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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
A FARMERS CONVENTION.

Mr.. EDITOR: 1t is q we'll known
fact, that the State of Kansas is
soreiy oppressed by the railroad
monopolies within her borders.
They have received lsrge benefits
from the general government and
from the State. What do they give
us in return? Exorbitant charges
for freight and passengers. I be-
lieve we pay them over and above
what we ought to pay, more money
than It costs to run the State gov
eminent. Farmers cannot send
their grain to market, and con-
sequently have but little money, and
this is one of the causes that make
hard times. Now for the remedy.
Let the farmers organize in every
county and township in the State.
Let there be q central organization,
say in Topeka, or Emporia. In order
that this may be accomplished, let
us have farmers convention, COM
posed of delegates from every conn
tY in the State. Give us the real
"bone and sinew"-none of your
shYsters that wear collars and 81, L.
s. G. "''K. P.' or an, X. Il T." en-
graved thereon. We want q conven-
ton of farmers and laboring men.
We have plenty of them that have
brains enough to devise the proper
remedies for al orr troubles. All
we want is concert of action. Who
will lead in the matter2 Win the
press lend us helping hand? lam
aware of the fact that the farmers in
some OF the counties are moving in
this matter. Success to them /; but
we must have a thorough organiza-
tioA in every county in the State
Then 1 think you will hear some
thing drsp." am also aware Of the
fact that parties that furnish money
TO elect u. S. Senators in their In
terest, will throw cold water on
such a movement rs we propose,
but IL the farmers take hold OF this
matter In earnest their opposition
will be In vain. In cenolusion,
brother farmers, let me implsre you
not to sit idly by and let.these soul
less corporations ride rough shod
over you. FARMER.
Greenwood county, Kansas, Feb.
20, 1873.
Farmer will be glad to know that
the convention he suggests has l,een
called since he wrote the above, and
all that now remains ie for every
county to send mp their beat and
wisest men. We hope and expAct
good will come of the Fsrmers'
STATE Convention. So,
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sedruIck County.


The following items we gather from
the Wichita Eagle:
The Eagle wants Sedgwick to raise
her own wheat next year.
Several car loads of spring wheat
have lately been shipped to Wichita.
Our hide buyers have bought and
shipped from this place since the LIST
of November last over 81 900 buffalo
hides; also great many thousand
wolf pelts and fars of different kinds.
Shade trees are being planted in
Wichita.
Wichita does an immense freighting
business with the country southwest,
south and southeast of her.
A company has been organized,
books opened and stock subscribed for
the building of railroad from st.
Jose ph, Missouri, via Council Grove.
to wichita, of which more will be said
at the proper time.
Morgan City is the name of new
town about eight miles west of us, on
the Cowskin, where the. Wichita
and Medicine Lodge road erosscs
the stream. There will be q postoffice
established there at the departments
earliest convenience.
Southern Kansas will certainly re-
ceive the largest proportion of the
emigration to the State this year.
1t was expected that the union pro-
tracted meeting that has been In pro-
gress SO long would close on Monday
night, but such was the interest mani
Tested on that occasion it was thought
best 20 continue longer. It has GER
tainly been = remarkable meeting,
reaching all ages, classes and degrees
Of sinners, and even the skepsicaI must
acknowledge that good has been ae-
ccmplished. Up 20 the present the
new ecEuits to the different churches
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FROM ELLIS VALLEY.

EDITOR EMPoRIA news: At on
last regular meeting of the Eli
Valley Agricultural Society, at tI,
VanHorne school house, Bird Eli
was elected President, and Abraham
Childers, Secretary; VIM. Martin
dale, VIM. Shaw and j. W. Ellis
were elected Directors.
Our regular meetings will be held
in the Ellis Valley. school house,
regularly, ON the evening of the last
Saturday of each month. Members
of other societies and clubs are in.
vited--that is, IL they leave their
clubs at home. When we get good
weather will have a social sing con-
nected with it, which will make it
more interesting. We have receiv-
ed several new members lately. -
We have quite q good supply of
cotton seed on hand to be distributed
to those who may want to try their
hand in that line. We want all
hands to raise as much as they will,
and when we are all ready take It
to Burlington, where we can get It
into batting in good
style. The seed is good, and can be
had by calling on J. W. Ellis, in our
valley.
I see that the Crooked Greek
tC0ffey county, Agricultural Socie-
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Some OF the Illinois farmers have
thrown away the scabbard in the
fight now waging against the rail-
roads, ami declare their purpose to
neither give nor ask for quarter.
They do not confine their warfare
to the roads, but pursue all who aid
or defend them in any way. At q
meeting held In Chebaunsee town
ship, IrioquIs county, . few days
ago, the "Sons of Husbsndry" pass
ed . resolution calling upon the
Judges OF the Supreme Court, who
rendered the great decision deny
ing the validity OF the freight tariff
law, TO resign at once. The reason
is, that the decision is CHASED upon
. technical defect" and that the
Judges "do not reflect the voice OF
the people, nor breathe the spirit of
the Constitution"
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ty is in favor of trying cotton. We
say success to you, boys.
Our valley has its new school
house nearly completed. It is .
nice house, 26xIS feet, built by j.
w. Ellis, who is an old hand a. the
carpenter business, having followed
it for about thirty years.
Our valley is still improving.
Our locality has made a contract for
about 5000 apple trees, which will
be set out this spring. Several
thousand native trees will also be
set out by j. W. Ellis, Bird Ellis,
VIM. Cupp and A. Childere. They
will surround their farmes with
lombardy poplar, maple, walnut and
elm.
Some of our people were q little
balky last spring, but now they
come in all right, and we will fence
section six in all in one body unit
we can raise hedge. We will breal
considerable prairie this season
We want twenty-five Lew settlers
They will find land cheap and o
first-rate quality. We want one
horse or..two-horse black smith.
F. H. G.
Ellis Valley, Greenwood county
February Goth, 1873.
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From the Eidorado Times:
People in Kansas begin to find out
that it is impossible to live without
work.
The citizeas of Harvey county are
endeavoring to get slice off of the
counties of Butler and Marion.
Southwestern Kansas is the stock
raising region of what has been term
ed a prominently pastoral State, as
we have time and again shown, and as
everybody who has ever visited it
knows. But it is none the less adapt
ed to all other pses of agriculture.
The series of meetings held at this
place for the past ten days, by the
Christian church, closed last Tuesday
evening Rev Harvey, of Muddy,
conducted the exercises. most of the
time. Twelve persons were baptized
in the Walnut by Mr.. Harvey, several
of whom united with the Christian
church. The meetings were well at
tended by our citizens.
The Times gives this graphic des-
cription OF Kansas wind Storm: son
last Wednesday morning, cold, chilly,
cherries, ehopping, hell-snorting, rip
roaring wind came down on us from
the northwest. Well, it came like the
rush of n mighty ocean, and howIed,
and triZZed, and snorted like ten thous-
and yearling calves in fly time. In
attempting to face iteyow would be
likely TO lose your religion. A three
minutes walk would cause your nose
to run. your eyes TO water, your cheeks
to burn, and your coat-tails 70 ffutJer-
your mouth would be filled with gravel
stones, old boots, paper collars, old
hoOp-skirts, sorghum seeds and buffalo
chips, while your head would go round
and round like a tin cOffee-pot to d
dogs tail; great chunks of snew
would whistle under your shirt-GollaI
and there be transformed into water
that would run down your back like {
kettle of soop-suds down the back al
ley after wash day; your legs woulC
flop around like the ears of a mother.
less mule under July sun; your shir
front would be as limp as a sevon-yeal
old dish rag in a Topeka hash house
and besides all this, you would not fee
very well yourself. After this the
wind would blow little Bit stronger
and then you woulu begin to wish on
loud-frst, that all lying Kansas edI
tors were in purgatory, and that thu
buffalo, the wild Indians and the prai-
rie dogs were yet the only inhabitant;
of this GLORIOUS young common
wcalth"-second, that no living white
man who had any respect for himsel
or for his country would live in Kansa
a minute. Then the next day, ate
the wind went down, and the SUI
came out, and the boys played mum
ble-peg in the streets, you would de
clare that Kansas was the finest Stat
in the Union-eXcept the winds"
That "Doily Varden'' preacher still
! lives at -Eidorado. This is the fl rs
time the word has been in print thi
year.
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NEW GOLD ExCITEMERT.-A tele-
gram from Salt Lake, dated Mon
day, says an agent of Salt Lake par
ties who was sent to the east coast OF
South America some months ago to
Investigate rumors of wonderful
discoveries of placer gold, return
edlately and reports an extrav-
agAnt confirmation. The par
ticulars are as yet kept secret, but
It is known that some of our lead
ing mine operators and capitalists
LEFT suddenly for New York q few
days ago on this business.
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We publish, in another column,
the full report Of the Senate COM
mittee which investigated the Pom.
eroy case. A majority Of the COM
mittee find that York did not make
his case. ..
Next week, with . view of Civ.
ing the matter q fair hearing, we
shall publish the arguments of the
attorneys on both sides-Hon. B. f.
Simpson for the prosecution, and
Hon. Caleb Cushing for Pomeroy.
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SENATOR MARrINDALE.-The En-
portal edger impugns the motives Of
senator Martindale, OF Greenwood in
supporting Pomeroy on first ballot.
There fs not Q more honorable, con-
seientio1s member on the floor OF
the State Senate than Mr.. Martin
dale, or q man THAI would quicker
rebuke corruption In politics, and
he fiatiy rebuked this insinnation
when he changed his vote from
Gov. Harvey to Col. York on the
final ballot. The Ledger should be
more liberal In its strietures.--Bnr-
lington Patriot. y
We fully endorse the Patriots as
sertions in regard TO Senator Mar
tindale's views OF corruption. The
people of this district have entire
confidence In him, and do not be-
lisve that In casting his first vote
for Pomeroy he was adjusted by
other than the pnrest motives.
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We have all along wondered why
Nye-profane Jim--did not figure
as q candidate against Jones, the
now Senator from Nevada. 1t is
now explained. 1t seems that
Jones gave him $4,000 to keep of
the track. 1t has already been de-
cided by the Senate that man may
buy of his opponents and retain his
seat, 30 that Jones is all right. We
dOu't know whether $4,000 is more
than Jim could make in term in
the Senate or not, but he evidently
thought ga bird in the hand was
worth two in the bush"
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have been as follows: Baptist, "a ;
Presbyterian, so; Methodist, SO /; while
q number have united by letter, max
ing in all not less than 175.
Mr.. Tisdale, superintendent of the
southwestern stage company, and Dir.
Terry, his assistant, have returned
from FIT. Sill. They have established
the mail route, located the stations,
and the stock is being put on as rapid
~ as possible We viii, in a few days,
have stages running to FIT. sill and
back twiee-a week.
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The solomon City Newspaper
says: I'm digging . well on Chap
maa's creek, two veins OF coal were
found; one two feet thick ct .
depth of ten feet, aud another three
feet thick, at . depth of sixty feet
The vein Il beipg worked, snd the
coal sells ct the mine for three qol.
lars per ton, aud IL prononneed Of
good qualify.
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LETTER LIaT.
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that 9 peti.
IN ton VIII be presented to the Board
of county commissioners OF Lyon county,
at their regular meeting, TO be held April
location OF part Of the Neosho Rapi6s
and EmpOr1a road rs follows, te-Wit:
Commencing at the middle Of section 90,
3p. I9, range Is. thence west one b alt nile
to the middle Of west line Of said secfieu
70; thence north On said section line to
the intersection OF the said Neosho Ran.
ids and Emporia road; and to Vaeate an
that part Of the present road crossing tie
northwest quarter Of said section so, to,
10, range ID.
HAMILTON HOWARD.
!O-l Principal Petitioner.
March 4, 1873.
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st. Louis Market.

ST. LOUIS, March 4.
FlOur-Dul at 10al5c lower on Xxx
Wheat-Quiet and unchanged; No. 8 spring
soft 81 gal Tx, No 3 81 S3al.54, No. rcd Isn
$I7Sai so, No. 81 20.
Corn-Opened dull. but closed 1irmer: No. Z
mixed 33a$31Ss.
Oats-Inactiye and easier; No mixed 25e,
white mixed SOC.
Batley-Dull.
Rye-Inactive at CSC
Pork-Firmer at 1la14xb.
Dry Salt Heats-StronR; loose shoulders
Axe, packed 51<c, clear rib IKE, clear sides
SaS5kc. hams 121Sa 14c.
Lard-Mainly unchanged; jobbing lots len.
and refined TX aSc.
Highwines-Steady at Sc.
Cattle-Dull and nominal
Hogs-Quiet at S44Oa4.90, mostly At $4.5Ol
AIS. Receipts 900.
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Two painters, named Clay and
Shepherd. fell from q scafFold at the
top OF the new national bank build
ing In Lawrence, on the 4th, and
were both instantly killed. The
distance was sixty-two feet. g..
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The Southern Kansas Advance
learns that the settlers upon the
Neutral Lands are now contracting
for their homes at the land Office at
Fort Scott.
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The proposition to vote bonds to
the Kansas 81 Nebraska railroad
was defeated in CoWley county by
about 100 majority. le ..-4
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John Q. Page, Pomeroy's Nation
al bank partner, brought suit on
Monday in the u. S. District Court,
at Topeka, for the recovery of the
celebrated $1,000 which York re-
ceived from Pomeroy. Bond was
given by Governor Osborn, Lieuten-
ant-Governor Slower and State
Treasurer Hayes. The money is
still In the hands Of the Treasurer.
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Ward Burliugsme, Senator Cald-
wells private Secretary. arrived Al
Topeka . few days ago, We under
stand he will spend the summer in
Europe. his letters from there
viii be original, Gorcible and en-
structIye.
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The Inauguration ceremonies
passed or pleasantly on the 4th. II
was q grand affair. The inaugural
address was ten minutes long.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that q peti.
IN ton will be presented to the board
OF commissioners OF Lyon county, at the
regular meeting Of said Board, to be held
April 18th, 1873, asking for the view and
establishment Of q county road as follows,
to-wit: Beginning at the northwest cor
ner of sec. Sc, tip. 10, range II; thence
south on secNon line one half mile:
thence west on center line Of sections IS
and 81, to intersect county road on the
Moth and south center line Of section "a,
same township and range.
JOHN II. WILLIAMS,
Principal Petitioner.
February 81. 1873. IO-i1
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The Clayton, Caldwell, Pomeroy
and Patterson cases all went over
without action by the Senate.
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NlARREIS nv TELEGRAPu
Gold ana stock Market.
NV YoRK March 4

NEW YORK, March 4.
Money stringent, although there were in
tervalS of comparative aSe; time loans per
cent, l per cent for thirty days, and 1 y for
sixty daps.
Sterling heavy at *.
Gold strong; oPene6 at / 4[a1 l5lS, eloSSd
at ] .15. Loans per cent. to 80 for carrying,
and ~ for borrowing. Clearings = COO 90
Treasury disbursements 81, 100.
Government dull End steady.
Securities dull.
Railroad bonds more active
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The Modoc war is ended, and the
Indians have agreed to go to q res
ervatlon In Arazona.
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Chicago Market.

Flour-Quiet.
Wheat-Dull, unsettled and lower; No. s
spring 81 19k
Corn.Quiet, weak and a shade lower; No. :
mixed 81 &c.
Oats-Oull and dropping at 26As,
Rye Steady; No. 2 sc.
Barley--DGli; No. fan s11zas6Ic.
Pork-$13 IS.
I.ard-Steady at 81 90.
Bulk Meats-Steady; shoulders packed SC
loose 4kc, short rib 65<c loose
hisky-Active at SIC.
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1t is said that Bogy, the new Mis-
souri, Senator, beats Andy johnson
on capital Ia.
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REPORT OF THE STATE sbPERIN
TENDENT.

We have received a copy of the
annual report of Hon. II. d. Nc
Carly, State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, for 1872. It is very
complete, and shows the education
al affairs of our State to be in a pros
porous condition. From its pages
we copy the following summary of
statistics, which are of general in
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Even so respectable an institution
Bs the Bank of England is made to
weep over the degenerAcy of the
times. It appears from q despatch
from London, dated the Sd, that
some American swindlers forged
the name OF Rothschilds, by which
means they event through" the
bank of England to the tune of one
million OF dollars. A reward OF
Sl2,5 Is offered for the arrest OF
the forgers. f.
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NEWS AND EpITORIAL ITEMS.

Ex-Kiug Amadeus aud family
have gone to Geneva
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100 lbs. White Ash Sesd

A T el.G0 per h. by mail, post
IA paid. Black Walauts It TIVE dollars
per bushsl, frozen FOR spring planting.
sacked, and delivered at depot. Pure
Hubbard squash seed. ct ten cts. per o.,
BY mail, or 4 ozs. for &c, post paid.
stoWelPs Evergreen sweet corn. by mail,
At zoc. per quart. Order early.
Address, u. 8. PIPER,
IOW4 Eaporia.
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ON my farm, miles west Of Council
" Grove. no head OF good stock hogs,
COWS and shoats. 40 thoroughbred gifts,
Poland ChinA, white Chester aud Berk.
shire. r. 4. HARROW.
1919 Council Grove Kan.
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THE undersigned admiaistratsr Of the
q estate q 8. B. Baker, deceased. viii
Commercial street ana eth aVenne- in
Emports, on the 29d Of March, lsi3. at 2
O'Clock. p. a., ore black mare ponv. {
years old, the property Of said essste-
WIN. =. BAEER
Administrator OF the estate Of 8. n. Ba-
ker, deceased. IO-II
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On the Sd, the House committee,
of which Benjamin F. Butler is
chairman. presented before the bar
of the Senate the impeachment OF
Mark w. Delahay. The articles
will be furnished in due time. And
that will probably be the end of
Delahay. His appointment against
the protests OF the Kansas bar and
Kansas press, was one of the dark
eat acts of Iincoln's administra-
ton.
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NEW ADvERrIseMENrs
Wante,
Hogs for Sale.

A SITUATION by a young man. MOI
"A afraid 70 work At anything. EnquIr,
at NEWS once. IOtIS
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Notice to Stockholders.
An assessment of two and one half Der cent.
($1 . per share) has been made on the capital
stock Of the kmporia Mining Company. SAID
assessment is due and payable on saturday,
March Is, 1873
By order of Board of Directors.
f P. BANCROFT, Sec'y
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ButIer county.

From the Eldorado Times:
People in Kansas begin to find out
that it is impossible to live without
work.
New-York tribune., 1873-07-04

own" Mr. Benjamin zeaously dssen ntcd from the opin-
ion that the culture demanded by modern times differed
from that for any other time, like coat or bonnet
for culture the symmetrical development OF the man
what the Latins meant by rtrtns perfect rnanhood.
Mr. Benjamin quoted Hamilton and Cicero and Plato
aud other writers this point TINS sentence on
HamltOns writings being very much 10 me purpose
liberal education is education In which the ind
vdual Ia cultivated, not as an instrument toward some
Interior end. but end 10 himself alone; IN other
words an education in which his absolute perfection as
and not merely his relative dextety as prOles
sionai man is the scope Immediately in view" The
speaker then went on TO deny that immense advances
such as claimed by the advocates Oh
changed system have eeen mads n ,hst fSSs
inventors OF the classical system know little or nothing
OF mental science and lived IN 700 remote an & aye ~ h %
historical review OF the beginning; OF that system IL
was not made In the dark ages Latin was hardly uh
dersood by the priests and monks OF the latter part OF
that period but when the understanding OF the casslca
authors had almost wholly died out then the study Of
the ancient models was revived, nearly 100 A. ID.
The details Of the method OF study then adopted were
shown 10 be such as they are and have been since then
Greek Latin algebra and Euclid though the classics,
being the first adopted gave their name 10 te Wnoe'
Mr. Benjamin then went on to show mat the great iey
val ia ali cultured life, and the Reformation ITSELF
its human source had their causes In the
system Of study Further, the speaker claimed that
IL this system appears imperfect In ts results IL shod
elsewhere more than the system. II an A. Is. cannot
read Latin. Greek. rocks stars, aud flowers with equa
corrigby lazy or has defect in his upper works that
culture rectny. And, finally, MT BenJann went
into extended and able argument TO show that tne
study of the classics while it does require considerable
memorizng certainly calls into the best exercise the
highest reasoning faculty of the mind After the
primitive words OF the Latin Whose superiority over the
English was shown engh) have been learned by the
student he Is then made to bring thei various deTYa
tVes Of these words into comparison with themselves
and with other words to comprehend the history OF
given wOrdn fine to balance probabilities-the highest
effort OF human reason.
The poem, q pleasant review of college scenes aud
heroes, delivered by the Rev. Henry L. Morehouse
At the Commencement exercises, to-day, President
Anderson delivered diplomas OF graduation TO 5 young
genemen and announced honorary degrees to the fol
lowing clergymen:
ID. D.-David Weston OF Hamilton theological Sem
mary John Stevens of Granville College, Ohio VIII
liam G. Wilkinson OF Rochester Theological Seminary.
The trustees OF the University at their annual meeting
prior TO Commencement exercises, elected the Hon.
Messrs Samuel j. Tdeu and Russell Sage OF New York
City to l vacancies ia their Board caused ~ deaths
during the past year.