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Wanted.

In exchange for custom made boots and shoes.
all kinds of building materials. Apply at
Clapp's boot and shoe store.
Stiff GEORGE CLAP.
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Treasurer Heritage advertises some
valuable school lands for sale in to-
days paper.
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For Agricultural Implements
Go to the Cincinnati Hardware Store, 1875
Commercial street. near the court house. 42-tf
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Fat Sheen,

GEO. PLUMB,
1913 miles east CT EmpOria.
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
sTRAYEn-

T<ROM the premises Of the subscriber, resid.
e ing in Americas, Lyon county, Kansas, q
black mare colt, two years old past; branded
with the letter app on the left hip; . small
white spotiu the forehead, and little white
on the right hind foot. A reasonable reward
will be given TO any one who will return said
her whereabouts. PETER RUSH.
October 23d, 1858. 44-4I
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Fresh oysters and fresh cider at the
Juvenile.
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Cartridges.

Spencer, Henry, Smith and Wesson Rifle Car
tridges, Smith, Wesson and Colts istoI Car
tridges, for sale by B. T. Wright ut the Hard
ware store, near the court house. 46-tf
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New Advertisements
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
|REDTTORs and others interested in the es-
Y tate Of Allen n, Graham. deceased. late Ct
Lyon county Kansas are notified tn 1T at the next
term # th. Probate. court for said county. to
re holden It Emn"ria On the first Mon1 AZ of
Jauusrv 1859. intend maxim: fina: t.lem mt
If ID state. T.. W. GRAHAM.
ceased. 1880
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A. }. BUNDRE1G.
1890 Acres Of Land
FOR SALEi

10y authority Of the Board Of Directors of
ID the State Normal School. the undersigned
offer for sale the lands belonging to said tfsti-
tuition as an endowment. These lands were
among the first selected in the State, and there
fore among the best. Several sections are sit
uated along the line Of the Union Pacific r. r.
+. D. All these lands are Of superior 9uality.
embracing large amount Of first class bottom
land and timber. we'll watered, with an abun-
dance Of fine building stone, anording desirable
situations for settlers.
The above lands will be sold in whole er in
part upon liberal terms. Parties desiring to
purchase any or all Of these lands, for further
information can address G. c. Morse, Secretary
Normal School Board, Imports, Kansas.
&. Y. ESKRIDGE,
@. c. MORSE.
JAMES ROGERS,
Executive Committee.
Fmporia, Kansas. Nov. il. 1857.
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Are you Hungry?
Everything hungry man could wish is kept
at the Juvenile store. 41-iS
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Fruits

Served On very short notice, At the Juvenile
store. 4I.AS
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First class worFmen are employed in thu
Custom Department the best material is used !:
tit Is guaranteed in every instance The proof
Of the pudding Is in the eating, and the proof
Of the work Is in the trying Call and satisfy
yourself 4 full stock Of Leather kept con.
stanfly On hand, consisting Of 80
Kip Calf, Harness, Bum, Split,
Topping and Lining,
As cheap as can be bought at the river.
11-42 EXCHANGE BUILDING.
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saloon for Sale or e.

For real estate, consisting Of one table and fix
lures necessary in trst-class establishment.
c. X. SIZES.
3S-n Emporia, Kansas.
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47-4S
For Sale

Always kept At the Juvenile store. 47-4e
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If you get out of Wood,
And can't get any anywhere else. call on
44-4S G. W. FREDERICK.
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Insurance Company of North
America

Rates Of premium on dwellings or contents.
isnl tied beyond burning distance, or exposure
from other premises.
ENTIRE RATE OF PREM. FER 800.
yr. .rs. yrs. yrs. 3 yrs.
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Great Reduction in Prices.
Best Green Teas ut S1.50 per pound.
Choice Black {" 1.25 "
42-tf NEWMAN & iioUGHToN.
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Sc. Mr.. Hunts law card in another column.
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If you want to Shoe your Family
Cheap,
Call on g. W. FREDERICK.
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row WV AND COUNTRY.

Friday, November 20, 1868.
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Local NOTICES.
COHce

COffee.
II you want II cup Of hot coffee att moments
notice. call at Painters Juvenile store. 47-4S
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was leisurely strolling down the path as
the barge landed. Confused when he saw
the General-in Chief, he stammered out /:
Had I any idea your Excellency was
coming, would have given you proper
reception" "Sir !' exclaimed Washing
ton, sis not General Arnold here 7" "No,
sir. He has not been herethese two days,
and | have not heard from him in that
time" Astonished, and recurring to his
old suspicious, Washington inspected the
works, and returned about noon to Ar
nold's house. There Hamilton met him
with the proofs of the treason-all the pa
pers taken in Andres boot, which had by
this time arrived. The messenger had ar
rived just four hours after Arnold's escape.
Looking around him, he turned to Knox
and Lafayette, and said, in a solemn, al
most heart broken manner "Whom can
we trust nowW
The papers taken from Major Andre
are still well preservedi in the State Libra
ry at Albany. They. hang against the
wall in frame covered with glass. We
saw them in 1859, and stood and gazed at
them for some time. They were objects
of deeper interest to us than anything else
we saw in the. building. We had read of
them in school, in our lessons of history,
and had read and heard of them since, Int
there they acre before as, these same identi-
cal papers. We were carried back in i'm
agination to the scenes of the Revolution,
and the incidents of Andres capture and
execution were as vividly portrayed in our
mind, as if we had been spectator of the
scene. Editor Of the Transcript.
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90rituttuat department,
Fruit in Maryland and Delaware.

The National Journal, of Philadelphia,
in answer to correspondent in New York,
who seeks information as to fruit culture in
these States, says:
"We are strongly impressed with the
belief that the State Of Delaware and the
eastern shore of Maryland are destined to
be 'the fruit garden of America" The
sedge fields, forests and pines are giving
way rapidly to extensive peach orchards
and acres of small fruit. -Four gentlomen
of this city have, within the past eighteen
months, invested over 100000 in the
purchase and Improvement of land in Som
erset Co. Maryland, near Westover Sta
tion, on the Eastern Shore Railroad, a
continuation of the Delaware Railroad
One of the parties says that up to Nov.
26th last, he had planted 250 apple, $50
pear and 16, 200 peach trees. He had also
set out 16, 600 blackberry, 1900 raspber-
ry and 27 900 strawberry plants. He
purposed planting last fall 200 plum and
100 ounce trees. A neighbor of his put
out last fall $4,000 peach trees, and will
go largely into cultivation of small fruits.
At the next station below, another gentle
man has planted 20, 900 peach trees, 1 900
pear trees, and will also engage largely in
trucking"
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poplllar Dlistellanp.

The Abbie Migne has just addressed a
letter 20 a very honorable director of one
of the great seninaries of Paris, condem-
ming the use of tobacco and snuff This
letter furnishes us with an opportunity of
relating a fact that is personal to us.
Several times in our youth and ripper age
we have taken up and discarded the use
of the snuff box. In 1861, when writing
our mathematical treatises, we used snuff
to excess, taking 20 to % grammes per
day, necessarily having recourse to the
fatal box, and snuifing up the dangerous
stimulant. The effect of this was on the
other hand, rapid loss of memory, not
only of the present but of the past We
had learned several languages by their
roots and our memory was often at loss
for word. Frightened at this consider
able loss, we resolved in September, 1861
to renounce the use of snuff and cigars
forever. This resolution was the COM
mencement of a veritable restoration to
health and spirits, and our memory re-
covered all its sensibility and force. The
same thing happened to M. Dubrunfant,
the celebrated chemist, in renouncing the
use of tobacco. We do not hesitate in
saying that for one moderate snuff -taker
or smoker, there are 80 who use tobacco
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SWEET PorATo VINEs.-A correspond
ent Of the Georgia Telegraph states that
the vines of the sweet potato may be saved
during the winter and used in spring for
propagating new crop. In the fall, any
time before frost takes place, the vines may
be CUT in any convenient length, and placed,
in layers, on the surface of the earth, to
the depth of twelve or eighteen inches ;
cover the vines, whilst damp, with partial
ly rotten straw (either pine or wheat will
answer, to the depth Of six inches, and
cover the whole with a light soil about
four inches deep. In this way the vines
will keep during the winter, and in spring
they will put out sprouts as abundantly as
the potato itself when bedded. The draws
or sprouts can be planted first, and the
vine itself can be subsequently cut and
used as we generally plant slips.
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How CAN [ RAISE OUNCES $50 asks
correspondent in Lehigh county, and we
answer that they can be raised as easily as
apples or pears, in the way we shall de-
scribe. There is no secret about it, Get
the ''orange" variety. See that they are
entirely free of the borer before planting.
Set six or eight feet apart in rich soil.
Bandage the stem in two or three wrap
pings of muslin, or any kind of cloth, as
far down in the ground as possible, as the
roots start from near the surface. Let this
bandage run six or eight inches above
ground, then pile the soil compactly cou-
pie Of inches around the bandage, and re-
new this early every spring. Fine, large
golden ounces, rivaling the largest oran-
ges, will bless your efforts annually.
Should the borer by any means steal in,
ferret them out carefully with piece of
wire Should they, however, get the ad-
vantage of you and your trees become hon.
ey-combed, set out again young trees, so
that by the time the old ones are gone, the
young ones will be finely in bearing. We
have raised these ounces in perfection,
but not caring for the fruit, they were re-
moved when they were about to die from
the operations of the worm.-Ger. Tel.
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Frllit Trees.

J.. When fruit trees occupy the ground
nothing else should-except very short
grass.
z. Fruitfulnoss and growth of the tree
cannot be expected the same year.
.. There is no plum that the circulio
will not take, though any kind may some
times escape for one year in one place.
a. Peach borers will not do much dam
age when stiff clay is heaped up round the
tree foot high. .....
5. Pear blight still puzzles the greatest
men. The best remedy known is to plant
two for every one that dies.
g. Ifyou don't know how to prune,
don't hire a man from the other side of the
sea that knows less than you do.
z. Don't cut off big lower limb unles,
you are a renter, and don't care what be-
comes of the tree when your time is out.
8. A tree with the limbs coming out
near the ground is worth two trees trimm-
ed UP five feet, and worth four trees trimm-
ed up ten feet, and so on till they are not
worth anything
8. Trim down, not up.
I'D. Shorten in, not lengthen up.
IL. If you had your arm cut off, you
would feel it to your heart--a tree will not
feel, but rot to the heart. t.-lass. Plough
man.
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THE EUROPEAN DRoUGMT.-England has
recently been relieved from pTotracted
drougt of probably from one hundred and
twelve to one hundred and fourteen days,
embracing April, May, June and the lar
ger part of July, season of great impor-
tance to the spring crops. This is said to
have been the most extraordinary drought
which has prevailed in England since 1889.
Pastures in England and Wales are unu-
sually dried up. Every thing planted or
sowed in the spring, but especially the
root crops, received almost irreparable in
juries. From ireland and Scotland we
have similar accounts, and reports of
drought, although of a less serious nature,
are brought from Germany and parts of
Spain and France.
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Selrtt puetru.
BEYOND THE SUNSET.


Shadows DER the vale are creeping,
And the sun sinks to his rest;
Twilight draws her curtains softly,
Golden clouds hang in the west.
Hushed the noise of busy labor,
Toll has sought its wonted rest;
Whispering trees and murmuring streamlets
Sweetly soothe each troubled breast.
Time is fleeting, and Pm drawing
Near the sunset of my life;
Soon will end my weary journey
Soon will cease all toll and strife.
Shadows o er my path arc falling,
Earthly visions fade away;
Voices soft and sweet, are telling
Of an endless, orient day.
Der the misty mountains hastens
One I've waited long to see
Soft as night-dew falls on meadows,
His kind bidding, "Come to me-"
Lo! the purple light of evening,
Stealing gently up the sky,
Bears me on its wings TO meet him.
Is this death2 IT'S sweet to die
Jesus calls me, and Pm going .
Where the shadows never GOMEZ
Now the desert lies behind me,
And hasten to my home
To my home beyond the sunset,
"a. Far beyond the days decline,
Where the glory is unfading,
Where the golden portals shine.
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The Suez Canal.

Areport was submitted by M. de Les
seps, the engineer of the Suez Canal Com
pany, to a meeting of the shareholders,
held on June 1st, in Paris, that the COM
pany has already expended $57 500, 900
on the work, that balance of $l1 800, 900
still remained in the treasury, and that a
loan by means of bonds, amounting to
$40, 900, 900, would be sufficient to COM
plete the undertaking. In 1852, M. de
Lesseps undertook to form company to
construct canal through this isthmus, Ca
project of the great Napoleon,) which is
about seventy-fve miles broad, lying be-
tween the Mediterranean and Red seas,
and connecting the continents of Asia and
Africa. Two years afterwards the Pasha
of Egypt conferred upon M. de Lesseps
the exclusive privilege of carrying out the
project. The proposed route was exam
ined in 1855 by commission of engineers
from various countries, who stated in their
report that there were no extraordinary
difficulties in the way 1t is said that
with the exception oftwo small ridges, of
the respective medium heights of thirty
and forty-fve feet, the surface is only ele-
waited from five to eight feet above the lev
el of the adjoining seas, The company
was formed in 1850, and the work was
shortly afterward commenced. The pro-
ject is to extend the canal between the old
Atab town of Suez and the Gulf of Palu-
SUM. 1t is to be ninety miles long, twenv
ty feet deep at low-water level of the Med
iterranean, and three hundred and thirty
feet wide on the surface. From Port
Said, on the Mediterranean, the water tran
sit on the canal is now open to Ismalia,
about sixty miles. Near Suez, the Red
sea termination of the canal, are some
formidable rocky distractions, which,
however, the labors of eight thousand
workmcn are so steadily removing that the
work is expected to be entirely completed
by October, 1869, the time announced by
De Lesseps Including the cost of the
new quay constructed on the Red sea, and
the additional docks that may be necessary
by trade like that which will pass
through the isthmus, the cost of this
great enterprise may reach, it is thought,
hundred millions of dollars.
Port Said, on the Mediterranean, which
six years ago was solitude, now has a
population of ten thousand, and Its ton
mage has nearly doubled since last year.
1t has a fine harbor, and is expected to
become the seat of an extensive commerce.
Suez has also risen from a population Of
two thousand afew years ago to ten thous-
and. In the roadstead, about two miles
off, vessels of large size can find safe an
chorage, though it is said there is only suf-
ficient depth of water for boats and light
ers to come alongside the quay; Its inn
portance has been hitherto derived from
being port of the overland route between
England and India, China and Australia.
If the canal shall prove success, it must
be one of the most important of modern
improvements in its effects upon trade and
commerce. .. --4l.s-- 49,.
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Retirement, July 22nd, 1868.

ADVANTAGES OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN
TIE SExEs.-What makes those men who
associate habitually with women superior
to others? What makes the woman who
is accustomed to and at ease in the compa-
ny of men superior to her sex in general ?
Solely because she is in the habit of free,
graceful and continual conversation with
the other sex. Women in this way lose
their frivolity, the faculties awaken, their
delicacies and peculiarities unfold all their
beauty and captivation In the spirit of in
tellectual rivalry. And the men lose their
pedantic, rude, declamatory or sullen man
ner. The coin of the understanding and
the heart is interchanged continually
Their asperities are rubbed off; their bet
ter materials polished and frightened, and
their richness, like fine gold, is wrought
into finer workmanship, by the figure of
woman, than it could be by those of men.
The iron and steel of our character are
laid aside, like the harshness of warrior
in time of peace and security.
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T0it and 5unror,

At Mercer, Pennsylvania, there is a
colony of Freedmen from Charlottesville,
Virginia. One of them, for some reason
or other, had to buy his son, for whom he
had to pay four hundred dollars-out of
the money given to him by his master.
A year or two after settling here, his boy
died, and some of the sympathizing white
went to his house to condole
with him. He took them into the room
where the corpse was ..''laid out" and
pointing to it, with every evidence of gen
uine grief, exclaimed g Dar he is OATS
him! paid foah hundred dollars for dat
boy, and dat's all rs got to show for it p'
Southern Home Journal.
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THE NUMBER OF AMERICAN F1our1so

THE NUMBER OF AMERICAN FIaHT1NG
mps.-During the war our fighting ships
afoat numbered over five hundred They
are now reduced to about S0-scrcw sloops,
paddle wheels, frigates, gunboats, store
ships, &c. Five of the most effective of
these are yet in the navy-yards, and mount
eighty-threc guns seven are with Admi-
raj Farragut, numbering also eighty-three
guns twelve, ofone hundred and thirteen
guns, form the Asiatic squadron, under
Rear Admiral Rowen; seven, with fifty
seven guns, are with Rear-Admiral Dahl
gren, on the South Pacific station; Rear
Admiral Craven commands eleven with
one hundred and twenty-four guns, on the
North Pacific station; Rear-Admiral Da-
Wis has seven with seventy-fve guns, on
the South Atlantic station; eight, with
seventy three guns, are with Rear Admiral
Hoff, on the North Atlantic station; while
Vice-Admiral Porter has thirteen, with
one hundred and forty-fve guns, in the
Naval Academy squadron; and seven,
with seventy three guns, are on the lakes
and on home stations.
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

The Knox (1ll.) Republican has the
following: GA farmer near Oneida, one
day last week, while on an unfrequentcd
part of his farm, near ravine, discovered
that an oak sapling had been cut and
dragged to the ravine, which caused him
to Investigate the matter, the result of
which was he found a trap door covered by
the sod, which opened into a room exca-
vated in the ground. This room was quite
well fitted up with tables and chairs, and
containing stolen property of all kinds, and
was evidently the rendezvous of thieves" !"
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On the day of an eclipse, when all the
inhabitants of Paris were out of doors, pro-
vided with telescopes and pieces of smoked
glass, an Englishman was seen driving fu-
riously along one of the principal streets.
"Where does my lord wish to got" as
ked the driver.
"To see the eclipse" answered the En-
glishman, poking his head out of the coach
window, "only drive up as near to it as
possible, for 1 am short sighted.
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Hippophagy, or Horse-eating, is repor-
ted by the French journals to have failed.
Beef is still preferred. Although the
learned experinenters have assembled
around perfectly well appointed tables, and
eaten horse steak, with truifles and horse
kidneys, with champagne dressing, and
horse tongues with tomato sauce-all ac-
companied with good wine, and have
praised the excellence of horsefesh, yet
The poor will run the risk of starving rath-
er than accept meal of horscfesh. In
addition to the natural antipathy of this
kind of food, they very well know that the
horses slaughtered are for the most part,
old, poor, worn out, and not unfreequently
diseased animals. There are % shops in
Paris for the sale of horsefesh, but it is as
serted they do an insignificant business,
and up to March there had been slaugh-
tered for food only 1928 horses, sc asses
and % mules in Paris, making in all, say
160, 900 pounds of meat. This, for a pop
ulation of two millions is not very strong
evidence that this article of diet will prove
acceptable to the palates of the Parisians.
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A lady who, thong III in the autumn of
life, had not lost all dreams of spring said
to Jerrold:
81 cannot imagine what makes my hair
turn gray. l sometimes fancy it must be
the essence of rosemary with which my
maid is in the habit of fwetting it. "What
do you think 2"
II should be afraid, madam" replied
the distinguished dramatist, dryly, ''that
it is the essence of thyme"
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

California is likely to become the great
est producing country in the world.
The best grape for this purpose is one of
the Malaga varieties, The process is to
break the stems of the principal branches
and thus prevent the flow of the sap. The
fruit then shrinks in the sun, the watery
portion is dried and the sugar concentra-
ton increased in proportion. Last year
one farm yielded twenty-five thousand
pounds, and single Isabella vine bore
twenty-five hundred punches.
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

Is your horse gentle, Mr.. Dabster ~
" Perfectly gentle, sir; the only fault he
has (if that be fault) is playful habit of
extending his hinder hoofs now and then. :"
BY extending the hinder hoofs, you
don't mean kicking, hope 2" Some
people call it kicking, Mr.. Green; but it's
only a slight reaction of the muscles; a
disease rather than vice."
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

The word "its" is nowhere to be found
in the English version of the Bible
"Its," the possessiye Of sit, !" was not in
our language till about the beginning of
the seventeenth century. The Anglo Sax
on word is ''his," and this is the word for
''its" used by the translators.
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

Humbolt regards the climate of the Cas-
plan Sea as tho most salubrious in the
world. There he found the most delicious
fruits that he saw during his travels, and
such was the purity of the air that polish-
ed steel would not tarnish even by night
exposure.
Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08

When man and woman are made one
by a clergyman, the question is which is
the one? Sometimes there is long
struggle between them before this matter
is finally settled:
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A'Vermonter has invented new and
cheap plan for boarding. One of his
boarders mesmerises the rest, and then
eats hearty meal, the mesmerised being
satisfied from sympathy.