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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
THE DAUGHTER OF AARON BURR.

Theodosia Burr's habits of life were,
/ have heard my mother say, much like
those of Mrs kemble. She was a ia
nous walker aud skater, and accom-
panied her father on shooting and fish
ing excursions. As horseman she was
unsurpassed, and on her visits to her
New England friends, sometimes aston
ished their quiet neighbors by riding
over the country, taking walls and
bitches in flying leaps. Yet she was in
the best sense of the word, feminine
and essentially a lady.
The last DAYS of this grand woman
were very sad, and her fate is even vet
wrapped in awful obseurity. 1t is only
known that when broken in health and
almost in heart, by the loss of her only
son, she embarked for Charleston, to
join her unhappy father in New York,
on small sailing vessel, accompanied
only by her physician and servant. That
vessel never was heard of more, and it
has always been supposed that it found
cred III gale off Cape Hatteras. But
some twenty or thirty years ago a
seaman, dying in a hospital at New
Orleans, confessed to having been q
pirate aud among other terrible things,
he told of his ship having run down q
schooner bound to New York from
Charleston, and of having scuttled her
after taking possession of every thing
valuable. The few passengers, he said,
and such of the crew as were disinclined
to enlist under their black banner, they
compelled to walk the plank. Among
the passengers was one lady, who re-
monstrated against having her hands
bound and being blindfolded, promising
to offer no resistance. So they let her
have her own way, he said, and she
stepped quietly on to the plank, and.
with her eyes wide open, she walked off
into the sea. ] have always believed
that the woman who met her fate in this
grand Roman way, was the daughter of
Aaron Burr, TheOdosia Allston.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
LABOR AND LUCK.

The mere fact that you are obliged
to labor is not a misfortune. The mere
fact that your labor produces slow re-
suits is not misfortune. The thing
that you desire as an alienation, would
be the greatest curse to you. Do not
DO ashamed of that place where God
has shut you up. God has put your
tasks upon YOU, and remember that
your enjoyment is to consist in the
essential manliness of your nature. 1t
is to consist in the active use of those
forces with which God has endowed
you wherever his providence has put
you. And if he has withheld from you
some Of those enjoyments which he
has granted to others, be assured, if
you are faithful, that in some way they
will be made up to you. Do not be
ashamed of hardness. Stand to it and
fight out your battle. See to it that,
whatever you lose-whether it be
money, or place, or what not-you do
not lose manhood, or courage, or
honesty, simplicity, or truthfulness.
Stick to them. They are half your
life.
think if you were to go from man
to man, in all ordinary channels OF
life, you would find very few men, il
you took them at that hour when they
made their secret complaints, who did
not labor under the impression that
though they should be resigned to
their condition, it was condition OF
misfortune that they were obliged to
exert themselves. The young man,
beginning in life, says to himself: 81
am obliged to rise early, and to sit up
late, and labor necessarily; but I hope
for better time" Alb, yes! that
better time is the FOOLS paradise OF
laziness. He is obliged to work now
but he looks forward to the time when
he will not be under the necessity OF
working. He points to the favored
sons, as he calls them, of rich men,
who were not born to work, and who
are useless and worse than useless in
society, and laments that, instead OF
having their good fortune, he is doomed
to life of severe toll. But tell you
what you call good fortune has been
his ruin, and the necessity of laboring
has been your salvation, and instead
of bemoaning your condition, thank
God for it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Go TO FARMINe.-A good living is
what comparatively few men succeed
in making in a village or city life, and
yet nothing is more easy of accom-
plishment on a farm. Besides, there
is pleasure in cultivating and embei-
fishing the earth, improving and in
creasing its products, and thus adding
to the aggregate of human happiness.
Why, then, should young men hesitate
to be farmers? 1t is both profitable
and honorable. 1t is the nearest APP
Proclamation to independence that a
man, as a member of society, can make.
A gentleman farmer-and all farmers
are or should be gentlemen-belongs
to an order of nobility that is not in
debted to place holders for installation,
and may, If he chooses, be ranked
among the greatest .benefactors of the
human race. Let all the idle young
men go to work on farms and quit
seeking third and fourth-rate clerk
ships. In short, go to farming and quit
begging.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

HE'D HAD His Fun" Old Uncle
jake" as he was called, who lived in a
rural neighborhood in central Ohio, was
once the opulent possessOr of two splen-
did farms, well stocked and uneucum-
bered. But Jake loved his bottle, aud
was given to hard sprees, so that finally
through a series of persistent and long
continued dissipation, he iran through
his property, as it is expressiveIy called,
and old age found him penniless, and
compelled to earn his bread BIZ daily
labor wherever he can find employment.
From being "Mr. so and so" he came to
be known simply as ''Old Jake" though
he was an object of some COMMUNICATION
to those who had known him in his bet
ter days.
Jake" said farmer to him one day,
for whom he was at work, 'don't you
sometimes wish you had those two
splendid farms back again that you
drank up and fooled away 2"
The tears started in old Jake's rheumy
eyes, as he leaned sadly and refiectively
upon his hoe handle. At length straight
eniDg up, old Jake replied: Well,
don't know I've had id sight of fun
in my day.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
TuE Po11T,cAI powrp M

THE POLITICAL POWER OF RoMANIsM.
A late number of the New Y DIRK Her.
all publishes the following list of public
Offices said to be held by Irish Roman
Catholics in New York city: Sheriff,
Register. Controller, City Chamberlain,
Corporation Counsel, Police Commits
sioner, President of the CrotOn Board,
Acting Mayor and President of the
Board of Alderman, President of the
Board of COuncilmen, Clerk of the
Common Council, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors, five Justices of the Courts
of Record, all the civil Justices, all but
two OF the Police Justices, all the Police
Court Clerks, three out of four Corners,
two members of Congress, three out of
five State Senators, eighteen out of
twenty-one members of Assembly,, four
teen-nineteenths of the Common Coun-
Gil, and eight-tenths of the Supervisors.
This vast political power is believed to
be used i'll the interests of the Papal
Church, securing for its institutions i'm
mense grants of valuable real estate
from the city, as well as large sums of
money. The church thus, in the first
place, controls the taxation of city
property, and then the appropriation of
the millions of revenue received from
taxation. 1t wieids the entA,e legisla-
tive power of the city, nine-elevenths
of the city's representation in the State
Assembly, and three-fifths of its in
fluence in the Senate it controls all the
civil courts, all but two of the Police
Courts, and three-fourths of the Coro-
ners and under its allpotent influence
are the acting Mayor, the Sheriff, the
Register, the Controller, the City Cham
berlain, the President and fourteen
nineteenths of the Board of Council
men, and the President and eight-tenths
of the Board of Supervision.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

A LEGAL '.PLACER" ExHAUsTED.-The
Hartford Post says the case OF the Brit
ish Government against the Sharps' Ri
f1e Company, of that city, which has
been before the Courts for twelve years,
has at last been decided, by the Supreme
Court, in favor of the British Govern
ment. In 1856 the British Government
made a contract for arms for the Crime
an campaign with the Sharps' compa-
ny. To secure the fulfillment of the
contract, the British Government took
mortgage of certain lands near the
Sharps factory. The Government claims
a non-fulfillment of the contract, and
asks a foreclosure of the mortgage, in
in order to sell the lands, and that is
what they have at last got The whole
amount in controversy Is about $780,
O00, and the lawyers concerned have
had by far the best of the thing. The
British Government has had Colonel
of the army on full pay, $4,000 a year
in gold, in New York all the time, to
manage the case, ostensibly, but all he
has had to do has been to pay the coun-
sci of the Crown their SO per diem in
gold, when engaged on the case, and TO
sign his name occasionally, while he has
boarded at the first class hotels. The
lawyers, naturally regret the death OF
| the old goose"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
THE INSPIRED IDEAL.

1t is sad, indeed, to think how far we
have wandered from the pure and beau
tiful ideal of welded life which is pre-
sented in the Scriptures. That ideal
involves the union of two beings whose
love is fixed supremacy on God, and
who strive to cherish toward each other
such feelings as Christ cherishes to-
wards us, and as we should cherish to-
ward Him. There is one book in the
Bible greatly misunderstood and there
fore robbed of its spiritual meaning, in
which the pure and noble ideal of this
relation is presented. 1t is the Canticles.
We only need the key to this wonderful
book, and it stands before us at once in
unrivalled purity and beauty. 1t is a
picture of welded life, iii all the sweet
ness and innocence of Paradise. in ex-
quisite harmony with the loveliest
manifestations of nature, and made TO
represent and typify the love of Christ
aud the Church. With the exception
our translation, which do not accurately
reproduce the original, it is the most
pure and elevating conception possible
of conjugal love. That mind must be
fearfuiiy tainted already to which it
could appear in the slightest degree
sensual or gross. 1t comes from the in
spiration of the Holy Spirit, to set be-
fore us the idea of the tenderness and
purity land love, which should be realized
iii welded life, and which would make
it typical of the relation between Christ
and the Church. 1t lays the foundation
of wonderful imagery of the New
Testament, where the Savior presents
himself as the Bridegroom, coming in
the last day to take His Bride, the Church,
with Him to His celestial palace and
Kingdom, where St. Paul says of the
marriage relation, that he speaks con-
corning Christ and the Church where
ST. John says that he saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.-Protestan
ChuTchmOU
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

a New DIRECTOR The Boston
Traveller says that Mr.. Webster, late
aide-de-camp to General Grant, has
been appointed Government director
of the Pacific Railroad. This is mis-
take. The new director is Gen. J. d.
Webster, of Illinois, native of New
Hampshire, and for many years in the
Engineer Corps of the army. Several
years since, be resigned his commits
sion, but returned to service at the out
set of the war. AS Grants chief of
artillery at Shiloh, he saved the day,
and as General Shermanis alter ego
in Tennessee, during the "march
to the sea-" General Webster had
a position of great responsibility
and care. He is thorough-going Re-
publican, and his efforts IN behalf of
"Free Kansas" in the desperate days
Of the Pierce dynasty, are gratefully
remembered by the people of that State.
Gen. Webeter's engineering know-
edge, and his high personal character
and integrity, viii be of service in the
Pacific Railroad direction.-Ne0 York
Commercial Aduertiser.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

A Legal JoKE.-Torn Corwin, the
celebrated Ohio lawyer and politician,
was notorious for impartiaily borrow
ing money from every one of his friends
and seldom paying them Having
been fined $50 Dollars by a judge one
day for disorderiy behavior in court,
Tom looked all around the court room,
and then addressed the Judge: HMay
it please your Honor, see no one
present Of whom can borrow $50 with
which to pay the fine just inflicted or
me by yourself. Will yuo be kind
enough to lend me the amount 7" The
Judge, forseeing the probable result o.
making the loan requested addressed
his reply to the clerk: aYou nay re
NIT that fine Mr.. Clerk. The State d
Ohio can better afford to loss $50 thar
/ can"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

William Crockett, living near Mitch
ell, Indiana, has been in the habit of
brutally beating bis son, aged seven,
using clubs and thorn bushes to brufse
and lacerate the flesh of the little vic
tim. Last Friday he supplemented a
beating by kicking the child into the
fire, burning it's hands in frightful
manner. When the child scrambled
out he tortured its bare flesh with a
thorny switch. Next day he was ar
rested and lodged in jail. At night he
was taken from jail by a crowd of cit
liens to a forest hard by, stripped max
ed and tied to a tree. One man stood
with a cooked pistol at his head. 1t
appears, he says, like there were some
left-handed men in the crowd as two
whipped at a time, one on each side,
and when they had put on about sew
enty-five they had to commence over
again, as they had lost count. When
they thought he was about as sore as
the child, they put him back in the
Jail.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

The New York Tribune extends Q
very cheerful saiutation TO number of
young Treasury clerks who have re-
signed in anticipation of the reduction
of the force in the department. It says !:
ssYonng gentlemen, we congratulate
you'll You are freei You no longer
groan under the burthens Of oficei The
free West awaits you'll It's bonndIess
prairies yearn for your coming with the
shovel and the hoei Better raise doz-
en- ears of good cora than twist . thous-
and yards of red fapei Happy boys,
go and enjoy your freedom, and knew
the felicity Of that work which brings
the sweat TO your brows and makes
sweet your daily bread r.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
1890 Acres of Land
FOR SALEi

DI authority OF the Board OF Directors Of
ID the State Normal School. the undersigned
offer for sale the lands belonging to said insti-
tuition an endowment These lands were
among the first selected in the State. and there
fore among the best. Several sections are sits
nated along the line Of the Union Pacific r. R.,
Z. ID. All these lands are Of superior quality.
embracing large amount Of first class bottom
land and timber, we'll Watered, with an album
dance Of 1ine building stone, afording desirable
situations for settlers.
The above lands viii be sold in whole or in
part upon liberal terms. Parties desiring to
purchase any or all Of these lands, for further
information can address G. C. Morse, Secretary
Normal School Board, Emporia. Kansas.
as C. Y. ESKRIDGE,gat
g. c. MORSE, = ~
JAMES ROGERS.
Executive Committee.
.E-s,-z4-is. Kansas, nov. Is, 1857.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

A delegation of KentGckians asked
Gen. Thomas to 60 to the White Honse
with them to see Grant, and he Goa.
scented, IS he was led to believe that the
call was one Of grutulation simply but
when they reached the ante-room and
various papers began to Be produced
from numerous pockets, Gen. Thomas
got up and left. - - 6 asza
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

One of the Mobile papers endeavors
to delude it's readers with the idea that
the book written by Pirate Scenes
was well received abroad, when the
fact is that they condemned the book
itself and the taste displayed by the
author In issuing it, in much harsheF
terms than were bestowed upon it In
the Northern STATES.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Gen. J. AIerou, OF Coehoas county, Misc.
who followed Longstreet out Of the Confede p
ate ranks, has had two-stGry residence, q
1900 cotton gin, and all his negro quarters
burned by the Ku KInx.
Joseph James, Of BuffaIo, Il. Y, has present
ed Gen. Grant with an eiegzEt pair Of boots,
Mr.. Jamos will nOs 60 into the Cabinek though
the boots probably will.
william wright's last earthly residence, In
Toledo, Ohio. IL thus marked:
aElere lies the body Of W. W,
Who RsYeE more viii txouble you tEeable
yOu.p
The daughters q Andy johnson LEI tie
naesiea In better order thar g hss ever heeo
len IN before By Al outgoing President
The bridge proposed TO ssnite Esss xefk end
Brookiyz vii. II bunk. have ne eHqEm01e
span q SO fest.
Fort rlIlov Tarrsat sisins = y therpusAIy
reconstructed.
.. Ieuis hae pretty sitsis Gig dsbt e sis.-
223 800.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
A DIAMOND STORY.

A remarkable diamond story has been
set afloat in the eastern part of Pennsyl-
vania, which is briefly as follows: Near
ly century ago an old gentleman in
the lower part of Virginia picked up a
stone to throw at q rabbit; the stone
glittered in the sun, and the old man
concluded to take it home for his chill
dren to play with. Shortly afterward
the family physician happened to see
the stone, and offered six dollars for it,
but the family would not sell. Suisse
quently a trusty friend about to visit
Europe was given the stone, and OIL
his reaching London he consulted an
old lapidary named Nox, who, after
careful examination, declared that CAL
America is not able TO buy that stone.'
A jew, whom the trusty friend after
wards consulted, Informed him not to
come out with the stone again without
a guard, as he would be robbed were il
known he had it. The friend returned
home and delivered up the precious
gem.
Some time afterward a party of six
Marylanders offered for the stone in
land and negroes the equivalent of one
hundred thousand dollars, which was
refused. The old man died, and the
stone remained in the family for several
generations, and recently, SO runs the
story, it came into the possession of DIR
DougheI ty, of Merchandising, Pennsyl-
vania, whose children are legal heirs
1t is claimed to be a diamond of first
quality, and weighs fonr hundred and
fifty carats, while that of the Rajah OF
Mattan, said to be the largest in the
world, weighs only three hundred and
sixty-seven carats. The stone has been
sent away to pass the scrutiny of the
ablest scientific men in the country, and
the Harrisburg State Guard, which is
responsible for the story of which the
| above is an outline, says: '"There is rea-
son to believe that America can boast
the largest diamond in the world"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Rev. W. J. Circus, paster as CaFboadaie, H.,
writes rs follows: 81 rec.vetI note from Gen.
John A. Logan, who Isl resident Of our town,
in which he requested bis nxme 20 be enrolled
IS pIob4ka0aer In the Methodist Episcopal
Church AZ CaEbondales Il was done. We
snail build ; new church IN the srrlng. The
wife Of Gen. Logan has long been an active
and faithful member
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Frank Pisrcs's cabinet srae The only
one IN the history Of the United States
that remained unbroken from the be-
ginning tc the end Of the administra-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Thers ars lots of AmeEicsa girls nos IN
Europe TO learn singing. Among them are
the Misses Aackay, Sterling, Gfbbss Iaa5auHes-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
EMPORIA NEAT MARKET.

-. eCHMIDLING, MORRISON.
VIII, furnish the citizens OF EmpoFfa, and
s,srroundlng country with fresh meats at all
Tunes. at their new meat market, In the old
Clerks once building, one door north Of Fra
ker 3 Peyton's. f7l a1
Flour, Meal, and Shorts for Sale.
CASH PAID FOB COUNTRY PRODUCT
Emporia, May g, 1868.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02

Ths T's1ss vI.sas srsp pronIss. vsll.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
A NEW TAILOR SHOP.
CHARLEY HASSLER

"TOULD announce to the public that he has
w opened a Tailor Shop at the store Of q.
w. Frederick, in EmpOTia, where he will at
all times be ready TO wait upon those who may
favor him with their patronage. Clothing re-
paired and renovated Clothing cut for others
to make, u specially.
December II, 1868
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
MRS. G. T.. WINNl
Has opened a

ERIy ESTA
Next door south of the Postoffice. CONNER
cial street, where she will be glad TO see
the ladies of Emporia and vicinity at all times.
she is prepared to do all work in the line,
such dressing straws, felts. "tc. Give her
a call t.I- ts.E iI-36
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-02
d. II. CARD,
p H OF O q K A p III E r,

Is prepared to take pictures Of all kinds at
his room, opposite The NEWS Office, on the
most reasonable terms. Negatives will be pre-
served, and any number Of photographs can be
ordered at any time. 1l-2I
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-10-05

The Eqaiaar noase closed iur the season on
bsianisy
The following new advertisements appear In
our ealumns to-day Meeting o. The Bennington
Cluaiy Union q Good Tomplars Auction Sale
n HgHgAtan 4 Co.'S hil announcement d
nsr fogAs G HusPp, boots aed shoos sails
o. land r. bres q WlhbAM
Ieibm rtmala IN To Poet 0foo Ia
;bis village a15rsssi e tbc following persons
Nss Joseph White. Mrs n. " sanford Mrs. d
glok4ratai., Grs A. D. Eis, 81. r C. Hart
FORD. Mrs II Hepy, Hlss p T.. rsnrinAn, Mis,
Hoes srnaa, NJ. ]aae MFonvAl
We soud cali ths attention II readers q Is,
81 enisi mc,t q Aessrs. u .. Honghion a ca
ThairDev catalogue coutaibs some n The choicest
books pahAahed
A res ms-lAblt vent into effect on the Ben
ulHgton Rutland railsfpaa sn Mendsy Trans
mmine soulh leAse MAhchester IS follows. 10
.. -: y and 300 ?. n. Moving NORTH, 1000 a
-, az Aud 5as5r,M.
Goo n ssin and T. c. oryis ~ ths place
Ralph Graves u Sunderland, sad Mr.. Pihckertor
% AeN York, returned last seek frpm a thres
weets hunting ard hshing tour smong the Al
ifealAeka. They brought home With them
haudsomt trophy in the shape u q deer, weigh
ing atraa, ~ ibs.. oas u TOO largest, say ol(
huasers. that has hesa killed Ia Northern Nov
lort many years. This game wss us victim
- the uHgir,ag ARA .as thai sltad ''shaatist,
q ssIf nhrg have the thAhks Il The PRINT
rgn lut gsbsr5as supply " vnnisan.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-10-05

Tbs sale q the perssnsl property - the late
Julge clssks cststs. advertised for last saturday
hAs loeu postponed - Saturday neEt al loe'oloek
4. II.
A rev Asfs since utsie funeral procession
49, sssa approaching ser Vi age. The msagre
trails s4icsied ihst poverty was seeking lie last
rsssii.g p.Aos, Death bad taken fAihsg sud =
huslahd aud the widB~ and ehAldreA desired
. ehrsFlaa banAl ~ lhsir dead. Tbs ssfsices
81 De eay protesting ambassador u Cbnsi In
our village weFs solicited and promised. tas hour
Afspass1od nnd hause engaged bai fot sosas m
emphasized 'vssoa, the aoafs remained locked Aad
~ na.aislss at1a 10 appsan-ee. tBs grave ne
eelved the dead 10 aieaes, Aaa poverty rseeired
rslols noi sasllg fosgo,tsA, NAiea say srs
We drfs4nga }.