Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1879 — Rice County, Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Rice County, Kansas.

In July 18C4 a government note commonly culled a greenback, of the denomination ot one dollar, had a market value of only thirty-five cents. This was all it was worth for the purchase of labor, land, fuel, food, raiment or any Commercial commodity. Within the limited scope of terl ltcly which then recbgnized the authority of the government of the linked States the greenback was worth its face fdr the payment of debts and all taxes of whatever character, save only dttlies on imposts. They also had a face value in the payment of the soldiery and seamen and all public officers both civil and military, lint in every other transaction now remembered the greenback dollar had a value of only thirty-five cents. That was all it was worth in July 1864 to the holder who wanted to buy lands, houses, machinery, cattle, grain, food, clothing, jewelry, or employ labor. But to-day the government note is worth its face, both at home and in every monetary market of the globe. Had the efforts of the republican party to suppress the rebellion been the failure which the democratic party in ISG4 declared them to be, the greenback currency would not now nave been worth as much as it was in July 1804. To the integrity of *•7- * < -i-i.iu use of the republican party to accvi.. r t:.,t. will, because it was the oiily pblitical organization that could bed relied upon for patriotism, integrity and -efficiency—to the integrity of tho people and wisdom of the republican party is due the praise for the high value of our paper currency and the excellent standing of the national credit. The legislation which performed this great work was devised and put into operation by tho republican party over tfie protest ant] despite the persistent opposition of the democratic party. As to the republican party is due the honor of suppressing -a gigantic rebellion and preserving the nation’s life in spite of the opposition of the democratic party to all effective measures for that purpose, so also to the republican party belongs the praise for having .preserved the financial honor ot tho nation in spite of the opposition of the democratic party which in latter days has been augmented by the following of dishonest and unprincipled demagogues who arrogate the dignified name of national party. *

The Soath Bend Herald , the same claiming to be a newspnper of the democratic gospel, speaks thus disparagingly of a callow child of the church and son of a saint: James li. Wiilard, of Floyd county, , nade an ass of himself in the house of representatives, at Ihdlanapolis, by making a speech and filing a written fprotest against his appointment lolhe clmirmanshipof tho committee on fees and salaries. He considered ijt ail insult to his honor, after being a candidate for speaker. There might be some hopes for this young man were he not the son of bis father —Gov. Willard. But thatspoils him. , Now might it not bo barely pas* siblo that ii attire kindly anticipated the metamorphosis which is here 1 ascribed fo'tlfc son Willard?

If -county officers pay “fully twothirds of their salaries fo"r wages to citrKK and deputies' ’ hoW is if that so many M them retire from office ffluch better off financially than wliett tlity enter Porte Chronicle. Ur, fvliy they resign and take clerkships under their successors? In hnsinesrf of this nature the public blight hot to bfc compelled to pay any more for her work than her officers pay for theirs; To make the doctrine plain a local illustration is submitted: Four years ng6 a spasmodic counterfeit of political virtue convulsed the voters of Jasper county and they elected a holy, immaculate, “reform” auditor who would “clean out the Augean stable ot republican corruption”and things. Well, he found that he Was hot competent to nlastfef .the details of his office, and imported a deptrty Who actually does two-thirds to three-fourths ot ihfS work; the officer ought, of course, to pay his deputy two-thirds to three-fourths of his salary aiid fees, or, to be consistent with “retrenchment and reform”professions, should pay into the public treasury the difference between the actual coat of deputy hire and that amount.

Gracie 13. Price, daughter of Charles 11. and Lizzie A. died of diplitheriaj the 23d instant. {She was a bright and beautiful child, a few months past four years old. It is common place to say that the death of children is a sad affliction, it is feeble and ineffectual to assuage the grief of parents over these losses to say that we sympathize, and even the consolation that the doctrine of immortality and theory of a resurrection offers is not always unmarred by skepticism —yet what else can we do blotter? She was, she is not, she will be. In the promise may there be consolation that no other source wiH give. Balance OFPOWEkisaD almighty great thing to wield in the Indiana legislature. The national party wields this tremendous influence in the present legislature. The other day it nominated a candidate for United States senator. Tcf be stfre he was not mfrch of a man, intellectually considered, but still he was a representative irian of his party. When the ballot was taken their candidate received three votes, and lacked only seventy-one voles of enough to cleot him. It was a close enough shave, and since the crisis passed the country is not nearly so nervous. Supplement. —ln the supplement issued with The Union to-day will be found the delinquent tax list of ffmipCl dytm mtor osting notioe from the Indian apolis Journal of the appointment of Gen.' W. W. Dudley to succeed Gen. Benj. Spooner as United States marshal for the district of Indiana, and twenty or more interesting bits of information, poetry, etc. The delinquent list is published as a matter of news to the patrons of The Union —we receive no pay for it—and will not appear again in this paper.

Of the Indianapolis murderers, derrick and Achey were hanged yesterday at noon; the supreme court granted Guetig a new trial. Achey’s friends succeeded in eliciting a liUle maudlin sympathy for him bui public sentiment was 6trongly m favor of the infliction of the death penalty upon Merrick and Guetig. * A coaKKSroNDENT says that largo numbers of fish were taken out of the Iroquois river near the Pullins bridge before the ice broke up. Pike were caught that weighed from four to eight pounds. Ho says they smelt like Ash but tasted like swamp muck. Shelby Daxjbls, an old resident of Barkley township, died last Thursday, 23d instant. lie was a man possessed of many excellent and held in high esteetp. llon. R. S. Dwiggims will fectttr.c ip the Christian phurch Sunday evening, FebrfiafJ 2d, 18 19. Subject: Why is there so much infidelity in the world? I ■■ nLkMi k.i.j! j Thankß to the! ISintinef for pro* fcssional courtesies.

Sp«ci»l Corr*»|iondon«o of 'fa* vnitM! h , . Raymond, Kansas, December IP,’ 1878. —I wns rained in Jasper county; Indiana, but have lived in Kart* salt dtffing the last three years. The lafid fiefo is Es gbod ns any that lays blit of dobts; and Will produce almost anV kind of d Cfdp known to farmers of the tenffMaw zone. Summer does not last all tho year round, however. At the pres* eftt time snow lays on tho ground five incites' itdfep. Sometimes it ia as cold here as I ever eUpefitffiCfetf in Indiana, t estefday the merenry went down to! eight degrees beloW zero. 6nt ootd Wod/tber do*»-n#t last lortg. d ■ The official fen of is t tx&jfe 9j> ifofti returns in the clerk’s office;' show that 37,500 acres of winter wheat' were sown in Rice county in tho fall of 1877, to which is added 6,281 acres of spring wheat sown this year, making file ffital tHSfb’&fct of wheat harvested in this coiinfy in 1878 amount to 43,781. Enough of this crop has been threshed to make an approximate estimate of the number of bushels and averfige yield per acre. The yield is large,* running up to 30, 35 and instances reaching 40 bushels per acre. Conv petent judges Gay that if the general average is put at 25 bushels per acre it is underestimated rather than exaggerated. Men who expect to make a living Without -work may come here if they have plenty of money, for land is very cheap; but unless they have means to'live without working they better not come, to Rice county. This is no place for them. They will gain neither the respect hot sympathy of those Who are living here. The visionary man who believes he Will tffal?£ & fortune the’ first year a lifer his arrival better stav where he is mAv/ for he may be disappointed. TiilS ctasd of men are a damage to any community; they never accumulate anything let them live wherever they may. Men ot small afrtbition will do even better here than elsewhere; because jS does not require much work, to make a living. In other Words, the soil is so productive thaft very little labor is required to produce enough to sustain a family. If one wants to make money, and has the true grit, there is no better place this that I know of. Men of capita! can make money fasl; men without capital must be content to pursue an industrious course and iii n, few years they Will be in easy ant? comtortable - clrctiriiStattces.

The sudden changes of temperature and damp atmosphere soprevalent on the Atlantic coast have slain thousands arid hundreds of thousands. The fairest and cboic l est of our rdcc are fast going belore the terrible destroyer consumption} it invades the homes of the rich and poor alike slid yearly? tAk'es from litem their loved ones. With ns pulmonary complaints are tfiA known. People seldom take cold here. Dampness, which in the east is so destructive of human life, the effects of Which ttihst be ijuaf-d-Cd against With such JealoCts care,here never causes an hour’s üboasi ness. People have cotxJO hero when to remain longer at the east was certain death and in every instance that has come to my knowledge they have either become entirely cured or are in a fair Wajl i 6 recovef. Wasting levers a fid epidemics are unknown; and there is no place on the continent where people can live with less regard t& physicians. This fact alone worth many dollars to a family each year. Rice is a herd-law cotinty, and tnuch of it! prosperity be ak tributed to the benefits derived therefrom. In some localities irt the eastern states it is hard for farmers to realize the truje benefits and substantial advantages of thri nerd law system. Having growing crops all unenclosed and at the mercy of passing beasts, i< to them a novelty; nevertheless if they will sit down and figure up the cost Of fencing in their respective states they will find that the cost of construction and keeping in repair will equal the entire cost of ill other improvements in agricultural diStfiets. They will also see that/ this monCf iff thfoWfi . ftWay—there is no return fOr ii. IlefC, we save the Cost of fencing and use the money to develop our farms. Let any man" who has lived in a herd-law district speak and he Wm say that this is the secret of the success of farming it» the counties' of Kansas where people are no* obliged to invest capital in dead fences, but at onOo turn over the virgin soil and it is ready for a oriop/ Then why fiotlivC in' sriolr a' charity as Rice? All I itiny do isl to - fell tfee .frfivff itsi kno\V it. Then if friends will not take advantage ot the present opportunity to fectrt'e ho.tries WhiTtt they nfe„:ohea'p--if they t<f remain Where tn'eyri’Ow are arid suffer and be miserable’, iri cofaihg ter Kansas where they may be pros' perous amt happy as thous&uda now 1 ar*e-tW WaftT ffftfer ’rife those who Cannot see Choir oytrn in-

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JOHN W. ANTRIM.