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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-07

FRTDAY. JUNE q. Is72.
AGNES CITY.


! Owing TO recent heavy rains the
farmers of this township have not
all got their corn planted yet, and q
large amount of the corn that was
planted just before the rains set in
has rotsed in the ground-an unusu-
al occurrence for Kansas-and some
of our farmers are under the neces-
sity of re-planting, which will place
them behind with their crops: but
what corn got up and made a good
start before the rains Is looking fine
and their prospects are more fiatter.
ing than usual. The prospect for
spring wheat and oats is generally
very good, but nearly all Of the
winter wheat was winter killed !;
although Mr.. Keller, at the head of
Bluff Greek has nine acres Of winter
wheat that promises q good half
crop or more.
There seems to be some stir in
real estate matters in our part of
the county. Mrs. Clark and Nor
row sold their farm on Bluff Creek,
last week, to Messrs. Cook and
Chandler, of Doniphan county. 1
am informed the latter parties in
tend making a wool-growing farm
of it, to help furnish material for
their factory at Blue Rapids.
More anon. PHRANK.
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STRANGE IF TRUE.

The following strange, evcntful
record a.: journeyman printers
life we are positive is correct TO the
letter. 1t develops what u man
can do If he likes. and what queer,
enterprising. unselfish fellows the
majority OF printers are: "The
life of printer is, to say the least,
one of variety. / left home at the
age of nine. and was apprenticed to
the printing business at thirteen.
Since then l have been in Europe
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
and France-in Canada, Nova
Scotia, Labrador, South America,
West Indies and all the Atlantic
States in the Union, from Maine to
Louisiana-have been fixed in TWEEN
ty cities and towns of the United
States. l have been q sailor in the
merchant service, and have sailed in
all manner of craft-sbip, barquc,
brig, schooner, sloop and steamer
in the regular army as a private
soldier, deserted and got shot i'll the
leg. have studied Two years for
the ministry, one year for an n. ID.
travelling through all the New
England States, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
as a journeyman printer: generally
with little else than brass rule i'll
my pocket. l have been The pub
Usher of two papers in Maine, one
in Boston and one in RoxbuFy. At
one time had seven thousand three
hundred dollars in my pocket. l
have been married twice and am
now nearly twenty-six years old.
l have been n temperance lecturer,
and proprietor of temperance
theater.-N. Y. Era.
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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

Civil service reform has beer,
fully inaugurated by President
Grant and Republican Congress.
A Washington dispatch in tire
New York Times says:
Applications are now being n4.dc
at the several departments in 81 ash
ington, under the civil service reg
ulations, recently promulgated.
BY these rules, the old system OF
political patronage has been abar-
doned, and no appointments will
be made to any position coming
under their operation except in
accordance with the result of a
competitive examination. ANY
person furnishing satisfactory evi
dence as to character, health, age,
knowledge of the English language
and fidelity to the Union and the
Constitution is permitted to COM
pete. If the applicants are so nu-
merous as to render it impractical
BILE to examine all of them, a selec-
ton will be made from among the
number, based entirely upon the
apparent qualifications of the va
rious applicants as shown in their
applications, and will be entirely
independent of political or other
influence. As all appointees to
the lowest grade, after passing
their six months probation, are
permitted TO compete for any high
er position in the same Office open
to competition which may become
vacant, it is expected that the quail
ifications of the applicants will
be much improved as compared
with applicants under the old sys-
TEN.
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MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.

The bitterest disappointments of
life are those which follow the
treachery of friends. There is moth
ing so fearful in all the terrible re-
verses of fortune. We remember
half dozen suicides within a year,
all following some abandonment or
betrayal. Women betray men, and
men prove false to women, and
friend deceives friend. Business
partners cheat each other, lawyers
consume their clients, and boon
companions like Fisk and Stokes,
murder each other. History teache.
the same lesson that the Scriptures
do, to-wit: "Put not your trust il
princes, nor in the sen of man, u
whom there is no help" We LecG
a higher friendship, a nobler fTust
as the basis of happiness. We b17e
been surprised at the peace and SER
entity of soul God can give, and re
more and more lean upon his PROM
ises.
A sad case of misplaced conf
dence is given US by a gentleman ill
Brooklyn, and we give it to our
readers as an example and warn
ing:
Some twenty years ago a gentle
man living in one of the suburbs of
essary in the conduct of his BUSH
ness to place all his property and
effects in the hands of his legal adj
wiser. When the time arrived for
re-delivery of the property, day
was appointed for the lawyer to
meet his client at the City Hall in
| - oY,6 1n1Sua. hn frT1 nf
The confiding client was prompt in
his attendance at the time and place
designated. Hour after hour passed
but the unfaithful lawyer did not
make his appearance, he had fed to
parts unknown, having appropriat-
ed to his own use the entire pro-
ceeds of the trust. Day after day
and month after month, rolled by,
and at the same hour the trusting
and hoping victim was still in at
tendance at the designated place,
waiting the arrival of his legal
agent, but disappointment has been
his doom. And now after the lapse
of nearly q quarter of a century,
winter and summer, rain or shine,
fair weather or foul, the poor victim
of misplaced confidence may be
seen between the hours of ten and
twelve in the morning standing al
the northern angle of the City Hal
square, still expecting the appear
ance of his dishonest, quOndaD
friend. When the clock strikes
twelve ne starts up as from a rev,
erie and says to himself-"He tctL
, not come today" and then he dis
appears.
That promise to meet him anC
, deliver up his property at that tim
and place is still the most vivid i'm
preston, daguerrotyped upon hi
impaired memory, and disorders
inteliect-po0r fellow.--Centra
Christian Advocate.
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MISSOURI, KANSAS ANp rExAs.

The road viii run its trains with
in one hundred miles of Sherman
by the close of the present month.
The Land Journal says that efforts
will be made to push forward the
work. President Parsons wrote to
Mr.. Scullen to have the road built
to McAllister Station liam. from
Sherman by the 10th, if he had
to work night and day. The Over
land Transit Company have just
completed a contract with the
Government to deliver 100000
pounds of freight to the forts in
the Southwest, commencing at
that date, and they want the road
completed to McAlister for that
reason, Some elegant Pullman
sleeping cars have been purchas-
ed.
1t is now stated that this road
will connect at the Red River with
the Texas Central in December,
and that after June 1st the time
from Sherman via stages to Perry
vile, and thence on the road to st.
Louis, will be 48 hours.-Chicaso
Railway Review.
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SIX DAYS NAP.-A very remark
able case of lethargy occurred at
Winterport, Ne, a few days since.
A daughter of Howes Mayo went
into the yard on Tuesday, May 7th,
to bring IN little child. which had
unawares got out of the house.
While Miss Mayo was STOPPING over
the child she became suddenly dir
Zy, and complained of it to her
mother, who put her 10 bed. She
fell into q profound sleep almost
Immediately, and Eer mother, in
trying to awaken her in seasoE for
supper, was surprised 40 find 1er
efforts unayailing. After the fam
lily had eaten supper they again
tried TO awaken the giIl, but still
without avail. The family becom-
Ing seriously alarmed, the neighbors
were called in, but they could not
| suggest any method by which the
fair sleeper eorld be aroused. A
physician was also summoned, and
he called in three other medical men,
who, among other methods, sat the
girl IN chair and poured water
from a feet above upon her
head and shoulders, but even
this failed, and the still sleeping
girl was again put TO bed. Except
when she was disturbed. her breath
ing was slow and regular, and her
pulse healthy. AT 2 O'Clock on the
following Sunday afternoon she
turned over in her bed and awaken
ing, called to her mother. asking If
supper wasn't ready yet. aud further
said that she was real hungry. She
then got up and ate a hearty meal,
and has been in excellent health ev-
er since. The case excited great in
terest in the town, and the recov-
cry OF the sleeper was a theme OF
much Wonderment.-Bangor Com
imercial.
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more innocent, delightful. stimulat-
ing, instructive, and inspiring than
that which comes of amateur dra-
matte representations, we are not
aware of its existence. If we would
make the theater better, we must
make the community better, of
whose morals it is, by its very con-
stitution and necessities, the most
faithful reflex and representative.
If we would feed the desire for
dramatic amusement in some other
way, and SO destroy the fascination
of the theater for the young, let
good people frown no longer upon
the home and neighborhood repre-
of the drama, but coun-
tenance and cultivate them. The
are easily driven from as by
restraint. Let us show
by our sympathy with them, that
we recognize their needs and de-
sires, and feed at home, or in neigh
borly assemblies, the tastes which
only find aliment elsewhere in dan
gerous places. DIR. f. G. Holland,
in Scribner's for June.
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JUDSON'S BRANCHING CORN.

We learn from the Prairie Farm
err that suit has been brought against
+. o. Judson, for swindling III
selling his Branching Corn.
1t seems that many of the stalks
sent out, having five 10 seven ears,
for samples, to agents, and for which
they have TO pay a good round sum,
are doctored stalks. In other W ords
the ears, or part of them, are glued
on-the ear being attached near the
butt. The case in which the suit is
brought is fully established, if we
may believe the above paper; and
the probabilities are that it will go
hard on Judson.
We have OAouiuCu several Of
these sample stalks, but have failed
to find any cEicancry about them
but it is possible that the examina-
ton was not thorough enough. We
also have a few grains of the corn
growing, taken from a sample stalk,
and we shall see how it comes out.
Kansas Farmer.
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FROM BADGER CREEK.

EDITOR NEWS: As our section o.
the county does not seem to be rep
resented in your paper, permit me tC
give your readers an idea of what
we are and have been doing. Thi:
part of Lyon county seems to keep
pace with the surrounding country
and is improving rapidly. NeaI
the head of the stream, where the
A. 7. & S. F. railroad crosses, there
is a new settlement of perhaps 8
dozen families, who came here not
more than two years ago, and now
have well-improved and finely Gull
tivated farms; among whom might
be mentioned Mr.. Geo. Plumb, who
has built a fine residence, a large
barn, has a young growing orchard,
and is extensively engaged in the
stock business, haying over600 sheep.
The people here believe that edu-
cation is necessary to the enlighten-
ment and future greatness of any
community, and have a new school
house and q good school now in
progress.
Farther down the creek are sew
eral good farms which we will not
take time or space to to mention,
until we come to that of D. s.
Ward. He has large farm of
nearly 300 acres, well cultivated, q
large stone house and other i'm
proVements. Mr.. Ward has been in
the State about Is years, and has
great faith in Kansas as 8 fruit
country. He has large orchard of
apple, cherry, pear and 600 bearing
peach trees; also grapes, variety of
shrubery and a beautiful grove of
shade and ornamental trees.
Next is the place Of Mr.. Main,
who has good farm and is prepar-
ing to build a new house.
Adjoining this place is that of the
Hunter brothers. They have q fine
stone house, well improved farm,
and have been making an addition
to their orchard this spring, having
set about $50 more apple trees.
They are largely engaged in the
stock business, having large herd
of cattle and horses.
The prospect for fruit in this Sec
ton never was better. The orchards
of Paisley and Stevenson look
promising.
At the junction of the Neosho
and Cottonwood is the excellent
mill of Beckes s. Son. They do
good work, and people will do well
to patronize them.
There is no school in District No.
"a, from the fact that the school
house, which was well furnished
with a complete set of apparatus,
burned down. We intend building
another as soon we can agree on the
location of a site.
The people in this vicinity are
sound on politics. Horace Greeley
"don't take"
If we continue to thrive, you will
hear from US again. H.
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DRUNKENNESS IN WALES.

1t appears from statistics just
published by the British Govern
ment, that drunkenness is less
general in the Principality of
Wales than in any other part of
the United Kingdom of Great
Britain.
In the county of Arglesea, with
a population of 5O,919, there were
only ITO persons fined for drunk
enness, or one-fifth of one per cent
of the population; in the county
of Denbigh, there were 254, popu-
lation 1O4,226, or one-fourth of
one per cent; in the county Of Car
narvon, there were 547 in a popu-
lation of 103, OS3, or one-half of
one per cent. These counties are
in North Wales.
The two worse counties for
drunkenness are Flintshire in
North Wales and Glamorganshire,
the great iron works county, in
South Wales. The number of
persons fined in the latter county
were 2,042 out of a population OF
2S5, 4S1, or seven-tenths of one per
cent; and in the former $50, pop
ulation 76, 245, or sixteenth Of one
per cent.
1t will thus be seen that in An,
glesea, North Wales, principally
an Agricultural county, there is
less drunkenness than in any Other
county in Wales, whilst in Ola
morganshire in South Wales, prin
cipally a manufacturing county
especially in its great iron works
there is more intemperance pre-
vailing than in any other portion
of Wales.
Still it is gratifying to the Welsl
in this country and their friends
to find from official documents
that Wales is more free from thi
!. degrading vics than any other POI
itioR of Great Britain.
/ Come ssTaV.,'' feign would know,
(The figures are before US noW)-
What other land than Wales can show
So falr \ record .'Anyhowg'
"Pa wlad. wedi'r siarad sydd,
AOrlan . Chymru ionyddr
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GreeIey's brother's-iD-law are said
to be all cousins, but Browns fam
lily relations are more than the hairs
of his head and he is not q bald
headed man, either. lie is said to
be the most extensively connected
man in the United States and his
relatives are all respectable enough
TO hold officc-if they can get hold
of any. II Greeley should die, there
would haI dly be positions enough
to ego round among Browns
people, including the Biairs, and
Breckirridges, and Bentons, and
Prestons, and Hamptons and In
gersolls. aud Crittendens-to say
nothing Of the Brown family in
general, ali of whom would claim
for their own and demand offices
by virtue OF the name. We might
as we'll elect q man named Smith,
and put none out Smiths in Office.
Why don't the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, to which we are chiefly indebt-
ed for our Information, have some
abuse for Browns relatives as well
as Grants?
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sPUaGEoS COMPARED WITH BEECH

Theodore Tilton. in his paper, the
Golden Age, institutes the follow
ing comparison between Sturgeon
and Beeche-, in noticing a new Sc
ries of sermons by the former:
Sheldon & Co. have issued the
ninth series of Surgeons Sermons,
with o PREDATORY note by the author
who exclaims, s'To my American
brethren, all hail! !" aud proceeds in
right registering way to fig out
his fraternal salutaIions. young
ministers will learn from tn pres
ent example that novelty IL doc
trine is not needfui even for the poor
success which lies III popularity; to
any other success il Ii fatal" They
will also learn that passionate plati-
tudes take with the multitude, and
that TO get..a largo following it is on
ly necessary to vociferato common
places and make a noise large
and loud enough to fill public ear
and drown out all wiser voices and
finer tones. Really there are humid
red Baptist preachers in America to-
day who habitually preach wiser,
wholesomer, ADLER, and more edify-
ing discourses than any in this vol
ume, and yet not even their names
are known. In looking over these
names, one is struck with the thin
ness of the thought and the narrow
ness of the preachers intellectual
range, no less than the superficial
varnislf of pions sentimeniality
which is used TO hide the metallic
hardness of the nature underneath.
Spurgcon is often compared with
Beecher. The two should be con-
trasted. They have scarcely any
thing in common. Beecher has
popularized preaching. Sturgeon
has vulgarized it. Beecher's nature
is wonderfully opulent and produc-
tive. Spurgeon is poor and barren.
Beecher is prolific in thoughts, fam
cies and suggestions. Sturgeon ia
dry, and his words arc balls rather
than vital seeds. Beecher is crea-
tive. Sturgeon is q mere mechanic
putting this and that together to
meet the occasion. Beecher has
but Sturgeon knows
not what philosophy is. Mr.. Beech
er has large converse with men, and
lives in close sympathy with the
times he knows what the best men
feel and the wisest think ; the nine
teenth century comes to conscious
ness in his great heart and active
brain. Sturgeon lives outside the
thought of the age, and is stran-
ger to all that is characteristic in
he modern world. The vast and
popularity of this man is
Is discreditable to England as the
popularity of Mr.. Beecher is credit
lble to America.
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A curious motherly animal in
stinct was lately developed upon
the breeding farm of Sprague &
Akers. Mambrino Crsgie, a blind
mare, once noted upon the turf, gave
birth this spring to fine colt. An
other mare has for some time been
noticed as paying particular atten-
ton to her blind sister, staying with
her all the time, and guiding her
away from dangerous places in the
pasture. Recently Cragie, while
alone in the pasture, fell into q well
being dug for stock purposes, and
was killed. What to do with the
colt, became q question of some i'm
portance. The other mare settled
the question without aid, by adopt
ing the motherless colt, and even
fighting away her own offspring un-
til the orphan was supplied with
the tactical fluid, aud still continues
to watch over and care for both
colts as if her own.-[ Kansas Farm.
err.
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Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
MOORE & WEAVER.
janItf
READ THIS !

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Pure Wines and Liquors for
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McCANDLISS' AGUE PILLS
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A fiendlsh attempt was made ON

A fiend1sh attempt was made on
Saturday last, while the. Chappaqua
woodehOpper was on his way into
the country, to betray him INTO an
oath. The train boy was the hum
BILE instrument of the plotters. The
lad commenced by hinging an limo
cent prize package into the philoso-
piers lap. He didn't notice. it..
Then the imp commenced with pic
toriais, and, one after another, plac-
ed before the philosopher abomin-
able caricatures of his philosophic
person. He gazed at them all pa
tiently and placidly, and laid them
aside after a few minutes contem-
plation. Last of all came a tsComic
Life of Horace Greeley" with pie
lures representing the sage in scan
dalous proximity to the fair Victoria
Woodruff. The passengers chung
to their seats, expecting the air to
become phosphoric with blasphem-
Gus anger. But Horace examined
the pictures with q half-sad look
more in sorrow than in anger-and
said never a word. Whereupon the
opinion was generally expressed
through the car that he wasn't muef
of a swearer after all.
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5000


THE NEW CHICAGo.-If the burn
ing of Chicago was the greatest fire
of modern times, no less is the re-
building of it among the marvels of
its kind. No one can visit the city
without being astonished at the
work already done, although the
usual building season has but fair
ly commenced. Immense buildings
many of them of fine appearance
and great cost, have already been
completed and occupied, while ma
ny hundreds of others are rapidly
being built. Many leading houses
still occupy and do immense bust
ness in the wooden "shanties" ercc-
ted Immediately after the fire. While
many gaps will be left, the close of
this year will see very many build
ings completed. which in all res
poets will be superior to those they
replace.
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The crop of buzz-saw items is
very backward, like other season.
able fruits. The regular reports OF
the destruction Of the peach crop
are overdue, but have been unae-
countably delayed.
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A Western youth, playing at the
interesting game OF William Tell,
inadvertently shot his arrow into
the apple of the other boys eye. in
stead OF the apple on his head.
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HOTELS.

%ORNER 4th avenue and Merchants
street, Emporia, Kansas. House and
fixtures all new. Good accommodations
and charges moderate. j. FRIEND.
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7 q cIEVEUANIl'S

~ENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE
STA BILE, on 5th Avenue, between Com
ui1,rcial and Mechanics Street, Is now open 20
and ready for business, and Will furnish teams
AZ any time during the day or night. Pas
scngers conveyed 10 any part d the country
an liberal terms Particular attention paid to
boarding transfer mt stock. tanlI2tt
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~ ~ INV

DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES AND
IL JEW ELRG, corner room, Bancroft
block, Commercial street; Repairing done on
jani1att
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Y N ROBINSON 4 SON, Proprietors.
i A. Corner OF Merchants street and sixth
Avenue This house has been rehtted and
furnished throughout, and Is now open to the
public. Stages leave daily and connect with
all Eastern Railroads, lanlg2u
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BARBER SHOP.
JEWELER.

wnI. HUESTIS,
INIGST-CLASS SHAVING, HAIR CUT
IL TING. etc, in Williams building, cor
ncr Commercial street and sixth ayerue. En-
trance ON both streets. JanlB2-ly
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ODD FELLOWS

MON LODGE No is. Meets at Odd Fell
4 Ows' Hall. over Emporia Bank, every
Tuesday evening &C O'Clock Members in
.OOd standing la vitc,l to attend.
JACOB SfoTLEK, n. G.
j. EPsrKIx Secretary.