Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-11-28
FRIDAY. NOV. IS lsO

will be found the complete official
returns of the Congressional dis
tricts of the state. Also the off
cial vote cast for the state ticket.
An Indian outbreak is fear
ed in the Northwest and troops
are being massed in that Sec
ton. Should hostilities actually |
begin, the number Of good lndi-
ans will increase rapidly.
Autumn in Missouri is ever
a delightful season, and the pres
ent one has been especially SO.
While Minnesota has had snow,
we have had bright sunshine,
baImy breezes and Italian skies.
What the poet sang of home may
with equal truth be sung of MIS-
souri,.
DO not lose sn opportunity
to speak an encouraging word for
the cosl-mining enterprise. A
good vein of coal near Kirksviile
would give employment to large
number of men, and if we want
Kirksville to continne its present
rate of growth, We must find en-
ployment for laborers.
There was a majority of
1886 in favor of the Constitution
al Amendment adding two new
judges to the Supreme Court.
Monday evening, Gov. Francis an
nounced the appointment of Judge
John L. Thomas, of Jefferson
county, and Judge George =. Nc
Farlane, OF Audrain county, to fill
the positions created by the adop-
ton of the amendment.
Brazil has lowered its duty
on coffee, and is otherwise exhibit
ing a newly awakened desire TO
trade with the United States.
Cuba that has been taking from US
products to the amount of $40,
100000 and sending us its pro-
ducts to the amount of $51 900, 900,
leaving a balance Of S4l. 100000
to pay them in gold annually, is
now very anxious to trade out the
entire amount, thus increasing
our export trade more than $40,
100000 with Cuba alone.
During the recent campaign
Democratic orators and Demo-
cratic newspapers were shouting
that the prices on every thing
WAS advancing. Since the election
they are saying that an advance is
sure to take place in 1892, un-
less the Mckinley bill is repealed
this winter. They can depend up.
on it. the Mckinley bill will not
be repealed, nor will prices ad.
vance. The campaign of 1892 is
destined to be most humiliatine
one for Democratic orators and
Democratic newspapers.
The question of reducing
the number OF circuit judges in
the state to twenty and increasing
their salaries to $500 per year is
now being agitated. tbs estimated
that the amount of law business
has fallen off one-half in fifteen
years. This being the case the
number Of. circuit judges could be
reduced considerably, and yet nc
one of them be required
to do as much work as was re-
quired of them fifteen years ago.
But why increase their salaries
The circuits it is true would be
larger, but the work would not
be greater than it was when the
salary was fixed at $4,000.
The question has been fire.
quently asked whether it will be
possible for Kirksville toimprove
as rapidly next year, as it has dur
ing 1890. There is DO good reason
why 1t shoul,l not improve even
more rapidly next year than it has
this. The secret of Kirksville's
present prosperity and growth is
not difficult to understand, when
we glance backward half dozen
years. At that time there was
scarcely anything in Kirksville to
give employment to labor. Holmes
wood works and the wooden
mills running only part Of the
time were all that the people
could look to as q source of EN-
,>1,r,,,o,e Nar ,o l,.o Ill.