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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-24
No. $50. First Published April "a, 1880.
sEEHIFFS SALE.

No. $50. First Published April a. 1889.
sHEEIFFs SALE.
STATE OF KANSAS,
COUNTY OF BARBER, %
In the District Court of Barber County, State
OF Kansas.
SmedleY Darlington plaintiff,
versus
Wilson l., Uuerback, and S. w Cooper.
defendants.
DY virtue of an order of sale issued out of the
ID District Court of Barber county, Kansas
IN the above entitled action, and to me direct
ed, i will on
FRIDAY, MAY gath,
A. D., 1880, at o'clock i'm the afternoon of said
day, at the front door OF the coul thouse in said
county, offer for sale at public auction and sell
without appraisement to the highest and best
bidder for cash in hand, to satisfy said order of
sale, all the right, title and interest whatsoever
OF the aboVe-named defendants and each of
them, ana All persons claiming under them I'm
and 10 the following described tract. piece and
parcel of land lying and situate in said county
of Barber, tO-wit:
The south half of the northeast quarter and
the north half of the southeast quarter of sec
ton twelve, township thirty-four. SOUTH of
range fifteen, west of the 9th p. NJ.
To satisfy said order Of sale together with
interest and costs, and for the costs of this
sale.
Given under my hand at my office in the city
OF Medicine Lodge, in said county, this 18th day
Of April, 1889.
GEO. W. STEVENS,
1852 Sheriff of Barber county.
schoonover Coates, Att'ys for Prf.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-24
No. 1l5o. First Published April "a. 1850
SuHprEr $50

NO. LOU. FIRST Published April "a 1882
sHERIFFs SALE.
STATE OF KANSAS,
BARBER COUNTY. IS.
In the District Court of Barber county. in the
state of Kansas.
J.rJ. Achenbach and Rudolph Fat
Ger, plaintiffs,
versus
Nj. L. Mcclure, defendant
DY virtue of an order of sale TO mo dirac-
~ ted, issued out of the District Ccurt of Ha,,
Der county, HANS, dated the 10Th day of Anril
1889, |, George w. Stevens, Sheriff of Barber
county, Kansas, will, on
FRIDAY, NAY "a,
a D., 1882 at the hour of o clock in the after
neon OF said day, ut the front door of the
courthouse, in the city of Medicine Lodge ia
oatroef county, Kansas, offer for sale at pub
nc auction TO the highest bidder for cash in
nand, all the right. title, interest claim and
and 10 the following described lands and tene-
ments, tO-wit: ~ ~
Lots one and four, and the south half of fire
northeast quarter. and the southeast olIerter
OF section four, in township thirty-five south
OF range eleven, west of the 9th p NJ ali i'm
Barber county, Kansas
To be sold without appraisemeut. To satisfy /.
judgment IN said action against said defend.
ant, and in favor of said plaintiffs. for the
sum of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Five
Dollars and Eighty Four Cents lSi1q5sil 10.
gether with interest and costs, and for the costs
| of this sale. W 0'S
Given under my hand at my Office in the CITY
OF Medicine Lodge, this, the 10Th day of April
GEO. W. STEVENS.
1852 Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
| FLYNN u ROBINSON. Aft'Vs for T,l'tR
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
Mahana,s STRENGTH.

A prominent Republican and personal
friend residing in another state, writes
us that Malone represents 80 per cent.
of the Republican vote OF Virginia. We
have no doubt he has been told so by
Malone or some one for him, and be-
lieves 1t. But we assure him, if Gen.
Malone had been placed before the peo~
pie on his own strength, as he should
have been, and not backed by the Ma
tional Committee and the patronage OF
the government, he would not have re-
ceived $4,000 votes. AS it was he did not
Harrison. Thousands voted for him be-
cause they had been made to believe
that he was the representative at the
National organization and National adj
ministration. They are at heart opposed
to him as much as we are, but do not
view the matter in the same light. After
the Petersburg packed conference ana
the Norfolk packed caucus. where it was
given out that Malone was the unani-
nous choice Of the Republicans of Vir-
glnia Ior do*erner, ne ought 70 nave
been left to himself, without any outside
assistance. His real strength could then
have been tested, and the majority
against him would not have been less
than 100000 II presented before the
people to-day We doubt whether 10000
people, Of their own choice and free will,
would vote for him for any office.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
Department of Agriculture.

We devote considerable space to-day
to extracts from the first report of the
Secretary of the Agricultural Depart
ment. The report itself Is able and in
teresting, and evidences that Secretary
Rusk is the right man in the right place.
The Importance of this department can
not well be overestimated. Its business
relates to large class of our most intel
ligent and useful citizens, and the
Interests involved implicate more largely
every avenue of industry than any other
department. Secretary Rusk is ably
aided by Hon. h. W. Wiilets, assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, and a gentle
man of rare culture and conspicuous for
his high personal and political integrity,
The Agricultural Department starts uns
der favorable auspices under its present
management, and will progress in use
fulness under the wise and efficient adj
minstratiOn that now rules 1t,
The police census recently taken gives
Norfolk a population OF 81, $50.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
The 10th District.

In 1886 when the Republicans of each
county and Congressional district i'll the
State. organized without outside inter
ference and the State Committee was
practically a dead Institution so far as
that campaign was concerned, the
Tenth district was carried by the
Republicans by 100 majority. In 1888.
the Presidential year, when the State
Committee assumed control of the man
agement of everything and appropri-
ated the fund contributed for the bene-
fit OF the party where it would do the
most good for the chairman, the Demo
Gratis carried the district by about 800.
The district was lost by the Republican
stay-at-home vote in the eastern coun-
ties The singular feature of it was that
there should have been so large a stay
at-home vote ina Presidential year. The
same influences that operated TO elect a
Democrat in the 4th district, where there
is Il Republican majority of 5000, was
doubtless put in force in the 10th dis
trict Ia 1885, when the chairman of
the State Committee thrust his person
ality conspicuously into the canvass, as
the self nominated candidate for Coy
ernor the Democrats carried the dis
trict by nearly foe THOUSAND and he lost
ereFy county IN the district. The man
agement at Petersburg generously con
eeded that this district might go 1000
Democratic. in view of the fact that the
VALLEY NIRGINlAA opposed the self
nominated candidate for Governor
That was the limit of the allowance.
The result shows wherein the self-decep-
ton was apparent.
Correspondents of Northern papers
were informed, over mint iuleps in Pc
tersburg. that the 1st district would go
200 for the Norfolk ticket that the ed
district would give 5000 : the Sd district
500; the 18th district 1000: the 9Th dis
trict 500 Democratic: the 9Th district SOC
Democratic: the 18th district , 800 the Sth
district 900 Democratic the 9th district
1900 for the Norfolk ticket. and the 10th
district 900 for Mckinney.
The result. however was somewhat
different and just what the NIRGINIAN
predicted. Every district in the State
except the 4th. gave a large majority
against the Norfolk ticket, and the 4th
: here it Was claimed the Norfolk ticket
would get from 1000 to 5000. it received
about 700.
We give below the maiorities by dis
tricts as thus far reported The Official
count will, doubtless, run the aggregate
up in the neighborhood of $4,000, while
it was claimed that it would be from
10000 to $1,000 for the Norfolk ticket
only slight difference in the calculation
of about &C. 900
This is the result and effect of trying
to boss the people and drive them by
bribery, fraud and force, to vote for
a candidate whom they despise and who
has fairly earned the execration of every
good citizen of the Commonwealth.
The following are The unofficial ma
jorities by districts
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
"wnen the Cows Come Home.

That rustic, fugitive, rhythmic creation
known to newspaper readers as when
the Cows Come Home is published in
the Florence. S. c., Centenary" for
November and credited to Illustrated
Christian Weekly, with Mrs. Agnes &.
Mitchell, as the auther, and transferred
to our outside. For nearly half a cen
fury the production has been source
of pleasure to the lovers of rural senti-
ment, and familiar to all who observe
passing pOatic contributions to current
literature. And its author is we'll known
to be Thomas Dunn English, and at one
time as the poet of the Alleghanies,
who lived in Webster. county, West Vir-
ginia, but is now q blind invalid, resid-
ing in New Jersey, or did few years
emotional nature that emanated the
pathetic and touching song OF "Oh .
don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben
Bolt" Many of our readers will remem-
Der the rollicking, classical, impulsive,
genial Tom English, who electrified the
Democratic State Convention in 1855,
which nominated Henry A. Wise for
Governor in Staunton, by his native elo-
quence and magnetic lnannerisms. The
unaffected beauty and grace Of his die
ton, the flowing, impressive, charming
symmetry OF his sentences and the
rounded beauty of his periods, constitu
ted rare combination of intellectual
gifts and emotional wealth. And Ben
Bolt and when the Cows Come Home, y
so mellow and melting in their cadences,
so natural in the feeling and sentiment
inspired, are simply the outflow of one of
the rosiest and brightest and sweetest
natures we have eyer known. It is a
robbery that does not impoyerish Tom
English. and cannot enrich Mrs Mitch
ell, for her to appropriate the singular
and beautiful creation of the Poet of the
Alleghanies," but it is but fair that the
plagiarism should be exposed.
Since writing the above. we notice in
New York Ledger another poem from
Mr.. English, :sThe Lady Of the Rock"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

solid South" by snch means. would
have been the precursor to d broken Re
publican party AL over the country.
The Republicans OF Virginia saved The
Chicago Convention of 1888 from a solid
South delegation, when the purpose
was to dictate the nomination on that
occasion. Had it been effected Cleve-
land would now be III the Executive
chair, and Harrison Dracticing his pro-
fession in indianapolis.
In defeating Mahoneism in 1889, they
have saved the national organization
from "A dangerous menace, and from the
influence Of one of the most unscrupu-
lous conspirators that ever disturbed
the peace of a Commonwealth or threat
ened the success, if not existence, OF a
great national party.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
Dem. Mai. Rep. Mai.


These figures are object lessons to the
people of Virginia and the people of the
country, Notwithstanding the efforts
that were mad4 TO induce Republicans
to believe that Malone represented the
National party and the administration
in the recent election. the free people of
this State entered the overwhelming
protest that ssas recorded against him,
Had he been before the people upon his
individual strength and popularity, the
majority would have been double to
lat it is. and Mahones standing with
his own people would have been fully
eXemDlified
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

WHEAT & SUMMERsoN have in stock
all those nice goods for an admirable
menu on Thanksgiving Day.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

Our old friend, s. G. Allen, Esq, of
Amherst seems to be in n estate of
mind" In an interview with the Am
herst Ne7r Era, he takes a gloomy view
Of the future of what was the Republi-
can party, and says Jno. f. Lewis and
s. N. Yost have destroyed it. When
asked what was Republicanism, he is
reported as saying that ''Mahoneism is
Republicanism.n Ii this definition OF
what Republication is be correct, then
it were high time it were broken up, and
II the gentlemen named have been instru-
mental i'll effecting that end, they de-
serve the thanks of all true Republicans
i'll Virginia and throughout the country.
Mr.. Allen is a sincere man, and we con
slider him a Republican in principle, end
brave and true in asserting and main
tanning his convictions. But we radi-
cally differ with him as to the interpre-
tation of Republicanism, and also with
his respondent view of the future of
the party We think we see brighter
future for it than ever before, and time
will sustain us in this opinion.
Ny only family NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Liver Regulator Jas. NJ Rollins,
Fairfield. Va.
Dir. Robert Cabell, of Richmond died
on the 10th, aged so years. He was
son of Gov. Cabell, who was afterwards
a Judge of the Supreme Court of the
State.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

What the Returns Show for Augusta
McKinney's vote .4 1870
Cleveland's, 1888. Observation-Disclosures. 1920
Mckinney's gain .......... $50
Harrison's vote; 1888. .............. 3141
Mahones wore Observation-Disclosures. $500
Mahone's loss ............. TAG
Mckinney's majority. ...... 1871
Cleveland's majority. 'S6. .......... $40
Gain in McKinney's majority. 1922
Mckinney's majority ............,. 1871
Made up as follows:
Mck's. gain over C...,..... $50
Mahone's loss. ....-... ..... 742
4744 anti Mahoneites voting for
Observation-Disclosures. $40 1871
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
The State Debt.

!
We join with the Petersburg HQde1-
Appedt ia the demand upon the next
Legislature to take some definite and
practical step to remove all compiler
tions about the State debt. The pres
ent condition of this question is iniufing
Virginia seriously We know this. Cap
italists from other States look at the
matter as it appears on the surface.
They know there is,a controversy going
on between the creditors of the State
and the State government-that the
court dockets are crowded with suits
against citizens of the State simply be-
cause they offer in payment for their
taxes, the obligations of the State spe-
cialiy provided for that purpose. They
see there is a default in interest pay
Inent, and this makes an augmentation
of the debt yearly They do not under
stand that the people will not submit to
an increase of the rate of taxation, and
that the taxes are not likely TO be more
burdensome than they now are. 1t is
the uncertainty as to what is to come
and the conviction that the only way to
honorably get rid of Il debt is to pay it.
We have no doubt a plan could be de-
yised to meet the case and not increase
the rate of taxation. The creditors want
to have the matter adjusted. The people
are DESTROYS of effecting the same object.
lfan honest effort were made by the leg
islature Just elected, we believe "a plan
could be devised to dispose of the whole
subject, satisfactorily to all parties. 1t
is a pressing duty to make it seriously
and promptly.
The majority in this district for our
delegate-elect, John w. Woods, Esq, is
even ,299, while the majority for Capt.
johnson, our Senatorelect. amounts to
1,5)2 How is that for IL district that
elected a Republican to the Senate two
years ago ?-SaIem Register.
Roanoke is one of the Southwest
counties where Gen. Malone claimed he
would make great gains But instead
of having H. majority in the 9th district
Of 1000 as was confidently expected, he
lost it by from 1850 to 5000, and so it
vas in every other congressional district,
The cry Of fraud is amply refuted by the
returns from the counties where the
white voters largely predominant, and
where fraud is not permitted, for there
are determined white men on both sides,
who would not allow either the suppress
sion of The votes or frauds to be per
petrated.
The next annual meeting Of the State
Convention of the Y. NJ. c. A. of Eir-
gina will meet in Portsm outh on the
18th to the 10th of February, 1890,
John b. Allen and Watson s. Squires
have been elected United States Senator
from the new State OF Washington.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21
How ] hey Voted i,

We are reliably informed that Gen.
Walker voted this ticket, at the recent
election: Mckinney. Tyler, Scott, Crock
EFT rep Candidate for Senate,) and
Kent
And that Bx-Atty: Gen. Blair voted
this one: Mckinney, slemp, REP. can
didate for Lieut.. Gov, and who was
placed in nomination by the ex-Atty-
Gem, at the Norfolk Convention), Scott,
Easey and Kent WWherfYe Dispatch,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

From which it would appear that the
VALLEY VIRGINIAN was read in Au-
gusta. and that the two or three kickers
voted Nearly and often
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

A lively contest for the speakership of
the next House of Representatives is
going on in Washington. Reed, Can
non and Mckinley are the favorites,
with Burrows and Henderson in waiting
for break in the forces of the leaders.
The prevalent impression seems to be
that Reed will win the prize but should
he not be nominated in caucus on the
1st or ed ballot, the belief is entertained
that Mckinley will be the choice. Either
one of the gentlemen named would make
an acceptable presiding officer.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

Women troubled with headache. will
find Simmons Liver Regulator relieves
and cures.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21


this one: Mckinney, slemp, tRep. can
didate for Lieut.. Gov, and who was
placed in nomination by the eX-Atty.
Gen., at the Norfolk ConventionO, Scott,
Easley and Kent. Wytherflie Dispatch
I,oudonn county gave Mckinney 900
more majority than Cleveland received
in 1898, yet the Democratic vote was in
creased only nine votes.
The Civil Service Commission has
made up a very strong ease against the
employees of the government, including
Col w. C. Elan, who violated the civil
service law in the recent election in Vir-
ginia. 1t is said the matter will be Wig
Qrously prosecuted. There are other
more fragrant eases than Col. Elam's,
which will. no doubt. be brought TO the
attention of the President and the Com
mission.
The Court House, built few years
ago at a cost of 1922 900, in Warrenton,
Va, was burned on Friday last. A Dem
ocratic jubilee was going on, and big
bon fire was started in front of the build
ing. In few minutes the structure was
on fire and soon in ashes The court
records were saved and portrait of
Chief Justice Marshal was also. The
building was insured for $4,000.
Miss Corcoran, better known as Nellie
Bly,. a writer on the New York World,
and lady of wonderful energy and ver=
satility. started last week on a trip
around the world. to be completed in Is
days. Miss Elizabeth Bisan, a French
creole. and writer for the CosmQpQlitaD
Magazine. started to make the same trip
day or two afterwards. and her hacker
says it must be done in less than Is days.
Nelly Bly, is 30 and Miss Bislan 90 years
of age. They both go without escorts.
Gov. Lee has appointed the following
named gentlemen as delegates from vir-
ginia to the National Silver Convention
w,aich meets in st. Louis on the Goth
inst: Judge r. W. Hughes, j. W. Por-
ter, ESQ.,, Judge J. /. COCHRAN, Commits
sioner Patterson, Hon. b. johnson Bar
bour, and d. NJ. O. Holt, Esq we know
personally nothing of the qualifications
of these delegates for the peculiar du-
ties with which they are eutrgsfad. ex
cepf as to Judge Hughes and Mr. Porter.
They both have made the subject spe-
cial study. and have discussed it extern
sively and intelligentIy in print. They
will bring TO the work to which they
have been assigned, II fund Of useful in
formation, and will be valuable mem
beers OF the commission,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-11-21

Ny only family medicine-Simmons
Liver Regulator-Rev. JAS. NJ Rollins,
Fairfield. Va.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-16
USELESS LAW.

There is a law of the United States to
prohibit the Importation of laborers under
contract, and it is among the very best of
the national statutes; that is to say, it
would be among the very best if it were
properly enforced. 1t was exacted for the
purpose of protecting American laborers in
their rights to receive a fair days pay for a
fair days work; enabling American work
ingmen to maintain comfortable homes by
honest wag IS for honest labor; of permit
ting American fathers to educate their
children: in word, to prevent hard
hearted, grasping employers cutting down
wages by pitting foreign paupers against
capable Americans who find it necessary TO
spend more for the things of this life than
will satisfy the down-trodden, spirit
crushed, poverty stricken people Of the old
world who have been born, bred and trained
in the idea that the barest necessities of
existence are all that should be asked The
American cannot live and maintain his
family respectfully on what would satisfy
the ignorant foreigner; he cannot live in a
hovel, surrounded by filth and clothed in
rags, and imagine he is happy; he
CANNOT DEIuB up MS CulluTen III poverty ana
ignorance, and expect them to be good,
honorable and respected citizens. The
American laborer is ambitious, first, be
cause he is built that way, and second, be
cause everything around him makes him
ambitious. The law forbidding the impor-
tation Of contract labor was enacted in the
immediate interest of American working
men, and strictly enforced would furnish
them reasonable protection against their
worst enemy. But it is not so enforced.
Like SO many of the statutes it is made to
operate in the interests OF the rich. In
truth, it is little better than no law at all,
for it keeps out only now ami then a foreign
straggler whose influence on the labor mar
ket would never be felt, while hundreds
and thousands of the miserable paupers are
brought from abroad to supplant American
laborers as if the law were not in existence.
The other day Swiss embroiderer was
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turned back at Castle Garden because it was
shown that he had crossed the ocean to
take employment which had been promised
him in a letter written in answer to one
from him making application for work. 1t
was proper enough to send him back, but
why not return some of the shiploads of
ignorant paupers who are imported to work
in the mines and mills of the millionaire
owners! The mills and mines of Pennsyl-
vania are operated almost exclusively by
foreigners. and it is said that in some of
the mining villages the English Ian
guage is scarcely spoken at all. These
people have been brought here
under contract to work for lower wages
than men could be hired for in this country
their passage money, in many instances,
has been paid by their employers, and is re-
tanned from their wages. When Boss Car
negie wants ship load of starving Euro
peans to supplant as many workmen at his
mines and mills he finds no difficulty in get
ting his importation through the gates of
Castle Garden, though the miserable Swiss
who would displace nobodyis turned home
ward though he had paid his own
passage. The law will never be
made useful so long as it is made to operate
only in isolated cases. While wages can be
kept down to the starvation point by the
of foreigners, the statute will
be vain threat, and so long as the rich
are held exempt from prosecu-
ton, American workmen need expect no
protection from law enacted in their be-