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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-19
NUMBER g.
KANSAS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The Report of President Denison on
the State Agricultural College has been
| published. During the year Gen. J. w.
| Davidson. Professor of Military Science
and Tactics, and John s. Hougham, A.
NJ, Professor of Agricultural Science,
have been added to the Faculty. Gen.
Davidson will also take charge of in
struction in Civil Engineering, Survey
ing and Navigation. Military drills and
exercises are enjoined upon all made
students.
The College Farm now has eighty
acres enclosed with stone wall, and
forty of them are under cultivation.
] The crops to be cultivated this year are
wheat, corn, rye, oats aud potatoes.
Students are also encouraged in culti-
waiting small tracts of ground on their
own responsibility.
The faculty are unanimous in the
opinion that the highest well-being of
the institution requires that lady pro-
fessOr should be added to the faculty,
who, in addition to teaching, perhaps
Instrumental music and some other
branches, could have special charge OF
OF the department of the young ladies.
On the catalogue soon to be publish
ed there will be one hundred and sixty
eight names of students-seventy-o ne
ladies and ninety-seVen gentlemen. In
the College Course there are twenty
three; la the Preparatory Classical,
thirty EIGHT, aud in the Academic and
Scientific, one hundred and seven.
These are from twenty-one different
counties of the State, and some are from
other States. More have engaged in
teaching this year, so that the number
of teachers the institution has furnish
ed to the State is now not less than
eighty. Last winter term eighty-three
students were enrolled; the spring
term sixty-seven, and the present term
one hundred and twenty-five largest
number ever III attendance at one
time.
The President recommends the form
alton of State Board of Agriculture
and the publication of All annual report
of the agricultural condition and re-
sources of the State.
Hon. 1. L. Goodnow, agent of the en-
dowment lands, has sold, up to this
time, $4,000 worth of the lands. The
interest on this will meet part of the
current expenses the coming year. The
sale of the land will be urged forward
as fast as consistent, and ere long the
State will not only be relieved from
appropriating for salaries of the faculty,
but be repaid for the amounts apprO-
priated.-IfnaeS Dc Conservative.
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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-19

IMMIaR ALTON. Statistics of imni-
grafton at New York show that dur
ing the year 1868 there arrived at that
port 2l3, $3.50, nearly 8 quarter Of mill
lion. OF these 101 ,9S9, or nearly half,
were from Germany alone. Only
Al ,57l were from Ireland, Is, 695 from
England, Il, $50 from Sweden, 1890
from Scotland, 1892 from Switzerland,
and 2,S1l from France, and from 9TH
er countries smaller numbers. Of the
whole immigration at New York, there
fore, 81 ,656 came from the British En-
pire, 101, 989 from Germany. But
t.-ese figures do not represent the whole
immigration to this country by any
means. Large numbers have arrived
at Boston, Portland, Philadelphia, and
at Pacific ports, and q considerable
number are constantly coming from
Canada, either of former residents
there, or of persons who have crossed
the ocean in vessels to Montreal. A
considerable share of the German inn
migration comes through other ports
ton of the 213,686 immigrants, who
landed in New York in 1853, the in
formation is far less reliable. A large
share of immigrants do not know,
when first landing, where they will
settle. Many go first to find friends
already in this country, and then take
q new start after they have looked
about them little. Moreover, q great
many, not knowing exactly whore to
go, stop at first in New York. Hence
it happens that Castle Garden records
assert that 65,714 immigrants during
1858 went to New York, 80, 1895 20 IL
linois, II, 537 to Wisconsin, 1,l23 to
Ohio, about 7 900 each to Massschus-
| etts, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Iowa,
and only 6,516 to Missouri. But the
proportion ultimately coming to this
State is much larger; many of those
set down to New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Massachusetts and Illinois, soon
find their way to this State. The
enormous rapidity with which Wisoon-
sin has grown is explained by the fact
that 16, 537 persons destined for that
State landed at New. York alone in one
year. 81 SHIT skA FkIda
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MODERN RnnE.

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In her faded magnifcence Rome still
possesses the most imposing of earth
~ empires. She rules over nearly two
hundred millions of the human race.
Her well ordered army of priests, both
regular and secular, arrsyed with the,
precision of . Roman legion, and go7-
erned by single viii, carry the stand
ard of st. Peter to the farthest bounds
of civilization, and cover the whole
earth with chain Of influences radi-
ating from the central city. The Pope
Is still powerful in Europe and Ameri.
ca, Africa and the East. He distnrhs
the policy of England, and eametimes
governs that of France this influence
is felt in the revolutions of Mexico and
the elections of New York. Hemmed
in by the Greek church on the east.
ward, engaged in constant struggle
with the Professionalism Of the north,
and trembling for his ancestral domin-
ions in the heart of Italy itself, the SUI
preme Contiff still calamity summons
around him his countless priestly le-
gions, and thunders from the Vatican
the sentiments of the Middle Ages.
AS if TO maintain before the eyes of
mankind sembiance OF supernatural
splendor, the Pope has invented and
perfected at Rome ritual more mag
nificent than was ever known before.
In the Basiica Of st. Peter, the larg-
est and most costly building ever erect
ed by man, the annual pomP of the
Romanish ceremonies exceeds the pow
ers of description. The gorgeous robes,
the plaintive music, the assembled
throng of the princes, cardinals and
priests, the various rites designed to
paint in living colors the touching me-
MORALS of the Savior's life and death,
delight or impress the inquisitive ana
the devout. And when at length the
Holy Father, parent, of all the faith
full, appears upon the balcony of st.
Peters and bestows his blessing upon
mankind, few turn away unaffected by
the splen lid spectacle, untouched by
! the peculiar fascination of the magnii-
cent church of Rome.-EMgene Lag
renee, in Harper's MGguzire. s..
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A STOREY NIGHT.

A dismal round of beating rain
Is heard against the window pane.
The heart of Nature throbs with woe;
Her dreary tears unceasing flow.
The naked branches toss and sigh;
No star CLEAN in the ciOuded sky.
The ghosts Of buried flowers moan,
And streams reply with willing tone.
Draw up your chair; shut out the night;
Home never seemed before as bright.
We need not care for outside gloom
Within this cheerful lighted room.
The wind may roar with gusty mirth-
a hre is blazing on the hearth.
What sight across my vision swept
A sudden vision DER me crept.
I saw, from out the embers rise,
Dim shadowy forms, in ghOstly guise.
A crowd Of faces, white and gaunt.
And worn, alasl with sin and want.
Their eyes gave forth hungry glare,
And yet were hopeless with despair.
Their scanty garments, thin and old,
Could not keep out the damp and cold.
And OIL they looked so pinched and blue;
The chilly storm had pierced them through
The vision vanished; what IL meant
know too well. and why twas sent.
In household cheer and warmth secure
We never should forget the poor.
This Lesson God would have US learn.
AND Z of what He gives return.
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STEAM CARRIAGES FOR COMMON
ROADS.

On Saturday afternoon very remark
able sight was seen in this city. A train
of heavily laden coal wagons, looking
exactly like a luggage train, was observ-
ed coming steadily up the steep incline
into Edimburg. 1t was one of Mr.. r.
w. Thompson's patent road steamers
with india rubber wheel tires, having
four huge loaded wagons in tow. The
total weight of the load was forty tons.
The road steamer had drawn the train
from Newbattle collieries eight miles
from Edinburg, over very hilly road
with rising gradients of one in sixteen.
The hill from Pow Burn up to Minron
street is both long and steep, but the
road steamer drew its train to the top
with the most perfect ease. In the out
skirts of the city, where the roads are
macadamized, there were many places
where broken stones had just been
spread on the surface. Over these sharp,
loose stones the india rubber tires OF
| the road steamer passed without crush
| ing, or in fact, disturbing them in the
least. The toughest and sharpest bed OF
broken stones sank gently into the
elactic, springy cushion of the Indian
rubber. which rose from the con-
tact with the most jagged fragments of
stone without any trace or mark of i'll
iuary. The perfect command which the
| conductors of the train had over its
movements enabled them to control
both its course and speed with the ut
most precision. The line of streets
through which it passed are always the
most crOwed streets in the city notwith-
standing all these obstacles, aggravated
by the streets by the streets being AT
some points under repair and closed for
one-haff their width, no difficulty was
experienced in steering clear of every
limpediment. This invention seems to
remove all obstacles of the use of steam
on common rOads.--THe Scotsman.
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MURDER OF JAMES ,. GENTRY.

On the 18th of October last. James B.
GENTRY left this city ostensibly to re-
turn in day or two. He had purchas-
ed farm in Kansas some time preVi-
GUS. had married last spring, taken his
young wife to the home he is preparing
in Kansas. had returned to this county to
receive a sum of $1,000 due him on ar
irving at the age of twenty-one, had at
tanned his majority and received the
money. The day or two heightened
into months, and no tidlngs were re-
ceiVed of him. His wife, who remain
ed at the house of her father, C. w.
Mills. ESQ.,, of this city, was in the great
est distress, his brothers and friends
made every possible enquiry, but up to
last Friday, nothing definite or satisfac-
tory concerning him, could be learned.
He had been heard of in st. Louis a few
days after leaving home. then all trace
of him was lost. There was no reason
able theory on which to account for his
absence, and fears of foul play filled the
minds of his friends.
Last fall, story originating in Kan
sas paper, went the rounds of the press,
to the effect that two men travelling in
Wilson county, Kansas, in twO-horse
wagon. had camped for the night by the
roadside, that next day the dead body
of one of them was found lying in the
smouldering camp fire, that examina-
ton revealed the fact of his murder by
shooting, on the head, that the body had
been buried by the citizens of the neigh
bOrhoOd, force raised to pursue the
travelling companion of the dead man,
the pursuit kept up two hundred miles,
and the murderer arrested in Nebraska,
and brought back to the scene of the
murder, and there lodged in Jail. This
account, few days ago, met the eve of
Capt. III. G. Gentry, of johnson county,
Kansas, brother of the missing man,
who had been informed of his strange
absence. He proceeded to the scene of
the tradgedy, had the body disinterred,
and at once recognized in the charred
and mangled remains, the form of the
long lost James B. Gentry. The face
had not been exposed to the action of
the fire and the features were clearly
distinguishable. Last Friday a letter
from Capt. Gentry, relating the the facts,
was received by Joseph NJ. Gentry, of
Rails county, another brother, and thus
the sad fate of the long lost husband
and brother was revealed. Circumstan-
ces seem to warrant the belief that the
plan to rob and murder him was laid
here in Hannibal, possibly dating from
the time he left his home in Kansas to
collect the So 600 due him here. Last
Monday, Joseph NJ. Gentry left for the
scene of the murder, for the purpose of
investigating the affair. Deceased was
a son of Col. Joshua Gentry, deceased,
late of this county.-HdnRibGE Vest and
South. D.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-19

UNHAPPY MARRIAGEs.-It is almost
incredible from what . variety of cir
cumstanees marriages may prove uT-
happy but it is found in by far the mar
jority Of cases that the husband is some
how or other the cause Of the evil. Do
nestle felicity is seldom msrred by the
woman; il is her empire, and she Is no
more likely to destroy it than the bird is
to pull her own nest to pieces She
stands by home as principle, and 1t Is
her nature to seek to render it as agree
able as possible 70 her husband. She
has also a more intense sense than the
man of the decencies of Efe-is more
anxious to have ali duties properly OBJ
served-to have screditable appearance
before neighbors--in short, IS she says,
to have everything right Men, even
sensible. we'll educated men, are often
rebels against many of the prophecies,
but women very ralely-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-19

A man travelling upon the desert of
the Humboldt, on the route to Cslifor-
ME. once passed solitary wagon stand
ing In the road without any team attach
ed. Seeing wretched Joking lad nurs-
ing q starving baby, he asked him what
was the matter. @Well, now, respond
ed the youth, II guess I'm kinder esreakf.
Ole dad,s drunk, ole wons got the nys-
ferice brother jim Be pIay1nsA PekeE
with two RambleEn; sister Sale AoWn
thar courfin' Of an entire stsAGsr
this yer baby has got tAe di4ress the
wTrst sort: the wagons broke down
it's svEenty miles to the Bex6 water--and
/ don't care . DIN il ! .neEer see Cali
forney.
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II We knew the woe and heartaehe
Visiting for us down the road,
II chr lips could taste the wor0wood,
H oar backs could feel the load,
Wo1lld we waste the day In wishing
For a time that meier can be:
Wolld we want in such impatienee
Tor our ships TO come from seat
II We knew the baby fingers
messed against the window pane,
W1lhd be cold and stiff to-moFrow-
never trouble us again
WoQld the bright eyes Of cur darling
Natcn the IroWn upon our brow.
WouId the print Of rosy fingers
Nex US then as they do nowl
Al these little ice-cold fingers,
Low they point our memories back
10 the hasty words and actions
strewn along our backward traekt
How those little hands remind US.
As IN snowy grace they lie.
Not 70 scattered thorns-but roses
FOR our reaping by and by. -
Strange we never prize the music
hi the sweet-yoiced bird has flown:
s.<ange that we should slight the Violets
Hill the lovely flowers are gone:
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one half so fair
As when winters snowy pinious
Shake their white down in the airl
Lips from which the seal Of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blOssomed in such beauty
As aGorns the mouth to-day;
Aud sweet words that freight our memory
With that beautiful perfume,
Come 10 US in swecter accents,
Through the portals Of the tomb.
Let US gather up the sunheams,
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chat;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day,
With a patient hand removing
All the briars from our way.
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VALUE OF READiNG.-The following
should receive the careful attention of
every parent, as well as every young
man in the country: t1e -
"a child beginning to read. becomes
delighted with newspapers because
he reads of names and things which
are very familiar, and hes hwflf make
progress accordingly. a. newspaper,
ia one year, is worth quarter school.
ing TO child, and every father must
consider that substantial Information II
connected with his advancement. The
mother of family, being one Of ita
heads, and having & more immediate
charge OF children, should, herself, be
interested. 80 - 4sgsa 81 GO I4s,fl
A mind occupied, becomes fortified
against the Ills of life and is brave for
any emergency. Children amus9d by
reading or study are OF course more
easily governed. How many thought.
less ycung men have speHt their ssrus
tugs in tavern or gfog shop Who
ought to have been reading2 How
many parents, who have never spent
twenty dollars fore their lfsnfsfes.
would gladly have given thousands. OF
dollars to reclaim q son, who had
ignorantIy and thoughtlsssly hIIen
into temptation. 2 . 9 = = - p
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TABLE MANNERS.

To meet at the breakfast table father,
mother, children, all we'll, ought to be a
happiness to any heart; it should be a
source of humble gratitude, and should
wake up the warmest feelings of our
nature. Shame upon the contemplate
and LOWERED cur, whether parent or
child, that can ever come to the break
fast table, where all the family have
met in health, only to fret, and whine,
and growl, and frown; it il PrtRaa
.facie evidence of a mean, and groveling,
and selfish, and degraded nature,
whencesoeyera the churl may have
sprung. Nor is it less reprehensibie to
make such exhibitions at the tea table
for before the morning comes, some OF
the little circle may be stricken with
some deadly disease, to gather around
that table not again forever. Children
in good health, # left to themselves al
the table, become, after few mouth
fuls, garrulOus and noisy; but if within
at all reasonable or parable bounds, it
is better to let them alone they eat less,
because they do not eat SO rapidly as if
compelled to keep silent, while the
very eXhileration of spirits quickens
the circulation of the vital fluids, and
energises digestion and assimilation.
The extremes of society curiously meet
in this regard. The tables of the rich
and mobiles of England are models OF
nirth, wit and bonhommie; it takes
hours to get through q repast, and they
live long. If anybody will look in up
on the negroes of well-to-do family
in Kentucky, while at their meals, they
cannot but be impressed with the per-
feet abandon of jabber, eachination and
mirth; it seems as if they could talk all
day, and they live long. It follows,
Al. 81. - 1t III IL Il
common interchange of high-bred cour-
tesies, of warm affections, of cheering
mirthfulness, and that generosity OF
nature which lifts US above the brutes
which perish, promotive as these things
are of good digestion, high health, and
q long life.-HdlEs Journal.
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Of course it is always pleasant to
know thst the American Eagle is feared
and respected by the bloated minions
of foreign despotism, yet it is not with
unalloyed satisfaction that we read the
following story in . late number Of the
Pail Mall Gazette:
An amusing incident occurred at the
opening of the French Chambers. A
newly appointed attache at the Amer
Jean embassy came to witness the GER
emony, but being unknown to the po-
lice, was stopped by the two officials at
the door, who asked him his name.
The attache answered something in
English and attempted to pass on, but
the officials refused to admit him. This
| so enraged the American that he seized
the two officials By the collar and
knocked their heads against each other
two or three times. An officer now
came up and asked the attache for his
card, which was Immediately produced,
and had q remarkable effect on the con-
duct of the policemen, Notwithstanding
the hard usage they had received. They
bowed profoundly, and with much en-
presse8leBt showed the attache to his
seat.
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How WOMEN CAN BECOME INDEPEND-
ENT.-Let every woman that sees the
first need to be that women should be
so taught, SO educated, that she can be
Independent of father, brother or hus-
band, first strive to be independent her.
self, and than teach it to all other wo-
men and girls about her. Let every
women who wants to be anything in
particular, and feels within her the ca
pacity, determine TO be that thing. But
let her faithfully submit to the condi-
tons of her imposed task. If she has
taken desk in the counting-room, let
her do her duty as q man would do his.
She has no right to expect to be excus-
ed when man would not be ; no right
to stay at home when it rains no right
to go away earlier than her hour, be-
cause she can't cross the ferry after dark /;
no right to expect not to be blown up
| when she makes a wrong entry. 1t is
simply because women will not submit
to the conditions that men have to sub
NIT to, because their uncertain fLvure
makes them careless of their work, and
because they are without training, that
they do not so readily find employment,
| and that they are always paid less wag-
es than men. Once let woman confront
fate and not flirt with it, and the wo-
man question would begin to emerge
| from its present muddle.-PWtnGna's
| Magazine.
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ST. PETERS REPLY.

Full eighteen hundred years or more
PVe kept my doors securely tied;
There has no little angel" strayed,
Nor one been missing all the while.
did not sleep as you supposed.
Nor left the door Of heaven ajar;
Nor has ''little angelo left,
And gone down with falling star.
Go ask that blushing bride and see
If she won't frankly own and say
That when she found that angel babe,
She found it in the good old way.
God grant but this-I ask no more.
That should your number you enlarge,
That you will not do as before,
And lay it to old Peters charge,
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r. g.. a.
A Puzzled YANKEE.-Jinks tells a
good story of man on Mississippi
steamer who was questioned by Yam
kee. The gentleman, TO humor the fell
low. replied to all the questions straight
.forwardly until the inquisitor was fair
~ puzzled for an interrogatory. AT
last he inquired:
sLook here, Squire-where was yeou
born 2"
81 was born" said the victim, sin
Boston, fremont ST., No. A, left hand
side, on the LIST day of August, 1870, at
5 o'clock In the afternoon; physician,
DIR. Warren; nurse, Sally Benjamin..
Yankee was answered completely.
For moment he was stuck. Soon, how
every, his face frightened, and he quick
ly said,
"Yeas; wall, / calculate you don't
recollcct whether it was . frame or 8
brick house, dew ye
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WHAT RAILROADS DO FOR farmers
To haul forty bushels of corn fifty miles
on a wagon would cost at least So for
team, driver and expens Ga. "A railroad
would transport it at 81 at most. AL
lowing an average of forty bushels per
acre, the crop would be worth SO more
per acre, or eight per cent. on 500. AS
the relative advantage is about the same
for other crops, it is clear that railroad
passing through town would add $40
per acre to the value of the farms. A
town ten miles square contains "a 600
acres. An increase of 500 per acre is
equal to 5 6,4O0O 600, or enough to build
200 miles of railroad, even If it cost
$50, COO per mile. But 200 miles of road
would extend through twenty towns
ten miles square, and cost but SO per
acre if taxed upon the land. These
figures are given merely as an ilustra-
ton. If the farmers had taxed them
selves to- build ali the railroads in this
country, aud given them away TO amy
companies that would stock and run
them, the present increased value of
their lands would have wei repaid all
the outlay.-ARericGn AgYicEItGTist.
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i. How TO Know 4 GoosE.-tsM other y
cried q young rock, hurriedly returning
from its first flight, f'Pm so frightened
I've seen such sight -.
: sWhat sight, my sonl" asked the
rock. !.
sOh, white creatures, screaming and
running and straining their necks, and
holding their heads ever so high! See,
mother, there they gOl0
sGeese, my son, merely geese re-
piled the parent bird looking over the
common Through life, child, observe
that when you meet any one who makes
q great fuss about himself, and tries 70
LIT his head higher than the rest of the
world, you may set hin down ct once