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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The Union Pacific Railroad is being
built more rapidly this year than ever.
The word is, "To Salt Lake by Christ
mas" Six hundred and forty miles are
now in running order. and a hundred
miles more are nearly ready for the
track. Brigham Young has five thous-
and men at work in Utah, and says he
is not afraid of the Gentiles. It is prob
able that the locomotive will go through
to the Pacific in 1869 instead of 1870,
and will carry with it an immense train
of passengers and freight, now awaiting
that happy event. Contrary to the
usual experience of railroad companies,
the Union Pacific has an abundance of
ready money, and pays cash for every
thing. Its First Mortgage six per cent.
gold bonds are eagerly taken through
out the country by partses of sound fl
nancial Judgment. The sales have al
ready amounted to seventeen million
dollars.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10
IMMIGRAT1OS.

The stages came into Pao1a loaded
with forty-three passengers, on Thurs
day evening, mostly strangers looking
for homes in this county. The number
of strangers that weekly come into this
county seeking after future homes, far
exceeds that of former years.-PaolG
Republican.
A larger number of immigrants pass
ed through the city yesterday than usu-
al, the greater number of them coming
from Iowa and Illinois, and bound for
Southern Kansas. Among them was
one gentleman who has purchased seven
hundred and fifty acres ofland in Lyon
county, at a cost of eight thousand dol
lars, and Is now going out to improve
it. A number of families from the same
vicinity in Illinois started with him, but
heard such reports on the way of Indi-
ans and grasshoppers, as to cause them
to turn .back.-LGsrreslce Tribune.
a gentleman who arrived in the city
A1ondas ffeIh Humboldt saws be met
hundreds Of immfg grants at dide96tit
points on the route. He has travelled
several times through the State and says
he never saw SO many strangers coming
and settling Conservative.
The Marysyille Enterprise says that
Horse Shoe Greek, a tributary emptying
into the Big Blue three miles north of
that place, is settling up more papidly
| than any other stream in the county.
There was a new acquisition to her pop
ulation last week, and more coming.
They are turning over thousands of
acres of the prairie sod making that
section of the county look like ''busi-
ness"
Hon. 6. w. Click has received letter
from LIE Grand Byington, of Iowa, in
which he states that the colony organi-
zed by him have fully determined to
come to Northern Kansas if they can
secure such lands as they desire upon
proper terms. His agents will be in
Atchison in few days to look at the
country, and he himself will be here
about the 10th of July. They desire
lands on the Kickapoo Reserve, and in
tend to purchase from $4,000 to 100000
worth. Mr.. Byington was, a few weeks
ago, in Kansas, and travelled extensive
ly through the Central and Southern
portions of the State, looking fora To-
cation for his colony. We are CAD to
learn that it is his intention to settle in
the northern portion of the State.
| We learn also that Father Louie, of
st. Benedict's College, in this city, is en-
deavoring to make arrangements for
the location of a large German colony
at some point OH or near the Central
Branch Railroad, or on the Kickapoo
Decentralization Free Press.
Mr.. Sexton, the agent for the sale OF
the Northrup s. Chick lands, lying in
our county, informs us that arrange.
ments are being completed with an
English Colony for the transfer of all Of
said lands, together with another large
tract, to the possession of said English
people. The Colony consists of four.
teen hundred families. The price pei
acre is So. Fourteen hundred JOHNNY
Bulls, with their wives, sons and daugh
tiers, enough to make our county popu-
lous. The tale is so big that we could
not give it any credence did it come
through any less reliable source. We
will probably learn something further
by next issue. Fourteen hundred fdnai-
Usage Chronicle.
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co TO FARMTNG.

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A good living is what comparatively
few men succeed In making In village
or city life, and yet nothing is more
easg Of asceKap lishl snE on the farm.
Besides there is pleasure Ii euiftsatinz,
and embellislIing the earth, improving
and Increasing its products, and thus
adding to the aggregate of human hap
piness. Why then should young men
hesitate to become farmers? It is both
profitable and honorable. 1t is the
nearest approximation to independence
that man, as a member of society, can
make. A gentleman farmer-and ali
farmers are, or should be. gentlemen
belongs to an order of nobility, that Is
not indebted to place holders for its
installation, and may, if he chooses, be
ranked among the greatest benefactors
of the human race. Let all idle young
men go to work on farms, and quit
seeking third and fourth rate clerkships.
In short, go to farming and quit beg
Qiup,-EE.
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SCHOOL HOUSES.

CONTRACT LET.-By reference to the
report of the proceedings of the Board
of Education it will be seen that Owen
E. Seip & Co. received the contract for
the construction of the Central High
School building; their bid. S27, 700, for
the entire work, including belfrev, being
the lowest.-AtchSSon Free Press.
The Jackson County News says that
the contractors for building the new
School House in Holton, have common
ced their work with force of twelve
men, and are rushing it along at good
speed. The building when completed
will cost about $4,000.
The Topeka Leader says the School
Board of Topeka have asked and OBJ
tanned permission of the CITY Council
to issue $4,000 school bonds for the
purpose of buying new school sites, and
erecting buildings thereon.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

One of our exchanges, whose appear
ance we had missed for several weeks,
recently came to hand, with the follow
ing apology for its delay:
Our foreman has deserted our ranks
and so far we have been unable to APP
prehend him, but we promise that our
paper shall not be tardy again.. for we
have apprenticed our two sons, aged IL
and 10, to our composing-room, and
have secured the services Of daughter
of IA, whose first stick of matter appears
in this number. We are hurrying along
two other children of 6 and 8. and ex-
pect in few months to have full and
efficient force. So don't be impatient.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10
THE Usage sTREATY.n

Now that this enormous swindle has
been exposed, and, we trust, defeated
by the action of the House, the Cincin-
natl Chronicle explains that Mr. Sturgis,
of Chicago, owns the Leavenworth s.
Galveston railroad, to which nearly
nine millions of acres were "ceded by
this treaty." and adds that the father Of
this Sturgis made an immense fortune
by land monopoly in Illinois, owning in
that State alone 100000 acres. We
thought gift of nine millions of acres
to one company bad enough but to one
mani Really, the proposition is so
sublimely impudent, that we wonder
that any Senator of either party could
have been expected to vote for it,
Missouri Democrat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

There are now in New Orleans
eighty-six churches, and of these twen-
ty-fve are Catholic churches and the
others divided among the Protestants,
as follows: Congregationalist, one
Methodist, twenty; Episcopalians,
eleven; Presbyterian, nine; Sweden
borgian, one; Unitarian, one: Bethel
for seamen, one; and Protestant Ger
man, one. There are also two if not
three synagogues,. one of which, on
Carondalet street, is beautifully decora-
ted in its interior, although its outward
appearance is plain. Some of the Cath
Ole churches are very ancient and in
teresting as specimens of Spanish
architecture.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10
THE farmers BARoAErER.-Take

THE FARMERS BARoAETER.--Take o
common glass pickle bottle, wide
mouthed; fill it within three inches
of the top with water; then take
common Florence oil flask, removing
flask thoroughly plunge the neck of
the flask into the pickle bottle as far as it
will GO, and the barometer is complete.
In fine weather the water will ris into
the neck of the flask even higher than
the mouth of the pickle bottle, and in
wet, windy weather it will fall towith-
in an inch of the mouth of the flask.
Before heavy gale of wind, the water
has been seen to leave the flask alto
gether at least eight hours before the
gale came to its hight. The invention
was made by German, and COMMUNE
Gated to o London journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

SIMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR PRESERVING
FURs.-Ladies are often anxious about
furs free from moths during the summer
months. Some one advertises to send
the requisite information for one dollar.
Darkness is all that is necessary. The
Miller" the eggs from which moths
are Matched, only moves in light the
moths themselves work in darkness.
Hang the furs i'll very dark closet and
keep the door shut keep railways dark,
and you can have no trouble. But, as
closet doors are sometimes left open,
the better way is to enclose the articles
loosely in a paper, put this in a pillow
case, or wrap around cloth, and hang
it up in dark closet. Camphor, spices,
or perfumes are of no use. Continual
darkness is sufficient. And do not take
out the furs in June or July to give
them an ''airing," for even then cometh
the enemy, and it may be that in fifteen
minutes after exposure, it has deposited
a hundred eggs. If you consider an
airing Indispensable, give the furs, a
good switching and put them quickly
back
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

Sam. Wood gives, as one of the reas-
ons why he is opposed to Grant, that he
cannot support a man "from whom
came no words of wisdom or loyalty"
1t is a great pity, that man should
fight against the rebellion from first to
last, and afterwards accept nomination
from the party that prosecuted the war,
and never inform the people that he lie
loyal! Now, Andy johnson acted diff.
ferently. He used to tell everybody how
loyal he was and we suppose this was
the reason why Sam. Wood stuck to
him long after every decent man had
resigned him to the rebels White
Cloud Chief. s3a.1ssi
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

SWEET CENTER.-The Leavenworth
Times affrms that one can meet some
thing sweet on every street in Lawrence.
This is strictly the truth. Lawrence is
the sweet center Of the State. It man.
ufactures more and better candies than
all the balance of the State. It has
more pretty girls than any other city in
the State, finer married women. better
men, smarter and better looking editors,
faster horses, greater base ballists, more
religious people, better attende church
es, more professional musicians, fewer
of Doestick's intimate friends, and in
fact leads in everything.--LGacrence
journal
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

GETTING THEIR
the hundreds of revenue thieves in New
York, and other States, who are riot ng
on public plumber, but few are ever
brought to justice. Whether they share
their stealings with the Judges, and
other judicial officers and thus escape, or
not, we do not know; but certain it is
that but very few of them are punished.
We are encouraged to notice few names
who have received sentence as follows {:
Ex-Revenue Collector Theophilus G.
Callicott, of Brooklyn, has been seDten-
ced TO pay fine of $4,000, and to be
imprisoned two years in the Albany
Penitentiary. for defrauding the Gov
eminent. Richard C.. Enright was sem
fenced to eighteen months imprisonment
and $3.50 fine, and J. S. Allen to one
years imprisonment and $1,000 fine.
If Andy johnson, who occupies the
position of Murcury the God of thieves,
does not pardon them, they at last will
get justice done them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

We learn from the Kansas City Jour-
nal that a Mr.. Victor, living in john
son county, near Olathe, harvested his
wheat crop, and it averaged .4216 bush
els to the acre. Kansas beats the world
on crops this year.
The board of directors of the john
son County Agricultural and Mechan-
zeal Association have decided to hold q
fair On the 22d, 23d and oath days of
September.
The Fort Scott Monitor says it is es-
timated that there will be at least one
hundred miles of stone fence built in
Bourbon county during the present
year; enough to inclose the whole
county.
Our farmers are generally harvesting
their wheat. We are informed that the
yield will average 80 bushels to the
acre throughout the country. This is
good news. I ulIn
RAIN.-Within week weshave been
visited with several fine rsi1la il con-
sequence of which. eyeryeldg looks
green and fourishing. Corn and other
and they are good Ott0scG Home
Journal.
We have had rain in abundance dur
ing the past week. The yield of all
kinds of grain and fruit will be un-
precedently large. Grape vines are
loaded, and peaches will not be to ex-
coed fifty cents per bushel this fall. Mr..
billings informs us that his trees are
bending beneath their burden of well
developed fruit. New potatoes are de-
Ginning III price and are worth but sixty
CENTS Usage Chronicle.
The Usage Chronicle says that Mr..
Pagan, the resident agent OF the ''Sey-
fert y McManus lands" great portion
of which are prairie, has contracted
with hedge grower to fence five thou
sand seven hundred and sixty acres
with Usage Orange. In fencing
that amount, thirty-six miles of hedge
is to be set, or row around each Sec
ton, leaving lawful road on each sec
! ton line-each lot, consequently, coll
tanning six hundred and forty acres of
| land. with road upon every side. The
gentleman who puts i'll the hedge, we
! believe, assumes all the responsibility
and costs i'll case lie fails to make a law
! ful fence.
New Wharf.-The Fort Scott Monitor
OF June oath, says: Mr.. q. A. Craw-
ford has placed upon our table, samples
OF two grists OF this years wheat,
brought to the Fort Scott Mills OH the
18th inst. The ripest, which is dry
enough to grind, was raised by B. Z.
Coberly, on Mill Creek. 1t is May
wheat. 1t dried in the stalk, and was
cut on the 18th. The other grist was
raised by MIR. Chambers, on the Mar
maton. While we print, the machines
are threshing throughout the county.
eve were shown some heads OF
wheat by Jacob Drumm which were
grown on his land, that we think are
hard to beat. He informed us that
these heads were only an average of a
field of 1O14 acres, which will yield
acre. He says that in '63 the wheat
crop i'll Bourbon county averaged 3IA
bushels to the acre, and in his Judge
ment the crop of 1868 will average one
third more"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

CHEAP Ice PITCHERs.-The following
simple method of keeping ice water
for long time in common pitcher, is
worth knowing: Place between two
sheets of paper newspaper will an
swer, thick brown is better) layer of
cotton batting about half an inch in
thickness, fasten the ends of paper and
batting together, forming circle, then
sew or paste crown over one end, max
ing box the shape of stove-pipe hat
minus the rim. Place this over an or
binary pitcher filled with ice water,
making it deep enough to rest on the
table, so as to exclude the air, and the
reader will be astonished at the length
of time bis ice will keep, and the water
remain cold after the ice is melted
journal Of Agriculture.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The Leavenworth Commercial says
1t is reported that A. T. Stewart, the
merchant prince of New York, has pur-
chased the entire half block fronting on
Cherokee street, between Main and
Second, and will proceed to erect there
on a four story block, with fronts of
Junction City stone. The building will
be by all odds, the largest and handsom-
est business house in the city. 1t will
be occupied as a mammoth wholesale
dry goods house, with retail depart
ments in that portion on and near the
corner of Second. The estimated cost
of the structure is $4,000.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

THE WEsT.-Where is it? What is it !!
In very ancient times there was q point
which navigators had marked on their
maps as unknown, and which was to
them the ultima Thule" Not long ago
people regarded Illinois, Indiana and
Iowa in that light, but later years have
removed that mythical terminus far be-
yond Colorado. In New York they
talk of 'tgoing West" when they take
the cars for Kansas or Missouri. Here
we talk of 'tgoing West" when we set
out on a journey to Utah or Idaho.
There they talk of 'tgoing West" when
they journey to California and Oregon.
And TO the people there the West is yet
remote and distant. China and Japan
are to them "the West. "-Atchison
ChdmptOn.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The New York Tribune, in speaking
dates on local tickets. It comedies Han
cock, in case of his nomination, one
tenth of the volunteer soldiers vote,
and nine-tenths of their paroled prison
ers. 1t says that Democratic soldiers
may hold off far a time on partisan
grounds, but the calumnies that Demo
cratic press will heap upon Grant will
compel them ito vote as they shot"
In the eight successive Congressional
campaigns of Colfax, he has been pitted
against the strongest men of the Dem
ocratic party, and had been beaten but
once, the first campaign, and that only
by 23S votes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The wives and heirs of Union SOL
diers who have been missing since the
war, but of whose death there is no ev-
idence, are to secure the pensions to
which they are entitled If proofs Of
death were accessible, when proofs can
be made that the soldier has been nm
heard of for two years and that he dis
appeared under circumstances which
wouid lead to the presumption of his
death. Such is the new rule adopted in
the Pension Bureau, as recently an
nounced in the House Of Represent
atiVes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

Rev. J. w. Fox preached his fare
bath. The Chronicle speaks of IL a.
full Of touching pathos, tender charity
and forcible truths, drawn. from the
trials and triumphs attendant upon the
life Of minister. -
Rev. Nj. Fox was an early settler in
Kansas, and has been an honored and
faithful minister of the Gospel. He
owns q farm at Ridgeway, upon which
his family reside. s@E
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

A Wisconsin paper describes a freak
of nature in the shape of a perfect rose
in full blossom on an apple tree. On the
same limb, and close to the rose, are
several young apples growing. The
rose is the only blossom on the tree.
Several rods from the tree, and in front
of the house. is a white Scotch rose
bush in full bloom. and upon compar-
ing the roses upon this bush with the
one upon the apple tree, they are found
to be alike.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The ST. Joe Herald advises Missouri
ans who want to go to the hot place to
move to Kansas, as that is the next thing
to it. We presume the editor who so
advises does not come this way because
he is travelling more direct route
Conservative
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

Few people know what an empire
Texas is. 1t would make twenty-five
New Hampshires, or more than five
New FORKS, or nearly six PennsyIva-
Mas 1t Is nearly three times AZ large
as the island Of Great Britain, and
nearly half As large again @ France.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

Horace Greeley said, at Grant rati-
fication meeting, in New York, held
last week, that Colfax vas the first
President or Vice President who was
born in that city, and that he had known
him for long time, and reeollected
helping him mount barrel, when he
was only nineteen years old, that he
might speak for Henry Clay, in front of
the old National Hail..
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The Chinese Emperor, fourteen years
old, was married on the 9th of March.
One hundred and twenty of the finest
ladies in the realm were presented to
the boys mother, from whom she select
ed her future daughter, subject, howev-
or to the veto Of the Emperor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The carriers of Susan Anthony's pa.
per, the Revolution, are chiefly little
girls, wearing pretty uniform, short
red dress. They attract much attention
In New York.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The temperance revival begun and
still carried on at New Haven by the
Psssionist Fathers, has lessened by at
least 5000 the sum spent weekly for
Intoxicating drinks in that city, and has
closed four groggeries.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

Years are the sums of hours. Vain
it is at wide intervals TO say, an save
this year." if at each narrow interval
you do not say, '1H save this hour
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10

The tocusts are doing great damage
in PiekAway and Franklin counties
Ohio. They are reported also on Long
Island. How are you, srssshnppeEsss
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o. H. SHELDON,
AGENT.

BHrIingG1SGe, Kansas.
r now have for sale 20 improved farms, locat-
1 ed about 20 miles from the Capital, and in
Usage county, the great Cheese and Coal coun-
ty of Kansas. Alse, 10000 acres Of improved
lands A list of my improved farms, giving
description, terms, &c, may be had by sending
me 50 cents to pay for postage and advertising.
TreosursE's Once. Burlin9Ame Kss. 1919
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Emporia Advertisements.
ALMERN GILLEET,
ATTORNEY { COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
EAPORIA, KANSAS.

Practices Ia the Courts OF the Fifth and
Ninth Districts. Makes collections, buys and
sells land, attends to conveyancing, and fur
nishea abstracts Of titles To real estate in LYON
county. OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-18
Ba- In the Mississippi Convention the
following resolutions we're referred to
appropriate committees:

Ba In the Mississippi Convention the
following resolutions we're referred to
appropriate committees:
TO appoint a special committee to in
quire into the expediency IF removing TO
some more loyal aud convenient place.
An ordinance forbidding corporations,
ETC., from levying poll tax exceeding
one dollar
Also resolution to provide for repair
ing the Mississippi levees, and denounc-
ing the grievous levyings Of poll taxes.
An ordinance declaring that among
other essential qualifications for electors
is the acceptance Of the civil and politi-
cal equality of all men, and an obliga-
ton never 10 countenance the secession
of States from the United States.
Also, resolution requesting the Com
mittee on Ordinances to report an ordi-
nance providing for the abolition of the
County Courts, and for enlsrging the
powers and jurisdiction Of magistrates
The following we're adopted:
A resolution providing committee OF
five to receive the names Of citizens in
whose behalf Congress is to be petitioned
for the removal Of their disabilities.
A resolution instruciing the Committee
on Schedule to report an ordnance pro-
viding that hereafter no official bond
shall be required of persons elected or
appointed to Office in this State, but pro-
vidiag for fne, Imprisonment and per
petual Acknowledgement for malfeasance
in Office.
The following was made the special
order for Tuesday:
An ordinance proEidiDg for the publ
cation oftbe Convention proceedings and
ordinances in the three Republican pa
pers in the State, allowing fify cents PEI
square for the same, and subscribing toi
ODE hanired copies Of each, and also
authorizing the Auditor 70 issue warrants
10 pay for the same, on the eertincate O.
the Secretary.