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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Rer. .. \. Menefs, oo.. % wa.,tnsta,

Rev. F. Menefee, who established
the Liberty Female college, retiring
therefrom last fall, has recently pur-
chased handsome building, formerly
used as a summer hotel, in the out
skirts of Washington, D. c., for 500, =
900, with the intention of opening a
high grade school for young women
therein the coming autumn.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Prices Of Horses, Mules and s.sine.

The agricultural department returns
shows the total number of horses to be
tbs1a4 057, mules !. AIS, 04e. milch cows
6y1a4 5ae .dAep,sap4 other cattla s2.-
USS, 4Jb skeep Sc, s3s, 7sS and' swine
AZ, s42, 759.
The average farm prices per head are
estimated, for horses, S33. on; mules,
$45. 25 milch COWS, SEE So; oxen and
other cattle, S15.s6; sheep. 81. 80;
swine. S435. The aggregate values
are. for horses, S50s, 140 1856; mules,
S103, 204, 457; milch cows, 1888, 955,
545; oxen and other cattle. SS50S, 92s,
4t8; sheep, $50. 1877. 7s5; swine $780,
259, 745; grand total, 81, 727, 026. 0S4.
In number, horses have decreased
As per cent, mules 2,3, milch cows
22, oxen and ether cattle 0. o, sheep
94 and swine per cent since Jan
uary, 1895 The cotton states and the
Rocky mountain states show an in
crease in horses and mules otherwise,
the decrease is general Mich cows
are more numerous in the northeastern,
or city supply, state; also in Mime
sofa, the Dakotas and westward, but
fewer elsewhere. Decrease in other
cattle and sheep is generally distribu-
ted, except in the mountain region.
Swine have increased generally
throughout the east, south and west,
with falling off in the great central
states.
In the report, prices per head of
horses, mules and swine are lower
than in January, 1895, while milch
cows, other cattle and sheep are
higher.
In aggregate value, horses have de-
creased 1873 per cent. mules Z, sheep
23 and swine rs per cent during 1895.
while milch cows have increased
per cent and other cattle 8. per cent
The grand total of all live stock has
fallen off sol, SEQ, 229. or per cent,
from January. 1895. Percentage OF
decline since January, 1894, 204 per
cent; since January, 1896, 8O4 since
January, 1893 80. 4 per cent
The estimated wool product Of 1895,
sheared, butchered and pulled, is 300.
74s, 600 pounds.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

significant statement came in the form
Of an intimation from Mr.. Dingley
that a bill might be reported from the
ways and means committee looking to
the initiation by this country of pro-
5ect for another international monetary
conference, to meet within a year.
While Mr.. Dingley said he was simply
expressing his personal position in the
matter, 1t was generally understood
from the manner in which he said 1t
that the suggestion had already mattred
into well-defned intention on the
part of the republican leaders of the
house.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

The Missouri bidders awarded bonds
in the last one hundred million dollar
issue were:
William Fl. Terrell, Macon, $3.50 at
115.
American Exchange bank, st. Louis,
$50, 900 at 112. so; $50, 900 at liz.
Mrs. Dora Bearman, st. Joseph,
Mo-, $40, 900 at 112.
R. NJ Davis, St Joseph, $50 at 115 ..
793.
w. +. Enright, st. Joseph, $50 at
115. 794
Payne & Williams bank, Fayette,
So, 900 at ia 829.
First National bank. st. Joseph, So, :
900 at III.
First National bank, Plattsburg,
$12 500 at 112. 80.
F. P. Mccormick, Kansas City,
S15. 900 at 112. TO-
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

The greatest series of forgeries ever
known is reported from the Island of
Java The forgeries were of CONNER
cial paper on the Java banks, and so
far as discovered, the amounts already
lost by the banks exceed So, 900, OOO
The work was done by expert Chinese
who foated the paper through their
confederates with such success that
nearly all the Java banks were victim
lied before the fraud was discovered.
Several of the banks have been COM
PEELED to suspend in consequence of
their losses, and, it is, said, nearly all
the Chinese merchants in Java have
been placed nder arrest.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Solioitude Reoiprocated.
rom the Eastern Argus.

From the Eastern Argus.
A Somerset attorney who relishes a
joke at his own expense, says he once
sent to rural office writ for service,
with directions to be very particular
in regard to the return, saying, Elf for
any reason you are unable to write the
return properly get some experienced
person to do it for YOU
Some time afterward the writ was
returned by the officer, properly served
and signed, with letter reading sub
stantially as follows: ~ do not know
whether this return win be satisfactory
to You. have lost one finger, but ]
wrote 1t as well as could. If for any
reason you are unable to read 1t, get
some intelligent person to read 1t for
you
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Representative Nm. II. Grain Dead.

Representative Wrs. II. Crain Dead.
Representative William II. Grain, of
the eleventh district Of Texas, died in
Washington February II of nneurhonia,
contracted, at the sysssshern ch1uls5 -uaa,
last week.
Mr.. Grain was born at Galveston,
Tex, November 25, 1s4S. He gradu-
ated at ST. Francis Xavier's college,
New York city, July 1, 1857; studied
law at Indianola. Tex, and was ad-
mitted to practice in February, 1871.
He has practiced law since that time.
He was elected as district attorney
of the twenty third judicial district of
Texas in 1879; and as state senator on
the democratic ticket in February,
1876. He was elected to the forty
ninth congress, and has served contin-
uously in the house since that time.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

Mrs Eva Stone, who would have
been 101 years old next June, died at
her home south of Warrensburg. She
was born near Raleigh, N. c., June
2s, 1905, and came to johnson county
in 1889, when the country was a
wilderness She was the Oldest person
In johnson county, the mother of four
children, ancestor Of seventeen grand
children, fifty-four great -grandchil-
dren, five great-great- grandchildren
and two great-great-great- -grandchil-
dren.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
TIE Women Who Wear Neokties.

From the Philsdslphis Public Ledger.
Every woman who aspires to wear
ties should make . painstaking study
of the art Of tying them. Her sex IL
no excuse for the wearing Of . ready
made cravat She could also be sure
that her ties are spotlessly neat and
fresh. Linen and lawn ties should be
worn never more than q day. Silk ties
Of light colors should be Of wash silk
sc,thAt they may frequently be washed.
and dark silk and satin ties should
occasionally be freshened with gpong.
ing with ammonia water.
The ties most worn are the straight
bowA The fom-in-hand ID also fairly
popular, Plain colcra prevail Blsol
Is the color most used. but plain colors
10 match the tAilor-msde frock with
which they are worn Sss also oofrsck
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

petition states that q mule owned
defendant ran off and threw him cut
Q wagon, breaking his leg and u
casioning him great suffering of rnil
and body and expense. Plaintiff avd
that he was hired by defendant \
work for him at the time, and that
drove the male at defendants reques
being told by him that it was Sd
and well behaved animal, although d
fendant knew it to be q vicious q
broken brute.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

1t is probable that the next meeting
Of the Missouri Press Association may
be held on the Mississippi River, a
plan being talked Of which provides
for the chartering Of steamer for
trip extending over period of seven
or eight days.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

William Palmer, Charlton county
pioneer, died at Salisbury.
Tom Cooper, once Hannibal's leading
baseball man, died recently In the
poorhouse.
Experts say that the warm, wet
winter in Missouri means death to the
chinch bugs.
There is a possibility of new opera
house and new schoolhouse in Clinton
in the spring.
In the state of Missouri last year the
strawberry crop was worth half a
million dollars.
Mexico shipped 200, 900 pounds Of
wool to Chicago. Philadelphia and
Boston last year.
United States marshals have captured
four counterfeiters in the neighbor
hood of st. Joseph.
The poll tax for 1895, in Boone
county, has been fixed at 81 in cash,
or four days work.
Carthage will make special effort
to secure the state encampment of Mis-.
souri, militia this year.
Webb City will attempt to compel
dealers in cigarettes to pay an addi-
tional license tax of $500.
The local mutual insurance compan.
les of Missouri are to hold convention
at St Joseph, March and o. M
Senator Vest says he does not wish
to be delegate from Missouri to the
national democratic convention.
The Catholic church at Upton has
four new bells, weighing respectively
., 500, 1900, 900 and 700 pounds.
John s, Hart, who recently died in
Putnam county, had been public ad-
ministrator for ten consecutive years.
The attempt to induce the politicians
at Sedalia to agree upon non-parti-
san citizens ticket for municipal ofioea
has failed. 4
Governor Stone appointed Miss
Georgia Ireland coal oil inspector for
the city of Chillicothe vice Fl. @.
Ireland, deceased
The postoffice at Rush, in Andrew
county, which has been closed fol
some time, has been reopened by order
Of the postoffice department
H D. Martin. of Galloway, ha,
every reason to be proud Of himself.
Last year he planted and cultivated l6l
acres of corn with no assistance.
DR. Fl. A. Longan Of Kansas Cit
was appointed a pension examiner Z
succeed DR.. Bedford, resigned. Dr.
Longan 10 o brother of Circuit Judg'
Longan Of Sedalia
| A 8-months. old baby belonging t
Mrs. Golden, of Livingston county
fell over against heated stove durinl
its mothers absence from the room
recently. and was fatally burned.
II The funds to procure the portrait o
Judge William Scott, recently IRE
sented TO the supreme court Of Mis-
souri,. were raised by Attorney Georg
Robertson, Of Mexico, assisted by Al
torney General Walker.
Jacob Faith. Of Montevalla vanc
county. makes the fruit conditions !
follows with 100 a. full crop !: Az
1 Z. = - an. ~
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
A State A. o. U. ". Home.

The Missouri Grand Lodge Of the IA,
o. U. W. passed a resolution pledgine
cooperation with the efforts which the
degree of honor lodges are making 10
establish home for the aged, infirm
and INDECENT members of the order.
The grand master workman wss an.
thoTized 70 submit q the subordiuat1
asaessmSnt u u 81 esSlys !
out the plan ss
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

The Glasgow city council has levied
special tax on all property coniigu-
ous to the water mains, from which
not even school houses, churches or
libraries are exempt, on the theory
that special benefit accrues on account
Of the added protection from fire.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
The Netc Hen.

Fl. B. Tucker, q farmer, who lives
four miles south Of Sedalia, had q
colony Of fifty Plomyuth Rock hens
and five roosters. The latter were all
killed last Friday, it being Mr.. Tuck
er's intention to replace them with
younger fowls On Sunday morning
the young roosters not yet having ar
rived. the entire colony of hens set up
q vigorous growing, almost in perfect
imitation of the crow of a rooster. and
have continued 1t each morning since.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Reasonable Ooniecture.

From Browning, King g. Co.'s Monthly.
Sunday School Teacher = And the
prophet rent his clothes. Johnny,
what does that meant
JOHNNY s'pose he didn't have the
price to buy 'em. p =,
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Plain.
From the Indianapolis journal.

From the Indianapolis journal.
IF fellow has chance to marry q
poor, handsome girl. or Q rich, plain
girl which do You think he ought to
dor
1T looks 10 me a. II the proper
course 10 plain ons In that CASA"
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Fer seutno Candy on sunday.

Ira Follen, convicted last fall at La
monte and fined $50 for selling POI d
Of candy on Sunday, and who made
application to the circuit court for re-
lease under writ of habeas corpus.
was denied the writ and was sent to
the Lamonte village Jail for twenty
days This case has attracted more
than local interest on account of the
mildness of the offense and because
Follen was not charged under the state
liquor law.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
4 Bn~s Mos savss m. oAa6.

The t8-year old daughter Of Jack"
Barnes. the blind railroad man. mar
rowly escaped being burned to death
in sedalia Her dress caught FIRE from
the kitchen stove and she rushed into
the room occupied by her blind father.
BE caught her and smothered the FIRE In
bed quilt The girls body and lower
limbs were badly burned. but not
fatally. Her father was also burned
about the face and arms
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
Killed While Gofng to Church.

While going to church Red Groves, a
member Of the Kansas, City ST.. 10.
seph & Council Bluffs construction
gang, was struck by switch engine
and instantly died Groves lived in
Atchison, Kansas He was 40 years
old.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
ALL THE VIEWS CONDENSED.

Senator Quay has consented to permit
his name to go before the republican
convention as candidate for presi.
dent.
The republican senators in caucus
nominated A. j. Shaw, of Washington.
for secretary of the senate, and h l.
Grant. Of North Carolina for SER
geant- alarms, and indorsed DIR. Mil
burn. who is democrat for chaplain
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

In the senate the bill as to distribu-
tion Of seeds was then taken up and
Mr.. Vests (dem. of Missouri) sub
stitute for it was agreed to and the
bill SO amended was passed without
division. 1t authorizes and directs the
secretary of agriculture to purchase
and distribute valuable seeds for the
year 1895, as has been done in preced-
ing years. He is to procure the seeds
by open purchase or contract, and
shall not pay more for them than q
reasonable and fair price.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

Following the defeat in the South
Carolina legislature Of a bill to in
crease the penalty for carrying con-
cealed weapons, another bill was
introduced which aims to lessen the
habit Of carrying pistol by making it
costly. This bill, which thus far
finds more favor than the other, would
require dealers in firearms to be lic-
ensed and to stamp each box Of cartrid-
ges sold; would require of the person
owning or carrying revolver to take
out high priced license therefor and
would disfranchise him If at the time
Of registering and voting he could not
swear that he had not violated the pis-
tol law and, finally. would tax the re.
volver as personal property.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
franef. o. Edcard. Commit. Suicide.

Francis o. Ed'cords Comn,fts Suicide.
Francis o. Edwards. son Of James
F. Edwards, of St. Charles, Mo-. shot
himself through the head at the Hill
man house in Washington. Despon-
dency caused by. i'll health was the
cause. He came TO- Washington last
Wednesday, and has been sick ever
since his return from the Yukon,
Alaska, gold fields lest October. He
was 90 years old His father is an
employe of the senate and has been in
Washington for twenty years.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
TO BE Enba..aaor to Germany.

The president nominated Edwin
F. Uhl Of Michigan, assistant secre-
tary Of state, to be ambassador extra
ordinary and plenipotentiary of the
United States to Germany.
The nomination of Mr.. Uhl was at
once confirmed by the senate
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
BRIEF BITS OF STATE NEWS.

Fire in William Jewell College caused
81, 800 damages.
Judge ]. A. Dolman, of st. Joseph,
is dead, aged IA years.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

b N Craig Of Nevada has filed !
suit against Elias Falor, Of North
Vernon county fr $1,000 CEaig's
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20

= The Milwaukee Literary Club is an
organization for improvement pri-
marily in literary and ethical lines. 1t
has a membership of over three hun
dred, in which it recognizes neither
age, sex, class, party nor creed. Its
purpose is to stimulate intellectual
activity and to foster any good work
in the community. The club was an
outgrowth of belief on the part of
the pastor Of the Grand Avenue Con-
gregational church, Rev. George H.
Ide, D D., and number of his con-
gregation, that the forces resident in
the church and community could do
more than they were doing to help the
people, and SO fulfill, in part, the pur-
pose and spirit of the Master. The pol
icy of the club from the beginning has
been to give rather than to gain-to
give service, cordiality, good will ;
and the blessedness of giving has been
demonstrated in its experience. In a
material way it seeks only to pay its
current expenses, which are met by a
membership fee of twenty five cents for
the season (six months), and in admis-
sion to non members Of five or ten
cents each meeting. The club meets
once in two weeks in the church par
lors, which hold more than five hun
dred people, and have at every session
been taxed to their utmost capacity.
The club has friends everywhere, and
has found no difficulty in arranging
programmes calculated to entertain, edi'
fly and inspire, and its unselfish policy
evokes similar spirit from the public,
who give their services freely. Many
other churches which we have known
have similarly recognized their duty
to the public. and thus have made the
public more willing to listen to the
teachings of their pulpits.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
IN THIS REPUBLIC.


II The superintendent Of public instruc-
n Of New York state has PREPARED
hil1, now introduced in the assem-
. ! to make important changes in the
II sting school law. By the bill the
b her limit of school age is changed
nd twenty one to eighteen years and
n lower limit is reduced from five to
N " years, 30 far as the latter limit
plies ID all attending any free kind
gartsn legally established. It is
In vide4 that any school commission
may dissolve one or more districts, and
from that territory organize new dis
trict or may unite portion of such ter
fAtory with any adjoining district
nus the consolidation Of many weak
lstsikfs will bs stimulated No per.
.2slf -. asli ti.slf assrl
iesIf years the present limit is sixteen.
Tie existing law empowers any school
district adjoining city or village of
5000 inhabitants, to contract with the
school authorities of such community
for the education of children residing in
the district. When the contract has
been made, the district quota Ito
which such district would be entitled if
1t maintained its SCHOOL, shall still be
paid to it. The proposed amendment
extends this privilege so that school
district may contract for the education
Of its pupils with any city or village or
adjoining union free school district
and still retainits district quota, Dis
trfcts may also expend their money in
conveying pupils to such schools. This
excellent feature of the Massachusetts
law is so popular that last year in that
state the sum of over $40, 900 was spent
in transporting pupils in country dis
tricts. When the districts are weak
the children can thus enjoy the better
facilities of the adjoining villages.
Another important change is that
which empowers any school districts to
establishing free kindergarten.
Another amendment would establish
three free summer institutes to train
teachers. In view of the attempt to
keep the schools under political control,
1t is interesting to note that an amend
ment provides for the eligibility
to the office of school commissioner of
any one who is not a graduate of some
college or university; graduate of a
normal school or holds a state certifi-
cate, first-grade certificate under the
uniform system of examinations, or a
certificate of graduation from teach
er's training class 1t is not too much
to say that if this bill should become
law, both the inducement to study
and the standard of teaching would be
appreciably raised.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
HOGS.

aoT The T pigs and and lights sold at So. 90
pick of all weights sold at the top.
Ordinarily good packing grades @ere
the hard sellers and fine lights were in
the best demand To get at later
prices about 3 cents should be de-
Quoted from the bulk of sales, but at
the close good native lights and medium
weights were selling at S4. 10 and S4. 20.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-02-20
be organized at Hopkins.

William Palmer, a Charlton county
pioneer, died at Salisbury.
Tom Cooper, once Hannibal's leading
baseball man, died recently In the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22

every step the passage grows lighter
and lighter. She quickens her speed.
She almost runs. Ole more bend
a crook, a turn, and she will be out
out of the tunnel into daylight once
more-jpy!
Bat what is her surprise, a few mo-
ments later, to fad herself, not out
Of the cave, as she had expected, but
instead, in the centre of a large dimly-
lit chamber in the very heart of the
mountain. Her surprise can be better
imagined than described. Sne looks
about her in open-mouth astonishment.
Walls of glittering, spar king chrystal-
ties meet her eyes On all sides. The
chamber is pyramidical in shape, it's
cone-like, slanting, staglamite wall
gradually approach as they ascend,
coming to a point a thousand feet
above her head. Here, through g crew
ice in the rock, the sun peletrates,
lighting the cave but family, even at
midday.
1GOS0 HdACS oOOuV Ia 2 al OO u
ment, forgetting for the time being
where she really is and the danger that
threatens her. The sun, no doubt, is
now directly overhead, for II at once
a golden beam, enters from the crevice
ABOVE and falls at ner feet. Here, for
a moment, it fingers, lighting up the
dark recesses of the cavern, then
disappears, but not before it had re
vealed to the wondering girl a sight
that she will long remember. Heaped
into piles here and there about the
cave are large nuggets Of gold and
g~Ilttering stones. There are hundreds
of these bright, sparkling gems and
thousands Of nuggets, some Of them
as large again as her doubled fist.
She stoops and picks up one. AS she
does SC e. faint moan reaches her ears;
there is a slight STIR off In the shadows
of the cave 60 her left. She turns ard
with a startled look gaZss In that dlrec
ton. At first she sees nothing, then
to her horror, the outlines Of three
white, grinning skulls meet her stony
stare. Sac shrieks with fright. The
huge lump OF gold falls from her hand
and strikes the ground with q dul
thud. Ali at once it comes to her
this ia R9dmond's treasure chamber.
She awakes as though from a dream to
the realiz alton of her present awful !
position. This, then, is the wealth