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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13
MOURNED AS DEAD.

Return of q Man Who Had Been Lost Sight
OF For Twenty-Five Years.
HELENA, Ark. Dec. What proves to
be a most interesting and romantic story
OF the return day Of q man who has
been mourned as dead for a quarter of q
century has just come to light. The hero
Of the story is an old man named Andrew
j. Joyce, who is now seventy-five years
OF age. His whereabouts was discovered
by the merest chance. The beginning Of
the story dates back to the late war. At
the beginning of the war he resided in
Marietta, Ga, and was possessed Of quite
number of slaves and was quite promi>
nent- He left his place of residence with
quite number of negroes, whom he dis
posed of and converted the proceeds of the
sale into tobacco. From that time to the
present his friends had not heard of him.
1t was thought that he had met a band Of
guerrillas, who had killed and robbed him
of his possessions
Judge +. j. HUMPHREYS, of this city, and
clerk of the Circuit Court, yesterday re-
celved a dingy-looking letter from New
Orleans, stating that the writer's name
was A. j. Joyce, and that he had Just
gotten out Of a Cuban prison, where he had
been imprisoned since 1867. He further
stated that he had written hundreds of
letters to his friends and relatives and
never received a reply, and that the only
way he learned of the Judges where
aeouts was through the means OF an old
newspaper, in which he noticed that be
had been reelected as circuit clerk of tbs
county.
In his letter Joyce says he became a
blockade runner during the war and made
Tour successful runs, and ON the fifth he
was captured; that he operated with the
son of an Ex-Governor (Wells). He did not
state how he became imprisoned Judge
Humphries as soon as he received the
letter telegraphed to q MIR. Roberts. of
Tyler, Tex, q son-in-law OF Joyce. stating
that their father-in-law was still livinc'
Steps were Immediately taken to have him
provided for. A letter from Tyler, Tex.
received to-day. says that he is now theirs
with his daughter, who has long
mourned him as being dead. Joyce has q
son and daughter in this county, also a
son-in-law. A peculiar feature connected
with the first letter received from him
after such an absence, was that the fir.t
sentence in the letter related to the LAT
circumstance that his friends and relatives
remember in connection with his iiss,.
pearance, namely, the sale OF a certain Ioe
OF negroes he begins by telling that he
sold the negroes, and from that -
branches OF on other subjects. He ha.
been weakened in mind and BODY Inv nj.
heightened confinement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Dec IA courtsl,;n
OF thirty-fve years standing was ended
yesterday by the marriage of two we'll
Known people Of this county, Joshua Shine.
Es!., ana MISS Margaret Douglass. Hr'
Shipe was twenty-five years of 40. 80
the bride OF yesterday ten when they ~
came engaged Mr. Shipe had q m.;ds,,
sister who opposed the match and eS:".
Dougiass' mother objected too S.v.--,
umes since match would be arr.,~ss
only 70 be broken of by the connivin- -
s'ruves. Miss shipe died the other d.
withdrew her objections to TIE 1ess
posed union. s-ss long pro-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13

every market of the world, with re-
solting restoration of American commerce
Existing evils and intustices should be honestly
zrecognized, boldly met and effectively RENE
died. There should be no cessation of the
struggle until plan is perfected fair and con
eervative towards existing industries but which
Will reduce the cost to consumers OF the neces-
saries of lie, while it provides for our manu-
facturers the advantage OF free raw materials
and permits no injury to the interests OF Ameri
waged is confined within lines clearly and dis
a1nctly defined. 1t should never be compromised
H Is the peoples cause.
It can not be denied that the selfish and pri
Yatc interests which are SO persistently heard
when efforts are made to deal in q just and
comprehensive manner with our tariff laws, are
related to. il they are not responsible for. the
chat the General Government is the fountain Of
xnaividual and private aid: that it may be
expected to relieve with paternal care
she distress of citizens and communi
1ies and that from the fullness o.
Ats treasury it should. upon the
general good. apply public funds to the beneh
II localities and individuals: nor can it be de
<zkcd that there is growing assumption that
zns against the Government and In favor 81
,xriyate of private claims and interests, thu
nsual rules and limitation OF business principle,
snnd lust dealing should be waived.
These ideas have been unhappily much en-
ssoaraged by legislative acQuiescence. Relic
fcrom contracts made with the Government Il
.eaxiIv accorded In favor OF the citizen. as thu
exflure to support claims against the Govern
sne.ut by proof is often supplied by no bette
consideration than the wealth OF the Govern
lent and the poverty Of the claimant Gratua
e5es in the form OF pensions are granted upol
"a other real ground than the needy condition
- ske applicant, or for reasons less vanos an
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13

them.
Another class of postal employees whose con-
dit,on seems to demand legislation is that of
clerks in post-of1ces. and call especial atten-
ton to the repeated recommendations of the
Postmaster-General for their classification.
Proper legislation of this character for the
relief Of carriers in the free delivery service has
been frequent, Provision is made for their
promotion: for substitutes for them vaca-
ton; for substitutes for holidays, and limiting
their hours of labor. Seven million dollars has
been appropriated for the current year to pro-
vide for them, though the total number Of of
fees where they are employed is but $50 for the
the current year OF but forty. while the total
appropriation for all clerks in Offices through
out the United States is eh950000.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
The transactions OF the Department OF JUS
tice for the fiscal year ended June 81, 1888, are
contained in the report OF the Attorney Gen
eral, as well as a number of valuable recon-
of those previously made and ought to receive
consideration. II is stated in this report that
though judgments in civil suits amounting to
S552 OF were recovered in favor of the Gov
eminent during the year, only the sum Of S132,
e3l was collected thereon; and that though
amounting to S541 89S 43. only 81 96z642 Of thai
sum was paid on account thereof.
These facts may furnish an illustration Of the
sentiment which extensively prevails that 9
debt due the Government should cause no in
convenience TO the citizen.
1t also appears from this report that though
prior to March, 1885. there had been but si1
Idaho under the laws Of 1862 and 1852, punish
| ing polygar1y and unlawful cohah6tation q
l cfimes there have been since that date nearly
| TX hundred convictions under the laws ana
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13

paid for pensions during the fiscal year was
s7S as. s51.91, being increase over the pre-
ceding year Of b, eos. $50 q. The expenses at
tending the maintenance and operation of the
Pension Bureau during that period was g. 262
524.61, making the entire expenditures OF the
bureau $S2. OBS 1885,: Z. being 21A per cent of the
gross income and nearly 81 per cent OF the to-
tai expenditures Of the Government during the
year.
am thoroughly convinced that our general
pension laws should be revised and adjusted to
meet. as far as possible in the light of our ex.
perience. all merItorious cases The fact that
are paid can not in my opinion be made con
sistent with justice to the pensioners or to the
Government, and the numerous private pen-
sion bills at are passed. predicated upon the
imperfection OF general laws, while they in
crease in many cases existing Inequality
the recommendation for a revision Of
the general laws on this subject.
The laxity Of ideas prevailing among large
number OF our people regarding pensions is be-
upon which they should be granted are IN dan
ger OF beng altogether ignored, and already
pensions are often claimed because the appli-
cants are as much entitled as other successful
applicants, rather than upon any disabil-
ity reasonably attributable to military
service. If the establishments of
various precedents be continued il
the granting Of pensions be not divorced from
partisan and other unworthy and irrelevant con-
siderations and the honorable name Of veteran
unfairly becomes by these means but another
term for one who constantly clamors for the aid
of the Government there il danger that injury
win be done to the fame and patr otisn OF MANY
whom our citizens delight to honor, and that
prejudice will be aroused unjust to mexitori-
GUS applicants for pensions.
AGRICULTURAL
The Department OF Agriculture has continued
With good measure Of success in it ecoEts to
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both parties to the difficult and vexed Ques-
ton to which it related" and having subse-
Quently a..d unavailingly recommended other
legislation to Congress which I hoped would
by the rejection of the treaty, I now
again invoke the earnest and immediate
attention of the Congress to the con-
dition of this important question as it now
stands before them and the country. and for the
settlement Of which am deeply solicitous-
The West incident is treated follows:
shear the close OF the month of October last
Occurrences OF deeply regrettable nature were
brought to my knowledge, which made it my
painful but imperative duty to obtain, with as
little delay as possible, q new personal chan
mel of diplomatic Intercourse in this country
with the Government of Great Britain.
The correspondence IN relation to this incident
will In due course be laid before you and win
disclose the objectionable coniuct of the on
cial referred to In his interference by advice
and counsel with the suflrages of American cit
liens in the very crisis of the Presidential cleo
ton then near at hand and also in his subse-
Quent action. superadding impugnment OF the
Executive and Senate of the United States in
connection with important questions now pend
ing in controversy between the two Govern
ments. The O6ense thus committed was most
grave, involving disastrous possibilities to
the good relations Of the United States and
Great Britain. constituting gross breach of
diplomatic privilege and an invasion of the
purely domestic affairs and essential sove-
reignty of the Government to which the envoy
was accredited Having nrst fulfilled the just
demands OF International comfy, by afiording
| full opportunity for her Maiesty's Government
| 10 act In relief of the situation considered
prolongation OF the subject to be unwarranted
and therefore declined to further recognise the
diplomatic character Of the person whose con-
unuaaes n such function wonla destroy thas
The new North-west., 1888-10-26
Biting the Finger Nails.

A novel accident, resulting from a habit
of very common prevalence among nervous
people, was brought to my notice recently.
A young lady presented herself at my office
complaining Of constant irritation in her
throat Two weeks previously she had been
taken with very severe ''sore throat"
which was treated bya neighboring physi-
cian Under his care, she says, the inflam-
nation quickly subsidized, but there still re-
manned sensation of irritation. Examina-
ton revealed q SMALL heshy looking object,
about the size of kernel of wheat, adherent
to the tissues posterior to the left tonsil by
one end. The other parts Of the throat were
normal
The little mass could not be detached by a
cotton covered probe, but by the use of for
ceps it was easily removed, and on examina-
tion proved to be apiece of finger nail, which
had become covered by a cheesy deposit. A
broken piece Of the nail was also removed
from under the mucous membrane at tho
same spot by sharp pointed probe. The pa
tient then confessed to the habit of biting her
finger nails, and, moreover, could remember
that day or two previous to the onset of
her throat trouble piece Of nail which she
had bitten Off had become lost in her mouth,
but after it had caused fit of coughing she
had forgotten about it until reminded by my
discovery.-Dr. Jerome Tuthiu in Medical
Record
The new North-west., 1888-10-26

SUADRACH PENN. JOHN BRADfohO.
stead got control of the news columns and
established the modern system of having,
local correspondents in all the towns OF the
state to report important facts when they
occur, instead of having them filter to tho
CITY through the slow local weeklies, as had
been tie custom. Tho Cincinnati Gazette
was the first daily paper Of tho state, and
The Enquirer has been published under its
present name, cs weekly and daily, for fifty
years. The Cincinnati Daily Times dates
from 1910, and The Star is quite modern. The
cities of northern Ohio did not tal:e roticea-
bic rank till some time after the completion
of the Erie canal and its connecting rail-
roads, and the great papers Of that section
are of correspondingly later date.
It is little surprising to learn that Knox
vile, Tenn, had paper as early as 1'9sS-
The Gazette Its early files, like those OF
most carly papers, gave oil the news from
congress and Europe and New York city
what their readers then wanted-and very
littIc indeed about the adjacent country,
what We would now like to find in them
But the editor enjoyed the familiar acquaint-
ance of scores of men who had fought in the
Revolution, and the survivors Of Kings
Mountain fight and the Indian war little
Later were long a sort of sacred class in Last
Tennessee. Tho Knoxville Tribune has been
published continuously since 1916 Brown
lows Wing has long since disappeared. 1t
was suited for a peculiar era and naturally
had no successor.
The new North-west., 1888-10-26
Ill oa

the fact that It was settled first on the west
efn border; there was well built French
Miami town OH tho Wea plains over a cen
tary ago, and some 10000 white people were
in the Wabash and Ohio valleys while Kill
buck and Cap Anderson, Delaware In
dians, still held rule where Indianapolis now
stands. Nevertheless The Indianapolis Jour-
nal and Sentinel havo been published as
weeklies and dailies something over sixty
years. But the location of Indiana is not
favorable to the growth Of great cities or
great daily papers, and it is matter Of sur
prise and compliment to their managers
that the Indianapolis dailies have attained
such high rank. On the other hand, no
state in the Union has more influential
country press than Indiana. Indeed, it il
doubtful if the country weeklies in any
other state exercise as much power in poll
tics The absence Of any overwhelming
ce1trl power appears to have stimulated
talsnt in the smaller cities and towns, and
Decentralization IN literature and politics
has been carried to its utmost practicable
limits in that state.
The new North-west., 1888-10-26
IN the buggy, for the mob was in a desperara
mood and ready to kill them.

Inc car started, 5000 people blocking the
street. 1t was driven by a white faced Phila-
oelpnaan, named Ogden Curtis, who looked
30 frightened that even the crowd took pity
on MN. The front and rear platforms were
covered with policemen, and the occupants
OF the interior Of the car were policemen and
reporters. A patrol wagon filled with officers
preceded the car and another followed it.
other officers walking by the side of it.
Then regular battle began, $50 policemen
against 5000 men. The air was filed with
stones and sticks, and there was that sicken-
ing sound which accompanies the sudden
meeting OF . policenan's club and citizens
nead. Not an officer had escaped being hit,
out that didn't matter. Madison street was
reacned, where there was scattering. and
Tue policemen took rest. Every foot of
ground had been fairly won, and there wasn't
bluecoat who didn't have blood on his club.
fully lOO officers were struck in the face and
head, some OF them two or three times, and
when the command was called together at
Madison street there was not uniform which
was not besmeared with dust and gore. Two
morning paper reporters were hit in the head
by lying stones and were incapacitated for
duty. At least fifty men applied at drug
stores in the vicinity for treatment, showing
how severe the action had been. And with
similar scenes elsewhere, thus passed the
third day.
Tho next day was but repetition of the
third, on larger scale, 500 policemen at one
time being engaged in a desperate clubbing
match with mob Of perhaps 10000 people.
The mayor issued tho usual proclamation,
committees of citizens made the usual at
tempts to settle the difficulty, and the usual
phenomena followed-that is, the rioting got
beyond the men who started it, and all the
enemies of order began to take hand. Dyna-
mite was alleged to have been found upon
the tracks, and the strikers are said to have
received offers of bombs
The new North-west., 1888-10-26


keeping liquor saloon in San Francisco,
which became kind of exchange, much to
the profit of its proprietors. In 1862 these
men made their first investment in the Com
stock lode, Nevada. John w. Mackay joined
his fortune with theirs the first year, and in
1860 James c. Fair became the fourth partner
in the mining property owned by tho firm.
Whoever suffered by the collapse of the Com
stock ''boom" ten or eleven years ago, Flood
and his associates came out ahead.
It was Mr.. Flood who projected the Nevada
bank. He had for associates James C. Fair
and John W. Mackay. After finishing the
immense row of buildings called the Nevada
Block" in San Francisco, and just before
starting the Nevada bank, Flood made that
heavy call on the California bank which led
to its suspension and incidentally to the death
of William G. Ralston, tho popular Califor-
niar, whose fall and subsequent suicide was
greatly deplored by the public.
In personal appearance Mr.. Flood recalled
his Irish origin. His figure was imposing,
and his features gave him an aspect of power.
His house in San Francisco is costly struc-
ture, of plain architecture. The handsomest
country house OH the Pacific coast is that built
and occupied by him in San lIateo, in the
Santa Clara valley.
Flood was never q we'll man after the dis
astrous wheat deal that SO nearly wrecked the
Nevada bank a year ago, and from which he
suffered loss of $6, 100000!
The new North-west., 1888-10-26
Temptations of the Teller,

The big banks down town with which ex-
tensive brokers and merchants deal do an
enormous amount of business every day. A
great deal of this business is by checks and
drafts and the balances to be paid to settle
the debts and credits are fixed every morning
at the clearing house. But with all the checks
and drafts, the paying tellers in these banks
handle fortunes in cash every day that they
are at their windows attending to business.
Aside from the amounts which they pay out
between 10 and o'clock, there is always
a large cash fund held in reserve for contin-
gencies that may arise suddenly and unex-
pectedly. It is nothing extraordinary for a
paying teller to handle from 81, 100000 to
$4,000, 600 of cash in day.
When the doors of the bank closed the
paying teller counts his cash to see that the
amount called for by the books. He puts
his cash balance in the vault and quits work
until next morning. From tho time he
leaves the bank until the hour for him to
reappear no one of the officers of the bank
knows where he is. He may, in fact, stay
away couple of days on the plea of illness,
and if, as Is usually the case, he has the con-
fdence of his superiors, his absence arouscs
no suspicious.
Express trains leave for Montreal at and
1:15 every evening paying teller can
put n million dollars in greenbacks in his
pockets, walk out of his bank when the bust
ness of the day is over, and be in Montreal
before lie or the money is missed.
Paying tellers arc considered we'll paid
when they geta salary of s., 800 a year. They
know that their chance of becoming cashier
or president is very slim, and that the prob
abilities are they will 60 to the grave paying
tellers, or else be bounced because of old age,
or because change i'll the officers or board
of directors has brought into power some
rich and influential man with a poor rcla-
tive whom he wants to support without cost
to himself.
Consider for 4 moment the terrible tempta-
tions some of these tellcrs suffer. They see
men making money by methods which are
neither exactly dishonest nor exactly fair,
and that nobody interferes with them. They
also see and feel enough money day after day
to make them so independent Of work that
they could live on the fat of the land while
life lasts and not turn hand.-New York
Cor. New Orleans Picayune.
The new North-west., 1888-10-26
INDIANS MEDICINAL LORE.
Mysterious Herbs by Which They Cur
Formidable Diseasea in NIexico

Mysterious Herbs by Which They Cure
Formidable Diseases in Mexico.
Without doubt men of a money making
turn might, with perseverance, acquire from
the Indians knowledge of the mysterious
herbs with which they cure, radically, some
of those formidable diseases which battle the
greatest physicians Of the world. From
Chiapas and Tabasco up to Sonora and Chi
huahua, the Indians make good use Of the
herbs of the field and forest. The Indians
who live around the little hill called the
Penol, near this city, can cure intermittent
fevers much moro easily than our physicians,
and, in the state Of Queretaro, the Indians
have a remedy, known only to themselves
and the secret Of which they most jealousy
guard, which cures the worst forms of blood
diseases, as many foreigners here can testify.
So cunning are these Indians that they
employ, as I am told, q medicine which has
the property of paralyzing temporarily the
sense of taste, and thus their patients can
get 10 clew to the nature of the herbs they
are taking. Malaria yields quickly to the
powerful remedies of the Indians, and these
same rude practitioners will cure bad cases
Of typhus fever. In the treatment Of the
smallpox the Indians are very successful,
placing their patients in dark rooms, but
permitting currents of air to be continually
passing over the body of the patient, while
some herbal remedy is continually admins
tered That the Indians of the country
towns and of the little hamlets up in the
Sierras are healthy is plainly to be seen.
They live often to an incredible age, and
say themselves that the white man is sickly
fellow who has gray hair while their own is
still coal black.
A recent patient Of tho Querctaro Indians
said the remedy administered to him by the
Indians seemed to take hold of him in every
part Of his body, and that for twenty days
he was kept covered up and sweating pro-
fusely. It seemed to him that they were
getting his blood ''washed out" and every
organ of his body cleansed. At the end of
the prescribed time he was told that he was
cured, and so found himself beyond any
doubt Many of the herbs used by the In
dians are declared by them to be of great
value owing to their scarcity, and it is Ger
tain that they cherish them and will not
part with them for a song. Even educated
physicians here employ remedies not known
i'll the United States. Tho homGopaths use
the poison of certain venomous snakes and
the active principle Of poisonous native
plants. It is possible that science will yet
mako good use of the weed with which In
dian poisoners take away the wits of their
enemies A little of this powder in your
soup, and away goes your intellect and rea-
son. On the principle that like cures ike''
it may be that in this baleful weed there is
q remedy for some forms Of insanity, for wo
know very well that the treatment Of brain
trouble is in its infancy, so to say.-Mexico
Cor. Boston Herald.