left for parts I'm.
known, ss he supposed. After his
departure letter from his former
wife was found, asking him to NEE
her at Midway, from which place
they would go TO Northern Nilsson
ri or Iowa, and live together again
The neighbors feel very indignant
as the woman he left behind him i
in destitute circumstances, and hard
ly able to provide for herself anG
child.-Oswego Independent.
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We have received from Hon. Al
fred Gray, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, q table show
ing the increase and decrease in the
acreage of the various crops in 1878
over 1877. The total acreage IN 1877
was 5,595, 3O4.99; In 1878, 6,538, IT,
.s5; increase, I,l67 500 IS; decrease
of acreage in certain crops, %, $780,
IT; net increase, 43,S22. SO; per
cent. of increase, 1856. The in
crease Of acreage in winter wheat
wes 44O, 430; spring wheat 226, $50
decrease in acreags in corn, I59, $40
increase in cats, 1895.
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The Winfield Courier gets of the
following, under tie head of EN-
terprise -
We take pleasure in returning the COM
plimenI so often bestowed on US by the
Wichita Eagle, and now say that its Is
sue of last week, publishing the entire
proceedings Of the Congressional conyen-
ton within two minutes and one-haIf OF
the time Of ITS adjournment, is almost un-
paralleled In the history OF weekly news
paper journalism. The Murdocks have
always had the credit Of being u rushing
trio, but this eclipses all former efforts
and IL the '.rushingest" thing we have
ever known them TO attempt. When the
Eagle does scream she screams so as to be
heard-Iike Sam Woods Rice county
schOol-house bell-for "three miles dowE
the ArkansaS.O
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Hon. stenben A. oobb.


Another leading Kanssn has pass
ed away. Hon. Stephen A. Cobb,
OF WYandotte, died Saturday night
OF last week, of malarial fever. Mr..
Cobb has been prominent in the pol
tiles of Kansas for the last twenty
yaers, though during the last four
years he has devoted himself exclu-
sively to his private affairs. In 1864
he was commissary of the subsist-
ance department in the army; in
1867 he was elected to the state SEN
rte, and in 1871 was 9 member Of
the lower house and was chosen
speaker OF that body in 1872 he wal
elected to congress from the third
district, and served two years in
that body.
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Kansas and Illinois.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. %.
EDITORS NEWS From Emporia
to Kansas City the corn crop is i'm
mense, while huge stack-yards of
small grain indicate a season of
plenty to the Kansas Farmer. Mis-
souri, was passed in the night. In
Illinois, especially in the low lands,
the corn Is mostly weeds, and Of
poor variety at that; (meaning is
somewhat ambiguous, may be ap-
piled to either corn or weeds). This
is the third year of failure for most
of the low lands of Illinois. At
Peoria, stop-over of eight hours
gave ample time to see the city and
the wonderful talking machine, the
phonograph, of Prof. Edison. It is
simply grooved cylinder of cast
iron covered over with very thin
tinfoil. Take the head oHt of ten
or drum and use as a tympanum
to record and convey the sound ;
now take the mainsprlng of watch
and adjust one end to the drum in
such q way as to convey any Yibra-
tions made in the other end insert
q needle, with the business end
placed on the cylinder, over and to
follow the growing; begin to turn
ana talk; sfter You are through,
turn the cylinder back to starting
point and grind out your music,
The sounds are repeated. The in
dentations made on the tinfOil by
the sound wave produce the same
fluctuations in the needle as it re.
passes that it did at first /; these are
carried to the tympanum, and thu
she sound is reproduced. But one
must be very acute indeed to dis
ing9ish one voice from another.
/ VRNTTT AToR
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
The following are the propositions

The following are the propositions
submitted to the monetary confer
ence by the United States delegates,
and now under discussion:
First-Iti is the opinion OF this assembly
that IL is not desirable that silver be ex-
cluded from free coinage In Europe and
the United States. On the contrary, this
assembly believes it to be desirable that
an unrestricted coinage Of silver and Its
u Sc as money OF unlimited legal tender,
should be retained where they exist, and
as far as possIbl restored where they have
ceased to exist.
Second-Tbe use OF both gol Il and silver
as unlimited legal tender money n ay be
safely adopted; LIST, by equaliZing then
at the relation TO be fixed by information
al agreement; and I'd, by granting to eacl
metal at the relation fixed equal terms o.
coinage, making no discrimination be
tween them.
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tits said that Elder Mitchell, in
his greenback sermons, draws heavi-
iy on bis imagination. He depicts
the supposed sufferlngs OF the work
ing man In the most depressing
terms, and when he has his audi
ence melted to tears. and firmly i'm
pressed with the belief that they
are the most dowu-troddep, God
forsaken people on the face OF the
earsn, he then points out the road to
szivation-eternaI, political and f.
nanciaI, viz, vote for Mitchell for
Governcr.-Ft. Scott Mentor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
The Bell Punch in Politics.

North Carolina proposes to intro
duce the bell-punch for register
ing votes at elections. Then the
popular song will be:
When he receives vote the inspectare
Will punch in the presence of the electare.
lem. check slip for a white Yotare.
Rep. check for black niggare.
And Ind. check for bold boltare.
The above is from the New York
World. To which we beg leave to
add the following:
And if the head of the electare
Should be covered with wool instead of hair
And he votes Republican fair and square
The inspectare shall at once prepare
To punch the head of the electare
That is covered with weol instead of hair.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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More Truth than Poetry,

The following dispatch dated New
York, August Is, says the Congress
sional Labor Committee met sgain
to-day, and Mr.. Hewitt read q postal
card he had received from John
Petera, telling him Hyou have made
it 8 point to gather up all the crazy
men of New York, and show them
up as an example of A American me-
chanics. You are 3 fraud and q
counterfeit, and every Intelligent
man can see through your game
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-30
Masonic Gall.

LAWRENCE, Kans., Aug. 36.-The
following call has been issued by the
Grand Master of Masons for Kan
sRs:
OFFICE OF THE GRAND MASTERY
TOPEKA, Aug. %, 1873.
To all Free Masons co whom these pres
ents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, 1t has been made known to
us that u National Temperance Camp
Meeting will be held at Lawrence, Kan
sas, commencing August Both, aid deem.
ing that an appropriate occasion for you
to manifest your approval CT this work
for the reformation OF your fellow men.
Now, therefore, you are respectfully in.
vited to assemble at the Temperance Camp
Meeting aforesaid, at high twelve O'Clock
on Friday, September 9Th, 1873.
The programme OF exercises will be ar
ranged by a committee of the local lodges
The Right Worthy Grand Secretary
will have this call published.
Signe d. JOHN GUTHRIE,
Grand Master.
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Rond Nofice.

NOTICE is hereby given that q petition
IN has been presented to the Board of Coun-
ty commissioners of Lyon county. Kansas,
asking for the location of q county line road
as follows, to-wit:
section 81, township Il, and range 10; thence
running north on the section line as nesr as
practicable, to the northwest corner of sec
ton Is, township II, range 10, which is the
terminus of said road.
And whereas, Eli Sans, Isaac Wright and
8. G. James were appointed and ordered to
meet at the beginning of said road on the 9th
day of September 1878, at the hour of IL
O'Clock, q. m, to view, survey and locate
said road, and to give all parties hearing.
By order OF the Board of Commissioners
WIN. T. EWING,
1886 County Clerk.
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The great temperance camp meet
ing to be held at Bismarck, near
Lawrence, from Aug. 80 to Sept.
6, bids fair to be attended by the
largest assemblsge of people eyer
gathered together in the State. As
before announced many prominent
persons from all parts of the coun-
try will be present. Excursion rates
are given - far east as Boston, and
many eastern people will avail
themselves Of this opportunity to
visit Kama as.
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1886
District Court, Fifth Judicial District
Lyon county, Kansas.
s. L. SARGENT,

H. D. CURFIs, esdI>
DY virtue OF an order of sale, issued out OF
Id the District Court Of Lyon county in the
above entitled cause, I Will, on Monday, the
Both day Of September, 1878, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, at the front door Of the court house in
the city of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas,
bidder for cash, the following described real
estate, to-Wit: Commencing at the north
ton twenty mine, township nineteen, range
twelve; thence running east sixty rods
thence south one Numbered and sixty rods
thence west sixty rods; thence north one
hundred and sixty rods, to place Of beginning
containing sixty acres in Lyon county, Kan
sas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendants, fl. d. Curtis, ct a., 70 sat
isfV said order Of sale
Sherfnss once, August 18th, 1878.
b. +. IRWIN, Acting Sheriff
a6-5t Lyon county, Kansas
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And now the A. T. s. s. F. r. r.
announces that it Will carry all the
Democratic delegates and alternates
to the Leavenworth Convention,
which meets on the 4;h of next
month, free of charge.
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KafSce.

Notice is hereby given that at the next reg
ular session of the Board of County Commits
sioners of Lyon county, Kansa., there. will be
presented to said board a petition praying
for the vacation of Bancroft Avenue and Val
street, both being streets in \ certain town
site known as jays addition to the City OF
Emporia. which said town site is improved
and not embraced within the corporate limits
of an incorporated city. WILLIAM JAY;
A 8. TANDY,
W. w. HIBBEN,
35-6t VII H WOOD by L.W
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Wichita had q mass meeting
Saturday night and raised $500 to
be forwarded to the yellow fever
sufferers of the south. Will Empo-
ria follow her example?
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The Industrialist says that Presi-
dent Anderson's nomination for
congress will cause no change in
the management of the Agricultural
College during the coming term.
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Two numbers of the Kansas
Monthly, published by J. S. Bough-
ton At Lawrence are on our table.
II is well gotten up sheet. devoted
to the interests of Kansas aud in
tended to induce emigration to the
asafa