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Year: 1874

CRIME. great majority of crimes are committed between the hours of ten at night and three in the morning. The chief of the New York police recently said that if every place where liquor is sold in the city were vigorously closed at ten o'clock at night. one-half the olicpe force might be dismissed.
Year: 1874

Sid Wallace, the notorious desperado. was executed at Clarksville, Ark. His neck was broken by the fall, but his pulse continued to beat for twenty minutes afterward. About thirty min utes after the drop fell life was pro- nounced extinct, and the body was cut down and given in charge to his mother. The culprit, who retained his compo- sure to the last, said he would make no confession to man, but had confessed to God. He died, he said, in self-de- fense, and in defense of his friends, and wished he had dozen lives to sacrifice for the same purpose. The arrange ments for the execution were complete. The town was well policed and guard ed, and no attempt was made to rescue the prisoner. Wallace was considered to be great desperado, and is believed to have committed six murders in all. His mother advised him to die game, saying that she had two more sons to fight, and after they were gone she would take up the fight herself.
Year: 1874

II The Wathena Reporter advances the start
ling and wholly original idea that the United
States Circuit Court reserved its decision in the
Usage Land case until the fourth Tuesday (25th)
of August, in order not to interfere with the NOM
ination of man for Governor who Processes to
be great friend of the settlers, at the State Con-
veutiou on the Goth. As the decision is still to
be rendered before the nomination is made, and
as the time was fixed before the Convention was
called we cannot see the connection; and be-
sides, we fail to see how decision in the United
States Court, by men who have no interest in
Kapsas politics, can affect a nomination for Gov
enor of this State. This brilliant idea is emf
nently worthy of the mighty genins who Presides
over the destinies of the Reporter. No doubt he
is correct; and that the Civil Rights Bill was
postponed by Congress for the same reason.
Year: 1874

THE COMET.-There is actually comet in
the heavens; and doubtless everybody will want
to see it, and know where to find it. For their
benefit, we give the following directions: There
is constellation called the Camcleopard, lying
between the Polar star, the head of the Great
Bear, Perseus, and Auriga. The Comet is near
the breast of the Cameeopard; that is, it is be-
tween the Polar star and the Lynx, near the
head of the Great Bear. To find it, draw an I'M
aginary line from Gamma and Alpha of the Dip
per, and from Gamma to Beta of the Lesser Bear,
prolonging it downward, and at the intersection
of these lines, about 30 degrees abo, the horizon
the commet will be foHnd. Now, if child even
cannot find the comet from these clear directions
he deserves to be whipped, and sent to bed with
out his supper.
Year: 1874

The Republicans of the First Congressional District of
te State Of Kansas will in Delegate Convention
tbs Court House in the city Of LeavenwOrh the 10th
dav of August A. d. 1874 at the hour Of O'Clock
for the purpose Of nominating Member Of Congress for
said District


This Convention shall be composed of two Delegates from
each Representative District in this Congressional District
I recommended that the Delegates to this Convention
he elected the 18th day Of August at the primary meet
ings called for the purpose Of elecng Deegates to the
State Convention and that at the time Alternate
shall be elected for each Delegate


By order Of the Committee their regular meeting
Manhattan on the 18th of June


s. D. LECOMPTE, Chairman
CYRUs LELAND, JR Secretary.
Year: 1874

PRESIDENT GRANT.-As n financier Grant has
proved a success. When first elected President
he was comparatively poor man, aud now he
is millionaire with doubled salary. The mon
ey kings took advantage of his reticence and mod
esty, and thrust money. houses, farms, horses
carriages and dogs upon him; for fear of giving
otfense he took them all, and like the common
sign of a cigar store stands with his hand reach.
ing out for more. He has always favored the
rich and oppressed the poor, and when he goes
out of office he will have the respect of none-for
even those he has been a tool for will despise
him. His third term ought to be one of retribu-
tive justice-smilar to that Of Boss Tweeds.
Year: 1874

~ The BrorH County Adrocdfe, is the name of
patent outside paper, with the inside printed
OH the old White Cloud Leader material, which
has just made its appearance at Hiawatha. We
do not believe there is a demand for another pa
per at Hiawatha-or there need not have been,
had the proprietor Of the Dispatch made his paper
what Brown County was entitled to, in matter
and mechanical appearance. The Aduocdfe pro-
fesses to be Granger-thinks the people of Kan
sas are hungry for reform-and is edited by Ed
win Abner Davis. The editor is first class dead
beat, and blne-ribbon literary plagiarist-and
the worst Of it is, that he displays wretchedly
bad taste in his stealiHgs. We do not believe the
Grangers or the people of Brown County will
long find use for him. That is the way it looks
from our standpoint If he thinks our opinion
is erroneous, we refer him, for particulars, to
small bills.
Year: 1874

1t turns out that the failure of the West and
South to have the amount of currency that they
should, is not, as the veto message implies; their
fault. The four millions referred to has been ap-
piled for, but the system of Precedence followed
by the Comptroller prevents the prompt distri-
button of the currency. 1t, and many millions
besides, have been applied for. The Comptroller
of the currency, however, claims that under the
law that regulates the Redistribution of the cur
rency, it will take more than two years to tho
roughly re-distribute the currency of the coun-
try. lie proposes a new law that will admit of
it being done in sixty days.
Year: 1874

~ Since Judge Lowe has announced that he
will not be up for reelection to Congress- nearly
all the Kansas papers are trying which can make
him out the best and purest man. A fellow new
er knows how good he is until be is dead.
Year: 1874

Nice-President Wilson gives as his opinion that
snoul1 congress adjourn without some well de-
fined financial policy. it will be hard work for
the Republicans to secure a majority of the next
house. This Judgment is valuable, in view of the
fact that he has been travelling considerably, and
made himself familiar with tine views of leading
men of different States
Year: 1874

E- The old proverb is that "Speech is silver,
but silence is golden" Such being the case, if
Grant will only maintain his silence, while Jones
gabbles for him, they would have enough gold
and silver between them to return to specie
basis as soon as even they could desire.
Year: 1874

1t is proposed to make the third section of the
second article of the constitution read in this
way: THE President. shall from time to time.
give Fesenator Jones information of the state of the
Union, and recommend to his consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary and expe-
dientr
Year: 1874

A FAvoRITE SPOILED.-The Hearth and Home,
of New York, by odds the best and most enter
tanning home and family paper extant, if not the
only one that fully comes up to the ideal of such
paper, has been literally ruined. 1t has been
purchased by the Graphic Company, and turned
into pictorial-iilled with uncouth and ginger
bread wood-cuts, many of them without interest
or meaning and most of them reprints of pictures
that have heretofore appeared in similar papers.
Instead of the delightful reading for old and
young, with just proper amount of neat, sug
gestivc, or amusing illustrations we shall hence
forth have weekly surfeit of unsightly daubs
and trashy reading. But this will probably not
last long. 1t fills no want of the American pub
lie, and will be permitted to slide ont.
Year: 1874

Nurse.


Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup Is the pre-
scriPtion Of of the best Female yscians
in the United States and has been used thirty years
with railng safety and success by millions OF
and children from the feeble infant of one week old to
the adult 1t corrects acidy Of the stomach relieves
collie regulates the bowels and gives rest health and
fort to mother and child We believe it be Best and
Surest Remedy in the World in all DYSENTERY
and DIARRHTA IN CHILDREN whether it arises from
Teethng or from other Full directions m using
will accompany each bottle None Genuine the fac
sime of CURTIS PERKINS is on the outside wrapper
said by all Mesleine Dealers iuIyIuyi
Year: 1874

The erection of board fences on u
prairie farm is an expensive operation.
In Nebraska the law wisely removes
the necessity tor fence building, by
providing fol the herding of live stsck !;
and in Iowa, the needs Ofpractical farm
ing life brings about very much the
same result.


But in each case, the law and the
practice are the things of the day. it is
an instinct in the owner of land to de-
fine his possessions by metes anu
bounds, obvious to the eye, which sep
arate his land from that of his neigh
Dor. Ifiences were not convenience
there would be fences therefore; but, as
fences are a convenience, the improy-
ing prairie farmer sets himself to their
creation as soon Us his house is built,
and his land broken. Live fences, OF
course, are the desideratum; and there
are three plants which are most in fav-
or for the purpose. The Honey locust
the Usage Orange and the White willow,
make good fences. The two former are
Year: 1874

Peddlers should be set out as speedily
as possible.


Squash vines should be transplanted
i'm the new of the moon.


Always sprout dried apples during the
equinoctial snow storm.


Buttons and beeswax are an early veg
etable, and require sowing early.


Apple sass plants should be started in
a little wooden box with an eyeglass
over it.


In trimming rail fence be careful not
to break off new shoots, as 1t is liable to
injure the fruit.


Stock should be watered twice day
now, especially railroad stock, which is
apt to shrink If 1t is allowed to become
dry.


If your wife cleans house this month
it would be policy to chop cord wood up
in the mountains, and keep house on the
European plan.


There are several choice varieties OF
cabbage In good and regular standing,
The Pink-eyed, South Down, Short
horned, Herefords and the copper-toed
are counted among the best.
Year: 1874

Water thrown in a red-hot metallic
vessel does not boil, as we should ex-
pect, but quietly gathers itself together,
forming a more or less perfect sphere,
and in that condition flsats about grace
fully on the hot surface as 1t slowly
evapOrates away. If at the same time
a very vaporizable substance, as liquor
sulphurous acid, is thrown in, the wa
ter may actually be. frozen in the red
hot vessel. sFFffr, Z, i-l-gs


Water boiled in glass flask until the
upper part of the vessel is entirely
filled with the steam, and then dexter
ously corked before air can gain ad-
mission and placed in cold water re-
commences to boil. The boiling is pre-
duced by Geld instead of heat, and the
experiment is known as the ordinary
paradox.


If steam from water boiling as 2l2
deg. is passed into a solution Of salt in
water the temperature of the solution
steadily rises, passing 212 deg, reach
ing the boiling point of the solution;
finally the latter also boils at a temper
ature as high and even higher than $50
deg, according to its nature. Then we
have the extraordinary result of attain
ing higher temperature, say 220 deg.
from lower one, viz: 212 deg.


If there is anything in nature that
possesses positive character it is light.
Yet the physicist may so reflect the
light from given source as to cause it
to destroy itself and produce darkness.
In like manner two sounds may be
made to interfere with each other, and
either produce silence or increased in
tensity of sound, at the will of the
ODpratOr rfi-
Year: 1874

There is fair chance now of writing


being done away with altogether. An


instrument has been invented by one


James Densmore, of New York, called


the '.Type Writer" 1t is about the size


Of the sewing machine, and is worked


like a piano. The keys are in four banks


or rows, twelve to fourteen inches In
length, so that the keyboard is about
fifteen inches wide, and the process of
writing is to sit before the instrument
and manipulate the keys. When the
key is struck the type is thrown up,
and will not fall until the finger is re-
moved from the key. The types are
on the ends of series fsteel
bars, pivoted on a circle, so that they
may vibrate on the pivots and all strike
at the same pRinR Directly over the
point where the types all strike an ink
ing ribbon is drawn, so that every type


will strike it before it can strike any
thing else, and is made to move so as to
touch every time in fresh place. Di-
rectly over this linking ribbon the pa
per carriage is made to move from right
to left, and the paper is arranged to go
under a cylinder or roller, which acts
as platen, so that every time a key is
struck type is thrown up sgainst the
mixing ribbon, carrying the ribbon with
it against the cylindrical platen, and
there it leaves its impression. The re-
manning machinery is very ingenious.
The speed is said to be three times that
OF the pen, and the force required very
small. An expert may write sixty five
words minute. The machine has for
ty-four characters. Such is the type
writing machine. All we now want,
says the Inter- Ocean, is spelling ma
chine and patent brain-wsrker,
through which may hatch poetry,
and the summit of human ambition will
have been attained.
Year: 1874

bear close watching. Ii we cannot do
the liberal and intelligent thing that
Cincinnati has done in bringing the
song birds of the old world to our groves
and thickets, we should at least protect
from wanton destruction such as are ma
tive TO our State,
Year: 1874

DR. ROGERS, on Friday, telegraphed
Governor Brown Of the result Of the la-
bars OF the commissioners appointed to
select site FOR the West Tennessee in
sane ssylum, and yesterday received
from his excellency an snswer to the
effect that be will be in the city to-day,
snd viii act promptly tomorrow. be
will meet the commissioners st the Pea
body hotel, and will no doubt ratify q
choice Of site that could not oe sur
passed anywhere in the State. After
that the next thing in order is to let out
the contract Tor building, and push the


work with sll possible speed.
Year: 1874

WE point with pride TO the sdvertis-
ing columns OF the APPEAL to-day as
an evidence Of. the continued confidence
Of a discriminating public, confidence
that can neither be shaken by direct
slsnder Of us or any attempted misrep-
resentatiOn OF misspprehension of our
course. The APPEAL is the fearless ex-
ponent Of the public will, and in the
hands Of its present conductors will con-
tinue, IS hitherto, TO deserve well OF the
Year: 1874

facilities le. US increase them. Let us
have high schools in every county


scat and normal school in
every grand division, then we
can invite the labor Of other lands, then
we can urge the capital OF other State


tben we can enter with freedom On the
race of prosperity with the commons
weaIths around Us. Without education
and the advancement it brings, the
grsndest political victories were barren
Year: 1874

ground with smooth round stick, such as
an old broom-handle But, unfortunately,
in these cases they are caught only after
they have spent the night in destroying
the young cabbages or corn. Finally we
hit upon the eXpedient of surrounding the
hill or plant with ring of holes close to-
gether, and in this way caught a great
many of the pests every night. Making
so many holes with single stick is a slow
process, but with contrivance which is
described below the whole ring of holes is
made at one stroke An old shovel-handle
Is split for about a foot with a fine saw
The split portion is soaked in boiling water,
to soften it, and the ends are inserted into
holes made in a hoop or ring of wood two
inches wide, one inch thick, and eight
inches in diameter. In the bottom OF the
ring there are inserted number of pieces
OF an old broom-hande projecting two
inches and placed not more than quarter
Of an inch apart When this is pressed
into the earth around hill Of corn or cab
bage plant, it leaves circle of smooth
round holes two inches deep, with compact
sides and bottoms. The cut-worms fall
into these holes in their nightly rambles
and may be found and destroyed in the
mornlng.-AmertcDR AgrjculurtSt.
Year: 1874

A few days since Justice Jecko, Of St.
Louis, received a call from young man
and a young woman, each of whom was the
bearer Of 4 Portly carpet sack. Their APP
pearancc indicated that they had just ar
rived on a railroad train from the rural
| districts Of Illinois.


'Bo you the squire o. asked the young
man, with an air Of difidcnce
Il be. Do you want to get married p
yes. How did you know ?'


Il saw it in your eyes. There is a GER
/ tain sort Of scintillation in the left eye of a
man who is about to commit matrimony
that betrays his purpose as truly as spot
on the sun indicates falling weather"


DO tell Squire, you're poking fun
at me, amt you


''Not at all. 1t is part of the Oar
winian theory of selection. You'll find it
all out before you have been a year in the
traces. Are you in hurry to have the
knot tied ?"


"Yas, sir We want it done right away,
don't we, Mollie"


Eyes, squire, said Mollie "but haint
you got dressing-room, where | can put
on my bridal dress and titivate little


Il am sorry to say my only chamber is
crammed full ofhobby horses, toys, trinkets
and stuff seized by the constable from a
fancy store. However, there it is, if you
think there is room enough in it for you to
dress"


The bride looked into the room adjoin-
inc the Office, and declared she could make
out TO slip on her wedding dress in it.
With carpet sack in hand she entered the
lumber room and closed the door The
bridegroom asked for another dressing
room, saying he had his wedding fixtures
in his valise and would like to put them
on. He was told there was no other room
vacant, and that he would have to wait un-
til the bride had enrobed herself and then
he could take his turn. What happened
is thus told:


The young man sat down with an air of
impatience, holding his carpet sack between
his knees, and twirling his thumbs. Con
stable McGeary, whose appearance is that
Of Don Juan of the killing type (although
in reality he is the chastest man that ever
chased iuryman or replevined a widow
woman parlor furniture,) had been writ
ING at his desk when the bridal party cn-
tered, and now arose and passed into the
passage-way leading down stairs. The
young man with the carpet sack turned red
in the face as he saw the door close upon
the constable.


He evidently thought McGeary had
gone into the store-room where the bride
was making her toilet He became ner-
yous, threw his carpetsack into a corner,
arose, sat down again in another chair, and
was extremely fdgety. The more he tired
to conceal his emotions the redder his face
grew At length, unable longer to endure
the agony of doubt and mistrust, he ran to
the door of the store-room and entered. A
scream was heard, and then the young
man came back looking very sheepish. This
rash act of the Bridegroom came very near
breaking off the match, but the justice ex-
planned to the bride that it was all mis-
take.


care you a married man, squire ?" asked
the bride, putting her face to crack in
the door.


"Yes / have been married ever 80 long"
Year: 1874

Young Stevens, son OF the battery man,
has gold galore, but what are millions to a
man SO deformed that dogs bark at him
when he goes halting by, and lovely woman,
even when the golden luster of untold
wealth glitters about his head, faints at
sight Of him From his birth a peculiar
wen, growing larger day by day, has made.
his face and neck hideous Covered with
long hair it looked like repulsiye wild
animal clinging to his head Stevens hid
himself from the general eye, and moped
in loneliness. In early yonth he was
betrothed to beautiful young girl, but as
the wen grew great his love grew less :;
rather his determination never to infict his
horrible deformity on a follow-creature was
tirmly y formed. The best surgeons Of
Europe and America gave him no hope.
They were unanimous in declaring that to
remove the wen was to permanently re-
move the patient But recently he met a
daring practitioner who declared that it
was within the skill Of the surgeon 70 lop
off the eXcrescence and restore the afflicted
man to a healthy and normal condition.
Stevens listened gratefully 'Do it" sail he
and your reward shall be $1J0,00O" With
electric knives the confident cutter went to.
work, and in very brief time had earned
his mammoth fee. The skin beneath the
tumor was smooth and sound, and Stevens
is in excellent health. He may now have
his picture taken, enjoy his wealth, and say
to his Dulcinea, Gwen, oh wen shall We
wed p Chicago Times.
Year: 1874

Still there is no news of the present
whereabouts Of the kidnapped boy, little
Charley Ross. The munifcent reward of
$4,000 has not yet evoked any informa-
ton of immediate value The public in
terest in the case continues without abate-
ment, and it really seems as if Philadelphia
would do almost anything to bring the lost
child TO light. The utter failure of the
police thus far to get on his track is not
credltable, and shows an unexpected degree
of ignorance and meffciency, 1t is now
stated that the New Yerk Herald has tax
en- the case in hand on its own account and
will prosecute it to the end. This looks
more like business than anything else that
has been done
Year: 1874

''Well, then, l wish you would come in
here and hook my frock."


The justice complied with the modest
request, and in moment the bride came
out in gorgeous attire The bridegroom
then entered the room, and when he re-
turned the ceremony was performed with
out further delay, Then the bride re-en-
tered the store.room and changed her dress,
and the happy couple marched out with
their carpet sacks, highly elated at the sue
cess Of their mission.
Year: 1874

There is no trustworthy remedy against
cut-worms except actual catching and kill
ing them. Any application to the soil
sufficiently strong to injure or discommode
them would certainly destroy the crop, and
all the recommendations to use salt, carbolic
acid, and other similar substances may be
set aside as useless in practice. We have
trapped them in various ways, beneath
chips, stones, and in holes punched in the
Year: 1874

a tobacco chewer insisted on expectorat-
ing on the floor of street car in Buffalo
and was put off by the conductor, who was
aiterward arrested on warrant sworn out
by the man of quids. The court held that
the conductor was blameless as the tobacco
man was making nuisance of himself
generally.
Year: 1874

The LaPor,e Argus talks like this
I'VE request our correspondents to I've
careful about basing sll their items Of
news on facts" Want TO monopolize all
the fictitious stories yourselfl Row is il
about the following editorisl2


a saloon keeper OF this city owns a
dog which has habit of licking up the
drippings from the faucets of the beer
kegs until he gets as drunk as lord. He
does this every day and after getting him
self SO drunk that be can not stand up be
stretches out and snoooes until the effect
Of the beer passes off. This is the first
time that we ever beard of any animal,
but human, getting voluntarily and OBJ
liviously drunk. If there sre any lady
dogs IN the city the case offers fine
chance for them 10 illustrate the benefits
of female influence over the fallen.