08 Oct 1870
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Newspaper
Kansas State Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1870
Page
1
Clerk of the District Court John Paxson and Probate Judge James Faulkner are listed among county officers. Also named are County Attorney H. M. Burleigh and September school official M. A. Simpson. Representatives for the district include J. C. Redfield and J. F. Knowlton.
The report notes Fort Scott reactions to the State Fair and a lively political melee. References to ex-President A. J. running for Congress against RR Butler in Tennessee, Shurz and Missouri politics, and a local invite to rail-connected readers appear alongside details of the Fifth Annual Fair of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association opening with Horace Greeley’s address. It mentions 45,000 schoolchildren attending, a total crowd near 50,000, and local towns like Iowa and Douglass County figures Riggs and Sells as independent or rival candidates, with tension among party lines and speculation on bolt-like shifts in voter allegiance.
A fragmentary verse describes a sheltering tent beside a brook that sings along its path. The scene observes trees overhead and the sense of kinship between nature and the tent, with a quiet, reflective mood.
The text shows a dense timetable of times with scattered notations and labels like Feat Mail Bioan and multiple do markers. It appears to be a fragmented transit or broadcast schedule with no clear event names or outcomes.
A Missouri correspondents exchange with the St Louis papers discusses the split in the state Republican party. It contrasts Brown and McClurg platforms on enfranchisement of Rebels and Reconstruction and notes bolters courting Democrats while denouncing the regular organization.
A playful jumble of quips and quatrains on bachelor woes morals and misadventures. It lampoons marriage lottery humor, East India stereotypes, and Western orator vanity through brisk sketches and puns featuring figures like Prof Mather Whittemore and a crafty New England wit.
A fragmented sermon from Elder Barns of Memphis discusses faith, temperance, and hope, urging a life led by grace and daily virtue. It includes reflections on happiness, moral action over words, and cautions against following passion without reason, with references to suffering, death, and Providence.
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