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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
THE OTTAWA AND EMPORIA R. r.
A Proposition to Construct the Road
Immediately.

Some two weeks ago Judge d. T.
Mcintyre, ofIMattoon. Illinois, Wis.
tied this place, in company with
Major MILESTONE, of Franklin
county, for the purpose of investi.
eating the status of the Usage, Neo-
sho s. Walnut Valley Railroad,
with q view of taking the contrac
to build the road at once from Otta.
wa to EmpOris. During the day he
was here. a number of our citizens
waited on Mr.. Mcintyre, all OF
whom were favorably impressed
with his proposition, and with his
promises. He represented q COM
pany who profess to be able to raise
the means to build the road speedily.
In the evening a large meeting OF
the Board OF Trade and citizens was
held at the council chamber, which
was addressed by Judge Mcintyre,
on invitation, and q number of our
own townsmen. Considerable OPP
position to the proposition to vote
100000 bonds to aid the road was
developed. Since that date three
other meetings have been held. At
one of these meetings the railroad
committee was instructed to submit
9 proposition and conditions, with
q view of getting up the necessary
petition to the county Board asking
them to submit it tn a vote of the
people. This committee reported
to an adjourned meeting last
Friday night. The report was dis
cussed very fully on both sides,
tho meeting lasting till nearly mid
night.
Amer a full discussion, the propo-
sition was adopted by the meeting
by nearly a unanimous vote, and the
meeting adjourned until next Mon
day evening, at Bancroft hall, where
the proposition will be submitted
to full meeting of the people,
both in town and country. 1t is
hoped that the hall will be filed to
its utmost capacity.
The proposition is briefly this {:
The county to subscribe 100000
to the capital stock OF the Usage,
NeOsho & Walnut Valley railroad,
and issue it's bonds in payment
therefor, for which it receives $780,
900 in full paid stock in the road.
ALSO, the commissioners are author
lied to transfer to the railroad COM
panY 100000 of the stock the
now owns in either the N.
K. & T. road, or the A. 7. & :. f.
road, In consideration of the loca-
ton here of the general repair and
shops of the new road, to-
gether with the general Offices of
the company. The company is to
be held in damages above the value
of the stock if they fail to so locate
their general Offices and machine
shops. The company Ia to build
and maintain . separate line of road
the entire distance from Ottawa to
So far as we were able
to judge, from hearing the PROPOSE
ton read. the interests OF the county
are we'll guarded.
Our readers are aware that Frank
lin county has already voted $4,000
to this enterprise, and that Usage
has extended TO it $4,000. It is
expected that Kansas City will give
l76, 900. With 100000 from Lyon
the road could be built, and
he company represented by Mr..
AcIntyre propose TO enter into
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
ITEMS FROM sEDGwICK CITY.

Mr.. EDITOR: 1 have q mystery
for you or some one else to solve.
It is thisi 1 have n well that when
the > nor hern wind prevails the
water nearly all goes out; when q
southern wind prevails the water
rises so that we have plenty. Ny
neighbOr adjoining me on the west
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CoLvAx.-This gentleman has, to
some extent, cleared mp the odium
under which he was resting on ac-
count Of the Credit Mol'ilier inves-
tigation, but still q cloud Obscures
the bright reputation he has always
enjoyed. We hope he may be able
TO entirely clear hims IF of ali COM
plicIty In that disreputable business.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

All the Pacific railways are to be
Investigated, provided q resolution
which an Ohio member will intro
duce into the House shall be adopt
ed. He Is determined to move upon
all their works. The Wilson COM
mittee has discovered sufiicient In
cidental rascalities pointing to all
the landed railways to warrant .
thorough overhauling ofall ofthem.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

There Is . "speck Of war" brew
Ing in Utah. The administration
seems determined that the authori-
ty of the government shall be re-
spected there. Some of the Nor
mons talk fight, and think they can
whip "Uncle Samuel" while others
are In favor of going to Arizona.
We believe Young has already been
in that Territory Spying out the
land 70
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Fine Farm for Sale.

Z OFFER for sale one Of the best farms
L in the county, containing l9T acres.
known a. the Henry I. Payne farm, be-
ing the y j. =. see. %, town. 10, range II,
81 acres out CT the y W i of the y W y,
50 e. -, town. -, range II; 10 acres under
cultivation; l23 acres Of timber; two
houses, stable for horses; . good wells,
20 peach trees; splendid range for stock.
Price S2S per acre, one-tenth down, bal
ance In ten years, at ten per cent. For
further particulars enquire at this Office.
eff IL. l.. NORTON.
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The "Grasshopper," the new pa
per at Grasshorper Falls, Jefferson
county, by Huron & Hoover, the
later OF the late Lyndon Observer
Is . lively kicker.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Durham Rnlls for Sale

1.-TWO thorough bred short horn bulls,
l. 10 months old; recorded in the last
vOi., \. Ii. b.; red color; fashionable
strain of blood; ready Tor spring service.
Price 800 each. J.. n. LACKET,
2t4 Peabody Marian q n Kan
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Final Settlement.

NOTICE L. hereby given to all credit
IN ors or others interested in the estate
of VIM. Smulling. deceased, that the I'M
dersigned administrator of said estate
viii make final settlement Of srid estate
on the LIST day OF the next regular term of
the Probate court Of Lyon county. Kan
sas. 10 commence on the LIST Monday in
April, 1919. l. Il. PEYTON,
ga Auministra raj for
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

TIE ISvEsTIaATIoN.-The inves'
tigation Of the Pomer0y case is still
progressing At Topeka. Nothing
particularly new or interesting hal
been developed. Some of the testi'
mony Is very conflicting.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

The PoMERoY INvEsTIGATIoN.-
The investigation OF Senator Pom
eroy, at Washington, is in progress.
B. r. Simpson is prosecuting, and
Judge Horton aud Caleb Cushing
are defending Mr.. Pomeroy. Sena-
tor York and j. z. Horton, of Law
renee, were examined, their testi-
mOny being about the Same as be-
fore the Topeka committee. It 10
said the Washington comm ittee
Amiled Audibly when Mr.. Horton
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RoAIl Nnr.nG

ofiCE Il, hereby -iven that ii petit
IN tua wlii Tee prr.S'.n ed tO the Board
II county Commissions Of Lyon county,
Al their Regular meeting. To- is held AprlI
ith, 1873, asking fer the view and i,ra-
Giuu of a county road IL follows. Ia wit:
C"uimenr!n% "H the east iiaC rlN-
mouth taNh>ii,-. at tilr center of -rctiup
5, Up ~. "f range 10; tbeGce ra>' the
center iiue III said :, cIion. and through
the "a inter- { -cctson> o, 10. II aud II IN
same IL. anu r., Ia the eS>t line OF
Pike township, following The center line
through said sections a. ue'r a. pTactiC-
able. IlAS. &. LYNCH,
y NJ. CARTER.
Principal Petitioners.
II bTUarY IL. ISIa. SI9ll
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Best Bargain in Land.

VIZ will Eell 20 acres OF fine bottom
w land, miles east of Emporia, very
low IL sold sOon; two frame dwellings ON
the land; Is acres in cultivation, 30 more
ready for cultivation; plenty of good
timber 20 support the farm. and wood
enough TO pay for the farm. $500 cash,
or -7ill take good cattle for part or all.
2dtf &. BECKES & son.
Junction mills. Han. June II, 1872.
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stated how York had prayed over
the matter of taking $1,000 of POM
eFoy's money.
The committee having decided
that under the resolution of the
Senate, they were confine strictly
to the testimony of Pomeroy and
York, Mr.. Simpson petitioned the
Senate for more latitude in the ex-
animation of the witnesses. This
called forth considerable discussion,
in which York was denounced as q
scoundrel by Nye. The request OF
Simpson was granted. Simpson
and York are determined to leave
no stone unturned to fasten corrup-
ton on Pomeroy in Washington.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

Junction City is located near the
Junction City Union Office. We
gather this information from read
ing the Union.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
Notice to Hunters.

DANIEL SHEETS has opened =
Bowman's store, opposite tho postsfice,
on Commercial street, EmpoEia, Kansas.
where lie IS prepared TO repair all kinds
of gunE, or make new ones to order. He
has had practical experience OF 40 years
in the business, and guarantees 10 give
satisfaction. Cali and see him and ex-
anime his work. 52m2
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

The papers are making a "big
thing" out OF one Of John Martins
winks. Slower also nodded his
head.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

Kansas City wants to come into
Kansas. Consent.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
FOR SALE CHEAP.
7 Will Exchange
VTTANTED :
OUNIY. TOWN & SCHOOL BONDS
AND COUNTY WARRANTS.

Correspondence invited from officers Of
counties, school districts and banks.
Address DC. HORTON Il co.
owl Lawrence. Kanssa
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

NJ Office l. hUre'-V given 10 all con-
IN ccrned- that lie undersigned was
appellate q administrator al the estate of
=. e. BIitt$,n. decreased, on the I2.h Of
February. 1873
6-s ALMiRA BRiTToN.
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LETTER LIST.
Sherin7S Sale.

HELD FOR POSTAGE.
Fanny Wyman. Peru, Howard county
Kansas. T.. TRASH, i. NJ.
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Il. H. COATES,
CARPENTER and Joiner,

rs prepared to do all Kinds of carpenter
work, either by the contract or by the
day. shop 1T Ryan Il Lyons carriage
f:t..tory. Mechnnia.s -Lreet. atf
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A Mefedian for Sale.

7 HAVE new Five Octave Melodian.
with piano case, which / will sell
cheap for cash. or exchange for Young
cattle. Address or call on
II. 4. JOHNSON.
1r0IE ArVnnia Kan
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NEWS AND EDITORIAL ITEMs.

Poor Caldwell.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21

[ WANT WOOD.
T WANT - cords of good 4 feet cor
i wood. in exchange for saddles or har-
ness. 5tf HORACE Y. BCNDREM.
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+, bruary II, ls7a. 5
Farm to Trade.

E7UR cItN property. Enquire 1T Wib-
I ley Il Henson's dry goods store.
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BLOODY WORK ON THE FRONTIER.
A Gang of DesperadOes Beaten by On e
Man--Sarsent and Fit. Dodge at Peace.

The correspondent of the Law
renee Journal gives the fol
lowing account of the way Sargent
and Ft. Dodge have temporarily at
least scattered their ''roughs:"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
CO.ODeratiOn.

The desire to profit by cooperation is
showing itself among other classes than
farmers. In a town in New England
they have a cooperative stable, in which
horses are fed and cared for at cost.
Many people there cannot keep a horse
and carriage, because to do so requires
a stable, and a boy or man to take care
of the horse. But one large stable will
accommodate a hundred horses, and the
labor required to take care of them is
greatly reduced so, too, the hay and
grain the horses eat can be bought much
cheaper if purchased by the quantity.
In New York city an association Of clerks
purpose to build a large, plain hotel,
and to run it on the cooperative plan.
The stockholders are to have their
board at cost; while an advance will be
charged other regular boaders and tran
sient company. In this way clerks hope
to have a home of their own, and to
very greatly reduce their present board
bills. Long ago, in London, the Gov
eminent clerks established a cooperative
store when unauthorized groceries were
sold to stockholders at cost. Shop
keepers complained that men who were
receiving money from them by way OF
taxes were iniuring their trade, but the
officers of the department replied that
the clerks had a perfect right to keep up
the store, and that it wa an encouraging
sign to see them doing their best to live
on their salaries, and to save something
from them, if they could.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
Bad News for Bald Headed Men.

DIR. J. nj. Toner, of Washington, a
physician of large experience and a
close observer of facts, says that ac-
cordlng to his observations nearly all
persons of both sexes who lived to the
age of so years and yer retained a con
siderable if not a complete suit OF hair
at the time of their deaths. He con-
cedes that there are exceptions to this
rule, but insists that a large majority of
persons living at the age of so or up
ward retain a comparatively good suit OF
hair, or are not bald. His hypothesis
is that a person who retains his hair
past the age of IS has a good prospect
of living to be over so. The rule may
be tested by any n calling to mind
the ages and condition of the hair of
persons of his acquaintance of the ages
indicated, the condition of whose hair
is known to him. The vast majority OF
persons who become bald, or lose their
hair, do so between 35 and As, and these
rarely live to be over IS to 70 years OF
age.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29

teen minutes to pass through the diam
eter of the earth's orbit, i. e., one hun
bred and eighty-four million miles. This
astounding fact was 500 corroborated
by other testimony, until now there is
scarcely any fact in physical science
more firmly established than that light
travels with the enormous velocity of
one hundred and ninety-two thousand
miles a second.
To form a conception, as near as pos
sible, of this degree of speed, let us put
two things together. We're the earth
girdled with a speaking-tube capable of
conveying sound all its length, or at the
rate of five miles a minute, a message
around would occupy five thousand min
utes, or eighty-three and two-third
hours, or nearly three and a half days
for its passage; whereas light, if it
could be sent around ON the same track,
would encircle the earth eight times be-
tween each beat of a second-measuring
clock
Here, now, we are compelled to stop.
There is no greater velocity in nature
known to man. The transmission Of
gravitative force is known to be greater,
but it is given up that that must be in.
Simultaneous for, if not absolutely so,
it must be ESQ Laplace calculated from
reliable data at least fifty million tinaeI
greater than that of G.ght.-AppletonS
.IOnTD0L
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
The Trent Difficulty.

Another story of the solution of the
Trent difficulty is told by a Washington
correspondence the Philadelphia Press:
There is better authority than either
Mr.. Adams or Nh. Welles for saying
that neither the Secretary of the Navy,
nor of State, was the author of that
diplomacy. The news of the capture of
Mason and Slide1l was so sudden and sc
unexpected that for a time the entire
Administration was at a loss to know
what to do. Mr.. Lincoln, of course,
consulted with his Cabinet Ministers,
especially with his Secretary of State.
With all his ignorance of foreign affairs,
of which MI. Adams accuses him, he
saw that so grave an event would, in the
state of feeling then existing in Great
Britain, probably involve us in trouble.
But the great question was how to dis
pose of it. In this, as in many an other
emergency, Mr.. Lincoln sought the adj
vice of Senator Sumner. That states
man outlined a plan to Mr.. Lincoln
which he thought would at once protect
the dignity of the Government and
satisfy the somewhat imperious de-
mand of Great Britain. The President
was so impressed with it, that, in an
impassioned manner, he said to Mr..
Sumner, "Now, please, Mr.. Senator, go
straight to Seward and tell him what
you have told me-" Mr.. Sumner did
so. The idea that Sumner suggested
was subsequently embodied in the famous
dispatch which was addressed to the
British Cabinet, though the language
was Mr.. Stewards. By invitation of Nh.
Lincoln, Mr.. Sumner was present at the
Cabinet meeting where this dispatch
was finally considered, and his opinion
was sought as eagerly as that Of any
other gentleman present. These facts
destroy a little of that romance of MI.
Adams which represents Mr.. Seward as
coming to the Cabinet with his dispatch
already prepared without having con-
suited any person. and with its hav-
ing been accepted, without discussion,
as the views of the Government. 1t is
not my intention to detract from the just
renown of Nh, Seward, but something is
due, also, to those who upheld his hands
and strengthened his heart in the great
conflict to sustain the Union.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
HOM's Tricks {?

There is a doctor in this city who has
a speaking tube leading from the main
entrance of the building to his office,
which is up just a few flights. For
several days past, a smart young wag
named Swartz has amused himself by
calling for the doctor through the pipe
and then profanely ordering him to set
out on an excursion to Tartarus. For
some time this fun was taken in good
part, until the fine humor of the joke
no longer became apparent. Accord
ingly, II afternoon, the disciple of Es-
culapius provided himself with a tea
kettle of water, heated to about two
hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit,
and waited alongside the pipe. Pretty
soon the old familiar sound came up
through the pipe
essay, Doc, how's tricks ?"
"Tricks is better now-I guess he'll
get well" responded the Doctor, reach
ing out after the kettle.
"What's been the matter with him r
Giles got burnt"
Chow? 2"
sob, you to 1t"
The doctor had finished his last SEN
teace and then let a quart of scalding
water down the pipe. Swartz had his
mouth over it, and when the water
struck it he was somewhat surprised.
Water was apt to surprise him, but hot
water was an unexpected novelty.
The man above poured in the water
for about a minute and then looked out
of the window. The smart young mar
was getting along the sidewalk at a pref
ty lively gait, having evidently just got
up from u sitting posture. He was try
ing to yell "police," but couldn't ar
~ticulate with much success. About hal
an hour afterward he found himself
able to speak, and inquired:
"Did that boiler explosion hurt any
body ?"-San Francisco Chronicle.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
Noted Old Men of Europe.

President Theirs, the vigorous ruler
of France, was seventy-six years old on
the sixteenth day of April last. He
comes of a long-live ICE and promises
to hold out for several years yet. The
Emperor William, of Germany, is
twenty-five days older than President
Theirs, and is full Of life and energy.
These illustrious personages may be
classed among the noted old men of
Europe; but when we come to the old
man, the Count De Waldeck, we have
one who is old enough to be the father
of them both. This remarkable man IS
alleged to have been born on the 10th OF
March, 1855, over three years before Ma
poleon was born, and is therefore now
in his 1OSth year. He is actively. en-
gagged in Paris, in various enterprises,
and is reported to have laid his plans
for several years ahead, with as much
assurance of living to complete them as
though he were only in middle age. 1t
may be that one so old gets into the
habit of feeling that he is immortal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
Humorous.
rIcAL pedestrianism =

POLITICAL pedestrianism = Running
for office.
The crossed paths-Allopath and
homeopath.
QUERY-What is the circumference of
the waste of time?
The law of juries-Many are called,
but few are chosen.
CAN a man be said to pay as he goes
if he sleeps on tick
If a miss is as good as a mile, how
much better is a Mrs?
If you are counting a girl, stick to
it no matter how large her fathers feet
are.
GIRLS, never marry a doctor, or you
will be tied day and night to your "pil-
ler."
SOME preachers would make fine mar
tyrs they are SO dry they would burn
well.
Why is an errand-boy like an old
horse put up at auction? Because he
will go for what he will fetch.
A La MODE o-CTosYLLABIC.
=. Since the Modocs, concealed in their lava, defy
Our troops metallurgic conchology,
Let Science" said Jones, with a wink in his eye,
Extract them by M~odocimology."
{" This is clever" said Brown; ''and I would not
be thought
To care what mode doctors barbarians;
But fear, ere they're either extracted or caught,
They'll all be ModOctogenarians."
DoCToR-s'I am pleased to say, Mrs.
Fitzbrown, that I shall be able to vac
cinate your baby from a very healthy
child of your neighbor, Mrs. Jones ?"
Mrs. Fitzbrown-" Oh dear, doctor! I
could not permit that. We do not care
to be mixed up with the Joneses in any
way"
"WHAT's that picture on?" said a
countryman in our hearing the other
day in a print store, to the proprietor,
who was turning over some ~engravings.
"That, sir" said the dealer, lis Joshua
commanding the sun to stand STILL"
"Du tell Well, which is Josh and
which is his son ?"
MAKERS of fishing tackle, whose sea-
son is now at hand, complain of the
scarcity of features for the manufac-
ture of artificial flies. One of them
says that all the feathers have flown to
the heads of women, who are little bet
ter than artificial flies themselves with
the hooks very well concealed.
A GA1LowsTowN lady recently re-
quested her husband to go to the dress
maker and tell her that she CHS wife)
had changed her mind and would have
the watered silk made up instead of the
poplin, and that, "if she thinks it
would look better with bias %1ounces
without putting, and box-pleaded below
the equator, which should be gathered
in hemstitched gudgeons up and down
the seams, with a gusset stitch between,
she can make it up in that way, instead
of futing the bobinet insertion and
piecing out with point applique, as L
suggested yesterday. The man is now
a raving maniac.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29

THE PRoFrrs on BEER-Beer is the
moor mans wine. Why should he pay
two prices for it /? Beer is sold to the
saloons at SO a key. We have been in
formed that the average number of glass
es drawn per key is over n hundred.
An expert tells us that when he was ! n
the business a key was good for loo
glasses. At five cents per glass this
would give 1925 per key to the retailer,
Welding him a profit of 1925. This is
an indecent extortion. If the retailer
pays 50 per key and gets 1913 for 1t
over his counter, that is ample compen-
sation for handling. But, we are told,
the small concerns could not live with
out more than fifty per cent. profit. Let
them die, then.-Cincannah CONNER
| ciaL.