Mrs. Bluford Tael, of Webster township, is convalescing of a severe illness .... Report hath it that Dan Mayfield, of Franklin township, Floyd county, will remove to Coles county, Illinois, the firstof March Mrs. John D. True, ofPosey township, has been ill recently. A letter from an intelligent gentleman in Western Kansas says: “Had oar farmers not been made to believe that they could pay off the mortgages upon their farms, through the agency of free silver, with half the amonnt Kansas would have gone for McKinley anil protection by 40,000 majority. These farmers are located in the arid district where agriculture don’t pay. Got behind, solicited money from eastern capitalists and now brand eastern men as scoundrels for making them the loan.”.... Ben H. Windell lost his pocket book containing $22 in cash, in Washington township John Deweese, superintendent ; Minnie Hatley, assistant superintendent; Maggie Barrens, secretary; Edna Green, assistant secretary; F. K.R/VKinc/vn ShAmnn