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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

A SAILOR dropped oHt Of the rigging
Of a ship Of war some fifteen or twenty
feet. and fell plump on the heHd af the
frst lieutenant. % Wretch said t5se
officer. after he had gathered himself
up. SsWhere the deuce did you come
from?" An sure came from tho
north Of IreiSnd, yer honor"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

CURIOSITY concerning SAKE Holm
VIII be heightened now it is known that
she is an unmarried lady.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

TIE superintendent Of the Yellow
stone national park thinks at least
500, 600 viii be necessary to render the
park and its various wonders accessible,
preserve its numberless curiositics from
spoliatioD, and complete a survey Of its
boundaries.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

AMERICANS who pay & thousand dol
lars hea for about twenty thousand
useless soldiers may envy the fortune
of Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has hired
all the soldiers he wants from two Afrl-
can kings at fifty dollars per thousand.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26

Any one who desires TO speak Of the
Siamese twins learnedly viii call them
Xiphopages of the class of Terata-ana-
catadidyma, or, for short, Omphleloph-
agus Yiphodidymus, and return thanks
to the Philadelphia doctors.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

One Mr.. Wilcox, of Shawnee
county, Reform candidate for the
office of District Clerk, made furi-
Gus attack on the Emporia Normal
School last week, at Dover. He as
serted that the school has cost the
State $4,000, and the total num-
Der of graduates was Gre!
The Normal School has never
cost the State any such sum. The
amount it has cost has mostly been
expended in buildings perma-
nent aud valuable property. The
graduating class of IA numbered
fourteen. That OF 10 numbers
twenty-seven, in two different
courses Of study. Eight classes
have thus far graduated, and The
list of alumni is a large one. The
present enrolment is about 2l0
and is increasing.
But the list of graduates is an i'm
perfect index of the real work per-
formed by the school. Many hun
dred students have remained in its
classes for year or less, and have
gone out greatly improved for the
teachers work, and the faculty
have labored at institutes through
out the State.
The Normal School is at present
incomparably more efficient than
ever before. We trust that, before
seeking TO destroy it, Mr.. Wilcox
will come and study its work lit
tie.
The Normal School has been
very economically conducted. The
State has made an unjust discrimi-
nation in favor Of the faculty OF the
University, paying its professors
each $500 and $500 per annnm
more than those of The Normal
School have received, for no reason
which appears either in the amount
or quality Of work. To suppress it
now, in the prime OF its usefulness,
would be the hight of folly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
SOuthersl Empire.

Here is paragraph from the
Louisville Courier Journal, the
ablest Democratic paper in the
South. So far as the Democracy of
the South are concerned, the present
struggle, which has an important
bearing on that two years hence, is
no boys play. They talk what
they think, and what their papers
say may be taken as a true indica-
ton of southern sentiment. Read
the following:
"The whole South prefers an en-
pire. Let us compel the North, by
a state of war, TO change its form of
government"
That is bold talk indeed. 1t is
not intended, either, as u foolish
boast. II is the same kind of talk
we had before the war. Our hon
est opinion is that such expressions
should receive the unanimous and
emphatic rebuke of the entire
Northern people.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
POLITICAL. NOTES.

The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald
(Denocratic) calls for convention
Of the people of the Southern States
"for the Openly-avowed purpose of
raising the standard of repudia-
tion," state and national. This it
advocates as means against the
North.
Georgia is to-day completely in
the control of the disunionisis.
There are $50 military organiza-
tons, whose business it is to intim-
idate Republicans. They are near
ly all in the Black Belt. Union
men of the mountains, watch and
see for yourselves.-Gainesville
Advertiser.
Whatever the Democrats may cay
of their late successes in the West,
of one thing we are glad-we now
know where to find them. They
have heretofore succeeded in Keep-
ing their real policy out of sight.
The party out of power is always
able to do this. A guerrilla attack
all along the line is easy and natu-
raj for the party that desires to get
in; the party which is actually in
power is obliged to show its hand
every day.-New York Times.
In dozens of counties in middle
and lower Georgia, where the col
oTed voters are very largely in the
majority, the recent election has
gone Democratic overwhelmingly.
So it seems that the minority out
votes the majority! The disunion.
lists say the negroes are about to
rise and destroy the whites, but the
election shows how they rise. They
rise very thin on election days
Threats, menaces, beating, and muir.
der is the Democratic programme
in getting ready for another war;
GAINESVILLE Advertiser.
Of the elections just over the Re
publican says: "There is much tC
relieve the temporary disasters (wt
feel sure they are only temporary
in Ohio and Indiana, in the steady
Republican tramp of Iowa. Their,
is no shadow of turning in tina
i quarter. An unbroken delegation
in Congress and an Overwhelming
popular majority on the State tick
ct attest the fidelity of one of tn
1 anu
young commonwealth of the Yves
to the Republican party"
1 John IL. Reagan, the rebel Post
master General, is now q Demo
cratic candidate for Congress il
Texas. He made a speech a few
days ago, and said: 81 shall en-
deavor to do everything 10 promot
the interests of my State, but Will
/ shall resist undemocratic rules o
policy, it will not be my duty t
fight again the contests of the war
While representing your rights, i
will be my endeavor to heal thu
deep wounds of the past, and re
store fraternal relations"
The increase in the Democra .it
vote in the State of Missouri is oW
ing largely to the fact that most sal
utary prohibition which will GO into
effect next year, did not go into ef.
feet four years ago. This prohibi.
ton will shut out from the attain.
ment of the franchise all such per.
SONS as have not found it worth
while to read and write in the
meanwhile, and the only fault we
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
Then and Now.

Time brings changes. Politics
makes strange bed fellows" For
instance, a few years ago, when S.
j. Crawford, Reform candidate
for Representative In this district,
was Governor of Kansas, Il. M.
Ruggles, Reform candidate for
County Attorney, applied for a
commission as Notary Public for
this county. Crawford refused TO
appoint him on the ground that he
was a copperhead aud rebel sympa-
thizer. They have bridged the
bloody chasm, and now embrace
each other and run for office ON the
same ticket. Which has changed !?
Has the mountain come to the mole
hill, or the MOLE hill to the noun
tain?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
CreaIs 10 InEnII..

The Leayenworth Commercial
saws that all the western papers
and many of the leading dailies of
the eastern cities, are rejoicing
over the amicable settlement of the
differences between the Union Pa
ciflc railways. President Dillon
OF the fret named company is
highly complimented for his action
in inviting negotiations for a com
promise. The Chicago Times
takes tho right view of the settle
ment when it says that the law
which passed Congress last winter,
compelling the Union Pacific to
prorate with the Kansas company,
FASTENED the adjustment. The
real credit belongs, to Senator In
gals, for he introduced that meas
ure in the Senate and gave it
his personal attention. 1t occurs
20 us that the Union Pacific only
anticipated the effect of the law.
and governed itself accordingly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

have to find with il is, that it was
not ordained to be in force after an
interval of five years. instead OF ten.
st. Louis Globe.
One suggestion \ hieh presents
itself at the outset is. that tactics
which may be wisely risked in an
advance only invite anuihilaIion in
q retreat. Lincoln taught Us. in
one of his pithy sentences, the folly
of swapping horses while crossing 3
stream, and the position OF the Re-
publican party may very properly
be compared with that OF an army in
retreat, or of a man crossing q
stream. Whatever we NAV do,
there Is one thing We may not do
we may not abandon our organiza.
ton. 1t we want a practical lesson
on the stupidity OF such a proceed.
ing, We eau find it in the contrast
between the present success of DE.
mocracy under its own banner. and
it, rout and dispersion when il
partly disguised itself as something
else. But the proposition Is 80
glaring a truism that il needs no H.
Illustration, common sense itself tell
ing US that time of defeat anG
confusion is not the time to aban
don the valuable advantage of or
ganization, tradition, and ali I'll,
strength that party has gained il
the pAst.-St. Louis Globe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
Those 8sargaps and EaoIzses
BONDS

Referred to in the Emporia Ledger
of Oct. 10, 1874, l opposed as being
illegal, aud the city council hot hay
ing authority to issue them. This
is well known. Mr.. Bargain went
to Judge Peyton to get him to try
and change my opinion as to their
validity, and to set me not to OPP
pose their issue.
Mr.. Eskridge and such members
of that committee referred to, know
that my opinion was that those
bonds were INVALID, and ought not
10 be issued.
The Ledger editor says:
"That committee, (Dr. Hibben,
L. p. Bancroft and Chas. Vice.
lOck,) Represented, upon the author
ity of the city attorney, that the
property offered as security for the
loan of $4,000, was free from an
cltlabrcRce, and was considered up
on such representation adequate Sc
curlty for that sum, and that the
bonds had been transferred accord
ingly."
This is false, and the Ledger edi-
tor knows it. / never made any
representation to the city council
or to said committee that the prop
erty was free of iRcUDa6raace, but,
on the contrary, l told that COM
mittee that the property was in
numbered for all it was worth.
That committee and myself ex-
amined the title to the property,
from an abstract from the Office OF
Ruggles & Plumb, dated August
IA, 1871, which showed the follow
ing unsatisfied mortgages:
Burgan and wife, to Louis Z.
Burgan and wife, to L. IL. Ne
Burgsn and wife, TO c. V. R=k-
ridge, ,......E ...... :. 900
ridge, s..s......-.s.s-. .-..-,-....- To-. 20
This same abstract is on file in the
Office of the city clerk of Emporia.
BuFgan represented to that COM
mittee that these mortgages were
all paid, and that he would have
them released. I was not present
when the bonds were issued, and
did not know of their issue until after
it was done. And 1 was never in
quired of by either that committee
or the council as to whether Burgan
had got said mortgages released as
he agreed to. The other charges
are as false as this.
ALMERIN GILLETT.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
BROWN ann PHRASES

We believe both the nominees in
this district, for Congress, are good
men. They each possess good
personal character. Both have been
upright IN official station. Thus |
far, perhaps, there is no difference |
between them.
As to the question of quaifica-
lion, We suppose no one acquainted
with the two men will deny hut that
Judge Brown has the advantage
over Mr.. Hudson. He has made
the law his study for many wears.
and has had seven years of expert
ence upon the bench, and is every
where regarded as one of the best
and purest district Judges in the
State. He is gentleman of educa-
ton, being q graduate ofUnion Col
lege, in New York, and has had ex-
tensive treading in a general way.
He is better acquainted with the po-
litical questions before the people.
and with the fundamental law of
the land than his opponent. This
cannot be gainsayed.
And more important than all,
Judge Brown is Republican, and
would vote and act with the Re-
publican party in Congress. In
view OF the late gains of the Demo-
Gratis in states cast of this, which
party is making a special effort to
again get possession ofthe Congress
of this country, the question of who
shall represent this district becomes
by far the most serious one which
the people have TO decide on Tues
day next. II Hudson is elected,
Notwithstanding he claims 30 be a
Republican, he must either array
himself against the Republican par
ty in Congress, or turn his back
squarely upon the people who will
be his supporters. lie would prob
ably not wish to be set down as 9
Democrat. lie must, then, belong
to one or the other o stbc great par.
ties, or be a cyphey Where would
he stand? Would ho deceive the
people who elected him and &C
with the Republican party, OIL
would he be a Democrat ora-nOth
ing? These are questions which
every voter must decide next Tues
2 day. He that is not with us Il
! against us. In the present cOndi
ton of things in this country, d.
the people of the Third Congress
: sional district of Kansas, electing
Congressman the first time in thei
: history, want their vote and influ
o ence in Congress with the Demo
:. cratic party-or fooled away Oh
: some sort of an independent dodg
g which is little better than Demo
! cratic-as it surely will be if j. X
n Hudson is elected. This is not
It matter of personal interest, person
i al spite, faYoriteism, or anything
: of that kind. 1t ought 10 be dscid
= ed on the bread grounds Of good 1
/ the aohole country, present MS well a
e future. Republicans, let your an
I. swer be unmistakable at the ballot
= box in favor of RIGHT.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

THE GRAIN CRoP.-The October
returns of the department of Ag-
riculture Indicate the average
condition of the corn crop of 50
per cent. against SO per cent. in
September. All the New England
states show improved condi ton
except in Maine and Connecticut.
The middle states decline during
the month. Th5ptil Asl tic,
coast states and the gulf states as
a whole, about hold their own eX-
cept Louisiana, where the average
sinks from seventy-siX to sixty
nine. OF the southern inland
states, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia show considerable improve
ment, Arkansas and Kentucky al
most stationary. North of the
Ohio the crop conditions are more
favorable. Ohio, Michigan, Irdi
ana and Illinois show rising aver
ages. Wisconsin declined four
per cent. All the states on the
Pacific coast show m improved
condition except Oregon, which re-
mains the same. la those afIiict-
ed with the grasshopper plague
considerable Improvement upon
The low averages of the last few
is manifest.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

The Richmond Enquirer takes
1t in this way ever the recent Dem
oeratic victories: sour people
once more raise their heads in
thankfulness to their God, who
has not deserted them in their
need, but still extends his protect
ing hand over them for their safety
and happiness" The idea that
the Lord has anything to do with
the democratic party is certainly
very refreshing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
SHERIFE,S SALE

In an order of sale issued ont of the Dis
trict Court Of Lyon county, Kansas. to me di--
rected, VIII, on the Esd day Of November
SI@- at 1Ok O'Clock n m. at the front door OF
the court house, in said county. ofer for sale,
at public auction to the highest biusier for
cash, the following described real estate. to-
wit: The northeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of section twenty-five ta5l. in town
ship eighteen (1S). range ten iI0l, in L.yOrs
county, Kansas; will be sold to satisfy an
order of sale in a cause wherin Charles Hay-
den Is plaintiff and James Latfa Is defendant !.
will be sold to satisfy said order of sale.
JOHN BAY.
October Esd, IS74. 4SF
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sHERIFF.s SALE.
Thaddsus Il. walker.

Tha1dsus H. walker.
District Court First Judicial district. Leay-
enworth county, Kansas
DY virtue OF an xec1tion issued cut OF
ID the District Court Of the First Judicial
District. sitting in and for LesysnE orth
county, Kansas. wherein Stephen :. David
son Is plaintiff and ThaddenS III. walker -
defendant, will on Monday, the z3rd day OF
November. 1874, az Q O'Clock q m, at the front
deor Of the court house in Lyon county, Kan
sas, offer for sale at public auciion 20 the
highest bidder for cash in hand. all the right.
title and interest Of the defendant. ThaddeuS
H Walker. in and to the following describesi
real estate to-wit: The west half OF the
northwest quarter. and the southeast quarter
Of the northwest quarter of section three t3l (:
and the northeast quarter and sou Invest
quarter and the west half of the southeast
quarter OF section four f4l; the south half and
southwest quarter of the northeast quarter OF
section i've 81. section seven 10 and section
eight t6l; the west half and the southeast quar-
ter and the west half of the northeast quarter
OF section uine teD; section seventeen 40 and
section eighteen lIs). al situated in township
twenty-one (2ll, south of range thirteen. uSl
east, in Lyon county Kansas. said real e.
tate VIII be sold rs the property Of Thaddeus
IL. w iker. or as much thereof as will satisfy
SAID execution. JOHN BAY.
Sheriff Lyon Co. Kansas
Sherins Office, Lyon county, Oct Is. 1874.
&S-41.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

The question of the eligibility
of ladies to the Office of county
superintendent having been raised
in Cofey county, Gen. Harrison
Kelly addressed a note to Attorney
General Williams, asking a legal
opinion on the subject. He made
the following reply:
TOPEKA Sept. %, 1874.
Harrison Kelly Esq, OttuHaod, Kan.
DEAR SIR: 1 must decline to
venture an opinion as to the eligi-
bility of ladies to the position of
school superintendent of a county.
The question belongs to- the
courts, not me; and l can only say
that we have lady candidate here
for the position, and that / intend
to vote for her.
Respectfully yours,
A. L. WILLIAMS.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30
SHERIFF,s SALE

NOTICE is hereby given that By virtue OF
IN an order of sale issued out 81 lhe Dis
directed, will, on Monday, the a3El taav Of No
Scmber, 1874, at II O'Clock a. NJ. at the front
door OF the court house. In said county, offer
Tor sale at public auction to the highest bid
der Tor cash, the following described real es-
tate, to-wit: The northwest x OF Section
number 81, in town hip number 10 of range
number Is, in Lyon county. Kansas. will s..
sold as the property of Hamilton Howard ana
Catherine Howard, to satisfy said order OF
sale. JOHN RAY
Sheriff OF Lyon Co, Kansas.
Emporia, KaS., Oct. esd, 1874. 4s-fT
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

The Reputation leaders grow
bold. The Cincinnati Enquirer
says that Daniel ". Voorhees, is
likely to be elected to the q. S.
Senate from Indiana. The evil
heaven of the late election works
rapidly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

Mr.. P. B. Maxson denies the
statement first made in the Com
monWealth, that he started the
SALARY grab" story on Judge
Brown. He says he meyer heard
oGthat yarn until he saw it in the
papers.
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sHERIFF's SALE.

IN an order of sale issued Cd q e. iSis.
trict Court Of Lyon county. KAasas, - ne di-
receed, Will, on Monday the SD day OF No
door OF the court house. in the city Of Empo-
ria. IN said county, oaeF for sale al public
auction to the highest bidder for cash IN hand
East half OF section number thiFty-fVe t85l,
township nineteen ue), range eleven (Ii), In
Lyon county. Kansas, except four Acres In.
the northeast corner OF said section to satisfS
Engagement in partition In case whereiE
aicnard oven Is PLAINTIFF, and Rachel Nor
morgan ana Griffith Il. Davis are defendsnts
ana viii be sold to satisfy said order OF sale
JOHN BAY,
Oct. 2srd, 1874 So
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sHERIFF,s SALE

NOTICE is herby given that by yirtue of
~ an or, er OF sale issued out of the District
Court Of Lyon county, Kansas, to me directed,
l VIII on Monday the Esd, day of November,
1879, az O'Clock p. m, At the front door OF the
public auction to the highest bidder for cash.
the following described real estate, to-Wit:
Lot No. % on Neosho street in the city OF KIM.
poria. Lyon county. Kansas, will be sold as.
the property OF Sanford H. karner and Keen
er b. Orrick, as partners tosatisfAy said order
OF sale JOHN BAY,
45-L Sheriff OF Lyon Co, Kansas.
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sHERTFF,s SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of
IN an order Of sale issued out of the district
court of Lyon county, Kansas. to me diricted,
viii, on Monday the sd day OF November,
1874, at II y O'Clock a. m, at the front door OF
the court house, in said county, offer for sale
at public auction to the highest bidder for
wit: The north half and the southwest
quarter Of the northwest quarter of
ship number twenty (9G), of range number
twelve Qs), east, in Lyon county, Kansas will
be sold IS the property of James Moore and
Mrs Moore, his wife, to satisfy said order Of
sale. JOHN BAY,
Sheriff of Lyon Go. Kansas.
Emporia, Kans, Oct. sd, 1874 z3-47
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the tax rolls
IN OF Lyon county, for the year 1874 have
been placed in my hrnds for collection. and
that the amountof taxes charged ON each SIOo
valnat1on Is as follows, to-wit: State 81 cts (;
$Sol, City OF EmporiA, 81 20. Townships /:
Agnes City, cents; AmericuS 5 cents: Cen
ter, cents; Eimendaro. sk cents; Emporia 5
cents; Fremont, "a cents: jackson, cents ;
Pike, cents; Reading, cents
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-30

The Kansas City Times predicts
that the next Kansas Legislature
will be Democratic. That Times
is a sweet scented concern to run
Kansas politics.