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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-05-19

Van Buskirk & breckenridge have opened their
sprng Stock-the finest brought TO this market.
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gutal Matters.

Far sny other Iength Of time, In aocordanee Wiz 'ns
above raies which apply only to regular AdEeruHns
Busipe.. cards Of S lines or less, y ynar: a..
For legal and transient Advertisements PEI saaAle os
the frs Insertion and 20 cents square Tor eh suose
Special Notcss VIII be charged 50 per cent extra and
editorial advertisements and personal o9mmuncatons
lc1he rice Looas per line for single nsertlon
; rrut. r~r lus for subsequent inserti0ns-
Eight lines Of solid Souparei make one square. Al
SQUARE. up.
e The COST OF certifying in addition the regular rates
Transient Advertisements must be paid Tor inNar1Apy N
advanee.
re JOB WORK Of an kinds done short notice -
Low a. Tho times win admit All job Work must be pad
for when taken from the Ofhce-
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wall Paper.

II Seed Potatoes for sale, at
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DoNIPHaN COUNTY DIRECTORY.

p0NIPHAN COUNTY
Judge ID Judicial District-DAvID MAETIS
County Comtnissioners-R r. SHuLsKf, CfkCs LkLASp
JR Lucas FErTER
Sherif-CHIRLEe BCREHALIER
CLERK Of District COurt-F- j. CLssE-
Treaurrr-SAMuEL n. JOHNSON.
County Clerk-D. W. MoEsE-
Cou1ty Attoruey-TRONAs w. HEIuKr.
Probate Judge-JoHN Y. WILSON.
Register Of Dceds-ERAsSTIs y. DIxoN
Superintendent 0f Public InstruetiOD-H, +. SHAME
SurvsyOr-CHAKIEs CoKBUEIEk
COruneT-DR RoERT S DNsNORE
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AGENTS AND CANvAsSERs
Make from s25 20 $50 per week selling goods for
Z. G. RIDEOUT & CO., 10 Barclay Street, New York.
Send for their Catalogue and terms. l9Aug.ly
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HATS, CAPS, AND STRAW GOODS.
BEN. w. FLEMING & BRO.
Terms Cash. Prices the Lowest
4o7 FELIX STREET, ST, JOE, MO.
April n. issl-am.
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, money AA'e loans for parties wishing to borrow
3feb76.
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THE EGYPTIAN RAT DESTROYER
Is the best preparation devised for the exteri
nation Of tese troublesome vermn and all other in
sects bugs reaches, &c. l0febSl.
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MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN.
IF. IIamPson Is prepared 10 lenn
meney 10 the Farmers Of Doniphnn
County. ON long time, AT 2 per cent. In.
sercst, and N reasonable commission.
Moacy may be paid before due, and
stop Interest, II the borrower chooses
No delays In furnishing the money. No
sworn nppraisen,ent or application
required. Call ON him at the Office OF
Register of Deeds, mt the Court House.
e1a,rlv. If. HAMPSON.
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Don't forget to get our prices on
GROCERIES.
as we can give you extra bargains.
Townsend & Richardson
TROY. ;: :: KANSAS.
MONEY TO LOAN,

MONEY TO LOAN,
On Real Estate, I'm sums 10 suit Dor.
rowers, on Eve years' time. or less. In.
terest, per cent. per annum. Conn
missions reasonable.
lsjanly III. a. w. III. BARILEhE.
Northwest Cor 4th Edmond Streets, st. Joseph, No
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Troy Lodge No 3I7 Knights Of Honor. meets the sec
oud and fourth Friday evenings in each month in Odd FED
lows Hal, BOdors' Bank. . ,, No.,
RoHrKT WILKINSON Reporter.
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a. y. a. a. VI.

Troy Lodge No s. A. T. and A. NJ, meets in thst Hall
first Monday in each muBh before fun moon and second
Saturday THEREAFTER. ~ WI, ,ro,,-x,syxn " NJ
ID. C. SINCI.AR, Sec
watbenA Lodge No. g. A. +. & A NJ meets al their
Hall every Saturday before the full moon and sSery
two weeks thereafter Visiting brethren cordially IN
yted 10 attend. kObEkT PEhlOOt W. n
AUO. MIIKR, Sc.
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NJ T. CHURCH.-Seryicas every Sabbath. at loi 4 M,
iny f. NJ PICKLES, Pastor.
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AGENTS.
Il. o. o. y.

H.. .. %.
Troy CITY Lodge No D meets every Saturday night Al
Odd Fellows Hall BsseTs Bank. An members oil The
Order art cordially invited 10 attend
z r. wEsIFLLL- r. Sec
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05
THREE PER CENTS BELOW PAR.
Portland Advertiser.l

The new French per cent loan Is re-
rsorted 10 have been covered forty Tunes;
The English subscriptions alone exeeeueu
$3.50 600 600. And vet President hayes
and Garfield and the banks and the hepuo-
lican party ioin 10 defeat the per cent
funding bill, and thus prevent the govern
mept whose credit is quite as good As .na'
of France from attempting 10 nego''aVe
loan AZ the same rate.-BeifdSt Age.
sThs French government sold its loans at
80 IA Der cent. thus realizing for every
500 only SsS. rs. The amount OF our deot
maturing the present year Is nearly 40
nillions in exact figures S6SI 'SSV'OVp'
To raise this amount at the same rate, our
government would have 10 sell bonds 10
Ihe amount OF $50, 646,S96. Would the
Agc aDnrove of such a SaCridccf The prop
ositiop of Congress was. that per eent
h,rd .bould De foated at par. IL France
bss ~ selI below par conSol which i 10
ruD - wears. il is not easy 10 see now 'he
I-ni,sJ states can sell per cent TO run
thirty wears for 100 cents. Ihe very IaIse
'ia-,srd Err he French consolS, indicates,
IL +, true, true that the government S IL,
have obtained q larger price II u uAd 49, -
shrcwd enough % ask II. Ihe>e SeSu' '''e,
have already. In fact, advanced per SSu'
and are now bringing - ii Ia tne ins,Se'
They may indeed 20 up among me n mus.
but there Is small chance OF their ever t'S-
iug above the British 8 per cents, Nh'Sn
have rarely touched par. NooouS SiSueS
FOR 4 moment that II would not be wise 70
refund our maturing debt at the low rae
proposed, il Il can be done without a.
much or more loss than gain. The expert
ments OF France and England seem TO prove
that Il cannot
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05
MAINE REUNION.

The second annual reunion OF the Maine
Association Of DedhSm, Mass, was held IN
the Unitarian vestry in that town Thursday
evening. About two hundred sous aud
daughters OF the Pine Tree State met and
the evening was very enjoyahly passed.
The business meeting was called 10 order
by the President. {. C. Sanderson. and a
committee OF six chosen 20 bring In a lst
Of officers. The officers for the ensuing
wear were chosen a. follows President, Z.
T. Sandersou Treasurer. David Neal Sec
retarv. W. 4. Walker Several vice preSi-
dents were also chosen. There are az pres
over Us members OF the association, and 4
large number signed the constitution
THURSDAY evening. \ hOuntifOl supper
was served in the upper hall and at its con-
clusi0n the parlorS were again sought.
The committee Of arrangements, W. \.
Morrill,. Mr. aud Mrs T. +. Favor, present
ed an excellent programme ofvocal and In
strumental music. which added greatly %
the evenings enjoyment. Interesting adj
dresses by Rev. &. VI. SOuthgate, Rev T.
K. Nudge, Rev. Seth +. Beach, \. Is
Wentworth and otherS.-Prsss.
Mr.. Sander>on. President Of the society,
was formerly resident Of Norway
There are quite large number at OK
ford County natives in Dedham.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05
IN GENERAL.

The hoy who Is we'll shingled By BIZ,
parents will shed water.
The richest man In Russia + only
aoout one third Is wealthy as Vanderbilt.
A little girl OF years l. reported -
have died In New York on Monday from
commissions caused by jumping rope.
Emigration from Germany for America
i 80 large that the steamship companies
nave been ordered 20 charter extra -t-am-
rrs. $3.50 emigrants. mostly Germans,
arrived ut New York, Wednesday.
Jerusalem existed 700 years before
Rome was founded. 800 years brfore the
siege Of Troy and 500 years before the
hanging gardens OF Babylon were built.
The surplus OF the Union Mutual Life
Insurance Company, according 10 The
MtS>achns"ttS standard, increased from
81, 2G9 So in 1877 10 s3O6, 2l3 - 10 l-so.
The efficiency OF tie Maine CommIS-
sioners OF Fisheries and Game i highly
'omplim-nted ny the Z" FJrsst ant Stream.
prominent sportsmrn's paper. The
paper recommended that the combination
IT li>h and game production be tried 10
other States.
The number OF immigrants 10 the
United States la 1850 WIS 49, 30, larger
lumber ny slmost 80 600 than ever came 70
the country in single year before. The
year OF the greatest previous number was
1884 when AZ ,s33 came To our shore.
A second Advent congregation AZ
Greenwood. Kansas, have lost confidence
Ia th,lr pastor because. while publicly
avowing a belief that the world would
come % an end In 1881, he secretly took
note for hye years on loan OF 81 900. and
demanded twelve per cent interest with
ample security.
Our Lille ones Is q splendid juvenile,
which has issued its sixth number. II Is
published by the Russell Publishing Co,
Boston, at sl.50 per year. The illustrations
are exquisite, the reading Is pure and At
tractive, and the whole msgizine il worth
the best reputation OF its editor, the well
known "oliver Optic"
-Messers. Henry Holt Co. are hard 20
suit. In the past fifteen years they have
examined above thousand manuscript
novels, and have found among them only
two that they are willing To publish. Tue
irst was Democracy" the secret
OF the authorship being SO well kept
that 70 this day even the publishers them
selves do not know TO whom they are In
drbted for the book The business AZ
engagements between publisher and author
We're made through an agent. The second
Is not Vet out.
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PARIS, April 1.
J. B. FIELD,

SoUru PARrs.-Mr. Geo. Marsh and fam
lily have removed 10 IIarpswell.
Mrs. Kendall Swift entertained few oil
her friends last Thursday afternoon and
evening, 10y having an old.fishoued quilt
ing. A sumptuous supper was served nj
six o'clock. after which the company en-
joyed a social hour.
Mr.. John T. Murphy. who has done much
good service with the sledge In the late raj
shop. Is incapicltated from further labor
OF any kind One OF his arms is so badly
paralyzed that 1t is OF no use 10 him what
ever. Mr.. Murphy entertains but little
hope OF ever recovering the use OF the
limb.
Mr.. Seward b Jones was married last
week TO Miss Belle CLARK. They have our
best wishes.
Mr.. Lawson Hill has been circulating q
petition. asking the Grand Trunk Co. u
rebuild their rail shop here. The list Of
names secured was long one.
Mr. Leslie F. Keene succeeds Mr.. John
Carsley, as clerk at the Andrews House.
A Bible class was organized recently nj
the Methodist vestry, with twenty-one
members. Rev. I. G. Sprague was elected
teacher, and Mr.. s. Stowe assistant teach
er.
Mrs. Chase, late Of 1.-THE Branch" Nor,
way, Is to occupy the Colby store. Mrs.
c. will deal in millinery and fancy goods.
DIR. f. B. Holden Is one Of our best
checker players. On q recent visit to
Portland he secured one win and one draw
out of three games with Capt. W. II.
Broughton, one OF New England's best
players.
Next Saturday will begin the great auc'
ton sale OF d. II. Colby's stock Of dry
goods and woolens.
Can't. II. N. Bolster has formed CO.
partnership with Mr.. Walker Of Lewiston,
to carry on the custom and ready made
clothing business at this place. Grange
Hall has been secured as q work room and
operations are to begin this week. They
will work large number OF girls In the
shop, and also put out work at the houses
of workmen. Mr.. Walker comes well re-
commended as q tailor Of experience, and
a successful cutter. He was foreman OF
the clothing establishment Of S. Richards
& Co. when that firm was in business at
Monmouth. Assisted by the ability and
business tact Of Capt. II. n. Bolster, the
firm will no doubt be successful and be q
means Of much good 70 the place
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05

PARIS We are requested 10 announce
that minstrel entertainment will he given
next week In aid OF our village Band.
There will be songs, dances, speeches, SC,
of the usual kind for such an,irs. The
talent will be the best our local circles
afford.
There was qultc lively smash up In the
village last werk. A horse with sleigh at
tachcd. started from Mrs. Mason's stable
and landed in the school house shed. The
horse went through one or two doors with
such parts OF the sleigh as adhered TO him.
The sidewalks were buried In snow by
the storm OF Wednesday night and Thurs
day. For the flrst time In many years our
morning mail failed TO 90 out. The cuts
which had been made through the drifts
were blown full Of son wet snow, and thus
made impossible.
Meetings will be held In the Baptist yes
try Monday evening, and also Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and
evenings. There i some religious Inter
est in the village, and II Is hoped to deepen
IL.
At the School meeting, Saturday night.
II. T. Hammond was chosen Moderator.
II. u Hammond Clerk, and Geo. Is. Crock.
EFT, Agent.
take this opportunity TO thank III"
citizens OF Paris Hill. who have so liberal
ly contributed TO my relief. And 1t Is nv
earnest prayer that none OF them may ever
he placed In like circumstances.
J. B. FIELD.
PARIS April 1.
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OXFORD COUNTY LOCALS.

ANpovER, March 3i.--The weather has
been very changeable the past two weeks,
with few days OF rough cold weather
then warm enough 70. the sap to run Tues
day aud Wednesday, and "big old fash
Toned sap snow Notwithstanding.
G. T. Farrar has leased the John Hough-
ton farm.
Oliver Merrill has moved into the house
Of the late Jas. Harrington.
Frank Perkins has leased c. P.Loyejoy's
farm, and C. w. Hodgman has moved onto
the farm he purchased last spring.
Vaudeville Corson closed his successful
school last Friday In District No. 1.
As this Is the time when farmers pur-
chase their garden seeds, they will do well
to patrouize Messrs. Kendall & Whitney,
of Portland, seedsmen, and thereby encour-
age home markets, and we recommend
from practical experience.
MORE ANON.
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r.i,e, = cry of horror nom those who ad.

raised cry of horror from those who I'D.
vocated hanging. "Put out a mans eyes.
How barbarous sit is awful" "How
cruel" at Is worse than hanging"
Good, That Is what we want, something
worse than hanging, or Imprisonment for
life with chance for pardon, or opportu-
nifty for q second murder.
IL Is not barbarons, or awful. or cruel.
to break mans neck; TO see the pinioned
limbs, the pale countenance, with the
nervous twitch Of the facial muscles por.
traying the mental agony within, the hang
man adjusting the rope, and then the black
cap drawn yelling all. To watch Tor the
sherifrs signal, then the fall OF the drop,
followed by the sound indiscribable, rs the
falling body takes up the slack OF the rope.
Then listen to the death rattle and the
gargle of sufocation; following this to
watch the convulsivc contortions and
death throes, the warping and twisting
body, the knees drawn up with spasm,
and thrown down with a jerk; aud then
the body flying, bending and waving
through the air. All, this type OF flying
trapeze; every member OF state govern
ment who gives his voice aud vote sane
tioning il, should be Obliged To witness
his work on his first victim. I'll engage
II will awaken sicHy sentimentalism that
will make his boireis yearR for amaurresis
by surgery, or a rrpcal ofthe hanging act
With Macbeth he will say, "any shape but
that and my firm nerves shall never trem'
BILE"
Years ago, Mr.. Editor, witnessed the
legal process OF taking life, aud may my
ewes never behold the ike again. The oc-
caslou was this. Ny preceptor with
whom was reading mediciuc, was called,
being the city physician, by the govern
meut professionally to attend the hanging
aud a. his student | kept him company
From that day my voice has been eveI
raised against legal msrder. Let the sight
less murderer wander through HE, ant
make a lifelong oxpiaiIon of his crime here
and thus Fitted aud seasoned for the pas
sage" pass TO THE undiscovered country.
NO; afraid 10 LIN hun, having warrant io'
II: bn, 20 be damucI for killing him. from
which no warrant can defend you."->hakc~
pear.
HYGIENE INSTITUTE,
WATERFORD, Me, Mar. 81.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05
POLITICAL NOTES.

The public debt OF the I Rited States is
sCS per head OF, Spain slji; OF France,
slS6; OF England, sll7; OF Holland. STA;
Of Canada, SIS; Of Mexico so; Of SwitZer-
g.
Judge Hughes OF Virginia says that
State Is abuudantly able 10 pay all that il
owes, and that Malone &, really IN favor Of
paving all. As native republican be be-
lieyes that the true policy j. % sustain the
Malone rebellion against BouroOulsm.
A CORES poudeut Of the Lc,ciston Jour
nal says that the esi>tative appOrtionment
vetoed hy Governor Plaisted. was agreed 20
by the Fusion members OF the County del
sgatiOns In that case, II was a mistake
TO adjourn without passing the oil over
Ihe veto.-PcTtlaHd Idrertiser.
David Davis says that as the largest
number OF the votes that elected him was
cast BY the democrats, he is under obliga-
tons 20 vote with that party, and the dem
Ocrats call II consistency. The largest
number Of votes that elected Malone was
cast BY republicans, and because he voted
accordingly the democrats call IL treach-
sry.-N J. Tribune.
The best certificate Of Mr.. James's eff
siency a. postmaster was the promptness
and accuracy OF his accounts. The New
York Office receives nearly one-ninth Of the
entire postal revenue or the Government,
and vet Mr. James had this great business
90 perfectly In hand that his accounts were
passed In twenty-four hours. The state
meut comes from Washington that this
prompt settlement is unprecedented.
m = 2 L..
Mr.. Frye, who is about 10 enter the Sen
ate from this State, is destined 10 DC the
future Republican leader OF Maine. The
Immediate result or the substitution OF
Frye and Hale for Hamlin and Blaine, the
TiaSs thinks, viii be a consolidation OF
The broken Republican lines In Milne and
a complete restoration OF Republican
power. This is certainly within the power
VI the new Senators, If they exercise their
leadership wisely.-POr;ldRd Advertiser.
To so black a republican as Hannibal
Hamlin-and he was called mulatto
during the war, by some Southern news
papers-is now imputed by such southern
leaders as Thomas f. Bsyard, b. II. Hill,
John G. Harris, Matt ". Ransom, 'unques.
toned devotion TO public duty" Such an
expression emansting from the most dis
Iinguished public men OF the South, would
never have seen the light had not the pref
Gdices and passions OF the war and its
preceding agitaiiOEs been so far dissipated
that Northerners begin 10 be judged at the
South by the same canons OF criticism as
their own old-tlme fayOrites. This is 8
promising angury for making party poll
tics and sectional lines. -BoStoR Trans
srigs.
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FRYEBURG. April 1.-The drama OF
East Lynn" was brought out and played
before full house on the 25th ult., at
Court Hall. The entertainment was very
successful in every respect, netting good
sum for the object in view-lighting our
village with street lamps. A dramatic
company has been formed to furnish other
entertainments for the above object, aud
other village Improvements. In the above
play it would be invidious to single out
any one for special compliment where all ac-
quilted themselves with so much credit.
Several OF the prominent citizens took
part In the drams.
The time OF maple sugar making Is at
hand. The trees are running very freely.
and there is promise of larger yield before
the season closes.
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to William Hall and has moved into the

to William Hall and has moved Into the
Gleason house at the corner.
John o. Kidder has sold the Pullman
House to Isaac Z. Gleason who took pos
session April l.
John N. Bradeen has leased Hannah l..
Mitcheli's farm for one year.
Scwell Gof Is engaged with quite crew
cutting and hauling poplar for the pulp
mill at Canton. Benz. Storer has hauled
fifty cords to the banks OF Swift river.
Adelbert and Dana Eastman, 100 cords,
A. C. Coolidge for Fred A. Porter, 10
cords. Joseph Conant, Parker t., and
Isaac Bradeen, Edwin Barrett and Others
have been hauling the greater part OF the
winter, altogether making many cords
destined to become valuable above Its
worth rs ire wood.
Fairbanks, at Rumford Fails, has bought
a pretty fair sized lot Of white ash.
The grist mill at Rumford Falls, Is now
run by Andrew J. Long, from Mass. The
saw mill by Enoch Knapp, the shingle mill
by Philip Andrew.
Lenoard Wood is in the shop which
Frank Holman formerly occupied making
and repairing sleighs, wagons, &C.
Fifteen pairs Of oxen were driven past
here this morning. They were purchased
by Mcssrs. Trask & Piper OF Livermore,
all on East bank of Swift river from Reu-
ben Richards in Byron To Benz Storers, In
Mexico. A couple OF your neighbors
sailed around here trying To buy something
in the cattle kind. They were either short
OF script. or did not know the value o
cows, oxen aud young stock. We kno"
OF no trades they made. Send around III
Jackson or Joe Tufts" and keep the boys
at and around home until they have learned
the trade.
Fernando c. Richards has sold his farm
in Dixlcld, and moved into this town
I lie has gone on To the farm lately carrie,
on by Chas. 4. Richards (rccently deceaS
ed. Mrs. Chas. A. Richards has move,
TO West Peru, where her mother, Mrs
! Benz. Allen, resides.
David r. Brown, whose health has beef
poor for two or three years, will work NJ
larger pile wood now than most youngel
and well men. lie works rain or snow
cold or warm-in fact prefers cold o.
stormy weather for outdoor work.
J. T. Hall and BeDj. Storer, both above
three score aud ten, have been learnin:
fancy dances" at cur dancing school thi
wiutcr. Jed, 1.-The bear hunter" feels sor'
about II. Until latnly he has had the nam
OF being the best dancer "of his az.
around here. He has lost that credit an'
Silas NJ Locke has robbed him OF his It'll
n boss bear catcher. Taken all togeth
cr, he Is sad. SPARkEs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-04-05
GOLD ABE" DEAD.

Madison, Wis, March 21.-"0ld Abe, y
wisconsin's famous war eagle, died AT the
State capitol last night. The bird was
sold to the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry In
1861, was with the regiment through the
long four years OF the rebellion, and at the
close of the war was presented TO the State.
This famous feathered hero has been all
over the nation since, aud in 1865, at the
great fair in Chicago, his exhibition Melted
SIC, 600 while at & Milwaukee fair, the
same year, 81, 600 were realized. "Old Abe
was four months at the Centennial al Phila-
delphia- All the State officials, headed by
the Governor, visited and viewed the re-
mains OF this historical bird.