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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-18
THE RAG MARKET ovERsTOckED.

Owing to the recent European war
the entire stock of foreign rags is be-
ing sent to the New York market.
They are admitted free of duty, and the
prices of all grades of home and foreign
rags are usually the same, but owing to
the vast arrivals the market is over
stocked and depressed. In the year
1869 $780, III pounds of rags were i'm
ported, valued at S3,457,5 SIT. The fol-
lowing year even larger amount was
imported, bat this year the importation
will be greatly increased. The Suez
canal has opened a way for cheaper
transportation from the far East, and
alreany the Egyptian rag-gatherers are
collecting in vast quantities the accu-
mutations upon the coast of the Indian
Ocean. Formerly Italy and Germany
have sent to this country the bulk of all
linen rags used, but now the new trade
of the East from Alexandria bids fair to
outrival both. The supply of Mediter-
ranean rags is apparently ineXhaustible,
Notwithstanding the fact that native
dealers complain that the people only
dispose of their surplus rags after n Sc
we're and economical inspection. Flax
being the general staple in Southern
Europe, the bulk of the Italian and Ger
man rags are linen, and Leghorn is the
great emporium. OF the immense
quantity of linen stock used, America
furnishes little or none. Linen rags
are always quoted about a cent or cent
and quarter below the sane grade of
cotton rags. They are only used for
the finer qualities of paper, and the sup
ply always being in excess of the de-
mand, they are never in such general
demand as cotton. Since the first of
January 1892 packages of rags have
been received at New York alone.
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A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE FAIR.

Alfred Gray, the industrious and en-
ergetic Secretary of our State Agricul-
tural Society, writes the following in
relation to the approaching State Fair,
at Topeka, to the Farmer for August.
Arrangements have been made with
the Secretary of the State A Agricultural
Society of California for an exchange
of Fruits, to be placed on exhibition at
our respective State Fairs. There will
be tea varieties of apples, pears and
gapes-not less then three specimens
Of each variety.
Telegraph Office, passenger freight
depot, will be at the Fair Grounds.
Atchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe II. r. Co.
will run special trains every half hour
from the Kansas Pacific depot, on the
north side of the Kansas river, and
freight will be transferred from the
Kansas Pacific Rsilway to the Fair
Grounds, without change of cars
The Fair Grounds swarm with work.
men, who are finishing the very ample
buildings that are for the accomoda.
ton of the State Fair. The track is be.
ing put up in admirable condition.
Those having Premium Lists are re-
quested to bring them with them to
the Fair for reference, as the ten thou.
sand printed by the Society will be ex'
hausted.
The prospect il encouraging"
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SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.

Indisposition to exercise, difficulty OF
thinking or reasoni.;; or concentrating
the mind upon any subject, lassitude
lack of ambition or energy, discharge
falling into throat, sometimes profuse
watery, acrid, thick and tenacious mu-
cous, purulent, offensive, &c. In others
dryness, dry, watery, weak or infiam-
ed eyes, ringing in ears, deafness, hawk
ing and coughing to clear throat, ulcer
atoms, death and decay of bones, scabs
from ulcers, constant desire to clear nose
and throat, voice altered, nasal twang,
offensive breath, impaired or total de.
privatiOn of sense of smell and t.
dizziness, mental depression, loss OF
petite, indigestion, dyspepsia, enIar., i
tonsils, tickling cough. difficulty in
speaking plainly, general debility, lido
cy and insanity.
All the above symptoms are common!
to the disease in some of its stages or
complications, yet thousands of cases
annually terminate in consumption OF
insanity and end in the grave without
ever having manifested one-third of the
symptoms above enumerated.
No disease is more common or less
understood by physicians. The propri-
etor of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will
pay $500 reward for a case of catarrh
which he cannot cure. Sold by drug
gists, or send sixty cents to r. V. Pierce,
NJ. D., l33 Seneca street, Buffalo, n. Y,
for it. A pamphlet free. Beware OF
counterfeits and worthless limitations.
Remember that the genuine has the
words ar. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Sole Pro-
prietor, Buffalo, n. Y" printed upon
the wrapper; also has DIR. Pierce's por-
trait, name and address on his private
government stamp upon each package.
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The Columbus Cherokee county,
Independent says that on Saturday last
officers arrested and brought to that
place one Samuel Bixler, who has been
living for thro years in the southeast
ern part of the county, charged with
committing q rape on his own daughter,
u little girl of fourteen. On Thursday,
he was taken before Judge Webb for
trial. The evidence showed that some
time last March, while in the woods,
Bixler did forcibly outrage his daugh-
ter, and at divers times since, the last
time being on Thursday morning, the
9th ult. The jury had been out but q
short time, after hearing the .dence,
when they returned verdict guilty.
The judge sentenced him to twenty
years, eleven months, and twenty We
days in the penitentiary, the limit OF
the law being twenty-one years. Blk
Ter is a man of iifIy-two years, decided
" gray. and when his term of service
is ended, will no doubt be ready to
start to another world. He has been
twice married, raising family OF five
children, all of whom he has attempted
to abuse.
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EXPERIMENT WITH WHEAT.

j. c. .Metzker furnishes the Kansas
Farmer with the following as the re-
suit of some experiments with new va
reties of wheat:
s'Two years ago this fall sent east
for two bushels of new varieties of
wheat, VIZ: Quaker and Treadwell.
sowed on the 18th of September, and
last harvest I cut fourteen bushels OF
each. Last fall I sowed twenty acres
with the twenty-eight bushels, on the
10Th and 18th of September, and 1 finish
ed the field with May wheat. It yield
ed 49, bushels to the acre, the Quaker
% bushels, and the Freadwell 271I BUSH
els, to the acre. It IL nice white
wheat, berry full and plump.
think if farmers would procure diff
ferent varieties of wheat, there would
not be so much failure in the crop.
I intend to sell my crop for seed, and
see if we cannot do better in wheat rails
ing.
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THE TAMMANY LEAK.

People wondered where the New
York Times got its facts against Tamma-
V. The secret has at last leaked out,
and we get from an exchange the
following very interesting history. 1t is
"that the man who furnished the Times
with the accounts of the mayor and
comptroller, which it is now publishing
is none other than that excellent and
most disaffeeIed Democrat, Mr.. Jas.
OBrien. The story goes that in return
for O,Brien's occupying neutral posi-
ton in the fight between the young
Democracy and the Tammany ring, he
was to have the sherifIalty with its usu-
al perquisites of$200,000. O'Brien kept
the faith with Tammany, but Tammany
didn't keep faith with him. The ring
managed to secure the rejection of the
sherif's claim in the tax levy, and O'Bri-
en- was made Tammany's enemy. He
was not without weapons. Two clerks,
who had been appointed to places in the
comptroller's Office ut O'Brien's request
when ali was at peace between Tamma-
ny and OBrien, had copied for their
patrons a large number of audited &C
counts. At last, when the sheriff found
there was no longer q chance that the
breach existing between himself and the
ring would be healed, he consented to
the publication of those stolen accounts.
This story is telegraphed to that ex-
cellent Democrat paper, the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and therefore, as coming from
a Democratic source, is entitled to cred
it. 1t is plausible enough to be true,
and affords satisfactory reason for the
course of Hall and Connolly. They can
not deny the txuthfulness of the charges
the Times has made, because the Times
has such indubitable evidence of their
correctness. when rogues fall out
hon est men get their dues" The Dem
ocratic plunderers are revealing schemes
of rascality that viii not be forgotten. /"
fthe result is not the overthrow of this
corrupt ring, the people of New York
are the tamest-spirited in the world. -
RnnS02 .Iifn .In1kl11nL nf Co1n1l1eT.ce
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LETTER FROM WICHITA.

Mr.. EDITOR: Thinking that, perhaps,
it might be of interest to your readers
to hear from this beautiful young city,
which is so finely located near the juno
ton of the Big and Little Arkansas riv-
ers, will attempt word or twc in its
behalf. This place is the county-seat of
Sedgwick county, and is the largest
town in the county: Its growth has been
rapid and its future development bids
fair of much faster growth. The val
ley in which it is located is one of the
richest and most fertile in the beautiful
State of Kansas. The valley, in many
respects, surpasses others which have
been already opened up and are now
under cultivation. This wide and fer
tile valley has some of the finest and
best productive farms that any State in
the Union can show. Is but neces-
sary for one to take trip up or down
the Arkansas to learn that the farmers
are of an energetic, go-ahead, and in
dustrious class. The abundant crops
are sufficient evidence of this fact.
have been DEPRESSING little, but do
not think the DEPRESSION an unpsrdon-
able error, for parpose giving, sketch
Of the beautiful surrounding country,
which not only jtVichta, bnt the entire
county iSproud of. Well, now, more
particularly as to Wichita. We have
all classes of business represented here.
Two weekly papers are published.
Three No. l hotels in operation, and
are daily filed with persons looking up
locations. They very seldom pass this
place when in search of snch, as they
can here find everything which meets
their expectations. A new bank known
as the "WIehita Bank" of Fraker, Cos
sard i Danford has just been opened
up. They have put up quite a neat
house for the business. With these
few hastily written lines / will close
for this time. Truly Yours,
OCCASIONALLY.
WICHITA, Aug. 1871.
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Sherif's Sale.

NOTICE i hereby given that ut O'Clock y. m.
~ on the 18th day OF August A. ID. 1871. at the
door of the court house in Lyon county, Kansas,
" i'll sell at public auction the following described
real cstatc situate in said county, to-wit: Com
mencinS at a point ON the east line OF the north
west fractional quarter of section seven 10 town
ship seventeen 40 range thirteen l3l, eighty rods
quarter section, thence west ono hundred and
twenty (l2Ol rods. thence north ninety three and
third (93) rods thence cast to the east line OF
the south west fractional quarter of section six 20
township seventeen 40 range thirteen (lJ) thence
south on said east 10 place of beginning contain
ing 'nty lIO acres, more or less, appraised al
two H.. drcd and fifty (<350) dollars Levied ON by
me as the property OF Paul 2 Hubbard, by virtue
oC an execution issued the clerk OF the DIstric'
Court OF said county ina ..or OF George X. BSrtSch
and against Clifford Dudley, ct. ais, and directed
and delivered 20 me ~ sheriff OF said county.
Dated July 10 1871. r. IL. COATS,
w3q.x3 Sheriff OF Lyon Co., Kan.
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sHERIEF's SALE.

NOTICE IL HEREBY GIVEN, THAT BY
~ virtue OF execution issued out OF the Dis
tTCt Co..S, within and tor Butler county, Kansas,
and 90 directed. will, on Monday, tho nth day
at the door OF the Court House, in the city of En-
poria. Lyon couuty. kansas oner for sale, ut pub
the following described real estate. to-wiI The
west end OF lots numbered seventy three (53) aud
~ Enporia, Lyon county, Kansas, beginning n
he southwest corner OF said lots, thence running
east hundred and i've uO6) feet, thence north
one hundred 400 feet, thence west one hundred
and live (l0o) feet, thence south one hundred ClO0
feet TO place of beginning; appraised at nftec1
hundred ($i50O) dollars. Levied upon by me as
the property OF Paul Geck, at the suit of ;. T.
barnes.
August =. 1871. r. IL. COATS,
WS2-S6 sheriff OF LYON county, kAS.
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ENGLISH AND IRISH Emigration
British emigration statistics show there
were more English emigrants to the
United States last year than there were
Irish, and that while the Irish emigra-
ton Of 1870 is Il, 339 less than the same
emigration in 1867, the English emigra-
ton of 1870, exceeds that of 1867, by
80, 799. More English emigrated to the
United States in 1870 than there were
Irishmen leaving Ireland in 1870 for all
parts of the world. This very startling
exhibit puts in strong light not only
the magnitude of the emigration ques-
ton now agitating Parliament, but the
influence this new style of emigration
may have on this country.
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SheriH's Sale.

NToTICE Il HEREBY GIVEN, THAT, BY
~ virtue OF an alas execution issued out OF the
district Court within aud for Lyon county. Kan
sas and 20 me directed, will, ON Thursday, the
9Th Law of September A. ID. 1911, nj O'Clock, p N
on said day at the door of Court House, in the
city of Emporia, Lyon county. Kansas, oner for
sal, at public auction, TO the highest bidder, for
cash in hand the following described real estate,
to-Nit: The undivided one-h half OF thirty-eight
I.s acres being all OF that part Of the east half ol
Inc west half OF the southeast quarter Of section
nineteen g), township nineteen u0l. OF range cey.
IN uD lying ON The north and west side OF the Cot
tonwood river, in Lyon county Kansas; appraised
al twenty (S2Ol per acre. Levied upon by me rs
the property of Thomas Thompson, in the case ol
I-lIzabeth Lawson, guardian of E. Lawson, against
Abner Hadley, administrator of the estate OF
(seorEe NJ. Harvey, deceased, and Thomas 1homp-
son.
August 3, 1871. co.rs
wa2-36 Sheriff OF Lyon county, KGS.
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$40 REWARD.

-GTRAYED nom the premises of the sub
y scribcr, IN EmpOria, Kansas, about April
I, 1871, one medium sized light grey mare.
supposed TO be about or years old, white
nose, branded on the left flank with small
CIRCLE; also, dark brown yearling mare colt.
" til white strip in forehead. a reward of So
will be paid for any information which leads
to their recovery. a reward Of $40 will be
paid TO any person who will return them TO
the subscriber.
w22-tf ALNERIN GILLETT
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The investigation in the Bfenbarger
case closed yesterday, and The jury de-
cided that arsenic had been administer
ed. It will be remembered thathe died
about four years ago, and that he had 9
wife who has since married New York
banker and former correspondent of the
New York WoTid. It is tried to be
made out that he was poisoned by his
wife.
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ART AND NATURE.

BY JAMES EEEI1AS CLAEk.
l entered q dIcal palace
A palace stately and old;
Its vast saloons were glowing
With marble, and rich with gold.
On the tables, in tender Mosaic,
Were marvellous fruits and noweTs;
ON the walls were PouHsin'S landscapes,
With their sunshine and shaded bowers.
And in the vase before me
Were roses white and red;
stopped to welcome their fragrance,
But found them waxen and dead.
Then forth from the lofty window,
Istepped into living green;
Where the Stone-pines stood around me,
With liOwery shrubs between.
And said, ''Rake the costly splendOr,-
Take the wonderful triumph of art;
But give me living Nature,
Which speaks to my soul and heart
These works OF man are noble,
In each fair Italian town;
But Gods are wherever the sun goes up,
Or the shades OF night come down"
81 l. rise men on the anvA5
"a study, fashion out truth;
But religion is sent to each hRmtae soul.
With It's word for age and youth
God comes IN silent blessings,
Like dew and rain from above,
In whatever place pure heart longs
For goodness and light ana love
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Notwithstanding the resolution of
Mr.. Col x to retire from public life at
the close Of his present term, we under
ton in the district he so long and so
faithfully represented in Congress, to
return him to his seat in the House.
Unquestionsbly, Mr.. Colfax ms se 9
mistake in accepting the Vice-Presiden-
cy; and the best thing he can do tor
himself and his friends is to get his
name on the Representatives roll as
quickly as possible. We shall not be
surprised to hear it called by the Clerk
of the House on the fourth Of March,
1873.
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SHERIEF,S SALE

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT BY
IN virtue of an execution issued out OF the Di~-
trIct Court, within and for Lyon county, HANS a.,
anil TO me directed will, on Monday, the 18th day
Of September, 1871, at o'clock. p. m of said day
ct the door of the Court House, in the city Of En-
poria, Lyon county, Kansas, offer foT sale. ~ Gi
lie auction to tho highest bidder, for cash in HAND
the following described real estate to-wit: The
west end Of lots numbered seventy -thTes (I3) and
7enty five (T5) Mechanic street in the city OF
EmPoTia, Lyon county. Kansas. beginning at the
southwest corner of said lots thence running cast
one hundred and hve (l0ol feet, theUce north one
hundred 400 feet, thence west one hundred
Ave u05l feet thence south one hundred (lV0l feI
% place OF beginning appraised at fifteen -ndre
&15OO dollars. Levied upon by me the p1GpSII5
OF Paul Beck, at the suit Of E ID. Peyton anu j. V
Sanders.
august 9, 1871. E. Ii COATS.
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Z ALsIERIN GILLETT.
TO PHYSICIANS.

NOR SALE: One army surgeons complete field
= case, containing amputating, trephining and
eAsecting instruments. bouSies silver and classic
cstheters, scalpelS, fOrcepS bistOurie5 sounds mi
various other instruments, of the best quality and
in excellent order. Also one complete di>sCcting
and post mortem case, one silver, bivalve uterine
speculum, one Cammsn's Stethoscope, one surgeons
pocket one complete set OF dental forcepS
pair of druggist scales and weights. have, also
Tor sale about 800 worth of pure drugs and medi-
cines, selected with care for my own practice
Also one single buggy and harness. For terms
and particulars call upon or address
DIR. j. IL. PAGE,
sa-tf two miles north of Neosho Rapids, Kas.
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CAnriRsS Sale

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT, b,
IN virtue of an order of Sale issued out of the
District Court within and for Lyon county, Kan
sas and to me directed, L will, on thursday, the
It'll day of September. 1871, at 2 O'Clock; p M of
said day. at the door of the court house. in the city
of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas ODER Tor sale, at
public auction, TO the highest bidder, for cash in
hand, the following described real estate, t0-wt:
Lot numbered one hundred and fiftv-nine U59,)
Union street, in the city of EmpOra, in said couR-
ty and State; appraised at five hundred lS50) dol
lars; TO be sold as the property Of F. " DeiPlain,
Mrs. A NJ Stubs and Nathan En- at the suit
of Samuel McFeeley.
August 5, ISL
L. II COATS,
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SherIf's Sale.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT, BY
~ virtue of an Order OF Sale issued out OF the
District Court within and for Lyon county, Kan
sas, and to me directed. viii. on Thursday, the
7th day OF September, 1871, at O'Clock, p m, of
said day. at the door of the Court House. the city
Of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale, At
public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash in
hand the following described real estate, to-wit :
Lot numbered forty four do Cottonwood street
In the city of Emporia, Lyon county Kansas; APP
praised 1t hundred and thirty i've (SlS5) dol
lars. To be sold as the property of John e Jones
and s. T. Jones. at the suit of a l. Southland.
August 5. l61.
L. H COATS
w32-36 Sheriff OF Lyon county, HAS.
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NOTICE.

THERE WILL BE SPECIAL MEETING OF
Il tho Directors of the Ottawa, Queneno an .
Emporia Railroad at Aryonia. on Saturday. Au-
gust 18th. 1871, AT O'Clock, for he election
OF officers and directors and for of such
meeting.
WARNER CRAIG. JACOB sTOTLER.
- S3 Secretary. President.
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NOTICE

SARAH A. DORsCH and her husband, PETER
8. DORSCH, Plaintiffs,
JOHN z. FELL and ANGELINA MARSH, Defts.
In the Distrct Court in and the county OF Lyon
and State of Kansas.
TOHN z. FELL, or PARTS UNKNOWN, Is
- hereby notified that the said plaintiffs did on
In tho once Of the Clerk of the District Court in
and for the said county Lyon, and State of an
$751; setting forth that the said John T. Fell gave q
mortgage to the said plaintiffs on lot number five
(ol, on Congress street In the city of Enpora said
county and State with the appurtenances, to Sc
cure the payment Of Sl9l56, with interest on the
same at the rate OF 10 per cent per from tho
zth day Of Asreh A. D. 1870 according TO a certain
note reiesred 20 in said mortgage; and that since
thf giving Of said mortgage the other defendant
cls ins some interest in said lands under the said
John =. Eel, and praying that Judgment be rem
de ed against the said John E. Fell for the said
sua Of tle4SO, with interest as Aforesaid and for
40 % as attorneys fee for the foreclosure
mortgage and for costs Of suit and III Il said. l. 80
be decreed to be sod and the proceeds there I !
pied q ne Payment OF said sums Of lnoney ,..4
The said defendant, John E. Fell. is further not
lied that he must answer the said petition on or
before the LIST day Of September A. D. 1911, or the
salae VIII be taken Is true and Judgment render
cd or the sums above written and SAID lands de-
creed TO be sold and the proceeds applied the sat
isfscd0n Of the same with interest and costs.
w. T MCCARTHY,
c2l6-SS Attorney for plaintiffs.
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nISSOLuTION-

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ copartnership heretofore existing between q.
/ Richmond and Jonathan Fleming, in the drug
and grocery business ut Seoshe Rapids is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. All notes ana
counts will be settled by Jonathan Fleming. Tho-e
knowing themselves indebted to the Arm will save
costs by settling Immediately.
o. F. RICHMOND.
JONATHAN FLEMING.
Neosho Rapids Aug g. 1871 S2-3i
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

FTNO whom IL may concern: Public notice Is
i hereby given that the undersigned, the lawful
heirs OF James H. McFan deceased, have made sp-
plcation, that such application is pending be-
lore the United States Land Com.iIs Toner at
vs. shington, D. c., for reissue of Government
p ents 10 them such heirs, for the south east
qLLrer and the east hall OF the northeast quarter
ana the southwest quarter of this northeast quarter
Of section seventeen Q7, in township twenty Coz,
OF range twelve Q2) in Lyon county, state of Kan
sRS. said lands were located at LecOmpton, March
% 1850, under Military Bounty Land Act OF March
8, 1885, by said James II McFall, and Patents is
sued therefor TO him In the name of James II. Nc
Call by mistake, which patents were destroyed by
dre when the land office was burned at Topeka,
Kansas, about a year ago.
THOMAS P MCCALL
DAVID NJ. MCCALL
JOHN MCCALL
~2S-6W BENJAMIN +. MCCALL.
ELIZA A ZELL