The Weekly Commonwealth from Topeka, Kansas • 1

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NUMBER 340. William Allen. Ia a country where maay men are out of work, the Democratic leaders set cat to prove, first, that the Republican party was responsible for the hard times, and. second, that a victorious Democracy meant, not "land for the landless" exactly, but money for the moneyless. Yet in Western Pennsylvania, the seat of the most financial distress, the v-ery resrion where Bill Allen lifted np his "most musi cal, ir.ost melancholy" voice to the tone that the Government robbed the farmer no-til be had nothing left at the year's end but a little bacon and corn meal, increased Republican majorities re reported.

Massachusetts is again herself. The State in which the "independent voter" was said before the election to be the most influential and numerous, the paradise of political snobs, has said that good, common, homespun Republicanism is good enough for her. We might go on and speak of Minnesota and New Jersey, but we forbear, and will proceed to what preachers call the ''application." A Republican victory never means a step backward, but always ao advance. The victory in New York does not mean a "let np" on the canal thieves, bnt it means their prosecution by a party which has a genius for prosecuting rascals, even when it happens tbat they are its own members. It means tbat the people believe that the maxim of setting a tbief to catch a thief is not sound, and tbat it takes an honest man to collar the criminal.

The victory iu Wis consin is not a rebuke to real reform, it is simply a kick administered to the bogus article. The general result is a "deadener" on the inflation business. The Democracy of Pennsylvania have found out that their "greenbacks" like the issue of the old fashioned banks they would revive, are "well calculated to deceive." In no other State did any party have the hardihood to advocate the theory that the country is richer for the notes it has out; and tbat the best currency is promises redeemable in ether promises. The vote cast for Mr. Wendell Phillips, the "Labor-Reform" candidate for Governor in Massachusetts, shows the relative strength of the inflationists as compared with sensible people.

Last Tuesday told another thing, it is. L' nasi Roanoke. We have received the following "card" from a party who was mentioned ia nur sketch of tbe Election All we have to say is, that we are not to lie brow beaten or intimidated or overawed or traversed or bornswoggled or bamboozled. We propose to write about thing as we find them, and we cannot lie deterred frora doing so by harsh words, though a sugar-cured bata and a sack of lUjur laid on our table have au uinaence. It is the mission of a joarnalii-t to tell tbe truth, re-gardlewt of threats or censure though course he is not to follow truth to tbe detriment of his cupboard.

The most truthful editor should rememlier that be has a family to provide We publish the com-munioationj herewith submitted merely lo show that we are not afraid of it author. Indexible 3evotiou to pnncp1er-omliier with a judicious regard for aide meat and corn meal, should alway by the leading1 characteristic of the patriotic editor: ToraXA. sm Sat. 5. You diabolical, infernal, satauic coa-tractionist! You compound extract oT homogenious excressence You sublimated tincture rf TTrrrirnaiiibteiitly of evil propensities! Your devlish llinirs at tbe immortal Pochantos.

fall a harmless, at the feet of her heaven-born posterity, as if they were so many paperjialla fired at the Gibralterian Rock. You cannot hope to persevere in these? malign attacks on her children and receive support from this foui inunity. "Queues) ee taaJeei abiifare," etc. Shame, shame oa you. "Do'st thou" not respect my years.

Do at thou not suspect "my place," etc. Shade of Powhattan Wa there ever born such an un minima ted scape grace a yourself Oh tempore," etc. IVmiiST.n ltoANimt; Sec. Klertion Club." From Itartoa County. Cheat Bkmi, Nov.

3. To tli. KJitr of the Considerable interest was manifested in this couuiv in the results of yesterday" election. About 700 votes were polled. Tbe lui-lowitig ia the result: Against the constitiiiioii.il ameuduicnu 500 majority.

For Judj-e Judicial district, S. K. Peters, 650 majority. The foliowiug is the county ticket elected: Representative. S.S.

Dennis, Great Bend: Treasurer, A. W. Gray: Sheriff, W. W. Winstead; Clerk, M.

CXampbell; Kegister( C. E. Dodge; Surveyor, Cbsa. Chamberlain: Corouer, A. CMoses.

Tbe foregoing are all Republicans. Mr. Dennis is a fanner, and aa old and reliable t-ilizen of the county. He wws nominated and elec ted without an effort ou his own part. He will make a valuable aii working member.

The Kansas City Times published the same telegram from Iavenworth giving an account of the reading out of tbe ofD. R. Anthony, that we did. Times further bastbis to say There seems to be a alight discrepant? between the apacusl aforuud and the I'm li as described to us by a gentleman who wa.i present. He says the resolutions were put to the meeting by Col.

Legate himself, in-atead cf Gov. OsNh-ii, and that the crowd voted "ave'" unanimoualy. but also voted "no" with the same unanimity when were called for, and that tbe ijue. tion was put again and again with the STATE ITEMS. Clay Center is damming the Republican.

There are now fjur newspapers in Cowley county. A "Mark Twain Reading Club" is proposed at Winfield. Thousands of bushels of pure salt bavK been made this season in Walton township, Sumner county. Mr. E.

E. Heath, teacher of the colored school at Junction City, reports the average scholarship 82 on a scale of 100. A Kansas man writes back from Oregon to Pottawatomie county, "I am not homesick, but I do not want to sell my Kansas lands." Two hundred and eighty-seven car loads of wheat, oats and rye have been shipped from Newton already this season, for which the sum of about $118,016.47 has been paid to farmers. The Douglas county jail is nearer being emptv than it has been for ten years. There are now but four persons confined, and two these are crazy.

The Wichita Beacon understands that a colony is being organized to settle in Clark county. Clarke is an unorganized county, and with the exception of a ranch or two on the Dodge and Camp Supply road, has no inhabitants. It is said to lie a good country, and if opened will settle up very fast. ThsBurlingame Chronicle gives the particulars of one of the most destructive prairie fires that ever swept over the country. The fire originated near Ottnmwa, CofTi-y county, October 23, sweeping overa breadth of country several miles wide and fifteen to twenty miles in length, or from Ottumwa to Rock Creek, in Osajje county.

Iu its track it swept fencing, hay and grain stacks clean, aud iu some instances destroyed houses, sheds and stock. KASSAS FARMING. Doniphan County apples are sold iu Cowley County at $1.50 per bushel. J. II.

Hand, of Melvcrn, Osage county, has made this season .1,000 gallons of sorghum molasses. During the month of October there were shipped from Wichita 5,220 head of cattle and 77,100 bushels of wheat. A. G. Dilly, of Greenfield township has a calf which weighed 120 pounds when only a few hours old.

Its dam is half Durham. The CjfTeyville Courier eays that better eet potatoes never grew than are sold at CofiTevville every day for thirtv-five cents a bushel. Mr. C. F.

Hyde, of I'nion township, e. a. r. There is a vague, unreal thing That hmunu me to the death: A voice that ever to aw Milk: '-Look! took at what I bringr Thuagh I hiil laj timl eyes AnJ look not, jet do I mc, I ki rvr tua day, this aajsterr E.er-prewnt waiting to inly a fare! but oh tho (ear Th fills me! tho eyes that peer Not vengeance-lit, bat strangely ead. ea with a tenderness that drives me mad! The face of one that loved mf long ago: Al! my love i turned my woe! psalk.

elegit. And quoted odecaad jewel. Sve word. loacjt That, oa the stretched fure-fiugerof ail lim, nark1e forever." A PTES. After the shower the tranquil ran.

Silver stars when day ia done. It not love bring sorrow, bat lore'. oLiret. eirrs. ift are the bead of Meutory'a rosary.

Whereon she reckons kind remembrance. Of friend and eld aCeetioB. Happiaesi it a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we pub it with our ftet when it rtops. Til sex. See how at ouce the bright effulgent ran.

Rising direct, swift cbajies from the skr Tbe short-lived twilight, and with ardent libtse Looks gsyly fierce through all the dasxling ain He moonts his throne, but kind before him Issuing from out the portals of the mom. The general breeie. to mitigate his fire. And breathe refreshment oa a fainting world. 7 tuntut.

Poverty pint-hes, but not hnlf so hard aa rice. The one wonnds to heal: the other leaves aa ulcer. i.trK's KVKST. The various notes that make the perfect song Have eacha different length: some full and strong And reaching up to au impassioned height: And others low and sweet, with not less might liecanse the measnre is fillet oat with silence- so With life's events: (lod's will, worked out. doth grow From passages of triumph and of pain Into the rounded swectuess of the finished strain.

BoMlom Trtttimrript. When our work becomes a nleasure. it is we that make it so; we are a snnshine upon it, re ceiving the reflection in return. The Black well Horror. We take the following from the Leavenworth Times of Friday: Yesterday morning Drs.

Van Duyn aud M. S. Thomas, accompanied by Mr. Ellis Black well, the brother of the dead woman, went out to Mount Muncie cemetery and bad the body taken up. The corpse wa found to be in a very advanced staee of decomposition, being iu fart nothing more than a putrid mass of fleih.

A careful and critical examination by tbe physicians failed to disclose any mark cf a blow orcontusion upon the head, or any mark of violence whatever about the body. In making the examination the scalp was first removed, but no abrasion on the skull was noticed. The skull was then opened and the brain found to be a pulpy, watery mass, but so far a the doctors could discover it was not affected in the least. The entire body and brain were so decomposed that nothing really definite could be ascertained, but the opinion of both the medical gentlemen seems to be tbat Maria Klackwell did not come to her death by means of a blow upon the head. Regarding the fact of tbe right eye protruding from its socket at the time tbe body was discovered in the river, Dr.

Thomas said that this was merely oue of the effects of decomposition, and that when the corpse was exhnmed yesterday morning, both eyes were protruded considerably. Immediately after the examination tbe remains were enclosed in a casket and seut to tbe depot where they remained until the 3:10 Missouri 1'aeiCe train went out, when they were shipped to the late home of Mia Klackwell, at Carthage, Mo. The brother also departed on tbe same train. WHAT XOW? Since it has been discovered that Miss Blackwell did not come to her death by means of a blow upon the bead, how can we account for her sudden taking off? As long as tbe popular idea wa tbat she waa really killed in tbat manner, no especial effort was made in any other direction but when we have the statement of experienced physicians and surgeons, the fact ot suicide may possibly be taken into consideration. It may be that the young lady, tired, weary, dispirited, because of not being suc cessful in her search for work, bad.

in a audden fit of desperation, thrown herself into the river, and thus ended ber troubles. This is the opinion of tbe Chief of Police. Her pocket-book with money in it, ber cards and other articles were found untouched, in the pocket of ber dress, when she was taken out of the river, which tacts alone go to prove that she was not murdered, either in a fit of rage or for the pur pose of robbery, as the murderer would most assuredly have taken things, in order to make her identification more doubtful. It ia yet as it has always been a terrible mystery. The Denver Sentinel.

We publish the following from the Pueblo Chieftain. Onr readers are aware that the Se'ntinel was published on the old State Record material, taken from Topeka to Denver by S. D. Macdonald, of thia city The Denver Sentinel cloaed it career of usefulness on Saturday last and bas gone tbe way of all tbe Democratic dailies that have been set afloat in Denver. The Tribune writes an obituary of tbe defunct in the foliowiug torms: The New Democratic "organ," the Sen tinel, bas passed in its checks, but not nearly as large au amount as it passed out.

The fact is the publisher of the Sentinel have merely undergone the same experience that others have who attempted to start a Democratic paper in this city, i. that the Democratic party here are not remarkable as tbe reading class of the community, and tbat they will not patronize the newspapers, not even their professed A newspaper cannot live without patronage and support. This tbe Sentinel could not get. It fought bravely for existence, however; changed first from a moraine to an evening paper and strug gled desperately against adversity, but the current wa too strong, ana was compelled to go under. Keiptiencot in pare.

The Insurance World, published at Pitts burg, has as it first paragraph ia ao article beaded the following: Last month we published an article rel ative to tbe expediency of tbe different in surance department keeping a record of each fire occurring in their respective States. The subiect matter of the article waa sueireated to aa after readtng tbe very able paper read before the convention of insurance commissioners in New York, by tbe Hon. Orrio T. Welch, of Topeka, Kan and regarding tbe question of such importance aa to warrant it, we again re turn to tbe subject. The 'paper" referred to above as being written by Mr.

Welch we have not seen, but propose to bunt it up by and by and see what it is. "Forsaertr e-l" Kansas." Cob L. X. Robinson, formerly of Empo ria, wa elected a member of the Ohio Senate at the recent election in that State. The Commonwealth will please put this in iU pipe.

Hi many friend in Kansas will be glad to bear of bis sacceaa, but we are inclined to question whether a man is to be congratulated on going from the Kan aa legialatare to that of Ohio. Emporia Aex. Geniu is not a (ingle power, but a com bin tion of great powers. It ia reason, but it ia a ot reasoning; it judges, but it is aot judgment; it imagines, but it i aot imagination; it feels deeply aad fiercely, bet it 1 not paaion. -il ia nciwer, Decawac i alb Whipple.

I didn't steal no pounds of said a prisoner in Springfield, just a be wa leaving court, no proof having been produced against him; "I didn't take mo rn a bandfuU." "Come back." aaid the Justice, "and be fined $10 Tbe court convict yoa on your own confession." The Wichita Eagle apologise lor it statement that there was but one voter ta Kingman coantv. There are tea. General Sherman pats a 130,009 roH bills that has made out of hi Memoir, aad exclaims: "Let'em criticise!" Ily F. P. UAKEIt.

WEEKLY EDITION. Taca.oav MiAiiil, Xormu 11, 187. Rut, D. Stobr in of Brooklyn. going to mora out Kioiit new American loip of wr are being fitted op for service.

Tnr Atchison Champion thinks the semiannual plan of pit)g taxes better than the 14 plan. Mrs. SuCTii worth, who has Utterly been under the care of an oculist at Youkers, has recovered ber eyesight sufficiently to fo to work on her hundred and fiftieth II DTI' I. I KtroHK the New Jersey election the New York Herald prophesied the State would go Republican oo account of the "foolish circular of the Catholic Union on the Constitutional Tin Supremo Court of Iowa has decided that the practice of the loner paying for the game, in billiard, ia irambliug, while the Supreme' Court of Indiana says It ia not, VYheti Supreme Court disagree, where' the umpire to decide? oils Wsntwohtm aays that as dear a right aa voting to a freeman, is the right to challenge the rote of a man whom he thinka ia not entitled to that privilege. And in tkia remark ''Long John' hits the very bull's-eye of Truth.

To preserve the purity of the ballot box at the Chicago election there was formed an organization called the Ballot Box i wards, numbering 2.000 men, commanded by (ien. O. L. Mann, and officered by Captains, Lieutenant, Sergeants, etc. Til it newly arrived daughter of the Duchess of Kdinburg increases Queen Victoria's tally of grandchildren to twenty-seven, twenty four of whom are still alive, and that of her total living progeny to thirty-three, including three unmarried children and the I'rincess Louisa, who is married but without family.

Hon. B. V. I'krkin'S writes from Columbus, Cherokee county: In this county the Republican are jubilant, having elected their county ticket by haiulHome majorities. The issue was a straight one between the Republicans and the Democrats, ami the Republican are successful for the first time aince 1HGH." IUttik Tkhbt announces in the Wavne County '( Iowa) Republican that she does uot want any good on Win.

Terry's account, that she is able to foot her own bill withont anting any old of him, and finally says Haltie. says she, "The best that I can Bay for him is that I do not consider myself the wife of any such a pouting, scolding, deceitful woman kUer. An cMerprntntr man cm buv a few railroads cheap in I-iwii. 1 lillon of the United Stale Circuit Court has rendered a decree of fnrceli'in aL'aiunt the Bur-liiiirtnu, (Vdar i. Minnesota Ruil road and it four brnu-hes, $7,000,000, and ha i ordered tn sain of aid road at Cedar It'ipidii, Iowa, nest month.

A decree of foreclosure for ft. (100,000 against the Ilavenport ct I'aul Rii'road (Company, of a similar character, was also ordered, and also a decree of fore lire agalni the lown Central Railroad Company for $.1,000,000, containing like provisions. I'liiiSltiKNT (iKUT did not find anything to admire in Mormon institutions when be was out in Utah lant month. The obsequiousness of old ISrighatu's fawning availed not tit all with the Chief Magistrate, who is a proverbial hater of sycophants, and the Federal Judges of the Territory were told to do their whole duty toward the abominable sett. The demand upon the prophet that hn pay that alimony of 'J, 01)1) to the divorced Ann Eliza or go to jail, is but the beginning of tho law's enforcement, which will drive from American soil the whole base Mormon tribe.

(Icit Washington correspondent, like all others, speaks for himself. In many of the points made in the letter which we publish to day we agree, but not in all. Tko theo ry that the nation wiu idler after the war than before we disavow. No nation can waste and destroy the amount of property and the number of lives that the nation diil in the late war without being the poorer. A curse follows war, as alt other wrongs, and the penalty of the great strug gle is now being paid.

agree that contract should be lived up to and tbat much of the late legislation about railroads is unjustifiable and ia working injury. On the other hand the corporations themselves have by overreaching and chicanery in jured their interests and in part brought about the legislation complained of. To say that equity will give the Osage eouu try to the railroads instead of the settlers, is so monstrous a doctrine that every mind must revolt at the idea. Tiik telegraph yesterday stated tbat the Kansas Citv Time had returns from 7t legislative districts in Kansas, and that there wore 3V Republican and .17 Opposition members elected. The Commonwealth had returns from 83 districts, with but 7 Democrats elected and ranked as Opposition.

The Times ranks such men as Golden Silvers, of Shawnee county, as Opposition, when he is as straight a Republican as there is in the State. This ia ao with moat of the independent candidates elected. There will not exceed twenty members of the House who will not rank themselves with and work in the Republican party of the State. The Timei calls S. M.

Wood, who was elected Senator to fill va cancy in the 20th district, a Democrat, lie it and always has been a Republican, and ran on the distinctively Republican ticket. We even v-nture the prediction that Sam Wood will be with the Republi cans next year il the contest is between Republicanism and old-fashioned Democracy. Sam naturally graviiates to the mi nority in all great contests. He likes to be in opposition to the party in power, what ever that mat be. TI EsUAY'S WORK.

The result of the elections on Tuesday was a surprise even to Republicans. I New York, for instance, the Democracy seemed to have by far the best chance, The Democratic party went into the contest ia New York with the prestige of its vie tory at the last general election when its majority was 50.000; backed by the great name of Tilden, made great by his contest with the Tweed and canal rings; with two gentlemen on the ticket who once stood high in the councils of the Republican par ty; and with a platform which met the views of pronounced hard money Republicans better than their own. Yet with all these advantages the Democracy was everywhere beaten and both branches of the Legiala turn carried by the Republican'. In Wisconsin the Republicans triumph ed over the meanest and thinnest imposture ever practiced ia American politics. As in Iowa, the people turned ewayin disgust, after a brief trial, from a diet of wind and hay-seed.

The ponular foot came down heavy on a set of demagogues whose political fortune have thriven of late ia the business of arraying class against class: of teaching the poor man to bate the rich man, not because be is bad, but because he is rich. Ia Pennsylvania, the Democracy rested their hopes on the same broken reed which letdown with such sodden ness the lata Mat Beeer EstshllihM I Cemmeawealtfc established 1MC9. place it or no other county committee has the power to excommunicate anybody from the Republican party. No such claim ought to be tolerated for a moment. This little committee has no power over Colonel Anthony or his paper.

As well might this self constituted board of censora let fly its thunderbolts at the Republicans of the Atchisou district, who preferred Mr. Glick, a Democrat, to Mr. Fleischer, a Republican, as their representative in the Legislature. The class of men who make op tbe Republican party are not of the sort who submit their votes to the inspection of a one horse committee for approval or rejection. We notice that this committee "appeals to Cassar," or in other words, to our Rep-resentatives in Congress.

We trust our Repreaentativea will have too much sense and dignity to interfere with Leavenworth county politics at tbe bidding of a few committeemen who have evidently vastly overestimated their authority. THE AMENDMENTS. The constitutional amendments, as we expected, have been adopted. Tbe vote was light, which shows there was but little thought or care oa tbe subject. Where the legal points have ten given the vote is against them, where these points have not been presented, those who voted at all voted for them.

We did our duty in tbe premises, and have nothing to regret. As citizens of Kansas and conductors of a public journal, we must now advise such a course as will lead to tho least trouble. That the amendment. are a part of the constitution to-day, is admitted by every lawyer who bas carefully and critically examined the subject. This being the case, there can be no "regular" session till sometime in The Governor ean call a special session to meet at the regular time in 1876.

We do not know what bis views are but assume that he will be governed by bis legal adviser, and will call a session. When together, under the Governor's call, the Legislature can transact all business except to pass a revenue bill. That, of necessity, will have to go over Ml 187 and then two years taxes can tie raised in one year. The Legislature can snbmit another amendment chunking section 20, so as to allow appropriations to be made for two years. This cannot bclone.

under tho constitution as it was or is since amended. If that is adopted by the people at the aext election, the legislature which meets ia 1877 can make appropriations for two years. There is oue other that the next legislature can do and will have to do if there is a session in 1877. The consti tution as it now stands provides that there shall be a session in 1877. It does not designate the time.

We suppose, however, that this can be remedied by an act of the legislature. We shall refer to this subject again soon. Of the eorrectuass of the position we have taken, there is i ot uor can not be any doubt. KANSAS in Kcnrs. Rev.

Mr. Hall is soon to leave Oswego. Rev. A. Trimpcr, late of Lawrence, proposes to locate at Concordia.

A week of jubilee has been held ly the Catholics at St. Marys. Rev. J. N.

Smith, of Garnctt, is to preach rw or three months at Arkansas Citv. Twelve Congregational churches have been organized in Kansas since March. A fellowship meeting commences in Congregational Hall, Neosho Falls, November 15. The brick work on the new M. E.

church building at Independence is progressing favorably. Rev. Hunter Corbett, of Chefoo, China, has been lecturing at Wichit'i on the "Flowery Kingdom." Rev. Walter Oakley and wife, of F.ldora do, were agreebly by a party of parishioners on the 29th ult. The Christian congregation at Winfield talk strongly of employing Elder John Blevins, of Eldorado, as their regular minister.

The Rev. Wm. Radford has accepted the unanimous call of the Congregational Society of Emporia to become its pastor, and has located. Rev. Allan Curr, on taking leave of the Baptist church of Leavenworth, was made the subject of some complimentary resolutions by his church.

A very interesting protracted meeting has been going on in the M. E. Church, South, under the direction of iU pastor, Rev. Joseph King. The installment of Rev.

J. G. Reaser, D. late of Leavenworth, as pastor of the High Street Presbyterian Church, St. Louis.J took place on the night of the 3d inst.

Rev. W. W. Bailey, formerly of Empo ria, lately of Paola, where he was sent by the last South Kansas Conference of the M.JE. church, bas left that city and removed to Ohio.

The Rev. J. B. Hard wick, D. of Atchison, the Rev.

J.M.C. Breaker, D. of St. Joseph, and others, lectured at Wa-thena on the 9th in regard to the Centennial and tbe proper mode of celebrating it. Rev.

Mr. Buckner recently held a pro tracted meeting of two weeks duration at the McMurtry school house, Greenwood eonnty. His labors were abundantly suc cessful. He formed a new organization, havingfthe old members as an ncleus. To-to these two were added by letter and eighteen were received ou probation, making a total of thirty.

The newly built Methodist Episcopal church, on Magnolia street, Cherokee, will be dedicated on the 15th of November next. The Rer. Lynch, of the Pittsburg conference, one of the most eloquent and powerful pulpit orators connected with the Metho dist church in the nited States, will be present, together with the Presiding Elder of this conference, Rev. D. P.

Mitchell; Rev. Kelly, Fort Scott; Rev. Kirby, Col urn bug; and Rev. Burria, Osage Mission. The Winfield Courier gives this outline of one Sunday's work in Winfield Reli gioua exercises In our citp last Sunday were varied and numerous.

Preaching iu the morning and evening at the Presby terian, Methodist and Christian churches Sabbath school at the stone church by the Union Sabbath school, and also by the Methodist at the same time at their church. Rev. Adams, late of New York, preached hi initiatory sermon as successor to Rev. McQuiston, of the Methodist church, while Rev. Blevins, of Eldorado, delighted large aidience by a practical sermon at the Christian church.

Arrangement were begun by the M. E. S. S. looking toward holding bi-monthly concert.

HAYES CLUBS. Since the election many far-seeing men are of the opinion that Gov. Hayes is the forthcoming man for the Republican can didate for President. Hi ability, hi loca tion, hi known integrity, the fact that he ha beaten the three great lights of 'De mocracy in Ohio, Thnrman, Pendleton, and Allen, all point to him aa the coming man. We learn that "Haye Club" will probably be orcaniaed ia this city right away, and probably all over the State, FROM OSAGE COUNTY.

BcM.tKGS.ME, Nov. 3, 1S75. Tj tba EJifc of th. Commsawealthr The election passed off yesterday, ia this county, without any disturbances ahhongh considerable excitement was manifested. The fight was between local factions in tbe county, and the result is not fully known.

Echie, for county treasurer, is undoubtedly elected over Martin. Spauldings friends claim his election although it is not certain. The result for tbe balance of the officers, at this writing, are not known, although it ia generally conceded that the Reform ticket has carried. B. Burdick in the 59th Representative district is elected.

The proposed amendment are thought to have carried by a small majority. Now for a joke on the Reform party. Spaulding, the Reform candidate for clerk, was expected to carry Lyndon, with the exception of one or two votes. They have one man down there who generally does the repeating for them at every election that comes along, and the Spaulding men allowed him to vote 53 times without being challenged, supposing he voted every time for M. S-; but upon counting the ballots it seems that Drew had some 53 votes, and it bas since turned out that this man voted for Drew in place, of Spaulding.

Where does the laugh come in? The coal business of this county ia rapidly becoming of a great deal of importance and is beginning to attract the attention of dealers from Kansas City and other places. Several new mines have been opened up at Scrauton, and other places in tbe county, aud a great deal of stripping done this past summer, preparatory to the openiug of the coal trade this full, which has opened up livelier than usual. We are informed tbat the miners are uot able to supply the demand which the cool weather we have had has occasioned. What we need is another railroad to intersect the A. T.

4 S. and thus give us another outlet, and tbe coal trade of our county would assume still greater importance. Last spring a Fire Brick Pottery company was organized in this place for the manufacture of fire brick' and pottery from clay brought from Ellsworth county. After a few juouths the company were compelled to suspend operations for want of meaus. Onr citizens then come to their rescue and organized a joint stock compa-ii 'with a capital stock of $3000 and took the pottery department off their hands.

Tbe new company are now erecting a new kiln, preparatory to commencing work on an extensive scale. The old company have just finished burning a new kil'i of brick. These are the only pottery and fire brick works west of St. Louis. It has been tested sufficiently to show that Kansas need no lunger send east for her pottery and fire brick.

We learn that a wry destructive prairie fire occurred in tbe southern part of this comity and the northern part of Coffey week, which done an immense amount of damage. The fire commenced near Ot- umwa. in Coffey county, and swept over a tract of ten or twelve miles, burning fences, oats, hay, barns, aud everything that come in its way. One womau was badly burned, but will recover. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

Another fire on Sunday and Monday, east of town, also burned several tons of hay. The farmers are busy gathering corn, which is selling at twenty-five cents per bushel. A large acreage of wheat was sown in this county this fall. Cattle shipments still continue. J.

D. Millions, formerly in the lumber business here, will shortly open a dry goods store. A great deal of sickness prevails in this county this season. Several deaths have occurred. Yours, Dos Jobs.

CHASE COUNY POLITICS. Cottoxwood Falls, Nov. 3. To tlie Kilttor or th. CommonwAitli.

The battle is over, and the Reformers have carried this county by an overwhelm- ne majority have elected everything, and the whangdoodles mourn for their first born." The vote stands For Judge District Court: S. R. Peters, C62. For State Senator: Stephen M. Wood 447, R.

C. BaUs 165, E. A. Brundige 30. For Representative: S.

N. Wood 444, J. C. Dewelle 199. The Reform nominees on county ticket are elected.

No returns from county precincts on amendments. In Falls township the vote stands: For amendment 16, against 116, net voting 100. For State Senator S. M. Wood 166, R.

C. Bates 43, E. A. Brundige 8. For Representative: S.

N. Wood 169, C. Dewelle 52. Leroy Martin, a Democrat, carried To ledo township by 21 majority. This is ac counted for by a certain charge on the books at Ed.

Pratt's drug store, made the day before, as follows LGBOT MABTIS. BR oo Kov.iubpi lit. To 2 gallon. Spirit. F.rmeBti,S.

"1 Keg 1 o. flO 00 There is no political significance in this fight outside of Chase county. Stephen M. Wood was the regular Republican candidate for Senator and endorsed by the county Reform convention. His vote in the county is 447.

S. X. Wood was the regular Reform candidate and his vote is 444. The Bourbons of both old parties united against the Wood tickets and were glon ously cleaned oat. One precinct to hear from that will not change the result.

S. N. Wood. LYON COUNTY. EvroRiA, Nov.

3d, 1S73. To the Edi tor of Um CoBsmoaWMltb The city and three townships heard from, Republican ticket successful, except Page, for Legislature, and Trnitt, for clerk. They are in doubt, bnt probably beaten by Hughes and Craig, Independent. The ticket badly scratched everywhere. This cannot be taken aa an expression against Republicanism so much a an expression conventions.

Conner, Republican, for sheriff', will have about 300 majority. C. V4Eskridge in the 68th, and John Loy in the 69th districts, elected Represen tatives. Both Republican nominee and both ran without opposition. Vote light aud interest weak.

I have no figure on the amendment, but they re ceived nearly the unanimous vote. OTTAWA COUNTY. Misxkapolis, K.s- Nov. 4, 1875 To th. Ed! tor of th.

Ooamoawwltk. The following ticket is elected in Otta- waoucty: Representative, W. A. Johuaton Clerk, F. M.

Sexton (present incumbent); Treas urer, G. E. Burnham Register of Deeds, W. L. Harvey (present incumbent); Sheriff, D.

D. Hoag (present incumbent); Cor oner, D. D. Slocura (present incumbent): Surveyor, G. P.

Crosby Commissioner, 1st district, W. W. Frost 2d district, R. P. Blain 3d district, T.

B. Sear. The entire ticket ia Republican. Hon. J.

H. Austin, of Junction City, received a majority of 759 for District Judge over Captain R. B. SpiUman, of Manhattan, The amendment to tbe constitution are defeated in Ottawa County. FROJt THE NORTHWEST.

Wasbisotox, Nov. 2, 1875. T. th. Editor at ta bsaaaoawaallh.

Your correspondent arrived here last Sunday evening, and a this appeared to bea fruitful field for "field note" and business, I concluded to remain here until after election. Yesterday ia compeay with our old friend Geo. W. Shriaer, formerly County Clerk of Washington County, but now President of the Exchange Bank of Washington, I took a stroll around town. At the door of Smith Shriner's store, Mr.

Shriner introduced au to Mr. John McGregor, a rather intelligent and respectable looking old Scotchman, apparently about 60 years of age The old man had been laying up brick all day, and a hi hands and clothes were covered with mortar and dust, he apologized to me, a he gave me hi hand for his rather BOCUH APrtABAICB. I told him it was all right; that I had lived in the West long enough to be used to all these things, and that no opologies were necessary. Th old man very politely bowed hi thauk and passed into the store. Mr.

Shriner asked me if I knew who he wa. I told him I did not. "Well," aid he, ''that i the man who KILLED IU OWaT SO last Thursday." You ean perhaps imagine my surprise at this information, and asked Mr. Shriner for the particular- He commenced telling me, when the bid man again made hi appearance. "Perhap yon don't know me," he remarked I replied that I did not.

"Well," aid he, "I'm the maa who killed his son, last Thursday. IT1 tell you all about it- This thin; ha been brewino for the but live years. Duncan ha been very cruel and unkind to me. He ha often beat me until I wa scarcely able to walk, but I bore it all. Last Thursday morning he came to ray house, and again commenced abusing me.

I was sick and in bed. I begged him to go away and let me alone. This he refused to do, and made at me with a big club. I jumped out of bed and a shot gun that was standing in the corner. He still advanced, and in the confusion the gan went off and shot him in the tide.

He only lived about half an hour. I did not intend to kill him. I only meant to scare him and keep him off. It was purely accidental." The poor old man was very ranch affected. The tear coursed each other rapidly down hi furrowed cheek, and be bowed his head and wept like a child.

But it is all over now," said he, and if they hang me they'll hung a man who ia not afraid to die. I will not be a mere tassel oa a aorx; there'll be a man at the end of it." Upon inquiry of Mr. Shriner and others, I found that hi statement wa substantially true. On Friday last he came np to town and gave himself up to the authori ties. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased and the nnhappy rather wa bound over ia the sum of $3,000 for his appearance at the next term of court.

He gave bail at once, and is now at liberty. Those who know him say there i no dan ger of his leaving the country, but that be will stand bis trial like a man. The deceased leaves a wife and six small children in destitute circumstances. The general mpression is that the old man will come clear, as it wa clearly a case of self-defense. But how bitter and miserable must be the evening of his life, aa he reflects -on the terrible deed he has committed.

One would naturally imagine that that terrible nward monitor would be worse than death. Truly, it is a sad, sad case. politics here, as everywhere else in Kansas this fall, has been red-hot. Here the principal fight has been on Sheriff and Treasurer. Washington eonnty bas long since given up the idea of being represented in the legislature.

In fact she ha not been represented since the winter of 1873, when her interest were carefully looked after by the BOX. A. i. AXTA, afterwards judge of tbe 15th judicial district, and now one of the most prominent lawyers of Beloit, Mitchell county. Judge Banta was an able and working representative, and ia th only one Washington county baa ever had since tbe day of Hon.

A. S. jBOMi now judge of the twelfth judicial district. Both of these gentlemen were able and efficient members, and were an honor to the county. But they had none since.

This winter, however, they propose to doctor" the matter np a little, and with that end in view, they have elected DX, A. 0. BAI ALL, of Peach creek, in tbe southern part of the county, to look after their interest down at Topeka. The doctor is a straight Re publican and an able maa, and will make a good representative." At I close it is not definitely known what hi majority is, but it will be less than one hundred. The con test wa a warm and slosely contested one, and bis opponent, Captain A.

J. Palmer, is personally a very popular nan. The constitutional amendment bas carried by about 1,000 majority. A XrW BA1LBOAD. On the 16th inst.

a railroad mas con vention of the citizens of Washington, Republic and Jewell counties will be held in Washington, in the interest of a new rail road from Haaover, through Washington, Belleville, New Scandinavia and Jewell City to the forks of the Solomon. Prominent railread men fir job St. Joseph will be attendance. The people all along thia projected line ef road are indeed ia earnest on tbe subject, and tbe probabiiitie are that the matter will then take some definite ahape. A railroad through thia sec tion is badly needed, ana would pay handsomely.

There is no finer country ia the State of Kansas. Pioeeeb. Bsllxvillb, Kavs Nov. 4, 1875. I arrived here last night, and (bead the town in a fearful (tats of excitement over the result of the election.

Hon. D. C. Gamble, the present -able and efficient County Superintendent, was tbe regular Republican nominee Tor "Representative, and R. W.

Vandyke waa the nominee for Sheriff; but both of tbe gentlemen being personally very unpopular, were defeated by independent candidates. The oa. a. r. west, the mats who "has already stood two bock of tbe Kansas Legiala tore, and cams oat pare and bus bees elected to stand one more.

Mr. West is well known throughout Northwestern Kansas as a standing candidate for tbe Legis lature. He bas served twa terms ia the Kansas Legialatare, and bas been a stand-iag candidate for the same office svei since 1871. Mr. West, with all bis faults, is a man of move than ordinary ability, and if be is let adooe, will asake a very good member.

He is)) Presbyterian min ister, and it hi boast tbat be bas stood two shocks of tbe Tamrai Legialrtore, and com out pur sad untarnished, act tbe hem of bis garment, even, being scorched. It is to be hoped tbat be will be as lucky in 1876. His majority "this time is some thing over 300, Mr. B. W.

Vandyke, tbe regular Bepab licaa nominee for Sheriff, wa defeated by OS tab Kindt, FROM WASHINGTON. Washisotok, D. October 30. To tl. Kilitor of the Commoowealtk.

rSFRlESDLT LEGISLATION. You know that last week and the week before, the Supreme Court of the United State has been devoting day by day of it time to hearing and deciding the law as it relate to railroad grant by Congress. The first great case was the settler' case upon the ceded Osage land, and the second case ha been the Governmeiit v. the Pacific Railroad Company and it several branches. Both case are now submitted to the court of last resort, and we shall soon know the result.

It is pending this decision that 1 desire to speak to you, and to direct my inquiry to the cause which have promoted these attacks upon the railroads. Reason as we may, a change has come over the spirit of legislation on the subject of railroads since you and I have observed public events, and it may be said to have occurred within the last five or six years. And, this change is noticeable more in the West than in any other section. The new State which have been brought fa to being by the railroads and the institutions which always follow them, and are so allied as to be a constituent and component part of railroad advancement, these very States were the first to turn against the power that built them up, and gave them life and being. In 1862 there was a great demand for a highway of commerce across the continent.

Our Pacific possessions had risen to magnitude and importance, and the dissolution of the Union threatened, and then actually commenced, and as a measure of great national importance, aud almost national existence, Congress came forward, and in a most friendly spirit, passed what has been since known as the Pacific Railroad Act, But the mere act did not make a railroad, and for two years that great charter stood upon the statute books, and no man, or set of men, were found who would accept it and enter upon the work. That hesitancy brought forth tbe act of 1864, which made the provisions of law still more liberal, and made no one comphny responsible for any one of the others. There it was that the great national work of crossing the continent commenced. The war was at its heighth and prices enormous, labor scarce, and the national life in jeopardy. Still this work was then pushed for ward to success.

This gave importance to lateral connecting roads, and Kansar, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa each received its fall share of aid and comfort. Your own delegation in Congress, and the support of theirconstituents at home, strengthened the movement until in a few years later we had a season of the most unparalleled prosperity. The iron mines and the iron mills of all the country were opened and set at work, -so that we emerged from a most exhausting war without repudiation or a panic. And the country actually richer than before! Kansas lands then began to have a value and the State had a name and place among the best and most prosperous. All the West I mean the central West and the far West was made most prosperous aud attractive to emigrants, from both the old States and the old world.

The wilderness was fast then becoming a fruitful field, and tbe Great American desert" began to disappear. But this success and this prosperity was at once arrested. A new sentiment began to be inculcated, new ideas in politics. New men came to the rescue," as they called it, t.nd having got the benefit of this friendly legislation, at once set in motion schemes to cripple and paralyze the sources of iheir prosperity. Then it was that Kansas and States al lied to it began to go for what they misnamed "purification and reform." Old ideas were discarded, old advocates of the prosperous system put aside.

New men, "purifiers" and reformers were set up! vastly more devouring and blighting in tlieir work than drouths and grasshoppers combined, until to-day, your lands won't bring tbe government price, excluding the improvements. Aa tbe result of the Agrarian Reformers, the system of thoroughfare, so well inaugurated for commerce, has been crippled, and are contesting their right in the courts, unable to pay simple interest on their bonds, and not a dime on their stock Eastern men who invested in them, widows and orphans whose funds were honestly placed away in those bonds for their sup port, are left penniless, and the whole land mourns. These Reformers have put the country back half a centary and left mise ry in its receding track. Do you ever ask, why don't men in east ern cities, where money is abundant at 4 per cent per annum. loan it in Kansas? I can tell you.

They have an eye to tbe unfriendly legislation which ha already stripped them of their previous investments and they had rather have less income where they can be honestly dealt by. A few more years of the triumph of your ''Reform" parties and the whole State can be sold out, without bringing enoueh to pay the bonds and mortgage already issued. A return of prosperity will be marked by a return to the old ways and times, when men tried to build up and not to pull down. I am no advocate for corporation abuse or individual abuses, but errors in either can be best met by competition and honest treatment. When men secure the land, 200 feet wide, for railroad commerce, nnder your laws, they are entitled to the provision of the law as they then exist.

And yon have no more right to cripple their prosperity than you have to lessen the number of bushels of wheat a man may raise upon a atrip of 200 feet of his farm. In both case a friendly act will lead in prosperity, while nn un friendly one is wrong in itself and ruinous in it results. You cannot be benefitted by more or less currency in the country, and yon need not entertain yourself with national theo ries of finance until you first, by a public sentiment, and then by legislation, return to the old, friendly ways of encouragement and honesty in dealing with the institutions of commerce which have been, are now, and will ever be, tbe life and health of the State. Faithful to these fenvand friendly in in tercourse will secure other, and being cored of that "purifying" folly by the se vere discipline of adversity, those central State, of which Kansas ia the best, will yet rise in towering magnificence the wonder of the nation Bnt warring and lawing with your rail road, and repudiating your bond will sink tbe State, aa the individual, to that depth in which there ia "no lower deep. But we hall see how the law are inter preted and enforced before I write yon again, by tbe highest court.

So I will 'reserve further remarks until I can improve that occasion to say my full meaning; and so with sentiment of esteem, I am, yours truly, (Jlaxib. Fault finding scribblers are already sneering at the bis; trowsers legs, bat tbe gentlemen who carry their intellect in their lower limbs should go right oa aa nothing had been aaid. Tbe California Chinese keep up the oriental practice of destroying female infants. TBE rKBESEXT IXCIMSEXT. Mr.

Kiudt has held the office for one term, and ha given general satisfaction. He ia a staunch Republican, but feeling that a job was being put upon bim in the convention he very wisely stayed out of it and made the race on the independent ticket. His majority i over 200. The balance of tbe regular Republican picket ia elected throughout by handsome majorities. 1'he constitutional amendment were defeated by a sm all majority.

Below will be found the result of the election, as it appears this morning in the Belleville Telescope For Representative R. P. West. For County Treasurer1 E. M.Crummer.

For Sheriff Josiah Kindt. For County Clerk Chauncey Perry. For County Surveyor J. C. Price.

For Register of Deeds Dr. R. J. Adams. For Coroner W.

F. Compton. COMM lSSlOKEBS. 1st District, W. E.

Day. 2d J. T. Glasgow. 3d G.

L. White. Majority against constitutional amendment. PERSONAL. In the person of James C.

Humphrey, editor and proprietor of the Belleville Telescope, I found au old and valued friend, foreman of (he Louisville Democrat, during the war the leading Demooratio paper of Louisville, Ky. Jim is a good, square Republican, and gets up the nobbiest newspaper in Northwestern Kansas. He supported the straight Republican ticket. I also had the pleasure of meeting A. B.

Wilder, editor and proprietor of the Belleville Republic. Mr. Wilder is also a Republican, bnt he Blopped over a little this time, and at the eleventh hour came out in favor of Mr. West. He is a racy and vigorous writer, and gets np a good paper.

Among the other leading men of Republic county I had the pleasure of meeting Hon. W. H. Pilkenton, ex-representative; Capt. I.

O. Savage, conuty treasurer Valley Van Trump, postmaster, and John Wilson, attorney at law all good boys and square Republicans. HORBIBLE ACCIDXNT. Last night Mr. Fred Johnson, a worthy young man and the only support of a poor widowed mother, had his left arm caught in the gearing of a threshing machine and torn off just below the elbow.

Medical aid was immediately called in, aud the arm was amputated. His injuries arc very severe, the arm being fearfully lacerated clear up to the shoulder. Besides, his nervous sys tem received a dreadful shock, and his life is despaired of. Piokker. CHASE COUNTY.

Cottowwood Falls, Nov. 5, 1875. To th. Editor of the CaaunoawnJIh. The official vote of this county has just been declared and I hasten to give the re sult: For Jndg-o of the Kioto district a.

n. 776 4ST 244 32 For Senator 8. M. Wood. B.

C. Bates. E. A. Wood's majority For Reptesentati re B.

B. J.C. Dwelte Wood's 4 2t For Treasurer J. 8. Leroy Martin 43l For Connty Clerk 1.

A. 4KS 177 W. W. Sanders- 8. P.

For Sheriff Wm. Kaston J. F. Campbell 8. K.

Yeamans 40(1 137 For Befrister ot Deeds A. e. uandy For Surveyor w. 11, tlolslnger. W.

K. Timinous, editor StW 24 378 324 41 21 .1 9 For Coroner Pt MO W. P. Job. rue CommiMion.r, First District V.

W. Kapler W. H. Henley CommfMtoner, Second District- 11. M.

Simmons J. P.Caldwell VJK 1H7 Commissioner, Third District- lovis. 114 24S 17 J. Blacksbne-'. For proposition one to amend two three 2.2 164 11 1HW the official figures.

Of Against For Against The above are the candidates elected S. U. Peters for Judge is a Republican and present incumbent. He ran without opposition. Stephen Wood waa the Republican candidate and endorsed by the Chase County Reform Convention, and ran five votes ahead of the Reform ticket.

His opponent, C. Bates. was the Republican member from Marion last winter, aad was nominated by a far mers' convention ia Marion county. K. A.

Brundige was an independent Democrat. S. N. Wood, the member elected to the legislature, supported Greeley three years ago; last fall supported Cusey aud Hudson and waa elected county attorney by 205 majority. The balance of the ticket wa nominated' by a regular Reform convention, and the most of them supported Cusey and Hudson last year.

J. C. Dwelle, who ran against S. X. Wood, i "a Republican, always has been and always will be," as he proclaimed all over the county.

The Republican- called uo convention and made no nomination. Mr. Dwelle and hi ticket were brought out by a por tion of the Democrat and sore-bead Republican. Of the 265 votes cast for that ticket it ia aafe to aay 1 3:1 were straight Democrats, which include the larger portion of that party. The balance were disappointed sure-head Republicans.

Every nominee on the Reform county ticket wa elected. I may be mistaken in the politic of the member from Chase, bnt don't think I am. Your, S. N. Wood, Chairman Chase Co.

Reform Com. SmiTIl COl'HTY. Smith Ccsxas, Kas. Xov. 3, 1675.

the Editor of the Oomsnoawaalih. The Republican of Smith county are again rejoicing over a spienaia victory. Tbe entire Republican ticket ia elected by a plurality vote of about 125. Tbe return of Hon. A.

S. Aldricb to the Legislature is, to ns, "glory enough for one day." A strong fight wa made againat him, both at borne also from our neighboring county, Philip. Beside the two parties, Democrat and Republican, there wa an "Independent People's Ticket" in the field, and numerous other tdf-nomiruited candidates, making a great mix, out of which the Republicans came victorious. Yours, etc, F. D.

Hoasc EROJK PHILLIP COUHTT. Kikwiv, Not. 3d. T. the Setter ef tbe OsaHmeawsaltb.

Party line were drawn yesterday for the first time ia tbe history of Phillip county. Tbe Democracy- bad in oominatioa their strongest maa for Representative. Tbe Republican nominee was Hon. John Bissell, wbo represented this county at Topeka two years ago. The contest wa exciting.

Result Tbe entire Republican ticket is elected by majorities ranging from 50 to 100. Bissell' majority for Representative) i85. Xo return at this boor from tbe other counties of this district. Very respectfully yours, E. Tbere are fellies a catching ast conta gious disorders.

lioc hefou can Id. I that tbe loyal Xonh does not forget. Northern men are not erecting many stat ues. There has not been of late any demonstration in the North like that at Richmond the other day at the unveiling of the blockade-runners' statue of Stonewall Jackson, and yet the North remembers, and when it comes to a contest between two men like Pershing and Hartranft, the man who served his country in tbe day of trial is remembered at the cost of tbe man who stood back and quibbled and petti fogged. We should not however forget the Dem ocratic victories; the one in Mississippi, for instance.

"The etectiou passed oflr quietly and there was no disturbance any where," is telegraphed over the country as if an election without murder was a thing not usually to be expected. In such a State Democracy might be expected to thrive, and it did. Iu the free North the Republican flag floats in triumph, through the will of the people, in the South the Democratic flag of the minority waves over a subjugated and "quiet" majority. The Democracy, as in 1861, takes refuge in the South. ARKANSAS JOlIRNLlS.1I.

We have placed under obligations to Mr. J. N. Stuithee, under whose hospitable mahogany or black walnut, whichever it was, we nnfolded onr legs while at Little Rock, for a copy of his address delivered before the Arkansas Editorial Association, and published iu the oldest paper in the State, the Arkansas Gazette. Mr.

Smitbee gives a history of journalism in Arkansas from "the stump." It ap-pers that Mr. Woodruff, the father of the newspaper business in Arkansas was originally a journeyman printer in Nashville, Tennesse, and that it took him six weeks to make the trip from Nashville to Arkansas Post, where he proceeded to arrange the fulcrum of "the lever which moves the world." The town of Arkansas Post, we may remark, had got along very comfortably withont a newspaper from 1SH2 to 1819, the year of Mr. WoodrufTs arrival. This Mr. Wood ruff, listen heavens, and give ear oh earth, died a wealthy man.

Among the prominent figures is Mr. Smithees "abstract and brief chroicle," is Solon Borland. Solon was an "old he one," and while he might have admitted that the "pen is mightier than the sword," usually traveled with both articles among bis baggage. He went to the Mexican war, had a fight with a brother editor, Mr. Borden, in which the latter was wounded, went to Central America as a United States Minister and had Grey town bombarded and died a Brigadier General in the Confederate army.

The "New Arkansas Traveler" took occasion to notice tbe ingenuity developed in naming towns in Arkansas. Some of the newspaper names betray great fertility of imagination. There was an Arkansas Trav eler, of coarse, and also the Thirty-fifth parallel and tbe States-Rights Eagle and the Sage of Monticello, and last and most gorgeous, the Warren Sunbeam. The sacred name of Kansas occurs, of course. Air.

smitbee mentions mat toe Pine Bluff Republican was started in 1850, Enoch H. Vance, "who is still living and at present a resident of Kansas." A CASE OF ASSUMPTION. We encumbered our telegraphic columns yesterday morning with a preamble and some resolutions adopted by the Republican county central committee of Leavenworth county, and, before tbe matter is forgotten, we wish to say a word about it. We take no special interest in Leaven worth city or county politics, and we do not know who compose the Republican central committee of Leavenworth county, nor do we care, ao we cannot be accused of any personal feeling in the matter. We are only speaking of a general principle.

The preamble and resolutions hereinbe fore mentioned formally "read out of the party Col. D. R. Anthony, alleging tbat "he refused to support the Republican pary ia this county, or allow his paper to support it." We have read the Leavenworth Times every day during tbe campaign, and have noted that tbe Republican county ticket therein published contained the name of all the county nominees except that of H. Bond, candidate for sheriff.

Onr infer ence then, is, that the Times did not op pose or refuse to support the "Republican party" of Leavenworth county, bat simply pursued that coarse toward, Mr. W. Bond, and onr understanding is that the Times refused to support Bond oa personal not political grounds; that Bond, on the night that Col. Anthony was shot went in to a saloon and drank to his, Anthony's, death, and that Anthony refused to support him for that reason. It seems to ns that Col.

Anthony's coarse was very natural We should certainly have done the same at he did under the circumstances, and our impression is that there am not central committees enough on earth to compel ns to support a sympathizer with a would-be murderer. It is for refusing to do this that the august Central Committee propose to read Col. Anthony out of the Republican party, and furthermore denounce him and his paper as unworthy of "the con- fiden.ee and support of the Republican par ty of tbe State or the confidence of the ad ministration." Oar candid conviction ia that this Cen tral Committee baa displayed more cheek than judgment. Ia the first Sedgwick county, has raided 4-00 bushels of the Iiisli potato the to acre this season. Tli': Thayer Headlight calls attention to the fact that Mr.

Frank Hefley has been wheat north over the L. L. G. railroad. The Manhattan Nationalist says that an mmense number ot cattle are lieing ship- yed from that vicinity, and anions them many cows.

The Nationalist advices farmers to hold on to their cows. Mr. Scoville, of Cherokee county, this year raised ten acres of cotton which will yield an average of a hale to the acre. A bale of cotton to the acre is a better paying crop than an average yield of wheat at 75 cents per hushel. or corn at 15 cents.

Last spring says the Holton Express, W. T. Scott furnished to E. B. Clowe two and a half bushels of potatoes.

From that amount of seed ninety bushels of potatoes were raised. As the agreement was to give Mr. Scott half the crop as ayment for the seed, he realized 45 bushels of potatoes as his portion. The Standard is informed that Mr. Jones, of Seneca county, Ohio, who has been in Douglas county, as determined to locate and engage ex tensively in sheep husbandry.

Mr. Jones one of the largest sheep raisers of Ohio already owns several large flocks in Missouri and Texas, and probably understands the business as thoroughly ns any man in the country. The Newton Kansan says D. B. Cook, of Emma township, has one of the finest young groves and orchards npon his farm, in the county.

His grove con sists principally of poplars which he fath ered from the banks of the Arkansas two years ago and were then mere switches. Nearly all of them are now twelve or more feet high, with numerous heavy branches, and covering over several acres of ground, furnish a splendid wind break on all sides of his house and orchard, as also a mannifi-cent shade in summer time. FROM MITCHELL COUNTY. Bkloit, Nov. 3.

To the Editor of the Commonwealth. In the Mitchell county (87th) Represent ative District, the vote for Representative was as follows W. L. Warning, Republi can candidate, received 732 votes, and Joseph Carney, Democrat, received 438 votes. It was a contest between the Democrat and Republican parties, both regularly organized.

A very small vote was cast on the constitutional amendments. The re turns, as yet, are very meagre, but the Hi- indications are that the votes for and against the amendments are nearly equal. Wallack CoOt'KR. BUTLER COUNTY, Eldorado, Nov. 4, 1875.

To th. Kttitor of th. Returns from Butler county are in. Ma jor J. L.

Ferguson, anti division candidate for the legislature received 1334 votes; H. Wood, division candidate, 466; Ferguson's majority, 563. 1 he balance ot the anti- division ticket is elected by majorities of from 309 to 826. Total rote for the coa stitutional amendments, 2124; against the amendments, 3. Yours Truly, T.

B. Mcbdock. ELECTION IN RILEY COUNTY. To th. Editor of th.

Common An exciting local canvass, in which no issues were raised but those of a personal nature, has resulted in the election of Dr. C. F. Little, who classes himself as an In dependent Republican, but who really is in no wise entitled to the latter definitive. The majority for Little is about 150 over ex-Gov.

X. Green, Republican. The rest of the Republican ticket seems to be elected by about the same majority, though the returns are not all in yet. L. R.

S. WASHINGTON COUNTY. WASniSTGTOS, Nov. 4. To lb.

Editor of th. CoBimoBWMltk. The majorities in this county are as fol lows: A. G. Randall, Representative, Republican, 200.

G. W. Paako, clerk, Republican, 700. F. M.

Achenbach, treasurer. Reform' er. 60. M. Patne.

sheriff. Reformer. 70. H. W.

Curtis, register, Republican, 500. of the commissioners, J. W. Bell and H. E.

Prentice, are Republicans, and one, A. Oswald, is a Reformer. All the votes cast (about 1500) in favor of the amendment. A. S.

W. Some of the Detroit street car lines have DOS ted notice ia their cars reading "Counterfeit nickles not taken for fare." When a corporation get so particular a this, it is time people savea tneir counter feit currency to patronize circnsses. same result, until James abandoned tin. effort in disgust. A reporter being called to account for the statement that a certain meeting "was a large and respectable one," when only oue other person besides himself was pn-aeut.

nsisted tbat his report was literally true for, said "I was) ia -sum! the other man was respectable." Two little girla quarreler' and one of them said: "You aban': swing oa our clothes line any more." The other oue retorted; "You han't come over and see our hired girl next time he ha a fit." Then more in sorrow than in aneer, tbe erxt while play mate parted. The corpse of the late Mr. Carrutb waa forwarded from Vineland to Camden on the railroad pass the unfortunate editor held durinir his lifetime. That' dead bead- ng in ghastly earnest. Look not mournfully into the past it come not back again; wisely improve tin- present it i thine; go lortli to aunet tl shadowy future without fear and with manly heart.

Longfellow. The amenities journalism are still pre served in Texas, where an editor alwav has the privilege of free burial aud a "bang- up funeral whenever bis quarrels leal flatal results. If vour horse has the epizoot, dissolve a teaspoonfull of crystal chlorate of potash in a bucket of water, thi amount making a morning aose for four horses. It will work cure. An old shovel and hoe was recently dus up in Virginia, forty feet under tbe ground.

Thev are supposed to be the original, iden tical implements hung up by old I il led. Down Kast those young ladiea wh wear clanking cbaina around their waist and large hoop bracelets on their arms as far as the elbow, are called "fashionable convicts." A Brooklyn cirl is engaged to be marri ed to an Italian Count, and in count of four or five years she may be looked for on the street witb a band-organ, playing Unusual tunes. Mr. Goos, a Galveston man, is declared to have become, in his somewhat extensive married life, the father or full sixty little Gooses. Tbe King of Greece 4cwretcd ail tin- members of the Prince of Wales" partv on tbe occasion of their recent visit at Athens, en route to India.

Sure there ia none but fears iu a future at Ate; aud when the most obdurate swear, do not their trembling hearts belie their boasting tonarues. Dry den. Sewing ha been taught in the pubiie schools of Boston for twenty years, and it is just now discovered tbat it is illegal 1o spend public money for tbat puriw. A ben of rare apciea died iu BooUibcv. Maine, lately, anl in her gizzard was found a shawl-pin," She had ev-dently attempted to pin her self back.

A Ulica paper says that a circus bas been playing in dams Center. All we have to say is it must be very uncomfortable for Adam. We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in it demand aa to be ample in its perfur- J. F. Bore.

A Kentucky couple planned an elope ment, and the girt invHe-d fatty or fifty her friends to be in waitiog at ber hooae "to see bow romantically tbey coousd." Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry and is a often trundling in a wheelbarrow a lolling in a coach and ix. Goldsmith. Love aad esteem are tbe first principle of friendship, which alway ia imperfect where either of tbe two i wanting. uuo-gell. It i madness to make fortune the.

mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but it is ruled by prudence. Dry-den. General Joe Hooker ia plaoging around ia tbe Hot Springs, trying to shake off tbe paralysis which hauuU bis limbs. A postal card passed through the. mark tbe other day, writtea on one aide only, but cootaning 15,000 word.

There were 20,000,000 clay pipe imported into this country last year, mostly from Fortune is aa brittle a glass, and when she i the most refulgent, she ia often 'most pectedly broken. Pabliu syrus. Tbe reason Tenyson's poem to royalty are not good, is because it is hard to be funny for pay..