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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

A woman in San Francisco pro-
poses to walk 1000 miles in 1000
hours, and her husband, who is
Methodist preacher, wishes the bet
was for ten times the distance, and
that she would march off on a
straight line.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

Three years ago one could see all
there is to be seen at Niagara Falls
for fifty cents. Now it costs eleven
dollars and fifty cents.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

There is a man in Detroit who is so
slovenly that his friends have to wash
him and trim his hair and beard by
force. He threatens a lawsuit, but
is too lazy to commence proceedings.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03
Kansas Central Land Agency.

SALINAs MHJ JUN W, bEhIA5Y MAna8ef,
Real Estate Business; also have for sale all the
lands of The Kansas Pacific Railway Company,
amounting to over 50oO 600 acres of the most des-
irable in Central and Western Kansas also, Mill
sites Coal Lands, Farms, Cattle Ranches, and City
Property in Salina and the neighbOring towns, for
sale at all times.
sE- Send for the f'Kansas Central Advocate, "a
large 32-column LAND PAPER, see what we have for
sale and read al about the great Keystone State Of
tie West. EmohI2.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

Two men named Baker were sent 10
the penitentiary by the Circuit Court
Of McMinn, last week, four years
each, for robbing store.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

A man was hanged the other day
at San Francisco for murder with a
weapon of a peculiarly dangerous
and for a long time mysterious ma
ture. This is a sand club, formed
by filing an eel skin with sand.-
When this instrument was first
brought into use the authorities were
greatly puzzled by deaths, apparent
ly from violence, yet no marks could
be found on the outside of the body.
A burglar was finally captured with
sand club in his possession made
out of an eel skin stuffed with sand.
Being closely questioned, he ex-
planned its use. When the victim is
struck, for instance, on the head, he
drops insensible and soon dies from
congestion Of the brain. Often the
skull suffers no injury from the
stroke, and if the person struck re-
covers sensibility he gradually re-
lapses into a condition of idiocy.-
Sometimes a man struck in the body
will be knocked down by the pecu-
liar force of the blow, and feel no
immediate results from it. In a few
weeks, however. the flesh will begin
to mortify under the line of the blow,
and rot down to the bone. Heller,
the celebrated pianist, is supposed
to have met his death in Mexico
from a stroke of this diabolical
weapon.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

A stranger in a Detroit street car,
when asked for his fare, pulled off
one of his shoes and drew up fifty
cent note, remarking that if a little
prudence on his part would prevent
it, he didn't propose being left pen
niIess in a strange city.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

A Sioux City lady went to a gal
lery for her picture. After putting
her in position, the artist put the
plate in the camera. and told her to
look at certain spot on the wall
She wasn't certain of seeing it we'll
from where she sat, and so got up
and walked over to it, but failed to
discover anything curious about it..
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03
Morristown Masonic
F EMALE ACADE MY.

English, Mathematical, Ornamental and Classi-
cal.
Experienced Teachers in every Department.
The next session commences September 9Th, 1873.
Address the Principal,
REV. r. P. SUMMERS, A NJ.
MOrristOwn, Tenn.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

A Green Bay merchant put out
q sign of ice water free" Another
put out a sign of free lemonade, and
a third offered every customer ten
cents in money. A fourth man who
couldn't think Of anything better got
up dog fight, and it drew all the
crowd.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03
FFIce . CtS., 90 CIS.l anu 81 PET bOIIIt'
]. N. HARRIS g CO., Cincinnati, 0


Is extended to the world to place before the public
better Cough or Lung remedy than ALIENS
LUNG BALSAM.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03
Two DOLLARS A YEAR.

avowed his crime and only regret
ted that Dora had not been killed.
''She rejected me with scorn," he
said on his trial. 81 was resolved
she should never give her hand to
another" He was manifestly a
maniac. 1 can never forgive myself
for not watching him more closely
after that encounter under the stage.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-03

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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
SHERIFE,S SALE

NOTICEis hereby given that by VIZ
IN tue of an order OF sale, issued out
of the district court of Lyon county,
Kansas, to me directed, l will, on Mon
day, the 10Th daz of September A. d.
1873, at IL o'clock q. m, at the front door
Of the court house, in said county, offer
at public sale, for cash, the undivided
one half interest in the following lands
and tenements, situate in said county Of
Lyon and State of Kansas, commencing
on the center line of section 4, township
IS Of range II east, eleven chains north
Of the center thence north 331< degrees
east $50 chains; thence north IS degrees,
east 1.4o chains; thence north 675< de-
grees, east 3.39 chains; thence north 40
degrees, east Ito chains; thence north az
degrees, east to the center of the river:
thence up the center Of said river TO the
south line Of the land decided to ii. Tiff
any, in said section; thence on the said
decided by T. e. HiEks to j. S. Davis,
in south half OF = z Z Of section 4, tp. 10,
range IL; thence south to the place Of be-
ginning, being the same tract of land con-
Veyed by j. s. Davis and wife to George
Kraft and August DIETRICH, by deed haY-
ing date February 18th, A. D. 1869. re-
corded in book "K1 Of deeds, at page 543,
also. the undivided one-half interest in
lot number one hundred and nifty four
(164) ON Commercial street, in the city Of
Emporia. according to the recorded plat
thereof, with all the appurtenances there
unto adjoining and belonging. Said pro-
nerty to be sold to satisfy 8 Judgment in
favor OF the Missouri Valley Life Insur-
anee Company against George Kraft.
Given under my official hand this 10Th
day Of August A. D. 1879.
83t6 JOHN BAY,
Sheriff of Lyon county, Kan
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12

PROFESSOR NoRroH's LECTURES.
AS thinker Prof. II. B. Norton
has few If any superiors among the
educators OF Kansas. His lectures
this summer on educational topics
have everywhere attracted the atten-
ton of the people. We clip the
following from the last Arkansas
City Traveller:
ave attended Mr.. Norton's lee
lures last week and are satisfied that
there is not another man in Kansas,
or the West, that could have hand
led the subject more thoroughly.
The only difficulty being the i'm.
mense thought conveyed, which
during the lecture could hardly be
realized, but will afford considera-
ton for years TO come. The house
was GRO wded with . class of people
that would do Justice to the most
refined society, and the lecture was
listened TO with Intense interest
M. N ITO. has lived among u for
more hau three \ ears, aud IL kno~"
Throughout. The county, aud YET.
tw thirds rr he people were -ur.
u.I-.l " bTt lin, H,.d expressed
thsi word iha' he was not here
t'iOr'- Appreci,t, Il tie l. going to
'"aVe as TO teach the sciences in the
Normal school at Emporis, yet We
have his word for Il that this il his
home, and his family will remain
with n. At the close OF the lee
turea vote OF thanks was all that
we could tender him for his earnes'
efforts In behalf Of education aud
the support no had given to tn
cause Of Christianity, by donating
tho whole proceeds to the n. Z.
church"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12


District Fair will be held in Atch-
ison and we hope to have a good
time; viii try and give you a cor
rect and interesting report. Last
Friday the grangers and members
of farmers clubs met in. conven-
at Monroyia to consider the pro-
priety of placing a farmers ticket
in the field. There were about
three thousand persons present,
and they had an enjoyable time.
The C. b. L. ?. railroad ran ex-
cursion trains between Atchison
and Muscotah, and many availed
themselves of the opportunity of a
cheap ride. 1t was decided to put
in the field a ticket which would
support the farmers in trying to
get cheaper rates of transportation
and living prices for their pro-
ducts; will inform you of results.
More anon, j. W. FISHER.
Effingham post Office.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
Life in Naples.

Every mule wears hundreds of
buttons and little jingling bells.
The carriages creak as if creaking
was the object of their eonstruc-
ton. The sellers of newspapers,
and in general all itinerant traders,
shout in the most astonishing man
ner. Every tradesman at the door
of his shop or over his stal makes
pompous oral program of his
rich merchandise, begging every
stranger to purchase. The seller
of scapularies, without knowing
anything of your country or re-
ligion, fixes bis amulet on your
neck, while q shoeblack, no matter
your if boots are dim or shining,
rubs them over with his varnish,
with or without your consent.
The flower sellers, who carry bun
dies OF roses and orange blossoms,
adorns your hat,your button holes,
your pockets, without ever asking
your permission. The lemonade
maker comes out with a flowing
glass, which he places at your lips.
Scarcely have you freed yourself
from his opportunities, when an
other tormentor approaches with q
pan of hot cakes fried in oil, which
he asks you to cat whether you
will or no. The children, accus-
toned to mendacity, although
their plumpness and good humor
are indicative of proper feeding,
seize you by the knees and will
not allow you to advance till you
have given them some money.
The first fisherman draws near
with costume the color of sea-
weed, bare-footed, his trousers
tucked up and exposing his brown
legs, his head covered with q red
cap, his blue shirt unbuttoned,
opening oysters and other she'll
fish, and presenting them to you
as if by your orders. The cicer
one goes before and displays his
eloquence, interlarded with innum-
cradle phrases in all languages
and full of anarchronisms and false.
hoods, historical and artistic. Il
you dismiss him, if you say his
services are useless, he will talk Of
the peril you are in of losing your
purse or your life, from not having
listened to his counsels or been at
tentive to his astonishing knowl
edge. Do not fancy you can gee
out of all this by being in a car
riage. / have never seen people
jump upon carriages more quickly
or stand upon the step, or follow
clinging to the back, or to an
tpart, regardless of your displeas
ure. But if you have the air of ;
newly arrived traveller, they vii
not annoy you with their wares
but will force you to engage q car
riage OF their choosing. In hal
a second you are surrounded wit
vehicles, which encompass yol
like serpents, at the risk of crush
ing you, whose drivers speak al
at once, distracting and frightfu
jargon, offering to take you to Pos
; silippo, to Bai@, to Pozzuoli, T.
Castellamare,t to Sorrento, to Cuma
to the end Of creation.-Castelar'
i"Old Rome and New Italy
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12

PoLITIcs IN MAssAcHUsETTs.-At
las accounts IL seems that the SAL
airy steal champion, B. r. Butler,
stands . good show for the nomi-
nation, by the Republicans, for the
governorship of Massachusetts. So
far he has secured 6 majority of the
delegates. The Springfield Repub-
lican says: at would not only be
idle but dishonest to deny that Gen.
Butler enters on this penultimate
week OF his canvass with improved
omens. His chances are certainly
better than q week ago. His friends,
to be sure, did not do as we'll as
they had hoped to In Boston. The
actual result In two of the wards
was disappointment to them. But
they did well enough there and in
the other cities which held caucus
ses Friday evening, TO secure for
their candidate at one stroke a little
more than one-fllth OF the whole
number of votes needed to nomi-
nate him at Worcester" The con-
test seems close. Butler had a ma
.iority of delegates over Washbnrn
at last accounts.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
An Oll LaWrenee Man in Luck

Most of our old citizens will re-
member Maltravers Solomon, who
did business here in early days. OF
late he has been living in Atchison,
and we learn from the Champion he
is in luck. 1t appears that in 1860,
Mr.. Solomon, in company with j.
w. Brown, aud under the firm name
of Solomon & Brown, from some
discoveries made, became convinced
that oil could be found in paying
quantities in Miami county, and for
the purpose of prospecting and as
certaining the same, they effected o
lease on twenty-five Thousand acres
of land, TO run during the period of
twenty years, which said lease en-
braces the lands on which the oil
has been found. In course of time
this condition of affairs was discov-
cred by the gentleman interested in
the progress of the work, and an
agent was Immediately dispatched
to Atchison to find Mr.. Solomon
and purchase all his right, title and
interest in and to said premises.
Tuesday morning the agent arrived
in Atchison, found Mr.. Solomon,
and made him an offer of $4,000
for his rights in the premises: This
Mr.. Solomon refused, and left for
Paola to ascertain what his pros
poets are. $4,000 is a good round
sum, and we are sincerely in hopes
that Mr.. Solomon will make double
that amount out of his $50 venture
Lawrence Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
SENSIBLE SUGGESTIONS.
To the Faruer Of Lyon County.

At the request of some farmers
interested in the coming agricul-
tural fair, this is addressed to you:
There seems to be a misunder-
standing among the farmers as to
the management, design, &c, of
the Fair. Some suppose it mat
ter In which Emporia alone is in
terested, and her object is not to
benefit but to fleece the farmers.
This is certainly q mistake. Quite
a number of farmers have taken
shares in it and they have from the
first had a voice in its management,
quite as much as Emporia. We
do not mean to convey the idea
that Emporia is not concerned at
all in the success of the Fair; it
would be singular if she would not
be. We, the farmers, would have
great reason to complain of En-
poria If she did not take such in
terest and pratronize it. Why
should we complain, therefore,
when she does it? Why should
we think hard of it if Emporia
should reap her share of the bene-
fits, also? So far as the direct
monied profit of the Fair is con-
cerned, we do not hesitate to say
that those who subscribed its stock
have not received one cent as a
dividend and unless patronized bet
ter than last year they will be sur
prised to have enough to meet the
necessary expenses. Others OBJ
ject to its management, the horse
races and other Objectionable tea
lures. We most heartily join with
you in condemning these. They
are not right and ought to be dis
countenanced, but our staying away
is one of the reasons that they are
fostered. Some suppose that
something must be done to call
the people out and they take such
measures to do it. Now if the
farmers turn out and discounte-
nance these they will soon have
an end. If it were necessary to
stay away from the Fair because of
such things it would be just as
necessary to stay away from the
church because there are hypo-
critics in it; or to leave the county
because some things are wrong
here; or the State for the same rea-
son, or the United States and even
the world. Then where would a
mortal find rest?
Upon the same principle we would
have to quit farming, because some
Of us farmers are not what we
ougt to be. Then we could not be
merchants, mechanics, preachers,
lawyers, nor even saloon keepers.
What on earth would we do?
Come, now, fellow farmers, let us
drop these prejudices and turn out
en- masse to the fair, have a good
social time, besides being otherwise
profted much more than we could
be by staying at home.
NJ. j. FREY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
A little statement of facts is going

A little statement of facts is going
the rounds of the newspapers which
may be of INTEREST to those who re
fer to the odium of the salary grab
as something TO be saddled upon the
Republican party. In many States
a portion of the members, of either
party, drew their back pay, and 9TH
ers of the same party refused it.
In some States, however, q clean
sweep was made. win Democrats
please persue carefully the follow
ing exhibit:
Every Democratic Congressman
from Ohio has drawn and kept his
back pay.
Every Democratic Congressman
from Missouri has drawn and kept
his back pay.
Every Democratic Congressman
from Pennsylvania has drawn and
kept his back pay.
Every Democratic Congressman
from Kentucky has drawn and kept
his back pay.
Every Democratic Congressman
from New Hampshire has drawn and
kept his back pay.
Every Democratic Congressman
from Michigan has drawn and kept
his back pay.
Will now some Democratic news
paper mention the States the Repub.
lican members from which drew
their back pay and kept it?-St
Louis Journal.
Kansas is compelled to acknowl-
edge the disgrace of being the only
State whose Republican members
all accepted the steal. Her two Sen
ators and and her sssole Represents
tive" took and have kept their bacl
pay.-Whichata Chronicle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12

A SERIOUS QUEsrIoN.--"I die
right said the latest victim of
lynch law in Kansas, as he jumped
off into smother world. The crowd,
it is reported, could not understand
what he meant. Perhaps he was
guilty; much evidence, though
wholly circumstantial, pointed that
way. If so, the black hearted MUIR
derer o his own wife and the wife
and children of another man de-
served no sympathy, however much
those who hanged him deserved
censure. But if he was not guilty ?
Suppose that after all he was not
the person by whom this horrid
butchery was committed? Stran-
ger cases of misleading circum-
stantial evidence are on record.
Evidence apparently much more
conclusive has sometimes led juries
to convict, and yet more than once
after the hanging of the accused
and the lapse of years, has been
proved utterly erroneous in the con.
elusion to which it pointed. What
if this stolid, british, half-speech.
less man has been hanged by mot
for crime committed by somebody
else, who thus escapes search Oh
pursuit? What a mockery of civil
ization that such hasty deeds of vio'
lence usurp SO often the place o.
justice.-St. Louis Democrat.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
PlMrLEs, ERUprIoSs, RoUaH sK1x.

PIMPLEs, ERUPTIoNs, ROUGH SKIN.
The system being put under the
influence Of DIR. Pierce'e Golden
Medical Discovery for few weeks,
the skin becomes smooth, clear,
soft, and velvety, and being illumi-
mated with the glow of perfect
health from within, true beauty
stands forth in all its glory.
Nothing ever presented to the
public as a beautifier Of the com
plexion ever gave such satisfaction
for this purpose as this Discovery.
The effects of all medicines which
operate upon the system through
the medium of the blood are
necessarily somewhat slow, no
matter how good the remedy en-
ployed. While one TO three bottles
will clear the skin of pimples,
blotches, eruptions, yellow spots
comedones, or .ssgrubs, . dozen
may possibly be required to cure
some cases where the system il
rotten with scrofnlous or virulent
blood poisons. The cure of al
these diseases, however, from ths
common pimple to the worst scrof
ula is,with the use of this potani
agent, only . matter OF time
Sold by all druggists. OBJ
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-12
LETTER FROM ATCHIsON.
PRAIRIE VIEW FARM, ATcHIsoS Co, !
SPDtembeE ID 1ST3

PRAIRIE VIEW FARM ATCHIsoS Co..
September I'd, 1878. !
DEAR NEWS: 1t is just one
week to-day since we visited your
thriving city, and we were pleas
antly surprised at the delightful
sight. We arrived in your city
1--WE call it yours, as THE News
has done much toward building
and improving it and increasing
the number of inhabitants) at
noon and looking up Commercial
street from the car window, were
greeted with a splendid view of
the substantial brick blocks, nic9ly
graded streets and avenues and of
the State Normal school building
in the back ground. Surely your
city may be called the Queen of
the Southwest" On our route of
eigty-two miles we saw no such
fine farming lands, water, timber,
or building sites, as abound near
Emporia. ... .....
While with you our wants were
kindly cared tor by the Rev. c. E.
Lewis ard lady, and though the
latter was languishing upon bed
of sickness she did much to make
our stay pleasant and profitable.
While on our way to the depot
from the Normal school building
we were caught in the rain and
stopped at the residence of the
Rev. Mr.. Jones, where we were
Hospitality received and entertain
ed though entire strangers to one
another.
We called at TIE NEWS Office,
where we found instead of little
country newspaper Office, where
the outside of every issue is print
cd in st. Louis or Chicago, a fine,
large and thrifty paper, a well
regulated Office and plenty of work
tor all hands from editor to devil.
Our stay was necessarily brief, but
we are under obligations to the
editor for kindness and favors be
slowed upon us. Long may THE
News gladden. the hearts of its
many readers and strike terror in
to the dens of rumsellers, gamblers
and thieves.
While there we received good
ducking, not in the Cottonwood
or beautiful Neosho, but upon dry
(soon wet) ground. When about
two miles this side of the city we
passed out of the rain and spec
along past large fields of dried
and withered grass. We passed
through many beautiful Landscapes
but none to compare with yours.
We returned home well pleased
with our trip to settle again t.
farming in Northern Kansas
? Wheat made but a poor crop thi
year in our vicinity, though som,
\ of our neighbors got twentyo
, bushels to the acre-one man Oh
> rough sowing broadcast, anothe
: by using a drill not more than
quarter of mile from the first
Spring wheat turned out but 1
bushels per acre, rye II to Is, oat
d 20 to -, and flax IL. Many her
= are disguised with fax as we hav
I injured three machines very badl,
d one on our place and one not te
n rods away at a neighbors. TIL
+ ground here is very dry and poti
2 2 toes, early corn, tomatoes, grape
e melons, DC, will make q short crol
Next week the Northern Kanss