The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-03-03
In and Around the Parsons School House

Greeley is fast settling down in the
mud. and we have almost lost sight OF
ourselves and our neighbOrs. A pray.
er for deliverance ascends. or rather in
most cases descends, from the lips OF
the jaded farmers, whose feet are be-
coming Cumbersome to them.
II the artists, or city gentleman who
represents to others, or pictures to
himself, the farmer as being man
who delights in everything he does,
and wears In consequence a perpetual
grin upon his face, and is surrounded
by q perfect halo of untutored happi-
ness-if, 1 repeat, any of these imag-
NATIVE gentlemen were to appear
among us they would find that even
the farmer, whose mission here below
corporations, is under cloud some
times The housewives have their
trouble, too, and vainly endeavOr TO
beguile the weary hours by constant
course Of sweeping, scrubbing aud
hopping. Married men have fallen
almost rs much i'm proportion as hogs,
and the market appears to be over
stocked: cause, muddy boots.
One Of our most quiet and peaceable
citizens, Mr.. Robert Turner, was shot
at by young man named Gessler, on
Thursday last. receiving one shot in
the arm and another i'm the thigh. Mr..
T. was making the best of his way to
town with load of hogs, on the north
side of the river. AS the snow was
badly drifted in the road he followed
the beaten track along the edge of q
wheat-field. A young man standing
with q double-barreled shotgun de-
manded his name. Mr.. T., surprising
he wanted to ride, asked him to get in,
but the warlike youth cooking both
barrels Of his gun leveled II, and again
insOlently demanded of him his name.
This was refused, and after he had
gone about forty or fifty yards both
barrels were discharged at him. The
disposition exhibited by this fellow Is
about on q par with the Border Ruff
fans thatmade the early history of this
State such . dark and bloody record.
II the gentleman continues to take the
law in his own hands, he may learn to
his cost that there are weapons moro
deadly at forty yards than shot-guns,
and we advise him to call halt for
the days Of vap0ring over"
The Greeley lyceum adjourned to
meet again on the first Thursday in
November next, its members hoping
that the floods will subside and the
mud settle by that time.
The all-absorbing bond question
has been debated twice In Greeley, and
each time they failed to carry. On FRI
day last Mr., Major or Judge Hamilton, |
as the papers and railroad fanatics are
pleased to style him, held forth to an
audience, Of about ten
men and six boys, upon the merits Of |
his case. The only man present In |
favor Of the bonds came from upper |
Gypsum. where they need q railroad
bad. 90 they do. We do not believe |
the bond disease to be catching-at |
any rate, We have not heard Of any |
that were in0culated by this gentle
man. Mr.. Hamilton presented his
caee In the clearest manner he could |
told Of the taxable property they in
,ended to create. Of the competing line
hey iatended to build-alf Of which
hey intended TO do in the interests Of
he farmer and for tie benefit Of the
,ounty and its suffering inhabitants.
This e Q role % new to us that these
men need not be greatly
II those they hitherto re-
yArtled - their legitimate prey"
Ih0uld question motives 20 apparently
and magnanimous.
U. r. A. BRICK.