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II. KOPPEI.

having been burned out as the recent fire At the
National theatre has taken pariors At No 50a Four
tenth street, opposite WIZARDS hotel where he will
be pleased to see all his former friends and custom
ara febilf
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-04-21

INOR RENT-FoUR-sTORY PRESS BRICK
II front HOUSE, No. ls9 X street northwest; con.
tains nine rooms, gas water and range; large yard
Apply next door No. bh X street northwest
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-04-21

LOR RENT OR FOR SALE.
blacksmith Shop well located for business. for
rent,
HGu.es and Lots in all sections Of the city, md at
~ a.sT AT o No sOa Fifteenth st, 6pp TTsssGry.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-04-21

Twenty I'VE ocnts por line. Advertisements under
thu head Of "For Sale or Rent" Wanted y Lost snd
Found" and Personal" |" twelve and half cents per
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
"rHE WAGES OF SIN Is DEATH.

st. Louis, Oct. 13.-The Evening
Dispatch has q special from Carroll
ton, Mo-, giving an account OF . ter
rible tragedy enacted near there.
It appears that Robert Austin, Q
young farmer residing about eight
miles from 7CarrolltoH, has some
time suspected the infidelity of mis-
wife. On Friday morning last
Austin left home, saying he Was GO
ing to the st. Louis fair and would
be absent several days. He went TO
the depot, but returned home after
dark, eecreting himself In Q closet
in his wife's bedroom, armed with
Q double barrellei shot qua. Hil
wife soon retired, and shortly after
wards Elijah Haley entered the
room, undrsssed himself, and just
as he was getting into bed Austin
sprang from his concesIment and
fired at his wife, the shot catering
her abdomen. Austin fired again
at Haley, killing him instantly;
The affair created intense excite.
ment by reason of the prominence
of all the parties concerned, young
Austin being 9 son of Col. Austin
one of the oldest farmers of Carroll
county, his wife G daughter Of DR.
Tournsey, q prominent citizen OF
lafayette county, and young Haley
brother Of Elder Thomas and Ell
der Henry Haley, both prominent
ministers in the Christisn church
Mrs. Austin died Saturday after
noon, and Austin surrendered tC
the authorities.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
ELECTION NEWS.

The general elections took place
in Ohio. Iowa and Pennsylvania on
Tuesday last. The returns are not
definite enough to tell who is cleo.
ted Governor of Ohio. Both sid Q
claim the victory. In forty-six
counties the Democratic gain is.IO,-
$50. But as a partial Offset to this,
the Republican gain in Hamilton
county, in which Cincinnati is stu
eted, which is Governor Noyes'
home, there is q Republican gain
of 1000. The indications are the
Republicans have carried the legis.
lature, which will elect Senator in
place of Thurman,
The Philadelphia Press estimates
that Gordon's ReP0 majority for
judge of the Supreme Court will be
1900. In Philadelphia Elliot.
(Rep.) has 1880 majority for Sher.
id.
In Iowa the anti-monopoly tick.
ct seems to have made q big run.
Governor Carpenter SIS no doubt
elected, although the returns arr
very meager.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

weather continues good the num-
bers will increase. The weather
has been splendid so far.
In the north end of the building
a number of powerful engines are
constantly running, and they propel
all the different kinds of machinery
on exhibition. With the steam
whistles, the chatter of threshing,
reaping and moving machines, the
clang of the huge FORCES, and the
blacksmiths' and shoemakers' ham,
mers all mingling with the din of
the great band of sixty instruments.
and the trimming of the hundred
pianos and organs, tended to make
Saturday really lively day in the
Exposition.
1t is grand sight to witness the
hall in the evening, when all the
gas is lit and two or three thousand
burners are sparkling all through
the building. The city people
mostly come in the evening. Our
Kansas products are one of the
principal features to them. It is
amusing to hear the remarks of
many of them as they file past our
display. On one of the TRUSTEES
hang some cotton stalks and it is a
common thing for the ladies to pull
off the cotton anil smell of it to see
what kind of a flower it may be.
We have a castor bean stalk eight
cen feet high that astOnishes theni
all, while the apples fourteen inche:
in circumference, and the ears OF
corn as many inches in length, cal
forth the most extravagant exela'
! nations.
At every stand there are piles Of
circulars, cards, etc, advertising the
articles on exhibition. The country
people very generally try to carry
} home a specimen from each stand
and it is really Iudicrous to SCI
them with an armful of thes,
things, still clutching for more
One old lady Saturday exhibited
moro enterprise in that line thar
any. of the others, by carrying
huge carpet sack, and examining in
to its capacious mouth all that sh
could lay hands on.
These Illinois people, having liv
: ed "down east" so long, are great
surprised that Kansas should rails
such fruit as she has on exhibition
and our little speech has to be re
peated from morn till night, tellin
: them how Kansas beats the world
etc. During crowd Saturday tina
filled our little space to its utmos
and when everybody was askin
questions at once, a Chicago res
: estate agent CHANGED to com
along, and seeing the dilemma {
our boys, stepped in to offer his as
sistance. Turning to the apples
said 20 the multitude, "You SCI
these apples grew on trees that tn
-. ouholO pCu oo"h " Ilo SIouu
L four. years ago, and of course the
l. are not fair sample" Then poin
! ing to the sweet potato that mea.
:. ured eighteen inches around,
u continued: "ThaL ia the size of OF
Il common apples in Kansas" III
u spectators seemed to believe it al
e and passed on to look at the buflal
y heads, which are one of the feature
l. of the Kansas department
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

At the general election next
month an amendment to our state
constitution is to be voted upon.
This amendment is OF very consid-
cradle importance, and If our read
ers have not already done SO, they
should carefully read it rs it appears
in another column of our paper.
Our constitution says "each or
ganized county shall have 1t least
one representative" clearly mean
ing each organized county at the time
tho apportionment Is made. The
constitution also limits the number
of members of the lower branch OF
the legislature to one hundred m en-
bers, and the Senators to thirty
three. The last apportionment was
made in 1871, and the full number
was provided for at that time with
the exception of perhaps half o
dozen. The state has rapidly in
creased in population since that
time, and last winter several new
counties appeared at the capital by
their representatives, who could
not be admitted because the limit
of the constitution had been reached.
Hence this amendment, which seeks
to increase the number Of members
Of the house TO one hundred and
twenty-five, and the number OF
Senators to forty, making q total in
crease of thirty-twc members. The
legislature is now composed of one
hundred and thirty-three members
in both branches. If the amend
ment is adopted it will be Increased
to one hundred and sixty-fiVe mem.
bers in both branches. If the
amendment is carried perhaps a
dozen members will be admitted tC
the lower house at the next session,
and the new counties will be repre-,
sented. A new county feels the
necessity of representation in the
legislature much more than an ole
one. The early settlers of this and
surrounding counties know of the
ills incident to Acknowledgement IL
the legislature, having once suffered
them for some years. We say le
these new counties in, that they
may have a voice In the making o
the laws under which they mus
live. The cost to the state for thu
salary of thirty-two more member
of the legislature would be onl!
$4,S00, q mere trifie.
Such old states as Vermont, New
Hampshire, Connecticut and Massa
chusetts, where they have the pur
est legislation in the country, hav
large legislatures, some of them be
ing composed of several hundre'
members. We believe their exam
pie can be safely followed in thi
respect. The larger the Legislature
the harder it will be to corrupt b.
scheming and designing men.
We say, then, vote for the amend
ment to the constitution on the 4tl
of November. Do unto others q
you would have them do unto you
Vote on this question as you wOul'
, If you were q resident of one of tn
DISTINGUISHED counties.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
THE KAW LANDS.

The Kaw lands are valuable, and
for years there has been q contest as
to how they should be disposed of.
Last spring the Indians were moved
away, and the lands were appraised
with a view to their immediate sale.
1t was hoped they would pass into
the hands of settlers before this
time. But owing to the high price
at which they were appraised and
the short time allowed by the Gov
eminent for payment to be made,
few bids were sent in. The next
move was for q now sppraisement,
Government having concluded to
set aside the one made last year.
1t seems that Mr.. Jones, of Ohio,
one of the new board who came
here a few weeks ago for the pur-
pose of appraising the lands again,
concluded they were not appraised
too high by the former board, and
returned to Washington aud SO re-
ported. Thereupon the Govern
ment reversed its decision and re.
established the old appraisement,
with q new condition, to-wit: an
extension of the time for payments
to perhaps three years. This is, If
we understand the matter, about the
status of the Kaw land question.
We see by the Council Grove pa
pers of last week that much indig-
nation exists there over the action
of Mr.. Jones and the Government,
and a meeting of the settlers has
been called to take steps to lay the
matter before the next Congress.
That city has always assumed the
privilege OF taxing special charge
of this Kaw land matter, and its
citizens have run the thing about
their own way, so far, at this end
of the line. Every winter, for some
years, two or three citizens of that
city have been kept at Washington
as lobbyists for some scheme to dis
pose of these lands. It seems to ne
that the settlers have fooled away
a good deal of money in this way,
and that the sale of the lands
has thus been retarded. AS q good
portion of these lands lie in Lyon
county, we necessarily feel some
interest in the question, and what
we want is that this matter be set
tied in some way at once, so that
the land may become the permanent
homes of those who viii improve
them and transform them into val
liable farms. We are first, last and
all the time in favor of any honor
able proposition that will give these
lands to actual settlers on the best
terms. We don't know whether
all the schemes worked up at the
Grove have really been in the
interest OF the settlers or not. We
are Informed that, nOtwithstand-
ing the leaders OF the
present settlers movement think
the lands appraised too high some
of them made bona tide offer to
the Indian Department partly, at
least, In the interests Of an eastern
company. of six hundred thousand
dollars for them, in cash, and in ad.
dition, the appraised value of the
improvements. The present app
praisement amounts to less than six
hundred and tlfty thousand dollars,
so that In the estimstiOn OF this
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
MARKETS. nv TELEGRAPH
New York Money Market.

New York Money Market.
New York, Oct IL.
There has been more or less excitement
in Wall street to-day, attended with 3
depression in the stock exchange. This
condition was brought about by An ad-
vance in the bank Of England, additional
banking stock and mercantile failures,
and the difficulty in procuring money In
large amounts on stock caIIaterals. The
banks are extending little or no assist
ance TO brokers, while foreign bankers
are calling in their loans on stocks and
refusing to make any new loans. Thus
brokers have to resort to sales 70 procure
money in large amounts, snd it was these
forced sales which dragged the market
down tO-dsye The bankers were buyers
OF exchange gold. Rumors in regard TO
some orders from the other side WAS the
sharp advance in gold premium, with 6
feverish and more active market.
Aoney-LOoked close 1t lis to 3-16 per
diem. Greenbacks closed frmer at 3f@X
premium.
Foreign Exchange = Firmer in the
morning and bankers advanced rates to
7Qs per cent, but there was no business
over Ga and ~, while at the close prime
bills could be bought at So and ~.
Customs-Receipts @s0S, 900.
Gold-Aetive and higher, advancing
from s3s@95S, and closing at 91s.
Clearings-S310, COO, 600.
Disbursements-Tnea assistant treasurer
disbursed $4,000.
CoIn-fS5, GOO foreign specie received ut
the assay Office; total amount to date,
4Ts9 600.
GOvernmsRts-Firm and higher, the
advance in gold having impaired =
stronger tone to the market.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

company the lands were worth the
present appraisement. Had the
company's bid been accepted there
Is no doubt but that the lands
would have been for sale ut higher
rates than the Government apprais-
ers placed upon them. The action
Of some of the prominent citizens of
the Grove in this matter would
indicate that they are not entirely
disinterested in the anxiety and
special interest they manifest in
the disposal of these lands. The
papers of that city are in the habit
of stating that these are the finest
lands in the State, which statements
we endorse.
We wish the settlers could get
these lands at q dollar and q quarter
per acre, hut are satisfied they can
never do so. It seems to be the de-
termination of the Friends and the
Government to make all they can
In reason out of these lands for the
Indians, they being all the Kaws
have left ont of which to create a
fund for their future care.
A letter from SenatOr Ingalls, to
Governor Slower on this point may
be of interest. Under date of Wash
ington, October 4th, he says.
DEAR GovERNoR.-I called on
Secretary Delano to-day, in accor-
dance with your suggestion, in rela-
ton to the Fe-appraisement of the
KAw Indian Lands. He informed
me that upon the advice of the
Commissioner, Superintendent
Hoag, and sundry other persons, he
had concluded not to have the lands
re-appraised. called attention to
the Communication of Senator Ed.
wards, but he was memorable.
All things considered it would
seem the part of wisdom for the
settlers to accept the situation" and
work for the best terms they can IL
securing an extension of the time
of payment. Whilst It may be 1
hardship for them to have to pay 81
much for their lands, they have thu
consolation of knowing they hat
their pick and got the best. l
would seem better for them to say
their money spe Mt in sending lobby
lists to Washington, and in fighting
the Government to pay for thei
lands. We do not believe they vii
gain anything by suCh q course
. We trust they may be able to &c
three or four years time in whic
to pay for their homes. That, W
believe, is the only point to fight 70
now.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

SON bank, and drew out 500. That
same night his hired man made a
run on the $500. In fact, he ran of
with it.
The sheriff of Doniphan county,
last week, attached SO many engines
and cars belonging to the ST. Joe 6
Denver railroad, that the road had
to borrow rolling stock to make up
their trains.
A new style of fool has appeared
on the line of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway. 1t is the passen-
ger who throws-a lighted cigar from
the window into the prairie grass,
just to see what big fire one idiot
can make.
We learn from the Tribune that it
will probably not be long before the
Kansas Central railroad, the Solo
mon Valley &c Denver railroad, the
Central Branch railroad, and the
Junction City & Fort Kearney rail-
road will effect junction at Cav
ker City. That beats Sanford.
On Sunday evening, September
2lst, little daughter Gagged four and
q half years. of L. r. Thompson,
who lives four and a quarter miles
southwest of Humboldt, was burn
ed to death. Her clothes caught while
she was kindling q fire in stove.
When Johnnie Gilmore copies g
string of items from the Junction
City Union he gives credit. The
other fellows don't.-Junction City
Union.
| You don't steal any State items
nor nothing.
). The Cheyenne Indians are killing
cattle in the Arkansas Valley, Colo
RADIO. They complain that the
white men killed buffalo last winter
and let them rot on the plains, and
now they arc going to destroy thu
cattle of the whites. In the eye o.
an Indian to kill a buffalo in winter
unless in case of extreme necessity
is. a serious crime against Provi
dence, and it is not strange that tn
reckless slaughter of those ami
mails by intruding strangees ha
excited their indignation.
= The orchards of Kansas will 500
become famous throughout tn
world. The President of tn
: American Institute told the Kansa
/, committee that the fruit from thi
: State recently on exhibition Their
? was the finest in quality and colo
, ever shown in New York.-Leaven
> worth Times.
Howard county ticket was nomi
mated on the issue of dividing th
: county. The divisoI.ists appear t
= run things.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

The annextion plan just voted
upon in Boston and vicinity pro.
posed TO annex Charleston, Drigh.
ton, West ROxbury and BrOokline
and consolidate the whole under
ono government and name. The
city began by aAnexing Dorchester
in 1904, and followed by taking in
South Boston, Washington village,
Roxbury and Dorchester. The plan
that led to the late vote contemplat-
cd Introducing Chelsea, Cambridge,
Somerville and eight smaller towns.
Charleston has 10000 population,
Brighton 1870, Brookline S,GS3.
The effect of the whole is to give
the city a population of 299,13G; a
valuation of SSO0,OO0,OO0; a taxable
area of 22,9S3Is acres. The valua-
ton of Drookline in S2S,476, 600, Of
Brighton SI4,5IS, 53l, and of West
Roxbury S23,l4S,6OO.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

"A Washington SPECIAL says: Ow-
ing to the small receipts from rev.
enue, Treasury officials say it will
be necessary 10 Issue eight or nine
millions of the forty-four millions
reserve to meet the current expenses
of the government during the pres.
emit month.
A writer in the American Artisan
suggests hollow iron walls, filed
with water, as the most effectual
fire proof shield. Tue water would
turn to steam, aud thus carry OF the
heat, and thus the iron could not be
heated beyond two hundred aud
twelve degrees.
A colony of Russians-mechan-
les, farmers, milIwrights, &c.-hevC
purchased several thousand acres o.
land in Huron county. Michigan
and will very soon settle, build
houses, school houses and mills, and
establish q thriving, relf-sustaininG
community.
The death of the great painter
Landseer, recalls the anecdots re
lating to Sydney Smith, who, being
asked to sit for his portrait to tn
delIneator of the canine race, re
piled, SIS my servant dog that b
should do this thing?" This wa
both Dignity and Impudence."
| One of the proprietors of tn,
Petersburg, Va, Index. in goinl
over the Office recently, disceVere,
that q slab used a. an imposin,
stone was the tombstone of . nea
relation, who had died about fort,
years ago. The engraved side of tn
stone was downward, and how
came into use in the office Is unex
planned. That was rough, but NO
so bad as the baker who stole
tombstone for the bottom of hi
: oven, and the next morning foun
that every loaf Of bread had "Ss
cred to the Memory" on the bottoI
4 - a
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

unpIeasantness in the situation
would never have been known.
But these modern innevators, the
grangers, will, IL permitted, push
their reverend candidate TO the ut
most of their ability. On the one
hand they are marshaling the broad
brimed quakers, relentless in their
opposition to long credits and bond
questions, who never take whisky
except on the principle laid down
by Paul for the guidance of Tim
othy and on the other hand the
chivalrous temperance men are
bearing down on our lines, I'M
checked by our retail ordinance,
and in front the terrible grangers
are massing for the fray, and al
though we are not unmindful of the
resources of our great standard
bearer, it requires steadiness to face
calmly the coming storm. We pre-
dict that when the ides of Novem-
Der arrive the "great manager" will
II
startle us with some brilliant STRAIT
egg that will roll back the revolu-
tionary forces in disastrous defeat.
Perhaps, taking advantage of the
knowledge of tactics and the per-
sonal experience acquired in the
Commercial street struggle he may
get out an Injunction on the parson
and enjoin him from appearing on
the track as a candidate. 1t might
reasonably be held by the lawyers
that if an injunction may restrain
tax payer it may also restrain tax
maker and with such decision we
should have the parsOn corkei tight
in q bottle, and our candidate might
walk leisurely oyer the course
And finally, should this expedien
fail through any technicality.of the
aw, the city council might assemble
in due form and pass an ordinance
appropriating our candidate to thu
legislature, and charge all expenses
, to the contingent fund. We thinl
his ambition would VetO the ambi
ton of the preacher, and perhap
. nip this whole radical movemen
3 in the bud.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.

Memphis had thirty-one yellow
fever interments on Wednesday OF
last week.
The receipts of bullion at the
New York assay Office, last week
were 6641, 900. sf
The Third National Bank of Chi
cago, which suspended on Septem-
Der %, resumed business last We'd
nesday, with gratifying results to
the officers. .s-
1t is related that the editor of q
religious paper recently left to his
heirs over two thousand one hun.
dred shares of different kinds OF
stocks, all of which are not now
worth that number of cents.
Some one was displeased with the
late treasurer of Florida, and
charged him with dishonesty,
whereupon thorough investigation
was had, and the result showed that
the State owed him nineteen cent?.
Pension him.
John T. Irving, the self-confessed
Nathan murderer, arrived at the
Central Office in New York last
week. No information was obtain
ed from the officers who brought
him, and no one IL allowed 10 zee
the prisoner.
Three cargoes of Aour, aggregat-
ing 4S, $50 barrels, have lately been
shipped from San Francisco to Liv-
erpool, and the Bulletin speaks of
the movement as . novel and inter-
esting feature of the export trade Of
that port.
1t is said that the Rev. DIR. New
man, chaplain of the United States
Senate, will not return from his in
spection of the consulstes during
the present year. This viii render
necessary the electies of . new
chaplain. - ft sr3s g
Alta meeting of railway mauagers
at Chicago last week, the question
OF aboiishing the practice Of paying
commissions on ticket sales WasI
considered, bat no decision vas
reached. A COMMITTEES was ape
pointed to consult with eastern and
western roads on the subject.
Ohisago is in trouble about the
plans for the proposed court HOUSE.
How the concern is to be made
large enough TO accommodate the
divorce cases without eroWding the
rest of the city into the II ke is the
problem to be solved.
Among the consequences Of the
financial crash In Wall street II said
to be the withdrawal Of many per-
sons we'll knowa by their loag-con-
tinRed presence thsrs. The neees-
sity of the occasion has forced them
to pursuits other than specalstiOns. |