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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

A few facts:
From the advance sheets of Com
missioner Eaton's report on educa-
ton, it appears that there are five
milliens ak hundred and sixty
thousand persons in the United
States who cannot read or write,
four-fifths of whom are in the
Southern States. Of the Northern
States Ohio has the largest number
of minor illiterates, the figures be-
ing 1864.
The total number of illiterates in
the leading Western States is as fol-
lows: Ohio, las, 179; Indiana, 127,-
Obs; Illinois, 1859; Michigan,
81 ,3N; Wisconsin, 55,205; Iowa,
45, 669 Missouri, 222,3 S5, of which
60,622 are colored; Pennsylvania,
DDS, 351, and New York, al ,152.
The largest illiteracy according
to population is in North Carolina.
The province of Rio, Janeiro,
Brazil, has enacted 8 stringent law
upon the subject of compulsory ed
ucation, which has the merit of
meeting in part the objection that
very poor parents cannot afford to
send their children to even free
schools. By the Brazilian law pa
rents are obliged to send all their
children, between seven and four
teen years of age, to some school.
When the parents are too poor to
provide fit clothing for their Off
spring, they are to be clad at the
cost of the provincial treasury.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
TIE INDIAN TERkITORY.


The Chetopa sAdUanee thus dis
cusses the proposition to opsn up
the Indian Territory for white set
tfement:
In opposition to the general clam
or for the opening of this country
to white settlement, we would ven-
ture to suggest that the natural re-
sources of the country have been
greatly exaggerated. That portion
lying along Grand river, rough and
unbroken, with inferior quality of
soil, and i'll adapted to agriculture.
A large portion Of the divide be-
tween the Grand and Verdigris, Is
too rocky except for pasturage. The
Greek country. is better than the
Cherokee, but not so good IS Kan
sas. We have Thousands Of acres
of prairie land open to settlement
IN this State, far better than those
over which our CARAVAN Of editors
made so much ado. as.4s1 o II s.
The opening up Of this country to
settlement at this time Wonld be .
calamity to State. It would d.
vert from our borders the strong
tide Of immigration now setting IN
upon rs. .LuIed on BY the spirit Of
adventure, thousands of onr best
citizens would swarm to the new
State, to join In the general .scram-
BILE for easily acquired wealth. Our
lands would be left unoecnpied and
our res0urces undeyeloped. Our
supply of labor be diminished,
wages undulY enhanced and farm.
ing rendered unpro stable. sneas .
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
NUMBER 8.
BUSINESS.

The manager of the Atlantic s.
Pscifc railroad has SIS, 900 per year.
He Is cheap st that. Ability and
efficiency in important stations are
almost above computation in ordi-
nary figures,
The Agricultural College land
scrip for 25,O0O,O 900 acres given by
the United States to the State of
Georgia, has been sold to G.. r.
Lewis, of Cleveland, Ohio, for the
sum. Of $245, 600. or less than one
cent per acre.
at Newberry, England, Sir John
Trockmorton recently made q wa
ger of thousand guineas that at s
o'clock on q particular evening he
would sit=down to dinner IN q well
woven, well dyed, well m ade suit
Of clothes, the wool Of which form
ed the fleece on sleeps backs at 5
o'clock the same morning. Two
sheep were shorn, the wool was
washed, earded, stubbed, roved,
spun and woven, the cloth was
fulled, tented, raised. shear
ed, dyed and dressed, the garments
WIZ uAAN4OS oAt0 ~ - 40oIsoE past u
cnathe evening Sir John sat down
to q dinner, at the head Of his guests,
in q complete damson colored suit,
thus winning his wager, with one
hour and three-quarters to spare.
The wsrld nses &c, O0O, 600 pounds
Of tea each year, and $4,000, 600
pounds OF coffee. China furnishes
nearly all the tea, and Brazil over
tone-half of the coffee; over 14O,0
pounds of Java and 1900 of mo-
cha is produced. The United States
consumes nearly one-third of all
the coffee produced in the world,
and the English are the greatest tea
drinkers out of China. The Ger
mans rank next to the Americans
as coffee-drinkers. The Americans
consume about six pounds of coffee
and 122 pounds of beef per head,
counting adults and infants, each
year. ts-H t..s -a't
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

The first Presbyterian church at
Elizabeth, N. J., was organized in
1854, and for 207 years has not miss
ed q service. os Ee4sl.o ,r.
The first congregation of the Meth
odists ever organized in Mexico
has just been brought together at
La Junta. The present number Is
only eleven natives.
The Presbyterian houses of wor-
ship in Cincinnati are valued at
$3.50, 600; the expenses of maintain
ing them $4,000 per annum, or
about twenty dollars per member.
.irseWhat is the difference between
UniEersalists aud Unitarians 2"
Answer: "The first think God too
good to damn men, the second that
men are too good to be damned"
The Catholics of Junction City
hayea day school in operation at
their church, attended by about
twenty-five children. It is in
charge of Father Scholls, assisted
by Miss Mcdonald. --,-.
+ OF the present College of Carol
mails at Rome, three have had strokes
Of apoplexy, one has the govt, four
are in their dotage, and the young
est, Cardinal Milesi, is dying of
consumption at the age of forty
i've years. go ,aso. 81. 1855.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
in this country is certainly one Of
the liveliest of our religious in
situations. 1t is q marvellous fact
that, for the last two years, the
Methodists have cousecrated one
new church in every eight hours
and twenty minutesI And they
have not only built these twenty
one hundred churches, but they in
elude In the number many of the
most costly and beautiful edifices
in the country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
KANSAS, AND THE INDIAN TER
RITORY.

Kansas is situated nearly in the
geographical centre of the United
States. Its main length from east
to west is about 400 miles, and its
breadth about 200 miles. The area
is 81 ,3l3 square miles, or 80, 043, $50
acres, being considerably greater
than the combined extent of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, and almost equal to that
of England, Wales and ireland. 4
peerless commonwealth within it.
self.
The Indian Territory is $40 miles
long and 900 wide, with an area OF
74,127 square miles. 1t is bounded
on the north by Kansas, east by
Arkansas, south and west by Texas,
from which it is separated on the
south by the Red river. The eli
mate is mild and genial, and its ag-
ricultural resources are great. The
inhabitants numbers about 125, 600,
and consist of Cherokces, Cboctaws,
Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles,
with the scattered remnants of sew.
eral smaller tribes. Numerous
white renegades outlawed by vari-
Gus crimes, have also made this
their retreat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

1t is said that Jim Fisk's brain
weighed SO ounces.
Mrs. Smyth, of indianapolis, has
had five husbands without changing
her name. They were respectively
Smith, Schmidt, Smyth, Smithe and
Smythe.
Among the noted dead of 1871
was the venerable DIR. Robert j.
Breckinridge, of KY, aged y. He
is known as celebrated Presbyter-
ian divine, and staunoh anti-slavery
man while slavery existed.
A San Francisco dispatch, JAN
uary 5, says that Mrs. Laura D.
FAIR, the convicted murderess, died
in that city, Saturday, December 80.
Mrs. Fair was a woman of great
personal attractions, and strength of
character, and was finely educated.
Alexander II, the Gar of Russia,
has signed the temperance pledge at
the solicitation of the Empress.
Per contra Somebody asked Bis
marck why old King William was
so healthy. Zach well,' said the
Premier, 'tbecause ne drinks no
water and wears red flannel next his
skin"
Wendell Phillips says there is
hardly any ordinary trade, or kind
of manual labor, used in New Eng
land, at which he has not done many
days work. Clam-digging is one
of his favorite pursuits. Wendell
ought to stick to digging wells, for
instance, few years right along,
and then he could judge better how
he liked labor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
WHISKY IN CONGRESS-.

On the last Sunday evening in
December, Senator Wilson deliver
ed temperance lecture in Boston,
which possessed rather more inter
est than the average lectures upon
this well worn subject. He said
that in Congress during the last
seventeen years he had found that
the members who used alcohol
were invariably the first to be pros
trated by protracted work. "In my
experience" he said, "while Chair
man of the Committee on Military
Affairs, l have always found that
the men to be relied on were the
men who drank not at all" How
ever, Mr.. Wilson thought that there
were fewer drinking men in Con-
gress now than when he went there.
Formerly, the night sessions were
dreaded, on account of the debaneh-
cry to which they gave rise. Now,
about one quarter of the Senate are
pledged temperance men, and there
is not what may be called "a. hard
drinker" in the Senate at all. The
facts are about the same in the
House of Representatives Once
the departments were full of drunk
en- men, now they are the excep-
lions. Coming from source to be
relied on, these arc interesting and
cheering facts.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
ANCIENT TOOTHACHE.

1t appears that the ancients were
by no means deficient in the art of
dentistry, but on the contrary it
seems to be one of the oldest of arts.
Casselius was dentist in the reign
of the Roman triumvirs, and gold
was used in filling the teeth. But
nearly 500 years D. c. gold was thus
used, and gold wire was employed
to hold artificial teeth in position,
and it does not seem then to have
been q new art a fragment OF the
tenth of the Roman tables, $50 B.
c., has reference to preventing of
the burial of any gold with the
dead except that bound around the
teeth. Hepodotus declares that the
Egyptians had g knowledge Of the
diseases of the teeth and their treat
ment $500 years B. c. In Martial,
Casselius is mentioned as either I'LL
ing or extracting teeth, but he spec
flied that he would not polish false
teeth with powder. These facts
cover period of 600 years.
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sTOKES-THE FISK MURDERER.
This suddenly notorious chap

This suddenly notorious chap is
thus reported:
New YORK, January S.-While
Stokes was being taken to the tombs
yesterday, he chatted indifferently
with the police captain, who had
him in charge, and asked the cap
tain to get him a bottle of wine,
which was refused. He was locked
up with another prisoner. His law
yers had n long conversation with
him in the afternoon. After break
fast yesterday, he said in converse
ton with a reporter, "You need
have no fears for me, am no muir
derer. I have read the papers, and
I assure you there is O tale yet I'M
told about the affair."" When in
formed of Fisk's death, he said
"Well, it is q sad loss to the bust
ness community, but the papers
should not PREJUDICE me by calling
me a murderer. l never wished
Fisk any harm personally; never
dreamed of offending him in any
way. l could say more, but my at
torneys have closed my lips" When
asked if he had any fears for the re-
suit as regarded himself, he took q
wallet from his pocket and said,
''Do you sec that? As sure as yon
see it will l be acquitted by any jury
that can be empaneled." The coro-
ner's jury includes Marshall O'Rob-
erts, George Opdyke, Henry Clews,
David downs, and other prominent
gentlemen. The examining physi-
clans say that Fisk's brain weighed
fiity-eight ounces. VIM NJ. Tweed,
shortly after Fisk's death, gave ut
teranee to expressions of intense
regret. The testimony before the
jury leaves no doubt but that Stokes
is the murderer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

Jim Bludsoe had a worthy disei-
pie in the engineer of the burned
City of New London. Though he
didn't hold her nozzle agin the bank
because he couldn't get il there) he
did stick to his post till every hair
on his face and head was singed
with the flames. Then he buckled
a life preserVer round him and went
on deck to help the passengers.
They say his voice was CHEEKY and
his face as bright as ever, through
all the heat and glare OF the burn
ing boat, and many a man and wo-
man owed their life that night to
Matt Bakers vigorous arm. The
forward deck was the last to go,
and high up near the bows Matt
found helpless woman without
support or friend or plank. His
face grew q little grave as he fast
ened his Hfespreserver around her
waist and lowered her gently into
the water, but cleared again as
bright as ever when he turned TO
bid his captain goodbye. They
were the last souls to leave the boat
and jumped together from the gang
way. The captain, unframed and
fresh, reached the shore in safety I;
but Matt Baker, burned and bruised,
with one eye blinded and one arm
raw from shoulder to wrist-Natt
Baker, with his quiet smile and his
brave heart, went knowingly to his
death, counting the life Of name
less woman better than his own.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
soLEMN REFLECTIONS.


Some "horrid" man SAYS that in
the present style Of dressing young
ladies' hair 1t is hard to tell which
is switch.
A Western lawyer who hung out
his single year ago, has had emily
one case since then, and that is one
of infiammatory rheumatism.
An old lady thinks the Bonds
must be q family OF strong relig-
ious instincts, because che hears Of
SO many OF them being converted.
"Our children will have immense
tax on their hands" said q gentle
man. 40, horrible I" exclaimed an
elderly lady, "what blessing we
have nails on ours"
A young man having q late rail-
road disaster in mind, has broken
his engagement with young lady
because she is negligent about her
train and does not mind her switch.
'tNever mind the obituary, Judge
said q Montana culprit, when the
court became pathetic in pronounc-
ing the sentence. "Let's dx the
time for the funeral.
Thompson is not going to do any
asked his wife the difference be-
tween his head aud hogshead, and
she said there was none.
A fashionable lady recently Drop
ed one of her eyebrows in the
church pew and dreadfully fright
ened o young maA sitting next to
her, who thought it was his NOUS
As man was burying his wife,
he said to his friend in the grave
yard: "Alas! you feel happier
than L" eyes, neighbor," said the
friend: u ought to feel happier. I
have two wives buried herel"
A lady, some time back, at the
British Museum, asked if they had
q skull Of Oliver Cromwell. Being
answered in the negative, "Dear
me" said she, "that's very strange,
for they have one at Oxford"
A farmer is the noblest work of
God. He rises at 2 o'clock in the
m0rAing, and burns out q half
pound of wood and kords of kan
uclSS huO lu0us ROSS OUT " HOETY
the geese and stir up the hogs.
"Who was the greatest orator in
the world, Mr.. Johnsing?" "Dan-
lei Webster" mo sar I" "Who,
then 2" 'fWhy Sampson. He jawed
a thousand men to death-thea took
down de whole house"
A definition of the difference be-
tween "old school" and "new school"
has been given thus: "The children
of Old School Presbyterians sin as
soon as they are born, and the
children of the New School Pres
byterian as soon as they know
how"
Compulsory education is the Or
der in Illinois. The youthful aspir-
ant for knowledge is encouraged
with such cheerful inscriptions as
'tBehsve or get your neck broke"
"Learn or die" written in large
characters over the door Of the
school room.
A New York politician, In writ
ing q letter of coincidence to the
widow Of a ''country member" who
had been his friend, says: 81 am
panied to hear that-has gone
to heaven. We were bosom friends,
but now we shall never meet
again."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
SPORTS.

Dexter is said to have trotted a
mile in PA at a private trial recent
ly.
The New York Yacht Club is
making preparations for a cruise to
Russia next summer, by invitation
of tie Grand Duke.
In New York, this winter, the
fashionable thing, instead of full
dress balls, IS literary parties, the
writers being notified a week in ad :
vance of what is expected. After
the reading, supper.
Colonel McDaniels, the owner of
the colt Harry Bassett, has issued q
challenge 10 the turffnen of the
world of So, 900 that the colt will
beat Lexington's time of I'm, 1879
g., in a four mile race, the colt carry
104 pounds, and the race to come
off next summer at Saratoga.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

Iho great ana pressing want OF
the institution is additional build
ings. ' 30 'i..
The executive committee last year
used the following language in their
report: .,
N'The want OF a new building ia
so seriously felt, that its supply can
not be longer postponed, without
crippling the usefulness of the
school,"
This statement was true a year
ago. &c.,.
Since that time the model school,
without which an institution for
the training of teachers is deprived
of one of its principal means of
usefulness, has been discontinued.
for want of room. The recitation
rooms, only four in number, are
crowded to overlooking. Intended
for only twenty to twenty-five stu
dents, we are obliged to crowd in
over forty. The study or assembly
room, with seating capacity for
Just one hundred, is now packed
with one hundred and thirty, while
many are deferred from applying
for admission, knowing the want OF
accommodations.
1 There is no room at all for Ii
! brary, museum, labratory, for de-
moustration in the physical sciences,
or for physical exercises.
The present building, erected in
1866, was originally intended for
the model department simply, and
is very well adapted to that pur-
pose.
The utmost limit of the building
was reached sometime since, and
rather than turn away applicants
desiring to qualify themselves for
professional teachers in our COM
mon schools, the model department
was closed, and the room it occu-
pied devoted to normal students
proper.
Again the extreme capacity of the
building Is. filed to OVERLOOKING,
and the question to be Immediately
answered is. shall the capacity and
facility of the school be increased,
or shall the common schools, the
graded schools, and the high schools
OF our state suffer for the want OF
'sskillfnL, trained, disciplined, pro-
fessiOnal teachers" We therefore
deaEre to present through you to the
representatives. OF the people, this
central fact; that largely increased
facilities for the education of teach
ers must be Immediately provided,
in order to sustain the great bull
wark of good government in the
state, our common schools.
/ In conclusion, We desire to ex.
press our thanks for the zeal and
fidelity displayed by the presiden,
and every member of the faculty
and for the cheerful readiness with
| which they have borne the unusual
burdens imposed upon them by the
| present exigeneies Of the institution
And to you gentlemen of the board
1 of directors, we tendon our SINGERS
thanks for the hearty and eordia
manner IN which you have approx
| ed the action Of your committee. iii
the various duties committed IL
a their charge. S. B. RIGGs,
4 s4a7 H. BANCROFT,
AenHa 2iE. p. BANCROFT,
Exseutiye Committee
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
Annual Meeting Of the Beard Of Diree-
tOrs-RePOrt Of the Executive
Committee.


The board of directors met at the
Office of the superintendent of pub
lie instruction, in Topeka, January
II, 1872. Members present:ii Gov.
j. II. Harvey, Prof. H. D. Nc Carty,
Hon. j. E. Hays, Hon. E. S. Slower,
H. Bancroft, S. B. Riggs and E. P.
Bancroft. The executive commit
tee presented their annual report,
and on motion of Superintendent
McCarty, it was unanimously adop-
ted as the expression Of the board.
."'aass JIM. HARVEY, Pres.
E. P. BANCROFT, See. -
Board Of Directors Of State Nor
NAL School. Hgn'i7l.F =,
Your executive committee beg
leave to submit the following annual
Having been placed unexpectedly
in the position we occupy, In the
middle Of the year, we have labor
ed under some disadvantages in at
tempting to complete the laborS
Of the year, begun by our prede-
cessors.
The faculty, as at present consti-
tuted, have had but one term in
which to demonstrate their fitness
for the positions they occupy; yet
we have no hesitation in saying,
that i'll our judgment, they are emf
nently qualified for those positions,
and that the institution under their
care is rapidly taking high, rank
among similar institutions in our
country. e....-. ..4r, 4 -,
We arc happy to report, that the
utmost harmony and concord of &C
ton has at all times prevailed DO
tween the faculty and students, and
all are srdently arriving for the
highest attachments possible. e
For a detailed statement Of the
immediate and pressing wants OF the
school, we refer you TO the report OF
the president, which we most heart
4
lily endorse. :sva. =
In regard to the subjects referred
directly 10 Us by The board, We re-
port that no progress sheen made
toward the disposal OF the endow-
ment lands. 5.f..a..s -
The great inducements offered to
settlers by the general government!
on the Usage trust lands, and other
lands in the south and west, has fol-
the past year attracted the, greater
portion of the Immigration thither
and there has been little inquiry foI
lands at the price. and upon The
terms, we were authorised TO, Of
fer. 40 s3I aul 81 u g.
| Upon the extension Of the Cen.
trail Branch Union Paeific railroad
| which will pass in the vicinity o
most OF the lands, the demand FOL
{ them will undoubtedly be incfeas
ed, and their value enhanced, =
In this connection we would re
commend that such legislation b,
asked for as will enable you to dis
Epose Of these lands At Z fixed mini
mum price, and upon indehnit'
time, provided interest at ten pc
cent. per annum be promptly paid
1t is believed that these terms vii
prove an indueement to purchasers
land At the same time furnisk th
best possible invsst1nsnt of the Per
) nhanent endowment fund. i' !
/, In aceordance with your instruc
lions, va have adopted rnles for th
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
THE POLITICAL WORLD.

The republican caucus of Iowa
voted as follows for U. S. Senator
Allison, GO ; Harlan 40; Wilson II.
The New York Sun has taken
down the name of Horace Greeley
as Presidential candidate, and in
its place put that of the Hon. Ly-
man Trumbull at the head of its
column. The Sun shines en- a new
candidate every day.
James 2. Legate, of Kansas, has
been appointed governor of Wash
ington territory.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
THE LADIES.

The Fort Wayne woman who
sued her husband for pay for four
teen years of service in his house
hold, on the ground that there was
a flaw in the marriage ceremony,
has been awarded S1,16S by the Al
len circuit court. Ia
Under the Mohammedan law an
aggrieved woman has only to place
her slipper upside down before the
cadi, and a divorce is granted with
out further inquiry, as it is taken
for granted that she would not seek
such redress without the most press
ing cause. Let US have such q law
in this country, Just for fun.