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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-19

A writer ia the Inland Monthly
appears to be in great distress about
that American perversion of the
English language known as slang.
He beholds no beauty in Gully" no
loneliness in "hunkidori :" ''too
thin fills his soul with sorrow, and
''played oHt" reminds him of the
dark valley. He is of opinion that
the man who originated that beauti-
full expression, generally ascribed to
James Fisk, Jr., "Gone where the
woodbine twineth," was fellow of
infinite mirth and bankrupt in eve
rythIDg but tender "reminiscences.
Perhaps says the writer, senti-
mentally, sin the quiet evenfall, by
the woodbine, he used to whisper
to some coy maiden with nut-broWn
hair, and silken lashes resting on
clear blue eyes, words to all others
stale and weary, but to him full of
hopes never realized" All, yes. it
is too beautiful. She went back on
him, poor soul, and he accordingly
wilted. We have never heard anv
one analyZe the expression, "He
walked off on his ear" as this man
does it. AS means of locomotion,
he says, it is unintelligible. The fol-
lowing passage is simply delicious
in its native simplicity and beauty:
Literally, the process is q physical
impossibility. No acrobat ever vet
with success attempted the perform
ance." Without being a member of
the English Commons, we are
tempted to exclaim: Ear! Ear In
ter Ocean.
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his doubts would pass of and the
hope of eternal life would be joyful
ly entertained. He hoped that by
merits OF Christ he would be saved
from condemnation. lie had no
righteousness of his own on which
to hope for acceptance with God.
The righteousness of Christ was his
only foundation of hope. In his
boyhood he made an open profess
sion of his faith at Hopewell church
at cambridge.
CHAPTER HI-THE BEGINNING AND
COURSE OF johns EDUCATION.
When twenty years old he began
to study the Latin language under
the tuition OF Rev. David Weir, who
had become pastor of the church at
cambridge, seven miles distant from
Johns home. That distance he
rode morning and evening to school
during three months, and three
months he studied at home without
a teacher. At the end of which
time he went to Washing College,
Tennessee, of which Rev. Samuel
Doak was president ana performed
all the teaching. At that institu-
ton the course, such as was former
ly taken at Princeton college, was
prescribed, and each student was
permitted to take it 80 soon as he
could. No one was retarded by his
class. If it was too slow, he was
permitted to leave it and pass on so
fast as he could. John studied with
great intensity. He passed by class
after class, until the course was TAX
en- in two years and a half, and he
received his diploma. His health
was much injured. lie became SO
afflicted by pain IN his right side
that during year or more he eth
er stood or lay while he studied his
lessons.
During the time he was at
college tho second British war oc.
cured, and four of his brothers,
Samuel, Thomas, David and Will
liam, were soldiers in that war.
David was lieutenant in q militia
company, and his time to go to war
had not come; but he volunteered
and went. When the battle of the
Horse Shoe was about to take place.
and men were selected to go into
that battle, David was lot selected,
but he volunteered to go, and was
permit ed to go and TO command a
company. He lead his men into the
fight, and being a little in advance
of his men, he was aimed at from
the fort, shot in the breast and died
in few minutes. That was the ap-
pointed time and place of his death,
and it seems that nothing could pre-
vent him from that place. This, to
John, was a sore affiiction. David
was two years older than he, and
the companion of his childhood and
youth, and was an affectionste BROTH
er. During his term at college
John acted I'm accordance with
strict morality, as he had done in all
his life before be had entered COL
lege. He had previously determin-
ed that he would do what he believ-
ed to be right in despite of any
scOrn it might cause him to endure
from his fellow students. This de-
termination he kept without diff
Guilty, and gained the good esteem
of the students in general, who,
with little exception, were we'll be-
hav,d.
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The STATE OF KANSAS !

IN SODNIAs
John q. Doe, being first duly
sworn, says that he resides in Gum
DO township, Lyon county, Kansas
that he is the head of a family OF
three persons, me, my wife and big
son John; that his occupation is
that of a farmer; that in the sum-
and fall of 1874, his crops were de-
stroyed by drouth, grasshoppers
and chinch bugs; that he is desti-
tUte of seed for spring planting, and
feed for work animals; that he is
destitute of the necessary food and
clothing for the support and COM
fort of his family; that he needs
the following articles: 200 bushels
of corn, 100 bushels oats, so bushels
spring wheat, 10 bags of flour, and
Is bushels of choice potatoes, as
believe there will be a speculation
in Vegetables rs well as grains next
year. AS for the grain, L can do
well with that, for I know of q great
many poor settlers that have moth
ing to live upon, and are too honest
aud undetermined to apply for aid,
that will give me q mortgage on
their farms for one-half of the grain,
and by little practical tyranny they
will never be able to release; and
for me to possess myself of ''fat
take" is only a question of time.
Also, 3 pairs boots, Nos. IL and IL ;
as can dispose of my old ones to
Mr.. Smith, my poor, honest neigh
Dor, poor fellow {! who will do all of
my rough work for such old cloth
ing as 1 will give him. He has a
large family of small children, and
his wife is sick with q broken heart.
She is well educated, and rumor
says she was well raised and be-
longs TO q good family back east,
but is now destitute in the west.
But OIL what temper. She (Mrs.
Smith) really did complain when
my wife (Mrs. Doe) refused 10 pay
her 40 cents for washing 13 hours
on that cold Friday, when the Their
mometer stood at 10 degrees below
zero, and when my wife, dear, kind
hearted christian, offered to pay her
with a breakfast shawl that had be-
lOnged to Mrs. Does grandmother,
Mrs. Smith. actually began TO cry,
and said she must have food foe her
children.
Messrs. of the Relief Association,
while think of it, will ask You to
send Us = great coats. Mr.. Trn sty,
another poor neighbor, whose wife
is sick from exposure, will gladly
work for our old ones, and my big
son John (who wants the No. Is
booty and 1 can wear the new ones
to the county or city Relief .Associ-
alton, and get our names in the pa
pers as public benefactOrs, and
thereby secure some other STAT
take" No W, MessrS. of the Relief
Association. as you are already
aware that we are reg uested to be
sworn to the statement that we are
destitute of the articles mentioned,
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Lucretia Mott is rapidly failing
in health.
The TriniSadian is new paper
in Colorado.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has been writ
ing drama.
Andy says he is going to Wash
ington with his war paint on.
Bamboo trees have been intro
duced into California, and thrive
well.
The good Templars of Califor-
MIA have established an Orphans
Home.
Surgeons health has failed,
and he is seeking relief in travel
on the continent.
McCoole, the pugilist, is the
Mike Mcdonald of st. Louis. He
can't be convicted.
The st. Louis Republican is au-
thority for a proposed Cabinet
change, viz: The appointment
of Senator Carpenter as Attorney
General and Senator Chandler as
Postmaster General-both rumors
undoubtedly without foundation.
Charles Francis Adams has set
tied down again. He is one of
those rare and delicate objects pre-
served in the cabinet of national
esteem, that are only taken out on
great occasions, and exist rather
for ornament than for use
B'klyn. Argus.
The Savannah News says: 1--WE
understand a movement is in pro
gress looking to the reorganiza-
ton of the Confederate cavalry
squadron composed of the Geor-
gia Hussars, of Savannah, the In
dependent Troop, of Liberty coun-
ty, and the bingham Hussars. 1t
is proposed, if possible, to have a
meeting in Savannah on the 1st of
May ensuing, when an organiza-
ton will be affected. officers elect
ed, and the necessary arrange
ments made for permanent or
ganization.
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we would ask of You to be prompt
in forwarding the same.

we would ask of You to be prompt
in forwarding the same.
WHEREAS, We, Messrs. John O.
Doe, Ike Cheat, Dan Defraud, Joe
Oppression and Old Father Usurp-
alton, as individuals, yet members
of the one general firm, expect to
chip to this county ali kinds of
grain and sell to the destitute farm
ers at profit of 100 per cent. TAX
ing mortgages or liens on their
teams and prospective crops at an
other 100 per cent. profit;
Therefore, If you should fail to
forward the above mentioned arti-
cles before we fill up our grain de-
pot we are liable TO loose them, as
the county commissioners or some
committee appointed by them might
canvass the county, and by close in
vestigation find that Afr. Smith, MIR.
Trusty, Mr.. Honesty, and Widows
Patience, Hope and Charity are tru-
ly the needy ones, and in that case
we will fail to gain that advantage
we anticipate.
p. S. Private to our special
friend who was lucky enough to Sc
cure position of advantage in the
association If You should send
your Sc rvant with those goods and
provisions, and he should have any
difficulty in finding my where
abouts, will Just state that l am
an old settler and have had the ad-
vantage of good crops for many
years; and as. VIC are well fixed,
and have q good farm in less than
three miles of the court house,
your servant can find as good enter
tainment with US as can be found in
the west, SO long as there is any
money to be made at it.
BY the way, couldn't you furnish
US a buyer for % head of surplus
cattle? We have % head, but so
head of them are mich cows and
will be fresh in the spring, and we
expect to realize two prices in the
spring, in the way of labor and
young stock from the poor and des-
titute.
N. b. Don't forget TO direct your
servant to our place, less than three
miles from town, downgrade, and
where you will find huge straw
stacks and numerous hay ricks and
a surplus of all kinds of stock and
feed considering the season, and
compared with my neighbor). Be
prompt, and we will insure success.
Yours in the common good of hui
mainly, JOHN Q. DOE ct al.
And that he is unable to procure
the same without aid.
(sIGNEDl JOHN Q. DOW.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 18th day of Febru airy. 1875.
SQUEFsICKs.
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and the several boards of county
commissioners of the several conn
ties named in said act, are likewise
required to Immediately cancel and
destroy all bonds of their respective
counties prepared in accordance
with the provisions of said ect and
now remaining unsold.
Sec. 70. No person who has CT
can, in the Judgment of said county
relief board, as specified in section
3, obtain by any reasonable means
within his power, the grain and
seeds proposed to be furnished by
this act, shall receive any assistance
from the proceeds OF the bond here
in authorized; and the said state re-
lii commissioners shall adopt such
rules and regulations, for lie pnr-
chase and distribution of such
grain and seeds as will prevent i'm
position and fraud, to the cad that
non" but the absolutely needy shall
have the assistance provided by this
act. And any person or persons
who shall make 10 tie said state or
county board OF relief commission
ers any false or fraudulent state
ment concerning tie wants or des-
titutlon of any person or persons in
his or their ccuniy, township, or
city, knowing such statement to be
false or fraudulent, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof, be punished by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for q
period of not less than six months.
Sec. 81. If said commissioners, or
either of them, or if any county,
city, township, or other officer or
person upon whom any duty is i'm
posed by this act, or if any person
or persons employed by either of
the persons named in this ACT, shall
make or assist in making, or know
ingly permit to be made, any false
or fraudulent signature, voucher,
statement, return, or report of his
or their transactions or doings I'M
der any of the provisions of this
act; or if said commissioners, or
either of them, or any other person,
shall appropriate to his or their use,
or shall knowingly permit or allow
any other person or persons to ap-
prOpriate to their own use, any of
the moneys or property arising from
the sale of the bonds issued and
sold under this act, or from the pro-
ceeds thereof, or any property
which shall in anywise come into
their possession or control, or I'M
der their management or direction,
by virtue or in consequence of their
official position or employment as
aforesaid, such person or persons
shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and on conviction thereof, shall be
punished by confinement and hard
labor for period of not less than
one year and not more than ten
years.
Sec. %. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
publication once in the Daily Com
monwealth, at Topeka, Kansas.
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SMALL INsEcTs.-Lewenhoek tells
of an insect seen with a microscope
of which 100000 would ONLY
equal q mite. Insects of various
kinds may be seen in the cavities of
a common grain of sand. Mould is
q forest of beautiful trees, with the
branches, leaves, flowers and fruit.
Butterflies are fully feathered.
Hairs are hollow tubes. The sur
face of our bodies are covered with
scales like fish; a single grain of
sand would cover one hundred and
nifty of the scales, and yet a single
scale covers five hundred pores.
Through these narrow openings the
sweat forces itself out like water
through siege. The mites make
i've hundred steps q second. Each
drop of stagnant water contains a
world of animated beings, swim
ming with as much liberty as a
whale in the sea. Each leaf has a
colony of insects grazing on il, like
oxen in q meadow.
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
AMERICA.
ESTABLISHED 1857.

WHAT IT OFFERS for 1875.
VOLUME XXXv.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
will contribute, during the year, frequent Es-
says and Poems and
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
AND
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
will publish Poems and Papers of special in
terest.
"MARK TWAIN
will contribute Sketches of Mississippi River
Life as he used to see it from pilot house.
BAYARD TAYLOR
will write of Life in Weimar and Coathe. and
on topics suggested by his recent resi-
dence in Germany.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARMER
will furnish. during his sojourn in the East,
Sketches of Oriental Life and Travel.
LOBERT DALE OWEN
Will continue, from time to time, his Chapters
of Autobiography.
FRANCIS PARKMAN
will contribute papers on the Wars Of New
England and Canada, and picturesque
episodes OF the old colonial life in Que
bee and Montreal.
The valuable articles of DAVID a WELLS
AMI EDWARD ATKINSON on Currency
and Finance during 1874, will be succeeded
aIIt htrs. in 1873.
DR. BROWN-SEQUARD
is expected to furnish some popular papers on
tlae branches of medical science in which
he is authority.
WD HOWELLS
will contribute story in several parts. and
there Will also be
NOVEL By HENRY JAMES, JR.
and short stories from J. T. Trowbridge, 7. b.
Aldrich, Rose Terry, William N. Baker, and
other capital story-tellers.
Poetry win be well represented by the
names of LongfellOE, Lowell, Whittier,
Holmes, Aldrich, Stelman, Hayne, Miss
Phelps, Celia Thaxter. Fhe best American
poetry appears in THE ATLANTIC.
he four departments of Literature, Music
Art. and Education will be filed monthly by
vigorous editorial articles and reviews.
The Leading Contributors of the Atlantic
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e. The Atlantic will be sent free of post
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Two Japanese gentlemen who
have been examining the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions under a commits
sion from their government, have
purchased for shipment to Japan
two boilers and engines and the
necessary drilling tools and other
fixtures for earth boring.
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NUMBER 8.
LEGAL.
sHERIFF's SALE.
U.G.,MoMILLAN. , In the District

{. G..NtCMILLAN, ) In the District
JEREMIAH LoGAN.S Count S; Kan Kansas
Jeremiah Logan, the defendant In the ahox..
entitled action, will take notice that said
plaintiff, q. G. Mcmillan, has fled in said
court, his affidavit that Judgment was render
co herein, April 10Th. 1853, In his favor against
81 10 costs; making $629.65, and said Judgment
declared mortgage lien on c y of sec "a, tip
same is JtnreyeTsed and unsatisfied in whole
or in part, and that there is now due thereon.
said sum of $629.65 and interest from April
18th, 1865. That said Judgment has become
dormant, and that said Jeremiah Logan, de-
PENDANT, has been ever since said April Goth,
1853, mon resident of the State of kansas
and said jeremiah Logan defendant afore
said, is notified to appear and show cause
why said Judgment should not be revived
against him on Tuesday, March 3D. 1875 at the
March term, 1875, of the said District Court
GILLETT & FORDE
Att'ys for Def.
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Governor English, of Connecticut,
wants to be remembered. He has
designed monument, to be erected
TO him after death, which will be a
granite obelisk, the largest in the
country, and has it already in pro-
cess of completion.
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blood DisenSe-

The blood being the source from
which our systems are built up and
from which we deriye our mental
as we'll as physical capabilities, how
important that it should be kept
pure. If it contains vile fostering
poisons all organic functions are
weakened thereby. Settling upon
important organs, as the lungs, liver
or kidneys, the effect is most disast-
rous. Hence it behooves every one
to keep their blood in a perfectly
healty condition and more especial
ly does this apply at this particular
season of the year than at any 9TH
er. No matter what the exciting
cause may be, The real cause of q
large proportion of all diseases is
bad blood. Now DR.. Pierce does
not wish to place his Golden Medi-
cal Discovery in the catalogue of
quack patent nOstrums by recon-
mending it to cure every disease,
nor does he so recommed it, on the
contrary there are hundreds of dis
eases that he acknowledges it will
not cure but what he does claim is
this, that there is not one form of
blood disease that it will not cure,
and that disease is cancer. He does
not recommend his Discovery for
that disease, yet he knows it to be
the most searching blood cleanser
yet discovered, and that it will free
the blood and system of all other
known blood poisions, be they ami
NAL, vegetable or mineral. The
Golden discovery is warranted by
him to cure the worst forms of skin
diseases, as all forms of blotches,
pimples and eruptions, also ali
glandular swellings, and neck, legs
or other parts, and all scrofulo1s
diseases of the bones, as white
swellings, fever sores, hip joint and
spinal diseases, all Of which belongs
to scrofulous diseases.
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DOLLA RS

To the amount of two million five hum
dred thousand are to be attributed on
the 9th of February by the Public Lii
brary of Kentucky, upon the occasion of
their fifth and last concert.
Drawing Certain or Money Refunded.
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DIR. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. ":
Dear SGr:: My wife first became
lame nine years ago. Swellings
would appear and disappear on her
hip,and she was gradually becoming
reduced, and her whole system rot
ten with disease. In 1871 a swelling
broke on her hip discharging large
quantities, and since that time there
are several openings. Have had
five doctors at an expense of 1925,
who say nothing will do any good
but surgical operation.
July 10th, 1873, lie writes thus
My wife has certainly received q
great benefit from the use of your
Discovery, for she was not able to
get of the bed and was not expect
ed to live a week when she COM
menced using it, year ago. She
has been doing most of her work
for over six months. Has used
twenty bottles and still using it.
Her recovery is considered almost a
miracle, aud we attribute it all to
the use of your valuable medicine.
l can cheerfully recommend it a
blood purifier and strength restorer.
j. NJ. ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
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A GAINESVILLE man has written a
lite of the devil. The last three
chapters comprise a ten years hi
ogrsphy Of his mother in law.
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7 IST OF LANDS belonging TO the endow
- ment for common schools in Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas, having been selected in lieu of
certain sections 16 and 36, which had been oc-
cnpied by redemption prior TO the United
Statas survey
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Rates OF ADTERrLsING.

Advertisements calculated by the inch, in
leagth OF column. For cuts and double col
umn display, add 25 per cent. to above table
of rates. All legal and transient advertising
10 be paid for in advance, except when order
eel by our regular patrons. Our rates are
bery ioto in proportion to our circulation, and
nnst be STRICTLY adhered to.
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Hedge:Plants for Sale.

$4,000 good two-year old hedge plants
for sale. B. F. MYER q BRO.
81 miles east OF ETnporia.
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n. B. LOWE,
Central Livery Feed & Sale Stables.

The most extensive establishment in
Southern Kansas. Double and single
teams, with the best and incest carriages
and buggies in the city, ready at ali times
Also, saddle herses for ladies and gentle
men
Buys and sells horses, baggies, and ear
riages. Auction every Saturday.
orses b y the week. 81
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Hereafter all communications relating
to the 9TH Concert shonId be addressed to
the undersigned, and 1 pledge myself
that the drawing shall come off February
2Ith or that every dollar paid for tickets
shall be returned.
c. d. BRIGGS, Agent and Mansger,
Room 4, Public Library Building,
Louisville, Ky.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY
Death of Gov. Standardization of the
Trustees-A Successor ApPOInted-NO
Moro Postponements-Dra Ger
tain February 9Th.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the
Public Library of Kentucky, Jan. 10th,
1879. it was resolved that G. NJ. Briggs,
ESD, who under the late Hon. Tho. T..
Bramlette was the real business manager
Of the gift concerts already given in aid
of the Public Library of Kentucky, be
and he is hereby authorized TO take the
place made vacant by the death of said
Bramlette, in the management of the af-
fairs of the fifth and last gift concert.
and that the drawing announced for
February p, 1915, shall positively and
unequivOcally take place on that day
without any further postponement or
delay on any account whatever.
II. T. DURRETT, Pres.
JOHN s. CAIN, Secretary.
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w. GROVE STATION, Ia, }
July IA, 1872. (

JOINT DISEASE
CTIREn
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PHYSICIANS
c. r. RICE,
pHISICIAN, Americas, Kansas.

ANNA WARREN, NJ ID.
OFFICE in brick building, next south
" TO L. D, residence northeast cor
ner of Merchant and eth avenue