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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
VOTE THE BOMBS AND SECURE THE

''There is tide In the affairs of men,
which, taken at the food, leads to proc.
perity." This is no more true Of men
than OF communities, States and n4-
lions. We believe the time has come
when the citizens of Lyon county
should. with one accord, unite in secur-
ing the construction OF the AtchisOn.
Topeka & Santa Ee railroad to this
place, and on through the county; thus
securing to thcsnselyes the wealth and
prosperity that would not otherwise
accrue TO them il this proposition is
defeated. lf4 80 A}if@
This part of the State possesses all
Z the natural advantages that are found
IN any one given locality, and all that
wenow want to make US rich, prosper
Gus and happy is the construction of
railroads through the country, giving
us the best markets and the greatest fa-
cfiities for doing business. Situated
as we are, in the very garden Of the
State, surrounded by everything that
nature can give 30 make us prosperous
as a people, it becomes us notc, as citi-
Gems of the county, with one common
destiny, to unite our energies to secure
the immediate construction of this road,
which is admitted by nearly all to be of
as much practical advantage to Us as
any other. ut IS
Almost all of the prominent men in
the county are unanimous in the opin-
ion that the best thing that we can do
for ourselves as property holders is to
vote the bonds to secure the comstruc-
of this road at once tt''
Business men are enthusiastic in hrg-
ing the citizens to vote these bonds,
knowing that they will have to pay u
large proportion of this tax but feeling
that it will be cheaper TO them and to
the people in the end to secure this
road.
Our largest landowners feel that it
is our duty to vote for this railroad,
fully BELIEVING that the rise III real es-
tate viii more than compensate them for
selves.
Men of ackn owledged sagacity, and
keen foresight--men who have been
here for years aud have laborcd earnest
ly for the development of the county,
and whose interests are identified with
the eOHnty--strongly favor the voting
of these bonds, fully believing that it
will give us prominence that cannot
be attained by any other county in this
! part of the State.
Taking these facts into consideration
! 1t becomes US as voters TO consider this
proposition carefully before voting
against it.
IfvOters will examine. this PROPOSE
ton thoroughly and will not allow
their minds to become prejudiced Oh
account of advantages that might be
secured to certain localities by the con-
4 struction of this road, we think they
win become thoroughly convinced that
the proposition is q practical one and
that we will not be oyerburdened with
taxes if this proposition is carried.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
FROM HUMBOLDT.

Humboldt Is all alive. There is much
Improvement going OH now. L see sew
eral new residences going up. Hum
boldt can boast of some of the best res
licences in the Neosho Valley. Among
the many Improvements may be noted
Presbyterian IN. So church. They
are building good stone house, thirty
five by sixty. The Methodists are tax
ing steps to build. think they will
succeed. They have secured some of
the most desirable lots in town.
The country around town is filling
up rapidly i see great many new
Improvements OH the prairie.
The good people here are feeling a
little shaAy just now about the L. l.. Il
g. Il. II. Some of them are abusing
Sturges roundly. No one knows what
Joy will do. If lie should turn the
road fi.n", Garnett toward the Neutral
Lands. Il and Humboldt will be left
out t cold. We hope il may not
be o, railroad men are very uncer-
tai.
We should have said that McElroy
will maintain the Union at all hazards.
tas C. r. r.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

rs Our BRiD6E.-The magnificent draw
is rapidly approaching completion; the
massive columns in the truss are mostly
in place, the lateral bIaeing Of the top
chord is about all adjusted-iR worts,
the time will be short before the draw
viii be swung. The span between piers
1.s1E;e wark. of which only q portion re-
mains to be removed. The Gipsy was
iysssy YESTERDAY towip~ materials from
Harlem and the draw We venture the
prophesy that the track will be iksd and
an engine cross the bridge before the
10th of June.-HaASQs CItvsy0UFaaE
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

1t is stated BY stock7raisers that if the
railroad is built people will come in
aud settle mp the lands and that stock
raising will be no longer remunerative
in this county. That Is, few stock
dealers want to mOnopolize the county
and while they own but little land
themselves they want the benefit OF
pasturing the wild lands Of the county
They do not want more than one set.
tier to each township and are eonse.
qucntly opposed to all railroads. This
Is no argument against the bonds and
IL is hardly expected that the majority
OF the people of the county will forcv-
or remain isolated from the world to
accommodate few ock-raisers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

The NEUTRAL LANDS.-The Law
renee Journal of the 26th nit. called up
on the Governor to call out troops to
quell the troubles In Cherokee county.
The Governor some days ago anticipat-
cd this call. The State has no mount
ed forces, and if it had it would be i'm
polite to cali them out. 1t might make
the troubles of a greater magnitude
than they now are. Some days ago the
Governor called on Gen. Schofield for
regular troops to go on to the neutral
lands for the purpose of restraining and
If necessary Furnishing the misguided
men who are taking the law into their
own hands. Gen. Schofield endorsed
the application aud forwarded it to
Gen. Sheridan who is known to be in
favor OF the noyement- The author
ity for the United States to assist a
State in such circumstances rests alone
with the President. Tie application
we presume will be promptly respond
ed to by him. ODtsa0a redtlh.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

Remember that while tile railroad
will Increase the value of your I'M
p proved farm it will cause the wild lands
adjoining You to become settled up and
improved; thus, while your improved
farm i. increased in value so per cent,
these unimproyed lands, owned by non
residents, will be Increased in value
more than 100 per cent, thus increasing
the taxable valuation of property in the
county and consequently reducing the
per cent. therefore the taxes on your
farm win not be any higher after the
road is built than now.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
THE PUBLIC DEBT.


It Is believed that the public debt
statement for May will show u reduc-
tioD of fourteen millions. 1t is very
evident to the minds of thinking men
that the present Administration is do
ing all it can to reduce our national
debt. 1t is believed that the revenue
officers are doing their duty and that
before the end OF the year the public
debt viii be reduced by many millions.
We have assurances from President
Grant that ii the present revenue of
fcers prove dishonest or incapable that
they shall be removed at once and their
places be supplied by others. We have
also ASSURANCES from the Secretary OF
the Treasury that the Governments
promises to pay shall be taken up as
fast rs possible and that he will not
allow amy gold to lie idly in the treas
ury vaults. The prompt action of the
new Administration in regard to our
financial affairs has caused n feeling OF
security in financial circles, aud it is to
be hoped that by a continued reduction
Of our debt we may be able soon to re-
urn to specie pa yment, ....t r.. b
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

The Topeka Commonwealth says
The Land Grant Railway aud Trust
Company of New York, who are build
ing the Southern Branch Pacific Rail-
road, have published a pamphlet
entitled the 'Neosho Valley" and
have circulated in Sweden and Ger
many seventy-five thousand copies of
it, A tolerably well executed map OF
Kansas accompanies the pamphlet. The
document will be largely influential IL
attracting emigration to Kansas from
the old country. The condition, pros
poets, resources, etc, etc, of the State
graphically and glowingly given therein
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

The Burlington Patriot says: The
force of engineers and surveyors OIL the
Neosho Valley railroad reached Bur-
lington on Wednesday last, and have
returned to Hartford to make a perma-
nent survey from that point to our
town. The present survey leaves OF
tumwa some two miles to the north
aud strikes Burlington at park mum
Der two. just west of the school house.
They have surveyed and made a per-
lnanent location of the road rs far as
Hartford, and will make permanent
survey to this point Immediately.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

The Junction City Onion says that a
Topeka exchange has inauguratesl a
new era IA eastern Kansas journalism
by actually deyoting a whole column
10 western Kansas. 1t says further that
"Lawrence and Topeka runners for
Southern Kansas lie so internally con-
corning the western portion Of the
state" that the paper in qaesstion has
assumed quite task in attempting to
correct thsu.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

Mr.. Butler isnreported to have said
that the law in the Alabama eontro-
versy is on the side OF England, and it
had been SO decided by our Supreme
court, but that we should nevertheless
withdraw our intercourse with Eng-
land because of her course in taking
advantage of . technical law to injnre
MS. He opposes q rcciprocity treaty
with Canada, as we were unfairly treat
ed in the last one, but thinks such u
treaty 1y wonid De of greut advantage to
the greatest confidence in Mr.. Bout
wells policy and considers him the best
Secretary OF the Treasury siacc Ham
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

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4 The proposition to subscribe stock to
the Atehisoo, Topeks & Santa Fe rail.
road Is being thoroughly canvassed in
this county by able speakers and we
have assurances that the bonds viii be
voted by p handsome majority. Men
who did not look upon the proposition
very fayOrably &C first begin to see that
it will be of immense advantage TO us
as county 10 secure this road aud are
now in favor of the bonds. We have
felt frcm the beginning that the people,
after hearing this measure thoroughly
canvassed, would support il, and that
the intelligent voters of the county
would not defeat measure that prom
Uses such good results to every proper
~ holder in the county.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

4 The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf
railroad was opened to Paola on the
3ist ult-; There WAS quite a large ex-
cursioR from Kansas City to celebrate
the event.. Il is expected the road viii
be completed to- Fort Scott about the
middle of August. New rolling stock
has been ordered aud the road will soon
be well prepared for its increasing
business. Two trains are now running
daily between Kansas City and Paola.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
The Markets.

ST. LOUIS, June I.-Flour-Higher
grades dull and weak, low qualities
firm and in demand; super sold at
S4.50@5.00, fall Y S5.25, spring and fall
XIX SLS5@6.5O, XNX to fancy ST.OO@
9.75.
Whcat-Spring in better demand al
S1.l0 for No. 2, S1.I2@1.13 for No. l,
S1.I41s for choice, club fall wheat low
er at SI.25@I.45 for good to prime and
choice red, $l.35@I.50 for prime to
choice white, SI.5U@i.75 for fancy red
a nd white.
Cattle-In fair local demand at 5@
Tic.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

( THE Bounty LAw.-Theo. c. Bowles.
Esq, writes to the Ottawa Repdblic that
according to the provisions OF Il Q
amended bounty act of March Sd, 1869,
there are but two classes of persons ell
titled to bounty under the provisions of
that law, viz.
LIST. The soldier who enlisted for three
years, and whose muster in and muster
out showed him to have served less
than three years, although he was dis
charged by reason of Expiration OF
term of service" This class under the
act of July 2Sth, 1866, received only
$50. Under the new law they are enti-
tied to an additional $50.
I'd. The heirs of soldiers who enlist
ell for and served three years, and who
on their return home, after discharge,
took sick aud died of disease not con-
tracted In the service. These, under
the act of July 18th, 1866, receive no.
thing. Under the new law, they are
entitled 10 SI00.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

is a telegram from Washington states
that Senator Ross is in Washington for
the purpose of bringing President
Grant to terms on the subject of their
late quarrel. 1t is intimated that the
State Record and the Senator viii
adopt sRch measures as will compel the
President to accede TO their wishes. =
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

For excellent editorials, interesting
correspondence. well selected news
items, spicy locals and general inform
ation-coudensed and presented in a
readable form -comnend US to the To-
peka Com nsoasDedEEh.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

WHAT RAILROADS HAVE DoNE FOR
TorEKA.-The Topeka Commonwealth,
of the 9Th tit., says: ~
IS. X. Cross, of this city, sold yester-
day to e, w. Potwm, President of the
Second National Bank of GAINESVILLE,
Topeka on the west, for fourteen MouS-
aud dollars-two hundred dollars per
acre. Four years ago Mr.. Cross pur-
chased this land for twenty-five dollars
per acre.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

last Sunday was The day. appointed
by the Grand Army of the Republic on
which to decorate the graves of Union
soldiers, aud was generally observed
throughout the country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

II Mr. Fisher, the new Commissioners of
Patents at Washington, has ordered
that every person appointed to office
under him must pass an examination 10
determine his qualifications before he
can receive his commission. aIgIi
The Patent office has for number of
years been q crying evil and we are
glad to note this reform.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

2 The Governor has issued prOcIama-
lion enjoining the people on the Neu-
trial Lands to preserve the peace and
submit themselves to the due process of
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

Mr.. Motley, Minister of the United
States to England, has arrived in Lon
don and is being dined and wined by
English notables.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
THE REPUBLICAN JOUR- Al AND
Com

7 1t is evident that the Republican
Daily Journal, of Lawrence, and the
Kansas Suite Commonwealth, of To-
peka, arc destined to WELD powerful
iuflue.Ice i'm reforming the hitherto cor
rupt politics of this State. Their adj
vent into the newspaper world is hailed
with pleasure by the majority of the
people of the State and it is to he hoped
that they will continue to be true to
themselves aud to the best interests of
the people.
We are satisfied that mo politician.
monopolist, or capitalist has one single
cent invested either directly or indi-
rcctly in either one of these papers, and
we are therefore led to believe that
rupt Influences that. have heretofore
dictated the course of many of our
leading papers. We are convinced tina
the men who have control of these pa
pers are determined to work for the
best interests of the State at large and
will not be governed and controlled by
political or monied rings, nor local nor
sectional prejudices. The journal has
succeeded in touching a chord in the
popular heart that responds with a
hearty good will TO the truths uttered
from day to day through its columns !;
and while the COMMUNICABLE is the
Younger of the two it is becoming pop
ular with the people. We hope pros
perity viii attend them and that they
will continue to occupy sphere ofuse-
fuIness that has not been heretofore at
tanned by but few papers of The State.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

MURDER At ELLswoRTH.-On Wednes-
day last a stranger of respectable APP
pearancc was found dead between Els
worth and the halfway house, two
miles from there, who had been MUIR
dered, evidently for his money. He
was young man of respectable ap-
pearance, full faced, with light mus
tache and beard, and well dressed. A
bullet hole through his head told the
manner of his death.-LaUTenc Irib.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
For restoring Gray Hair 10
IFS natural Vitality and Color.

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectslal
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
kGsr IS soon restored
to It's original color
SCftk tie gless aad
reshHess Of yoa1th.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04
Carpenters TooIs

Such as planes, hatchets, hand and broad
axes, auserS, and chisels, VERY Low FOR
CASH. -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-03-06
The "Old oaken Bucket. I"

The " Old Oaken Bucket" was written by
Samuel B. Woodworth, while yet he was
journeyman printer, working in an Office OF
the corner of Chambers and Chatham
streets, New York Near by in Frankfort
street, was drinking house kept by one
named Mallory, where Woodwork and
several particular friends used to resort
One afternoon the liquor was pronounced
super-excellent. Woodwork seemed in
pired by it, for, after taking a draught. he
set his glass upon the table and smacking
his lips, declared that Mallorys eau de Uie
was superior to anything he had ever tasted.
mo" said Mallory, you are mistaken;
there was one which in both our estin1ations,
far surpass this as drink
"Wbat was that?'' asked Woodwork
dubiOnsly.
1.-The draughts Of pure, fresh water that
we 1sed to drink from the old oaken bucket
that hung in the well, on our return from
the labors Of the field, on sultry day in
GUNNER"
The teardrops glistened for moment IN
Woodworth's eye. True trueF' he re-
piled, and shortly after quilted the place
He Immediately returned to the Office,
grssped pen, and in half an hour the Old
Osken Bucket" one of the most delightful
compositions in our language as ready in
manuscript to be embalmed in the memories
of succeeding generations.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-03-06

quest of something to do. To the re-
prOach of what passes for education, must
say that majority of these have had con-
siderable money spent in schooling them
for lives OF usefulness. They are qualified
Il presume) to keep books or copy manu-.
scripts or teach languages or act as govern
esses, or follow some other of the frightfully
oYerstocked vocations. But when | say to
one OF them, " The work you seek is posi-
lively not to be had, since ten want to do it
where one wants it done; you must strike
of into the broad, free country, and ask
farmer after farmer to give you work till
you find it, the general response, . know
nothing of farming strikes on my ear like
a kneli. Even at seasons when the farmers
we're intensely hurried by their summer
harvest, and ready to pay for any help that
was not hinderanee, have known our city
to be thronged with weary, sad petitioners,
for something to do" II our current edu-
cation were not plunder or fraud, this
could not be.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-03-06

the survey of the river and for the removal
of few comparatively trivial Instructions
| in the upper and lower river, but the acts
granting these appropriations ignored en-
| tirely the great distractions at Muscle
Shoals, without the removal of which no
adequate outlet can be given for the i'm
mense mineral and agricultural products of
this country, or ingress to the products OF
the great Northwest; and
Whereas, This enterprise being o national
one, and as Such entitled to be carried out
by the General Government, is demonstrated
by the fact that Congress has, by law, de-
clared its control of havigable rivers, and
has, at various periods during the past years,
caused surveys of the Tennessee river to be
made nth view to its improvement, is
further demonstrated by the fact that the
Tennessee and its navigable tributaries
traverse the States Of Kentucky, Mississippi,
Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia aRd North
Carolina while it is certain that no mere
local or State matters could, as has the pro-
position for the removal of the distractions
at Muscle Shoals, unite the Governors of
Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia, Ala
bama and Tennessee in a call for such =
convention as that new assembled; there
fore
Be it resolred, That the attention Of Con-
To the facts set forth in the foregoing pre-
amble, aud that the Senators and Represen
tatives, from the States here represented, in
particular, be urged to press this matter
upon the attention of their respective bodies
without cessation, until the distractions to
navigation on the Tennessee river between
Decatur, Alabama, and Waterloo, Alabama,
are all removed.
BE it further reSolUed, That committee
of three be appointed by the Chair to pre-
pare and draft a memorial to Congress,
which shall set forth such facts in connec
tion with the Tennessee river and it's tribu-
taries as they deem adapted to influence
Congress in favor of the objects of this Con-
vention.
Resotued, That all papers printed in the
States specially Interested in the succes of
this enterprise be, and they are hereby re-
quested to publish the proceedings of this
Convention.
All of which is respectfully and unani-
mouslY submitted
Y. A GAsKILL, Chairman.
The report was taken up, as a whole, and
adopted unanimously.
Under the foregoing resolutions ". B.
Cav, of Tennessee. IL. p. Farrow, of Geor-
gia, and Ex.G0y. Patton, of Alabama, were
appointed committee to memorable Con-
gress in behalf of the enterprise.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-03-06
Useful Memoranda.
JOHN COOPER,
Lieutenant and A. ID. C.

A box "a inches by Is inches square
and % inches deep will contain barrel, or
5 bushels, or 1882 cubic inches.
A box "a inches by l6 inches square and
IA inches deep will contain half barrel, or
q bushels, or 1916 cubic inches.
a box IS inches by 16.8 inches square
and 8 inches deep will contain one bushel,
or 2l50.4 cubic inches.
box II inches by liz inches square and
s inches deep will contain half bushel, or
1882 cubic inches
A box inches by s. 4 inches square and
inches deep will contain one peck, or
537 6 cubic inches
a box inches by inches square and
AZ inches deep will contain half peck, or
26S cubic inches.
A box inches by inches square and
Is inches deep will contain half a gallon,
or 134.4 cubic inches.
Size of squares containing, the fractional
parts Of an acre
One sixteenth of an acre contains 27223
square feet, and the side of a square enclos-
ing that area will be about So feet 25 inches
One eighth of an acre contains 5445
square feet, and the side of the enclosing
square will be about 73 feet 10 inches.
One quarter OF an acre contains 10,890
square feet, and the side of the enclosing
square will be about 104 feet 4s inches.
One half of an acre contains 21, ,780
square feet, and the side of the enclosing
square VIII be about 147 feet inches.
One acre contains A, 500 square feet, and
the side of the enclosing square is about
208 feet So inches.
Two acres contain 81, ,120 square feet, and
the side of the enclosing square is about
295 feet 2 inches.