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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

One hundred and ten years ago, there
was not a single white man in Ken
lucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Then, what Is the most fourishing part
Of America was as little known as the
country around the mysterious noun
tains Of the Moon. 1t was not until
1867 that Boone left his home in North
Carolina to become the first settler in
Kentucky. The first pioneers of OHIO
did not settle until twenty years after
this time. A hundred years ago Cana
da belonged to France, and the popula-
ton did not exceed million and half
of people. A hundred years ago the
great Frederick of Prussia was per-
forming those grand exploits which
have made him immortal in military
annals, and with his little monarchy
was sustaining single-handed contest
with Russia, Austria and France, the
three great powers of Europe combin-
ed. Washington was q modest Virgin
Ia Colonel, and the great events in his
tory of the two worlds in which these
great bat dissimilar men took leading
parts were then scarcely foreshadowed.
A hundred years ago the United States
were the most loyal part of the British
Empire, and on the political horizon no
speck indicated tho struggle which
W1tnln score OF years IAeieaIIef es-
tablished the great republic of the
world. A hundred years ago there
were but four newspapers in America !
Steam engines had not been imagined,
and railroads and telegrapbing had not
entered into the remotest conception OF
men. When we come to look back at
It through the vista of history, we find
that to the century just passed has been
allotted more important events, in their
bearing upon the happiness of the
world, than almost any other which has
elapsed since the creatien.-Sdn Frdn-
cisco bulletin. .e.-.a -.-.-.-
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STRANGE PHENeMESA.

A visitor to Peshtigo, Wisconsin,
since the recent terrible Ere, says that
the phenomena and results of the storm
of fire were mysteriously strange. In
some places the forest trees lay in every
imaginable position, while in others
they were carried into windows.
They were mere sticks in the hands
of a great power, slashiBg and whipping
the earth, and then made fuel for the
work of death. The fields, woods,
barns, houses and even the ''air" was on
fire, while large balls Of fire were re-
volving and bursting in every direction
igniting every thing they came in con.
tact with !; and the whole of this devour.
ing element was driven before lorna
do at the rate of mile minute.
r There can be no doubt that the air
strongly charged with electricity, help.
ed on the work of destruction and death
Mr.. A. Kieby says he saw large bodies
or balls of fire in the air, and when they
cane in contact vita nything, they
would bound thirty or forty rods away
Others testify that they sew large cloud!
of fire burst into fragments, and il
some instances great tongues of firt
like lightning would issue from thesI
dark clouds and light upon the bull
dings.s Pennies were melted in thu
/ pockets of persons who were but Iittlt
burned. A small bell upon an engine
and new stove, both standing from
twenty to forty feet from any building
were melted.
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HUXLRY ON sPIRITUALIsM.

Huxley, the English scientist, has a
decidedly poor opinion of spiritualism.
Being invited a while ago to assist in
the Investigation of the performance of
a medium, he responded sharply as fol-
lows:
II regret that am unable to accept
this imitation of the Council of the
bialectical Society, to cooperate with
committee for the Investigation of
spiritualism /; and for two reasons. In
the first place, have had no time for
an inquiry, which would involve much
trouble and (unless it were unlike all
inquiries of that kind have known
much annoyance: In the second place,
l have no interest in this subject. The
only case of sspiritualism, l. baYe- had
an 6ppo rtunity OF examining into my
self, was as gross an imposture as ever
came under my notice. But supposing
the phenomena to be genuine-they do
not interest me. If anybody would en-
dow me with the faculty of listening to
the chatter of,old women and curates
in the nearest cathedral town, should
decline the privilege, having better
things TO do. And If the folk in the
spiritnal.world do not talk more wisely
and sensibly than their friends report
them 90 do. Ioapat them down in the
same category. The only good that
can see In a demonstration of the truth
of 'spiritualism' is to furnish an addi,
tional argument against suicide. Bet.
ter hve.a crossiDg-sweeper, than to die
| and to be made to talk twaddle by 9
medium hired at guinea sentance.'
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THE CHICAGO RELIC MARKET.

Less activity is manifested in the rel
ic market to-day. Local buyers have
fallen of, but orders from the country
occupy the time of jobbers. Since the
fall trade set in pieces of the court house
bell have been in great demand, and
shipments are active. It is estimated
that two ear loads of pieces have been
shipped from the city. Our reporter
was informed by dealer that he had
contracted with Pittsburg brass foun-
dry to supply the demand, which has
been extraordinary. Dolls are dull aud
declining. At meeting of dealers
held yesterday it was resolved to close
out the present stock, and recall all or
ders for the manufacture of further
supply. In order to work off their
stock in hand, jobbers are melting down
dolls, causing them to fuse in pairs, and
to present the appearance of Siamese
twins. As the call for tacks for legiti-
mate purposes is very pressing, no
more will, for some time, at least, be
melted down for the relic market.
Bottles have greatly fuctuated. First,
they had an upward, then a downward
tendency; bottles that gurg1e at the
neck are greatly preferred. AS
an evidence of the enterprise that
has been manifested in the trade, 1t may
be mentioned that two prominent deal
ers have gone into the business of sell
ing Mrs. Leary's cow. They had sold
eighteen of her to as many different
travelling museums, and announced
that they were well stocked with the
article. AS they motto is low prices
and quick sales, they expect to have a
monopoly of the trade. Five barrels
of oil taken from the exploded lamp,
have been disposed of, and the demand
still continues. There is no inquiry for
worthless safes, as such are not regard
ed as curiosities. Considerable inquiry
has been made for chips of stone from
fre-prof buildings, but as nothing re-
mains of such structures it has been
found necessary to supply the market
from stone quarry on the West Side.
The failure of one dealer is reported.
He bought up large number of pho
tographs from Sam Medill in his unri-
vailed act of brushing live cinders from
the Tribune building. The article pro-
we'd drug, and the dealers paper be-
coming due, he was obliged to suspend.
Chicago Post.
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water and caused mother earth to trem

water ana caused mOLner e8rLn 10 IreIh-
bic like an aspen leaf.
The next test was upon plate of cast
iron, about eight inches square and one
inch and five-eighths thick. The ex-
pIosion of an ounce can made slight
impression upon fits surface, but -four
ounce can broke 1t into six or eight
pieces. The final experiment, one en-.
tirelY new with MIR. Smith, consisted
in placing q long, narrow case contain
ing one pound of the explosive materi-
al between two bars of railway iron,
which were placed side by side, enclos-
ing the can; over these rails another
was placed and the charge fired. The
bars were all broken, and piece about
eighteen inches long throwa up into
the air distance of thirty feet. A pile
OF shingles in the vicinity was some
what damaged and a number of fence
posts in several courses of an adjoln-
ing pile considerably cut by flying
fragments of iroa. There was a wide
and deep DETECTION of the ground at the
point of explosion, showing the charge
to have been one OF great power.
To show that fire would not cause an
explosion without the percussion cap,
Mr.. Smith placed fuse In an ounce
can. The cap was thrown off and the
material burned out with puff, and no
visible show of force. The gentleman
who assisted Mr.. Smith informed the
spectators that thirty pounds of the
material were destroyed in Chicago,
without any noticeable effect. 1t had
been placed upon table beside large
water pitcher, and after the fire the
boxes were found empty, the ever
escaping without flaw. Mr.. Smith
proposes to form joint stock company
for the sole manufacture Of this new
blasting agent, in this city.-MtgtcaWkee
2enkfsieI
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PHILOSOPHY OF ADVERTISING.

From an admirable article under the
above head, in the August number of
the Bureau, we make the following ex-
tract:
Goodness and nerve are indispensa-
BILE to success in advertising. It re-
quires considerable determination and
fortitude to witness with mistaken
faith steady stream of money floating
out at a venture without being able to
trace its influences. Thomas Holloway,
the patent medicine man, spent five
hundred dollars in one week in adver-
aging result of selling only two pots of
ointment; yet he persevered uRdaunted,
and finally realized princely fortune.
DIR. Aver, of Lowell, after he started
his pills, sarsaparilla and cherry pector-
al, for years spent every dollar he could
command In giving publicity to his
remedies through the columns of the
press, and several times seemed about
to ruin his relatives as we'll as himself
by his uncompromising pertinacity /;
but he never once faltered, and the cor
rectness of his judgment has been vim
Dictated by the accumulation of immense
wealth. Others have had a similar ex-
perience. But while these signal illus
trations of the efficiency Of advertising
are plenty as blackberries, mistaken
notion has become prevalent that al
though nostrums may thus be pushed
into notoriety and made the source of
vast profits, ordinary classes of bust
ness do not come within the charmed
circle, and cannot be forced into a re-
munerative existence in q like manner.
No belief could be more erroneous.
IF an article which majority of sensi-
bic men regard as a little better than a
humbug can be wrought up into a basis
Of opulence by a liberal and persistent
application of the principles of publ
city and reiteration, why should not the
same causes prove effectual toward the
same end as regards articles of prime
necessity? The whole matter resolves
itself into this; decide to introduce
some one thing to the public and then
go into co-partnership with printers
ink. We care not what it is, whether
newspapers, bitters, tea, soap, snuff,
medicine, hosiery, pianos, or hats if it
is anything that the peopls really need,
they will purchase it if they are only
told where they can find it." .s.0
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NEW EXPLOSIVE GENT-CONDENSED
AND PORTABLE EARTHQUAKES.

Since the discovery of nitro-glycerine
much time has been spent in compound
ing a new agent, which should equal it
in power and, unlike it, prove a safer
material to transport from place to
place, and require less care in its use.
Dualine and dynatic have already ap-
peared as substitutes, but these have
not fully met the requirements to make
their use popular. But if we are not
mistaken, new explosive agent just
brought to the notice of our business
men, fully answers the purposes of q
cheap and ready Htb0frGcteur. 1t has
the appearance of light brown sugar, is
not affected by heat or cold, and not
liable to explosion through friction or
sudden conclusion. ~y&
On Saturday afternoon the owner of
the compound, Mr.. Z. Paygon Smith,
gave q series Of interesting experiments
to exhibit its powers. The spot select
! ed for the tests was the vacant lot just
| east of the large factory of Mr.. Hiles,
Lon Park street. The material was con-
veyed to the ground in tin boxes, the
smallest containing charges of one
ounce, the next in size four ounces, and
| the largest one pound. Three bars of
railroad Iron, several sections each
about fifteen inches long, and piece of
quarter inch boiler plate about six inches
! wide and thirteen inches long, formed
the objects upon which the tests were
to be made. Three pieces of railway
iron were so placed as to leave trian-
gular opening at their junction; upon
these the boiler plate was laid, and an
ounce can of the compound so placed
upon it that its bottom was directly
i over the opening. The can was then
perforated, and fuse Inserted, the end
of which was provided with g per-
4 cussion cap. a .'-'-s =
i The discharge resembled that of q
I heavy piece of ordnance, thoagh the
material was not confined, and on ex-
animation the quarter inch plate was
, found perforated, the opening almost
as large ipsdiameter as the size of the
can. The same amount of nitro-glyce.
y rine was Placed uponr,Ehe iplste, and
failed to- break the iron, a detection Of
a full eighth of an inch marking the ex.
tent of-ffs power. To show. that there
T is no variable difference in the, new ma.
teril. another ounce can was tried, and
with the sans success as in the, frs
case. An ounce can exploded in the
canal, at depth Of thirty inches from
the surface, threw up large volume O.
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DOCTORS OFFICES.

We hope every physician will read
the following carefully and prayerfully,
and put the ideas Of prof. M'Graw, in
to practice. There is no use of a doc
tors office being the most horrible and
MISUNDERSTANDING place in COM
munity: -s.a
"We are pleased to see, says Harper's
Weekly, that Professor M'Graw, of the
Detroit Medical College, impaired to
the last graduating class some of his
excellent ideas in regard to the general
aspect of physicians Office. He says ::
Il have been in doctors offices where q
skull grinned from one corner, CHASTITY
anatomical plates hung from the walls,
and splints, suggestive of broken bones,
were placed conspicuously in every
corner. What delightful resting
place for sick woman-visions of
death, disease, and injury greeting her
on every side! Now, gentlemen, make
your offices pictures of comfort and
cheerfulness. Danish from them every
sign of your professional occupation,
90 that your patients may enter them
not only without disgust, but with ac-
tual elevation of heart If there is any
place which should be made bright and
cheerful, and contain something inter-
est1ng and amusing to the mind, 1t Is the
room where patients are often compell-
ed to wait an hour. We have often seen
them, weary and restless, with nothing
to do but TO gloomily reflect on the ills
their flesh 10 heir to, growing each mo-
nent more impatient, and feeling evil
IDENTIFY twice as eick as when they first
entered the unattractive room. With
out exception, the pleasantsst physi-
clans office we ever entered was that of
DR.. D., q weli-knovn practitioner
of Boston. Books, flowers, paintings,
engravings, rare and beautiful curiosi-
ties, handsome carpets and furniture,
luxurious sofas and easy chairs: with
these the rooms were filed; and our
time of waiting seemed neither long
nor tedious. All physicians can not
AFFORD such Astounding luxurlance; but
there is no reoson why pleasant books
and magazines and cheerful pictures
should not be found in the waiting-room
Of every physician"
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TAMMANY CLOSED.


For the first time in years, on election
night, Tammany Hall was closed. An
exchange says: .,-.
a "The doors were locked, the windows
were dark, the silence of the grave, so
to speak, brooling over the place which
was erst wont to ring with .war-whoops
lin IN Irish.translati on-and pesns OF
victory. There was something almost
tragic tas this silence and sdesoIation.
But the tragedy, such as it was, was
speedily converted into the broadcast
fsree.A Captain Isaiah Rynders,y who,
i've believe. Is. TIE progehitor OF the
whole breed of swaF-hOrses"a that are
now trampling to and fro in the politi-
cal world, and dllfng the AlRiVith their
seniles 'snortingsy appeared upon the
scene, GAd was at once called on. for q
speech, And then and there this hory
Iold 'reprobate ceIebf6ted the obseduics
of Tammany by delivering from tie owu
doorstep 9 psnegyric on Seymour and
! 4ildeu 3 The crowd laughedy but there
lwasA bitter irony in the scene, Althopgt
they were too, dull-Witted- to perceive
lit" -5I4s rs'i - BlffS7o f1ss,
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EMPoRIA CHURCH pIREcToRY.

Commercial St. and 9Th ave
nue. Rey ALBKRr MCCALL, Pastor. Services
casn sssestn A. u =. m ana P M, and saSeSsn
GscsinE Wsane.day evening" At ! p. M strans
erS cordially welcome at all services
UNITARIAN SOCIETY. AZ rsk rtslrs Hail, Cor
ner OF Commercial st. and 6th avenue. Services
each Sunday a TIE usual ho9SS nors,af atsS S
school al . a m sests free, Strangers cordlAl-
ly welcomed II Il. ..,-,-t ..-.,,.-y
MErHODIsT.-Cornero Of Merchants St and 9th
avenue Rev. b. kKLLET, Pastor. Services
IsctInS each Thursday evening at a O'Clock.
sabbath school sunday mornings AZ 81 o'eisck
FIRST CoNGREGATIoNALl-- CorBer of Mechan-
les St and sth avenue; rev. =; l. n Ia IL n,
sunday School Immediately amer morning scr
vices. PRAYER meeting Thursday eveoing~' s.r
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL Cwelshl Corner
moIs. Psssor ssrVIees each Saba h At iosS l.
Gsy H eSs S p s.b TSaSes ssssE ecss
FIRST BAPTIsrGCorner, OF Merchants ST. and
18th avenue. Rev. 4. M. AvERILL, Pastor.a Ser
vices eyery Sunday II the usual hours mnynihE
evening. ssSSats School, e Il Is ~ m.
aveane. fseF. ,, n. lCR0CKEE, Pastor. Services
s %setiSs %ednosday evsnS H b % sCoI
ataH p. "a, s-si... 40 .-sr,, ,,f +. fssE sn4a 4 I
AFRICAN. n. Estate St. between Sd and en-
Tpm SABBATH school az ! D. M PrsSef h1Is c
ing "wednesday evenings. Rev. W. r. CAHsoT
PAstOr.aB ,I ru-- 70 ? y sa,lus q s4=-A o.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL Corner OF uorDaS,of.
cial St. and 9th avenue Rev. L. l. tHOLDFH
Pastor. Services every Alternate sabbath Il Il
so go .
WELSH PRESBYTERLAN,-AtF rAker's ha OF
COrnmerciai s. Services each Sabbath at 1oSS 4
m and and = p: N. Rev. JoHN yoEEs, Rhstor.
UNRED PREsDYTERIA AZ ina Count FIoas
every other Sabbath ut IL d Rev. J. A. Con.
Linz fAstor.t'sl.i i.st So i'ats sailtsf .s.i
FRIENDS.-Corncr OF Sylvan st, and eth avenue
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RArEs OF ADvERTIsINo.


Adyertisenents calculated By the inch. tnlength
Of Column. For cuts and double column display,
aIid 81 1sresnt 90 ebovetAb Of rates Road HO<
tics ana IN legal and transient advertising 70 be
naid Tor IN advance except when ox1ared- by onr
regular patrons. Advertisements from abroad to
DO paid in advance. Our rates are Gerry n pro
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SHERIEE,S SALE.

TOTTCE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY VIR-
IN tue OF an order Of sale issued out OF the Dis
trict Court within md for Lyon county, Kansas,
and o. Matinson were defendants, bearing date
Nov Der nth. 1871 and TO me directed, T WIN.
at O'Clock, D. m, on Tuesday, tho 26th day Of
December, A. d. lsI1. at the door of the Court
House in the city OF Emporia, Lyon county, Kan
sas offer for sale st public aretion the highest
bidder, for cash in hand, the following described
real estate situated in said county, to.Wit= } III
Lots number l45 and 1T on East street, in the
city of Emporia appraised at six hundred dellArS,
to be sold as the property of said defendant o.
Martinson to satisfy q Judgment in favor OF A.
Larson and y. Friberg Z. H. COATS.
~ 9-t sheriff OF Lyon county Kansas
RUGeLEs PLuaB, Att'ys for Plsf. 49,. 81
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PUBLICATION NOTICE.

Joseph G. Carr, pit'f ' N-
In the District Court
Julian Dejean, -.- of
Elizabeth Dejean. and Lyon county, Kansas
Thomas T. White, defts. .-...r--- - 4.'
TINE said defendants, Julian Dejean and Eliza
l. beth Dejean, win take notice that they have
been sued in the above entitled cause in the above
entitled court-that said plaintiffs petition was
nled in the Clerk Office of said court on Noyem-
1S, iSu--that they must answer said petition o
before the 9th day of January 1872 said petition
VIII be taken as true, and judgment rendered
against them accordingly for the sum Of sf20 and
Interest thereon from and after July 49, 1859 1t 10
per cent per annum, on terms OF promissory
note and foreclosure of mortgage to SECURE same
On S. = S. Z. y of sec TO- township 49, range II. In
Lyon county. kansas, and for $50 as attorney fees
and for costs.
47-Sw PEiTON & GILLETT,
.. Att'ys for pltE
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H. A'e1 oTsMpI1N HUGHES. ''

CToNE OUTTERs AND CONTRACTORS. VIC
a arc prepared to do all kinds OF stone cutting,
such ~ window sinK, circular caps Of aDE design,
door pnls, coiunnss monldingS aud All WORK n the
Stone cutting line that builders may desire. They
furnish bases and sockets for tonlbstones. Or
ders promptly niled. Shop the corner OF Fourth
Wo0-u
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SHERIFF'S sALE.'

NoTICE is hereby given, that by virtue OF an
within and for Lyon county. Kansa. and to me d.
Co1rf HoGsa in the city Of Emporta, Lyon COUNTY,
Kansas; on Monday. ths 18th day Of December.
hand, the following described real estate situated
in said county t0-wit: lots number 10, II and II.
In block 1meeF ID. In the town of Hartford, TO be
sold as tho pSoperty OF e. p. McCartY and Nancy
T. McCarty, at the suit of J. Fl. Simmons and
c. w. Adams. Appraised at $3.50. set- tsiJ-
RUGGLEs & PLCNB, Z. H. COATS
Att'ys for pIpf. Sheriff of Lyon county.
November II 1871. A6-kO
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srRAYs. NOTICES; &c
DTSSOIuTION.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE

vr,tIE nnds,StenoS ~. 5000 =. ;.tsIiiaa...
once at his Restaurant and Confectionery
store. Is Commercial street, Empcria.1 Persons
desiring to employ help of any Kind, can have
their names roGstered In his book free OF charges
fec Of dry cents will be charged each person
seeking employment. Persons seeking employ
nnent can rest assured that will End an employer
either in the city or country.
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.MnrELa.C

BUCKEYK HoUsE. -
NTH AVENUE, Emporia, Kansas, near cor
uer Of Commercial Street Birdsan = Erazlzs
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-NENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STA
. BILE, on 9Th Avenue, between Commercial and
Iechanics Street. Is now open and ready for bust
less and will furnish teams Mt any time during
he az night. PAssen gers convey ed TO any part
Of the country on liberal terms. Particular atten-
ion paid to boarding transient stock. WITT
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ROBINSON & SON, ProprIetors. Corner
Lie OF Merchants street and sixth Avenue. This
and d now open TO the public Stages leave daily
and connect with all Eastern Railroads.
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LIVERY STABLES.
i. a. CLKVELANID's

j. II. q w. DAVIS
KEW LIVERY, SALE AND FEED STABLE.
You can get your horses fed with good feed, at
prices; also horses and bugges toilet, and teams
Or heavy hauling.
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an 3 MADISON AOD5Es tl- g1y
CIYTH AVENUE east of Commercial street.
o-T. j. hAHKLA, Proprietor. furnishes first
class accommodations At most reasonable prices.
Stages Leave daily FOR all points southwest and
south OF EznporiA. 4o-G