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Year: 1872

We say "coutestu-althOught that Is not hitting
,,ora Car tb.r. is no contest-more properly, the
ooun,;or in Kansas is too one-sded to make it
interesting. Notwithstanding the brag and bus-
ter of the Greeley party, their cause Is simply
homeless In two or three Counties, and only
that many, they will reduce the Republican ma
iority slightly. In the balance of the Counties,
the Republican majorities will be larger than u.s.
ual Democrats, by the hundreds are signifyinS
their determination to vote for Grant. In most
of the Counties, these men far Outnumber the Re
pubcans who will vote for Greeley. The only
difference is the Republicans who intend to vote
for Greeley, feel it to be their duty to make all
the noise possible; while the Democrats who
have made up their minds to vote for Grant, are
pursuing their way quietly, but will make them
selves felt no less surely at the ballot-box.


The Liberals are making the burden Of the fight
mainly upon the Governorship, with the help of
two or three disappointed and malicious Republi-
cans. Notwithstanding all their boasting, it is
very evident that they have no hope of carrying
Kansas for their ticket, but think there may be
chance to elect their Governor, ny means Of the
concentrated aud bitter fight upon that Office.
In this they wasting their time. The animus
of the assaults upon Osborn is too evident to he
mistaken, and is only Strengthening him. So far
from defeating him, their warfare promises to run
him ahead of the ticket. If the Liberals expect
to run Walker ahead of his ticket on the ground
of his extraordinary gentility and honesty, they
will he wofully disappointed. The returns will
show that he stands about the same footing as
any other Democratic-L Liberal -Sorehead-and all
of them will be miserably beaten.


In short, Kansas will elect an almost unani-
nous Republican Legislature, Republican Pres
idential Electors, Republican congressman, and
the entire Republican State ticket-and she will
not merely elect them, but will do it by an over
whelming, crushing majority. Any person who
claims to the contrary, is either wild or insin-
cere
Year: 1872

~ The Leavenworth Commercial comes out in
a bran new dress, and is now one of the hand
soonest papers in the State, as it always has been
one of the best Democratic papers in the country.
Year: 1872

Probate Judge.
JAMES A. ODOR of Troy, is q candidate for Probate
Judge Of Donphan County subject the decision Of the
Republican County Convention.


District Clerk.
The name Of FRANK BROWN will be presented To the
Republican County Convention for nomination for
Office Of Clerk Of the District Court


CSanty Attorney.
We are authorized to announce that JOEL HOLT will
be candidate for selection to the Office Of County
Of Donphan County Kansas subject tn the decision
the Republican County Convention.


Representative.
LEANDER HILLS will be q candidate for Representa-
tive to the Legislature fom the First Representative Dis
tret subject TO the Republican nominating Convention
Year: 1872

Good counsel from wife and
mo her:


Il try to make myself and all
around, me agreeable. 1t will not
do to leave man to himself till he
comes to you, to take no pains to at
tract him, or to appear before him
with long face. 1t is not rs diff
cult as you think, my child, to be-
have to IL husband SO that he shall
remain forever in some degree II
husband | am IN old woman, but
you can do as you please. A word
from you at the right time will not
fail of it's effect and what need OF
You to play the suffering virtue!
The tear of Il loving girl, says an
old book, is like IL dew drop on
rose bat that ON the cheek of u
wife is drop of poison to her hus-
band Try to appear cheerful and
contented and your husband will be
so, not only i'll appearance but in
reality. Nothing hatters II man so
much US the happiness OF his vile I;
he is proud Of himself as causing it.
As soon as you are cheerful you will
be lively and alert every moment
will afford you an opportunity TO let
fall an agreeable word. Your edu-
cation, viii h gives You an immense
advantage, will assist you"
Year: 1872

CoYyFHrISG WEEDs INTO MANURE. -
A ready method of utilizing weeds
and garden refuse 50 as to convert
them speedily into valuable manure
consists in laying them in trench
in successive layers, with unslackyd
lime between, and then covering the
whole with earth. The mass will,
rapidly converted into an excellent
manure. and the additional percent
noe of lime will also have its impor-
tance of the economy Of the farm.
Year: 1872

There are many bright spots in
the hfe of farm boy, and | some
times think / should like to live she
life over again; ] would almost be
willing to be a girl if it were not for
the chores. There is comfort to a
boy IN the amount Of work he can
get rid Of doing. II is sometimes
astonishing how slow he can 90 on
an errand, he who leads the school
in race. The world is new and
interesting to him, and there is so
much to take his attention off when
he is sent 70 do anything. Perhaps
he couldn't explain, himself, why,
when he is sent to the neighbor's
after yeast, he stops to stone the
frogs; he is not exactly cruel, but
he wants TO see If he can hit 'em.
No other living thiRg can go so
slow as a boy sent on an eFrand.
His legs seem to be dead, unless he
happens to espy a woodehuck in an
adjoining lot, when he gives chase
to it like deer; and it is a curious
fact about boys that two viii be q
great deal slower in doing ANYTHING
than one, and the more veu have. to
help on a piece of work the less Is
accomplished. BOYS have a power
in helping Others do nothing; and
they are SO innocent about IL and
unconscious Il went as quick as
ever l could" says one boy. when
his father asks him why he didn't
stay al night, when he had been
absent three hours On n ten min
utes errand. The sarcasm had no
effect upon the boy.


Going after the eows wss q seri-
Year: 1872

The signs of the times are re-
freshing. We believe the country
is on the eve of q great deliverance
from 4 sordid and cruel tyranny.
The people are arOusing themselves
all over the land to accomplish a
moral and political revolution. Il
the politicians go with them, well
and good for the politicians. If
not, the people will go on without
them. The movement for reform is
stronger even than the powerful
and clever Republican politicians
whv stand at its head, and if these
were wanting to-day, or were, by
possibility of course supposeable, to
change front, it is probable, if not
certain, that this great movement
would still work itself out. 1t might
then take the shape Of elevating
pronounced Democrat instead of
Liberal Republican to the Presiden-
tial Office, bat the popular current
ard aspiration for reform would just
as surely have its vent. 1t must be
obvious, we think, even to the Adj
ministration leaders and partisans
that they are oreastlng a fearful
current, and not iew of them, we
imagine, are quietly making ready
to swim in the other direction. The
people want a change. They de-
mand reform, and they will have it,
cost what it may, of old Organiza-
tions and agencies, of personal as
1,iFs0,z nd sr,A


These great popular movements
are familiar to the student of histo-
ry. Our own brief career as q ma
ton supplies several notable exam


pies. Not to 90 further back, We
have the extraordinary uprising of
1910 against the Van Buren Dynas-
ty. Rightly or wrongly, the people
felt tha: the time had come for a
change. They demanded reform.
In this movement men co-operated
who had never acted together be-
fore. There WAS a simultaneous up-
rising all over the land, the effort to
resist which, even by the ablest wri-
tiers and speakers of the Administra-
tion party, proved wholly futile.


Of this sort is the movement now
before US. 1t is q surprise in its
great proportions to nearly all Of
US, and a very unpleasant surprise
to the Grant party. A year ago, or
even last autumn after the fall elee-
tions, nothing could be more mel
aneholy than the political outlook.
IT seemed as if the Republican par
" not only had fixed majority at
the polls, but were all hOpelessly
welded to the dreary, personal, cor /
rupt rule of the President. A ma
jOrity Of the people appeared to be
dead to questions of public liberty.
and utterly Indifferent to the open
violation and trampling under foot
of their noble, free Constitution. 1t
seemed impossible to rouse them
from a torpor which was fatal to ev-
cry generous aspiration Of freemen. /
In this dark sky there was just one
bright spot, and it is this little
patch Of clear sky which has ri
pened into the glorious sunshine of
to-day. We mean the revolt against
the corruptions Of Tammany.-l
RaskiRgton Patriot
Year: 1872

world that thinks as much of YOU as
your mother. You caa't imagine
my feeiings-no, you can't have the
least notion of how / felt when she
was taking on so over me.


After while I could feel that nv
mother had stopped crying. Then
l thought she must have tainted. !
never was much in the praying line,
but if ever any one made a strong
try to call on God for assistance, /
did then. ] could feel my mothers
soft hand on my head.


George, said she to my brother,
his forehead don't feel very cold.
How strange it isr


Then Georges hand was put on
my forehead, and I could feel him
place his hand on my breast.


They seemed to think l might
not be dead.


Pretty soon a neighbor came in,
and there was a good deal Of talking
that I couldn't understand. Then
/ was lifted out of the coffin and put
in n bed. was rubbed all over
with q coarse towel.


Still l couldn't stir or open my
eyes.


They gave up all hopes and left
me.


Then my mother came to give me
one last look 1 could feel her near
me, just as she used to be when I
was a boy, and her hand smoothed
my hair in the old way that seemed
to take me back to the time when I
wasn't so bad as / am now.


i tried with all the force I could
to speak. I made one strong effort
to rouse myselG, and finally broke
The spell and looked up.


Ny mother tainted, but help soon
came, and, after taking some medi-
cine and doctors stuff, I was able to
think freely and breathe again.


In little while was we'll again,
except an ugly scar on the back of
my neck.


The doctors said I had a narrow
escape. My spinal cord, they said,
had been struck by a branch of the
tree, and l was as good as dead. 1t
was more than miracle that was
ever brought to. They had a good
deal to say about paralizing my ner-
vous system and stopping my circu-
lation, and all that, but at any rate
/ got well.


4 didn't chop any more wood that
Winter"
Year: 1872

Did yoH ever see a woman throw
a stone at henG 1t is one Of the
most ludicrous scenes in everyday
life. We recently observed the pro
cess-indeed, we paid more atten
tion than the hen did, for she did
not mind il at ali, and laid an egg
tine next day, as il nothing had hap
pened. Ia fact, that hen will now
know, for the first time, that she
served in the capacity of a target.
The predatory fowl had invaded the
precincts OF the flower bed, and was
industriOusly pecking and scratch
ing for the nutrious seed or the early
worm. blissfully unconscious Of inn
pending danger. The lady now APP
pears upon the scene with a broom.
This she drops and picks up a rocky
fragment Of the Silurian age, and
then makes her first mistake-they
all do it--Of seizing the projectile
with the wrong hand. Then with
malice aforethought, she makes the
further bIunder ofswingiBg her arms
perpendicularly instead OF horizon
the stone flies into
the air, describing an irregular clip
tical curve. ard strikes the surface
ofthe earth as far from the hen as the
thrower stood at that time, IN a
course due west from the same, the
hen then bearing bF the compass
north 9orthcast by half east. At
the second attempt the stone mar
rowly missed the head Of the thrower
herself. whc. seeing that any further
attempt Of the kind would be suici-
dal, did what she might have done
first. started after the hen with an
old and familiar weapon. The NOR
al Of which Is; Stick to the broom
stick.-I'yOpiaeaos.
Year: 1872

The Springfield Record has an
original way Of doing things, and
the following is the last freak in
this line:


Don't think that we have but two
or three merchants in our town be-
cause you don't find our paper full
of advertisements of home mer-
chants, for it is not so. They are
still carrying on business and have
as fine stocks Of goods as ever, and
sell cheap.
Year: 1872

GET ABoAD -,l thursday last we
heard one of the ablest men in the old Re-
publican ranks in this county, say to two
friends, "Get aboard, and get aboard at
once; for tell You that this Greeley boat
will soon be too fnll to hold another man.
We say get aboard; steam is up, the flag is
aAoat; step aboard before the gangwa,
is drawn in, for this Greeley madness is
sweeping over the country and gathering
into its folds all the good men of all parties.
There is method in this madness, and it will
work the redemption of our common country
from The hands of the leeches, thieves and
'yrants that now rob, disgrace and cypress
the people.
Year: 1872

The Grass Valley Untons head is level
in wanting Liberal Republican candidate
for Congress in this district, and we believe
there is no Democrat in the district that
would not willingly decline in favor of such
Il man as DR.. Shurleff.
Year: 1872

SELT-SLANDER.- - The Grant press insist
that The great mass of the Republican party
is with Grant. They might as we'll de-
nounce the great masa Of the party as thieves
as to start this story ou them
Year: 1872

The Des Moines Gows) Register
has the following:


"a gentleman who is temporarily
absent from home and stopping in
the city relates to US that after retir-
ing to bed night before last, and be-
fore going to sleep, he seemed all at
once to be in room at home. Every
thing about the room was as real and
tangible as if he were that moment
in it. 1t could not be a dream, be-
cause he had never for a moment lost
his consciousness. Upon bed in the
room lay his brother, apparently very
pale, and leaning over the bed stood
his mother see mingly in great dis
tress. All day yesterday he could not
Danish the incident from his mind,
and last night came the sequel. He
received a letter from home saying
that his brother had fallen from a
high window, and ever since had lain
in an unconscious state in the room
which he had seen the night before,
and that his mother had scarcely left
his bedside. We have this informa-
ton from a gentleman Ofintelligence,
and a disbeliever in all spiritual mani
festatiOns."
Year: 1872

The New York Nation is probably
mistaken in its opinion that ths
most striking lesson of the late cleo
ton is the rebuke it administered to
practical politicians" As far as
heard from, people Of that kind came
out all right. 1t was the impractical
pOliticians-the fellows who believed
their own names, like Satan's seees-
sion, would draw after them a third
part at least of the sons Of light-that
got Chicago Post.
Year: 1872

A North Main street man who has
a beautiful daughter with an obnox-
ious suitOr, got up in the night recent
IL, and kicked him out doors. When
his anger lulled he permitted his
daughter to explain that he had foot
ed the wrong man. He now says he
was walking in his sleep.
Year: 1872

Edward Foley, OF l4lst street and Eighth avenue
Nixon Ralph, residence unknown, and Patrick
Conway were killed yesterday afternoon by some
rock at 147th street, near Seventh avenue, that
they were engaged In blasting Offcer John Arm
strong. OF the Thirty-second precinct and Michael
buckley were also injured by the same accident.
IT appears the men had got the train Ia readi.
ness and were engaged in some other
work about the place when the blast
prematurely took place with the fatal
results already mentioned. The wounded men
were sent to the Reception Hospital and the bodies
removed TO the station house. The Coroner has
been notified TO hold an inquest
Year: 1872

fire broke out this morning at twenty five
minutes to one, in the SOAP factory OF David s.
Browne, on the corner or Eleventh street and
First avenue that caused q damage of $40 900
When the flames broke out considerable excite.
ment was caused and numbers OF people
In the vicinity threw their effects into the
street to be prepared in case the fire should
reach them. A second alarm was sent ont from
tireman's Hall, and the timely arrival OF the en-
tory In the same establishment suffered consider.
ably. The Fire Marshal will hold an Investigation
into the cause OF the accident to-day.
Year: 1872

AN ACT to prevent the unlawful driving


of any cattle or other stock from the


Premises Of any citizen of this State. or


from their lawful range


SECTIoN /. Be 1t enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly Of the State Of Iosoa, That
any person who shall knowingly and
willfully drive off, or cause to be driven
of, any cattle or other stock, from the
premises of any citizen of this State, or
from the range in which the stock of any
citizen may lawfully run, to any distance
exceeding three miles, shall be guilty Of
misdemeanor. and on conviction there
Of shall be punished by fine not exceed
ing one hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail not exceeding
thirty days.


Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.


Approved, April 22, 1872.
Year: 1872

DO, no DOUBT many OF the nervous
diseases that are attributed to stock
gambling, tobacco, and unrequited
love, are due to want Of sufficient
sleep from childhood up.


1t is perhaps right to shoot SOL
diers, who are hired for that pur-
pose, for sleeping at their post. 1t
discipliens them; but it might be
better to relieve guard oftener, and
send them to bed. Yet civilians
generally ought to be lectured for
sleeping too little. All the passa-
ges in school books about early
rising should be stricken out. and
there should be verses promising a
moderate competence as the reward
of sleeping enough, and coming
out Of sleep by degrees. In old
times, perhaps it did not matter so
much, when the world was less busy
and there was less strain upon the
faculties during the waking hours.
But every one can see now that
the world is red-hot with money-get-
ting, and vast enterprises, and pol
itics, and ritualism, and all sorts OF
rights, patent, and some that are not
so patent, and a ferverishl literature;
and in order to bear the wear and
carry the load of it, man needs
to sleep more hours than he did
when he only rose to eat and drink,
and hunt the wild boar, and slay a
few of his neighbors before an early
dinner. We are becoming more
wakeful, so that we cannot sleep
soundly in the season we give to
rest. 1t is a nervous wakefulness,
however, and not the full vigor of
all the powers which should result
from proper rest of the system. No
one can be at his best in any hour
unless he has given as many hours
to solid sleep as his sytem requires.
The demands of business and the
exactlons Of society keep most of
us out Of bed unmercifully, and in
time we get jadedly used to the un-
natural life, and take credit to our
selves that we can do with the few
est hours Of sleep. 1t is a great
mistake. There have been great
men who were able to accomplish a
great amount of work with little sleep
but we may be sure that if we want
to be great men, or, what is more
important in this day, great women,
we shall reach the goal soonest by
being good sleepers. That was an
honorable cpitaph on the Dutch
mans tombstone:-"He was a gut
sleeper" 1t will not be SAID of
many Of this nervous, excited gen
Grafton.


1t is well, however, to plead for
the children. Let it be understood
that it is no merit in a child to pop
out of bed instantly upon the stroke
Of the bell, like surprised and OBJ
fuscated jack-in-the-box. And give
everybody time to wake up decen-
ly and in order. And let all the
people say blessed is the medical
man who breaches the gospel Of
morning "cat-naps."- Charles D..
Warner,
Year: 1872

From the San Francisco Chronicle.


While in this city recently, en-
route for Arizona, representative
of the Chronicle, who was on terms
of friendship with member of Gen.
Howard's staff, was invited to join
the party ut lunch at the Occidental
Hotel. The conversation was prin-
cipally in regard to the events of
the late war, and at length turned
on Charlottesville. 1t should be
remembered that the campaign was
lost by the giving way Of the 18th
corps, of which Howard had just
been assigned the command, and
that the "giving way" has never
been satisfactorily explained
Apologizing for the strange ques-
tion, the guest expressed, with as
much delicacy as possible, desire
to hear Gen. Howard's opinion as
to who was to blame for the failure
Of that campaign. Gen. Howard,
after a moments deliberation, re-
piled: at is a strange question,
but l feel an equally strange impulse
to answer it. 1t was my fault, and
l will explain why. I had just been
appointed to the command of the
corps; there was some disaffection,
some incongruous elements, and |
should at once have given the COM
mand careful inspection, made
changes where necessary, and made
myself thoroughly acquainted with
its condition, and put it in the best
possible shape as soon as could.
But felt a delicacy in interfering
with the details of my subordinates,
and so deferred the matter for a
day or two, and trusted entirely to
them for attending to the details
until l had been few days longer
in command. 1t was fearful mis-
take, and l felt that Saturday night
of imminent peril to our noble army
that l wanted to die. It was the
first time l ever weekend that way
in my life, before or since; but that
night | sought death everywhere /
could find chance to 20 ON the
field, and l did all in my power to
remedy the mistake"


The above is substantially given
in Gen. Howard's language.
Year: 1872

The New York Evening Mail
says: "Look out for pure Vermont
maple sugar. They have been boil
ing a man in it at Fairfield. This
man was boiling sap in forty gal
lon kettle, hanging on a pole, when
he struck his head against the pole
and fell into the kettle. From what
we know of the charcter of those
Vermont farmers, we have not the
least idea that they will throw away
that much sap, simply because it
has had man in it. It will yet ap-
pear upon our tables in the form of
syrup, and if anybody finds buttons
in theirs, they will please return
them to Joseph Minor, Fairfield.
Vermont"