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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
LANDS VIM. ANDREWS, JRS., HOUSES
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
LOTS. zNIPORIA. KANSAS. FARMS.
HOUSES
FARMS.

Improved farm, ITO acres miles east, 100 acres
under fence. about 10 acres under cultivation.
h an OF %ate Sheds about 70 acres OF timber two
fine perch orchard $Se per acre.
Improved Farm OF 2O2 acres miles east of town,
100 acres under good cultivation. fine growing
hedge nearly around the cultivated part. good log
house and small frame house-all choice bottom
Der. Price $500.
Improved farm $50 acres az miles east IS acres
of timber, 90 acres cultivated, 80 not broke
Price 81, 500
acres cuitiSate % acres Of tmber friSe -
half cash, balance in one year.
IhdVe 1000 acres of lriLd ldnd an Lyon county at
50 Is per acre Also tri5d lands in al parts e tie
county from So to s. per acre. lao 5000 acres OF
land belonging to the n K. q T. r. r. In the sousl4,-u
part Of this county, sold on 10 yedrs time.
40 Acres of fine bottom land q. miles S w. of
city; log house; all fenced; price 1920. VIII
make easy terms.
$500 cash.
vd IS0 Acres partly improyed 10 acres timber
fine iandi price 5000 half cash
40 Acres improved, in Neosho Valley miles
\: W OF town; ;; W. of y. W, 20-Isii; frame
from school; 5000.
40 Acres finely improved, ~ miles east of city;
fine peach orchard; large number of apple trees
dence price ;s5oo 5000 cash. Balance on wears ears
time.
leo Acres AZ miles \, F.. of town all fine land
for farming purposes; 5000 Is the best bargain
in this county in wild land
16o Acres y mile west OF city limits in full
view of town; very desirable for suburban lots:
price $50 per acre.
Improved farm. 50 acres. with IL acres timber -.
miles south west of the city y mile school
house; the 30 acres all under good fence wifi good
farm buildings price for the 81 $45 per acre
Terms good
Those desiring any Kind of real property, please
read carefully and then apply at
ANDREWS REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

If we may believe Washington cor
respondent who is usually accurate in
his statements, the Civil Service Com
mission is hopeful. Its members ex-
press the utmost confidence in their
plan of competitive examinations, and
hope to be able to do away entirely
with the pernicious system of official
patronage, under which incompetency
has become too generally the rule in
Government officers. So be it. Why
8 people so eminently practical as We,
should have consented during all these
years to any test other than that fcom-
potency in the selection of our official
servants, must ever remain q mystery.
We examine crit cally the qualifications
of the errand-boys and the porters who
serve us personally, but select the men
who are to manage our great partner
ship business at Washington because of
their ability TO caiol voters in the
interest of unworthy politicians. 1.-THE
Civil Service Commission can uproot
this evil of long standing, its members
will have done more for the future of
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
A CARD FROM MIR. o. H. BURBR1DGE

During the war Col. o. Fl. Burbridge,
of Kentucky (now of this city,, was
chief agent of the Treasury Department
at New Orleans, for the inspection of
all cotton falling into the hands of the
Government. A few days ago dis
patch appeared in the Cincinnati Com
DueTciGl charging the Colonel with hav-
ing sold confiscated cotton for which
he failed to account to the Government.
In answer to the charge Col. Burbridge
publishes the following card in the
Washington Chronicle, which speaks
for itself:
To THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE: In
your issue of this morning Q3th) head
ed "Confiscated Cotton - Cotton
Agents Gases to be Before the Court"
you published 3 paragraph relative to
my connection with the cotton agency
at New Orleans. In justice to myself
pronounce that statement untrue. 1t
was gotten up in the inside of the Treas
urV building for the purpose of throw
ing odium upon me and shielding I11sid-
ers from the fraudulent abstractIon of
vouchers from my account, whereby
the Treasury was robbed of $8,334.40,
and other vouchers distracted by the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

never seek to elevate him. Il would
rather grind the life out of him. This is
the tendency of capital, and while we
in the West gee little of this state of
things, the poor of eastern countries,
and those of some of our own eastern
states, are groaning under them. Hun
dreds of thousands of our felIow-men
are wearing their lives away in dingy,
unhealthy manufactures, and eating
their daily bread in miserable novels.
They have grown up, and their children
are growing up. in ignorance, be-
cause the money which ought to educate
them and make them comfortable, is
horded by monopo1ists. The more in
telligent class of laborers have for years
been striving to bring about better
state of things. Education and intelli-
gence has freed many of them, to some
extent, from the grasp of their hard
task-master. They are working their
way up to better condition. They
are fighting their oppressor-capital, in
the shape of "strikes," and in agitating
the public mind to their condition. The
first man to take advantage of such an
agitation is the demagogue. These
have sought to bring on partizan war
fare between capital and labor. They
have espoused the cause of laboring
men for self-glory and self-aggrandize-
ment, and have done it more harm than
good. But the movement has grown
beyond their control.
Many of the leading minds of Europe
and America are engaged in these re-
forms. The great and unselfish Wen
dell Phillips has raised his voice in be-
half of the workingmen. His quick,
sharp, keen sentences will ring from
one end of the land to the other. The
great International Society is "troub-
ling the waters" Members of Parlia-
ment and monopolists see the "hand
writing" Its influence even reaches
Eastern thrones.
To elevate and ameliorate the condi-
ton of the oppressed; to so regulate
the relations between capital and labor
as to prevent the former from usurping
the rights and privileges of the latter
and to make the interests of the two
harmonious, is noble calling. This is
the mission, as we understand it, of the
labor reform movement now agitating
the country. We shall at all times re-
joice to labor for all proper efforts tt
benefit any class of society.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

The sap-head of the Emporia Ledger
is laboring to create the impression that
this paper is sore over the result of the
election of Representative here. 1t
blows and fumes about "the fight on
THE News" If there was any fight on
THE News nobody over heard of it but
the editor of the Ledger. Perhaps the
style of that gentleman is to fight man
when he knows nothing of it. If there
was any fight we knew nothing about
it. The two men were announced the
same week. We took our choice just
as any other citizen did. We suppose
we had q right to do this. We never
said word against Mr.. Eskridge in the
paper. Had we felt like doing SO, it
would have been improper, occupying
the relation we do to the community,
and to Mr.. Eskridge's friends. Many
of his supporters are among our best
friends, and when they voted they did
so in accordance with what they consid-
cred the best policy.
/ We spoke favorably of the man we
supported. We favored other men.
who were elected by large majorities'
If THE News was defeated in the one
case why did it not gain correspond
ing victory in the other? We do moi
claim their election as our victory at all
But they were just as much our victory
as the election of Mr.. Eskridge was oul
defeat-just exactly. And the LEDGE
editor should be fair if he hasn't mucl
sense.
And further, there is no feeling exist
, ing between the Representative cleo
and ourself that will prevent karmoni
GUS work for our interests at the com
in session of the Legislature, as the sill
ly Ledger has several times intimated
. When the Ledger man has been her
, long enough to learn something abou
+ our interests, and when he has spen
p one-eighth of the time and money W
have for the benefit of the town, it will
be time for him to "waltz on his ear
about what we shall do, and abou
> whom we shall support, and all thai
, We have heretofore supported whor
h we pleased, and shall probably continu
TO do SO. We do not remember of eve
3 having exhibited ourself in such a ri
o diculous manner as the Ledger is nov
i doing, over man, because he happene
to be elected to little Office. We vote
our honest sentiments, and we have ye
Q to learn that this people are in the hab
I it of ostracizing citizens for exercisin
that privilege. If the Ledger woul
turn its attention to it's legitimate wor
it would be equally as well thought
e as it is in attempting to misrepreser
8 US and our paper to people who knoN
both much better than he does,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

EMPoRIA.-For downright squabble
or a general fight over politics Law
renee will not give up to any place in
the State but Emporia. We "throw up
the sponge" to that important burg.
Like Lawrence, they have got too many
great men not to get some of them hurt.
Lincoln told somebody he had "more
pegs than holes for them" So it ia in
Emporia. If the Neosho valley were
set apart as a State the statesmen of
Emporia might get along harmoniOusly.
But it is good town nevertheless, with
men of energy and grit in it, and the
very bitterness of fighting among each
other has created the impression abroad
that the State of Emporia is an empire.
We like fighting men. Let them ego in. "
Laurence ITibaaRa
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

People generally thought Bismarck
over-ssnguine when he dreamed of
German unification, and many very
sensible people laughed at the man who
proposed to bring Bavaria and Saxony
and Prussia together as sister States
IN one common empire. But for all
their laughing the thing has been done,
and King William signs himself Kaiser.
And now 1t is rumored that the diplo-
mat has another project in his head,
which is nothing less than final solu-
tion of the labor question. The capi-
talist may laugh at his folly, and the
internationalist curse his presumption,
but for all that, the lovers of fairness
and justice will look hopefully at the
scheme of the statesman who has weld
ed the discordant nationalities of Ger
many into one. 1t is said that his plan
is to secure the passage of bill giving
the employees in any business the sur
plus profits of their labors whenever
these shall exceed a fixed percentage on
the capital invested. This may not be
precisely what is wanted by the opera
tives of German factories, but it will at
least serve to give them an interest in
the proceeds of their labor, and should
the plan be carried out it will afford q
basis for many of those compromises
which are so much better for ali parties
than strikes can ever be. There are
many difficulties in the way of the
schemes accomplishment, but of al
men Prince Bismarck is the least east.
ly daunted, and any effort of his to
solve the question which threatens al
Europe with CONFUSION, will have the
chances in its favor. He has won the
title of prince by rebuilding an empire
he may yet win the higher title o.
benefactor by solving the labor question
on the principles of equity.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
+" PASSIVE.o

That's the word now. There is to be
no more of the Democratic party. 1t is
the Passive" party. The idea is TO
catch everybody who does not vote the
Republican ticket. Tho platform is to
be broad enough to take in the most
radical of the radicals, the sorest of
soreheads, and the worst Ku Kluxes.
Anything that can vote. And the
whole concern is to be so serenely
"Passiye that the Southern Ku Klux
cut-throats will cheerfully embrace
Charles Sumner Rs their candidate for
President. or any other Passive man.
OF all the humbugs of the fertile and
troubled Democratic brain, this "Pas-
siveism" is the most ridiculous.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24


The following statement of the di-
mansions, cost, ETC., of the two great
tunnels of the world is interesting:
Mont Gents Tunnel-Length 1926
meters, or nearly eight miles; width 20
feet, inches; height 20 feet; cost 3d.
100000; time occupied in construction,
nine years number of men employed,
about 1900.
Hoosac Tunnel-Length, 26,071 feet
or about 434 miles "A feet wide (; 81 feet
high cost about S, OOO, 600; time of con-
struction, when completed, nearly TWEEN
ty years /; number of workmen employ
ed, about 700 at present, but much less
during most of the time the work has
been prosecuted.
The chief engineering difficulties at
tending the construction of the Hoosac
tunnel have been overcome, and the
amount of progress can now be so accu-
rately predicted that the engineers and
the contractors have no doubt that the
work will be completed before the 18th
of March, 1874, the date named in the
contract.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

JoURNAL CLERK.-Several of the pa
pers announce that Captain Henry
Brandley, of Chase County, will be q
candidate for Journal Clerk, in the
next legislature. He held the position
once before, and discharged its duties
most admirably, in every respect. He
was such a rapid writer, and is 80 well
posted as to be able to run the position
without an assistant, which is contrary
to custom. Captain B. was once mem
Der of the House. He is an old citizen
of Kansas, and carries a wound received
in the service of his country in fighting
Indians during the late rebellion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24


The lamentable ignorance prevailing
among the common people of France is
such as to make almost anything in the
way of free schools desirable. But the
Council General of the Department OF
the Seine has done all it can to render
the newly established system of popu-
lar education as Objectionable as posi-
BILE, by making attendance compulsory,
and refusing to free the schools from
sectarian influence by making them
purely secular. A school in which
priests of q single church have control
and from which parents are not free
to withdraw their children, is not free
school, as we in America understand
the term. whatever else 1t may be.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

We pity Governor Eskridge. The
Ledger is entirely too kind to him. 1t
has fastened itself on him like the To-
Gusts of Egypt. 1t rams before him,
frisks about jumps upon him, fawns
and looks fondly into his face, as Is the
wont of animals of its species. 1t is
too much even for the Governors we'll
known modesty. 1t is none of our
business, but we should hate to see a
vacancy in the next legislature from
this dislrict. The Ledger oughtto have
some little respect for the feelings of
Eskridge's friends. We hope our new
Neglected Representative will not get
discouraged. Suicide would be advisa-
BILE under some circumstances, but we
urge him to wait q week or two longer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

p. B. MAxsoN.-We have neglected,
heretofore, to congratulate cur follow
citizen, Hon. p. b. Maxson, on his ap-
pointment to the position of Register
OF the Land Office at Humboldt. Mr.. NJ.
issthoroughly qualified for this office,
has the confidence of the people, is well
posted about land matters generally,
and we believe he will subserve both
the interests Of the people and the gov
eminent in his official capacity. We
hope it may prove good thing for him
financially. We have had our little po-
litical differences with Mr.. Maxson, but
the time has never been when we could
not cheerfully congratulate q neighbor
ON any streak OF good fortune that may
befall him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
SHERIFF'S SALE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TUATES ytp-
IN tue of an order of sale issued out of the Dls-
Irict Court within md for Lyon county Kansas
IN winch y. Larson was plaintiff. and y. FriherC
and % Maiinson were defendants bearing date
November 18th, 1911, and to me directed, i will
at2 O'Clock D. m, on Tuesday. the Goth day OF
December, n D. 1871, at the door of the Count
House IN the city Of Emporia, Lyon county, kan
SaS oner for sale at public auction the CHEST
bidder for cash in hand, the following described
real estate situated in said county to-wit:
Lots number 1i5 and lI7 on East street in the
city oil Emporia appraised at six hundred dollars
20 bc soid rs the property OF said defendant a.
MartInson 70 satisfy Judgment i'm favor of A.
Larson and n. Friberg E IL COATS
Sheriff of Lyon county, Kansas
RUGGLES h PLUME Att'ys for Pltf
November 81, 1871 4T-5I
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Tho NJ, X. 81 T. railroad bridge
across the Vsrdigris is completed, and
trains run to the Arkansas river. The
bridge across the latter will be finished
November goth; the grading is done
to Canada river, fifty miles south of
Fort Gibson, and is under contract to
be completed by june 1st, 1872, to Red
rivar
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

The Pope, it is now announced, in
tends TO take up his residencei in France.
Meantime the Vatican emits feeble
thunders against the King of Italy,
who, with all his professed adherence
to the Church of Rome, seems to have
suffered no greater degree of indiges-
ton than usual since his occupation of
the new capital and his consequent ex-
communication.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Woodruff & Clahin's paper sustains
Tweed. We suppose old Demosthenes
sustains Vic. in this action. If he does
his associations among the spirits must
be of low order-so low, indeed, that
Vic. ought to go back on him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Rev: Robert Collyer, of Chicago,
writing to Capt. King about the Kansas
Magazsne, says: !" Make it taste ana
smell of the strong new life Of your
land, as the Overland does of the Pa
cific coast, and we will all hurrah."
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st. Louis Produce Market.

S0' AOtIH I IOUuCo H1HIE<eL'
ST. LOUIS, Nov 20.
FIOUR-Firm; superhEe 5 SOFAS rs; Gas 20, X
35a6 so; Xxx 6 T5a7 90.
WHEAT-Dun and easier for buyers: No. and
55al So; No. 8, 39a1 Al No 81 5Oa1 80.
CORE-Buoyant and higher; mixed 45a4Tc; No
white 4Sc bulk; yellow 55c.; white SIC sacked.
OATS-Buoy ant and higher; demand exceeds
the supply; No mixed 35a3Tc; white 371k a3Sc
bulk; mixed 42c; white 43c sacked.
BARLEY-Quiet and unchanged; Minnesota
spring T3c.
RYE-Steady and firm at 73a74c.
PORR-Lower; new $l3
MEATS-Dry salt meat unchanged: shoulders
- &c; clear rib Ike.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Windell Phillips says: 81 have given
thirty years of my Iife-and 1 rejoice to
have been permitted to give thsm-to
the redemption of a race. If am spar
ed another ten years 1 hope 1 shall be
permitted to give them to the redemp-
ton of every man who works with his
handsO
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

CHIEF CLERK.-we learn that Alec
Banks, will run again for Chief Clerk
of the House of Representatives. No
legislature ever had better Clerk, we
reckon. He is posted. is always ready,
Is fine reader, is a gentleman, and pos
sesses oil the qualifications for the place.
But who don't know this already2
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

The Commonwealth gives list of
fellows who, it says, have engaged
rooms at the Tefft house. OF three we
call to mind, one will not be in Topeka
this winter, and the other two say it is
N ut true
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

The Lawrence Journal hopes the peo-
pie of Wilson county will give Brother
Davis, OF the Augusta Republican, an
enthusiastic support" We don't see
why they should, as they have three
local papers of their own to support.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Why cannot the Democrats let Charles
Sumner alone3 A few years ago they
almost killed him with q bludgeon, and
now they are trying to finish him by
talking OF him for President.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK. Nov. q.
Affairs in financial circles are devoid OF special
Interest and business is limited in extent. The
stock exchange and gold room adjourned at an
early hour accout of the reception of the grand
dnke Alexis.
GOLD--Dull and steady at 110%a11OX.
CLEARINGS-12 100000
GOVERNMENTS-Qui and firm.
STATE BONDS-Purchases which ordinarily
would have been to morrow are made to-day and
gold sales which would have been Thursday will
be tomorrow; awards 100000 at from 1I061 to
n0T4.
STOCKS-Steady and higher.
MONFY-Easv at
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NEWS XxU EDITORIAL ITEMS.

The Springfield CAdass.) Repu6lican
and the Quincy EIn-l WhIg speak very
favorAbly of the project to start the
Kansas Magazine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

The ex-Emperor Napoleon's income
is stated by German paper to be TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars year, which
will be increased to eighty thousand
dollars by the property recently sold in
Spain by the Empress.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

Milt. w. Reynolds has been appoint-
ed Receiver ut the Humboldt Land OF
nee. We congratulate our friend
Publication /" is not so bad, after all
sit Milt?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

1t Is announced that George Alfred
Townsend win have an article in the
first number of the Kansas Magazine,
which will be islued about the first of
January.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

A dispatchifrom New York says May
or Hall has caved in to the reEormers,
and Is now Mr.. Greeley's most intimate
friand aTaf-- 20 -. . s- e-
= IsaH a.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24

COAL CREEK MILLS.
G. D. HUMPHREY PROPRIETOR
located on Cottonwood River.
six miles SouIh-EslSt of
EmpOria,
Is successful operation and prepared to do
GRINDING
On reasonable terms and short notice.
Wheat wanted.
Flour and Corn Meal for sale or Ell change.
A u INTEREST IN THIS MILL FOR SALE
SLY G. ID. HUMPHREY
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

Joseph C. Carr, pIt'f
m a District
Juiiah Lelean, OF
Elizabeth Dejean and Iyon county Kansas
Thomas L. White fief1ts
Vie sand defendants, Julian Dejean and Eliza
- oeth peJean, will take notice that they have
been sued IN the above emitted cause in the above
emitted court-that said plaintiffs petition was
hieu IN the Clerk 5 Office OF said court on Noyem-
10, lSl-that they must answer said petition on or
oeiore the 9TH day OF January. 1872 said petition
Will be taken as true, and Judgment rendered
against them accordingly for the sum of $I9D and
interest thereon from and after July l3 1863 at 10
per cent per annum, on terms OF "a promisSory
note and foreclosure of mortgage 30 secure same
on ; y B Il = of sec. 10, township IL range IL IN
and for costs.
4I-Sw PEITOE & GIILETT,
far