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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28
MODEL SOCIETY GOSSIP.

A humorous writer in the Hartford
| C0ar0at furnishes the following,
which he alleges TO be the genesis of all
newspaper reports of weddings. Peri
Cd. twenty years ago:
|'On Thursday evening last, the meet
iug-house was crowded with people to
witness the first public marriage which
has taken place in this town. The
bride was Maria johnson. square
shonldered, red-haired girl, daughter
, of old johnson. the soap maker; and
the groom, Mark Marks. twin brother
of Luke Marks, the cross-eyed chap
who ran away with Squire DObson's
youngest daughter, Sal. about three
months ago. Marks. as he walked up
the broad isle, trotted along as if he
was stepping on eggs; but Maria struck
a bold gait, and was the admiration of
all spectators. Altogether, the march
up the isle was success Joe
Croker, son of the candy peddler,
and John Simpson, known as the gay
boy with glass eye,' acted as ushers,
and slung themselves with perfect
looseness in performing their duties.
For downright style, Joe and John can
wear the belt. Our reporter who was
present, dressed in a brass coat and
blue buttons, and carrying a bingham
umbrella, noted down the names and
harness of some of the persons present
which We give as q matter of special
interest:
Mrs. Job futile wore a braided
straw hat, made for the occasion by
Mrs. Jones, miiliner; aud it is not too
much to say that the latter can make
the best millinery of any woman in the
business. Mrs. Tuttle's dress was of
striped gingham, with an outside gar
mcnt OF the same material. She was
the observed of all observers.
Lucy Johnson had on u green berage
dress, with pautallettes of nankcen,
edged with two cent edging, and made
very fine appearance. Her pantal-
lettes, in particular, fitted remarkably
well around the ankles, and displayed
her shoe strings TO good advantages.
MRS. John Baldwin looked exceed
ingly pretty in a large plaid silk, which,
we understood, was cut over from a
dress worn by her sister Emma, de-
ceased. For cut over dress it was one
of the best we ever saw.
Lydia Rose had on a low necked,
sorrel colored alpaca, friZzed with
brown ribbon and her sister Jane wore
low necked yellow print, with good
deal of tucking. Low necks become
this family.
I'VE have the names of several 9th
ers, but want of space compels us to
omit them. After the ceremony the
newly married couple returned to the
home of the bride, and one who was
present informs us that the way mince
pies and cider suffered during the even
ing was a caution TO dyspeptics. Only
one incident occurred TO mar the pleas
ure of the occasion. John Somers, who
is counting a sister of the bride, got a
walnut meat III his windpipe and near
~ suffocated before relief was secured.
Barring this mistaken swallow the re-
ceptiOn was success"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28
HOW SMALL EXPENDITURES COUNT.

Five cents each morning. A mere
trifle. Thirty-five cents per week. Not
much, yet it would buy coffee or sugar
for a whole family. S1S.25 year.
And this amount invested in a savings
bank at the end of each year, and the in
terest thereon ut six per cent. computed
annually, would amount in twelve years
to more than S670-enough TO buy a
good farm in the West.
Five cents before breakfast, dinner
and supper; you'd hardly miss it. yet
tits fifteen cents a day; SI.05 per week
enough to buy wife or daughter dress :;
S54.60 a Vear-enOugh to buy small
library of books. Invest this as before,
and in twenty years you would have
over S2.O00-quite enough to buy good
house and lot.
Ten cents each morning; hardly
worth a second thought; yet with it you
can buy paper of pins or a spool of
thread. Seventy cents per week ;
'twOuld buy several yards of muslin.
5000 in one year. Deposit this amount
as before, and you would have 81 $50 in
twenty years; quite snug little for
tune. Ten cents before each breakfast,
dinner and supper-thirty cents day.
1t would buy a book for the children.
S2.10 a weck-cnOugh to pay for year s
subscription TO a good newspaper. One
hundred and nine dollars aud twenty
nine cents per year. With it You could
buy a good melOdeon on which your
wife or daughter could produce sweet
music to pleasantly while the evening
hours away. And this amount, invested
as before, would in forty years produce
the desirable amount, $4,000.
BOYS, learn lesson. If you would
be happy youth. lead sober life, and
be a wealthy and influential man; in
stead of squandering your extra change
| invest in library or a savings bank.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

Einporia was founded in the wear
1911 by company of pioneers. who
then had the pick of all Southern Kan
ezs. The Normal School was located
mere in 1868. The court house and 9TH
e. important buildings were erected in
1856. The growth of the town has been
healthy and normal, never exceeding
chat of the farming regions around it.
and thus differing from that of MANY
other Western cities which have been
forced by speculation into an undue
growth, followed by disastrous reviIl-
SONS.
PROSPECTS.
Emporia is destined TO become a large
city. Ia Southwestern Kansas, it has
no rival. Its immense water power
and abundant coal beds will make of it
2 great manufacturing center Its rail-
road system is uneQualed. So soon as
the railroad touches this point, large
wholesale trade with Southwestern'
Kansas will at once open. AS a center
Of educational enterprise, its superior
lty over all other towns in Kansas is
generally conceded. Property in town
and in the magnificent farming country
adjacent has not yet been inflated to
speculative figures. Now, before the
railroad brings on its muItitudes, is the
time TO come and secure home for your
families combining all the advantages
which new country ever offers to set
tiers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

A letter from Mestra. Italy, relates an
alarming incident which occurred in
that town. A menagerie of wild beasts
was about to leave for Venice, when a
double cage, containing a lion and a
leopard, fell on the quay, where it was
about TO be embarked, and was broken
to pieces, leaving the animals free. The
lion, after remaining a moment appa-
rently astonished at being set at liberty,
proceeded toward the town, but with
out attacking any one; however, on
meeting a flock of sheep it worried and
tore to pieces several of them. The in
habitants fed in terror in all directions,
but presently the mistress of the me-
nagerie arrived with whip, and fixing
her eyes steadfastly on the animal, or
dered him peremptorily TO lie down.
Immediately leaving the repast it had
just commenced, it obeyed and was
soon after replaced by her III another
cage. The leopard plunged into the
river and gained the opposite bank, and
has not since been heard Of Hunting
parties had been organized in pursuit
of it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

EGoTIsM.-There is much mistaken
sentiment as to the sin of Egotism.
The fact is, EgOtism is not a sin; on
the other hand, it is a very great virtue,
and an indispensable element in all
real progress. Some developments of
Egotism are unpleasant to the behoider
and unfortunate to the possessOr, but if
all love of self, or rather love of other
peoples admiration and good will,
were to be extinguished, there would
be little to hold society together, and
less yet to give impetus to the great
enterprises which spring from individ-
ual thought and eliminate in the prac-
teal enthusiasm of individual aggran-
diZement.
Nearly all men who have been motors
in the worlds progress have been prac-
teal EgOtists-opiniOnate self-assert-
i've, positive in holding and expressing
convictions, and sensitive of being I'M
dervalued or ignored.
A whOle-souled, large-brained, broad
shouldered Egotist, who not only as
serts himself and his claims, but brings
both to favorable notice through the
avenue of human good, will win regard
and consideration from the world that
owns him creditor: and the little spots
of vanity which have appeared upon
the sun of his good deeds will be for
gotten in the light and warmth Of its
rays.-P0ck0rCp Montjkiy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

The INSANE AsYLUM.-A correspond
ent of the Lawrence Journal writes as
follows from Osawatomie:
DIR. Updegraf conducted US through
the Insane Asylum. The arrangements
seem perfect for comfort and safety,
and the rooms are finely ventilated,
heated, lighted and wateEed. There
are twenty seven inmates. 1t was sad
to see their poor mindless vacant looks
as they turned their faces upon US.
Some are durable and others hopeless.
The view is fine from the building. ey-
cry prospect is good, and can but
wish that all our people could see how
well conducted it is. There should bt
no time or money spared to make ev.
eFything pleasant for these poor uRfor,
Inmates. 1t ought to be surrounded By
beautiful groves and singing birds and
fountains, and let the patients pass tbs
bright days among flowers and parks
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

THE SOCIETY OF WoHEN.-One of
the great benefits young man may de-
rive from woman's society is that he is
bound to be respectful to them. The hab-
it is of great good to your moral man,
depend upon it. Our education makes
of as the most eminently selfish men
in the world. We fight for ourselves;
we push for ourselves; we cut the best
slices out of the joint at the club din
ners for ourselves; we yawn for our
selves and light our pipes, and we say
we won't go out; we prefer ourselves
and our ease; and the greatest good
that comes to man from woman's So
ciety is that he has to think of some-
body besides himself-sonebody to
whom he is bound to be constantly at
tentive and respectful. Certainly
don't want my dear Bob to associate
with those of the other sex whom he
doesn't and can't respect; that is worse
than billiards; worse than tavern whis-
ky and water; worse than smoking
scifishness at home. But I would rath-
eF see you turning over the leaves of
Miss Middlecofnbe's music book all
night than ct billiards, or smoking, or
brandy and water, or all three.-IhGck-
ey'nu
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

AGRICULTURAL CoILEGE.-In a pass
ing visit to tile college we took pleasure
in noticing the improvements of the
Agricultural Department under Prof.
HOngham. Although the Legislature
made scarcely any provision for the de-
velopment of the farm, yet he has set
over six hundred forest trees, and one
hundred fruit trees, besides minor
plants. The students have also prOcur-
ed from the timber many cedars and
other trees to aid in adjoining the
grounds. Prof. HOugham has also
planted beech, sugar, chestnut and other
tree seeds which are just showing their
heads above the soil. The fruit trees
set a year ago are in thriving condition.
Col. Campbell is cultivating part OF
the inclosed land, and his wheat and
oats are looking finely.
1t is much to be regretted that the
Legislature did not appropriate enough
to enable Prof. Houghaua to cultivate
the grounds and make such experiment.
as are REQUIRED in similar institutions
He is however introducing the Excelsi.
or Norway oats, some choice varieties
of wheat and other STANDARDIZATION
| Standard.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

MARRIED WoMEE's EARMINGs.-The
following is the act in relation to the
earnings of married women, passed by
the Illinois Legislature, and approved
by the Governor, March "a, 1863. IL
was drawn up, and passed mainly
through the exertiOns of Mrs Bradley
of the Legal Meas:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the peo-
pie of the State of Illinois, represented
in the General Assembly, that married
woman shall be entitled to receive, use
aud possess her own earnings, and use
the same in her own name, free from the
Interference of her husband or his cred
itors; Prorided, this act shall not DC
construed to give to the wife any right
to condensation Cor any labor perform
ed for her minor children or her hus-
band.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

You cannot fathom your mind.
There is we'll of thought there which
has no bottom. The more you draw
from it the more clear aud plentiful it
will be.
To achieve success in life, the mind
must be firm not constantly on the
change, like rolling stone-ever shift
ing, sick and dissatisfied.
There is nothing too little for so little
a creature as man. It is by studying
little things that we attain the great art
of having as little misery and as much
happiness as possible.
Beware of hating men for their Opin-
ions, or of adopting their doctrines
because you love and venergte their vir-
tues.
Fortune is like a good swordsman
sheIscorns to encounter tirnid, fearful
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

AT Enterprise. Iowa, the other day,
woman entered beer shop where her
husband was loafing, and with sub
stantial piece Of board padded him in
to the street. As they proceeded home
ward she continued to ply the lumber
industriously, and particularly emphat-
ic was the last whack she gave him a.
he disappeared over the threshold.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

To KEEK YouR CIsTERS WATER IohE
An ounce of permangaBate Oh PO
the ehemicaI destrnction of the organic
matter ma gathered from the roof. vnlgarly
eaIIed dirt. and leave the water clean
and free from the customary foul
sneII. Try it. Any druggist VIII seIl
YOU the permanganate OF p0tassa TOT
mere tribe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

In California machine has been fn-
vented which, it Is said, has cut thresh-
ed, cleaned and sacked the wheat from
twenty acres in ten hours, with only
three men to work il
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28

In Buffalo, Last week, detective of
fieer sued q county official for ten cents
borrowed to buy beer. The court gave
judgment, charging $7.70 costs,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28
EMPORIA.

We publish herewith full and very
interesting description of the town of
Emporia, taken from III. Z. Norton's
Real Estate Bulletin:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28
TRADE.

Emporia has three hardware stores,
whose aggregate sales were fully sew
enty-five thousand dollars in 1868 !;
twelve dry goods and grocery stores,
one clothing store, two drug stores,
two restaurants, two boot and shoe
stores, one book store, a furniture fac
tory, which is doing a very large bust
ness, one bank, three real estate agen-
cies, etc., etc.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Emporia has the following church
organizations two Congregational, one
Methodist, one Baptist, one Presbyteri-
an, one Christian, one Quaker: seven
| in all. All of these except the Baptist
and Presbyterian have houses of wor-
| ship, and these are expecting to build
| before long.
The Normal School has been hereto
fore mentioned. The public free school
has substantial stone building, costing
about 5000.
There are also special facilities for mu-
steal culture. The Philharmonic Socie-
fy of EmpOria numbering several OF
| the best musicians in the State. The
Silver Cornet Band has a wide rcputa-
ton.
There is not grog shop in Emporia,
and no place where Intoxicating liquors
/ LIE SOCICtN vi Tow II II
noted for intelligence, morality and So
briefly.
COAL AND STONE.
Abundant Quarries of limestone ex'
list within forty rods of the corporation
Beautiful magnetism limestone, equal tC
that at Junction City, is found neal
town. Veins of coal have also been
Iopened within and close to town. anC
abundant surface seams of excellen
Quality, two to three feet thick have
been opeued about twelve miles to th'
east. According to geOlOgists, 3 veiE
of superior quality, four to six fee
in thickness, lies at depth of from
three hundred TO five hundred feet
Gypsum has also been discovered few
miles distant
Two brick yards are In operation
near by, and brick and stone are the fa
lvorite building materials.
The Portland daily press., 1869-01-30

Ar 9th, sch Othello, Eldridge, New York.
NEW lORK-Ar 9th, sch LeOntlne, murphy. So
Amboy for Rcckland
Ar 18th. brig Velocity, Darrell. Demarara; sch
lntiIe. Portland.
Z, Ga 2sth. brigs Shasta, Brown, Vigo for orders;
noDt MOVE. Dickson, Uemerara; sebs toward, Grit
M m. havana Wings OF the Morning Mcfarland,
Retasssau, MP Taima, Pierce, Savannah Yankee
9a aue' Soombs, Georgetown. Sc; crescent Lodge,
belbpos hiiadelphia; Grace Clifton godfrey, Eliza
cand 9TH barque Ironsides for africa; brig Iza for
ney, Charleston. 1892 ~ NV" H''s' '1'''
~ sSns Laura Webb, for Woods Hole and
FHsin MA . mehown, Parsons Baltimore
Slu Zetn; scn i.uth Thomas, Dodge Elizabethport.
HOLMES HOLE-Ar 18th sells Mary : WcnSrn
Lewis washington Tor Rnck land: : n Adoms N, N.
oyan; Wh WI, nil ioI Ihennebunk Grape Shot,
Ar 2-th, sch Hespereus, Conary, Cane Ann for
New York.
vile.
SALEM-Ar 26th, sch Mary Laugdon, Pinkham,
Rockland tor New York.
Sd 27th scu Frances Hatch. Tor RocklaId.
Ar 2gth. brig Man ,On i, Cook ,.Truxllo; sch & r
Small, Cole, Elizabethport; Revolution, Wes,eott,
BArHaAr 2sih, brig Reporter, COombs, Bucks
VILE VIA Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1869-01-30


Reverdy johnson is to dine again in july
this time with the authorities of Glasgow.
United States Minister Tuckerman, in a
speech at a public dinner at Athens, Thurs
day, expressed the kindliest feelings of the
American nation for Greece, and pledged the
cordial sympathy of his government for the
Greeks in their anticipated trouble with the
Turks.
The action of Greece upon terms submitted
by the recent conference is considered as I'M
certain. Nothing definite as to the Prime
Minister'S intentions relative to matters is vet
known. a
1t is stated that the members of the provis-
ional government are unanimously in favor of
Duke Montpenser for the Spanish throne.
Aux Cages, Hayti, has been captured after
heavy engagement, and it is reported that
Gen. Dominique, the President of the rebel
confederacy, was captured in the street and
shot ' '.- +t
Dion won the great billiard match at Mon
lion l2OO, Foster 1116 1911 i-4' --
MI Kerr, of Indiana, a Democratic member
ol the Committee to investigate the New
oiA eiootioh frauds, will make a minority
report, taking the ground that although
frauds were committed durinp the recent
election, the leaders of neither nartv ,ore
cognizant of them. He will also rooo,,,,...,,
changes in the naturalization laws. which ba
hopes will be of great avail in prevant;nr
election frauds.
Four colored men and white man vero
lynched at Kingston, N. G. a few days ago, bv
a band of thirty citizens. A band of desper-
ADDE'S are robbing and numbering in Robson
County in the same State.
Gen. Grant has been SO overrun with WIS.,
itors that he is obliged to give notice that he
will receive calls only between the hours of
ten and twelve o'clock.
Gen. Grant visited the floor of the House
and held levee there yesterday.
Arthur l. Foreman Governor of West Vir-
gina, has been nominated by the Republicans
OF that State to be United States Senator in
place of Van Wrinkle.
The Portland daily press., 1869-01-30

The mayoralty question is already agtating
the mind of the people of Biddeford, The
Journal favors citizens ticket to oppose May
or Haines.
Mr.. Thomas Tebbetts of Biddeford was Sc
verely injured recently by the falling Of a limb
of tree on his head while he was at work in
the woods
The Portland daily press., 1869-01-30

REMOVAL OF AN OLD LANDMARK.-We learn
from the Advertiser that the candle factory on
Green street, the property of the Hull family,
is about to be removed to make room for mod
ern Improvements 1t is the last connecting
link of architecture left us between the pres
ent and past century. and was formerly the
Court House.. It's frame was raised in Octo-
Der, 1875, on the site of the present City Hall,
and remained there till 1916, when it was re-
moved to Exchange street and used as church.
In 1927 it was removed to Green street and
turned into candle factory. It's quaint spire,
surmounted with gilded cock, have been ia
miliar to al Portlanders from childhood, to-
gether with the sorry that when the midnight
clock struck the cock would flap his wings and
crow
The Portland daily press., 1869-01-30

THE Daily Sore-Head has discovered that
the Press chershes sentiments of the most dia-
bolical nature toward Mr.. Howe of Nova SEQ
tia. The occasion Tor this charge is found in
paragraph cut from a Canadian paper and cred
tied to it, published in the Press some weeks
ago. The paragraph stated tha5 a member of
the Canadian government had accompanied
Mr.. Howe to Portland for the purpose of ne
gotiatinS for his purchase by the Dominion Of
Canada. Shortly after Mr.. Howe accompanied
his alleged purchaser to Ottawa, and it was
presumed that the negotiation was successful
Weeks pass Oh, and the Daily Sore-Head at
length bethousht itself that there might be
found occasion for a quarrel. II evolves out Of
its inner consciousness, in the absence of any
knowledge whatever on the subject, the fact
that Mr.. Howe, who is roundy cursed by toe
people of Nova Scotia for abandoning the anti
confederation cause which he was chiefly in
strumental in fomenting, is singularly pure
and upright individual, and that the Press has
outraged the sacred laws of hospitality in tax
ing him at the estimate put upon him by his
own people. 1t says that Mr.. Howe came to
Portland for the purpose of negotiating a reci-
procity treaty, and that he is the agent of the
Dominion In that matter! We yield to no one
in our high estimate of the greatness and i'm
portance of Portland, but the Daily Sore-Head
has the first intelligence that this city is the
seat of the United States government, and
that foreign powers send their diplomatic
agents to the Falmouth Hotel to negotiate
treaties instead of to Washington. Certainly
Mr.. Howe went directly from Portland to Cam
ada in company with Mr.. Rose. Besides, peo-
pie to whom sore-head sources of information
are not open have an impression that the agent
of the Dominion is now in Washington, that
his name is Berga and not Howe any hoao. The
news of Mr. Berga's presence in Washington
and his mission is already weeks old, and our
eviscerated contemporary has not learned it
yet If Mr.. Howe has actually received such
an appointment as is alleged, is simply proof
POSITIVE that Mr.. Rose bought him-and got
him very cheap.