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sailed ana inquired SHs q 70 any ~ rs~:eS ssS
replied that q ~
aOs .aSa. then nss5 1S5nia Ss h% that
two of them corresponded with description as giyen
IN the circular He further added that he thought iS
sen The next day Crosscn called on Lyon at his ONCE
and had an ntervcw on the subject when he learned
that nothing could be done uness he would spuats tq
lett He again called, however and Lyon told him that
the parties holding the bonds bad obtained loan
taken them in the ordinary course Of business and *
on their loan and would restore the bonds
Bowling, at the Tombs Police Court for warrant tor
the arrest OF Lyon which was promptly granted 5cr.
q yesterday they produced their prisoner In Court
appear at all nurried on account of his arrest
the Court and the prisoner listened atentiveiy 70 the
complainants statement. and then asked what hs
In reply stated he admitted having had several
connection win the affair ne appeared BY Mr. Price
Mr.. Prce-We demand an examination, Your Honor.
Judge Dowling-We will give you examination, but
figured in con with bond robberic for the last ten
years, and this is peculiarly aggravated case
loses his little all and then sought % be skinned BY
btant and uncomfortable sum compromise when
they have to fear detection for their crime
yous knowledge OF the prisoner weigh against him In
Judge Dowlins- Undoubtedly shall. I may not be
viii! be OF avail But while do sit here shall deal
with men your clients description they deserve
MT Price-Wtl Your Honor at least TX the amount OF
Judge Dowling Ten thousand dollars.
Ia DEFAULT OF that amount Lyon was committed to tho
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1omss POLICE COURT.
Bond Robbery Brought 10 Light and
Curbstone Operator Brought TO Grief.

On the lb OF October last Mr.. James r. crossen, an
actor In the Theatre Comique on Broadway residing at
No leo Bleecker street had his room broken open and
s27ou worth Of bonds three bank books besides
quantity OF cwery and clothing stolen from him. The
bonds consisted Of one $1,000 coupon first mortgage
bond Of the st. Joseph and Denver City Railroad one
$500 rst mortgage bond Of tho same two $500 bonds OF
the Rockford, Rock Island and st Louis Railroad
one certificate Indebtedness OF the same road for
s2420 Descriptive circulars OF the above issucd
by Detective Elder and the usual caution given against
negotiating any Of them.
shortly alter man named Wesley Lyon. protesting 10
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TOMMY HAHT's sT0RT.
Mr. Trcman then took up the testimony OF Thomas
Hart and argued that. supposing the prisoner went
along the half crying out to every one he met In the han
would be very unlikely to say; moment after he was
Counsel believed Hart 10 be rotten and perured
WitueS % eyey stood Outside the wells Qf sNe ITHQn
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
LIVELY.

A Cincinnati editor asks, "Are
we fire-proofT" We hope he is.
Mad dogs are sampling Platte
county, Missouri, stock.
The most successful newsboy ia
Memphis il three years and six
months old.
Bob-tailed hogs are 3 feature ei
Iowa farm scenes since j. Frost nip
ped their narratives last month.
Il IL said that nineteen newspa.
papers are to share ia the profits Of
of the Georgia State printing.
A stone-cutter in Detroit KEEPS
ready-made gravestones with thu
name - Smith cut thereon.
Ridienlous enough. A 20O.rount
poetess IL writing verses shout whRt
she would do Elf abe were q sun
BEAM" h.3ssi.
Columbus. Ga, wouldn't sub
cribe red cent for q new church
but old John Robinson's circu
took 5000 ont Of the town.
The editor Of the Home Journal
of Houston. Texas, IL dise0urazinl
matrimony By Offering to send hi
paper free to all who marry durinl
the year.
Astonishment will be espresso
upon the announcement Of the n
port that 3 religious revival is /
| progress at Galesburg, Illinois.
| Under the heading of aHapp
thoughts," the Petersburg (Va.) Al
peal says that mere sickness pr
wallis in that city than for many veal
] past.
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These BOGUS BONDS.

The following is copy of thu
report made by the Legislative
jeint committee, in the matter o
the Budlong, Cloud and Gregor,
bond transactions:
From the testimony taken you
committee find that four hundred
bonds Of the denomination of $500
each, purporting to be issued by
the cities OF Cloud, Budlong and
Gregory, in the county of Chero-
kee and state of Kansas, to aid in
the construction of the Memphis,
Carthage & Northwestern railroad,
were fraudulently made and issued
during the months of December.
1872, and January, 1873; that two
hundred of the said bonds were
presented to A. Thoman, then Au-
ditor of State, for registration on
the 18th day of December, 1872,
and were registered by him.
Your committee are of the opin-
ion that at the time the said
bonds were registered, the au-
ditor was not in possession of
sufficient evidence of the genuine
ness of said bonds, or evidence
that they had been issued accord
ing to law, to warrant him. in reg
istering them; that in registering
them he was guilty OF gross and
culpable negligence that when
the said bonds were registered fac
cording tctha testimony of B. F.
Garrison, attorney for the afore-
said railroad, the auditor was not
in possession of any evidence Of
the existence of any such cities as
Cloud, Budlong and Gregory, or
which tended to show that such
bonds were legally issued.
Your committee further find that
two hundred bonds of the denom-
nation of $500 each, purporting
to have been issued by the cities
of Budlong, Cloud and Gregory,
were presented to A Thoman, late
of the State of Kansas, for
registration on the 9th day of Jan
uary, 1873, and were registered by
him.
Your committee further find that
at the time the said bonds were is
sued and registered, there were no
such cities in fact in the county of
Cherokee, state of Kansas, as
Budlong, Cloud or Gregory; that
said bonds we're falsely and frau
issued, and that all the
certificates of the mayors and |
clerks of said cities were false and |
fraudulent +; and your committee |
are of the opinion that the parties
who procured the issuing of the |
said bonds and the registration of
the same knew them to be false |
and fraudulent at the time they !
we're issued and registered and |
that all the parties connected with |
the issuing of said bonds and GER
tifcates ought to be punished to
The fullest extent of the law; and |
your committee respectfully rec
ommend that the bond and regis
sration law he so amended as to
render a repetition of this swlndle |
IN impossibility.
Respectfully submitted,
A. F. ELY, chairman,
DANIEL NJ. ADAMS,
A. F. CHILDs.
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of the philosophy Of education, or

of the philosophy Of education, or
as 3 friend of ours recently ex-
pressed it, of the q common sense
of teaching. They do not see, or
seeing do not appreciate, the in
ter relations OF methods and mat
ter, and the relation of both these
to mental development. Practi-
'cally hey make no difference be-
tween the child of twelve years
and the young man OF twenty, so
far as process is concerned, and
| mix up subjective and objective
material in q most perplexing
manner. Among this class are
usually found those teachers to
whom students desiring to say,
"we have passed this or that
study" but who do not love hard
work, flock. They are able to get
knowledge, but care not to obtain
sCisdom. Indeed they frequently
live all their lives without know
ing what it is that distinguishes
the latter from the former. It is
but proper to state that this sort
of teacher il as conceited rs the
former is ignorant; and hence, the
third class Of teachers, those who
stand between these two extremes
are long. way removed from ease.
and il they are so we'll versed in
the true process of mental deVel-
opment as TO be able to see readi
~ the evils which arise trem the
work of either of the other classes,
they are indeed to be pitied. They
are frequently Obliged to see stu
dents who have the mental and
physical strength to become intel
lectual giants, kept weak by being
compelled to study what chill
dren Of ten and twelve are suppos-
ed to be familiar with, or on the
other hand, they must be equally
panied by seeing them gaining q
superficial knowledge, which they
are being taught to believe is the
very essence Of all knowledge, but
which will deceive them when they
come to enter the lists of life, there
to do real battle.
The fact is-and this is one of
the special points we wish to make
there is too little attention paid
by teachers to teaching per Sc.
They have not learned that school
keepers are not schooi-teacherS.
The examiner looks far moro at
the book knowledge possessed by
the applicant, than he does at the
knowledge Of the science of teach
ing. How essential the former
knowledge is, we all know, but how
the latter is, and ought
to be made, is not SO generally
80 l@'
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TEMPERANCE LAW IN INDIANA.

An Indiana dispatch of the both
says:
The great excitement to-day is
the temperance bill, which having
passed the House came before the
Senate for final action. The oppo-
nents of the measure fiiibustered all
the morning and a final vote was
not reached until after l O'Clock.
The Hobbies were crowded, and
when the Lieutenant Governor an
nounced the psssage- of the bill by a
vote of 30 to 10, the building shook
with applause. The following are
the provisions of the bill:
The bill prohibits the sale or Civ
ing away intoxicating liquors with
view of being drank on the prem
Uses without liceuse. Parties who
obtain license are required to file a
petion with the county commission
er, signed by majority of the vot-
ers in the ward, town or township,
on the basis of the vote cast at the
last preceding Congressional cleo
ton. The licensee is also required
to file bond for $4,000, properly
| executed with two good freehold
| SCCuEAtlC0 lOE SOIllBS VI kktIuR IL
quors to minors. The bill declares
that any person who shall, by sell
ing or giving away liquor, cause in
whole or in part the intoxication of
any person, shall be liable for and
shall be expected TO pay g reasons-
bic compensation to any person who
may take charge and care for any
such druken person, which may be
recovered in any court of comps-
tent jurisdiction declares 1t unlaw.
full to become intoxicated, with q
penalty of fine or Imprisonment /;
prohibits the sale Of liquors on Sun.
daye, holidays and election days,
also between the hours of 9 p. m.
and 6 q. N. of every other day, IN
der q penalty of five to twenty-five
dollars for every sale; provides thai
any husband, wife, child, parent
guardian, employee or other per.
sons who shall be injured in person
or property or means of support b.
any intoxicated person, shall haye {
right OF action in his or her owr
name, severally or Jointly, agains
the person or persons who shall
have been instrumental in cause o
such intoxication by giving or sell
! ing liquor, and any person owning
renting, leasing or permitting tn
occupation of any premises, anS
knowing that Intoxicating LIQUOR
. are dispensed therein, or haxins
leased the same for other purpose
shall knowingly permit Intoxicating
liquors TO be sold therein, shall be
come equally liable with the seile
! of the liquor for any damages pro
E vided that the execution shall Ere
r be served upon the property of tn
: vendor. A married woman ehal
: have the same right 10 bring an
, contest Q suit as 3 man. The IN
6 lawful sale or giving away Of Ii
quors shall work = forfeiture Of ia
, lease and all rights of the lessee g
\ the premises. All suits may
7 brought in any competent court an
|, Judgment rendered without relie
It The bill makes IL unlawful 20 fui
It nish to any person any liquors whe
: he is drunk, or If he is in the hab
h of becoming drunk. The penaitit
: for the violation Of this section A
= from So to $50. It establishes pen
&c slties OF hnes from Is to $50 IN
le imprisonment In the county Jail fro
ID ten to thirty days for each 0fens
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| first rapture at meeting a Cincin
NATHAN had somewhat abated.
t.Nice poys in this town; nic&
poys. The first night vot open:
my saloon they goomes in and calls
for lager beer, doc, eight, seek;
half tozen of 'em; unit ven 1 says
who makes pay for this too soon
already7' Ply tam, tey say, put il
on te schlate.' I dole tenn, j
don't geep no schlate Den dey
says, you peter as send out unit
puy a schlate.' Vel, I wants to ag-
gommodate-there's no principle
in dose tings-so I pought q
schlate. The peer gept calling for
more poys, unit / gept butting the
schlate onto dem. Poorly quick
already I tells dem the schlate it
pese full on poth sides. unit den
dells me if de schlate pese full /
peter ash fill my tam Tuch head
NIT 'em! Veil, dat ish all right
there's no principle in does tings
--dey are nish poys.
"Pooty bime by after leedle,
dey make smash NIT mine par,
praks mine pottles unit knocks hail
tamnation out of mine looking
glass NIT mine head. Mine Colt
I wash mad. I RAIDER you kive me
ten dollars so much ash vas mad.
But dat pese all right-there's no
principles in does tings = dat
makes nix Inference. Nice .poys.
'.Den dey gall me a tam Tuch
son of kun, und 1 dell 'em dey pet
ter ash go to the tiefuL their own
tam American sconagun. Wash I
right? Veil, dat makes nottings
tifferent.
"Dey knocks the staircase town
my frow, unit throw the window
out of the papy. That's all right
nottings tifferent-there's
no principle in that-niee poys
. but [growing very much
excited, and emphasizing each
word on the bar with his fist they
put water in mine class of beer
unit Colt in Himmel, that ish not
some principle in
lose tings-that makes something's
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FCIy Respectfully,
STEPHEN A. COBB.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. IT.

WAsHINGToN, D. c., Feb. II.
Hon. j. A. j. CREsswELL, Posi-
MAsTER-GENERAL: SiT-The under
signed, members elect of the forty
third Congress, and comprising the
full delegation of the State of Kan
sas in the House of Representatives,
herewith submit q statement rela-
tive to the "postal business" of the
Kansas Pacific railway, made by L.
p. Converse, chief route agent on
that road. We respectfully solicit
for this statement a careful consid-
Grafton.
The undersigned beg leave to
state that in our opinion the estab-
lishment of postal service upon this
route is imperatively demanded by
the wants of our people. The Kan
sas Pacific is to-day q transconti-
mental road by virtue of its connec-
ton with the Union Pacific at Chey-
enne. When you add to this the
further fact that the vast plains OF
the western portion of our State are
settling with unparalleled rapidity
with an intelligent and hardy race
of pioneers, dem onstrated by the
fact that more than-forty thousand
more votes were cast in Kansas in
1872 than were cast Ia 1870, the In
crease of postal service herein asked
for appears not unreasonable. A
liberal distribution of the favors OF
the postal department of the gov.
eminent is the one thing more nee.
essary to q people like ours than
anything else the government car
bestow. Very respectfully your
@bedient servants.
STEPHEN A. CoBB,
D. p. LOWE,
WIN. A. PHILLIPS.
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WAITS.

| AneIo Is uOCuInS greater IMAM &c
be mother of men.
A happy home is the happiest
thing in the world.
We never could have loved the
earth SO well if VIC had no child.
hood in it.
Man is a soul united, for a peri.
cd of probation, to an intelligent
animal.
The realities of the soul, because
they are not palpable, are not the
less realities.
IT'S a terrible thing when the
father is the cloud, and not the
sunshine, of his child's life.
1t is the blessed mission of love
to go forth, blotting out the exist
ence and memory of evil.
Women have always to carry
and hold Jacobs ladder, by which
we men ascend to the skies.
Though the arch of mans power
be perfect in its beauty, yet wo-
man is the keystone, and if she
falls, the glorious structure is de-
molished.
Life is unit made up of all the
numberless acts, the obediences
and transgressions, which seem so
small.
Life is a constant sunrise, which
death cannot interrupt any more
than the night can swallow up the
sun.
The woodruff that holds up
handfulls of little white crosses in
the pleasant woods and shady
glens yields no scent until its life
has ebbed.
1t will keep children from many
a snare and temptation to sin, il
they can surely feel that their pa.
rents are their best companions
aad friends.
Truth springs from the inmate.
rial world; it is the torch of anoth.
er life, which throws its light
upon this.
Gods handwriting is very plain
to those who have eyes to see.
Every heart has its secret sor
rows which the world knows not
and often-times we call a mau cold
when he is only sad. =
A person in straights, by the
Hindoos, is described as q little
ant standing on the middle of 6
stick which is burning up at botl
ends.
Let us not think that we have al
the dark hours. They are the
common lot of humanity. They
are the touchstone to try whether
we are current coin or not.
Pain, like trusty sentinel
guards every avenue leading
to the citadel of life, and we are ad
monished whenever danger is ap
preaching. ao-
When a deed is done, or q feel
| AAS AA0uiSCNiS ~ CduHOb DC uIluOut
by prayer or repentance, or the
next moments healthful or noble
living.
| Why should the cold and silent
stone be made after Gods pattern
and the warm, breathing temple o
the immortal soul be denied it,
birthright of beauty and o
strength?
Each one is at liberty to fashion
God 80 that his thought may clasI
Him, else there will be no love K
God. Make him to suit your want
and you will have gratitude an(
love to him.
| At the coming of the morning
the hammered clouds fold thei
white tents, but thought neve
folds her wings-the spirits bari
is never moored.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
CGREBRO-SPlNAL MENINGITIS.

During the first half of, 1872
eight hundred persons in this city
New York were attacked by .
single form of disease, and ofthat
number six hundred died. Physi-
clans call this disorder cerebro-
spinal meningitis, which being in
terpreted means an inflammation of
the membranes enveloping the
brain and spinal cord. Through
out the Northern States it is pop
ularly known as spotted fever, in
the South as the cold plague, IN
Europe by various local and tech
nical names, and in ali countries
as one of the most deadly affec-
tons to which mankind is subject.
1t frequently, as in the above men
toned instance, appears in the
form Of an epidemic, and its his
tory is, that these visitations are
liable to reeuf after longer or
shorter intervals. Like epidemic
diseases in general, it is no doubt
largely preventable, and the won
der is that with the extraordinary
fatality which has always accom-
panied it, there has never been
any united public demand for the
investigation OF its causes, or the
means Of staying its spread. But
in spite of this startling indifer-
ence on the part of those most di-
rectly interested, physicians have
obtaihed some important facts
which seem to link the origin of
the difficulty with overcroWding,
and the prevalence of filth, condi-
tons which at all times are too
common in cities and towns, but
which, with a stupid blindness to
his own best interests, man is for
ever toleratIng. The evidence
that cases of this disease originate,
partly ut least, through the opera
ton of causes that lie within our
reach, though not as full as could
be wished, is still very convinc.
ing" sr....t 81, -. 49,.
The writer OF the above in the
Galaxy, from which magazine we
have copied the article, then
quotes from o work wrote by Dr.
Clymer several statements show
ing that filth in cellars, the stencil
of improperly constructed spring
vaults. etc., are largely chargeable
with the mischief Last year this
disease was . terror In many local
ities East Of here, and its course
when checked by the advance of
the season was towards the grow
Ing cities Of the West. Would It
not therefore be wise to have re-
moved and properly disposed OF
the entire accumulations of all
sorts, which the winter generally
brings with it, especially where
stock is sheltered. so that warm
weather shall not be charged with
noxious gases add unpleasant
odors, and, consequently, with
| disease. ''is-i ai ss..'i i3sl,s
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
KANSAS NAIL MArrRRs.
Proposed Increase Of Postal Service.
A Letter OF the Subject fFen Gel. s. A.
Cobb
WAsH1xGroN, d. c., Feb. Is.

| w ASdAN01OHS L. vi T COs 4cs
To tie Editor 9th Commonwealth
It has always been q mystery te
the people of Kansas. ] presume
why it takes so long to transport
mail matter from tbs Atlantic States
to Kansas. In conversation with
Mr.. Bangs, who is in charge of the
railway postofEice department, and
upon whom Judge Lowe, Colonel
Phillips and myself called to urge
an increase of service in our State,
this morning, the mystery was ex.
planned. he stated that by the law
as it now exists, the railway compa.
mics throughout the United States
receive certain sum for transport.
ing the mails per pound, until the
number of pounds reach, think,
1900 pounds per day. Beyond this
amount no additional compensation
is allowed. In other words, If g
railway company carries $4,000
pounds of mail matter per day, IL
receives no more than SC it carried
only II, 600 pounds per day. Hence
the companies refuse to supply cars
for their fast trains for the disfribu.
ton of Email matter In excess OF IT,
600 pounds per day along the line.
As . consequence, then, some of the
mail matter must be put upon the
Glow trains of the road. Once em.
barked on q slow train west, over
the Baltimore & Ohio, or. the Penn.
sylTania Central, or any other route,
did a passenger ever make il on
time? On the contrary, If there is
break anywhere on the road or
casualty, is not his train the first
to stop and the last to start? So It
is with mail matter shipped on q
slow train it follows to the end
the usual course of the slow trains.
1t must be delayed somewhere for
distribution, instead of be-
ing distributed as the trains ny at
the rate of thirty miles per hour
westward. The mail matter of the
great central states of Indiana, Illi-
nois and Ohio take precedence over
the mail matter of the country west.
Hence New York papers reach st.
Louis days in advance of their ar
rival in Topeka. a system of rapid
transportation of mails between the
east and west as one of the great
wants of our State.
The postal bill now pending, with
in the Senate, to a
great degree obviates the difficulties
above referred to. If this becomes
a law we have the promise that rail-
way postal service shall be immedi-
ately put upon the Kansas Pacific as
far west as Brookville. I enclose
you copy of letter transmitted
by Judge Lowe, Col. Phillips
and myself upon this subject.
Very respectfully,
STEPHEN A. COBB.