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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-12-16
THE CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY IN AL
ALBANIA.


The returns of the late election in
Alabama led us to infer that the state
had been lost to the republicans by
small majority of 5000 or so. 1t had
gone for Grant two years before by over
1920, and the causes which had led to
this change of more than z 600 have not
been heretofore clearly apparent. But
it would seem from late revelations that
the gains of the democracy are not to
be attributed wholly to honest sources.
Intimidation and outrage were employ
ed and the most heinous crimes COM
mitted to drive legal voters from the
polls. In one instance fifty-four negro
voters were wounded in an attack upon
mass meeting, not single white man
being injured. False returns were is
sued in some instances and no returns
in others and every effort was made to
obstruct the electors and falsify the re-
turns. The origin of the difficulty was
serious enough, and it is to be feared
that its consequences may prove graver
still.
The presiding officer of the senate, a
republican, was restrained on Saturday
last by an injunction issued on the APP
plication of the governor and treasurer
of the state, both of whom are republi-
cans, from counting the votes cast for
the candidates for those two offices.
Tho avowed purpose of the officials was
to secure legal inquiry into the validity
of the election. The senate, which is
almost unanimously republican, obeyed
the Injunction, and, after the speaker
had declined to announce the vote for
the two offices named, that body ad-
jOurned. This seems clearly the proper
proceeding under the circumstances.
But the senate had no sooner retired
than the new acknowledgement was
sworn in, and, taking the speakers chair
in the house, announced himself as the
presiding officer of the joint conven-
ton, although he was the only person
present who was in any sense a mem.
Der of the senate. He thereupon count
ed the vote for governor and treasurer
and declared the democratic candidates
only elected. The new governor tool
the oath, and would have taken poses
sion of the executive Office had not Uni
ted States troops prevented. Thes'
have been withdrawn, and the republi
can governor and treasurer hold offic,
| by the material aid of a sheriff7s posse
composed of negroes.
Gov. Smith has sent To- the Legislature
a message defending his course, tn
principal points of which we publish
1 elsewhere His right to contest the va
lidity of the election seems undoubted
we do not understand how the inquir,
| which seems necessary could well hav
been otherwise instituted, and we trus
the solution of the trouble is to be in
trusted exclusively TO the courts. Meth
er a sherif's posse nor 3 United State
army is likely to make the issue an
clearer or establish the rights of tn
contestants more securely.-N i. IrI
basQe.
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MAKING A FORTUNE,
BY MARK TWAIN.

Samuel McFadden was q Waterman
in bank. He was poor but honest,
and his life was without reproach. The
trouble with him was that he felt that
he was not appreciated. Ills salary was
only 81 per week, aud when be asked to
have it raised, the President. the Cash
Ter and the Board of Diree1ers gIared
at him through their specEacles, and
frowned on him, and told him to get
out and stop his indolenees when he
knew business was dull, and the bank
could not meet its expenses now, let
alone lavishing one dollar = week on
such a miserable worm as samuel Me-
Fadden. And then Samuel McFadden
felt depressed and sad, and the naughty
scorn of the President and Cashier cut
him to the soul. He would often go to
the side yard and bow his venerable
twenty-four inch head, and weep gal
Ions of tears over his insignifcance, and
pray that he might be made worthy of
the Presidents and Cashiers polite at
tention.
One night happy Thoughts struck him
a CLEAN of light burst upon his soul ;.
gazing down the dim vista of years, and
his eyes all blinded by tears, he saw
himself rich, honored ana respected.
So Samuel McFaddeH fooled around
and got jimmy, monk e. lgrench, q
cross cut-saws celd Cd - alld
about half ton of gulpowder and nit
ro-glycerine, and all those things. Then,
in the dead of night, he went to the
safe, and after working at it awhile,
burst the door and brick in an immortal
smash, with such perfect success there
was not enough left to make a carpet
tack. Mr.. McFaGden then proceeded to
load up with coupons, greenbacks, cur
rency and specie, and to nail all the odd
change that was laying anywhere, SO
that he pranced out of the bank with
over S1,OOO,000 on him. He then retlr-
ed to an unassuming residence out of
town, and sent word to the detectives
where he was.
A detective called on him next day
with soothing note from the cashier.
McFadden treated it with lofty scorn.
Detectives called on him every day with
humble notes from the president, cashier
and board of directors. At last the
bank officers got up magnificent sup
per to which McEadden was invited.
He came, and, as the bank officers bow
ed down in the dust before him, he pom
dered over the bitter past; and his soul
was filled with Civilizations.
Before he drove away in his carriage
that night it was all fixed that McFad-
den was to keep half a million of that
money and to be unmolested If he re-
turned the other half. He fulfilled the
contract like an honest man, but refuse
ed, with naughty disdain, the offer of
the cashier to marry his daughter.
Mac is now honored and respected,
moves in the best society, he browses
around in purple and linen, and other
good clothes, and enjoys himself first
rate. And often now he takes his in
FAINT on his knee ana tells him of his
early life, and instils holy principles ins
to the child's mind, and shows him how
by industry, frugality and tro-glycer-
inc, monkey-wrenches, cross-cut saws
and familiarity with the detective sys-
TEN, even the poor may rise so influence
and responsibility.
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conventiom that our representatives
will look we'll to the real fitness of the
candidate, irrespective of personal con-
siderations. 1t is obvious that the man
who is elected should be the one who
will be most likely to labor for the pro-
motion of the public interests, and who
will be able to do it to the greatest adj
vantage.
If this be true it would undoubtedly
be difficult to select man who is better,
ifas well, fitted for the place as Ex-GoE.
S. j. Crawford. He flied the Office of
Governor while the State was undergo
ing its most severe ordeals, and in that
place no one could have filed it more
acceptably. The knowledge which he
thus, acquired with regard to matters
that concern all portions of the Stale, in
volving its general public, as well as its
local interests, cannot but be available
for the public good, and none doubt his
fidelity in the discharge of every public
trust which has been committed to
him.
Topeka, Kansas, Dec. 8, 1870.
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remove these thieves and robbers. The
law, as 1 have said, and as all may
know, has failed for years to regulate
them, and there is now little hope of its
doing so.
Corbin confessed and gave the names
of some so of his clan, told where would
be found stolen stock, and so it was.
Hence it would seem, since they have
deliberately and persistently Outlawed
all order and law, they have no right to
complain that honest citizens deal to
them summary justice, though not in
accordance with the forms of law.
W. p.
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1t will be remembered that a few
weeks ago we announced the disappear
ance of Thomas Cheshive, Welshman,
who had been living near Arvonia Sta
ton, on the railroad between here and
Burlingame. A very thorough search
was made for his body, but in vain. A
few days ago L. Severy, of this place,
was herding within that vicinity, when
he came upon the body only about a
mile from the depot. 1t was evident
that he got lost after leaving the depot,
and wandered around until he became
fatigued, when he laid down and died.
He was an old man, and was taking a
box of provisions and jug of vinegar
home, which undoubtedly assisted in
firing him out. When found his pock-
et-book had been undisturbed, and there
were no evidences of violence about his
person.
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REMEMBER.

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that they are truly the
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They compose the best Family Medicine Chest
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Call for edward Wilder's Famous Stomach
Bitters,v edward wilder's sarsaparilIa and
Potash edward wiIder's Compound Ex-
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Chill Tonic, - Edward wilder's Family Pills, y
and edward Wilder's Mothers Worm syr-
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"A FEW MORE LEFT"

The most renowned street-vender in
New York, or in the world, is Henry
Smith, the "Razor-Strop Man" of Mas
sau street. Born in England, six months
after Waterloo, his youth was rowing
and dissipated, and his'devotion to drink
gained him the sobriquet of ''Old Soak
er" before he was twenty-one. Signing
the abstinence pledge for month, and
then for life, he became good husband,
an industrious man, and an ardent tenn
perance advocate. In 1912 he sailed in
the Ontario for America. Landing in
New York, he soon began to sell razor
strops, and his street speeches were such
droll, witty, and sensible mixtures of
prose and poetry, that in three months
he made himself the prince of peddlers.
His savings were chronicled in the pa
pers, his portrait was published in the
Sunday atlas, and he even appeared for
seven nights at the Olympic Theatre in
MitcheIl's play of the .'Razor Strop
Man." His fame rapidly spread, and he
made the tour of the Union, teaching
temperance and selling his strops, until
his characteristic saying, "a few more
left of the same sort" became "house-
hold word
He achieved fortune in few years !;
but the spirit of speculation seized him,
and the crisis of 1857 swept away his
last dollar. With mistaken courage and
a fresh basket of strops he began life
anew, visited his native England, and
won much reputation as "genuine
Yankee peddler." Returning to Amer
lea, the war found him at Rochester,
where he enlisted in a volunteer regi-
ment. In his left leg he still carries a
Gettysburg musket ball. When told
that it might be necessary TO amputate
the limb, he replied, "Well, suppose
can afford to lose it, as shall still have
one more left of the same sort" The
leg was saved, but the wound disabled
him and compelled his return to Roches-
ter, where he served till after the close
of the war as recruiting and
in the soldiers hospital. With purse
| from the city, letter of thanks from
the Mayor, and Zouave uniform from
his regiment, the veteran vender return.
ed again to New York and became once
more the "Razor-Strop Man" of Nassau
| street.
Age has whitened his close-cut hair
and moustache, and the short growth on
his bronzed cheek and chin and his wit
ty old-time speeches no longer gather
crowds of laughing buyers. But his
eye still wrinkles with kindly shrewd-
ness behind his gold-rimmed spectacles,
and his softly spoken, "Here you are.
young man." is often the prelude to a
sensible and genial preachment of tenn
perance and the many virtues of the
strops, razors, knives and other wares
that overflow his red, white and blue
striped ''first national basket."-ScTtb-
ner's Monthly.
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q. w. HUBBELL,
A TTORNEY At LAW and Notary Public, Eu-
IA reka, Greenwood county, Kansas.
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EDWARD WILDER'S
FAMOUS
STOMACH BITTERS
WILL CURE
Dyspepsia, LiUe1. Complaint, and
al Species of Indigestion,
Intermittent Feeer, Fee
Ger and .4gsse, and
All Peri0 d6cGI
DIS SeS.

1t will give immediate relief in Collie and
Flux.'
It will cure Costiyeness.
1t is mild and delightful inyigorant for
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1t is safe Anti-bilious Alternative and Tonic
for all family purposes.
Il is powerful recuperant after the frame
has been debiiitated or reduced by sickness.
1t is an excellent appetizer, as well as
strengthened OF the digestive forces.
It is desirable alike as a Corrective and a
mild Cathartie.
~ The body of all similar preparations is
common raw whisky or alcohol, which con-
tains a large amount of fusil oil and other
poisonous substances, while the body of Ed
ward Wiider's Stomach Bitters is pure old
Bourbon or copper-distilled Whisky, the best
and purest whisky known or produced. This
fact at once recommends and places these
Bitters at the head of all other known pre-
parations for all the diseases for which they
are recommended, as is testified by number
less certificates from the ablest medical men
and from the ministry.
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For Sale.

on ACRES OF land situated in Usage coun-
on ty. Kansas, thirteen miles south from
Topeka, and four miles from n railroad station;
has forty-tive acres good bottom land sloping
To the south. ten Of which are broken; has
fine stream Of water running through one cor
ner, on which Is about acres of timber; has
u splendid stone quarry; also living spring
Of water, never known to fail; one hunred and
sixty rods stone wall on the south side, and is
situated to other farms so that the entire body
can be fenced by building eighty rods OF fence,
aud IL only one AMI half miles from two
S000 down, andseasy time on the remaining
$500. Address I. ID. FOX,
:. w47-3mos Emporia, Kansas.
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MISCELLANEOUS CARDS.
q. w. HUBBELL,
A TTORNEY At LAW and Notary Public Eu-
IN reka, Greenwood county, Kansas.
!. II. PHENIS,
A TTORNEY At LAW and Notary Public, Eu-
IA reka, Greenwood county, Kansas.
CLAIMS NEAR ARKANSAS CITY.
VF YOU want to buy, SELL or take claim near Ar
kansas City. call on Max Fawcctt, ut that place.
EUREKA HOUSE,
7 W. CUMMINS. Proprietor corner first and
81 Main streets Eureka, Kansas. Stages leave
this house daily for all parts of the state
ID. NJ. BRONSON,
4 TTORNEY At LAW AND COLLECTING
IA AGENT. Eldorado, Butler County, kansas
trusted % me will be promptly attended to-
H. A EDWARDS. THos. z. IRVINE
EDWARDS s. IRVINE,
u EAI. ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS.
III CIVIL ENGINEERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN
All kinds of Railroad and Land Surveying and
Plating. Collections made and taxes paid through
out the State once at Arvonia, Usage county,
Kansas. 40-tf
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This preparation is specially recommended as
as affording certain and prompt relief for
EDWARD WILDER'S
Family Pills
FOR THE CURE OF

COnstipated & Sluggish Bowels.
In those conditions of the alimentary canal
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As purgatIve in all fevers and infiammatOry
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Pills will be found on trial to be far superior
to any other known combination of medicines
in the rapid and certain cure of all the above
diseases. They should be taken with Edward
Wilder's Sarsaparilla and Potash in the di-
seases in which that remedy is recommended;
and with Edward Wilder's Compound Extract
of Wild Cherry in Coughs, Colds, etc.; and
with Edward Wilders's Stomach Bitters for
Indigestion and Periodical Diseases; and with
Edward Wilder's. Chill Tonic for Chills and
Fever or Fever and Ague.
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JOHN DERBYsHIRE.
NOTICE.

| ~ GORGE J. DREW VIII take notice that
W on the 10th day of November, A. ID. 1870,
| +. Il. Hunt. Justice of the Peace of Empo-
| ria township, Lyon county Kansas, issued an
| order Of attachment against the property OF
| said George j. Drew for ninety-seven dollars
| in II cause pending before said Justice, wherein
the names of the parties are :. E. G.. Holt.
| plaintiff. and said George j. Drew, defendant,
| and that said cause will he heard before said
Justice, ut his office, in .mDoria township. at
| 10 O'Clock :. m. the aIst day If December,
a. u. 1870; also that Riggs Dunlap d Co.,
| have been garnisheed in said action.
RUGG5ES ~ PLUMB,
wtS-50 AIS ~ Plaintiff,
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SheriT,s Sale.

JOHN CARTER, Admir- In the District
Court OF the Fifth
judicial District.
Lyon county, Kan
+. G.. HUNT, Admir-. sas
DY virtue OF an alias order of sale issued
ID out Of the District Court of the Fifth Ju-
dicial District. sitting in and for Lyon county.
Kansas, and to me directed, wherein John
Carter, administrator of the estate OF Jona-
than 3. Carter deceased, Is plaintiff, and f. G..
Hunt, administrator of the estate OF Xeiphia
A. MIckie, deceased, Robert Best executor, I'M
der the last will and testament of William ii.
Nickle. deceased, +. W. Hirth, administrator
of the estate of Margaret l.. Mickle, deceased,
William MiekIe, Frederick Mickle, Chester
Mickie, Settie Mickle. Cora Bell Mfckle, Jen-
ME MickIe, Theodore L. Hicks and Sarah G.
Hicks his wife, and Elizabeth Holdermaa, Sen.,
are defendants, / viii on Monday, the 9th day
Of January, A. ID. 1871, at o'clock p. m. OF
said day. at the door of the Court house in the
city Of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas, offer
for sale atf sblie auction to the highest bidder.
for cash lin hand. the following described
real estate situate In the county Of Lyon. and
State Of Kansas, to wit: the south half of the
northeast quarter Of section number twelve
(12), township seventeen J, of range twelve
(12l. the same to be sold as the property of
said Defendants, 10 satisfy judgement in ia
vor Of said plaintiff.
Ell. COATS,
Sheriff of Lyon County. Kansas.
Sberif7s office, December Sth, \. D. 1870.
RUGGLES & PLUMB.
Att'ys for Plaintiff. w49-yif-1
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They say in San Francisco that if all
the briefs, pleadings, summonses, and
other law papers which have grown
out of the .McGarrahan case were bound
together, they would make five hundred
law volumes: also, that all the fees and
coats, to say nothing of brides, would
amount to at least S2,900,000. More
than two dozen lawyers have been re-
tanned in it first and last.
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sheriR.s Sale.
SherIh'S sale.
STATE OF KANSAS, LYON Co. SIS.
ELIZABETH LAWSON

STATE OF KANSAS, LYON Co. IS.
ELIZABETH LAWSON
ABNER HADLEY. Court m of Of the 'i Fifth
Admir- of tine estate Of judicial District
George NJ. Harvey de- in and fer said
ceased, and Thomas County.
Thompson,
DDistrict Court Of the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict, in and for Lyon county, Kansas,
on transcript filed with the Clerk Of
said Court, and judgment rendered by +.
G.. Hunt a Justice OF the Pascs ef said County.
in favor'of said Elizabeth t.ayvspu, aud against
said Abner Hadley, administrators, and Thorn
as Thompson, and 70 me dl4retssi- viii on
door OF the Court House, ia The city OF Empo-
ria. Lyon county, Kansas, Al o'clock -. M OF
said day. offer for sale, TO che highest cash bid
der, the following described property, to wit:
commencing on the east line 4 ( section thirty
(30) township nineteen Ig1, range eleven II J,
IT a point IL and 77-100 chains south Of the
northeast corner of said section, thence and
S5-I00 chains, thence north and 2T-10G chains
TO north line of said section, thence west on
said north line and 92-lO0 chains, thence
south IL and 35-I00 chains 10 Cottonwood riy-
eF, low water. east by said river, thence east
and 35-100 chains, thence south and 69-l00
chains, thence south 5 and - 10u chains TO said
northwest corner, thence east 10 chains to line
Of said section, thence north on said lire and
23-IO0 chains to place of beginning, also one
mill and fixtures situate on said described
land taken as the property Of said Thomas
Thompson. 10 satisfy judgment in Eaycr OF
sheriff OF Lyon county, ksEsas.
Sherid,s Office, December 9th, A. d. t6iO
RUGGLES q PLUMB,
Atrys for Plaintiff. w4e-Fl4-l
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CITY-THE LATE TROUBLE
IN BUTLER COUNTY. -

Topeka. Kansas, Dec. 8, 1870.
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4 Great Bargain offered.

A FARM of I57N acf--. II lily bottom
"A land of the best quart. south side
of the Cottonwood river, Uiic and half miles
from Plymouth, Lyon county; all enclosed;
POO rods two-year old hedge; % acres in culti-
walton; good hewn log house; good we'll; Il
new crib; granary ana stable; 300 bearing
peach trees, and small fruits Of several kinds:
there Is no better farm fer stock, having an uII-
limited range, and abundance of water and
grass for miles; good school house one-fourth
mile from the house; acres OF timber one and
a half miles from the farm; ~ acres Of fine
wheat; stock and farming implements can be
had on reasonable terms. Price $40 per acre,
in cash.
Come and see it at least.
w49-tf A. a. ALLEN.
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NOTICE

NOTICE Is hereby given to Merwin T.
IN Wade, NJ. J.. Wade, George Perkins, and
Eliza u. Perkins, that they have been sued by
A1merin Gillett, IN an action wherein said Al
merin Giliett Is plaintiff, ant the said Merwin
Il. Wade. NJ l.. Wade, George Perkins, and
Eliza Il. Perkins are defendants; that his Pc
titiOn was filed against them on November 80,
1870, in the office of the Clerk of the District
Court of Lyon county, Kansas: that unless
they answer said petition on or before January
IL, 1871, said petition will be taken true and
judgement rendered against them accordingly,
quoting said plaintiffs title to the southeast
quarter Of the southwest quarter of Section y,
Township is, Range II, in Lyon county, Kan
sas; and for costs,
ALAIERIS GILLETT,
w4S-50 Atty for plaintiff.
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NOTICE.

T 5 hereby given that a petition will he pre-
L scented TO the Board OF County Commission
Monday, the ID day of January, 1871, praying
for the location Of a County Road, commence
ing at the southeast corner of section Is, town.
ship 20, range H. thence running north on said
section line to the bank of the Neosho river in
section 81, thence up the NeOsho river in q
nOrthwesteTiy course to the north line Of Sec
tion 81 on township line between townships 10
and 20, thence north through the southeast
quarter Of section so, (present Travelled read,
to intersect the Neosho Rapids and EmpOria
road.
w49-53 JOHN DERBYSHIRE.
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1t will be observed, from this table,
that in Nevada, the newest State in the
Union, the average expenditure per
head is higher than in any other State,
while in North Carolina, one of the
original Thirteen, the outlay is lower
than in any other State-being only As
cents per head. Kansas stands tenth on
the list of States in the matter of expen-
ditures for school purposes.
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The rock for the foundation of the
new court house at Independence is
being placed upon the ground rapidly.
The contract for the building is let, and
the sound of the hammer and saw will
be heard in few days III its structure.
So says the Republican.