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Year: 1878

completed. This done, and the Northern
Pacific will for the first time in its exist.
encc, be established on firm and inde-
pendent basis. 1t ever has been and now
is at the mercy of intervening lines-be-
tween itself and the outside world
which have invariably made their own
terms, and liked the rate for freight and
passage over it's road to suit themselves,
and refuse to. day to agree upon equitable
through rates. And the Glyndon cut of,
which was strongly advocated by leading
members of the Legislature, and carried
in 1877 because it would open compel.
ing line with the N P. (Which was repre-
sented to be an oppressive monopoly has
only added orc more to the coils of this
anaconda about the N. P. road and the
country 1t taps, and only drawn more
closely about it the crushing power Of its
antagonist, while the plea of competition
and reduction in rates, having served its
purpose, that OF binding the people for
the time being, falls to the ground, and
the real motive, that Of monopolizing
entirely the traffic north, stalks boldly to
the front and reveals itself in this new
order which may be held to be blessing
in disguise, in that it will hasten the
completion of several very valuable
connections.
Year: 1878

WE visited Marion, Crlttenden


County, last week, with The view


of obtaining the publication OF the


delinquent tax list of that county,
thinking we had right to expect
IT; at least, we thought we had. in


view Of the fact that the county


court, of said courty had promul-
gated an order, appointing The
Osceola Times as the official Jour
nal of Critleuden county, as the
next nearest Office whore paper
was published &C., said order hav 'ng
never been rcscinded. Bat we
counted without our host,-the
county Clerk, who is said 10 be
strictly on the make had already
let out the job 10 an underbiddcr
and hearing of the object of our
visit Godgod and avoided us for
over a hal! day before we could
run him down, and bring him to
talk business to us. The idea OF
em expecting to dc he work for
% cents u tract winch the law al
lows, so enraged him that he forgot
that he was born a gentleman, and
that civil as well as courteous
reception was due from him to
every gentleman who visited hin,
purely on business. The salisiac-
tion OF knowing that the good peo'
pie of Crittenden County. who
Year: 1878

Most newspaper men, WHO
would happen with such good
luck, as belcl US the otncr day, on
our first excursion of the season,
in search OF piscatoral sport,
would rush INTO three column ar,
licle. and give a minute and glow
ing description Of the lovely ride,
the beautiful roads, the waving
fields of corn and other growing
truck on the wayside go into rap
lures over his success in luring the
finy tribe with the tempting bait
tell how he icrkcd the Trout, the
Perch, the Pike, the Goggle-eyed
Perch, the Pike, and other species,
one after another, out of the limpid
stream AMI slapped them down on
the bank with force equal to n
twenty-ton pile driver, or hung
them in the tops of the adjacent
trees how, after tiring of The sport,
the beauties were prepared, peeled
aud shelIed,' rolled in the dirt and
broIled m hunter, and then de
voured with gusto that would
bring to mind proper conceptions
of canibalsm, &c aud SO on; but
we will do nothing Of the sort, and
would merely state that after catch
ing, IN connection with IL string of
ninety-iour fish, first class shower
of rain, we came home, had our
fish done up a la home style, all
0 X, and relished them just us
much as we possibly could, had we
pulled them out of Il brush heap fire
under a blisterlng smoke, and wash
ed down with bayou water.
Year: 1878

A woman saws very few men
have the slightest idea how to hold
baby. And we don't suppose one
man in a hundred has the slightest
desire to hold one. IL 1T is a fe-
male baby he is willing TO hold it
after 1t reaches the age of seven
teen years, we've been tod. The
best way to hold one under six
months is to hold yourself alooi
from it.
Year: 1878

have learnt to know their man, and
his ways that are dark, and tricks
that are vain" will spew him out
Of the high position which he now


dsgraces, is in u manner consoling
to us, and mitigates our resentment
towards him for the indignities suf-
fered at his hands while in Marion.
Year: 1878

THAT Potter, of New York, whom
Southern democrats have put forward
as their representative tool to do their
bidding, has found it necessary to de-
ny by letter recently published, that
his investigation means unseating the
President; means revolution. Every
sensible man i'm the land knows that
the Northern democracy dare not and
do not control results in that party
no, not even their own action. Their
masters are the Southern democracy,
and however much they of the North
fuss and protest, they finally fall into
line. They did thiseven when South
ern democracy rebelled and trampled
upon the old flag, and they will do il
again as soon as called upon. They
would repeat their action of 'Gl if call
ed upon to do so. All over the South
the investigation is said to be aimed
at Hayes; if not that then it is worth.
less and folly to make it.


The audacious spectacle is to-day
presented to the world of party o1
traitors demanding exemption from
blame and from even the mention O
their own great crime, and at the
same time demanding the trial of Un
ion men ard the reinstatement il
power of the traitors as the verdic
of q one-sided inquiry.
Year: 1878

HERE is where the shoe pinches the
Keokuk Constitution. Greenbackers
should nominate former democrats i'm
order to please the Constitution, as it
pretends, but we are inclined to think
our contemporary and democratic jour-
mails generally really rather prefer
that greenbackers should nominate
former republicans because they there
by hope to coax republican green
hackers to throw away their votes
and at the same time disgust demo.
cratic greenbackers so that they will
return to their first love. But here is
the way the Constitution turns up its
nose:


"a. III. Bereman and Gen. Weaver
who are the greenback nominees in
this (the tirst) and the Sixth districts
have been radicals until recently
They have become ashamed of or dis
gusted with their party, which is very
commendable SO far as it goes. But
instead of entering the democratic
ranks and making their way up a
they should have done, their ambi
tion and their desire for Office leads
them to start . new party and to try
and wheedle democrats into coming
over and voting for and with them
What claims they have to any man.
vote who has ever called himself {
democrat is beyond our ken. Ger
tainly the mere entertaining of green
back sentiments does not entitle then
to such favor; for whoever will be tn,
nominee of the democracy in thes,
districts will be, unquestionably, a
sound as they are on that issue, ant
will be more entitled to Democratic
support. 1t is very cheeky, not t
call it by any worse name, for tn
greenbackers to ask democrats to sup
port radicals for political offices, whel
they have so many good men of thei
own, who will represent their views
to select FROM"


We must be candid enough to sa,
that an elevated nose may be excusa
BILE in the cases mentioned, especial,
in the case of Weaver.
Year: 1878

Mr.. POTTER in his letter says that
they do not aim at revolution, and
says there is no power to unseat Pres
ident Hayes, but he supplements this
with the following language,-we use
his exact words: "We may not beable
to do all that we wish now, but give
us an overwhelming majority in the
next Congress and wewill takespeedy
action" 1t is apparent therefore that
should the people give the next House
to the democracy they would take it
for granted that it wasan Endorsement
Of their revolutionary policy and that
they would proceed to carry out such


expressed will of the people in un-
seating Hayes and installing Tilden.
Year: 1878

Cock Watterson on His Dunghiil
1t is our purpose to sift the Florids
and Louisiana villainies to the bottom
to bring the rascals to justice, to stake
our all on that issue, and if need be-
to die in our tracks next time if, elect.
ing our ticket, we do not seat it. Mr.
Hayes can get in the way or get out
of the way, just as he pleases. That
is his affair. This is the meaning Oi
the Potter investigation. LOuisrilyt
Courier Journal.


The C0trier- Journal is a big paper
for the South; it comes as near being
cock of the walk as anything they
have got, and it appears to have been
wonderfully conciliated by President
Hayes. A little more such concilia-
ton and Watterson would declare
himself commissioned of God to pro-
ceed to Washington and, seizing Mr..
Hayes by the nap of the neck and the
seat of the breeches, incontinently
cast him out of the White House.
Year: 1878

BROTHER KEY, p. M. General in
his pointed letter on the situation,
seems to think that his party do mean
to unseat Hayes, do mean revolution.
He appeals to his Southern brethren
to oppose this movement. We are
very glad to see him take the stand
he does, but his appeal will not have
the effect to stay the deviltry of the
madcaps in Congress or their fiery
unreconciled constituency in the
South. Read the letter.
Year: 1878

The democratic House cut down
the army to 10000 men and put upon
it at the same time additional labor
by transferring to the War Depart
ment the Indian Bureau. The pres
ent Senate, however, will check this
step toward Handwriting the national
government. The man who does not
see in the present democratic move
ments preparations to forcibly take
control in this nation, if need be, by
the old ex-rebel element, aided by
their late sympathizing allies, totally
ignores the lessons of the past.
Year: 1878

A curious case in England is about
to be tried in the courts. A Rev. Mr.
Besant, clergyman of the English
Church, married lady, who it ap.
pears after the marriage, turned out
to be an atheist. The husband de.
clared he could not live with her un.
less she recanted her views and be.
came a Christian. They agreed there
fore upon a separation by the terms
of which the mother took the young
daughter into her own keeping
yearns for the possession Of tho tctiifd
and has commenced suit to obtain
her, alleging es reason, that the
mother, being an atheist, is unfit to
rear the child. Singular enough this
case is brought before an Israelitish
judge and the lady defendant gives
out that she shall plead her own case
The trial is becoming matter OF
great interest in English circles.
Year: 1878

LONDON, May 3l.-The Grasser
kurfurst came in collision with the
Iron Clad Koenig Wilhelm at 8 AZ
this morning, three miles off Folk.
stone. The Grasser Kurfurst sank
almost Immediately and her boiler
exploded as she went down. The
weather was bright and the sea calm
at the time of the disaster.


1t is reported from Dover that only
IL persons out ofa complement OF
AGO officers and men ON board the
eraser kurfurst were saved. Boats
went from shore and more were sent
from other vessels Of the German
fleet to the assistance Of the drewninR
people and it is hoped that more lives
were saved.
Year: 1878

An exchange contains tho following
sensible paragraph:


What an absurd thing it is to sup.
pOsc that orcrythcug that is published
in u newspaper reflects tho sentiment
Of the cditcr. Ifthat we're tho case hc
would be a many sided individual. 10
publish nothing but what agrees with
our opinion would narrow tho scope Of
page very greatly.
Year: 1878

EDUCATIONAL REPORTS.


| Is THE COMMISSIONERS REPORT TOO LONG us IT
UNwIsE TO PRINT SPECIAL ARTICLES IN II p
OUGHT NEWSPAPERS TO PRINT PARTS OF II IN
ADVANCE 2-ANswERs TO CRITICISMS


To the EdttOr Of The Tribune.


SIR: THE TRIBUNE having INDUCED in some
severe criticism OF the report OF the Commissioner of
Education 1876 (without having IT, OF its
readers who is engaged in an humble capacity in the
preparation OF that document in the interest OF fair
play would respectfully request space for brief reply
THE TRIBUNE, chiefly summarizing the report Of the
House Committee, says:


l. That the report is too large letting the Prussian
Government publications proof Of the asserton aud
that many Of its statistics vaueess 0 that 1t "con
tains special articles AngloSaxon and Latin and
Greek pronunciation which have 10 more right TO q
place in the report than dissertation the Spring
fashions @ that the report contains much that has
been already published in the newspapers" 1t adds on
its responsibility that in the Judgment OF discreet
persons the report untrusworthy from beginning to
end" These strong statements are epigTammatIcally
put; let US SEQ whether they Will bear examination


l. While 1t is likely there will be different views as 10
the most suitable size of this Of nearly every other
Government report 1t is fact that superntendents and
others engaged school work are continually request
ing the admission of additional items which would swell
the book far beyond its present size The compre
hepsve and minute statistical work in the book Is that
relating to cities but that table merely In
convenient form the answers given by city supernten
donts to form OF inquiries which was drawn up by
committee of the Department Of superintendent sew
era years ago. The usefulness OF these questions dis
closing the weak points of system and the stimulating
effect OF the recorded progress of other places can only
be adequately appreciated by those who are Intimately
acquainted with school work As TO the matter being


vauecss" Ii Is not pretended that every one will con-
suit much less read the whole OF the report but the
thing may be said OF literary pro-
ductions in general which are more serious
than novels; certainly 1t Is Of all statistical works
II every OF THE to peruse carefully
the daily money article the editor would print nothing
about the sprD fashions and Regarding the
Prussian CUSTOM the writer OF the article Is mistaken
The single modest volume" which contains all the
statistics really the second part only OF the entire
work The report referred moreover concerns Prus
sa exclusively. II makes statement Of the educational
Year: 1878

THE BILL FOR REDUCING THB EXPENSES OF NEw-


YORK CITY OFFICIALS REPORTED TO THE SENATE


IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS


IFROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE


ALBANY, April 25.-If the Legislature holds
together for fortnight longer law TO reduce the
enormous expense Of carrying on the government Of
York, that the taxpayers annually have 10 pro-
vide for likely TO be passed The Public Burdens Bill
by a process of evolution from simple to q complex
FORM has at last acquired powers that will enable II to
reduce very materially expenses In the city, No greater
proof could be given OF this than apparent change
the part OF Tammany Halls representatives from e
friendly to an unfriendly attitude toward it. The
Senate Committee Cities, through their chair
man, Senator PomeroY, submitted TO the Senate
the very important amendments they have made In
the bill. summary of these amendments was given In
to-ays TRIBUNE but 1t Is worth while TO give them In
full for the Information Of taxpayers Blow is the
amendment in regard to the departments receiving
their appropriations In gross, themselves cutting
Year: 1878

The democrats have commenced to make re.
publican officials walk the plank" The victim
this time is the young lamplighter, who attended
to the lighting of the gasoline lamps. He is q
very faithful young man, but be is a republican.
The place is given to Seth Cssk, to heal the
wounds made by his rejection driver of the
city team
Year: 1878

A Chinaman, wild from opium, climbed
recklessly over large steam engine in a
Nevada ore mill The walking beam rose
under him, and he had a pcrlous ride as
traddle of it, to the CONSERVATION Of the
spectators, but to his own enjoyment. He
even drew knife, and threatened to kill
whoever interfered with his amusement
Year: 1878

The demand in Great Britain for Amer
lean bred horses is constantly growing.
and We are Of the opinion that the time
is not very far in the future when that
country will look to America for its chief
supply. Race horses, hunters carriage
horses, and common work horses were
exported last year from this country to
England and Scotland in considerable
numbers; and we have not the slightest
doubt that the demand will increase from
year to year, until it shall become a very
important item in our annual export ac-
count, simply because we can and do
raise as good horses, Of all kinds, as are
produced in England, and we can do this
much cheaper than it can possibly be
done in that country. National Live
Stock Journal.
Year: 1878

Two years ago you would not see the daily
Republican and Democratic papers chroni
Gle the proceedings Of greenback conven
tions and meetings. Now they are filled
with accounts Of what is done and the gen.
eral proceedings. Really the "rag baby
grows, and its father-the people-raIIy
round it.-Lyndon Times.


Our namesake will do us the justice to
admit that the Leavenworth TINES has al
ways treated the greenback movement with
respect and has never lost an opportunity
to lend it helping hand, though We have
always thought that the best way to &c.
complish the desired end was not to set uT
q new party, but to set the old party right
and present appearances indicate that NOT
only one but both of the old parties will
soon stand upon as6ound greenback plat.
Year: 1878

and that proved that they were not oppress-
ed by taxation. He favored the reference
oil the resolution to the committee on tinance
ana SAID ne hoped there would not be an
enor' TO have snap Judgment upon il.
Unless thls vas one of a series of measures
to be passed under the whip and spur of
some outside influence. what would he the
effect of this resolution on the public credit ,
Would it be good or bad There were
many questions connected with it which
should be considered by the Committee on
pleasant duty, but their imposition some
times was patriotic necessity. The refer
ence of this resolution to the committee on
finance was imperatively required, and he
moved that it be so referred. The motion
was agreed to without division.
After an executive session the Senate al
iourncd.
Year: 1878

What has become of all that Founding
that gold was going to do, as soon as the
silver bill became a law? If we are moi
very greatly mistaken, We have been told
by the gold organs, at least two hundred
and fifty thousand times since the silver dis.
cussion opened, that if silver were remone.
tized gold would Immediately bound up te
some point not very far from the altitude il
reached during the war. What We want te
know now is, when is it going to begin to
bound? The silver bill has been law fol
several days, and gold was quoted in Wall
street yesterday, at one and a-half--ths
lowest point reached since the suspension Of
specie payment, sixteen year, ago!
Year: 1878

1t is great thing TO know when to stop.
Many a political speaker has ruined his
prospects by not knowing when he had
said enough, and many preacher has
preached his congregation away By not
knowing enough to quit when he was done,
And then there's Prof. Tice-the best Illus
tration of the fact that We know Of A
year or two ago he made several lucky
guesses about the weather, and immediate
ly everybody began to talk about him; th'
public gave him credit for having discov
cred a new planet, and new principle O
natural law, and about half the people in
the United States firmly believed that h
could describe the weather of next montl
Just as accurately as that of last month
That's where Tice should have stopped
But he didn't know enough to quit whel
he was done. He kept on prophesying, bu
his prophesies persistently failed, and no'
his forecasts" are held in derision by hi
former disciples. He has been distances
by the grounding, and beaten out Of sigh
by the goose-bone
Year: 1878

The Garnet Journal saws the greenback
cause is rapidly gaining ground in Kansas
and We are inclined to think that herein
the judgment OF our contemporary is en-
inently correct. The Journal says:


The growing sentiment In favor of green
backs is beginning to astonish our hard mon
q friends. They are beginning TO wonder II
there is not something solid about the green
back question. In our county, the greenback
principles are taking deep and firm hold upon
the people, and every week brings us news o.
what they are doing in the way Of organiza
tion.- GreeDback clubs seem TO be considered
the best means OF self defence against tn,
money power, and accordingly quite mum
ber OF these are springing up over the county
One In Walker township boasts a membership
of thirty-fve voters; one in Rich has fifty
one In Jackson has twenty-four, and one in
Reeder, forty. There are others in the coun
ty the number Of whose membership We d.
NOT know
Year: 1878

SEDAN. the Gem Of tho valIey-A


Beautiful and Picturesque Country


Hills and Becky Caverns


EDITOR TrMS:-It was with many re-
grets that l left the little town of ELK
Falls" / am an enthusiastic admirer OF
beauty, wherever it may be found, whether
animate or inanimate, human or brute,
nature or art. 1t was for this reason that
reluctantly left the society OF two beautiful
ladies at that place, but duty called and l
went. The trip from EEK Falls" to ''Se-
dan," distance of twenty miles, is one Of
more than usual interest, the topography Of
the country is SO different from any that /
had seen, that it was a pleasant change.
Just - you leave the Falls" you cross
"Wild Cat" creek, beautiful little stream
of water that goes rushing over its rocky
bed on its way to join the EEK" river. The
stream angles around through the timber for
quite distance and then leads out and up
wards on to the high prairie. To gain this
We have to ascend high bluff, abrupt and
bleak, but we are not done yet upward
goes the road until at last We gain the
highest point in all the country around.
Its:


4 Long PULL,


and strong pull, but when attained it is
we'll worth the trouble Stretching away
until lost in the murky distance, is spread
ore Iaforo Won one of the finesf landscape
views in Kansas. Sloping away in all di-
rections, with no habitation to mar the
effect are what might almost be termed
foothills, it looks like nest Of young noun
tains creeping up the ravines and some
times straggling almost 70 their SUBMITS
may be seen . sparse growth Of timber,
mostly oak little rills start from our very
feet and run in al directions; great masses
Of upheaved rock show their gray, weather.
beaten faces TAR down On tie brow of the
Year: 1878

Our Kansas e.changes-especially those
in the southern part of the etate-say the
peach buds are swelled, almost ready to
open, and that with = few days of warm
weather the trees will be in blossom. There
is nothing particularly encouraging in this,
for though il is hardly to be expected that
We shall have any very severe weather, we
cannot reasonably feel secure from frost
for at least six weeks, and if the peach
trees come out now there il much reason to
fear that We shall have . very short crop.
Year: 1878

There is bullion enough already on hand
to supply the mints for the first months
coinage under the silver Law, and the new
dollars thus produced can at once be pu,
into circulation by their employment in the
purchase Of bullion for the next months
work in the mints. Whether this will be
the policy Of the Secretary of the Treasury,
or, indeed, what form Of construction and
execution he will give 10 the Law, is mat
ter Of uncertainty at present
Year: 1878

For the first time in years, real estate is
looking up in Chicago. An Improvement
slight, but encouraging-is reported on
all sides, and there Is reason for hopi, g
that it will be permanent.
Year: 1878

and went head-6rst back again. / scram-
bled up as fast as possible, and discovered
the Colonel choking, gasping for breath,
splitting muddy water and pronouncing a
benediction on the road overseers,
not only Of Kansas, but of a much
more remote locality. Laying down on the
rocks extended my hand to help the Col
onel, but another unlucky slip brought US
both down together; this time went in
head-fnt my pocket-book fell out and
Year: 1878

AS BAD AS TIE POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
To rnK EDITOR HERALD


The stencil at the Houston street ferry TO Williams
burg Is something fearful l passed several
times lately and nearly got sick. Can nothing be
done to mako tho company cleanse the piscef


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