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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17
NEWS ITEMS.

East Tennessee is worried by the spread
of the cattle plague.
Indiana is breaking ground for new
wheat crop.
Texas is sending droyes of mustangs
to Minnesota.
Gen. Sheridan has left Chicago on
hunting and fishing excursion.
A Chicago artist he's gone to Utah to:
paint Brigham Young.
East Tennessee has bigger hog crop
than for many years.
Martial law win soon be declared in
Alabama, unless the civil authorities do
better.
A newly married couple at Evans
vile, Indiana, lately committed suicide
together.
There were ten cases of cholera in one
Minnesota town one day last week, but
none proved fatal.
Running over a woman with a veloc-
lpede Is disturbing the peace in Padu-
cab, and is punished accordingly.
Our advices from Cuba are of very
interesting character. The Patriots
have achieved several successes and
made some important captures.
The majority for Senter for Governor
of Tennessee as officially returned is
65. $50; whole vote cast q little over
175,000.
A very beautiful and fascinating
daughter of j. w. Forney is generally
conceded to be the belle of Cape May,
since the departure of Miss Schomberg.
The Leavenworth Commercial gets
off the following: "Why is our Sec
Rotary of State always engaged in the
evening? Because his business can
only be transacted by fMoonlight,
alone"
John Wiseman, the Democratic edi-
tor of the Washington Qowa) Gazette,
has urged the Republicans to run Thos.
FL. Benton (eolored) for Sheriff. Ben
ton now announces that he will run as
an independent candidate for that Office
as against Wiseman, and challenges
him to go before the people and abide
their verdict as to who is the worthier
man.
Senator Grimes, with all due respect,
we trust, to the position and the man
frequently called aOId Grimes, the good
old soul" has resigned his position rs
TT. s. Senator from Iowa We have no
means of knowing who the 1owans will
elect in his plsce; but we are certain
that if Mr.. Wilson should be chosen,
one of Iowa's foremost men would
worthilY wear the mantle of Senator
Grimes.-Lnscrence Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

LAY REPRESENTATION General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church has expressed its willingness to
change the constitution of that body and
admit delegates from the laity, when
ever it could be ascertained with rea-
sonable precision that the measure was
desired by the people. The question
was submitted to the Methodist Church
to be voted on last June, and the re-
turns from 165 districts give majority
of A, S7S votes in favor of lay delegation,
out of a total of 1920, or 9l,0A in
favor, and 46, l66 against. Returns have
not been received from 202 districts,
which it is estimated would poll 49,
100 votes. The point is now raised that
the vote reported is not sufficiently large
to decide the matter, as the Methodist
Church has 1858 adult members en-
titled to express their opinion on the
subject. Some of the Methodist jour-
nails contend that a fair proportion of
the votes has been cast, arguing from
the ordinary elections Governor and
State officers. Thus at the last election
on the adoption of the amended consti-
tuition of New York, the vote on that
question was only BOG, 879, while the
vote cast for Governor at the same
time Amounted to 730,S21, and the
whole number of legal voters amounted
to 100000.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

TINE DOES IT.-Time has wonder
full power iii taking the conceit out of
persons. When a young man first
emerges from the school and enters up
on the career of life, it is painfully
amusing to witness his self-sufficiency.
He would have all the world to under
stand that he has '.learned out''-that he
is master of all knowledge and can un-
ravel all mysteries. But as he grows
older he grows wiser; he learns that he
knows a great deal lees than he suppos-
ed be did, and by the time he reaches
three-score years, he is prepared to
adopt as his own the sentiment of John
Wesley, "When was young, was sure
of everything; in few years, having
been mistaken q thousand times, 1 was
not half as sure of most things as / was
before. At present am hardly sure
of anything but what God has revealed
to man."
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FEssENDEN.

William Pitt Fessenden, United States
Senator from Maine, who died at his
residence in Portland, on Wednesday
morning, Sth instant, was born at Bos-
carren, New Hampshire, October 18th,
1906. He graduated at Bowdoin Col
lege in 1928, studied law, and was adj
mitted to the bar in 1897, opening an
Office at Bridgton, Me-, but removing,
in 1929, to Portland, where he contin-
ued to reside up to the time of his death.
Mr.. Fessenden commenced his polit-
ical career in 1881, when he was elected
to the State Legislature, and though
the youngest member, rose Immediate
ly to distinction'in that body, both as q
debater and a legislator. In 1S40, he
was nominated by reclamation as the
Wing candidate for Congress in his dis
trict, and was elected. In 1S43, he was
nominated for reelection, but declined,
preferring to return to the practice of
his profession. In 1916, he was again
elected to the Legislature, and again in
1853 and 1854. In the latter year, the
branches; but the Kansas-Nebraska
question operating as disturbing ele-
ment, Mr.. Fessenden was chosen Unit
ed States Senator on the first ballot by
a union of the wings and free-soil dem
ocrats. He took bis seat in the Senate
February 23rd, 1854, and on the night
of March 3rd, following, delivered q
speech against the Nebraska bill which
at once established his reputation as one
of the ablest members of the Senate.
He was reelected United States Sena-
tor in 1859, by a unanimous vote of his
party in the Legislature, without the
formaIity of previous nomination. In
July, 1864, he was appointed Secretary
of the Treasury, and resigned his seat
in the Senator IN the year following,
he retired from the Cabinet and was re-
elected to the Senate for six years, end
ing March 4th, 1871
Mr.. Fessenden was a man of fine ed
ucation and commanding natural abil-
tiles. His speeches, while not being
what is popularity regarded as eloquent,
were always marked with deep thought
and powerful earnestness. From the
time of the formation of the Republi-
can party, he was regarded as one of
its ablestleadcrs, and did much toward
shaping its policies and securing its
victories. The personal character of
the deceased Senator was above re-
proach or suspicion and his services to
the country and to the cause of freedom
and justice were all-sufficient to halo
his name with enduring renOwn.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17
.ECONFIDENCE."
A New Illustration of the Game.

At one of the hotels of the city a few
days ago, guest was holding converse
ton with the clerk, and anXiously
awaiting until the great door which sep
arated him from dinner should be
thrown open. In the conversation a
woman came into the hall, and after
casting a quick searching glance over
all, walked boldly to the desk, and laid
her hand ON the shoulder of the hum
CRY guest. The fair one was evidently
excited and angry, for she spoke harsh
ly, and we regret to say. profanely, to
the gentleman.
:'You are the man l want" she said,
and then proceeded to declare that she
was milliner, doing business at No. SO
Fourth street.
''You passed this counterfeit $50 bill
on me-" saying which, she drew from
her pocket the bill she charged him with
having given her.
The gentleman appeared somewhat
astonished, but he drew forth-fortu-
nate man that he was able to do tia
roll OF bills, and handed her S20 in
good money. Just then the lofty door
swung open, son iron hinges turning"
and the hungry man went to his dinner.
Dinner over the man found himself in
a conversational mood, and related the
circumstance to those around him.
At last the bill was produced, and the
opinions in regard to it were found to
be quite diverse, the larger part of the
company inclining to the belief that it
was poor. After more discussion, bet
ting began, the man that had received it
from the woman taking all the bets that
were offered that it was bad. S10to $15
and $25 to $40, and in one case 500 to
So were offered and accepted that the
bill was bad.
Then began a race and a chase among
the banks and bankers. To the con-
sternation of all the betters-or rather
all but one of them-the bill was every
where pronounced a good one, and
the man who had such faith in it found
himself winner to the amount of $500.
The singular part of the story is, that
on inquiry, it was found that the build
ing No. SO Fourth street was not occu-
pied by milliner, and no such woman
as was described was known to per-
sons in the neighborhood.- Cincinnati
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SOW WHEAT.

There is some danger that owing to
the very low price of wheat this faa,
many of the farmers will SO less than
usual. We think such a course would
be unwise. In many cases it would be
good policy for farmers to sow less
ground but to do so for the purpose of
raising more wheat, and at a less cost
per bushel. Thirty acres, thoroughly
prepared and sown with a drill, will
produce quite as much, and probably
more, wheat than fifty acres cultivated
as very much of the wheat ground is
titled in this country.
But to neglect to sow wheat this fall
because it does not bring as much now
as 1t did year ago, would be acting
more unwisely than those farmers did
who killed off their sheep last fall be-
cause wool was low. We think that on
soil moderately well adapted to it,
wheat can be raised st present prices,
about as probably as other farm crops.
But unlike potatoes and fruits, that may
be more profitable sometimes, it can be
very easily kept for any length of time
SO that If present prices of wheat are
very low, it may be stored till they
come up, which will be in less than
twelve months, if large portion of the
farmers should yield to the present
temptation, and discard this crop alto
gether.
Wheat is an article in constant and in
creasing demand. The consumption of
-four is increasing in England every
year, and very large portion of the
flour used there is imported-some from
continental Europe and some from this
country. If the crop is short in any
considerable portion of Europe, as is
quite often the case, prices here go up.
There are already reports of short
crops both in England and France this
year, and some time since we noticed
the fact that orders were sent from Rus
STA to France for W heat, and it has been
clearly shown that for the last three
years there has been a great falling off
of the export of wheat from Russia to
England, so that the latter now more
than ever depends on this country for
wheat and flour. This fact should slim
ulate the farmeA to raise all the wheat
they can, at least to give this crop fair
portion of attention: they will not re-
greet it.
One argument in favor of wheat rails
ing is, that the labor attending it inter-
feres so little with other farm work
Seeding comes in a comparatively leis-
ure time, and the harvesting comes in
between the corn blowing and haying,
so that this crop is, in a sense, clear
gain.
We predict that wheat will advance
somewhat, rather than decline, within
the next twelve months; therefore we
say SOW aChe0t.-sJoWr3aGl Of AgricUL-
tire.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Just before leaving Saratoga for
Washington on Sunday evening, Presi-
dent Grant wrote as follows to Hon.
Roscoe Conkling: at is with extreme
regret that the continued and dangerous
illness of Secretary Rawlins, whose re-
lations with me have been so intimate
from the breaking out of the rebellion
to the present day, compels me to forego
the contemplated pleasure of visit to
and my other friends will appreciate the
motive which calls me from a pleasure
trip to the bedside of a comrade who has
rendered such signal service to his conn
try, and whose death will cast gloom
over the natiOn."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

The Leaguers burned about 1900 ties
the other night. This is the last speech
of Mr.. Sidney Clarke. Mr.. Clarke has
gone to Washington, we believe, and
on the way denied certain speeches that
were said to have been made By him on
the Neutral lands. We do not really
know what one he refers to, but we
know that he did make one which is
enough to send him to political destruc-
ton in time to come. Mr.. Clarke did what
he could to injure the settlers by assist
ing the sale of the Neutral lands to Mr.
Joy. After it was done he changed
coats and now is the most despised man
in the State. Had it not been for him,
Cherokee county would have been ten
times as rich as it now Cherokee
Sentinel.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

They have first class sensation in
Crawford county, Kansas. The people
there have discovered the presence of a
wild man or gorilla. He is large, hairy,
and walks sometimes on his legs, some
times on all tours. He has passion for
mischief, which chiefly finds vent in
tearing down fences at night, thus facil-
itating the operation of tresspassiDg on
stock. He is cowardly or timid. and it
is difficult to get a near view of him. On
one occasion, however, he visited q
farm, and became so demonstrative in
his pranks that he had to be dubbed
away. 1t is thought he is an animal
that has escaped from some travelling
show.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17
THE DRINKER,s BANK DEPOSIT.

"Come, Sam, let's go in and take lit
tie. Old Bob hummer keeps the best
liquor in town. Come, don't hang back
let's go in"
"Jim, have been thinking about this
matter since saw you last, and 1 can't
do it. l have been figuring on this
matter some, and what do you suppose
it costs us to patroniZe old Bob?"
"Well-a dollar, it may be, or two a
week"
Sam, taking n pencil and piece of pa
per from his pocket-book, handed them
to Jim, and said, 90 Let us look at it fully,
and make q fair calculation. You de-
post
"Your money-and lose it.
"Your time-and lose it.
"Your characteF-and lose it.
"Your health of body-and lose it.
"Your strength of mind-and lose it.
"Your manly independence-andl lose
it.
"Your self-respect-and lose it.
Your sense of right and wrong-and
lose it.
Your self-control-andl lose it.
Your home cOmfort-and lose it.
FOUR wife's happiness-and lose it.
"Your children's rights-and lose
them.
Your country's hOnor-and lose it.
Your own soul-and lose it,
Sam, I'll take the pledge for life on
that"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Garibaldi recently wrote to friend
g do not suffer so much, but feel that
am growing old. 1 am a weather.
beaten hulk, which has made many
voyage; plank is at one time want
ing, at another q nail-aIways some
thing; but an earnest will supplies all
deficiencies, and when the country may
need the last timber of the old barge, I
shall willingly make the sacrifice"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

SNAKES IN PARA.-It is doubtless ow-
ing to the proximity of the forest that the
snake has domesticated himself in Para,
and lives OH terms of amity and famil-
iarity with its Inhabitants. Every
house has its pet snake, and the mon
ster appears to occasion to his keepers
neither repugnance nor alarm. The
Biblical decree of enmity between the
serpent and the sons of men appears to
hold good everywhere except in the
Amazonian regions, where truce is pro-
claimed, and serpent and citizen abide
together in peace. The snakes are of
the boa constructor species, but, SO far
as can learn, they generally refrain
constructing or otherwise molesting the
inhabitants. They catch rats and "gob-
ulate" them, and now and then a mon
key mysteriously disappears. Perhaps,
as Herculean exploits belong to the fab
ulous ages, it would not be quite safe
to trust small black babies alone with
them. But tough and indigestible
adults are perfectly safe. We asked to
see ''the snake" at a warehouse which
we visited. He was hauled from his
lair in some back room or closet by q
negro, who held him by gripping his
neck just behind the head. The snake
appeared to be familiar with this rath-
er ignominious mode of appearing in
society, as he only express his emotions
in series of fatuous and imbecile
wriggles, and when released coiled him
self deliberately upon the floor and pro-
ceeded to take "forty winks," like the
fat boy of Pickwickian memory. We
stopped street vendor who had bar
rel of snakes for sale. Discerning in us
possible purchasers he tipped them on
the pavement and stirred them about
with his foot, exhibiting their fine
points to the best advantage, and in
formed us, in Portuguese, that they were
much better snakes than usual, and if
we missed that chance we were not the
men he took us for. On consideration
we determined to miss that chance, and
we left the snake man cursing and
bundling his snakes back into the bar
rel.-Hayper' Magazine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Senator Sherman, in recent speech,
says that the tax on whisky, tobacco,
and incomes, if fairly collected, are suf-
ficient to pay every dollar of our ex-
penditures except the public debt, and
set apart from the taxes on foreign
goods will, If faithfully applied, pay off
the public debt.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

The New York San of the Ist instant
says: "Tbe mercury in the thermom-
eter stood at 81 degrees i'll the shade at
about sunrise yesterday morning. Such
q low temperature has not been reached
on the 31st of August for a number
of years. During the period from 1910
to 1S49, both years inclusive, no twenty
four hours occurred so cool as the past
tWenty-four..
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Suits have been commenced in the q.
S. Circuit Court at st. Louis, by Joseph
Price, of Penn, and Fielding johnson
and Geo. w. Veale, of Kansas, to CON-
pei Platte county, Missouri, to redeem
the coupons of bonds issued by said
county in 1860 for the Parkville and
Grand r. II. Company.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

There are prospects of a railroad war.
la Susquehanna, in the usually quiet
city of Jacksonville, HI. The city
granted the Peoria, Pekin and Jackson
vile railroad the right of way on one of
its streets, across which the Chicago,
Alton and st. Louis road has Y, and
the latter road forbids the crossing of
the track by the former. The City
Marshal and police, with the aid of 100
employees of the Peoria road, have torn
up the y, and the Superintendent of the
Chicago and st. Louis road telegraphs
the Jacksonvillians that the act will
cost the city $4,000.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Pendegrast, the minstrel, who died at
Pittsburg the other night, was on spree
that afternoon with some friends, when,
as they passed an undertaker's, he went
in, selected coffin, and said he would
wear that. This was bravado. but the
next morning he occupied the coffin he
had selected.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

A Dubuque Qowa) paper says: "a
clerk in this city has demanded the ar
rest of a dangerous girl, where he was
boarding, who tried to ruin him by
throwing her arms around him and hug
ging him." That fellow ought to be
" bored for the simples."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Miss Haynes, of Boston, who spells
her name backward, thus: Senyah, who
travels with Yankee Robinson's circus
as Cretan lady, was robbed few days
ago at Clyde, New York, of $1,000 in
money and $1,000 in diamonds and other
Dr0Derfv
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THE SIAMEsE TwINs.-Chang and Eng
Bunker, the Samese Twins, returned
from Europe in the City of Antwerp,
which arrived on Saturday. They de-
ny that they left America for the pur-
pose of being separated, and say that the
rumOr to that effect was merely sensa-
ton of Barnum's. The link which binds
them seems to have shrunken of late,
and they are more closely joined than
before. They say that they are now de-
termined to settle down for the remain
der of their lives in Mount Airy, North
Carolina, their old home, in which they
spent thirty years as Southern planters.
In the evening Mr.. Newall, father of
Gen. Grant, jr., and Miss Jenett Swan,
fair young sister of the celebrated gil
antess, called upon the twins, who were
highly delighted to see them. Messrs.
Bunker inquired after the physical con-
dition of their old friend, the petite
General, and were informed that he
was in excellent health and spirits, and
would pay them a visit on the follow
ing morning. Chang and Eng Bunker
are now over 50 years of age. Chang
has family of nine, and Eng of eight.
They are easy and embarrassed in
their manners, and appear to bear light
ly the weight Embarrassing years. Their
hair is thin and of an iron gray hue, and
their faces are shrunken and wrinkled,
but there is fire in their eyes which
shows that the lamp of life may burn
cheerfully yet for many long and happy
wears.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

It is said that the mostimportant doc
uments of the rebel Government were
deposited in the vaults of the Bank Of
Montreal two years ago.
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GOV. HARyEY'S SPEECH.

The Lawrence Tribune gives the fol-
lowing report of the address delivered
by Gov. Harvey at the formal opening
of the State Fair on Wednesday: "The
Governor was introduced by Superin-
tendent Alfred Gray, and was received
with applause by the expectant throng.
He commenced by expressing his pleas
ure at being able to meet his fellow-cit-
liens of the State, and to address them
on such an occasion. Here we meet
many old friends, and are enabled to re-
joice with them and congratulate our
selves over the success attending our eff
forts to build up homes in the new State.
We come to view the products of our
fields and folds-products not exceeded
in excellence by any other State in the
Union. The utilized application of Ia
Dor in the West has wrought wOndrous
changes.
Earnest application never fails to ac-
complish great results. The people of
Kansas have earnestly applied them
selves to the task of building up great
State, commencing in the wilderness,
and their success is already. beyond their
most sanguine expectations.
son such an occasion as this we are
irresistibly reminded of our schooi-boy
DAYS, when we were taught to consider
the most sterile districts on the globe,
and to locate it where our homes are
now. We are standing in the midst of the
desert now, and its fruits are before US.
They prove the falsity of old conclu-
sions, as a more productive country
cannot be found in the known world.
1--WE have met many discourage
ments and trials since coming to the
West. But q few short years since, the
prosperous young city of Lawrence was
a neap of smoking ruins, and the whole
State was bowling under the burdens of
bitter, unrelentless war. But the un-
conquerable energy of the people has
surmounted all obstacles, and our State
to-day ranks foremost among the new
States of the Union. The old "bleed-
ing Kansas" is now known as blooming
Kansas. 1t is the garden of the West.
We should take good heart and put our
hands to the plow, and not look back.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17

Greencastle, Indiana, wants to be the
national capital.
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NEW YORK RAscAL1TY.

"Burleigh," the well-known CORES
pendent of the Boston Journal, gives
this account of the manner in which
New Y DIRK officials become rich on small