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Western Kansas world., 1885-05-23
GRAND ARMY GLEANINGs.

Particulars Pertaining to the Posts.
Officers were installed in the Womens
Relief Corps at Great Bend last week.
About 500 G. A. r. boys serenaded
Gen. Sheridan as he past through Wa.
mego the other day westward bound.
Abilene Reflector: Abilene Post, 6. A.
r., have received their armory consisting
OF "a muskets, 9 swords and accoutre-
ments.
At meeting one the Neosho Post, OF
Chanute several new recruits were mus
tered in. The post is reported in q
thriving condition.
Sterling Gazette: The G. A. R. have
employed Comrade John Blazier to fix
up and top off the graves of old soldiers
buried in the city cemetery.
Newton Kdnsdn: A camp of Sons of
Veterans was organized in this city Mon
day evening last by IL. Webb, of To-
peka, and commander of the Third Grand
Division. The camp started out with 80
charter members, and is named Shiloh
Camp No. 80, Sons of Veterans.
The soldiers of Winfield and vicinity
held q reunion q short time ago. The
Halstead, Burten and Sedgwick Posts
were all present. The exercises consist
ed of speeches, Iecitations, songs and
supper. An enjoyable time is reported
as had by all who had the good fortune
to be in attendance.
Champ Lester, of the members of
Company a. 42d Illinois volunteers, who.
on the night of the 30th of March, 1852,
spiked the principal rebel battery on
Island No. 10, thus opening the way for
Commodore Foote'S feet to pass down
the Mississippi, is now citizen of Rus.
sell, Kansas, where eherecently purchased
a residence.
Burlington Patriot: Thomas Northrop,
Commander of Tincher Post G. A. r..
Garden Plain, Sedgwick county, an.
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nounces that he has in possession, left
him by an unknown man passing
through, the discharge of Frank Hardes.
ty, Company A., Third Regiment Iowa
Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, and would
like to find the owner.
The council of administration of the
Grand Army of the Republic in session
at Wichita resolved that the depart
ment would not defray the expenses of
any of the delegates to the national en-
campment at Portland. 1t is reported
the council was of the opinion that un-
less the railroads make lower rate for
this department than the one announced
from Chicago there will be an extremely
small representation of the department
at the national encampment. 1t seems to
have been the unanimous opinion that
not more than one will 90 at the rate
named, when ten would avail them.
selves Of the $25 rate from Kansas CITY
and the other river towns. By unani-
nous vote the Fort Scott Drum Corps
was selected to accompany the Kansas
delegation to the national encampment,
also for the Kansas reunion in October.
OIcdI Dcuu LTtOUue: MrS. WlCKe0S,
the Department Commander OF the La
dies Relief Corps of this city met with
nd installed the officers of the corps
Monday evening at Union Hall. After
the installation and the address of Mrs.
Wickens, short speeches were made by
Messrs. Townsley, Banta, Heizer and
Chapman. The exercises were inter-
spersed with vocal and instrumental mu.
sic and at the close the ladies and gem
tlemen present had social meeting for
the parpose of hand shaking and getting
acquainted. The band was present and
enjlvened the meeting with some of
their choice selections. The organiza-
ton starts out under very flattering aus
pices, and will prove valuable aid to
the Grand Army Post here. The ladies
have the hearty good wishes of all Com
rades of Pap Thomas Post in their sue
cess.
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KANSAS FARMING,

Noteworthy Incidents Among The Farme or
! OF The State.
Tree planting is all the rage in Pratt
county.
Tree planting is being extensively en-
gagged in out in Thomas county.
The backward Spring will force many
farmers in Jackson county to list theil
corn.
Growing wheat is reported to be in
splendid condition in the vicinity o1
Cawker City.
Corn is reported to be scarce at Hart.
ford and is bringing an excellent price
as consequence.
A large peach crop is reported by the
Traveller as possibility in the vicinity OF
Arkansas City.
A Marion county apple tree is so full
of blossoms that the limbs have to be
propped from the ground.
Parsons Sun: Fully 60 per cent of the
bees throughout this section were frozen
to death the past Winter
Great Bend Register: Plenty of small
fruit in this county this year. Home
grown apples will be peddled on the
streets from wagons.
Walnut Valley Times: S, 81. Dicker.
son says we shall have plenty of peaches
and apples, despite the severe Winter
and the wiseacres.
Augusta Gazette: The fields of Winter
wheat present much more promising
aspect than at tie close of Winter. The
aggregate yield in the county can but be
small, as so much of the crop was plough
ed under.
Olathe Star: Notwithstanding the nro-
longed severe cold of last Winter which
prevailed here, we are likely to have an
abundant crop of apples, cherries, plums.
grapes, strawberries and such, but no
peaches, it is feared.
Marion Record: George Griffith. who
has been in this meek O. woods" for near
ly quarter ofa century, thinks he has
little the best prospect for wheat. he
ever had, which is certainly cheering
when one hears of so many fields being
plowed up.
The Brookville Transcript says that two
large houses are being built on Eden
farm; also that the farm has upon It
$50 head of horses, 1,1OO head of cattle.
and that $4,000 bushels of corn vas
raised last year, all to be found upon the
place.
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STOCK s0U1ss.

Stock shipments are reported brisk al
Hartford.
Jersey COWS are advertised for in the
Lawrence Journal.
Oswego Independent: About thirty
E.ad of cattle were drowned on the
ffarn of d. R. Roberts by the great food
4of water last week.
LSudon Journal: Mr.. G. L. Geoffray
is the great Poled Angus cattle raiser oi
she county. He has thirty-6ve yearling
bulls and thirty calves, with more to fol-
low.
The Leonardville Monitor says: J. H.
Hall sold to Mr.. Woodbury. one day last
week eighteen fat cattle that averaged
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crazed by Religious Excitement.

WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Octob + l4.-A
case of insanity brought on by religious
excitement came to light yesterday after
noon when Wm. II. Bastian, filer in the
Dodge Mills, tried to drive mis- fellow
workmen from the shop. Blstian for
some time has been attending the reli-
gious revivals at Newbarry, and for days
his wife has noticed that he acted queer.
He has necessarily been bemoaning his
fate and praying that his sins might
be forgiven. Monday morning during
one of his fits of depression he tried to
kill his wife, but she escaped from him
and he went to work. At the mill he be.
game raving maniac, and the police
were sent for 1t took the combined
strength of four officers to hold him. He
is heavily built man and he struggled
furiously, but was at last handcuffed and
taken to jail.
In Jail Bastian managed to get loose.
He tore his clothes off and ran into the
corridors naked and howled frightfully.
He reached the door leading from the
corridor and with tremendous muscular
force tried TO break it open. Sheriff
Sprague was preparing to start for
Gettysburg, but when he saw what the
matter was, he concluded to remain at
home and watch the madman. 1t took
eight men to recapture Bastian. He was
At last overpowered, dressed and chained
to bed so that he could not move. Ei
was examined and removed to the Dan
vile Asylum last evening.
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Meteroic Dust on lcebergs.

One of the most interesting facts
contributed by Prof. Nordenskjold to
popular science is contained in his ac-
count of his examination-when about
eighty degrees north latitude, before
reaching Parry's Island, to the north
west of Spitzbergen = of the snow
which covered the icebergs and which
had come from still higher latitudes.
He found it strewn with a multitude
of minute black particles, spread over
the surface or situated at the bottom
of little pits, great number OF
which were to be seen on the out
ward layer of snow; many such par
ticles were also lodged in the interior
strata. This dust, which became gray
on drying, the Professor found to con-
tain large proportion of metallic
particles attracted by the magnet and
capable of decomposing sulphate OF
copper. An observation made little
later upon other icebergs proved the
presence of similar dust in a layer OF
granular crystalline snow situated be-
meath a stratum of Ight fresh snow
and another of hardened snow. Upon
ANALYSIS the Professor found this mat
ter to be composed in varying proper
tons of metallic iron, phosphorus, co
bait and fragments of diatomace@.
| ~. y. Sun.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

IT is stated that the vacancy in the coz
lege of Cardinals created by Cardinal
McCloskey's death will be filled by Arch
bishop Tascheraa of Quebec.
1T has been determined to hold the
next Irish National League Of Amer
lea at Chicago Wednesday, January %,
1886. This date is fixed to accommodate
Parnell, who has cabled President EgaH
that he will attend the convention.
THE mystery surrounding the disappear
anoe of Mrs. O'Mayls, of Cleveland, Ohio,
seems to thicken. No reliable information
regarding her whereabouts has yet been
received.
FERDINAND WARD was brought into the
Court of Oyer and Tern'iner at New York
on the 10th. He was accompanied by his
| attorneys, Gen. Tracy and MIR. Burke
| Cochrans.
In bloody affair John Graham was
killed at Tupelo, Ark, ON the 18th, by Smell
Simons, a 1S-year-old boy. The fight grew
out of whisky and a disagreement over a
game of cards.
| WARREN ANDERSON, of Marion, Ind,
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn, on the
10th on the charge Of having embezzled
$3.50 of his employers money.
| A TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred
on the Pennsylvania railroad on the 10th
Eight persons were killed and several
injured.
The Ssnate select committee on interstate
commerce will meet in Memphis, Tenn, Oh
the 18th of November.
THE Memphis, Selma and Brunswick roa
has been purchased by a syndicate, and
will be at once put through to completion
WESLEY DEKNIGHT was run over by Q
train on the L., N. o. & I. Railroad al
Vicksburg, Miss, ON the Goth, and was sc
terribly crushed that there is no ihope e1
his recovery.
THE Irish landlords have taken into con
sideration the distress prevailing in tht
agricultural districts, owing to the low
prices Of farm products, and are remittinl
20 per cent. Of the overdue rents of theii
tenants.
THE registration of Brooklyn, N. Y, we.
completed on the 18th. The total number
of voters enrolled is nearly 10000 greater
than in any previous year except in 1884
The increase is more marked in the Repub
lican wards.
ON the evening of the Goth while Mrs
Romilly, of st. Vincent de Paul, o. tario
accompanied by her two-year-old child
was feeding her fowls, large bald headed
eagle swooped down and bore the little OF
off in its talons.
Hon. MALCOLM HAY, ex-First As.i'ta i
Dnotr,, q cta 6iad ot Pitfcht,er n,
the goth of consumption.
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Improved Gas Generators.

A great Improvement in gas genera
tors is said to have been made in
France rendering it practicable to con-
struct such apparatus with comparative
ease from materials which are usually
to be found in every laboratory. The
device is said to leave little to be de-
sired in it's line. being equally adapted
to the production of sulphuretted hy-
drogen or any other gas. is always
ready for use. and can at once be taken
apart for cleaning or to add fresh ma
terials. With small generator. about
two feet high, some forty quarts of
hydrogen have been manufactured in
twenty minutes. Another valuablefea
ture is it's comparative cheapness,
nearly all the materials being ready AT
hand, and the requisite tupulated jar
being of small cost.-M Y, San.
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PfTH AND POINT.

"A crank is the man whose ideas
differ from your own.
"A Juvenile Atrocty: sWhy don't
you turn over a new leafp' 81 will,
pa, in the spring. Can't do it this time
OF year, you know"
In Burma ed tors receive elephants
IN payment for subscription. In this
country the paper itself is about all the
elephant the editor cares to keep IN
stock.-N Y. San.
-Table-forks have been in use 400
years, and yet people can be found In
every clearinghouse who have not yet
discovered that they have been invent
ed Chicago Ledger.
They have been making new figures
on the coal supply, and it is now be-
lieved that it will take 1000 years to
exhaust the supply, even if you don't
sift your, ashes. - Chicago Herald.
Hungry Guest-"How is thisP !
ordered steak and a poached egg: !!
see the egg, but where is the steakp'
Table attendant -'Dat's all right sab.
De steak am under de egg."-Phita-
delphia Press.
The cheering news Comes from
Nice, via Harvard University, that Tut
ties comet of '58 has turned up and
| been identified in France. Futile
now appreciates the value of advert s.
ing.-Bufalo Express.
Said Bobby to the minister at din
ner: "Can church whistler" "Why
do you askP" "Cos pa owes twelve
dollars back pew rent, and he says he's
going to let the church whistle for it. :
Columbus Dispatch.
-s'They have discovered footprints
three feet long in the sands of Oregon,
supposed to belong to lost race. )" Ii
is impossible to conceive how a race
that made footprints three feet long
could get lost. - Chicago Tribune.
First boy: They say you are a
ond boy Gnterrupting): .'Doyou know
what they call youp'' First boy
"WhatP" Second boy: 'They don't
call; they just whistlen'-G Golden Days.
1t is sad Sara Bernhardt's two
great ambitions are to write poetry
and grow fat We fear Sara is reach
ing after the unattainable. Poets sell
dom grow fat. 1t takes a great dea
Of fine engineering to grow fat OF
eighty cents a week. Chicago Neaos.
Mother, our teacher wants us tt
pronounce route root" '.Well
that is correct, Mary 'Gracious
Then we might as well call about
ABBOTT Hold on! I'll fix her. Th,
next time she tells me to call it root
I'll say. 4 was Just aboot to call i
-oot. Miss Chalk. Exchange.
Two st. Albans men were discuss
ing material used for building pur
poses, and, among the rest, laths
Commenting on the fact that the pric
of laths was comparatively high, on
, Of them remarked: 81 don't see wha
. in the world keeps laths up" when
third party, who never lets a chanc
90 when he sees it,. made the simpl
reply, 'Nailsl''-MSesager.
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SEEN IN Glass TANKS.
Microscopic Researches at Little Massa
chusetts Town.

Microscopic Researches at Little Massa,
chusetts Town.
A ride of three miles from Gloucester
on the stage coach. through one of the
most rocky regions of Massachusetts.
brings the visitor to the little village OF
Annisquam, which is p;cturesquely
nestled at the base of some granite
hills looking down upon an arm of
water extending in from Ipswich Bay.
AS one approaches the village across a
wooden bridge one sees in a prominent
position very tall windmill This is
the means by which water is kept con
stantly flowing through the aquaria.
and the animals kept alive for the stu.
dents to study Just beside this wind
mill is the old. yellow-painted, wealth
er-beaten, barn-like build ng. which
looks more like fish house than any
thing else. 1t is in here that wise stu
dents and still wiser teachers and pro-
fessors come to study into the habits
and structure of marine life. E@te
vast numbers of crabs, shrimp, sea
anemones, starfishes and fish in general
are annually consigned to alcohol and
carried far away into the country to
| create WOnucr III lUG IulUQS OF lle
country students who have never seen
| the sea shore.
Entering the building, we find our
selves in dreary-looking room, with
tables of unpainted pine placed before
each window, and with shelves filled
with bottles of alcoholic specimens of
our most common animals. The chief
interest to the visitor is centered in the
a1uaria which are filled with life. A
beautiful flower garden of sea-ane-
mones lines the bottom of the tank,
each individual differing from its ne gh-
bor in shape and color Hermit crabs
frisk about with their clumsy shells
dragging along behind them. remind
ing one of pair of horses and stage
coach. They are playful little crea-
lures, and enjoy nothing better than a
good, square fight with each other.
They are animals which one can watch
with untlagging interest for hours and
allsthe time discover new traits. The
sportiye squid darts about, forward
and backward. with equal facility,
sjectingI its inky fluid whenever sur
prised, and the startish crawls slowly
up the des of the aquarium toward
an unsuspecting shell, bent upon de.
structon in its mysterious way. A
visitor can find interest for hours il
these glass tanks. Boston Irauetler.
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Concrete and Abstract.

President Lincoln, when importuned
by Governor Yates of Illinois to ap-
point friend Brigadier- General. said,
'.Yates. I'll tell you the difference be.
tween the concrete and the abstract.
When the Senate passed resoluti on
requesting me not to appoint any more
Brigadiers. as the vacancies were all
full, that's the concrete; but when a
Senator comes up here with long pc
tition and long face requesting me
to make Brigad er out of some seal,
awag of friend of his, as it happens
every day, J call that the abstract :
The Governor thought the illustration
| was very good, and laughed heartily
over it, Ben Perley Poore. N
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The knights of Llbor.

HAMILTON, O>T., October l5.-The
Assembly of the Knights of Labor closed,
to meet in Richmond, Va, next year, on
the first Monday in October. The amount
If business done in nine days was i'm
mense This Assembly will be noted
for harmony and close attention to bust
ness. The boycotIing of the New York
Tribune and Toronto Nail was Endorsed,
and ''assisted immigration" the admis-
sion of pauocrs an criminals on this
continent from abroad, were condemned.
Lecturers will be employed TO discuss
public questions In the interest OF labor
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The Result of High Rents.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., October l5.--"on.
g;essmen arc not arriving here iu consid.
cradle numbers, and there are only about
twenty who are in for the winter There
will be more boarding during the coming
season, as the house rent is so high that
members and Senators find housekeeping
very expensive Congress convenes De-
cember Sth, and 1t is generally conceded
that the Senate will be engaged exclu-
eively upon executive business until ths
holidays, hence members will not gener.
ally reach the city until about the lss II
December,
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NEW HAVEN, CONN, October 15.-The
tenth annual Congress of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
will be held in this city october goth to
23d, in Carll's Opera-house. Much in
terest is felt in this gathering by men,
bers of the Episcopal Church, and by
Christian people generally. A large num-
Der of distinguished clergymen and lay.
men are to be in attendance, and are to
speak upon the many subjects marked
out for discussion. The Congress is not
legislative body, being simply an asso-
citation for the voluntary discussion of
questions looking toward the general
good of the church aud 10 Christian
progress. The writer's and speakers are
not delegates, but simply church men
high or low, or rii ualist, as the case ma y
be, having single object in view. No
votes on any subject under discussion
are taken.
There will be two sessions of the Con.
gress, daily, at l0:30 a. m. and at 1880
p. m. and but ten minutes are allowed
20 each speaker or writer. No one can
speak twice on the same subject Bishop
John Williams, of Connecticut, will pre-,
side with Rev. G. d. Wilde, d. D., ol
New York, as General Secretary. The
list of writers and speakers includes
many of the most prominent clergy o.
the Episcopal Church OF America
Among the number are six or seven bish
ops, Archdeacons Farrar and Vesey, o.
England, and several gentlemen well
known at the bar, on the bench, in the
army, and in private life.
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JAIN HEALY, commander of the rev.
Eeamer Corwin. reports to the Treas
department. from San Francisco,
he has just arrived, that the explo-
of the headwaters Of the Kowag
Ptag r.vers in Alaska wers pushed
successful completion on the last
OF the Corwin.
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Total value of exports Of domestic
and hogs and of beef, pork ami
products from the United States are
ows: September, 1885, 1874, ,69);
II, T,509,24s. Eleven months ended
|lber 80, 1885, s),30o,O59; for 1884,
s36- Dairy products for five months
September 81, 1885. $,55j,446; for
P,426,759.
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serrians, headed by King Milan,
crossed the Bulgarian frontier near
k,oi and are advancing toward Sofia.
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ERE were forty ares deaths from
.pox in Montreal on the 16-h, and
&al others in outlying districts.
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United States Supreme Court met
18th. All the judges, the new and
solicitors, the Attorney. General,
y Butler and Belva Lockwood were
T. A number of lawyers were ad-
70 practice, among whom was a
man. The court then adjourned
iied upon the Resident, who re-
Them in the red parlor.
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pics OF THE DAY.
Iews from Every,st ,re.

vas stated in London on the 18Th that
entence of Riel had been committed to
ksonment for life.
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b Sultan of Turkey gives the Euro.
powers to understand that he will
I no circumstances recognize the
brian union.
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has been discovered at D Dstroit, Mich,
persons passing through from Mont
have used forged vaccination certifi-
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IA Middletown (ireland) branch of the
bnal Land League is to BIS prosecuted
h, British Government for boycott
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Postmaster-G General has decided
be department was unde: no obliga-
deliver mail matter thrown into
lection boxes by Wells, Fargo &
Per they have cancelled their stamps,
Pstmasters have been instructed to
such matter.
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|sPATcH was received az m litary
parters at Omaha, Nsb., ON the
rom Fort Robinson that no trace
Pc found of the Sioux Indians re-
reported 10 be committing depre.
+ along the northern frontier of
Ska and WYom 'ng.
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PENDLEToN, Minister to Germany,
Dses coming to an early agreement
the German Government in reference
Bancroft treaty.
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Err McGEocH, the Milwaukee specu-
was stricken down on the 10th by
seemed like apoplexy, and for sew
hours his life was despairel Of, but
blly rallied under the careful treat
bf his physician.
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tRErARY WHITNEY has leased from
|relinghuysen estate the residence in
Iington formerly occupied by the
Eecretary and his family.
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secretary of the Treasury has is.
circular to the customs officers, in
ne says that it appears to be i'm
aoie to procure, under existing
Fccurats statistics of thelimmigrants
9 IN the United States by railways
contiguous foreign territ ory, the
non OF statistics of such immigra-
y be discontinued until otherwise