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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-01-11


The General Revenue, as provided for by
the taxes for the year 1881, is ample to pay
the current expenses of the State, together
with the expenses of the Legislature, leaving
the amount to be paid by County TreasurerS
on taxes of 1892 to apply on present and
future appropriations.
STATE DEBIT.
In addition to the cash in the Treasury, the
Sinking Fund contains United States bonds
Sis Sis $500. The 0 State debt falling 2' due U5
OF which is now in the Sinking Fund,
$4,000 is held by the Permanent School Fund,
the State Normal school Fund, and $500 by
individuals On the lst of July, 1884, SIS, ef5
falls due, and of this amount s., l25 is held by
the Sinking Fund, 47,425 by the Permanent
School Fund and $40, l25 by individuals. The
income to the Sinking Funds from interest on
investments and from the present ate of
taxation will be ample to meet these Obliga-
tions.
The next bonds tail due on the Ist day of
July, 1885, at which date 100000 mature;
these, however, can be provided for by the
The present rate of taxation of 4-1Oths of
one mill on the dollar, to pay interest on the
onded debt, will prove sufficient to meet all
liabilities
PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND.
The Permanent School Fund, in addition
to the $lSI769 cash in the Treasury at the
in United States, State and School District
bonds. This fund is rapidly increasing, and
IuLlhet 4eSlSltllOn VIII De necessary 10 pro
vide for its judicious investment. For the past
four years tax of one half mill on the dollar
has been annually levied for the purpose of
building the State capitol building. L would
suggest that this tax be discontinued, and
that authority be given to borrow from time
to time, as it may be found necessary to sue
cessfully carry on the work, from the unin-
vested school fund, paying interest thereon at
the rate of four per cent. per annum.
1t might also be well for you to inquire
whether the surplus cOuld not be used to adj
vantage by investing it in County RefundinG
Bonds Many counties have issued bonds
that are now, or soon will be. maturing, who
redeem outstanding bonds by refunding: and
1t might be mutually advantageous to both
the State and the counties, to invest in such
securities, at the low rate of four per cent. in
tere5t.
The educational interests of the State de-
mand that this fund should be judiciousiy in
vested. Ehis cannot be done under the eX-
listing law, for the reason that funds accumu-
late more rapidly than the securities, author
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rapid strides toward the head OF KAN
sas journalism; During the approach
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Notice is hereby given to the vot-
tiers of Mound township that the
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burg, hauling the material used over
200 miles on wagons, and who has
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y, is visiting her Sis
somewhat extended
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For the past two years there has rot been
as large al immigration to the State as could
have been wished. This is accounted for on
various grounds. but there is no use of
specializing on the cause of the decline. The
true course to pursue is to adopt measures to
restore to our state the streams of immigra-
tion that are now directed in other channels,
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Our road laws do not seem to fulfil the OBJ
jectS for which they were enacted, in salts
factory manner. There has perhaps been as
much though5 and study given to the ques-
ton of economical road making as to any
other of equal importance; but no system has
been devised as yet, that seems TO answer
the purpose in satisfactory manner, with
out too great an expense.
Various systems have been devised and
presented, but they do not seem adapted to
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STATE FINANCES.

The cash in the Treasury at the close of the
fiscal year amounted to $644, S23. T6, belonging
TO the several funds, as follows:
National Republican., 1883-03-06
hlrrnnhnr II. sirnhcns.

In 1861, when Georgia was being drawn
into the maclstrom OF rebellion, her people
were much confused by the doctrine of the
right of secession. Tho southern prejudice
against Lincoln and the republican party
possessed nearly all the people of the state,
but many were deferred from joining the re-
volt because it took the form of the assertion
of pretended right to depart in peace by
to go was strong, but how to 90 was the ques-
ton. The state convention was in session
considering the subject, and the question was
upon the adoption Of the ordinance of separa-
tion. If a majority could not he secured
Georgia would remain in the union. The
debate was prolonged and exciting. lfall who
sympathized with the secession of South Caro-
lima could only be persuaded that the right ex-
listed, Georgia was sure tog go. Then il was that
Alexander IL. Stephens arose and contcnded
for the right of secession, while he plead most
cloquently against its exercise. 1t was an
unfortunate speech, for it doubtless aided
much to remove the scruples of some who had
always opposed the secession dogmas,willinga as
they were in some other way to revolt against
the nation. 1t may be that Mr.. Stephens be-
lieved that by reminding his hearers that he
too was secssionist in doctrine he could
the better influence them against putting the
theory into practice or it may be that he
had not the fortitude to stand by his own con-
victions when it was so easily for him to
think that his state could properly command
him to abandon them.
BE it as it may it exhibited Mr.. stephens's
wonderful faculty for so nicely dividing an
opinion that few could discern to which side
the variation leaned. That union speech, So
called, Of 1861, was as dubious in its benefit
to the union cause as was that one for the
confederacy, in which Mr.. Stephens asserted
that the government of the latter had the
| institution of human slavery as its corner
stone.
The eulogists of Mr.. Stephens can find
enough for which to praise him without draw
| ing upon his character for political directness
or moral courage. He was man of acute and
active intellect, largely of speculative kind,
and was rather a political philosopher than a
statesman, and rather of the Italian than of
the antique Roman school Of patriotism. Geor-
ga was his country, though he preferred that
she should be part and parcel of the union.
He was Of kindly disposition, free and open
handed in dispensing the hospitality Of
Liberty Hail." and beloved by equals, in
feriors friends, and dependents The blacl,
people will mourn him as friend. His namo
will be enrolled among the great and good
with weaknesses and faults which all must
share,
National Republican., 1883-03-06

SO sturdily defends its present system begins
TO realize that tho time is near at hand when
the poles will go, and IL is wise enough to be
prepared for the inevitable by becoming part
owner of the best known underground sys-
ten. Further, IL Is announced that President
Green, of the Western Union, has said that if
the experiments now being made are product
i've of satisfactory results, the poles will be
finally abandoned. The success of the Brooks
system has been already demonstrated, and
the experiments now being carried on are but
series Of excuses for delay. In New
York and Cincinnati conduts are being
laid and wires placed in position,
which act as freely and accurately
as those suspended in the air. The
success of the system is assured. Inasmuch
as this city claims to be and is said to be the
most beautiful in the country, tho abandon
ment of the pole should be looked forward to
with greater degree Of interest by our citizens
than even by those in the greater cities, where
all is utiltarian and beauty is of secondary
consideration. The poles must go, and the
good work might better begin right here than
elsewhere. rt..
National Republican., 1883-03-06

THE tariff conversations given in THE
REPUBLICAN this morning are interesting as
showing the sentiments held by several
members of the ways and means committee,
now that the struggle of debate is over
and law enacted revising the tariff.
1t is reasonable to believe with
both Mr.. Kelley and Mr.. Randall
that the revision will suffice to settle the
question for several years, at least sufficiently
to withdraw it from politics as disturbing
element, and to prevent any disarrangement
of the manufacturing and business enter
prises of the country. So far as the tariff
is or may again become political ques-
tion, the republican party cannot only
weather it, but grow fat on it. If the long
debate just closed proved anything it proved
that the entire country is really for protec.
ton. But the tariff question is closed for the
present, and closed so etfectually that it can
not be opened should Carlisle, Randall, and
Morrison all go battering at it with the
speakers chair.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
nrrANcII nEEIrEs-

Tho foll1wiu, Is list Of the branch Offices in
Washington. Othu. viii be added hereafter:
VS.. Eu sc's News stands at the ARLINGTON
IlorEL, WILLARDs HorEl, and METROPOLITAN
lUTEL.
Roosr & QrrES's News stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
L. QuEEN ST. JAMES HOTEL.
EiCos lIuUsE News stand.
TLMTT IL u,E News Stand.
AMERICAN IloUsE News stand.
W. s. THoMrsoS'S Drug store.
c. II. FICRLING's Drug Store, Georgetown.
j. BRADLEY ADAMs's Book Stores
CIR. DuFouR, Druggist 1918 Fourteenth street
r. b. FERGUSON, Druggist, corner Second and
Pennsylvania aycnue :. T..
$. L. lEwIs Druggist, corner Fourteenth nnd
streets.
g. G. c. sYms, Druggist corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
W.. +. SCALA, Druggist, 5o0 East Capitol street.
i. A JOHNSTON, druggist. corner Tenth aud o
streets northwest.
S. stArER's Cigar Store, corner II and First
streets northwest
National Republican., 1883-03-06

grave of the speakers table and subject It to
modification. Tho conference committee ar
bitratcd between the two houses, and each
house adopted the report agreed ON by them.
Thus was revolutionary minority in the
house prevented from obstructing tax rcduc-
tion, and the seeming assumption by the SON
ate of unwarrantcd power checked and
turned into cooperation with the house. Tho
republican party mover exhibited better disci-
plinc or more sagacity than it's representatives
brought 10 bear upon the wlcs of its enemies
in the matter of tariff legislation.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
The Poles NInst Go.

Telephone poles have been cut down ON
Boundary street This is the first note of q
tocsin of reform which must come sooner or
later to this and all other cities, The un.
slightly poles must be banished, and the wires
upon which the world depends for news and
and business must carry their wonderful cur
rents beneath the ground, The greatest
amount of talking and writing upon this
subject is done in Chicago, while the
greatest amount Of actual progress is
being made in Philadelphia. In the lat
ter city the fremen take especial pains
to remove all wires from the streets where
fires are in progress. They have been the
means of doing so much damage to the tele-
graph and telephone companies that they are
looking to the underground system as their
only way Of escape from the destructive at
tacks of their enemies the engine and ladder,
A committee of the Philadelphia city govern
ment has recently made favorable report
upon the application for licenses of the Brooks
Underground telegraph TO lay its conduits for
wires in a number of streets. The Western
Union Telegraph company is half owner oi
the Brooks stock, and the fact eXcites eneour'
! apinS S"suiciOn that tho monopoly whicl
National Republican., 1883-03-06

THE will Of the late DIR. Mercer, the New.
port clergyman who paid taXos ON $4,000
while he was worth $1,000 leaves the
income of the estate to certai crsons, and
Mt their death one-third Of state is to
90 to tho Smithsonian instit, .yn "to aid
deserving Students" one.third to the found.
ing and support of hospital, and the re-
manning third to tho poor OF England and
Italy. Tho will appears to be loosely drawn
up; the executors have sufficient discretion
ary power to omit carrying out the last
clause, and DIR. Mercer himself seems to have
been i'll informed on the status of the Smith
sonian. II is not in any sense an educational
institution. The bequest will carry out the
proverbial luck of the Smithsonian in getting
help from unexpected sources.
National Republican., 1883-03-06

don, leaving out Of consideration the
difference ~ climate between that city
and New York or Boston. Their clothing is
frequently insufficient, and in certain suits
which do not admit Of overcoats they invite
and got colds and coughs that sometimes
brccdRconsumpton. Sometimes only some
times, alas! If they would but all catch
pneumonia, how much less there would be to
blush for in this country
National Republican., 1883-03-06

TIE imitation of English styles in New
York and Boston has taken the turn of
dressing young gentlemen up in long tailed
oyercoats, or top coats" as they arc called,
high hats, and heavy gloves to be more ultra
English; so that rosettc on the hat aud
a cape on the shoulders are the only distinc-
tious between coachman and gentleman.
Auaycd in this manner, tho weaklings
known as society'mcn spend the best part of
their yapid lives. This weakness carries
something of its own punishment, Anglo
maniacs, forgetting that Englishmen as a
rule dress with regard to personal comfort
aud protection from the weather. initiate
merely the dress that prevails in Lon
National Republican., 1883-03-06

G. w, YELLowPLUsH SMALLEY, the Ameri-
can cockney who dishes up English snobbery
for the New York Tribune, says that p. J.
Sheridan is the one man that stands between
Mr.. Parnell and the assassnations in Dublin.
The evidence adduced by Yellowplush is
that "people here arc convinced nj. O. in
London. No mention is made of the names
THE "peoplc," nor of the testimony on which
they arc convinced. Smalley is a humbug.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1883.
The Weather To-day.

For Nc midd'; AfnnHc states, Including The Dis
trd at Columbia, increasing coudtalss uih rain or
snO,u, r0rmcr souticrly Uinds, higher pressure
on Wednesday rain or snoW is indicated IN he NctC
England aud rain in the middle and south Atlantic
aud GuT states.
Yesterdays thcrmometer.-7o. o. m lsAo; Ii n. M,
s45o: p M, $500; p. M. 3l5o; II p. m, 90 0o; T;
mGxinIum. Sl,Ss; minimum, 1859. No rainfall.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
Light House Board.

At meeting of the light house board yes
terday steps were taken toward the erection
of the new light houses authorized by con-
press. Mai. William Ludlow, United States
army, military secretary OF the board, VIII
enter upon his new duties as chief of the
water department Of Philadelphia to-day.
National Republican., 1883-03-06

THE 'reassessment bill which passed the
senate on Saturday night, and is now law,
will provoke some dissatisfaction but it is,
in tho main, equitable. Property in the
northwestern portion of the city will be as
sessed in great excess over its present rate,
while that in other sections will be relieved
of excessive taxation. The bill is good
National Republican., 1883-03-06

ANOTHER session of congress has passed
has died with it. Nothing could be more un-
fortunate for the country at large, and for
this city in particular, than the utter indiHer-
ence of our national legislature to the literary
treasures of the great and constantly increas-
ing congressional library.
National Republican., 1883-03-06

SOME of the most beautiful avenues and
streets Of this city are marred and rendered
unsafe for driving by long lines of freight
cars which are sidetrackcd in the heart of
the city just as though this were rural
western community. Is there no remedy for
the nuisance? Hsrr r-.4
National Republican., 1883-03-06

Iris now in order for strong democratic and
wtAk republican editors to rise with the
stcrcotypcd remark that tho people breathe
easier now that congress has adjourned"
Perhaps the next one will give more salts
iacton to such republicans as contributed to
its election.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
"FigIircs Never Lie"

Statistics are usually so dry and dull as to
he unintcresting and therefore Improbable
for publication. Occasionally, however, =
comparison of figures becomes more eloquent
than words, more potent than extended argu-
ment. An illustration OF this fact is given
by Mr. H. p. Porter in a recent lecture. In
reply to the sophistry of free traders who en-
deavor to create the impression that wages in
our wooden mills are not higher than in those
of England, and that mill owners are the
sole bencfciaries of the protective tariff, Mr.
Porter makes comparison of the wages paid
in the woolen mills of Yorkshire, England
and those paid in American mills, as shown
by the recent report of Col. Wright of Massa-
chusetts. The table Of figures, in full, is as
follows:
Average Weekly Earnings
National Republican., 1883-03-06

The action of eight members Of the house
in opposing the usual vote of commendation
of the speaker reflects very severely on their
own taste and Judgment, and is decoration
of that official for the courage with which he
has ruled disorder out of order and revolu-
tion contrary to parliamentary law. AL
honor to Speaker Keifer.
National Republican., 1883-03-06

THE refusal Of the democrats to allow vote
was an admission that the majority of the
house believed Richardson an intruder, and
that the minority, knowing this, decided not
to allow the house to exercise its right "to
judge of the qualification, election, and returns
of its own members" Such is democracy.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
Duties REDUCED Ten Per Cent.

Mr.. Carlisle admitted in the debate that
the tariff bill as finally passed makes an
average reduction of 10 per cent. on tariff
duties, thereby reducing the external reve-
MUGS from $2O,0OO,oOO to $25OOO,OOO, while
the reduction on internal revenue is from
$lO,oOOOOO to Si5,OOOOOO. This is the bost
spoech that could have been made
for the republican party. The people
demanded reduction of taxes. The
republican congress responded by reduction.
of from $6O,oOO,OOO to S7O,OOOOOO according
to the estimate of the revenue tariff leader
and in making that reduction cut down duties
on imports at an average of 10 per cent Mr..
Kasson spoke wisely when he said that he had
rather explain why he voted for the bill by
the simple declaration that it reduced taxa
tion S700O0,O0O, than to have to answer ques.
tions why he voted against it by going into
details about the rule adopted, and by the dec
laration that it did not go far enough.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
Average Weekly Earnings.
No one questions the reliability of statistics

furnished by Mr.. Porter, not even the most
ultra free traders of England. There is no
more experienced and able statistician in the
United States than Col, Wright in this par
ticular branch of inquiry. Tho figures are
unqucstionably correct, and may be left to
speak for themselves.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
GENERAL GOSSIP.
THE FRONT GATE.

INN thONI tAIEs
An old and crippled gate am I,
Aud twenty years have passed
Since was swung up high and diy
Betwixt these posts so fast.
And now I've grown so powerful weak
Despised by man and beast
I'm scarcely strong enough to squeak,
Although I'm never creased.
Twas twenty years ago, say,
When Mr.. Enos White
Came kind ofhanging round my way
Most every other night
He hung upon my starboard side,
And she upon tho tother-
TIL Susan Smith became his bride,
Aud in due time a mother
Igroaned intensely when heard
Despite am no churl-
My doom broathed in single word
The baby was n girl
And as she grew and grew and grew,
loud bemoaned my fate
For she was very fair to view,
And Ill was the gatel
Then, in due time, lover came,
Botokening my ruin
dappcr fellow, Brown by name,
The grown up baby wooinl
They swung upon me in the gloam,
And talked ofmoon and star
They're married now, aud live at hon4A
Along with ma and pa.
My lot was happy for year
No couriing, night or day
had no thought, had no fear
Bad luck would come my warp
But, oh this morning--save the msss
There came wild surprise:
A shadow fliued-grim aud dark
Across my sunny skies,
A doctor with a knowing smile
A nurse with face serene
A hustle in the house the while;
Great Scott what can it meant
My hinges alchemy lock Is weak,
My pickcts are whirl-
hear that awful doctor speak
IT is another girl
National Republican., 1883-03-06
NEW YORK OFFICE.

Tic New York Office Of THE REPUBLICAN is at
Room 6j, Tribune building, where files Of THE RE.
PUBLICAN and all necessary information relating
10 advertisements can be obtained.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
TO CITY sunscRInERs.

Tur DAiY EErrBiICAH delivered by carriers TO
any pnrt oi the city aud suburbs, regularly and
cnily. Mt the following rates:
Ter Ioulh.'.''..'' ''''..'.'................... 90
Per $50
leg 800
National Republican., 1883-03-06
LONDON AND PARIS.

THE REPUBLICAN will be found on ne nj tho
American Exchange in Europe, No. 40 strand
London; tic American Exchange in Paris, No 50
Boulevard dies Capucincs.
National Republican., 1883-03-06
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
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