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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

Story tellers are never tired OF
relating the doings of Louis H., OF
Bavaria, the young King who pat
ronizes Wagner and enjoys List,
who won't marry. either because
he does not wish to or because he is
in love with the lovely soprano,
Fraulien Mallinger, and who be-
HAYES himself, if we may believe all
we hear, in a manner most peculiar
for German prince. A fresh in.
e. Reclus in the Galaxy for April.
Some of these seem almost to beto-
ken unsoundness of mind. For ex-
ample, the King is very fond of rid
ing and of horses, yet he has been
known, after q long run, to ap-
proach painting and gasping horse,
and, without q word of explanation
or regret, to discharge his revolver
in his ear. Bavaria found herself
involved in the Austro-Prussian
war of 1868. Nuremburg was ta-
ken, the Bavarisns were defeated
and thousands slain in an import
ant battle. The very crown of Lou
is III. was at stake. Yet the Minis
ter Of State, who came to announce
these things to the King, found him
wandering in a shady grove prac-
ticing duet from Wagner with the
Prince of Thurm and Taxis, his aid
de-camp. If not a mailman, Louis
Ii. is certainly Q most extravagant
idealist, content to draw his reve-
nues and dawdle away long days,
sans sOttct, while his Ministers gov
ern the kingdom.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
GrasshOPPers I'm Texas

a letter from Ell Paso, Texas, to
the Galveston News, dated the 18th
of April, says: We have now hang
ing oyer us prospect of famine
and destruction that has excited q
general apprehension of starvation
among the poorer classes. The tale
can be told by one word-graashop-
pers. They are now devouring eV-
erything in the valley-grain, erase,
or fruit.
The prospect is. indeed, q gloomy
one. Completely isolated from the
gaze of charity, without adequate
means of Communication with those
whose commisei alton might be our
Gully hope, if the ravages of the
grasshOppers are not checked, or if
prompt and energetic sssistance il
not afforded, this county will be de-
populated, and that, too, by starva-
ton.
AS yet there is no present want.
The supply of last years grain is
not yet exhausted, but az half the
growing crops have already been
destroyed before the gresshoppers
have attained half their growth, it
may be seen that the hope Of reli-
ance on our own resources is but q
narrow one.
We make no present call for as
sistance. We only ask that the peo-
pie of lower Texas be prepared to
grant 3 speedy and effectual succor.
Well acquainted as am with the
generous charity of all true Texans,
my heart is filled with gloomy fore
bodings when I reflect on the seven
hundred miles of deserts between
them and the objects of their pity.
The confines of Texas may yet wit
ness scenes of starvation and woe
not unequal in their horrors 10
those of India aud Persia.
It is time to sound the alarm.
Will the News publish this commu-
nication? Will the other papers of
Texas please to copy it, and spread
among the people a knowledge of
the calamity that is impending over
US, in order that no time may be
lost in preparation when the emer-
geney has arrived? For the truth
of all l now state can refer to the
United States Collector of Customs
and to the Hon. G. Howard, Judge
of this Judicial district.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

VALUABLE METALs.-There are
eight metals more valuable than
gold, as the following will show.
None of them are found on our
farm, though. 1t may be worth
while to mention that the first four
are never sold by the pound, be-
cause no one wants a pound at once,
but their value is quoted for the
sake of comparison: Indium, S..
522; vanadinm, $2,510; ruthenium,
81 400; rhodium, 500; palladium,
1858 uranium, 1915 /; osmfum, 1925
iridium, $317.44; gold. $301.45. In
dunn, which was only discovered
in 1868, is found only in the zinc.
blondes of Freiburg, and is a white
metal of rare brilliancy, but prsc-
tically of little value. Vanadium is
a native Of Mexico and Peru, where
1t exists in lead ores under the
nSme of Vanadiate of lead. Ruth.
enium, rhodium, palladium, and iri-
dunn, are all precipitates of plati-
mum, and all very hard metals, the
last being insolnble in acids, except
when oxidized. None of these
ID etals are found in quantity, Oh
free from other metals; nor are
they useful in the arts, like gold
and silver; nor could they be coin.
ee into money, for that matter,
without infinite trouble; so that
there is very little danger of their
superceding gold and silver for any
useful purpose, although as q fact
they will bring the above prices in
Paris and London.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
NEWSPAPERS FHGm,sx.

The Topeka Commonwealth
says:
The recent disastrous incident
in a newspaper controversy at
Leavenworth may possibly cause
the revival of those regrets which
periodically break out among the
newspapers over the degrading
tendency of journalistic quarrels,
and so we wish to say right here
and now, that in nine cases out of
ten, newspaper men are not prim-
arily responsible for these unseen
~ squabbles. Two newspaper
men may be inclined to personal
friendship, and yet they are fore
ed or think they are forced, by a
vicious public sentiment, into a
swapping, snarling, tearing rem
deriIg editorial dog fight. Peo-
pie seem to think that editors are
or ought to be in a state of chron-
ic hostility. The writer cannot
now remember ever stopping in
the street to speak to "riyar' ed
itor without some humorous indi-
vidual passing by and getting off
the Scripturaljoke about the lion
and the lamb lying down together.
Occasionally brace of editors
decline to worry and gnaw each
other for the amusement of the
chuckling noodles among whom
their fate has condemned them to
live, move and have their news
papers, but generally they yield to
the pressure, and fall to the
scratching and biting, sometimes
in earnest, but very frequently
they effect sort of compromise,
and call each other liars, whelps
and rascals, in their respective
newspapers. and laugh over it and
take a drink together (if of q
moist temperament) after their
ferocious papers are off for the
day or week. This is the rule
though of course there are excep.
tiOnS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
We Thought SO.

Captain W. A. Elderkin, who has
been selected by Gen. Pope to looE
in the extent of the absolute desti.
tuition of Kansas, visited Lawrence
and the Journal publishes a note Of
q conversation with him.
Captain Elderkin states that Gen
Pope cannot understand how g
county like Franklin can have 5000
destitutepeo in its borders, OF
Doublas county 1000.
Capt. Elder, after a personal in.
spection, found no destitution re-
Quiring government relief, and ev.
en- in the western counties he found
the destitution exaggerated.
The outrageous figures of the mil.
itary enrolment in some thirty
counties were published in the
Commonwealth weeks ago. and YET
we noticed that very few papers
contradicted those figures, and the
Kansas Farmer thought the general
estimate too low. OF course no
man in his senses ever believed that
Douglas county had four thousand
people who had no other resource
than government clothing and ra-
tons to save them from freezing
and starving, even though that state
of things was sworn to. Yet this
abominable statement was quietly
accepted until the government agent
found out it was 3 lie.
The work of telling the truth, OF
catching and branding the shame
less liars, professional solicitors and
pusilaninous mendicaDts and letter
writer's who have disgraced them
selves and this state, ought to have
begun long ago. Too many papers
in the State have taken It ont in
abusing the State Central Commit
tee composed of gentlemen who
have honestly tried to do their du.
ty, while . horde of rascals have
periured themselves for q chance of
''hard tack" without rebuke.-Com-
mOuwealth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
Live stock and Population

Prof. Thorold Rogers, of Oxford
University, England, has made up 8
curious return of the proportion OF
domesticated live stock to popula.
tioD in most prominent countries in
the world. 1t shows the following
results:
Great Britain has one COW to
every twelve persons, sheep for
everybody, and a pig for every six,
France has II like proportion OF
sheep, a double share, comparative
of cows, but only one pig to every
six persons.
The Swedes have a COW between
three and one half of them, a sheep
between two and three-quarters,
Ind 9 pig to bakers dozen.
There are as many sheep as there are
Norwegians in Norway, when they
are all at home, and two and one.
half of them-the Norwegians-are
entitled to a COW. They have only
one-nineteenth of pig each.
Denmark has a cow for three per.
sons, as many sheep as persons, and
q pig for four and three-quarteI
persons.
oSo4-A1 U4SA AAOA ooAoA
ty, has an equal number of cows
and pigs, one to every five inhabit
ants, besides a sheep apiece al
round.
Wurtemburg has a quarter al
many cows as people, q sheep Il
two and three-quarters, and pig to 4
every seven.
Bavaria rates the same as Wur
temburg as TO cows and sheep, and
Is as much better than one-seVenth
SsxOny has q sheep and q pig fol
every eight persons, and g cow fol
every elk.
Holland has q cow to every four
sheep to every four, and pig tC
twelve persons.
Belgium q cow to six, sheep tC
nine, and q pig TO eight (Which i!
an Hibernicism.)
Austria has . cow for every si1
persons and . sheep and q pig fol
every five persons.
We Americans close the list will
Q cow for every four of us, 3 sheer
apiece, one pig to every one AND
one-half--Rural New Yorker.
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STATE NEWS.

NJ. f. Hudson is not the editor of
the Kansas Farmer.
Noble l.. Prentis delivered the
address at A grieRItnraI college on
the 10Th.
The Lawrence Daily journal had
the best account of the Leaven-
worth tragedy. II Ia carefully and
ably edited paper. la these two
respects it has no superior, to say
the leest, in Kansas.
The Saline Herald learns thar C. o.
Thompson, Of Worcester Institute,
Worcester, Mass, has assayed a num-
her of specimens of rock sent TO him
from Sallna, and reports the presence
of more or less silver In some of them.
One particular specimen he describes
IA follows: aft is a very valuable ore
of iron. IL will yield 30 per cent. of
iron. IL is free from sulphur. 1t Is
almost absolute spathic iron mixed
with silver, and rates among the best
ores of iron known in metallurgy."
The people in Miami county are or
ganIzing ''Grass Leagues and "Anti-
Nibbler Societies" the object of which
Is to warn non-residents and non-tax-
paying cattle owners that the range is
tabooed to all but residents and tax
payers, or those whose cattle have at
least been wintered in the county.
A correspondent from Little Walnut
valley, says in last weeks Eldorado
Times:
A few of our dead beats met at the
school house last Friday evening and
passed resolutions praying our county
commissioners to have the government
aid hauled from Wichita and paw for
the same out of the county treasury.
II they see fit TO do this, they had bet
ter hunt up the law for it,, for some of
our farmers do not intend to pay taxes
TO support men that run up and down
Little Walnut with guns and fishing
poles on their backs and refuse to work
for seventy-five cents per day cash, if
there IL any way of helping 1t.
IT they are rs near starving as they
let on, let them shoulder their gunny
sacks and march OFF single file for
Wichita, and show that they are will
Ing to earn their grub by the sweat of
their brows.
According to the late report of the
State Board of Agriculture, the aver
age annual rainfall IN Kansas Is %
inches. In eastern Kansas the average
Is 80 inches, in central Kansas 20, and
in western Kansas 10 inches, dividing
the State in belts from north to south.
A cheese factory has been started at
Mount Roy, Brown county. The
shares of stock are each $25, and sixty
shares, making 81 500 have been taken.
j. N. Mills holds a majority of the
shares. The factory will have a capac-
ity to use up the milk of 300 or 400
cows, but expects to start with about
800.
The Cheyennes are To be located in
the Indian Territory, Just south of
Chetopa.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
Raise better stock.

The live stock trade generally is
beginning to take cognizance of the
great difference in marketable value
of choice cattle, hogs, and sheep,
and low grade common qualities.
The contrast is SO marked between
the seemly half fattened and half
developed stock that for the greater
part of the time crowds our mar
ket, and the fine herds Of choice
steers that occasionally come to
hand, that it speaks in louder and
more emphatic terms than 1--WE can
use of the firm necessity of raising
the grade of stock to something like
q respectable standard. But q week
ago there were some of the finest
cattle in the Union Yards ever
brought to this market, and right
along side in adjacent pens were
some of about the opposite extreme.
We venture the assertion that one
lot required just the same amount
of care and attention in Wintering
and feeding as the other; yet the
one lot being of low grade, scrub
by and their average weight would
fall somewhere between LOCO and
1900 lbs, selling at q range Of from
$4A TO $51S per 100 lbs, while the
others would command easier and
find reader sale at $6L @$7L per
100 lbs. Then another point in the
marketing of poor grade stock lie
the difficulty Of working it OF, IS it
only sells as general thing after
the more desirable lots have been
disposed of, and when they are sold
&c is at prices relatively much lower
than those paid for good cattle. It
would be much better for the farm.
or If he would keep but eight or ten
cattle Of the right kind than twenty
or thirty Of the ordinary kind.
They would be much less trouble in
looking after, and it would be
found In the end that they would
net more real profit. They under
stand better how to do these things
in England, Scotland, and ireland,
and the stock raisers of the west
should fellow out the principles
laid down by the stock raisers of
the old world that it only pays to
raise the best breeds of cattle, hogs,
and sheep. There is no reason in
the world why it cannot be done :
we have ali the natural advantages,
but of course if they are not made
use of nothing Is gained, and we
can go on from year to year glad
even for the miserable stuff that
comprise such an important portion
of our live stock receipts--St. Lou
is Live Stock Record.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

The Beecher trial was com
menced January 4, and was drag.
ging along one hundred and thir.
ty-three days, with a prospect of 8
week or two more. Nine.
ty-eight witnesses have been
examined, thlrty-seven for the
plaintiff, and sixty-one for the de.
tense. What is the result? No
thunderbolts have fallen, no earth.
quakes have shaken, and nobody
is much nearer certainty than be-
fore. The closing speeches will not
add any new facts, and the verdict
of the jury viii probably not
change anybody's opinion. The
great suit, therefore has been q
crest failure, so far as guilt or in.
nocence Is concerned, and has
been distinguished mainly by
skillful sparring Of lawyers and
witnesses, and q terrible amount
of lying somewhere.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
EmbrY,s Statement.

Between the second and third
acts / passed out of the theatre
intending to go out upon the
street for a moment, when, as l
reached the head of the stairs, 1
saw Col. Anthony coming up. Be-
fore 1 had taken more than three
steps he was directly in front of
me-right in my way-and we
both halted. Said he, "Do Won
want to see me?' "My actions do
not indicate that 1 do" I replied.
"Do you want to speak to me?"
said he. 'tNot unless you want to
impede my passage" said. 81
am prepared for you tonight"
said he. Then I spoke in a paci-
flying tone, "Colonel, let us have
no noise here" We took two or
three steps together side by side
when the Colonel took a step back
as if trying to get behind me.
1 stepped back and said, "You
shall not shoot me in the back"
He motioned me to go on but 1 in
sisted that l would not walk
ahead, SO we took two or three
more steps together, when he again
stepped one foot back. This time
l stopped where 1 was, but turned
part way around so that 1 faced
him, and said again, "you shall not
shoot me in the back" At this
he thrust his right hand into his
waistcoat pocket and I put
my hand on my revolver and
said sharply, 'Do not draw
anything" At this he took
his hand out of his pocket and
stepped closer to me, shut his
teeth, clenched his fist, and before
1 could cover myself, struck me a
savage blow in the mouth. 1 fell
back against the wall, but at once
recovering myself, drew my
revolver, aimed aud shot at him
three times as quick as 1 could.
The people heard the shots and
commenced coming out. 1 said
to them: "Keep quet; there's no.
body hurt" Then / went down
stairs to the bottom, and Hook
came down and took my pistol
away. Soon after l was hurried
to the city prison"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
WORK AND WAIT.


A husbandman, who many years
Had plowed his field and soWn IN tears,
Grew weary with his doubts and tears.
81 toll in vain! These rocks and sands
viii yield NO harvest to my hands.
The best seed rot In barren lands.
my dropping vine is whitening,
No promised grapes is blossoms bring
No birds among its branches sing.
''My flock is dying on the plain:
The heavens are brass. they Weld M rain
The earth Is iron; toll in vain,''
While yet he spake, a breath had stirred
bis dropping vine like wing of bird,
Aud from Its leaves voice be heard:
THE germs OF life must he
Forever hid in mystery;
Yet none can toll in vain for me.
"A mightfer hand, more skilled than
thine,
Must hang the clusters on the vine,
And make the fields with harvest shine.
HMan can but work. God can create:
But they who work and watch and wait
Have their reward. though il come late.
"Look up 10 heaven! Behold and hear
The clouds and thunderings in thine ear
An answer 10 thy doubts and fear"
He looked; and 10! a cloud-draped car.
With trailing smoke and flames afar.
Was rushing from 3 distant star:
And every thirsty flock and plain
Was raising up 10 meet the rain
That came 10 clothe the fields with sraiu:
And on the clouds he saw again
The covenant of God with men.
Rewritten with his rain bow pen.
"Seed time and harvest shall not fail:
And though the gates of hell assail,
My truth and promise shall preVaiIr'
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
On the 18th. the testimou

On the 18th, the testimony be-
ing all in, counsel in the Beecher-
Tilton trial began their arguments
to the jury. Judge Porter opened
for Mr.. Beecher, and the telegraph
reports his style of address as fol-
lows:
Judge Porter, after contrasting
the lives and characters of the
plaintiff and defendant, hastily
sketched the more salient points
in the life of Mr.. Beecher, and
pronounced Mr.. Tilton as an adj
ulturer and a peUurer; describing
the discussion of the paternity of
the boy Ralph, Mr.. Porter ex-
claimed with electric force and
facing Mr.. Tilton, if there be q
beast upon the earth capable of
holding such a conversation over
his own boy with the paramour of
his adulterous wife, he has lived
to long upon earth. It is time for
him to die. What are such men
for unless they have q mission?
To hunt down clergymen, cruelty
ing women, and committing per-
jury in courts of justice. Nothing
that was said during the day caus-
ed deeper feeling in the audience
than this sentence, delivered with
all the whitening force the orator
could condense into his words.
Tilton faced it ali with iron will,
but his cheeks glowed and lines
about his mouth were deep and
hard. The denunciations of
Moulton and servants and other
persons were only less severe than
those launched against Tilton.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

A New Highlander, riding in a
railroad car, seemed particularly
disposed to astonish the other pass
engers with pretty tough stories
about Yankeedom. Atlast he men
toned that one of his neighbors
owned an immense dairy, and made
9 million pounds of butter and a
million pounds of cheese yearly.
THIS story produced some sensa-
ton; and the Yankee perceiving
that his veracity was in danger of
being questioned, appealed to a
friend as follows: "True isn't it,
Mr.. p? speak of Deacon Brown
you know Deacon Brown?
az -e-e-s," replied the friend; shat
is, yes; know Deacon Brown; 1
don't know as I ever heard precise
ly how many pounds of butter and
cheese he makes year, but I know
that he has twelve saw-mills that go
by buttermilk."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

Mr.. 6. Wood of Chase county,
publishes a call in the Common
wealth for a grand State Far.
State Fairs, heretofore. have been
miserable failures, but Mr.. Wood
thinks that an attempt should be
made this year to redeem our rep
utaiion. The Commonwealth
suggests that the Fair be held in
Topeka, but we think q more CEN
trail place could be selected.-Leav-
enWorth Times.
The Times no doubt means that
Emporia is the proper place to
hold the State fair. is the only
railroad and geographical center
in the State, and the fair could
not anywhere else draw so good a
display of articles, and as large a
crowd of spectators.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

At a recent dinner given to Cen
eral Crook in San Francisco, Sens
tor Sargent replied to q toast to the
President in these words: "I have
heard from his own lips that he de-
sires to retire from the Presidency
of the United States" He repres-
ented the President as saying: 81
had no rest during the war; / had
none under the succeeding Admin.
istration-only anxiety and respon.
sibility; have had no rest during
the past six years have two more
years of this labor to endure, and
shall be glad when the end comes y
The question of q convention to
frame new constitution is agitat.
Ing the press and people of Texas to
very marked degree. One of the
questions that will come up is the
division OF the state, into two OF
more states Texas has 237. 5O4
square miles of surface; Missouri
has 81 $50 square miles. Thus Tex
as has an area sufficient to make
four states, three of them as large
~ Missouri, and the smaller one
larger by two thousand souaro
miles than the stste of Indiana.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

A young lady in Milwaukee I'M
dertoook to climb a ladder that
had been left standing against the
side of . house, but before she had
gone q quarter OF the way up quite
crowd assembled, perceiYing
which she began at once to de-
scend, observing with much feel
ing: "Well, now, there ANT going
to be no free circus here this after
noon, you bet"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

The Mexican Excnrsion-Annexa-
ton party has been heard FROM
Some members of the party who
had been through to the City OF
Mexico, returned q few days ago.
In regard to the proposed cession
of the Northern states of Mexico
To the United States, they report
that opposition to such q PROPOSE
ton would be fierce and universal,
aud that bitterness over the treaty
cession after the last war still rank
les. They do not believe any terri
tory will, for long years, at least, be
acquired from Mexico to the Uni.
ted States, except in case of war,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

Not many years will elapse be-
fore raiiroad building here will be
commenced with all the energy
that has characterized it in the past.
Such State as this, possessing all
the elements of prosperity in her
climate and soil, cannot and will
not do without her full compile
ment Of them The young people
of to-day will live to see this State
fairly gridironed with railroads,
from one end TO the other.-Law-
renee journal,