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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
THINK AEOVTIT AWHILE.

A good many lsboriny men in the East
are talking about going South, under the
impression that the emigration of so many
negroes to the North and West. will make
a demand in that section for laNor. The
New York Times advises all such to think
twice before they make such move. and
says:
The wsges Of agricultural hands in Mis-
eissippi and Louisiana are not more than
Sc to IS a month, with peck OF meal and
three or four pounds of bacon for each per
son per week The work ia hsrd; the iii
mate trying; the pay not always sure. Men
DESTROYS to migrate will usually consul,
their interest nv going West, where law ard
order are maintained, and where progress is
making. They can do better in the
West, because of less competition and capi-
tai aud many more opportunities there.
Many farmers, now prosperous in the West,
began without money or iriepds, and have
worked their way TO independence ard
comfort Others have gone there under
better circumstances ard With more means,
and have not succeeded on account of Whist
they call their i'll lnck Usually i'll luck
is within. not without; it belongs to the
man rather than TO his surroundings; i
consists in want of energy, enterprise, thrift,
perseverance. Circumstances may often
make men, but men oftener bend circum-
stances to their will and rise superior there
to. There are many men who would not
get on anywhere, and it is they who are
most prone to complain # i'll luck Il is
q bsdly-chosen expression. Frequent
mention of it is an unfsvorsble augury; it
from the self helpful and the strong.
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An Interesting Petrifaction.
Walnut Valley Times, I9l


Joe Potter, of Hickory, tells US of a very
perfect petrIfsction recently found out in
his neighborhood. Ii is m, n's leg from
the knee down, and was found BY Mr. Sal
wage, IN quarrying rock. 1t is said to be
very perfec, except that i: is fsttened out,
something like suntih, which might have
been done centuries sgo, by being com
pressed between the rocks. The foot meas
urss seventeen inches in length; from the
point of tie toe 10 the instep, twelve
iDches; across Inc side of the snsle, eight
inches; from the point Of the heel to the
knee, ihirty-eiybt inches; width scross top
of leg at the knee, fifteen inches; from bu,
OF toe to instep, seven inches. By taking
the comparative hei2ht OF man, from the
heel to the knee, ard applying it to this
petrifaction, it will be found that the per-
son would have been about twelve and one
third feet in height.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
An INTERESTING pECIs1ox

The United States circuit court of Louis-
lana recently rendered decision to the ef-
feet that it had no power to order the lew
OF tax on the part of the civ of New
Orleans, to pay certain judgments against
1t upon bonds Issued in aid of 4 certain
railroad company. The case WAS carried
up by the bondholders to the supreme court
OF the United States and that tribunal Isst
week decided sgaiust the CITY. The
court, below held that the power Of taxa
tion belongs exclusively to the Legislature.
aud that the Judiciary csnnot direct a tax
to be levied where none Is authorized by the
Legislature. While concedirg that the
power of taxation is Legislative preroga-
tive, the Supreme Court holds that il i.
conferred upon the municipal corporation
n necessary accompaniment of the dele
gated authority, to borrow money or incur
an obligation to carry out any public OBJ
ject and this without any special mention
that such power to tax is granted. The
judgment of the Circuit Cart is therefore
reversed, with directions that the writ
prayed fc-, commanding the authorities Of
ESew Orleans to levy the tax. be issued.
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Prof. Tracy, OF the Missouri Agricultu-
raj College, has this to say to some of the
varieties of potatoes tried by him On the
college farm last year.
"Beauty OF Hebron, introduced by the
Department Of Agriculture lat year, Ia 8
very smooth white potato, OF excellent
table quality. 1t Is shaped like the
early rose, and ripens at about the same
time, but appears to he a much better
keeuer.
SooTfake has proved universally good
with me; it is OF fine quality, yields we'll
aud keels we'll.
Brownelrs beauty has been failure
when planted on heavy clay lands, but on
we'll drained river bottoms it will give al
enormous yield of excellent potatoes.
White Neshsnnock is among the best
for fall and early winter uses but ia very
uncertain, and sometimes nearly every tn
Der will ROT in the ground.
Early rose heads the list for summer and
fall Use, but when grown in warm climate
1t becomes watery and Of inferior flavor il
the winter"
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
SANFORD'S
RADICAL CURE
IS o.F For q
g. CAIARRH ~

Instantly relieves and permanently cures
Snet zIng or Head Colds, called Acute Catarrh
thick, Vel ow and foul Mattery Accumula-
lions Ia 'the Nasal Passages, called Chronic
Sstarrn totting and slousning of the Bones
OF ne Nose, with discharges of loathsome
matter unged with blood, and Ulcerations
often extending to the Eye, Ear, Throat and
Lungs, called lucrative Catarrh. Also. Hsy
Fever, Nervous Headache, Dizziness, Cloud
ed Memory, and Loss of Nerve Power.
This Great Local Aud Constitutional Renee
DIV Is prepared entirely by q ,Stillatiou and
contains, In the form of vsporized essences,
the greatest vegetable healing and purifying
properties known 10 modern chemistry.
BY means of DIR. SanfOrus Improved Inhal-
er, which accompanies every bottle Tree OF
charge, 10 Is Inhaled, thus acting directly on
the Nasal Passages, which IL instantly clean-
ses of foul mucuous astumulations, subdue.
ing Inflammation when extending to the
Eve, Ear and Throst, restoring the senses OF
Smell Hearing and Taste when affected,
leaving the head deoderized, clear and open,
the breath sweet, the breathing easy, and
every sense in grateful and soothted condi-
ton. Internally Administered II permeates
every fluid of the body, cleansing the entire
mucuous or membranoas system through the
blood, which IL purities OF the acid poison al.
ways present in Catarrh Ii builds up the
enfe, b. ed and bros en- down constitution robS
the disease OF It's virus, and permits the TO-
nation OF Health Restoring Blood. Unless
the system il Frustrated by >crofula or con-
sumption beyond recuperstiou, IL will effect
a permanent cure in every case. Hundreds
OF testimonials. livery druggist who has
ever solo 10 will ch-erfully bear witness to
its marvellous efficacy.
Price, with Improved Inhaler, Treatise and
Directions, 81.
Sold by druggists everywhere.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
Have Plenty OF Room.
Correspondent Kansas Farmer


think country folks have 20 use for q
yard; five acres at the lesst, and from that
up to forty, is better than little eight by
ten picket fence yard, only large enough to
throw out the dish water and have the dogs
fight in. But take several acres; plant
fruit, forest and ornamental trees, shrubs,
vines, flowers, and last, but not least, plenty
grass seed; it will in few years make a
place that town-people will be delighted to
catch glimpse of. Wecountry folks have
patterned after town lots long enough.
Think of it, We Kansas women.
Land is plenty. Why not have five
or ten acres devoted to tree, flowers and
garden, where the children (both young
and old can have plenty of room to play
under the shade OF trees, aud on the soft
grass? / think / hear a farmer say, Il
want to turn my hogs in my orchard they
eat up all the fallen fruit, YOU know"
Yes, but can't Johnny and Willie and
Mary do that part? They want to be out !;
50 have them pick up the fallen fruit in
the wheel barrow and wheel it 10 the hog
lot, aud then your orchard will always be
fit to invite the President out to see, If he
happens to come along, and no danger of
him, as he looks up at the fruit. stepping
10 hog hole and falling down. You know
you would hate such an accident to hap
men,
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
Miss Oury and Her Nan Friday.

Mr.. FRIDAY-not, az We are aware, q de-
scsndant of Robinsou's CrusJ.s protsge,
whose shre~d common sense he appears to
lsck-hss hesn chsirmaker at Batavia,
Illinois For Some cause he went TO Eng
land for wife, and wac promised the hand
Of a Miss Curry. She demsI ded a mar
riage settlement, thing little known in
Illinois, and as he declined granting her re
quirement, she declined TO keep her en-
gagement He then sued her for breach
Of promise in London court, and gained
an award of e20-Sl00-accompan by
much laughter from the lawyers and spec
talor-. Al the lady was well off pecu-
nisriy, he would hsve done better by per-
miGing her TO manage her own property.
or fulfilled her condition in some similar
way. We are afraid he was avaricious
and, in grasping after all, lost the good
portion be might have acquired.
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Improved Financial Outlook.

new 1Ofk hefalC. SATURDAY
The $40, 100000 subscription made by
the Bank Of Commerce, which exhausted
the outstanding FIVE twenties, was deemed
extraordinary at the time, but it h ~ been
thrown entirely in the shade by the still
more extraordinary application to the
treasury for $50, 000, 900 four per cents by
a syndicate of home and foreign capitalists.
The acceptance OF this bid necessitates 2
cali for an equal amount of territories,
which simply means that holders of these
bonds must tender the same to the govern
ment for payment within ninety days or
submit to a stoppsge of interest after that
time. The ten-forty loan. aggregating.
however. nearly $500 900, 900, there remain
about $4,000 600 of the four per cent?.
which the secretary of the treasury will
reserve to meet the demands OF holders OF
the ten dollar certificates when entitled ~
exchange the same for four per cent. bonds.
In word the fve-twenty and ten.forty
loans are virtually paid off and blotted cut
OF existence, with the very material advant-
age to the country Of substituting four
per cent. rate Of interest, in lieu Of five and
and six, upon the obligations which take
their place. At the same time the market.
ing by the government of four per cent
bonds ceases from this date, no further
issues being possible until the 1861 six pei
cents mature. The stock market wss favor
ably affected by the bond transaction, and
| stocks were generally higher, and
| what was more important, wer'
| re ,cued from their chaotic stat'
of the last week ard directed int
the curren' which is flowing upward. Iii
argued with considerable force thst m any
holders of Government bonds-bein!
forced to receive payment for the same
are unwilling TO accept the lower rate o
interest profiered by an exchange into lou
per cent?, and are consequently impelle t
invest the proceeds in the higher class Q
railroad securities, which are promising o
a better return for their money. \ feeling
that demand of this cert would shortl
appear in the market gave strength TO III
list TO day, snd almost without exceptio
created an Improvement throughout tn
list
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
French and American Cooking.
IL. Delmonico in Christian Union

ILL., DtIHlpuICO IN CHRISTIAN L mon J
The artisans, the curriers', the b1,rge9is- 8,
aud The very lowest classes in France sub
sist on actual figures that would startle the
promoters OF the cheapest eating houses for
the poor Of New York. Yet the French
men would turn up their noses at the bread
and soups and coffee which are to be found
on the tables of thousands of well-to-do
people in America. For a franc and half
or Two francs one can get neat little din
ner at any of the lower order Of t,ble de'htes
in Paris, which would seem like an epicu-
rian feast, beside the shocking conglomera-
tons OF many of our tirst-cIass boarding
houses. And all this, too, when the French
are actually at a disadvantage when COM
pared with US in the variety and excellence
Of their markets and sources OF supply. Ii
is simply explained by the fBct that they
have had the good sense to learn the truth
about their own stomacbs, and have come
to reason that animals feed, man eats; bur
the man Of intelligence alone knows how TO
eat -
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
Advice to Girls.
(Cor. Farmers Friend. }

ID
Should you during the day enter into an
altercation-I know it IL one of the impo--
sibilities OF life for brothers and sisters to
exist without some differences, and some.
times pretty lively ones-don't harbor the
unkind words said; try to forget them; do
30 with kiss. Very few girls can cares
little brother and nurse anger in their
hearts.
You can train young mind and heart
in any direction you choose; you have the
power of implaniing an adherence of rude,
uncouth things, and bringing all the better
feelings and longings into play. I am
speaking seriously, girls, and want you to
try my plan, and see if BY cuitivating .
kindly spirit and patience towards the little
ones, and big ones too, you will not enhance
your own pleasure. Converse with them
upon intelligent questions-ehe leading
questions of the day-upou the rules and
laws Of their own country. II you lack in
knouledse, inform yourself upoa these sub
jecht Il landinG yoar idsas yoo viii fnd
that Yea Decsivs naay, ~ iEua th0s H.
tlsflh Knssls1S + sll6.Bs, ~ 81
- buoa nnD - 3 hn1ly -
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
An Expensive suit.

TWasuIrIgtUL IltF'uDIICdT, 70
A little insignificant difficulty occurred
some time last winter, in the west part OF
the county, between Chsries Daniels and
one Hoy. The latter, being worsted in the
melee, had Mr.. Daniels arrested as a Grim
nal against the State, and carried the IN at
ter into tie courts. The case came on for
hearing last week, ard the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty a. to Mr.. Daniels, and
further, found that the prosecution had
been malicious, and mulcted Mr.. Hoy in
the costs, amounting 10 something over
ninety five dollars
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
WAR OFTuE R0Srs

A correspondent writes from Washing
ton that battle for precedence il in pro-
gress there between the wives of Senators
and OF Representative. 1t has been the
custom to admit the wives Of members of
the House to reserved galleries of the Sen
ate upon members card. The Senate
ladies, finding the crowd too close for their
epring toilets, protested and after lively
wrangle an order has been issusd on the
Senate side not to recognize the cards Of
members OF the House. The wives of the
latter are in a most non-spgelic mood, and
they are trying to arrange for retaliation
on the House side sgainst the families Of
Senators.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
Slugs and Thrips.
u. W, Reecner in Christian Cnio


You are troubled with the slug, or the
thrips. Ii the latter, ! know of no remedy
but dismal patience The "Trip is a very
minute miller, like moth millers, only far
smaller. They swarm like snow flakes in
winter. They eat ont the subsistence of the
leaf, leaving only The framework. You
may Try an ounce of powdered white heile-
bore 10 be had Of the spothecary) in say
two or three gallons Of boiling water, and
then, With a whisk, or syringe, sprinkle the
bush thoroughly, and if that does no,
remedy the evil, you can -, we'll. you
can resist temptation and practice submis-
sion. the rose bug is hard shelled being,
that will need no description and whose
remedy is patient hand picking. The slug
IL also patent enemy, and can be treated
ether by hand picking or solution OF
whsle-oii sosp. IA to aphides, whale-oil
soap suds is to them free pas into nom
entity.
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THE STORY OF \ REMARKABLY.
BOOK

Messrs Houghton, Osgood & Co, Of Bos
ton, have broug hit out a popular edition of
the illustrated Uncle Toms cabin"
which was Issued in so sumptuous style
during the holidays. An entirely rev
edition of this book hal become aneces-
sity, rs the old plates, from which sone
$4,000 copies had been printed, had be-
come too much worn for further use. This
reprint of uncle Tom" is prefaced by an
introduction which gives singularly in.
terestiDg account Of the book,-how it
came to be, how it wss received in the
world, and what has been its history
throughout all the nations and tribes of
ths earth, civilized and uncivilized, into
whose language it has been translated.
The effect of the book upon the world at
large cannot be easily described. 1t is per-
hapa best shown in the interesting Bibiio-
ersphy Of the work by George Bullen,
keepsr Of the Department of Printed Books
a ~ Brifish Museum. That library has
1rnnc1aSions Of aUncls Tom" in twenty DIFF
fuwt lsnxuaesn, viz: Armenian, Bohe-
-. D,nSsh. Dutch, Finnish, Flemish,
HEn6h. 0ernan, Hungarian or Hagysr,
49,. Inn2ians PeliIh, Rortuguesa Ro-
= lfo2ern Gsspk. Rnuinn, Servian,
{nnfk nuu1fA. Wa1lnsAiaa snd Well.
SG16Se - lnu0nsu9 - e tu1neeI
Z - - -, - - -
So - r i:
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KANSAS NEWS.

Topeka is to have colored quadriile
band.
The Jefferson II use in Osksloosa has
been greatly improved.
Jefferson county has 2,iOO voters. So
ssys the O-kaloosa Sickle.
The Marshall county Nercs has dropped
its prtert outside.
-Twenty-eieh persons joined the Luth-
eran Church in ) alma one day last week.
-Anchory viii he the favoiite utd,or
exercise in the West this season.
The Norton County Adumoe notes the
organization OF an Odd Fellows Lodge in
Norton.
The Medicine Lodge Cress says the
people in its vicinity will have grand
Msy day party.
The ordinance relating TO fast driving
is bang enforced in Lawrence, sccordirg to
the Journal
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
It's Wonder the World Isn't Worse
Than IL il.
ISt. Louis Globe-Democ


The truth IL, when we look rightly at the
matter it is wonderful that crime il not
mere plentiful than fl ia. The freedom OF
the country, the peculiar conditions of soci-
ETY., the la1ity Of the laws, the thousand
loopholes through which a criminal may
escape, the potency of money in securing
legal assistance and preventing the dispen-
saiion Of justice, the immense number Of
csses in which even heinous crimes are Wis
tied with ridiculously light punishment,
all combine to increase criminality and
multiply criminals. When, in addition,
We remember that every man on the eazfh
walks upon a thin volcanic crust of moral
ity and expediency, formed By the previous
efuptions Of society. while underneath his
feet the fires of passion roar and blsse liz
IL fano Of hell, The vondH really i, sot
thas = uufoEtuna1s has ~ thuo hoahs
thsslG ~ - ~ a.senel = tGbo1fsg
- p11ou 49, : 5. S, ~
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Black mai,in. the West.


Those who ask that the West be COM
PEELED To pay for the cattle which may be
destroyed in an effort to efiectually re-
move all grounds Tor fearing contsgion
from the East, are, it seems to Ia, simply
asking that the West be- blackmailed. la
effect they would say: We have here the
power to greatly iDjure you. Secure us
against the consequences OF our own negGi-
gence and We will make you safe.
Why should not Prof. Law say to Eng.
land: I've have among cur cattle dead
ly contagious disease. Ii you pay US for
our stock We will stamp out the c0ntagion
and 80 make your herds safe" England is
as much deserving of blame for any dill
ease which my exist among the cattle OF
the Atlsntic states as the Wet il, and
should bear Just as large part Of the ex
pense Of the stamping out process.
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arI eight of abridgements and adaptations.
sas reviewed in critical publicstions all
G E the world. and is author received in
J aerable letters regarding it from people
| III lands. Yet these facts but faintly in
9 tie Its wonderful popularity, populari-
I, Unique in the history of literature.
bis book contains about 100 illustra-
I, 3, and il in every respect an excellent
c, ion of a most remarkable story. 1t il
8; 4 for So 90, and can be procured Of book
s era, or from the pub!ishers, Hough,ou,
G. .ood & Co, Boston.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24
CHICAGO PRODUCE AARNcs

FLOUR-Quiet and weak,
WHEAT Active, bat lower; No. ,, S5s4c
May; $3.50 June No. 3, .ods5I2c; rejected,
t2Lc.
CORS-Fair demand. but lower with rates
weak; S3lzc cash; 80 aaSJ5 &C May: 3i1saSi5sc
June: So &c july.
OATs-DuIl and shade lower; 25Lc cash;
"a &c May; 2ii4c June
EHE-SteId1 and IN fair demand.
BAhLEY-Sleaty and II lair lem and.
PORk-May, - >; June, % 3; July, 50 i5a
gi7Z.
LARD-Fsir demand, but lower rates: s. 50
cash; - 500 s4I2 May; 60 S1l5 So June; 50 gJa
) g2k July.
BULK MEArs-GoOi demand, but at lower
rates; shoulders, s. 81, short NIB, "a IS; short
clear. "a 81.
ssN HIsKY Steady and unchanged at u o.
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ST. LOUIS PRODUCE. MARKET

st. IhUIs. April y
FLOUR = Steady and unchansed; M
81 a ~ u1 MY. "a g "a 81; family, 81 s51,. 20;
choice, IS co. > -.
WHEAr-LoweT; No. > red, 81 Ojai Cif.
cash; ! O5Il ~ MsN; Il Up.tII USI, lime.
S6f4c July; No. do, 81 u3s..
COR>-LOwvT; S3c cash: So za3.7g,, Nav.
S31&t3ic June; 5i5s SHE July.
OATS-Better "a 2SazJi.:
RYE-Lower ut 80.
BARLEY-DulI and un"hangei.
WHIsKy-Stesdy at 81 "a.
LEAD-D Ill at $500.
BUrTEs-Lower;c choice to fancy dairy, 1919
nc; medium. llal2l.c.
EGGS-Quiet at - &c.
POkK-Iowrr: jObDing, 50 90.
DRY SALT MEATs-LOwer; clear ribs, 81 42I%
BACoS-Lower: clear ribs, IS l215 cash; s5 %
Nay; 90 % June; 50 30 August; clear, So U51,
cash and July.
LARD-Nominal
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Towns in Marshall County.

isl>naIl county News, Isl
The population Of the several townships
of this county, for the year 1873, is as fol-
lows: Blue Rapids CITY. ZIG; Blue
Rspids, 9S3 Elm Creek, 81; MaIyville,
1886, yermillion, / 151; Franklin, 296 /;
Foble, i36: Watervilie, ,S23 Center, 400 ;
Guittard. his; Rock, 4i2; Wells, SIS.
The townships vary in size. The larger
townships are Guittard, Vermillicn, Mary
vile and Waterville. The smallest are
Elm Creek Franklin, Rock, Wells, Center
snd Blue Rapids CITY
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About Matching.

I.fIIIO4IOdIf 30 n trI'L.I
he first of May is good time for chicks
to make the first bow to their admiring re-
iatioas in chickendom. Care should be Oh
served in setting hens where they will rot
be distur bed by other chickens, and e-peci-
ally By turkeys; a comfortable meet should
be prepared and let them sit few days on
a carbolic nest egg, which is an excellent
thing 10 drive away all vermin infesting
the hens. When the habit of sitting is es-
tablisbed, the eggs for Matching may be put
into the nest. ice are a serious obstacle
to success in Matching, for the hen becomes
40 restless that in many cases sne will
break her eggs long before the time for
Matching, and if they do hatch, the chicks
are 70 feeble that they are liable to al the
disease that chick annnod Ia heir To-
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Sudden Death eta CO;Ored Wan.
Topeka Commonwealth, 20

Freigh! train No. ), on the Kansas Pa
cific road, picked up colored man named
Stephen Jones, at Eiwsrdsville, night be-
fore last, ard brought him TO Topeka. He
WAS hardly able TO speak, but managed to
say that be had a cousin in Topeka named
Mary Cook She was found in a house near
the gas works, and he was taken there, and
died yesterday morning. He was buried in
r chester Cemetery, al the expense of the
county. II was Eot known what caused
his death.