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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-27
MODERN MASONs.

Mr.. EDITOR: Your Americas
correspondent frequently alludes to
our Lodge of Modern Masons. AS
this is a new order I presume but
few of your readers understand the
difference between US and our an
cient brethren.
The ancient craft are governed by
certain landmarks, adopted in the
early days of masonry-at what
time no one seems to know; but
they bear the impress of ancient
times, and are the best proof extant
of the great antiquity of masonry.
The government is despotic, the re-
ligion judaism, while the name
of woman is ssndwiched in among
the low and degraded, and as such
she is excluded from the lodge.
These landmarks are held to be ir-
revokabIe, and, however objection
able they may be, no change can
ever be made within the order.
They are as rigidly enforced to-day
as they were in the days of King
Solomon.
Now take a look into our lodge
room. All along the wall you see
little fancy hats, "without form and
void" so far as comfort to the own
ers is concerned. Here are muffs,
tippets, and ladies' gear generally.
There, an organ, violin and female
voices are making music that "hath
charms to sooth," etc. Our mod
ernized King Solomon has lost his
frigid scowl, and seems well pleased
with the work before him. And
well he may be, for all is in har-
mony with the cherished institu-
tions of the age.
We now have about forty men,
bers, of whom twelve are ancient
crsft masons. Some OF our best
families are represented in this
lodge; in fact the whole member
ship is of that class which builds
our churches and school houses and
takes the lead in every public en-
terprise. We have no landmarks
or arbitrary rules void of reason,
but are governed by those axioms
of trutL and justice which are ap-
proved by all men. Progression is
the watchword of the order, and
old fogy notions and fossils have no
place among US. We love masonry.
We love the work, with its high
standard of virtue and morality, its
impressive lessons of purity in life
and hopes of future bliss. We love
that "Mystic Tie" which 80 often
mitigates the ssperities of this life,
and enables the unfortunate to meet
adversely with q sure hope. So we
love our wives and daughters, and
gladly welcome them into the
lodge to share with us its pleasures.
We allow no determinations against
women. They receive all of the
degrees and enjoy ali the rights and
privileges of the order. And for
this we are well paid. Their pres
ence has banished from the lodge all
coarse aud vulgar conversation
and all improper conduct; while
their superior gifts for music and
social chat add much to an EVENING"
entertainment
We regard this as a move in the
right direction. The spirit aud
purpose of masonry is good. But
society has outgrown its landmark
and all good men and masons would
be glad to see the Institution strip
ped of its Objectionable features,
and made to conform to the spirit
of the age in which we live. Our
social institutions are the fountains
of the civil law, and these ancient
landmarks are q dead weight upon
our advancing civilization. SAX.
AxERTcUs, Dec. IA, 1872.
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but there is q rumor that il caught
from lighted cigar thrown on the
sawdust floor. The contents of one
vault, containing many valuable
documents and records, was entire
Iy destroyed, the door having been
left open, bat the others, being SEE
curely fastened. are supposed to
have the contents safe.
The Lawrence Journal records
the death. in Washington; on the 1st
inst, of George C. Baker. He came
to Kansas in 1856, and was well
known among the early settlers.
He resided At I4ecompton, where he
was for several years clerk in the
United States land Office, and after.
wards worked at the printing busi-
ness in Leavenworth. He had been
residing at Washing ton for the last
year or two.
Geo. Leis' large thermometer, in
Lawrence, noted II, and Prof
Shows three standard ones noted
Is degrees below zero, last Friday
The lowest last winter was II. In
1868 it went down to II degrees
and in 1858 10 16IE. So last Friday
was the coolest on record in thai
city.
Since last September some eight
or nine women in aud about Bur
lington have died from the periTs o.
maternity. Physicians say that thu
child-bed fever sets in, and not 4
case has recovered that has been at
tackled by the disease. 1t is repor
ted to be contagious. James Win
chester. of Otter Greek, lost hi
wife Tuesday . week ago, from thi
complaint.
| Fourteen houses were burned oil
the 23d at Fontana, MAMA county
The Wichita Eagle says there i
no longer any doubt but tina
many lives have been sacrificed
among buffalo hunters on tn
plains. Macy have returned wit
frozen hands, feet, etc.
Ben Akers and W. II. Carey, c
Lawrence, have each lost a vaiusbl
blooded horse from the epizootit
CofeyYille, near the terminatio
of the L. L. & G.. road, had a YER
destructive fire on Thursday, Las
week. Eleven buildings were burr
ed. The total loss was $4,000.
i Last Friday, Samuel Dean. c
Junction City, fell down his 60 foe
we'll, while drawing up the buckle
He la ythere an hour or more, an
was finally discovered and pulle
up. His head feels very bad.
Last week q horse was stole
from Cedarvale; the owner pursue
and found the thief at dinner jus
above the forks of the Canas. II
Aed towards the creek, and just 8
he jumped in he was shot and fe
into the water. The parties CAV
themselves up, and the coroner
jury found the mani in the watel
with a revolver in his hand.
Capt. W. w. Roller, one of til
Ottawa furniture factory proprie
tors, was on trial there last week i
charge of setting it on fro to 60
the insurance. He was acquitte
on every point.
Geo. c. Crowther, of the Osag
Mission Transcript, has been mad
postmaster there.
Col. s. P. Smith, of the Lawrenc
Standard, is to publish q new pape
at Neodesha, and call it the Wilson
} County Free Press.
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THE SOUTHWEST.
Chase County.

The case of J. r. Blackshire VS.. the
A. T. q s. F. railroad company, was
an appeal from the allowance of about
$500 damages made to the plaintiff on
account laid of taken for right of way
for the use of the railroad company.
After about q year of the caetledore and
shuttlecOck, which usually takes place
in holly contested law suits, the case
was finally tried in May last In the
District court, before a jury, and a
judgment of $2,400 rendered in favor
of plaintiff. The case was then taken
to the Supreme court by the railroad
company, and that court has, just az
tirmed the judgement of the District
court. This ia the third suit these
parties have had growing out of the
appropriation of the same right OF way
two of which have gone to the SUI
preme court, and all of which have
been decided in Blackshire's favor.
The Cottonwood Falls Leader says
Tax paying is very slow.
Cottonwood Falls has the epizootic,
in Kuhl's stable.
The court house is now entirely in
closed. Temporary doors have been
put up and the sashes glazed and put
in. The fathers are at work, and the
building will soon be ready for the
plasterers. The three furnaces arrlv-
ed on the 18th.
Little Nellie Britton, daughter OF
Charles Britton, was knocked down
and seriously injured on last Sunday,
by an unmanageable horse. The in
juries are principally in the head and
back and are severe but not danger
Gus.
Will. Hackett, who was accidentally
shot while buffalo hunting, some lime
since, was brought 20 this CITY from
Raymond, last Saturday, by Col
Wood, and Is now aC the residence oil
his brOtheT-in-law, H. G. Lighte. His
wound is decidedly better, but he il
suffering from drOpsy, and is unable &c
leave his bed.
| A movement is on foot to organize
! q society to be known as the ''South-
western Kansas Emigration Society ,
the object of which is to advertise ant
settle unoccupied lands in this and adj
Joining counties. An effort will b.
made to get the owners of unoccupieC
hands TO put their property in the mai
ket &C uniform and reasonable rate
and on long time. If this effort is sue
cessful, and the railroad companies re
duce the price of their lands, as in al
probability they will ir this county q
least, much OF the spring emigration
will be turned in this direction, other
wise it will go 20 Northern Texas. an,
farther west.
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st. Louis shows q healthy growt tn.
1851 buildings have been erected
there du ing the year 1872, at a cost
of S5,6S4,000; of these buildings
only eighty-six are frame. Its
Kansas trade is a large source OF
such great prosperity.
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The New York Evening Post
calls attention TO the bill which re-
Gently passed tho House OF Repre-
renta,ives, giving public land as an
additional bounty to soldiers and
sailors of the late war. 1t says:
ait now appears that \ little
cIaune ia the amended soldiers and
sailors lad aud bounty i,ill, which
passed tho House Of Representa-
iivss last week, contained . Verl
large scheme for misappropriating
the public lands. This clause an
thorizss the transfer Of bounty pat
ents by tho soldiers TO agents, and
thus the object of the original meas
ure, 20 give homes to needy sol
diers and their heirs. Is perverted
into q means of gigantic epecEla
tioa. Should this bill be enacted.
there Is no doubt that the yas'
amount of'laud which il originally
PoptsmplGtsd eivtDg aWSy tgf ?
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General Grant said, in converse
ton with some gentlemen who were
at the White House, that should
Congress pass Summers re, olutior
directing the III mes of battles o.
the war for the suppression of the
rebellion to be removed from the
flags of those regiments which took
part in them, il might be necessary
to Immediately order the imprison-
ment for life of all the one-armed
and one-legged soldiers of the land
that they might not remind people
of the struggle through which the
nation had triumphantly passed.
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They Il, been used with the
best result y veterinary surgeons
in New i, and Philadelphis. and
when use,i egulariy will cure in all
The pro-. course to pursue is as
follows: A. soon as the horse be.
gins to cough, stop feeding hay and
other dry food; stop giving very
cold water to drink; do not let
draughts of cold air blow on him /;
do not bleed ; do not physic. Give
the horse perfect rest in Q warm,
dry, clesD, and well ventilated sta
bic. Blanket him well. Keep his
head, throat and neck well wrapped
up with fsnnel or other wooden
goods. The nostrils should be
cleaned ont three times q day with
sponge bud warm water, in which
some tabis salt has been dissolved.
If the secrrtions from the nOetrils
are Often 80, then use Tilden's Bro
mo ChloI. I'm, / part to 10 or 10 OF
warm wafer, and sponge or syringe
out the nostrils and mouth two or
three times 9 day :give l tablespoon
flIi OF the Compound Powders three
Il mes day mixed in warm bran
m ash ru'. ne swollen glands, neck
and front cheek with the Com
pound A. aoniated Oil three times
q day, RI ng it well in, and keep
tn Q parts ell wrapped up. IF the
horse hs' yer, give % to 80 drops
Ti1ctur' Aconite Root three OF
four tim, day. If his respiration
(breathin; is unusually rapid, give
quarter t. lslf teaspoonful of Tine
ture Ver-.um-yiried three or four
times dsv. If the horse refuses to
eat, give VI arm gruel to drink made
| with oat meal, bran and hot water
and mix the medicines in with this.
In no case allow very cold water ai
a drink. In very bad cases it would
be advisable to make the horse in.
hale steam five or six times day b.
pouring boiling water from a tea
kettle into a shallow pan and pla
cling it under his nostrils. or let hin
iuhale the vapor of burning tar
| To disinfect impure stables, use Cal
vert's carbolic acid No. 5 Solution
by adding tablespoonful to quar-
of soft wr'er, and sprinkle the sta
bles after hey have been thorough
ly cleaned also place one or TIVE Ia
blespoonfOls of the undiluted aciC
in q shallow dish, and place near thu
horse; also thoroughly whitewasl
the stalls.
The above treatment IL founded
upon correct principles, and thG
practice of it has been followed will
the most favorable resu its.
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st. Louis furnishes the latest case
of infantile amusement. Pierre
Smith set fire to the dress of his
little sister, one month Ole, and burnt
her to crisp. He told his mother
he did it, "just to see the fun" and
insists upon being praised for his
smartness. For a boy only three
years old he is remarkable, and his
sensitive spirit should not be harsh.
~ reproved.
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General Porter, President Grants
private secretary is about to retire
from the service of the White
House and betake himself to pri-
vste life and civil pursuits. Not
that Porter has ever been very IN
civil, under any circumstances but
that he is to drop the military, all
except the title. Aud that is about
all he ever cared fo-, barrin' the
pay. But now the General is going
to become Yice-President of the
Pullman Car Company, with a good
salary and little to do. That will
suit Porter, and for all VIC know
Porter will suit that, and every body
is happy, so far as this Porter mat
ter is concerned.
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DIR. Lancaster, coroner of Lon
don, reports that in that city 5000
infants are each year smolhered To
death in bed, by their mothers, who
fall asleep while nursing the innO-
cents. What a chapter of grief this
simple statement reveals.
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We sec it stated that the Kind and

We sec it stated that the kind and
lamb-like Wendell Phillips has un
dertaken the delicate task of recon-
CLING the little Misunderstanding
between Froude and Father Burke
in relation to Irish history and Irish
affairs. When the two parties have
flagellatcd each other till they are
tolerable raw, Phillips will come
into the ring and rub vinegar and
brine and concentrated spirits OF
ammonia on the sore places. We
expect Phillips knows as much
about ''ould Ireland" aseither of the
others, and then he will tell the
truth. He don't care n continental
who is hit.
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Col. Jennison having been de-
feated for election to the State Sen
ate, has concluded that "pious
lodges" are a waste of time and has
re-opened his gambling hell in
Leavenwortb, and has established q
"branch" at the new town of Deni.
son, Texas.
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Talking about cold weather, they
have il in Wisconsin. a Milwaukee
telegram of Saturday, says that the
weather all oyer the Northwest is
the most severe known for years.
At Fit. Garry and Manitoba it was
torty-two below zero st. Paul and
Minneapolis, thirty Milwaukee, in
the middle of the day, twenty.
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TELEGRAPHB ITEMS.

Chicago rates 90 degrees below
zero.
Ice has suspended lake and rivol
navigation all over the country.
Tho southern members of Con
gress will try to elect Horace May.
nard Speaker of the House. Speak.
er Blaine is confident of reelection.
Ice at Cincinnati sunk barges
on Sunday, loaded with 10000 bush
els of coal
On Sunday, A. T. Stewart, the
rich man of New York, fell down
the steps of his Fifth Avenue resi-
dence, dislocating his ankle and
breaking his leg. Later-he didn't
hurt himself at all.
The Union Pacific railroad is to
sue Cakes Ames and others for the
Sl8,0OO,000 worth of stocks gobbled
by them through the "Credit BIO,
belier."
Great snow storms in Michigan
have blockaded railroad trains the
past week beyond ali previous rec.
ord. The thermometer went to 90
and it is feared the fruit crop il
ruined.
The Greeley will case is postpon'
ed to January Is. The friends OF
the Greeley girls expect to com.
promise with the Childcrn's aid go.
ciety, now the only contestant fol-
Mrs. GreeleH's estate.
The Mississippi at St. Louis is
fruzen over solid, and teams cross.
Rev. AIR. Talmadge's church in
Brooklyn caught tlre from a defect
I'VE flue last Sunday, and was de-
,troyed, loss sos 600; insurance
$4,000. Tho walls aud roof, OF
corrugated iron, curled off with the
heat, and the mammoth Boston ju.
bilee organ, just received, was lost
G. P. Putnam, the book ard mag
azine publisher, died on the Goth.
The late snow and severe cold
prevailed all over the country.
President Grant has expressed his
determination to put an end to
Mormon institutions.
tits doubtful whether the postal
telegraph bill will be passed the
present session OF Congress.
George Francis Train has been
arrested in New York upon the
charge of publishing obscene litera-
ture, and now languishes in the
tombs.
There are fears that the steam
ship Shannon, which sailed from
Montreal for Hull, has foundered.
Cincinnati received ITT,532 live
hogs last week.
Forests divorced wife will make
. claim against his 81, 100000 estate
for dover. AT the time the divorce
was granted she was allowed SO 900
per year alimony, which now ceases.
Four hundred and forty-nine peo-
pie have persisted along the English
coast in the last ten days, by ship
wreck.
The following Washington tele-
gram of the Goth throws some
light on the slow pro gress of the
Caldwell investigation;
The statement of Senator Nor
ton, lately made in the Senate, that
he had repeatedly called together
the Pomeroy-Caldweli investiga-
ton committee, but without sue
cess, has led to q resolution which
is to be submitted to the Senate
Immediately after the holidays,
calling for the appointment of a
committee of seven to proceed to
Topeka and there thoroughly slit
the charges preferred by Tue last
Legislature. A letter was to-day
written to the chairman of the
Kansas Senate investigating com
N Ittse, Informing him Of the pro-
posed action, and requesting his
cooperation in the matter. An
other letter of similar import viii
follow tomorrow, addressed to S,
4. Cobb, speaker of the last Houss
and member elect to Congress.
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The ERIE RAILWAY-JAY GOULD
DESCRIBES.

When = man returns $4,000, 900
stolen property, it is worth writing
down the TACT. Jay Gould has just
done this. A telegram says:
New York, Dec. 19.-The new
Erie management was completed
to-day. The most notable its un-
dertakings at the meeting of the
board this morninp was the report
of special committee appointed to
take into consideration the proposal
made by Jay Gould, looking to the
settlement of the suits instituted
against him by the Erie company.
The report presented was very long,
embracing the full terms offered
by Gould, and concluding with the
recommendation that the PROPOSE
ton of settlement be accepted. The
report was adopted. The result
will be the withdrawal ofsuits PEN
ding against Gould upon the surren-
der to the board of directors of
$9, 086, 600, which sum, according to
the opinion Of the members Of the
special committee, will cover the to.
tai amount for which the various
suits have been brought. The terms
of settlement with Gould include a
transfer Of 10000 shares of Erie
stock, the Grand opera house, and q
number OF lots OF valuable land,
amounting to fully $1,000 900. This
statement was confirmed by GoPld
himself this after noon, who also
said there was an understanding
that he was to be consulted on mat
ters of importance in connection
with the business of the road. He
thinks that the first arrangements
now made will enable the company
to ley = third rail ON the Erie road,
and ia make An alliance with the
Lake Shore road. Various opin-
ions are given as to the causes
which led to Gouldis surrender,
some believing he had no other re-
source others th2t It IL part OF
deeply laid plan TO regain some of
his lost influence over the Erie rail-
way.
New York, Dec. 20.-Some Of the
property surrendered by Jay Gould
to Erie is his real estate in New J err
sey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
the Grand Opera House, with ten
or twelve adjoining buildings on
I'D and 18th streets, together with |
. valuable plaE Of ground ct the foot |
of Twenty-third street. He also
promised 70 SECURE Mrs. Lucy Eisk's |
Interest % The Grand Opera House. |
The Bkode IslASd property II sup.
posed TO be his- magnificent villa on |
the point ct Newport This New
Jersey title eOEnPrehends his inter-
- = -a~2 a.&ofa - Earkh naWakt
there. and TIE PennsylTapia props |
erty q cid to rsEEeseat coal asld. |
The Company have agrsed g settle |
with the estate Of Col. Fisk for
risks haIf Of the Opera House and
sA006d0 In ceah. This vii leave /
Fisk1s widow with less than $780,
300. The actual legal transfsr Of
real estate embracing tracts Of land
il New jersey, Ohio sud PeuuDyl-
Ssals, msy Esquire s1SSra Weeka
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THE EMPoRIA News is fifteen
years old with this issue. We are
happy-got enough to eat and wear,
aud will work harder than ever to
make it an acceptable paper in the
future. We wish all Merry Christ
mas and a Happy and Prosperous
| New Year!
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HERD NOTICE.
COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE.
ENnEy ~ r. IN sos

OOUNTH CLERK s. OFFICE.
LYON Co., Dec. 10, 1878
TN pursuance Of an order Of the Board
Il OF County Commissioners OF Lyon
county, made at the meeting Of said
Board, held November lIth, 1872, the
following extract from their proceeding,
Is published, to-wit:
"a petition having been presented to
the Board OF County Commissioners, ask.
ing the said Board to make an order that all
persons owning horses, mules, sheep or
cattle In Fremont township, In Lyon Co =.
shall keep them confined in the night time.
from the LIST day OF March 20 the LIST day of
Decem6er. In each year, and II appearing
TO the Board by due and legal evidence
that said petition ts signed By . majorit,
Of the qualified electors OF said Fremont
township, and that the number OF the
said electors subscribing said petition Il
more than three-nfths the number Of votek
polled IN said township at the last gene
raj election held therein; and that the
said petition fs subscribed and verified in
the manner provided by law, Il IL there
fore
ORDERED, That all persons owning
mont tp.. Lyon Co., shall keep them con-
fined in the night time from the FIRST day
Of March to the Grst day Of December 10
each year during tie Continuance in force
ORDERED, That the County CLERK Of
Lyon county, cause certified copy OF this
order to be published for three weeks 10
the Empcria News, . newspaper publish.
ed in said county Of Lyon.
STATE OF EAEsAa.
LxoH Qpg6FT,
Iheffhy certify tkks fss sheye snd fire.
GotnS y . 91e And correct copy Of 20
uuee g the proceedings Of the meeting
Of the Board Of Coauty Gommissioners 81
said county, held November 18th, 1871, rs
relates % Tie petition for restraining eat
tie mn1es, sheep and horses from FuR.
ming e large 10 the sight time "a Fremont
township, said county,
Witness my hand sad the seal Of said
county, tn9 ds{ eso year dFst shove writ
te1. DAVID s. GILMORE,
sz-5s County Clerk.
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The Harpending, of Arizona dia-
mond fraud fame, is q cousin of
John Z. Cox, of Burlington. Cox
says the way Harpending was taken
in ILLUSTRATOR the good-natured ere
dulity OF all persons of the blood.
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The Rhode Island Medical Society
has admitted Miss Tynde TO mem
bership. Whereat many papers APP
plaud vociferously. The Kansas
Medical Association did similar
thing quite o while ago.
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NEWS AND EDITORIAL NOTES.

The track layers on the NJ. X.
& L. railroad arrived at Denison,
Texas, on Tuesday, and regular
trains commenced running imme-
diately.