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Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

The lnsinuation thrown out by some
evi! minded persons that the editor OF
Democrat, was Offering a prescription
for pint of whisky as premium for
for subscriptions to the Democrat is a
mean insinuation. With all his faults
he would not do a thing like that, and
such insinuations are unfair.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

A full line ol Ready made clothing
at John Caskey's.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

Nv WHEREAS. On the 25 day Of September
w A. d. 1874, John McVicker and his wife.
Louisa NJ. McVicker made. executed and de.
livered their certain deed of tlust, to !. d
Miller as Sheriff of Adair county, Missouri, 10
secure the payment Of acertain note therein
described, which deed of trust was recorded il,
the Recorders office in Adair county, Nilsson.
II IN book III ;" at page %. and conveyed to
said Miller Us Sheriff. the north half of the
northeast quarter of section No. thirty -four
l34 in township No. sixty-two 1921 of range
No. seventeen I1O,situatcd in Adair counfy
Missouri, and said deed of trust provides that
II SAID Miller should refuse 20 act as sncI,
trustee or be ONE in any way incapacitated
to carry out said trust. then the actins She
i'll of said Adaircounty, in the state Of Mis-.
sourl. might act as such trustee. and sell
said land and perform all the duties of said
trust, and whereas said Miller is not now the
sheriff of Adar county, and has refused TO
act as such trustee, and whereas further. said
note is past due and unpaid Now Therefore
the undersigned now acting Sheriff of Adair
county, In the State Of Missouri at the re-.
quest OF the legal holder and owner of said
note W III on the "
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21
Advice to Young men.

Advice to young men. When you
are told story. my son, never remark
That lsn t the way | heard it, etc.
Don't YOU know that stories are told
to give pleasure to the teller. and moi
to the hearcr?
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

A Young lady graduate read an essay
entitled Employment of Time. Her
composition was based on the text
Time wasted is existence: used is life. :"
The next day she purchased eight
ounces Of zephyr Of different shades, and
commenced working a sky-blue dog,
with STA green ears and pink tail, on
a piece rt yellow canvass. She expects
to have it done by Christmas.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

The second number of the NATION
AL REAL ESTATE INDEX has been issued.
1t is meeting with very gratifying
success. Printed at this office.
Griggs & Gill, publishers.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

X. D. McGruder has purchased the
grocery store of Crawford & Allgalr
and is filing up with full line Of
staple and fancy groceries. Give him
a call.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21
23 DAY of NOVEMBER. 1873,

at the Court House door in the town of
hirksville iE Adair county Mis- ouri. sell said
land at public vendue to the highest bidder for
cash in hand to pay said note and satisfy said
trust JOHN SHAVER,
Acting Sheriff of Adair county, Mo.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

WE have a sample head of what is
called Kansas Rice, species Of cane or
corn, which affords an excellent article
of food. When properly cooked it
tastes very much like cracked wheat.
The grain which grows in the tassel
something like broom corn seed. resem-
bles very small pop corn grains and is
very brittle and much easier crushed
than either grains of corn or wheat.
The sample we have came from the gar
den of l.. W. Link. and was raised from
seed brought from illinois. This Kan
sas Rice may be familiar to those better
posted in agricultural matters than we
are. but it strikes us asa valuable ad-
ditiOn to our farm products. At all
events, when properly cooked it makes
Il very palatable. and we should Judge
very nutritious dish, and requires no
grinding or cracking to make 1t
ready for cooking purposes. Can anv
of our well posted agricultural readers
give us further particulars in regard to
it?
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

1t begins to look as if there was
not much economy in neglecting side
walks.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

John Caskey has more goods than
he wants and will sell. See him be-
fore buying elsewhere.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

he 19nh nn h;S CasKey eSy says he does not have 70
sell goods. 'ianls IN order to
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21
Whipped by Ills Wife.

Yesterday the people in the east
part of town were startled by terrible
noise in house where it had been sus-
picioned the woman was the better
man of the two, and accompanying the
racket was cry for help. On rushing
in the neighbors found the man on the
floor, blood oozing from one side OF
his head and his wife standing over
him with rolling pin. describing cir-
cles above her head as she uttered the
following philippe: 81 have told you
often enough not to go anywhere but
to the Quincy Grocery to get grocer
les and / won't stand it any longer;
they sell the best and the cheapest
and you shan't trade anywhere else.
In the evening he was seen ordering a
bill of gioccries from the Quincy Store.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

Brewington's. '"e at
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-10-21

Fair dealing at John Caskey's or no
sale.
Fire proof oil cloths at John Castey,s.
Big line of queeusware, glass ware,
etc, Just in at Wilkes and Willard $
south side square.
Staple and fancy groceries-can be
beat on quality and pr:ce-at Wilkes
and Wizards.
Merchant tailoring at Harla4 Broth
ers. Perfectly fitting suits made on
short notice. Call and see them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25
PLUME ON PENSIONS.

We publish to-day the brief speech OF
Senator Plumb in support of a motion
to increase the facilities of the pension
bureau. The speech created something
of Il sensation in the "red tape" circles
at the capital, and its earnest and truth.
full utterances will find an echo in the
hearts of all the pensioners of tine coun-
try thousands of whom have waited toe
long for justice TO be done them.
We cannot give better idea of the
senator's speech and its effect than is
given in the following by the Washing
Champion:
cit was in this spirit that senator Plumb
proposed his amendment to the pension ap.
preparation bill appropriating an additional
$500 600 to increase the clerical force of the
pension establishment, and supported it in
a speech printed in yesterdays Record which
hope the Champion will give its
readers an opportunity to see. 1t was
remarkable success so much SO
that it ELECTED flne compliment from that
finished scholar and powerful debater Sena-
tor Hoar, and suggested to the New York
Tribune's correspondent the remark that
Senator Plumb's eloquence fairly astOnished
his brother senators. The brief speech was a
condensed, vivid and powerful statement OF
the whole situation. exhibiting soldiers
natural interest in the welfare of soldiers,
and establishing the undoubted fact that its
author has developed intellectual resources
hitherto greatly underestimate by those
who have known him best and appreciated
him the most hikhIy.''
Those who are thoroughly acquainted with
Gel Plumb are we'll aware of his powers as a
speaker He is not one of the sort that
speaks well and manages to air his oratory
on every clap-trap subject Slat comes up. but
when an occasion arises to call forth his sym
patty and arouse him to action, he grows in
to giant as logician and advocate. We
repeat that the more people come to know
Plumb the more they will ind he is pretty
heavy piece of artillery-in fact, whole
battery in himself
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25
PROHIBITION IN KANSAS


The Hornell On. " Times has the fol-
lowing to say of prohibition in Kan
sas:
The conservative east is watching
with lively interest the experiment of
prohibition in progress in Kansas.
The wisdom and the success of pro-
hibitory measures in Maine are ques-
toned by some and stoutly maintained
by others; while many who admit that
prohibition has in measure succeeded
in Maine and may be, or is, expedient
in that state on ground of public pol
icy, are doubtful about its practicability
and expediency in a great commonwealth
like New York or in the great states of
the west, composed as they are of many
heterogeneous elements rendering the
conditions of the social problem there
more complicated and difficult of solu-
ton.
Hence the lively interest felt in the
Kansas experiment.
If prohibition shall be found to work
we'll in Kansas, and to require of the
citizen no further surrender of indivIdu-
al liberty than the highest interests OF
the state clearly demand, then will pro-
hibition commend itself to other states
for their adoption.
II, On INT SOutAiy IliC iouiSoA SnahS
recently voted by the people of Kansas
shall be found to have been too sweep
ing, not sufficiently regardful of indi-
vidual rights, susceptible of widely vary,
ing interpretations and difficult of exc
cution, then, but one of two courses
will remain for the prohibitionists of
that state:
They may submit with good grace to
certain reasonable notifications of their
extremes, and thus save their state from
the damaging effects of reaction; OF
they may stubbornly stand out against
every attempt to make practical, and
therefore effectual, the reforms they have
instituted, until a powerful reaction
shall set in, sweeping away all the good
that thew have wrought
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25
HERE AND THERE.

1t must be admitted that Vennor is de-
serving of more confidence and cussing
than any weather prophet the world ever
saw.
MIR. Cox does not favor an extra ses-
sion. He IS not yearning for fresh
wrestle with the question of apportion-
ment
New York Tribune: The Garfield
administration settles down to business
with refreshing absence of furry and
clap-trap.
1t would be in order tor the progeni-
tors of the worlds fair and the surviving
relatives of Ben Hill to exchange letters
of coincidence.
The significant fact that the Demo-
cratic war horses are boiling their feed,
looks very much as if that party was be-
yond all surgery.
The Burlington Hawkeye is inviting
the noterietY of a libel suit. II says that
Wayne McVeagh is the Carl Schurz of
Garfeld's cabinet.
A Kansas City man has demonstrated
the loftiest possibilities of utilitaranism
by purchasing an old hearse and con
verting it into swill cart.
The Democratic politicians and kitch.
en- girls of Kansas City are intensely en-
listed just now in The judicious selection
of a coal oil inspector at that place.
The prohibition amendment bill ha.
been defeated in the Missouri house b,
vote of So for to 81 against. That
about as close q call as Kansas Cit,
ever had on the trade of this state.
A wrecking company, with a capita
of $25OOO0, is being organized by Chi
cago and Detroit parties. Unless the en-
terprise is wholly unconnecsed viii
railroads. the propriety of rendering
charter membership to Mr.. Tilden vii
be readily acknowledged.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25
OVER THE STATE.

Parsons has its nostrils distended in
anticipation of first-class social scan.
dial.
Wednesday as passenger train No. 8,
on the Santa Fe road was pulling out OF
Lawrence, on its way west, man in the
effort to board it fell under the car
wheels and had his head severed from
his body.
The sanguine religionists of Topeka
are agited over the project of corraling
Moody and Sankey for few days as they
return to the east from California. AS a
scheme for evangelizing the state capital
this is about on apar with the enterprise
conceived by brilliant theorist for ir.
rigating the Sahara desert with a
squirt-gun.
Two more Kansas men were ''plucked''
by confidence men on the cars near Kan
sas City on Monday. One, named vii
kinson, was from Russell, and lost $50
the other, named Pitchett, hailed from
Olathe. 1t is strange that people con
tinue to be gulled by sharpers, after all
the warnings which have been published
II would be better for people when they
go to Kansas City MOTTO take any money
with them, and especially people who
do not know how to take care of theiI
money
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25

Commonwealth Major T. J. Ander-
son returned Thursday morning from
Deming, n. NJ, the junction of the A.
T. & S. F. and Southern Pacific Rail-
roads He was congratulated upon his
appointment as Postmaster, on all sides,
and was forced to answer a hundred
times the questions, "Are you pleased %
liar nature.
A reporter called upon the Major
about three O'Clock, and found him en-.
gagged in conversation with gentlemen,
discussing more particularly than
any thing else the new coun.
try opened up by the road He
was accorded an interview and obtained
from Major Anderson the intelligence
that he would not accept the position
unless it was rendered him in the shape
of commission. He had received a
telegram from Mr.. Ryan just before a
special train lett Deming for San Fran.
cisco, in which he was almost decided
TO take seat Had the message not ar.
riVeu When IL ala, ne should probably
have gone on to the Golden Gate. He
returned and found that as yet
no action upon his nomination
had been taken by the senate
When the confirmation had been made
would be time enough to accept
The reporter was not led into the be
lief that there would be an opportunit.
for the president to send another nam'
to the senate. On the contrary, he wa
impressed with the belief that Majo
Anderson will accept the appointment
| Major Anderson says that he was 8
much surprised as any one here coul
have been. He had not been an appl
cant for the position, at any time
had come unsought. and he was frank {
admit that it made him feel good.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25


While the strange mutations of Kan
sas politics may result in the removal of
Captain Henry King from the Topeka
post Office, it is source of profound
congratulation that the narrow motives
which have animated the prime movers
in the plot to depose faithful and COM
petent official, will inure to the public
veal, if, by the success of their machine
tions, Captain King shall be
moved to devote his time and
energies to the higher calling of
literature, pursuit for which
he is so admirably qualified. Such a
consummation would lift him above the
reach of his sordid and envious political
antagonists. and enrich the world of let
tiers with productions which could not
terminate or ripen under the auspices of
an official appointment. Meanwhile, it
is pleasant to reflect that the conspira-
tors against Captain Kings retention in
the post Office have been left, and that
their plans have been thwa.ted by the
appointment of so popular and capable
a gentleman as T. ]. Anderson.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25

might partake, to the renewing Of hope
full purpose or more successful endeav-
or. The precious investment OF time
and energy, physical and mental force,
were all made suhservient to the per-
petuation of system which encouraged
profiigacy and luxurious splendor at
the expense of the toiling masses, who
were required to forge the chains Of
their OWN political bondage. Declared
from all facilities for the improvement of
their condition, the people saw the gulf
between them and the hope of anne
lioration growing wider with each revoly-
ing cycle of years, and that sense ofreseni-
ment which might have been conciliated
by the exercise of temperate and jul
dieious policy, deepened into glow of
hate, which is sweeping, with its con-
suning breath, the most extensive en-
pire ON the face of the earth.
1t was in vain that the murdered Gar,
stimulated by the portentous exigencies
precipitated upon him by the mighty
germ of revolution within his en-
pire, liberated the serfs, and
instituted other beneficent re-
forms. In so doing he but invested with
increased power his disaffected subjects,
who, in default of the saving influences
of education, transcribed the bounds of
reason, babe defiance to lawful restraint,
and constituted themselves the avengers
of wrongs which an enlightend people
would have sought mo perate
means of redressing
Deprecating, as eternally at vari-
ance with the very essence OF SUBJ
stantial reform, ali incendiary meth
DDS. the American people, being lifted
up into the clear light of the
best revelations of this high noon
day in the worlds progress, nevertheless,
recognize in the fate of Russia's muir
dered monarch, the legitimate sequence
of an effete policy which the world has
outgrown, and which must eternally go
down before the all-conquering forces of
education and human progress.
May Russia's new ruler, tnrning his
back on all of the past, save its solemn
lessons, read in the fate of his murdered
father the admonition which it suggests,
and glorify his reign by the institution
of those liberal and heneicent measures
which constitute the only warrants for
the peace and security of his administra
finn
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25


The California Greenbackers have ex.
pressed themselves in full sympathy
with the incendiary spirit which so re
Gently resulted in the assassination, al
the hands of the Nihilists, of the late
Gar of Russia. The political heresy
whose practical enforcement would ruiE
the credit of the nation, and place in
power a class of charlatans sufficiently
tinged with agrarianism to dcnounce as
monopolistic the achievements of legiti
mate thrift and industry, are not so re
motely related to the red-handed social
lists of the old world as q merely casual
consideration of the matter might indi
cate, and all that is lacking to develop
the same extreme phases of communism
in this country which has unsettled the
repose of every monarchy in Europe, are
conditions favorable to the growth OF
that spirit of corrupt fanaticism which
is the prominent characteristic of many
of the leaders of the National Greenback
Marty
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25
FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT

The intensity of excitement following
Immediately upon the assassination of
the late Gear of Russia, has already sub
sided, and thoughtful public are turn
ing from the contemplation of the terri
BILE tragedy itself TO the causes which in
spired the incendiary purposes that cul-
minated in the preparation of so grave
and shocking crime.
In country where the largest meas
ure of liberty consistent with the en-
forcemeut of those laws which make for
the common peace, is enjoyed by all
classes of citizens, without respect to
! social, political or religious conditions,
it is obviously difficult to accurately esti-
mate the causes which are evolved by
systems of government that are purely
arbitrary in their character, and derive
their forms from the predictions
of single individual, whose
will is law, and from whose DEGREES there
is no appeal. Having come ourselves
so great a way upon the broad
highway of civil and political
progress, 1t is well nigh i'm
possible to conceive Of eighty millions
of people, contemporary with the ad
vanced civilization of the nineteenth
century, as living under q monarchy as
absolute as any autocracy of the middle
ages; and, from the distant vantage
ground of our more exalted plane, we
see only the crimson fruition of plant
| whose slow growth has been nurtured
by the blood, the sweat and the tears of
all the generations which have come and
gone since first the fallacy of the divine
right of kings was promulgated in the
interest of physical servitude and mental
slavery. Striking its roots deep into the
soil of ignorance and superstition, and
/ spreading its leaves in the sombre
shadows OF chilling despotism, 1t takes
on no eomeliness of form, no beauty of yer
dure or bloom, and exhales no fragrance
upon the malarial atmosphere in which
it thrives. Like the deadly nlghtshade
and upas, it distils poison rather
than healing, and gives out all the con-
centrated properties of the noxious ele-
ments upon which it feeds. Such is
communism in all its incendiary forms
such is the spectre which haunts the
palace and shares the throne of every
monarch of the old world, and is loom.
ing up as q terrible factor in the solu
ton of those problems which involve
the high destinies, not of Europe alone
but Of the civilized world.
, A brief review of Russian history
shows that the conditions for the devel
{ opment of what has come to be known a
: Nihilism have been terribly suspicious
During the long and arbitrary reign o
the house of Romanoff, the relentless op
preston ofthat dynasty reduced the com
mon people 10 the condition of serfs, ant
the proscriptive policy which withhel'
q from the masses, for ages, the facilitie
: for popular education, has borne its legii
innate fruit by sitting every human a
. piration save the deadly and absorbin
lust for vengeance as a means of redress
ing their deep wrongs. The to
: of the peasant the skin of the artisan
r the aspirations and efforts {
II such as nature had gifte
e with still more exalted capabilitie
r bore no fruits Of which the produces
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25

Senator Bayard has written letter to
the Delaware legislature advising
against prohibitorY legislation, on the
ground that it is antagonistic to Dem
ocracy, which permits a man to eat and
drink as his inclination dictates. The
level-headed senator has been identified
with the political plans and purposes of
the great unwashed' too long not to be
duly impressed with the complete Atm
ity between whisky and Bourbonism,
and his prompt recognition of the dan,
gers which might ensuc upon distur.
bance OF that natural relation, marks
him as a statesman whose advice may be
pursued in the full assurance that its
adoption, at least in the present case
will rebound to the best interests of hi:
1 marty.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25

The first through train from Kansas
City to the Pacific coast passed over the
Santa Fe road the 9Th. Henceforth the
tourist Can travel from the eastern ter
minus of this road to Los Angeles, over
the South Pacific, for $1O3, $7S or $52.
90, as his peculiarities Of taste or finan
cial resources may dictate. 1t may also
encourage a certain class of itinerants &c
learn that the walking between those
points is already quite fair and is likely
to improve with the advancement of the
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-25

The calm assurance with which the
great railroad corporations go on length
ening their cords and Strengthening
their stakes while the various state leg
lslatures are playfuIly Grooming on the
monopoly ball, suggests in a forcIble
manner the imperturbable serenity of the
OK, when tie gnat swooped down upon
his horn with the fell purpose of an
Initiating the bovine monster.