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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-04


of the debt. and this together with the in
terest on the various State and county bonds
will bring the amount to be distributed
somewhere in the neighborhood of S45, COO, 600.
Railroads Prosperous.
EastbouDd shipments of freight from
Chicago last week by all lines amounted to
g. ss4 tons, against g., COL during the preced-
ing week, decrease of III tons, and against
57,92s during the corresponding week last
year, an increase of 1856 tons. The traffic
was divided among the several roads in the
following proportions: Michigan Central,
10 O42 tons; Wabash, 81 1856 tons: Lake Shore,
e.7l7 tons; Fit. Wayne. 6 l41 tons; Panhandle,
1900 tons; Baltimore and Ohio, 4,095
6,soa tons: Chicago and Erie, 1865 tons; Big
amounted to 126,476 tons, against lis 3l0 for
the preceding week, an increase OF 8, l66 tons.
Through shipments of flour, grain and
the roads in the Central Traffic Association
last week amounted to "a 74O tons against
%, 800 for the preceding week, an increase of
ing week last year all increase of 1852 tons.
OF this traffic the Vanderbilt lines carried 50
per cent, the Pennsylvania lines % per cent
The Chicago and Grand Trunk IA per cent,
the Baltimore ana Ohio II per cent.
Chairman Midgely, of the Western Freight
Association, reports that the Southwestern
and Missouri River roads are doing an en-
ormous eastbound business. During the
month of September the shipments of cattle
from Kansas City amounted to about 5000
car loads, the heaviest movement ever known
in a single month. The shipments of wheat
from Kansas City during the same period
amounted to upward of 10000 carloads. All
the roads are SO crowded with business that
they are cramped for cars with which to fill
their orders and it is largely due to this
state of affairs, no doubt that eastbound
freight rates from the Missouri river con-
tinue steady.
The gross earnings of the entire system of
the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Rail.
way for the month Of September are esti-
mated at 81, $40 799, an increase as compared
with those OF the corresponding month last
year OF Sis, ,309.
Financial Notes.
Just after the LAST call Lawrence A Co sold
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-04

Open High Low-I Clos-I Close
ARTICLES. Ing. est est. ing. Oct i
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Herr's Island.

5CATTLE-Receipts, 593 head, of which 249
were for the island abattoir; receipts last
Monday. sS7 head; previous week, sos head.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-04

The Government pays the interest on part
of the debt. and this together with the in
will bring the amount to be distributed
somewhere in the neighborhood of S45 COO OOO
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-04

F1nanc1aI Notes.
Just after the last call Lawrence & Co.sold
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-04

Hogs Rule Higher and Cattle and Sheep
Lower at East Liberty.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
GOOD WORDS FROM UP THE VALLEY
KINsLEY, Kan, Aug. 90, 1892

KINsLEY, Kan, Aug. %, 1892.
To the Editor of the Wichita Eagle
We are having some fine rains, which
will make plenty of fall pasture and en-
able the farmers to sow large wheat
crop.
All crops are good in this county ex-
cept corn. The corn crop is light.
Threshing is going on at full blast, and
all reports agree that wheat is turning
out from five to eight bushels more to
the acre than was expected, and is of
very fine quality.
Shippers are beginning to have trouble
IN getting cars fast enough.
Not much doing in politics yet. The
old reliable Democrats are kicking on
being sold and delivered to the Popuiists;
the price is not satisfactory and great
many of them in this county will not
vote the state or county ticket of the
Peoples psrty, but will vote Republican
and mixed tickets. Jeremiah's pros
poets, therefore, are not very flattering,
and he will not carry this county.
We see your rustllng solicitor, w. S.
Hebron, soliciting subscribers, and, as
the EAGLE is the best daily we can get
on the main line of the Santa Fe railrord
on the same dav of publication, it should
have an immense circulation during the
campaign
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.
From the Hutchinson News

EIOlu tdc DuiCililtSOit -NS"@
Kansas is all right. The state Is just
entering a season of prosperity and
growth unequaled in her history. The
conditions are favorable, the signs are
right and the time is near at hand.
Nothing but an unfortunate political
biunder viii blight the prospects that
now seem so bright. A victory this
year by the party of calamity, the party
of discomfort, the party of bad faith
would be the most disastrous evil that
could befall our state. Much of the harm
done bv the wave of visionary political
speculation tina. swept over this state
two years ago has been counteracted,
and much of the lost credit re-
stored. Still further evidence OF the
return of our sober senses IN the way
of a sweeping Republican victory the
fall will complete the good work OF re-
demption begun last year, and In the
future the Kansan travelling abroad will
not be met at every turn by the humili-
ating reminder that he halls from the
state responsible for the Simpsons,
Leases and PETERS, who, however hon
est they may have been, have certainly
done our commonwealth a great injury.
This is a year for sober thought and
intelligent action on the part OF every
voter IN this state. The good name OF
Kansas is at stake, and very consider
able increase in the value of every acre
of land and every piece of property de-
bends upon the result. This is the time
to .'stand I'd for Kansas" and vote for
Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25

Atchison Globe: Six hundred and
eighteen old soldiers have died at the
Soldiers home at Leavenworth. OF this
number. only one body was called for by
friends; CIT are buried in the Home
cemetery. There are 2,760 inmates at
the Home now, and 1900 of the number
draw pensions:the inmates receive about
$500, 600 annually from the government
in pensions Nearly every applicant is
admitted, which seems to be the general
policy of E. N. Morrill,, the local mana
ger, and Andrew J. Smith, the governor.
Very few apply until they are old and
homeless, and unable to support them
selves
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
ghe doaieha Daily eagle ghursaay ornuo Au9ns IS 1882

The Democratic press and speakers OF
the country continue to harp on the
'sforce bill' bugaboo as the leading issue
in the campaign. The Repub Is are
not going to try to dodge that issue as
far as the declaration in their national
platform warrants, and that is simply
demand for every voter in the land the
unrestrained privilege of casting one
vote and the honest counting of that
vote as cast. The Republican party will
stand by that proposition at all times
and under all circumstances, and If the
opposition desire to abandon the tariff
question, which it has already done, be
it SO. The position of the Republican
party on the tariff and money questions
has been crystalized into laws, none of
which have been attacked by the opposi-
ton in congress where it had absolute
control, which failure is substantial in
dorsement. And now to oppose the Re
publican demand for free ballot and a
fair count is an admission that the OPP
position do not mean to permit such ex-
ercise of the citizens right. Let 1t de-
fend that position if it can.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
THE GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE.

The railroad striker who, holding a
torch in his hand, cries out; ''Now ar
bitrate ~ is only new form of ;'ighway-
man. He holds up the cars precisely
after the manner in which older-fashion-
ed robbers held up passing travellers.
Railroad operatives have been taught
this lesson before, not without great cost
to the country, but at most inglorious re-
suits to themselves. That they will have
to be taught so again now seems immi-
nent. 1t is their misfortune not to have
learned by experience that there is but
one way to the redress of alleged wrongs,
and that is the right way. The torch
and bludgeon, terrorism and intimida-
ton, are not the weapons with which
honest American workingmen should
seek vindication. To be worthy of the
liberty they enjoy, they must accord the
same degree of liberty to others.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
a NEW EXPLOSIVE.

The invention of new explosives since
Nobei's discovery of that terrible COM
FOUND, nitro-glycerine, seems to go
steadily forward. One of the latest ex-
plosive chemical compounds Is called
'herculite" by its inventor, Mr.. A. Pale.
The advantage claimed for it's IN Its
slow combustion and the consequent
safety which it may be handled. 1t Is
a yellowish-glay substance, some of the
component parts of which are kept
secret, but in contains camphor. saw
dust and nitrate of potash. 1t cannot
be fired by sparks, flames nor percussion
bnt requires the use of q specially pre-
pared fuse. When burning it shows
flame similar to that produced by dyna-
mite. In testing the explosive power OF
herculite a half pound charge was
placed in blast-hole drilled in the rock
to the depth of four feet, which
was afterward tamped with sand
and earth. When the charge
was fired a block of stone esti-
mated to weight thirty tons was lifted
from its place without being fractured.
For mining purposes herculite promises
great advantages, its price being only q
cents per pound.
The single draw back to the advance of
chemical knowledge in the discovery of
new means of exercising destructive
energy is the aided facility offered for
the commission of diabolical crime with
comparative safety and secrecy on the
part of the perpetrator. 1t is evident
that the laws regulating the manu-
facture, use, sale and delivery of dyna-
mite, nitro-glycerine, giant powder,
melnite and all other dangerous ex-
plosives need thorough recasting. The
compounds are effective and useful
agencies in the hands of honest men; but
there is nothing more dreadful in the
arsenal of malpractice than these agents
of quick destruction.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
SHE SECURED HER PICTURE.
A TelItale Work of Art Bought by m
Embarrassed Young Woman.

Embarrassed Young Woman.
The usual routine duties of the Phila-
delphia customs officers were broken
for several of them the other day by the
public sale of seized unclaimed and
warehoused merchandise which had
been allowed by consignees to remain
in the bonded warehouses after the ex-
piration of three years from the date OF
its receipt Very few of the purchasers
obtained bargains. The grentest bar
gain, at least what was probably con-
sidered by the purchaser to be the
greatest bargain at the sale, was
portrait in oil of a lady and gentleman
taken in very affectionate attitude,
which was purchased by the lady chiefly
concerned for eighty cents 1t had
been received by mail from Japan in
1887 and was seized and held as duti-
able as foreign work OF art, at an APP
praised value of SO, by the customs Of
ficials and placed in the custody OF the
United States storekeeper. The young
lady was among the first arrivals and
wanted TO make some arrangements
whereby the picture could be purchased
ana UGllFEEtd 10 ilff nAAAt1e bEassH -
posed TO the public gaze. This was i'm
possible, however, the law requiring
that all articles must be exposed 10 vie"
and sold 70 the highest bidder. When
the turn of the portrait to be auctioned
off came united and spontaneous shout
of "Ah-h-h," and "AiR't that sweet, f"
arose from the assembled crowd The
poor girl, her face crimson with bushes
stood close by the auctioneer, too much
embarrassed TO speak
An unsen timental bidder offered FIVE
cents for the portrait This was more
than the young lady could stand, and
she raised the Did 10 ffty cents Then
some one made an offer OF one cent
more, and in this way the picture was
run up 20 sevsDty-fivs cents. When the
young lady bid eighty cents the crowd,
thinking they had enough fun, stopped
bidding and angry and almost IN tears
she was allowed 70 carry of the coveted
portrait -P Philadelphia Presa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
THOSE GOOD OLD TIMES.

Desnite all the talk about the hard
ships of the farmer, lie is king COM
pared to his father or grandfather, so far
as either the enjoyment OF luxurles
or the pressure of unremunerative
prices for his products are concerned.
We are not saying that the condition of
the American farmer calls for no anne
Iteration, but do say that the farmer of
today tolls neither SO early or SO late,
that he wears better clothes, eats better
food, has twice as much every way, and
gets it twice as easy as did the farmer OF
forty years ago when calico and jeans
were the farmer-fashioD, and salt pork
and corn bread largely bis diet; IN the
days when he Graded his grein and raked
and bound by hand; in the days when
it cost from three to ten times as much
to reacL terminal markets as now, and
when 10 live at all meant scrimping and
ceaseIess toll. A bushel Of wheat
which is drilled by machinery, harvest
ed bv machinery and threshed by ma
chinery and of which farmer can now
raise ten bushels where he could raise
one, forty years ago, would only buy
one third as much salt as today, one
half as much sugar and so on through
all he had to buy. a pound of butter
buys almost twice as much of every
thing now as then. The same is true of
everything else the farmer produces
from wool to cheese. When Kansas was
first settled it cost 254 cents to take
bushel of wheat from Chicago to
New York, now it goes for less
than 6 cents. Then you couldn't
get anything in the nature OF farm
products, anywhere for four times the
present freight rates by rail, and the
great majority of farmers then could
not reach any railway and but compar-
tively few of them waterways.
We are not saying that freight rates
are not too high, nor that farmers are get
ting all that they are entitled to, but we
90 tire Of much of the unreasonableness
that is mixed up with the downright ly-
ing of the Calamity bowler, nine out of
ten of whom never turned a furrow or
husked an ear of corn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
LEGAL TENDER FOR DEBT.

DR.. f. p Miller has issued pamphlet
of thirty pages in the interest of the
farmer, of which class he is prominent,
entitled "Solid Facts About Money and
Coinage" The doctor takes up the fall
lacies of free trade and shows why pro-
lection Is the American farmers only
security, in a wonderful clear and COM
prehensive manner. He also goes eX-
haustively into the wool question. DIR.
Miller, who owns property in Sedgwick
and adjoining counties, is an energetic
and comprehensive writer, and his solid
facts about money ought to be read by
every student of this question, for he
take; up every phase of 1t from histor-
ical and economical standpoints. His
whole argument is based on money as
a legal tender for debt"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
LONDON IN THE PAST.
Beginnings of the Greatest City In the
Worlds History.

Beginnings of the Greatest City In the
Worlds History.
When the Romans first sailed up the
Thames they found along the northern
side almost continuous marshes, with
no fresh spring water. and with no
convenient access to the higher land
beyond. Arriving at a point beyond
which the river. owing to its numerous
branches, became shallow, fordablo
indeed ut Westminster. so that seago-
ing ships would be Immediately OBJ
structed. all this changed. Here was a
bold projecting hill of clay, with gravel
and brick earth Astounding on tlie sur
face. This bluff headland was divided
by the valley OF the Walbroek into two
chief elevations; and on one of these
the Roman fort was built, between the
Walbrook and the little port of Bill
ingsgate. The gravelly deposit on tho
clay extended porthward up the valley
of the Lea. and formed n sound. WE'LL
drained foundation for the lower way
to York and Lincoln. On this crust OF
sand and gravel there was, even in tho
citadel itself. portion of brick earth,
so that the materials for forts and walls
were easily procured; the brick eafth.
sand and gravel on the spot, the lime
along the river, and the rag stone from
new quarries on the Midway. in direct
communication with the Thames
But. besides. the gravel beds were .
collecting ground for water. which sank
down on 10 the underlying clay. and
then ran out abundantly in springs and
wells and streams The place was y
great spring field walbrools. the
L,anCbourne Skinner's Well Holywell,
and Clerkenwell, Lambs Conduit, and
White Conduit, indicate q few Of the
many springs and water courses that
arose aud ran. At first on pebbly beds,
and then on clay. down To The Thamss-
The hill itself continued northward BY
the ridge Of Pentonville, across tho
''Stonyfeld" OF Islington, affording a
hard road for local traffic, mp 70 the
IIighgate range beyond And thus BY
it's peculiar advantages Of situation.
and OF earth and water, this small hill
became the nucleus Of the creates, city
Ia the history of the world
London, % employ At once TIA later
name, being at the head Of the marine
navigation Of the largest river In tbs
island. became the chief emporium fox
inland trade. 1, could ~ well protect
ed since, on every side but one, u ssss
surrounded by deep water or try rnarSh;
and, To the north, the moor for half the
year would scarcely hare been passabls.
save near the edge % some Convenient
SLOPE for drainage. Eventually Maiden
Lane. the way On the great hiu,
along the wstershed. between ths VAL
lev 81 the Fleet and The mucs wider
VALLEY OF the LcA, became the Kings
high elevated way, the great up
per road. all underlined aud open 10 the
-sorth--Qusr terly Review
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25

The ravages of terrible cholera cpl
Gemic in the east continue undated and
it is spreading with alarming rapidity,
having reached the Atlantic coast at
two points. in Germany and France.
The authorities of our own country as
sure the public that there is no danger of
the epidemic reaching our shores, as
every precaution has been taken 10 pre-
vent the landing of persons or articles
from the infected localities without first
being subjected 10 the severest quaran-
tine regulations. 1t is devoutly hoped
the dread scourge may not make its APP
pearance in this country. While it has
never ravaged our land to anything
like the extens il has others. particu-
larry in Asia, the country has had suffi-
Gent experience with il TO kaow of It's
terrors.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
Nnthinr GO. Away.

Al old deed recorded in Pettis county
over City years ego contains good IL
Iustration Of the legal veroiage con-
mon IN such instruments in early tsrnes-
In addition 20 forty acres OF land soiG
for consideration Of fifty dollars. TIC
document CONVEYS ''aIl and singular
appertenances, appendages, adso~Sons-
t,s,eti.s cyomuouS, curtil2ge&, COW
ho4.ses. co-ncrihs, dairie-- d0vecots,
easements. enoIumeBfs, freeholds, fea-
lures. furniture, fixtures. gar1ens-
hou@s.alls- improvements. irnznznisies-
IsruexiEus. meadows, n4zrssses> ustSes-
minerals. orchards PARIS. pieas1Ee
grounds. pigeon houses, psgstTeS- quar-
RES. renainde-S- reTezSsozs, rentA
rights. WAYS. water oozirs-e>, NsFifizfai-A -
together with every sstner neessaary
rigtt. Immunity. privilege and adrsn-
.a~e Of whatsoever naDe. nature or &C.
s-.-ss.sizss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
a VERY TRUTH.

From the Atchison Champion.
The fellows who are kIavish euoug h
to charge up the farm 4 Crtgages to poll
tics ought not to forget that 30 per cent
of the mortgages on Kansas land today,
were given during Grover Cleveiand's
administration. But that is no argu-
ment in any way. The man who Dor
rowed money did it for business reasons.
Politics had nothing whatever TO do with
it. Ali this talk about 1.-THE old parties"
being sponsible for mortgage indebted
ness Is sillv, foolish and knavish. Mr.
Dickens puts the whole philosophy in the
mouth of one of his characters when he
remarked: "If you earn seven shiiiings
and SIX pence and spend six shillings and
seven pence you viii get rich; but if you
earn SIX shillings and seven pence aud
spend seven smlliugs and six pence. you
will land in the work house" or words to
that effect. The long and short of it is
that the political philosopher who ex-
poets to make people thrifty BY legal
enactment is political fraud AS =
man thinketh in his heart, SO Is he.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
Faithmlnsss Rewarded.

Jared TurreI, veteran engineer on
the New York Central, the first Of the
month, retired from the foot-board, al
the age of s. years. OF late years he
has been running in one Of the com
pany's yards. The day he retired be bad
been running an engine on the New
York Central for forty years SapSTIn-
tendeat Burrows would not accept his
resignation, but gave hiHl vacation
during life on half pay, which IE. Iur-
rel accepted
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

Chester !. Long, Republican CanoldaVe
for Congress in the Big Seventh.
Thursday, Sept. |, Hutchinson.
Saturday, Sept. 3, JetmOre
Mondav, Sept. 8. RavanDa and tmlnence'
Tuesday. Sept. 6, ingalls, and CImarroA.
Wednesday, Sept Z. Santa re.
Thursday. Sept. s, Ulysses.
Friday. Sept. 9, Woodsdale ana hugoUoh'
Saturday, Sept. TO- Richfield,
Monday, Sept. IL, Johnson City; NJ,
Tuesday. Sept. -, Syracuse and CooIqge.
Wednesday, Sept. II, Hartland ana AaAln'
Thursday. Sept. H. Garden City.
Friday, Sept. 10, Dodge CITY,
Saturday. sept Il, kinsley.
Tuesday. Sept 20, Sterling.
Wednesday, sept. q, NIckerson'
THURSDAY, sept. -. Burton.
Friday, Sept. -, Canton
Saturday, Sept. 2i, Wichita.
Monday, Sept 26. La arose.. 49,
Tuesday. Sept y, Horace and IrihU1s. &
Wednesday, Sept. q, Leotl;
Thursday, Sept. -, Scott City.
Friday Sept 80, Dighton.
Saturday, Oct. ], Ness City.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25

Politics are decidedly mixed in Texas,
where the state Democracy in conven-
ton assembled have indorsed Cleveland
and free silver coinage, and renominated
Governor Hogg, who has strong Alliance
inclinatlons. The honest money Demo
Gratis haye bolted, and as there is a Peo-
pies party candidate already in the
field the prospects for an active triangu-
lar flight in the Lone Star state are ex-
cellent,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25

There seems. just now, fair prospect
for straight. three-cornered party con-
test in at least one district in the state
this year. Fred J. Close, the Peoples
party candidate for congress in the First
district, in conversation with a Globe re-
porter in Archison, Tuesday. stated that.
so far as he was concerned, there would
be no withdrawal from The three-corner-
ed congressional race. He says he has
received many letters urging him to con-
tinue as candidate. and not one advis-
nx or requesting him 10 withdraw.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-25

Teacher illustrating angles)-Ths
original inhabitants Of New YORK lived
along the rivers, AMI laid out the frHt
streets at right angles 70 the water
fronts 10 you understand tasts
Pupil-Yes'm-
Teacher-But the waterfronts were
not parallel They met at fsoini,
forming an acuts angie Do yoz under
derstand thss2
Pupii-Tcsm -.
Tearhe--Novr what was The result
when al these streets finally useH
Pupil-Sew forA-losod News