KALNOKY, GUSTAV. 



KANSAS. 



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land just reclaimed from the marsh, and still 

 matted with roots, can be at once seeded in 

 jute ; and that the plant will then make so 

 vigorous a growth as to supplant all other 

 vegetation. Mr. John Sloane, of the Dolphin 

 Mills, who is engaged in the manufacture of 

 jute, has represented, after his observations of 

 experiments in growing the plant in the South- 

 ern States, that as good a product can be raised 

 there as in India, but that difficulties arise in 



securing a proper treatment of the plant after 

 it is cut ; so that it is hardly practicable, under 

 the American system of labor and wages, to 

 obtain a good fiber for an economical price. 

 And in view of the difference between the 

 rates of wages in the United States and in India, 

 no hopeful prospect exists that American ji^te 

 will be able to compete with the Indian prod- 

 uct, until machinery has been devised and ap- 

 plied to take the place of manual labor. 



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KALNOKY, Count GUSTAV, the new Aus- 

 trian Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in 

 1832. He is descended from the Moravian 

 branch of an old Hungarian family. He en- 

 tered the army'at an early age, but changed to 

 the diplomatic service when twenty-two years 

 old. He was successively attache in Munich 

 and Berlin, then councilor of legation in Lon- 

 don, charge d'affaires at the Holy See, and 

 was finally appointed Embassador at Stock- 

 holm, which position he resigned for that of 

 Embassador at St. Petersburg. When Baron 

 Haymerle died, Count Kalnoky was barely 

 mentioned as his successor. He was, however, 

 finally selected, as his personal relations with 

 the court of St. Petersburg were of such a 

 friendly character that it was expected he 

 would be able to bring about that political 

 union between Austria and Russia which 

 seemed to be, in view of the strong friendship 

 existing between Germany and Austria, a nat- 

 ural consequence of the imperial meeting at 

 Dantzic. As Count Kalnoky is firm in his 

 convictions of the advantages of a union of the 

 three empires, the Hungarians, who regard 

 Russia as their hereditary enemy, and are op- 

 posed to a union of Austria and Russia, are but 

 little pleased with his appointment. Count 

 Kalnoky is the twentieth Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs since Prince Kaunitz. 



KANSAS. The presidential vote in 1880 

 was as follows : For the Garfield electors, 121,- 

 549 ; Hancock electors, 59,801 ; Weaver elect- 

 ors, 19,851 ; Dow, 25. Only local elections oc- 

 curred during the present year. The Legislat- 

 ure, consisting of 37 Republicans and 3 Oppo- 

 sition in the Senate, and 112 Republicans and 

 13 Opposition in the House, met on the llth of 

 January, and remained in session until March. 

 An act for the protection of cattle against con- 

 tagious disease, passed at this session, punishes 

 with fine and imprisonment any person or per- 

 sons who shall drive or cause to be driven into 

 or through any county in the State, any cattle 

 having a disease known as Texas, splenic, or 

 Spanish fever. The public officers are required 

 to take possession of any cattle so diseased. It 

 is provided that, in the trial of any person or 

 persons charged with the violation of any of 

 the provisions of this act, proof that the cattle, 

 which such person or persons are charged 



with driving, are wild and of undomesticated 

 habits, shall be taken as prima facie evidence 

 that said cattle are diseased with the disease 

 known as Texas, splenic, or Spanish fever. 



Any person or persons who shall drive or 

 cause to be driven into or through any county 

 in this State, any of the cattle mentioned in 

 section 1 of this act, in violation of this act, 

 shall be liable to the party injured for all dam- 

 ages that may arise from the communication of 

 disease from the cattle so driven, to be re- 

 covered in civil action, and the party so injured 

 shall have a lien upon the cattle so driven. 



An act to provide for the organization and 

 management of the State Reform School em- 

 powers courts of record and probate courts 

 of the State to commit to the Reform School, 

 first, any boy under sixteen years of age who 

 may be liable to punishment by imprisonment 

 under any existing law of the State, or any law 

 that may be enacted and in force in the State ; 

 second, any boy under sixteen years of age, 

 with the consent of his parent or guardian, 

 against whom any charge of committing any 

 crime or misdemeanor shall have been made, 

 the punishment of which, on conviction, would 

 be confinement in jail or prison ; third, any boy 

 under sixteen years of age who is incorrigible, 

 and habitually disregards the commands of his 

 father or mother or guardian, and who leads a 

 vagrant life, or resorts to immoral places or 

 practices, and neglects and refuses to perform 

 labor suitable to his years and condition, and to 

 attend school. 



It provides that every boy committed to the 

 Reform School shall remain until he is twenty- 

 one years of age, unless sooner discharged, or 

 bound as an apprentice ; but no boy shall be 

 retained after the superintendent shall have re- 

 ported him fully reformed ; and whenever any 

 boy shall be discharged therefrom as reformed, 

 or as having arrived at the age of twenty-one 

 years, such discharge shall be a full and com- 

 plete release from all penalties and disabilities 

 which may have been created by such sentence. 



The board of trustees shall have full power 

 to place any boy committed as herein described, 

 during his minority, at such employment, and 

 cause him to be instructed in such branches of 

 useful knowledge, as may be suitable to his 

 years and capacity, as they may see fit; and 



