Lawrence Daily Journal from Lawrence, Kansas • Page 2

it I1T I or in grasping tne Diaaes oi tne snort THE SKARDON '-FTti TIjrrTlT mTIMftT and bought some bars of lead dUV 3UMUlU some twenty or thirty Donnds. He rule has been ever since. Now, what is meant by "Civil Service Reform?" swords. brought the lead to ray father's house Q. Was it understood at that time, Simply a return to the precepts and on Sunday morning, and my brother that John Brownjwas present and did FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1879.

Darning practices of the earlier and purer days of the republic: to provide effective any of the killing? B. C.5 (Successors to Crew Newlin.) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Books Stationery, A. Mrs. Wilkinson description of means by which the honesty and ca TUB POT AW ATOM IE TBAGEDY the leader pointed out Brown. She pacity of each candidate for an ap Ilenry 0.

Grant, and my sister Mary, spent the whole day in running Sharpe's and other rifle bullets for the company. As Frederick Brown was bringing this lead to our house, he passed by Henry She rman's house, and several pro- Attachment FOR SEWING MACHINES. 31. K. PEN3SY, Agent.

mentioned his being an old man and his wearing a black stock about his neck, which Brown habitually wore. pointive office may be absolutely ascertained beforehand; to appoint those only who are found and proved to be New and Important Testimony What Oeorse and Henry Grant Aboat It. Nobody on the creek doubted that ohn WALL PAPER, slavery men, among them Doyle and his sons, Wm. Sherman, and others, worthy and well-qualified, and then to provide by law that they shall never Brown was the leader of the party. As to the killing, it was the current story be removed for opinion's sake merely, 67 Massachusetts street.

For sale at were sitting on the fence, and inquired what he was going to do with it? Wiiioi Mes, Pitta Frames, MoiIbes, Chromos, that Brown shot Doyle, but personally or to make room for some greedy ap did nothing more, and that the cutting plicant, but only for dishonesty, incapacity, or neglect of duty. 93 Massachusetts Street, and stabbing was done by other mem M. SUMMERFIELD, Attorney at Law. Lawrence, Kansas He told them he was going to run it into bullets for Free State guns. They were apparently much in It will be seen at once that this re bers of the party.

Office, owp Lei' Drug Store, Lawrence, form, if carried honestly into practice, censed at his reply, as they knew that da warn Q. What was the effect of this mas sacreon the inhabitants7 of the creek? We are enabled to lay before our readers this morning one of the most important contributions that has yet been furnished to the history of the Potawatomie massacre. It will be remembered that in the article from the Kansas Biographical Dictionary by Johnson Clark, published by us some time since, he speaks of Mr. J. T.

Grant as a Free State settler living on the ree State company was then pre would remove a great element of dan C. W. ALLENDORPH, NO YES GLEASON, A. Both parties were greatly alarm paring to go to Lawrence. The next ger in our form of government.

The officers of the civil service would then PROPRIETOR OF ed. The pro-slavery settlers almost en morning, after the company had start Real Estate, Insurance and Loan ed to go to Lawrence, a number of become like those of the army and tirely left at once, and the Free State people were constantly fearful of ven these pro-slavery men Wilkinson, Agents, Lawrence, Kansas. navy, would feel an honest pride in A1LD11' EVAJPmAarBl. WHOLESALE DEALER IN geance. As a matter of fact, there the Potawatomie at the time of the discharging their respective' duties Doyle, his two sons, and Wm.

Sherman, We have a laree lit of Improved Farms, at was no more killing on either side in with fidelity, and carefully refrain massacre, of the border ruffiians going known as "Dutch Bill," took a rope and to his house and warning him off, and went to old Squire Morse's house, and from any attempt to control or inter Prepares Fruits and Vegetables, Pure Fruit Butter ani Jellies. low prices, from 40 to 500 ncres each. Some can now be bought very low. Unimproved lands from $3.50 to $20 per acre. Houses and lots In this that neighborhood.

Dutch Henry-Henry Sherman, was killed in the said they were going to hang him for fere with the opinions of the people or citvatpncfS better tnan to duiio vaiue, irom spring of 1857, but politics had nothing selling the lead to the Free State men the mode and manner of conducting STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES AT RETAIL S3oo to SS.ooo. VFcant lots from S50 up. we pay taxes for non-residents, make collections, etc to do with it. elections. They frightened the old man terribly Business soiieit.en.

Ky nonoraois aeaung we hope to satisfy all reasonable expectations. of his sending his son, George, to old John Brown's camp to tell the old man of the threat. We have been exceeding-ingly anxious to meet some member of this Grant family ever since reading the above, for the purpose oi inquiring Choice Teas, Fresh Roasted Coffee, Pure Ground Spices. We have read tre above and it is but finally told him he must leave the For negect of duty or even conduct hor standing we reier to any or our uusmtM lo-iwuvw-zin country before eleven o'clock, or they unbecoming a gentleman, an army or correct. Gm.

W. Grant. H. C. Grant.

navy officer may be court martialed, would hang him. They then left, and Xo. 213 Massachusetts street, Lawrence, Kansas. COFFEE ROASTED FOR THE TRADE. 11 -Ida in went to the Shermans and went to cashiered, and turned out ot the ser CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

AVI vice in disgrace, and the knowledge of drinking. About eleven o'clock a por Hayes, in his message, re tion of them, half drunk, went back to iterates his well-known views in favor this fact has always been found to exert a wholesome restrains influence, A. F. BATES, Mr. Morse's, and were going to kill him of the reform of our civil service, and REDUCED PACKAGE RATES DEALER IN Between 3,603 Offices of this Co.

In New England. Middle rind Western States; also we think an enlighted public sentiment will give a hearty response of approval to his recommendations in this regard. Our present system, which to offices of nearly all Connecting Lines. ooks tationevy SVIONEY Currency anrtfiold, Pkgsnntexceedinsr virtually sets up eighty thousand pub $20-l5c. I P40 20c.

I 50 25c. with an axe. His little boys one was only nine years old set up a violent crying and begged for their father's life. They finally gave him till sundown to leave. He left everything and came at once to our house.

He was nearly frightened to death. He came to our house carrying a blanket and leading his little boy by the hand. When night came he was so afraid that he would not stay in the house but went out doors and slept lie othces as prizes to be fought tor is unquestionably bad. In fact bad is too WAIili PAPER AND WIS DOW SHADES, and has made those two branches of the public service models of efficiency and uprightness. Why would not a similar well-guarded system in relation to appointments and dismissals from the civil service produce the same wholesome results? Would it not at once tend to allay, in the public mind, the wild and insatiable thirst for office that now infests all ranks and classes of our people? It would at least put an effectual quietus upon the aspirations of a set of office seekers, who, while thpy more particularly into the alleged provocation given by the pro-slavery men.

We have never been able to believe that the massacre occurred without tome previous provocation on the part of the men who were killed. By a remarkable good fortune we happened to meet, Thursday morning, Mr. Geo. Grant, who had just arrived from California, twhere he has been living ever since 1869, and Mr. Henry C.

Grant, hi3 brother, who lives near Vinland, thi3 county, and who had come to town to meet his brother and take him out to his house. The two gentlemen came tU the Jourkal office, and we had a long and satisfactory interview with them, which we will proceed to give in the form of questions and answers, to and by Mr. George Grant. We may say they are very intelligent men, now in middle life, and well known to many Large sums in much smaller proportion. MERCHANDISE.

Lowest and nighnt Charpn, rropJIn to Dlilue. mild a term to express it. It is demor alizing and abominable. It makes Paokagaa not exceeding Pictures, Picture Fraies, doll Pens, Sleet Music, every Presidential election to a great I lb. 25C.

4 lbs. 23 to 60c. 5 25 to 75C. 7 25 to 2Tbs-25 extent a heated struggle for spoils, in 3 25to45e. stead ot beinar what it should be a Albums, Pocket Knives, Brackets, Notions etc.

calm and honest discussion of princi PRINTED MATTER. BOOKS, and o'her matter, wholly in print, or pies. 99 Massachusetts Street, dered from, or sent by.dealers, PRE-PAID I Lawrence, Kansas. Eighty thousand places of honor and 2 lbs. 5c.

I 3 lbs. 20C 14 lbs. 25c. on me in the grass. or a few days he laid about in the brush, most of the time getting his meals at our house.

He was then taken violently ill and died in a very short time. Dr. Gilpatrick attended him during his brief illness, and said that his death cannot write a common letter ot mend-ship or business in a legible hand, or without violating some of the commonest rules of English Grammer, or hardly write their own names without comfort are now put up to be fought for every four years, and to be distributed as the spoils of victory among W. FABGO, Pres't. G.

W. 3IOOUE, Agmt T.A-WREVCF. KAS. of our citizens. the more active partisans of the pre Q.

When did your father settle in was directly caused by the fright and vailing faction, not to the men who, by Xo. 106 Massachusetts Street, One Story! excitement of that terrible day when education and Labit, are best qualified to discharge the duties of those offices running out their tongues, are yet eternally clamoring for some lucrative position at Washington or elsewhere in the public service, as a reward for helping to nominate or elect some Our building is one but we have an immense 8toc. we nave no coiiueenou with the bricfe building next door north. RemertHDer our store is he was driven from his store. The only thing they had against Mr.

Morse was his selling the lead, and this he had previously bought of Henry Sherman, who had brought it from Kansas Dealers in Furniture, Undertakers for the best good of the people, but to the men who have been most -extive and efficient in securing the triumph other body to a seat in Uongress or some equally responsible place for 253, 255 257 STATE ST. Kansas? My father, John T. Grant, came from Oneida county, New York, and settled on Potawatomie Creek, in 1854. He i now in California, having removed there last fall. We were near neighbors of the Shermans, of the Doyles, and of Wilkinson, who were afterwards killed.

Q. What do you know about the Potawatomie affair? of the party, or more likely who are which he ij equally unfit. "Would respectfully infor their friends and the public that they still coBtinue the sale of FUR In a word it would tend very strong NITURE Of ALL GRADES AND STYLES AND AT PRICES AS LOW A THE LOWEST. CARRIAGES, ly to eliminate the most corrupt and venal element from our political system. NDERTAKING A SPECIALTY.

It would tend to make our elections HORSES, BUGGIES, HARNESS, City. Mr. Morse was a quiet, inoffensive man, nearly sixty years old and in feeble health. While the Free State company was gone to Lawrence, Henry Sherman came to my father's house and said, "We have ordered old Morse out of the country and he has got to go, and a good many others of the Free State families have got to go." Having hac twenty-two years' experience in the business we feel conn nt to Dlea.se all who mav most clamorous and persistent in pressing their "claims," or, perhaps, to those who have been most unscrupulous in organizing "rings" and entering into bargains for their own personal advantage. In the early days of the republic such was not the case.

The rule hen was that "the office must seek the man," and if a man was known or again what they once were, the free favor us with a call We have a large assortment of the latest styles ood and Metallic Cases. honest, and untrammelled voice of the ana caskets, Ktma. Robes, and undertakers' goods generally. We have a FINE NEW HEARSE wun emblems of various societies. All orders promptly attended to dav 1 1 night.

people. TOP OPEN DELIVERY WAGONS, THE FAVOKITE I860. 1879. LAP ROBES, BLANKETS, WHIPS, 4c. Nineteenth Annual Statement of the LARGEST ASSOiiTMEXT IN THE CITY.

AND tar hums WASHINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COIPAM, PRICES WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. Call iind be convinced. Don't make a mistake and go into the The general feeling among the Free commonly believed to be extremely State people was one of terror while anxious for an office, that single fact the company was gone, as we did not was held to be a good reason why he know at what moment the Georgia should not have it. ruffians might come and drive us all Under such a state of things a politi-out. cian was prompted to assume the vir- Q.

Were you sent to Brovn's camp tue of modesty if he had it not. WThile as stated in some of the accounts? (Washington held the Presidency, the A. No; I was with John Brown only questions asked in regard to a wrong place when you want to find Squares and Uprights, FOB OF NEW YORK. Office Coal and Iron Exchange, corner Cortlandt and Church streets. 0.

J. Hull, Toie, DiraMlitf, aid Beaitj, W. A BREWER. President. W.

HAXTUN, Secretary. CYRUS MUNN, Assistant Secretary. Repository: 253, 255 and 257 State St. jdiuiisuti, up'i oi Agencies. v.

w. mcukjsadi, m. ivieaicai Not excelled bv anv in this market. The Self- Factory Cor.Archer av. Twenty-fourth Beariiiu Agraffe Attachment.

Concave Name- Assets December SI, 1877 $5,072,576 Assets December 31, 1878 5,503,243 CHICAGO candidate were as to his fitness for the place to be filled. When John Adams succeeded Washington not a dozen were made Board, improved Veneered Bridge, are valuable 1 A. When the news came that the border ruffians were about to attack Lawrence, the Free State men of Potawatomie Creek raised a company to go to the rescue. It was under command of Captain John Brown, Jr. I was a member of the company.

We started for Lawrence, but on the way there a messenger reached us saying it was too late, that the town was already sacked. While lying in camp the company was drawn up one day and old John Brown called for volunteers, saying, "How many men will volunteer to go with me and obey my orders?" When he called for volunteers John Brown, said, "Father, I object to any of the men leaving. We are getting up here near the enemy and may need them." After the number had volunteered John Brown, said, "Father, be careful and commit no rash act." The volunteers were Fred. Owen, Salmon and Oliver Brown, Thompson, John Brown's son-in-law, Mr. Winer, and Mr.

Townsley with his team. After they had volunteered they went into camp by themselves and ground up their sabers. They were armed with short swords and sabers. Q. 'When did you first see the party on their return A.

When we were at Ottawa Jones', Liabilities (including reserve by N. Y. standard $4,448,480) 4,5 improvements, to te round in tne inutu lanos only. Are used by 20.000 families, profes burplus as regards policy holders 927,036 CR to C9fl per day at home. Samples worth vj iu pcJ i free.

Address Stinson sors, and amateurs and Wf have in our posses in the administrative offices outside of Portland, Maine. sion namerous unsolicited testimonials speaK-ine in the highest terms of their excellency in $5,503,243 company. Q. Was there any other evidence of a premeditated assault upon the Free State men on ths creek? A. My father, who was an old man, and Dr.

Gilpatrick had been to Kansas City for provisions. They were on their way home the day before the massacre and failed to reach home with the teams, and had camped on the the Cabinet. JUEL UIIAISJLTOIV, Lawrence, every particular If you want a good, honest General Agent for Itansas. When Jefferson came into power at piano at a moderate price tnis is tne mstru ment to buy. The Pnrestand Best Medicine ever Established over forty years, and recipients of the head of the triumphant "Democra- tne nignest awards at tne 1 cv." the Republican party at that A combination of nop.

Bucnn, Mandrake, and Dandelion, with all the best and most cura-' Every Instrument Fully Warranted for tive properties of all other Bitters makes the im-at- eijt ItlOOd PlirlfllI. l.llfOf time, so called to distinguish it from Five Years. vviri Jll aUlk UU CiVl LU. prairie about a mile from Potawatomie the Federal party, of which Adams No disease or ill health J. A.

DAILEY, 115 Massachusetts MAKES SPECIAL LOW PRICES ON where Hop Bittrs are Used, so varied and perfect ore their Creek. Dr. Gilpatrick stayed with the and Hamilton were the Jgreat leaders, A large stock of Church and Parlor Organs at the lowest prices. Just received, a large invoice of French Mu tvagons and my father came over and there were still but very few changes They fire new Ufa rigor ta ths ajted sad laflra. To all whose emnlnvmenfa sic Boxes, piavinjr irom one to twelve tunes.

Prices from $2 to $200. slept at home. In the morning they in the minor officer. President Jeffer the bowels or urinary organs, or who require an Appetizer, Tonic and mild Stimulant. Hop Bitters are invaluable without lntoxltln.

Pianos and Organs sold on easy monthly installments. Second-hand instruments taken in son declared that a man's abstract opin exchange for new ones. wnat ynr eeline8 or symptom are. he disease or ailmentTs, use Hop Bitters. ions on political questions bad nothing lu uum ju re sick, DUtu you only feel bad or miserable, ane th Tiirtn nt.

JUMUS BAIJE1K Co to do with his official duties, and that China, Glass, and Queensware. save your life. It has saved hundreds. )500 will be paid for a case thev will not en re or help. Do not sufEer nor let your friends sutler, but the only test during his administra brought the wagons in.

The first place they struck was Wilkinson's. He kept the post office. They called at the house for their mail and found Mrs. Wilkinson crying. She said that a party of men had been to the house during the night and taken him out.

She had heard that morning that Mr. New "Ware rooms ue, Chicago, 111. 182 and 184 "Wabash aven use ana urare nm nu nnn n.i.. tion should be that of fitness. "Is he kkj jy Remember.

Hod Bitteraianniriia a. HEADQUARTERS FOR en nostrum, but the Purest and nst limlinin it LAME AND SICK HORSES honest? Is he capable?" were the questions to be asked, and if these could not be answered emphatically in the uauej mo "inTaiia'B Friend and Hope," and no person or family should be without UieuL Get so nm thl A a v. i vv.m Lamps, Claiieliers, Nickel-Plated stiieit ail Bracket Hop Couon Ccek is the sweetest, safest and best 9 Doyle had been killed during the nighty affirmative, it not how zeal ask nuaren. The nop Pap for Stomach, Liver and Kidney Is np. nor to all others.

Cures by absorption. Ask druggiat. and she was afraid that her husband And sells them Lower than any other house In the city. jD. C.

Is an absoluteandirresistibleenre for drunk use oi opium, tobacco and narcotics: kSoWbydniggiiU. Hop EittCTiMfe. Co. Roche. tr.N.Y a Bend for Circular.

$50 Worth for 50 Cents Woodward's Ague Cure Cured Free ot Cost. Doggett, Bassett, Hills Go. Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes LAKE AND WABASH, CUKES GILES' LINIMENT IODIDE AMMONIA. had been killed also. Among other reasons that she gave for fearing that he was killed, was that he had said to her the night before that there was going to be an attack made upon the Free State men, and that by the next Saturday night there would not be a Free State settler left on the creek.

These, she said, were the last words he said to her, the night before. Q. What sort of a man was this Wilkinson? A. He was a dangerous man. Everybody feared him.

He was the most evil-looking man I ever saw. He abused his wife shamefully. She was a very nice woman, and well liked by the neighbors. Q. What happened next? A.

Mrs. Wilkinson desired my father and Dr. Gilpatrick to go and look for her husband. They did so, and aid Fever, Dull Ape, aid Bilious Attacks. As a Gen Spavins.

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Giles. 120 West Brane wav. New York. Lse only for horses the lint ment in yellow wrappers. Trial bottles 25 cents, eral Tonic it ias No Epal.

Will Prevent Neiralsla if Used Occasionally. the Brownparty came in during the night. The next morning I saw one of Dutch Henry's horses which they had brought in. It was a gray horse, with his mane and tail sheared. We had heard of the killing, on Potawatomie Creek, at Palmyra, and had returned.

Q. What effect, if any, did the. news ot the massacre have upon John Brown A very marked effect. He showed great agitation, and gave up the command of the company to H. H.

Williams. Q. Mr. Grant, it ha3 been asserted that there had been no provocation given by. these pro-slavery men.

What do you know about that? A. The assertion is not true. There was a company of Georgia border ruffians encamped on the Marias des Cygnes, about four miles away from us, who had been committing outrages upon the Free State people, and these pro-slavery. men were in constant communication with them. They had a courier who went backwards 'and forwards, carrying messages between them.

When we heard on the Potawa. tomie creek that the border ruffians were threatening Lawrence, and that the Free State men wanted help, we immediately, began to prepare to go to their assistance. Frederick Brown, one of the sons of old John Brown, went to a store at Dutch Henry's crossing it stood very near where Mr. Wassen's house now stands, kept by a Mr.Morse, from Michigan, known as old 'Squire Morse, a quiet, inoffensive old Free State man, living there with his two ous or how servicabie ne naa been in securing the triumph of his party. If these questions were answered in the affirmative, the officer held his position if be desired to do so, no matter if his opinions on leading political questions were exactly opposite to those of the appointing power, and no matter if forty untried men of the same political faith with the appointing power were eagerly clamoring for the position.

And so on, all throughthe administrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams the same honest rule prevailed. Offices were creat-ated for the benefit of the people, and were to be filled with an eye single to the good of the public service, and a tried, competent and faithful public servant was never displaced to make room for a new and untried man, be-cruse of his political opinions. But during the administration of President Jackson in the hot struggle that grew out of the effort, on the one hand, to re-charter the United States Bank, and on the other hand, to destroy it, the present system had its origin. New York was then, as now, the great battle field of the contending hosts, and William L. Marcy, who was an active and influential leader on the Jackson side, declared, after a hard fight and a brilliant victory, that henceforth the rule must be, "To the victors belong the And so to a lamentable extent the I avail myself of the opportunity of recording my gratitude lor the great and wonderful resu ts produced by Giles' Liniment Iodide Ammonia removing a Kmgbone irom a vaiuaDie norse without blemisuing or removng tne nair.

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District Court, Douglas county, Kansas. Ault-man, Miller Co. vs. Marion Stitt No. 2836.

TO SAID MARION STITT: YOU ARE hereby notified that you are required to appear before the Judge of said Court on the 18th day of December A. 1879, at to o'clock a or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, to show cause why the judgment heretofore rendered in said actiou should not be revived. And That if you fail to appear, and sufficient cause ia not shown to the contrary, an order will be made reviving said judgment against you in the original amount of the same, to-wit, 150.50, with interest and costs as ttierein provided. AULTMAN, MILLER CO. By their Attorney, It.

J. Borgholthaus. U-1M3W W. VV. SHARPE Publishers' Agents Xo.

25 Park Row, Xew York. Are authorized to contract for advertising in nr paoer. Mr. Wm. Giles.

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found his body in the brush, near the house. Q. Was there anything said about the bodies of Wilkinson and the others being mutilated? A. They were apparently killed by a thrust with the short sword and by cuts over the head with the sabre, except Doyle, who was shot in the forehead and also stabbed. There was no idea at that time that the bodies had been purposely mutilated.

The. wounds in the hands had apparently been made either in attempting to ward off blows marvelous, ioars very truly, Ralph Ogle, Veterinary Surgeon. 330 West Twenty-fif rh street, N. Y. "Write to Dr.

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123 Massachusetts street, Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas..