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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-12-27
WIN. B. SHARP,

III MARKET s~ees, while 10 buiiding at Fourth
and Market
In our Ingram Carpets
the e's many odd lengths,
which measuring up and
Z" taking stock " show that
W. should not have large
sales in this stock will pro.
duce what are called "rem-
nants :" they may be large
enough for your room, how
ever, ard you can find them
in ends OF from ~ to 20
yards, bes al wool goods,
rs cents per yard, from 81.
Wool filling goods are also
in the remnant pile in 1S to
80 yards length, and they
will be Is cents from 50.
WV. B. SHARP,
u Market street, lie rebuilding at Fourth
and Market,
In Rugs and Mats those
left over are eene'allyln thu
rich old gold and garnet Ell
fects with some few mores-
que styles, and the style Of
a good Smyrna Rug is last
ing.
Large sofa size, 1898 from ".
Med. &" S2.95 $500.
Double door $l.G9 " $40.
Tapestry Mats, 62b and IS
cents, from IS and 81.
VIM. B. Sharp,
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-12-27

A lace bed. spread and
pair Of lace pillowshams,
APPLIQUE in red satin, the
design of the lace forming
figures for the APPLIQUE. The
effect is very unique. Ex-
hibited at Domestic office,
8I4 Market street, during
the holiday week.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-12-27

THOR SALE OK RhNT-A DESIKABLE
r. three.story brlck house, with all mod:
ern improvements. Apply at toS West Third
street. T-ot
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-12-27
DOMESTIC EXHIBIT

A pair Of silk and plush
curtains, embroidered in the
most gorgeous manner, with
velvet valance, embroidered
in tinsel a e exhibited at the
Domestic office, 8I4 Market
street, during the holiday
week.
A piano cover in felt, with
ends and drot in garnet
plush, embroidered. A va
riety of table scarfs and ia
bic covers, richly embroider-
ed. Exhibited at Domestic
office, S14 Market street,
during holiday week.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
rHI cAuous.

No Legislature for years has moved on SO
smoothly and 20 satisfactory Is the present
one. Systematic business marked the very
hrst days proceedings. The success of the
prompt organization is due to the caucus
system. We are glad to see thft DR.. E. b.
Allen, the Representative Of this city, took
. appointment part in calling and organizing q
Republican caucus for the settlement OF all
party measures and political questions. He
truthiully remarked that "whatever of mis-
takes the Legislature might make would be
laid at the door Of the Republican party, and
why not put the party in position to claim
the good" The party caucus renders i'm
potent the work Of the bushwhackers and
soreheads, and quells disturbances. The
caucus efectually lays SANDER, and renders
well nigh impossible all charges of corrup-
ton in connection with the selection of
United States Senators and other officers
chosen by that body. A caucus prevents all
political and personal combinations that
would defeat the will Of the people compris-
ing the party represented by the caucus,
which in Kansas, in Republican caucus,
means the will of the people Of the State.
A Republican caucus would have prevented
all the Islander, disgrace and imputed corrup-
ton Of the several senatorial elections Of
the past, and we hail as sign Of future un-
rufiied victories the Inauguration of the
legislatiye CAUCUS.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

In the discussion of the amendment of the
law with reference to the disability of Pres
ident, Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, announced
the following convictions. He said: "The
bill is defective both in its provisions and its
omissions. Did any Senator doubt that from
the % day of July until the 10th of Septem-
Der, 1881, President Garfield was, in the Ian.
guage of the constitution, unable to discharge
the powers and duties of the presidential Of
fee! The secrets of that chamber Of agony
and death would never be disclosed; the il
lustrious patient was sequestered and i'm
INJURED in seclusion almost as voiceless as
the grave; but no one familiar with such
facts as were permitted to escape, doubted
that the President was, during that period,
as unable to discharge the duties Of his Of
flee, as he was after he was laid in the grave.
The inability contemplated by the constitu-
ton did in fact exist, and, therefore, by the
constitution, the powers and duties OF the
Office devolve upon the Vice-President from
that I'd day of July. Why, then, did he not
exercise them? The real reason was, there
was no tribunal authorized to ascertain and
declare the fact of inability. The question
could not be left to the Vice-President, and
he could not assume to determine 1t, for evil
dent reasons. So, for eighty days there was
suspension of the executive powers OF this
government. 1t was absolutely as If Presi-
dent Garfield had died on that day (the I'd of
JULY and his death had been concealed until
the 10Th of September. The pending bill
was fatally defective in not providing some
method for ascertaining the fact of the pres
idential inability
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
A TERRIBLE FIRE.

One OF the most horrible holOcausts record
ed in years occurred at Milwaukee, Wiscon.
sin, last Thursday night A six story brick
hotel, called the Newhall House, unaccount-
ably took fire ut the bottom of the elevator
passage, and in moment the flames shot up
through to the roof setting every floor on
fire. The house was built with wooden Pc
titions throughout, and would accommodate
about eight hundred guests. About two hun
dred and eighty people, including servants
were in the house. There being no escape
for the people in the upper stories, many
jumped TO the frozen ground only to be
picked up inangled corpses. Others jumped
and were caught in the telegraph wires sur
rounding the house and cut to pieces. Many
more were burned up, Some eighty bodies
have been recovered, among them Mr..
johnson and wife, who were in Wichita two
weeks ago. When he found he could not get
down he stood with his wife at an upper
window. A canvass was held and they were
told to jump. He kissed his wife and made
the awful leap. The men failed to hold the
canvass and he was picked up a bleeding
corpse. His wife jumped Immediately after
him, but striking the awning below was
picked up mangled, shapeless and dead.
And SO goes on the details for several col
umps. 1t is thought that fully one hundred
people persisted, many Of them young dining
room girls, but the exact number will not
be known until the ruins are cleared up.
The whole edifice was in ruins within thirty
minutes after the discovery Of the fire.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
SUCCESSION BILL.

The bin to provide for the performance Of
the duties of the office of President in case
of removal by death, resignation or inability
of both President and Vice.President, pass
ed the Senate. 1t exacts that, in case Of re.
movaI by death, resignation or inability Of
the President and Vice-President Of the
United States, Secretary OF State, or IL there
be none, or In case of his removal by death,
resignation or inability then another men,
Der of the Cabinet, in this order of prece-
dence: Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary
of War, Attorney General, Postmaster Gen.
eral, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Of
the Interior shall act as President until the
disability is removed or until the vacancy is
otherwise lawfully filled, such officer being
eligible to the Office of President under the
Constitution and not under the articles i'm
parchment by the House of Representatives
at the time the powers and duties Of the Of
flee shall devolve upon him, provided that
whenever the powers and duties OF the
President of the United States shall devolve
upon any of the persons named, IL Congress
be not then in session or il it would not set
regularly within twenty days thereafter, 1t
shall be the duty of the person whom said
powers and duties shall devolve to issue q
proclamation converting Congress in extra
ordinary session, giving twenty-five days
notice of the time Of meeting.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
SENATOR pLUNB's REELECTION.

From present indications Preston B. Plumb
win be conspicuously honored by his State
next Tuesday. His reelection to the United
States Senate promises to be well nigh unan.
imous. Without excitement and in the alb.
sence OF all humiliating charges and scandals
he will, in dignifed manner, be re-chosen
by the deliberate action OF the peoples rep
resentatiyes TO again assume the response
bilities he has for six years so honorably met
to again take upon him the honors he has
so unostentatiously and worthily borne.
Never before in our history as State has 80
creditable an election OF United States Sem
ator occurred as this promises to be, and 1t is
well. His course in the canvass, open yet
modest; his love of fair play, and his consid-
eratien for the ambitions of others; his will
ingness that any other citizen should seek
the place without opposition from him, and
the consciousness that he has not used his
place TO crush others or TO build up himself,
all combine to make the final contest of the
reputable character desired. And that, too,
is well. Senator Plumb goes back to the
United States Senate on his merits, and as
an acknowledged power for good, for not
only Kansas, but for the party and the Ma
ton. He is one of the solid, growing men Of
the country, man of the people and man
for the people, consequently, man so up
held by the people as to render abortive all
schemes devised for his overthrow, by whom
socver.
That Kansas will stand better in the esti-
nation Of her own people and in the eyes of
the country at large, because OF this act OF
justice ndexalted decorum, none can DOUBT;
and, no politician whatever his ambition,
nor any combination whatever its protesta-
tions, should be allowed to mar the CON-
pleteness of the long-desired revolution in
Kansas senatorial elections
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
PLUNB's AGRICULTURAL BILL.

WASHINGTON, January13. Plumb
failing to secure the regular consideration Of
the bill to enlarge the powers and duties Of
the department of agriculture, reported by
him at the last session. moved the bin ~ q
substitute for the Holiday claim bill, which
had been taken up, and proceeded to address
the Senate in its support. This bill makes
the agricultural department an executive de-
partment with a cabinet officer ut its head,
which Senator Plumb declared was nothing
more than just recognition Of the 800, 000,-
600 of citizens engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, who have few representatives In Con-
gress and none in the cabinet, and upon
whom the great burden Of the government
indubitably rests. He alluded to the fact
that the tariff revision, now under discussion
was measure of paramount importance to
the farmers, and yet no farmer had been APP
pointed on the tariff commission, and the
views of the farmers had not been consulted
in framing its report. Senator Plumb admit
ted that the question Of railway transporta-
ton was one OF the great unsolved problems
the solution Of which must be undertaken BY
Congress and the Legislatures OF the several
Sttaes. The farmers were more deeply inter
ested in the proper disposition OF this ques-
ton than any other class, and were, there
fore, entitled to be represented ct the capital
by an executive department, through which
the valuable agricultural statistics can be
gathered and disseminated and the necessary
system put into practical operation. The
further consideration Of the bill was deferred
till Monday next.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
ANEW JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

So utterly impossible does Judge Torrance
find il 10 overtake the work docketed in the
counties of his district, that Senator Hack.
ney introduced bill in the State Senate on
the first day Of the. session creating a new
judicial district, 10 be numbered eighteenth,
and which includes the counties of Butler,
Sedgwick, Kingman, Harper and Barbour.
This makes a splendid district. This pro-
posed law leaves Judge Torrance with dis
trict whose business will take up his whole
time, besides taking him nearly two years to
catch up. Judge Torrance approves Of the
measure heartily. The judiciary committee
unanimously recommends its passage. The
new district will also relieve Judge Peters
Old district of three counties, viz: KiDgman,
Harper and Barbour.
The Governor, in his message, SETS forth
the crying necessity for re-districting the
entire State. Some judges have four times
too much business and others not enough.
III the State cannot be re-districted, the best
thing will be additional districts, therefore
we heartily favor the above bill, which can
be set aside in case of the passage OF bill
re-districting the State.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18

70 ~ k21srefs xse1s:
Fruo ~ number Of presents still being
received ~ some Of our young ladies, we
would b LEAD to believe Christmas times
still With ~.
Ms. Hsckstt, who has been quite III for
some time, 10 convalescing. Mother Mitchell
Il sti1 very low.
The senior member Of the 6rm Of Barnett
4 Poe IL about to take unto himself family.
The oyster supper At Independence, was .
success socially and financially: About $40
was realized which was presented to the
worthy pastor, Rev. Il. W. Hurt.
Millet threshing etill goes on in spite Of
cold weather.
A wedding was very unexpectedly post
poned, and an item for the newsgatherer
spoiled, by young man appropriating for
for his own use, the good clothes, best horse
and some money Of Charlie Goodrich. 1t
il supposed the thief headed for Arizona,
where he will put on airs with Charles
wedding clothes.
Judging from the number OF suppers and
the way they are patronized, we would nat
urally suppose the coming season to be one
of fasting.
Miss Eva Slower is the happy possessor Of
. new organ.
1t Is very evident from the amount OF
"Glick on board some Of our neighbors
got away with, and the number Of saloons
springing up, that the s'apostle Of temper
ance" didn't '.git there, Eli"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.

The Leavenworth 7imes in considering thu
probable action of the Legislature, very per
tinently remarks:
Whatever is to be done, it is bestto "mak'
haste slowly" Hasty legislation is general
ly not well digested legislation. Laws for
INFLATED in . hurry are apt to be declared
void by the courts with almost equal rapidit,
or are found to defeat their end by theil
crudcness. The people demand the enact
ment of measures which will be adequate te
remedy the evils under which they are sur
fering. They demand Of their represents
tives laws shaped in the light OF experience
and drawn to stand the test Of the courts
Such measures cannot be considered in sin
gle meeting Of a committee, or drafted In
halt IN hour on sheet Of foolscap.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
THE TRAITOR PORTER.

The bill reinstating FitzJohn Porter passed
the Senate last week. The man who would
have allowed the Nations capital to fall into
the hands OF the rebels, and who would have
sacrificed his country, is to oe again allowed
to wear its insignia Of rank and honor. The
verdict Of the courtmartial passing the sen.
tence of his disgrace, and which tribunal had
every fact before it, the solemn conclusion
of Abraham Lincoln and the judgment o!
such patriots as Garfield all 60 for nothing.
1t was not enough that his miserable neck
was spared, but he must now be preferred
before those who suffered because of his
treachery. We are glad to note that Senators
ingalls, and Plumb voted square against the
traitors reinstatement.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
OUR PLUMAGE.

The pen with which Governor Click sign
ed the constitution was made by Gov. Isaa'
Sharpe, Of Council Grove, OF an eagle feather
provided by Hon. John Martin, especially
for the occasion. The pen will be deposited
i'm the State Historical Society along with
that with which st. John signed the prohi
bition bill.
''To what base uses etc" If our emblem
attic bird must be plucked don't for goodness
sake mix his feathers with the uncertain
plumage of DeGreer Call, st. John, ct al.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
rar STATE LANDS QUESTION.

Many attempts have been made by former
Legislatures to systemize and simplify the
holding and disposal of the public school
and endowment lands Of the State. Senator
Speer. Of Brown county, we believe 1t was,
in an early day worked for two or three
viuters to induce the Legislature to make q
Land Department. The wisdom Of his views
v.s conceded, but the creation Of q new Of
ice was Objectionable to the Legislature.
Other efforts were made but all failed. We
see that Senator Sluss, Of this county. has
taken hold Of the question. His bill estab-
fishes . State land Office, provides for the APP
poiptmeut OF . commissioner thereof. defin-
ing his duties, and also regulating the sale
ana conveyance Of the common school, sg-
ricultural college, university and normal
school lands belonging to the State OF Kan
s.s. and repeating ali laws or parts Of laws
inconsistent herewith.
Governor Click says In his message that
under our present complex system it costs
the state 81, 1000 per year to dispose Of our
STATE. school and college lands. Under Sem
etor slrss' bin IL viii not cost mere than
10000 per annum. This bin should become
I law, a there are many other rsasons, other
than that Of money consideration, to be
suggested In IT. favor.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
A NARROW SOUL.

Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is prom
Used lively fight for his present position.
We are glad Of it and hope his place may be
warmed by broader guaged man. Hoar
is a sharp-nosed, narrow-souled yankee Of
the Puritan type, who can find no good In
this country outside Of the New England
States-a man who sniffles and whines about
everything not trimmed up to his perpen-
dicular standard. He possesses the con-
science Of the entire party, in his own csti-
nation, and the people Of Massachusetts,
should remember Wilson and Sumner and
olacf eomehady else.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
q ehs1 KS n Els aFsos 81 - -


DRPAkTlfKxr OF TEE INTERIOR,
GRNERAL LAND OHYICx,
WARRINGTON, d. c., Jan. 3, 1888.
Regisfsrs aad Reesisers, sad Surveyors Gsssvsl-
GENTLEMEN: You are advised Of the
adoption Of the following amendment TO tho
Rules Of Practice:
Rule IS Of the Rules Of Practice adopted
December %. 1850, IL hereby amended 70
read as follows:
/. In contested cases and hearings order
ed by the Commissioner OF the General Land
Office, testimony may be taken near the
land in controversy before q U. 8. Commas
Toner or other ofhcer authorized to admins
ter oaths at q time and place to be fixed BY
the Register and Receiver and stated In the
notice Of hearing.
2. Officers taking testimony under the
foregoing rule will be governed by the rules
applicable to trials before Registers and Re-
ceivers. (See Rules IS to A, inclusiye.)
8. Testimony so taken must be certified
to, sealed up, and transmitted by mail or ex-
press to the Register and Receiver, and the
receipt thereof ut the local ofice noted on
the papers, in the same manner as provided
in case OF dispositions by rules % to 30, ir-
elusive.
4. On the day set for hearing at the local
Office the Register and Receiver will exam
inc the testimony taken by the officer desig-
mated, and render decision thereon in the
same manner As IL the testimony had been
taken before themselves. (See Rules 80 to
So, inclusive.)
8. No charge for examining testimony In
such cases will be made by the Register and
Receiver.
6. Officers designated to take testimony
under this rule will be allowed to charge
such fees as are properly autharized by the
tariff Of fees existing in the local courts Of
their respective districts, to be taxed in the
same or equivalent manner rs costs are tax
ed by Registers and Receivers under rules
"a to IS, inclusive.
7. The costs OF transcribing cross ex.
aminatious will in all cases be taxed to the
party making the cross examination.
8. Where hearings are ordered by the
Commissioner or the General Land Office in
cases to which the United States is q party,
continuances will be granted in accordance
with the usual practice in United States cases
in the courts, without requiring an affidavit
on the part of the Government.
0. When an officer designated to take
testimony under this rule, or when an officer
designated to take dispositions under rule q
cannot act on the day fixed for taking the
testimony or deposition, the testimony or
deposition. as the case may be, will be DEEM
ed properly taken be fore any other qualified
officer at the same place and time who may
be authorized, by the officer originally des-
ignated, or by agreement Of parties, to act
In the place OF the officer first named.
Very respectfully,
N. C. MCFARLAND, Commissioner.
Approved: Dec. %, 1882.
II. NJ. TELLER, Secretary
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

The State Board Of Agriculture has just
officers for the ensuing year resulted in the
reelection Of r. W. jenkins, president; H.
G. St. Clair, vice-president; J. X. Francis
treasurer; and w. r. Popenoe, Joshua
Wheeler, J. W. johnson, Martin Mohler and
J. H. True, directors.
A motion for the appointment Of a veter-
mary surgeon by the State, to be under the
direction Of the State board, was discussed
at considerable length, and finally passed
unanimously.
Several delegates who had experience with
sorghum as feed for stock, declared in its
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
IT WAS AN OVERSIGHT.

The Chief is undoubtedly correct in 1T
conclusions touching the'matter OF the sub
mission Of a new constitution to the people
of Kansas for ratification or rejection. A
constitution is the fundamental law OF the
people and not the act Of the body who may
formulate it, and all we desired was to cal
the attention of the legal curious to the tact
of an omission, or at least to APPOINT In which
the constitution Of Kansas differs from that
of all other State constitutions which We
l... oworofnad
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
REp-HEApED STATESMEN.

Elect George Martin speaker and Marsh
Murdoch will be the next red-headed editor
who will expect the place. Down with the
d-heads.-LeareRworth Press.
We have been bald-headed SO long that the
memory of what the color of our hair was
in youth, has faded; but our best recollec'
ton is, barring our mutton-chops-which are
brilliant and delightful auburn-we were
not red-headed. Hence, the above is vile
slapdar
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
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Notice for Publication.

LAND OFFICE I
At Wichita, Kansas, December 18th, 1852. I
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention 10
make final proof In support Of his Claim, and
that said proof will be made before the U. $.
Land Once 1t Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday,
January 18th, 1888, viz Rudolph Huber, II. a.
No. $3.50, for the ek OF mex of sec. 20. Twp. y
south, OF range east
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz:
ID. Bump, s. Hayden, James Wright and Ed
Wright, all Of Sunnydale +. O., Sedgwick county,
Kansas. X. l.. WALKER,
1Q-5 Rexister
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-01-18
LEADING CITY OF SAND CREEK.

II has always proved paying investment
and has contributed much to make Newton
the leading city Of the great Arkansas VAL
ley.-Gesrton Rspu5iican.
Sand Creek, my dear sir, the leading city
of Sand Creek. Your suburbs will have to
spread out at least twenty miles before they
touch the Great Arkansas Valley, and even
then you woulndn't be the leading city, by a
long shot