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1t takes fearful amount of downright
lying and perjury to keep the whisky
shops running in this state. We hear O
good deal said and see it often asserted
in print that the prohibition law is en-
gendering a wonderful degree of hypoc-
risy on the part of its professed follow
ers. If it is any worse on that side than it
is on the side of the witnesses and ju-
rors who are the devotees and tools of
the violators of the law, may God pity
them. There are but few cases tried il
the courts, so far as our knowledge goes,
where the false swearing of the whisky
ties is not more or less frightful. Here
is case in point. The witness in a
trial at Topeka swore as follows:
Question by Webb, prosecuting-DId
this sea foam look like beer? -
Myers-It did.
Webb-Dld it foam like beer?
Myers-It did.
Webb-DId it taste like beer?
Myers-It did.
Webb-Could you discover any differ
ence between it and beer?
Myers could not.
Webb-What, in your best judgment,
then, was it?
Myers-I can't answer that any differ
ent from what have.
The court to witness-1ou have not
answered that question.
Webb-You say it looked like beer,
foamed like beer and tasted like beer,
and you say you could not discover any
difference between it and beer, now
what, in your best judgment, wasitf
Myers-I have answered that question
as near as could.
The Court-You will answer that
question direct.
Webb-What in your best judgment
was it?
Myers-I think have answered that
question.
The Court with great emphasize
Perhaps yon have been in courts you
could trif1e with now you answer that
question direct, or say in your best judg-
ment that you did not know what it was.
Meyers-Well, will say then, that in
my best judgment it was not beer.
Webb-What in your best judgment
was it then?
Myers-Sea foam.
Webb-What is sea foam?
Myers-I don't know.
The witness was then discharged.
1t may look q little discoursging to
the friends of the law when such cases
are encountered, but there will be away
provided to meet such will teach will
ing witnesses" to stop such practices on
the stand.
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Colorado Cuttings.

DENVER, Feb. 10. "A Republican
Las Vegas dispatch says: Ben Ellis, OF
Lincoln county, New Mexico, absconded
with several thousand dollars in county
funds.
A driver of Fargo express wagon
was robbed of 5000 in currency con.
signed to the first national bank by To.
peka parties. There is a very slight
clue to the robbers.
Advices from Durango, Colorado, are
that four of the six men arrested on a
charge of counterfeiting, have been re.
leased on account of insufficient evil
dence.
A Republicans Lake City special
says: A few minutes past / O'Clock gu
Sunday morning an earthquake shock
of five seconds duration was felt here.
The citizens were awakened and many
of them thought the powder magazine
had exploded. The shock was violent
at the capital city.
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NEMsPAPER RusINEss

The Commonwealth had an article q
few days ago under the head of News
paper People" in viii ch it bewailed the
poverty of the fraternity generally. II
said, ''if we except, perhaps, half o
dozen, there cannot be found n single
publisher in Kansas who IS even indie
pendent of daily Labor" This NAV all
bc true. but we apprehend the writer will
not deny that the imp, cunious circum-
stances ofthc gentlemen m, ntiuned in lis
article is the result of financial mis-
management, rather than because they
have not dome well in their business. As
we have said before there is nothing
about "A print ingOilice proper that edn-
Gates man for business. We have
rarely seen one at the old class of print
ers that had the least appreciation of the
value of money, or Understood how TO
handle IL to make more when they get
IT. Several of the old editors mentioned
by the Commonwealth have had splen.
did opportunities To make comfortable
fortunes. IL was not the fault of the
business that they did not do so, but
their own lack of business qualification
and tact. They did not save their earn
ings and invest them safely. Your or
binary printer is free with his money
AS long as those who have been raised
IN printing office control the income
of an office, So long it will be ''hard
up" as a rule, and we believe every of
flee should have associated with it bus
mess man, and that he should have con
troll of the financial manage
ment of the paper. This ID
the way prosperous city papers
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are managed they are conducted ca
business principles. Their business de
partments are not run in "haphazsrdT
style by gentlemen who would take
more pride in guing in debt for q power
press and ''firsi-class job Office" than
they would in having $1,000 10 their
credit in bank. Business men do not
keep their accounts on the wall or on
slips of paper Printers too Uften do
The printer mode Of conducting finances
steps down and OUT. and business modes
come in when The paper Is successful.
We agree with the Commonwealth
that the newspaper business Is frightfnl-
ly overdOne in Kansas One-third of
them could be stopped To the advantage
of the conductors, and 10 the greater
advantage OF the communities in which
they are published, but this will proba-
bly, not be done for some years, so we
must put up with them.
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New York Tribune. The southern
Democrats appear to be taking but lit
tie interest In national politics. This IL
due Largely TO the fact that they have
their hands uncOmfoEtAbly full Of local
troubles, but It is undoubtedly true also
that they are tired OF being defeated
under the leadership Of the northern
Democracy. The talk about TIlden does
not interest them at all for this reason.
The northeru Democrats nave advised
them for many years to hold heir Sec
ton solid as the only way to success, and
the result. Of every campaign has been
defeat. They are casting about IN their
own minds now for some plan which
promises better results, and while they
are in search OF Il they are allowing che
northern wing OF their party to do al
the talking.
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OVER THE STATE.
L4eavenworth leads in divorces.
CouLa,. C,;,v hos q at ;ho-ol Taoo,o

OVER THE STATE.
Leavenworth leads in divorces
Cawker City has Liberal League
Lawrence school children carry re
volvers.
Colored folks at Glrard are all max
ing money.
Twenty residences are going up in
Fort Scott.
The Presbyterian church at Lawrence
is to be enlarged.
Galena still continues to make big
strikes in lead.
In Kansas there are 1s9 coal mines
in "A counties.
Cherokee county has twenty divorce
cases on hand.
A Marion grain firm defends the Kan.
sas City buyers.
The health of Hon. D. P Lowe, OF
Fort Scott. is improving.
Seventy-tive men are at work in the
Marion Center stone quarries.
The Santa Fe railroad did not kill a
passenger during the year 1881.
The Nicodemus colony of people
are in good shape.
The Methodists are having revivals at
several points in the state.
Only six organized counties in Kan.
sas are without q railroad.
The Santa Fe will yet have a line OF
its own from st. Louis to San Francisco
Kansas ranks as the eleventh state OF
the Union in the value of her live stock
District court OF Sumner county has
two years business ahead of it.
Gospel meetings are being held night.
" in Dodge City, in the dance hall.
A Fort Scott man was relieved of
81 GOO by sham sheriff.
Wichita is delighted because Gould
now owns a railroad to that town.
The stockmen of Kansas and Texas
are to meet at Caldwell, March 1.
Kansas ranks as the ninth bltuminous
coal producing state in the Union.
There have been three violent deaths
in Topeka within two days.
The Commonwealth of Sunday says
there will be no extra session of the leg
islature.
The Mound City Clarion says not one
school teacher in ten takes a local pa
per.
Paola has set aside two acres of its
cemetery for potter's field, and has
chosen site for pest house in case OF
smallpox.
DR.. Boynton, one Of President Gar
fields physicians, has located at
Ellsworth, and is going into the sheep
business.
Parsons supports three gambling
houses.
The southern Kansas NJ. E. confer.
ence is to meet at Burlington March 1st
A State Farmers institute will be
held at Holton on the 10th and 18th.
A Wichita man has invented a car.
coupler, warranted to be an anti.brake.
man crusher.
Kingman Citizen: Peter Brewer, the
pedestrian, started on his way back to
Illinois, last week. He will walk the
entire distance-7O0 miles.
Mr.. Henry LansdeIl, an English trsv.
eler, says that in no other country has
he found so great an eagerness for the
Scriptures and good books as in Russia
The secretary of the treasury reported
to the house that IN the enforcement Of
the internal revenue laws, tWenty-nins
officers had been killed and fifty wound
ed, and eight informers had been as
sailed and wounded.
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po,d Rohh..v

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. IA very
bold and successful robbery was COM
mitted shortly before noon in the coun-
ty treasurer's office at the city hall,
Treasurer Crosby being alone at the
time. One man went in and desired 10
pay his taxes and went TO the window
farthest from the door, calling for the
ward numbered at that window. While
the treasurer was hunting up The de-
scription given, the confederate thief
stepped in at the door left ajar and
hastily went TO the money drawer and
took what bills could be grabbed and
left. The noise of the operations at
tracted the notice of the treasurer, who
saw the thief as he disappeared through
the door. The alarm was instantly
given, but the thief escaped as did the
first man in the excitement of the
moment. The amount taken was $40.
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cited and panicy; about cents lower; 81 liz
Corn-Weak and heavy; lower. 54X. Oats
Weak and lower, 40x. Pork-Paniey and
lower, SIS IS. Larl-Paniey; heavy and low
or, $40 20
Hogs-Receipts. 1900; quiet and lower;
light, 20 Is05 20; mixed packing, 80 I566 IS /;
heavy, 50 5O17 80. CattIe-Receipts. 1900;
weak and 10 cents lower; exports. - 309s so;
fancy spring, 81 50g5 20; butchers. - 7sa4 80.
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PERSONAL AND political.

President Garfield's old Washington
home on the corner of Thirteenth and /
streets still stands tenantless, and so,
also, does Fernando Woods fine house
on the corner of Fifteenth and l.
There is complete silence among
the cabinet builders, and they have
doubtless concluded to let Mr. Arthur
attend TO that business himself
The Mississippi senate has passed a
law appropriAtIng $4,000 for immigra-
tion purposes. We suppose they want
people who will have the regulation po-
litical views.
General Gordon and his brothers are,
it is reported, the richer by a million
dollars made the other day in railroads.
When General Gordon left the senate,
the brothers were all poor men !; railroad
building has since changed all that.
II Is announced that Miss Kellogg
has yielded to the temptations offered
by q profitable concert tour, and has
postponed her marriage. AS. Mr.. Whit
ney, who is said TO be the happy man, is
3 millionaire, this looks little queer,
but then, it's nobody's business.
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Bold BurgIary A. Leavenwor.h.

LEAyENWORTH, Kan, Feb. lathe
most deliberate and daring robbery COM
mitted IN this city for years occurred at
the residence Of Mr.. Matthew Ryan, r.,
yesterday morning at 2 O'Clock. Mr..
Ryan is known throughout the West as
an extensive cattle dealer, and is away
from home attending 10 his business.
Mr.. Al Callahan and wife are staying
with Mrs Ryan, and, besides two SER
wants, were the only adults in the
house.
At O'Clock Mrs. Ryan was awakened
by slight noise, and was Mortified TO
see man standing at her dressing case
with black mask over his face. He
had overturned all the drawers on the
floor, and rIfied her jewellery case Mrs.
Ryan asked him what he wanted there,
and be replied that he would kill her If
she made any noise. he then went to
the wardrobe and found seal skin
saoue, In the pocket Of which was 9
pocketbook containing $35 in money.
The burglar then started for the door
and Mrs. Rysn sprang after him, scream
ing "burgiaTs." Her cries aroused Mr..
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Decidedly Panicky.

CHICAGO, Ill.-There was very active
trading on change to-day, and the con-
dition of affairs was simply panicky.
Wheat declined heavily, the closing be-
ing four to five cents below yesterday,
and the lowest price for the day being
six cents below yesterday. The highest
for corn was about two cents lower; oats
one cent off, and provisions irregular
with decline for the day of about one
dollar and quarter on pork and sixty
cents on lard. There has not been
so exciting day on change for over a
year. The chief cause of the panic was
the announcement of the failure of II.
o. Kenyon s. Co, a commission firm
which has a very extensive trade. The
extent of failura cannot be ascertained
as yet, but it has captured very large
number of operators and Is doubtless for
a heavy amount Z. W. Fisher, dealer
in oats, also suspended with Liabilities
of probably fifteen to twenty thousand
dollars.
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Wilmington, Ohio, is in a bad way,
Us We learn from the Journal. By the
building OF short line of railroad it
could get connection with another
through line, the Baltimore Il Ohio, and
yet the old burg cannot raise the wind"
to the tune of $4,000 for that purpose.
~ has been for wears I'm n SORT at n side
track Of the Pennsylvania road, aRd is
subject tn all sorts of eXtOrtion from its
one little road We are sorry for Will
mingion. II lias been talking another
railroad" for ten or dozen years, but
when it comes to raising II little money
il never gets there" There are hun
dred towns in Kansas not one fourth as
old Ms Wilmington, with not one-half its
population and not onO-lcnth Gifts wealth
which would solve that railroad prob.
lem in less than tweniy-four hours by
putting up the $JO,O0O and building The
road in two or three months. because we
believe there are only ten miles at 1t 10
build. We feel 80 anxious sometimes to
have Wilmington delivered from her
present situation that we are half inclin-
al To- ask our friends here To raise the
money and send tO them rs Il donation
To- help them out of their dilemma.
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Strike at PnIIman.

CHICAGO, Feb 1.4-Great excitement
prevails in Pullman over a strike inau
guraied to-day. Seven hundred men
quit work on palace cars. The strike
was caused by new orders which go into
effect in the morning. One Is that the
men shall pay ten cents for the round
trip tickets between Chicago and Pull
man, and another is that pay days are 70
come monthly. Heretofore the men
have been paid twice a month and TIE
company has furnished tickets free.
This afternoon the men held a meeting
in Market Square and selected com
mite TO discuss the trouble with the Of
f1cers of the company. No conclusion
was arrived at, and it is expected the
strike will become general among the
400 employees of the works.
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y lively tus'el is going on in Iowa
over the barb wire business, especially
among farmers who belong to the Pro
tcctive Association. There is evinced
steady Determination noi Ia yield 10 the
monopoly exc, pit nj the mandate "f the
highest courts ~ The land, and the fight
is being made with the strong hope of
u victory for the farmer. IL seems that
Mr.. Coon, the inventor of certain ma
chimes used in the manufacture of barb
wire, had united with him Messrs. Car
penlcr ~ Given, who we've tn provide
capital for carrying On the manufacture
for the association, the understanding
being that the capitalists acquired,
each, onr-ihird interest in the
patents. Coon afterwards sold out the
Moen Co, without the knowledge or
consent OF Caalsnicr & Given. The
assignment nf the sale was sold To I'LL
nois parties and the machines replev-
incl by them, the decree being entered
against Coon Individually. This the
association aud Carpenter X Given
claim, leaves the latter free to go on
with the business of the association,
using the other patents And this is
precisely what they are now doing. BY
the first of next month il is anticipated
that they will h, able TO turn out car
load OF wire per day. II is expected
that tho WHshbnrn 4 Moen Co, viii
begin suit TO stop the manufacture, and
thIs suit the Farmers Protective Asso-
citation PROPOSES 20 contest TO the end.
In the meantime, farmers are urged TO
join the association, each membership
fee of one dollar going TO tie fund for
defending the suit, Every member is
entitled 10 purchase the association
wire at ~. cents per pound delivered
ON the cars. The association Is pledged
to defaad its members from suits by the
monopoly. AS the farmers are pretty
thoroughly aroused. the contest promises
io be u lively one.
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Tie Democrats ol the senate tried TO
slip IA Democrat into the office Of chief
clerk ON Thursday, while they had a
temporary majority. but were f'iied in
their scheme by Senator Brown, Of Geor-
gia, who iilleI ihrm with wrath and
amazrnient by v"ii' g W ia the Isrpnbli-
ems They ACCUSE him or trying To get
up II reputation n a non-pariisnn sena-
tor. in tlc hope at getting vice-presi l.
deafial nomination on an independent
ticket. This is going l"ng way for a
reason when Mr. Brown furnishes them
with simple and adequate one close at
hand, namely, that lac didn't see any
good TO be- accomplished by such n
claim.
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ARati,e YYi,h Desneraaoes.

ALBUouERoUE, N. NJ, Feb. 12.-
Cranes Station, on the Atlantic and
Pacific, has been full of hard characters
for some time past. Yesterday the citi-
gems under deputy sheriff, determined
to clean out the gang, organized and
marched up to a log house where the
robbers had rendezvous. Finding the
whole band inside they demanded q suE
render. They were answered with a
volley of shots. which killed one, Con-
radoes rushed out of the house shooting.
The sherifrs party returned the IRE,
killing three desperadoes, Kid James,
LYNCH Frank and Lewis Lowder. Dep
uty Sheriff Jones was wounded IN the
neck; ]. F. Fitzpatrick, one of the clti-
gems, party, in the cheek and thigh. Ex-
element runs high, and officers are pur-
suing the remainder of the gang.
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ENGLISH STUPIDITY.

The offensive ntterances Of the Lon
don newspapers ON the manner of The
Guiieau trial have been commented on
widely in this country. The language
used by the Times caused surprise, that
paper having SD recently, on the return
of It's owner and editor, Mr. Walter,
lr"m this country, shown itself quIie
friendly in It's attitude toward America.
The Times falsely declares that the
American people are satisfied with The
manner Of the trial, and have not mani
tested a SYMPTOM Of disApproval con-
corning It. Considering that they have
turned the suffrrings of Garfield into
food for a sensation and jest, it doubts
whether they have u right TO hang
Guiteau, and "insisis that the English
sympathies expressed At the time Of the
presidents death are DCW proved TO
have been unnecessary" When the
Times asserts that the American people
were satisfied with the manner
OF the Guiteau trial, it simply
displays the usual English lack
of an intelligent knowledge of Ameri-
can public sentiment. There never was
anything palmer than the fact that our
people were just the opposite To state
Of satisfaction with the manner of that
trial. This was shown in every possible
way il could be shown decently. We
are satisfied the Times does not reflect
the sentiment of the English people in
its offensive utterances above alluded to.
because the demonstrations of sympa-
thy among the people there when the
President was assassinated, and when
he died, were too generous and genuine
to be changed by the outrageous per
formances of the vile murderer on his
trial. The utterances of the Times may
simply be set down as another display
Of that English dignity and stupidity
which that sheet 10 wont TO indulge in
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GOV. st. John at Liberty, Missouri.

LIBERTY, Mo, Feb. 11.-At the great
temperance meeting in this city to day.
Gov. ST. John was greeted with the larg-
est and most enthusiastic audience ever
assembled at Liberty. The leading men
from all parts of the country were pres
ent, as well as several distinguished tenn
perance workers from abroad. After the
grand reception given him at the Arthur
House by the citizens of Liberty had
been satisfactorily carried out the i'm
mense crowd followed him to Bank
hall, where he pronounced one of the
most earnest, eloquent and effective ap.
peals in behalf of the temperance move
ment ever listened to by Missouri au-
dience. During the whole speech, last
ing more than two hours, there was
perfect silence and order in the hall
save the frequent bursts of applause with
which the audience greeted the speaker.
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The Recent storm I'm Texas.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. IA Mineole, Tex
as, special says: The recent great storm
is apparently abating. Two bridges Oh
the Texas Pacific eastern division are
washed away and trains stopped. Or
ders have been issued to hold all trains
except the Missouri Pacific at Dallas
tonight. Serious washouts are reported
on the Texas Central at Chambers
Creek and the running of trains is tenn
damage and much delay to all Texas
roads.
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The OI.an oil Fire

NEW YORK, Feb I3-fhe feeling of
danger from the three burning tanks al
Olean was relieved at one O'Clock to-
day. The total amount of oil destroyed
was 100000 barrels, involving a Pc
cuniary loss Of $4,000 The loss on
oil will be born by general assessment
on all persons having oil stored with the
united pipe lines. Overfiows, from
which the greatest danger was appre.
hcnded, occurred at three O'Clock This
morning, but a sufficient amount of oil
had been drawn off by a cannon bom-
bardment of the burning tanks, so that
the overflow did not pass over the bitches
and trenches prepared during the night.
A force of 800 men were on the ground
during the night and day. Experiments
by the chemical fire extinguisher on the
burning coal oil could not be tried be-
cause OF the engine being disabled be,
fore the work commenced. The three
tanks are still burning, but the danger is
passed
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A Fine Inport.t,on.

BosToN, Feb. 12-The largest impor-
tation of Clydesdale horses ever made
was entered here to-day. The steam
ship Manitoba arrived from Glasgow,
having on board seventy-seven mares
and stallion colts, consigned to
Colonel Robert Holloway, of
Alexis, Illinois. These animals are all
high-bred, being imported by Colonel
Holloway for stock breeding purposes,
and are valued al 100000. During the
voyage tour mares and three stations
died, bu' tie "a, hers are AL ia prime con-
"i,irn, ~ v ssr eel wet night.
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a Cad Accidanf

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb 13.-Two Is
dies, named Mrs. Doty, aged 80. and
Mrs. Sennett, aged SO, were instantly
killed this evening, between z and g
o'clock, on the double track of the Bee
Line railroad near this city. Both leave
families. They were walking on the
railroad track and in getting out of the
way of the train were caught by a work
train on the other track.