The attorney for the defense tried to reply, but the boys said Mr.Butler had spoiled his speech.

The jury brought in a verdict of guilty.

The election came off soon afterwards, and people said that it was strongly influenced, in that township, by father's speech.
The next May, mother, my little brother, and I, went to my uncle Gorham's, near Canton, Illinois; while father went to Kansas to buy land, intending, however, to live several years at Mt.

Sterling, Illinois, before moving to Kansas.
MRS.

ROSETTA B.HASTINGS.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS CHAPTER I.
I came to Kansas in the spring of 1855, having been preaching in that part of Illinois known as the Military Tract, during the three preceding years; but my residence was in Cedar County, Iowa, one hundred and fifty miles from my field of labor, and twenty-six miles to the northwest of the city of Davenport.