Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-05-22
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The appointing power is offering
a strong temptation to Senator Cock
iell to resign.
-Riel the leader OF the Half
Breed rebellion has been captured.
This will end the var in the northwest.
The Illinois Legislature hung FIRE
along time, but when it did shoot it
shot John A, Logan right in the Sena-
torship.
In tie local markets of the
Florida Index we find oats zoe, per
bushel, Irish potatoes $3.50, hay SIS
per ton, corn o5c per bushel.
A well authicated rumor says;
"W. H. Hatch Will not allow all the
republicans officials removed in this
district. 1t is not on his own account
he autagonHes their removal. but there
are other interests at stake that de-
mands his serious attention.
The editor ofthe public Htrala
H. Lum Smith, in his April and May
numbers, gets after the advertising
dead beats and other frauds with Z
sharp stick; and SO vigorously docs Mr.
Smith prosecute his work. that il is al
most impossible for frauds SO frequent
ly advertised in the papers to flourish
at all.
We are informed by the pub
Usher, Mr.. w. L. Griggs, that the nex'
issue of the Real Eslats Index will b.
from Kansas City. Several point
have been bidding for the Index
among them Des Moines and Ceda
Rapids of Iowa. But Kansas Cit,
with her characteristic energy and ia
sighiedness out bid all others and ther
the paper will 60. The hder has
National reputation and Kansas Gil,
is to be congratulated on securing S
valuable an adjunc! TO her bushes
interests.
The Fwinns of Missouri are comm
10 the front. Henry Waterson Ewing
Clerk Of the Supreme Court. Eph.:
i'm Bennett Ewing is Counsul Gencr.
20 the City OF Mexico. Henry Cla
Ewing hopes to succeed Judge Kreke
and Ashley Whittier spoon Ewin
is the founder and per petual pre-:
dent of the Imperial Club Of Jefferso
City. There is a good deal in a nam
after alI.-Kansas City IournaL.
Are there any more pet lambs IN ths
flock OF EwGng)s?
Any five or more townships in an
county in this state may prohibit hoe
and sheep from running at large. Tt
following is the law:
SEC. I. That any act entitled ga
act to restrain domestic animals fro
running at large" approved Marc
77th, 1883, be, and the same is heret
amended by adding a new sectio
thereto to be known as section I
and to read as follows Sec.
Whenever any five or more township
in one body in the state of Missoul
by petition Of one hundred hou
holders, not less than ten of whic
shall be from any one of said tow
ships petition the county court for II
privilege to vote on the question
restraining swine and sheep from ru
ming at large, the same laws goverrir
counties is hereby applied to said tow
ships, and said partitloners shall not
debarred the right TO restrain said al
mails, if majority of the qualifi,
vo ers ofsaid township vote in fav
eff restraining such animals.
Approved March 81, 1855.
At a time when loose statements
to the magnitude of the issues
stake in the Anglo-Rnssian contt
are SO general, remarks the New Yo
Times, II may be useful to recall son
of the statistics of the last war in viii
Russia took part From the GRO:
ing of the DanuSe in June, 1877, un
February, 1873, the Russian loss
killed and wounded was So,So T.
cost of that little war in money W
equally fr1ghtful. The official report
the total expense was 9oe, ,ooo, ,or
rubles, averaging S2,2oo,oOo MONTH
The silver ruble is equal to about
cents, but the rubles current in Russ
then deprecated nearly one third. D
ring the war this paper currency swe
ed from III, 900, 900 to 1854 600 o,
rubles, and loan followed loan. ST
the lesson ofpeace does not seem
have been learned. Under anoth
such burden killing tax and bankrupt
must follow peace whatever the iss
Of the struggle, and it is not impos!
bic that if absolutism be victorious
the field It may meet its death blow