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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-07
WHY THE EDITOR swoRE.

With a terrible cold in his head,
And his e.felids heavy and sore,
The editer sat in q broken chair,
And bitterly, earnestly swore.
A youth haf dropped in with q poem,
A man was there with a dun,
And a chap had entered to tell him
How the paper ought to be run.
An irate subscriber had told him
That his sheet wasn't fit to read,
While another had CAREFUL y promised
To punch the editors head.
The foreman was yelling for copy,
The wind whistied in at the door;
And this, with a few other reasons,
Is why the editor swore
But the angel who took it to Heaven
Recorded this verdict up there:
1The jury find, in the present case,
Twas a iustiiiable swear
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
DICK pRops Down.

The author of Maria HalHn's kid has add
ed another to his long list Of innocent VIC
tima Dick Walker has been let out in the
cold with Oscar Folsom BY him whose bow
els Of compassion are only moved by mug
wump pills branded with the name Of st..
john ON the stopper, and Dick don't carry
that brand Poor Maria, poor Oscar, poor
Dick Tho boys make pretense OF con-
graduating Jumbo, but al the while great
tears - big Is hand grenades, roll down into
the gutters. Fit had only been Jim or
Marsh, anybody but big-hearted Dick, the
average Democrat would even have stood it
better; or, If some one who had seen long
years of service had been named for the
place. But the fiat has gone forth and an
other royal head rolls into the basket Of
venemous partisan passion. The Dude Ad-
ministration 10 in the saddle with the tenure
Of Office act under its feet partisan blood in
its eye, and all the bilious hordes of Dizzy
hanging on to its tanks. Clear, clean coun-
tenances must give place to dubious noses
whose color is the insignia of preferment
Dear Dick, we know how to feel for you
or hope to shortly, we trust-but remember
that though virtue and brains are at such a
discount, and bowels and bull-luck at an
immense premium, that after all. the old
Office was about played out Besides the
probabilities are that Cleveland didn't know
any better. He never saw Frank Dale and
you wouldn't take the trouble TO 60 down
and tell BIN how it was: And even if you
had what could you have expected from
such an Quilt No hing. probably, Dick.
absolutely nothing. We feel Tor you. Dick,
as We never expect to feel for any body
again unaess it shbuld be for the patrons OF.
the postofice, In vhich funeral we expect to
lead procession N which the real mourn.
ers will, We fear, be few and scattering.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
THE EAGLE REcANTs.

Forty-three copies Of yesterdays EAGLE,
containing Dick Walkers Farewell, plainly
marked, were forwarded to Washington.
For this kindly interest, shown for our mod
est words, we are profoundly grateful. The
only thing involved by the incident that
surprised us, nj all, was that there were SO
many Democratic friends in this city all
possessing such keen appreciation of the
truth. Evidently there arc at least that
number who know good thing when they
seeit There are lots of fools out west here,
but they are good deal thicker down about
Washington, this. summer. "Bowels and
bull-iuck" may not have been the most ele-
giant expression in the world; but TRUTHFUL
ness shoule not be sacrificed for mere gloss.
Some we know who would make pill
gripagsail the way to Washington only to
fall down and worship beef, bowels and bull
luck. in the heat of July day, with the
same fscjIly and earnestness with which
DE- 6dld pay hom6ess TO genius, provided,
always. that the bowels were covered with
the ermine OF power. Ws. would not, of
course, knowingly, whhe holding an Office
nder so virtuous and brainy an administer
ton, commit the interdicted and unpardon-
able crime of offensive partisanship," UNI
less the reciting of simple truth and straight
forward facts are to be taken and held as the
overt act. Or, otherwise, if Oscar Folsom is
a myth, and Maria Halpin does not live nor
God reign, then will we take it all back.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
THE uNIoN pEpor RACKET

There has been some criticism of the
noisy manner with which the travelling pub
lie are welcomed to this city, at the Union
depot, by the bus men, the hackmen, the
street car drivers and the hotel runners.
Complaints may have even appeared in
these columns. We are sorry to admit it
but among the many things which make US
proud of Wichita is the racket with which a
hundred or SO strangers are daily and night
ly welcomed at the depots. No sooner has
the average travellers foot touched the plat
form than be is made TO understand that he
bias at last arrived somewhere. There is no
installing the fact that he has suddenly en-
countered q life and vim unusual, and that
there is no danger of getting left The
sleepy man is wakened up, tho noisy man is
silenced and the good natured man is liable
to go off the handle, but all the same the
realization that the metropolis of the Ar
kansas valley has been reached is a vivid
one. We have never noticed any personal
ru enefs, or anything of the kind, nor would
such thing be allowed; but, the noise made
by two score Of solicitors is commensurate
with the hugeness of the environments, and
the spread Of the town. To urge that moth
ing like occurs ut any other point in the
state, we reply snd there is no other point
in the state like Wichits. The echos here
are wont to be walked by the whoop of the
savage, the hello of the cowboy, the scream
Of the Eagle and the hum OF life since the
time wherein the memory Of man runeth
not to the contrary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07

To the Editor Of the Fade.
see byyoar issue ofto-day that the Stand
ard on company. haye locsfed their tanks
in the Y of the Frisco railroad. This may
appear like good thing to the city, but
is not SO good individually to property own
ers in that vicinity. A slaughter house is .
good thing for city, SO also is packing
house, but whose property would not be
injured to have them in their vicinity.
There are two substantial reasons against
having this tank near you. First, the smell.
To say that the odor will not extend for
some distance around. is to say this oil does
not smell. Protect It as you may, the gas
will work out and in transferring it from the
cars to the tank the smell will go out.
Second, it is dangerous by explosion from
combustion as well Is from lightning or the
contact Of fire. Ali that have been about
oil works know what great care is used not
to take even lamp into the room where oil
is being refined. Think if an explosion takes
place the fire is carried with the oil for a
great distance around. a house filed with
powder is not near SO dangerous. It is thre-
fore an nuisance If not an outrage, and
should not be allowed in the city limits.
The company we'll understand this, and ex-
pecting trouble, have, l learn, employed
prominent attorneys to defend them in case
Of opposition. therefore protest against
this tank in the city limits, and if necessary
will defend my rights by the law in such
'ases. A CITIZEN.
1--WE do not understand that the oil COM
pany's works are to DO a nuisance. The
general agent says not. As for the extra
hazard from explosion, that is q
very remote possibility. Around
every side Of the grounds chosen hundred
seet right of way and railway track inter-
senes between the surrounding property.
But it is matter Of which we practically
know but little.-ED. EAaLE.]
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
ALONG THE BORDER.

Mr.. j. W. Dobson, mxyor of kiowa, who
was in the city yesterday, made us q call.
The people along the border are apprehen-
sive that the troops are about TO be ordered
away. That post ought to be established
on the Indian line and the entire border
patrolled there is to our mind not the least
doubt Take away the COW boys and the
soldiers and Kansas is done an almost ir-
reparable injury. Sheridan's report that
the only trouble among the Indians comes
of cattle men is all CANON. Men will not
stay in the border counties SO long as there
is a shadow of danger to their families.
They become uneasy and can only work at
their improvements in hall-hearted way.
1t will cost no more to keep the troops on
the border, comparatively, than to keep
them at Fl. Riley or Learenworth and their
presence at either of the latter places is only
a matter Of convenience. What is the army
for If not for the protection of citizens and
where is any protection needed except along
the frontiers! We hope that Governor
Martin will insist upon the presence Of
troops along the southern line Of the state
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
THE METHODIST COLLEGE.

The strange, sad rumor reaches us that oul
dear but overly-ambitious friends at Win
heid, in the matter of the Methodist college
business, bit off more than they can chew
It was awful funny to sail in and outbid the
biggest town in the state, but it wasn't bust
ness, all the same. Wichita talked business,
Winfield highly. Highly caught the i'm
practical, yain-glorious preachers COM
mittee, but the trustees seem to be insisting
upon business, a kind of talk that Winfield
is not well up in. apparently. AT least SO un-
satisfactory has their talk and action become
that one of the trustees has resigned and an
other threatens to. A portion of the preacher
committee accepted, with ill-grace,
the assertion made before them
by the editor of this paper,
that in the absence of business sense and
business action their college would fail, we
citing the failures of the Blue Mount college
and the Baker Univerity Of this state, both
Methodist institutions, one of which the
church presented to the ftate, and which is
now the teAgicultural college, Wich-
ita don't want the college now, nor aid she
ever particularly banker after it. 1t would
be better to be college town than to be
nothing, and we hope Winfield will brace up
to the demand that she make good her prom
Use. That this hope is sincere, we have only to
say that Wichita has had two college prop
positions Of late, either of them more favor
able than tine Methodist proposition. And
we don't think that the trustees, either,
should weaken SO easily, but brace up also
and make the best of a bad bargain.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
GRANTS cAsKEr.

The Rev. i. II. Edison, pastor of st.
Johns, is an intimate friend of member of
the firm that received the order for making
the casket which is TO contain the remains
of the illustrous hero which are now await
ing removal from Mt. McGregor. This friend
sends him a piece or clipping of the royal
purple velvet covering of the cedar casket
which he showed us permitting us to copy
from the letter the following description:
at is beautiful caskct, plain and rich
There are FIVE different cases. an oak box to
go into the ground, then polished red ce-
dar case, next another cedar case, covered
with royal purple velvet, the piece inclosed
is one of the clippings, this is lined with
lead, and then inside of the lead comes the
Furnished copper case in which the body
will lie, the whole is lined with beautiful
cream colored satin, tufted; all the trim
mings are of solid silver. 1 tell You the
copper casket, highly polished and covered
with beautiful plate glass lid with beveled
edges, was beauty in itself. Even the
shayings were at a premium here
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
THE EXACT SIZE OF 1T.

the railroad chartered this week and to be
built by the Wichita people, is called the
the proper aid is voted.-El Dorado Repub-
lican.
That is the exact size of it. When the
aid is voted they will build it just as prompt
ly a. they did the Anthony extension or the
Eldorado & Newton extension. If the move
ment is prompt the people in the townships
northwest Of Wichita may get railroad be-
fora snaw Aioe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
INSTITUTE DorrINos.
70 the Editor of the EAGLE.

70 the Editor Of the EAGLE.
l suppose that there is but very few o.
your readers that know anything about the
Teachers Institute. Therefore l take the
liberty of informing them through the
EAGLE that yesterday the institute met ac-
cording to orders at the high school build
ing in Wichita, and the number of pupils
enrolled up TO noon was 125, which is q
large number for the first day, and speaks
well for the future of the institute.
We have q number of new faces here,
not only pupils, but there have been some
changes among the teachers. Mr.. Fitzpat.
rick, although q stranger to most of us in
the bodily form, yet his reputation as a con-
ductor Of institutes has preceded him, and
from onr short acquaintance his abilities
have not been overrsted. Mr.. Jay was with
us last year, and the im-
preston be made was so favorable
that we are glad to find him occupying the
same position this year. Mr.. Pence Is well
known in Wichita as a successful teacher;
30 that in day or two everything will be
running smoothly. Every one seems ready
and willing to make the institute q profit
able one. Mr.. Hammond, as usual, is on
hand making everything lively and attend.
ing to the business matters connected with
the institute. Most of the young men look
y though they had been in the press for
some time, while the young women look 20
sweet that it makes me think Of the poet
when he wrote "Put on your. robes and
trizzle up your halr, and you'll be an angel
bye and bye" Dor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
OUR CORN FIELDS.

The general trade of this city has greatly
increased during the last ten days, some
branches doubling the amount Of their sales,
as compared with the first weeks Of July
aud others quadrupling. The outlook for
lively trade through the fall months seems
very encouraging. The crops throughout
Southwest Kansas, especially in the coun-
ties of Barber, Harper, Kingnian, Pratt,
sumner, Cowley, Butler and Sedgwick.
we're never more promising. In fact the
leading crop, corn, is well nigh assured.
1t is probably unnecessary to- sucges I
that in the recent rains Are TO be found the
reason for the suddeI. stimulus given to
yichita's trade
Sedgwiek, the great cprn county Of the
late, and which took the premium over all
competitors last wear a! the state fair, has in
round NUMBER nne hundred and fifty thou
.and acres Of this cereal this wear, now ma
.ired beyond any ordinary mishsp. And
there was never, in the history Of the eoun-
IS, such prospect ofan extraordinary yield.
1t forty bushels 10 the acre, We will hav..
TX million bushels. at sixty to
the acre, nine million bushels. or
yaore thnn was eves returned by any county
lathe history Of the nation-more than the
entire corn product Of several Of the older
states. Sumner, On adjoining county, in the
great Arkarsas.vsHey, will harvest nearly as
assTh, her acreage being almost as great,
snd the general prospect about the saule,
while Bptle4 Cowley, Kingman, Harper,
Pratt snd-BGber counties report unprece-
Asntea acreage and unequaled prospects.
The estimated corn product Of these eight
named Arkansas valley counties reaches
about twenty-six million bushels. To move
.he product in shelled corn, FIVE hundred
bushels to the car, would require forty-odd
thousand cars or two thousand trains Of
twenty-si1 cars each. Bot the half of it will
never leave this valley. 1t will be fed TO
hogs and cattle whereby greater price viii
be realized than that afforded by the open
corn market
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
HONESTLY DONE.

When Harding & Fisher assigned in Oc-
tober Mr.. T. J. Humble was named receiver
We knew that the creditors had done the
smart thing in choosing Humble and that
he would make different showing from
that made by the average receiver, although
we hated to part with his services in the
postofice. Something over six months have
expired and we have his best statement be-
fore us which shows dividend Of IS per
cent with apromise to settle in full at an
early date. Nearly ten thousand dollars
has thus been paid over out of $l5,259 in
voice. The most notable thing, and its one
which ought to be remembered by the credi-
tors, is the salary of the assignee covered by
the modest sum of $500. We congratulate
Mr.. Humble on the mastery manner he has
handled his trust.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
WE WONDER WHY.

There is year old fodder
in this city whose constant companion for a
year has been little dog,-a shaggy browed
Scotch terrier, whose intelligence seemed
akin to that of the human. And he was
brave az he was knowing and no harm ever
came TO his little boy-baby charge whose
every extra tid-bit was shared share and
share alike in great trust and in unwavering
affection. How ever hard baby-boy might
pull Gip's hair, or however deep he might
plunge his fingers into Gir's eyes, Clip never
complained. Somebody poisoned Clip yes
terday morning with strychnine until he
died and all day baby-boy wandered about
the home with sad eyes calling in plaintive
tones for his companion-his Clip. The
wretch who did that great wrong ought to
60 TO the pennitentiary for year and after
that into the insane asylum Tor the balance
of his miserable sneaking, cowardly life,
after which we would be only too happy to
write up his funeral.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
HAWKING ABOUT.

The State Board Of Charities spent por-
ton of the day in our city yesterday. They
are out hawking another state institution
known as the State Soldiers Orphans Home.
The gentlemen composing the board are as
good as the state affords but their Office COM
pels them to mighty small business. Word
was sent the writer some time since TO the
effect that the Board would be pleased 20
hear from Wichita. Our reply was that
while we had no authority to speak for
Wichita we didn't believe she had lost no
orphans home nor did she want any. The
Board was going from here to Ell Dorado,
which town wants another defeat it seems.
They had just come up from Wellington,
another town not satisfied with humiliations.
With more of sorrow than anger again we
say that the people of Kansas will have
cause to remember the last legislature for
the next hundred years to come.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
or thu EAGLE ,---
1Hs DEAD HERO.
Thu belIs .,e tolline adv,

The bells are tolling sadly,
And the guns are booming low.
And the trumpet blasts are sounding,
All soleinnly and slow;
The muf1ed drums are beating,
And the tramp Of men are near,
As the scldier and the hero,
They bring forward on bis bier.
or trumpet sound, and bugle note,
In clarion tones heard he,
As at their head, be led his hosts,
To glorious victory;
The while that flag triumphantly
Above them proudly scared,
Where steel clsshed steel, and bullets fell,
And cannon belched and roared.
And never faltered from his post,
In camp, or tent, or field,
But always stood his legions by,
In death alone to yield;
Until the internicine fame,
Was quenched ut last in gore,
And the nation stood erect again
As proudly as OF yore.
Ave. wait him 'twixt the oceans,
Der prairie, food and plnin,
From the wave washed sand of Frisco,
To the rock-rib'd coast of Maine;
That old oceans swelling surges
May bemoan him on each side,
While the genuises Of battles
And liberty preside.
Let every touch be tender,
And every word be kind,
And every thought be gentle
In eoul and hesrt and mind; :.
Let floral wreaths HE bier bedeck,
Ofevery shade and bloom,
And hymn big praises DER him,
Ere you lay him in the tomb s-Sgs
But let ms all together,
While the bells areaDlliRg low,
And the muffled. drums are beating,
All solemnly ,and'slow,
Hope thst his martial spirit
Where e'er his ashes rest, :
Has found home forever -
In The realms Of the bSsst.
DoxSEL KENNY.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
HOW THEY WE E NET

Why don't the Methodist brethren skirm-
ish around and get entertainment for the NJ.
E. college trustees when they visit our city,
They have been here several times, always
gone to the hotel. to pay their own bills, rs
a common commercial drummer.--Courier
One of the trustees says, We understand
that on their first visit they were met by
carriages, a brass band and delegation OF
citizens. The second visit the band was con-
spicuously absent, ditto delegation of citi-
zens; third visit they were met only by an
alternative-an alternative of paying their
own bus fare or of hoofing it up town.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The board of county commissioners were
in session yesterday, and transacted consid-
cradle business.
They sold the courthouse bonds at $1.0li /,
which speaks eloquently for the credit of
Sedgwick county.
The following levies were made: For
tate fund, 8,T-l00 mills for each dollars
valuation; for county, 81 mills; for the poor,
Z mill; for bridges, LILO mills; funding
hpnds, $500 of mill. The sum total Of
tax for the foregoing leyies viii amount to
Sl0O,l46.5s.
The following levies were made for town.
ship purposes: Illinois, 9 mills; Erie, 2
mills on the dollar.
a levy Of two mills ON the dollar was
made on all taxable property outside Of the
city for road purposes.
On motion the county clerk and county
treasurer were authorized TO make leyies for
bonded Indebtedness of school districts, also
for current expenses Of maintaining the
Schools of the county, hot already provided
for.
Bids for painting the Douglas avenue
bridge over the Arkansas were opened and
on motion the contract was awarded TO
Sherman q Co, the amount being $40.
The board adjourned to meet in special
session the oath Of the present month.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
CALL HIM NOT DEAD.

| INSCRIBED to Donnei kenny by N. Z. Lease.
When slavery placed her vulture hold
Upon the nations heart,
Aud human flesh was bought and sold
In every southern mart,
A soldier band of heroes true,
To battles wild refrain,
Ia rank and file Of faded blue
Marched out from Shiloh's plain.
Their leader WAS soldier tried.
A Chieftain, whose heroic deeds
We're strrwn DER Valor's crimson field.
a. swiftly as the summer seeds,
He siood where hero legions swayed
SCR fierce foes onward came;
And battle fires Of Grants brigade
We're signal lights Of fame
The drum is It'll on Malvern hill,
The breath OF battle spent.
The northland lays her greenest bays
By the silent Chieftian's tent,
CAii him not dead, he cannot die,
While yet those ears OF gore -
With death bedight and battles light
Flash on the distant shore. -
Grant cannot die while memory lives
Her sacred watch to keep -
Above tbe- graves where valor giyes.s~
Her msrtyred childrep shsgS
While booming guns from Donaldson.
Re-echc from the past, -
And VicksbIrg and the Wilderness
Still hear the cannon's blast.
He cannot die while Africa's race
Lit sword Of suffrage free,
While Southland's sons, Jackson owns
Or cheers for Bragg and Lee,
While up from Appomsttox come
The voice Of one defender,
Resembling from that hsrd-fought field
"No terms except surrender"
Now when the WAYS are white with peace,
And flushed with rosy dawn,
Shall sunlight fade from Cavalry
And leave US cross and thornss
No, yet hopes rainbow spans the sky
Ger blood of heroes slain,
Poured out by slavery's minion horde
On wars unholy fame.
Grant lives within the battles glare,
Within the CORY reach
Where shot and shell most thickly fell,
In many ghsstly breach.
He lives within the nations heart,
Embxlmed in sacred peace.
He won on many crimson field
Ere clash Of arms did cease.
he lives among the valiant deeds
That makes our country great,
He lives in hearts that love him well
Throughout this fair young state,
And down the distant years to come
Through storm and tempest wild,
Wen guard him pure from vandal touch
One Nortbland's brAyest child,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-07
This is why we are
SELLING GO0DSSOCHE
DISSOLUTION NOTICE!

Daniel Innes having retired from the firm
Co., Lawrence, and Ross, lines & Co.,. Of
Muscatine, Iowa, the business will be carried
on as before, and all debts of the firm will be
paid by the undersigned. VIM 1NNES,
GEO. INNES,
DAVID ROSS.