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TLE DAIUY eOM3ICirV7HALTH. STJ2TDAY MORNESTG, MAItOH 10, 1884. SUNDRY SUNDAY SCRAPS. AL GREENE IN DIXIE. the largest in the South, it is said, has ugly gaps in the rows here and REUGIOUS.

Church Services In the City To-day. GRACB CATHEDRAL, Corner Jackson and Seventh streets. R2TVi Ellerby. rector. Services at 11 a.

m. ana 7) p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p. m.

IXKEN3' OPKRA HOUSK. Gospel meetings every Sabbath at Lukenaf Opsr House at 2:30 and 7:30 p. undenominational. V. E.

CHURCH. The C. M. E. church of South Topeka, corner of Fourteenth and Van Buren streets.

Sunday school opens at 9 o'clock a. m. and closes at 10:31, Peaching at 11 o'clock. Class at 3 o'clock p. m.

Also preaching at 7 o'clock p. m. R. P. Tyler pastor.

ENGLISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. Toreka avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. rived in good state and the funeral was the largest ever held at Easton, Ohio. A farmer residing north of here imbibed a little too much bug juice while in the city trading, and started home with his horses on a gallop. They soon became unmanagable and the farmer was thrown out and received a number of severe bruises by the fall.

The last seen of the horses they were attached to the fore wheels of the wagon, the rest of the vehicle being left by the roadside. Adams House arrivals: F. S. Buder-strom, G. Joseph, Chicago; Wm.

Fair-child, Leavenworth; Martin Ostrander and wife, Silver Lake; John A. Beal. Louisville, Mrs. Kringe, Abilene; T. C.

Stanley, J. J. Kopp, Andrew Scott, Hoyt; Thos. Jolman, Arizona; T. E.

Toole, Kansas City; H. A. Neiswender, Silver Lake; O. E. Thurber, Twin Mounds; A.

B. Ake-roy and family, Coshocton, Ohio. Charley Osterloh, one of the pupils of the Reform School, will be discharged SUXD KY MORNING. MARCH 16. 1884.

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All the ministers in Topeka will answer Col. Ingersoll this morning. It. A. Frederick and Walter Disbrow are talked of for the Council from the Fourth Ward.

The Iowa General Assembly passed a resolution of regret over the death of the late General James I. Gilbert, of Topeka. Mrs. Ingersoll and her two daughters vis'ted several points of interest about the city yesterday, among others the State House. The contractors of Topeka are having quite an exciting time all to themselves just now, in bidding for the Salina College building.

The city wore its usual Saturday appearance yesterday. A great many country people were in, consequently the merchants had a big trade. The County Superintendent will make a distribution of the County School Fund to-morrow. It has been increased by the addition of $3,000 of fines. We are in receigt of an invitation to a ball and banquet to be given at Dodge City on the 4th of April to the Western Kansas Cattle Growers' Association.

Why would not Dr. Jones be good timber for Councilman from the Third Ward? He is neither too far east nor too far west to suit even the notions of Uncle diet." W. P. Fuller wa3 brought up from Cherokee county yesterday by a U. S.

Deputy Marshal and placed in jail. He is charged with selling liquor in violation of the revenue laws, and will be tried at the April term. A number of young gentlemen left yesterday noon on a hunting expedition. Of course every effort was put forth to reach homo before 12 o'clock last night, else they wouid be called upon to go into camp for twenty-four hours. Hon.Benj.

F. Curtis, Clerk of the District Court, turned $2,300 over to County Treasurer Miller yesterday, as being the amount of fines collected from whisky prosecutions. This, with other fine? and fees collected, makes $3,000 that Mr. Curtis ha3 thrown into the Tresury within the past two months. We wrote yesterday that Milt Case and Mr.

Beale refused to allow their names to bo run for Councilmen in the Third Ward, but the types made us say right to the opposite. By the way, Bishop Crumrine is being talked of some for that position. He would make a good member, if he could be prevailed upon to accept. A.large crowd of people very quickly congregated in front of the Thompson Hardwaro Company's store about 2 there and many of the trees are dying from neglect. The long double row of Negro quarters are in good repair and the vegetable garden shows a profusion of peas and early plants.

A number of Negroes of both sexes were plowing in the fields and a cataract of black urchins, like Ingalls' cataract of "yaller dogs," poured over the rail fence as we approached. There was but little to relieve the sombre picture, but few reminders of the greatness long since de parted. Yancey was the great man of the secession movement. Davis could plan and conspire, but he lacked the magnetism necessary to arouse enthusiasm. Toombs and Wigfall and Hampton were valuable in their peculiar spheres, but none "fired the Southern heart" like Yancey.

Of all the leaders of the secession movement, probably John C. Breckenridge alone was his peer in this respect. Yancey's marvelous eloquence and power to sway men by forensic appeals was really his misfortune and led him into habits of intellectual indolence that seriously interfered with the acquisition of the fortune which would otherwise have been an easy matter. He had a splendid law practice whenever he turned his attention to it, but he seems to have been vascillating in purpose. His law partner was John Elmore, a brother of Rush Elmore, of Kansas, and very studious and methodical in the preparation of the cases, which by common consent was left to him.

When trial day came, Elmore would present the salient features of the case in a calm, dispassionate manner and with few words. Yancey would listen intently, absorbing every point as it was presented, and revolving these in his mind as the case progressed would formulate a speech that would carry court and jury at the close. A few miles farther on and we came to the farm of my Yankee friend of the fast horses. This too had been a noted and wealthy estate in the days of slavery, but unlike many had been preserved intact through several changes of ownership. It was an easy matter, as we sat on the verandah and overlooked the broad fields that stretched away to the dense woods along the river, a mile distant, and heard the merry songs of the plowmen and saw the swarms of half- naked little negroes romping in front of the huts, to bring back the days when the lord of the manor trod this porch and complacently figured on the product of his fields and his herds, both brute and human.

The new lord of the manor leases the lands in tracts ot from ten to forty acres to the ex-slaves for $2 an acre, and fur nishes them teams, implements and seed He also advances to them supplies until the crop is made, taking a lien for his protection. In this way they make a good living, and usually lay up a few dollars beside. One of his tenants saved $200 last year, and bought forty acres land with it. Another bought a good mule, harness and plow. It is very difficult to teach the negroes to cultivate the land properly plowing especially is little more than the scratch Lng of a stick.

It reminds me of the fee ble attempts of the Mexicans. The stirring is always done with one mule, instead of two or three as in the North, and the plow is the same that our farmers use to "lay by" their corn with. "Mose, how many of you boys can come down to town to-night?" inquired my friend. "'Pends on what's Mose. "Well, we are going to have a little meeting to talk over politics." "Yes sir," reflectively.

"Twenty or thirty of you?" "Y-a-s sir. 'Pears like we'd oughter a knowed this afore." "Why; can't you get the word around to the boys?" "Yas, sir; but they wants a few days to compose their mind." "Well, get an early supper and gather up a crowd and come down by dark." "See here Mr. Smith, we's 'bout come to the 'elusion that 'slong as this beats got 800 Republican majority and this county mourn 5,000, hit aint no use to be counted out no longer. I reckon I'll go now and let the boys know 'bout it an we'll come down 'bout a hundred of us, I reckon." "No more cotton planting this week," said Smith, sententiously, a3 we drove away. "Where did Mose get his statistics," I inquired incredulously.

"Oh he's right about the figures," said Smith, "we have 5,000 Republican majority in this county, and the votes are cast too, but we hav'nt elected a Republican officer, according to the returns, for eight years. That's the greatest drawback to the South to-day," said he soliloquizingly, and we rode home in silence. A. R. G.

Mr. A. L. House, of the Bee Hive Merchant Tailoring Establishment, has lately returned from New York city, where he purchased the entire stock of piece goods of one of the largest and most fashionable institutions on Broadway. Said stock consists of imported worsted, fancy and staple suitings, and all styles of trouserings.

Not Neutral. The Secretary of the State Historical Society in the list of Kansas newspapers recently published, set down the Oberlin Eye as "neutral" in politics. Whereupon the publisher writes: Sir; The Eye is straight Repulican. Please correct the slander. Respectfully, Geo.

H. Hand. Picturesque Glimpses of Plantation Life In the South The Manorial Estate of AVm. I Yancey. Montgomery, March 10, 1S74.

Special Correspondence of The Commonwealth. 'Have you any double teams in Kansas that will go in forty?" The question came in a half bantering tone from a brilliant little Yankee ex-soldier, whose twenty years' residence in the South has exonerated him from the opprobrious epithet of "carpet-bagger" and given him something of the attractive dash of the indigenous young planter before the war, whose strong point was his freedom from care and abounding good fellowship. "Because if you havn't," he continued, "I want to give you an astonisher, on the shell road." In less time than it takes to tell it, we were dashing up the broad street that leads out to the hill country to the eastward, and soon the city and its environs were far in the rear. It had rained all the night before, and if there had been dust it had disappear ed, and the smooth pavement was wash ed as clean as a floor. The storm had cooled the atmosphere and imparted to it the delicious freshness of Spring, to which was added the fragrance of orchard and garden, aflame with blossoms and glorious in floral prophecies for the new year.

The hawthorn hedges had burst into masses of snowy bloom, the creation of a night, and the groves of woodland here and there, where the trailing moss hung in sombre aspect from the gaunt oaks, were radiant with the redbud and magnolia. It was a day of days, and even the horses seemed to feel the exhilaration of the hour as they dashed along. It is difficult for a person at the North to realize the revolution that has been wrought in the South by emancipation. I think our people have an idea that aside from the fact that the laborers who once were slaves, are now hired men and citizens, the life of the plantation is much the same as before the war. This is a grand mistake.

The wheel of fortune has turned around. In many instances the former slaves have become the landlords and the imperious masters have disappeared. This is not in consequence of any havoc that was wrought by fire or sword, or the confiscation or unlawful seizure of property, but the natural result of emancipation. The Southerners idea of tilling the soil wa3 possible of realization only by means of slavery. When slavery closed, the ideal plantation ceased, the proud planter consented to the sub-division and sale of his broad acres, and the cherished theory of entailed estates became a romantic reminiscence.

In some instances this was no doubt made necessary by thelossof otherprop-erty than the slaves, but I think the result would have been the same eventually, the planter's spirit was broken when his ideal was destroyed and he wanted, quickly and forever, to efface the memory of it. My friend drew rein at a gate where some negroes were unloading a number of small plows and other implements from a wagon, and inquired where a certain man's land extended. The person addressed proceeded to give the information and volunteered the further description of several other tracts, and then I understood for the first time that this grand estate through which we had been driving for a mile, was the property, in fee simple of the men who as slaves had carved it out of the forest. "Jims' land runs to that thar hedge over thar and down to the fish pond, and Andy comes in behind him and runs out thar by the gin house and over to the woods pastur, and Pete an' me, we owns together all you see from the garden to the ditch by the row of Magnolias, yas sir." This was the way the men told us of the sum of their possessions, but the satisfaction they betrayed in every look and tone and gesture, cannot be described. "Who owns the mansion where your master lived I inquired, pointing up to a massive pile of brick, with stately Corinthian columns and broad porches, standing in a grove of ancestral oaks on the hill3.

"Well, sir," said a stalwart negro, as black as ebony, "we sorter complomized on the mansion house, an' owns five acres dar, cludin' de orchardjintly. We holds our school in dar, an' our meetins, an' our dances an' I don't reckon hit will belong to ary one alone by his self." From my companion I learned that these negroes, and a number of others whom we did not see, about forty in all, had actually bought the estate of their former master, and would have it paid for in a few years more. Here is an opportunity for moralizing, thought and a greater revolution than the most ultra abolitionist ever dreamed of. The "no count nigger" has demonstrated his capacity for self-support, and the acquisition of property as welL "The yarn will grow, the cotton blow, 'Twill bring toe lice and corn, Then never you fear if never you hear, The dri er blow his horn. A few miles further on we come to the estate of the late Wm.

L. Yancey. The fields are in a fair condition of cultivation, but the mansion house has been burnt and the orchard and grounds are in a state of dilapidation. An unpainted pine cottage has teen built over the piles of brick and rubbish, and the beautiful lawn that extended from the house down the slope to the road, and was shaded by scores of great oaks, has been plowed up and is planted in oats. The pear orchard, Many Matters Merely Mentioned.

It's about time to make garden. Evening buggy rides will soon be in order. What ha3 become of the Topeka Gun Club? Eugene Hagan will orate at St. Marys to-morrow St. Patrick's Day.

The Republican County Central Committee will meet next Saturday. To-morrow will be St. Patrick's Day. Time to plant potatoes, therefore. Ducks and geese are plentiful in the ri ver and ponds, andsportsmen are happy.

The ground hog made his appearance yesterday and it is to be hoped, has come out to stay. There is a prospect of reorganizing the Young Men's State Republican Club at the State Convention in April. We are to have a number of insurance adjusters from, various States here on Tuesday. They will hold a convention at the Copeland. The session of the Legislature will last but a few days if the members confine themselves to the special business for which they were called together.

In the Spring the thougKts of Topeka lawyers and almost everybody else in the city turn to the location of a new Court House. WTill the matter be settled year? Hon. T. B. Murdock, of the El Dorado Republican, late editor of the great religious daily.

The Commonwealth, has been elected Superintendent of the Episcopal Sunday School of Eldorado. During the high wind, which prevailed one day last week, the tall stack at the Topeka Mill and Elevator swayed five or six inches at least. Some persons aver that it rocked two feet out of place at the top. The comprehensive manner in which the Supreme Court syllabi are published in The Commonwealth is appreciated by our readers, we are happy to say. The decisions are edited by one of the leading lawyers of Topeka and can be readily examined briefly without having to digest a great deal that one may not care to see.

We are glad to announce to the many persons who have been hoping for an improvement in the condition of our streets, that The Commonwealth's excellent advice has been adopted by the city administration. Some Work has been commenced; now let it proceed without any foolishness. Since the Street Commissioner asks for information concerning needed repairs, his attention is directed to the dan gerous condition of the bridge at the cor ner of Kansas Avenue and Thirteenth Street, where there is a hole large enough for a man to fall through. There are, undoubtedly, a great many voters who are still unregistered, and many of them will be angry if they are not allowed to vote at the Spring election. Gentlemen, the only way in which you can obtain the right to vote is to walk up to the Clerk's office and register, and that rijjht soon.

NORTH TOPEKA NOTES. Sunday Reading from Over the River. Dr. Wm. Fuller, of Douglass, was a guest of Dr.

Ryder on Frida'. A wedding will come off immediately after Lent in the current rumor. Mrs. Carrie Walker, of Ann Arbor, is visiting relatives west of the city. M.

S. Michener has gone to Wamego, where he has opened a boot and shoe store. Mr. Joseph Brown, a brother of Rev. A.

Brown, is a late arrival on this side from England. Rev. Stroger will occupy the pulpit at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 11 a. m. and 3:30 p.

m. to-day. Trade was remarkably good yesterday and there were more farmers on the streets than for many weeks. Fred Tompkins has just received a very fine line of wall paper and borders at the postoffice bookstore. A.

J. Arnold finished the inventory yesterday of the stock of goods lately owned by J. M. Morrow, of which he is assignee. Ten tickets to Portland, Oregon, two for Los Angeles and two for San Francisco were sold at the Union Pacific ticket office a few days ago.

The monthly report of the Quincy school is as follows: Number of pupils enrolled, 522; tardiness3; time lost, forty-nine m.nutes; per cent. 9S.7. The Topeka Steam Laundry has opened an office on this side with Dolman Son. They are turning out fine work and lots of it. Bundles will be called for and delivered free of charge.

A young man from the south side stayed so late with one of the young ladies of this side, the other eve, that he was afraid to cross the bridge alone. He gave a policeman a dollar to see hip safely over the river. A colored man named Harris claims on Friday night to have seen the spirit of the two negroes who were killed by McClary a short time ago. There are a number of whito folks also who are afraid after dark to walk past the spot where the tragedy was committed. Mr.

James Rizer, the father of Jacob, who was killed at the Inter Ocean Mills, has written a letter of thanks to parties on this side for their kindness. In his letter- he also states that the body ar Services at 11 a. m. and 7 p. conducced by tha pastor, Rev.

T. F. Pornblaser. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.

All cordially invited. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Quincv Street church, south of Fifth Avenue hotel. Sunday ScbiX)i immedHtely after moraine service. J.M.

Wishart, Sup't. Preaching at 11 a. by the Pastor Elder W. 11. Boles.

Services in the evening: at 7. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening. 1 astor resiuciicu swuiuwesi wruer oi Ninth and Tyler streets. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. cnmprnf inth and Jackson streets.

Preach ing at 11 a. m. and 7 r. m. by the pastor.

Rev. C. Foote. Baptism administered in the evening. Young People prayer meeting at 6, evening.

Sunday school at p. m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Tha. pv tt nennre will preach at 11 a.

m. and 7 0 p. m. Sabbath school meets at 2:15 p. m.

Young people's meeting at 3:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended to all. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, NORTH TOPEKA. r.n.

rtf nm'npr anil Tjinrent streets. Sr- vices at 11 a. m. and 3:30 p. m.

Sunday school at 2 p.m. THIRD FKESBY i KKIAH triumii- fAnr nf Ami irnooek streets. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.

by the pastor, Rev. F. 8. McCabe. Sunday school at 2:30 p.

m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. in. KANSAS AVENUE M. E.

CHURCH. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.

Sunday sohoed at 9:30 a. m. Class meeting at 12 m. weemy servicesMonday, Pastor's class, 8 p. m.

Wednesday, prayer meeting, p. m. au are coraiauy iutuvu. NEW JERUSALEM SOCIETY. Services at the Chapel, corner of Harrison street and Sixth avenue, at 11 a.

by the pastor, Rev. II. C. Dunham. Public cordially invited, faeata free.

Sunday-school immediately after church ser vices. HOLINESS CHAPEL. Rptmlar services will be held at Holiness Chap el, on Jackson street (D. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. in.

nevivai services every evening, Ellis, pastor. All are invited. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Onmor nf Kirhth ami Tooeka avenues. Rev.

M. F. McKirahan. pastor, begins a series of discourses wn the Lord's Prayer. They will b8 continued through seven weeks, at the morning service.

Seats free and a. 1 are welcome. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Preachine at 11 a. by the pastor.

Her. L. Blakesley: Sunday School at 12:15 p. m. FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY, Rev.

Enoch Powell, castor. Fervicea the first three Sundays of each month, morning and even ing, at ll a. m. and 7:) p. in tne lecture room of the Library Building, Capitol Square.

OLD QUINCY STREET CHURCH. Elder W. II. Boles will preach in the Old Quincy Street Chur. this morning on thd subject of 'True and False Religion." And in the evening, A Journey from the Mourner's Bench to Infideli ty, and from Infidelity to Christ." Y.

M. C. A. BULLETIN. Young men's prayer meeting In Association Parlors at 9 a.

led by Mr. W. -f. boss. Subject: "A Help to Will, and to Do." Phil.

All young men invited. Services at the County Jail at 9:15 a.m. conducted by the Committee on Jail Work. Railroad men's meeting, cor. Fourth and Washington streets, at 3 p.

m. Subject: "How to Secure the Kingdom." Mat. 18:3. Railroad men and families especially invited. Everybo iy's meeting at Association 1111 at 4:30 o'clock, led bv W.

J. Hughes. Subject: "Faith and Works." Jas. Young men's go pel meeting at the rooms Toes-day evening at 7:45 o'clock. Subject: "Where Art Thou?" Gen.

Mr. 11. C. Root, leader. Strangers especially invited.

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE. A Collection of Legal Facta Found Yesterday. Judge Martin opens court at Manhattan to-morrow. The buo warranto case against the Union Pacific Railroad was submitted to the United States Supreme Court at Washington last State vs. Hodgins, charged with assault and battery on J.

warrant issued by Justice Reed, and cause continued to to-morrow at 9 o'clock. Lester Middaugh, charged with disturbing a religious meeting, secured a continuance. The trials under the license ordinance were bagun yesterday morning in the police court, but not being completed at noon, the hearing was continued to Wednesday the 10th. A Marriage license was issued yesterday to Adam Becker, of Jefferson county, and Emma Bolz, of Shawnee. One wa3 also issued to a couple who evidently desire to surprise their friends some of these days, and requested their names witheld.

Sheldon Young, a colored man arrested the day before for trifling with his neighbor's hen roost, meekly admitted to Judge Arnold that he had taken two chickens. The fine was fixed at $20 and after allowing the gentleman to break rock half a day, his employer paid the bill. ustice Hazen ha3 a case set for Wednesday, the 19th, at 9 o'clock, which is attracting considerable attention from uie resiuenis near biiver Lake. A dispute has arisen as to boundary line3, and Mr. J.

A. Johnson, on complaint of Mr. Scott, has been arrested for tearing down fence. Mr. Johnson will endeavor.

to show, it is presumed, that the fence in question is on his land, and Mr. Scott will probably attempt to prove the fence is where it should be. A large number of witnesses have been subpoenaed. To an outsider the thought suggests itself that a surveyor could decide the question more cheaply than a Justice of the Peace. The First Grand Concert of the Arion Sing Verein, at Grand Opera House, under the direction of Louis Heck, Jr assisted by Topeka's most eminent talent, Misses Addie Lescher, Zella Neil, M.

Cobb, (of the Topeka Conservatory of Music,) P. A. Seiberlich, Moddc Club and Prof. Heck's orchestra, will be at the Grand Opera House March 31. Hardt McMillan.

They keep the latesst styles in Gents' Hats, Neckwear and all Gents' Furnishing Goods. Besides, if you wish a half do7 an perfect fitting Shirts eivo at 149 Kansas arenue. The receipts of ColIngersoll'a lectare Friday night, footed up $885. CUfcar? Tuesday and will go to Piono City, Utah, where his brother resides. Charley has been a pupil of this school for a long time, his number being forty-three, and now there are ninety-eight pupils here.

His home was in St. Joe, and he was sent to the Reform School for robbing a ticket office in this state. Prof. Buck, the superintendent would regard it as a favor if the people of this city, or of the State, would send to him for use in school any old magazines or books, as there is no library and the scholars 'are very anxious to have reading matter. Governor Glick donated a number of papers and books a few days ago, which were highly appreciated.

children's jubilee. The event of the season is to be the Children's Jubilee at Lukens' Opera House next Tuesday evening, March 18th, consisting of songs, operettas, cantatas, with 100 enthusiastic children in the chorus. Mr. and Mis Van Ness have been drilling the children for some time, who are wild with enthusiasm. Admission, 25 children, 15 cts.

Cattle Men at Osage City. The mass meeting of farmers and stock men at Osage City yesterday, was very largely attended. Every locality in the county was represented, and a very earnest feeling generally prevailed. The meeting was for the purpose of effecting a county orgrnization. The officers elected are as follows Hon.

W. C. Sweezey, President W. L. Smith, Vice President; J.

V. Admire, Secretary; T. L. Marshall, Treasurer. An Executive Committee of the above named officers and W.

W. Miller, J. D. W.Jones, Ward, Dr. A.

M. Eidson, C. C. Patton, Chas. Cochran and W.

H. Lord, was elected. Besides this a local Executive Committee of three representative farmers and stock men was appointed for each township, including Reading township, Lyon county. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted Whereas, In obedience to a general demand of the people of the State, Gov. Glick has issued his proclamation convening the Legislature lor the purpose of enacting laws for the protection of the live stock interests of the State against the ravages of contagious diseases therefore, be it Resolved, That the people of Osage county heartily endorse the Governor's prompt and decided action in this matter, and we -heartily pledge ourselves to stand by him in every proper effort to protect and detend the material interests of the State.

Resolved, That the Senator and Representatives of this county be urged to favor speedy legislation that will not only meet in the fullest manner every exigency of the present, but that will also provide againstvfuture disasters of a similar character. H. B. Miller, WT. L.

Smith, E. W. Hanslip, Committee. A committee, consisting of Wesley L. Smith, J.

C. Rankin, H. B. Miller, II. Ward, John K.

Rogers and W. H. Lord, was appointed to attend the special session of the Legislature, for the purpose of representing the interests and wishes of the farmers and stock men of this county with reference to such legislation as may be had on this subject. About seventy members joined the organization the membership fee being fixed at $1. This fund to be used to defray the incidental expenses of the organization.

No cases of the disease were reported any where in the county and the people are determined that its introduction shall be prevented if possible. The people are alive to the necessity of prompt and vigorous measures and nothing will be left undone. There never has been such a meeting of representative farmers and stock men before in the county. Two of the children of Mr. W.

G. Greer, who lives east of the city, died yesterday of diphtheria. The eldest, Harry was iour years of age, and the other, Charley L.f was but two. The funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock today. Who can meamre the breach that's made In the household whence it came Can tell the d.pths ol sorrow Wht-n they speak the children's names: Can nil the painful void of a mother loving heart Can aunch the torrent of tears As Budde uly they start.

You can find a larger variety and greater quantity of Woolens for Men's Wear, at House's Be Hive Merchant Tailoring Establishment, than in all the other tailor shops in Topeka. Convince yourself of this fact by calling early. Telephone the Topeka Steam Laundry to call for your bundle. Satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. o'clock yesterday afternoon in the belief that somebody had been shot.

A colored man had purchased a box of cartridges, and in stepping into the wagon one of them fell into the gutter, and a moment later the wheel passed over it-The report Vas loud enough to be neard several blocks, but there was no damage. Mr. G. II. Everetts, of Blvue, started with his family last week for Washington Territory, to make that place their future home.

While in a sleeper on the Union Facific road some slick thief robbed Mr. Everetts of his railway tickets, $300 in money and $2,000 in drafts. Mr. Everetts had to telegraph for more money and tickets before he could proceed on his journey. From relatives of Mr.

Everetts in this city we learn that the thief was caught while trying to sell the tickets at Denver. D. C. Burson, 216 Monroe street, has Inaugurated the plan of setting out and cultivating groves of forest trees, which plan relieves the land owner of all care and responsibility. The trees being insured to grow or no pay.

And when we consider that the price is only three or four cents per tree, and two or three years time in which to pay it, we wonder why-every land owner does not avail himself of the opportunity and set out a grove at once, when they consider that by the time they are done paying for them they will value them so highly that ten times their cost would be no inducement to cut them down. Mr. Burson would be pleased to answer any communication or consult with interested in tree planting..