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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11

The old and reliable firm of Waskey
& Hurst are receiving very large
stock of goods, bought at New York
and for sale cheap for cash. Read
their local notice and then go and see
for Yourselves
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11
Cash.

Cash.
The highest market price will be paid in cash
for town lots in Emporia, at Z. p. Bancrofts
Real Estate Agency.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11

For Sale or Trade.
A two horse wagon, pair Of horses and doub-
lie harness. 36-tf r. NJ. RUGGLES.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11
CIT THIS OUT.
Keep it Before the Peopl

Good for one dollar to any person who will
buy twenty dollars worth Of goods for Cash
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Mr. A RRIEn

II ID II NJ lOI
Chairman, Board of Trustees.
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371-2w
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ABSTRACTS OF TITLES

upon application, on reasonable terms.
A large amount of Land In various localities
for sale very cheap. Special inducements to
Colonies and those who wish large amounts Of
land. l will furnish the topography of any
township in Lyon county, and insert names
and dates of original entries when desired.
Emporia City property bought, sold and
leased on fav orable terms.
/ beg leave TO refer TO all the old residents in
this and adjoining counties.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11
MAPS, PLATS & BLANKS
OF ALL KINDS.

Particular attention paid to Conyeyancing.
Will pay taxes for non-residents. and will
advise regular correspondents of the amount
of their taxes in time to avoid costs.
Will buy and sell Real Estate on the most
favorable terms. No charges unless sale
is made.
Will procure Patents from tho various Land
Offices, and furnish
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11

Chm. Rep. Cent. Committee, Lyon c.
MOVES SPICER, Secretary.
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
What We are Made oS.


The following is from an article by DIR. O.
w Holmes '.If the reader of this paper
lives another year, his self, eouscious princi-
pie will have migrated from its present tene-
ment to another, the new materials of which
have not been put together. A portion of
the body which is TO be, will ripen in the
corn of the next harvest. Another portion
of his future person he will purchase, or
others will purchase for him. headed up in
the form of certain barrels of potatoes. A
third fraction is yet to be gathered in tho
Southern rice fields. The limbs with which
he is then to walk will be clad with the aesh
borrowed from the tenants of many stalls
and pastures, now unconciOus of their doom.
The organs Of speech with which he asks so
wisely and speaks SO eloqueLtly, or SO efTec
lively, must serve his humble brethren to
bIeat and to below, and all the varied utter.
nnce Of bristled or feathered barn>yard life.
His bones themselves are to great extent
in posse, and not IN esse. A bag Of phosphate
of lime which he has ordered from Prof
Mapes for his ground, contains large part
of what is to be his skeleton. And more
than all this by far the greater portion of his
body is nothing at all but water; the main
substance of his scattered members is to bo
looked for in the reservoir, the running stream
at the bottom of the well, in the clouds that
fort over his head, or difIused among them
all" #
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
Eloquent Extract.

Writing the "closing scenes" in the his
tory of General Lees army, j. Quitman
Moore, Esq, thus thrills chord that will Vi
brite forever-thus bequcatls gem to the
literature of The South
''There stood the mournful remnants of
that once glorious army, that had dipped its
conuuering banners in the crimson tide OF
eight and twenty san2uinary battles, and
strewn its heroic slain from the feet of the
PENNSYLVANIA mountains to the gates of its
own capital city; that gave Manassas to
Beauregard, and twined the fame of the Seven
Pines battle in the laurel wreath Of Johns
ston that had caused the waters Of the Shen-
andoah eternally to murmur the name of
Stonewall Jackson and, stretching its right
arm out to the distant West, had planted vic
tory on the dropping banners Of Bragg that
had witnessed four gigantic campaigns, and
through all their shiitings and tragic scenes,
and under all difficulties and dangers, had
remained steadfast and faithful to the last
And, after having witnessed the rising of the
Southern constellation, as it loomcd up
brightly on the horizon OF war; pursuing, to
its splendid zenith, the fiery path Of Mars,
now beheld, not unmoved, its declining splen-
doris going down in the gloom of eternal
night. And he, its illustriOus chief, whose
luity plume was ever its rallying point in bat
tie and around whom its affections warmly
clustered, now commended it for its past de-
votion and bade it adieu forever Slowly
and sadly he rode from that mournfuI field,
and the cause that he fought for was beneath
the foot Of Power. Few were the eyes that
grew not moist at Witnessing that departure.
1t was the agony of great cause, finding ex-
preston in the sublime soul of its great de-
fender. And, though that cause be dead,
yet will its memory continue to live, aud
ever honored will be those names that were
sacrificed at its altars. And, on she scroll of
fame no name among the list of eminent wor-
thies will shine in purer, serener, or more
rcsplendent light than that of Robert Ed
mund Lee. His fame is monumental. Ills
name will be placed by the side of those great
captains of history-of Marlborough and SAKE,
of Tilly and Eugene; and as long as the fame
of the Southern struggle shall linger in tradi-
ton and song, will his memory be cherished
by the descendants of the Southern races
while his character will stand up in the twi>
light of History, like some grand old Cathe-
dral, lifting itself in imperishable beauty,
above the objects of earth. majestic in its
vast proportions, awful in its solemn stateli-
ness, sublime in its severe simplicity"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
How Mr.. George W. Julian's Election
was Secured-A Gard.
To tie Electors Of tie Fgurth Congressional


To the Electors Of tie Fourth Congressional
District Of Indiana:
To my political and personal friends in the
Fourth Congressional District L desire to
| express my warmest and heartfelt thanks for
their kind and generous support in electing
me as their Representative to the 4lst Con-
gress of the United States as
True, my opponent, the Hon George ".
Julian, the present member, disregardng all
honor and the expressed wishes of the electors
of the district, has cndeavored, by fraud and
chcanery, to thwart the intention of the
people, and has obtained for the time being
the dsiranchisement Of eleven hundred Of the
citizens Of Wayne county by rejecting, through
TIC board OF cauvassers of that county, the
precinct of Richmond, in which l obtained
majority over him Of POI votes. But such
conduct is condemned by all good men whether
Republican or Democrat, and returns with ten
fold power to crush forever the perpetrators
Of so great a wrong to the rights of the people.
The south precinct was established by the
same board which created the north, and the
election was conducted under Republican
officers, under copy of the same registry as
the north. ''NNhatever was done by the south
precinct was equally applicable to the north,
and both must stand or fall together At the
north precinct Julian received majority of
6S5 votes over me- and received at the south
POI votes over him; but the south poll was
rejected, without any proper cause, by board
without any legal authority, and under the
advice of the honorable gentleman" The
Republican State ticket was dclraudcd out Of
1SS votes, and of 201 votes, in order to
secure him the certificate Of election.
Against this great wrong | have fled
protest with the Secretary of State at India
napolis, supported by the affdavils of Col.
Wm. y. Bicklie, of Richmond, one of the
disfranchised voters, and shall do all in my
power to correct it and vinGicatc the rights Of
the people to fair and free election.
That Mr.. Julian was beaten by eighty
seven votes is acknowledged by his brothers
paper, the Radicdi RY"JHcdR, and it was
only after mature reflection by himself and
his associates that it was decided that the vote
of the South precinct of Richmond should
be thrown out, in order to save his election,
regardless of the danger to Governor Baker
ard the Republican State ticket, or the rights
Of myself.
For the present have taken legal steps
to stay the issuing of the Congressional cer-
t;licate to lin, and to obtain the certificate to
myself as the legally elected member, and
shall do no act which will injurc the rights Of
the citizens Of Wayne township; but will
demand fair and full investigation Of every
thing connected with the action of the board
and this infamous conduct in rejecting the
whole vote of the precinct.
Again [ thank YOU for your kind and
generous support, irrespective of party, and
subscribe myself your legally elected heprc-
sentative. JOHN 5. EIED.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
Remarkable Cure of Consumption.
Tie Care IF the Late President, jeremiah
fE Day, OF Yale College.

The Transactions of the Connecticut State
Medical Society contain paper from Professor
S. G. Hubbard, of New Haven, in relation
to the cure of the Rev. Jeremiah Day, former
President of Yale College, of tubular con-
sumption, President Day, during early life,
gave little promise of long life, and when in
1889, in his seventeenth year, he entered
Yale College, he was soon compelled to leave
from pulmonary difficulty. He rallied, how
ever, and was able to finish the course and
graduate in 1885, He was very feeble, how
ever, for many years. He became clergyman,
and in 1901 was elected ProiessorSof Mathe-
matics and Natural History in the College
But he could not undertake the duties. An
alarming hemorrhage of the lungs prostrated
him, which was treated s'learnedly" by bleed
ings, copious enough to have charmed even
Doctor Sapgrado. He went to Bermuda,
where he was piled with digitalis to such an
extent as almost to take what little life was
left. lie came back to his native town, Wash
ington, Conn.,, to die.
He suffered from, continued hemorrhage
and repeated venesections, till he happened
to meet Doctor Sheldon, of Litchfield, who
had made the treatment with iron hobby.
He expressed belief that Mr. Day could be
helped. Though the case was regarded as
hopeless, the patient was placed under the
care of Doctor Sheldon, who treated him with
lion and calisaya bark, feeding him carefully
with wholesome food. Under this regimen
he soon exhibited indications ofimprovement;
and finally, in 1903, returned home as one
restored from the dead, in sufficient vigor to
be inaugurated in the professorship. He
never afterwards exhibited symptoms of pull
monary disease, although he had been affected
with it for more than twelve years. He lived
till August, 1867, and was ninety five years
old at the time of his death.
The cavity of the thorax was examined, as
to the traces of his former malady Only
about a pint of serum was found the lungs
we're everywhere free from tubercle, and were
apparently healthy. In the apex of each lung
was found dense corrugated circular ccatrix,
an inch and half or more in diameter
Also third circular cicatrix on the left side
of the left lung, few inches below the apex,
each involving such depth of tissue, as to
indicate that the vomicae of which they were
the remains, had been large and of long dura-
ton. Both lungs were slightly adherent at
the apex.
Here, then, remarks Professor Hubbard,
was all that remained to mark the beginning,
progress and cure of rase of tubercular con-
sumption, occupying twelve years in its period
Of activity, and with its incipient stage, dating
more than three quarters of century.
legible record, surprising in interest and i'm
portance, to the human race, those slabs of
Niniyeh, or the Tunic Inscriptions.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
How to Cure a Cancer.

A Milwaukee paper states that some months
ago Mr.. L. i. Mason, Of that city, ascertained
that he had a cancer on his face the size of
pin. 1t was cut out by doctor aud the
wound partially healed. Subsequently itgrew
again, and while he was at Cincinnati on
business, it attained the size of hickory nut.
He remained there since christmas uDdertreat-
ment, and is now perfectly cured. The pro-
cess is this: 4 piece of sticking plaster was
nut over the cancer, with circular piece cut
ont of the center little largnr than the can
Ger and small circular rim Of the healthy
skin next to it vas exposed. Then plaster
made of chloride of zinc, blood root and
wheat -four was spread on piece of muslin
the size of the circular opening, aud applied
to the cancer for twenty four hours. On re-
moving it the cancer viii be found burned
into, and appear of the color and hardness of
an old shoe sole, and the circular rim outside
of it will appear white aud parboiled, as if
scolded by steam. The wound is now dress
ed. and the outside rim now separates, and
the cancer comes out in hard lump. and the
place heals up. The plaster kills the cancer,
so that it sloushs out ike dead flesh, and
never grows in again. The remedy was dis
covered by DR.. Fell, ofLondon, and has been
used by him for six or eight years with un-
falling success, and not case has been known
of the reappearaBce of the cancer when this
remedy hes been applied.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
Almost Incredible.

The municipality of Jastebeceny, in Aus
tria, has issued the following decree:
Swearing and blaspheming being the real
cause eff earthquakes, it is hereby forbidden
to all whomsoever it be, to swear or blaspheme
under penalty of receiving twenty-five lashes,
and being fined the sum of twenty, five
forins."
We give the above on the authority of a
French paper. If the statement be true,
which seems almost impossible, Austria can
hardly have made much progress in the path
Of civilization since the dark days of the
Middle Ages, when poor old women, even in
England were thrown into pond when accus-
cd Of practicing witchcrait, and if drowned
were declared to be innocent, but if they
escaped drowning were pronounced guilty,
and burned as witches, in either case losing
their lives.
Why is Austria so much behind the age ?
Is it because she has been for such length
cncd period deprived of the blessings of
liberty? If so, let us hope now that the day
of freedom seems to be breaking on her hori-
zon, that the masses of her people will learn
the lesson with which the least educated of
our own citizens are familiar, that all natural
effects are the results of natural causes, and
that, as Pope says, when speaking, in his
Essay on Man, Of earthquakes swallowing up
nations,
The first Almighty cause
Acts not by natural but by gtntral laws"
TN. y Mercantile Journal.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
Secretary Seward and Matrimony.

A Washington correspondent ofthe Cincin-
natl Commercial is responsible for the fol-
lowing bit of Court gossip:
The lady whom Mr.. Seward is to lead to
the altar is but twenty six years of age. Her
father is close friend of Governor Fenton
and a resident of Chautauqua county, in the
southwestern part of New York. She is ''a
fac figure of woman" as Joe Gargery would
say, being large in shoulders and figure, with
face expressive of strong will, dark eyes.
rather prominent mouth and chin, and she
is said so be very brilliant conversationalist,
discussing the newest gossip and the Holy
Alliance with about equal intelligence and
flavor. Her family are well satisfied with the
match, and her mother, who is lately deceased,
was the recipient of many favors from Mr.
Seward He is quite alone in the world, and
in domestic relations has always been kind,
gracious aud faithful, as parent and husband
Last winter at one of his receptions, he is
said to have kissed Miss R. A gentleman
walking with her exclaimed:
''I can't allow that %
at is not liberty" she replied, ''for Mr..
Seward"
The wedding is alleged to be arranged for
at short notice now, aud it is not improbable
that the Secretary will resign his position at
once thereafter in favor of his son, who is
fully informed upon the traditions and duties
ofthe Office. -
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

AN ANCIENT AFRICAN RELIC.-We saw
yesterday, at the store of Mr. Davis, on Mul-
berry street, relic of a Congo tribe of Afri-
cans. 1t was taken from the slave brig Wan
derer. in 1858, the officers of which vessel
found it among gang of eighty Africans
they bought from their conquerors on the
Congo river. 1t is staff or club, about four
feet long, manufactured from the teak tree, a
wood equally as hard as the lignum-vite, and
much used for ship building.
1t has heavy head, upon which are IN
scriptions identical with those on the Egyp-
tian Pyramids, and those which were upon
the Temple of Diana, of Ephesus; Upon
either side are the carved faces of the Atri-
can, surrounded with hieroglyphics, and be-
low this head piece Inscriptions in Ionic char
acters, the meaning of which no one here has
been able to translate.
tits supposed to have been the sceptre car
ried by the King of the tribe, the insignia OF
royalty The yacht Wanderer had the whole
tribe on board, including His Royal High
ness, the King Mr.. Davis got this relic on
ard-JotunaI and Messenger, 18th.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

THE cENTUaIoS.
From cast to west I've marched beneath the giles;
From PontiuE unto Caul,
Kept many a watch, on which. by death surrounded,
=. I've seen each comrade fall.
Fearl / could lau oh until those rocks re-echoed,
To think that l shou Id fear
Who have met dea,h in every form unshrinking-
To watch this dead man here
In Dacian forest, sitting by our watch-fre.
I've kept the wolves at bay;
On Rhetian Alps escaped the ice bills hurting
BIB Close where our legion lay.
On moonlcss nights, upon the sands of Libya,
I've sat with shield firm set aer
And heard the lion roar; and in this forearm
The tigers teeth have met.
] was star. gazing when he stole upon me.
gntil felt his BREATH
And saw his jewel eyes CLEAN; then he seized me,
And ins tant met his death.
My weapon in his thick veined neck 1 buried.
.el My feet his warm blood dyed
And then bound my wounds. and till the morning
Lay couched upon his side
Here though the stars are vsiIrd the peaceful city
.. Lies at our feet asleep
Round US the still more peaceful dead are lying
In slumber yet more deep.
a low wind moaning gdcs among the olives
Till every hillside sishs;
But round us here the meanings seem to muster
And gather where He lies.
And through the darkness faint, pale gleams arc
flying,
That couchcd this hill alone:
Whence those rnearthly lights? and whence the
shadows
That move upon the stone?
If the Olympian Jove awoko in thunder,
His great eyes could meet;
But HIS, ifpncc again they looked upon me,
Would strike to Ills feet
lie looked if my brother hung there bleeding,
. And put my soul TO shame,
As if my brother with his eyes was pleading,
And pity overcathc.
But could not He who in dca til was hanging
On the accursed Tree,
Was he the Son of God for so in dying
He seemed TO die fer me.
And ALI my pitilcss deeds came up before nc,
Gazcd at from Ills face,
What If lie rose again, and should meet Him /!
How awful is this place,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
= The first Almighty cause
Acts not by natural, but by gtnTGi laws"
IN. Y Mercantile Journal

CURIOUS CALCULATIoN.-Whe the pub
lie debt of the United States caused by the
late war was at its highest point it amounted
to nearly one dollar minute for the time
that has elapsed since the creation of the
world According to generally accepted
chronology it was 1904 years from the crea>
ton to the birth of Christ; that makes this
the year of the world 5,S72 There are $685.
900 minutes in year of 365 days; the whole
number of minutes, then, since the beginning
is 3,O39, ,O19, ,200-in round numbers three
thousand millions, which is about the number
of dollars of our debt at its highest figure
Quite fattering to our national vanity, of
course.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10
tFrom the New York Herald, October lG ]
A New System of Vehicular LooOmo-
+:n-,

There has quite recently been brought to
the notice IF lie public by the Inventor, j.
*. Glenn, reversible portable railway, the
track of which is affixed to the body of the
carriage, the wheels to which are fastened to
chairs, and made moveabc on the rails, but
in such way that they cannot break or fall
of To these chairs are again fastened feet,
and these feet, as the wheels pass around the
double angular rails Cot steeD, rest on the
ground in turn as the vehicle moves forward.
The rails on the top and bottom Of the carriage
are parallel to each other, but at the ends they
form segmen:s of circles, the curves of which!
however, are sufficiently rotund to permit the
trucks with their chairs and feet to pass
readily and rapidly over them. revolving on
their double axis (of the machine and OF the
chairs) as they arc moved. 10 give the reader
a comprehensive idea of this railway track it
is only necessary to recall to his mind the
principle upon which the chain pump is work
ed. AS the vehicle passes over the ground,
the feet hold up and progress with the same
continuance in much the same manner as
uuadruped puts down as he raises, as he walks,
his feet The car, which was drawn through
the streets on Monday last, and which from
its peculiar construction attracted SO much
attention, is built on the principle of Mr..
Glcnn's invention. The car, though drawn
by span of horses, is exceedingly heavy,
weighing upward of 1000 pounds. 1t was
drawn to go over the rough pavements as
readily, as rapidly and with as much case to
the passengers as on ordinary horse cars
its success is guaranteed. The reversible
railway is adaptable to praire blowing moving
&c.. as well as for vehicular purposes on
common roads, and, as necessity or economy
demands, may be drawn by horses or propelled
by steam.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

LARGE SALES OF FAUouIER LANDS
The Fauquier Land Journal makes a most
encouraging exhibit in regard to the sales of
Virginia lands and the accession of new
settlers within the past twelve months. 1t
says that more than half million dollars
worth of property has been sold to actual
settlers within radius of ten miles around
Warrenton since the close of the war, and
since May, 1865, farms have been sold varying
in price So, 600 to $4,000 to gentlemen from
New York, New Jersey, Ohio. Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

An unfortunate shooting affair occurred
few days since near MiIlwood, Clarke county.
VIM. P. BurwelI had procured sheriffs levy
on the corn of his tenant, ~ Freeman, to
secure the rent. The sheriff told him he
would, meanwhile, have to protect the corn
himself. He accordingly warned Freeman
not to shuck it, and on his persisting shot him,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

= The old Methodist church in Harrison
burg has been sold to the Baptists, for 81, $50.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-10

Cut the acquaintance of any lady who
signs letter with Yours obediently."