davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
EMPORIA NEWS.
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.

A delegate convention Of the Republic
cans Of the State Of Kansas will be held
in representative hall, in the city OF To-
peka, on Wednesday the oath day OF May,
A. ID. 1876, at the hour Of two o'clock p.
M, for the purpose Of choosing ten dele
gates and ten alternatsS: . represent the
Republican party Of Kansas in the Union
Republican National Convention to be
held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 14th day
of June, prox., for the purpose Of nomi-
mating candidates for President and Vice
President Of the United States. Each
representative district entitled to repre-
sentatIon in the legislature OF 1877 shall
be entitled to two delegates.
1t is recommended that the district con-
ventions for the purpose Of eIecting dele
gates to the State Convention herein call
ed be held on Saturday, the 18th day OF
May. 1875, at such hour as may be desig.
mated by the central Committee OF each
representative district, or in the event
that there be no such committee, by the
Central Committee OF the county. 1t il
also recommended that in addition to the
delegates herein provided for, one alter.
nate be elected for each delegate.
No person Will be entitled to a seat OF
vote In the convention by virtue of hold.
ing the proxy OF any OF the delegates.
BY order OF the committee.
JOHN GUTHRIE, Chairmhn.
J. JAY BUCK, Secretary.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
ALiGlle Thin.

We have seen several bombastic
statements in re ference to support
ing educational institutions, by our
genial friend, Milton w. Reynolds,
Esq, of the Parsons..Suu, who was q
member of the last legislature,
which don't mix we'll with his rec
ord. He is quoted as having said
he would be ashamed to go to Phil
adelphia aud tell his friends that
some officer in the University
didn't have a good salary. Then it
is reported that he compared some
body, who insisted on reducing
some appropriation, to the inhabi-
tants of POsy county, Indiana.
Now while Milton is thus blowing
his bazoO about his course on the
University, it is, to his friends, a
humiliating fact that he voted to
kill the State Normal School, the
only institution located in South
western Kansas, and one which had
been supported and built up by the
State for ten years, and had more
scholars, and was doing a more
important work for the educational
interests of the State than any other
in it. Now if friend Reynolds had
kept still we should have said moth
ing, but we submit it is little
thin for him to be Boosting about
his friendship for education, in view
of the unexpected and damaging
record he made on the question.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
another sIaEl EEobber Caught.


For some months frequent aud
bold thefts have been committed on
registered letters, on the M, Il. q I.
railroad, southeast of here. Sever
al persons in EmpOria and neigh
boring offices, have been sufferers
from these robberies, and suspicion
has rested On various postmasters.
This has caused much anxiety and
concern among honest handlers of
the mails, who were liable, from
various causes, to be falsely suspi-
cioned. OF late these robberies
have become so frequent IS not only
to surprise those who knew of them,
but to cause the government to put
forth extra exertions TO find the
thief. Some weeks ago two secret
detectives were sent here, where
they remained for some days, con-
cocting plans to capture the thief or
thieves. This was done under the
supervision of that shrewd and
faithful servant of Uncle Sam, Ma
jor John II. Crowell. We might
give some interesting details of the
work performed and the traps laid
for the robber, but deem it impru-
dent to do so. Suspicion rested in
Q certain direction. After batting
their hooks several times, and get
ting no nibble, and from indications
which John Crowell is So sharp
upon as a hound is upon the scent Of
it's game, they at once concluded that
the trouble was in the vicinity oil
Parsons, and hither they went. The
party assisting him, and in fact do
ing much of the work, for good
reasons, whose name appears in the
dispatch, and who is as sharp as q
steel trap, was sent there to "work
up the case" The result is an
nounced in the following brief dis.
patch, dated st. Louis, April Sd:
"Between thirty and forty regis.
tered letters were recently stolen
from the mails, end special agents
Foster and Booth, of the post-office
department, who have been working
up the case for weeks past, yester.
day arrested the assistant post.
master at Parsons, Kansas
named Dinsmore, who con.
fessed and made restitution of be.
tween seven and eight hundred dol
lars.
1t may be of interest to those here
who have lost letters by this scOun'
drel, to know that the authorities
here determined to leave no stone
unturned to find out where theil
money had gone, and rendered val
liable assistance in "smoking out
the thief. We hope they may re-
ceive their share of the restored
funds, and that the fellow may b(
sent where he will not have an op
pOrtunity to steal any more regis
tered letters soon.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
NEosHo RAPIDS.

That fearful storm of Monday, the
9th, caused the death of q number of
cattle in this vicinity.
No need of going to Missouri to
mine for lead. 1t is estimated that
there is a six inch vein of pure metal
around the lakes here where the boys
have been trying to shoot ducks on the
wing.
Farmers and stock men here think
the new law, in regard to assessment,
unjust to them; and it will be unless
assessors come nearer the mark than
usual in assessing men who have their
property in notes, mortgages, &C.
The people On the buffalo wallows
are all surveyors now. They get up
on the house tops, where they can
keep out of the mud, and survey the
hilarious water fowl swimming around
where their farms ought to be.
The following are some of the
changes in tenanss James. Dickson
farms Miles Browns place near the
depot; VIM. Schenberger, the Tolferd
place; Geo. Morris takes w. s. Cooks
new farm; Lewis Vansickle, J. s. Pig
mans place, and John Slime Mr.. Line
weaver's. JOE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
The Connecticut Election.

On Tuesday, Connecticut elected
a governor, legislature and Con-
gressmen. The Dem Gratis carried
the day. The vote for the temper
anee and greenback tickets was very
light. The following is the latest
report:
Hartford, April 4.-The total
vote of the State with only the
town of Salem to hear from (Which
last year was II Republican to Y
Democratic, is 98,4S5. Total vote
last year, 100,O93. Totals, Robinson,
1857; Ingersoll, 5l,071; Smith,
1871; Atwater, greenback, 1885.
Ingersoll's majority is 1851 plural
ty, TAI. The Senate stands Is DEM
ocrats to 3 Republicans, a Demo-
cratic gain of one from last year.
The lower House it is estim ated,
stands So Republicans, 159 Demo
Gratis, 2 Independents; Democratic
gain of %. Democratic majority
on joint ballot 81. The Democrats
elect the Congressman.
The above figures are evidently
mixed, and inaccurate, but other dis
patches indicate that the Democratic
majority is several thousand smalleE
than last year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

The vote upon the Payne bill in
the House Monday-68 Democrats
voting in the affirmative and 63 in
the negatives q Significant con-
firmation of the prediction that no
compromise can be effected between
the pronounced inflstionists and the
real and halfway hard money DEM
Ocrats. The former opposed the
bill because it admits the possibility
of resumption at some indefinite
date, and not even the dictum of
the caucus could overcome their
settled hostility to anything which
squints at hard money. Leaving
the Republican minority out of the
question, the Democrats could not
muster strength enough to piss the
bill by the requisite majority.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

It will be seen that we are venturing
upon experimental ground when we
plant more than twenty varieties of
apples. The combined experience of
the majority would favor planting for
general purposes only about fourteen
varieties in all. Our further selection
of varieties will be with the minority,
and should be made with the greatest
care in regard to soil and other local
conditions. In several cases one per-
son has voted for an apple as belong
ing to one season, and another person
as belonging TO different season. Lo-
cality and soil have had something to
do with this, doubtless, as well as the
fact that some apples belong to the last
part of one season and the beginning
of another. In these cases each apple
will be found where the majority of
votes has placed it, with the exception
of two, (Wine and Ortley,) which have
been retained on both the fall and win
ter lists. Hence, it will be well to note
that these two varieties would have
stood much higher on the list If they
had been placed with either the fall or
winter apples. The reason of this
course was the fact that the vote on
these apples for the different seasons
was so evenly balanced that it seemed
An injustice to place them as belonging
exclusively to either Decentralization
Industrialist.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

One of the best things yet done
by our Congressional deleg alton
was the appointment of Charley
Miller as u S. Marshal tor Kansas.
vice Capt. Tough, resigned. Mr.
Miller has really done the work Of
the Office for many years, and is q
man of fine character, and in every
way deserving. Everybody who
know Miner,and there are few who's
do not, is pleased with his success
No better man could have beer
found for the place.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

A convention OF the democratic par
ty of the state of Kansas will be held
in the Hall of the House of Represent
atives in the city ofTopeka at o'clock
p. m. on Thursday May 18th 1876, for
the purpose of choosing delegates and
alternates, to represent the democratic
party of this state in the national con-
ventiOn of the party to be held In the
city of st. Louis, on the 9th day OF
June next.
The state convention will be COM
posed of three delegates from each
representative district, under the ap-
portionment made by the Legislature
now In session.
We respectfully recommend that the
democratic voters OF the state, and
such other good citizens as choose to
act with them, meet in county mass
convention, at their respective county
seats at 2 o'clock p. NJ. Saturday, May,
9Th 1876, and select three delegates
and three alternates from each repre-
sentative district in the county to rep
resent them in the state convention
and that the chairman and secretary
OF the county convention Immediately
transmit to the Secretary of the State
Central Committee at Topeka a copy
OF the proceedings of the convention,
with the names and pOst-oflice address
of the delegates and alternates so chos-
EN-. We further earnestly recommend
that at such county convention perma-
nent county and district organizations
be effected; and that the Secretaries of
the conventions forward TO the Secre-
tary OF the State Central Committee at
Topeka, the names and post-office adj
dress OF the several county committees
so chosen.
We respectfully and earnestly invite
liberal republicans, retormers, and all
other patriotic citizens of this state to
to attend our conventions, participate
in their proceedings, and generally to
unite with us, in an honest and de-
termined effort to secure to the people
of this state and tn the whole people of
the United States, the blessings OF
a pure, free, and economical govern
ment, both national and state. A gov
ernment that shall be founded In the
affections OF its citizens and admins
tered by its officers in a spirit of I'M
selfish patriotism, for the security of
the honor of the country, and the pro-
motion of the peace. prosperity, and
happiness of the people.
BY order of the State Central Com
mittee. Topeka, Kansas, February 25th
1876.
JOHN MARTIN.
II. MILES MOORE. Chairman
Secretary.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
The Tonekn Times.

"Old Prouty," certainly Knows
how to edit newspaper. The To-
peka Daily Times came into his
hands a few days ago. 1t has al
ready changed from a stupid,
dreary, diDgy, brainless thing, to a
bright, spicy, newsy and able pa
per. An evening paper in a SMALL
town is nuisance, because
it is always a day behind, especially
to country subscribers, with the
news. The Times gets the afternoon
dispatches, and is full of kilograms,
news items and brisk original
items. It looks fresh and inviting,
and is only SIS year; Weekly, 81.
The Junction Union says the
move Of Baker in purchasing the
Times and making it q live paper
is accepted by the Blade as an act
of hostility, and the indications of
a rumpus are plain. If either Ba-
Ker or Prouty fool away much
time in rumpus with the Blade
they are greener than we take them
to be, because the Blade has neither
circulation or influence, and cannot
haveso long as it is conducted on its
present principles.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
.FOr1merlv of Kkansas.,,

Watson Foster, of Missouri, who
has sued the st. Louis Times for Ii
bel, formerly lived in this county.
He is the man who made the state.
ment of one of the jurymen in the
Babcock case, to the effect that he
had made some sort of dishonest
admissions before the trial came off.
We do not know the exact offence
of the Times, but if Fosters charac-
ter is worth $4,000, the amount
we believe he has sued for, it must
have advanced wonderfully in val :
ne since he left here. He had hill
farm on Duck creek, and was full of
fauciful theories. In 1850, we
think it was, he came down to En-
poria aud had charge of our village
schools for term. He lectured on
che mistry several times, giving the
usual expert meuts of the action of
chemicals, which were anu sing to
the boys. He was possessed OF
SONIC OuuColAOu oAO AAlOA HAHAeAOAa
and could spout from "June to
eternity" but was q sort of an old
fraud on general principles. From
here he gravitated to Missouri, and
some years ago appeared as the in
ventor of "Foster's Cylurean Bit
ters, which looked likes'Hostetters.i
The last time he was here he car
ried 'stesting" bottle in each OF
his coat pockets, and was quite pop
uIar as long IS it lasted. If we
were called upon to assess the
amount of damages the Times had
inflicted on his "karactar. we
should say So would heal all
wounds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
Our state Debt.

According to the commonwealth
our state debt is reduced to
$4,000, by the payment of $4,000
of the million which we owed few
years ago. Fortunately, the con-
stltution limited the amount which
we could run in debt to 81 900, 600.
Had it not been for this there IL no
telling where we would have gone
to few years ago when we were
wild to create debts of all kinds.
Now let US pay up the balance,
which is indeed quite small, aud
keep the State from ever owing q
cent afterwards.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

Mr.. r. II. Dana, the would-be
Minister to England, is one who
Joined in the task of beating Ben
jamin Butler, Esq, for Congress,
and electlng a Democrat in his
place. Now Benjamin swoops down
on Dana and makes an exposure
which beats him for confirmation
before the Senate. Benjamin re-
CARDS himself as now about even
with the aforesaid Dana. Pollytick
is thing you can't most always
tell about. till you find out.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

The Topeka Commonwealth, hard
money and resumption, says in re-
gard to the idea that the specie re-
sumption causes no contraction:
From a late statement of Comp
troller Knox, we gather the follow
ing figures as to the effect of the
present resumption law on the cur
rency from the date of it's passage,
(January Ia, 1879 up to the 10th OF
the present moAth-a period of q
little over fourteen months:
Total bank currency given up SIS, 202, s6l
New bank currency issued $I3 $50 $40
Eighty per cent. legal ten
derS retired II, O56 COS ASA T21
Total contraction in Il months $50, go, lsz
And this irrespective of q very
large contraction in fractional cur
rency. The contraction last month
was $5,304 900, aud Treasurer New
estimates that SlO0,000.O00 national
bank currency will be retired during
the coming nine months.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

The recent gale on the New Eng
land coast furnished ample evidence
Of the beneficial working of the
National Signal Service. 1t is esti-
mated that the amount of property
saved by one signal, on Thatcher's
Island. more than covered the cost
of the entire Signal Service for the
whole year. When the signal OF
danger was shown, there were forty
three vessels in sight, all of which
found shelter before the gale struck
them
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION
II. MILES MOORE.
Secretary.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION
By authority of the State Central
Committee, lin the absence of county
committee) L request the Democrats of
Lyon county to meet in mass conven-
ton, In accordance with the above
call, at the court house, in the city of
Emporia,a 2 O'Clock p. m. of Saturday ,
May 9th, 1876, for the purpose of
choosing six delegates from this county
(three from each of the two Represent
alive districts,) and six alternates to
represent the county in tho Democratic
Stath.. Convention above called, and
for the purpose of transacting such
other business as may properly come
before the county convention.
Let every Democrat in the county
attend this meeting, as "trouble has
now commenced
HE. NORTON.
Member of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
Hsrlstow New York.
This is what New York CORES
pondent of the Quincy Whig says:

This is what New York cores
pondent of the Quincy Wing says:
The action of the Syracuse con-
vention in instructing for Senator
Conkling does not strike the Re-
publicans of the city very favorably.
While Conkling is popular, and
while possibly the majority would
prefer him, the coolest heads see
that this is no time to push favor
ties, or consider sections. What is
wanted is to hold the government
in the hands OF the Republican par
ty, and they feel it best to go to
Cincinnati unpledged, that the
best man NAV be put in nomina-
ton. Pledged or unpledged, secre-
tary BristOw holds a verv high
plac in the affections of the republi-
cans of New York. The shysters
in the party don't like him, but the
solid men do. They want just such
a man, and when Conkling's friends
find that he cannot be nominated,
they will support the honest Ken
tuckian with a hurrah. He has
done his whole duty, and is very
strong here. Mark this, New York
is going to press him in spite of
instructions. There is an over
wbelming sentiment in his favor
now, and it is growing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
Democratic County

At the request of some of our
Democratic friends we cheerfully
publish the ir call for State and
County Conventions. We hope
they will turn out and make their
party felt, in this county, for good.
There is to be square fight this
year between Republicans and
Democrats, and we are glad the
members of the latter party in this
county propose to show their col
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

Farmers in Central Illinois con-
tinue to suffer severe losses from
the hog cholera. The ravages of
this disease, together with the ex-
treme difficulty attending the mar
keting of the hog product by reason
of the mild weather and the bad
condition of the country roads, have
made the winter 1875 re one of I'M
usual disaster to pork-producers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

Sol. Miller is now after q preach
er named Sheldon. If Sheldon has
any friends they had better go and
give him John Speer's advice to his
new assistant on the old Lawrence
Tribune. If he is at ali blessed
with the faculty of "seeing himself
as others see him" he will feel
mighty mean when Sol. gets
through with him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07
VOTED APPLE LIST.
what Varieties of Apples Shall
We Plant

We Plant
To answer this question for Kansas
as far as it can now be answered, the
Horticultural Society have secured a
vote upon select apple list consisting
of five varieties OF summer, five va
rieties of fall, and ten varieties of win
ter apples, in reply to the following
letter:
AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE,)
MANHATTAN, kAS.,
January 10, 1876.
DEAR SIR:-Please give US upon the
inclosed card the names of those vari-
cites of apples five summer, five fall
and ten winter which you now regard
as the most desirable, all things con-
sidered, for general culture, placing
the best apple of each season at the
head of its respective list, and the 9TH
ers i'm the order of their comparative
value. Yours truly.
E. GALE,
Chm. Exper. Com. State Hor. sly.
Thirty reports have been receiv-
ed 20 this date, from men who have
/ had the most experience in fruit cul-
| lure dutt Ihc DcSG opportunities LOE cA-
tended observation. The inquiries
were scattered as extensively as pos
sible over the portion of the Sta te east
of the longitude of Manhattan, and
the reports or votes may be regarded
as fairly representing all parts of this
region. These votes have in several
instances been accompanied by valua-
BILE suggestions and facts in regard to
different varieties and modes of treat
ment, which will demand the further
consideration of the committee. AS,
for example, in a few instances an ap-
pie almost unknown has been placed
nearly at the head of the list, or one
rejected by experienced growers in
one county or locality is highly recon-
mended by one or two persons in an
other locality. Important questions in
regard to soil and modes of culture are
here involved which will require much
time and careful investigation to ans
wer. 1t is the purpose of the expert
mental committee to work out and set
tie questions of this nature in regard
not only to the apple but other fruit
forest trees, shrubs and vegetables.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

The members of the last legisla-
ture did wonders in the way of
economy. They like to talk about
it, aud parade it in the newspapers.
They reduced the TAG leCU just half
a mill, and to do this struck a hard
blow at the educational interests OF
the commonwealth. Instead OF
Dragging of this action they ought
to be ashamed of i'll That's the
way the people look at the matter.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

The Lawrence Journal, hard money
and contraction advocate, now says,
''that if greenback is made exchange
able for q bend which is at par with
gold, the greenback is on gold basis,
even If there is little or no gold in
the Treasury" Yet this is Just what
resumption law men have been OPP
posing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-07

Dispatch to the Globe-Dem. says ::
WASHINGTON D. c., Mar. 29.-The
manner in which the Belknap scan
dial was unearthed was finally made
public to-day. It seems that in
1872 Gen. Hazen testified before the
House Military Committee that the
post traderships on the frontier were
sold, and that Belknap was impli-
Gated in the profits of one. On see
ing the evidence alluded to in q
Wash. dispatch to the New York
Tribune at that time, Belknsp went
to the President and made a fiat
denial of the testimony, and since
then tue Secretary has kept Hazen
out on the frontier and in Texas.
ClyIner, aware of the fact, wrote to
him In January, and got the points
in reply, on which Marsh was sum-
moned, and with Marsh came the
explosion. To-day a letter was re-
cieved from Hazen by the commit
tee reciting the circumstances of his
testimony of 1872, and showing
quite clearly that Belknap was
aware. four years ago that he had
been detected. The impeachment
articles, which will probably be re-
ported tomorrow, are sustained by
such conclusive testimony that the
Republican members will unite in
the report and urge it's prompt
adoption.