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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

regular ones, be given, and that these awards
be arranged for the different States and Ter
ritOries as follows: Iowa, Kansas, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Colorado, Mexico, Texas and the
Indian Territory.
Revenue Collector Lewis Bucker of the
Louisville, KY, District, states that the re-
district have fallen off about two-thirds since
the discussion of the reduction of taxation
began in Congress.
Henry c. Kissell, City Treasurer of Tucson.
Arizona, and agent of the Budweiser Beer
Company OF st. Louis, has gone to Mexico, q
defaulter for 50. 100. The city, the Budweiser
company and several parties are the losers,
The Chicago Lumbermen's Exchange, in
their monthly meetingrecently, decided to con-
tinue the old rrice-list, except FOR joist and
scantling two by six inches, twelve to four
teen feet, which were reduced in price 81.
English & Hugueness' warehouse at Macon,
Ga, containing 2,256 bales of cotton and a
large amount of guano, burned recently. The
grocery of Early and Sherwood was also con-
sumed. Loss, $110, 1000; insurance, $4,000.
Sergt. Rufus, formerly of the Sixth Cavalry,
committed suicide at Fort Lowell, Arizona,
recently, shooting himself with carbine in
the presence of the company. He was gradu-
ate of West Point, and formerly Lieutenant
OF the Sixth Cavalry. He was compelled tore
sign on account of drunkenness an misconduct.
The suicide is attributed to drink.
Russia and the Pope have arranged modus
yiyendi. The Pope will reapproint Catholic
bishops in Poland Is ,e
Marcus Pike, of New York, aged eighteen,
picked up a toy pistol, and in playful manner
pointed it at his married sister, Annie Nc
Keen. An explosion followed, and the woman
was shot fatally.
The main building of the Somerset Fiber
Company at Fairfield, Maine, burned recently.
A huge digester heated by the flames ex-
plode l., throwing the machine in all direc-
tions. John Pooler was killed by the falling
Of an iron pipe. Loss, $751; CO; insured.
King Alphonso lately expressed the hope
before the Chamber of Deputies that the con-
centration of important public forces around
his throne and dynasty was sign of an in
creased feeling of attachment to the traditional
monarchy.
During fight in Staples grocery store, at
.Owensboro, KY, Christmas night, between q
man named Norris and negro, James Mont
gomery hearing a noise, stepped in the room
just as Norris fired. The ball struck Mont.
gomery in the abdomen, causing his death.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

THE courts of Cincinnati have recent
ly decided that the use of profane Ian
guage through the telephone justifes the
company in cutting off the cOmmunica-
ton of customer. A. H. Pugh, of that
city, in conversing with autobiography, gave
force to his conversation by free use of
the adjective damn" For this the COM
pany cut off his communication and he
instituted suit for damages. The court
below decided that the defendant was
justified, because Pugh used profane
language through the telephone The
District Court affirmed the judgment by
a majority opinion, two Judges holding
that the proof showed Pugh had used
the word ''damn," and thatsuch language
was profane and vulgar, against which
the inventor and public had right to be
protected. The third Judge dissented,
mainly on the ground that proper notice
had not been given to Pugh, but said the
word damn" was a violent adjective,
and not profane by any law.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

JUSTICE MILLER, of the United States
Supreme Court, says that the Davis bill
providing for an intermediate Court of
Appeals to relieve the Supreme Court, is
the best form of legislation on the sub
ject ever proposed. He will, if called
on, he says, make an official statement to
that effect. The principal feature of i'm
portance in the bill he thinks to be that
IL will relieve and be of great benefit to
the West The Western legal business
of the character affected by the bill is
now far behind hand and clogged up al
most hopelessly. The Davis bill has
passed the Senate and been fayorably re-
ported to the House from the Judiciary
Committee.
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

The Senate on the 18th discussed the Po-
litical Assessments bill, and finally by vote
Of 81 to % took up the bill for the relief of
Fl John Porter. The House was not in ses-
sion.
Postmaster General Howe addressed com,
municat;on to the Chairman Of the Senate APP
preparations Committee, calling his attention
to the fact that growers of seeds and bulbs in
the States along the Canadian border forward
their goods to Canada and have them sent
through the mails to persons in the
United States, thus obtaining the sbenefts
of cheaper Canadian postage rates on
such matter. The Postmaster General
after referring to the fact that the United
States charges twice as much per ounce for
carrying producers seeds as it does for car
rying the circulars which advertise seeds, con-
cludes his letter by asking whether We cannot
afford to transport for eight cents per pound
seeds which the farmer buys, as well as to
transport seeds for nothing which the Goveyn-
ment buys, and If we cannot afford to carry
seeds for one cent for two ounces paid into
our treasury as well as carry them for the
same price paid into the Canadian treasury.
VIM. Walton, coal miner at West Belle
vile, ILL.,, the other morning shot Jane Mil
bourn because she would not marry him, and
then shot himself. Both died almost instantly.
At Columbus, Texas, son of Capt. Stafford
was shot and badly wounded, when the friends
ofStafford hanged the man who did the shoot
ing. & ifff- sssssyts gtR - {
The proceeds of the recent sale of articles
accumulated in the Dead Letter Office amount
ed to 81, 497, which sum has been deposited in
the Treasury to the credit of the Postofice
Department.
At Bradford, England, tan chimney fen
upon building full Of operatives. Thirty
Elk persons are known to have been killed and
fifty injured, mostly women and children.
The damage is estimated at over $500, 600.
About 1900 persons are thrown out of employ
ment-
Twelve hundred firms and individuals Of
New York City have signed q protest to
Congress against the passage Of the Bankrupt
act
Five colored persons were drowned twelve
miles above Darien, Ga !, a few days since.
Clarence Weight stepped into the cigar store
of Mrs Lizzie Swim, at Fort Worth, Tex,
one evening recently, purchased q cigar and
after lighting it applied the still burning
match to some fireworks in the store. An ex-
plosion followed and the store and adjoining
building were consumed and Mrs. Swim was
burned to death. Weight fed
John Parry, bookkeeper for Beyeridge &
Dewey, private bankers OF Chicago, has been
arrested on the charge of forgery TO the ex-
tent Of $4,000, by a system of frsndnsent
checks, in collision with bartender In q
large saloon. The bartender was not arrest
ed The senior member Of the firm is.an ex-
Governor Of Illinois.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

REPRESENTATIVE PAYsoN, of Illinois,
a member of the House Committee on
Judiciary, who has taken very active
part in the matter of lapsed railroad
land grants, and who has declared him
self in favor of forfeiture of all unearned
land grants. devoted the holiday recess
TO collecting additional details bearing
on the subject at the Department of the
Interior. 1t is said he ascertained that
the Oregon Central Road has constructed
but a very few miles under its grant, and
that IL controls upwardsof 500, 900 acres
of land between Portland and Astoria,
upon which settlers are very DESTROYS of
entering with the view of throwing this
land open to settlement under the home
stead laws. Payson has prepared reso-
luton declaring the same forfeited, and
hopes to have it acted upon by the House
Judiciary Committee. soon. In recent
conversation on the general question of
forfeiture of land grants, Rayson said the
indications were quite favorable for a
consideration of the subject in the House
before the adjournment of the present
session.
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THE WORLD'SDOINGS.
4 summary or the Daily News.


The unpublished correspondence between
the Attorney General and the District At
torney, on the subject of ex-Marshal Henry's
dismissal, and copy Of Henry's letter to the
President protesting against his removal and
inviting rigid investigation of his acts, were
semitic the Senate the 3d.. The AttorneE
General reiterates the charges against Mr..
Henry, and insists that he merited the punish
ment he received.
The nomination OF George NJ. Lamson as
United States District Attorney for Nebraska
has been withdrawn by the President '-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

IT takes the news long time to travel
from China. 1t is now learned that
during the first week in November over
twelve hundred houses were destroyed in
Canton and Foochoo, and that in the
former city the Viceroy visited the scene
with body of soldiers to prevent rob
berries and aid the citizens in fierce
fight with the robbers, but was himself
placed in danger of his life, his party be-
ing jammed into narrow streets.
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CURRENT COMMENT.

REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER is Sc
we're on the men who manage corners in
grain, but this species of gambling he. be-
heves has a less injurious effect on
morals than church fairs and religious
lotteries. Dealings in futures, transac-
tons in which any number of men look
ahead with sagacity to prophesy what
will come to pass in the future and
thereby reap profit, he does not regard
as illegitimate.
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Vice. Presidents Never Successful.

1t is curious fact that Vice-Presi-
dents becoming Presidents have never
conducted successful administrations.
Mr.. Arthur, it is evident, VIII consti-
tute no exception to the rule. Tyler
almost destroyed the Wing party, and
was never honored by the Democracy.
He fell heavily between two stools. and
was never lifted up by those he aban-
doned or those whose sympathes and
confidence he claimed. In truth, with
out injustice to the dead, his name has
given origin to term which is added to
the vocabulary of Webster's Unabridged,
and peculiar sort of treason is involved
in the ''Tylerization'' Ola party.
Fillmore, q Vice Pre- sident. succeeded
PRESIDENT Taylor, who served only four
months. Taylor. succumbed to boiled
cabbage and the sun of July, after lay
ing the corner stone of the monument
now steadily rising toward the clouds
IN honor of George Washington. No
sooner was he entombed than Fillmore,
like Tyler and Arthur began to create
a cabinet and policy and party of his
own. Fillmore, in TACT. full of himself
and of his own magniicence, finished
the work that Tyler had begun, and,
like Arthur absolutely destroyed the
bridge over which he was borne into
Office. He crushed the Wing party out
of existence. substituting Know N 9TH
ingism, and then at length extreme
men of the North and South were ON
nipotent, and the deluge of 1875
overwhelmed the country-sssds~
Mr.. Arthurs effort to-: d stinguish
himself from Garfield and show that he
is capable of defining and executing a
policy, of his own, IS somewhat ludi-
crous. perhaps, in yiewef recent parti-
san triumphs. and defeats; but his con-
duct is natural. and peithex-more nor
less reprehensible than that of Fillmore
and Tyler. Therefore we must insist
that Garfield's devoted friends and ad-
mircrs are most unjust in the fierce per-,
sonal assaults thcy make upon the excel-f
lent gentleman who occupies the White
House. He wanted machine of his
own He wished to "boss, the ma
chine" He ought to be recognized.
DE was not content to / est unseen in the
deep shadow of Garfield s. glory. We
max suggestions that the Presi{
dent Republican enemies may be in
duced to deal more leniently with him.
|-Amer1can Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05

Why should man who is In a bad
fix be said to be 'sup a tree?" Lots Of
men who have stood in the midst of a
ten-acre lot with . cross bnIl approach
ing, have heartily wished themselves
in the branches of lofty vegetable.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-05


in 1880, was recently arrested and taken to
Wakeeney for trial. In May, 1880, George
Lord, aged about sixty, left his family for
trip West in company with this woman. They
travelled together to Monument, near which
they camped, and while Lord slept in the night
she killed him by shooting him in the back OF
the head with pistol, after which she dragged
him down in ravine and buried him. Next
morning she took his team and about 500 in
money and drove back to Hayes City; there
she sold the team, took the cars and re-
turned to Kirwin, near where she lived on Bow
Creek. She married shortly after McKune,
under which name she is now arrested. She
was doing well, and the family were well
thought OF by their neighbors. She is about
twenty-eight years Of age, of large size and
viii weigh about $50 pounds, broad forehead,
prominent cheek bones, and black hair and
eyes. She says she has suffered thousand
deaths since the murder.
Salna has q telephone exchange.
Accompany is being organized to sink shaft
for coal in Atchison. Capital stock, $50, 600
-$36, 900 already subscribed,
The contract for convict labor was let at the
penitentiary to A. Caldwell for the Kansas
Wagon company at eighty-fve cents day, for
80 en, the contract dating from June 4, 1884.
This Is said to be the highest price that has
ever been offered for convict labor anywhere.
Republic County raises hogs that weigh go
pounds.
A FIRE last week at Mcpherson destroyed
Harvey's livery stable and the stock. including
twenty nine head Of horses; also the Baptist
parsonage adjoining. Very little insurance.
The lie Roy Reporter is prosperous and hap
py. A new job press is soon to be purchased,
besides new type and printers' material.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
DIR. Withrow on False Professors.

1t is big thing to be Christian.
Yet there are false professors of religion.
Remember. however. that counterfeiters
work in gold, not in copper. They find
their greatest success in the highest de-
nominations of coin or notes, not in
pennies. 1t is because true religion
is so intrinsically valuable that it is
counterfeited. 1t was always so. All
sects suffer, but the proportion is not
so large as when Judas lived. Not one
in twelve now is a fraud. There are
some black sheep in every flock, and
Christianity is shown to be divine to
carry so many loads and yet live.
There are more faithful wives than
there are unfaithful ones. Infidels adj
nit that churches die hard" Many
true men are falsely charged, though
some who are of Israel are shown to be
not Israelites indeed. In 1900, but one
in seventeen was an Evangelical COM
municant; now, one in five in our land
is the proportion. Trade sales in New
York furnish one of the best tests of the
tastes of this reading generation. / ex-
amined the list at recent large sale,
and found in long catalogue but two
books, the aim of which was openly
nti-Christian. Is not this an evidence
of the comparative strength of Chris
tianity in our community? - Church
Union
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An Absurd Statement.

eft Is reported that the Postmaster-Genersl
II about TO make q decision in regard to that
class OF newspapers known as patent out
sides 'insides.' or cooperative that
will necessarily cause a large number OF local
papers, of the smallest circulation and least
son or 20 70 dosP tse his
printed on one side in the cities. and then
sold by the quire to thousands of country
publishers VINO P Fins tne ,,6 3sner half half
such papers are not self-sustaining and in ac-
cordance has about decided to exclude all
such from the mails as second-class matter.
There are about 400 such publications issued
In this country, and II the ruling goes into eff
feet about 1000 would suspend, while the re-
naming 100 of the better class OF 'co-opera-
uvcs' would be greatly strengthened, and
could tnen AFFORD to publish the whole of their
papers: 30, in the end, the press, advertisers
and the public would be greatly benefited"
The foregoing item. which has ap-
peared in a country paper published at
Sidney, o., is another evidence of the
vindictiveness of some publishers where
the cooperative papers affect their re-
ceipts for advertising and subscription.
Sec. Z of the Postal Law, approved June
%, 1874, says: "That newspapers. one
COPY TO each actual subscriber, residing
within the county where the same are
printed. in whole or in part, and pub
lishe6, shall go free through the mails; but
the same shall not be delivered at letter.
carrier Offices or distributed by carriers
unless postage is paid thereon as by law
provided From this it will be seen
that the Postmaster-General's rulings
have been anticipated by the National
. Congress, and the proposed decision
would be illegal and of no effect
Chicago Banner.
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A Reyiralist's Illustration Of Faith.

Sam Jones, the revivalist, was talk
ing to man of weak faith the other
day. The doubter asked if Mr.. Jones
could not give him demonstration OF
religion.
None" was the reply. "You must
get inside the fold and then the demon
stration will come of itself Humble
yourself, have faith, and you shall know
the truth"
In other words / must believe, ac-
cept it before it is proved, and believed it
without proof"
"Now, hold on right there Out West
they have place for watering cattle.
The cattle have to mount platform
to reach the troughs. As they step
on the platform their weight presses
lever, and this throws the water into
the troughs. They have to get on the
platform through faith, and this act
provides the water and leads them to.
1t. You are like smart steer that slips
around to the barn-yard and peeps in
the trough without getting on the plat
form. He finds the trough dry, of
course, for it needs his weight on the
platform to force the water up. He
turns away disguised, and tells every
body there's no use getting on the plat
form for there's no water in the trough.
| Another steer not so smart, but with
more faith, steps on the platform. the
water springs into the trough, and he
marches up and drinks. That's the
way with religion. You've got to get
on the platform. You can't even ex-
anime it intelligently, until you are on
the platform. If you slip around the
back way you'll find the trough dry.
But step on the platform, and the water
and the faith come together without any
trouble certain and sure and album
dant. atlanta Constitution.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
The OriOle and the Catbird's Return,

Promptly to their accustomed date
those brilliantly colored songsters, the
orioles, were on hand this morning.
among the lawns and gardens around
Hartford, filling all their surroundings
with the loud and clear music of their
melodious whistle. 1t is remarkable
that this bird should ALWAYS make its
first appearance here, every year. on or
about the 9th of May. For TWENTY-FIVE
years past he has come twenty or twenty
one times in the night of May SO, and
sounded his clear flute among the open
ing buds and blossoms for the frs time
on the morning of May g. Occasional
ly cold storm has kept him back for
day or two, and twice he has appeared
on the morning of May 8. The arrival
of the catbird, too, is almost as much an
assurance of the establishment of the
season as Is the coming of the swallows.
This dusky thrush of the feline voice and
black, beady eye, also put in an appear
ance this morning. In private grounds
just beyond the buster quarters of the
city he feels more secure from the raids
OF nest-hunting boys than he does in
even more rural and secluded places,
and In this near relationship to human
IND he becomes, if not molested, very
tame and fearless, building his nest in
any evergreen or bramble thicket about
the grounds, and sometimes as near the
house as the familiar little chipping
sparrow. Visitors to the Ramble, in
New York's beautiful park. will recall
his pleasant freedom from the fear of
the people who sit in the arbors and
throw crumbs to the birds. He is
withal very fine singer. While his
mate sits on her nest in the early Nav
mornings after sunrise, he, perched
upon some neighboring tree, will pour
out as loud and long and well sustained
a song, and one as full of changing and
various melody, as any of his Northern
cousins of the thrush family, with the
single exception of the brown thrasher.
He is not quite so loud as his cousin,
the robin, nor so various as his Southern
relative, the mocking-bird, but he can
sing as well as the former. and it seems
strange that bird thus gifted should
so often descend tomere cat-yowling.-
Hartford Comm Times,
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Neatness on the Farm.

Intelligent observers have generally
noted the fact that in every rural neigh
bOrhood the prosperous farmers are al
most invariably those who keep their
buildings painted, fences in good repair
and their fields free from stone. weeds
and rubbish. OF course it may be said
that men who have plenty of money can
afford to spend it for keeping up APP
pearances. But this is evidently not the
full explanation of this coincidence of
facts. Men who make money, especial
ly in farming, are least inclined TO pay
il out merely for show. 1t may be safe
ly put down rs a general rule that the
work performed by most thrifty farmers
is in the direction of profit; hence, as
neatness commonly goes with thrift, il
is quite as likely to be one of its causes
as one of its effects. There are excep-
tiOns to this rule, rs to all others Some
farmers accumulate money still more
rapidly, not by increasing their income,
but by n system of grinding parsimony,
by robbing themselves and cheating
their families to put dollars in their
purse. These are not examples to be
initiated. The aim of most reasonable
men is not only TO make money, but in
the meantime to live in n reasonable
and comfortable manner. To accom-
plish these objects it is not difficult to
prove that neatness is essential.
There are many reasons why habits
of neatness in farming lead to success.
Such habits are none to common, and in
every business the men who do their
work in the most thorough manner get
the best pay. The world is full of poor
work; that of necessity can only be poor
ly paid. The farmer who grows his
crops among weeds can never sell his
grain at the highest market price, while
the extra care needed to secure abso-
lutte purity is sure to be proportionately
well paid. Farmers understand this
well enough, as is shown by their peri
odic endeavcrs to secure pure seed for
sowing and planting. If we 90 to al
most any market we will find that the
bulk of crops are more or less mixed,
and therefore unstable for seed and I'M
desirable for any purpose. Almost every
spring there is an active demand for
seed barley, free from oats or other
varieties of barley, and not infrequentlv
farmers buy from seed stores, paving
hOIh bNO W lOuI lllutS the price AT
which they sold their grain the fall pre-
vious. In almost any neighborhood a
farmer who will grow pure seed of the
various grains will find a demand for
his entire stock at prices enough better
than market rates to assure him profit.
When we are told that farming is not
profitable, the implication is that refer
ence is made to the common slovenly
method. The fancy kinds of farming,
such as growing seeds and garden veg
etables, nearly always pays those who
intelligently conduct them. Yet seed
growing and gardening are really as
true farming as growing hay or making
butter and cheese. They are only bet
ter paid because they can not be con-
Quoted without close attention to details,
and it is in this that neatness consists.
American CultiUdtor.