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Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Many farmers in this vicinity are pre-
pairing to SOW n largo acreage Of wheat
/ this iall, and the prospects are that the
| thousands of bushels OF that cereal Just
harvested will find market right at
home for seeding purposes. -MulLnville
MaIlct.
I Geo. T. Anthony seems To he en- loving
quite rep. as an alI-arouDd pugi!ist.
but the ll-worth sun warns him that
while he can fight his cousin Dan all ho
wants to, be must let the city f Leav-
| enworth alone. Look out. George: this
is hot weather for Sun-strokes.
Great excitement prevails in Elm
wood over the disappearance Of Steve
Dupree, one of The most prominent
citizens of that city. Mr.. Dupree left
for Ellsworth about two weeks ago. and
since that time has not been seen nor
heard from.-Great Bend Tribune.
Charles Graham a farmer living be-
tween this CITY and Dexter. while rakiny
hay on his farm last Saturday morning.
became entangled in the lines with which
he was driving young mule. The ami
NAL ran away. dragging Graham across
the meadow. He died shortly after be
ing taken TO his home.-Ark. City Dem
ocrat.
According to statements in the local
papers the city officials OF Fort Scott are
a daisy set. The mayor is openly charged
with being a common gambler; two If
the councilmeu were detected in so qucs-
tionable transaction that they resigned
their positions, while the two policemen
who made this last discovery but failed
TO make arrests are denounced and their
removal demanded.
A Young man named Chitwood. living
near Poppleton postofiice. was killed by
lightning last week. He was in bel IN
the second story Of the house, and i'm
mediately after sharp clap Of thunder
the family heard ham moaning. and
upon going 10 his bedside saw that hs
had been struck by lightning and only
had few minutes 70 live. The lightning
struck the roof Of the house. glancei
down the store pipe. thence TO pair OF
scissors lying on the stand At the foot OF
the bed. then to Chitwood, shivering tho
bones OF both his legs ia horrible
manner.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
KANSAS KOLIARY.

Lawrence has Fred Douglas club,
says the Journal, composed of intelli-
gent colored men.
Geneseo has voted bonds to the amount
of S., 900 for the purpose of erecting a
school building. The building is to be
of brick.
The 11-wOrth Sun says the mines at
that place can lift forty thousand tons of
coal a day. Pretty good lift" for the
mine owners
Arkansas City is feeling its oats just
now. \ local paper says twenty eight
loads were counted on the streets one
day last week.
1t is said the Santa Fe company con-
template building line of road from To-
peka TO Omaha and from there to Mime
apolis or st. Paul.
Judge NJ. G. Troup was renominated
at Howard, Thursday, by the Republi-
cans of the Thirteenth district OF course
he will be elected.
Secretary Mohler, of the sta board Of
agriculture, speaking of the corn pros
pect IN Kansas, says: In any event we
will have big corn crop, as great deal
of the early corn Is safe.
The Knights Of Labor are getting to be
quite numerous in Arkansas City. They
already have lodge with a membership
of about $50, and new recruits are being
added TO the number each week.-Dem-
ocrat.
1t is reported that a petition is being
circulated in Topeka requesting the may
or and the city engineer to resign. A
social upheaval has taken possession Of
the city of newspapers" which bids
fair to shake it to its very Joints
The seathing issue in Lawrence Just
now is whether the dry goods clerks at
that place are to be permitted to DIS
pense with coats during work hours.
The historic city" is always torn up
upon some great question Of social
ethics. &. Star.
Wyandotte county, the smallest in
the state. claims that it is also the
wealthiest. The claim has only been as
serted since the removal Of George Mar
tin from Junction City thi.her Verify.
what has been J. C's. loss is Wyandottes
gain.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
RATIFICATION AT MT. HOPE.

To The Editor of the EAGLE.
The Republicans held quite an inter-
esting meeting here last evening. There
being a number of candidates here from
Wichita and other points we had good
supply Of speakers.
The meeting was called to order by ap-
pointing |. Ii. Fuller to the chair and
w. G. Richards, secretary.
The assembly was addressed on the
issues of the day by I. 2. Campbell, w.
II. Morris, Charles f. Coffin, James Max
well, 0. II. Bently and Thomas Noble,
of your city, and j. ". Vanaman, of
Garden PLANES.
The speeches, though short, were
punSent and right to the point. The re-
marks were listened to by large and APP
preciative audience. There were several
prominent Democrats present who APP
peared to be very much interested in
what was said, and it is hoped that they
went to their homes if not better, at least
wiser men, and when the November
leaves begin to fall you may expect TO
see Greedy township IN the front ranks
for Harrison and Morton, and the Re-
publican state and county ticket
Yours truly,
w G. r
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
Where lin Fit.

Atchlson champion.
State Auditor Timothy Mccarthy has
a record, as a soldier, of which any man
would have right to be proud. He is
probably the only man living today who
saw the beginning and the end of the
war, for he was at Sumter and at APP
pomattox. He was one of the two hun
bred picked men sent from New York
to REINFORCE Maj. Anderson, at TT. Sum
ter. and arrived in Charleston harbor just
as the bombardment of the historic fort
of the rebels began He took part after
wards, in the following historic bat
ties: First Bull Run. siege of York
town, Gaines Mills. Malvern Hill. sec
ond, Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericks-
burg, Charlottesville, Gettysburg, Rap
pahannOck station. the Wilderness cam
paign, Petersburg and Appoma'tox. He
was a soldier in the regular army for
eleven years-from 1854 to 1853 in the
First United States infantry, and from
1861 to 1857 in the Third ldtantry. He
was mustered out March II, 1864, as ser
geant major OF the regiment, but re-en-
listed two months later, and was mus
tered out in 1861 as first sergeant OF his
company.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
che aaiehta Daily gaele Sunday aoe, aueust s. 1885.

1t is explained that the delay in filling
the vacant st. Petersburg mission is due
to Mr.. Cleveland's exquisite sense of the
fitness of things. The Russian govern
ment being pre-eminently a military
government, he feels that the American
representative accredited to it should be
a military man. He wants to put the
appointment where he thinks it would
do the most good-to-wit, in Michigan
but If he cannot find any available Dem
ocrat who used to wear uniform he
will extend his search into other doubt
full states. A Pennsylvania contempt
rary, we notice, suggests that the APP
pointment really belongs to that state, in
view OF the scant recognition 1t has thus
far received at the hands of the admin
tration; but Mr.. Cleveland is not squan-
dering first class foreign missions on
Pennsylvania. Not this year.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
FAVORS FREE WHISKY.
To the Editor of the EAGLE.

To the Editor of the EAGLE
A few days since our attention was
called to an editorial that appeared in
Democratic daily of this city which
leads us to conclude that this writer has
been misled by the advice of his Demo-
cratic constituents of the street corners
until he Is positively incapable OF realiz-
ing fact when he hears it. We would
suggest for this journalist a careful
course of reading, a careful examination
of statistics and considerable preparation,
that his ability may eventually be re-
cognized. We would be pleased to reply
TO his interrogations were not his warped
ideas SO foreign to facts. We are, how
ever, partially in favor of free Demo
cratic whisky during the campaign. the
inevitable result of which will be to kill
off the Democratic majority. E. A. b.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Democratic Simplicity Exemplified

OF the two senators now at Long
Branch a reporter writes in Mr.. Pulitz-
err S paper: MIR Hearst is probably the
most popular of the summer residents
He is just as easy to approach as when
he was plain miner, and many people
take advantage of this to go up to speak
to him. The senator rather enjoys this,
and his manner encourages people who
are strangers to come and speak to him.
The other senator is just as plain and
Democratic as the Californian. Senator
Blodgett has a cottage there, and the
other day he was wedding in the garden
while Senator Hsarst hung over the
fence and talked to him.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
DESPERATE TACTICS.

The desperate tactics TO which the
proves how badly frightened they are at
the political outlook. The campaign has
not yet sairly opened, and 10. the Demo
cratic hosts are already panic stricken.
Desperate diseases REQUIRE desperate
remedies. No foe will fight so iiercely
as one who is badly scared.
The latest developments in Democratic
councils is an admission of weakness
which is more complete and convincing
than all the campaign lies which have
been put in circulation against General
Harrison, or all the lodging which has
been resorted to by the attempts of the
party leaders to disavow free trade.
This denier resort is the infamous
determination to unSeat one more Re
publican so as to make the house of rep
resentatives tie on the call of states.
liz case the prohibition candidate, who
lives in New Jersey, should by some
unexpected turn of affairs succeed in
carrying his own state, there might
be such an equal division of the
balance of the electoral vote be-
tween Harrison and Cleveland as
to throw the election of president
into the house of representatives. In
such case the vote Of the house would be
by states, and not by individual mem
bers, and each state would cast one vote,
which would be determined by a
majority of the representatives of that
state.
As now constituted the Democrats
have in the house a majority of ten
members over the combined vote of the
Republicans and Independents. Yet on
a call of the states, the Republicans have
a ma jority of members in twenty states
and the Democrats a majority in elgh-
teen states. Thus, on a call of the
states by which a president must be
elected, when the election is thrown
into the house of Representatives by the
failure OF any candidate 10 receive a
majority of all the electoral votes, the
Republicans would, as the house now
sands, cast twenty votes and the Demo-
Gratis only eighteen.
The Democrats have now become so
badly scared that they have determined
70 unseat one Republican in a state
which is now Republican, and
give his seat to a Demo-
crat. To give the face of fairness and
plausibility TO this interruptions piece
of partisan skullduggery, the Democrat
ic majority of the house committee on
privileges and elections have selected for
their victim 4 man who was elected by
the small plurality of 119 over the Dem
ocradc and Prohibition candidates. To
give further pretense of fairness 10 this
high handed outrage they have selected
4 seat IN state which now has six mem
bers, four of whom are Republicans and
TWO Democrats. The state is California.
and the victim selected by these Demo-
cratic managers is Congressman Chas.
y. FELTON,. of the Fifth district. The
proposition is 10 give Felton's seat TO his
Democratic opponent, Frank j. Sulli-
van. This would leave the California
delegation equally divided, so that on
call of states California would simply
have no vote.
This. 1t Is claimed, would not help the
Democrats. because that party would
still have only the votes Of eighteen out
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
sp1R1TUALIsT MANIFESTATIONS.

Spiritualism has a large number OF
jealous devotes VITO believe in it as i'm
plicity and as honestly as the followers
of any form OF religion. The greater
majority of mankind look upon all medi-
ums as impostorS and all those who be-
! lieve in them rs dupes. In the days of
| the inquisition the mediums would have
been burded as witches. La this more
enlightened age they are generally left
to make as many converts as they can
convince Of the correctness Of their teach
ing, and the genuineness Of the correct
ness of the phenomonea which they
claim to produce.
That there are fraudulent pretenderS
among those who clam 10 be mediums,
ali spirituahsts admit, hut they al be-
lieve in the existence of true mediums.
1t would be idle to dispute their sincerity
and it is vain to deny that their ranks
contain many people Of culture and re-
linement.
1t may be fairly said that exposures of
fraudulent mediums appears TO be very
frequent, and il is certain that these I'M
posters appear to retain to a remarkable
degree the confidence of their dupes,
even after the swindling operations are
fully shown up. The Juggling devices
that awaken the Indignation Of some
spiritualists, and provoke the ridicule OF
unDelievers, still retain their power over
a certain number.
Faith, fanatic faith, once welded fast
To some fond error hugs it to the last"
One thing has to be said for the medi-
ums They make a specific claim TO be
able to do certain thing under certain
circumstances. II is true they under
take 10 prescribe their own condition, but
the investigator is able to Judge for HIM
self Of the sufficiency Of the tests to be
applied. The undertaking medium I'M
der;ake5 to produce, in visible form, the
spirit OF some deceased person to be re-
cognized by some living person. 1t is
The fault Of the living person if he shall
be deceived.
The medium promises to cause a mira
Gle to be performed. 1t ought to be easy
enough to Judge whether or not the con-
ditions prescribed are such as to preclude
the possibility Of deception. If one makes
up his mind to believe, he will of course
fall on easy prey. If he is determinedly
skeptical he will PROBABLY condemn
without investigation. But, if he be an
honest seeker after truth, he can always
apply tests that are satisfactory and con-
elusive.
The childishness of the receptions prac-
ticed in cases that have been exposed
must be conceded, and whether fairly or
not, the world is generally inclined to
judge spirituali5m by the Righteousness
Of pretensions shown to be false and alb
Surd.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

The Republican county convention Tor the pur-
nose of nominating candidates for the following
once TO be filled by election this fall, to-wit
Probate Judge.
County Attorney.
Clerk CT the District Court.
Superintendent OF Public instruction and
State Senator.
VIII be held at the court house in the city OF Wich
ita on the 25th day of August d. 1855 at II O'CLOCK
a.. IN. -. -, ,- All.
There will alsobe held at the same place ardHmme
hiarely after the adjournment of the Republican
county convention, convention TO nominate can
didae for representative for the Eghty-rst repre-
sentative district -,
There will also be held at the same place and i'm
mediately after the adjournment Of the RepUblca4
county convention. a COM ent!on 10 nominate can
didae foI representative for the Eightysecond rep
resentative district and for the purpose OF nonl-
mating a candidate for the Office OF county comnls-
sioner for the Second commissioner district.
There will also be held in the city Of Wichita, or
the West Side at O'Clock p. M. on The 2it DAY Of
August A. ID. lass. convention 10 nominate a can
didate for representative for the Eighty-thrd repre-
sentative distriC
said conventions are called by order OF the RepUo
lican county central committee and the townships
and wards will be entitled 10 the following nlilter
OF delegates and slteTnates in SAID convention 10
wit: one delegate a large for each to"nsElp ana
ward and one delegate for each twenty NE
votes. and major fraction thereof, cast tor
Timothy McCarty in fall OF l1,6. winch al-
portioDed among the several townships ana wards
would enttle them to the following representation
hjsh incl md % de
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
GRATIFYING EXHIBIT.

The state board of equalization ha9
completed the tabulation OF the assess
ment of the state by counties. The total
valuation of the state. as shown by the
returns, is 1888, 233l ~. This is an
increase of $42, $40, 432, 70 over last year.
This showing, made on basis of say a
30 per cent valuation is. everything con-
sidered, most gratifying exhibit. An
increase of one hundred and twenty
seven millions dollars in the valuation of
the property of the state in one year, and
such a year as the last one has been, is
not only encouraging but highly salts
factory.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

A Union Labor organ announces as
one of the principles of that party that
convict labor should be abolished. Its
idea is, then, the honest, free labor of
the country should be taxed TO support
the convicts while they lie around idle
in comfortable quarters, their brain the
while busy workshop for the devil
Such policy, if adopted, would serve as
premium upon vice and wrong doing.
Unless the convict be guilty of an of
Tense that demands his solitary coniine-
ment it is infinitely better for everybody
that those sentenced TO prison be kept at
some employment that will yield suffi-
Gent returns for their own support while
thus incarcerated. The argument that
it is not right to have the fruits OF con-
Wet labor come in competition in the
market with that Of the honest toilers is
all that can be said il support of the
proposition and has no weight with rea-
soning and reasonable people. 1t is
wrong in theory and would be harmful
in practice The idlers constitute a
heavy burden upon the workers of every
community and their number should not
be augmented by the operations of the
law.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Mrs. Norton and her para Moore appear
to be as ubiquitous as they are impertur-
able. They appear in Ontario, Colorado
No-Man's-Land, California and half
dozen other places at the same time, ac-
cordIng to reports. They started out
from ST. Louis month ago in search of
potoriety; they have gotten what they
wanted,
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Senator Edmunds does not propose TO
commit political murder or suicide this
year, and is out in good time FOR Harri-
son. His experience four years ago was
not enjoyable. His state went for
Blaine, and declared for the plumed
knight in 1888, declining, for the first
time in decade OF two, to present Ed
munds' name in the national convention.
Even the White Bear of Burlington.
tough old ursa major that he is. could
feel that cut, and hence his present haste
to get in with the party.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

George T. thus patronizingly refers to
Cousin Dams pet scheme and its probable
effect upon his recent candidature, and
things. Quoth George in the Ottawa
Republican: "A search and seizure law
would have demoralized the headquar-
tiers of the Leavenworth outfit at Topeka
as badly as the searching and seizing
burglars did its leader, when they in
vaded and carried off the liquids found
IN his cellar"
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Somebody telegraphed General Harri-
son, the day after he was nominated, to
shut his mouth and throw away his pen.
The advice, born of political wisdom,
did not take into account the peculiar
fitness Of the Republican candidate to
say and do the right thing at the right
time. Like the late General Garfield,
General Harrison is safe and felicitous
talker and writer, and his friends never
have to explain his sentiments away
after he has uttered them.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

And still Cleveland's letter is not forth
coming. 1t seems to be in a state of
innocuous desuetude, so TO speak, due
perhaps to something that was left out
of the cyclopedia, Perhaps-happy
thought!--he is going to decline. There
is ample precedent for such n course IN
his inaugural address, and enough in
centive in the present state of the
canvass.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

The Frisco company ara contemplating
making change in time on their run
from Wichita to Ellsworth. Their pres
ent time between these two cities is four
and one-haf hours. IL the con,em-
plated change goes into effect the run
VIII be made in three hotIrs-
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

This is the time of year when the Iowa
editor peeps out of his cyclone cellar,
puts ice on his thermometer, and, after
writing an article about last week S
lightning fatalities and sunstrokes, in
dites powerful leader against the ter
rible drouth in Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Where is Carl Schurz, the flying
Dutchman, in these days of mugwump
melancholy? Has he left George Viii
liam Curtis and little Seth Low to guard
the ark of the kickers covenant alone:
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

A party from Texas is in Pawnee
county, according to the Larned Eagle
Optic, disposing, or at least trying to dis
pose Of, rights to the use of n patent pro-
cess of sub-irrigation At an off-hand
guess we should say that as an auxiliary
to the production of Russian white oats
this patent sub-irrigation scheme viii
prove financial successful the seller
thereof
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

The townships of Rockford. Parke. Valley Center
and Garden Plain. II wing each two voting pre-
circts the delegate a. large has boon given to the
precinct having the largest unrepreeented vote.
Tho central committee recommend that the pri-
maries be held from to oclock m. at the usual
voting places in each township, and IN the wards OF
the CITY OF Wichita from to O'Clock p. m, Al the
usual voting places, Thursday the 23rd day OF
August A. ID. lSss-
The central committee also recommends that on
tho 2srd day OF August. A. ID. ISIS, between the
hours above named for holding the primaries Tor
the county convention, that the pI maries Tor the
several representative districts be also held
Done by Order of the Republican County Central
Committee. -
J r III. KING. Secretary.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05
Every Day Reading.


Control your thoughts and direct them.
Rise above the petty jars and chickering's
of the vicious: and learn TO live IN the
realm of noble thought and generous
feeling. Then you VIII not only De happy
yourself. but blessing TO all around
YOU. 1t may cost an edor;-will you
give il:
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Bob Ingersoll says-but we will not
profane this holy day by quoting him,
though he sometimes tells the truth.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

General Harrison is necessarily de-
Ginning hundreds of invitations these
days, but he says he'll be on hand at the
reunion of his old regiment, the Seven
tieth Indiana, at CLAYTON next month if
he can possibly manage it. The general
never forgets the boys with whom he
soldiered and suffered during the times
that tried the stoutest hearts. He natur-
ally warns toward them, and the glow
is thoroughly reciprocal.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

The theory of early planting and use
of the early varieties of seed for corn
crop that has been urged by the EAGLE
for years has indisputabie endorsement
in this seasons experience. Those
farmers who acted upon that idea at
planting time have the comfortable
assurance of good crop of that cereal,
while some others will probably have to
content themselves with two-thirds of a
crop, in consequence of the dry spell of
the past fortnight.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Ii now seems that T. J. Goodwin. the
county treasurer of Rawlins county is,
- reports have charged him, defaulter
in the sum of 10000. or Whereabouts.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Private Dalzell says he shall soon take
pains to let General Harrison know Of
Ibis cordial and sympathetic support"
That is what the party is waiting for.
els Corporal Finn in the ranks asked
the Duke of Wellington just before
Waterloo. HE is, your hoeor," replied
the corporal "Then,' said the Iron
Duke, with an air of great relief, ''let
the battle begin" Dalzell should hurry
up. The army is in line, and its leader
is getting nervous.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Maize reports a heavy rainfall Friday
that makes the corn crop OF that neigh
borhood 0. (.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

Emperor William resembles the young
man, just of age, with lis patrimony in
his pocket, who Is disposed to paint the
town and check the elephants trunk.
He is playing emperor twelve hours a
day regardless of expense, now in Russia
and Sweden, tomorrow i'll Austria and
Italy, and next week before other select
audiences. The young man may never
be Frederick the Great, but his spectac-
ular tendencies are such that he may
become a second p. T. Barnum.