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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-15

worth, Kansas, night before last. re-
suited in killing Samuel MeMeeker.
After the occupants had retired for
the night. some unknown parties en-
tered and shot Fanny Collins nor
tally, Ettie Baldwin seriously, and
George Gardner fatally, while in their
rooms.
= z LIE g e q 2 II.
Late Washingtoa Items.
Congressional Proceedings.
Late News from Louisville.
Murder Of gwo Nephews
OF Rebel General Pillow.
By "a Band Of Masked BTen.
News from San Francisco.
Later News from st. Louis
a Shooting Affray in a
Dane House Ia EllsW W0rth,
Kansas.
One Han Killed Instantly.
Woman Mortally Wounded
CONT 1GssIoNAL.
XLIst n SFCOND gESgT0N.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-15
ne Healing Pool.

lays FOR YOUNG MEN, who
ave fallen into vicious habits, ano
.sr IesIre q higher life, and better
MOOD. with certain means of relief
ne afIiicted. Sent in sealed letter en-
sss. free of charge. Address, Row
ASSOCIATION, Box P, PHILADEL-
sep29
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-15
OFFICIAL.

LETTERS REMAINING UNCLAIMED ln th
Posl-Ofhce az Evansville, Btnte Of Indian
on the liLh cay OF January, Ib7O.
Persons calling for any Of these letter
Will please say " Advertised, j" giving date
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pms. January 1.-THE city is
.rsuqa.i, aud no further danger of
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j row l7 dance aoass at Ellis.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
ONE THING AT A TIME.

The trouble with too many farmers
is, that they undertake to do too many
things at time, and thus do nothing
well. 1t is a well-established maxim
that it is not good to have too many
irons in the fire. One thing done we'll,
and well stuck to, will generally win.
In the line of stock, man can hardly
go amiss who selects one prominent
breed or blood, pays particular care or
attention to its development, advertis-
es it well in some such widely circula-
ted and reliable paper as the Journal.
and sees to it that his representations
are in every particular correct and to
be depended on.
A man who makes a speciality of pigs
and pork, devotes his attention to it.
feeds with regularity and care, will
have one mans business on his
hands, and business that will pay
Take the article of corned pork, as we
used to call it down east, or "pickled'
pork, as they call it out west. 1t has
not been in our market for some time,
but would have commanded almost any
price if it had been, as it is an almost
indispensable article in well-conduct-
ed kitchen. The excuse for our moi
having it is that it will not keep. But
the reason for this is in the kind of salt
IhoI 10 uSCos "A man ing
attention to this thing would have the
salt that would keep his pork, and then
he would have pork TO sell when il
commands the highest price.
So in the dairy business. A man
aided, of course, by his wife-whc
should give his main attention to the
making of butter, and thus provide him.
self with the necessary appliances fol
having it good, and keeping it well, car
always get fifty cents a pound for it
Can he do anything that would pay bet.
ter? But to do it well, he must be care
full in the selection of his cows, and un.
RENTING in his attention to them.
The trouble is, as we intimated in the
beginning, that most farmers haze to
divide their attention between COWS
and colts, pigs and poultry, mares and
mules, grapes and grain, to say nothing
of a thousand and one odds and ends
which divert and divide the time and
attention, and prevent any one depart.
ment from becoming success.
4 We suggest to our farmer friends to
| look over the field of their acquaintan-
ces and neighbors, and see if, as a gen.
eral thing, those have not been the mos
successful who have made q specially
of some one department of effort, and
stuck to it through thick and thin, fou
weather and fair, good and evil report
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
Personal.

General LOOMS is the oldest living
graduate of West Point.
Commodore Vanderbilt is reported to
have offered William B. Smith, of Hart
ford, $4,000 for his horse ''Tom Jeffer-
son" now six years old.
John Jay, the last survivor of the reg
iment to which Wellington addressed
the famous words, "Up, guards, and at
them" has just died in London.
1t is said that the English mission, be-
fore being offered to Senator Morton,
was rendered to President White, of
Cornell University, who declined.
VIM. G Stearns, stewart of Harvard
College for twenty-six years, nas resign
ed his Office. What book o. college
pranks which have come to his knowl-
edge he could writei
Professor Watson, of the Observable
~ at Ann Arbor, Michigan, has receiy-
ed the astronomical prize of the French
Academic des Sciences as @ reward for
having discovered nine new planets in
a year.
The Amsterdam Recorder says that
John Allen, once known as Hthe wick
eldest man in New York, !" died on Fri
day last at his old home in Perth, Full
ton county, N. Y, and was buried on
Sunday.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt, Vice President,
and some Directors, of the New York
Central Railroad, ran an express train
from Rochester to Syracuse, 81 miles.
In 81 minutes-the fastest time, it is said.
ever made in America
Moltke, it is said, thoroughly perfect
ed his plan of the war between Germa-
ny and France three years ago, and
when the declaration of war was an
nounced to him he merely replied to his
secretary, "Third drawer to the right. y
There were found, worked out in de-
tail, and carefully preserved, the plans
which have since astonishcd the world
and crushed the empire.
The Washington correspondent of the
Wooster Spy says of Senator Carpen-
ter: The young Senator from Wiscon-
sin-for to be only forty is young for
the Senate-is one of the very abiesi
members of that illustrious BODY, and
now that he has got over that state Of
mental excitement, which in horse
jocky argot is termed ssfeeling ones
oats," he viii fully vindicate the good
opinions of his friends and the hopes
Of his colleagues.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
KEEPING PROMISES.

A prudent man will avoid promises
as long as he can, for they are trouble
some affairs; but when made they
ought to be kept. The requirements of
business, however, constantly exact ap-
pointments, engagements, and other
similar pledges which it is not an easy
matter to avoid. These should be stern
ly charged upon the memory, and faith
fully observed. There is no better hab-
it that young man can learn, and one
that will prove more advantageous to
him in early life than that of diligently
doing all that he promises. If it is an
appointment to be at certain place at
half-past ten, let him be there promptly
at the hour; if the other party fails to
meet him, it is that other party's fault (;
he will have done his duty, and estab-
lished his claim to punctuality. If it is
an engagement to do a certain labor,
let him do it, even at some cost; it will
prove that he can be depended on; and
reliability is sterling virtue in young
or old. OF all promises in the world,
those to pay money are the easiest made
and the hardest to keep, and this is why
the commodity called mercantile credit
is so rare and so valuable All article. Men
promise to pay debt Oh a certain day
without knowing whether they can do
it or not, merely to get rid of the col
lector, and they repeat the appoint
ments again and again, till their reputa-
ton as unreliable debtors and violators
of pledges becomes established among
all who deal with them. To say that a
man has no credit is merely to say that
he has no regard for his promises he
cannot be relied on in any emergency
in which fidelity and punctuality ave
needed
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
REDUCTION OF THE INTERNAL REV.
ENUE TAXES.

The changes in the Internal Revenue
law took effect October 1st. The fol-
lowing taxes, heretofore collected, will
be wholly omitted after that date.
l. On carriafies of every description.
So to $40 each. 2. On watches, 81 to 80
each. 3. On billiard tables, SO each.
1. On silver plate of all kinds, 5 cents
per pound. 5. On gold plate, 80 cents
per pound. 6. On passports, SIS each.
Z. On boats, barges and flats, So and SO
each. 8. On gross receipts, including
those of railroads, steamboats,, canal
boats, and all other vessels, and stages,
% per cent. of receipts. 8. On gross
receipts of telegraph companies, ferries,
bridges and turnpikes, 2 per cent. of re-
ceipts, 10. On retail dealers Qicense
tax,) SO each. IL. On wholesale deal
ers, or those whose sales exceed $4,000
a year, SO each, and 81 additional on
every 81 900 of sales exceeding $4,000.
These taxes on sales are all repealed,
except those as regards liquors and to-
bacco. II. On banks and bankers,
with capital of $4,000, 500 each, and
50 additional on every $1,000 of capital
above $4,000. Ii. On brokers Qicense)
$50 each. IA. Hotel-keepers Qicense,)
$40 to $500 each. Is. Auctioneers and
pedlars Qicense,) SO to $50 each. 16.
Claim agents, Insurance agents, real
estate agents, patent right dealers, and
eonveyancers, $40 each. II. Manufac-
turers Qicense,) $40 each. Is. Proprie-
tors of theatres, museums, circuses and
concert-halls, 500 each. 10. Proprie-
tors of gift enterprises, $50 each. 20.
Lawyers, physicians, architects and
builders, $40 each. q. Coffee and spice
grinders, 500 each. %. Express car
riers and agents, SO each. %. Miners,
assayers, plumbers, photographers,
apothecaries, butchers, and eating-house
keepers, SO each. All others now
chargeable with license tax of any kind,
except dealers in spirits and tobacco.
are exempted. "a. On canned and pre-
served fish, (now paid by stamps l
cent per pound. %. On bills and re-
eeipts, to any amount, and on promisso-
ry notes for less sum than 500 (now
paid by stamp,) 2 cents and cents each.
All other stamp-taxes are continued in
force. 26. On legacies and SUGGESTIONS,
81 TO So on every 500 of property de-
vised or inherited, according to the de-
gree of relationship. All repealed.
All incomes, not exceeding $4,000 are
exempt from tax. Incomes exceeding
this amount must pay 21a per cent. fol-
the year commencing January 1st, 1871
The exemptions, in addition to the
$1,000 named, are all taxes, interest
losses, bad debts, rents, repairs on dwell
ing houses, amounts paid on cultiva-
ton of land or for the management OF
any business from which income is de.
rived. Under this rule very few per-
sons having gross income not exceed
ing $1,000 will be required to pay any
tax.
The tax on the dividends of all bank.
ing and other corporations for the year
1871, will be % per cent. These re
auctions, though not all that the people
desired, are very important; as they ar
about taking effect, are given by way o
memoranda
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT IN CHINA

A few wears ago q movement was
made which promised most favorable
results. 1t attempted a revolution in
the educational system of the empire,
not unlike the revolution inaugurated
through Mr.. Burlingame in political cir
cles. A college was established by the
Government for the express purpose of
introduction among Chinese scholars
of the sciences of the West. 1t was bitter
ly opposed by the advocates of the old
regime, but the progressive party gain
ed temporary triumph, and the pro-
ject received the endorsement and sup
port of the Court. English and French
professors were invited with liberal sal
aries to fill chairs of instruction In as
tronomy, mathematics, chemistry, and
English and French literature. Schol-
airs were tempted to the new college
from all parts of the empire, by offers
of Government aid equivalent to rich
scholarships. The Han Lin, the center
of intellectual pursuits and national
scholarship, was invited to cooperate
with the effort to introduce foreign
leaIning.
The Government seemed thoroughly
in earnest, and it looked as if a new i'm
pulse would be given to education in
China. But il is hard to get out of the
old ruts, and the literary class in China
united so strongly against the new
measure, that it has already proved a
complete failure. The Han Lin scorn-
| fully replied to the invitation: ave
learn from foreigners! Teach them you
mean,D and this phrase was accepted as
q watchword by scholars and people
alike through the empire
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.

There is not breath of air and beat
of the heart between this world and the
next. And in the brief interval of q
feel that death is with us, that We are
powerless and He all powerful, and the
last faint pulsation here is but the pre-
lude of endless life hereafter; we feel
in the midst of stunning calamity about
to befall rs, that earth has no compen-
sating good to the severity of our loss.
But there is no grief without some be-
neficent provisions to soften its intensi-
ties. When the good and the lovely die,
the memory of their good deeds, like
the moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights
up our darkened hearts, and lends to
the surrounding a beauty so sad, so
sweet, that we would not, if we could,
dispel the darkness that environs us.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
THE WAY THE MONEY WENT.

The private letters and memoranda of
Louis Napoleon, discovered at the Tull-
cries, reveal some curious facts concern
ing the manner in which the public
money of the Empire was disbursed.
Both Cassignae and jerome David are
shown to have been regular pensioners
on the civil list. The sum of $4,000
francs is charged up as the cost of the
Prince ImperiaPs baptism. The cous-
ms, male and female, of the Emperor
received 1,310,975 francs per annum.
The Duke de Persigny got 10000 francs
in two months. The Prince Savlvnow-
ski, the Countess Gakan, Madame Claude
Niguon, General Morris and many 9TH
er Court favorites are down for various
sums. The Duchess of Mouchy, whose
name continually appears in the Emper-
or'S papers, received q million francs as
marriage portion. The son of the
American Bonaparte had an annuity of
100000 francs. Madame RattaZei receiv-
ed pension of $4,000 francs a year !;
and her sister, Madame Turr, the same.
The Marquis Pepoh got $4,000 francs
per annum. The cousins of the Emper-
or, not contented with their regular PEN
sions, were continually running into
debt and drawing extra allowances. The
Emperor paid the debts of Prince Ach-
lilies Murat a dozen times.
Thus were the revenues of the En-
pire diverted from their proper uses and
squandered on the "'pets" and relatives
of Napoleon and Eugene. What won
der that the French people long for a
change of government that will give
them potent voice in the management
of public affairs?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
BLACK SPANISH FOWLS.

These fowls have been called sever
lasting layers" Few of the pure bred
birds manifest disposition to sit, there
fore it is best to employ other hens, for
instance, the Dominique, TO rear the
young of the Black Spanish. A promi-
nent eastern poultry fancier says of
these birds:
After forty years experience in the
breeding of fowls, both here and in
England, and having in that small space
of time owifed and bred every known
variety, it will scarcely be deemed pre-
sumptuous in me to have an opinion OF
my own. OF all the domestic fowls,
the Black Spanish rank first in my esti-
nation for beauty and utility. Their
plumage is beautiful glossy black.
The comb is large and serrated, and ola
vivid scarlet. The wattles are long
the cheek white, making pretty con-
trast with the sable hue of their plu-
mage, and the scarlet of the comb and
wattles. Their legs are always blue.
Their flesh is white and juicy, and OF
the first quality for table use. They are
great layers, but not inclined to sit, and
their eggs are large and white.-West-
e7n Rural.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON WOOL
GROWTH.

The climate exerts a great influence
on the growth of wool, and if it has to
be produced of good and even quality,
this agency must be duly considered.
1t has been already mentioned that the
pores of the skin act as sort of guage
for the wool, and it is therefore perfect
ty clear that if sheep are SO much eX-
posed to the cold and wet as to allow
the skin to become chilled, the size of
the wool must be reduced thereby; the
extent of the damage is, consequently,
regulated by the intensity of the cold.
For this reason, shelter from the full
force of the cold winds is found to i'm
prove the staple of the wool, and pre-
vent, in some degree, this inequality in
the size of the fiber. Injury arising
from the wet shows itself more gener-
ally by giving the wool more the char
acter of hair, and thereby injuring its
felting properties. The excessive heat
of summer has just the opposite in1lu-
influence. The warmth of the skin be-
ing considerably increased, the pores
become more open, and a coarser wool
is produced. The injury thus occasion
ed is far from being as important as
that arising from cold and wet; but
still, if we desire to produce wool I'M
der the most favorable circumstances,
we must give shelter from extreme
heat as well as from excessive cold.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
ANNOYANCES ABOLISHED.

One of the small annoying taxes that
terminated on the first of October was
the two-cent stamp on receipts, on all
amounts over twenty dollars. 1t was
paid patiently, but not pleasantly, and
will be escaped hereafter without regret.
Another Fostering little stamp tax that
has been abolished is that on notes for q
less sum than one hundred dollars.
There are a multitude of such notes Civ
en- by the laboring classes, and, while
each stamp was not large, still it was a
subtraction from the earnings of the
debtor who gave the note. The abro-
CATION of those stamp taxes will be quite
relief in the current affairs of life.
A third stamp tax is removed that
ought never to have been enacted, and
that is '.the stamp required upon the
transfer or assignment of a mortgage
where it or the instrument it secures
has been once duly stamped" But this
item of injustice is now removed, and
hereafter no stamps win be required on
the assignment of mortgages.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21

From the start, the college had uphill
work. The professors in astronomy,
chemistry and mathematics had no stu
dents. The professors in English and
French literature had small classes.
They were composed, in part, of
young students from the poorer classes,
eager to have Government help in &C.
quiring an education. But, as these
found the current of popular sympathy
against them, they soon lost interest in
study, and made no substantial progress.
The others were older men, of from 80
to so years, who had failed in Chinese
studies, or compromised themselves in
some way by connection with foreign
ers. The experiment worked badly,
and the Government gave no cordial
support.
A summing trick of its enemies soon
blocked the wheels. The competitive
examinations are prominent feature in
Chinese training. OF course the old
method must be applied to the new sys-
tenn. Without any warning to the pro-
fessors, the classes were suddenly cali
ed to pass an ordeal before Chinese ex-
aminers, who had no knowledge of
English, and sixteen out of the twenty
one students were summarily dismiss
ed. This discouraged the others, and
three more Withdrew of their own ac-
cord, leaving the English professor with
a class of two.
Another change proved the luke
warmness of the Government. The pro-
fessor in mathematics was displaced,
and Chinese teacher substituted in his
room. The new professor adhered rig
idly to the plan of instruction followed
for twenty centuries in China, and Wig
orously opposed the idea of possible
improvement. The two remaining stu
dents, finding they could retain Govern
ment support and put them into SYM
pathy with popular feeling, at once
transferred themselves to the Chinese
professor, and the foreign teachers were
left without a single pupil. The exper-
iment has signally failed, and it is evil
dent that the vanity and prejudices OF
the educated classes are immovably fix
ed against any changes in the national
system, or any migrating of foreign ell
ements.-PTOCidenc Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21

A Canadian paper thus deals in the
luxuriance of exuberant woe over the
Geographic announcement of Marshal
McMahon's death at Sedan: go fear
full day at Sedanl o misfortunate day
for France! o day of miseryi o day
of sorrow, that saw this great evil fall
upon her! Art thou dead, o McMa-
hon? Has thy mighty spirit flown from
scenes of strife and carnage? Is it pos
sible that thou who escaped a thousand
balls hast been struck down? Hast
thou, too. been sacrificed in this horri-
BILE war? o, we would fain hope
against hopel We would to heaven
that the telegraph had croaked a lie
when it told us of thy death! We can
hardly believe thee deadi o lion of
many battlesp Who will not rejoice
in the tumultuous joy of the editor
when he learns that the gallant marshal
"still lives"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
GIANTS OF THE OLDEN TINES.

In one of his recent lectures, Profess
or Silliman, the younger, alluded to the
discovery of the skeleton of an enor-
nous lizard of eighty feet. The Pro-
fessor inferred, as no living specimen
ofsuch magnitude has been found, that
the species which it represents had de-
generated. The verify of his position
he rather singuiarly endeavored to en-
force by an allusion to the well-known
existence of giants in olden times. The
following list is the date upon which
the singular hypothesis is based:
The giant exhibited at Rcuen in 1880,
the professor says, measured nearly
eighteen feet.
Garapius saw girl that was ten feet
high.
The giant Calabra, brought from
Rome, under Cladius Cesar, was ten
feet high.
Fannum, who lived in the time of
Eugene H., measured eleven and a half
feet.
The chevalier Scrog, in his voyage to
the Peak of Teneriff, found in one of the
caverns of that mountain the head of
the Gunich, who had sixty teeth, a nd
was not less than fifty feet high.
The giant Farragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was twenty
eight feet high.
In 1900, near Rouen, was found a
skeleton whose skull held a bushel OF
corn, and who was nineteen feet high.
The giant Bacart was thirty-two feet
high; his thigh bones were found in
1903, near the river Modcri.
In 1923, near the castle in Dauphino,
tomb was thirty feet long, sixteen
wide and eight high, on which was cut
in grey stones these words, "Keutolo-
chus Rex" The skeleton was found
entire, twenty-five and fourth feet
long, ten feet across the shoulders and
five feet from the breast-bone to the
back.
Near Palmero, in Sicily, in 1916, was
found the skeleton of giant thirty feet
high, and in 1859 another forty-four
feet high.
Near Mazrino, in Sicily, in 1916, was
found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet
high. The head was the size of hogs
head, and each of his teeth weighed five
ounces.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

The Bayarian government has forbid
den the publication of the but deeiar-
ing PapaI infallibility.
Che hundred members of the Ecu
menieal Council protest against the pro-
ceedings by which the Pope was declar-
ed infalIible.
In the distribution of the school mon
les in Yew York city, last week, the
Hebrew societies received $4,000; the
Protestant schools, S32,O 900; and the Ro.
man Catholics, $4,000.
The Hungarian Bishops who protest.
ed against the infallibility were well
coined home with enthusiastic ovations,
torch light professions, banquets, depu-
tations and congratulations.
The Right Rev. DIR. Verot, who op-
posed the doctrine of infalIibility in the
council, and since declared ii bIasphe-
my, has been removed from the Bishop
rio of Savannah.