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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-08

Col. Sam. Wood has issued the
following ''Letter to the voters of
Chase county"
CoTToNwooD, CHASE Co. KAN.
September LIST, 1876.
DEAR SIR: at the solicitation of
friends all over the county, have
concluded to be q candidate. this
fall, for the Legislature.
believe that my worst en- emies
Will admit that l faithfully repre-
scented Chase county last winter,
and that / spared neither time,
health nor strength in trying to ar
rest our annual extravigance in
State expenditures. We succeeded
in reducing our annual appropria-
tons over $150,O00, and cutting
down our State levy one-hslf mill,
saving to Chase county nearly
$1,000. If the same policy is con-
tinued this winter we can reduce
our expenditures to less than $780,
600, and our State levy to three
mills. If elected, 1 promise you
and my friends that Z shall labor
earnestly for this result. Much
good was done last winter, not on
ly in some good legislation, but in
preventing much useless and ex-
traVagant legislation. The Educa-
tional ring and the State Institu-
ton rings were demoralized and
broken up, and hereafter the ap-
preparations will be regulated b y
the needs of these Institutions and
not by the greed of localities.
The Normal School at Emporia
will have ta be reorganized and an
appropriation made that will make
it respectable Normal School. It's
total defeat last winter was neces-
sary to secure this result
The laws governing our Common
Schools were remoddled and codi-
fed, and I am glad to see that a
higher grade of Schools are being
established at Cottonwood Falls,
ElEdale and other places ia our
county.
The tax law was completely re-
nodded and 100000 added to the
assessed value of railroad property
in Chase county, which, with the
rigid economy practiced for the
last two years, has reduced our
county levy to ~ mills instead of
10 as in 1873, 2 in 1874, and in
1876. We should by all means con-
tinue this rigid economy in our
public affairs. We are now paying
less tax in Chase county than any
other county in the State. We are
having but little litigation and our
people have great cause to rejoice.
am thoroughly identified with
Chase county and it's glorious fu-
ture. 1 am identified with the in
dustrial classes, and believe that to
build up our county and state, we
must legislste for the benefit of the
laboring people, the producers.
We are agricultural, and whateves
tends to build up and develop our
agricultural resources enriches our
county and state. We need immi-
grafton and settlement, and low
taxes invite these. But my views
on these questions are too we'll
known in Chase county for me to
elaborate them here. Be assured
that I should support whatever
conduces to the best interests of the
people, for, if elected, 1 will go to
represent them, not myself.
Hoping to hear from you, and
that we may have another triumph
this fall of Retrenchment, Reform
and Economy, 1 am truly your
friend, S. N. WooD.
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COI. Plumb DO Topelka.

Col. p. B. Plumb addressed the
Hayes and Wheeler club at Topeka
last Monday evening, and also
spoke at lola Saturday evening, by
request. The Commonwealth has a
column sketch of his speech at To-
peka, beginning as follows:
The capacious opera house. which
will seat twelve hundred persons,
was filled to oYerfiowing last even
Ing with ladies and gentlemen to
hear the address before the Hayes
and Wheeler club of Col. p. B.
Plumb, of Emporia. Previous to
the opening of the meeting the To-
peka cornet band played several
beautiful airs in front of the opera
house. The weather was cool and
delightful.
We clip only the Commonwealth
summary Of the report of Col. P.'s
remarks on the financial question :
The Democratic party has been
the lifelong foe of the greenbac ks,
and - sure as they obtain the pow
er the greenback will 60 out of ex-
istence. The greenbacks are the
bone and sinew Of the business OF
the country. Gold and silver can
never be used to transact the bust
ness Of the country. 1t must be
transacted by q currency of some
kind, and as the greenback is the
creature OF the Republican party,
and has always had the confidence
Of the people, let Il remain as the
currency Of the country until some
thing better can be found to take it's
place. He thanked the audience for
their respectful attention, and re-
tired amid prolonged applause. Mr..
Plumb Is not q graceful speaker, but
he 10 earnest and fOrcible, and CON-
mAnds the close attention OF his lis
teners. The immense audience re.
manned until the close of the speech
The Blade says:
The opera house was filled las
night by an earnest and quiet con.
gregation Of men and women Of
Topeka, to see, perhaps for the frs
time, and to listen to Col, Plumb, o.
EmporiA. The fact that this i'm.
mense audience sat there for two
hours without losing interest In the
speaker, is proof enough that it wal
Q good speech, though some critics
say that it was not so strong as hi
celebrated Wichita speech.
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The Blade says F.:

Tho Council Bluffs Globe of recent
date gives the following letter from
d. G. Lane, of the West India Islands.
The experiment Is worth trying If the
grasshOppers should ever visit our
State again. The following is the let
ter:
To the Editors OF the Council Bluffs Grove:
Gents.-For the last two weeks
have been In this country from the
West Indies, and / find the grasshop-
peFs making great raYages in Vegeta-
don. In order 70 prevent this, burn
one pound OF sulphur on charcoal, In
che center of q aeld, and save what IL
has taken so much toll to develop.
To prevent potato-hngs from de-
strOyinQ the crop, plant two grains OF
max seed In each hill. This will pre-
vent them from injuring the potatoes,
as they will not 60 near the FAX.
DANIEL G.. LANE,
Hamilton, Bermuda, w. i.
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AMERIcUs.

Wash, the last time you CREASED yonr
wagon what made you put the wheels
on wrong? II you make such mistakes
often your girl viii think you are q
Greenbacker.
Geo. A. Bower, our old school
teacher, was ia town last week. We
would be happy TO have Mr. Bower
and family locate here as we under
stand they intend 70 make their home
somewhere In Kansas.
-Thele will Be UniOnf Sabbath
school picnic at Dunlap on the 18th
of this month. Every one Is invited
to come and bring along their dimes.
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Two men, named WheedOn and
Walker. fought q prize fight at
Pennsville, Pa, Aug. 3lst, and af-
ter the 10th round Walker fell in
sensible and died that night. The
cororner's jury returned the absurd
verdict that he died from concus-
sion Of the brain. Wheedon has
been arrested.
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Ex-rebel Gen. c. B. Butler, OF
Georgia, the officer who led the
late Hamburg massacre, in South
Carolina, has just been nominated
candidate for Congress in his dis
trict. That is the way the Demo-
Gratis reconstruct the South.
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It cannot Pc properly said that
wine is made of anything bat
grapes; and thousands of people
who have q supply of grapes,
would ike to make 3 keg, or q
barrel OF wine, if thsy knew how.
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A short time before the Repub-
lican party came into power, the
Democracy under James Buchanan,
negotiated q loan on which the
country was compelled to pay an
annual interest at the rate of ten
per cent. Under Republican rule
we see the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry placing a loan of three hundred
millions of dollars on tie market
at an annual interest of four and
one-half per cent. 1t seems hardly
possible that the people of this
country would prefer a financial
policy which would command the
payment of interest at the rate Of
ten per cent, to one which enables
us to borrow at less than one
half that rate. And yet that is pre-
cisely what the Democracy is try
ng, in the present campaign, to
force upon the country. The sue
cess of Secretary Morrill,, in plac-
ing the new loan, is most gratifying
and far beyond his most sanguine
expectations. The great trouble
has been not to find subscribers,
but to decide to whom and thro nh
what parties the allotments should
be made. Forty millions of dol
lars in the new bonds have already
been taken, and as soon as the call
for the redemption of the old issue
shall be made, it is expected that
an immediate and much larger sub
scription will follow. 1t is even
believed that if the rate of interest
had been fixed at four per cent. the
loan would have been successfully,
though perhaps not so rapidly
placed.
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snd it is likely the banks will with
draw the bonds known as skies of1SSl,
which now command a high price,
realize the premium. and replace
them with the four and a half bonds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-08

Seymore sticks to his determi-
nation not TO accept the nomina-
ton for Governor of Now York, or
for any other Office. Ill health is
assigned as the reason.
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At San Francisco, Saturday, the
horses st. Julian and Dan Voorhees,
trotted for 3 $4,000 purse, the for
former winning in 2 :251<, 2 80, and
2 :29A. Big purse for that time.
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NJ. E. Hudson publishes q letter
declining to withdraw as q candi-
date for governor, and refuses to be
gobbled by Tilden 81 Co.
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Old man Cobb, in Arkansas is
laboring under the delusiOn that he
is the true Savior. He ought to be
laboring in the penitentiary.
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The Greenback voters in New
York State have called . conven-
ton to meet at Albany, September
10Th, and nominate q State-ticket.
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DisSrlcS tCurt, Ehtn udleIai Olstf1cr, Lyon
county, Kansas
David Whitaker.
VS..
Il. L. Morris, ct al.
DY virtue OF an order Of sale issued out of
ID theDtstrfct Court Of Lyon county, in the
above entitled cause, win, on Monday, the
ninth day OF October, 1876, st II O'Clock q. m
at the front door OF the court house in En-
porta, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at
public auction, 70 the highest bidder tor cash,
the following described real estate to-Wit !:
The south half Of the northwest auarter of
section tHenty-seven 1911 In township nIne-
teen ti%l. range eleven III; and also the
south half Of certain piece Of timber land
being IN the southeast quarter of section
nineteen tl9l. township nineteen tISl, range
eleven III and containing two acres, more
OF less. All in Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate viii be sold IS the property
Of r. l.. Morris, ct al, to satisfy said order
Of sale.
Sheriff Is ONCE, September /, 1876.
58-5w HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
Lyon county, Kansas,
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THE Pennsylvania RAILROAD /!

The Great Trunk Line and Fast Mail Route
of the United States, is the most direct. con-
VeDient, and economical way of reaching
Philadelphia and this great Exhibition from
all sections Of the country. Its trains to and
from Philadelphia will pass through Grand
erected at the main entrance to the Exhibit
ton Grounds for the accommodation of pas
sengers who wish to stop at or start from the
numerous large hotels contiguous TO this sta
tion and the Exhibition convenience of the
greatest value to visitors, and afforded exclu-
siVely by the Pennsylvania Railroad, which
is the only line running direct 20 the Centen-
NAL buildings. Excursion trains will also
stop at the Encampment of the Patrons of
Husbandry, at Elm Station on this road.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the Grandest
Railway Organization in the world. It con-
trolls Seven Thousand Miles Of roadway, form
ing continuous lines to Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Washington, over which
Luxurious Day and Night Coaches are run
from Chicago, st. Louis. Louisville. Cincin-
natl, Indianapolis. Columbus, Toledo, CIeve-
land and Erie, without change.
It's main line is laid with double and third
of broken stone ballast. and its bridges are
all OF iron or stone. Its passenger trains are
comfort and safety, and are run at faster
speed for greater distances than the trains OF
any line on the continent. The Company has
ieroeIv increased IFS e0nin.nenk for 1se1ten
nial travel, and will be prepared to build in
its own shops locomotives and passenger cars
any extra demand. The uneqaafIed resources
at the command of the Command Of the Com
pany guarantees the most perfect sccommOda-
tons for all its patrons during the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
The Magnificent Scenery for which the
Pennsylvania Railroad is so justly celebrated
presents to the traveller over Its perfect road
way an ever-changing panorama OF river.
mountain. and landscape views unequalled
in America
The Eating Stations on this Line are un-
surpassed. Meals will be furnished at suita-
bic hours and ample time allowed for enjoy
ing them.
Excursion Tickets, at reduced rates. will
be sold at all principal Railroad Ticket Of
ices in the West, Northwest and Southwest
Be sure that your Tickets read via the
Great Pennsylvania Route TO the Centennial.
FRANK THOMSON, Gen'1 Manager.
ID. n. BOYD. JR-. Gent Pass'r A gent.
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Tilden is very quiet and no doubt
writing out his letter of explana-
ton on the perjury matter. 1t
will 90 in strong for reform.
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sheriR,s saIa.
District Court. Tenth Judicial District. John.
son county, Kansas.
David Waldo and Nm. Mccoy,
Mary =. ian. et al.


Mary L. Hall, ct al.
10 virtue OF an order of sale Issued ont
ID OF the District Court Of johnson county
Kansas in the above entitled cause L will
on Monday, the ninth day OF October 1876 al
ten O'Clock q. m. At the front door Of the
court house, In Emporia, Lyon county. Kan
sass o6er for sale ct public auction TO the high
est bidder for cash, the following described
real estate, to-Wit: The northwest quarter
Of the southeast quarter OF section thirty
three IdoJ the south half Of the southwest
quarter Of section twenty eight f9el;
the northwest quarter OF the north
west quarter OF section thiFty-tl three 1881; the
west half of the southeast Quarter, and the
southwest quarter or the northeast quarter of
section twenty-nine l59l; the east half OF the
northeast quarter and the northwest quarter
OF the northeast quarter of section twenty
nine 1871 the northwest quarter OF the south
west quarter OF section tWenty-eiShs 1881:
the northeast quarter Of the north west quar-
ter Of section thirty three 1851. All in town
county, Kansas.
said real estate VIII be sold IS the propertv
Of Mary L. Hall, ct ais 70 satisfy said orsIer
sheFiR's once. September 1. 1879.
dAfAA SOSNER, Sheriff
SSsSe LSoa county, Kansas.
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Markets by Telegraph.
NEW YORK MARKET.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

NEW YORK, September 8.
Gold-Active this morning and advanced to
109%, closing at 1893 the lowest price Of the
day was lO9l<. the lowest since July. 1874.
BOndS-GoveFnment bonds weak ana made
q further decline OF xeX per cent? but at the
close the market was steady and in sympathy
with the gold market. Railroads. generally
weak. State, quiet and nominal.
Stocks-The week opened with great de-
preston on stock exchange, and q further
heavy fall in prices. The decline ranged
from ka3Z per cent. and was most marked
in coal ROADS. Just after noon. STOCKS ad-
vanced Za1s<c. The market In the early part
of the last hour advanced l<a2Ze, but in last
half ST the tour it again became weak and
declined XaiZe. The market finally closed
active but unsettled and feVeFisIa.
Flour-In moderate demand and unchang-
ed.
GraiE-Wheat, quiet but firm; winter red,
ungraded, new, 81 20; Texas, fl.IOk; new.
81 O6; No. 3, choice, 95c.
Corn-Steady; mixed western, ungraded,
5Sa56Hc; mixed steamer, ungraded. 53k a54c.
Oats-Firmer and moderately Aetiyer mix
ed western, 35a44c.
ProvisiOns-Pork, quiet bat firm at sIs75a
16 G. spot; IS Oct.
Lard-$I015 spot; $l005al0I 10 Sept.
Butter-Unchanged
Cheese 3a9kc.
Eggs-FIrmer; western, 19as0c.
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The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy,
the boy murderer or Boston, has
been commuted to imprisonment
for life.
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81. LOUIS MARKET.

81. LOUIS september B.
Flour-DHH and unchanged. Only local
demand.
Grain -Whest low ana medium grades
higher; No. fall, S1aI lax cash, 81 .I2Z No.
dos 81 O3 asked. SI4Gik bid cash; sales, 81 .09
al .03K, Sept; No. ~ do, 95e.
Corn-F1rmer; No. zmixeds 4o1< a10Hc cash !;
Ale asked Sept
oafs-T Primer; No. amzed, se,IasOs<c cash:
31a31 re Sept.
Rye-Easier at Sc.
Barley-Quiet; choice kfnn., axe.
ProgisiOns-Rork. dull; job lots. 161<c; dry
salt meat, easier az 61<a6x, 81. Ss<aelSe.
Baeon-pull At *; 81, 81 aS1<c.
1ard-NeminaI at 9S<e.
Buftsf--Steady and unchanged
EggS--In light demand; fresh, II l<a131<c.
HaF-DHll and unchanged
LIVE STOCK.
Cattie-Butchers' grades In good demand !:
pony steers, - 6zKs4- I7l<s COWS and heffers
<2z523.s0; good 70 choice Texans, $9a3 SIX
common to fair, 81 6ea2 80. ReeeiPts. /. $50.
Hcgs-Ls0Wer; yorkers and bacon, IS 65s5 81:
butchers S. seas; extrs, $40. Reeeipts, 81 500
Eheep--Fifm aud unchanged. Receipts 400
BALTIMORE, September s.
Corn Mixed western, 54xc.
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Republican Comfy Ticket.

Representative, sad Dist. L. B. KELLOGG
Representative, SD Dist......A. W. PLUMB
Probate Judge ......E. w. CUNNINGHAM
County Attorney ..........T. N. SEDGWICk
Clerk OF Court .........G. w. FREDERICK
County Superintendent. %. B. WHARTON
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Tuesday, gold touched lO911, the
lowest since July, 1874.
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Con INCIDENTALLY
The letter was not SIGNED.

This, the Tribune says, is perhaps
as thin campaign dodge as has been
exposed yet, and shows the terrible
striats the Democrats are put to, and
that there is no fraud so great that
they will not attempt it, to carry their
point. Yet, despite these despicable
efforts of the Democracy, the State of
Indiana will 60 Republican by large
majority and the frauds will recoil
back with double force upon their
authors.
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Another Specimens of
EOrm.''


The Chicago Tribune exposes anoth-
er of the "Great ReformeI's" election
eering tricks in Indiana, which is
nothing more nor less than a Etcoloni-
zation" scheme. The following draft
of letter which is being circulated
throughout Indiana by the Democrats,
was obtained by Tribune reporter a
few days ago, 1t is a Autograph in
imitation of writing, and it fully ex-
plains itself and constitutes another
despicable dodge. Here is the letter:
(ConttdentiGl.)
HEADQUARTERS DEMOCRATIC STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, INDIANAPOLIS
IND.-DEAR SIR: You are doubtless
aware that there are thousands of men
wandering throughout the State who
are out of employment. You aud
your friends are expected to utilize
these forces for Tilden and reform, and
place them in your districts where you
think they will do the most good.
Inform these headquarters of the num-
Der of men you have engaged, and
their wages. Salaries will be forward
ed weekly upon approved pay-rolls,
signed by the members of the Execu-
tive Committee, of yoHr district.
Respectfully yours, -- Sec.
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CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

TIME Great International Exhibition, de-
II signed to commemorate the one hum
dredth Anniversary of American Indepen-
dence, opened May 10th, 1875. All the ma
lions of the world and all the States aud Ter
ritOries of the Union are partici pating in this
wonderful demonstration, bringing together
the most comprehensive collection of art
treasures, mechanical inventions, scientific
discoveries, manufacturing achievements.
ducts ever exhibited. The grounds devoted
to the Exhibition are situated on the line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad and embrace four
hundred and fifty acres of Paramount Park
all highly improved and ornamented, on
which are erected the largest buildings ever
constructed-hve of these covering an area
of fifty acres and costing s. 900. 600. The total
number of buildings erected for the purposes
of the Exhibition is near two hundred. Dur
ing the thirty days Immediately following
the opening of the Exhibition a million and
quarter OF people visited it.
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WOOD Fer Representative.

Col. Sam. Wood has issued the
following ''Letter to the voters of
Chase county :"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-08
SheriR.a Sale.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
county, Kansas
David Whitaker.
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HO Ne's Great LondOn-A perfect PIANO.
ply of SPlendOr-Its Growing Trf-
umphs with new Faces, New Attrac-
lions. Hts Former Magnificence Total
1y Eclipsed by Recent AdditiOns-This
time one hundred times More Grand
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spectlve limits, as ascertained by q q.
S. census to be taken every five years
and revised and corrected by Con-
gress, which shall revise such census
at its ensuing session, and shall define
land in actual cultivation to be land
which was plowed and planted to some
agricultural product during each OF
the two successive years preceding the
year OF the census by which the area
is determined.
8. Each State, Territory, and the
D. of G. shall be left free to make
loans to its respective municipalities,
and each municipality be left free to
make loans to corporations or other
parties, in accordance with such gener-
al laws as may be passed in pursuance
of authority granted by the respective
constitutions of each State, Territory,
and d. of C.,-ProUided, That such
greenbacks so borrowed from the u. S.
shall in each case be used IN payment
of such present outstanding State, Ter
ritorial, D. of c., or municipal indebt-
edness as has been adiudged and held
to be lawfully payable interest or prin-
cipal In the outstanding legal tender
currency of the u. S.,-before being
used for any other purposes.
8. The several States, Territories
and District of Columbia, shall each
fix rates of legal interest and PEN
alties for asury within their re-
sPective limits, but the penalties for
usury shall in all cases include the
forfeiture to the public treasury of all
judgments obtained for the satisfaction
of any loan or debt payable in legal
tender currency for which usoriOus
interest may have been taken or sued
for, which treasury shall proceed 70
collect such judgments and, after
returning to the debtor all usoriOus
Interest he may have paid, or been adj
judged 70 pay, shall appropriate the
remainder of the amount collected for
the benefit of the public school fund
Of the school district wherein the
property levied upon and sold to sat
isfy any such judgment, was located.
10. This amendment and all future
amendments changing the provisions
or force Of this amendment, or OF any
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Mixed western. s4sEc.