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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-23
VOLUME II.

one person is to have a lease for
life of an Office? MIS-. Trask has
been in the Office and had the entire
perquisites of IL for the last
ten or eleven years, and has accu-
INFLATED an excellent property from
IL, and is not in need, and therefore
the howl OF "war widow" Is per-
fectly contemplate. Mrs. Trask
has made 4 fair post master, and no
more. She has made money, and L
presume is a pensioner besides on
the government, ana thereby reas-
onably provided for, as she should
be, and is by no means needy.
Therefore, why continue her long
err?
"Old Republican" asks what the
people at Washington know about
the wishes OF the people of Lyon
county, and says we have u practic-
al illustration of the workings of
that thing, and says that Stotler's
appointment was, as he thinks,
against the wishes of large major
ity OF the people who get their
mail at this office. Now, in reply
TO that guess, have TO say that L
have been on the street every day
since the change, among the bust
ness men, and i haYe yet to hear
one of them complain of the change.
Ii ought to have been made.
1 have not had word with Mr..
Stotler about the post Office, but il
seems TO me the bitter fight being
made upon him by a few persons is
uncalled for, and proceeds moro
from malice and personal hatred
than anything else. 1t can be
abundantly proven, L think, that
nearly every statement made by the
Kansas City Times letter, written
by STRIKER" as well as those of
the biggoted and malicious Tadpole
Skin, are utterly untrue. / will
ask "Old Republican" if he is not
aware that Mr.. Stotler alone, of his
own motion, gave Mrs. Trask the
Emporia post office? Is he not fur
Their aware that Mr.. S. received the |
curses of many of our prominent |
for helping "the war wild
ow" WHEN SHE NEEDED IT?
l remember this both as an old Re-
publican and all old citizen. will |
further ask "Old Republican" what
he and the few slanderers, who are |
Mr.. Stotler, have ever
done for this "war widow" or any
other, and will express the opinion
that, until they can show as good a
record Oh this point as the man they
seem TO hate so terribly, it will be
as well for them 10 stop their "chin
music" a CITY GRANGER.
Emporia, Oct. 18th, 1874.
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PLAIN ADVICE.

Gerritt Smith, though an aged
man, has not lost the faculty of
making himself understood. The
following extracts from a printed
letter of his, might serve as a stand.
ard of style for political conven-
lions in that happy day in the fu-
come truthful and direct:
"I am asked by one and another
whether I am in favor of a third
term for General Grant. My inVa-
riable answer is that / am in favor
of any thing and every thing. which
will serve TO keep the Democratic
party out of power"
-"The good men in the Democratic
party are needed in other parties.
They are needed in the Republican
party, which is still far short of
what it should be-"
On another topic he delivers him.
self:
'The sole Office of Civil Govern
ment is to protect person and prop
erty. But these are not protected
where there is the dramshop. The
sum of all other perils to person and
property is less than those incurred
from the dramshop.
GAIL wise and good men long foI
the day, which shall witness entire
discontinuance of the traffic in in.
toxicating drinks, But its coming,
instead of being hastened, will be
greatly retarded, by laws for the
absolute prohibition of such traffic
and by all political action for sucI
laws. Hence as one, who, for near.
ly fifty years, has hesitated at no ex
penditure of time or money in thu
cause of temperance, do / regret thG
organizatihn of political parties foi
such abolition. And not less do
regret it because it favors the return
of the Democratic party power-aI
event, which every man breads in
expressably, who has spent his lifi
in fighting the devils of democrat,
aud slavery.
"The few thousand votes, whicI
my worthy friend, Hon. MyrOn II
Clark, will receive, will not help tn
cause OF temperance-for since b
goes for absolute prohibition in
stead of merely against the dram
shop, he is on q wrong Temperance
track.
"I close with saying that vie,
az absurdities all Local Optic
Laws aud License Laws and sCiI
8 il Damage Laws aud that wouI
: have every instance of drunkenel
regarded as voluntary and respoI
/. sibIe insanity, and therefore to
{ punished severely"
PeterbzOr0, Sept. 8, 1874.
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POssUNHHNG.

In Ohio, New York, and Penn.
sylvanis, they call 1t by the old
name, Democratic. They are strong
enough in the states to fight under
their true flag, and don't have to as
sumo some other name to catch
votes. In Wisconsin last year they
called II "Anti-MOnopoly," and sue
ceeded in electing their ticket.
Now they call Wisconsin Democrat
ic. In Iowa they tried the same
dodge this year, but it didn't work.
The people OF that state, knowing
their affairs had been splendidly
managed under Republican rule,
did not surrender to the old Demo-
cratic party with a new name. In
Kansas, they call it Independent
Reform" and strange to say, they
are catching many good honest Re-
publicans with this sort of chafr,
who think they will do better
thing by allying themselves with
this party. The Democrats arc ut
terly powerless in Kansas, and go
into this arrangement to get all they
can out of it. Nearly all the Re-
form. nominees are Democrats, last
years Liberals or sore-headed Re-
publicans, whom the party had re-
fused 10 give office. The success OF
any one of these will just go SO far
90 disrupt the Republican party.
That will be something gained-an
Important point, indeed. That is
the game for which the Kansas
Democrats are playing. Voters, and
especially Republicsn think before
you go too far in lending yourself
to this work. a large majority oil
Ehe Reform leaders care for nothing
but 10 break uo the Republican par.
ty- This Is their only object. Will
you help them?
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On the popular river and sound
steamboats,, that restraint to which
We nave before made reference is
thrown OFF, with still more disa.
grt eaIic consequences. The self
| stN 81 gentleman no sooner touches
the deck than he feels himself free
to allow his inciinations TO have
fun scope. First OF all, he stands
It the gang-way and stares the lady
passengers ont of countenance as
ahev pass on board. at the supper
| table he takes a new view of his
rights" rivcts his attention upon
some particular lady, and gazes at
her in a most unwaveriDS manner
between every mouthful, until she
has finished her uncomfortable
meal. In the saloon, during the
evening. he gets into the society of
others who have ''thrown off re-
>traint, and contrives, before ten
o'clock, TO make himself as much of
4 nuisance as he possibly can. Not
content with having played the part
OF rntiian during the evening. he
continues the role after going to
bed, should he discover that chance
has given him the next room to la
" NV iuH! pO iisAfCatbS 6ItHOut
male escort.
Now the question may be asked, |
why are not the insults of such per- !
sons fifty resented? The answer is |
that ladies have a natural repug-
nance to "scenes," and prefer to put
up with annoyances and insults
rather than to occasion them.
Some gentlemen allow insults to go
UNPUBLISHED for similar reasons. 1t
would be vastly better if ladies and
gentlemen, in travelling, would be
more disposed to stand upon their
rights, and to try and keep in mind
that the most stringent rules of rail-
road and steamboat companies are
powerless when those who suffer
from the forms of blackguardism
referred to are not willing TO take
the trouble to have them enforced.
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Not Ended.

1t is said by some that the mis-
sion of the Republican party is end
ed. Not yet. The Rebels will
give 1t work for some time. The
Republican party cannot stop while
the colored men, whose freedom II
won, are shot down by thous
ands like dumb bTutes, merely for
opinions sake. Must the Republi-
can party give up all that il has
gained for humanity, to please the
Southern Rebels and their Northern
allies? 1t has other victories 10
conquer, and It is the basest cow
ardice not 10 make good the results
OF what il has already accomplished.
L; Is folly to talk about the work OF
the Republican party being ended
until a white man, negro and
every other human being is as sa fe
on every foot of Southern soil as
they are in any other section of the
country, even if we have to go oil
working till every devilish rebel in
the South is under the sod.
The work of the Republican party
will not be done till the talk about
a "White Mans Government" the
shooting of white men and colored
men, because they are Republicans,
and the talk about paying the Rebel
debt and Rebel claims for damages
are done away with. and every soul
on GCd's foot-stool can exercise and
enjoy the rights of freedom oh eve-
ny foot of American soil.
Weed out and politically bury the
thieves and scoundrels in the. Re-
publican party. Correct and re-
dress the wrongs that have been
committed by them, but don't talk
OF surrendcring the country into the
hands of that Democratic party
which has made it bleed at every
pore. and filed every house with
mourning.
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ABOUT PETITIoNs.-A great deal
is said about Sam. Lappin. If petit
tons are conclusive evidence, why
don't they publish Lappin's petition
in answer to Walker? They will
find that he there gives full copies
of the contracts which Walker
charges Lappin with having stolen
ont of his trunk, to save his case.
They are the strongest evidence that
Lappin has in his favor. But any
lawyer will tell you that petition
amounts to nothing, unless it il
proven to be true on trial. A man
may file petition charging all man.
ner of crimes and misdemeanorG
upon another; but until he sustsinl
the petition by proof, the man &C
charged cannot be punished.-Troy
Chief.
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THAT OLD SETTLER

Mr.. EDITOR: l see in the Tadpole
Skin, of Oct. 18th, an article headed
"Old Settlers Opinion" and pur-
porting to come from an old Repub-
lican, and as coming from Emporia,
which seems to me to be rather
frail.
lie starts out by saying he heard
a gentleman say the other day, and
one in whom he takes considerable
stock, that ''every man has his
price" lie Immediately goes on to
say that he disagrees with the doc
trine that 'evsry man has hls
price," l desire to know if "Old
Republican" is really an honest
man-one who takes stock in a
man who uttcrs what he don't him.
self believe-one who utters SEN
timent which all men know to be a
lie on its face. Is "Old Republican
in the habit of taking stock in men
who utter false views? Is there
any better evidence of the rule and
position of a man than what he says
himself? Is not any man better
calculated to know himself than any
one else2 IL a man declares all 9th
ers to be for sale, does he no
judge others by himself? And If
man is really chattel in that way
is he not rather a poor man to tax
stock in? We desire to know.
Again, "Old Republican" seem
TO feel very sore over the ouirag
perpetrated upon the people of Lv
on county by the change in pos
master at Emporia, and thinks this
the people of Lyon county ought
have the say as TO who should hol
the post office here. How many {
the people of Lyon county ought
vote for post master? Should q
ahe county vote on the question WI
get mail at Emporia, or all who g,
mail at any Office in the county?
only those who are served vii
mail here, how will "Old Republ
can" define the limits, for kno
men who receive their mail he
who live nearer to other offices tn;
they do to EmpOria, while othe
get their mail at other offices wi
are nearer Emporia than those pa
ties getting their mail here; 81
certainly parties who do not g
their mail at Emporia are not inte
ested in who should hold the OH,
OF post master.
l further desire to know If an
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Now sneer.

A man, whom the people of the
Ninth District of North Carolina
had elected Judge, showed his emf
nent fitness for the place, and fully
established his standing with the
Democratic White League, by de-
ltberately shooting negro with
whom he had a slight difficulty
about team. The Northern Dem
ocrats sheer about n.
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One of the old settlers of the Isles of
Shoals seeing the name of Psyche on
the hull of a yacht, the other day,
spelled it out slowly, and then excIaim-
ed: "Well, IL that amt the durndest
way To spell fish p
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LEGAL.
sheriF's ProcIamation.

=
STATE OF KANSAS, Lyon CoUNTY-SS.
The State OF Kansas, 10 az 10 schOdh tIess pres.
eNts shah co1ie-9restiRg:
TNOW &c. that !. John Day. Sherrir oil
IN Lyon county. Kansas. hy virtue OF an
thority in me vested, do. by this proclamation,
give public notice that on the Tuesday sue
ceejling the first Monday in November, 4. II.
1874. there will he held general election, and
the officers at that time to he chosen are a.
follows, to-wit:
y Governor.
\ Lieutenant Governor.
y Secretary of state
An Auditor OF State.
y Treasurer OF State.
An Attorney General
4 State Superintendent of Public In>truc-
ton.
A Justice of the supreme Court
y Congressman Sd. District.
4 state Senator 9th. District.
= Representative 6Sth- District.
4 Representative G9ih. District.
y County Attorney
4 County Superintendent al Public In
struction.
a Coroner to fill vacancy.
a Probate Judge.
\ Clerk OF District Court.
And votes of electors for said Officers will
hc received at the polls of each election di--
trict in said county.
In witness whereof l have hcreunto set
my hand, at my office. at EmpOria, in said
county. this 2nd day of October. A. u. 1874.
JOHN BAY,
Sherin of I.yon county, Kansas.
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EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER % 1874.
Thlnk Of IL

A vote for Republican Congress
man' on the third of November.
may save the murder of a colored
man by the white leaguers of the
South.
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Mr.. Edge wishes to be district clerk
of Leavenworth county. Wonder if
he is any relation to the ragged edge
of despair" etc.-Junetion Union.
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SherriT,s Sale.

DY virtue of al order Of sale Issued ont of
ID the District Court. ofthe 9th Judicial dis
trict sitting in and for Lyon county,
tin and &. W. Adams Is defendant i will
on Monday the 2nt, day of November, a ID.
1874, at O'Clock = m. at the front door of the
court house. in said cCnnty, offer for sale at
public auction 10 the highest bidder for cash
IN hand, all tine right, title and interest of the
defendant. {. w. Adams in and TO tue follow
ing described real estate TO-wir: The south
east quarter Of section IL, township - range
IL, liz Lyon county. Kansas, said real CStaIe
will he sold rs the property of the above
named defendant, L. W. Adams TO satisfy
said order OF sale. JOHN BAY.
sheriff of Lyon county, Kansas.
Emporia, Kansas. October End, 1871. 4a-il
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ATTACHMENT NOTICE.

e. Il. HawoIth. Pm.
VIM. Russell, Delft.
Before +. Workman, Justice of the Peace
of Lyon county, hans.
an the 9Th. daY of October, 1871, said jus
~ tice issued an order of attachment in tho
above action for the sum of Seycnty-iive dol
lars which said cause W ill he heard on the 9th.
day OF November, 1874, at O'Clock, D. M
4i-43E q. L HAM ORTII-
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Horses fOI. Sale.

CEVENTI head of horses for sale or trade
= for cattle or Zeal estate. Apply Ia
T.. WHITE.
SeOsho Rapids, Kansas. 3I-2mf
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AUCTIONEERING
NOTICE.

A IL persons are forbidden to hunt trap or
"A iish GA my premises under the penalty of
the law. J. I. .tOFFNAN.
4a44t
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RArEs o. ADYkRTrSfNc

h.setn,ements calculated by M. inch .,
H.S'n OF column For cut aud .toubIe co,
hmu nl>plny, add IS per cent to al,oye ?, ali,
" rstes; All lega' ami transient ..ly.Itisjp
~ - i'aio TOR IA advance, except when n-.ie-
oas regular patrons. Oar rae. a.
S''",i 10 proportion to our circaIsttoo a..
'""'. - siFtrt'Y a'lha- e. 10 AZ
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Holderman's Cattle Brand.
FVNHE following is our brand: An \ on left
i horn and left hip.
;G-43 HOLDERMAN K BRO.
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TO FARMERS,

VIZ will sell You plows and cultivatOrs at
w lOper cent, above wholesale prices, and
You can select your goods after they arrive.
Don't ask you to pay in advance. see adVer-
tiSenent. \ large stock already on hand.
Other goods prOportlOnatelV cheap.
& J 81. GRIFFITH & BRO.
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Lewis Lutz' Cattle Brand.
TIGURE( 5) on right hip; large crop OF
II right ear; also star on left horn.
9ImG
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NUMBER 43.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
WANTEn.
Shon For Sale.

THEN coopefs to shave hoops at Emporia.
| L Inquire at Carter 4 Stones carpenter
shop. i9-4t
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= DVER,rISERs
Patronize the News

If yor want the People to see YOU
risen ents.
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RUGGLEs & sTERRY,

a TIUkNE1S At LAW. Practices in
IA all the courts in the Fifth. seventh
and Ninth Judicial Districts. Office No,
IA Commercial street. As
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BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

ALNEEIN cuLETr M roHps,
GILLET y FORDE,
A TFoENENS AT LAW. Emporia
"a Kansas. Office front rooms in ESk-
ridge building.
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A TFORNE1 AT LAW, Emporia. Kansas
! "A Having practiced in the Superior and in
terior courts for eighteen years he feels oc1 d =
| dent OF rendering satisfaction 10 all necIinS
| ms services lanl12tI
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The Voice Of Science against Alcohol.

II. S. McMaster, NJ. D., Of Dowagiac
Mich, Recording Secretary OF the State
Electric Medical Association Of Michi.
gan, in letter heartily endorsing the
Medical Declaration published In the
August Advocate, says:
"My heart is panied when think oI
the criminal, reckless manner i'm which
alcoholic stimulants are so frequently
prescribed by physicians. know there
are thousands of persons through the
country who are suffering from persist
ent intrSetable chronic disease that were
made so by the ignorant or careless phy-
sician's alcoholic prescriptions, and how
many more have gone under the clods
OF the valley, victims OF medical abuse
OF this poison, cannot even be estimated.
! believe this is an important step in
the right direction. The voice OF ALT
temperate, judicious members of the
profession raised against this great evil,
must certainly promote a conscientious
caution and sense Of grave responsi-
bility' in incidentally prescribing this
drug, as nothing else would"
Peterfield Trent, NJ. D., OF Richmond,
Va, writes Of the Medical Declaration:
II cheerfully endorse the views therein
expressed" He adds: ..-.....
"After a practice of over twenty years,
and chiefly among the poor, who, as a
class, are more liable to be prostrated by
fever, from q variety of causes COM
bined, / am fully convinced that nine
tenths OF this class who do fall victims
to diseases Of a malignant type, oftener
die from the injudicious use OF alcoholic
liquors by the attending physician than
by the disease ITSELF
"Our profession has fearful respon-
sibility resting upon them for the reck-
less manner in which they prescribe
alcoholic liquors. Many a drunkard-
man and woman-has been made so bv
our profession. Would to God they
could see the responsibility they voEuji-
tdrify assume when they advise as a
medicine alcohol and its compounds.D
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Right Hands and Left.
BY REV. N. J. SAVAGE


There was once a race Of men who,
from time immemorial, had been accuS-
toned TO the use OF only the right arm.
The left one was bound TO the side as
soon as they were born. Ii was loosed
occasionally, just enough to keep Il
from absolute wlthering and Stiffness,
and then bound again. The practice
was maintained until the age Of twenty
years, when the bands were taken off.
and II was set free, only it was still kept
from sight beneath the outer robe. By
this time it was 50 much weaker and
smaller, and in every way inferior to
the right arm, that it was only capable
OF the slightest use, and fit for nothing
that requires power and skill. 1t was
held in comparative contempt, and
served chiefly, by contrast, to heighten
the right arms sense Of dignity and USE
fuiness
The practice was continued, not only
by what was supposed, from long Gus
tom, TO be the natural use Of the left arm,
but by the traditions Of their religion,
and by the prevailing Interpretation of
their sacred books. Those who ven
tured TO assert that the left arm had
any rights, or that it ought to have the
same chance for development with the
right, were secuted as impious and in
hdel 1t was declared to be reform
against nature" And specially was il
deemed irreligious, because it was sup
posed that the left arm was once cursed
Dy their god for some laundering work
~ .iad oeeh guilty OF in the earliest ages
OF their history. I'D -
80 custom, prerogative and religion
were all against the left arm. and IN
some parts OF the nation, the people aI-
most wondered that there should have
been any LEFT arm created, and intro
duced, 10 some extent, the practice of
cutting it off in infancy.
so fardid teaching and custom 90, that
the puny left arms themselves became
thoroughly imbued with the prevailing
ideas, and were proud only of their
weakness and diminutive condition:
and when, as would sometimes happen.
the left arm received so exceptional de-
velopment or training, all the other left
arms would ridicule IL and call il ;i0Hf-
dTTlish, and curl the lip and turn nm
thelr noses at it, because it was able TO
axe axe care OF itself; and then they would
laulent ! piously over it because il had got
81. 81 .t' Sl lts sphere and they would wonder
snoa Wy Presumption that dare brave the
rigbt a., tne gods. Occasionally, the
annntatn, would be crippled for life. or
~, ~ compelled to assume its Office n - .nS nSuiu ~
tsn,nt =, %ork. q, Such were called in co.., ~
Ala dIJPo, po olu made arms,n because tba,-
mi mi uos ,,,n, grow naturally into their niaoS
Uut were made by circunoS.a..sI pace
tue work OF another '''Aiices' TO do |
the left ann atms good good many years, some Of
all this was right or best TS'n Tn whether
LETT arm did grow when left tn i,Ia1s sS~ the |
further, that it WAS capable ~ S,s,, and
Undertakings and skillfuI lsho- iSult ..ig
exercised and trained, and tbeY "nsn vn.i
tured TO assert that they could mo- en- e
why 1t had not the right to grow ' see ,ee
work II 1t wished to. They a1estIonad S
the dual authority Of custom and dared