Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-01-29

Congress is being petition '
ed to take some definite action on
the silver question. Business men
are growing uneasy and restless
over the present state of affairs
and their anxiety to know some
thing definite is daily increasing,
The Democratic leaders are
not united upon the great ques-
tions at issue, the tariff and silver
coinage. Between Morrison and
Randall, President Cleveland and
Senator Beck there is wide gulf
and the prospects are that the gulf
will continue to widen.
The bill of costs which we
placed before our readers few
weeks since was slightly reduced
last week by the Govenor pardon
ing the parties indicted, thus
causing the jailer to lose his fees
in the cases. But the other officers
will get theirs the same as if they
had not been pardoned.
In another column will be
found the amount paid to farmers
at this place by W, j. Wilkes for
cream, eggs and poultry during
the last nine months, beginning
with April and ending Jan. lst.
Nearly SS5,000 have been scattered
over the county, besides giving
employment to seventeen to
twenty-five men.
Senator ingalls, of Kansas,
says the silver question is merely
one phase of the great battle pend
ing between capital and labor, The
movement to demonetize silver
originated with the capitalists, the
bond holders and monopolists of
the country, and is justly regarded
by the producing and laboring
classes rs n direct assault upon
their interests.
Pres. Cleveland says he can
not consider Ex-Governor Criten-
den for an appointment to any
office on account of the conspiracy
he entered into with Bob Ford to
murder Jesse James. Senators
Vest and Cockrell do not love the
Ex-Governor any longer and there
seems TO be determination for
the ring to rule or ruin democracy
in Missouri. We hope that in the
latter they may be eminently sue
cesful.
The money paid out to the
farmers by W. J. Wilkes, is almost
a clear gain over any previous
wear, our home markets having
been as well supplied with butter
eggs and poultry as at any time il
the past. The item of $4,000 paiC
for cream will be a surprise t.
many, and with care in selecting
the best cows for the herd, Will,
they may be obtained at the pre-
sent low prices, the amount ma,
be easily doubled another year
VIII our farmers take hold of thi,
industry and give it the encour
agement it merits.
Germany has seized the
Samon Islands which seizure invol
YES interests and obligations o
the Uunited States and may leaC
to serious difficulty. In 1873 tn,
Uuited States made a treaty Will
Samoa, which guaranteed protec
ton of its independence for tel
wears. In considerations of thu
guarantee Samoa cede to thu
United States the harbor of Pang,
Pango, one of the finest harbors o
the Pacific. An American man-o
war has been dispatched thithe
and the relations of the United
States to Samoa Will be investiga
ted at once.
Hon. D. W. Bushyhead Chic
of the Cherokee Nation, says tha
the Sketch among the Cherokees,
which recently appeared in tn,
Cincinnati Graphic is the, faires
most complete, and truthful sketcl
of the civilized Indians ever pub
hshed- He says that eompeten
and impartial portrayal of tn,
Civilized Indian is what has lons
L.. ,,oolol The +ba,- how.