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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-26

We find in the report of the pro-
ceedings of the Agricultural SOci-
ETY. of Kansas, for 1875, a report of
S. L. kelsey, on Fencing, from
which we take some extracts. Mr..
Kelsey says that he finds the cash
value of the annual farm products
ofthe United States TO be $3.50
100000, while the value of all live
stock of every description is $685.
2ll ,933, or about S800,000,000 less
than the value of farm products.
To protect This, near two and a hslf
billions of growing crops, and a
little over two. hundred and fifty
million acres of ground have beeu
fenced in at q cost of 81, LAS, 529, 1S5,
or about ninety millions of dollars
above the value of live stock. The
annual cost of repairs of these fen
ces is nearly three hundred millions
of dollars. But this is not all. 1t
Is estimated that the fences them
selves occupy one-fiftieth of the
land fenced in, which is so much
waste. For every dollars worth of
live stock we have in the United
States we have expended one dol
lar and six cents in fencing TO pro-
tect one dollar and forty-seyen
cents worth of growing crops.
This is kept up at an annual ex.
pense % per cent in the cost OF re-
pairs, interest and loss of land
The reader will remember that
these figures are not mere guess
work, but complied from official
tables by the best statisticiahes IN
the country.
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THE WALNUT VALLEY
RAILROAD.

The proceedings, on our local
page, of the proceedings of the d.
rectors of the Walnut Valley rail-
road, on Tuesday, show that the
movement II build a road from
Emporia to Arkansas City is rapid
ly taking shape and substance. "A
President, Vice-President, Treasur-
ers and Secretary, were duly elect
ed, p 4hYyey ordered, and subscrip-
ton books.aFe TO be at once opened
all along the route leaving the peo-
pile to decide by their subscriptions
which kind of gauge they prefer.
The books will be arranged so that
those who prefer narrow gauge
shall subscribe for that, and those
who prefer standard gauge for that
kind. This applies the generally
approved test, that those who fur
nish the money shall decide how it
is to be used. While the directors
differ in opinion as to the gauge of
the road, we are satisfied that they
are all decidedly IN favor of rail-
road being built over the proposed
route at the earliest practicable day.
Their proposition to build it If the
people will extend aid at the rate
of $500 per mile, is made in good
earnest, and. there is no Reasonable
doubt but that that amount of aid,
which is moderate, will secure a
roSd. We feel sure of this for the
reason that if it does not bring
about the building of a narrow
gauge road, that 1t will secure the
extension of the Carbondale road.
The directors Of that company are
ready and able to push their road
on to EmpOria and down the Wal
nut Valley, If given aid 20 that
amount. They are now extending
it from Carbondale to Usage City
for no greater inducement, and
have offers out this side of Usage
City to keep on with the extension
-" NAAS o-AAAO AoNO VI oA0-
We repeat therefore, that it i:
safe to expect and rely upon the
speedy building of railroad from
Emporia to Arkansas City, ifthe
people extend aid at the rate asked
for by the Walnut Valley railroad
direetors-$2,5O0 per mile. The
matter ia therefore really in the
hands of the people along the route
and what they have to do to get {
road is simply not to hesitate Of
cavil about the matter, but extend
the aid, either by private subscrip
tions or public funds. The aid will
bring the road, and the lack of tn,
aid will defeat the road. Thi
much certainly has been arrived al
and the people therefore can Sc
just what to do. 3: ."
In regard to the Carbonate rail
road, more correctly called the 81
Louis, Lawrence and Southwestern
railroad, we believe 1t to be de
sirable road for both EmpoTia an,
the Walnut Valley TO secure, an,
that it would be n permanent com
peting line with both the NJ. X.
L. and the A, I. & S. f. roadssf Th
choice of the people evidently nov
lies between that road and naE
row gauge. We believe their fu
ture interests would be best suDsery
ed by a narrow gauge from Arkan
sas City via EmpOria and Ottaw
to Kansas City, and thence to s.
Louis, but the Walnut Valley is in
hurry for q road, and can no douf
get the Carbonate road quicke
than 1T. can getAny other road,
Butler and Cowley counties ca
under the present law, vote tn
amount ofaid required of them.
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France proposes TO. pr esent the
United States with a collosa
bronze statue of Liberty, loo feet
high, it's head radiating streams
of light at night, il the people OF
this cOhntry will provide 9 suit
able stone pedestal 100 feet high,
and be-set up in New York harbor,
for the statute TO stand upon. It
is q magnificent enterprise, and in
tended to commemorate Centen-
NAL year.
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Harper's Magazine.
ILLUSTRATED.
Notices nj tue pnIsa

The ever-incI easing circulation of this eX-
cellent monthly proves its continued adapta-
ton to popular desires and needs. Indeed,
when we think into how many homes it pen
etrateS every month, we must consider it as
one of the educators well as entertainers OF
the public mind.-[ Boston Globe.
The character which this Magazine posses
ses for variety, enterprise artistic wealth
and literary culture that has kept pace with
If it has not led the times, should cause its
conductors to regard it with justiflable com.
placency. The Magazine has done good and
not evil all the days of its life Brooklyn
Eagle.
Some of the most popular of modern novels
have first appeared as serials in this Maya.
zine. In all respects, it is an excellent peri
Odtcal, and fully deserves its great success
L Philadelphia Ledger.
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teiegraphs the Prince of Wales to come
home to his mother, because the native
Primo Is of Hindostan refuse to receive
on the railroad in
Sweden, near Stockholm, and Is cars
smashed and 80 passengers killed or
ipjured.-Texas militia cross the Rio
Grande in pursuit of Mexican cattle
thieves, and kill. four of them, on the
Mexican side.--T~ro elevators in Buff
falo belonging TO the Hazard estate,
burned. Loss, $685. GOO, nd on grain
ST., Oo0.-As CaTfoILon, ILL.,, during
the funeral cerenaoufes of I'aul Wright,
who shot himself in St. IIoCis,W. r Da-
yis,ex-Mayor OF Carrolton, blew his own
head of with q shot gan.-Probate
Judge &. r. Rees, of Leavenworth, ore
of its founders, died on the I9th.--
Gold, SIS:
1foNpAYs nov. %
An English brig arrived at Calves
ton with all on bead down with yell
low 1ever.-Four buildings destroy ed
by an incendiary fire at Quincy, Iii.
Loss, $500.-Tom Alien and Jim Mace
are to punish 'eaeh Others heads
More St. Louis whisky fraud exposes.
Boersche & Co.'S distilleIy seized.
Revenue agents Brasher, Brooks, and
Hogue, indicted. Messrs. Mckee and
Mcguire Indicted for conspiracy to lie
fraud the governmen5.-Reed aud
Orvis, of New York, abscon6ed, leay-
ing debts of 100000. Reed is a frs,
family OF Boston, man, Owls an old
sWindler.-In Chesterfield, Va, Mr.
Finsley went at. night with strangers
to his store to sell them goods, and
they beat him fatally and robbed hi:
store.-James w. Simonton sues the
Alta California fer So, O0O.-Wallacc
s. Co., dry goods dealers in New Or.
leans, failed for $3.50, OOO.-Thirteer
vessels sunk in the English channel by
a storm, and so lives lost. The coas
between Yarmouth and Lsmssof
strewR with wrecks:-Sioanl Richards
metal broker In Burmingham, Eng
land, failed for $500, OOO.-The Texa
Pacific railroad convention, after
harmonious session in Memphis, ad
journed sine die.-A ship being repair
ed in Merchants dry dock In New
York, broke down the dock and wa
smashed to pieces. The dock cost 81,
200, 000.--Reynold & Ganlord's saw
mill at Grand Haven, Mich, burned
Loss, 100000. Moody and Sanke,
close. their New York revival and opel
at Philadelphis.
TUESDAY, OCT. %.
Vice President Wilson died sudden
, ly on MendAy;i morning, of apoplexy
in his 'bea at 'Wsshsngton.-The Pop
has excommunicated and duly curse
that,=Iot= in thets Montreal cemetery
! where the hereto Guibord sleeps i
his grave of solid 'cement.-The Pacifi
= mail steamship company sues ex-Con
, gresham Schumsker, of Brooklyn, fo
100000 he took from their agent, Ii
, win, to procure the passage of THE
subsidy bill 1S72.--Tbe nations
grange is disposed to invest its surplu
funds in permanent buildings
Louisville, Ky.--Gen. Ord recommend
: that our troops be allowed to pursu
and shoot Mexican cattle thieves on til
: Mexican side of the Rio Grande.--Th
: national railroad convention delegate
begin to arrive in st. Louis, 1000 ez
: pected. Senator Ferry, of CT, dead
Great honors to be paid to the memor
of Vice President Wilson, and e2
: pressions of profound grief telegraph
ffrom all parts of. the country.--Gei
fisherman submits his annual report.
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The value of commercial staiis-
tics was shown in the exposure
of the ST. Louis whisky ring. 1t
came about in this way: Mr. Colo
ney, commercial editor of the Dem
ocrat, in compiling his review of
the trade of,St. Louis, found that
the amount of whisky which en-
tered into the commerce of the city
was vsstly I'm excess of the amount
returned as made. He was APP
pointed q secret revenue agent and
had to compile the statistics of the
entire business of st. Louis, so as
to prevent his object being known.
His. figures not only disclosed the
fraud, but the distilleres and
houses engaged in it Thus was
this most formidable combination
oVerthrown. Every city ought to
keep correct statistics of its trade
transactions.
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HARPER'S Bazaar.
illustrated.
Yosices ~ a. prsss

UVstceo q We z Fes8s
The Bazaar is edited with a combination OF
tact and talent that we seldom find in any
journal; and the journal itself Is the organ Of
the great world OF fashion boston Traveller.
Der of the househoId-to the children by dToll
and pretty pictures, TO the young ladies by its
fashion plates in endless variety, to the prov
clothes, to pdter fGniksds by its tasteful. de-
signs for embroidered slippers and Injurious
dressing gowns. But the readinG-matter OF
the BAZAR Is uniformly of great excellence.
The paper has acquired a wide popularity for
the dreside enjoy ment IL anords.-N. 7. Ev-
ening Post
In its way 9here is nothing like it. Fresh
and trustworthy as fashion guide, its stories
MIGRATING TO the mind.-Chicago Evening
Journal.
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GHERIFF,S RALE.
District Court. 5th Judicial Distriet, Lye
County, Kansas
q. s. Armor, }

vs.. =
Arabeila Hyatt, ct al -
NY virtue OF an alias order of sale issued out
ID OF the District Court Of the 9Th Judicial
District sitting IN and for Lyon county, Kan
sas. wherein q s. ATmor is plaintiff. and Ar
abella HYATT and ". L Hyatt are defendants.
1 will on Monday, the twenty-seFenth day OF
December, 1875 az 81 O'Clock n m, at the
front door OF the court house in EmporiA.
Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale by public
auction 20 the highest bidder tor cash in hand
an the right title and interest OF the defend
ants, Arabella Hyatt and w !. Hyatt. in and
to the following described real estate, to-wiE:
Tots n and 70 n block No 3, in the town OF
Reading in Lyon county, Kansas
Said real estate viii be sold As the property
sheriff 3 Office, November 18th, IS15
1eSE JOHN BAY, Sheriff
Lyon Co Kansas
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHERIFF,S 49,
Peter I,ol,ennnr


District Court 9TH Judieial District. LYON
County, Kansas.
Augustus Sumner,
vs..
Peter L Cohenour.
pT VIRTUE of an order of sale. issued ont
- of the District Court of the 5th judicial
District, sitting in and for Lyon county. Kan
sas; wherein Augustus Summer is plaintiff
and Peter l.. Cohenour is defendant Will ON
Monday, the 9th day of December, a u. 1915.
at IL O'Clock a. m, at the front door OF the
courthouse in Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas,
oner for sale by public auction to the highest
bidder for cash in hand, all the right, title
and interest of the defendant Peter L. Cohe-
nour, in and to the following described r, al
estate, to-WIt: The northeast quarter In. e.
"a OF section thirty two (32), township TWEEN
y ~ OF range thirteen 1881, in Lyon
said real estate will be sold as the property
sale.
Sherifs Office, this s6th day of Nov. 1875.
4S-5t JOHN BAY, Sheriff
Lyon county, Kan.
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There has been heap 20 much
of the following kind Of Eatrio-
tism in this country.
A member of the Arkansas legis-
lature in prououncing a panegyrie
upon his deceased colleague, Col.
Yell, of YellYillc, said paiheiically /:
t.Wheu my distinguished colleagues
voice was last heard in this hail, IL
was on the accession of the suspen-
sion of the Yellville Bank. My
colleague, Mr.. Speaker, did not,
when explaining his connection
with that institution, account for
all the funds in his possession, but
sir, his remarks showed that his
heart beat warmly for his native
land"
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EMPORIA MARKET REPORT.
Friday Morning. Nov. &c. 1875.

GRAIN.
Freight rates on wheat have been lowered 8
cents per bushel from here to st. Louis, and
are $50 per car. Corn is firm here at % and %
cents, and wet weather would send it up to 25
cents. Hay is up to 81 for good article, and
wet weather will advance that price.
We quote prices to day:
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STRAYED-FromE mporia, about the 2oth
y day of september, Il medium sized light
bay horse three years old last spiine: has
small white spot in face: legs Whittier color
than body; has been worked sot,,e dur ing he
summer. Information leading to his recovery
will be suitably rewarded At,lrSsss IhI- o''Cs
or j. Souncdecker. Emporia, rs, Nov. 18th.
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STRAIED-From my residence two mi'cS
- northwest of Enporia, l Texas work OK
large horns; color light red or dung
AI-ff y AMES
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GNTRAI ED from the undersigned, ycarling
y steers and heifers and a calf. All mark
cd with square piece cut of under the right
ear and the tip of IL being of different colOrs.
Information to their recovery will be reward
ed. JOHN &. DAVIS,
47-tf Errhyd farm, near Emporia.
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STRAYED-Five yearling steers: blue
= speckled steer; 1 white with red neck
red roam: l pale red. All branded =
right hip. One red and white steer not
branded a suitable reward will be paid ior
information leading to their recovery.
4S-2t J. SEARCI, Emporia, Kan.
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New Meat Market
HENNlMc 8. BUNK

Have started . new Meat Meat Market On
Commercial Street, next door 70 AcCulIoGgb's
grocery store. A full assortment Of Fresh
Keats will be kept, and every effort made to
give all customers their moneys worth, ~
lowest market prices. Give Us trial
49-2m HENNING & BUNK.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Cow Wanted.

Cow wanted.
~ ooD Mich Cow WANTED. = Must give
" six or eight quarts of good rich milk
daily during the winter, and be not over six
or seven years old, and perfectly gentle. Call
at this Office. 47-tf
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e C'sQuestiOna61y TIE Best Sustained Work Of
tie Kind IN the World.
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A NY person wishing to buy a Howe Sew
IA ing Machine or an Esty Organ, can do
rHE NEWS. We can offer special bargains to
buyers. 42-tf
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HOGS WANTED.

We wish to purchase 100 or 2,0O0 hogs 70
pack. and will pay the highest market price
In cash. ATTEO = HERHAE,
z7-1t EmPori8, Kansas.
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STRAYED.

the vicinity of Forest
= Hill, dark red two year old steer, with u
cross slit in the right ear and a swallow fork
in the left ear. Any information rewarded
by Rufus HOoke near the junction. or Nelson
Whittlesey. Emporia. Nov. y, '75. SS-1t&
STR AYED.-A black mare, 10 years Old;
= about IL hands high; nose and forehead
white; three white feet. The mare twas lost
in klmendaro township, about the list of Nov
ember by Mr. Jardinier Suitable reward
paid for Information leading to its recovery.
Address Mr.. Jardinier, or Rev. Joseph Per
rier, Emporia. Kansas 4s-49
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STRAYED-From the subscriber living at
= Americas, Lyon county, Kansas, about
the LIST of October, 1875, four head of COW 5, de-
scTibed as follows: One brindle, about seven
years old; one spotted red and white, seven
years old; one roam or rather speckled, three
or four years old; one red, with small horns,
four years old. The red one is branded with
will be paid for any Information that will lead
to the recovery OF these animals.
45-tf j. W. 10y.
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- northeast of Americas, about the last
of September, one brown horse mule one
year old last spring, branded II A
left shoulder. Also 1 yearling sorrel lilly;
also yearling horse pOney, branded IL \;
also l 3-year old bay mare pony, branded II 4
on left shoulder. Any information leading To,
their recovery, will be literally rewarded.
46-3W~ ii. &. ADAMS Americas.
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FLOUR.
Per 100 pound sack $2!75 to $335 Wholesale
a. $2.75 to So 70 retail
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WANTED.

SMALL house of two or three rooms want
y ed to rent by an employee of this Office.
Must be convenient to NFns block. Possess
sion TO be had on or about the 9th. For q
suitable house ample rent is offered. 4J-tt
"ANTED-A fresh COW in part payment
w for a sewing machine or organ, at THR
NEWS Office. 42-tf
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"A Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and In
stFEctson."
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MONEY TO LOAN.

II ISL OF letters remaining IN the EmpoFia
IL postofbce, Nov. %, 1875. Persons calling
for these letters please say advertised.
JACOB STOTLER. P. n.
Beck, G. A Bristol, Charles l..
Clark, Mrs. f i. (2) Gildea George.
KeiZer, Chas. +. Lewis J
Kistler, John l.. McIntire. Miss Ellen.
Nash, q. M. Olmstead, Miss Katy
Spencer, e. III. Thomas. Miss Mary
HELD FOB POSTAGE:
w. j. Combs. Hartford, Kan
Ed. Davis, Higginsport o.
Il. G.. Dunn q Co., Kansas City. Mo.
Robert L. Mgrris, Usage City, Kan
Miss Mary Thomas, Usage City, Kan.
Mrs. Emma Walk. River Bend. Colorado
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KANSAS.

massachusetts and zkssB~a% An
Old EbebG ORd "a New One
Prosperity of the Sta1e-A
Isostosa EnterPrEse-'E'Sse Atcn-
I~On. 'EOpesEEs * SANTA re
Railroad.
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FOR SALE.

CTORE STOOLS.-12 red plush iron frame
~ stools for sale at Gilmore 4 Arnold's.
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The Leavenworth Commercial leads
the "third term" movement in Kansas
One hundred and twenty-six lieens-
ed liquor shops in LeaYenworth.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-30

Fashions and Fabrics.

sPHINd OPENING AT a PHILADELPHIA DRY-GouDs
rALAeE-wHAT WILL he wCRS, THIS SEASON.
The Spr.Ig opening Of Messrs. Homer, Collg-
day, Co.. llli Chestnut St.. Philadelphia, one
OF the largest houses in that city, displayed the
fashions and fabrics winch are in season, and we
present all interesting r,.nae Of the chef
points. AZ to color, i'll tie costumes shown be-
=ldes an almost infinite variety Of the eyer-use-
ful and fashionable black there is Il predumi-
nance gf the many beautiful and becoming
pladr, in shaded browns and modest greys, and
4 few rather outre de~iguh in gayer culofs aud
larger plald-. suggestive Of the gayctics which
succeed Lent, there ale
DINNER AND RECEITioN ToILETs.
50 beautiful as to call forth from the ladies vino
surround them continued cXclamations Of sur
prise and delight, These costumes are uuex-
ceptionable in cost style, color, and garniture,
and the endless variety and marvellous original
!ty displayed in their selection and manufacture
have never been surpassed. They are rich and
handsome ell ough to please the taste and fancy
Of princess, III every grade and quality, from
the real elk TO the quiet cgmels hair, so neat,
charming. and proper for street or home coz.
tune.
VERY ELEGANT RECEPTION DREs.,
composed of peculiar and lovely shade in
amer or dove colored silk was made with
Court train ornamentcd on the back breadth with
soft putling= of the 4Ilk, divided by fold, with
French knot i'll centre a shirred space above,
formed boutfant at the waist The left side
las three diagonal folds forming points, and an
Urnamentation III heavy silk cable cord. same
shade a. the drezs. The other ride and front
are garnished with rufies and sbirred puffs
above. The basque is styled the erayiata and
has round waist III front, trimmed en- yeston
and oruamented with cable cord aud tassels IL e
back il something of the coat shape having an
oval space in centre, below the waist, laced with
cable cord, and iished wi Ii tassels coat sleeve
formed with diagonal pufings and folds between;
gauntlet cuffs, formed with three small cuff
edged with cord, aud onamented at the back
With cable cord and tasscls
HANDSOME PLAIN BLACK slLK
has the lower skirt trimmed with two rows of
hne knife-pleatings tablier overs kirt COMPOSED
of perpendicular puffs, with shirring, and plain
piece III the centre; shawl sash looped at the
back with bows of silk, ornamented at the edge
with crimped tape AMI fringe; basque pointed
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-30

Oddly enoigh, the Legislature, though so
keenly fearful of passing any law by which white
mems taxes should educate colored children,
adopted measure by which taxes laid upon col
ored men are to so to the white schools. We
refer to the law to tax dogs in Sussex county.
This will be collected, of course, from all own.
ers OF dogs, very many of whom are colored
men, yet every cent Of it is to go Into the fund
for educating white chldren-tlie c)lored chill
dren not receiving cent A gool while ago it
was said that the rule is poor which will not
work both ways, and surely when the white tax
payers of the State, including niuety-nine hun
iredtls of all the rich. are guarded so carefully
from contributing cent Of tax to educate the
children of colored tax payers, who include a
large proportion of the poor, it is IA hard case
for the Legislature to tax colored mems dogs
for the education of white mems children.