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Year: 1875

Once in a while. in human ex- perience, as all history proves, there comes unheralded, calami- ty of greater magnitude, of deeper significance and of more wide spread ruin than poor plodding humanity is accustomed to; a calamity from which the soul shrinks with horror and dismay, but from the disastrous effects of which, there is no earthly escape. Such a calamity is the failure of the Bank of California. An insti- tuition of the highest financial standing, trusted and honored not only on the Pacific coast, but throughout the Union, and we may say throughout the civilized world, the custodian of millions of money, placed in its vaults by trusting, confding people ; all at once, without warning, goes to the dogs ! spreading ruin and dis. may in thousands of homes, Thcse all of earthly wealth had been confided to it's keeping. At this time R isimpossible even to guess at the extent of the ruin acccom- plished. It is incalculable. But wide spread as is the financial ruin, the moral effects are far grea. ter and more to be deplored. Such 8 crash weakens and shatters the faith of man in man, and destroys that great bond of brotherhood, human confidence. It is discour- aging to know.that in this age of the world such things can be pos. sible.

 And what is the cause of all this ? 1t is easily told. It is no conundrum. It is so plain that "he who runs may read" It is the lnordinate, insane, and criminal rush after wealth, wealth, more wealth Stock gambling, the worst and most demoralizing of all gambling, and more criminal and damnable than any, had much to do with it, and doubtless was the real cause of the crash. But still it is the rush after wealth. Men with their millions upon millions, money that they never can use in this world, and it is certain that they cannot carry ii to the next. still crying give, give ! and gasping and gasping for more, even with their dying breath Oh what folly and wick. edness How true the words oi Solomon: "he who hasteth to be rich shall not be innocent" Or those other words of Jesus Christ, ''it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man tV enter the King. dom of Heaven." Meaning, oi course, that no man can carry his gold with him to the eternal world, and that he whose every aspiration of his soul is wrapped up in gold and its ac quisition, can never be happy here or hereafter. Terrible thought But it is true, Reflect, and see if your conscience don'ttell you it is true. He whose only God through life has beer mammon, has no claim upon the mercy of the only true God. The acquisition of wealth in a moder ate degree is laudable and proper that we may have it to procure the necessaries and comforts o life for ourselves and those depen dent upon us, and leave a reason able competency to those who re main when we pass in our checks Further than this the acquisition of wealth is neither laudable, pro per or sensible, and is often crim inaI and it's possession is a curse Poor w. c. Ralston Yes, as poo as the poorest pauper who fills grave in Potter's field. Wha good does'his vast wealth do hin now? The great banker, tn,

 IL
Year: 1875

EDITOR GAzETTE--iSr will You
please oblige the nightly dodgers of
the Gas House and City Hall by allow
ing us small space in your valuable
paper? We cannot express our hearty
thanks to Mr.. and Mrs. Bradford and
to the public generally for the interest
they take in our welfare, and also to
the Superintendent of the Gas House
for allowing us the privilege of it
while here. MANY SUFFERERS.
Year: 1875

VIOLATING CoNFIDEECE.-SOme of the papers
are in a bad way, ard are going for the Topeka
Commonwealth for publishing and commenting on
the grasshopper circular of the Kansas Pacific
Railway. They call it bad manners, violation
of confidential communication, and all that.
Tley think that editors who did not feel like
complying with the order, should have sent it
back, declining it, and have said nothing about
it. We published and commented upon the cir
cular, several days before the Commonwealth did,
and suppose these lectures on manners apply to
us as well. For our part, we did not feel that
we had violated any Frle of propriety in that
publication. The circular was not private let
ter or personal communication it was printed,
and a similar copy sent to every paper in the
State. 1t was q request, almost an order, that
the newspapers should suppress all damaging
reports of grasshoppers. The papers, to which
the people look for news and facts, were asked
to suppress the facts and deceive the people, os-
tensibly to restore the reputation of the State,
but really to revive the depressed busines of a
railroad by deceiving the people. The papers
that are making a fuss about this violation of
confidence, and misrepresenting the grasshOpper
facts it is pretty safe to say, obeying the or
ders of the Railroad Company.
Year: 1875

PROPHECY ABOUT THE BEECHEE TRIAL--It
now seems to be pretty certain that the great trial
will have one of two results-eithcr verdict
in Beechel's favor or IA disagreement of the jury.
The chances are in favor of the latter if the jury
resembles the average sentiment of the public
after a reading of the evidence. Ii would be
difficult to find twelve men, good and true, out
side the Brooklyn courtroom, chosen without
any previous knowledge of their sentiments, who
would agree on verdict of guilt or innocence.
For the particular jury inside the courtroom tn
apree 10 n verdict on either side would be for
them to assume that they were able, to the com
plete satisfaction and conviction of every one OF
them, to sift the mass of complicated evidence
and harmonize the contradictions, which have
divided and puzzled equally Intelligent men
outside the courtroom. The probabilities, there
fore, are strongly in favor of disagreement
CHICAGO Tribune, 18th.
Year: 1875

grave and serious subjects Together have We looked up
into the heavens and wondered the mmensity of Gods
works and anon have turned eyes to the earth and
admired the beanty snd decacy of his touch in beings
small to be viewed with the unaided have look
ed within ourselves and watched the different operations
of the mnd-that wonderful spirit that dwells in
Hitherto we have learned lessons together Hence
forth each must learn them aOnefor this day go from
Alma Mater each his own way; and aims will no lon
ger be one But would not 90 sadly. but brsvey with
earnest hopeful hearts resolving each to strive and I'LL
well his place in the great life place. and length to
come where we may all meet once mOre-where all wis
dOm purity md truth shall be perfected Allow
again. Patrons Trustees Instructors Fellowstudents
Class mates, to repeat last goodbye.
Year: 1875

7h;s ;s the first number of the nineteenth year
of the publication of the ChieE. We have been
:, tho habit at the beginning of each volume, of
onte,;ro into short review of the past career of
a.. ,,orer. Int we have concluded to omit this
nntiI n. completion of our twenty-frst year.
w. once more shake hands with and cOngratu-
late those old stand-bys, who are recorded on our
hooks as having commenced with volume l.,
Nnmber /; and we tender our sincere thanks to
the hundreds of patrons who have come to our
list from that time down TO the present.


W. can Init promise to do our best in the fu-
.,-a to make an acceptable paper, as we have
dome in the past. Just now is a fearful time for
,,o,rspaners. In every direction, they are falling
bv the wayside, or curtailing their proportions.
We sball endeavOr 30 do neither. We do not
tnoyv in what shape we shall come through, if
ve come through at all; but we hope to be on
hand nromptIy We want to be as lenient as
possible with our patrons in the present emer
rancv: but we trust they will not forget that
the printer and his hands must live, and that he
must pay cash down for every sheet OF paper and
pound of ink used in making newspaper Ev-
ery one should endeavor to pay at least part of
his Indebtedness If he cannot pay all. We trust
that all knowing themselves in arrears will re-
spond. without waiting for bills to be sent them.


We expect to give all the County news and the
most interesting of the general news, and to fur
nish such entertaining and useful reading as
shall make every one feel that he cannot keep
house without the Chiet, notwithstanding the
hard times. Let MS all keep a stiff upper lip,
help one another through, and stand to our posts
until old Doniphan County is ont of the wilder
ness, and again on the high road of prosperity.
If all do this, the burden will seem lighter on
each one, and


"The world will I.e the better-for it,"
Year: 1875

q" The Atchison Champion publishes extracts
from newspapers, to prove that it is the Oldest
paper in the State The witnesses are argainst
US, and We have left us now only the single fact
that the Chief was established in the Spring of
1857, and the Champion in the Spring OF 1858.
That is hard fact to get over. This point set
tied, the Emporia Netrs ranks as the second old
est paper, having been establiehed few weeks
after the Chief. The Champion is undoubtedly
entitled to rank as the third paper in the State,
in point of age. On the same principle that it is
setting up claim as the oldest, its editor might
as well borrow George Washington's military
suit out of the Patent Office, and then claim to
have been Commander-in- Chief of the American
army in the Revolutionary War.
Year: 1875

EIt is said that Col. D. R. Anthony is now
in a fair way to get well. His broken clevis is
healing, aud he can now write his name without
running out his tongue. The only suspicious
thing about it is, that the doctors now say they
think he will get well. As long as they declared
that there was no chance for him, he kept getting
better; but now that they have changed their
opinion. his condition NAV change.
Year: 1875

2 By the following item, which we find in
the West Alexandria correspondence of the Eaton
to) Register, we see that an ancient landmark
and classical spot has changed ownership-pass-
ing from public into private possession-and per-
haps us old boys" shall know it no more forever:


On last Saturday the old school house sold at public
sale and was knocked off Mr. Z. L Derby at Sis 90
which Is very cheap when take into consideration the
fact that II joins the lot which King David kaakaua
was born and that Bis Hhness received his education
on the premises
Year: 1875

Hall and Henry taken before United States
Commissioner Romaine, in Jersey City, yesterday af
ternoon Counsellor Winfield, In their behalf said the
only evidence upon which the government relied was
that OF La Croix government spy who offered Henry
$50 for ring he wore on his finger 1t was shown
that they had been drinking heavily, and were both
drunk at the time Of the transaction La Croix
they told him they had So 900 worth fewery
which they had 'got !" but upon examination
he could tell what they meant by Gin" They had
not shown any what they wore on their persons.
The government officers had seized articles which
they had pawned for $400 and took the diamond rings
from their fingers and diamond cross which one
on his watch chain. Counsel insisted that this
outrage and disgrace. The Commissioner had no
right TO hold them the presumption that better evil
dence could be produced moved for their discharge
The Commissioner held them, in default Of ball. TO
await the action of the United States Grand Jury which
meets in Trenton. Bail fixed at ST. 900 each, and
they were remanded to the County Jail
Year: 1875

James H Beers, one Of the Oldest OF New York mer-
chants Of the war Of 1912, died at his resi-
dence this city yesterday in his eghtieth year He
was born in Derby, Conn, served through the of
1872 and subsequently established himself while still a
young man, as a clothing merchant in this city. His
business was for many years in Chatham square With
the uptown movement OF twenty five years ago he be-
came located Fourth avenue, opposite the Cooper
Institute he continued until his retirement from
business a few years ago. He leaves several children,
and a name untarnished as man Of sterling honesty
heloVed by all
Year: 1875

THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.
The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours in COM
parson with the corresponding date of last year. in
dicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
Rnildnp.-
Year: 1875




readily to his seductive wiles.


Let it be borne in mind by all inte-
rested that the new fire company meet
tonight at the Council rooms to elect
officers, adopt constitution and nec-
essary by laws, and to organize per-
manent, active company, that will do
themselves credit and be of inestima-
BILE benefit to the city. The citizens
are fully aware of the necessity of an
other steam fire engine and a good
reliable company, and a petition Is
being circulated, and signed by all the
| prominent business men and property
owners, asking the Council to provide
this company with all the necessary
apparatus. Let the good work go
| bravely on, and the city will soon be
proud of two Of the best fire compa-
nies anywhere to be found.


The Kansas farmers have discovered
a cure for grasshoppers. They go for
the beasts by gradual approaches.
The first mild attack is to dig trench
across the farm, call in the neighbors to
drive them into the trap and then kill
the unfortunates by drowning, or sat
urate the ditch with coal oil and burn
them. If this fails they buy o few
thousand yards of calico, stake it at
the ditch, then spread two wings of ii
like a quail net, collect the pests into
these calico walls, and finally get
them into the ditch, where they are
slaughtered as before. If this Is a
failure, they set fire to the grass and
Year: 1875

Tho Chicago Board Of Education, at its
meeting last week, adopted memorial to
the Legislature, asking an appropriation for
tho establishment md support in this city Of
O free school for deaf-mute children. Tho
memorial WIS presented in tho Lower House
Of tho Legislature yesterday. II is concise
atHl luminous representation of tho advan-
tngcs to DO derived from tho existence Of such
D school in Chicago. It shows TINT large
number Of children now in the city cannot
avail themselves of tho benefits Of tho State
institution at Jacksonville; and that in nany
instances tho expenses of personal support
would be aaved to the State if pupils were
given m opportunity to attend day-school.
Year: 1875

Reader, never break your promises !!
And to this end, never make prom
ise that you are not sure You can full
fill. You may think it triAing mat
ter to make an appointment with a
friend or agree to do a certain thing,
and then fail to "come to time;" but
it is assuredly not a small affair. If
you get in the habit of neglecting to
make good your promises, how long,
do you think, will your friends and ac
quaintances retain confidence in you
The nearest and dearest of them will
in time learn to doubt you, and will
put but little faith in your words. And
there is way of half meeting ones
obligations, which might be called
"bending" promise, which is also a
very bad practice, and should be care
fully avoided.


For instance, you agree to meet
person at certain time; but, instead
of being puncrual, you put in an APP
pearance several minutes, perhaps an
hour, after time; or you promise to
do something for friend, and only
partially perform the duty. You may
not exactly have broken your promise,
but you have certainly bent it, which
is almost, If not quite as bad. Keep
your promises to the letter be prompt
and exact, and twill save g6n much
trouble and care through life, and win
for you the respect and trust of your
friends.
Year: 1875

Peter Lamb of our village is rot
going to have Santa Claus for his chill
dren next Christmas. Last Christmas
he undertook to represent the eharac-
ter himself, and after dressing himself
in fur cap and buffalo robe, and
loading himself with toys he went up
to the roof of the house and climbed
into the chimney, to which he had
fixed rope which hund down the fue.
By some means he managed to get in
to the wrong fue, and instead of com.
ing down into the room where his wife
and children were Wanting for him,
he tumbled clear to the kitchen and
rolled out on the floor with a yell.
The hired girl was sitting there COM
muning with her lover-a red haired
man named McGinnis. When Mr..
Lamb arrived she screamed and faint.
ed, but Mr. McGinnis was not at all
scared and as he supposed that the
Intruder was burglar, he attacked
Mr.. Lamb with the poker, emptied
the coal scuttle on him, kicked him
through the door and then handed
him over TO passing policeman, who
took him to the station, where he
would have been locked up all night
if the magistrate hadn't recognized
him. When he got home his wife and
children we're sure he had been suffo-
Gated in the hue, and Mrs. Lamb was
in awful distress because she didn't
know whether she ought to have the
side of the house taken out that night,
or to go out to hunt up mourning
bonnet to wear to church next day.
The energetic McGinnis had gone
home to gladden. his family with Mr..
Lambs bundle of toys, and the SER
want girl had given notice that she
would leave at daylight. So Mr..
Lamb has told his little ones that the
hctition abont Santa Claus is wicked
and degrading superstition, and he is
going to hang their presents on a tree,
-Maz. :Adeber.
Year: 1875

MIR. SMITH has fine machinery fer
WI making all parts Of g watch or clock
that may be missing or broken. Iio war
rants all his work. The patronage of the
citizens of Forest County is most respect
fully solicited, Al he asks is fair trial.


4tf
Year: 1875

We always admired energy. perseverance
or enterprise in individuals, and consider it
vastly more conmendable in a man who has
the management of newspaper. A plucky
editor Is Mcclure of the DardaneIle In
pendent and he publishes wide.awake pa
per We also deemed him to be an out and
out-Garland man. and warm friend of the
Governor. and our readers can judge Of our
surprise on taking mp the last Independent, to
see, standing out in bold relief dismally
poor picture Of the Governor. If it was a
correct picture. its presentati on to the public,
would be very proper, but why such ridic-
ulous libel upon the bright. handsome. intel
ligent face of our noble governor should be
thus thrown out upon the State and coun-
try must acknowledge our inability to fatl-
ON. We are inclined to the belief that some
wa1gish :ype-founder has prsetised ali ,mpo-
sition upon the Independent man. and palm
ed off on him the picture of another individu-
al altogether. Now woul1 it not be better to
publish no picture of beloved and promi-
nent man, than to flood the country with In


correct and uncomplimentary ones? Our ad :
vice to newspapers is, not to publish pictures
unless, in the first place they resemble the


person intended to be represented. and in the


second place, unless such publication is agree


able to the persons that are TINS pictured.
Year: 1875

Upon consulting with the County
Treasurer and County Commission
ers and examining their books the
Grand Jury believe that tax
of one mill on the taxable property
of tho County will be amply sutli-
cient to pay all past claims that may
be presented the present fiscal year.
They therefore recommend that your
Honor enjoin the Treasurer from
collecting more than one mill.


POOR HOUSE.
A committee was appointed to
examine the Poor House. They re-
port tho inmates we'll taken care of
satisfied with their treatment and
the pl emises neatly kept.


The Grand Jury recommend that
the petition Of Jno. p. Elkin of
Alston tor q renewal of his retail
liquor license be granted.


In conclusion the Grand Jury re.
turn thanks to your Honor for tho
able and patient manner in which
you have aided and in ,tructed them
in the discharge of their duties, and
recommend to the General Assembly
of this State your Honor's re cleo
ton as Judge of the sixth circuit.
Respectfully submitted.


ID. Il. FEAsTER.


Foreman.
Year: 1875

A singular suit over a "r!iscT
check has just been decided in Now
York. A genuine check for $l4 on
tho Security Bank WIS some time
ago given in change by storekecp
or for $100 bill. Subsequently, the
check was rnisel to $4,222 55, and
tho endorsement altered. Tho hold
or then purchased gold for the check
of Wall street firm, after the lat
ter had sent it to the Security Bank,
which certified it. Subsequently, the
same bank paid the amount to the
National Bunk of the Republic,
which had the check, but finding out
that the check was forgery applied
to the latter bank for the difference
which was refused. The Security
Bank thereupon brought suit against
tho Bank Of tho Republic, and the
court directed u verdict to be enter
cd for the plaintiff of $5,GO2 GO,
which sum probably includes the
costs of the suit.
Year: 1875

LIE BLUE AND TIIE GRAY-A
movement is nfoot to assemble a
large number Of the soldiers of the
latc wnr in Philadelphia ro,notimc
during the Centennial. It is pro-
posed to have the Northern and
Southern armies represented by
their leading generals,..and thousands
of the rank and file from every State,
The purpose is to show tho world,
by n grand and impressive demon
ration, that the men who were in
arms against each other few years
ago, are now united in the colebre-
ton Of the one hundreth birthday Of
their country, and are inspired by a
spirit of patriotism and q feeling of
common nationality.
Year: 1875

A Boston puper says We have
just paid Six cents postage on Il
postal card sent us because the
s ,nler had thoughtlessly written n
date on tho side designed for the
address alone. FASTING any printed
or written matter Oil either face of
tho card subjects it to double letter
postage. The directions are ex-
plicit that nothing bnt the. name
and address must be written on ono
side Of the card, and that nothing
must be attached to the other, any
way.
Year: 1875

An Iowa father was going to cut
his boys nose off because the child
"snufiod" at the dinner table, but an
Older son smashed chair over the
fathers hond and gave him all tho
business he could attend to.
Year: 1875

A YOUNG lady out west was awakened one
Dight recently By burglar who at the time
was engaged 10 holding bottle Of ehloroform
under her mothers nose When asked what
he was doiog, he Undertook to play the doctor
and observed "Ah. poor lady, she has beer
quite i'll, but she is now recovering aod will
soon be all right" Thereupoo the young lady
shreked at the idea of her mothers lluess aud
the pretended doctor was compelled to decamp
They DOW blame the girl for scresDipg before
the burglar had been caught.
Year: 1875

would be obliged to support the long array
OF sects, with their jarring creeds,-a step


which would entail endless confusion and
involve the cause Of popular education in
speedy ruin. In this casa it is significant
that it is only the Roman Catholics who are
trying to make public taxation the means
Of support Of sectarian instruction. Had
the proposition come from the Meth
odists, or Baphsts, or any other Protestant
sect, the opposition would hare been ten
fold stronger than it is in the case OF
the Catholics, although there is no suf-
dcient reason why it should be SO. 1t
grows out Of the settled conviction Of the
American people that they will not pay for
sectarian teaching in the public schools, and
this conviction is one which they will never
surrender to accommodate either Catholic or
Protestant sects.
Year: 1875

At 10 O'Clock A. NJ, to nominate candidates for
the Assembly and for county Offices, to be
supported by the Independent voters of said
county at the coming election.


The apportionment Of delegates is based on
the vote OF 1873. Delegates will be elected by
ballot, and all residents Of the county ore
qualified to vote at the elections hereinafter
called who are in hearty sympathy with the
reform movement and who will pledge them
selves to support the Peoples Independent
Party in the approaching county election.


Elections for Delegates to said Convention
will be held In the several voting places on