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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
BLOODY BATTLE.
Some war correspondent furnishes
an exchange with the following account
of cat fight. 1t is very good thing /:
THE BATTLE.

OF cat nght. IL Is very good thing /:
THE RATTLE.
s1On a pine wood shed, in an alley
dark, were scattered meonbeams sitting
through a row of tottering chimneys,
and awning torn and dropping, strobe
forth, with stiff aud tense drawn mus
Gle and tread, cat.
Ills name was Norval; an Wonder
neighboring hills his father caught the
rats that came in7sduads from streets be-
You'd the bridge, in search of food and
strange adventures.
Grim war he courted, and his twisted
tail and spine upheaying in fantastic
curve, and claws distended aud ears fiat
ly pressed against head thrown back
defiantly, told of impending strife.
With eyes agleam, aud screeching
blasts of war, and steps as silent as the
falling dew, young Norval crept along
the splintering edge, and gazed mo-
ment through the darkness down, with
tail awag triumphantly.
Then, with an imprecation and a
growl, perhaps an oath in direct ven-
geance Missed, he started back and
crooked his body like an Letter s, or rath-
err Z inverted, stood in fierce expec-
fancy.
Twas well. With eyebaiIs gIaring
which two rows of fangs stood forth in
sharp and dread conformity, slow up a
post from out tine dark below head ap-
peared.
A dreadful tocsin of determined
strife young NOrval uttered then, with
face unblauchcd, and moustache stand
ing straight before his nose, and tail
flung wildly to the breeze, stepped back
in cautious invitation to the foe.
Approaching the other and with
preparations dire, each cat surveyed the
advantage. of the field. Around they
walked, with tails uplifted and backs
high in air. while from their mouths, i'm
accents Kissing with consuming rage,
dropped brief but awful sentences of
hate.
Thrice around the roof they went, in
circle each with eye upon the foe intent
ly bent; then sideways moving, as is
wont in cats, gave one lOng-drawn, ter
rifle, savage vaw and buckled in.
The fur flew. A mist of hair hung
over the battle field. High above the
din of passing wagons rose the dread
full tumult CT the struggling cats. So
cleaned their eyes in frenzy that to me
who saw the conflict from a window
near, naught else was plain but fiery
stars that moved in orbs most eccen-
trio.
An hour they struggled in tempestu-
GUS night, then faint and fainter grew
the squall of war, until all sound was
hushed. Then forth with lantern and
the field surveyed.
What saw l?
Six claws, one ear, of teeth perhaps a
handful, and, save fur, nOught else eX-
ccpt solitary tail. The tail was Nor
vals-by a tail knew't. The ear was
but we'll let that matter pass.-The
tail will do without the ear.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

STALE BREAD-A curious discovery
has recently been made at Pompeii. In
a house in course Of excavation an oven
was found, closed with an iron door, ON
opening which q batch of eighty one
lOaves, put in nearly eighteen hundred
years ago, now somewhat OyerdOne,
was discovered, and even the large iron
shovel with which they had been neatly
laid in rows. The l0ayes were but
slightly oYerbaked by the lava heat, bav-
ing been protected by q quantity OF
ashes covering the door. There is no
bakers marks on the Ioaves; they arg
circular about pine inches I'm dismeter<
rather fiat, and indented evidently with
the bakers elbow in the center. and are
slightly raised at the sides, and divided
by eight lines radiatiDg from the center
into eight segments. They are now OF
q deep broTn color, aud herd, but very
light. In the same shop were found
ISL broken and 80 silver coins. A
mill with great quantity of cora in
excellent preservation, has also been dis
covered
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

THE AGE OF Our EARTH.-Among
tbs astounding discoveries of science, is
that of the immense periods that have
passed in the gradual formation of the
earth. So vast were the cycles of the
time preceding even the appearance of
man OH the surface of our globe, that
our own period seems as yesterday
when compared with the epochs that
have gone before it. Had we only the
evidence of the deposits of rocks heaped
on each other in regular strata by the
slow accumulation of materials, they
alone would convince as of the long and
slow maturing of Gods work OH earth ;
but when we add to these the successive
population of whose life the world has
been the theatre, and whose remains are
hidden i'm the rocks into which the mud,
or sand. or soil of whatever kind on
which they lived, has hardened in the
course of time-Or the enormous chain
of mountains, whose upheaVal divided
these periods of quiet accumulation by
great cOnvulsiOns-or the changes of
q different nature in the CONGREGATIONS
of our globe, as the sinking of lands be-
meath the ocean, or the gradual rising of
continents and islands aboVe-Or the
slow growth of the coral reefs, whose
wonderful sea walks raised by the little
ocean architects, whose own bodies fur
nish both the building stone and the ce-
ment that binys them together, and who
worked so busy during the long ceutu-
ries that there are extensive countries,
mountain chains, fslans, and long lines
of coast, consisting solely of their re-
mains-or the countless forests that have
grown up, fiourished and decayed, to
fill the storchouse of coal that feeds the
fires of the human race-if we consider
all these records of the past, the intellect
fails to grasp chronology Of which our
experience furnishes no data, and time
that lies beyond us seems as much an
eternity to our conceptions as the flu
ture that stretches indefinitely before US.
-AqdSSiz.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

THE GREAT DIAMoND.-A Cape of
Good Hope paper says that the great
diamond found in South Africa, and
valued at E40,OO0, is about the size of an
ordinary walnut, with an unspoiled sur
face, though irregular outline, but no
fiaw to detract from the value AT first
sight it does not appear especially bril-
liant-Rot so bright, perhaps, as other
diamonds which have come from the
same neighborhOod; still, when cut, il
may rival even the far-famed 'Koh-i-
moor" for beauty, although not equaling
il In size.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06


WEARING MoURHING.-We long for
the day when this custom shall be Obso-
lete.
1t is unbecoming the truly afflicted
one. The wearer says, by the black gar
ments, 81 have lost near friend. am
in deep sorrow" But true grief does
not wish to parade itself before the eyes
of the stranger; much less does it as
sert its extent. The striker one natur-
ally goes apart from the world TO pour
out the tears. Real affection seeks priv.
acy. 1t is no respect to the departed
friend to say we are in sorrow. If We
have real grief it will be discovered.
When God has entered household
in the awful chastisement of death, il is
time for religious meditation and COM
muIion with God on the part of the sur
viyors. How sadly out Of place, then,
are the miIiiner and dreasmaker, the
trying on of dresses and the trimming Of
bonuets.
There is something profane in excit-
ing the vanity of young girl by fitting
a waist, or trying on hat, when the
corpse of father lies in an adjoining
room. 1t is sacrilege to drag the wild
ow forth from her grief to be fitted for
gown, or the selection of q veil.
1t is often terribly oppressive to the
poor. The widow left desoiate with
half dozen little children, the family
means already reduced by the long sick
ness of the father, must draw on her
scanty purse to buy new wardrobe
throughout for herself and children,
throwing away the good stock Of gar.
ments already prepared, when she
knows not where she is to get bread for
those little ones. Truly may fashion be
called tyrant, when IL robs the widow
of her last dollar.
Surely your sorrow will not be ques-
toned, even II you should not call in the
milliner to help you display it. Do
not, in your afiiiction, help uphold .
custom which will turn the affections
Of your poorer neighbor to deeper pow
erty, as well as sorrOw.-1He Central
Bdptist.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

A SOUTHERN HEROfNE.-At SMITH
willie, n. C., on the 18th instant, the
daughter of Capt Hunter. of the steam
ship Fairbanks, while playing on the
dock, was struck by plank and knock
ed overheard. Miss Kate Stewart being
on the dock at the time, Immediately
plunged in, and, being a capital swim
mer, caught the girl as she came up the
second time. Miss Stewart Immediately
struck out for the shore, and though the
child was heavy, being twelve years of
age, succeeded in landing safely with
her precious burden. This Is the sec
ond time she has saved human life
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

A Chicago man is suffering from the
effects of poison from a pair Of scarlet
stockings. The poison was received in-
to his system through the pores of his
feet when opened by perspiration- The
trouble commenced in the swelling of
the feet, and from that time they alave
not only been growing worse contin-
ualIy, but the disease has spread TO other
portions Of his body, appearing in pain
full white biisters. At the present time
the sufferer is In very critical condi-
ton, and there are bnt slight hopes Of
his recovery.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
NEOSHO RAPIDS MILLS.
FASHIONABLE MILLINERY
MES. c. e WHINE

AA4Aos - - - A&N<N1
Has Just received new supply Of Millinery
Goods. Hoop skirts, Gorsets, Dress Trimmings,
&c. which she is selling at very low prices
Also. Dress patterns Of the latest styles, direct
from New York. Call and examine her goods
before purchasing elsewhere. Dress making
and French futiEg done 70 order. a
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
A METHODIST CAMP.MEETING.

A Saratoga paper of the 18th inst.
gives the following account of a thrill
ing scene at the Methodist Conference
Camp-meeting in lively state of ebulli-
ton there at present:
DIR. Inskip struck up the hymn,
s'There is fountain filed with blood
The second stamza, whicli expresses the
thought underlying this National Camp
meeting, was repeated three times. 1t
is as follows:
The dying thief rejoieed to see
That fountain in his day:
And there may 1, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.
''This," said DIR. /, sis good Methodist
theology, and more, it is Gods truth"
At the third singing, all who felt to in
dorse the sentiments, were asked to hold
up their hands, with which hundreds
complied. The third verse was then
sung with both hands appraised, DIR. In
skip invoking the spirit of Wesley,
Fletcher, and all the redeemed In heav-
en- to help them to accept the truth in
all its length and breadth. The words
are:
Dear dying Lamb! Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power.
Till all the ransome Church OF God
Are saved to sin no more.
81 want" said DIR. l., ''to see thous-
and believers sanctified to-day, and a
thousand sinners converted before this
camp-meeting closes. Let us do what
we can, and do il now. You and / can
go down into the pool of salvation and
come out sanctified, and we can do it as
we'll now as at any time" Silent prayer
followed, broken by sObs, cries and ex-
CARNATIONS, the assembled thousands
sympathizing i'll the sentiment of the
hour.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06

Adam was the only man who never
tantalized his wife about s'the way moth
er used 70 cook"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
A NEW TAILOR SHOP.
rHARTEv KSASaUER

NVTOULD announce to the public that he has
F" opened q Tailor Shop at the store Of G.
W. Frederick, in Emporia, where he will at
all times be ready to wait upon those who may
favor him with their patronage. Clothing re-
paired aud renovated. Clothing cut for others
to make, a speciality.
December Is, 1868
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
Kerosene Oil and Lamps.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS,

FANCY SOAPS, AND TOILET ARTICLES
and everything usually called for in first
class Drug Store. BY close application to bu-
siness, and strict integrity in our dealings, we
expect TO merit liberal share of patronage,
md inyitethe people to give a trial.
MOORE & WEAVER.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-06
CIVIL ENGINEERS AND
BUILDERS,

Are prepared to furnish Elevations and work
ing plans for all kinds OF mechanical struc-
lures, Houses, Public buildings, and Bridges.
Especial attention given tn land surveying.
Are prepared to do Carpenter and Joiner
soorE, either by the day or contract. left
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

1t is one of the cherished dogmas of
the modern lady, that she must not do
anything for pay; and this miserable
prejudice of senseless conventionality is
at this moment the worst obstacle in the
way of feminine talent and energy. Let
the cooperative housekeepers demolish
it forever, by declaring that it is just as
necessary and just as honorable for wife
to earn money as it is for her husband !;
let them, moreover, resolvethattime and
skill is what they will pay for it, and not
sex, and the age will soon see what ef-
forts women can make after excellence
when there is hope Of just reward for it.
Then alone shall we begin to walk in
self respect, and the poor wronged work
woman throughout the world raise her
dropping head.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05


VOLCANOES IN THE MooS.-Profess-
or Winloch, Of Harvard University, re-
ports that he has seen avolcano in active
eruption in the moon during the nights
of Dec. 1st and ID. During the past
year astronomers have differed in opin-
ion as to this disappearance Of the era
ter Linneud marked on the best charts
of the moons surface till 1868. The de-
struction of the crater, if it should be
the case, is stated to bel the first evidence
Of actually observe-changes going on az
the surface of the moon. The observa-
tions of Prof Winloch would seem to
confirm the conclusions of other astrono-
mers on this subject. The foreign journ-
ais announce that Professor j. H. Mad
Ter, of Bonn, who is celebrated on ac-
count of the moon charts prepared by
himself, has written a letter on this sub
ject. Nader has been for many years
nearly Hind, but the disappearance of
the crater interests him as we'll as other
eminent astronomers.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05
5fliscellanu.
The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the oldest city in the
world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled
on the shore; Baalbec is ruin; Pal
myra is buried in a desert; Ninevah
and Babylon have disappeared from the
Tgris and Euphrates, Damascus re-
mains what it was before the days of
Abraham-a centre of trade and travel
an island of verdure in the desert-"a
presidential capital" with material and
sacred associations extending through
thirty centuries. 1t was near Damascus
that Saul of Tarsus saw the light above
the brightness of the sun; the street call
ed Straight, in which it was said he pray
ed, still runs through the city. The
caravan comes and goes as it did thou
sand years ago; there is still the sheik,
the ass, and the water-wheel; the mer-
chants of the Euphrates and the Medi-
terranean still ''occupi" these with null
titude of their wares" The city which
Mahomet surveyed from a neighboring
height, and was afraid to enter because
it was given to man to have but one par
adise, and for his part, he was resolved
not to have it in this world" is to-day
what Julian called the ''eye Of the East,
as 10 vac in the time of Isaiah .tne head
of Syria.
From Damascus came the damson,
our blue plums, and the delicious april
cot of Portugal, called damasco damask,
our beautiful fabric of cotton and silk,
with vines and flowers raised upon
smooth, bright ground; the damask rose
introduced into England at the time Of
Henry VIII, the Damascus blade, so
famous the world over for its keen edge
and wonderful elasticity the secret of
whose manufacture was lost when Tam
erlane carried off the artist into Persia
and that beautiful art of inlaying wood
and steel with silver and gold, kind of
mosaic engraving and sculptural united
called damaskening with which many
boxes, bureas, swords and guns are orna-
mented. 1t is still city of flowers and
bright waters, the streams of Lebanon
and the "river of gold" still murmur and
sparkle in the wilderness of the Syrian
gardens.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

Mr.. LTNCoLN's Horse TRADE. -
When Abraham Lincoln was lawyer
in Illinois, he and judge once got to
bantering one another about trading
horses, and it was agreed that the next
morning at nine o'clock they should
make trade, the horses to be unseen up
to that hour, and no backing out under
a forfeiture of twenty-five dollars. At
the hour appointed, the judge came up
leading the sorriest looking specimen of
horse ever seen in those parts. In a
few minutes Mr.. Lincoln was seen ap-
preaching with a wooden saw-horse on
his shoulder. Great we've theshouts and
the laughter of the crowd. and both
were greatly increased when Mr.. Lin
coin, on surveying the judges animal,
sat down his saw-horse and exclaimed
swell, judge, this is the first time ever
got the worst of it in horse trade"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05
: When Haddock's wife kicked hi

- When Haddock's wife kicked him
out of bed, said he: "Look here now,
you'd better not do that again if you do
it will cause coldness in the family"
Sheep are surely cheap in Maine
The Bangor Whig says that carcasses
sold in the market there, this week, at
fifty cents each, but hints that there was
not as much fat in o cord of them as
would grease gimlet.
Josh Billings recently wrote to a
lecture committee that the price of one
of his lectures was s90.40; that he had
in some instances been careless enough to
throw off the 800, but the 40 cents he
must have to maintain his reputation.
= People who are interested in the
Holy Land viii be glad to know that a
Macadamized road has been constructed
from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and the latter
city enjoys steam mill. Yankees are
responsible for both.
A young lady appeared at Louis
vile (Ky.) masquerade the other night
as the Almighty Dollar" Her cos
tune was of white and silver tissue, bor-
dered with bank notes, gold coin on her
neck and arms and in her hair. Several
devoted admirers agreed with her financial
policy and seemed to be anxious to take
any amount of stock
A big fellow went into one dollar
store in Portland to make purchase.
A clerk assured him that he could take
anything in the store for that sum, and
the man made choice Of the stove, and
insisted on the genuineness of the trade,
but compromised and took four dollars
instead. Sharp practice that.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

An intoxicated man recently laid
down on the railroad track near the Cow
ington, KY, depot, and fell asleep. A
little dog belonging 20 a house near BY,
seeing train approaching, ran and
jumped upon his face, and barked and
scratched him until he awoke, just in
time to get out of the way of the cars.
The man, believing this to be a divine
warning to abstain from drinking, took
the pledge forever.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05
LADIES SHOULD READ NEWSPAPERS.

LADIES SHOULD READ NEWSPAPERS.
1t is a great mistake in female educa-
tion to keep young lady's time and at
tention devoted only to fashionable lit
erature of the day. If you would quail
ify her for conversation, you must give
her something to talk about-give her
an education with the outer world, and
its transpiring events. Urge her to read
newspapers, and become familiar with
the present character and improvement
of our race. History is of some import
ance but the past world is dead-we
have nothing to do with it. Let her
have an intelligent opinion, and be able
to sustain an intelligent conversation
concerning the mental, moral and relig
GUS improvements of our time. Let the
gilded ANIMALS and poems on the centre
table be part of the time covered with
weekly and daily journals. Let the
whole family, men, women and children
read newspapers.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

HALF HoLIDAYs.-A law has gone in
to operation in England (and is very rig
idly enforced), providing that all persons
working in factories and public works, in
all practicable instances-and women
and minor children under all circum-
stances-shall have ialf holidays on Sat
urdays, or, where it is not possible to al
low it on Saturdays, on some other day
of the week. The privilege has been one
of custom in the northern section of Great
Britain for nearly century, but it is new
in England proper, where the working
people look upon it as a great boon.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

At a party, while a young lady was
playing with peculiar lliancy oftouch,
by-stander bachelor exclaimed, sIde
give the world for those fingers "Per-
haps you might get the whole hand by
asking, said the young lady's observant
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05


The PENALTY OF TOO MUCH BRAIN
WoRK.-Dr. Parker of New York de-
livered lecture, recently. in that city,
in which he showed the evils proceeding
from the transgression of the limits of
their physical powers by literary men,
&c. He said
"No man can do head work faithfully
for more than four or five or six hours.
If that time is exceeded, all the phos-
phorus is carried off, and the man be-
comes irritable, broken down, and has
softening of the brain. / have seen this
over-work in lawyers, doctors, clergymen
and merchants, who have worked the
brain for two hours. They have drop.
ped under the burden. You cannot vi
olate the law of God with impunity.-
Sir Walter Scott did large amount OF
brain-work in his day, but he did not
overwork himself. In his latter davs,
however, he became pecuniarily embar-
rassed, and resorted to his literary pur-
suit to save himself: but he worked too
hard and completely broke himself down.
One of the best scholars / ever knew
broke himself down in his younger days,
but he lived on to seventy, though he
could only work some four hours day.
After these hours he engaged in vigor-
Gus exercises to keep him out of the
house as much as possible, and he con-
tinued one of the best professors in the
country.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

A Chicago preacher has been pointing
out the sway to hell" A wicked cotem-
porary adds: persons desiring COM
plete guide to Chicago should purchase
the sermon"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

A celebrated New York physician
says that Americans are too quiet at their
meals. He says: "It is well-cstablish-
ed clinical fact that cheerful society at
meals greatly aids digestion. The sym
pathetic influence which exists between
the stomach and brain attests the truth
of the assertion
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-05

In cave at Rock Island, H., the
statue Of an Indian maiden has been dis.
covered. 1t has solid copper pedestal,
seven feet high, and obelisk of solid
brass. Other Indian curiosities have
been lately discovered in the same vicin-