The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-03-12
EDlTORIAL BREyITIEs.


Anna Dickinson will lecture at
Lawrence next Friday evening.
General Sheridan said in st. Louis
that he considers the Indian problem
solved and the noble red man complete
ly subjugated.
Council Grove is to have newspa-
per. Mr.. johnson will, at an early day.
move his paper, the Garrett Exposition,
to the Grove. Mr.. johnson prints q
good local paper, and we congratulate
our friends of Morris county OH the val
liable accession.
The rates of freight on the Union
Pacific Railroad have been considerably
reduced. This win be good news to
the people of Kansas.
"A daily mail has been established
between Fort Scott and Fort Gibson,
to go into operation the first of April.
-Prouty, the newly elected State Prin-
ter, and his cousin, Major J. B. Davis,
late of New York, have bought the To-
peka Leader of j. F. Cummings, and
will establish, at an early day, in place
of the Leader, the Central State Com
mOnweaEth, daily, tri-weekly and
weekly. The Commonwealth will be
the official state paper, and as such will
be valuable TO the reading public. Mr..
Prouty is too well known in Kansas to
need any Introduction. We doubt not
the Commonwealth will take front
rank among the papers of the West.
We congratulate the people of Topeka
on the prospect of having such paper
printed in their city.
1t seems we made slight error or
| two in our account of the shooting
scrape between Major Anderson and
Mr.. Alien, at Topeka, few days ago.
Mr.. Anderson did not strike Mr.. Allen
as we reported it. We obtained this
information from bye-stander. Also,
the epithets applied to the employees
of the railroad by Allen were not gen
eral. He cited case in which Major
Anderson was the party transacting the
business for the company, and made his
remarks so as to apply to that case. and
consequ entlys to Major Anderson, di-
rectly. The Major does not propose
to do the fig hting of the railroad COM
pany, but felt that he could not stand it
to be called thief in a manner so d.
rect and offensive. The Major is rap
idly recovering, and will soon be Oh
duty again at the depot.
We have very bitter communica-
ton from subscriber in Waterloo
township, in which he complains of the
faction of some of our county officers in
| taking the measures which the law re-
quires for the collection of personal tax.
Also, expressing his contempt for the
law and for the officers who did their
duty in complying with it. In this
letter our friend says his ''blood is up"
We have no doubt of this from peru
sal of the letter, and think when he
cools off and his blood goes down he
will say we acted wisely in not pub
fishing his communication, especially
as abuse of the officers will in no. wise
help the matter of which he complains.
1t seems necessary to make the law for
the collection of taxes very stringent,
and our officers have taken a solemn
oath to obey and enforce the law. They
cannot set it aside to accommodate a
single individual in the county, how
ever much they might desire to do so.
| The bill for the repeal of the Civil
Tenure law passed the House on the
9th.
The telegraph says that the success
sor of Gen. Sheridan in this Department
will be Gen. o. D. Howard, late head
of the Freedmen's Bureau. During the
latter part of the war in Sherman's CAM
paigu before Atlanta, Gen. Howard
commanded the famous army of the
Tennessee, ''that never experienced de-
feat or reverse" and was known by the
army as the "one-armed, christian SOL
der"
| Grant is the youngest man ever
elected President. He will be forty-sev-
en- OIL the 22d of April.