Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-09-04
EpIToalAL NOTES,
Alexander Martin OF ST. Louis

-Alexander Martin OF ST. Louis
will probably be the Democratic can
didate for Supreme Judge next year.
Since the Iss of June $Ia,5oo,-
900 in gold has been transferred from
San Francisco to New York subueas-
ury.
Labor cannot get along very
well without capital, but labor can do
much better without capital than capi-
tai can without labor.
The wife of Ex-Governor B.
Graft Brown OF Missouri. died at EX-
celsior, on Lake Minnetonka, Thurs
day morning, of apoplexy.
From March Ist 20 date the TO-
tai number of hogs packed in the West
amounted to 5,s6s,ooo against 2,S2s,-
600 for the same time last year.
THE Democrats and Green.
hackers of Iowa have fused but the
fusion, like the one in Adair county
last fall, is likely to prove a dismal
failure.
While our laws do not contem.
plate making a minister out of every
student. attending.,our state institutions,
yet so far as we have been able to
learn, our State institutions are above
reproach. religiously, and not the hot
beds of lnfdelity that some suppose.
Bishop Bowman of St. Louis
lectured at the M. E. church in this
city Tuesday evening, Subject-Edu.
cation. He made a strong plea fol
education, but his rather unjust criti
clsm OF our State institutions largely
spoiled the effect of the address.
Roscoe Conkling is to be asked
by the Boston city government TO de
liver tie Grafton at the Grant memo
nal services. John B. O'Reilly proba
bly, will serve as the poet of the day
and Julia Ward Howe is to read al
ode.
The farmers should rise I'D al
over the land and demand a law max
ing the manufacture of oleo and but
terine a penitentiary ofense. Did ou
butter makers not have to compel,
with the vile butterine, farmers coult
get, to-day, 2oc for their cream.
Notwithstanding the hard time
our export trade when, compared wit
imports is the best for ten years. Il
round numbers our exports exceed ou
imports by $164,416,oo. While a
the present grain and provisions ar
low and in small demand, there is
reason to believe that before anothe
crop every bushel and pound will b
IN demand.
The labor committee had a
interview with Mr.. Talmage, manage
of the Wabash yesterday. As yet "
do not know the result of the confe
ence, but whatever it may be, 1t W
determine the future movements
nearly two millions OF men. The cor
bined powers of all the capital in ii
United States, cannot afford to trit
with an organization having tt
strength.
The statement is published
Chicago that the industry in shippir
liquor to Iowa is carried On systema
cally. The claim is made that liquo
are packed in casks, which are co
cealed in crates usually used for shi
ment of glassware, and are conceal,
In dry goods boxes and groce
barrels. The devices in question ha
been used to overcome the dIfficul
which resulted in the railroad refusil
TO accept the ordinary liquor packag
as contrary to law.
The prospects are good fol
large emigration to Missouri within
year. Every man from the east te
you ofmany others that are thinking
coming west and Missouri is rapid
becoming the objective point. She
cosmopolitan and no longer hi
bound by old ideas, If those wi
come are in earnest, they are doub
welcome to Missour's broad, fert
prairies and their own peculiar ides
But ifthey come to rest on beds
roses, they will find, in the great bu
west, not only the thorns of contem
but of failure as we'll.
This judicial district, compos,
of Adair, Macon, Putnam and Schu
ler counties, has a republican major
of more than goo. In view OF tt