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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
aAGs LaIsIe Grocery.

He was a clean looking colored
man of advanced age, and when he
entered q wholesale house on Vesey
street n. Y. one of the clerks polite
" informed him that the situation
Of porter was already filed.
'.Does look like man who'd be
regarded as a porter?' demanded
the stranger.
..Ah! excuse me-"
'EYou is discussed, sab. Whar' is
d foreman? Over dar, eh9 No, sar,
1 don't want to be porter. Pze one
OBJ the solid men OBJ Newark, and
I'ze here on 'portant business"
He wanted goods. There were
lots of goods there, and it was very
easy to suit him as to prices, but he
had no money and no recommends
tons.
1De pay is sure in sixty days" he
urged.
aBut you can't give no security
"What you wants oh security
Won't de goods be dar 2"
"You may have sold themI"
"Den won't the money be dar, al
counted out on the counter? And il
de money ain't dar, won't / be dar
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
A Negro Two Hundred Years
Old-EAe Owns The Original
George Washington EEatchet

Almost everybody knows our old
est inhabitant, "Old Uncle Isaac"
but how old he is, nobody knows.
We called upon him the other day,
and are now willing to swear on
our faith in his word that two
hundred years of "sarvin' de Lo'd"
will not more than fill the bill. OF
course, Uncle Isaac is pious; all
darkies who live to the age of one
hundred and fifty years are pious.
One of the first things which enlis :
ed our attention after entering
Isaac's house, was a small Ratchet,
hung above the ample fireplace, on
two or three rusty nails: and it, of
course, became the subject of inqui-
~. We were astounded at, learn
ing it was the identical Ratchet with
which that mischievOns little George
Washington had hacked the favor
tie cherry tree in his uncle's garden.
We endeavored to make Isaac I'M
derstand that the garden was not
the uncle's, but the fathers. Isaac's
memory was good, and our history
at fault. He knew, because he was
''thar." He had gone ovid Mas
Jawge for to see his uncle, and his
uncle took him into the garden and
showed him de cherry tree, and tole
him dat was de fust cherry tree dat
ever come over to dis country, and
dat in about so many years de tree
would bar fruit, and dat he would
send Mass Jawge some, sho."
MAS was a mighty 1ndepende'
little cuss, and says to me, arter his
uncle had gwine in de house, says
he, 'Ike'-for 1 was a youngster den
ike, isn't gwine to wait on I'M
Gle for dem cherries I; Use gwine to
cut dat tree right down, and will
take it long wild u.s. Says l, don't
you do it honey; for if you does,
uncle, he'll skin you liven FJist as
soon be skinned as not says Mas
Jawge,' 'I's gwine to hab dat 'ar
tree So he goes and gifts dat Far
same identicle tool, and purity soon
he was q whackin' away at dat tree.
And / don't tink de chile had chopp-
ed more'n several licks, before de
ole gentleman-dot'sh his uncle-he
come a slippin' out'n de gooseberry
bushes wild q waffle, and de way he
faxed dat chile was absolom sin.
De chile flung dat same little hatch
ct at his poor uncle, and jist morn
got out dat garding, and when
cotched up wild him, he was a-swar-
in like q mate on q steamboat.
"Now, sar, OATS de true story,
sar.
"Dese little one-hoss school-books
dey don't know muffin bout it.
Wy, bless your soul, honey, L went
home wild him, Mas Jawge, and
staid right wild him, and followed
him to Braddock's feat, and got
lost dar, and 1 KEEP a-comin' out
West, cordin' tode device of Mr..
Hoss Grelydat killed Mr.. Burr, and
I was 'mong de injuns for bout
seventy-fiYe year fore dis country
was settled by the fnst white wo-
man."
We had given Uncle Isaac q
E'snort" when we went in, and we
gave him another and came away.
He is booked for the Centennial.
-Ironton MOI Register.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
SPECIAL ELECTION.
r, EEI s4st 4. Proclamation.


LYON COUNTY.
To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY
C0AR-GREETING:
HNOW YE, that i, Hiram Conner. sherin
N Of said Lyon county, Kansas, by virtue
OF authority in me vesten, and pursuant 20 an
order of the Board of County Commissioners
Ineir journal at regular session of said
Board, held on February 18th. 1876, do hereby
That a special election win be held at the
usual places Of holding general elections in
the several voting precincts in said LYON
is56, in pursuance of the said or,ier ~ ia
said Board of County Commissioners of Lyon
county, of which order the following is COPY.
to-wit: ~
It is hereby ordered by the Board OF County
Commissioners of Lyon county, State of KAN
sas. that special election be had in the said
county OF Lyon, to be held upon the 9TH day
OF March, A. ID. 1876, at the usual places Of
holding state anu general elections in the
several voting precincts in said county for the
purpose OF voting upon the following propo-
Shall the County Commissioners of Lyon
county, Kansas, sell the 1000 shares of A. n.
s. +. r, R. stock owned by said county, or
such part thereof, as they may be able to at
not less than forty cents on the par value
thereof, and purchase with the proceeds
they may be able TO, at price not exceeding
the par value OF said bondse
1t is further ordered, that the ballots ON said
written and partly printed, as follows:
"for sale Of railroad stOck.''
against sale OF railroad stock
special election be given by the Sheriff, by
proclamation, published three weeks in the
Emporia NEWS, and copies to be posted pur-
s1snt 70 section .. chapter a6. General Statutes
In witness whereof, have hereunto set nv
hand at my ONCE at Emporia. in said county,
10 HIRAM GOMEZ Sheriff
Lyon county. Kansas
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A Bet Paid,

The Albany Journal tells this sto-
ry: Ex-Ald. J. W. Serviss, former
ly of this city, now of Amrterdam,
some years since resolved to play a
practical joke upon "Steve" Arnold,
of the Arnold House, of that village.
Needing a confederate, he took into
his confidence "DaVe" nanny, of
the Nanny House. TIE two pro.
ceeded to the Arnold House, where
Serviss stated to Arnold that him
self and friend had made a bet, and
that they had agreed to submit the
matter to his decision, the bet to be
paid as soon as he should decide
who was the winner, Feeling hon.
ored at this mark of confidence, he
of the Arnold House at once signi-
fed his assent TO the arrangement.
The Ex-Alderman then told his bet,
as follows: He, Serviss, had bet
Nanny the drinks for the entire
party Arnold's that when the
spire of the new Catholic cathedral
fell it would fall to the west, while
Nanny bet it would fall to the east.
Then calling for drinks for the en-
tire party, he blandly informed the
umpire that as soon as he decided
the bet the looser would pay the
score. Of course the laugh was
npon Arnold, and fuids to the tune
of twenty shillings were distracted
from his bar. He looked puzzled
for moment, then quietly prOdu-
ced book, carefully noted down
the terms of the bet During the
gale of last week the spIre of that
cathedral fell. It fell TO the east.
Tidings of the fact reached Arnold,
who drew on his ulster as if he had
been CREASED, drove up TO his house
as rapidly as possible, produced the
book in which he had recorded the
bet, aud almost before the Ex-AI-
dernan had heard of the fall of the
spire he was presented with q bill
for twenty shillings worth of drinks
with seven years interest added"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
Administrators Sale.

DUBLIC notice is hereby given that on Sat
l. urlay, March 4th, 1876, at 10 O'Clock a. M.
at the door of the court house i'll Lyon county,
Kansas, will sell at public auction. to the
highest responsible bidder, One-half cash and
remaining one-half in twelve months at 10
per cent interest, the following described
real estate situate in Lyon county. Kansas,
of which Jesse Carter died seized, Ito
pay debts of said estate,) viz: The east
half [e 1S1 of the northeast quarter In
e ~ of section Is, township 10 of range
ten (l0l-S0 acres. Also, the following piece
adjoining. commencing eighty 1907 rods west
ter of said section Is, township 10, range 10;
thence north 81 rods; thence west 50 rods /;
thence south to Samuel Il billions corner /;
thence east with said billions line till it in
tersects the Cottonwood river at low water
mark on north side of said stream; thence
down said stream at low water mark to
where the south line o said northeast quar-
ter crosses said river; thence east to place OF
beginning-20 acres.
JOHN CARTER, Administrator
sat of Jesse Carter, deceased.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25

81 guess you'll find it all right, y
said Amos, as he drew up the
stool, and prepared TO milk the
aged animal.
Mr.. Potman stood by, and saw
the cow MIXED. He saw a large
wooden pail flied to the brim, and
then small tin pail filed beside.
1t was the largest quantity OF
milk he ever saw from a cow at
one milking.
81 don't think / ever MIXED less
from her, at an evenings milking,
replied Amos, as he arose and
kicked the stool back.
"But twenty-five dollars Is rath-
er high, Mr.. Dean"
"Well-what of it? You amt
got to pay it for her. / don't
think Seth Folsom will grumble at
the price. If he does, he isn't the
man / take him for"
Amos had turued to go into the
house, when Potman called him
back.
"Is twenty-five dollars the least
yuo viii take for that cow?'
eyes, Sir"
"And can I have her for that?"
'sI said So"
"Then she's mine"
And John Potman gave Dean
twenty-five dollars, and drove the
cow home. After tea, Amos went
to the village and gave Josephus
the money he had obtained for
the COW.
"But," said the cooper, opening
his eyes with wonder, 81 can't
take all this"
cts all yours" returned Amos.
cts just what Potman paid me
for the COW. I told him / was
selling her for q friend"
By nine o'clock the story had
leaked out in Stanley's store; and
before the villagers had separated
for the night. it had been pretty
generally circulated. 1t was as
good as holiday; for the people
knew Potman's deceitful, niggard,
w character, and it was refreshing
to know that for once he had been
obliged to put on the tight boot
The following day was rainy
one; and at night, when Mr.. Pot
mans cows came in from pasture
he fancied his new purchase had
changed color most marvelously
She was drabbled all over, as
though soused in q vat of cold cot
fee, and the dark liquid was drip.
ping frDm her hair. Her bag wa:
as lank as a dish cloth, with hard
ly milk enough to pay for milking,
I With an oath, and vigorous as
sault, Potman managed to get jus
view enough into the cows mouth
to satisfy him that the front teetl
were all gone! He examined thu
horns, and found they had been
fixed?
"By--! It's the old GOVT
dare not write the opening WORD
of John Potman on that occasion
1t was awfully, terribly, trightful
ly profane.
A few days afterwards, Potmar
met Dean in the street.
"Dean," said he trying to smile
as he spoke, "you're coon. Yo1
did that well. But tell me on,
thing: 1 know how you made the
old cows horns shine, and how
you changed her color; but 1 dom
know how you managed to get thu
enormous bag of milk into her
that night, will you tell me?s'
Certainly" said Amos. 81
was all very simple. She had pee
fed on barley pudding and oatmes
! cruel, and hadn't been MIXED 70
five days.
On his way home, John Potmal
rubbed his ear as though some
, thing had bitten him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
POuIfry keep,ne.

Powdered or fine broken charcoal
is invaluable in the poultry house
in keeping it wholesome for fowls,
and making a most valuable manure.
The fowls will consume a part of it,
and are not SO liable to disease
where the premises are limited and
confined.
Wash your roosts occasionally
with kerosene. This prevents the
accumulation of lice in the poultry
houses, and the fumes of this pun
gent oil permeate the feathers of
your fowls at night, and drive the
vermin from their bodies or sprin-
kle little carbolic powder on the
roosts.
At from five to six months old
separate the young cocks from the
pullets, and rear each sex by them
selves. Separate the cocks from the
hens i'll July, or as soon as moulting
begins. When you wish to mate
them for breeding lin December or
january is time enough to allow
them to run together. If you COM
mence with fowls instead of eggs,
buy of reliable men, who know
what you want, and who will deal
honorably with you. Pay such a
man his price-get good stock of
whatever variety it may be, and
take care of it after you get it.
Permit all your hens, so inclined,
to sit and hatch one brood in the
year; it is better for the fowls, and
you will thus get Just as many eggs
from them in twelve months as il
you bothered your brains to "break
them up"
Keep but one kind at first, Of
whatever kind you may fancy
When you can breed that one well
try something else, if you get tired
of this. But don't venture too muct
in the variety line" at the com
mencement, or you will fail with all
Do not attempt to raise five hun
dred birds within limits fitting th'
needs of fiVe>doZen or less.
| Crowding fowls into close quar-
tiers will breed thousands of lice
but precious few chickens, remem
i her
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
Repeal of the Rankrupt Law

AGepe4l OF inc Hankrmpt Inv.
On Tuesday, the House at Wash
ington, by a vote of los to 81, passed
bill to entirely repeal the bank
rupt law after Jan. LIST, 1877. The
Chicago Inter-OceaD thinks the
Senate will refuse to concur, and
says of the action of the House:
We can conceive how, If the old
score had been wiped out, aud tn
country had entered upon q new
career of prosperity, a repeal bill
might be adopted without much
thought of evil effects. But we are
in the midst of the era of suspen-
sious and failures. Business hous-
es are going down every day, with
liabilities sggregatiDg millions of
dollars, with NO sign of the abate-
ment of the plague. During the
last four years more than twenty
two thousand failures, involving
liabilities to the amount of over
seven hundred million dollars, have
occurred aud of these seven thous-
and seven hundred and forty, in
volving liabilities to the amount of
over two hundred million dollars,
occurred within the year just clos
edl No stronger evidence of the
grievous necessity for the relief af-
forded by a bankrupt act could be
adduced than is found in the fact
we have cited. If the act was ever
needed it is required now. Repeal
ing the bankrupt act will not bring
about an era of solvency. 1t will
xuind ~, tho hnainaEa IF the Ronis
ter and enlarge the business of the
sheriff. There is; however, this
difference between the two roads 10
ruin: The bankruptcy court re-
leases its victim when he is squeeZ.
ed dry, permitting him to start on q
fresh business journey; while the
Sheriff lies in wait to put his veto
in the shape of an execution upon
any attempt on the part of his vic
tim to engage in a new enterprise.
No civilized people find it wise to
remain long without some just
bankrupt statute, some means by
which the insolvent merchant may
acquit himself of debts he is not
only unble to pay, but which oper-
ate as all absolute prohibition
against new business engagements,
thus entailing upon him lasting
poverty to the end of his days. 1t
is against public policy that the
creditor should be permitted to
hold a mortgage upon a debtor who
has been shown to be helplessly
insolvent. The ruined debtor may
stand 80 high in public estimation
as to be able to command almost
unlimited credit with which to
push new enterprises: but, in the
absence of bankrupt law, if one
memorable creditor interposes OBJ
lection, the debtor must drag out a
useless life, and go down finally TO
q pauper's grave. How the House
could vote as it did to repeal the
bankrupt act without giving a sin
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
Chufa-or Earth Almond.

This plant is coming into notice
very rapidly, and as 1T thrives well
in the latitude of Missouri and Kan
sas, we hsVe thought it proper to
give an account of it's habits and
uses-particularly as the agricultu-
raj department at Washington has
ordered a large amount for seed.
The botanic name is CypeTuS eScuL-
entG. 1t is called by the French
SUchet cOmiSti6le, or rush-nut.
The chuf2 Is q perennial plant,
growing in the form of a rush,
about three feet high. The fruit is
in the form of tubers, about the size
of an ordinary bean. Although be-
longing 10 the same genus as the
well known "wild-nut grass" it
does not spread as that pest of the
southern fields.
FIN taste the tubers resemble q
chestnut or cocoanut, and may be
eaten either raw or cooked, and af-
ter soaking over night in water may
be eaten as q sauce. The analysis
shows them to be highly nutritious.
In Spain it is beaten to q paste, mix
ed with water and after standing
for some time used as q summer
drink, and is very agreeable to the
taste, not uRlike an emulsion OF
almonds.
Tests have been made of them in
this country, and on land that will
produce twenty bushels of corn one
hundred bushels of chufas can be
easily produced. And they are
double the value of corn, as they
require neither digging nor storing,
and do not rot in the ground, being
uniniared by frost or cold. Hogs
will dig them as they want them
and fowls will soon learn to scratch
them out as they grow near the sur
face. Poultry fattened upon them
excel in delicacy of f1avOr-one en-.
thusiastic feeder preferring them tC
the canVas-back duck.
The chufa affects q light, sandy
soil, and may be planted any time
in this latitude from corn planting
in May to juno or July. The plaI
recommended is to plant in hills
two feet apart each way, ten Il
twelve tubers in a hill, and the tu
bers placed four to six inches apart
No cultivation is needed except K
keep them clear of weeds. TheI
blossom in September, and the how
ers may be pinched off to increase
the size of the tubers. They matur,
in October, when they may be dug
AND stored, if desired for genera
teed, or if for hogs they may thel
be turned into the field to fatteI
themselves.
Not only is the chufa a fattenin:
food for hogs, and much relished
bnt it may be ground and exceIlen
oil expressed and the cake fed Il
cows, increasing both the flow ant
richness of the milk. Will not som,
of our Kansas and Missouri farmer
try it?-Kansas City Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25
Ra.cInn1Inr Eknnsn..


The following ia an extract from
one of John j. Ingalls, Kansas Mag
aZine articles:
"Kansas exercised the same fascin-
alton oyer him (Albert ID. Richard
SOM that she does over all who have
ever yielded to her spell. There are
some women whom toS have once
loved renders it impossible ever to
love again. AS the gray and mel
ancholy main is to the sailor, the
desert TO the Bedouin, the Alps to
the mountaineer, so is Kansas TO her
children.
No one ever felt any enthusiasm
about Wisconsin, or Indiana, or
Michigan. The idea is preposter
GUS. 1t is impossible. They are
great prosperous communities, but
their Inhabitants can remove and
never desire to return. They hun
ger for the horizon. They make new
homes without the mQtGdie du pays.
But no genuine Kansan can emf
CRATE. He may wander. He may
roam. He may travel. He may go
elsewhere, but no other State can
claim him as a citizen. Once nat
uralized the allegiance can never be
foresworn."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25

The supreme court of Massachu-
sets being called upon to decide
the value of trotting horses, had the
testimony of six horsemen taken on
the subject, The horse described
was 925 to ,024 pounds weight, from
eight to ten years old, sound, kind,
honest, of pure and square gait, and
able to trot, in good condition, a
mile in two minutes and twenty
seconds. The answers were as fol-
lows: Joseph Hasker said $40, 900 ;
John w. Waltenire, $1,000 to S15,-
900, according to color, shape, etc. !;
James D. McMann, $4,000 to SI2,-
600; John Lovett, $4,000 to $15,-
600; Daniel Pfifer,$l0.000 to SIS. 600 ;
F. j. Nodine, $4,000. The average
of these figures is SlI .5l6-so q
number one 2 30 horse ought to
bring that figure.
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Administrators Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that rs Admin
IN istrator of the estate of VIM. J. Harris,
deceased, 1 did, on February 18th, 1876, file, in
the Probate Court of Lyon county, Kansas, a
petition showing, among other things, that l
had converted all the personal property be-
longing to said estate into money, and paid
out the same; that there are still unpaid debts
of said estate of over $6O0.00 and costs of adj
ministratiOn, $50 90; and praying for author
ity to sell the foil owing real estate of which
said VIM. J. Harris died sliced, viz:
The n. Z. x of S. w y, and n. w. = Of
5. L. = of section ?, township 20, range TO-
Lyon county, to pay said debts
said Probate Court has sec February 2Sth
1876, at 10 O'Clock a. m, as the time, and the
Office of the Judge of said Court at Emporia,
Kansas, as the place to hear said petition; al
which time and place all persons interested
are notified and required to appear and show
cause, IL any they have. why the prayer oil
said petition should not be granted.
7-2t JOHN /. PRICE Administrator
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Road Notice.


NOTICE is hereby given that a neti-
IN ton has been presented to the Board
of County Commissioners OF Lyon county,
Kansas, asking for a change in the Empo-
ria and Neosho Rapids road as fOllowu, to-
wit: To vacate so much of said road as
lies between the point where said road
crosses the west line Of the W Il ofsec
80, tip. 10, range 10, and the peint where
said road intersects the east and west CEN
ter line of said sec. 80, and to relocate said
road as follows, to-Wit:
Beginning at the aforesaid point, where
said Emporia and Neosho Rapids road in
tersects the west line of said w IL OF said
sec. 30, tp. 10, range Is, and running thence
south on range line between tips. 10, and
ranges IL and 10. about 95 rods, to the u
corner on the western boundary line of said
sec 30; thence east on a sec. line about IS4
rods to intersect the said Emporia and
Neosho Rapids road, and that viewers win
proceed on the 9th day of March next to
view and locate said change, and give to
all parties hearing.
By order Of County Board of Commits
sioners. j. s. CRAIG;
IS County CLERK
Feb, IL 1876
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-25

The latest important invention in
telegraphy is that of w. E. Sawyer,
who has designed an instrument by
which messages are to be transmit
ted over the wires and appear at the
distant terminus in the exact hand
writing of the sender. The instru-
ment invented by Mr.. Sawyer is
simple in construction and easily
worked. Some fifty to one hundred
and fifty words per minute can be
transmitted in the persons own
handwriting by telegraph. Had such
an instrument been in use during
the mysterious telegraphic CORES
pondence now under investigation
rt st. Louis, it would have obViated
the necessity of proving the author
ship of dispatches by the testimony
of receiving and delivery clerks, for
the dispatches themselves would
have furnished indisputable evil
dence of their origin. The Sawyer
invention is to be utilized by q Uni
ted States postal telegraph company
which has been organized in New
York for the purpose of construct
ing and operating line throughout
the United States and Canadas.
The company starts with q capital
of $1,000, GOO, which will be increas-
ed to 100000 in q short time.