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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-27
I EALED PROPOSALS.
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JTTY JLENK'H WFFICEt |
t WHEELING, W. Va, April -, 1915. !
Sealed Proposals will bc received at the Oilice Of
the CITY Clerk until Thursday, April 10Th, 1870, At
the oil lamps In tho Eighth Ward, also lhe oil iarS
In the Third Warl lids shall 10 for one year, and
TO furnish oil and wick for said lamps
nt24 r. A, BRITT Civ C1ark
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-27

A souri WHEELING Ama1onian re.
fused ID pay hef fare on a street car yes
tefdAy,3 and die conductor elected her.
The vitago was Of masculine proportions,
and came near getting away with the
conductor. -.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
Items from MumboI.lt

The schools are closed.
Our M. G. is enjoying his rural
home.
The spelling mania has reached
us at last.
The boys are tusseling with the
national game.
Our grasshoppers are getting
wings. Everybody is praying for
them to fly away.
The farms along the river are
bare as the beaten road. The farm
ers out on the prairie have promise
of good crops. This time prairie
farms are ahead but the men who
own farms in the bottom, vet hope
to raise crop of corn.
The season thus far is all that
can be desired. No heavy rains,
but good showers every few days.
The earth would TEEN with vegeta-
ton but for the grasshoppers. Par
don us, we can hardly write AN item
without getting grasshoppers into
it. How could we when they are
everywhere, in doors aud out.
They have destroyed every green
thing in our yards and now they
are trying TO destroy the green
places in the carpets and oil cloths.
They will go for an artificial rose
leaf, moss, fern, anything that looks
green. 1t takes the closest kind OF
watching to save house plants from
their deVouring jaws. The Scrip
ture is fulfilled, the grssshopper is
an intOlerable burden in these ends
of the earth.
On the 18th inst, the Parsons
Sunday-schools came to our town
on an excursion. All the littie
folks and many of the big ones were
here +; about eight hundred in all.
The Humboldt sch Ools met them in
the grove across the river and gave
them grand reception. The Par
sons and Humboldt bands discours-
ed music, the schools sang together,
we had Two very short speeches,
then dinner, then a good time gen.
orally. We had swinging and boat
riding bus, carriage and wagon
drives, and walks and talks, and
some few thonghtless ones went SO
far as to dance little. The writer
had a good time visiting with old
friends and Pensioners, among
them he found David HeasIy sud
wife, formerly OF Americas. An
untimely rain drove the excursion
lists to the cars and the Humboldt
ers to their homes, But our city
knoWa how TO entertain visitors. IL
you don't believe it jnst get up an
excursion and come down.
&. c. p.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
Rev. =. H .LaeIxey OfPea.
body.

The following is pen picture by
our reporter of the trial Of the
above named clerical gentleman be-
fore the Presbytery of EmpOria in
this city last month.
Mr.. Lackey instead ola c0iminal
at the bar, stood up among his peers
aaiOble Roman. The descendants of
John Knox had said, there must be
no withdrawing in q court which
traces its origin back to the first
Council which assembled in Jeru.
salem, during the time of the apOs.
Ties. To this end, the Presby-
terry, at the req nest of the accuser,
appointed the able counsel Rev. j.
ii. Clark of this city to prosecute
the charges. Mr.. Clark, armed to
the teeth With Law points, follow
ing rather closely the analogy of
the civil courts, confronted his op-
ponent. Peter, who had "whacked
the sinner with pine silver" bold
" asserted and dared maintain his
rights. And In conducting his own
defense, he seemed perfectly at
home in ecclesiastie lay, beside
knowing q thing or two of civil tar-
|isprudence. Though be took down
the entire testimony, as it was Civ
en-, even with more dispatch than
4be clerks, he was ready to proceed
promptly when his time came and
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at eyerv presentation of the sword
to smite him, he most successfully
turned its edge.
The faithful presence and wise
council of the venerable John Ran
kin in his S3rd year, and Goth in the
ministry, was constant reminder
that this a court of Jesus Christ.
AS the parties waxed hot, ga
Daniel came to Judgment" in the
person of II. NJ. Overstreet, who
stood ready tn turn mp the ancient
law and bid the court "Tarry lit
tie; there is something else. This
bond doth give thee here no drop Of
blood: the words are expressly a
pound of flesh; Take then thy
bond, take thou thy pound of flesh :
But in the cutting it, il thou dost
shed one drop Of christian blood
thy lands aud goods are bv the
laws of Venice confiscate."
The moderator, the Rev. S. b.
Fleming of Arkansas. City, though a
young man and for the first time in
the moderator's chair, held
all squarly to the issue and
to The written rules and
regulations of the court aud in
firmness, prOmptness and decision
did credit TO himself and the Pres
bytery. The case dragged slowly
along for four days, till all the wit
nesses were examined and the testi.
mony closed, and everything had
been thoroughly sifted which had
been brought up by drag-net
sweeping over most of the life OF
the accused in Kansas, aud all con.
cerned hung on the ragged edge. A.
this stage Christ looked in upon
Peter and all and better and mild
er and more fraternal counsels pre-
vailed, and none dranks deeper o.
this cup of christian fellowship and
Joy than Mr.. J4ackey himself. The
result of the trial may be seen in an
other column of this issue.
Whatever misunderstanding Oh
feeling there may have been be
tween the parties concerned at thu
beginning and during the progress
of the trial, the entire delegation
from Peabody went home as a bsnC
of friends; paid their hotel bills
were delighted with the city, ant
well pleased with the treatmen
they had received at the Merchant
hotel aud speak in the highes
praise of its managers, especially o
the intelligent christian lsndlady.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
SPELLING.

We trust the recent spelling
mania will have the effect to draw,
public attention TO the importance
OF photography as a branch to be
more thoroughly taught in our
schools and colleges. We believe
il ia fact that the importance of
learning to spell correctly, has been
for wears overlooked by people and
teachers. The hurry to get even
those scholars who will never use
them, into the languages, has lost
sight of the very foundation rock,
photography. The many foolish
Inconsistencies in our mode of
spelling many words makes good
spelling one of the most difficult
branches of common education,
and the numerous accounts of con-
tests throughout the country, shows
how badly it is neglected every
where. These photographed con-
tests, we think, have proven that
there is not one first-class speller in
one hundred persons who haye en-
gagged in them. We have been told
that in many of the higher schools,
including state institutions, SPELL
ing is almost entirely overlooked.
One hundred essays or compositions
will exhibit almost as great a va
riety of ways OF spelling many
words in common use, and each
author will have the appearance of
having set up q sort of an independ-
ent phonetic Esystem of his own.
a quarter of century ago much
more attention was paid to this ac-
complishment than now. The
plodding and wearisome mode of
that day consumed more time than
we would now desire to spend on
any branch of education, bnt IL was
certainly more efficient 1t was not
an uncommon thing to find a dozen
good spoilers in each log school
house, and we arc satisfied that is q
greater average than ours more pre-
Tensions schools OF to-day will turn
out. If the spelling mania which
has swept over the country in the
last year shall bring reform in this
important particular, il will result
in much good.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
AMrRIcns May 90.

0-h81NA~CH3 -A1l OOS
In answer to your circular of May
Il, there Is more breadth I'm crops than
last year. Winter wheat is two-thirds
OF a crop; spring wheat good oats
good rye large breadth sown; prom
ises full crop. Corn looks well. No
chinch bngs; very few grasshOppers ;
doing no damage. Fruit scarce. Farm
ers hopeful. A. HOWARD.
-NEoshO Raids, May %.
Fall wheat about one-half crop
oats promising a heavy crop; corn
looking we'll q very few peaches; ap-
pies nearly all destroyed. Grasshop-
pers have injured field crops but little.
They have destroyed many gardens.
Chineh bugs are numerous In fields,
AID much fear entertained just now
that they may prove destructive. Some
showers in the township. Water level
low. J.. G.. BRAHsoN.
Day CREEK, May %.
Fall wheat on an average looks well,
and promises above an average yield.
Oats and spring wheat never looked
better. A large per cent. OF the corn
was planted too early and deep. The
cold weather caused it to rot, and it
had to be replanted. It is now grow
plOwed twice. We are expecting lets
of peaches, cherries, plums, etc. We
don't expect many apples. we have
no chinch bugs or grasshOppers. The
ground never was in better condition
for growing and cultivating. Farmers
are hopeful. EDWARD EVANS.
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GrnsshOPPers Cans live in
1kamsas.

Mr.. &. j. Jones, OF this city, dis
covered few day ago that nearly all
the grasshoppcrs have under their
wings one or more minute red eggs,
and on opening some dead grass
hOppers, and some that seemed
weak and stupid, be found in every
one very active maggot, 4 to y
Of an inch long, with u minute black
head, dark streak along its back,
and very active III its movements.
Prof. Norton examined Monday a
large number, under a good mi
crOscope, and found that the littl e
red spots or grains under the wings
were vcritable eggs, and that these
eggs, laid there by some unknown
insect, hatch out into q grub
which is destroying the ''spring
grasshoppers" by millions. In fact,
it is evidently this which causes
their mysterious disappearance, and
we believe that the maggots will
kill the vast majority of the grass
hOppers soon after they get big
enough to fly. Those which alighted
from the vast numbers flying north
west yesterday, had the eggs under
their wings so far as examined.
Mr.. Jones brought US yesterday
one of the grasshOppers and mag
got he had taken from another.
The grasshopper had several red
eggs under its wings. lie then
pulled the hopper apart and laid
the hinder part near the maggot,
which Immediately worked its way
in, causing the apparently dead
hopper to kick in evident torture.
The maggOt goes to the vitals, and
the great majority of the hOppers
now here bear under their wings or
in their stomachs the deadly eggs
and maggOts which will surely de-
strOY them. This accounts for their
inert condition.
We propose To take one of these
maggoty grasshOppers, and put it
under glass, to see what sort of a
lily the maggot will turn into, and
report the result. At present, hur-
rah for the maggol. The grasshop-
pers are bound TO 90 under. They
are doomed. They never will live
10 lay eggs, and what harm they do
they must do soon for their lives are
painful and brief in Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04

GUIDE BOARDS.-The law of Kansas
requires Overseers to put up guide boards
at the fork of every road in their district
and to keep them up ut the expose Of the
township. 1t is clear and explicit, and
under its provisions no district should be
without these useful indicators. ANY
Overseer who neglects, or fails to perform
lis duties, is liable TO a fine of five dollars
and cost of suit. and which may be re-
covered before any Justice of the Peace,
and any person who wiliuIly Injuries
guide boards in any way is liable to "A fine
not to exceed twenty nor less than five
dollars. Township trustees should see
that the intent OF this law should be ar
ried out TO the letter.
Guide boards should be well made and
painted, the lettering done in q workman
like manner, and give the direction and
distance TO two or three places of nete on
each ronte.-Chetopa Advances.
To what extent is this law carFIe,l into
effect in Lyon county?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04

Topeka celebrated decoration day,
last Monday, in good style.
Prof. Jenkins of OlaLhe, says it
takes 5000 grasshoppers TO make a
bushel, and that he has roasted and
eaten some and found them to taste de-
liciously.
a "grasshopper bee" came off in
Aubrey township, JohnsC n county, be-
ginning on the 18th inst, with the fol-
lowing results: On f. F. Thompson's
premises abouty thirty bushels, Josiah
Watts siXty-four bushels, Robert Live
ly fifteen bushels, Mr.. Saunders forty
bushels.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1876.

SOUND AcTIoN.-The Pennsylvania
State Republican convention met at
Lancaster on the Goth ult., and re-
nominated Gen. Hartranrt, and
nominated III. w. Rawle, of Erie,
for State Treasurer. It is strong
ticket. Mr.. Rawle is q highly COM
peleut man, of unimpeachable
character. An excellent platform
was adopted, the first resolution
being as follows:
RESOLVED, That we declare firm
and unqualified adherence to the
unwritten law of the republic,
which wisely and under the sane
ton of the most venerable of exam
pies limits the Presidential service
of any one citizen to two terms, and
we, the Republicans of Pennsylvan-
ia, in the recognition of this law are
unanimously opposed to the cleo
ton to the PresideneyiOfa any person
tor a third term.
This action of the Republican
party of the Keystone State ought
to make the third term croakers
snbside.
Since writing the above Presi-
dent Grant has appeared with let
ter I'm answer to the resolution,
written to the Secretary of the
Pennsylvania convention, stating
that he is not and has not been q
candidate for third term. The
News has steadily maintained that
the "third term" talk was the pur-
est humbug, started by the New
York Herald to make its papers sell,
and that President Grant never en-
tertained n thought OF running
again. Democratic papers please
pass the hash. We will publish the
Presidents sensible letter next
week
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
:. o. Sine, the Cincinnati lotter,

L. o. Sine, the Cincinnati lottery
man, has appealed to the courts to
make the poatofiee deliver his let
ters.
At Cedar Rapids, iowa, May IS,
four stores and the new postofie
were destroyed by fire loss s2G, COO.
Same day., Smiths cotton mill at
Hartford. CT, burned; loss $780,
COO.
The government surveying party
reports that ship canal can be
built across the Isthmus OF Panama
for S56, 600, 600.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

II IST of letters remaining IN the EmporIa
L postOflce: jane LIST, 1915 Persons calling
for these letters please say advertised.
Allen Geo II.
Bell Frank P, Borton Mary ) Rnfline Mrs
Lizzie E., Bartch w ID.
Davies David f..
Engell Henry j.
Harper Mrs f.
1irOce Sam., Gerety Miss Margaret.
Norton Mrs. NJ. q, NJ d.
Parker Elizabeth A
Rary Miss Mary, Root J. IL
SaylOrs Douglass.
Williams Mrs. Richard, Wolf John X ,
Wright Nancy l..
Held for Postage.
Mr.. 4. f. Elliott, Sturgis, Mich.
Enrich n Co., 2S7 4 ESQ 18th Ave. n. Y. City.
j. f. Harlan, Burlington, Kansas.
NJ. S. TIGER. Greenfield, Howard Co., Kan
Frederick Whitmassh, Alexander, Clay Co.
Mo. JACOB STOTLER. p. nj.
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The Troy Chief is the oldest pa
per in the State, and The EMPoRIA A
News is next. The last Chief was
numbered 933, and The News COG.
We would have been very near ev-
en- with Miller, but the first year or
so we missed about twenty-six
plumbers, from unaccountabie caus-
es, such as the impOssibility of get
ting hands, paper, etc.
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FIVE SPECIMEN COPIES tDIFFER-
ENT DATEs) TO ONE ADDRESS
FOR q CENTS.
once NO. Al Park Row, New York.
GEO. p. POWELL . CO.,
Editors and Publishers.
sHERIFF's SALE.


vs..
Evan w. Williams,
County, Kansas.
DY virtue OF an execution issued 0Ef OF the
ID District Court Of the 9th Judicial Dis
tTiet sitting In and for Lyon county, kansas.
wherein Rees Howell IL plaintiff. and Evan
W. Williams Is defendant, I will. on Monday,
the 9Th day Of July, 1915, at II O'Clock .. ni-,
at the front door OF the court house, in Elm
poria, Lyon county. Kansas, offer for sale al
public aqct Jon. u the highest bidder for each
in hand all tine right, title and Interest Of the
defendant, Evan ". WILLIAMS. In and 10 the
following described real estate. tO-Wif: The
undiyided one hair Ia OF twenty acres Of
land in the noFthwest quarter (t<l of section
two ca; township nlnefeep (iels range twelve
f12l, in Lyon county, Kansas, commencing
1t the southeast c6fBsr or the n0FfhEeSi
quarter M 0s sad section, running 1Fext
eighty lS0) rods along the sontb line Of said
northwest qaArtet -ts<); thence north forty
(zG1 rods tsenee east slightly tSfl1 rods: thence
south forty 40 rods TO place OF beginning
Said real estate Is levied upon as the 5roperssi
Of defendant. Evan w. Williams, and will he
sold 20 satisfy said execution.
SheriG1s Office, June 18th, a. D.. 1873
JOHN BAY
zS-s7 SheFie Lyon Co., Kan.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
WANTED.

"TANTED. a farm of about aJu or GOD
wv acres with Improvements, near Empo-
| ria. Price must he low. Address box C19)
seventy nine, Patriot, Ind, giving dcScrIP
ton Of land, location. improvements. water.
terms, Sc, Nc I-25r
A ADVERTISEMENTS from live enterpris-
IA ing business men, in this and other ad p
vertising columns. Bring em in. Don't SIT
around thinking about it. Whatever you
have to sell, let the people know about it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04

FAT TAKE.-The Chicago Inter-
Ocean tax list of Cook county fills
S04 large and solid columns. The
manuscript weighed 275 pounds.
The printers pay in this case will
come to about $4,000. The Inter-
Ocean accounts for so immense a
list by saying the unpaid tax penal
ty in Illinois is so low that it pays
better to let land be advertised for
sale, than to lose the use of the
money.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
$40 REWARD.

STRAYED from my premises, Just west of
- EmpOTia, a dark bay mare, years DID,
white star in forehead; white spot ON upper
lip; shows a large circle of the white of the
right eye, and 3 narrow white circle above
the hoof of the left hind leg. Fore feet lately
shod. The above reward will be paid for in
formation leading to her recovery.
Strayed, May 18th.
aI-99 NJ AEERIff.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
NOTICE.

TEIO HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN. All
l. persons EEe otiIed not to fish in the lake
or hunt on Lakeside farm; viz East - OF
southwest - and southwest OF southwest y
OF section eighteen Q6l, township nineteen
(l9). range eleven ~. Let this be enough
without making further trouble.
Very Respectfully,
23-24t JACOB V. CARTER.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
MONEY TO LOAN.

MOONEY To LOAN. ON long time ami
XNk low rates, on improved farm secutity.
IL RANDOLPH & SEDGWICh.
Mooney To LOAN. In any sum desired,
wi from $500 to $40 900 The usual fcdIoIS
delays avoided by callingOn me.
1871 E. l.. BANCROFT.
To PER CENT am now lOanins money
1NDtO farmers at 10 per cent, instead of Il
per cent as heretofore. Interest only pay able
at the end of each year, after the Interest
earned.
1M4 EDWIN S WATERBURY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
OUR LATEST REPORTS.
SeVenIy-SIx Farmers In seven
Counties Heard From.


The following crop reports make up
seventy-six in this and last weeks
NEWS. They make the best and most
readable lot we have seen in any paper
in the state: s5
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
Notice to TAXPAYERS.

Comfy CLERKS ONCE,
Lyon County. Kansas.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Board
In of Commissioners of Lyon county, Kan
sas, will meet as n ''B0ard of Equalization at
the county Clerks Office. in the city of En-
poria, on Monday, the 9Th day OF July, 1875,
for the purpose of equalizing the assessment
rolls Of Lyon county. for the present year.
Persons feeling aggrieyed at the assessment
OF their property must appe8f before the
board at that time. when such corrections
will be made rs the board may deem just and
equitable. J. 5. CRAIG,
County Clerk.
EmpOrias June 9Th. 1875. 23-25
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Col. Anthony says that the most en-
couragement that he receives in his
"battle for life" is from the insurance
men. He only has s25, 600 on his life.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
The Novelty Water-WheeI

THIS wheel is novel in its construction
l. and develops all the known properties
pertaining to water as "a motive power, re-
ceivlng two distinct actions of the water, in
passing through this wheel; giving $50 to 800
per cent. advance power over any known
wheel. Will forfeit wheel and expenses If
any discount from the above. y. b. Costs
half, or less, than Turbine.
THOS. II. SPELMAN,
inventor and builder. MiilWright.
address. EmpOria, Lyon Co., Kansas,
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NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given to all creditors
IN and others interested in the estate of
John w. Stevenson, deceased, that the under
dersigned Will make final settlement as ad-
ministratrix' of said estate, at the next term
of the Probate Court of Lyon county, Kansas,
commencing on the first Monday in July,
1875. EMMA STEVENSON,
Administrators.
w. Il. MCCARTHY. -
Atty for estate. 1896
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MISCELLANEOUS.
TREES AND PLANTS,

r HAVE for sale three thousand cottonwood
l. trees, two years old, two tia Ousand aspara
gus plants, two years old, and two hundre Il
HoughtOn Seeding gO0sberries, two years
old. Cottonwood trees, $a-5O per 100; aspara
gus $3.50 per 600; gOoseberieS. $500 per lDO.
JAS DOLE,
lift miles north OF EmpOria.
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TNoR SALE OR TRADE A Mccormick
Il moving machine. Enquire OF
lStf r. NICHOLS.
A SECOND HAND Buckeye Improved
IA Table Rake Combined Rea per and Now
er, for sale, or trade for stock.
ID. +. TRESSLER.
2a-93s Americas, H..
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Stock Sale.

an Friday. the 18th of June, 1875, at lG
~ O'Clock a. m, ut the late residence OF
VIM. Beynon. on Coal creek, six miles south
of EmpOria, VIII offer Tor sale n head of
cattle and three head of horses, belonging to
the estate of said Beynon. A credit Of nine
months Will be given, with approved security
and ten per cent, interest.
JOHN X. MADDOX.
S5-24 Adm
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CTRAYED from the undersigned. one hay
y stud colt, two years OIL. Information
leading to recovery of the same, will he lib
orally rewarded by leaving wont at Emporia
Bank or with me- a. w. PLUME.
22tf Three miles northeast of Emporia.
STRAYED or Stolen from my premises, one
= mile north OF Emporia, ibont May 18th.
1915 a sorrel filley. years old, small whit,
spot on face. lightly branded on left rumII
with the letter l.. Liberal reward for infnr
nation leading to her recovery.
22-tf ROBERT LOGAN.