iifrtvi-rSEfi-t^rol
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. PER AJ&VTXTM. IN ADVANCk
BEAVER, PENN’A, : 5. 1873. ■
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rOLUME V.
-.PITTSBURGH, FT. WAYNE AND
I ■hil\GO KAILWAY.—Oh and after June
A [r:llus will leave stations aafollows:
TRAINS GOINQWEST.
"sTATIOI'S
i’Ut rbafi-'b
gociiester... ■ -
Alliance
yrrviile
Mansfield...-
Crestline - [
Forts’- ■ •
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for. Wayne ....
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Kochester
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- P. R. MYERS,
General Passenger and Tlcaet Agent.
Cleveland & Pittsburgh r. r.
I; On and att ei Jane 29, 1873, trains will leave
j'anuns daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows;
GUINtTsOUTU-MAIN LINE.
"stations. KXFB’a. MAIL. MCPB’B./ACCOM
....." 8.30 am 1.55 pm I 4.05 PM
Hadron ■ ! 9.41 5.02 5.23
S-wnna 10.13 5.33 5.53
Alliance Jl-W 5.12 6.40
3.40 10,30
J GOING NORTH—MAIN LINK.
"stations. I EXPB’B. MAIL. BXPB’B.I ACCOM.
6.3oam 1.15 PM
vw . 8.40 1 3.10
Bavard 10.25 ! 4.30
Alliance ; 11.00 | 4.55 7.25 am
Ravenna 1 12.0Spm 5,53 8,15
Had'Oß 12.41 1 6.22 9.05
C.eveiand I 1.55 1 7.30 10.25
' going' "east—river division.
"STATIONS. MACCOM. MAIL. Ezra's. ACCOM
B- a;r 5.45am', 10.50 am ; 5.40 pm
Br.Lvport I 5.55 ,11.00 5J30
,s\weiiv;l!e.... 6.57 12.07 pm) 6.50
\V...,rilie 8.00 1.05 7,53
Eod-ter 9.30 ; 2.35 ■ 9.25
Pr.-tenTh 10 40 ; 3.40 110,30
I . I
ING WEST-RIVER DIVISION.
STATIONS. 1 ACCOM I MAIL. EXPB’S. ACCOM-
PitTsSarj-*! 1 6.3oam' Mspmi 4.!opm
R.-t-:.r 7.40 i 2.20 i 6.05
BV . 8.40 I 3.10 7.15
Sv:Vnv..io .. 9.50 ! 4.20 | 8.39
R-.1.-por, ... I 11.00 : 5.25 I 9.45
R--.:: ~..| ; 11.10 V* 5-40 ! 10.00
ARAWA!
8XP8.9. MAIL. EXPB’B. SXPB'S
1.45 am 6.00 AM 9.10 am i 1.30 PM
•2.50 . 7.2 S 10.23- ! 2.38
5.10 ,10.40 13.50 PM 6.08
6.51 1.001 m j 3.01 7.06
8.55 I 3.18 5.09 9.11
0.20 4.00 5.40 9.40
040 I 5.55 AM I 6.00 9.50
11 05 . 7.35 7.55 11.15
12USpm 9.00 1 9.15 13.17 AM
2.20 11.50 111.50 2.35
445 ; 2.35 PM: 2.55 AM 5.05
750 6.30 ) 6.50 8.20 PM
imscToing east.
MAUTkxpb’s. expb’b.expb 8
5.15 am 9.20 am 5.30 pm 9.20 pm
9.15 12.02 pm! 8.55 I.loam
12.01 pm 2.0 U 11.15 400
•2 45 4.07 I.lBam 6.40
400 I 2.27 8.10
5.35 1 6.30 4.05 10.10
6.00 am 1 6.50 4.15 10 30am
640 j 7.19 4.43 11.00
9.16 ! 9.20 6.37 I.OOPM
11.00 10.55 8. TO 335
•2 48pm 10.40 4.53 :
4.00 : 2.20 11.45 am ,6.00
r TI SC. ,S BRANCH
Lfsve? Arrives
N PS'.-a'' i l 'an; i I.oopm I Bayard, 9.45 am *4 00pm
Bayard,ll'.'i a 5.00 p. m. |N. Phila. 3.00 47,30 p m
F. R. MYERS,
Direr and Ticket Agent.
tenoral Pa??c
PENNSYLVANIA R. R.
, -After December 22d. 1372, Trains will arrive
ilejar; a- follows: ■
„ 'ea'Twaisd. ; westward.
Tim'd- Leave Through Trains Arrive
1 r.ior, Du pot : Union Depot,
v 2:50 a m Mail Train, 1:05 a m
rru-.h. 7:15 a m Fast Line. 1:35 a m
J 1 'bx 12 20 p m Pittsburgh Ex. 8.00 a m
pi : : 1:1,1 P m Cincinnati Ex. 8:40 a m
*' ' : i> iKx, 5:20 pni Sonthern Ex. 12:40pm
'• N5O p m Pacific Expr's, 1:10 p m
Way Passenger, 9:50 p m
0:40 a m local.
Walls No 1 * 6:30 am
... 7-05 a m Brinton Ac. Nol, 7:30 a m
- i o:20 a m Wilkinshurg Ac
, ■ ’^'" v 11:15 am Nol “ 8:20 a m
V >v Walls No 2. 9:10 am
\ 2: lo p;n .Johnstown Ac. 10 10 am
’ v ■'-••jopm Wall- No 3, 1:45 pm
' " i:oopm WallsNol 3:2opm
Wilkin-burg Ac
' 1 ■ *jo p m No 2 4.45 p m
'. ' lo p m Walls Ac. No. 5 3:55 p m
’ v '':lspm Brinton No 2. 6:50 pm
A Nn ; o-»o p m Brinton Ac. No 3 7:25 pm
* '■ II:"5p m Brinton Ac No 4 ll;10pm
■'Ap: Cincinnati Express, Fast Line
: A' Nil. :i lea\e ilaily.
• Hap.v-s daily, except Monday.
' ‘rains dally, except .Sunday.
I 'H'aL
-\n ’
V 1
"M; Ac
A. . M tn .
:N■ ■ 1 . ..
\ > N o'-! ,"i
1 leaves Pittsburgh at 2:50 a m ar
■ • it ;■ r,-hnr" at 11:10 am; Philadelphia *OO
:i i«i p m; Washington 5:40 pm.
■' ,' 1 ' rl Uj.
leave? Pittshnrchat 12.20 p m,
-I. ? ■ -!, 11 Pi.-in pm; Philadelphia 2.30 am;
1 " i n;.
i' Kv, ri -< leaves Pittsburgh at 1:10 p
' 11 ii i i-burg Pi: i,j p m; Philadelphia 2:50
1 frt 2:1 '> am; Washington 5:00a m. New
, ‘ i Kspr.'-). leaves Pilt?burjrh at 5:20 p
- : ! 1 ir-i-burv: 2:55 am; Philadelphia 0:55
\ I'l II a IM.
Pitt-Mirgh at Si.lOpm: arrives at
1 \ in : Philadelphia '.f.50 a m; Balti
’>'> 11:30 a m; New York
. ; : f ! - lr —n> leave Wall's Station every
1 • ‘ > :n. rear hint: Pittsburgh at 10:00 am.
, r I’iUslmrghat 14;30p m, and arrive
, ' , s , 1 ' l ' 1 1 1 ln - Leave Pittsburgh
; ■ , , " : i ; ; :r;tun'- Wtfdn at.
'LKT OFFICE—For the convenience
- ; - <>l Pittsburgh the Pennsylvania
have opened a city ticket office
’ • v-erue corner of Smithfleld street,
• c;i Tick-t«. Commutation Tickets
I k. !.i principal stations can be pur
'l,; r ihe day or caning at the
i- tr.- ( li-ir-_'ed at the depot.
: " cheked through to destination
: te>id'*nces by Kxcclsjor Baggage
' 1 orders lelt at the office.
■ ' ’ toim it ion applv to
1 ; •' iS >.\TT. d. M. HOVI), Jr...
v:.-: Manager. (leu. Pass. Agent.
h.r ■
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Y VALLEY RAILROAD
.. Vr N'>n lay. July 20th. 1573. Three
- ‘ V?'iV" except Sunday. will leave
> •. P ;;, !I, ' lll city time, lor Franklin,
\ isiid all points in the Oil Regions,
"i. aiuj t’etitral New York.
Leave. Arrive
7.30 a m 8.25 p m
it.3o p m 6.05 a m
. 11.50 am 5.45 am
'.. , '\v Ar ,- >.40 a m 6.30 a m
1; pm'. Ac ».43 a m R. 20 a m
-■ i; , , r,rl Ac 3.20 pin 10.10 a m
•' ■> ~ {i‘‘‘ , 4.4« pin 0.05 a m
, Ao - ■■■•/ 5.50 pm 2.15 pm
' , 10.S0 p m 10.45 phi
• . _;‘tula> train leaves Pittsburgh every
a n >- arrlvine at Parker at 12.1$ am.
, ' -e r./',,;“V'* Parker at 4 .10 pm, and arrives at
< , r, “ ‘ -■> Pm.
E *ri'. -s -e i-iVJ'J ° 11,1 4 from Soda Works (Sunday)
1* ta •' L! ' ,ur ?h at 10.10 a ni, and leaves at
H ' ■'
V
U; upi v ’ Supt.
- ‘•tckel Agent.
IJew
jp AWB 0 N & EAK I N,
AGENTS OF REAL ESTATE,
UNION HOTEL, BEAVER, PA.
We offer for sale the following described prop
erties. For full particulars call at oar office on
Third Stieet:
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
This farm Is sitaate la Brighton tp.. Beaver
county. Pa., on the New Lisbon road, 4 miles from
Beaver, containing 73 acres, more or less, on which
is erected a two-story frame dwelling house, con
taining two rooms, kitchen and pantry on first
floor and two rooms on second floor, a good cellar
underneath; also a good frame barn, ana stable and
other necessary outbuildings. This farm is well
watered, well timbered and under a good state of
cultivation, and can be worked by machinery; ex
cellent fruit on premises. Price $B,OOO. Inquire
of John A. Bakin on the farm, or DAW'SON &
BAKIN, Beaver, Pa.
No. 3.
A GOOD FARM FOR SALE.
This farm contains about 52 acres, of land, situ
ate Ih Brighton cp., Beaver county, Pa.. 4H miles
from Beaver, on a good road leading from the New
Lisbon road to the town of Industry; this larmis
nearly all cleared and all under fence. No im
provements. To be sold or exchanged for town
Kjrty. Price $3,900 Inquire of John J. Wick-
Esq., or DAWSON & BAKIN, Beaver, Pa,
No. 3.
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
This property is situated on sth street, in the
borough of Beaver, Beaver ceunty. Pa., 40x130 feet
with a lii story frame bouse and stable and other
outbuildings erected thereon. Good fruit on the
premises. Price $6OO. InquireofHtce. Wilson &
Moore, Esqs., or DAWSON & BAKIN, Beaver, Pa.
A FINE RESIDENCE FOR SALE.
This propertp is situated on 3d street, in the
borough of Beaver, Beaver county. Pa., extending
along 3d street 130x300 leet, back to Turnpike al
ley, on which is erected a new brick dwelling
bouse containing three rooms, large hall, kitchen
and pantry on first floor, and 4 rooms and large ball
on second floor, and an excellent cellar underneath
and necessary outbuildings; large shade trees in
front, fruit of various kinds on the premises.
Price $3,600- Inquire of Hice, Wilson <B Moore,
Esqs., or DAW'SON & BAKIN, Beaver, Pa.
MANHOOD: HOW LOST, HOW
RESTORED.
Just published; a new edition of Dr. Culver
well’s Celebrated Kssay on the radical cure
(without medicine) of Sfervator&bcea or Semin
al Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impo
tcncy. also Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, In
duced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance,
ty"Price in a sealed envelope only six cents. •
The celebrated author. In this admirable essay,
clearly demonstrates from a thirty years’ success
ful practice, that the alarming consequences of
self-abuse may be radically cured without the
dangerous use of internal medicine or the applica
tion of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at
once simple, certain and effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his condi
tion may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately
and radically.
ES r "This lecture should be in tbe hands of eve
ry youth and every man in the land.
bebl under seal in a plain envelope, to any ad
dress; post-paid, on receipt of six cents, or two
postage stamps.
Address the Publisher,
, CUAS. A. CLINE & CO.,
’127, Bowery, New York, Post-office Box, 4586
jy2s-ly.
JpROPOSALS
Proposal? will be received by the School Board
of Ohio township, at the Pairview School House,
up to July 2t>th. IST3, for the erection of TWO
BRICK SCHOOL HOUSES in said township.
Plans and specidcations can be seen at the resi
dence of John Duncan, in Ohio township.
- jylS-St*
J£ENW~OOD BOARDING SCHOOL
FOR BOYS
Presents strong attractions to parents and guar
dians. A pleasant home: thorough instruction;
healthful discipline: excellent library; new appa
ratus. Send for Catalogue. Liberal discount to
clergymen. CHARLES JACOBUS. A. M..
jvlS 2m. Principal. New Brighton, Pa.
p STRAY NOTICE
Came to the the subscriber, residing
at Homewood station. Beaver county. Pa., on the
s»ih of July, a large White Cow, with one horn
broken off. The owner is requested to come for
ward, prove property, pay charges and take her
awav, or she will be disposed of according to law.
augl-3l* T. W. JOHNSTON.
NOTICE.
Letters testamentary having been granted to the
undersigned, on the estate of W ilham Kennedy,
late of the borough of New Brighton, deceased, all
persons indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment, and those having
claims against the same will present them duly
authenticated for settlement.
JOSEPH C WILSON, Executor.
P. o. Address— Beaver, Ea. uugl Gt
pARM AND COAL LAND
FOR SAL E .
Part of the farm, (about 135 acres) of the late
Gen. H. Muller, on the Beaver road and conno
onem“-dn", one mile from Zelienople. Has
abundance of good coal, building stone and springs
of soft water. About one-half is in good timber,
balance under
augl » Zelienople, Butler County. Pa.
gTOCKHGLDERS MEETING.
There will be a meeting of the Stockholders of
“The Darlington and Carmel Coal Railroad Com
pany” held at their office in Darlington, August
28th 1573. A full attendance Is requested, as
bus me s of importance will be transacted. By
order of Bt BToN, Presiden .
John McCows. Secretary. augl-dt
ATITCHENER & GANGEWER,
1 M TTORNEYS A TLA TF;
AND
SOLICITORS OF CLAIMS AND PATENTS,
320 Four-and a-half St. Washington, D C.
We prosecute all kinds of claims against the
government of the United States, before the ue
narrmems. Committee and Court of
claims We procure patents and act as attorneys
in patent cases. We make a specially ot Internal
Revenue matters and Land Claims. Our terms on
business sent ns by attorneys will be one half the
lee"charged claimants. W hen a claim is sent us
've wiU «end the necessary blanks and instructions
Tor Us preparation, and will also keep pur corres
pondents advised of all new lawsruilmgsandde
cisionsin relation ip claims. Send for Circula
MITCHENER & GANGEWER,
Attorneys at Law. »
job pbotw|WP
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MiOM WASHINGTON.
Cheap Transportation Movement—
Convention of New York Merchants
—Tendency to Communism—Grant
and Caesartsm.
Correspondence of the Radical.
Washington, D. C., August 4, 1873.
The movement for cheap transportstion
threatens to sweep the country. Farm
ers’ granges are being established in al
most every neighborhood. Political con
ventions adopt resolutions favoring the
movement. The. columns of
teem with articles treatlog qf :
lion. Among the many significant signs
of the times is the movement of the New
York merchants. All classes have their
complaints against the railroad monopo
lies. But it is quite curious to note how
differently men view the subject as their
interests are different.
Conspicuous in the proceedings of the
convention of the merchants of New York
■was the proposition, not questioned by
any one present, that most of the evils
of which they had to complain arose from
the fact that there were not enough roads,
that more trunk lines should be built. It
may seem strange that these merchant
princes should teach that increasing the
amount of capital invested Ch railroads
should lower the rates. It has been esti
mated there is now invested in railroads
in this country an actual capital of about
$2,000,000,000, and that the watered stock
amounts to upwards of half as much
more. An exhibit has been published
showing that the earnings of the roads
upon the slock, actual and fic'icious, is
not, on the average, upwards of five per
cent., and that were the watered stock
permitted no dividends the divi
dends upon actual capital would not be
increased more than twenty-five percent.,
making the real earnings but six and one
fourth per cent., on the actual invest
ment. Now, this may or may not be cor
rect. But how can an increased amount
of money invested gel along with a less
amount of earnings? If it can be shown
that the existing lines have not the capac
ity for doing the business of the country
a valid argument is gained in favor of
building more roads. But it is not upon
this ground that the argument is put.
That self-interest is ihe moving power
with these men is indicated by the pro
position to have the government construct
a great national road from Chicago to
New York. Indeed, there is no effort
made to conceal the fact that they are es
pecially moved by local interests. They
claim that unjust combinations favorable
to the business interests of other cities
have been effected and that New York is
suffering on account thereof.
The proposition that “the time has
come when the government must either
run the railroads or be cun by them” is
worthy of Exactly what
is meant by the running the
railroads is not dej||2y>hxplained, but
without any explanation the natural sup
position is that the phrase meand the tak
ing charge of and operating the roads as
is now done by the companies, the ap
pointment and control of officers, etc. I
have not the lime or space to notice fur
ther this point, and will leave it with the
suggestion that this Is nothing more nor
less than communism. Those people who
are always frightened at the mere men
tion of communism do not even suspect
how much of it we have already and how
much of it we are clameiing for every
day.
; suggested at the mer
chWto’taeetiog that lido not remember
of before. It was that
privileges to great
‘‘t^*^§^^SS n waa one of the causes of
may be something in
be that these companies are
.a speciesofX/redit Mdbilier, made op by
Inenownlagbeavy amounts of stock in
the|poad», asort of wheel within wheel
Tbnhgh at*exhlbit has been published in
ti icaiU&Jha! railroad stock pays but five
pec statement has been prepar
ed to showthe earnings of the transpor*
tationcompanles who run cars on the
companies. It is to be
facilities will
make inquiry ooncernlng this matter. It
would the attention of
the Senate special
called to it*
The Kmi|id;omi)te of the Patrons of
Hosband^^^uarten[ in this city, re
ports a constant increase ol the member
ship of tjKrorder. This transportation
movemettjgg already becoming so inter
esting aS |o be acti;ally exciting. Let
the agUallen go on, £ omelhlng will sore
ly .
Are ls there any proba
bility of Flames! Grant playing tbe role
of a that President
Grant wiU?& eledtedlo a tbird term ?
These are questions that are being asked
by a great many pobltc journals. There
have been two answers given to each-.*
‘ Yes’* and f
The New Tptk Herald first began the
agitation ogj^ie, subject. For a short
time none bifeiemocratlc journals took
it np for discussion.. Now the Republi
can papers K** to examine It. As
was to be is a wide differ
ence ' oif-iv '
View it
oar part isap fcelin
would bebetter able to understand the
subject we are discussing. Let us try it.
A copy of almost every paper publish
ed in the United States finds its way to
Washington. I do not pretend that I
have examined all of them, or halt of
them, or even a majority of those known
as administration journals. But I have
taken considerable pains to look over
them. I have also tried to study the
question by Informing myself as to bow
the matter is received in official circles
here. I have taken especial pains to
watchhe course of those papers suppos
ed to be the organa, or mouthpieces, of
the administration.
And what has been my conclusion ? To
the questions above propounded I am
very much disposed to answer in the neg
ative, I have no fears of General Grant
ever becoming a Ccesar. I do not think
the liberties of the people are in danger
from this cause. Neither do I see any
likelihood of his being elected to a third
term. In short, lam not at all alarmed
at the prospect of Csesarism.
I have just two reasons for thinking as
Ido. First, lam utterly unable to dis
cover any disposition on the part ot Pres
ident Grant to trample upon the liberties
of the people, to play the Ctesar with us.
Second, I am unable to discover any dis
position on the part of the people to per
mit such a thing. I would not deny that
the election of President Grant for a
third term would be a step in that direc
tion, but I have no idea that such a step
will be taken. Should there ever come a
time when the continuance in office of
any individual should become a necessity
then I should say that there was great
danger. But that necessity does not ex
ist, and that Republican journal that
would intimate that it does exist is talse
to its party and to its country. The Re
publican party is 100 full of great men,
it has too much good material out of
which good Presidents may be made, and
he who believes it so poverty stricken as
to contain but one man who can safely
guide the ship of State places but a low
estimate upon the party whose cause he
professes to espouse. President Grant
is not so vaiu and weak as to suppose
that he alona can save the country. The
world has always given him credit for
modesty, and rightly too, as is shown by
every act of his since he entered public
life.
I cannot deny that the Republican par
ty contains some men who are by nature
sycophantic, who bow down and worship
the man, whoever he may be, who is at
the head of the government. Were Gen
enal Grant to conceive the idea of making
himself emperor, I doubt not be would
have a great many supporters. Men from
the Democratic and from the Republican
camps would flock around him and enroll
themselves under the .imperial banner.
But that the people would support him
for a
is utterly absurd. lam unable to under*
stand why some men have any fears of
such a thing. There is an old saying that
Jbe,who suspects every one of dishonesty
should himself be watched, and I fancy
thereis a good deal of truth in it, and I
find it very hard to put much confidence
in a man who suspects all bis fellow men
of being rogues. I have also a fancy that
those who are so distrustful of the patri*
otism of their countrymen, are themselves
in a state of mind that would justify us
in suspecting them of not having so much
loVe of country as is possible for men to
have. Were we to be un fortunately Curs
ed with a C»sar I wouldlay a wager that
many of those who now show the greatest
alarm would be found among his most
submissive courtiers.
' I could name about half a dozen Re*
publican papers that have come out
squarely fur a third term for President
Grant. 1 could game a dozen more that
have expressed themselves as ready to
support him in case he should be re-nom
inated. I could name several scores more
that would, lam sure, follow in this di
rection. On the other hand 1 could name
a score or more of leading Republican
journals that have emphatically stated
they would not support any man for a
third term; a much larger number that
have indicated as much, and an immense
number that, I am quite sure, would, on
general principle, oppose the election of
even the beat man in the country for a
third term.
If there be any disposition among the
officials here to perpetuate the power of
the noble patriot whom the people have
called to the chief magistracy I have been
nnable to detect it. I know the assertion
has been frequently made that every one
of tbe great "army of office holders, or
"placemen” as thi axe derisively termed.
who haveer
the assertion that they care more for their
places than for the interests of the peo
ple. Let us have some of the names of
those men of wide influence who could
be relied upon by our coming Caesar. I
place too much faith in President Grant
to believe that it is possible for him to
ever become a despot. Yet I am aware
how often we are deceived by putting our
faith in man. So I put my faith in the
whole people, in the strength of our free
institutions, in that love of liberty that I
am sure burns in the hearts of by far the
larger number of American citizens.
FROM KANSAS.
Coal Deposits—Crops^Clrcns—lndians
at the Show—Saloons.
Correspondence of the Radical.
Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., |
July 28ih, 1873. \
I have just received The Radical for
last week, in which I see a letter from
Kansas, and while reading it I wonder
whether I could write anything that
would interest your readers. I have been
traveling with a parly who are 'prospect
' ing for coal through the great coal fields
* of Southern Kansas, in the employ of
the most extensive coal company of the
West. We find the Bituminous coal de
posits varying from three jnches to four
feet, all laying*near the surface on high
prairie, also lead in small quantities. I
have seen specimens taken from valuable
digings in Cherokee county. The farm
ing lands of this county are mostly very
fine and are well watered by small run
ning streams ot clear, soft water, of which
Spring River is the principal. The
crops are need ram; while out
this morning I Saw on one farm, nineteen
large stacks of wheat, which is the
main crop of this county.
Columbus, the. county seat, is situated
in the center of Cherokee county, has a
population of from six to eight hundred,
and is the junction of two main lines of
railroad, the Missouri River Ft., Scott
and Gulf from the north, and the Mem
phis, Carthage and North Western from
the East.
I will tell you of a visit I made to Bai
lor Springs last week. For the last two
weeks I had heard nothing spoken of
hardly but a circus that was to stop at
Baxlor on the twenty-sixth of this month,
and I was told there would be plenty of
Indians there. As I had not seen many
of the copper colored gentlemen since
coming West, I determined to go to the
show. Accordingly, last Saturday I
started ftom Columbus with two friends
in a spring wagon about eight o’clock,
a. m. We arrived at Baxter about noon,
and found the streets nearly full of wag
ons and Indian ponies, and the side
walks swarming with Indians. Baxtor
Springs is a pleasant looking place, situ
ated on the southern line of Kansas, and
about twelve miles west of the eastern
line, Is the terminus of Missouri River,
Ft., Scott and Qulf Railroad, and baa
been a great cattle market for years.
Its being so near the line of the Indian
Nation, it is a '.regular trading point for
the Indians. It has a smeltjng furnace
where tons oflead ore are naed daily.
The circa<» performance was what such
things generally are, but the crowd that
was gathered there was one which is
never seen but once in some Western
town. There were from four to six hun
dred Indians and half-breds, and the
balance were white and black, and most
ly of the very roughest to be found.
Among the whites were a good many
Texas cattle borders or Cow Boys as
they are called. I was interested most
in watching the Indians, who were
dressed, as they thought, very fine. The
men wore their pants in their boots, no
coats and broad black hats, with a long
piece of ribbon or feather fastened to it,
some wore coats of fancy colored calicoes!
The women nearly all wore red or yellow
dresses with large woolen shawls over
their shoulders and a red handkerchief
tied aronnd their beads. They will
travel for miles to see a show and get
something to drink. I asked a man on
the street how many saloons there were
in town, he told me to count the honaea
and divide the number by two and I
wonld be near enough.
The saloons were all doing a good busi
ness in their way. Kear evening the
Indians and a good many others were
beginning to feel very happy. Some
went home bat most of them staid to see
the Inn, as they said, after dark, they
think nothing of shooting and catting
here; nearly every man i* aimed. -We
oye oyer the J3Ute Ifiae to Camji Stock*
lie bhilta flreont on i?'
,,
:we":ia£:is ■. ’
desire to stay in Baztor after dark.
Hoping this may interest you, I re
main Very truly yours.
The Baltimore American' announces
that the mystery of the Goes murder fias
finally been cleared up in all its parts,
and sums the case up as fallows: We
thjnk it may be safely said that the Goss
mystery has been solved. The poor fug'
tive has been tracked through all his de
vious wanderings from the lime that he
fled from his burning shop until he took
his seat in the carriage with Udderzook
and drove away from the village of Jen
nerville, to his death. On the night the
fraud upon the Insurance Companies was
consummated by the burning of a dead?
body procured in New York in a little
board shanty at Waverly, which he called
his “Libaratory.” His brother took him
to the President street depot in a buggy,
hired from Dr. Thomas, and be started
on his travels northward'. He passed
through the State of New York, and
crossing over into Canada, spent a couple
of months at Montreal and other towns
in the provinces. Then he went to his
old home in Tennessee, but pending a
case against the Mutual Insurance Com
pany, like a baleful loadstone, drew him
back to the vicinity of Baltimore, and
other conspirators were obliged to pro
vide him a hiding place, where they could
communicate with him and prevent him
from betraying the secret. Udderzook
first obtained v a home for him with an ac
quaintaoce of his in Chester county, and
when he had worn out Ibis welcome and
his credit in that neighborhood he went
to Newark, New Jersey, and spent a por
lion of the winter and spring in that city,
when Judge Bond postponed' the hearing
of a motion made by cousel for the Mutu
al Insurance Company for‘a new trial till
November! Udderzook became alarmed
lest the plot sbold be discovered and then,
poor Gok was decoyed pack to Chester
county, and when the dark plot bad fully
matured his handsome body was cut and
backed Into the shape of an unsightly
trunk which he had imported from New
York seventeen months before to person
ate himself.
Sam.
•*-Hon. H. B. Swoope, U. S. District
Attorney, through the Pittsburgh Even
ing Telegraph over which he has editorial
control, denies that he is a candidate lor
the U. S. Senalorship, and declares that
he will use his influence to farther the re
el.ction of Hon. John Scott. He also
states tnat he is not an aspirant for con -
gressional honors, or for any office not in
the line of his profession; This wJll make
some of the anxious ones feel easier, and
end the many rumors concerning
Swoope’s political intentions.
NUMBER 31
Alex. Steew.
Tive G>os» ItKurder.