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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-11

RAILROAD BoNDs.-The United States
Circuit Court at Milwaukee on Thurs
dav gave an important decision against
the power of a county or municipality
in Wisconsin to issue orders as bonus
to railroad. In 1867 the Fon du Lac
County Supervisors, not having sub
scribed for any stock, or issued its bonds
in payment for any stock, issued its or
ders for $4,000, payable to the Sheboy-
gan g. Fon du Lac Railroad, and to be
collected by a general tax. This was
done in accordance with a provision in
the Local Laws of the State for 1867,
and payment was resisted on the ground
that the law was void, because it au-
thorized the people to be taxed to do
nate to a pricate corporation, or to the
stockholders of a private railroad cor
poration. The case was taken to the
State Supreme Court, where the law
was held to be unconstitutional. The
Court reaffirmed this opinion on a mo-
ton for rehearing, but holding that the
question of taxation under the legisla-
tive act of the State, to raise money to
donate to a railroad corporation, was a
new question, and different question
from that as to the power of municipal
corporations to take stock in railroad
company, and to issue bonds in paw
ment for such stock.
The United States Court held that it
was a question under the Constitution
and laws of Wisconsin in which itwas
its duty to follow the State Court. The
Supreme Court decisions against the
possibility of public aid for railroads
are becoming SO frequent that railroad
builders will soon cease from wasting
their strength in attempts to secure
votes in favor of taxation to help them
along. Still it is to be noted that these
judgments against railroad aid do not
pass unchallenged by high legal author
ity, The decision by Judge Cooley, of
the Michigan Supreme Bench, led them,
and this is criticised at considerable
length by the last american Lac Re
rie1c, which dissents entirely from the
view that the public cannot be taxed for
subscription to PittsbuTgh
Commercial
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The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Library of Chicago has been open
ed to all citizens, Irrespective of mem
bership of the Association, at - per
snnum.
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NEWS AND EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Gen. Lees son succeeds his father as
President of Washington College, Va,
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In Washington, weather reports are
now received by telegraph three times
q day from twenty stations and are pnb-
lished in all the daily papers, besides
being bulletined in conspicuous places.
The Geographic arrangements for their
collection and distribution work so sat
isfactorily that they are all received in
Washington and distributed throughout
the country in less than one hours TYNE,
although the points of observation range
6rom Key West to Cheyenne. The sys-
tenn promises good results, and its de-
velopment is watched with interest by
the scientific world
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Turing the present year 5000 Scandi-
nayian Immigrants have been brought
TO the State of Mississippi Through the
agency of . Mr., Rleckfeid.
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Postmaster General Cresswell is the
only remaining member of the Cabinet
appointed March 4, lS6S-a little more
than a year and half ago. a good
many changes in so short n period.
Tyler beat it, however, during his adj
ministration. In three years and eleven
months that "indescribable individual"
as John Quincy Adams called him, had
four Secretaries of State, four Secreta-
ries of the Treasury, four Secretaries of
War, five Secretaries of the Navy, two
Postmaster Generals, the Interior De-
Dartment not having then been created.
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The latest news from Paris is that the
Prussians have trained hawks to catch
the French carrier pigeons.
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LIST OF LETTERS
ID EMAINING uncaIIed for in Efnporia Post
II Office for the week ending
Friday, Nov. sth, 1870.
Persons calling for any of these letters vii
please say advertised, giving date OF advertise
ment.
Andrews Charles Anderson A
Bacon Frank A Bechtel Geo
Brown Andrew Browne n d
Barber HeinriyS Bennett Flora
Boyer VIM Barrett Mrs Thomas
Butner Tropgget Barrick J P
Beandream NJ Cary John W
Carver Albert Carlson .
Coon David Davis H
bennett Jacob w Donnivan John
Davis Daniel Davis John ID
English Ellis James Andrew
Erwin James Eddy Christ
Fall Daniel Green Alfred
Green Joseph ellis Jefferson
Gustafson Hughs Mrs Mary Jane
Humphrey VIM Howell VIM
Hunt Kate Howe
Hammer Emery HaineS Alfred
Hedman A Jourdan Mrs Mary
Kramer MIS- Lee Mrs Annie
LeeIM Long William
LovenstineM Morris John L
Murphy G W Mcdaniel CIV
Martin Chas Mccall AlberS
Mead G a Mills George Lee
McNellis James Mershom
Mcmahon Michael Mattock Miss NJ b
Miller hurry Anderson
Quimby NG Rosine James II
Ritter ] Il Ray CE
Read John Spangler John 8
Sebastian Miss Emma smith Fred
Sewell j B Schoogland ]
Snyder George Smith Thomas
Shoak Simon Thompson &C
Talbort Michael Travis q
Vanmeter e Williams
Letters Held for Postage.
Davis Mrs Delilah, Humboldt Neb.
Enos, Miss Artia NJ. Hillsdale, Neb.
Field Bros, st. Louis. Mo.
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the soldier who killed woman at Camp
Halleck about two weeks ago, and es-
capped from the guard house.
LoNDoS, Nov. S.-A special from Os-
tend says some of the leading German
journals advise making peace with
France without the cession of French
territory; that, If Alsace and Lorraine
are demanded as an indispensable con-
dition, the war will continue indefinitely
| The apple crop of the interior of New
York is enormous. The estimated
yield in Genesee county alone, is 10000
barrels. Prices range from S1.30 to
S1.50 per barrel. The potato crop il
also immense. and parties are buying
heavily for shipment, principally to the
west, at prices varying from fifty tc
sixty cents a bushel.
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Chairman state executive committee.
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ANIMAL FOOD AND GREASE.

A subscriber to the Herald Of Health
writes as follows:
81 have lived on fruit and vegetable
diet thirty-five years. / have eaten
neither meat nor grease, not even but
ter; cold water has been my drink. l
have not been sick during this time ;
the most of my old friends who ridi-
culed my way of living are in their
graves"
That some people can live on such
narrow diet is unquestionable. We
have, oil the other hand, sad memories
of those who, in spite of our arguing
and advice, persisted in the same course
and became insane ana died in early
manhood. Much depends on the occu-
patton, the use that is made of the body,
and the amount of brain work. Cen
orally we find that people who talk in
this way have not brains enough to I'M
derstand very simple proposition. In
certain ways the human digestive appa-
ratus is expressly adapted, on the plan
of the carnivorous animals, to masticate
and digest animal food, appointments
which are otherwise useless entirely.
Is this mistake on the part of the Gre
ator or not? That is the point blank
issue which vegetarians make with act
ual fact. Meats of various kinds are
very readily taken into the system, are
more rapidly absorbed than vegetables,
and give strength to those that use
them. If it was not intended, in the
physical economy, that this should be
SO, then meats are poison and would
long before this made evident their del
eterious qualities by being rejected
from the organs. 1t suits the purposes
of health reformers to denounce fatty
materials in food, and they take delight
in calling all such things grease. Now
it happens that one organ in the body,
the pancreas, has no work that can be
discovered except@to produce fluid
which takes up the fatty food, and makes
an emulsion of it, thereby preparing it
to be taken up by the proper vessels in
to the blood. In many cases of con-
sumption and debility it is found that
fatty elements of food, which supply
combustion and vital heat, are wanting,
and the leading physicians of the world
are greatly interesting themselves in
correcting this cause of disease, while
their experience is justifying their eff
forts. Injunction, or the rubbing of oil
| into the skin, proves in some cases OF
great benefit. A new preparation of fat
with the pancreatic juices, called pan
creatic emulsion, is coming also into IA
vor, on the theory that feebleness of the
pancreas may thus be supplemented
We are acquainted with case of con-
sumption in which the patient commenc.
ed with this preparation a few week;
back and has recovered wonderfully the
the powers of life. Other cases may moi
justify the hopes which are entertained o.
it. The theory may be false, but there i!
no doubt that in all scrofulous disease!
physicians have great reason to lay
much stress on the use of fat-butter
cream, lard, cod-liver oil, &c. Ant
neither they nor any sensible people ar
to be greatly moved by the cry o
grease" If it be grease it is at leas
good and healthful, nor need we rails
any cry of 'grass" against the vegetabl
eaters, for vegetables are good also
'I-ChTistiGn U9tioa
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ON THE WING.

EDITORS News AS your face was
beaming with such kindly smile when
you asked Us to write, it was not possi-
BILE to refuse. The sound of the AK and
the hammer had scarcely died away,
until the busy hum of agricultural life
was heard. AS we emerged from the
dusty streets of our own young city, we
pass into fields of living grass and gold
en- grain. The valley of the Neosho
was never more inviting, and as farm
after farm was passed, it seemed surely
that this must be the browning work OF
creation. The crop prospects are very
promising, especially in the small grain,
and our agricultural friends are in an
excellent humor, and do not make but
one complaint: "That we have raised SC
much that it won't be worth anything
We only passed one field where
there was not room enough to shock
the grain. Part of it had to bt
hauled out to give room for the remain
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WATER FOR observation-disclosures wa
ter is no less important than wholesome
food. AS a necessary drink, and for
culinary purposes, water contributes
special qualities which are incessant and
inevitable. Good water must be de-
scribed in general terms, as that which
is fresh, limpid, and without odor. 1t
possesses a taste characterized by free
dom from all disagreeable qualities-it
is neither insipid, sour, salt nor sweet,
and If it is soft, it dissolYes soap with
out sediment. If hard, the converse
of this is the Casa sediment is depos-
tied, which is evidence of the presence
of saline matters.
Soft water is more conducive to health
for the generality of persons than hard,
because it is better solvent of alimen-
tary materials. But for the same reason
it is more likely to hold foreign sub
stances in solution, and the presence of
a very small quantity of some miner
als-lead, for example, or putrescent
matters-may escape attention. The
habltual use of water containing such
substances for length of time is often
followed by the worst consequences.
Indeed, the use of water containing pu-
crescent matters is sometimes speedily
followed by the most pernicious results
-cholera and other epidemics often
originating from this cause.
Hard waters always contain saline
constituents, and for persons of weak
digestive organs the continuous use of
water thus impregnated is apt to induce
disease.-LiciRg Things.
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CATrLE.-Between fifteen and twenty
car loads of Texas cattle have been
shipped from this point in the past three
weeks. For commencement this is a
good start. The herds continue to ar
rive and it is fully expected that at least
thirty thousand head viii be driven to
Council Grove before winter. This
will bring quite revenue to our bust
men and farmers. The drovers give us
the praise of having undoubted adyan-
tages of grazing, cheapness of goods.
shortening of route. courteous treat
in Kansas, and these facts will inure to
our benefit by those that have already
come advising their friends to do like
wise. Thus far the herdsmen have be-
haved like gentlemen, and there has
been no indication of disturbance
Council Grove 4drertiser.
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Ter. In most parts of the valley, the

der. In most parts of the valley, the
corn prospect was never more promis-
ing, and this is especially the case be-
tween Neosho Falls and lola. Alto
gether there need be no uneasiness in
the valley, for there is no soil that will
yield more generously to the faithful
labor of the husbandman than this.
The first town we passed was the en-
terprisilg young Hartford, which is
looking up. The old mill property,
formerly owned by the Campbell heirs,
has been purchased by parties from
Tennessee, who are going to repair and
make it first-class mill. From thence
down the valley to 0ttnmwa, the most
perfectly finished town in Kansas. An
other house would mar the perfection
of its beauty; but our eyes were soon
gladdened by the sight of Neosho Falls,
which is one of the most enterprising
towns in the valley. The railroad land
Office is located in this place, and is rap
idly approaching completion, and when
finished, will add very much to the ap-
pearance of the young city. The next
town of interest was lola, which is yet
without railroad connection, but the L.
L. s. G. r. R. viii soon gladden. their
hearts. This place, in connection with
the Falls, is making an effort to secure
the building of a railroad from
Fort Scott to the latter place, and have
offered franchises to the amount of
nearly one half million dollars, much
to the disgust of the finest town in the
which is also very much Disguised with
the magical city of New Chicago, at the
junction of the L. L. & G. and NJ. X. &
I. r. RS. The first house was commence
ed four weeks ago, and now it numbers
one hundred; one business house doing
from three to four hundred dollars per
day. In looking over the city we found
our old time friends, the Allen Bros,
who are now doing the law and real
estate business for "the people" This
certainly must make good point, the
compact settlements settler in every
quarter section of landau around
them, and a beautiful country and choice
land. We reached Usage Mission on
Saturday afternoon, and spent Sabbath !;
attended service at the Mission, which
was established in 1S47. The buildings
show the marks of age. At Mission a
very handsome stone building is being
erected, which, when completed, would
be an ornament to any city. From this
point we pass through Oswego to Che
topa, which is improving rapidly, one
party building a frame hotel one hun
dred and ninety feet front, three stories
high, with two story L one hundred
and twenty feet long. The business
seems quite lively. Here we met our
friend Billy Mcclure, who is doing the
lumber business for that section of the
State, and looking as happy as clam.
More anon. On THE WING.
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EARLY BREAKFAsT.-A bad custom is
prevalent in many families, especially
among farmers, of working an hour or
two before breakfast, attending to
"chores," hoeing in the garden, cutting
wood, moving, &c. This is convent
ent on many accounts, but it is not con-
ducive to health. The prevalent opin-
ion is that the morning air is the purest
and most healthful and bracing, but the
contrary is the fact. At no hour of the
day is the air more filled with dampness,
fogs and miasmas about sunrise. The
heat of the sun gradually dissipates the
miasmatic influences as the day advanc-
es. An early meal braces up the sys-
tenn against these external influences.
Every one knows the languor and faint
ness often experienced for the first hour
in the morning, and that it is increased
by want of food. We do not agree
with the boarding school regime. which
prescribes long walk before breakfast
as a means of promoting health.
Probably the best custom would be
to furnish every member of the house
hold, especially those who labor out of
doors, with a single cup of warm coffee
well MIXED, immediately after rising
from bed. Then let them attend to
their chores, or moving, hoeing, &C.,
for an hour or two, while the teams are
feeding and the breakfast preparing.
They will feel better and do more work.
-AtCericd7s gyiculturist.
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Rev. c. r. Rice, our popular P. E.,
writes to the st. Louis Christian Advo-
cate, from Emporia, as follows:
"The work for one-quarter of the
present conference year is over. have
attended every quarterly meeting. The
brethren are all well and hard at work.
The most of them are having success.
One hundred and two persons have
been received into the church. A frame
church has been built and dedicated at
Eureka. They are building q stone
church at Quenemo. They are prepar-
ing to build at Americas and Burling-
ton. Parsonages have been built at
Hartford and Virgil. A young man,
w. III. Zellers, takes charge of Wichita.
The Ottumwa preacher, j. E. Stoveall,
has not arrived. The work is spreading
out in every direction. We are not
able to keep up with the mighty tide of
immigration that is pouring into the
new counties. The crops are very
promising. Winter wheat is harvested.
Spring wheat and oats are very good.
The corn crops never looked better.
The drouth has been thoroughly drown
ed. Crackers are silent, while good
people rejoice"
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The Hon. John Morrissey has Just
completed pleasant, cosy recherche
gambling hell at Saratoga, at a cost of
$4,000. There he will be delighted not
only to meet and win the money of his
brother Congressman, but of gamblers
and blacklegs of less pretensions. In
deed, we are not sure that any we'll
dressed gentleman, of good moral char
acter, however humble their origin or
honest their ordinary occupations, will
not be admitted to the sumptuous ban
quets, and permitted to tread the rich
Turkey carpets, and chat In the spacious
salons of the Honorable Morrissey, on
the single condition that they have a
taste for play, end are not afraid of the
tiger. We have not yet reached, at Sar-
atoga, the acme of refinement attained
in the gambling hells of Hamburg,
where the proprietors resent il as q
breach of etiquette If the loser blows
out his brains while seated at their
tables. Perhaps, however, Mr.. Norris
sey would be SO generous as to furnish
q carriage to any who are so rude as to
break the rules in this manner.
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Or. Symes Thompson lately lectured
at Gresham College, England, upon the
subject of Catching Cold" He ex-
planned by means of drawing the effect
produced on the system by an attack of
catarrh. The minute vessels of the
nose, throat and chest become surcharg-
ed with blood, and, If this congestion
be not relieved, inflammation ensues, and
ultimately arrangement of structure.
For preventions of colds, there is moth
ing ike cold bath every morning; sit
trains the vessels of the skin to rise Wig
orously into renewed action after APP
piicatioB of chilli Hot rooms should
be avoided, the skin protected with
warm clothing, and, when the tempera-
ture of the air is between thirty-two
and forty degrees Fahrenheit (Which is
the condition of the atmosphere most
liable to produce 'catarrh) a generous
but careful diet should be adopted.
For cure, the Turkish bath, or an ordi-
nary vapor bath, is most efflcacious but
the action of the bath should be sup
plemented by the administration of
meat stimulants.
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sWhy don't the girls go West 20 is the
question asked by the correspondent of
the Boston Journal, who cites statistics
to show that in Ohio there is an excess
of forty-eight thousand men; in Michi-
gan, forty thousand in California, one
hundred and forty-three thousand, and
in other States similar proportions. In
Massachusetts,, on the contrary, there
men; in New Hampshire, six thousand
six hundred; Rhode Island, six thous-
and six hundred and in Connecticut.
six thousand eight hundred. The total
excess in New England of females over
males, is forty-cight thousand FIVE hun
bred.
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THE FLAW HUNTERS.

There are people who have prefer
natural faculty for detecting evil, or the
appearance of evil, in every mans
character. They have fatal scent for
carrion. Their memory is like a mu-
scum ] once saw at a medical college,
and illustrates all the hideous distortions
and monstrous growths and revolving
diseases by which humanity can be
troubled and afflicted. They think
that they have a wonderful knowledge
of human nature. But it is blunder
to mistake the Newgate Calendar for a
biographical dictionary.
A less offensive type of the same
tendency leads some people to find ap-
parent satisfaction in the discovery and
proclamation of the slightest defects in
the habits of good men, and the conduct
of public institutions. They cannot
talk about the benefits conferred by q
great hospital without lamenting some
insignificant blot in its laws, and some
trifiing want of prudence in its man.
agement. Speak to him about a man
whose good works everybody is admir-
ing, and they cool your ardor by re-
GREETING that he is SO rough in his man.
ner or so smooth-that his temper is so
hasty, or that he is SO fond of applause,
They seem to hold BRIEF requiring of
" PASNO tAO POooAOA1Abf Va hu
man perfection. They detect the slight
est alloy in the pure gold of human
goodness. That there are spots on the
sun is to them, omething more than an
observed fact, it takes rank with q pT'i-
orr and necessary truths.
There are people who, if they hear an
organ, find out at once which are the
poorest stops. If they listen to great
speaker, they remember nothing but
some slip in the construction of sen.
tence, the consistency of metaphor
or the evolutions of an argument
While their friends are admiring the
wealth and beauty of a tree whose
branches are weighted down with fruit
they have discovered solitary bough
lost in golden affluence, on which moth
ing is hanging.
Poor Hazlitt was sorefy troubled will
them in his time. "Littleness" he said
sis their element, and they give char
acter of meanness to whatever they
h."-Good Words.