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xITANTED A NURSE TO ATTEND A
Nv case Of smallpox. None but an eIpe..
fenced one need apply male preferred: 1a,,
Shelby for information. Wal
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WHITE and colored shirts, slightly
damaged, at sacrifice.
95 SPROUI.E & MCCowY.
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NURSE. WE'LL RECON-.
wv mended. Apply Immediately at 50 Court
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WANTED.

nv A. FISHER, SUCCESSOR TO FISHER.
il Amis a Co., marble Dealers cor AaAsns
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NOTICE.
CARD.

IHE UNDERSIGNED HAVE BEEN AU-
thoriued by Eastern Capitalists to propose to
the people Of Memphis and vicinity the es-
tablishment eta
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LAY In YOUR COAL.

Get the best Pittsburg from
sat GEO. MELLERsH. 27S Main st.
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klTANTED-A FEW BoARDRRS AT THE
w morris Farm" during the summer
nonths. Ii Is a pleasant country house. situ-
GteI ON the fernando road. i've miles from
Memphis. Terms; 50 per week for board aud
lnfurnishod rooms, or 50 per week Tor board
Ind furnished rooms. There Is conveyance
attached to the isrIn. 70 carry persons 70 anu
ID Captain j. X. Taylor. 2Id Front 81. g2-gI
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DIcRINsoE, WILLIAMS a co.. ooTTQE
IL FACTORS. 36S Front street. st
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OOTT ON.

The receipts at the, seaports weekly for the
present, and the tire q preceding seasons com
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STRAYED.

OTRAYED- ON SATURDAY, JUNE Z, 1873.
- from John c. Hills cotton warehouse,
Court street, one dark brown mare mule. about
15T hand high, she'd all around. Any inform
alton or delivery of same at the shed will be
literally rewarded. ,o,, mr. rssl
8S-t JOHN " hlbh' 2
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE

BOATS ADVRRrIsRD TO LEAVE.
Belle Memphis, 81. Louis, this day.....~.s pm
Exporter, Cincinnati. this day. .......o y. IN
Mary Boyd, Arkansas river, Tuesday-....5 ~ IN
City Of Vieksburg, Vicksburg, this day.,.h y.
Henry Ames, New Orleans, Tuesday y. m
N. Longworth. Cincinnati, Tuesday-.'''l2 IN
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONEY.

PUBLIC LEDs ER 0FTICE,
MEMPHIS. TRSS.. June 16. 1873. J
are the quo tations for local
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FOR RENT.

NOR RENT-A NEW COTTAGE, 4 ROOMS,
II ON broadway, three squares from Main
street railway; SIS Per month: Apply to
MI W. MESSICK. No. Y Madison ST. ]
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XKTANTED-TO BOARD FORTY RPIFTY
w horses for the summer. on reasonable
|terms. We have one Of the best ventilated
ladies III 'n' bowers 4 POINTER.
ST. AS Main street.
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r OST-A JET AND PEARL BREAST PIN /.
| star shape, with three pendants: A suit,
able reward will be paid by leaving At 30l
Main street. sI i. 49, - ~ 5l-I
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bD r.. WILSON. AMERICAN. DRIVEN
|h. Well Operator. Any orders len a. NO.
In Second street will be promptly attended to.
Dld wells pulled up and driven over. Water
Guaranteed or no pay. 0o-sz
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w clean. J. d. FOX. 80 Union 81. s5-t
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IxLTANTED. = SECONDHAND FURNi-
wv niture, feathers and Lousehould goods
bf all kinds bought at 262 Second street;
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FOR SALE.
FOUND.
LOST.

MOUND "A SMALL SUM OF MONEY
T. which the owner can get at this office. Wy
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NOR RENT-A DWELLING HOUSE ON
II Orleans, near Court street. in good order.
Apply TO A. j. WHITE. 2S4 Front st.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22
Selecting Wheat for Seed.

No fact is more evident than tlIat,
if wheat, with which is mixed the
seeds of weeds, chess, barley, rye or
other grains, is used for seed, the
crop harvested will not he good
clean wheat. 1t is equally certain
that poorly developed, unripened
or diseased wheat kernels cannot be
expected to produce superior wheat.
Yet many farmers knowing these
things, pay little attention TO select
ing wheat for seed. No farmer
should ever sow "dirty' wheat IN
der any circumstances. This year
there should be special pains taken
in many parts of the country where
the wheat crop was almost entirely
q failure. 1t will be much better to
procure seed from a considerable
distance and at an increased expense
than to rely on that which is not
suitable for the purpose. In all or
binary cases the fact that such is the
best you have is not sufficient
reason.
Care in selecting varieties is also
important. If one variety has fail
ed in your vicinity, year after year,
try something else, no matter how
good a reputation this variety may
have formerly had.
The fact that white wheat brings
a higher price in the market than
the amber or red wheat of the same
quality, should be taken into consid-
Grafton. OF two varieties, equal in
hardness, etc, of course the white
should be selected. In getting
wheat from distance, if you want
it earlier than that you now have,
go south for it if later, go north
for seed. Do not be Induced to SOW
largely o. any variety simply be.
cause 1t has done well in other
places, especially if these localitie:
are at a considerable distance
Ohio Farmer,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22
sHERIFF,S SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given that by yir-
IN tue of an order of sale, issued out
OF the district court of Lyon county, Kan
sas, to me directed, l Will, on Monday,
September first, A. ID. 1873, at IL o'clock
u. m, ut the front door of the court house,
in said county, offer at public sale, for
cash, the undivided one halfinterest in the
following lands and tenements. situate in
said county of Ly on and State OF Kansas,
commencing on the center line of section
4, township 10 Of range IL east, eleven
chains north of the center: the ace north
33L degrees, east $50 chains; thence
north 4S degI ees, east ] 80 chainsI thence
north 67-L degrees, east 80 chains
thence north 10 degrees, east ITO chains
thence north 7S degs., east to the center OF
er, to the south line of the land decided TO
Ii. Tiffany. in said section; thence on the
said line TO the northwest corner of the
land decided by T. f. Hicks TOD. S. Davis,
in south half of " Z Il of section 1, tip. 10,
range u thenc8 south to the place Of be-
ginning, being the same tract Of land con-
viewed by j. s Davis and wife to George
Kraft aud August DIETRICH, by deed hav-
ing date February 10Th, A. ID. 1860, re-
coTdet in book ok" of deeds, ut page 543,
containing two ~ acres more or less;
also. the undivided one-haif interest in
lot number one hundred and (fty four
(l54) ON Commercial street, in the city OF
Emporia. according TO the recorded plat
thereof. With ali the appurtenances there.
unto adjoining aud belonging. Said pro-
nerty to he sold to satisfy a Judgment In
favor OF August DIETRICH and the Nilsson.
ri Valley Life Insurance Company against
George Kraft. with priority in favor OF
August DIETRICH.
Given under my official hand this first
dsy of August \. D. 1873.
3it5 JOHN BAY,
Sheriff of Lyon county, kan.
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EXPERIENCE A DEAR SCHOOL.
But it is said that fools will learn

But it is said that fools will learn
in no other.
"The little boy for you, and two
littls girls for me! Now, gentle
men, l will bet you ten dollars
there amt man in the crowd can
tell which is the little boy" Over
and over did we hear the above
quotation from nice looking men,
with three little cards with the pic
ture of a little boy on the under
side OF one, and that of two little
girls on the other two, in their
hands, shutting them on little ia
bles in front of the large show
tent, Saturday last. And as often
as we heard the above inviting,
and to many tempting, remarks,
did we see men who had the APP
pearance of sensible men, walk up
to the table and bet their five, ten,
or twenty on the "littie joker"
And, as a matter of course, no
sooner did they lay their money
down, than did the nice looking
man shuffiing the cards take it in.
Then the would-be Spectator
would begin to spit cotton, with
large drops of sweat standing on
his brow, turn away murmuring
to himself or friend. 81 might have
known better"
This game, readers, is what is
known as "Three Card Monte" a
game we supposed every intelli
gent man had either seen or read
of. But Saturdays observations
has wrought an entire change in
our mind. The people have either
not heard of the game, or they are
such consummate fools that they
have to learn 1T before they can
heed the warning given them
through the press of the country,
almost daily.
1t does seem to US that any man
with the tenth part of the brains
endowed him by nature, should
know better than to walk right up
to table and bet on another mans
trick. Whether he ever heard of
it or not, common horse sense
should teach him that a ofession-
al is not going to put up trick
for the public to bite at unless he
is sure of winning the money.
In three or four instances we
saw men, 1--WE could name names
heads of families, with their wives
and children by their sides, walk
up and plank down the last "V''
they had, on this little game. Men,
too, who are living on railroad
claims, and have hard times each
year to provide the necessaries Of
lite for themselves and families,
(and in some instances, we dare
say they are compelled to do with
out the necessaries) seeming to
forget that they will need every
surplus dollar they can raise tc
pay for their little homes, if they
ever expect to own them.
And so it viii be, we presume
rcr generations to come, as there
always has been and always vii
be, o class of people who will learr
in but one school, experience
Baxter Springs Republican
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How TO GET RID OF AN UNPLEAs-
ANT CoRPsE.-That was a queer
story published in one of these
columns the other day, of the way
two Texans got rid of the body of
q little negro boy whose neck one
of them had accidentally broken.
The innocent party, who seems to
have been along there several times
before, said he'd get the ''demni-
ton body" out of the way, and so
he injected a quantity Of nitro
gIycerine into the veins, poured a
pint or so down the boys throat,
and taking the body beyond the
limits of the town, turned loose
against it pistol by jerking some
two or three hundred yards OF
Irvine, one end of which was at.
tached to the trigger; after the ex
plosion which followed, there
wasn't enough OF the negro left in
that county to have furnished the
deceased material for the funeral
of an infant mosquito. A thin.
bleful of nytro- glycerine exploded
in the interior of a healthy mule
would make six or eight or nine
hundred pounds of the incest sau-
sage meat that perhaps ever was
seen, But it would be a little toe
much scattered to be gathered up
and cooked the same day.
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Total, 1900 gifts. all cash,
amounting 20 $I,500,0OO
The distribution will be positive.
whether all the tickets are sold or not,
and the - 900 gifts all paid In proportion
TO the tickets sOid-all unsold tickets be-
ing destroy ed, IS at the First anu second
concert, and not represented in the
drawing.
PRICE or TIcKETaG
Whole tickets $50; halves S25; tenths, or
each coupon, 50; eIeV en- whole tickets for
$500; 221x tickets for $1,000; 1l3 whole
tickets for 5000; 227 whole tickets for
$4,000. No discount on less than $500
worth OF tickets at a time.
The unparalleled success Of the third
gift concert, rs well as the satisfaction
given by the first and second, makes IL
only necessary to announce the fourth
TO insure the prompt sale Of every ticket
The Fourth Gift Concert will be conduct
In all its details like the third, and full
particulars may be learned from circulars,
which will be sent free from this office To
ali who apply for them.
Tickets now ready for sale, and all or
ders accompanied by the money promptly
filled. Liberal terms given to those who
buy 70 sell again.
THOS. +. BRAMLETTE,
Ag't Pub. Lib, KY, and Manager Gin
Concert, Public Library Building, Louis
VILE, Ky. 1886
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22

HARD TIMES AND DRY WEATHER.
IT. B. Murdoch of the walnut
Valley Times, on a visit east, writes
thus:
Crops in Kansas and Missouri
along our route were excellent.
East of the Mississippi river they
were not so good. Fruit and veg
etables are scarce. There has been
no rain in this section for six weeks.
Almost everything is burned up.
The grass along the railroad catches
fire from the sparks of the engine,
and in many places is entirely burn
ed Oh. Choice peaches are worth
fifty cents per dozen; beefsteak
twenty five to thirty cents per
pound pears five cents apiece.
People all complain Of hard times
the scarcity OF money and the low
price for labor. Many people talk
of coming west. Men in good cir
cumstance are Disguised, and COM
plain bitterly of the dizziness in
every branch of business.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22
NUMBER 81.
A New Specimen.

Mark Twain tells capital story.
Here is one of his best:
lone day when l and nv broth
or went into the woods, he shot n
chicken-hawk and a crow, and
while we were lolling in the shade
under n tree he pulled the tails out
of the birds, and then foolino
around and talking, he finally
built the crows tail into the chick
en-hawks transom. When we saw
what neat job it was, we thought
we would keep it. When ne got
home we were late for supper, and
we just dropped it on the porch
and rushed in. We had a sneak
ing hope that the old man, and our
uncle would get bit with it anyway,
because they were always potter
ing over geology and natural his
tory, or something they didn't
know anything about. While we
were ut supper they came along
and found the bird, and we heard
them discussing it and talking all
sorts of establishment. Directly
the old man came in-having the
bird by the leg-and says:
Boys, where did You get this
bird?'
Shot him in the woods, sir
Did you ever come across any
other bird like this around here:
No sir; this Is the first
Boys, do you know what you've
done: You've discovered some
thing that will make YOU known
everywhere. The bird is of a new
species
And then he walked out and we
heard him and uncle conclude that
they would label it with their own
names and send it to Professor
at Albany. Pretty
soon, though, the old man took
hold of the tail and it pulled out,
and we heard both of them swear
Il little. When we came out the
bird was lying on one side of the
fence and the tail on the other.
We did not dare to laugh nor to
let Oh about overhearing their talk
either.
But about a month after this
there came along one of the rat
tiest specimens of a boy you ever
saw, and wanted to stop with rs.
He was all rags and tatters, and
tired out with running away from
his master somewhere. His shirt
was hanging at half mast through
his trowsers, and two-thIrds of the
tail of it was a piece of blue fan
mel that had been sewed on.
While the poor devil was eating
his dinner, uncle and the old man |
we're studying up what they had |
better do with him. And finally |
hey said By George. they didn't
know what to do with him just |
hen the boy rose and swung his
;olors into view, and brother Bob |
says:
Father, you might send him to
Professor Hagenbaum. at Albany
II was the first the old man knew
We had overheard the bird talk,
md so he whaled us both. He
'ays, I'll learn you to play jokes
IN your old father.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22
BUTLER AND MASSACHUSETTS,.

Massachusetts, is in an unusual
ferment over the attempt of Gen. B.
T. Butter to secure the nomination
this fall of the regular Republican
for Governor.
Butler occupies curious position.
He is the great favorite of the labor
reformers and the elements general
ly that in other States are opposed
to the Republican party. II is
thought likely that he woald receive
full half of the Democratic vote
were he to run. At the same time,
ne is an open and aboye-board de-
fender of the salary increase, back
pay feature and all. Arrayed against
Butler are Dawes, the Hoar BROTH
ers, and mony other OF the strongest
Republicans IN the State. The fight
is very lively one, and will be
more Interesting before 1t is over
with.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22

Substitute for house joint resolution
No. II, proTiding for an amendment
to the constitutional
Be 1t resolved by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas, tWo-thirds of all the
members elected TO each house, con-
curing herein:
SECTION l. That section two, article
two, of the constitution of the State of
Kansas be amended so as to read as
follows The number of representa-
tives and senators shall be regulated
by law, but shall never exceed one hun
dred and twenty-five representatives
and forty senators. From and after
the adoption of the amendment the
house oil representatives shall
admit one member from each
county In which at least two bun
bred and fifty legal votes were cast at
the next preceding general election
and each organized county in which
less than two hundred legal votes
were cast mt the next preceding gen.
election shall be attached to and con-
stitute IA part of the repre- sentative dis
trict of the county lying next adjacent
to it on the east.
SEC. 2. This amendment shall be
| submitted TO the electors of this state,
/ lOl tllODlltIl ~ lliC ilNAI
general election.
SEC. ). The ballots used at said
election shall be written or printed as
follows: "For amendment to section
two, article two, CT the constitution :"
or, against amendment to section
two, article two, of the constitution"
SEC. 4, This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pub
lication in the Kansas Weekly Com
monwea!th.
hereby certify that the above joint
resolution originated in the hopse OF
representatives February ), 1873, and
passed that body February %, 1873,
two-thirds of all the members elect
voting therefor.
JOSIAH KELLOGG.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
ALEX. Il. BANKS,
Chief Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
. l hereby certify that the above Join
resolution passed the senate March 6
1873, two-thirds of all the member
elect voting therefor.
e. $. SLOWER,
President of the Senate
|, GEO. c. CROwTHER,
III Secretary of the Senate.
. Approved March 6, 1878.
$ THOMAS a. OSBORN,
= Governor
l ] hereby certify that the foregoing
Il true and correct copy OF the origins
- enrolled Joint resolution now on lille il
my Office, and that the same was pub
Iished in the Kansas Weekly Common
wealth April 10, 1878.
In testimony whereof / have here
unto subscribed my name an
Il affixed the great seal OF tn
!. SEAL state. Done at Topeka thi
: 3lsE day of July, 1873.
4 w. II. SMALLWOOD,
32-45 Secretary of Stats
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22

The Columbus (Ga.) Sun advises
the south to have nothing to do
with such q thing as the Philadel-
phia celebration of &c, (which in
suits its pride, race, and all the laws
of hosp itality ;" all because "a
young gentleman from Columbus,
Just returned from the Quaker City"
reports how one of the chief at
fractions of the exhibition has
already arrived there in the shape
OF a picture of "The Battle oil
Gettysburg, around which the Yam
KEGS flock in crowds to laugh and
ieer at the rebels, and offer all mall
ner of spitefuI and contemptuous
remarks about the unfortunate sup
porters of "the lost cause"
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NOTICE

WILLIAM A: BOUTWELL,, non.
w resident of the State OF Kansas,
will take notice that he has been sued in
an action now pending In the District
Court of the county of Lyon and State of
Kansas. wherein q. W. Miller is plaintiff,
and +. w. Brace and Elizabeth Brace and
William A. Boutwell, are defendants, and
that he, said Boutwell,, must answer the
amended petition filed by the plaintiff in
said action OH or before the Goth day of
September, 1878, or said amended petition
will be taken as true and judgment rem
dered accordingly, decreeing and estab
fishing the lien OF plaintiff upon the real
estate mentioned in said amended petit
tiOn, to-wit: Lot ., in block 81, in the
town of Americas, in said Lyon county,
Kansas, under the mortgage executed by
said +. w. Brace and Elizabeth Brace to
plaintiff, on the goth day of June. 1872, to
secure the payment of note for $1,000,
and S25 attorneys fee for foreclosure of
the same, and all costs of said proceedings
to be prior to the claim of said William A.
Boutwell, to said real estate, under a deed
to him therefor, executed by said L. W.
Brace and Elizabeth Brace, on the the 2}d
day of August, 1872, and ordering the
sale of Of said premises to satisfy the plain
tiff's said mortgage, and precluding said
Boutwell, from all claim to said prcmi ses
as against said plaintiff.
August 9Th, 1873.
EDWIN ). WATERBURY,,
32-34 Plaintiffs Attorney.
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AimiliStratQrIS sale Of Real EstatR.

rsyHE undersigned administrator of the
i estate Of Geo. NJ. Harvey, decease.
viii. on the goth day of September. 1879. al
II o'clock a. M. ut the door OF the court
house, in EmpOria, sell, NJ public auction,
To the highest bidder. the following de-
scribed real estate, belonging to said es-
tate, tO-wit: An undivided oue-half in
terest in IS acres, being all that part of
the L x Of w = of S w = OF sec. 10. n.
10, range IL, Ling on the north aud west
side Of the Cottonwood river; lso com
mencing ut the center Of sec. 10, tp 10.
range IL; thence + 10 chains; thence 40
chains, 10 the south line of said section;
thence Ola the section line chains and Is
links,tO the + corner of the portion deed
ed to Jacob /. Newton; thence north IS
chains and 20 links; thence west 3 chains
and 80 links; thence n 10 chains; thence
w . chains, 20 Z corner of portion deed
ed to Anna Hiatt; thence n to place OF
beginning, excepting acres of 5 end of
the above described piece OF lan4, here
tofOre bargained TO Levi Il. Mills, said
tract of land containing - acres more or
less.
Terms of sale will he, one-third down,
and one third in six and nine months.
Deferred payments to draw interest at 10
per cent per anuum, and be secured by
good personal security.
ABNER HADLEY.
Aug. 18th, 1875, 1896