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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
ENGRAVING RAT SKIN ON A MAN S
HIP.

We hear of a somewhat novel surgi-
cal operation performed by DR.. f. X.
Hawn, of Leavenworth, Indiana. A
yonng man named Murchison, living
in Meade county, KY, met with ter
rible accident while working in saw
mill, by means of which piece of skin
as large as the bottom of q tin cup was
torn from his hip. DR.. Horn was called
to the case. Knowing the extreme diff
fieulty experienced by surgeons in get
ting injuries of this kind to heal prop
erly, the doctor was at a loss how to
proceed. 1t is we'll known that where
a large surface of skin has been removed
the cure is tedious and difficult to ac-
complish. Nothing but skin will pro-
duce new skin, and the exposed surface
will not heal further than an inch from
the margin, after which the edges must
be trimmed again and a new growth
started, the operation being repeated as
often as necessary, until the entire sur
face is covered and the cure effected.
Not wishing to subject his patient to
this tedious and painful process, DIR. Ii.
resolved to try the experiment of en-
graftation, His first idea was to take
small bits of live skin from various
other parts of the body and graft them
on the exposed surface, but the patient
ing the skinning process and the null
titude of sore places which would be
left. The doctor then suggested that a
portion of the skin of some inferior ami
NAL might be used, and the patient
readily consented. A rat about two
thirds grown, was caught, killed and
quickly skinned, after which the doctor
cut piece of the requisite size, trim
med it to suit the exposed surface, clap
ped it on and fastened it with strips of
adhesive plaster, after which the whole
surface was covered with coating of
collodion. The experiment succeeded
beyond the most sanguine expectations.
The graft took by first intention, and in
ten days the cure was complete.
The surface of the wound is covered
with fine growth of hair, and the rat
seems to answer every purpose. The
only Inconvenience to which Mr.. Muir
Gibson is subjected is on account of the
cats. On several occasions, while sit
ting down reading, he has been put to
no little alarm and some Inconvenience
by having the house cat spring sudden |
ly on him and fasten her teeth in the |
portion of his pantaloons which immc- |
diateiy covers the trausplanted rat skin. |
The terriers also, sniff suspiciously at his |
heels when he walks the streets.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
THE SALE OF THE KAW INDIAN RE.
SERVE LANDS.

The official notice OF the sale of a
portion of the land popularity known as
the "Kaw Reserve" has been duly is
sued, and we give below such of the re-
gulations as are of interest to the gene
raj public. The lands are to be
sold through the acceptance of seal
ed proposals, under the following
rules:
Such proposals must be for parcels or
tracts not exceeding in any case one
hundred and sixty Q60) acres each.
Should any proposal be for any tract
having on it improvements of any kind
which were made by or for the Indians
or for Government purposes, the pro-
posals therefor must state the price bid
for the land and for the improvements
separately.
These lands comprise the unsold por-
ton of what are known as Kansas In
dian Trust Lands, and also all that por-
ton of the Kansas Indian Diminished
Reservation lying outside of the exter-
Tor boundary line of the lands assigned
in severalty to members of the tribe
under the provision of the aforesaid
treaty.
Ali bids must be accompanied by the
deposit of sum equal to sum Of ten
per centum of the amount of each bid,
which sum, in case the land is award
ed and the balance not paid, will be for
feited by the bidder. Should any bid
be rejected the sum deposited will be
returned to the proper party.
Patents will be issued and transmit
ted to'purchasers as soon after full pay
| ment as practicable. Payments must
be made in cash, or such certificates of
| Indebtedness of the Kansas tribe of In
dams, issued by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs for the debts of said In
dams, as are made receivable as cash by
the provisions of the amended second
| (2d) article of the treaty of March Is,
1852, to the amount for which they
were issued, in payment for lands that
may be purchased out of that portion of
said reservation, commonly known as
''Trust Lands"
All lands purchased from that por-
ton of the Diminished Reservation"
herein offered for sale must be paid for
| in cash. The right to reject any and all
bids is expressly reserved.
All bids must be sealed and addressed
to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and Endorsed "Bids for Kansas Indian
Trust Lands" or "Bids for Kansas Di-
minished Reserve Lands" as the case
may be.
Persons or parties whose bids are ae-
cepted viii be notified of such accept
ance as socn thereafter as practicable.
If within forty days after such notice
has been duly mailed payment in full is
not made to the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs of the amount bid, the land
for which such bids was made viii be
again subject 10 sale.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

Owing to the withdrawal from Office
of NJ. Heidenrix, who had in his official
capacity presided over the execution of
fourteen criminals, Paris finds itself
once more without a headsman, and
at an awkward time, too, when more
than ever his services were needed, be-
cause the Place de Greve is, indeed, red
for the harvest, but the executioners are
few, and the Communists took the pre-
caution at the outset of smashing the
guillotine. In this emergency, 1t is
pleasing to notice that the supply of
death-dealing apparatus is equal to the
demand, and France has not had to
utter towards Calcraft the Macedonian
cry: "Come over and hang us" The
mitrailleuse has been brought into play,
and has amply justified the expectations
of its Warmest friends. Against the
Germans, who had habit of shifting
their positions before the new thing
began to work, it did not avail much.
But given q couple of hundred COM
munists, men. women, and children,
made to kneeI down in q mass while
Versaillist turns the crank of the in
fernal hurdy-gurdy at q point-blank
range, and under these favorable au-
spices it will kill ditchfal in an hour.
Wonderful are the ways of an inscruta-
BILE Providence, who created thirty thou
sand Communists to perish violent
deaths, and then permitted the inven-
ton to that desirable end of q military
cOfEee-miIl of q fve-h1ndred funeral
power per minute .-C lineage Republic
cGR.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
YELLOW FEVER.


In our telegraphic columns will be
found report from Montevideo, stat
ing that the yellow fever had again
broken out in Buenos Ayres, and that
those who had returned were fleeing,
panic stricken, from the city. This
terrible scourge first made its appear
ance in that city about the first of Feb
ruary, but did not create any alarm un-
til il increased to such an extent in
March as to threaten the humiliation of
almost the whole population. About
the first of April 749 bodies were
counted in one day at the gates of the
cemeteries waiting for interment, and
the fatal number of cases from the COM
mencement of the scourge up to TIE 18th
of April was estimated at over ttcelUe
thousand The rich abandoned the
city, but the poor were left to perish
and decay in their houses. The UNDER
takers fed from the terrible harvest
provided for them. The population
which numbered 100000. in two months
was reduced to 10000.
A pestiIence so fearful in magnitude
and destruction has never occurred, and
perhaps never will, in any of the cities
of the United States, owing to better
sanitary regulations, and this may be
taken as an evidence of the Importance
of thoroughly providing against the ac-
cummulation of filth in our cities. The
city of BueDos Ayres, for instance is
built on the fiat shore of the river, is
without any system of drainage, and
for more than hundred years the in
habitants have buried all garbage and
refuse matter beneath their houses.
This was done by making sinks fifteen
or twenty feet deep and walling them
up with brick, leaving only small aper-
lures at the top. When the mouth OF
such a cesspoOl filed up, new sinks
were made. The deadly gases that
would emanate from such places could
not but produce pestilence, and if these
places feed the scourge that has re-
duced Buenos Ayres, of which there
can be no doubt, the diseases that in the
hot months of summer invade our
towns and cities may safely be attribu-
ted to proportionate amount of filth
that is deposited and left to decay in the
immediate vicinity of places of resi-.
dence or business, of which we will find
a greater or less amount in the back door
yards and gardens of almost every
house in our own city, however clean
we believe our town upon the whole
to be.
We refer to this matter for the pur
pose of calling the attention of our cit
liens to the importance of carefully dis
posing of all manner of dirt that gath
ers unavoidably in their places of bust
mes and domestic life. We see our mer
chants heaping waste paper and. the
sweeping of their stores at their bach
doors, while others sweep them into
the street, in disregard of the city ordi
nance.
Disease and death terminate in al
accumulations of such garbage, and the
practice of making such deposits should
} by all manner of means be prohibited
, forthwith
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
REPUBLIC.

The Philadelphia Press devotes an
elaborate article to this subject,
from which we make the following quo
tations:
at is about time that preliminary
steps should be taken by our people to
prepare for the great Centennial Cele-
bration of 1876. Whatever aid may
hereafter be given by the National
Government, or by the Legislature OF
Pennsylvania, il is undoubtedly true
that the success of the celebration will
largely depend upon the action OF
the citizens of Philadelphia during
the coming five years.
We wish to commemorate in q worthy
style one of the grandest events not on
ly in the history of our country, but in
the history of the world; we desire to
celebrate the triumphant success of one
hundred years of Republican liberty-a
century of unparalleled progress in all
that pertains to the welfare of man. We
desire to honor that skilled labor which
makes nations truly powerful and
great, and we would do everything that
is fitting to induce the people of all
lands on the civilized globe to bring to
our Worlds Fair, in 1876, the varied
and wonderful productions of their in
dustry, their skill, and their art. AS an
inducement, we should offer not less
than one million of dollars, to be dis
tributed as prizes for the best works
produced in every department of hui
man ingenuity.
To the great international exhibit
tons, held ip London and Paris from
1851 to 1867, the powerful assistance OF
the English and French Governments
was literally given. There it is an af-
fair of the Government; here it is for
the people to do the work. And a large
share of this labor will fall upon the cit
liens of Philadelphia. 1t is true, we
hope to enlist the people of the whole
State and of the whole nation, but in
this city, selected by the act of Congress
as the most appropriate place for the
celebration, we must organize a COM
mission composed of the ablest men
that can be found, and at once proceed
IN UOpl-
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lures, and the warehouse OF Il. Trilken
& Co., dealers in pistols, guns and am
munition, were damaged by the falling /
walls. The stock was uninjured by Wa
ter. Loss about seventy thousand dol
lars.
WAsHIsaroS, d. c., June ION
Monday a committee appointed by |
Boutwell, to examine, count and destroy |
bonds purchased for the sinking fund
will conclude their labors, and over six
ty million dollars in bonds be consigned
to the flames
A table is now preparing in the ln-
great reduction in the expenses of the
Internal Revenue department.
The comptroller of the currency has
ordered the national banks to furnish
| him the names of their shareholders on
the first Monday in July next.
The San Domingo report and accom-
panying documents, will be issued next
week. Only about fifteen-hundred cop
les will be issued.
The agricultural report, for 1870, is in
press, and will be printed by August.
| CONCORD, N. H, June 6.-This city
has never, in political records, present
ed so active a scene as to-day. All the
politicians of the state are here engaging
i for the organization of the legislature.
i All but ten of the 1859 representatives
are calculated upon. As the democrat
ic party strength were present last even
ing, the democrats are claiming the Or
ganization of both houses by ten major
ity, in which event the Senate vacancies
will not be filed till after the conven-
ton for counting Gorrs vote, as the
Senate will not organize if the demo-
Gratis are successful. q. w. n. Pitman.
| Of "a nlnefn6
president of the Senate, and w. n.
Gore labor reform, of Wear, speaker OF
the House. The republican members
are confident as to the result. The re-
publican candidate for speaker will,
probably, be Col. VIM. c. Patten. Well
Informed politicians calculate on Yves
: toms election as Governor by close
vote, say five, and the democrats say
they can elect him even if the house is
organized by republicans. The repub-
lican members are not called upon to be
present before this evening, but there is
already larger relative representation
of members, elect, present than ever
voted in the organization of the legisla-
ture.
: The telegraph from jamestown, n
/ Y, announces that Senator Fenton's
health is improving.
Secretary Boutwell, has received rec.
OmmOnQaLlOn from % uOge DdfOIl, HtIl
3 auditor of the Treasury department
that four lady clerks in his Office be pro.
NOTED to temporary first class clerk
4 ships. The Secretary will require the
candidates to pass the same examina
4 ton that male clerks are subjected to
by the examining board. A majority
l of the lady clerks in the Office have ex
i pressed their willingness to submit to {
competitive examination, but there arr
: vacancies for only four.
8 FIT. WAYNE, Ind, June 6.-The south
i ern editorial excursion party arrived
here this evening, and were taken to thu
:, rink in carriages, where an elegant ban
quet was served. Mayor Randall cor
daily welcomed them in brief speech
: which was responded to by severa
2 leading excursionists. The party, which
. number about 125, will leave for Sagi
!, nav in the morning, accompanied b!
= some 80 of our citizens.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

Deposits to accompany bids may be
made in any public depository of the
United States or solvent National Bank,
evidenced by a certificate of deposit
transferred 10 j. 5. Parker, Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs, Washington,
ID. G.
Bids will be received until the 18th
day of July next, after which, as soon
as practicable, they will be opened, ex-
amined and acted upon.
II. II. CLUM,
Acting Commissioner
WAsHINGToN. ID. C., May Is, 1871.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

young Hugh, substantially as given
here, and stating that an aunt of his
(Hugh's) who was very wealthy. desir-
ed to find him, and if worthy to consti-
tute him as her sole heir Through the
medium of the Free Press the young
man was discovered. Mr.. Campbell
(his own and his mothers faithful
friend) informed him of his good for
tune and at once communicated with
the aunt, assuring her of his WORTH
ness. lie is now making preparations
to go to California, where he viii meet
with warm welcome from his only
living relative, whose fortune he is 10
inherit.-Detroit Free Press.
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NOTICE is hereby given that at 2 O'Clock D. m
IN on the 10th day of July A. d. 1871 at the door
oil the Court House, in Lyon county, Kansas wi
sell at public auction the following described real
ed one half of thirty eight acres, being all that
east rter OF section nineteen Q9), town ship
nineteen Q9), range eleven (11) lying the mort
and west side eff the Cottonwood river levied by
me as the property of Thomas Thompson, BY viz
the of an execution issued by the clerk of the
District C0nrt of said county in favor of Elizabeth
Lawson and aginst Abner Hadiey, administrator
of the estate of George III. Harvey, deceased, and
said Thomas Thompson and directed and delivered
TO me as sheriff of said county.
L. II. COATS,
w23-2I Sheriff of Lyon Co., Kansas
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

The CowIey county Censor says that
two questions of general interest to the
people of the State have been decided
by the district court of thatcounty one,
that the herd law so called is null and
of no effect, it being contrary to The
Constitution of the State. The other.
that the State courts have power and
will upon proper grounds, to interfere
by injunction to restrain the removal of
timber from disputed claims until the
rights of the claimants shall be settled
at the land Office.
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VICTOR HUGO FORESEES HIS OWN
FOLLY.

A more graphic picture of events
now transpiring in Paris could scarcely
be given than one in the words of Vic
tor Hugo, in 1848. "Two republics -
said the old poet, "are possible. One
of them will tear down the tri-color
and hoist the red flag, coin sous pieces
from the Vendome pillar, tear down
the statue of Napoleon and erect in its
stead that of Marat, destroy the Insti-
tute, the Polytechnical School, and the
Legion of Honor; it will add to the
beautiful device, Liberty, Equality,
and Fraternity the sinister alterna-
tive or Death 1t will bring about
bankruptcy, ruin the rich without en-
riching the poor; destroy the public
credit, which is the fortune of all, labor,
which is every mans bread, will abol-
ish property and the family, carry heads
on lances, fill the prisons with suspect
ed persons, and empty them by the
massacre, set Europe afire, lay civiliza-
ton in ashes, and make France the
home of darkness; it will kill liberty,
stifie art. decapitate thought, and deny
God. 1t will erect the guiliotine, and,
in short, do everything in cold blood
that the men of 1898 did in their frenzy,
and after the horrible but grand specta-
Gle which our fathers have seen, it will
show us the monstrous in a contempta-
BILE pHsillanimity."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

Mr.. George Palmer, foreman of this
Office, has received from friend in the
East copy Of the Ueek9y London
Times, reduced by photography for
carrying to Paris during war times.
The paper is a folio, containing seven
columns to the page. These columns
are "A of an inch wide, and the whole
sheet is A. XII inches. We have figured
up the amount of reading matter and
find that % columns of it would make
30 of our paper, and besides that there
are six columns of advertisements in
much smaller type. The original size
of the paper is little smaller than our
WEEKLY TIMES. The loaded or
what the printers call editorial-matter
can be read without the aid of q
microscope, but it makes ones eyes
ache. Two hundred and seventy lines
to AZ inches is too small for comfort.
We were, however, able to make out
that the editor regretted the retirement
of Mr.. Bright from the Cabinet, and
that he speaks in very disloyal man.
ner of the absurdities of Parliament
-LeaCeRaCorth Times.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

MARRIED.-John A. Martin, editor
OF the Atchison Champion, was mar
ried, on Thursday last, to Miss Ida Chal-
liss, of that city. May the richest bles-
sings of this life adorn and sweeten
your household, our brother, for many,
many years, and may the beautiful crea-
tions of hope and love in your hearts
made one never die,
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ROAD NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that petition will
In be presented to the Board of County
Commissioners of Lyon county, at their next
regular meeting 10 be held July Sd, 1871, ask
ing for the vacation and establishment Of n
county road as follows, to wit: Beginning at
the northeast corner of section 8, in township
30, of range Is, thence south on section line to
the timber or as near as practicable thereto.
thence southeast to quarter line of section 10,
township 30, range -, thence, or SIS near as
practicable, on said line 10 quarter corner of
section 10, township 20, range ID, TO the town
Allica. S. E. G.. HOLT
Principal Petitioner.
June LIST, 1871. wa3-24
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Vanderbilt, Aston and two other par
ties paid H. w. Caldwell, of IndianapO-
lis, s1,O00,O00 for a quit claim title to
his interest in an estate in New York,
owned by his grandfather prior to the
revolution of the thirteen colonies. Mr..
Caldwell, two years ago, was keeping a
very small feed store and grocery near
the canal, on Indiana avenue, Indianap-
oils. lie was a good fellow, too, and
always paid his little bills promptly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
The Sherman House, Leavenworth,
,uaa hnrnad dau hnfnrn vasfnrdnu Innrn-

The Sherman House, Leavenworth,
was burned day before yesterday morn
ing. The fire occurred from an explos-
ion, the nature and manner of which
had not at last accounts been determin-
ed, In the store of Mr.. G. X. Trapp, who
was found in the store severely stun
ned and burned, but not fatally injur-
ed. He was unable to account for the
explosion. He had Int cigar, and
threw the match upon the floor, and
the explosion followed, and so great
was it that a stairway in the room was
completely crushed and the partition
wall perforated in places by the debris
Several persons in the building mar
rowly escaped death. The loss by the
burning OF the building is estimated AT
about $4,000, partially insured.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

A Baltimore undertaken has just in
trodueed a patent glass top ice burial
casket, constructed on ingenious and
scientific principles, the vacuum be-
tween the inner and outer castings be-
ing filled with ice which is prevented
from melting by the non-conducting
principles of the materials within which
it is enclosed. There are no drippings
from the ice, and the casual observer of
the casket would never suspect its pres
ence. By means of an air pump the air
is removed from that part of the casket
where The body rests, and this arrange
ment completes the plan by which the
body is preserved in a perfect state for
week. The invention is an add
mirable one and supplies want long
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09

MAcE>CoBURN.-The fight between
these distinguished characters did not
take place in Canada, and it did not
come off at Kansas City, as advertised,
on the I'd inst. In the first instance
Her Majesty's officers appeared upon
the scene and in the name of the Queen
and the King of Kings, said it should
not be. In the second instance, Joe
COburn did not put in an appearance.
Mace and his friends were on the
ground at Kansas City at the hour APP
pointed, waited from 10 o'clock until ,,
for Joseph. but 10 did not come and
Jem was declared the winner of the
fight. 1t is likely that 10 has some
hankerings after a seat in Congress,
after the fashion OF his distinguished
contemporary, Morrissey.
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ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICEis hereby given that on the Sd day
IN of July, 1871, petition will presented TO
Commissioners of Lyon county, at the Office of
said Commissioners at the Court House. in
viewed, surveyed and established, to wit: Be-
ginning ut the center corner stone between
sections and IS, in township 10, range IL,
and running one mile north through section I
to the center stone between sections and Z
OF said township and range, being q distance
of one mile. IRA HTNSHAW,
Principal Petitioner.
June I, 1871. w9395
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Official intelligence has been -commu-
nicated to the War Department, at
Washington, that an Indian war will
ensue during the summer, and the Gen
eral commanding in Arizona has been
instructed to make every exertion to
maintain peace.