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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-28

TRAFTS WRIGHT, Margaret NJ Wright,
~ Malcolm Bliss. The Loan and Trust Saw
take notice that you and each of you have
been sued In the District Court of Lyon conn
ty, state of Kansas, by p. d. Plumb; that the
said Z. II. Plumb has filed his petition in the
Clerks Office of the said court; that the
names OF the parties to said action are: p b.
Plumb, plaintiff, and Crafts j. Wright Mar
garet III. Wright, Malcolm Bliss. and The
Loan and Trust Savings Bank. defendants;
tition of the plaintiff so filed as aforesaid, on
or before the first day of September, A. ID.
1872, or the said petition will be taken as true
and judgment will be rendered accordingly,
as foiloTs-to- wit; The court will ascertain
the amount due to the plaintiff, upon two GER
tain promIsSory notes executed and delivered
70 the plaintiff by the defendants, Crafts j.
Wright and Margaret NJ. Wright (his wife),
| the respective sums of 81 .3O600 and 81 10000
and drawing interest at the rate of twelve per
cent per annum from date of said notes, ami
to have said amounts so ascertained, declar-
ed q mortgage lien upon lot No. one hundred
and fifteen t115l Commercial street, in the
city of Emporia, Lyon county, State Of Kan
| sas, in accordance with the conditions of a
certain mortgage deed executed to the plain
| tn by the said Crafts J. Wright and Marga-
ret n. Wright, on the nth day of February,
A. ID. 1872, for the purpose of securing the
payment of said poomissory notes, and also
amount so ascertained to be due upon said
notes aseertained and declared q further lien
upon said real estate as and for an attorneys
| fee, as provided for in said mortgage; and
the court Will also ascertain the interest of
the defendant, The Loan and Trust Savings
BeLk. in said real estate, by virtue of GER
tain mortgage held by. said defendant, and
declare said interest q prior lien to the lien of
/ the plaintiff upon said real estate; and the
court will also eFder said real estate to be sold
according to law, and the proceeds of such
sale applied to the satisfaction of the costs of
| this action and the respective liens Of the
plaintiff and the defendant, The Loan and
Trust Savings Bank; and the court viii fur
Their decree that said defendant, Malcolm
Bliss, has, since the execution of said notes
and mortgage TO plaintiff, become the owner
of said real estate, subject to the lien of said
mortgage; and the said court will further de-
cree that, upon the sale of said real estate,
the right. title, claim and interest of said de-
PENDANTS and each Of them, shall be forever
barred in and to said real estate or any part
| thereof; and the court will further decree
such other relief as to It may seem Just and
meet. RUGGLES q STERRY,
1881 Atty's for plaintiff.
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TIldera and Tweed.

To the fearless and constant fight
waged against "Boss" Tweed by
the New York Times and Thomas
Mast, the final overthrow of that
great thief is mainly due. For ma
ny months the Times was the only
daily paper in New York that
dared to attack the Tweed ring, and
it suffered numberless prosecutions
for it's course. The "Ring" was all
powerful at that time. 1t controll-
ed the city absolutely. 1t threaten
ed the property of the Times with
confiscation. 1t took away much
of its business. But that journal
never wavered in it's opposition.
And at last it succeeded in securing
such unquestioned proof of the rob
berries perpetrated by the ''Tweed
ring" that the whole city was
aroused and fight was inaugura-
ted which finally destroyed the
''Ring." Of the impudent claim
set up that Tilden was leader in
this fight, the Times says:
"Do papers like the Baltimore
Sun think that the Democratic cam
paign will be helped by echOing the
lying pretenses of Gov. TiIden
that he displayed the courage and
ability without which the oyer
throw of the Tweed dynasty would
have been an impossibility.' Do
they immagine that the people have
forgotten how despicable q part
Mr.. Tilden played during that
dreary period when the Times was
fighting, without vIsable encour-
agement from the press or the pub
lie, its uphill battle against the
Tweed Ring? He needed no infor-
nation from us to the magnitude OF
their rascalities, and yet he worked
| with them, shoulder to shoulder
in State politics, taking their money
and submitting to their dictation in
all essential points of party policy
The attacks of the Times drove the
people into action in the spring Of
1871, but extracted no word of en-
couragement from Mr.. Tilden
They drove the Ring into attempts
10 OeiuUe Tue puOliC ny CHo Two pei
cent. tax bill, by the long delayed
report on city finances, aud by jug
Cling reductions of official salaries
but they failed to convince Mr.. Til
den that the time had come to rio
the Democratic party of the incubus
of Tweed and his gang. Finally
our publication of the extracts from
the Comptroller's books startled
} the public of the two continents
; and revealed in all their alarming
} proportions the greatest pecunisry
! frauds of modern times. But Mr.
: Tilden was proof, as might indeed
have been expected, even agains
these, and took another two months
to find out that Tweed, Sweeney
and the rest of them were so hope
lessly ruined that it was time t
! cut adrift from them. The TildeL
organs are taking the shortest way
} to rnin their candidate by trying
to build up his reputation as a re
former on misrepresentation an(
falsehood."
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Senator Davis some months since
offered resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasurer for q list
ST defauIters from 1860 to 1876, be-
ing careful to so frame it as to ex-
cept or screen the Southern default
ers at the commencement of the
rebellion. Davis intention was to
get up q little Democratic thunder
for the campaign. Senator Sher-
man moved an amendment, callin g
for list from 1886 to the present
time. The report has JusC been
made. 1t commences with Jack
sons administration, aud shows
"That the defalcations under the
present administration have been
less than those under any other
President. The losses to the Gov
ernment under Van Buren, were By
far the largest, being more than
double those of any after admins
tration. The losses on every 81, 0OC
of disbursements were in the ad
ministration of Jackson, $50 90
Van Buren,, $2l.l5; Harrison, $l0--
81; Polk, SS.34; Fillmore, $7.64
Pierce, $3.50; Buchanan, nearly
S69S; Lincoln, $l.4l; johnson,
forty Eight cents; Grant, the frs
four years, forty cents; the SECOND
four years, twenty-six cents.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1876.
The records at the Signal Office
show that only TWO or three times
during the nineteen consecutive
days, beginning about the Doth ult,
did the thermometer show a de-
preston of the mercury below 9Oo
and then for brief periods only.
The average temperature for that
time was about go. Night and day
we have been boiled, baked, roast
ed fried, steamed and grilled. The
Heavens were as brass above our
heads and hardly a plying cloud
interfered to modify the remorsless
rays of the searching our brains
through and through and fatally
striking down many many US at
last, with a deadly attack of coup
de soeiI. One me mber of Con-
gress died outright and among 9TH
ers have been disabled. The num-
Der of deaths from this cause stead
lily increased up to last Thursday,
when a grateful shower accompan-
led by vivid lightning, lowered the
temperature few degrees; and to
day it is steadily raining and ami
mated nature renews its interest in
the things of life. The different
street railroad companies are poor
er than two weeks ago by scores of
herses-poor creatures that could
utter no complaint and were driven
until they dropped dead in harness.
The Sundry civil service bill has
been agreed upon, the Democratic
House abandoning it's attempt to
nullify the registration feature be-
cause of the unyielding temper of
the Senate on that point Had they
b cen successful, repetition of the
shameless election frauds of other
years that have disgraced the polit-
cal histories of large towns under
Democratic supremacy as New
York, Baltimore. Indianapolis,
New Orleans and manv others.
would have been easy OF accom-
plishment.
The silver bill as agreed to, issues
$50, COO, 600 in subsidiary coin. The
silver issued will be legal tender
for five dollars, as now; but the
greenbacks received into the Treas
ury for silver are not, by the pro-
visions of the bill. to be destroyed.
The Belknap trial has been ad-
Journed until Monday, from fail
ure of Evans to appear and it seem 8
to be the general impression that
the House managers will fail to Sc
. cure q conviction. Marsh, who
} was greatly relied on to show that
the accused was Influenced in his
official conduct by brides, testified
that there was no bargain OR un-
Outstanding of any kind that he
(Belknap) was to receive pay OIL
, presents for the appointment. But
readers of the evidence will be
more than ever impressed with the
/ belief that the business was mainly
engineered by two women. The
, prosecution has closed with the ex
ception of the examination o
!, Evans. and it is thought that three
or four days is all the time the de
Tense will require with its wit
nesses. LOGAN.
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State.

The wheat crop in the northw est lis
very fair, the Weld and quality being
considerably better than in the south
and east part of the state.
Sedan Journal: Nimrod Shepherd,
who lives near this place, has killed
three thousand buffalo since he has
been a resident of Kansas.
In the case of w. Fl. Richards VS.. L..
L. & G. railroad, tried in the District
Court last week, the jury gave a YER
dict for $1,000 in favor of the plaintiff.
Suit was brought against the road be-
cause they had refused to honor a
a ticket that had been paid for in ad-
vertising, the conductor taking up the
ticket and putting Mr.. Richards and
wife off the train. 1t seems to be a
point established in law that tickets on
railroads that have been paid for are
good until used.-Iola Register.
From the Columbus Cherokee
county, Courier we learn that Joseph
Tanner, at the Fourth of July celebra-
ton at that place, was struck in the
face with sky rocket, breaking the
cheek bones and inflicting wound
from which it is doubtful if he re-
covers.
Mrs. A. Bennett, while attending
a picnic on Game Fork, say s the Wa
terYille Telegraph, some time since
was bitten in the hand by hoop
snake, and she drank three quarts OF
whiskey before the effects were felt.
The snake had spear-shaped horn
on the end of its tail.
A couple of bystanders who were
watching the game of base bali il
Fort Scott on the Foarth got tn quar-
reling over the game when one o
them picked up bat ami struck thu
other oyer the head q crushing blow
from which he died short time after
wards.
From the Washington Republican
We learn that they have a bridge thert
only wide enough for one team t.
pass at time. Two teams met upoI
it however, one occupied by TWO ladie
and the other a wagon containing tw'
men. 1t became necessary for tn
ladies to back off, which they attempt
ed to do, but the horse became unman
ageble, backed the buggy of the ap
proach, the fall being eight or tel
feet. Both ladies were slightly injur
ed. The horse did not 60 over, bein.
caught just in the nick OF time.
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The Back Pny RECORD.

A few unprincipled journals that
prefer falsehood to truth have charged
VIM. A. Wheeler with supporting the
'salary grab" measure. The following
letter from Mr.. Wheeler ought to con-
vince any fair-minded man that the
charge is made out of whole cloth
New York, March 10Th, 1873.
Sir: The law passed by the late Con-
gress for increased compensation to
members of the House of Representa-
tives and other officials gives me for the
last two years, after specified deduc-
ton, 81, 4S040. AS this measure was
opposed by my vote in all its stages,
iL does not comport with my views of
consistency or propriety TO take the
above sum to my personal use. L de-
sire, therefore, without giving publici-
ty to the act, to return it to the Trea-
surY, which 1 do by inclosing herewith
1ive-twenty bonds of the United States,
purchased with said funds and assign
ed by me to you for the sole purpose of
collection, as follows:
Bonds and brokers com. on
purchase ......,.... ....... S4,4l3.l %
Balance. ............6 81 81
Total. ST, 49, "a
Thebalance is remitted by my check
herewith. Please acknowledge the re-
ceipt and Oblige. Respectfully yours,
w. A. WHEELER.
Hon. VIM. \. RICHARDSON, Secretary
OF the Treasury, Washington, ID. G.
To this the Secretary replied rs fol-
lows:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
N a. 4,
Sir: Your letter of the 10Th inst,
inclosing coupon bonds of the act OF
June 30th, 1874, amounting to $3,S0C
and currency draft for $67 81, has been
received. The proceeds of bonds and
draft have been covered into the gen
eral Treasury OF the United States, il
accordance with your wishes. Very
respectfully,
w. A. RICHARDSON, See.
Hou. w. A. WHEELER, Malone, Frank
lin Co., NY.
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AImIess Lives.

Will the idler allow US to dis
turb his dreams for a moment?
Will he think soberly just once !?
Remember final success in any de-
partment of labor is attained only
by earnest effort. The aimless, idle
boy never develops into the full
proportions of manhood. Rich
harYests do not grow out OF uncul :
tivated soil. Intellectual strength or
moral worth is not q thing of
chance. Beauty and symmetry of
character are the result of much
thought. Careless lives grow mp
into all sorts of crookedness. The
worlds progress is to be attributed
to thought and work. Where these
are lacking advancement is un-
known. The Indian of to-day
stands in the tracks Of the father be-
cause he is lazy. The African is low
and british, because he does not
think. The undeveloped men and
women of christendom have grown
up without thought and care. They
are coarse and unrefined because
they have had no aim in life. They
sit at the feet of the worlds great
class, because they are destitute of
any kind of aspiration. They are
ciphers because they do not try to
figure. They are welded to indiffer-
ence, aud hence, far behind in the
race of life. Thinking, working
men make discoveries and produce
inventions. Thoughtless ones new
er see any thing. They are ae good
as dead. But this ia not the worst
of il. Some aimIess lives run their
sluggish course and disappear,
leaving no trace behind. But q
greater number of such lives illus
| trate the truth of the familiar prov.
| erb: sFor Satan finds some mis-
chief still for idle hands to do"
| Your idler sits carelessiy upon the
curbstone or goods box until he
| grows lonesome, and then finds bis
way into the saloon, or some other
den of sin, where he contracts the
h8OlBS OF III 6mpcE0HCS 6u0 10Wu@
ness. He continues to grow from
bad to worse until he loses all self
respect. At length want begins 10
pinch him. Then he will gamble
or steal. He continues to drift
without aim until he lands . wretch
in some asylum, or . criminal iu
prison. Three fourths, at least, of
our convicts were idIers until the
strong arm of the law put them al
hard work. As long as we are
cursed with idleness SO long shall
we be cursed with crime and Grim.
inals. Idle boys become viscioui
aud deviIish. Such persons make
courts and prison houses a necess.
ity. Let our idle, careless ones
know that the end of the life they
now live is certain shame and
ruin. Let me repeat it, an aimlesl
life is sure to bring disgracc. Hay.
something to live for. Look mp
Struggle for place in the world
Strive TO make . good name.
| c. r. r.
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DAStAAOt Lyon
County, Kansas.
David Whitaker,
VS..
Il. L. Morris, Maria Morris. Augusta Angel,
and the Emporia Agricultural, Mechani-
cal and Stock Association.
NOTICE is hereby given that, by virtue of
IN an order of sale issued out of the Dis
trict Court of the Fifth Judicial District, sit
ting in and for Lyon county, State of Kansas,
wherein David Whitaker is plaintiff, and X.
l.. Morris. ct al, as above stated, are defend
ants, will. on Monday, the twenty-first day
of August, A. D., 1876, at ten O'Clock a. m, at
the front door OF the court house in Emporia,
Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash, all the
right, title and interest of the defendants, &.
L. Morris, ct al, as above stated, in and to
the following described real estate-to-wit:
The south half of the northwest quarter of
section twenty-se t27l, township nineteen
l19l, of range eleven III and the south half
OF certain piece of timber land, purchased
by the said Il. L. Morris of John III. Williams,
and by Williams of John g. Picket, and being
IN the southeast quarter of section nineteen
I19l, township nineteen 1911. range eleven III |.
All in Lyon county, Kansas
Also, lots No ninety-one 1911 and ninety
three 1881, on Market street, in the city of
Emporia, Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
of the defendants, X. L. Morris, ct al, to sat
isfy said order of sale.
Sheriff IS Office, July 20, 1876.
asst HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
Lyon county, Kansas.
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Coroner,S Sale.
IN DISTRICT COURT,
LYON COUNTY, KAs}


LYNN OOUNTY, hAS.y
j. s. Sheed, Plaintiff,
VS..
Robert L. Mcconnell and Mary A. Mcconnell
Defendants.
NOTICE is hereby given that, by virtue OF
IN an order of sale issued to me by the CLERK
of said court, in the above entitled action,
VIII, on Friday, August 4th, 1876, at O'Clock
p. m. of said day, at the front door of thu
sas, sell to the highest bidder for cash at pub
lie auction, the following described real es
tate situate in Lyon county, Kansas, to-wit
Ihe northeast quarter of section one, in town
ship seventeen, range twelve, except tive
acres in the southwest corner, previously
decided by r. L. Mcconnell and wife fol
school purposes. And the said property vii
be sold as the property of the defendants, II
l.. Mcconnell and Mary A. Mcdonnell
AppraiSement ten dollars and twenty cent
per acre. R. Ii. CHITTENDEN
$3.50 Coroner Lyon Co. Kas.
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ITO Reuben Kelly, minor, and E. A Pat
Il terSon, his guardian, and Armilda Lake
GU are hereby notified that you have been
sued; the petition in which suit is filed in the
ofhce OF the Clerk of District Court of Lyon
county, Kansas; in which petition Won are
defendants. and j. ID. Kelly, III. b. Kelly and
w. n. Pinson are plaintiffs; and that you
must answer said petition on or before Sep
TENDER list. 1876, or said petition will be taken
as true and Judgment rendered, partitioning
the northwest quarter of section five town.
snip twenty. range thirteen, Lyon county,
Kansas as follows: To- ID. Kelly, one-sixth ;
TO H. -. Kelly. two siXths; to W. II. Pinson,
tWo-SiXths; to Reuben Kelly one twelfth :
to Armilda Lake. One-twelvth. Or, in case
that said real estate cannot be thus partit ion
ed, without material injury to the same, that
it be sold and the proceeds divided amongst
said parties in like proportion.
z9-3W Z. W. CUNNINGHAM,
Atty for nlainfin
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There was no one on shore whs

There was no one on shore who
could swim except the father OF
theyoung man, and he, although
nearly seventy years of age, plum.
ged in the water and started for
his drowning son. He had hardly
taken a stroke forward when the
son DISAPPEARED beneath the snr-
face, with his wife clinging to him.
The old man swan out to the
spot, and waited in readiness to
seize them when they came up,
but they did not appear on the
surface again. When her son
went down Mrs Bresm was carried
away unconscious.
Meantime George Bates rerched
the spot where his brave comrade
was, by herculean efforts, support
ing the burden of the unconscious
Vance and Miss Bream. Bates
Immediately took charge of the
girl, and the two men started slow
ly for the shore, which they new
er would have reached alive but
for the unexpected aid that was
extended to them.
Simon Turner who had gone
with old Mr.. Bream after the boat,
which they gave up as useless,
subsequently returned to it, and
turning the water out of it, tore a
piece of board off its stern, and,
with that as a paddle started out
into the pond. Bates and Wade
we're not more than half way to
shore, when it became apparent
to them that the chances were
strong against them holding out
long enough to reach land, ex-
hausted as they were, and burden
ed by the limp bodies. Vance,
they were positive, was dead, but
they
DETERMINED NOT TO DESERT HIM
as long as there was a possible
chance of having him submitted
to process of restoration. just
as they had given up all hope OF
saving either themselves or their
charges a shout from the shore
arose, and they saw Turner ap
preaching with the boat. They
put forth renewed exertions to
support themselves, and were re.
warded in very few seconds by
being pulled into the boat, togeth-
er with the unconscious bodies OF
Vance and Miss Bream. Turner
got safely to shore and their bod,
les were quickly taken in charge
by anxious friends. Miss Brean
was restored, but poor Vance wai
past all human aid. Bates anG
Wade had to be carried from the
boat. Old Mr.. Bream, who haC
continued to swim about the spo
where his son disappeared, had tt
be taken cut by force to save hin
from q similar fate.
II being impossible for search
for the bodies of young Bream anG
his wifi to be made that night
they sadly returned to the honse o
Mr.. Bream, where Vance's body
was laid out, he having been al
inmate of the family. Yesterday
morning Bates and Wade had 81
far recovered as to be able to lool
for the missing bodies. They
were found
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POND,
with their arms intetrwined. TIL,
clothing of Bream had caught in 1
projecting root or snag, and Ii,
had thus been held beneath tn
water. He was twenty six year
old. Vance was a cousin of his
twenty-five years old, and wal
soon to have been married to Mis-
Sanders, who was rescued b,
Bates. She is nearly crazed b,
the tragic death of her lover, ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Bream are bot
Frustrated by the sad death O
their son and his young wife. TIL
funeral of the unfortunat e tri
will take place to-day.
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In counties consisting of more than one
representative district, and where the num-
Der of delegates allotted to such counties can
not be equally divided between the represen-
tative district OF said counties, the County
Republican Central Committee shall appor-
ton the delegates among the districts upon
the basis OF the Republican vote.
IL rs recommended that the District Con-
vention for the purpose of electing delegates
10 the Convention herein called, be held on
Saturday, August 5. 1876, at such hour as may
be designated by the Central Committee of
each representative district, or in the event
that there be no such committee, then by the
Central Committee of the county.
IL Is also recommended. that in addition to
the delegates herein provided, one alternate
he elected for each delegate.
No person will be entitled to n scat or vote
in the Convention, by virtue of holding the
proxy of any OF the delegates.
BY order of the Committee
JACOB SToTLER, Chairman.
HENRY BOOTH. Secretary.
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r EoRGEW. DITZLER will take no

- GORGE w. DITZLER will take notice
NJ that a suit has been commenced in the
DISTRICT Court OF Lyon county, Kansas, in
which said Ditzler is defendant, and David
Upton Is plaintiff; and said defendant is no
tined That he must answer the petition filed
IN said action on or before August 25th, 1876
judgement rendered against said defendant
quietIng the title of said plaintiff in and to
lot lO9 Congress street, in the city OF Emporia
Lyon county, Kansas, as against the pretend
ed title of said defendant thereto.
2S-3w E w. CUNNINGHAM,
Atty for Plaintiff