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The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07
Carthaoe Patriot: The Demo

Carthage Patriot: The Demo-
cIatic Executive Committee, what
remains of the old 9th, will soon be
called together by Mr.. Linsay, of
Lawrence, as Secretary, to meet at
Pierce City about the 10th of June,
for reorganization and such other
business as may properly come be-
fore IT.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07
PROBATE JUDGE.

We are authorized TO announce The
name of ID. V. Brown as candidate for
the nomination tor the Office ii Probate
Judge, subject to the decision OF the pri
mary election.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Hon. Sam Major. OF Howard
county, in an interview with re-
porter of the Sedalia Democrat on
the 3Ist ult. declared himself cam
didate tor Congress III the Pettis and
Howard county district.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07
CIRCUIT cLKRx.

We are authorized to- announce the
name of J. r. jenkins as candidate for
the Office OF Circuit Clerk OF Bates county,
subject to the decision of the Democratic
primaries.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Just as we have expected and
prophesied. The rumor of Frank
James, application for pardon has
been nothing but bosh. Gov. Crit
tenden puts the matter III very
pungent way in the interview puo-
lished elsewhere in the TIMES.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

The Savannah Nesps thinks the
nomination of Hon. A. H. Stephens
for Governor would harmonze and
solldify the Democracy of Georgia
and be a fitting tribute to the recog-
nized ability and long public services
of Mr.. Stephens. The Nezus is Of
the opinion that his nomination is
foregone conclusion, while but few
months Or weeks ago it would have
been very unlikely thing if not
political impossibility.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Henry county will hold a special
election on the 26th inst. to vote
upon the proposition to compromise
the county's bonded Indebtedness at
y cts. on the dollar. The Clinton
Democrat urges the people to care
fully consider the matter, intimating
that the offer Is fair one.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

To keep your knives and forks
from rusting, make flannel bag,
and stitch from top to bottom
an inch aud halt apart, a dozen
times, makinga receptacle for each.
Roll, and keep in a dry place.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

For Supreme Judge, F. NJ. Rice,
of Brownsville; tor Superintendent
of Public Schools, E. r. Booth, of
St. Louis county; for Railroad Gem
missioner. H. NJ. Richey, of Newton
county, compose the Greenback
State ticket nominated at Moberly.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

The Congressional committee of
the Thirteenth District will meet in
Pierce City on June Isth for the pur-
pose of fixing the time and place for
holding the Congressional conven-
tom
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

James Gordon Bennett is a hber-
al man. He has given the widow
of Lieutenant DeLong who perish
ed with the Tennette, $50. ooo.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07
Neigh borhood Notes.

Parsons (Kas..) Uonder: The
Mo. Pacific R K. is running 4
freight car from Texas now, and
are shipping large quantities of
peaches and plunns north.
Joplin Herald: 4.-One case of
smallpox was developed at Empire
City Yesterday. The authorities
quarantined the house and took
means to prevent the further spread
of the disease.
Daily Ge>ette: Six divorce petit
tons have been. filed by one attor-
torncy this week, all of Rich Hill.
They were all made by the women.
which speak sbadly for six unfortunate
husbands, fortunate if the Tetitions
are granted.
Joplin Herald: The remains of
a three year old child buried twenty
three years ago at Springfield, were
found petrified few days ago. The
grave was opened to remove the re-
mains to Neosho. The petrificatIon
weighed $50 pounds.
West Plains Journal: The straw
berry crop IN Bollinger county is all
gathered and IS valued at four or
five thousand dollars. If some of
our citizens would turn their at
tentlon to this industry they would
make big money.
West Plans Journal: 1.-The bees
arc swarlning, and there's no end to
them,'' said Farmer Jones, coming
into the house. His little boy
George came in second afterwards |
and said there was an end to one of |
'em, anyway, and it was red hot,
too.
Springfield Express: The breed
ers of short-horn cattle in Law
renee county have formed an or
ganization for the importation of
fine stock and the Improvement of
the grades of cattle i'll that county.
J. r. Hillhouse is president, and b.
X. Turk, secretary.
Nevada Democrat: The fruit
crop in Vernon county this year
will be immense. Mr.. Mcdonald
has been obliged to pick nearly half
the peaches off his trees to keep
them from breaking down. The
blackberries and raspberries are,
also, very fine, and will turn out
splendldly.
Jop lin Herald: 3I-Last night
as the Carthage accommodation was
coming along the trestie near Swim.
die Hill, some ruffians threw several
rocks striking the cab and coach.
The train was stopped but the per-
petrators of the outrage had fed.
This is the third time similar piece
of ruff1anism has recently been
committed near the same place and
an earnest effort will be made to
bring the miscreants to the punish
ment SO richly deserved.
West Plains Journal: Cut-worms
can be cheated out of destroying
cabbage and other plants by sur
each plant with an oak.
hickory or some other strong leaf set !,
deep enough to prevent blowing ]
away. Another remedy said to be
is to put sawdust about the
'oots of the plants and saturate with
ar-water. The sawdust will retain
he scent of the tar and drive away
;ut-worms and other insects.
Joplin Herald: As the olean- :
ler is a very popular flower with 8
many OF our lady friends. the fol-
owing remarks by scientific writer n
nay prove of interest: ''All por- I
ions of the oleander arc deadly. A o
cry small quantity of leaves have
'een known to kill horse. The a
lowers have produced death in t,
hose persons who have carelessly il
licked and ate them. The branches
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

A fire broke out IN the union de-
pot at Atchison on Saturday after
noon last, and damaged the structure
to the amount of $4,000.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Ex-Gov. Phelps has declined to
accept the appointment of President
Arthur to serve on the tariff COM
mission.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Garibaldi, the great Italian States
man and soldier, died on the and
inst.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07
Collector

Collector Green, the Jackson
county defaulter, is now on tria; be-
fore special Judge Dunlap.
The Butler weekly times., 1882-06-07

Senator Hill is reported as improv
ing under the treatment prescribed
him at Eureka Springs.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

Reform has struck the postoffice de-
partment in Washington, and young
German employed there is getting the
benefit of it. He was called up the 9TH
er day before the postmaster-g general to
answer to a serious charge-that of hav-
ing been in the habit of kissing lady,
also employed there, whenever he deliv-
cred letteTs TO her. The innocent Ger
man young man was more than sur
prised, and explained that he had kissed
the lady, but that in Germany a kiss I'M
der the same circumstances meant no
more than shaking hands in this coun-
try. 1t was the German custom that he
had followed, with no thought of harm.
When he met the lady he greeted her
with kiss, instead of the formal shak-
ing of hands as Americans do. The
postmaster general informed this innO-
cent German young man that he must
conform to the American customs; and
that he would not be allowed to intro
duce his German customs, however
preferable they might be to our cold,
matter-of-fact ways. This" says the
Boston journal, seems like one of those
that work in the wrong direc-
ton. It would seem much better to
start the department in the direction of
the German custom, if haply the delect-
able influence thereof might spread over
the whole country, and enliven the dull
of the cold American
manner of greeting" If we were to be
we would offer one amend
ment TO the German custom, and that
is that an exception should be made
In cases where the women eat onions.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
John Bright, the great English states

John Bright, the great English states
man, is said to be planning journey to
the United States, during the approach
ing parliamentary recess. If he should
come he will have a welcome such as
no Englishman has ever had before in
our country. He was our friend when
even Mr.. Gladstone turned against US !;
aud although he has persistently de-
nounced our economic policy as little
short of barbarous, he has always been
outspoken in his administration Of our
institutions and the praticaI results of
our modes of admiration. At pres
ent, when his peace-loving nature is
shocked by the warlike preparations in
his own country, he will find here one
of the smallest of standing armies, and
an industrial population imbued with a
pacific disposition, prosperous, content
ed and reasonably happy. It may be
that if he comes among US, after leaving
Europe in state of unrest, with host
of armed men in every nation, and sees,
to use his own words, ''hundreds of
thousands of comfortable homesteads to
adorn the land" he will go back a
stronger Republican than he is now,
and he is already far too Republican
for conservative England.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

General Tom Brown, of Indiana, is a
good man, and makes some good hits. He
has written letter accepting the unani-
nous denomination given him by the
Republican convention of the 9th con.
gressional district of Indiana. He says
that if he has differed from majority OF
the representatives ofhis party he has
done so from a conviction of duty. He
opposed the anti Chinese bill and does
not regret his action. The navigable
streams ofthe country he believes should
be kept in repair; but when appropria-
tions are sought for streams purely local
many of them without commerce and
almost without watcr-he will refuse his
assent. One-half of the appropriation
made in the present river and harbor
bill he thinks is waste. On the latter
subject he is unquestionably sound in
judgement.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
NEWS FROM ALASKA.

Fearful Ravages of the Plague Mt sitka
SAN Francisco, July ga Port
Townsend dispatch says The steamer L.
Masteck has arrived from Sitka. The
Wechusetts dropped into Sitka, June II.
A rigid quarantine has been enforced
After coaling she sailed for
Wrangel, June 21st, taking
both surgeons and leaving no medicine
for the sick. A number of guards have
been attacked. Death among the Rus
sian settlers from the plague, a combi-
nation of scarlet fever and measles, con-
tinues, causing much restitution and
want of actual necessities of life,
and only a lack of material will
cause cessation of the mortality. 1t is
simply fearful. Much indignation is
felt at the course of Commander Carson
in not leaving medical officer at Sitka.
He was fully conversant with the sltua-
ton, putting his vessel in close quaran-
tine and sending his surgeons ashore
to investigate the trouble, and they re-
POitCu INC NASOeaSS I'll tnS AHSASooO- NJ
brandy was obtainable though much
needed. If a man imports a gill of
brandy into Alaska to save dying child
he is liable to be sent TO the penitentiary.
Mining matters look favorable. Placers
are turning out we'll and new diggings
are reported 10 have been discovered
near Bcman Bay. A large number of
miners came up on the Idaho.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

In explanation of the Leavenworth
somersault on st. John, the correspond
ent of the Topeka State Journal from
Leavenworth relates that the new pro-
gram which has been arranged IN that
city is that Anthony is to retain the
postoffice, and Legate is to be nominal
ed for lieutenant-g 1t is expect
ed by them that st. John will be elected
to the U. S. senate this winter when Mr.
Legate will become the governor. The
correspondent says: "This accounts for
the saloons quitting their fight on ST.
John. The question of constabulary
is to be abandoned and the liquor ques-
ton is to remain in statu quo until st.
John is elected to the senate and Legatc
becomes governor. In this way Cover
nor st. John escapes the odium of the
failure of prohibition. The Union Pa
cific and Missouri Pacific with roads to
this city have Endorsed this program,
and it is believed that the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe will offer no resistance.
The policy of the railroads is to push
prohibition to the front and make it the
great issue, so as to keep the people
from discussing the transportation ques-
tiOn
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
woRsHIpING TWO MASTERS.

There is nothing truer than that bold
and plain truth uttered by holy writ, aye
cannot serve God and Mammon." In pro-
portion as a preacher and his flock run
after worldly things, in that proportion
their church will sooner or later decay.
A faithful minister and his faithful fol-
lowers have wonderful influence for
good in any community so long as
they are consistent, but when they, or a
majority of them, or even the leader
himself, depart from the plain line of
duty, then decay follows. We are led
TO these reflections from reading an
item in the New York Witness, which
relates how, for the second time in a year
or two, the singular spectacle is wit
messed in Brooklyn of a church being |
turned into a theatre, and il is significant |
that in both instances the decay of the |
church was caused by lack of genuine |
religion. Look at the fate of the Elm |
Place Congregational church. Its last |
pastor was Rev. DIR. Wild, who devoted |
his chief attention to pleasing curiosity |
seekers by preaching about the lost tribes |
of Israel. the pyramids of Egypt-ey-
erything in fact but the GOepel. A fire
which burned out the interior of the |
building, but left the walls standing in
good condition, drove the congregation
to humber quarters, and it was unable
to repair the edifce. DIR. Wild went to
Toronto, and the building in Elm Place
has become a theatre. Now the same
thing is occurring in the case of the
Lee Avenue Baptist church. It's last
pastor, the Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, was
for a while exceedingly popular as a
man of wit and of great personal mag
netism. But he gradually drilled away
from the essentials of Christian truth
and gave more and more of his atten-
tion TO a very eccentric participation in
politics. Finally, when his church had
dwindled away almost to nothing, he
announced himself q Universalist in
doctrine, and went to Washington as a
The building has been
sold for debt to a firm of theatrical
managers. Already the steeples have
been torn down, the pews are being
turned into ticketed seats, and the pull
pit is becoming a stage. In contrast to
this see the fiourishing condition of
those churches-Talmage's, Cuyler's,
Peck's, Storr's, Thomas's, McLeOd's,
Pentecost's, ETC.. where vital
religion prevails.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

The Salvation army which is now
creating so much attention in England,
is led by one William Booth, who
seems to be considerable of a man in
his way. He is middle-aged, gaunt,
iron-g gray, with abrupt, but cordial man
ners. During conversation he remains
standing, or even walking up and down
the room. His speech is pure, vigorous
Saxon-English. His dark, earnest eyes
have a half weary expression, caused
by overwork. His face, thin and pale,
with an aquiline nose, is compared by
many with both Loyola and Wesley.
He was born at Nottingham, England.
and educated himself in the midst of
great difficulties. Early in life he be-
gan preaching as Methodist minister,
and remained at that work until he or
ganIzed the now famous Salvation army.
he now receives and distributes. with
control, a revenue Of $500
yearly; owns or rents in his own name
250 buildings in various parts of Great
used as stations" and directs
the labors of more than $1,000 itinerant
preachers. The circulation of his off,
cial paper, the War Cry, amounts to
$50, 1000 copies. This position he has
not by the aid of, but in spite Of
the opposition of, the orthodox clergy,
and consequently he is accustomed to
say sardonically: "The last enemy
that shall be destroyed is-the parson."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
OVER THE STATE.

The soil aud climate of tie northern
part of the state don't seem to be favor
able to the growth of the third term
boom.
The firm of Lansford, Simmons & Co.,
general merchants of Cottonwood Falls,
failed last Saturday. N. j. Swayze has
been appointed assignee.
Maj. Morrill,, one of our nominees
for congressman,at-large, has gone TO
New York to spend month. He took
his family to Charlevoix. Michigan.
On and after August 1st, the postal
clerks of the Santa Fe road, will run
clear through from Kansas City to
Deming, over $1,000 miles. This will
be the longest run in the United States.
There will be two men to each car
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

Mr.. r. Nelson, of lakewood, near
Liverpool, has devised and placed at the
free use of his brother farmers a method
OF harvesting in the stack which may be
applied to grass, grain and almost all
kinds Of field produce, and which, If the
statements made about it are trust
worthy, renders the farmer largely indie
pendent of the weather at harvesting
time. As applied to hay the process is
simply this: The stack is made in such
q way as to leave hollow space in the
middle running up about a third of its
height, and the lower end of this hollow
is connected with the outer air by a
tube. The end of this tube is connected
with an exhaust fan, and as soon as the
stack begins to heat the fan is set to
work, and the moisture is drawn forth
in q cloud of steam. The fan exhausts
the tube, the outer air presses through
the stack in all directions to supply it,
and the hay is cooled and dried. The
stack can thus be kept at any tempera-
ture by watching the thermometer, and
. little careful attention has been found
to make the condition of the hay thus
treated perfect, even in cases in which it
had been stacked quite wet. The meth
cd is easy TO carry out and is said to
save in labor in the bayfield, what it
costs in simple machinery.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27


New York Tribune: The Concord
school of philosophers now meeting
under Mr.. Alcott's apple trees, are fall
ing into too morbid a mood this sum-
mer. Not satisfied with bemoaning the
general decrepit and hating condition
OF the modern mind as compared with
that of Concord seekers after truth, they
now deplore the decadence Of the world
from "some prehistoric race, who proba-
bly, were as gods compared with u.s."
The thing is not certain say they, but it
may be so. Civilization, Mr.. Alcott Ia
ments, may be retrograding instead of
advancing, as we suppose. Miss Pea
body, too, is inclined to complain
because the present race of men are SO
contemptibleAcomp with even the
works of past ages, as in European ca
thedrals. What would the chubby
babies of good Miss Peabody's
kindergartens say to her
heresY? One such school is proof of
sounder humanity and higher civiliza-
ton alive and at work than all the ca
thedrals built in Europe by the ignorant,
halfstarved paupers of the middle
ages. As for Mr.. Alcott's search for
mythical race of god-like men before
history, we wish him success. The
cave man, however, we fear will not
help him out very far in his theory. At
least it is certain, from the shape of his
skull and other indications of his raw
meateating propensities, that his civili-
cation would not have qualified HIM en-
inently to enjoy the metaphysical specu-
lations of the Concord school. BY the
way, this summer school is always COM
pared to the lectures of Plato under
Grecian groves. But did the rapt disci-
Piles of Plato pay the expenses of the
school, with a snug little dividend be-
sides? Is not here hint that we are
advancing, and not falling back? An
swer, we speculative and thrifty philoso-
pliers of Boston.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
= pose OF TheIr own AEeaic,ne

LoKDsBuRG. N NJ, July ga cour-
Ter from Clifton reports that large
party of Indians attacked wagon train
three miles this side of Clifton, yester-
day morning, killing two men. The
Transfers, seven in number, stood off
the Indians for two hours, and MORALLY
wounded one Indian. A teamsier in
the facepf a heavy fire, pushed out and
dragged the wounded Indian into camp,
and when the fight was over scalped
him and roasted him alive.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

The vital statistics of England show
not only that the number Of suicides in
proportion to the population is steadily
increasing. but that self.murder is most
common in those parts of the country
where the people are best educated. 1t
further appears that the proportion OF
suicides between the ages of 10 and 20 is
only about tenth of those between 40
AID 90, which again are only about two
thirds of those between 65 and rs, show
ing that the suicidal tendency increases
as the age advances, The number Of
men who die by their own hand is three
times as great as that of women. Most
men who commit suicide hang them
selves, and most women drown them
selves. Twice as many women as men
take poison.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27

Mr.. Spurgeon, the great Baptist
preacher of London, has no faith in hu-
man philosophy. He would rather, he
says, have one little promise in the cor
ner of the Bible than all the statements
and promises of all the philosophers
that ever lived. Every philosopher that
ever has existed has contradicted every
other one; that which is taught today
will certainly be disproved tomorrow ;
and so, he thinks, the history of philoso-
piers is, in brief, the history of fools.
Spurgeon is about right, too. Folks
who put their sole reliance on that
tickle, erratic and uncertain quality
known as human reason. have n mighty
sandy foundation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
CONSUMPTION CURED.-An old physi

CONSUMPTION CURED-An old physi-
clan, retired from active practice, hay
ing had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of Il sim
pie vegetable remedy for the speedy and
permanent cure of consumption, bron-
chitis' catarrh, asthma and all throat
and lung affections, also a positive and
radical cure for general debility and all
nervous complaints, after having thor
oughly tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, feels it his
duty 10 make 1t known To his suffering
fellows. The recipe, with full particu-
lars, directions for preparation and use,
and all necessary advice and instruc-
tions for successful treatment at your
own home will be received by you by
return mail, free of charge, by address
ing with stamp or stamped selt-address-
ed envelope to DIR. n. E. Bell,
1G1 N. Calvert St. Baltimore, Md.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
THE PRIMARIES

The Republicans of Lyon county
ought to bear in mind that next Satur-
day is the day fixed by the central COM
mittee for the township conventions TO
elect delegates to the county convention
which will elect seven delegates and
seven alternates to the state convention
on the 9th of August. For particulars
see the call in another column. The
Republicans ought TO see TO it that the
primaries are well attended