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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24

erty that should bear the burden of
taxation gets into the list it will be
found that great relief will come to
those who own only real estate and
such personal property as is actually
visible.
LEGISLATIVE OvERCOATS.
Bellows Falls Times: We can but
look on the action of the legislature on
the overcOat business with special in
terest. Two members have had their
Overcoats stolen. This is worse than
in 1876 when only one was stolen in
which we had devoted interest. One
of the members this year says there was
pair of gloves in his which he hopes
may be returned if not the coat. The
coat stolen in 1876 had two pairs of
gloves, but better than they and of
more value than coat and gloves, was Il
telegram in it giving the first news
that Hayes and not Tilden had been
elected But, alas, the whole went to-
gether ut that time, and now we look
with extreme anxiety to the action of
the committee of ways and means,
whether they intend to make new prec-
cdents, for no doubt the state can be
made to pay for the lost overcoats-
it can be shown that the state stole
them-aDd then, good fortune on us
we shall go for ''back pay ~
PosTMAsTERs AS LEGISLATORS.
st. Adams Messenger: According to
the constitution of this state, adopted
and held sacred as the foundation of
our rights, postmasters are ineligible to
the Legislature. Nevertheless several
towns did so elect and the gentlemen
took their seats. The press called the
attention of the Legislature to the mat
ter. Under their oath but enc thing
was to be done and that to deprive
these gentlemen of their seats straight
way. Nothing of the sort has been
done, and to-day gentlemen sit and
vote at Montpelier who have not the
least right to be there and the cOnstitu-
ton is flagrantly broken in the very
capitol. So great an infraction of the
law should not be allowed. Has it
come to the pass that the constitution,
even in its most express provisions, is a
nullity?
RE-DISTRICTING THE STATE.
Burlington Free Press: The COM
mittee on the subject, in reporting in
favor OF the mountain line, doubtless
reflect the iudgemnt and wishes of the
State. Any scheme for running the di-
viding line across, instead of up and
down the State, will probably be found,
if traced to its source, to have its orr
gin in the personal desires and inter
ests of some candidate for future Con-
gressional honors, who thinks his chan
ces will be better in district arranged
specially to suit him. But the Legisla-
ture will arrange that matter to suit
the masses rather then individuals.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
The Vermont Press.
TAXATION.

Montpelier Freeman: When prop
erty that should bear the burden Of
taxation gets into the list it will be
found that great relief will come to
those who own only real estate and
such personal property as is actually
visible.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24

Photo. and Autograph Albums,
Writing Desks, Ink Stands,
Games, Books of Poems, Teach
ers' Bibles, Bibles. Scrap
Books, hobby Line Box Papers,
Card Receivers, Cabinet
Frames, Easels, Music Rolls,
Christmas Cards, Etc, Etc.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11
THE IRISH AGITATION.

For many, many years the condi-
ton ofthe people has been pitiable in.
deed, and late advices from Europe
indicate that those people have borne
their burthens until human nature can
stand it no longer. They have been
subjected 10 system of petty tyran-
nies and reduced to state Of degra-
dation that probably no other people
in Christendom have had to submit to,
and that. too, without the power Of re-
dress, or better hopes for the future
Consequently the Irishman, although
he loves his native Erin, has left it for
strange lands until the population has
been reduced more than third And
no wonder. The lands are all owned
by the nobility, and the tenants are
forced to pay from 20 to 40 per cent.
of all they make to the landlords, and
this leaves them often without the
most common necessities of life.
Many times patriotic Irishmen have
sought to deliver their people from the
state of serfdom to which they have
been reduced by the land owners,
backed by the British government, and
as many times the effort has proved a
failure, the originators having been
put to death, transported or imprison-
ed. But now the feeling seems to
have taken possession of the whole
people. They are now remember
ing the wrongs that have been heaped
upon them for centuries. They re-
member that among the best soldiers
found in the British army are number
ed large per cent. of Irishmen. They
are contrasting the condition of their
own people IN this country with that Of
themselves, and the British govern
ment will be forced to do something
for the relief Of the Irish people or be
plunged INTO another war. The Irish
are right in their agitation. Such OPP
preston is disgrace to a civilized
country. The English aris:ocracy
needs to be taught a lesson once in a
while, and We hope the people in Ire
land will keep up the agitation until
the British government is forced to do
something for the amelioration of their
condition. And just at this time,
when all the European powers are
iiealously watching one another, Eng
land cannot afford to be too overbear-
ing toward Ler Irish subjects, and En-
in may yet be free.
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MISSOURI TO THE FRONT.
Missouri Teacher: Dee.

! MISSOURI MUST HAVE A SCHOOL SYsrEA
EQUAL To TIE BEST. From Atchison t,
Pemiscot, and from Clark to Mcdonald
the people demand it. Ar inferior schoo
system has repealed the tide OF immgra
Ii on. and lost to the state hundreds o
valuable citizens and hundred mill
ions of wealth. Our school term is three
months: our schools are without super
vision; and our teachers are withou,
Institutes. Bounded aS we are by sis.
ter states with school terms twice a.
long; with supervision. and with sys
tens of Normal Institutes, damaging
comparisons are inevitable
MISSOURI CAN AMPLY SUSTAIN Pop.
rLATIoN OF FIFTY MILLIONS. AT least one
million ought 10 be added during the
next decade. Nowhere are the cona!.
tions Sc inviting. Our central position
our iimitless mineral wealth, the I'M
equaled fertility Of our broad valleys
and pralries. our mighty rivers. our net
work Of railroads. and our admirable
climate are calling to the ates and
nation. Our inferior school system
stands in the way. How else can our
state immigration Society do so much
as by pertecting our school system
Let 1t he able TO announce as fact
that the best, and it will do more than
everything else to bring us a vast
immigration.
MISSOURI OWES nUTIEs To THE RISING
GENERATIoS We cannot afford to
Swindle ourselves; much less can we
afford TO defraud our children. Three
months for school year: schools utter.
!y without supervision: teachers with.
out the means of growth. Missouri
connot afford to longer endanger her
self and her schools. The people realize
our condition. and with one voice de-
mand change.
SIX MONTHS MUST BE THE MINIMUM
SCHOOL TERM. Wemust have efficient
supervision. ard .e must have a sys-
TEN of Normal Institutes. Without an
Intelligent exception, the teachers and
school officers of the State earnestly ask
these three improvements. Without
them we have the shadow without the
substance. With them our school sys-
TEN will be grand. The people of the
State with singular unanimity. say
give Us what is necessary and all that
is necessary to make it equal to the
best.
TEACHER. CITIZEN. MoMENTous DUTY
PRESSES. Not alone. for our 100000
youth. but also for the teaming mil
lions of the future must we provide
Grandly should we bulld. The Lesis-
lature which meets in January will be
composed largely Of intelligent and
public spirited men, disposed to do all
in their power for the great State Our
duty is plain and urgent. Let the
press, the platform. the pulpit and the
schoolroom give utterance in thunder
tones to the demands of the people and
the times. Let meetings be held in ev-
cry school district aud let petitions go
up ds thick as snow fakes. At last
the time has come. By a bold. deter
mined. persistent and united effort, we
can place our beloved Missouri in the
front.
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This Issue

Contains the presidents message in
full. quite a lengthy document. filing
six columns of closely printed space.
We also give secretary Schurz' annual
report together with the report of the
navy. We present also a full list of
the newly elected Missouri legislature
besides our usual ya-;s.tr Of .niscellan-
eous literary natter, rews notes, edi-
torial and ,ccal items. and eorrespon-
dencs. Lcok over this issue and COM
pare it wit.i your other papers and see
Il you WI! net say the Graphic" leads
them all.
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At Fulton the other day one Of the
Young bloods by the name of Boulware
became enraged at Mr.. B. H. Charles
Prof. in the Synodical female college q;
that place, and gave him a cowhiding
upon the public street. Mr.. Charles
offense was accusing Boulware Of entic-
ing the young lady students out buggy
riding. So that Is the way they DO things
down in the kingdom Of Galloway
The use of the old fashioned cowhide is
probably less dangerous than the six
shooter, bat it is certainly an undigni-
fed way ofpunishing learned profess
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ATLANTA, Ga, December THE elect
oral college of Georgia met to-day at
noon in Atlanta. they organized by elect
ing j. c. c. Black, OF Augusta of the
Electors at large, President, and Geo.
C. Stewar.-, of Griffin. Secretary. They
deferred the election of messenger un-
til after casting the vote for President
and Vice President next Wednesday.
to which day they adjourned. There is
no doubt bu. that they Will send the
Electoral vote of Georgia to Washington
to be laid before Congress. There is
some probability that they will ask by
resolution that, If be not counted, orat
least they willexpress an opinion that ii
be rot insisted that it be counted. They
do not wish to establish precedent Of
their own volition that may in the fu-
ture operate against them.
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THE INDEPENDENT
"The foremost religious paper Of the
United States.

The Independent seeks the patronage
of the public on three grounds, as fol-
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I'd. 1t EMPLOYS as contributors
more able writers at home and
abroad, than any other paper.
3rl. 1t gives its readers Il wider
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departments than they can find else
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The Independent consists of thirty-two
pages. neatly cut and pasted. 1t is
printed from clear type 1--WE stereotype
the pages weekly. and hence, every is
sue is really printed with new type) and
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There is no question of prominence
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From time to time sermons by emf
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Stray Notice.

Taken up by Philip X. Cain. OF Ben
ton township and posted before L. W:
Link, Justice of the Peace in said
township, county of Adair. on the 10Th
day Of November. 1880, the following
described property: One COW, pale red
and white. about years old appraised
by A. X. Collett and Robert Barnhill at
the sum of twenty dollars.
PHnrP X. CAIS.
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The Unionville Republican says that
II has before it circular from the state
emigration society Offering to furnish
Putnam county from Ten to twenty.
thousand copies of her report for free
distribution at nearly cost Of paper and
printing, and to he distributed through
the agentz OF the society III the east
Has the Adair county society taken
any action in Ibis direction . or is it
asleep, Oh dead OF gone on long Jour
ney?
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DcEEcrC2T.

Cumberland Presbyterian Church-Rey.
james H. Mitchell. D. D. Pastor. Preaching
every Sabbath at Il =. II, and 20 p. m
Sabbath school at 9fJ m Prayer meet
ing. "wednesday evenings at ~
Presbyterian Church Rev. J. 5. Boyd.
Pastor Preaching every second and third
Sabbaths Of each month. ut II o'clock T. m
and 80 p IN. PRAYER meeting cvery Wed
evening at 30. Sabbath school at 9:31
Methodist Episcopal Chureh-Rev. J. J.
Bentley, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday
at II Il IN and 1:30 y. III. Prayer meetings
on "Wednesday evening Sunday school at
$50 IL In: Class meeting ut 10 D. m OF
zach Sanday.
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Rev 10 Edmoudstou. Pastor. Preaching
second SUNDAY in c::cfr mouth 4; II l. m.
and 730 y. III. Third Sundays at I'D D. m.
Sunday school ut 30 a. Ill. Glass meet
in@s ON each ID Sunday. Prayer meeting
each Wednesday evening.
First Baptist Church-hev J. c. Shipp.
and 1;iU p. III. Bible school u 9;J 4. n
Prayer meetings on Wednesday evenings
Episcopal Church-Rev. Frank Henry.
Rector Services every Sunday at II a. N.
and .:::;J p. III. Sunday srhOei at j p. m,
Of zach Sunday.
Christian Church-GeorgeE f. Dew. pas
tor. Preaching. every first and third Lords
day. Social meeting every second and
fourth Prayer meeting "Wednesday even
iBg 1T :. Sunday school al 9:st
Liberals and SpirituallstS. Enee. at Bay-
ior', Han every Sunday evening at7oclork
p-u
40. {. W.-Milton Lodge No. 15.-
meets l,t and Sd Thursday evenings in esch
month. at Fart. Hall
|. o. 6. T-PerSeverance Lodge No. 12S
meet. every Friday evening at 80 at Good
T.,n',lars' Hall
\. f. Il \. M.-klrkSFiile Ledge No. los
meets Tuesday evenings on or before each
fall moon.
I. q. o. F.-Adair Lodge No. 9;. meets
every "Wednesday evening. 1T 20 p. H. 1t
Odd Fellow, Hall
!.iirir GuarGs.-N G.. M-.Armor- hall
over DeEeameF's hardware store Meets
Tucsda, nights q! each week. Capt; j H.
Kiuaear: Ist l,-'i. j. y kich..rd,ua. Ind
L:uIt., ". l.. Mccartney.
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We think it time that all this nois

We think it time that all this noise
about life senatorshlps, pensions for
e1-presidents, captain generals. &c,
had stopped, especially when the only
object seems to be to provide for Gen.
Grant. Gen. Grant is a great soldier
and deserves honor at the hands OF
the Amencan people. But with an
income of seven thousand dollars a
year he i. certainly able to take care
of himself. The simple fact of his
having been president does not make a
man any better than if he had never
held the Office. neither does it place
the people under any greater obllga-
tons to him than to other men OF
equal strength and usefulness.
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1t is sometimes said that mans last
DAYS are his bes; days, but we can't
saw as much for the outgoing county
court. One of the last ngsthat court
did was TO enter into contract with
james Ellison. to assist tL: county at
torney, Mr.. \. D. Risdon, IN a certain
suit brought against the county, and
that TOO before Mr.. Rlsdon had asked
for assistance, or even before he had as
sumed the duties of his Office. The first
duty of the new court ought to be to
abrogate that contract. The probablil-
ties are that Mr.. Risdon does not want
the assistance of Mr. Ellison, and it Is ev-
ident the taxpayers do not desire to pay
him, asthey did last year, $235 for moth
Ing.
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The case of the United States against
ID. J.. McCann. contractor in the In
dian department in 1876. charged with
embezzling fifty barrel of sugar. has
been completed and McCann acquitted.
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The Unionvllle Republican charges
the county court of sullivan county
with being responsible for the late
homicide at Milan in as much that
they granted licen Sc for the sale OF in
toxicating liquors, the use Of which
was the direct cause of the ARRAY
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

~ Wilson's Great Western Medi-
eines. comprising Cough Syrup. Liniuen,.
Electric Ointment, and Pills. are medicine,
which are worthy the favor of the public
They are compounded strictly in accordance
with pathological laws
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

The Burlington and southwestern
railroad has passed into the hands of
the Chicago Burlington and Kansas
City railway. II is the institution 20
extend the road to Kansas city soon.
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During the last year 322 applications
for divorce have been fled in the St.
Louis courts. This does mol speak W el
for domestic felicity in that city.
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4 young man named Givin gs was ar
rested and fined at Memphis last week
for carrying concealed weapons. A
vigorous use Of tn. statute for such
cases provided, would be very goo d
thing in kirksrille if reports are
$,ua
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Henry Smith and Ira Wood, two col
ored men. got in row at corn shuck-
ing near JoneSboro. Ga, and Smith cut
the others throat from ear to ear.
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The Unionville Republican says there
is some unnecessary card piaving going
on at that place.
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L. s. Ism brFI,E. R1oNvILLE. No.
,,I,,- rS.1 Z

L. s. Ism 0rFI~E, RooNvILLE. No.
November 10. 1880
Not.ce Is herei., gi.en that tie fol-
io"!ng named settler has fed noticc
OF iiis intention to make final proof IN
support OF his claim. ard secure fnai
entry yhereof;ana; tiii: said proof viii be
made before the e..rk Of the circuit
court of Ada!r COUNTY at his Office in
kirs,v!llr. no., the county sea: OF said
coua:T. ca
FRIDAY the :;lst OF December. ,sS6.
viz: William II. Tracy. homestead
Entry No. i3irii:. lnr the Ei, Of SEL..
Sec. t and t,a NElt OF NEi.;. See. 9.
Up. d. t. II. and he names the follow
ing witnesses 10 prove his eon:iuous
residence upon. and cultivation of said
tracts. VIZ: David K. Piekens and Lam
deu p.ekenS, OF Shihlry's Point. and
Lewis c. Gates, of Jasmine Station. and
Peter iates. oi Greeucast!e: all OF
Adair county. Mo.
GusrAvE RElcHK Register
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Joseph Shuner. while on a drunk
with Charles Hangs, at Cincinnati
shot the latter in the left hip.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

A number of public spirited citizens
in Memphis are taking steps to prospect
for coal
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

Mr.. William Wilson, of Putnam
county, while returning home on the
2Sth inst. from Unionville, was thrown
from his horse and knocked insens-
ible.
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Gen, Walker, observation-disclosures,
has the entire enumeration of the United
States ready 10 send before Congress,
,.cept one district in Iowa.
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Charles Rnble, of Leon near Fort
Dodge. while on his way lone from a
drunken carousal fell down in the road
and died from exposure.
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.oln woodward, IL jail a: Marshall,
Texas. procured Jailer Haswells revoiv-
sr and ordering the Jail door to be open
e. fred q shot Ut the lailer..
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A heavy rain storm has occurred in
West Virginia. Pennington is flooded
and several miles of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad tracks are under water.
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Gen. Hazcn has been appointed chief
Of the signal service.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

Philip Phillips and son sang to the
Nsmphians Monday night
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-12-11

The local hog dealers were paying
81 to t4.l0 per cwt. last week at Union
VILE.
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