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FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT
0F THE STATE OF NEVADA, AU-
~ thoriaed by Act Of its Legislature ap-
proved March l, 1871, for the founding OF .
STATE INSANE ASYLUM.

The drawing will take place ~ Virginia, No
yada, the time of which due notice will be given
SO soon as enough tickets have been sold to pay
the State proportion for the Asylum Fund. as
we'll Is the PRICES in full, that being the purpose
of the Trustees. 80,
An unsold tickets in the hands of Agents viii
he called in before the time set for drawing.
Tickets of Admission. 50 i'll Gold com
1895, 900 in gold coin will be given to hold
erS Of tickets ut the conclusion OF the Concert,
The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-11-07

Omaha Lottery
To be Drawn in Public, Dec. 80. 1871.
Tickets 81 Each or Six for So.
Tickets sent by Express c. O. D., If desired.
c,,,d C.sb pr;ze S75.o 600
Gr.,d c,Sh prIze ......... q. 900
cr.nd och prizs ...... II. 900
: 80 ~ash prize " 10, 600
~ pr;za " 5000
. 80 pIzee a. ooo each 5000
- pr;zes 30 600 Zach 5000
> Cash prizes a. CoO each .. 1900
For balance Of Prizes send for Circular.
This Legal Enterprise is endorsed by the Nigh
est authority of the State and best business men
The limited number of Tickets on hand will be
furnished these who apply frst
All Prizes will be paid in full. AGENTS
WANTED. For full particulars address
j. NJ PATTEE.
General Manager Omaha, Seb.
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PERSONS DESTROYS Of renting rooms in private
residences are reqsested 10 let the same b
known to LApp KELLY, - there IL continr
ally demand for the same.
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HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

These words of just commentator arr
well deserved at this time and in this
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22
TO THE FRIENDS UF PEACE IN THE
WEST.

Having been appointed by the
american Peace Society" to the
General Agency for the "Weste1n
Department." made vacant by the
resignation of Rev. Amassa Lord,
OF Chicago, desire to say to the
friends of Peace and all persons
having business with the Society
in the States west of New York
and Pennsylvania, that the Head
Quarters OF the Western Depart
ment will be, for the present, at
Manhattan, Kansas.
Lectures and ministers to preach
and teach the doctrine of peace
and enlighten the public mind up
on the nature and scope OF the
peace reform" are wanted in
every State; also colportuers and
local agents in every county and
town, All who can serve the So
ciety in the above capacity or who
will circulate its books and other
publications, extend the member
ship of tho Society or increase the
circulation of the Advocate of
Peace are earnestly invited to
correspond with this office regard
ing terms.
The glorious victory for peace"
at Geneva is infusing new vigor
into the operations of the society
at the East: shall the Vest re-
main an Indifferent spectator of
this su6limest effort of enlightened
Christianity?
The proposition for converting
at no distant day, an Information
al Peace Congress of eminent
Jurists, Statesmen and Philan-
thropists will afford a new oppor-
tunity for public speakers, writers
and all friends of progress. to be.
come identified with the grandest
and most beneficIent movement of
the age. ="
All money due the society in
the West and all donations for
its use, should be forwarded to
this Office, and all agents having
unsettled accounts will please
communicate with me at their
earliest opportunity. 49,
. LEONARD H. PILLsBCRY,
General Western Agent American
Peace Society.
Manhattan, Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22

History OF 4 EAILURB.-W0rren
Anderson has Withdrawn from the
Ottawa Journal and returned to his
old home in Xenia, Ohio. Two
years ago, Anderson and Tone came
to Kansas, located a. Ottawa and
commenced the publication of the
Ottawa Herald with q tremendous
flourish of trumpets. They had an
immense amount Of advertising
patronage, and an excellent patron
age of sll kinds. They were back
ed by some Of the best men In Otta-
ga. The opening was brilliant.
Yet Notwithstanding all this they
failed, aud failed ignominiously.
Their paper Is dead, their material
sold out TOR about half what it was
worth and they have left the State.
We, who are somewhat acquainted
| with the history of the Herald and
it proprietors, find the explanation
of this failure in the fact that both
of them were afraid to work. Mel
Their were printers, and 1t is an es-
| tablished fact that q country news
paper cannot succeed in the hands of
La "biacksnith." ALI their labor
was hired, and they delighted in
nothing SO much as being seen on
the streets In fine plug hats, talking
largely OF tho campaign" and ap-
ing the airs OF 9 WeIl-to-do-mRn of
the world. They seemed to think 1t
dlsgrsceful to be seen at manual
| labor.
This lie not the way the sol. Mil
lers, Jake Stotlers, and other hard
working newspaper men, have built
up their Chiefs, News etc. AS Sol.
says, the only way for a man to sue
coed is to "peel of his coat and go
in" Well warrant that Anderson
and Tone will both go back to Ohio
and abuse Kansas as State unfit for
0 gentleman to live in. This is the
way such people generally get sat
isfsction for their faiiures,-Paola
Spirit. 10
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22
SOME QUEER wAGERs.

Neither wiser nor more digni-
fed than other people, the Ameri-
cans have curious ways of their
own in regard to making bets.
But the other day, in Boston,
two physicians were disputing
over the merits of the opposing
candidates for the Presidency.
The Greeley physician bet the
Grant physician skeleton on the
result, which he paid no donbt
with as much grace as if it had
been a hat or y pair of gloves.
Still more unique was the bet men
toned by the Detroit Posts A
young man Of that city had twice
courted n young lady and had
been twice refused. He was a
Republican, she was a Democrat.
Their political discussions had
gone on more smoothly, perhaps,
than their amatory ones, until she
in a passion proffered to bet on
the election of Horace Greeley.
What would she bet-her free
dom? Yes. A contract was act
ually reduced to writing, and
signed by both in the presence OF
witnesses, which pledged the wo-
man, in the event of Grants elsc.
ton, to name some day within 8
month after his inauguration when
she would marry the man. And
the pledge on his part, in the event
of Greeley's election, was to gel
down on his knees before certain
specified people and ask public
pardon of the lady for having sc
long tormented her with the per.
sistence of two years courtship
The man has won, but if he il
q sensible man he will scarcely
insist upon the woman's share il
the performance of the contract
All countries are the same il
the matter of wagers. A Londor
magazine tells how, several years
ago, London waterman wagere6
During the construction OF thil
road many doubts we're expressed
as to the practicability of its op
Grafton, but the large amount o
business which is now being trans
acted over it and the freedom
from accident which have attend
ed its operation have rendered i
matter of certainty that wit
proper care roads of this charac
/ ter, and often with grades exceed
ing 200 feet to the mile, may b
/ advantageously used.
The grading of the road be
: tween Golden and Julesburg,
: distance of 115 miles, was CON
, menced on the 18th of September
and is being prosecuted with
strong force. Forty miles OF tn
road are graded and it is expect
, ed that the force now engaged o
. the road will be able to grsde ~
miles per day during fayorsel
Reethse.s. go -r@-
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STRANGE INSTANCE OF PRESENT.
MENT.-A gentleman who is tempo
rarily absent from home and stop
ping in the city, relates to US that.
after retiring TO bed night before
last and before going to sleep, no
seemed all st once to be in room
at home. Everything about the
room seemed as real and tangible as
If he were at that moment in it. 1t
could not be dream, because he
never Tor q moment lost his con-
sciousness. Upon q bed in the
room lay his brother, apparently
very pale, and leaning over the bed
stood his mother In great seeming
distress. All day Yesterday he
could not Danish the incident from
his mind, and last night came the
sequel. he received O letter from
home saying that his brother had
fallen from a high window, and ev-
er since had lain in an unconscious
state in the room which he had so
plainly seen the night before, and
that his mother had scarcely left his
bedside. We have this Information
from a gentleman of intelligence
and q disbeliever in all spiritual
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. State Regis
ter .-
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the colts and calves carefully, and
if you Sc any failing, look out for
lice. A close inspection will re-
veal hundreds of them feeding up
On the poor animal. An appIica-
tioH, on warm day, of brine will
bring great relief. A decoction
of tobacco applied viii also rid
the animal of these pests A thor
ough greasing is also q remedy.
Don't let the poor animal suffer.
These applications are as good for
human beings as for brutes.
No man of order or taste will
see gates hanging on one hinge,
fences reeling, everything looking
like old chaos and young ruin
men OF taste will husband well their
farms, and men of real farming
skill will have arrangements for
making the most of all they get,
for saving and marketing, that
nothing be lost. 1t is the farm
ers' losses that keep them back,
and the most OF their losses are
by their own negligence or want
Of skill. There is much half
farming; they waste much labor
and time. The art OF keeping ev-
erything in order lies in having q
place for everything and putting
everything in its place when used
in making repairs when needed;
in always putting odd moments OF
time, rainy days. etc, to making
improvements, arranging conyen-
fences, and in getting ready for
the seasons active labor. :Let all
half farmers mend their ways as
fast as possible, so will they mend
their fortunes and their temporal
interests. ..Ef
There is nothing, perhaps, that
has tended to discourage the i'm
provement OF our native stock
more than the blanketed and del
icate specimens OF Short Horns at
our Fairs-interbred, in many in
stances, to the ruin OF their Goa,
stitutions, incapable of breeding,
and bloated with fat. The farmer
buys such s. bull perhaps, takes
him home, and under ordinary
keeping he becomes q srack-of
bone" a sorry object indeed, and
in disgust disclaims against al
thoroughbreds. These pampered
animals should not be taken as 9
type of the farmers cattle. They
are made on purpose to take pre-
miums, when they become SO over
loaded with fat that they are prac.
tically useless tor breeding purpo
ses. They inherit weak constitu,
tions from their sires and dams,
many of whom are SO degenerated
that they can hardly transmit life
to their progeny. These fashion.
able strains have virtually driven
from our Fairs the more robust
animals we used to see and have
brought the stock into contempt
with our farmers. They are used
to gain premiums before hyper
critical judges at our Fairs. They
are in repute only, through few
men Of wealth, who can afford to
keep them.
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FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Prof. Riley gives it as his con-
viction that if q dozen of our most
common birds were swept from
existence, we should no longer be
able to grow the principal crops,
and insects would riot and multi
ply beyond the possibility of re-
straint.
An English writer states that
H.among working horses, the effect
of cooked food are something mar
velous. Collie and indigestion gen.
orally, with disease of the liver
and kidneys, are of common &C.
currence." From which we are to
infer that cooked food, while a
great saving to the farmer, is not
productive of good health for the
animals.
In transplanting young trees il
is an unphilosophical practice to
trim the limbs so closely that on
" few twigs are left. In tn a
mutilated condition the effort to
live is hard struggle. More die
than survive the violence, because
they are dprived of their breathing
organs. One side of each leaf i'm.
bibes carbon from the air for ma.
lkiag wood while the other throw.
OF oxygen for keeping the atmos.
phere supplied with a material
which supports life, without which
death would reign triumphautIy
While our great stock markets
are SiodiBd with Texans, Chero
KEGS, "prairie racers" and degen-
4 crate woods cattle" which barely
pay the cost of rearing and feed
ing, the higher qualities of gra
ded cattle are growing scarcer and
scarcer every year. Our weekly
quotations show this, and they al
90 show that such cattle always
bring remunerative prices. I'm
fortunately, many Of this class o.
breeders are not advertises, and
consequently, the average farmer
does not know where to look fol-
good staunch bulls, such SIS b.
ought to get at $lO0 to $I5e each
At six to twelve months of age.
It is not the amount of money
one has left when the balance il
made at the close Of the year that
determines exactly the profit o
the farmer. but when ten or TWEEN
| ty years have passed and ne findl
himself in possession of a comfor
table home, q farm in high condi
ton. good buildings, fne stock
some surplus money at interest
and no debts, his children vel
educated, the farmer may conn
his career as successful This i
Gar more than the majority Of bus
mess men attain, but then we rare
" look at this majority for q lesson
| It il the success of the few which
dazzies; when the sun shines tn
stars are not seen.
4 In answer to many inquiries 70
a remedy for lice. the Rural Worll
states that an application of brin
a. strong as can be nade, is q Gel
: tain remedy. It will kill the lie
. | outright, but not always the nit
!. hence . second or third spPlicatio
st is required TO be efectual. Hog
! are greatly pestered With lice, a.
! thsY akcElA Be destroyed. Waite
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22
rae CENSUS COMPLETE.

Gen. Francis A. Walker has q.
nally completed the work Of tab
ulating the results Of the census
of 1870, and has submitted his re-
port to the secretary Of the inter.
Tor. No census heretofore has
been conducted with the care that
Gen. Walker has given to bis work
The plan pursued in gathering
statistics for the ninth census has
also permitted = more complies
exhibit of the facts connected with
the subjects of general interest.
Primarily the census was estab
iished as means Of obtaining thu
number Of the population from
time to time, in order to proper
ton properly the representation il
congress. Gradually new ques
tons have been added, covering
the general facts in regard TO thu
agricultural, manufacturing, min
ing, commercial and social condi
ton Of the country. ro
General Walker in his repor
criticises severely the incomplete
ness Of the present method OF q
king the census and making tn
returus. He has been able TO tab
ulste the returns In . shape 90 >
70 reech results By the t1cesssn
labor ef tRe years tro0 ~ an
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sAs, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1872.
the census vas taken. But he

the census was taken. But he
says in his report:
Q FThere is no reason, however,
why, with such notifications OF
existing laws as would come orig
inally 70 the census Office ia prop
er shape for tabulation, the entire
compilation should not be conclu-
ded within a year of the date of
the first receipts of returns. 1t
is not possible for one who has
had such painful occasions as the
present superintendent to observe
the workings of the census law OF
1850 to characterize it otherwise
than as clumsy, antiquated. and
barbarous. The machinery it pro
yides is as unfit for use in the cen
sus Of the United States, in this
day of advanced statistical sciences
as the smoothbore, muzzle load
ing queens arm of the revolution
would he for service against the
repeating rife of the present time"
Gen. Walker also recommends
earnestly a census in 1875 with a
view of presenting prior to the
grand centennial OF, 1876 q late
and complete view Of the progress
Of the United States during the
hundred years since the declara-
ton Ofindependence. He thinks
that if the improvements
he suggests are adopted, the GEN.
sas could be taken in 1875, and its
results published by the LIST OF
June, 1875. and that the showing
would be "a noble monument to
erect at the end of a century of
the nations life." He is further
of the opinion that census taken
at the time indicated would in all
probability secure the taking of
one thereafter, at intervals OF five
years only. The interval of ten
years fixed by the constitution he
considers too long for all the uses
to which the statistics of the cen
sus are put, "except only for the
redistribution of congress repre-
sentatives."
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SheriR's Sale,


NOTICE il hereby given that by vir-
IN tue of an order Of sale, issued by the
Clerk of the district court OF Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas, bearing date October %, 1872,
to me directed, will, on Monday, the I'd
day Of December, 1872, at 8 O'Clock p.
m, at the front door OF the court house,
in said county, ofier for sale, at public
auction, to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following described real estate, to.
wit: Lot No. .. section 9, township Is,
range 10, excepting the right OF way
granted to the Union Pacific Southern
Branch railroad company; also com.
mencing at the northeast corner Of the
northeast quarter of the southwest quar-
ter Of section 4, township IS, range 10
running south IL rods; thence west q
rods; thence north II rods; thence east &
rods to place of beginning, to be sold 81
the property of w. H. Baughman, to sat
isfy n Judgment in favor of j. X. Finley
Appraised at o., 400. JOHN BAY,
sheriff of Lyon county, Kan.
Emporia, Kan, Nov. l. 1872. 44-4S
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Too MUCH FOR WHISKY STILLS.
- A certain town of Eastern Ten
pessee boosted of having four whis-
Ky stills. The son of the man who
started the first one went into it one
sunday morning and drank so free
ly 40 to get drunk. He then went
to distant church and made such q
disturbance that they were coppell-
ed to turn him out.
Going into the woods, he remain
ed alone until he got sober. He
then resolved never to get drunk
again, and to work until the whisky
stills were all broken up. --5-
Meeting with an active agent oil
the American Sunday-school Union,
he secured his advice and assist
auce in organizing q good Union
Sundsy.sehool near these four dis
Tilleries. They have all since been
closed. The owner, as he shut up
the last one for want of business
said, "That Sunday-school is toe
much for US. Anything but this
singing the Bible into folks. It's no
use to fight that"
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MARROW GUAGE RAILROADS.
How the Train, &c Up and Dswn mil.

The Western Division Of the
Colorado Central railroad thar
row guage) has been comptEted
to Golden, a distance of sixteen
miles, to a point within khree
miles of Black Hawk. Tt ishow
open for business, and has been
in running order for the last six
weeks. Three locomotives for
merly in use on the east approach
to the Missouri river bridge, are
now used on this division, and
find constant employment in trans
portation of freight and passen-
gers.
In some respects this railroad is
the most remarkable that has ev-
er, been used for passenger trans
portation. The line follows the can
yon of Cleer creek, which is ex-
tremely narrow, in some cases
contracted to width of forty feet.
It has precipitons sides, from 80
to 1000 feet in Height. Through
this sanFsn the railroad finds its
way, following closely to the side
kof the stream, but built upon rock
foundation, and beyond the reach
of high water. The descent Of the
creek for sixteen miles is one
hundred feet per mile, but it is sx-
tremely irregular, in many places
moving along with very low vel
ocity and at other points plung-
ing over falls from fifteen to forty
feet in height. The steepest grade
used is ITS feet to the mile, and
the shortest curve 100 feet radius.
All the cars are fitted with one
loose wheel on each axel by
which expedient the friction of
the curvature is eliminated and
the locomotives are enabled to
draw trains with ease which it
would be found impossible to
move if the cars were supplied
with wheels of ordinary construc-
ton. "a
The average speed on the road
is eight miles per hour. The OPP
GRAFTON of a road with these pecu.
liar characteristics being in some
degree an experiment, the speed
has been reduced to limit which
is perfectly safe. It is anticipated
that higher speed may hereafter
be used with entire safety.
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&ho,.fRsa G.I0

NOTICE is hereby given that by viz
Clerk of the district court Of Lyon coHn-
ty, Kansas, bearing date October %. 1872,
and to me directed, will, on the I'd day
of December, 1879, at 2 O'Clock p. m, at
the front door of the court house, in said
county, offer for sale, at public auction,
wit: Sc feet, 4 inches by so feet Oh the
west end of lot So, Market street, in the
city of Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas,
beginning at the southwest corner of lot
50; thence SO feet inches east; thence 80
feet north; thence west SO feet inches;
thence 81 feet south TO place of begin
as w. Jones, to satisfy judgment in IA
vor OF A. S. Tandy. Appraised at 81 200.
Terms OF sale cash, JOHN BAY,
Sheriff OF Lyon county, Kan.
EmpOria. KAN Nov, l. 1872 ALAS
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FATAL FALL OF THEE HUNDRED
FEET FROM A BURNING BALLOON.

Mr.. Dennison, ernaut, who adj
vertised that Mr.. L. Durham would
make an ascension from this place
this afternoon, was Initiating his
monster balloon, getty of New
York." and had nearly completed
the Initiating process, when people
on the north side of the grounds
discovered smoke escaping from the
north side of the balloon. It was
scarcely visible at first, but hardly
had the defect in the air-ship be-
come apparent before flames were
issuing from the very top of the
balloon. Quickly the shout went
up, "the balloon is on fire." and, as
those near by began to retreat, the
horses were also driven here and
there to escape all danger. The dry
cambria and its covering began
burning, first slowly, then the flames
spread and upward and onward
went the fire. Scarcely had the
flames burst out, however, before
en- aperture of two C Or three feet
was made where the guy-rope hold
ing the unwieldly thing crossed it,
and now the rope burns of, and
away to the southwark shoots the
balloon, carrying in its course Mr..
Michael MeMann, a laberer assist
ing in the imitation. Being near the
basket as it started of, he became
entangled, and hanging with one
foot inside of the basket, his hands
hold of the ropes, he thus assembled
for perhaps one hundred feet, and
regained a position in the basket
which hung sideways, and in an
other minute was hanging from the
ropes alone, at height of probably
not less than three hundred feet.
Now his strength gives way, his
presence of mind deserts him, and,
in another moment the poor man is
seen falling to the earth-an awful,
painful sight, filling with horror
and Consideration the four or FIVE
hundred spectators on the grounds.
But the suspense was only for q
moment; he descended to the earth
nearly in standing position, from
800 feet in mid air, until, when near
the ground, he fell backward, strik-
ing the ground with his back with
such force as to produce a concus-
sion heard at some distance away,
and Mr.. McMann, Familiarity known
as "Big Nike" was dead-utteriy
crushed, the blood streaming from
his mouth and nostrils.
The balloon alighted but q few
rods outside the fair grounds, and
was soon consumed.