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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-09-02
VARIOUS, ITEMS.

.
General Mcclellan has gone to Texas.
Brick Pomeroy is now "doing" Sonoma.
Indigestion waits upon $4,000
year.
A kitchen poker is the best peace
maker.
Contentment hovers about the twelfth
brandy hot.
A hat band covers . multitude Of
grease spots.
It is said that Father Hyacinthe in.
tends to marry.
General Spinner has started on his
homeward voyage.
Virtue can not exist in house Of less.
than twelve rooms
Pauline Markham's golden tresses ill
bushel measure.
A Michigan judge solves technicalities
by Tipping a nickel.
Wit, without discretion, is q sword in
the hand Of fool.
A "curiing rink" is talked Of by the
hair dressers of Boston.
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson will reside
permanently in Chicago.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin Of Maine has
arrived in San Francisco
Victor Hugo has had Eve hundred
thousand dollars left to him.
Chicago explains that "chickaninny'
means the same as "shenaDagan."
Vermont grasshoppers have got round
shouldered chewing the short grass.
The Arctic explorers took along an
original prayer to read at the Pole.
Ex-President johnson is going 20 Eu.
rope in the fall, for two years visit.
Brigadier- General A. b. Dyer, Chief
of the Bureau of Ordnance, has arrived
in California.
Professor Watson, Of the observatory
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, has discovered
a new planet.
Robert Buchanan, the poet. has beer
compelled to give up his public readings
because of illhealth.
The Munroe CVirginia) Register comes
out for Lyman Trumbull for President
and Gilbert c. Walker for Vice Prcsi
dent.
The Philadelphians have been so laz,
that it is proposed to have elevators il
the churches to take the people into tn,
galleries.
The cholera has appeared it the neigh
hood of Stettin. At Konigsburg (Prus
sia) on Tuesday there were 70 cases AM
81 deaths.
Florida has an enterprising daily news
) paper that recently announced with
flourish that it paid 81 25 . month fo
; its kilograms.
The Spanish Government consents I
the extradition of the Communist, Roqu.
Garcia, accused Of the murder of Genel
al Prim, is liberated.
|, An extensive fire at Leicester, Englaut
is reported. The whole of the Lambs
wool Spinning Factory is burned, an
several persons were killed.
Yazoo City boasts duck with fou
wings, four legs, two bodies. one neci
one head, aud two bills. At last occount
it was 10 excellent spirits-alcohol.
At Bangor, Maine, during the Ne
} York riot, telegram was received Al
nouncins that complete panic Irevai
) ed in New York and that James Fisl
| Jr,. had been hung to lamp post, b,
t sides having his leg shot off by canno
: ball.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24
NAPOLEON AND THE LETT Err M.

Some genius, with taste for the cur
ious in fact, and the supernatural in
speculation, has made the following
discoveries of the wonderful powers of
the letter NJ. Marbef was the first to
recognize the genius of Napoleon /. at
the Military College. Marengo was
the first great battle won by General
Bonaparte, and Melas made room for
him in Italy. Mortier was one of his
best Generals; Moreau betrayed him,
and Murat was the first martyr to his
cause. Marie Louise shared his highest
fortunes Moscow was the abyss of
ruin into which he fell. Metternich
vanquished him in the field of diploma
cy. Six marshals, (Massena, Mortiser,
Marmont, Macdonald, Marat, Money!.
and twenty-six Generals of the division
under Napoleon I. had the letter an"
for their initial.
Marat, Duke of Bassano, was the
most trusted counselor. His first bat
tie was that of Montenotte, his last
Mont st. Jean, as the French term
Waterloo. He won the battles of Mill
esmo, Mondovi, Montmirall and Mont
ereau, then came the storming of Mont
martre. Milan was the first enemy's
capital and Moscow the last into which
he marched victorious. He lost Egypt
through Menou, and employed Miollis
to take Plus VII, prisoner. Mallet con-
spired against him; Murat was the first
to desert him, then Marmont. Three of
his ministers were Maret, Montiltvet
and Mallieu; his first chamberlain was
Montesquieu. His last ha% place was
Malmaison. He surres % Capt.
Maitland of the Bellero ezzJss, and his
companions in st. Helena were Montho-
Ian and his valet Marchland.
4y,r So 6a Of 1Sc ne lox
Napoleon Ill. we find the same letter
no less prominent, and it is said that
the captive of Wilhelmshohe attaches
even greater importance to its mystic
influence than did his uncle. His EN-
press was a Countess Montijo; his
greatest friend was Morny. The taking
of Mallakoff and the ABANDONMENT were
the exploits of the Crimean war, pecu-
liarly French. He planned his first
battle of the Italian campaign at Maren-
go, although it was not fought until af-
ter the engagement at Montebello, at
Magenta. Mcmahon, for his important
services in this battle, was named the
Duke of Magenta, as Pellisier had for a
similar merit received the title of Duke
of Malakoff. Napoleon III. then made
his entry into Milan, and drove the
Austrians out of Marignano.
After the fearful battle on the Mincio
of Solferino he turned back before the
walls of Mantua. Thus up to 1869,
since when the letter NJ would seem to
have been ominous of evil. Passing
over Mexico and Macmillan we see
how vain have been his hopes, founded
on the three Ms of the present war
Marshal Mcmahon, Count Montauban
and the Mitrailleuse Mayence was to
have been the basis for the further oper-
ations of the French army, but, pushed
back first to MoseIle, its doom was seal
ed on the Mouse, at Sedan. Lastly we
have to notice the fall Of Metz and all
these late disasters are owing to anoth-
er NJ, which is inimical to the third Ma
poleon, and this is capital M-Moltke.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24
INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS OF THE
NEW HAMBURG DISASTER.

The coroner's inquest at the scene of
the recent disaster upon the Hudson
River Railroad, has revealed some facts
that are not very complimentary to the
management of the road, or that it has
been unfortunate in the selection of
some of its employees. No road in the
country requires the same precaution
as that road does, both on account of
the shape of the country along its
course, and the amount of travel and
business upon it. There was time
when watchmen, or signalmen, were
on duty during the day and night, and
in such numbers as to admit of commu-
nication, or transfer of signals by the
use of lanterns, along the whole line
from New York to Albany. These
were dipensed with upon the accession
of Mr.. Vanderbilt to its management,
an item which was intended as econo-
my but which will be likely to prove
to be rather equivocal economy before
the end is reached.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24
FROM TOPEKA.

The legislature draws near its last
day! and not much of Importance has
been done. The appropriations and
epportionment are the only measures
necessary to act on. Neither of these
bills have yet been brought in.
A resolution was introduced yester-
day to fix the number of Senators and
Representatives, so that the bill could
be gotten up. The Senate fixed the
number of its body at thirty-three, and
the number of Representatives at nine
ty-three. The House changed the
latter figures to ninety-six, many of the
members taking the ground that it was
not the intention of the constitution
that room should be left for the admis-
sion of new counties during the five
years for which the superintendent
lasts, but that they should wait until
the next apportionment. The House
afterwards reconsidered the resolution,
and it is impossible to tell what num-
Der of Representatives they will insert.
The johnson and Wyandotte county
line bill passed the committee of the
whole in the House, but has made no
progress since. 1t viii be defeated, j
think, in the Senate, if it gets through
the House.
More bills of a purely local character
have been introduced this session than
at any former one. Local legislation ii
q nuisance.
A bill has passed the Senate remov-
the constitutional disabilities from s
large number of persons, including om
esteemed fellow citizen, w. T. McCarty
Esq. The bill viii undoubtedly become
a law.
The House has been after State Treas
urer Hayes. His ofense was the same
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

By a process recently discovered, l have been
able to obtain from the bark Of the Wild Cher
ry Electrically the Prunus Virginiani) an
extract which has been pronounced by the
Pharmaceutical Society of London and Berlin
to possess more of the virtues of this invalua-
bic tree than any other ever presented to
them. One single teaspoonful of Edward Will
der's Compound Extract of Wild Cherry con-
tains more of the active principle of the Wild
Cherry than any other preparation contains in
a wine-glass full. To this extract is added
other ingredients derived from the vegetable
kingdom, which give an efficiency, activity,
and power to this remedy which justly entitle
it to be called the Destroyer of Coughs, Colds,
Catarrhs, Larangitis, Asthma, Influenza, and
Group. Not one of these affections can with
stand it. They yield instantly to its magic
power. Besides these diseases, it is invaluable
in Pneumonia and Pleurisy. In Bronchitis,
acute and chronic, it is unfailing, and in the
cough of Consumption it affords reIiefwhich
no other remedy is capable of doing. In its
composition summed up all tine ingredients
necessary to effect permanent cure, which i'll
every case is warranted if used according to
directions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

All medical men agree that Sarsaparills is
the most efficient Of all the alternatives derived
from the vegetable kingdom, and the Iodide of
Potassium the most powerful of all those OBJ
tanned from the mineral world, and all who
have had any large chemical experience are
satisfied that either of these substances IN
ereases and intensifies the power of the other.
The Potash augments the activity of the Sars-
aparilla, and this in its turn adds immensely
to the virtues of the Potash. Together. in the
combination of Edward wflder's Sarsaparilia
and Potash, they constitute the most POtcerfal
Blood Purifier and Constitutional Alterdtire
ever used. No disease or affection which de
ponds on impurity of the blood can resist its
action. Such is the confidence in it that cure
is guaranteed in every case where the direc-
tons are followed, in any of the following
diseases: Scrofula in all its multitudinous
forms, Chronic Rheumatism. Cutaneous Aztec
tons, Syphilis or Veneral Disease, Serofulous
Sore Eyes, Glandular Swellings of the Neck or
elsewhere, letter, Weeping Sore Leg, Ulcers
of every kind, Pimples on the Face, Ring
worm, Scald Head, Falling of the Hair or Al
lopeela, White Swelling, Ague Cake, Chronic
Erysipelas, Dropsy, &c. This medicine. has
effected the most wonderful cures. So much
SO, that now the most eminent physicians in
the world are prescribing it in their daily
practice. They know its worth. Now is the
season of the year when your system requires
an Alternative medicine. Then get this at once.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

There is no such medicine for the diseases
for which it is recommended Edward Will
der's Stomach Bitters. 1t is positively assert
ed that they are altogether unequaled. They
are absolutely infallible, If used according to
directions, in Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Inter
mittent Fever, Liver Complaint, Collie, and
FluX. They are a tonic. They are eminently
an Alternative. They are superior to all other
medicines an appetizer. They invigorate
the enfeebled stomach, and revive the over
wrought system. They add new power to the
weakened heart, and sustain the Overworked
brain. Besides being superior to, they are
unlike, all other Bitters, in having for their
base pure copper-distilled Bourbon whisky.
This fact alone has given them a character IN
the city where they are made, and must COM
mend them to the lovers of the good and the
genuine everywhere. To the anxious mother
weighed down with family cares, to the mer-
chant exhausted by the harass of business, to
the dyspeptic, to him who suffers from consti-
patton, to the victim of fuX or collie or debility,
these Bitters offer speedy and never failing
relief. Try them. If you take them once, you
will never after be without them in your
house.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

Have you for years been suffering with Ague
and Fever or ChilIs and Fever, which so rack
the system? If so, go at once and get bottle
of Edward Wilder's Chill Tonic, as it is boldly
asserted that, in its line, and for the diseases
fer which it is recommended, there is no med
icine known that will at all compare with it.
1t is q certain, speedy, permanent cure
for every disease arising from miasma or ma
laria. No form of Intermittent or Remittent
Fever can resist it. Quotidian, Tertian, Ruar-
tian, and Twenty-one day Chills are obliged
to yield to it. 1t is the conqueror of every spe-
cies of Marsh or Swamp Fever. 1t is the COM
plete master of Brow Ague, Periodical Head
ache, Intermittent Neuralgia, Splenalgia or
Pain in the Side, and of every variety and
modification of Intermittent and Bilious
Fever.
Nor does this medicine resemble any other
of the thousand compounds advertised for
these affections. 1t is the pure distillation
from the most costly varieties of Cinchona
bark, and is in itself pharmaceutical triumph,
a therapentical wonder. 1t at once checks thu
Chills and restores the blood to its proper con-
sistency, thereby graduating all traces of this
the most baneful disease from the system.
Wherever these diseases exist this medicine
should always be kept in every household, as
a cure is always guaranteed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

ute.
AT the House of Correction in SPRING
field, Mass, 5000 pairs of hand and ma
chine sewed slippers are made every
week.
The Lancet says that not a ration of
spirit or rum is served out to the Ger
man soldiers in France, who are giving
splendid account of themselves in the
matter of physical energy and endur-
ance.
A sixteen year old girl, near Pitts
burg, last week, kicked her father
through the house. and across the yard,
and locked him up in the COW stable,
because he went to town and spent ali
his money for whisky, instead of buy
ing her new bonnet as promised.
Dinter. the Prusslan school-counciI-
Tor, said 81 promised God that would
look upon every Prussian peasant as
being who could complain of me be-
fore God, if 1 did not provide for him
the best education, as man and as a
Christian, which it was possible for me
to provide"
every man ought to get married, if
he can. Every man ought to work to
wife should hold her tongue, if she can.
Every lawyer should occasionally tell
the truth, if he can. Every man ought
to mind his own business and let other
peoples alone, if he can. Every man
should take newspaper, and pay for it
anyhow.
Bishop Marvin tells story about one
of the stewards in the West Texas Con-
ference, who paid as quarterage one
hundred pounds of bacon, worth ten
cents pound. AT the quarterly meet
ing, however, he brought in a bill
charging fifteen cents pound, and offer
ed in explanation for charging five cents
more than market price, that all he gave
to the church was $50 much treasure laid
up in heaven" and he desired to swell
that account as much as possible.
A somewhat eccentric lawyer, being
engaged in defending a. hard case, and
not being altogether pleased with the
rulings of the presiding judge, remark
ed that he believed the whole court
could bought with a peck of beans.
The judge, of course, took this remark
in high dungeon, and ordered the law
yer to sit down, and demanded of him
an apology for this contempt of court,
him commitment for the
offence if he did not apologize. The
lawyer, after little reflection. remark
ed that he had said he believed the court
could be bought with a peck of beans
that he said it without reflection, and
wished to take it back. "But" said he. |
''if had put it at half bushel, never
would have taken it back in the world"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

Are you suffering from costiveuess or in
need of an efficient purgative? Edward Will
der's Family Pills are a vegetable tonic and
inYigorant of uncommon excellence. For
constipation and biliousness they are a certain
remedy. By their action they both revive and
refresh the overloaded system. Nor is this
all. There is nothing in their composition
which is not vegetable. They are potent for
good among the strong and robust. They are
the one aperient or laxative needed by the del
icate and weakly. The liver, the great secre-
tive gland of the body, determines both the
purity of the blood and the condition of the
bowels. These pills contain herbs, gums,
roots, and barks, every one OF which is cele-
brated as an ambitious remedy, and which, If
there be single aseertained fact in medicine.
constitute the most genial and perfectly salts
factory purgative yet discovered. They do
nor rasp or injure. They clean out the de-
PRAYED and vitiated secretiens of the alimen-
tary canal. They stimulate and persuade the
liver They tone the stomach, and through it
the brain and nerves. They do not irritate-
they restore. In all the Pblegmasia, Rheum-
atism, Erysipelas, Vertigo, Dizziness, Infiam-
NATION of the Brain, Liver, Kidneys, and
Bladder, and in every other affection in which
purgatiye is desirable, these pills are beyond
all peradventure q true panacea. Hence use
none other, as they can do you no harm, and
their effects are invariably beneficial.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24
as that committed by his predecessor

as that committed by his predecessor
Graham, to-wit: Having the funds in
banks. Mr.. Hayes is universally regard
ed as one of the most honest nen in the
State. Every body was surprised at
first, when it was whispered round that
something was wrong, but all have set
tied down to the conviction that our
funds are safe.
Female clerks are below par. The
enrolling and engrossing rooms are
overrun with them, and much dissatis-
faction is expressed by members of
both branches at the way the
work is done. They seem to be more
devoted to good clothes and young
men than to their duties. Some of them
who come here claiming position as
poor soldiers widows are stopping at
the first-class hotels and cutting "large
swath." One fellow was hazardous
enough the other day ito express the
opinion that they only come here to
catch husbands. Three succeeded in
doing so, last winter, and from present
appearances atleast twice that number
will succeed this session. The fellow
who expressed that opinion suddenly
left Topeka, and has not been about
since. Heretofore three pages have
been sufficient to run the House. This
session, out of spirit of gallantry,
three little girls were added, at S3a day
each. When men apply for assistant
the Legislature makes them
wait till there is work before they COM
mence drawing pay. This year lot of
women came up here and were sworn
in at once, before there was any work
to do. 1t would be ungallant, you
know, to have a woman waiting twenty
days for a ten days job of work, which
she is, in many cases, not qualified to
do. The consequence was, that num-
Der have been on pay from the first at
SO day, VITA nothing to do. One of
them boosted, the other day, that she
had drawn SIS from the treasury and
had not touched pen to paper, and she
knew others who had done the same |
thing. Female clerks are below par.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

BooKs.-God be thanked for books !
They are the voices of the distance and
dead, and make us heirs of the spiritu-
al life of the past ages. Books are the
true Jewelers.. They give to all who
will use them faithfully, the society, tn e
spiritual presence of the best and great
est of our race. No matter how poor
am. No matter though the prosper
Gus of my own time will not enter my
obscure dwelling. If the sacred writ
ers will enter and take up their abode
under my roof if Milton will cross my
threshold to sing to me of Paradise, or
Shakespeare to open to me the worlds
of Imagination and the workings of the
human heart, and Franklin to enrich
me with his practical wisdom, / shall
not pine for want of intellectual COM
partnership, and may become a Guilt
waited man, though excluded from what
is called the best society in the place
where ] live.-Channing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

Thousands of children die annually Of
worms. A true vermicide or worm-killer has
long been a desideratum in medicine. Ed
ward WiIder's Mothers Worm Syrup is the
one thing needed to secure the children
against the insidious evils of the many worms
which infest their intestinal tract. 1t is relia-
BILE. 1t is pleasant. It is salubrious. 1t is
safe. 1t expels round worms, thread worms,
and the huge tape-worm. 1t cannot fail. It
clears up the skin. 1t sweetens the temper Of
the little sufferers. It secures sleep. 1t
brings back the appetite. It relieves the tl-
mid belly. It advances the growth Of the
child. 1t restores the roses to its cheek. 1t
saves its teeth. 1t guards it against eonvul-
sions, spasms, and St. yitus' dance. 1t is far
superior to all other medicines for expeIIing
worms. Mothers, see to ii that you give your
children the truly never-failing worm-kiIIer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24
A Great Bargain offered.

A FARM of 151A acres, mostly bottom
"A land of the best quality, on the south side
of the Cottonwood river, one and half miles
from Plymouth, Lyon county; all enclosed;
200 rods two-year old hedge; 65 acres in Guilt
walton; good hewn log house; good wells
new crib; granary and stable; 200 bearing
peach trees, and small fruits of several kinds;
there is no better farm for stock, having an I'M
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; AZ 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 \. 4. ALLEN.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that petition,
IN signed by Stephen II. Rich and more
than twelve other householders of Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas, residing in the vicinity, will at the
next regular meeting of the Board of County
scented to said Board. praying that n public
highway may be laid out and opened as fol-
lows, TO wit: Commencing at the southwest
corner of the southwest quarter of section
eight 50, township nineteen 19) range twelve
(l2), in said county, thence north about fifty
rods, thence east about twenty rods to the Cass
Maurer ford on the NeOsho river, thence across
said river and in a DOrtheasterly direction
along the bank of said river to said section
line, thence north to where said section line
intersects the Neosho river again, thence east
along the bank of said river to the division
line between the north and south eighties of
the northwest quarter of said section eight,
thence east son said line to the east line of said
quarter, thence north on said halT-section lire
to the township line. WIS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-24

The demands made by Bismark, as
the conditions of peace with France,
are understood to embrace the surren-
der of Alsace and Lorraine, with Bel
fort and Metz, the payment of two bill
lions of dollars as an indemnity for the
expenses of the war, the transfer to the
German navy of twenty first-class frig-
ates, and the cession of the colony of
Pondicherry in Cochin China. All
this, added to the French cost of the
war and the destruction of life. and
property on French soil, makes tre-
mendous war-bill for poor France to
settle. In 1868 her public debt was ST.
$50. 400, 285, which, with a population of
So, 100000, was equal to S74 per capita
for the whole population. This amount
had been considerably increased prior
to the war. Add her own war debt
and the two billions demanded by the
Germans-thus make the whole not
less than seven billions-and France is
bankrupt for at least half century.