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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
miscellaneous.

\. L. AsIIMAN, of Nebraska, while re-
Gently counting his money at the depot in
Atchson, fell asleep and negro thief
named Bradshaw grabbed his pocket book
and got away. There was considerable sum
OF money besides draft fOf $500 in the
pocket book. The negro was arrested
and part of the money recovered.
THE Railroad Commissioners. in response
to a complaint from Zeandale, III Riley
County. have ordered the railroad
company to build siding and switch at
that point.
AlILT EWING, a negro with a family of
several grown children, was recently jailed
at AtchisOn for outraseOusly assaulting
Martha Allison, young white woman.
AT Wichita the other day Charles SNYDER
fatally shot his mistress Lizzie Mccormick.
Jealousy was the cause.
PREPARE for spring blowing.
DR.. HoLCoMBE, State Veterinarian, re-
equity visited Wichita by direction of the
Governor, TO investigate reported serious
outbreak of the CHAMBERS among the horses
of Sedgwick County.
4 DECISION was recently rendered by the
Supreme Court of the United States in the
municipal bond case of the Board OF County
Thomas p. Beal. This was a suit upon the
coupons of series of bonds issued by An
derson County in aid of the Leavenworth,
Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Company.
The court holds that the bonds are valid,
and the judgment of the United States Dis
trict Court is confirmed.
WILLIAM SHAAK. a tailor, fell dead on
the streets of WyandOtte few days
since.
In recently street brawl at Leaven-
worth, Dick Merchant and Matt Burns
were severely stabbed by a man whose
name was not learned
THE other morning Usage City was again
visited Dy a destructive fire which started in
Mrs. Whites millinery store by the explo
sion of lamp, and the flames quickly
spread to those buildings adjoining. The
total loss was estimated at $4,000.
L. l. MOORE. stOck-dealer of Richland,
SHAWNEE County, while lately returning
from business trip to Kansas City, fel:
asleep OH the cars. during which his pocket
was picked of $500.
II not already broken the backbone of
winter soon viii be.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
Negroes Wanted -

ABILENE. TEX, January o9.-There has
been a movement on foot for some time
among the preachers and the leading col
ored men to cause an influx of negroes into
the towns of West Texas. Negroes thrive
well out here; servants are paid vastly more
than in other parts OF the South, and work
of all kinds is easily secured by them.
and cheap homes and good land are easily
procured. Large numbers of the race have
lately located i'll Abilene, and occupy al
most entirely one section of the city, and it
is proposed to locate colony from the East
in the suburbs.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

THERE has been discovered near
Yuba Dam fugitive sheep, which, in
swimming through the muddy water,
had become thoroughly covered with
''slickens," in which much grass seed
had been mixed. A thick crop of green
grass is now growing upon the sleeps
back. Both the sheep and grass are
being carefully guarded, and when the
latter has reached its full growth it will
be harvested, converted into hay and
preserved as one of the California
curiosities.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
The Southern Murrafn.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, January 2S.-Dr. ID.
E Salmon, Chief of the Bureau OF Animal
Industry, has examined the cattle brought
recently to jackson, Tenn, by DR.. Hamil-
ton from the infected herd at Cynthiana,
KY, and finds they have pleuro-pneumonia
in an acute form. Seven have been sick,
six now present evidence of lung trouble.
The ordinary observer would not suspect
they had been infected. The symptoms
were only brought out by careful examina-
ton. The cattle are well isolated. Nh.
Salmon has the fullest confidence that The
owners will use every precaution-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

LONDON, January 29.-It is reported
France has decided officially to declare wal
against China. This decision is said TO have
been made in consequence of the action of
England in enforcing the terms of the For
eign Enlistment act at Hong Kong and else
where. Reinforcements are about to be
sent General Warren. who is endeavOring
to settle the trouble in Bechuana land. The
ThorndaIe public school closed owing to the
prevalence of diptheria. Edward Parks,
of North Dorchester, buried his eldest son,
making the fifth child that has died of the
disease in his family of seven children.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
Not Tramns. But Thieves.

DALLAS, TEX, January 30.-It transpires
that the murderers of Conductor Frazier
and Brakeman Powers. near Overton, on
the International &c Great Northern Rail-
way were not tramps, but thieves, bent on
robbery. Their names are John Price and
John Knight, and both are residents of
Overton. Price is a blacksmith at that
point, and has never borne a very good
reputation, while Knight is the son OF a
very respectable farmer in the neighbor-
hood Ine! nave 6eeH n S aen e0 aaG
Jail. The railway. company viii labor
strenuously to have them properly pun
ished.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

DURING the absence of Sheriff Nc
Alevy the other morning the prisoners
confined in jail at Huntington, Pa,
who were allowed the freedom of
the corridors, engaged in a des-
perate conflict between themselves,
in which Alexander Gray received dan
gerous injuries by being beaten over
the head with poker by fellow pris-
oner named Tom Potter. The insur-
rection was quelled through the hero
ism of Miss Laura McAlevy, niece of
the Sheriff, who forced the quarrelsome
prisoners back in their cells at the point
of a revolver.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
THE STATE WAR TAX.

= Proposition Favorable to Rofunding to
the States the Special War lax.
WASHINGTON, January 3l.-The House
Committee ON Claims decided by vote . to 4
to report the bill providing for refunding
of the tax imposed by the Government of
States and Territories as a war tax under
the acts of Congress August ), 1864, and
June :, 1862, and releasing those States
which owe the tax. The following tabu-
lated statement Will show the amount i'm
posed upon several States and Territories
and the amount yet due the Government:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

In returning from a visit to an island
on Lake Champlain, Troy Institute
student strapped his baggage to hand
sled and pair of skates to his feet and
skated twenty-eight miles to make rail
road connections, preferring this mode
of travel to a mountainous drive of
fourteen miles. His journey on the ice
was made in four hours less time than
if he had travelled in a vehicle.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

AwRITER says there is but one clean
spot in the whole Jewish district of
Jerusalem-a small parcel of land at
the western wall of Haram, where, on
Friday nights, Jewish pilgrims congre
gate to mourn over the fall of the Holy
City, bewailing its departed glory in
loud lamentations, and leaning with
their heads against the walls to kiss the
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

JOSEPH PALMER, partner in the crime
of Berner, the decision in whose case
was the original cause of the Cincin-
natl riots, was granted a new trial by
the Supreme Court. He was under
sentence of death.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

THE mOOngooses imported into ia
maica to eat up the myriads of rats
Astounding there have accomplished
their task. The important question
now is how to dispose of the mon
gooses, which the blacks have a super
stitious fear of killing.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

EVERYBODY is advised by Boston
physician to ascertain from what dis
eases their ancestors died, with view to
guarding themselves against inherited
tendencies by adopting the requisite
manner of life, place of residence and
general Self-treatment.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

r CoLORED people in Arson County,
North Carolina, have sent two repre-
sentatives to Arkansas to arrange for a
general exodus to the latter State. They
think they can greatly improve their
condition in the West, and propose to
emigrate in bodies, so as to main
tain their old associations.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

There is law in Bermuda prohibit
ing the removal of bodies of foreigners
who have died there till one year after
death. This unwelcome restriction has
lust been made familiar to the friends
of a New York merchant, Theodore L.
Wilmending, who died on that island
last Friday.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

AT a recent conference of represen-
tatives of British industries upon the
subject of wages Charles Bradlaugh
proposed a novel measure of relief for
the existing commercial and wage de-
preston. He advocated the compul-
sorry cultivation, under penalty of for
fixture, of all tillable land at present
uncultiVated
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

AN expert base ball player tried to
catch a ball thrown from the top of
the Washington Monument, but was
unable to hold it. So great was its
velocity that it dented the ground like
q cannon ball.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

The shipbuilding industry in Maine
IS reported to be remarkably depressed
The coming year, says prominent
shipbuilder of Bath, promises to be one
of the hardest known to men of that
business in the State for half century.
Boston Herald.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

RETURNS from the various ship pro-
ducing rivers of the United Kingdom
show for the past year a decrease of
nearly 100000 tons from the amount
of tonnage produced in 1888, when it
is estimated that over 100000 tons of
shipping, principally steam, were
l,,;l+
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

THE Dominion Government has de-
cided to take a census of the Northwest
Territories with view to giving them
representation in the Canadian Parlia-
ment
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
The esthetes of New York are b,

The esthetes Of New York are be-
ginning 80 speak of the ''vapor' of the
chimneys, and locomotives and steam
ers. Let the citizen of Pittsburgh or
Chicago shake the SCOT from his clothes
in silent wrath, but as for the coal
smoke above and around the indignant
victim, let no dude allude to it as
s.vapor." No harm is here meant to
dudes-only friendly warning.-C"r-
rent
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

-Colonizing is becoming mania
with the nations of Europe, but Ameri-
cans keep their heads level. don't go
until they are ready, and then quietly
step aboard the lightning express for
Canada.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

BIRMINGHAM, England, has the
greatest button trade of any city in the
world.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

THREE billion wooden toothpicks are
manufactured each year in this coun-
try.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

The Bank of England's rate of dis
count has been reduced to four per
cent.
National Republican., 1885-11-04


The interest IN the various state elections
held yesterday conferred in New York aul
Virginia. both Of which were conceded to
re douDful.
As both of these states were carried by
the Democrats in their last two elections, It
was necessary for that party to carry both
Of them yesterday in order to hold Its own,
As the Republican party had lost both
these states in two successive elections, It
could lose them again without any change
Of its national political situation.
Hope Of gain was the Republican In
spiration. Fear Of loss norved the Dem
ocrats to almost desperate efforts.
The Democrats have succeeded in carry
ingl Virginia on both the state and legisla-
tive tickets The hope of breaking in upon
Democratic solidity in the south is a hope
deferred But the issue Of honest elections
in all the states will be Just as good; the
cause Of a free ballot and fair count Just
as righteous in the future as in the past. 1t
is a cause that the Republican party cannot
abandon so long as there is a single state
where the minority rules by practical denial
Of the right Of suffrage.
1t is too early to 60 Into discussion of the
details Of the Virginia election or to moral
ize on causes and effects. 1t is probable
that interesting and suggestive news from
that state may find its way to the public by
the time the complete returns are in. If 1t
shall appear that Gen. Lee has been honestly
elected the REPUBLICAN, will have no fault
to find with the verdict of the people. All
that is required is that elections shall bC
fair expressions Of TIE will of the voters,
not shameless shams like those which Sena-
tor George, Of Mississippi, feels called to
culogi2e in his state.
The returns thus far received would seen
TO indicate the election of the Democratic
ticket in New York. That there was {
sudden aud marked change in the Demo
cratic feelings and prospects in this STATE
about ten days before the election has beer
repeatedly noted. As to what produced
the change We may have better information
when fuller returns are available.
\ Republican victory in New York woult
have smoothcd the way for success in 'sS
As It is the great fight is all in the future
and New York is TO be the national battl
field. \ small fraction of the gain mad
by the Republicans in that state last yea
will bring it into the Republican column.
our, tclegraphic columns will contain
news received later than the present writ
ing, which may change the situation Il
here represented.
National Republican., 1885-11-04

The Womau's Christian Temperance
Union IN convention at Philadelphia on the
"a instant decided to continue to cast It's
influence aud efforts In behalf Of that polIt-
ical organization known as the Prohibition
party,
In making this decision the union has
made great and possibly fatal mistake
for II has cut of those channels Of sympa
thy and those cooperating influences and
agencies on which It's great and well-attosted
power for good was largely dependent,
An honest aud earnest minority Of the
union protested and voted against this
action, aud that minority, although voted
down, expressed the views OF an over
whclmiug majority Of the friends of tenn
pcruuce throughout the United States.
Tie work Of third party, devoted to
prohibition, has lecn going on for almost
forty yeas, 0ud the calm verdict Of the
country Is that It has been and Is a failure,
ON the other hand, the work of the
Womm's Christian Temperance Union,
although Of much shorter duration, has
National Republican., 1885-11-04
Too Much Publicity.

The trial Of the lilthy Tabcr divorce case,
which has been going on for some timein the
Athens Of America, should have been con-
Quoted with closed doors, and the details of
the testimony presented should have been
excluded from the public prints.
1t Is within the province Of the Judge be-
fore whom case Is brought for trial TO
shut out the general public and exclude re-
portcis. llo can direct that hut small
number Of spectators shall he admitted.
enough to relieve the proceedings from the
charge Of -ecrecy-and by so doing can pro-
tect society from an Inuudatlon of indie
ccncy, not to sHy obscenity.
such action by Judge rests on the high
ground of public policy, and Is sustained by
the lest public sentiment. Cases have been
Illus tried IN this District, and the courts
trying them have been commended for ju-
dlcious protection Of public morals.
The harm done by the publicity given to
National Republican., 1885-11-04
The Machinery of Law.

The old saying that the machinery of law
breaks down when great scoundre.s are
caught Is likely to prove true in the Grant
and Ward cases.
Ward has been sent to the pontentiary
for ten years, reducble to six and one half
by good behavior, to appeasc popular
clGmor, and viii be out enjoying his i'll
gotten millions before he Is 40 years old.
He is hurried off to prison so as 10 prevent
his being tried ON other indictments aud
imprisoned for life.
Warner evidently the worst OF the lot,
will escape with lighter punishment, even
If he is punished at ALL Already he has at
least one witness on the stand for the de-
fcnsc who should be ON the side Of the pros
ecution.
United States District Attorney Dor
sheimer says that the great rascals who par
ticipatcd In the Grant and Ward swindlcs,
dozen or more, are yet at large, aud it
can be added that they are likely to be.
Two Of the tAols Fish and Ward, have
Lecn slightly punished, but the principal
operators who secured the lions share OF
the ''prolitsn In the bogus contracts, which
no one believed nv, are yet at large. Mr..
Dorsheimcr and the state authorities should
lcstir themselves. NatlonGl and state laws
have both lCCn violated.
National Republican., 1885-11-04


The government has just finished the
work Of walling in and archiug over the
Hot Springs creek ut Hot Springs, Ark, At
cost of nearly two hundred thousand dol
lars, and the Sentinel, Of that place, on Oct.
90 says that one hundred and ninety feet Of
the walls 'have given away in Places and
two hundred feet of the walls aud arch will
have to be removed and laid "upon good
foundation
The work was one that ought to have
been done, and the original contract was let
to do it, at eighty thousand dollars which
has been improperly increased to nearly two
hundred thousand dollars, with the work Of
such bad character that part Of it is washed
out even before 1t was completed and paid
for.
1t Is fortunate that the contract price has
not all been paid, as now the Secretary of
the Interior can compel the contractors 10
replace the worthless walls by Others of a
better class and on firm foundation.
The House Of Representatives sent an In
vestigahng committee last year to examine
this very work, but the committee seems to
have been blinded as to the character Of the
work, or to have applied some whitewash
to cover up its defects.
The government has very properly re
tanned control of the celebrated healing
waters at the Hot Springs, aud has erected
there fine army and navy hospital, but it
seems that the private lighthouses have
monopolized the waters, leaving none for
the government hospital, aud that, too, in
g., ,f g., ala
National Republican., 1885-11-04
ABOUT PEOPLE.

REAR ADMIRAL FAIRFAX, L. $. n, Is at the
Ebbitt.
SENATOR EvARrs, of New York. arrived in
the city yesterday afternoon and is stopping 1T
Wormlcy's.
LIEUT.. SAMUEL SEABuRY has been detached
from special duty ut Washington and ordered
to the Tennessee.
COMMANDER EpwfN r. Woodward has been
ordered to command the Saratoga, aud Lieut..
Wm. T.. Day the lNntic.
CoNNiANDER 1oIiS ]. READ has been detached
from command ofthc Michigan and ordered to
the command of the Quinnebaug.
Col. LAMONT, the private secretary to the
President, did not so to New York as was cr.
roncously stated, but Is at the white house.
lie is paired with gentleman in Albany.
THE Japanese minister gave banquet at the
legation building last night in honor of the
anniversary of the birthday of the emperor
of japan. Many prominent officials were
present
CoMNiASDER C. c. WIIsoN has been detached
from command OF the Swatara, 18th inst ant, and
placed on waiting orders Commander Nicoll
ludlow from command the Quinnobaug and
ordered to return home.
Az accident occurred to Maj. ]. Il. Rattig of
this city. the superintendent of construction
of iron lighthouses, by falling from n scatlOld
on the new lighthouse at Fourteeu-loot bank
Delaware bay on Monday. The bones of one
leg were fractured and other I'M uries received
National Republican., 1885-11-04
a Rapid Railway Trim.


Mr. Theodore Thomas and his company
gave concert in st. Louis Saturday night
aud arrived In New York yesterday morn
ing at s o'clock. The train that brought
them over left st. Louis ON the Vandalia
pennsylvania Sunday morning at los and
reached New York at exactly 8 o'clock yes.
terday morning. the time being five hours
quicker than that made by the regular fast
train between New York and st. Louis and
by far the quickest ever made between the
two cities. Much Of the distance was coy
cred at a rate greater than a mile minute.
The reason for this extraordinary speed
was that the Thomas series Of New York
concerts opens this evening and the com
pany had TO be here IN time TO make some
preparation. Mr.. w. ID. Wetherell, who
represents the Pennsylvania railroad In st.
Louis, had charge Of the train.
National Republican., 1885-11-04

The Secretary of state has received from
United States consular officers respectively at
NRgasali, Kanngawa, aud OIaka, Japan, ac-
counts Of the wreck OF the American bark
Cashmere, of Boston. From these It is learned
that on the nth OF September the vessel, which
was laden with $1,000 cases of kerosene, when
about 100 miles from Tanagashima island, near
Van DunOn's straits, encountered a severe ty-
phOUn and was wrecked. on the ljth seven OF
the iihccn men composing the crew succeeded
In launching the only boat lell, aud without
water, food or clothing east themselves ndritt,
and finally reached Tanagashlma island,
whence they were conveyed 10 RayGshma aud
thence to OSAKA, Prior TO the abandonment
of the wreck, Capt. \. A.NicOll, First Ollcer Frank
Ireland, aud Second OnlCer Charles johnson
were drownGd and washed ashore Five men
remained on the wreck, prcieTlng TO take
their chances Of rescue 10 trusting themselye,
to an unseawGrlhy small boat 1" a heavy sea-.
Thee We're Charles NicOll the captains son,
otto Peterson, carpenter, Peter Lawson, John
Smith, ana Fred Ohlson, seumcn. The Jap.
GnCsC authorities, aud, m fact the entire com
munity where the seven men landed, were uu'
rCmilling in their efforts TO aid them and con.
ubutc To their comfort. The Oi-ipaG LETT
osaka at noon OF Sept, 30 to cruise lr search oi
The wreck to ascertain II any Of the i've men
who remained still survived
National Republican., 1885-11-04
lSpEcTln NOTICES.

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In consequence Of the removal oar present Office Is
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Real Estate Agents, 027 Est oc6tf
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National Republican., 1885-11-04
An Opinion from the Quaker city.

Rev. DR.. Sunderland, who breaches in
the church which President Cleveland at
tends IN Washington, tells his congregation
that ''iournalists are either beardless boys
or inebriated men, who write their matter
in the midnight hour" This is merely an
other evidence that the minister who talks
about something he doesn't know anything
about generally makes fool Of himself six
times out of possible five,
National Republican., 1885-11-04

SATURDAY. Is the great purchasing day of
the week. Saturday night the masses make
purchases. Merchants keep their establish
mcuts open until 10 o'clock. These facts
are sufficient to demonstrate that Saturday
morning is the best time in the week on
which to advertise.