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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-14
Hartford and Surrounding
Country.

From our special correspondent il
Hartford, Elmendaro township, Lyon
county, we have the following items:
On the eastern boundary of this Oy.
on) county, beautifully situated on the
south bank of the Neosho river, and or
the line of the Southern Branch of Tho
Union Pacific Railway, is the village o.
Hartford, containing about 100 inhab
itants.
The Methodist Episcopal church ha:
its Collegiate Institute here. 1t hai
been in operation three or four years
1t is now under the management OF
Prof. a. d. Chambers. a. NJ, and has
an attendance of about go pupils pei
term. There is also public schools here
six months III the year.
There is preaching every sabbath,
generally twice.
The community is well supplied with
saw and grist mills. Both steam and
water, either in active operation, or in
process of construction, a stoI., a
boot and shoe shop, a blacksmith shop,
and a wagon shop, also, are here, and
all driving a good business. There arc
several carpenters here, and other me-
chanics.
Four of the .'disciples Of Esculapius.
are located here land nobody sick.
Long may it continue so.
Water, timber, fencing and stone are
plentiful. Veins of coal show them
selves near the town. Fruits do we'll
here. Apples and grapes just begin
ming to bear. Peaches-sure crop and
plentiful.
Climate-Ifa man could make his own
climate, he would hardly be better sat
isfied than with the climate as 1t is in
this part of Kansas.
Crops-Labor is the most that is need
ed to produce a crop of almost any kind.
Cereals and roots are staple crops. To-
bacco and cotton are successfully raised.
Chinese sugar cane and melons are an
unfailing crop.
Beans-Gen. Pomer0y is supposed, by
some, to have supplied Kansas with this
article. In the future, she can take care
of herself Take a note: A man living
lust across the river from Hartford,
plantedthree pints of the common little
soup bean, last spring, and in the fall he
threshed out five and one-fourth 90
bushels of beans from them. The beans
were planted in june.
The great business here, however, is
stock-raising sheep, hogs, ponies, hors-
es and cattle. a few years attention to
this branch of business, alone, will
make men independent in country
where they can rear and fatten stock, as
has been done here, without cutting a
pound of hay or feeding pint of grain.
This is not the profitable way, but still
some do it.
Prices of land-Wild land, in this
TOWNSHIP, Elmendaro) on the uplands,
can be had at from 50 to So per acre. On
the river, and on Eagle creek, it is worth
two or three times as much. Improved
farms vary from So to S25 per acre.
Timber is worth from $40 to $40 per
acre. There is room in this nighbor-
hood for dozens of enterprising fami-
lies TO get rich. y. ID. CHAMBERS.
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Letter From w. b. Godfrey.

MADISON, Greenwood Co., Kan,
February 10, 1868.
EDITOR NEWS: Thinking that & might
be interesting to your readers, send
you the cost of five acres of corn raised
this grasshopper season."
only put out five acres, as / went on
to an unimproved farm last spring. On
account of the grasshoppers the corn
was not planted until very late If i had
not been worse scared than hurt /
might have had full as much more corn
in the same field; in fact, a pieoe of
corn in the same field that was planted
early, yielded full eighty bushels per
acre, with just about the same amount
of work. / expect every year that 10,
seasonable, to be able to put my corn in
the crib at net cost of just about fifteen
cents per bushel; and may add that L
have never known a failure to raise
corn in this county when it was planted
very early, and thoroughly cultivated.
My neighbors, i. and I'll. Pritchard, even
raised good corn the season of the
drouth of 1860. Here is the items:
Three days blowing, at So per day,
50 % per day, SO 81; y day harrow
ing, with horses, at SO per day, 81 so;
D days blowing, with 1 horse, at 50 %
per day, Sl1 25: interest on capital in
vested in land, SO per acre, So; taxes
on land, 81 45. Total, 81 81.
Five acres of corn yielded 3925 bush
els per acre-l981s bushels; cost, per
bushel, nearly ia cents bushel; 1885
bushels of corn in the field, at 45 cents
per bushel, S9S %; net profit on
| acres of corn, 500 Is.
| believe l will tell you about gourd
/ raised a couple of years ago; never
measured it, but L bought the half of q
very fat hog at twelve and half cents
per pound, for twenty-three dollars and
sixty cents. / rendered my half of the
hog into lard, leaf, midling, and all, ex-
cept the shoulder and ham, and they
were trimmed as close as possible; put
the lard all into my gourd aud had it
about three-fourths full. The lard kept
perfect until it was all used, which was
about the last of the next summer. So
you can tell your friends East that here,
on the Verdigris river, We raise lard
cans that hold from five to eight gal
| Ions, at a cost of about one cent each.
Some of these times l will give you
the cost of a potato crop, if you think it
will be worth publishing.
w. p. GODFREY.
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Letter Frsm 8T. w. PhiIlips.T
PLYMOUTH, Lyon Co, Kan.

FEBRUARY 4,1S6S.
Mr.. SToTLER:. BY your request. I.
write few lines for the Imfnigratiof
paper, giving nsy experience and pro-
gross IN farming since came to Kansas. s
l moved to the State in the spring of
'6O, and commenced farming in the
spring of '61. ! cultivated about 50 (
acres OF corn and spriag wheat. We
mad q toIerable season till the first of June
There was no rain till the second week
in Juiy-six weeks-but my crop grew
and did fine. 1t made % bushels Of
wheat per acre, and go of corn farm
ed the same place in 90, the crop being
about the same. We had seven weeks
without rain that season. We raise6
plenty of all kinds of vegetables, as dry
as 1t was. The spring of '63 moved on
my own farm, near this place. We had
a nice season. The result was, / made
about 20 bushels of corn per acre
Wheat was light that year, being injur
ed by rust. In "a, early, it was season
able enough, and crops done fine till
the second week in July; it was then
: very dry. Our corn was tasselins and
+ looked as black as storm cloud. We
: had two or three hot south winds; it
seemed that the corn stopped growing !;
it commenced to wilt and drH in the
/ tassel, and we had almost failure. ]
still thought it was caused by the drouth,
5 but when commenced cutting it up /
!. found it was chinch bugs more than the
! drouth. That was the first, and is the
c last have seen in Kansas. Ia 90 i made
: good crops again. In Sc and 81 rent
o ed my farm for the third, delivered. The
e rent makes me about seven dollars per
y acre, yearly, besides what my family and
: stock use of the farm produce. think
e have made an average of 90 bushels
n of corn per acre, and 20 of wheat since
II have been here, leaving out "a.
If we farmed as they do in the East.
f. ern States, we would raise one-third
II more than we do. We do not ptOw
IS deep enough nor plant soon enough.
d speak in general. Corn should be plant
d ed about the middle of April, and 9th
|, er spring grain as soon as we can plow.
: Ny experience is, that early planting
g and sowing, and good and early tending
e are very sure to bring good crops. j
have farmed in Kentucky and in Indiana,
: and / have farmcd in Kansas. l have
: made more by farming in Kansas than
l., either of the two other States. There
), has not been any year since have been
It here but man could sell all his corn
o for so cts. per bushel, and wheat has
: been very high. We have market thai
o is not nearly supplied.
:, NJ. w. PHILLIPS.
q
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getting their possessions into their pockets.
and who, therefore, viii sell reasonably.
What we need most here Is producers
men who viii be OF substantial benefit
men of energy, industry, enterprise and of
some means, who will Qpenup and improve
farms, raise stock, &c.
Our town affords good hotel, for the
benefit of those who may visit our place,
kept by one of the oldest settlers in this
part of the State. He is accommodating
and ever ready to furnish such provision
and information as may be at his command
Our mail facilities are good, the mail and
passenger hack, passing through daily on
the Wamego and Fort Scott line.
| Farmers or mechanics of any kind woul6
| do well to give our place cali and examine
| this locality, before settling elsewhere.
| H. c. HILL
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HEALTH.-The following from the
Lawrence Tribune is true as preaching !:
DR.. b. w. WOODWARD saws that in the
drug business in this State, only one-half
of the cough and lung medicine is sold,
In proportion to the amount sold in the
Eastern States. This is accounted for by
the dry, pure, healthful climate, which is
of itself almost sufficient to cure diseases
of the lungs. With three large drug
stores, doing successful business, the
Doctor has ample opportunities of draw
ing correct conclusions in regard to such
matters. Residents of the Eastern States,
who are afflicted with weak lungs, Will
please make note of this fact.
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Letter from E. w. Randall.
SCHOOL DISTRICT No. ~,


February LIST, 1868.
EDITOR NEWS; The following is state
ment, as correct as can obtain, of the farming
operations in this school district during the
past season. This district ccnters on Allen
in progress with Ii scholars enrolled, 1920 in
which will be built the, coming summer pro-
vided we can negotiate our bonds:
VIM. Grimsley grew - acres of fall wheat,
which thraShed 544 bushels; IS acres of oats
43i bushels; 26 acres of corn, 900 bushels. Sold
his wheat at prices varying from 81 to $3.50:
oats worth 10 cents, corn worth ~ cents. Had
10 bushels of apples, besides windfalls.
Robert Service, acres spring wheat. &c
bushels: II acres corn. $50 bushels: 1 acre of
potatoes, 100 bushels; three-fourths of an acre,
of castor beans, u bushels, worth S225 per
bushel. On rented land, 10 acres ef corn, 300
bushels; acres of oats, 240 bushels. Has leo
rods Of Usage hedge, and grew 1900 plants
Charles Drake, IA acres Of spring wheat, 22J
bushels; 2SI< acres corn, $50 bushels; Il acres:
oats, $50 bushels; three-fourths of an of
potatoes, 40 bushels; acres hungarian tons
Has POO rods of Usage hedge.
Z. s. Smith, acres fall wheat, % bushels;
acres spring wheat. (upland) 90 bushels:
acres of oats. (upland) 200 bushels; . acres of
corn, 225 bushels; acres sod corn: VERY late
upland 90 bushels; acres hungarian. fup-
land) IL loads; acre potatoes, $50 bushels.
From pounds of seed, Early Goodrich. raised
bushels OF potatoes. Had manufactured at
the Americus factory 1864 pounds of cheese,
sold for u cents. NET.
Albert and Joseph Miller, 10 acres spring
wheat, 179 bushels; oats (upland) 10 acres. $50
bushels; acres OF corn, POO bushels; II acres
OF very late corn, very light. not estimated
Three acres Of potatoes, 500 bushels. Have go
rods of hedge.
H. w. Randall, ~ acres corn, 90 bushels:
some sod corn, not measured); 21S acres of
potatoes, $50 bushels. Had manufactured / 500
pounds Of cheese at the Americas factory.
Frederick kurzen, 5 acres rye, 81 bushels: 8
acres oats, 24S bushels; acres corn, go bush
els. This is all upland. In 1866 he had from
"a acres fall wheat 200 bushels; IL acres Of
oats, 100 bushels; hungarian, IL acres, loads.
Has Sc rods Of hedge.
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Thus you have the s.good and the bad'' of
average. The first sowing of fall wheat was
destroyed by grasshoppcrs, and the above yield
was obtained from that sown in October and
November. much of it not coming up till
spring, and the unprecedented severity of the
weather during the month of March following,
killed out the wheat badly. Corn planting
was also far too long delayed from fear of
grasshoppers, ana was considerably below the
average yield of the year previous.
There are three improved upland farms of
80 acres each, for sale III the district, at prices
ranging from $500 to $1.100.
4 large portion of the Kaw Trust Lands,
which corner in this district, are for sale at
from 81 % to - ,25 per acre. and good farms can
be obtained thereon.
The length of the foregoing precludes further
remarks. r. W. RANDALL.
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OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

We refer with pride to the numerous
articles published in this paper from the
farmers of this and adjoining counties.
No person can fail to get correct idea
of what the country is from their peru
sal. Nearly all of them have been here
ten years, and they are among the most
reliable and substantial citizens of this
part of the State. They don't Drag
They tell what we have, and what they
have done in the way of stock raising
fruit raising and farming.
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We thought it was tolerably cool here
last Saturday night, Sunday and Sum
day night. The mercury was down be-
low zero five to seven degrees But
dispatches from the east make as shud-
der. A dispatch from Chicago. Of tho
10th SAYS: Dispatches from different
parts of Illinois and the West indicate
that last night was the coolest Of the
season. The thermometer at 8 O'Clock
this morning stood: at Rock Island,
I'll. % below; at Dixon, 20 below; at
Freeport. % below at Beioit, Wis, "a
below at Desmoines, Iowa, q below
at Dubuque, % below; Museatine, 81
below Winona. MIMI, A below; and
at Sparta, Wis,51 below. Our readers
will observe that the time given above
is 8 o'clock Monday morning: At t5at
hour the murcnry was probably ten . ae,
grees above zero here. Inc .Inpl le si'st
prevails to some extent in the East that
we have harder winters here than thefe.
Nothing is more erroneous.
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Joseph Eggers, IL acres fall wheat, 19X
bushels; acres spring wheat. 30 bushels: ~
acres of oats, la bushels: acres of corn, 165
bushels; 20 rods of sorghum, 30 gallons, Has
80 rods OF hedge. IN 1866 from acres spring
wheat, raised 81 bushels; 5E acres Of oats, 24O
bushels; all upland. 81
Joseph Ernst, 8 acres fall wheat, III bushels;
5 acres Of corn, loo bushels; one-third of an
acre of pototoes, IS bushels; one half acre OF
LibeTian sugar cane. 81 gallons. On upland.
acres spring wheat, AZ bushels; 8 acres of rye,
Is bushels; acres oats, half lost from lodg-
ing) 107 bushels; 3 acres corn. IS hu .hels; :
acres hungarian, y loads. Has 80 rods OF
hedge
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Letter from F. G.. Hunt.

Mr.. SToTLER: At your request, propose to
give you some points about Kansas, for your
immigration DaDcr:
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
THE EYES! THE EYES
DIR. E. H. PARDEE,
OCULIST AND AURlST

FTER A PROTRACTED BLINDNESS OF
| N more than five years, DR.. Pardee has made
himself thoroughly and scientifically acquaint-
ed with all diseases of the Eye, and is now prac-
ticing with success not surpassed in the Uni
| ted States.
All operations performed, such as Strabismus,
or cross eye, Cataract by linear extraction, De-
preston or Absorption, Pterygium, or fesby
membrane growing over the eye, Reduction of
Staphyloma, or bullying out of the eye, Artificial
Pupil Fistula Lachrymalis, closing of tear
passage, and all deformites of the Lids, etc.
Artificial Eyes inserted without the least pain
and possessing all the movements and brilliancy
of the real eye large assortment constantly
on hand and for sale at reasonable prices The
Doctors Eye Bath for the treatment and cure of
all nervous diseases is used all over this coast
Thankful to those physicians who have sent
him cases for operations, he hopes that his uni
versal success will warrant continuation OF
their confidence. His celebrity as an operator is
co-extensive with his success, as patients are
presenting themselves for treatment and opera
| tons, from New York and Boston, almos month
ly. Many patients can be seen at the Doctor S
office daily, in different stages of recovery. DR..
PARDEE has associated with him DR.. II. BlGELow.
Office-767 Clay street, (above the Plaza
near Dupont street. l6:l2:ly.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01

SMALL SAvIyGs.-Thc majority of those who
succeed in life do not do so BY any single stroke,
or sudden leap into desired position. 1t is by
small savings and overwork that most gains in
time as we'll as in money are made. The Satur-
day Reuier says In literature, at the bar, or
indeed in any avocation, it is constancy which
insures success and good work; and constancy
is nowhere so well tested as by pcrSevering util-
ization of margins, alike of time and of all the
other material of production. 1t is the extra
half hour a day that wins-the half hour which
a student devotes to gathering up the fragments
that are left, to noting down the stray, unused
facts, to placing them under old heads, or to in
venting new heads which may comprehend them,
to summing up the proceedings of the day, and
to fixing in his mind as nearly may be its
most faithful and suggestive products.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
TAX NOTICE.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY oy TRINITY, IS.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ Delinquent Tax list in and for Trinity conn
ty, State of California, for the fiscal wear of
l867'6s has this day been deposited with the
District Attorney of said county, and if the de-
linquent taxes therein specified are not paid to
the county Treasurer within TWENTY DAYS
from the posting OF notices as required by law,
torney for the collection Of said taxes and costs
Dated Weaverville, November 25, 1867.
4s;to. A. j. LOOMS, Co. Auditor.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
SPERMATORRHEA.

DR. D0HERTY has just published an important nam,
pe enbd,ing his views and experiences in relation
to Impotence 'ery being short treatise Sperma-
Seminal eakness PHYSICAL eb;Ii
~ consequent this other diseases of the
uai Organs.
This little contains information Of the utmost vain,
all whether married single and will be sent FREE bv
mail receipt oi SiA GEMS i'll postage for return
postage Address W. X. DUIiEKTY II. D.
Erancisco Cal
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DR.. ]. c. YOUNG,
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE,

MEDlCAL AND SURGlUAL lNS111o
=. CONSTELLATION, IN ALL CAS-
ES, FREE.
- CURES GUARANTEED, OR NO
PAY REQUIRED.
.. INALL CASES WHERE CONFI-
DENcE rs REQUIRED THE
UTMOST SECRESY MAIN
The dbove rules, established
by DR.. j. c. Young in 1850,
and aOhich hare done so mach
to secure the reputation Of this
Institute, are still adhered to,
0TordinO those In need of
medical aid, the certainty of
cure and the utmost confidence.
There Is nothing of so great
importance to the sick as to
knOs0 aUhere to find q physi-
clan aUhOse skill and humanity
Oice assurance of proper and
delicate treatment. The Doc
tor aUOuld respectfully call the
attention Of ttosc of both seres
acho are suffering or im trouble
to the inr0riG3ic success that
has married the career of the
Institute IN the seUehtee,e gears
Of is existence.
Ills unnecessary n this con-
nectiON to cnuiNcrute 0U tic
coz, ;,Zu;nts treated at the In
stitute, 0u$ the Doctor feels it
his duty to cal especial atten-
ton 10 that terrible scOurge,
SEMIN1L TEAKNESS,
That is sdpping aCih its in
sidiousness the ccry life of its
victinas; ia the treatment and
cure of ,ChicIt the Institute has
earned so enUiable a reputa-
ton.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
s. INTERNAL REVENUE NOTICE

TAXES ON THE ANNUAL LIST FOB rim
i year 1867 are now due. PAYMENT viii -. -
ceived at the Office of the County CLERK. Wes-
verville, on and after the 9th day Of Japnarv A
D. 1863 n " xopCnnnny, a.
Deputy Collector Sd District, California.
By NJ. F. GRIFFIN, Deputy.
Weavervile, January 8, 1868. Ia,
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TO THE UNFORTUNATE
DIR. GIBBONS DISPENSARY,
GIG Hearney street,

CORNER COMMERCIAL, SAN FRAN
cisco, established in 1854. for the treat
ment of Sexual and Seminal diseases
such as Gonorrhea. elect. Structure,
Syphilis in all its forms, Seminal Weak
ness, Impotency, etc. Skin diseases (o'
years standingl and liberated Legs. sue
ressfully treated.
DOCTOR GIDEON has the pleasure
II announcing that he has returned to
this State. after an absence of one year.
during which time he has visited all
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
INSURANCE AGENCY

FTNHE UNDERSIGNED HAS BEEN APPOINT
ed Agent for Trinity county of the Pacific In.
suiance Company. Parties holding Policies ia
sueo oy that Company are informed that the IAN.
are in no way affected by the faiInre 81 CO..
hood 4 New bauer. TorrM ~
Weavervlle, August o., 1867. a..
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01

THs oldest couple are Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd of
ironton He is ITO and she is l07. They get
MAD at each other every little while and threaten
70 OBTAIN divorce. The other day the dame
FUSED 10 sew on shirt-bntton for her spouse,
when he indignantly inquired, "If he had cot
to live so all his life Or
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01

FoR GRASr.-The Republicans of Oregon seem
to be almost unanimous in favor of Gen. Grant
Grant Clubs are being organized all over the
State. And so it is all over the Pacific and At
lan'ic States. The Republicans will nominate
Grant for President and Grant will be elected
The only question to be decided is who shall be
chosen Vice President.-Sdcramento Bee
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01

The Trinity journal costs only Ffv.
Dollars Year. Send It Home.
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CRoup.-The following extract from the Medi-

CRoUP.-The following extract from the Medi-
cal Gazette of Paris, is published for the benefit
of those mothers who usually treat Group with
out the aid of physician M. Manganterie,
after observing the effect of sulphur on the or
dunn of grapevines was led to administer it in
several cases of Group. He mixed teaspoonful
of sulphur in glass of water, and gives tea
spoonful of this mixture every hour. The effect
is described as wonderful The disease is cured
in two days, the only symptom remaining being
q cough arising from the presence of loose pieces
of false membrane in the treachea. NJ NJ says
he hes followed this plan in seven cases, all be-
ing severe, especially the last in which the child
was cyanotic, protruied rolling eyes and noisy
respiration.
Bliss UNDER SHAwL-The Madison lind J
Courier says that at dance in that city, two
youths became @ struck with the girl.
She not wishing to show a special favor to either
declined dancing, and seated herself in the back
part of the room. Being chilly, the fair maiden
wore large shawl. One of her poor admirers
concluded to slip his hand under her shawl, and
try what effect squeezing her hand would have.
With nervous trepidation he made the attack and
succeeded. He was blissful. He squeezed and
she squeezed. 1t felt glorious. After quite a
joyful time spent in this way, the lady threw
back her shawl ard revealed to a crowd stand
ing near, the two youths squeezing one anoth-
er's hand most lovingly. 1t don't do to say
squeeze" to either one of them since.
CURIOUS BIRTHs.-A negro woman, living near
Savannah, recently gave birth to triplets, two of
them being black, the other white. Abiding to
this extraordinary birth, the Quitman ga Ban
ner says -" This case is not without parallel.
Several years ago negro woman in South Car
DINA gave birth to three infants, all of different
colors-white, mulatto, and black the white
child having straight hair and Caucasian fea-
lures 1t also mentions case of Georgia
woman who gave birth to twins-one white the
other black.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-02-01
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
Somebody's Heart.

Somebody's Heart.
Ny heart is waiting somebody;
Somebody, where can he be,
Somewhere earth he is waiting,
Waiting and watching for me.
My heart shall be faithful and true, then,
To that somebody. wherever he be-
Yes my heart is locked firmly and fast,
But there's some one possessing the key.
Why are you sad and disheartenedl
Why do yon look at me,
Because you say you're discouraged
That you do not hold the heart key
How shall know who's the somebody,
My heart will tell faithful and true
You wonder who can be the somebody,
Well somebody, darling, is you.