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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
What a ATonsignor Is.


AS the number of Monsignors and their
grades in the United States is increasing
it may be of interest to give their differ
ent degrees. First, there are the 'Par-
Elephants" and these always reside in
Rome; next, the "ProthonotarieS" and
the domestic Prelates." All of these
have the title of Right Reverend, and
retain their title and dignity for life. By
custom the Vicar Generals of Cardinal
Bishops are made Monsignors. There
are also the "Camerieri Segreti," or Sc
cret Chamberlains, who retain the title
only during the lifetime of the Pope who
created them. These are classed as Very
Reverend. There are minor grades of no
importance, they being simply attaches
of the Papal Court as supernumeraries,
and all advance as circumstances may re-
quire. The habit of the Chamberlains
is kind of purple vestment which goes
to the feet, with a sash and purple but
tons. The habit of the higher degrees
of the Prelates, the Monsignors and 9TH
er members of the Papal household, is q
purple merino cassock, scanned with red
silk and having a long train, which IS
called smyrna, lace rocket, purple
mantelletta and other insignia of the
Office, including the pectoral cross, q
plain cross of heavy gold, and the ring,
the setting of which is an amethyst in
the shape of a bessica piscis, or fish blad-
der, one of the early symbols of the
Christian faith.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
Attractive Cattle Sale.

Of course every reader will see the
handsome advertisement in this paper
announcing a great public sale of
thoroughbred Aberdeen-Angus, Gallo
way, Short-horn and Hereford cattle to
be made by the Leonards and Hon. NJ.
II. Cochrane, at Riverview Park, Kan
sas City, on the 9Th, 9th, 10th and 18th of
April. The owners inform us the offer
ings of each, of these breeds will be cred
table to the name, and of high breeding,
and consist Of bulls suitable for service /;
of COWS with calf, and those having
calves by their sides. The fact that the
gentlemen making this sale stand at the
front as breeders and importers, and
have their names and fortunes staked
in the business, is assurance that buyers
will find their stock exactly as represent
ed and representatives of their kind.
Our readers will want to know particu-
lars about this important sale and it is
expected catalogues will be ready by
March goth, when they can be had by
addressing the LIVESTOCK INDICATOR
Kansas City, Mo-, the Leonard Bros, Mt.
Leonard, Mo, or Hon. NJ. II. Cochrane,
Com pton, Quebec.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
Sweet Spirits of Nitre.

Mr.. Editor: A prominent physician
of Boston recently told lady friend of
mine that the use of the popular house
hold remedy, sweet spirits of nitre, was
attended with much danger, and that
persons had been known to die from the
effects of dose of it. When kept for a
long while chemical change takes place
in the medicine, and from a harmless
remedy it is converted into deadly pol
son. This information greatly surprised
me. and I was 10th to believe it, and so
took occasion to verify it by consulting
a local apothecary. He confirmed the
statement of the physician, and said the
nitre should be used only when freshly
made. He furthermore suggested that q
good test could be made by putting g
little salerat1s In spoonful Of the MKT
ure: if it effervesces, a change has taken
place, and the stuff should not be used
This fact should be known, for the med.
icine is In common use, and q family
where there are children must keep il
on hand. Fam surprised that the apoth
ecaries do not print on their labels, "Ust
only when newly made" Hoping Thu
may lead to an investigation of the con
tents of many q nitre bottle in the med
icine chests Of Chelsea, am yours,
BUKwYRM.
1.-THE above is correct. "Sweet spirit
of nitre is a combination of nitric acid
sulphuric acid and alcohol, and is not a
all permanent when in fluid form, as us
ualfy sold; generally used in children t,
allay fever symptoms and to increase uri
nation, and is capable of doing fatal in
jury when old or allowed to come TO tn
air.
Acetate of potassium ten grains In
dram (teaspOOnful) of simple syrup, pU
into half teacup of water and stiUrin
for q moment, is surer and better an
viii not poison you or your babes, an
it will not change in months if it is keE
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
KANSAS CHURCHES.
Items of an Kinds Conoerning rhern.


Eleven persons were added to the
church at London, Sumner county, dur
ing recent revival.
L Ellsworth Reporter: Father Brockard
has taken charge of the Ellsworth mis-
sion OF the Catholic church, having ar
rived here last week.
Peabody Gazettr: During the past three
months twenty-five persons have Joined
the Presbyterian church in this city
Nine OF them by letter.
Chetopa AdgGnce: The protracted meet
ing at Pleasant Valley closed with about
twenty-five conversions and the same
number of accessions.
The Baptists of Arcadia have been
holding protracted meetings, and many
accessions have been made to the church.
They will build a church edifce.
Salina Herald The German Mernod-
lists have purchased of Dr. Green the lots
at the southeast corner of the intersec-
ton OF Walnut and Ninthstreets, and will
build church at once. Material for q
foundation is already on the ground.
Emporia Republican: The Methodists
and Dunkards have been holding q series
of meetings at Liberty school house fol
several weeks past with pretty good re.
suits, a number having been added to
both these branches of the church.
Larned Optic: Rev. E. R. Evans, pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Elk
City, was recently tried and found guilty
of conduct unbecoming minister. He
was suspended from preaching until the
next regular meeting of the Presbytery
Arcadia Reporter: Last Sunday, aftel
Baptist service, it was announced there
would be dimensions. About 200 gath
cred upon the banks Of Crystal Lake. t.
Ter and Mr.. L. r. Hines received ordi
anism Of the church.
Chetopa AduGnce: The Seventh-Day
AdventiEts of Snow Hill had very in
teresting meeting at the Blackford schoo
house Saturday. March 1st. Fighter
were baptised into the faith of the Adven
doctrine, making in all thirty four mem
bers of that faith at the BIackford schoo
house.
Atchison Champion: The Baptists ar
looking forward to the demolition of tn
old church, which has so long braved tn
elements at the corner of Ninth am
Kansas avenue. It is deemed an occasion
of joy and not of grief, and the younI
people propose to celebrate the event b,
a social gathering.
Usage City Free Press: The reviva
meeting now in progress at the NJ T
church, under the direction of Rev. MI
Burnell, of Chicago, is daily growing il
interest. The house is crowded ever
evening, and the exercises are of a yer
. interesting character. The meetings vii
be continued for some time yet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
KANSAS WOMEN.
Various Things Concerning Them.

Various Things Concerning Them.
Miss Bishop will soon start paper at
Milan.
Mrs. Ida Beadle is erecting business
house in Dodge.
Miss Anna Thorne was the champion
speller at a spelling match in Beattie
recently.
Florence Herald: Several ladies of our
city are now taking lessons in the art of
painting, and we understand they are pro-
crossing nicely.
"Aunt" Sallie, an aged colored wom-
an of Dodge City, recently lost $500 in
bills which she was carrying in her
hand while going to help a sick neigh
Dor.
Mrs. James Button, of Otter Creek,
Norton county, recently tried to commit
suicide by taking Paris green. Her hus-
band discovered the fact in time and
saved her.
While party were sitting up with a
| corpse at Leroy recently, one of the
ladies, Miss Ida Bereman, took lamp
and started down cellar, but fell. The
lamp broke and ignited her clothes and
she was badly burned.
| Newton Republican, Miss Clara Her
rick, who has been teaching near Burton,
has closed her term of school and is again
at home. She has met with excellent
success the past term of four months, and
has been asked to teach the same school
another term.
Miss Lauretta Sybel Reynolds, living
at Mcpherson, has passed, until recently
as man, and has worked as such in no.
| ILL L 49, i T1Dk
ing previously worked as a farm hand
woman could get good wages in Kansas
she abandoned the deception and re-
sumed female clothing.
Manhattan Nationalist: On Thursday
j evening, while Mrs. n. A. Starr of Leon
ardville, was sitting by the fire, sewing
her dress caught fire from the stove anC
blazed up before she could put it out
She became terrified and ran to the de
pot, where the fire was put out by some
one wrapping an overcOat about her
She is badly burned, but is improving a
this writing.
Mrs. John n. Lebner, of North Cress
well, Cowley county, was visited a few
nights ago by couple of masked men
who put a revolver in her face and de
uAdAOC0 AOA huSD1At1 . nAOAOys DIG La
not gone to the door unarmed, and in
stead of being frightened, struck the frs
blow with q heavy poker, and the
rushed into an adjoining room and re
turned with double-barreled shotgun
The villains fed.
Rev. Lydia Sexton delivered FEY
sermons in Fredonia last week. Mr.
5 Sexton is over eighty-fve years of ag,
] and has been preaching the greater pal
: Of her life.
The salvationists have unf1rrled the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
Be Apple Trees.
Troy Chief


A few months ago an item was con-
tributed TO the papers by Judge Killey,
of HiaWatha, relative TO the very old and
very large apple tree at Defiance, Ohio.
The following item has recently been
going the rounds:
In the dooryard of Delos Hotchkiss, at
Cheshire, Conn, stands an apple tree
which is supposed to be the oldest, larg-
est and most fruitful in New England. 1t
is the last survivor of the orchard which
was set out by the first settlers of that
neighborhood, and popular belief fixes
its age at $50 years. The tree is sixty
! feet high, and the tips of its utmost
branches are 104 feet apart Mr.. Hotch-
kiss af1rms that he has picked 125 bush
| els of apples from it in 8 single wear.
While they are trotting out their big
apple trees, we have one to enter for a
premium. 1t is furnished by II. D. Guth-
RE, of Iowa Point, who has known the
tree all his life, and in addition, has Just
returned from the spot, where he made
tcareful measurements, so as to be correct.
The tree is in the town of Southbury,
New Haven county, Conn, tWenty-four
miles north of the city of New Haven,
on land that has belonged to the Guth-
RE family for more than one hundred
years. The tree is 1S3 feet in circum-
ference, or almost 5 feet in diameter
the branches extend "a feet from the
body one side, and 33 feet on the other
making a space of 81 feet covered by the
branches; it is feet from the ground tC
the first limb; and the tree is So feet
high. Mr.. Guthrie has an uncle living
in the vicinity, who is now 81 years old
When Is years old, which would be IL
the year 1915, he gathered from under
this tree 100 bushels of apples. Twenty
years ago, Mr.. Guthrie picked from the
tree 200 bushels of apples, and hauled
them away. The tree is still sound anC
vigorous. The oldest inhabitants do no
know its age, or by whom it was planted
It is on an out-farm, notthe family home
stead, and it is supposed the tree is (
Seeding, and that it sprouted from tn,
. seed on the spot where itstands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
The Luckiest Gambler in the World.

The London World says: The state
ment that Sig. Garcia, the heaviest trerte
ct qltarGnte player of modern, or, perhaps,
any other times, is about to enter mon
astery, should stir up recollections Of
many other worldlings besides myself
l remember him well In the old days at
Baden-Baden and Homburg-the days of
Hastings, Huntingtower and Wyndham
of Felbrigg- when there we're great
many trying to break the bank, though
he alone succeeded. This he did on more
than one occasion, he having a special
and increased limit; and once saw him
hand over $4,000 francs. to a charity after
he had done so-a charity for which, by
the way, Patti was both singing and CIV
ing her money. AT Homburg he carried
ali before him, and, as the late Mr.. Merry
remarked, shut the tables up like tele-
scopes.'A Two or three years back, sitting
at a table outside the Cafe de Ia Pdir in
Paris, wretched and half-starved look
| ing man took the chair next to mine, and,
on looking at him, I recognized Garcia.
He, however, got up in the world again
afterWard.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
The Disease Spreading-Urgent Requests
for an Extra Session of the Legislature.

The Disease Spreadtng-UEgenG Requests
for an Extra Session of the Legislature.
At meetikg of cattle men at Emporia
resolution was adopted urging the Gov
ernor to call special session of the
Legislature for the purpose Of passing
laws to stamp out the foot and mouth
disease, and other diseases of cattle, pre-
vailing in certain portions of the State.
A meeting of cattle men of Usage coun-
ty, held at Usage City, passed resolutions
asking Gov. Click to call a special session
session of the Legislature to devise means
to stamp out the cattle plague, and also
providing for mass meeting of live stock
men to be held in Usage City, March 18th,
to perfect thorough county organization.
There are no cases of the disease in Usage
county, and the stock men propose to
prevent its introduction If possible. A
quarantine three miles wide and five
miles long has been organized In Wood
son county to prevent the spread OF the
disease. Dr. Tumbrow, the agent sent by
the Agricultural Department, says there
Is no doubt that the plague is foot and
mouth disease. Congress win be asked
to take steps to stamp out the disease. !,
In response to 8 letter from J. V. Ad-
mire of Usage City, Gov. Click on March
10Th wrote that he did not think the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
STOCK SQUIBs.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
All the marketable hogs in Jefferson
county are sold.
A. L. Redden of Ell Dorado shipped
700 head of sheep to st. Louis recently.
A number of persons in Kingman coun-
ty have lost valuable horses recently
from lung disease.
CowbOy: R. c. Elwood, of Highpoint
township, has lost 500 sheep out Of
flock of 1000, since last Fall.
Medicine Lodge Cre8set: A disease sim
liar to the epizoOtic is raging among the
horses in this community. It seems to
be hard winter on horse stock.
Wichita Eagle: W. G. Herr, of Louis
vile, KY, delivered car load Of thirty
four high grade Shorthorn heifers at this
point on Monday for R. G. Kerr.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: Flavius Julian
last week sold twenty-one head of three
year-Old Arkansas steers to DeFOrest
Allison at the rate of $29 per head.
Peabody Graphic: L A. Shriver sold on
last Monday 300 head of fat cattle to M.
F. Shackett of Kansas City, Mo. The lot
includes some of the best cattle in South
west Kansas. They will bring the snug
sum of $24, 900.
Osborne Farmer It is indispensable
that the cattle that subsist largely on
fodder should have plenty of water
Many of the cattle that were supposed to
die from eating smut in the fields die
for the want of water.
Medicine Lodge CresSet Mr.. II. H
Whitney and others, have forme a, cat.
tie company in New Mexico of which Mr.
! Whitney is President and one the Shat
tuck boys Treasurer. The company is
organized with stock of 100000.
Garden City Irrigator. The Zamors
Cattle Company have purchased nearly
one hundred head more of cattle, to bt
placed on their ranch near Aubry some
time in April. They also purchased five
head of thoroughbred Hereford bulls.
Junction City Tribune: Miller Bros
of the Riverside Stock farm, recently
sold to @. B. Gill, of the Heights, tWent7
calves, all less than ten months old, TO
$500. They make a valuable herd, al
sired by Lord Raglan 10l81, Short-hor1
herd book.
Strong City Independent: We saw q
pretty pair of POlled-Angus cattle yes
bIOAOeby dS Tic OG1GO Cd-A DOaSG Oh, one
: two-year old bull, weighing ], 1926 pounds
| and the other a heifer weighing I.SO(
They were the property of G. Lantry
r Esq. and are his special pets and pride.
Chase County Leader: Nelse Shelter
barger, of Toledo, delivered to z.
!, WIDELY, at Emporis, last week, a car Ioa
of beef cattle, consisting of fifteen heaC
3 The average weight of the cattle wa
: l ,631 pounds, after being off of water an
: feed twelve hours. The price paid ws
siDcents per pound.
81 Caldwell Journal: Mr.. R. D. Cragi
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
Iere is the prescriptiOn IN

well corked. Here is the prescription in
plain English:
R-Acetate of potassium u.s.
Simple syrup OF iV
Mix. Make solution ofgr. Xxx each fox.
Dose-One teaspoonful for adult. one
half teaspoonfui for child of three TO ten
years, one each hour or two hours until
the urine is more than usual in quantity.
then diminish the frequency of dose,
but take once or twice day for 3 few
days. Put the teaspoonful of solution in
to half q teacup of water and stir well be-
fore drinking. The heat viii go down,
fever abate, and both you and baby be
happy; and no poison.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20

"A colored preacher by the name of
Brown breaches to the convicts in the
chain-gang at Cuyler's swamp, near Sa-
vannah, n. C. He only gets salary Of
s25 year, but does great deal OF good
Matte Durham, a six-year-old girl
of Bennington, VT, was recently fright
ened to death by witnessing the burning
of building.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20

The Salvationists have unfurled their
banner In Norwich, Conn.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09
Outlsws Overhauled.

A correspondent Of the Helena Herald
writing from Cottonwood says: stnart's cow
boys have returned from their first expedition
with large band of horses recaptur. from the
gang of thieves they were after, and they are
now on their second scout. They send in word
by courier that they have agaug of horse thieves
CORA led near the mouth of the Musselshell and
need more help to take them, as they are In
force. A second party starts to-day to their as
sis,ance. The horse thieves are revenging
themselves by killing cattle. Hot times are
ahead for outlaws in this part of the country, rs
everybody interested considers himself a com
mi.tee of one to clean them out. The cowboys
have performed good service so far and will
,ntinue to do so to The end. Some two or three
stockmen are missing that went out with
Stuart'p men. There are fears that some mishap
has befallen them, as the country they rounded
up Is infested with horse thieves. The way
they do down here is to start out a party and
roundup horse thieves the same Is they would
a lot Of stock. Ry such means it Is hard for the
outlaws to escape if the cowboys once strike the
right trail
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09
HIT HIS FIELD GLASS.
Crack Shot Made by q Horse
Thief While Being Pursued.

We find the following in the New Yorl
Morning Journal of the 1st inst: There seems
now to be G. neral reviving of hoxe-thieving
Mr.. Randall Keen passed through Miles City.
going west to Billings. He had q b.nd of
twenty-five horses, which he recovered last
week from company If horse.thieves near
Fort Maginnts. The anims were the property
OF Mr. Parks who resides about twenty-six
miles north of Billings, ard were stolen from
the ranch q short time ago. Mr. Keen traced
the rascals from Parks ranch to the Hull
mountains, where they turned south toward the
Yellowstone, o1 reaohiug which they again
turned their course and rode down stream near
Miles City.
The robbers suddenly left the river and
struck of towards the Musselshell, when. find.
ing themselves in country thickly populated
with cowboys. they became frightened and
nastened away in the direct ON Of Fort Magin.
MS. The small party Of determined men fol-
lowed hot on their tail, and soon after crossing
the Musse'shell were received by the thieves in
very warm manner The pursuing party,
after leaving the river, came to knoll or raise
III the prairie, from whence a good view of the
81 rounding country was had. While Mr.
Keel was in The act of scanning with q field
glass small bunch of trees not far ahead and q
IL tie o the right shot was fired from the spot
and bullet crashed through the glass shatter.
Ing it to atoms. 1t came near killing the
holder. Fortunately, he escaped uninjured.
and moment later the whole band of pureuers
dashed Jwn on the timber, when the horse
thieves took to flight and made their escape.
All the stolen stock were recovered,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09
A Temperance Man.

A gentleman took the pledge, but
somehow his abstinence from the mod
crate quantity OF wine he was ac.us-
toned to drink did not agree with him.
His doctor was sent for, who recon-
mended slight alcoholic stimulant.
This advice was received with horror.
How can T." s;,id the sick man, "vio-
late my vow? l have forbidden my
servants the beer which they love SO
we'll. and am going to preside Mt
blue ribbon meeting next week" ''All
can say" said the doctor, lis that II
stimulant is necessary for vour health.
You had better get bottle of whisky
and hide it away. and when your shaw
ing water comes up inst mix yourself 4
tumbler of whisky and water" The
doctor departed. and, meeting the pa
TENTS. servant a weel, afterward, hs
asked him how his master was going on.
"Oh. very we'll rs to bodily health"
was the reply: "but, between you and
M, sir, [ think he has gone wrong in
his head he has taken to shaving HIM
self six times day. ."-Ten,rle Bar.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-08-09
Martha WashingSOn's Garret.

Let no one hereafter complain of
having to live in garret alone and
without fire. For here, with all this
spacious and noble house to select from,
the widow of Washington chose gar
ret looking to the south and out upon
his tomb. This is the old tomb where
he was first laid to rest, and wherc the
fallen oak leaves are crowding in heaps
now and almost filling up the low, dark
doorway.
The garret has but one window. q
small and narrow dormer window. and
it is otherwise quite dark: A bottom
corner of the door is cut away SO that
her cat might come and go at will. And
this is the saddest, tenderest sight at
Mount Vernon. 1t seems to me that
/ could see this lady sitting here, look
ing out upon the tomb of her mighty
dead, the great river sweeping fast be-
yond, her heart full of memory of i
mighty nations waiting, waiting.
waiting. Her work was done. She hal
lived quite the allotted three score and
ten. Her companions were in the tomb,
and so she chose this garret, Just above
the bed in which her immortal husband
had died, as sacred place in which to
sit down and cherish her memories and
wait with folded hands for the end.
And so here, after year and half of
waiting. the angel of death found her;
tie hands were folded forever, and the
nation nourned for its mother. .--yon-
q,iin Miller at NJ. IeynOn.