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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
AN OLD BORDER "REMINISCENCES.

The Kansas City Times reYives an
old incident OF that life, now SO
fast disappearing forever, OF the
strange men Of the Plains and the
borders, in an account Of the famous
ride Off. z. Aubrey from Santa
Fe, New Mexico, to Westport, Mis-
souri,. Aubrey was . trader and
freighter, and was in Santa Fe, just
about starting on his return to "the
States" when he made q wager Of
81 900 that he could ride from that
place to the Missouri line, dis
lance Of at least eight hundred miles,
in less than four dsys. The Times
says:
'sThis feat was deemed impossi-
bic, and the wager taken. Before
starting on his ride Aubrey had re-
lays Of fresh ponies stationed atreg-
ular distances across the plains. He
rode day and night, stopping only
to dismount the jaded animal and
spring upon . fresh one. Never
Stopping TO eat or sleep, on, on,
ObCS Tie uceOA1tG1 IOuSly pIAI1S,
went Aubrey, bound to win his wa
ger, or die of fatigue upon the route.
He reached Westport, which was
then considered the terminus of the
great Santa Pc Trail, just three
hours ahead OF the time within |
which he was TO make the trip. He
made more than two hundred miles |
every tWenty-four hours, having
rested only three hours for sleep
during the four days and nights. |
This ride eclipses the famous ride
Of Dick THrpin fioni London to
YcFk, which has become one OF the |
legends Of English history.
AFTER his wonderful ride had been
made, Aubrey was the lion Of Sam
e Fe. At that time, Captain Rich |
ard 81. Weightmen was Publishing |
Q newspaper In that place, and had |
criticized Aubrey and his ride. The |
two met in . bag room, when Au-
brey asked Weightmen to drink, |
referring ut the sans time to the ar
ticle that had been published, |
Weightman refused, when Aubrey |
threw 9 glass Of whisky In his face. |
The fiery liquor for Q moment bin
ded him. When he recovered he |
drew a.knife and stabbed Aubrey |
70 the heart. Weightmsn had made |
. most gallant olaceP in the Maxi-
can war, and when hos4tlitses COM !
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it over in a bill of sale, to friend
who went his bail. Then he offered
Morse $50 and the horse to defend
him. The lawyer agreed and took
$40 and the horse. Whereupon the
man who went bail had the lawyer
arrested for stealing the horse,
claiming that the lawyer know of
the bill of sale.
Ottawa has just had its excite
ment. The old board of County
Commissioners forbid the payment
of the interest on the Franklin
county bonds to the L. L. & G. rail-
road and ordered the attorney 20
begin suit to recover the bonds and
interest heretofore paid. Public
meetings were held and this policy,
denounced as reputation. The
new board has revoked the orders,
the interest will be paid as usual,
and the railroad is happy again.
st. Mary's has been excited over
an alleged fraud by the King Bridge
Company. Having voted $50, 600
in thirty year bonds for the COM
pany to build q bridge over the
Arkansas giver, the people have dis
covered that by some unexplained
dodge the bonds amount to $4,000
and only run ten years. King s.
Co. have completed the piers and
abutments, but the bridge is not
yet laid. St. Marys proposes to
bring them and the bonds to accord
with the contract, if possible.
The Usage Shaft says: Our
friends in the south part of Usage
county are industriously trying to
obtain a division of the county.
Their idea is, to take part from
the south side of Usage county, and
a part from the north side of CofFey
county, making a new one there
from. The division line, as pro-
posed, would pass near or through
Lyndon, cutting off some fifteen
miles, or nearly one half of the
county. This would leave Usage
county smaller than Shswne. which
has more than doable the populs
tion-and, with three or four ex'
ceptions, the smallest In the State
The coolest press in Kansas" il
now in the Winfield Censor Office
1t is hand press, large enough t.
print six column paper, and wa
brought to the State in 1912, by Rev
NJ. Meeker, a missionary among tn
Ottawas. In 1857 Mr.. Prouty uset
il at Prairie City, Douglas county
: to print the Freeman's Champion
D In 1858 it went to Burlington ant
= printed the Neosho Valley Regis
ter. In 1864 that was changed t.
t the Kansas Patriot. In 1865 tn
= press went to Topeka. and in lS6
), Sam Wood took it to Cottonwoo,
Falls and started the Chase Count
: Banner. 1870 it went to Winfield
n and now that the Censor is enlarge'
I to a seven column sheet the oil,
press is again for sale.
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A correspondent of London pa
per states that an Amsflcan mis-
sionary, semitic Calcutta to convert
the Hindoos, has become a disciple
of Keshub Chunder Sen and been
formally received into the HindeoI
Sauna Church. It's poor rule that
wont work both ways. '
Episcopalians will be glad TO hear
authoritatively as to the new hym-
nal adopted by the late General Con-
vention, and which it was proposed
to use in the churches on and after
Epiphany Sunday, January 9th.
By its action, the psalms;and hymns
now in the prayer book and new
hymnal are alone authorized to be
used in public service in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church, but the
Convention prohibited the latter be-
ing bound up with the prayer book,
so as to test its merits during the
three years intervening before the
next Convention, and to revise ac-
eordingly.
Four Roman Catholic priests have
been deputed by Archbishop Man
ming for missionary labor among the
eolored people of the United States.
The National Camp-Meeting AS.
ISOLATION of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at its meetings on October
18th, decided to hold six meetings
next year as follows: Cakes Cor.
| ners, Central New York Conference
beginning june 13; Sea Cliff Grove,
Long Island, beginning July 8
Kennebeck, Me-, beginning July "A
Urbana, O., beginning August g
Williamsville, ILL.,, beginning An
gust 81 ; and one in the south, time
and place to be fixed in the future
This is double the number of meet
ings ever before appointed for an,
J one year. t1si ~ ~ ieta
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The Boston Post has discovered
that a locomotive may start toward
certain stationary point, always
keep in motion but never reach it.
This it proves by prOpOundinga$l Il
coo prize problem, viz: hHa ETI
How long win Il take . loeemo-
to run one hundred miles, provided
it goes fifty miles the first hour,
twenty-five the next, twelve and
a half the next, and so on? Is!
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TRUTH IS BETTER THAN FICTION.


Kansas has winters so mild that
cattle get along very well on the
open prairie without shelter and
with very little food other than that
spread by nature under their feet.
There arc also many thousands of
stock farms which are provided
with creek bottoms between well
timbered banks, and in severe
weather these serve as excellent
shelter for cattle, which resort to
them inetinctlvely as soon as q
Northwestern begins. AS rule, cat
tie hero need far less shelter and
get much moro winter pasturage
than in the northern and eastern
States. But this rule is not sufil-
GENTLY uniform to furnish an ade-
quate basis for the shiftless plan of
mo shelter" 1t is estimated that
this winter has killed S400, 600 worth
of Texas beeves within the limits
of our State. 100000 invested in
the rude sheds or improvised, shell
ter which that amount could erect,
and in hay and corn, would prove a
very judicious investment. Exper-
ieuce has demonstrated that the
only prudent economical, and in
fact, the only safe plan, is TO have
cattle here, as anywhere else in the
world, provided with fair amount
of shelter for inclement weather and
food from hay stacks and corn bins
II the severe weather lasts for days
or weeks, as it is apt to do. And
not only should the mo shelter"
absurdity be discarded, but the shell
ter plan be widely and earnestly in
sisted upon. It is easier to contract
bad habits than good ones, easier to
DO shiftless than careful, easier to
lose cattle by neglect and exposure
than to keep them in good condi-
ton by caro- and effort Men are
very apt TO practice, to a consider
able extent what they preach, or
what is preached to them. So long
rs emo shelter" is advocated, not half
enough shelter will be be provided.
The natural advantages Kansas of
fers for stock raising will not be
made available to their proper ex-
tent, until the necessity of shelter
and food is universally advocated
and adopted. We never yet saw
any lasting benefit conferred by ig-
norance or recklessly incorrect
statements, and there are very few
branches of industry which require
more accurate intelligence and care
full attention that that of stock rails
ing. The interests OF this import
ant pursuit are too valuable to be
trifled with A theory which is a
serious error should not be counte-
nanced, and If 1t has become reduc-
cd to a practice the necessity for
reprobation is SO much the greater.
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CIVIL SERVICE REFoRM.-Such in
teIligence as the following is the
best broof of reform:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Samuel B.
Kendig, convicted of embezzlement
of Government funds in 1868, while
he was disbnrsing officer of the Pat
ent Office, was sentenced to con-
1inement in Jail for two years and to
pay a fine of $4,000. sa g.
+. A. Marden, late Treasury clerk,
convicted of embezzlement of Treas.
ury funds, was sentenced to con.
finement in Jail one year and to pay
q fine of $4,000. |-- L'-i'' :
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

New Orleans is stln harassed by
the anarchial State legislature of
Louisiana. Both the Warmouthites
and the Cartsrites appeal to Presi-
dent Grant for military aid, but SO
far he is inclined to let them fight
it out themselves. One OF the War
mouth members has been shot dead
on the floor of the House, by his
opponents. The sooner they all
kill each other the better for Louis
ana and the country. Ira s'@ii
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

George III. Pendleton, in very
carefully considered letter to an
Ohio Democratic Convention, takes
decided grounds against the "pass-
i've" democratic policy, and insists
upon a firm adherence to party prin-
ciples, and q regular Presidential
nomination. At the same time, he
approves OF an acquiescencc in the
accomplished facts" of the past
.eventfnl decade, and Of making as
broad q platform as democratic doc
trines will permit, to accommodate
whatever portion of the Republican
party may be dissatisfied with the
ticket and platform TO be adopted
by its national Convention in Phila-
delphia, next June. George says
plainly that it is better to be whip
ped than to run away, and George
is undoubtedly correct in that opin-
Ion.
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- 49,
lowing ;,o,r.s ~. -. ~
II. b. No ~, An act TO extend the
time. ut which the penalty for nom
payment, Of taxes shall attach, to the
10th of March next came up ON 3rd
reading. fr -
Mr.. Smith said that this bill only
extends the time of taxes on real
estate and not on personal property.
To pass the bill would only be to
benefit SPECTATORS and non-resf-
denta who own large tracts of land.
This bill docs not protect the set
tiers, but does protect speeuiators.
3 The roll was called and the bill
passed, receiving GO votes for to II
against. 1t puts OF the peHalty on
real estate, but not on personal
property. Adjourned.
Taxes are heavy, money is eearce,
produce and stock are at low mark
ct rates and the majority OF taxpay-
ers find it very difficult to pay their
taxes this winter. Bat for all this,
It seems to US that Mr.. Smith, from
wherever he comes, had the correct
idea In regard to the above measure.
The main benefit from its passage
will accrue to heavy land owners,
who never pay taxes till they are
compelled 10, and who are, to q
great extent residents of other
States, although actively represent
ed here by shrewd agents who know
exceedingly well how to work upon
the patriotism of our legislatures.
This bill is an injustice TO the par
ties who have complied with the
law-and significant hint to them
not to do so next year. It inaug-
urates an err of dilatoriness In the
future payment of taxes, which can
not fail to work injury to the public
treasury, and TO the individuals who
will OF course look for similar
leniency to that now prop6b-
ed, and who sooner or later will
find legislature that viii. not ex-
tend It. If the SENATE concurs in
the measure, the mass of our citizens
will not experience any special ben
eft from ftnow,and the whole work
ing gear OF our State and county
and municipal government will be
very seriously embarrassed next
year, If not for years to come. We
have sympathy for all the Taxpayers
for those who have paid, or have
yet to pay. We heartily wish thai
the legislature could in its wisdom
devise a way by which taxpayine
could be got along without. Blu
the temporary expedient of post
poning the penalty of ten per cent
after that penalty has been incurred
is simply weakness, a short-sight
ed piece of craftsmanship, a shift
that there is little more need of re
sorting TO now than in years past
and damaging blow to our repu
ton abroad for prosperity. Las
year Kansas had fine season, anC
magnificent crops. Is the result
financial atrophy? 1t can pay take
this winter In compliance with Law
and custom. To q great extent tn,
taxes are already paid. The HOus,
cxpedient is too late to afford an!
great relief and just in time to worl
great deal of harm. Private in
terests must'be subserved to publi
welfare, and this is the very essenc
of tax-paYing. We hope, although
we hardly expect, to see the Senat
act with the usual deliberation o
Senates, and looking further ahea(
than the 10th of March next firml.
refuse to endorse the well-mean
but short-sighted policy adopted b.
the House. .t
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

The Fort Scott Monitor and 9TH
er papers will please note that
whenever The NEWS uses as edito-
rial matter anything it finds in an
other, paper, it gives due credit.
But as for the ordinary run of news
items, local or general, biographical
sketches, extracts, &C., it collects
and prints them as such without re-
gard to where 1t finds them. To
put at the tail of q thousand ordina-
~ items the name of the paper
they are taken from would be an
absurdity. In fact to trace such
matter to the original source would
be about as easy as to find needle
in a haystack. N.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

Hayti Is In trouble with France,
Germany and the q. g., all OF whom
have war steamers at Port an Prince,
demanding the payment OF certain
claims Somehow or other the col
ored race does appear quite ~ ca
pablo as white people Of running
q government to advantage.
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The Supreme Court has just rem
dered very important decision, as
will be seen by the following dis
patch: T.-.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-In the
Supreme Court to-day Associate
Justice Strong delivered the opin-
ion of the Court, affirming the con-
stitutionality OF the legal tender
acts of Congress, Judges Swan,
Davis, Miller and Bradley concur
ring. The last read his views on
one branch of the question. Chief
Justice Chase delivered a dissent
ing opinion for himself, and Messrs.
Field, Clifford and Nelson's views
on the same side were read by Cliff
ford. Field and Nelson were ABB
sent.
Settled, by q majority of one for
the present, at least. Had the ma
jority been the other way, we are
so near a specie basis that its proba-
BILE effect would have been to cause
a speedy resumption of that way of
doing business.
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Cherokee county citizens petition
Congress, through Mr.. Kerr, of
Indiana, to remove the u. 8. troops
sent there to protect the railroad
land grants. They say that the
troops commit outrAges, and that
the Kansas delegation viii not heed
any complaint. - 81 7 -.
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The Washington land Office re-
ports that SO far POI, 900. 900 acres of
public land have been granted to
railFOAas-aad -OtheR .pubiis-e AtsEpsi-.
ses. Well, let'sgoA little slower af-
ter thie. u ~ u - u
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

Kansas PosroFTIcE CHANGES. -
j. F. Sutton has been appointed
Postmaster at Lon don, Sumner
county, in place of'S. Harlan. O.
Y. Hart, at Scdgwick, in place Of
T. s. Floyd. r. A. Weaver, Keel
Vile, Cherokee county, in place Of
8. T. Kennedy. Lee H. Chenington
Lowell, Cherokee county, In place o.
j. r. Roumavell. 2ro-
The Post Office at Canville, Ne
osho county, IL discontinued.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

Kansas CITY has subscribed $780,
900 for its Industrial Exposition
this year, and intends to put up per-
manent buildings for this purpose.
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INTEREsTIEG.-In X ansas taxes
become due Nov. 1st OF each year,
and if not paid by January 10th,
following, a penalty of 10 per cent.
is added. If not paid before the
LIST of March fee for advertising
of 25 cents per traot will be added.
In May following the land is sold |;
in three years thereafter the pur-
chaser receives deed, and in two
years after the making of deed
the sale becomes absolute, and the
original owner is debarred from
bringing suit to recover. From the
date of sale to the time the deed Is
issued, the taxes and costs draw in
terest at the rate of 80 per cent. per
annum.
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menced between the North and
South, Weightman, Joined the Con-
federate army. At the terrible bat
lea oE Wilson Creek, at the head of
this brigade, he was killed at the
very summit of Bloody Hill. Three
bullets pierced his body. He and
Lyon fell within thirty PAGES of
each ether. and numbers were kill
ed trying to carry of the DO dies of
each. The Confederates held the
field, and the two Generals were
brought of and laid side by side
upon blankets under the shade Of
the same tree. Aubrey was a Scotch
Canadian by birth, and came direct
from Quebec to the west"
Rogers tells this: An English
man and q Frenchman had to fight q
duel. That they might have the
better chance OF missing one an
other they were to fight in q dark
rooG. The Englishman fred up the
chimney, and, by Jovei he brought
the Frenchman "When l tell this
story in Paris" observed Rogers,
al put the Englishman up the CHIN
ney."
This is how q Troy reporter con-
gratulated friend on his. marriage :
zone more unfortunate,
Weary OF life,
Rashly importunato,
Taken wife,"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

The Legislatures of Ohio, Illinois
and Missouri have passed resolu-
ton endorsing the one-term princi-
Tlo
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BURLINGAME COAL

Good Neacs for tie People.
/ have for sale plenty of the very best
BuFlingame coal at the lowest price. Or
ders filled promptly. Leave orders NJ my
Office, back OF Aid. A. Baker g. Co.'s
store, or at the grocery store OF G. w.
Frederick. Residence southwest corner
or Constitution street and Fifth AVPnue.
jan1-9t DAVID G. JONES.
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COAL.
BurIinga1ne Coal {!

Having contracted with the Kansas Coal
Company, OF Burlingame, am now pre-
pared to supply the public with rs good
an article of coal for beating purposes as
has been offered in this market. This
coal Is free from slate, dirt and sulphur,
and pronounced by many Of our citizens
as good coal as they have used.
Office at the Juvenile restaurant, one
door south Of Standings meat market;
yard south of the A, r. & s. Fe depot.
Orders left ut the Office or at the yard will
be promptly filed. Coal delivered free to
any part OF the city. Terms cash on de-
livery. j. w, MORGAN,
janl.l5t
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The regulations of the Civil Ser
vice system are now being carried
ont, as far as possible, in the differ
ent departments at Washington. A
member of Congress recently called
on the Secretary Of the Treasury in
the usual way for An appointment
for a friend. He was informed that
under the new rules such recon-
mendations were Valueless, and
could exert no influence in securing
an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 80
The men who set themselves
against this reform-as Senator Car
penter Of Missouri dees-are brszen
faced Demagognes, and ought to be
told that fact by a candid public.
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At Bradford, Canada, Monday, q
house burned down, and q woman
named PenieF, two children, niece,
and . boarder, perished, in the
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ACCIDENTS.

Reading, Pa, had . $3.50, 900 fire
Tuesday. Among the buildings
gone is the State House.
at Toledo, Ohio, on the 10th, a
fire destroyed the Lake Shore s.
Michigan Southern round house,
with six locomotives. Loss $780,
600. A5-a RI
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gone Is the state House.
at Toledo, Ohio, on the 10th, q
FIRE destroyed the Lake Shore s.
Michigan Southern round house,
with six locomotives. Loss $780,
600. Aa-
At Bradford, Canada, Monday, a
house burned down, and q woman
named PenieF, two children, niece,
and q boarder, persisted in the
flames. . s &c.
A powder house near Rockland,
Maine, went into minute frag-
ments on short notice, Sunday,
killing two and wounding three
,oo., .s. a.. - ono s.f z--E e ID T-a-f.e-
~ E=f .I 1ar- 1.s
The court house floor at Killy-
clOghen, Leitrini, Ireland, gave way
last week during a trial, letting 800
people fall about 90 feet. Many
were killed and others wounded.
A zephyr visited Monticello, Ar
kansas, on the night of the 11th. It
blew over s churches, the new court
house wall, barns, houses, fences,
etc. Great damage, but nobody
killed. .a-I .5se..s ss,-
Moderate calculations on the eff
| feet Of the late great fires in the
Northwest state that $50 people
| were burned around Green Bay,
Wisconsin. Damage to pine lands,
100000.
Tuesday night Bearly's tin ware
store, st. Louis, was burned. Less
5000. The hardware stock OF
Shipliegh s. Co., was damaged $685.
600 By water, and the building
$500. ass
Postmaster Smith at Fort James,
Long Island, set trap on Wednes-
day night for burglars but, forget.
ting the gun, he went to the Office
for a package and was shot, dying
the next day. -. 49,, XXI
Last Sunday Cornwall & Co.'s
paper mill at Ypsilanti, and Bailey's
oil-cloth factory at Winthrop, Mich.
burned. Losses 100000 and $780,.
600. The same day New York city
INDUCED in a $4,000 fire.
At Somerville, Mass, Tuesday, 8
child of three years and a new born
infant were burned to death, and
their mother nearly smcthered by d
fire which broke out in their room
They were French Canadians, nam.
ed Belfast. ...s
at st. Cloud, Mimi, Saturday
night, John Beevere, who separated
from his wife year ago, went tc
her house, drove the children out
seized his wife by the hair, dragged
her into q back room and literally
cut her head to pieces with a hatch
ct. When arrested he made no re
sistance. He said he had come
there to kill her and had done it
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a NEW AND A POOR Way.

From tho House proceedings of
Tussday, at Topeka, Eo-olip the fol-
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use Of Narcotic Spray (freezIng), Nitrous
Oxyd Laughing gas), ether, etc. Any OF
the various anastkeeies administered 1t
ali hours By an experienced operator.
iaa16
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thorized in all Episcopal eharches,
on and after Epiphany Sunday. -
The Congregati0uGiist wing Of
the American Protestant army
number 3,l21 churches and 3,l94
ministers, but the stationed pastors
number only 2,lI0. About sz6 OF
the churches are wholly destitute 81
naafoPa
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A powder house near Rockland,
Maine, went into minute frag-
ments on short notice, Sunday,
killing two and wounding three