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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-09
GOOD ADVICE.

The New York Graphic, in an article
which We copy elsewhere, nsrstes how a
magnificent estate was devoured by the
lawyers, leaving 10 the heirs only few
thousands out OF an estate which was popu
larry estimated at =, 100000 n referring
to this case the Chicago Tribune makes the
following sensible remarks
This Taylor will case is an epitome of the
entire history OF Uestamentary litigation.
IL Is surprising that, in view of the certain
disappearance Of an estate IN litigation, there
should be any tquapble among heirs. The
man woman or child who has money or
property left 10y will shouid lake it, whether
much or little, and be satisfied. Heirs who
test the will with any hope of getting any
money out OF tn, contest, Lo matter what
the merits of their case may be, unless they
compel the successful leg ltees to make
I settlement with them. Estates rarely, If
ever, yield under the most favorable circum-
stances the amount at which they are popu-
lsrly estimated, but they dwindle away en-
tirely durtn- the neglect OF years and under
the relentless attscks of lawyers on both
sides Claims are trumped up that would
never be dreamed OF If the property passed
directly over into GudiSputed possession, and
after the guardians, executors, trustees, re-
SEWERS, and counsel are through with the
squabble, and they mutually agree that there
is nothing more to Il ght for, that is an end of
the litigation and the estate.
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BERLIN, Oct. AT Leipsic Yesterday
Herr Friedberg, Secretary Of State, opened
the Imperial Supreme Court and admins.
tered oaths TO DIR. Simpson, President, and
other officers. The Judiciary reforms de-
sired by the Reicnstag throughout the
Umpire also came into operation Yesterday.
Herr Schneigens, formerly Alsatian
deputy in the Reichstsg, has been appoint
ed Ministerial Counsellor in the new Asa
tian Administration. Wilhelm, son lof
Prince Bismarck, becomes secretary 10 Field
Marshal MaateIfel Governor Of Al.ao, -.
Lorraine.
Governor Msnteufel YESTERDAY issued the
following address: 81 to-day assume The
office with which the Emperor has entrusted
me, OF Imperial General Of Alsace-Lorrsine.
Nay Tod give me strength - exercise the
powers conferred on me TO the glory of the
German Empire and to the welfare Of
Alsace- Lorraine
Election returns from the country di.-
tricts come in slowly. So far az received
they indicate the success OF the Cop.erya-
uves. Lssker and Richter, two of Bis
marck's chief opponents, are probably de-
feated.
The Nuh German Gazsne, replying to the
attack OF the st. Petersburg Go!os, which
declared Russia independent OF any at
tempt to isolate her in Europe, ssys: "Rus-ia
in Germany supported Russia in the peace
OF Adrianaple; in the Polish WARE Of 1851
and %; and in Crimean war. 1.-THE friend.
OF the Gctos consider this support unim-
portant, then their own attitude is respon-
sible. II Germany Is compelled to look
els swhere for the support which she had
found in her relations with Russia, Ger
many's policy will remain . peaceful one
and she will seek only peace-loving sup
port. II the GOlos and its coadjutors wish
TO repel only the strong and Trustworthy
friend upon whom Russia could count. il
is fully probable that they may attain that
object BY continuing in the path upon
which they have ente ed"
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THE RUSSIAN HARVEST

The increased demand for breadstuffs in
Europe this year il largely due 10 the fall
ing od in the supply Usually drawn from
Russia. The Russian crops have fallen
much short of the average The extent Of
tine shortage is indicated by the following
statement published by the GRcs:
For the INST six months of 1873, I5.sl3rO
quarters were exported, hut this year only
l3.iI2,"1 quarters were exported, making n
difference OF GsI $40 quarters, or Il per cent
On the other hand, the imports are consider
ably larger than those OF last year, maxim .
the balance still! more unfavoTabIe In "A few
districts, according To the correspondents of
some papers, the Russian harvest is rond II
Is middiing Ia the HIel, and the generally
fertile land II bad, and prices OF grain have
risen accordingly Last year poud, or about
forty English pounds of wheat, cost eighty
coPeks, and poOd of rye from fprty-five 10
TO MY cop"ks. This year the prices are. for
GOOD poDd ofwheat IL cOpeks, and seventy
1--WE cnIeKS for a pood Of rye, and these high
prices are expected TO increase. The farmers
nre suffering much loss from cattle pIagu.
chiefly because eflicacious measures are not
observed.
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KEfIIELINAN PRIMARIES

The Republican primary meetings, to
select delegates TO the County Convention,
Will he held at the usual places this even
ing Every citizen should consider it his
duty 10 attend the primary meetings OF
his party. There it is that the real work
OF selecting our public officers is done. II
We want good men for our officers, the peo-
pie must turn out TO the primaries and
select them. The Democrats have nomi-
mated good ti.ket. They
have put up their best and
strongest men. If We hope to win a
Republican victory this Fall we must nut
up at least as good ticket as our oppon-
ents have nominated. II the decent men of
the party stay at home and lesve the work
at the primaries TO the RUNNERS and seal
awagS, they can't complain if a lot of
rlayed-out dead beats are nominated. and
and il the Republicans Of the county LET
such iicke. be nominated, they will have
themselves TO blame when il is defeated At
the polls. Turn out to the primaries TO-
night
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THE BUSINESS Room.

Everything goes TO show that the great
business wave is daily becoming wider
broader and deeper; having started in
Kansas more than year ago, it now takes
in the whole country, and We usy reason
ably look forward 10 long period of
unusual business activity. In other words,
the good times tina; have been coming"
for so many long and dreary years are
already at hand, and the season
OF depression is past. New
York correspondents give the
most cheerful and encouraging accounts
of the condition of business in that city
Merchants in almost every branch of trade,
report increasing activity, and many of
them report orders considerably shesd
Immense quantities of msrrhsnd'-e con-
tinue to 60 forward BY the Southern coast
steamers, taking in every point of distribu-
ton from Norfolk clear through TO Calves
ton. The Eastern transportation companies
are also exceedingly busy, and the scene
night and day at the freight depots Of the
railways along the river front is
ole of the busiest imaginable. Every
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prosecution knew that he was Ia attendance,
his conversation with Mr.. Stumbsugh con-
tinued nearly an hour, and he was discharged
with the full know edge and assent OF that
gentleman. Furthermore, Mr.. Brown is =
prominent ard well known citizen Of Atchi.
SOC. aud his presence 1t Topeka Can be OBJ
tanned at any time, If he IS wanted. He is
not going to run awey. He is ready to res
pond 10 any call made upon him. .
We make the Sc statements on The autbority
OF Mr.. Brown, and with his full knowledge
and approval. Instead OF having been spirited
away by Mr.. Ingalls,, as the Times CORES
cor respondent states, c was introduced tc
the members of the Senate Commit ee, In
Guiding its Chairman, by NJ. Ingalls,, and
was publicly discharged, sftsr a long CONVEX
ssriou with one OF the leaiing memoriaiis,.
and attorneys for the prosecution.
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NOCAPAKTICLEO FBuTrERNEs S

The Augusta. (Ga.,) CrOnicle has a
pleasant word to say of Gen. Grant. 1t is
pleased with his speech to the Confederates
in Californis, and regards it as specially
commendable- 1t says:
This a short and sensible speech. Nothing
could have been In better taste. Grant is
right Nothing expands the mind more than
going abroad. Much OF The prejudice and in.
tolerance, North and south, except from pro
fessional politicians, comes from ignorance
Of the world at large. We have no doubt
that Grant is. In all respects, a more cOnserv-
atIye man than tie ever was before. Not a
particle Of bitterness toward the south seems
to have an abiding place in his nature. This
i specially commendable, when such DIS
iinguished non combatants as Blaine, Sher.
man and Conkling are waving the bloody
Inn'T and evIncing "a prowess that was con-
picUously absent in lsGI-C5.
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Special to THE LEAvENwoRTH TINEs.I
Topeka, Kansas, October 1.-The fair to
day has been an immense success. Full
five thousand people we're on the grounds
The entries are very large and especiall,
in the stock. The chow Of hogs, sheep
horses and cattle is very fine.
There is quite q contrast in the cattl,
show between the exhibitors Of Herefords
Messrs. Walter N. Morgan, of Marshal
county, Kansas; Jackson 4 Warren, of Ma
pie Hill. Ks; and Hon. Thos. II. Cavanaush
Of the Highland stock farm, at Salins, Ia.
being here with the best of their respective
herds.
In the 2;i0 trot to-day, there were three
entries: Shoe Fly, from Illinois; Ionis;
and Kentucky Chief, of Topeka. Shoe Fly
took the first heat in 2:45; Ionia the
second, third and fourth heals, in 2:i7,
2:i6A and 2:i5.
Tomorrow is Soldiers day. The old
veterans will be here in full force. They
will be entertained BY the old citizens of
Topeka and treated to = sumptuous dinner
en- The grounds.
- General John A. Logan and other
distinguished visitor will address the col
dierp. 1t is desired that Leavenvorth
should send down good delegation.
The weather Is fine and the grounds and
track are in perfect order. There will be
some fine sport during the day, as the
bert horses on the grounds will 20 to
MORROW
IBy Associated Press.l
TOPEKA, Kansas, Oct 1.-The Shawnee
County Fair is . success. Large numbers
of people are here from all over the State.
The exhibits are better than on any occa-
sion for years.
The veterans reunion, which occurs to-
morrow, promises to be one which will be
q credit to the State. Ample preparations
have been made BY the citizens Of Topeka
for the comfort of euests.
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How q Texas Lawyer Won q Jury.

EI-Gov. J. W. Throckmorton certainly
understands all the arts Of an old Texan
In his speech defending Ed B,mar. at
Gainesville, after having spoken an hour,
he said:
Gentlemen Of the jury-It is said by the
prosecution that because the deceased was
in his shirt sleeves when killed he had no
pistol"
Here Mr.. Throckmorton pulled off his
coat and stood before the jury in his shirt
sIeeves.
You would say" continued Mr.. Throck-
morton, that 1 am not armed because
am in my shirt-sleeves. Look do you see
my arms ~ cried he, holding up his hands.
No signs of arms could be seen.
Mr.. Throckmorton then drew a pistol
| from under his left arm, another from I'M
der his right, one from each boot, and 8
, large bowie-knife from the back of his
neck, placing them upon the table.
"IOu see, gentlemen, though in my shirt
sleeves, l could be we'll armed"
This wss a clincher, and it carried the
point, entirely destroying the Argument Of
the prosecution,
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Cruel On lnhnman Punishment


The memorialists, Eggers, Stumbaugh Il
Co, had the impotence to include in their
charges against the integrity Of Senator In
gals election, one to the effect that during
his previous term the Senator had conspired
with the Marshal-one Miller-to pack a
United States Grand Jury. The Investigst-
ing Committee very properly decided that
they had no authority to investigate the
charge, as il anti-dsted the election
sought TO be impeached- Miller, the
ex-Msrshal and eager witness, was therefore
discharged, though the counsel for Senator
ingalls, offr red 10 consent TO the introduction
OF any testimony on that heal. Cruelty to
animals is an offense shocking TO human ma
ture, but We must confess that the sight OF
Charley Miller on the witness stand, under
going crUss-exsmination, would have been a
spectacle far from unwelcome To a perveise
and hard hearted generation.
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A Princely Estate Devoured by Law
yers.
New York Graphic. I

| New York Graphic
| The application OF Receiver BENTLEY TO
be discharged from further obligations on
account CT the estate Of the late James H.
Tay lor brings before the public most in.
structive instance of the eating up of es-
states by lawyers. In another column will
be found very careful, though condemned,
account of the way in which great prop
erty has been swept away from the widow
and heir of a testator and distributed
among horde of greedy lawyers. To
this article We call the attention of al our
readers.
james b. Taylor died about nine years
ago His estate was valued at between
y, 100000 and So 100000. and the lowest
estimate Of its value placed it at s., OOO,-
600. As Is we'll known, the shares of the
| New York 1mes stock brought the estate
$50 600 in cash
The net result of nine years litigation
seems to be this: The proceeds of the
| estate, real and personal. accounted for has
fallen short of $500, 600. The equity of the
redemption in the only portion of the real
estate still unsold and now in litigation
will not net more than $1,000. The re-
| ceiver has no proPertyto pay his own fees.
The widow has been pa q $1,000 as her
do yer in certain real estate that has been
cold. The debts proved and unpaid
amount to abont 250,OOO.
Where is the estate? Neither heir,
widow, devisee, legstee or creditor has re-
ceived much of it. 1t has been swallowed
up in costs fees and allowances. Lawyers
fees alone have amounted to more than
$4,000. On the contest of the will,
Surrogate "Bob" Hutchings al owed Sweeny
and Devlin, special administrators, SIS. 600;
and TO six lawyers an aggregate sum of
sSS, 400, divided az follows: To Henry l..
Clinton, S24 600; to Rufus +. Andrews,
So, 500; to Z. w. Stoughton (ex-Minister
to RUSSIA, ST. 800; to Senator Herman,
$1,000. and to Senator Conkling, 81 400.
The nine years litigation has been
mine to the lawyers who were fortunate
enough TO enter it at the beginning.
number OF lawyers are now unpaid, and If
the loss only fell upon those who had aided
IN wrecking the estate, no one would re-
gret their calamity.
James b. Tayior's creditors are unpaid.
James b Taylor's widow and his grand
daughter are unprovided for. James b
Iaylor's estate has gone into the pockets OF
lawyers. In the long run, the members of
the clsss that presides over the distribu-
tions Of estates will have the lions share
of the property. As We have so often
said, the lawyers are the real Communists.
The laws which permit such abuses a. the
Taylor litigation reveals should be amend |
ed. They cannot be changed as long a.
lawyers control our Legislatures. II we
do not want class Legislation, and az its re.
cult class plunder, fewer lawyers should be |
kept in public life.
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II isn't As Funny q. il used TO be.


THE Bloody Shirt" isn't much laughed
at in the North now. The reason il that
the people have learned that it il reality.
In 1872 and ls7G, when csmpaign-speakers
told of the political atrocities in the South
men turned away and laughed. 1t seemed
then . hugh joke-a tale got up to put
audiences in good humor-that in this en-
lightened age vast bodies of white men
should have combined and in conspiracy
agsinst the bsllot-box, and should actually
have excluded thereform by murder and
threats Of murder hundreds of thousands
Of their fellow-citizens. But the proof of
these things puts them beyond doubt. 1t
is contained in huge volumns of Consres-
sional reports; made BY Representatives Of
both political parties; in the correspondence
of thousands Of candid travellers, and in the
admission Of Democrats themselves.
Dozens Of newspapers and hundreds of
public men At Me south admit and deplore
the truth of the statements. This is vhy,
when Northern men hear of the bloody
shirt, it does not seem to them any longer
~ owing subjeo'
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yellow Fever.

MEMPHts, Oct. Not a single new case
has been reported to the Board Of Health
Ole death has occurred since last night.
The weather Ia oppressively warm
Ten cases in all white and ! colored-
were reported to the Board of Health to-
day. Two additional deaths have occurred
At meeting of the Safety Committee
this afternoon, the Charity Committee was
di-banded.
The donations to the Towards to-day
aggregate $50.
The thermometer has ranged between
~ and 90.
Alma and Charles Stoddart, children of
Mrs. Martha +. Stoddsrt, were stricken
with fover this morning, seven miles south
OF Memphis, in the neighborhood where
the Arnold family recently died. Eight
persons have died and five are still sick
With fever in that immediate vicinity.
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Jriessuered troops on Milk river. The
party started first for North Park bu,
turned aslde uron the warning of the se,.
tiers that the Utes we're in the vicin;,v srd
then went to Elk mountain. The Indians
were again too thick and the party ioire5
thornburg's commsnd JUS. a. aIo,bsr
hunting party passed on their way 10 IN,
railroad, who give the information. MIR.
Gen. Tyner and Mrs. Hoyt are At CHEYENNE
anu are very anxious.
DISPATCHES FROM CoRRlLLEp TROOPS
do rot mention Gen. Tynsris presence .nroI
ably because the General wishes 10 ssc.n..
before giving the news 10 his wife vbo r.
been i'll. Inc friends of Mira Tvns, .,s
preventing word from reaching her rxo
freightsr., named Kinney and Go,d-sr
who recently engsged in hauling Captain
Dodges compsnys baggage to S,e,mbo.,
Springs, from Middle Park. arrived here
from North Park this morning. They re-
port seeing
Fresh INDIAN SIGNS
through the Park and meeting vo,ro
Arapahoe buck, Who told them The Sr,n.,
hoes had joined the Utes for the purpose of
driving the colored soldiers of Capt. DODGE,
company out OF the Park They think the
Indians are about to proceed TO Steamboat
Springs TO attack Dodge when Thornbureh'.
approach attracted their attention and
they attacked him instead.
WILL RETURN AT oScF.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Oct. 2.-Ou account
OF the indian troubles, Secretary Schu,z
will return Immediately.
WHERE Is GENERAL TYNER?
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. item.
hnapP, chief clerk of the post office DEPART
ment, received tonight the following re-
ply TO his telegram to the postmaster at
Laramie, asking information in relation TO
Assistant Postmaster General Lvues and
party:
". L. KiaPp, CHEZ GaE Re, Once Depars-
mezst.
LARAMIE City. WYOMING. Oct. "A
party Just srrieed who saw Gen. Tyuer anil
party on Big Greek, ABOUT fifteen miles
from IInkhams rancho. at entrance to
North Park. Messengers have been sent 10
warn them of the danger from Indians.
think they are all right; will telegraph To
you when hear from them. Signed,
Z. W. SfAULDING, Acting Postmaster.
This places Gen. Tyner and friends 4
hundred and fifty miles east Of the scene of
Ihornburgh's disaster, with mountain
range between them, and free from danger
unless the outbreak among the Indians il
more general than now supposed.
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Another or Horace l:reeIey's bad In
Vcstmenls."
IN. Y. Cor. Courier-Journal.I


Horace Greeley had q maxim that it il
always the improbable that happens. The
surprises that have come to his daughters
in the matter of his estate might lead them
to extend the maxim by saying it is that it
is only the impossible that seems certain.
One of MIR. Greeley's freaks before his
death was to invest $4,000 or Sl2,O in
some wild lands in Virginia. The money
was dropped there carelessly, and all Mr..
Greeley could say about the venture was
that he intended it as a permanent invest
meut. When his executors began to reck-
on up what they could rave out of the
estate for the children, they CHASED the
Virginia lands with Cornelius Vanderbilt
debt of ISL ,lS7. Neither, it was expected,
would ever amount TO anything, but now,
after the young daughters Of the great edi-
tor have been made happy by the settle
ment in full OF the Vanderbilt debt, they
receive An offer of $4,000 for those Vir-
ginia lands, and they have been advised
not to take if, az they promise to be of still
greater value, 80 much have they improved.
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already up, and. business was booming
again. Even more worthy of admiration
il the pluck with viii the half destroyed
city declines all tenders of charity from
the outside world, and the spirit of good
fellowship in which all hands have turned
in to help strengthen out thingss,hemselves.
This is perhaps most strikingly illustrsted
in the fact that even the shopkeepers, who
are now having such tremendous run OF
custom, are not marking up prices to the
extortionste figures that they might secure
but are disposed to do their share toward
bridging over the difficulty. Desdwood
evidently is going to make its mark in the
world yet, despite the fire fend."
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Terrible Accident .

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. An Adrian
(Mich.) special to the Detroit Post and
Tribune gives the particulars of an accident
that occurred at the county fair grounds
IN that city this afternoon: About 1000
people had assembled on the rewly erected
grand stand to witness the races, the centre
OF which gave way with a crash. The
front part fell out and the back fell into
the river, participating the mass of people
among the ruins.
Work was at once commenced TO eItrk-
cate the dead ard wounded, and the opera
house was opened and many OF the dead
and wounded, al fast IA eXtricated, were
conveyed there.
The following IL list Of the casualties,
AZ lar as can be ascertained. Many of the
Injured were taken away nv their friends,
30 that the actual number cannot he given ::
killed-M. VI. Merrick, of Adrian Mrs.
John Hubbard, OF jasper, Mich. two boys,
about twelve yesrs of age, named Hyde and
Mosher; David Piumsdore, OF Petersburg,
Mich, aged Is; Vim. Mulzer, of Adrian.
About twenty-five persons were more or
less il iured some fatally.
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THE CHINEsE TREAT,

A Washington special brings the inform
alton that negotiations have been nearly
completed for such modification of our
treaty with China as Will abrogate the
clause guaranteeing TO citizens OF either
race the rights in the territory OF the other
granted to the subjects of the most favored
foreign nation. 1t il under this clause that
the imposition OF restrictions upon Chinese
immigration has been precluded Its abro-
CATION will leave no impediment to such
legislstion az may exclude that immigrs-
tion, but it will also enable an abrogstion
OF the rights guaranteed TO American citi-
z=ns in the Celestial Empire, and will open
up the whole question for reimbursement.