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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-02-25

The preliminary organization Of
the Peoples Fire Insurance Co. was
effected ct The ONCE Of die National
Mutual Fire InsuraBce Co. last Fri
day night n. d. league was inside
temporary chairman, and Frank
Hageman temporary secretary. A
list Of charter directers was prepared
and elected IS follows E. H GIbbs,
n. D. league, r g. Gay, +. Hazs-
man, G. 3 Faalkuer. J. II. Prescott,
B. Rockwell. AZ. II. Briggs. E. c.
culp, +. Goodnow, I. q. Davis. A..
=. Dodge, c. Eberhar.ii, W.R. Gels,
and n. c. Rash.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-02-25
PRIMARY DEP ARrnEsr.

II . iii HI
Teacher.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07
A Coffin Explodes.

On Friday last there was an occur.
renee in the cemetery at this place, the
like of which, perhaps, was never known
before. In 1875 Mr.. James A. Watson,
of Clover, whose family then resided in
Yorkville, lost child, aged three or four
years, by death. At that time Mr..
Watson was living in Baltimore, a teach
er in the Bryant.Sadler Commercial
College, aud be could not conveniently
leave his business to attend the funeral
and in his absence only temporary burial
was given the body, awaiting his return
home to secure permanent burial lot in
the cemetery. This was not practicable
until recently, on the extension of the
cemetery grounds, since which time he
has bought lot and on last Friday in
company with Mr.. ]. Ed. JefIreys and
DR.. J. B. Allison he went into the GEM
etcry to remove the body To his lot The
burial case-a Fisk mctallic-was raised
from the grave, and a natural desire to
look upon the face Of the child which
died and was buried in the fathers
absence, prompted Mr.. Watson to ask
Mr.. Jeffreys to remove the lid covering
the glass panel over the face The lid
was unscrcwe1 and removed, all three
standing near, but observing a film on
the surface of the glass, Mr.. Watson
requested Dr.. Allison to procure some
material for cleaning 1t of. The Doctor
went To residence near by for some
cloth for this purpose and while be was
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07
Civil Rights at the North.

Nobody will deny that the exclusion of
colored concert company from hotel
in Troy is an outrage, and that the ex-
cludcd singers are entitled to feel the re-
sentiment and indignation which they
express. But it is also true that the out
rage is one of kind against which the
victims seem to be absolutely without
remedy. Neither in legislation nor in
public opinion is there any hope of
effectual redress.
The trouble is that the case is one
which almost everybody judges in one
way when it is presented to him as an
abstract question and in very different
way when it con(ronts him in the con-
crete. The guests of the Troy hotel
would have denounced the guests of any
other hotel who refused to sit at the same
cable with cleanly and decent negroes,
just as the guests of other hotels doubt
less denounced them when the reports of
the case were canvassed at the tables of
other hotels.
1t is especially unjust to blame the
landlord of this Troy hotel for refusing
to entertain colored guests. A man no
more engages in the business of keeping
q hotel than in any other business for
the purpose Of vindicating the rights of
man. He engages in it for the purpose
Of making money, and it is his right, as
it is his interest, to make his hotel at.
tractiye by keeping out of it persons
who, for any reason or for no reason, are
offensive to the classes upon whose favor
he must rely for his living. There are
very few landlords-it may be doubted
whether there are any in this state-who
would turn away colored guests on ac.
count of their personal prejudices against
the African race. They dislike to receive
such guests simply becauge they believe
that by entertaining them they will lose
more than they will gain. Even sup
posing the calculation to be erroneous, a
hotel keeper is no more to be blamed for
making it than any merchant is to be
blamed for acting upon an opinion with
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07
Before and After Marriage.

Not unfrequently both men and no.
men expect more from marriage than it
is in human nature to yield. In the ro.
mantle courting days the love-making is
fresh, and sweet, and all engrossing, and
the unrefecting innocents are deluded
into the belief that the bonds of matri-
mony are alone needed to secure them a
Life Of love and joy at high fever-heat of
the warm, youthful moments. But such
an anticipation of heaven on this earth
cannot be. The heat must cool down
and the intoxication of love sober into
the tranquility of friendship. 1t is a
great matter to get safely throug b the
cooling process. The danger is that
when it begins, one or the other, or both,
isrorant that its cause lies in the nature
of things, may throw the blame on an
innocent partner, and in his or her sweet
heart sigh over the misfortunes of a
dreary union. This would not happen
so frequently as it does if, as is not often
the case, the husband and wife were to
sober down at the same rate. As a rule
the lady will hold on to the tender love-
making much longer than the gentleman.
1t il the man that cools and the vile that
is broken-hearted.
Among the causes Of evil lying nearer
the surface there is our system of court.
ship, which seems as if especially design
ed for mischief. To be kind and atten
tive to the object of ones affection is
natural on the part of both man and wo.
man. But, according to custom, the
gentleman must do all the wooing, the
labor of loYc-making falls 10 him, and,
as rule, he does not spare himself.
For weeks, for months, for years, he wor-
ships at the feet of his fair one with
compliment, fattery and endless atten.
tions. He seems tue slave of her small
est wish. In all this there is much act
ing, often much conscious acting. Mar
riage is the dropping of the curtain !;
with it ends the merry, but in its conse-
quences, melancholy farce. And when
he secs the effect of the play, he sincere
ly wishes it had never been. The atten-
tions cannot continue. Nor is it desirable
that they should. Yet in getting them
for time, women are taught to expect
them forever. The arrangement is cruel
to women. 1t is like the practice of first
spelling children, and then furnishing
them for being spoiled.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

one of the hottest battles of the war, in
1862, the captain of a company told q
sergeant that the ammunition was giving
out. The sergea.-t left his position and
darted for the ammunition train. He
got his cartridges and started back, but
on the way a she'll exploded near him
and ignited his cartridges, wounding and
lacerating him severely about the face
and body. When he was lifted from
under the debris the first question he
asked was, "Did l get 'em in all right?"
Now, it has been my fortune to have
been in more than dozen pitched bat
ties, and in double the number of skirm'
ishes that, as far as the combatants were
concerned, approached almost to the
dignity of a battle, and I never saw as
yet man finch from his duty. When
the fight was raging, and comrades were
falling on every side, never saw any of
the rest of the mon drop out to carry
them back.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

in the house an explosion of gas ensued,
SCATTERING the glass, which was I inch
thick, into numberless fragments, several
striking Mr.. Watson in the face, cutting
it severely. One piece struck the bridge
of the nose, cutting entirely through it.
A few pieces of the glass also struck Mr..
Jeffreys, but be was not seriously hurt.
The caskct had been out of the ground
several minutes when the explosion
occurred, which was the result Of the
expansion by the warmth of the sun Of
the gas formed in it. Ths report of the
explosion was equal to that of dyna-
mite cartridge and was noticed by per-
Sous on Main street, more than quarter
of mile distant. The face of the child
was in excellent preservation, as we're
also its burial clothes, and a wreath of
flowers on the breast seemed to be nearly
as fresh as when buried twelve and a
half years ago. YorkviNc Enquirer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

regard to the market for his goods, which
turns out to be mistaken and by which
be loses money. And no reasonable
person will be apt to say that this par.
ticular calculation is erroneous.
There is dispute about the facts in
this case, as appears by our dispatches,
but there can be no dispute about the
public feeling. A hotel Or theatre in
this city to which it was generally under
stood that negroes were admitted on the
same terms with whites would be in
danger of being abandoned to the ne.
groes. This fact shows the folly of at
tempting to legislate against so impalpa-
BILE and irresponsible thing as race
prejudice. You may pass laws 10 pre-
vent hotel keeper or theatrical mana.
ger from discriminating against colored
persons, but you cannot bring the law to
bear on their white customers. That
being the case, it is an obvious injustice
to coerce the landlord or the manager
into dcfying prejudice which he may
not himself share, but which be assuredly
cannot overthrow. The lot of an educa.
ted and refined colored man or woman
in this country is very hard. 1t cannot
be ameliorated by legislation, being a
subject appropriate for sermons. Ap,
peals to humane and Christian feeling
are entirely in order. They may not be
efectual, but they will do quite as much
good as penal laws.-Mcw York Times
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07
Judge Rice WAS Solid.

Mr.. Randall writes the Augusta Chr0n-
icle that somebody has given him the facts
of Judge Sam Rice's petition for pardon
to Andrew Johnson, the then President.
The judge was much alarmed and asked
Mr.. William Dickson to write out the
document and he would sign it. Dickson,
who was good deal of wag and per-
fec,ly acquainted with the judges facility
for being every thing by turns and moth
ing long, consented. The next day the
document presented made Rice stare. 1t
is impossible to quote it at length, but
some of the salient points were these :
"Your petitioner, Samuel +. Rice, now of
Montgomery, Alabama, was born in
South Carolina. There be, Gamaliel-
like, sat at the feet of John G. Calhoun,
the apostle of the pestilent doctrine of
notification, and, being of a sensitive and
confding disposition, imbibed his here
sizes, which your petitioner now repudi'
ates sand deplores. Your petitioner, when
be moved to Alabama, was a secessionist,
but peaceable one. He was prominent
in talking disunion, but harmless in
action. He did indeed say that the
Southerners could whip the Yankees
with cornstalks, but the Yankees would
not fight in that way. While he helped
send many men into the army, as an
orator, he kept twice as many out as q
lawyer. Your excellency remembers
certain William Shakespeare declared
that "the quality of mercy is not strain
ed" The president of the republic must
be more charitable than poet bribed by
British gold. Your petitioner has been
on and of, but more often of than on, a
member of the Methodist church, and
being now on, must commend himself TO
your excellency as brother.in the Lord,
at the foot stool Of repentance. Had
your petitioner been in Tennessee when
your excellency ran for governor, he
would have voted for you early and often.
Your petitioner has at been at one time
or another on every side of every ques-
ton; and must therefore have been
right occasionally. Your excellency can
select the time when you thought him
right and consign the balance to oblivion
and forgiveness. Your petitioner is not
u singist, but sometimes joins in chorus.
IF your excellcncy shall graciously par
don him, he will agree to assemble daily
q glee club of loyal colored men and
help them intone sonorously and fervent'
ly The Star Spangled Banner The
Flag of the Union" and John Browns
Body These will be the cherished
doxologies while he remains or he pre-
serves his abnormal consistency"
Judge Rice appreciated the humor OF
this instrument, but could not stomach
ii. He said: "Billy, you are too hard
on me, I can't sign any such document
as that. 1t is too true"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

disagreeable is our north Georgia mud.
We have apples and peaches, and here
are oranges and lemons aud pineapples
and bananas. They have no winter here,
and we have the blazing hearthstoue and
the old back log as set of. They can
catch more fish here in half day than
we can in week, but We have more fun
in trying. They have lovely lakes and
the salt sea breeze, and we have springs
and gushing streams, and the snow the
beautiful snow. Take. it all in all /
reckon it is best for folks to be content
with their lot, especially if it is their lot
to live in north Georgia where I do.
BILL ARP.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

-"What farmer needs in this world
to be successful" remarked Deacon Hay
seed, is good wife. Then he's all
right. My wife could get up in the
mornin' at four o'clock, milk fifteen COWS,
feed six horses, git breakfast for twenty
hands, and be all ready for days work
afure six o'clock. That's what I call a
good wife" Doesn't she do it now,
deacon?" he was asked. "Oh, no." he
replied, wiping away q tear, "she's dead"
"A recent investigator into the causes
of consumption says that the disease is
often inherited because the heir has
taken for his personal use the decedent's
old mattresses, upholstered chairs and
carpets.
:. Lay the green peel of cucumbcrs
whera the cockroaches will get at it.
They will eat grecdily of the poisonous
juice and die.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

= Tie last distinct words spoken by
Robert Toombs were turning TO rela-
tivc): "Lend me one hundred dollars" "
= The difference between Country"
and a. "city" greenhorn is, that the ore
would like to know everything, and the
other thinks hc can tell him.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

"A father was very much annoyed
by the foolish questions of his little son.
"Johnny, you are great source of an
noyance to me-" "What's the matter,
pa ?" "You ask so many foolish ques-
tions. l wasn't big donkey when was
of your age" mo, pa, but you've
growed q heap SINCE"
A dog fancier estimates the number
Of dogs in New York city and its sub.
urbs at 100000.
- An Indian and Chinaman are
partners in the stationery business in a
Nebraska town.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

= In this country a young man who
made his living father present OF a
coffin would get bounced out of the
house, but in China it is the proper thing
to do. Every father expects his sou to
give him as fine coffin as he is able to
buy.
Well-ventilated bedrooms will pre-
vent morning headache and lassitude.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07
pRorAN1rY-DIsoRDEn-vALoR,

DISORDEN-FALOR.
Finally, as for troops in actual battle,
have this much to say, that | never
saw more profanity than in the standing
up Of regiment anywhere. a mission.
ary would have but small chance for a
conversion. 1t is distinctly in my MEM
ory, for instance, that at the battle of
Williamsburg, and the battle of the
Seven Pines thereafter, the men in my
brigade swore ''like the army in Elan
ders." In fight the men were like "wild
bulls of Basban," and The file-closers, OF
whom | was one at that time, had hard
work to keep them in order. Before the
order was given them TO advance they
were quiet enough but thereafter, in
spite of all orders, abjurgations, and
prayers of the officers, commissioned and
non commissioned, they would crowd in
toward the centre, and thus were rem
dered in n measure incompetent with the
best action of our whole force.
Again | rccollect that in>lhc middle OF
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-07

"Hc then said: L am resigned, if it
be Gods will but | would like to see
my wife. But Gods will be done.
Soon after this he passed away."-Book
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
THROUGH TaE4USEUM.

A reporter yesterday dropped into the
Museum and was surprised at the magnitude
of the preparations taking place there. The
two lower rooms in the Jewell Cassell build
ing are to be nsed. The first entered was
the one where the giants, dwarfs, albinoS and
other freaks Of nature are to hold their daily
receptions On the left Of the reception Is 3
nicely fitted out ticket Office; il the rear is q
small stage, upon which the jugglers, magi-
clans and contortionists viii entertain their
audiences; on the left is q miniature theater
for delighting the youngsters with Punch
and Judy Upon the right OF the stage
| is an elegant little parlor for the
ladies, completed and set with fine furniture.
| Upon the walls are to be put pictures, COS
morans, and inanimate wonders. The e1hi
| bition will begin with lecture in this de-
partment by Mr.. T. D. Halves, a gentleman
who has for years held similar position IN
the museum at Kansas City and other places.
| At the conclusion OF this lecture the doors
! to the other room, the hall, will be thrown
open This cosy little theatre has comforta-
| bic seats and complete, elegant and well
arranged stage. The entertainments given
viii consists of olios, refined specialties and
sketches, to be followed by dramas, comedies
and farces rendered by select stock COM
pany.
Officer Mckee,, Of the police force has
been detailed to preserve order in the estao-
| lishment.
The management appears to have spared
neither money or pains to make this one OF
the NEST elegant places OF amusement IN the
| vest
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
NEW PAINT NANUFACTORY.

Nr. and Mrs Henry OFT and their little
how Howard babe adieu to Mendon last night
and by the time this is in the hands Of our
readers will be we'll on their way to their
new home in Wichita, Kan. We are sorry
to see them 60 for We can Ill afford to lose
ruch good citizens and eSIimable nelghbors.
We have heard many expressions OF regret
from some Of our most prominent citizens
that so coed mechanic and SO respectable a
man es SIR. OFT should leave the neighbor-
hood. We heartily commend him and his
estimabie wife to the kind offices of the peo-
pie OF Wichita ia the confident belief that
they will find them desirable acceSssons to
their population, and we sincerely hope that
the change they are making may bring TO
Mr.. and Mrs. OFT all the gos1 fortune they
anticipate -Mendon Qll) Dispach.
Mr.. OFT has come to Wichita to engage
in the manufacture of q new paint compoS1-
ton which he has perfected after many care
full experiments, and which he claims viii
save at least fifty per cent IN time and ma
tcrial; and, consequently greatly cheaper the
cost of pointing. By tests made il his work,
Mr. OFT finds that the composition is fully
equal or superior to the old system in body,
finish and durability, and can be used both
for inside and outside work, and in any
color
The time of applying the paint will be
much reduced and when the work is fin
ished it will be entirely free from cracks tc
which the old inethod was more or less
liable
The value Of such an invention in a new
country and wherever time is considera-
ton, will be at once apparent, end it can
hardly he doubted that Mr.. OFT did well il
coming to the future metropolis of the great
southwest
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
writer Tor the Eagle
IN MEMORY

OF little Rodney Merle Gossard. who diod November
g. 1856; aged years, month and days
The glorious spring-time was flashing
With sunlight, hill, valley and plain,
As violet and cowslip were pushing
Their way through the showers OF ram
But nc daisy, or cowslip Or blossom
Were in our fond eyes half so fair
As our darling who gathered the flowers
To Irvine in his soft sunny hair
The pulses of summer were leafng
Aglow with the warm breath OF June,
As the bees in the sunshine were sweaping
Their harpS with the birds all atune;
But no bee or 10 bird made the music
We heard in our fond hearts all day,
For the song we loved best in the cleaning
Was the voice of our darling at play.
The Wild winds of autumn were hurting
The snow wreaths abroad in the air,
And the dead leaves in circles were whlrlhs
As we stood by our darling so fair;
But the rose on his cheek had departed
And the life from his young heart nae
flown,
And we saw. like the birds of the summer,
Our darling had left Us alone.
And now in the dreary December,
As we sit here in silence and weep,
In our sad heart we try 10 remember
That cur darling is only asleep.
Fol. the dear Christ who loves little children
Has said Let them come unto me-"
And So OH our Father in heaven,
We give our loved darling to Thee.
LEWIS SLAUGHTER
Kansas City Mo- Dec. lSt, 1886.
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
THE SOUTH HAVEN ROBBERY.

About week ago the store Of Ar Nell
Mrsgrove st South Haven. was entered by
the thieves prying open window il the
rear of the building. About $500 worth Ct
goods was carried away.
Tuesdsy there WIS q man captured by
OtHcers earns and Stsva-. in tkis cisy while
endoavoring TO sell some shoes SO second
hand store. Upon being EotiEet Of tie a.
rest Xr. SUSsrove accoIaPSuIsd ~ IS
brother snS Sheriff Jons. ~ Samner county,
came 70 the city, identified tho goods snd
last evening took ths prisoner from 'As
county jail and returned WIKI hiia 70 sum
aer county.
The prisoner refuses 70 g;vs his nAEse, OF
70 say anything regarding tbs *heis further
than 10 dsry being tie psrpetra;or-
E.s confederate was n the city tbs day d
was captured, but there is as yss 20 cl1s 3
bis whereabouts.
Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
qh saascna au gaale SUNDAY anruina aecpher s 1895
,ess at night is the wonder and admiration

ness at night is the wonder and admiration
of not only her own people but OF every
stranger there is something tangible as well
as beautiful about that towns boom.
We took that photograph direct from
Wichita at single sitting
Where you find city so pleasantly located,
its composition and environments SO delight
full, its atmosphere so Inspiring that its own
inhabitants are IN love with it, and every
stranger is SO captivated with all that he sees
of it that he Immediately expresses desire
to make it his home; where you find city
where every individual inhabitant is not
only prosperous but happy, and where the
happiness aud inhabitants both show an an
nual increase OF from % to 50 per cent; a
city resident Of which everyone who knows
Of it hopes ard longs and expects sometime
to be, and Of which the inhabitants of all
other cities are either jealous or envious,
then set it down that you have found boom
Of the purest water, and in which there IS no
alloy.
Wichita is just that place, and she is ris-
ing and spreading under the influence of
just such booml
In short, and in conclusion, when you have
discovered city located and founded il the
midst OF thu broalest and richest valley
boosted by great continent, at point to
which streams, highways and humanity all
naturally tend, a railroad center towards
which all other railroads are pointing, a
manufacturing point the mum of whose ma
chinery swells and increases with each pass
inr breeze: q commercial entrepot where
bricks and mortar cannot be piled up rap
idly enough 70 meet the demands of her
swiftly swelling and rapidly growing and
increasing traffic; city whose coming
greatness has been SO plainly marked by the
finger of destiny that none but the most OBJ
fuse cen fail to see and understand; when
you have found such place thus so distinct
lively marked and so equipped, and thus pre-
eninently prosperous and booming, you
need not be told that
This is Wichital