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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
a rAvORARE.E SHOWING

The statistics gathered by the
State Board of Agriculture in re
gard to the present years products
of the soil, also number of cattle,
sheep or hogs now in the State re-
veal an unexpectedly favorable
condition.
There was total area of 49,,
435 acres planted in winter wheat
which has produced G,70J,2
bushels. From 254, $50 of spring
wheat, 2,47l, $40 bushels have
been harvested, making the total
quantity of wheat produced in the
State this year, despite chinch-
bugs and continued dry weather,
9,I7G,774. This viii give more
than fifteen bushels to each man,
woman and child within the State.
The county having the largest &C
leage of winter wheat is Labette,
containing 32,402 acres which
produced 5S3,236 bushels.
OF spring wheat, Republic
has the largest area, 3d.
42G acres, which produced Pol, 26o
bushels. There are 39O,524 bush
els of barley, S,7I3, 1874 bushels of
oats, 1,069,G97 bushels of potatoes,
and 1869, $40 bushels of corn.
There are 54O,34S swine, 100, 3GI
cattle and 1870 sheep. This is a
gain of 159,647 swine, 135,340 cat
tie, and 20 POI sheep in one year.
This is remarkably fine showing
for the year And it is encourag-
ing from another consideration,
and that is that this year we have
had n concurrence of unfavorable
circumstances such as has not &C
Cured before in twenty years, and
is not likely TO occur again in
twenty years to come. We have
had drOuth, chinch bugs and
grasshOppers all in one year. Had
either of these been absent, the
case would have been far different.
As it is, we have plenty of bread
and meat III our State to more than
feed our own people. The only
occasion for suffering, arises from
the fact that in the great rush of
immigration to the homestead re
gions during the past few years,
we have acquired a large popula
| ton destitute of accumulated cap
ital, and dependent upon their
crops for the immediate means of
support. 1t is this class of people
who need little help from their
more fortunate neighbors, or from
the State. But aside from. them
the State is in n fair condition.
We have suffered, but no more
severely than many other States
this year. 1t has been year of
drouth, and destruction by insects,
all over the eountry.-Lawrence
Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

Tomorrow Saturday is the day
fixed for electing delegates to the
Republican Senatorial conven ton.
The Republicans should attend to
this duty promptly. Let every
township be fully represented. We
learn that Greenwood county will
have full delegations present.
Greenwood county was not repre-
sented at all in the so-called Reform
convention held here few weeks
ago. There was plenty of time,
but instead of adjourning, to give
our neighbors time TO send dele
gates, Lyon county, or rather the
one-third of 1t represented in that
convention, went ahead and made
q nomination. If the Republican
convention shall prove to be no
fairer expression of the people than
that so-called Reform convention
was, we hope it will adjourn and
go home without making nomina-
ton; but we believe every town
ship in the two counties will have
delegates present.
Candidates for Senator seem to
be scarce, and we guess this Office
will have to hunt up some good
square Republican and fasten ON
him. Let the convention give us a
good, square, sensible man. That
Is all we ask.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25

The Republican party does not
consist wholly of saints. IL has
been long enough in power to have
gathered round il q goodly number
of sinners, who care mostly for
the loaves and fishes. Neverthe-
less, the men Of ideas, the men of
patriotism aud conscience, are
mostly in its ranks. The salvation
OF the country must come from
them, II Il comes at all.
The present state of Southern af-
fairs shows the great need of this
party which actually exists. Deaf
blind, idiotic, backward looking,
there are still thousands OF people
In the South who believe that the
"good old days" of slavery can be
restored, and the White League Is
evidently working In this faith.
The old Confederate flag is afloat
again. The reports from the South
all tell one story wearisOme
monotonY of assassinatiOns of ne
groes and northern men by the
White Leaguers. Many Southern
newspapers talk war as fercely as
they did In 81. The South is not
reconstructed yet, and the spirit of
slavery and treason is not dead.
There is still need of the Republican
party. With all it's iwpeI fctions,
the nations life is in it.
We publish on our first page ex-
tracts from Southern papers which
Verifies our statements.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
TYNDAEH..

There seems to be a great flutter-
ing and excitement over Mr.. Tyn-
dall's latest manifesto. In his re-
cent address in Ireland, he asserts
that "matter contains promise and
potency of every form of Iife," and
that the seeming forethOught which
pervades the universe is but one OF
the many qualities of matter. And
the public trembles rs at the voice OF
an oracle.
Mr.. Tyndall has made no new
discovery. and enunciated no new
truth. He has simply learned and
announced that with the steelyards
and foot-rule man cannot, by
searching, find out God. Mr.. Tyn-
dall's fallacy lies in the fact that he
recognizes no other method OF
learning the truth than the use OF
these instruments. In physical
science Mr.. Tyndall is a giant,
while in spiritual science he is a
babe. He insists upon carrying his
material instruments into the realm
ofspirit, and obtains no results and
therefore he denies the existence of
the spiritual realm. So long as Mr..
Tyndall sticks TO his physics, his
opinions are almost conclusive.
As TO what he says upon other
matters we need not trouble our
souls at all. His proposal to test
tho efficacy of prayer by expert
ment, made in all sincerity, is the
acme of childishness. When he APP
plies his clumsy instruments to
spiritual things he is merely work
ing an element too subtle for his
cast of mind. lie is out of his
sphere; that is all; and we need
attach no special weight to his
vvnrda
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
HOW zsTEEIS:
An Explanation En e. .;cr
From VIZ. G'ssSc..
CemEonwe ;tl;h -st

Cemmonw -. -.
Mr.. j. c. Cusey was last winter
and is yet member of the Kansas
Legislature. He was also last year
= meInber oe the State Board
of Agriculture. While the
Legislature was in session last
winter meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture was held
here, which Mr.. Cusey attended
and .for ,rhich he Put an a
claim Of Mirtg-Oae dollars for
per diem and mileage, tchile at the
same time dra'cing pay as a mem
Der Of the Legislature. This claim
was included in the miscellaneous
appropriation bill, bnt was stricken
cat 10y the Legislature. Any one
who is curious to examine the
proof in this matter can find it in
the office of the Secretary OF State,
where the original bill (house bill
452 is on file and open To inspec-
ton.
If there is ON record any more
fiagrant and penny minded case OF
salary grabbing, we have never
heard OF it. Thirty one dollars is
not very great deal of moaey,
but it is quite enough To show q
mans makeup. The fact that the
attempted grab was such small
one only tends to make the act the
more reprehensible. Mr. Cusey
could not serve at one and the same
time as member of the Legisla
ture and as member OF the Board
of Agriculture, and yet he under
took to draw per diem and mileage
in both capacities for the same
period OF time. Here is an in
stance of salary grabbing, or at
tempted and bafllcd salary grab
bling, upon which Mr.. Cusey nigh
dwell little tonight, we think
with interest and profit. May WI
not anticipate that ne will do so
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
sENATORIAL CONVENTION.

The Republicans OF Lyon county will,
at the same time and places appointed for
the election OF delegates 10 the county
convention, to be held In EmpOria on
Tuesday, September 18th, 1874, elect dele
gates to q Senatorial Convention to be
held in Emporia on Tuesday. September
10Th, 1874, at 3 o'clock p. m, for the pur-
pose Of nominating Senator for the oath
istrict, composed OF Lyon and Green
wood counties. The following represent
alton has been agreed upon: One dele
gate for every 90 voters, ut the last gener-
al election, and one delegate for every
fraction OF over half that number. On
this basis the various townships, pre-
cincts and wards Will be entitled to elect
the Acknowledgements: Agnes City, 1;
Americas, 4; Center, 1; Elmendaro pre-
cinct, i; Hartford precinct, 2; Neosho
Rapids precinct, 4; Beckes' precinct, L;
EmpOria township, o; EmporIA city 1st
ward, 8; End ward, 3; Ord ward, 3; 4th
ward, 9; Fremont, 2; Pike-Patty's pre-
cInct, 1; Plymouth precinct, .; Reading,
/; Waterloo, 9.
q. w. FREDERICK,
Chm. Lyon Co. mmittee.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
NEW ORLEANS RERELLuON.


The surrender of tho rebels in
New Orleans was as sudden as their
accession to power. They had had
too much experience with Mr..
Grant to fool around long after he
told them what to do. They peace
ably turned over the government to
General Emory within a few days
of their triumph, and Kellogg is
now again exercising the functions
of Governor. A telegram from
New Orleans of the 18th, says:
"AbOut o O'Clock this morning
Gov. Kellogg returned from the
custom-house to the executive Of
flee in the st. Louis hotel, taking
possession. Gov. Kellogg and such
other State officers as are i'm the
city went down to the state house sc
10 o'clock this morning and the mil
itary authorities formally delivered
possession of the building to them
and furnished q military guard.
The secretary of state. the speaker
OF the house, lieutenant governor
and attorney general are some
where north, and it is understood
that Gov. kellogg telegraphed for
them to come home at once. He
has also telegraphed to the MEM
0ers OF congress, who are all absent
from the State except Congressman
smith, requesting them to return at
once 10 their respective constitu-
entS.
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new LerusaIe,,,

The crop of fools is perennial.
This time it is Valcour Island on
Lake Champlain, in Canada, that
nourishes the crop. "TwelVe COM
munal homes" are to be built in a
circle at the centre. The island has
"a mild climate, and q soil unriVel-
ed in richness within a thousand
miles" There is a remarkable
adaptation to all the fruits of the
temperate zone" If Mr.. Seward
had made such statements at the
time of the Alaska purchase it
would have Occasioned no surprise.
The fact is, that snow falls six feet
deep, and mercury freezes at Val
cour Island.
"Social freedom" is 10 be the
watchword at Valcour. 1t is TO be
a realm devoted to happy industry,
loving fraternity, and afIectionsl
liberty. No stern marriage laws
are 10 curb the social harmony OF
Valcour Island.
Mr.. Woodhouse is the champion
and founder. He makes one start
ling confession: "The children OF
Oneida are sickly; but our children
will be all love children, and we
shall start at Valcour the greatest
reformation the world has ever
seem" Aha! we supposed that
"stirpiculture" was the leading pur-
suit at Oneida. Free love was to
result in spiritual and physical per-
fiction. And now we learn that
"the children are sickly." What a
confession is ihisl
We suppose that few fools will
assemble in the tropic climate OF
Valcour, Canada East, enjoy one OF
its winters, sqaander their small
means, test the folly and shame of a
licentious life, and then scatter.
The New Paradise will vanish like
its predecessors in fizzle and sui
phur stencil.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED.
Hon. =. -. Ingalls, 20 he Ina
EmPOrIa.
Hon. w. r. Browne Appoint.
memns

- ~ AAa
EmPOrIa.
mon. w. h. Browns AppOInts
meD1s.
The Topeka Commonwealth con-
tains a long list Of appointments made
by the State Central Committee for
Republican meetings to be held i'm all
parts Of the State during the CAM
paign. Over one hundred meetings
are to be held in all the counties of the
State. These are to be addressed by
Senator ingalls,, our three candidates
for Congress, candidates for State off,
ces and others.
Other appointments are yet to be
made for Senator Harvey, Governor
Osborn and others.
By direction of the central commit
tee. general invitation is extended to
Republican orators In the State to par
tieipate in the canvass. And locaII-
ties which desire speakers Furnished
and meetings provided for others than
those a designated in the follow
ing announcements, are requested to
confer with the chairman of the COM
mittee, Indicating their choice of
speakers.
Senator ingalls, will address the peo-
pie at EmpOria on Thursday, October
18th, at z pm.
The following is a list of meetings
for Hon. w. r. Brown, Republican
nominee for Congress in this Congress
iOnal district:
BurlinRame, Tuesday, Sept 90. d. m.
Usage city, Tuesday, Sept. %, 7p m.
Emporia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7-aO p.
Alma, THURSDAY. October 1. 7-30 D. m.
Council Grove, Saturday, Oct. 3, T.3O D.
m.
Eldorado. Tuesday Oct. @, at 7-sO D. m.
Augusta, Wednesday Oct. :, 7-30 D. IN d.
Winfield, Thursday, Oct. 8, 7.3O p. IN.
Wellington, Friday, Oct. ., 7-30 p. m.
| Arkansas City, saturday, Oct. 10, $50 p.
| m.
| Elk Falls. Monday, Oct, IL, 7-3O D. IN.
Eureka, Thursday, Oct. ID, $50 D. m.
burlington, Friday, Oct. 10, $50 p. m.
Neosho Fails, Saturday, Oct II, $50 p.
Cottonwood Falls, Oct. 20, 7-3O p. m.
Newton, Tuesday, Oct. q, 7.3O D. m.
Wichita, Wednesday, Oct, %, 7-3O p. m.
Mcpherson Center, Friday, Oct. 30, 7-3O
p. m.
atlanta, Saturday, Oct. 81, at sp.m.
Hutchinson. Monday, Nov. 2, 7-s6 p. m
The Hon. A. NJ. F. Randolph will
address the people, in connection with
the Hon. w. X. Brown, at the follow
Ing places: Burlingame, Usage City,
Newton, Wichita and Council Grove.
The Hon. c. X. Holiday will adj
dress the people, in connection with
the Hon. w. X. Brown, at the follow
ing places: Burlingame, Usage City
and Alma.
The Hon. A. l.. Williams will adj
dress the people, in connection with
the Hon. w. Il. Brown, at the follow
ing places: Council Grove, Cotton
wood Falls, Newton and Wichita.
The Hon. ii. G. st. Clair will address
the people, in connection with the
Hon. w. II. Brown, at the following
places: EldoradO, Augusta, Winfield,
Wellington, Arkansas City and Elk
Falls.
The Hon. Geo. I. Anthony will adj
dress the people, in connection with
the Hon. w. r. Brown, at the follow
ing places: Burlington, NeOsho Falls
and Eureka.
The Hon. Ed. Russell will address
the people, In connection with the
Hon. w. Il. Brown, at the following
places: Burlingame, Usage City,
Winfield, Wellington and Eureka.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
STATE NEWS.

Cusey and his followers are il
tribulation about that little thirty.
one dollar salary steal.
ID. B. Burdick, of Usage county,
took all the prizes at Kansas City
for short horn cattle, and also the
special premium for best bull! of any
age or breed. His prizes amounted
to 1925.
A gentleman from southwestern
Missouri tells US that in that sec
ton the corn crop is almost total
failure, and that some farmers are
killing their hogs to prevent them
from starving to death.
Near Buffalo station, on the Kan
sas Pacific, three Indians gobbled q
a young man and his mules, knock
ed his wagon TO pieces, and struck
out for safer quarters.
A fight in Humboldt, Kan, Mon
day night, at a beer garden, result
ed in one man being shot danger
ously, who afterward struck the
shooiist with an AK, dangerously
wounding him. -.
Mr.. Scott Wilkerscn, of Ottawa,
Kan, who has lately arrived from
the east, committed suicide at that
place Tuesday evening, about seven
O'Clock. He was young man
about twenty-three years ofage, and
had just arrived, intending to go
into business, and had $4,000 cash
on his person. lie was stopping
with his brother. Attic supper ia
Bile he was jovial-in fact, nothing
seemed to be amiss with him but
at the hour named a report of
shot was heard, and he was found
dead in his room. He was young
man of much promise; had only
been married about three months,
and was expecting his wife shortly.
No cause can be assigned for the
rash act. There was an unsuccess-
full attempt to commit suicide, by
taking morphine, at a hotei the
night previous, and possibly the
disease" may have been contami-
mating.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25

The President does not do
things by halves. General Emory
Inexperienced his Instructions
when he appointed n Military
Governor of Louisiana, and the
President promptly informs him
of that fact. The government has
no knowledge of any other person
than kellogg who can lawfully as
sumo the powers of the Executive.
1t is not for the President, much
less for inferior officers, to decide
as to who has committed frauds,
or who is the most proper man for
Governor of Louisiana. Kellogg
had been ousted illegally, and he
must be reinstated, and no other
question is to be considered. The
order of the President, through
General Townsend, has the right
ring about it:
If the surrender is not quietly
submitted TO, it must be enforced
at all hazards, this being an insur-
rection against the State govern
ment of Louisiana, to aid in. the
suppression of which this govern
ment has been called upon in the
form required by the Constitution
and laws of Congress Hereunder:
1t is not the province of the Unit
ed States authorities to make
terms with the parties engaged in
such insurrection.
The latter clause is n delicate
hint to the officer in command
that the formal surrender of Nc
Emery and Penn, and the accept
ance of their surrender in such an
awful and solemn manner is little
too farcical and absurd to be toll
Grated. Notwithstanding this, it
that General Emory has
discharged his duty conscientious
ly, and the mistake he made
can be readily pardoned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25

To save time and trouble, IL is suggested
after consultation with such district com.
mitteemen as we could find, that after the
business OF the county convention is
transacted, the delegates to the county
convention shall assemble In separate dis.
trict conventions and place in nomination
candidates for Representatives for the 6Sth
district, composed OF Emporia, Pike
and Center townships, and the Goth dis.
trict, composed OF the other townships
OF the county.
We urge the Republicans OF the county
to attend the conventions above called.
and see TO 1t that the work Of electing del.
eRates Is done In the right way. The num-
Der OF delegates Is made large so that the
convention may as nearly as practicable
approach peoples convent ion. The CON-
mittee is DESTROYS that the convention
shall be run by the people, and that q
ticket shall be nominated which the peo-
pie will endorse. We leave the work in
the hands OF the people, and trust they
will manifest that interest which the i'm
portance OF the matter demands.
BY order Of the committee.
GEo. w. FREDERICK,
Chairman Of Committee.
A. d. CHAMBERS, secy.
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a VOICE zRoss EEaE EAsr,.
a Good Naanred SeoId5n-
FROM 4 FOr..aer Resident.

Mt. CLEMENS, Mich, Sept. II, II.
FRIEND SToTLER ALLOW me a
word or two in regard 10 the Kan
sas outlook. You, l think, are
aware that did not, while in Kan
sas, go with closed eyes; but rather,
so far as the duties L owed to others
allowed, endeavored TO know as
muck as possible of the good and
the bad to be found within its broad
territory.
just now a great noise is being
made about "ehinch bugs, grasshop-
pers and drouth ;" and Judging
from the tone of some of these fault
finders, the thoughtless might con-
clude that no place on earth is af-
fected with evils save Kansas. Ma
ny, it is said, are leaving the State
IN search of homes elsewhere.
Warn such not to do SO. All Kan
sas has not suffered in years so
much from the combined effects OF
the three evils above mentioned, as
has Michigan from her great fires
of year or two past. Yet no one
is found crying, "Leave Michigan,
the miserable State, and go else
where The people of Pittshurs
are not leaving Pennsylvania be.
cause they have had flood of unu.
sual severity. Nor do we hear thai
state "cuesed" because there arc
thousands of men thrown ont O.
employment, owing to the fact tina
:, one of the. industries of that state il
not sufficiently productive to induct
its further working at present. NJ
, ocality but has its evil; and al
things considered, Kansas is as wei
off as any state. Your great mis-
take has been bonds. But that, i
not increased, may be met like al
other evils. Ali that is needed i
faith in yourselves as CROWN.
people with the possibility of un
limited wealth within ready reacl
bQf all. s-~
| Let excessive legislation be avoid
ed as you would avoid The plague
/ Let farmers pay less attention Il
oranges and the evils and expense
that are rapidly connecting them
, selves with the grange movement
and pay more attention to fencin,
their farms, sheltering their stock
, and preventing prairie fires; le
all classes set their faces as fin
against every needless expense, jus
the same as people have to do her
1 and elsewhere; let them stop long
2 ing for money millennium and b
E content 10 have little money in
| stead of great deal of paper, an
, Kansas is as good state to live i
as any.
l am the more earnest about thes
: things because know that he VIII
puts his hard work into Kansa
property may do as well as h
would did he put it elsewhere.
a cargo of Poor Richards alma
macs distributed among your dis
satisfied ones would be create
blessing than dozen cargoes c
breadstufTs.
Thus much, friend Stotler, abou
1 Kansas, and this because am sorr
3 to see Kansas become unpopular .
| the East through the folly OF th
few who would he happy nowhere
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
AUCTION.

WTE will sell at public auction, on Thurs-
w day, Oct. list, 1874, at the farm of D.. 6
Anderson, on Dow creek, miles north OF
Enporia, the following described property
viz: 20 COWS, 10 yearlingS, 10 two-yeaI Odds
p calves, 10 young horses a fine stallion OF the,
''kentueky Whip stock; span of ponies
harness and buggy; twO-hoTse wagon, log
wagons, mower and rake, and other farming
tools Also 100 tons of hay, at private sale.
Sale to commence AZ 10 O'Clock Il m
Terms of Sale-A credit OF one year will he
given on all sums OF 5000 and over Notes
with approved security will bc required.
l.. q. ANDERSON
j. j.. I.TTLEJOIIS.
j. W. ANDERSON.
BANCROFT & PEARSALL
Auctioneers 3g-ItE