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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-30
himself at variance with it present

himself at variance with it present
fnacial policy.
The foregoing sketch of our SUBJ
ject is written partly from personal
recollection /; but for much of the
material which it contains we are
indebted to Aprleton's American
Cyclopaedia.
American history does not any
where present . more noble Illus
tration of practical Christian phil
anthropy than is found in the life
of Peter Cooper. A child of want
and poverty, he rises by the force
of his industry and energy, to the
crest-wave of prosperity, and de-
votes princely fortune 20 the NOR
al and intellectual Improvement of
his fellow working-men and wom-
en-. And now at the age of So, he is
one of the most vigorous men men
tally and physically in New York,
actively managing his immense es-
tates, when most msn of his age are
broken down and useless. The
leading journals of the country, our
most eminent public men, AMI all
citizens who are worthy to be called
Americans, speak his name with
reverence, and delight to do him
honor. It remains for the Miami
Republican, an obscure sheet, and
as destitute of character as of inf1u.
ence, and whose editor is 3 misera-
BILE ignoramus, to libel Peter Coop
er's good name, and speak with q
sneer and q gibe of his grand old
age. GOTHAM.
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OUR CANDIDATES.

Rutherford b. Hayes, the Repub- |
lican candidate for President, Is a
man who in all his public life has
had honors thrust upon him, and
has never sought them. He was
born in Ohio, Oct. 4, 1922, and, is
now rising SD years old. lie was
well educated, and, after reading
law some time at Columbus, en-
tered the Law School at Harvard,
aud graduated with credit. At the
breaking out of the War, he was
practicing law III Cincinnati, and
at that time and for some years be-
fore was city solicitor. He respon
ded to the first call for volunteers
i'll 1861, and was appointed Major
of tho Twenty third Ohio Infantry.
lie went at once with his regiment
to West Virginia, serving under
Gen. Rosecrans. In November he
was promoted to Lieutenant Col,
and took command of the regiment
and served under Mcclellan until
he was disabled at the battle of South
Mountain. In 1862 he was made
Colonel of the Seventy-ninth Ohio,
but owing to his wounds was una
bic to take command. In the mean
time he was made Colonel of the
Twenty-third Regiment, and in De-
cember, 1862, was put in command
of the First Brigade of the Kanaw-
ha Division. He continued in
this command until Sheridan's great
battle at Winchester, in September,
1864, when he was put in command
of the Kanawha Division, and led
it during the campaigning of that
year. In October, 1864, he was
made Brigadier- General "for gall
liant and meritorious services in the
battles of Winchester, Fishers Hill,
and Cedar Creek" In the spring
Of 1865 he was put in command OF
an expedition against Lynchburg,
and while that was in preparation
the War closed. He was brevetted
Major G eneral for his gallant SER
vices in 1864 in West Virginia.
lie was in active service the greater
part of the time, was wounded four
times,-once severely. While serv-
ing in the army, in 1864, he was
elected TO Congress from one of the
Cincinnati districts. In 1866 he was
re-elected. Before his second term
had fairly begun, he was nominated
in 1867 as the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio. He resign,
ed his place in Congress and can
vassed the State, he being pleas
ing and forcible speaker. Hi
Democratic competitor was thu
present Senator, Allen G.. Thurman
lie was elected after a severe con
test. In 1869 he was again nomi
mated, and his Democratic competi
tor was the well-known George II
Pendleton, and was again elected
lie declined q third election, intend
ing to retire from public life. III,
is wealthy, aud sought the pleasure
and quietude of domestic life. Blu
in 1875 a portion of the people o
the Western Reserve objected t.
the nomination of Judge Taft fO
Governor, because of his judicis
opinion excluding the Bible froI
the public schools. Judge Tai
thereupon Withdrew, urging IN
nomination of Gov. Hayes, who i
this way was again compelled, b
popular request, to become a car
diaate.
That campaign has become his
torical. William Allen, who ha
been elected Governor in 1873, ws
the Democratic candidate. N
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Tender Memories.

All who have lost q dear one of
their household will appreciate the
followin from the Rochester Union
and Advertiser:
saw my wife pull out the bot
tom drawer of the bureau this ev-
ening, and I went softly out, and
wandered up and down until I
knew she had shut il up and gone
to her sewing. We have some
things laid away within that draw
er which the gold of kings could
not buy, and yet they are relics that
grieve us until our hearts of hearts
are sore. l haven't dared look at
them for year, but l remember
each article. There are two worn
shoes, little chip hat with a part
of the rim gone, some stockings,
pants, a coat, two or three spools,
bits of broken crockery, a whip,
and several toys. Wife, poor thing,
goes to that drawer every day of
her life and prays over it and lets
her tears fall upon the precious ar.
ticles, but l dare not go. Some
times we speak of little Jack, but
not often. 1t has been long time,
but somehow we can't get over
grieving. Sometimes, when we sit
alone of an evening, l writing and
she sewing, o child in the street
will call cut as our boys used to,
and we will both start up with
beating hearts and q wild hope on
ly to find the darkness more a bur-
den than ever. It is still and quiet
now. I look up to the window
where his blue eyes used to sparkle
at my coming, but he is not there.
listen for his pattering feet, his
merry shouts and his ringing
laugh; but there is no sound. There
is no one to search my pockets and
tease me for presents, and l never
find the chairs turned over, the
broom down, or ropes tied to the
! door-knobs. 1 want some one to
tease me for my knife; to ride on
my shoulder to lose my axe; to
follow me to the gate when l GO
and be there to meet me when
come ''good night" from the little
bed now empty. And wife she
misses him still more. There are
no little feet to wash, no prayers to
say, no voice teasing for Jumps OF
sugar, or sobbing with the pain Of
a hurt toe; and she would give hel
own life, almost, to awake at mid
night and look across TO the Grill
and see our boy there as he used
to be. So we preserve our relics
and when we are dead we hope thai
strangers will handle them tenderly
even if they shed no tears owe
them.
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condition, it is no wonder that
Kansas is the focus towards which
all eyes are turned. The REGISTER
will do all it can legitimately to
direct attention to the advan-
tages of this particular section of
the state. Of the April number
more than five hundred went east
of the Mississippi river, to the
hands of actual readers.
The responses we have received
are of the most encouraging char
acter. Many who had intended to
come to Kansas, but had not de-
termined on any locality, after
reading the REGISTER have con-
cluded to come to Emporia, and
Judge for themselves. This is all
we ask of anyone. If you are
coming to the west at all, come to
this place, see for yourself. Ifyou
are suited we shall gladly welcome
you, if not, the world is wide, the
west is wide, Kansas IS wide, and
we have not disparaging word to
say against any portion of it
There was never better time tc
''go west" The outlook is good
crops are good, prices are good
the financial middle is settled, fol
the present at least; the politica
cauldron hardly SINNERS, even al
50 degrees in the shade. Then
come to Kansas, all who have thu
pluck to strike while the iron i
hot, now is your time.
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It is now conceded that the expert
ment of employing Chinese labor at
North Adams is not profitable. There
has..been no great loss by attempting
it, but the Improvement of the Chinese
in practical skill has lstterly been less
then was anticipated from their sd-
vance in the first few months. With
the return of these Cinnamon to theta
native country, there is probably an
end of employing Asisties for skilled
labor anywhere east Of the Mississippi,
since there were many favorable con-
ditions st North Adams, not likely 70
occur elsewhere. People who were
moved by the scare about Chinese
cheap labor few years ago have most
ly recovered from their fright, at least
on this side of the Rocky Mountain
but if there is lingering trace of their
maIadY, this news should dispel It,
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In counties consisting of more than
one representative district, and where
the number of delegates allotted to
such counties cannot be equally divid-
cd between the Representative Dis
tricts of said counties, the County Re
publican Central Committee shall APP
portion the delegates among the dis
tricts upon the basis of the Republi-
can vote.
1t is recommended that the Dis
trict Conventions for the purpose OF
electing delegates to the Convention
herein called DO held on Saturday,
Aug. >, 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 COM
mlttee, then by the Central Committee
of the county.
1t Is also recommended, that in adj
ditiOn to the delegates herein provided,
one alternate be elected for each del
egate.
No person will be entitled to seat
or vote in the convention, by virtue of
holding the proxy of any of the dele
gates. BY order of Committee.
JACOB STOTLER, Chr'm.
HENRY BooTH, Sec'y.
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OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER
some Things I'm the Art, and
Agricultural Halls.

PHILA DELPHIA, June %, 1875.
One is at perfect loss to under
stand what was the controlling mo-
tive in the Centennial Art Com
mittee in accepting or refusing
pictures. While on visit to the
Academy of Design in Philadelphia,
1 saw q series of ten paintings, en-
closed in two frames, representing
electricity. The first series of five
represents electricity as it existed in
the Imagination, beginning with
the old NEUROLOGICAL idea of Jupiter
with the thunderbolts issuing from
his hand while the second series
represents the modern discoveries
IN electricity. from the experiments
with the legs of q frog, and Prof.
Henry's experiments that first sug-
gested the telegraph to Morse, down
to the Atlantic cable. History,
science and art are combined to-
gether; the conceptions ara original
and striking the technique that OF
a master. On making inquiries in
regard to the pictures, 1 found they
had been painted especially for the
finest pictures presented, and yet
had been refused admission,-foE
what reason no one knows, as the
judges never gave any for any OF
their actions. The artist is Theo
Kaufman, one of the finest artists il
Ameriar. The gentleman at the
Academy told me that these two
pictures were not an exception, but
that q number of the finest offered
were refused. No wonder our bes
artists are not represented. Jus
behind the left hand door of th'
American room is a great life sizeC
picture of 9 naked sleeping woman
A more outrageous daub was neve
put on exhibition, and yet it wa
accepted, and infinitely finer ones
that were not SO shocking to tn,
ideas of morality and decency o
, many, were refused. For this pic
: ture of the naked woman 1 hav
only one suggestion to make, an
, that is, give it good thick coat G
) white wash. It can't possibly hui
, it, and may do it some good.
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SheriRs Sale.

NOTICE is hereby given that, by virtue of
IN an execution issued out of the District
Court of Usage county, Kansas, and to me di-
rected. will. on Monday, the third day OF
July, 1916 st the residence of Grif Thomas,
on the head of Phenis creek, in said county,
offer for sale at public auction, to the higheS
bidder for cash, the following described good
and chattles, to-wit: Four red cows, thres
roam cows, two spring calves, one bay year
ling colt and two plowS.
Said property levied upon and to be sold as
the property of a. Ii. Sanborn, to satisfy
said execution.
Given under my hand this twenty-frst day
of June, 1876.
1895 HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
LYON County. Kansas.
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Various Etenas.

Moving for q new trisl-Courting
a second wife.
The part of an unwelcome guest
to play is depart.
Flies have begun to come down
TO dinner at the song of the gong.
Be careful of the good name of
others. Allow people to think of
each other IS well as they can.
Since the war Pennsylvania has
spent eight millions of dollars in
educating the orphans of soldiers.
Men are born with two eyes, but
one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they
say.
The entire assets of a recent bank
rupt were nine children. The cred
itors acted magnanimously and let
him keep them.
Sarcastic Slash-Young swell {:
81 should like to have my mustache
dyed" Polite barber: "Certainly,
Did you bring it with you? ?"
A hint for the doctors: The pho.
togrsph of young lady in France
recently recently revealed spots
which were not visible on the
lady's face. A little later the spots
did appear, and she died of small
pox.
The bobolink is singing,
sob, my eyes,"
The blue bird is clinging
To the skiesi
But the angels they are winging,
Down the street their fancies bringing
While the very bells are ringing,
ADVERTISED!
Daughter of Erin: The cook Cor
receiving short notice to leave, will
a hint that she has given a fals'
haracter)-"An' is it me falls
character ye're afther casting il
me teeth AS if I'd be bringing
me thrue character wild me, to los
it in your dirty service"
"Mr. Moody was never known,
says an exchange, "to give way TO
even a moment to anger or impati
ence" Then it's probable he new
er had occasion to take a short Gu
, across the field on q warm morning
!, to catch a railroad train, and fin
when he got to the further end tha
, the frugal farmer had put up a hig
|, board fence and stationed bleaI
eyed bulldog there as sole Occu
pant.
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BREAKING HENS OF SITTING

It is very easy to do it, even If
you have q half-dezen every even
ing to take off their nests. If you
have from twenty-five to one humid
red fowls, of the most persistent
sitters, make four coops, each large
enough to hold half q dozen fowls.
ALL the hens that remain on their
nests should be left to sit till the
next night, as they often lay an
egg the second day of sitting. AT
evening of the second day, put
them all into coop No. /. The
next lot of sitters 60 into coop No.
2, and the next into No. 3, and the
next into No. 4, and on the fourth
day, near evening, let out the hens
in No. 1, as they will be "broken,
and the Aext day No. 2 hens can be
let out; and so on to No. 4.
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EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1876.
Republican state Convention.


a delegate convention of the ReDub-
licans OF the State of Kansas will be
held In Representative hall, in the city
of Topeka, on Wednesday, the 10th
day of August, A. D., 1876, at the hour
of d. m, for the purpose of nomina-
ting candidates for the following Of
fees, to-wit:
Governor,
Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State,
Auditor of State,
Treasurer OF State,
Attorney General,
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton,
One Associate Justice of Supreme
Court,
Five Presidential Electors, and
A State Central Committee.
All counties entitled to representa-
ton in the House OF Representatives
for 1877, and no others, will be entitled
to representation in said convention,
rs follows, to-wit: two delegates from
each representative district
1t is recommended that the primary
meetings for the purpose of electing
delegates to the State convention here
in called, be held on Saturday, the 9Th
day of August, at such hours as may
be designated by the central commit
tee of each representative district, or
in the event that there is no such COM
mittee, or that it shall fail to act, by
the central committee of the county.
1t is also recommended that in addI-
ton to the delegates herein provided
for, one alternate be elected for each
delegate.
No person will be entitled to seat
or vote in the convention by virtue of
holding tee proxy of any of the dele
gates elected.
JOHN GUTHRIE, Chairman.
J. JAY BUCK, Secretary.
We hoist tie names of Ruther-
FORD b. Hayes and William A.
Wheeler. for President and Vice
President, this week, with feelings
of more than ordinary pleasure and
enthusiasm, and propose, from now
Till November, to use our humble
efforts TO secure their election. This
ticket embodies the fulflment of
the oft-repeated promifes of the
Republicans to reform the party"
This ticket is enthusiastically re-
ceived by the Republicans from
Maine to Florida, and from coast to
coast. 1t carries dismay to the
Democratic ranks, and heals the
disaffections in the old party of
Freedom 1t will be triumphantly
elected.
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CITY OFFICERS.

Mayor-Thos. Morrison.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-Gec. NJ. Stowel.
City Attorney. Jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. n. Forde.
Barshal-ThOs. Flemming.
Chief Engineer-D. Z. McMurtrie.
Councilmen-1st Ward, A A. Baker, i. f..
Perley. I'd Ward, II. Il. Lowe, J II. Davis
Sd Ward, John Henson, E Z. Bancroft. Attn
Ward, Ed. BortOn, f. Nichols.
Board of Education-1st w ard, j. Jay Buck,
W. T. McCarty. ID Ward, Van Mccullough,
N. T. Nix. Sd Ward, ii. W. McCune, /. L.
Halleck 4th Ward, J. A.Moore, L. b Kel-
logg. Treasurer Board of Education, ID. w.
Eastman.
Justice of the Peace-C. B. Bachelor, Geo.
n. Stowell.
Constabies-T. johnson. H. w. GiIchriest.
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From the Real Estate Register.
Beautiful Kansas.

In the year 1897, the Rev. John
Pierpont the poet; visited Kansas,
and in the course of a few remarks
made to an impromtu meeting of
the citizens of Lawrence, said
that he had visited nearly every
country on the globe, and while
he would not doubt the power OF
the Creator by saying that he
could not make a lovelier country
than Kansas, he would say that he
never had.
This idea was condensed into a
motto for the REGISTER.
There are few days in each
year, on which this motto is quo
ted in our hearing in sarcastic
manner. There are about three
hundred and fifty days in each
year that we hear nothing os it.
It must be borne in mind that
Pierpont saw Kansas almost II a
state OF nature, and no one will
deny that 1t has vastly improved
in appearance since, and it does
not require a vivid inauguration
to picture it as it will be few
years hence. Let any one who
questions the beauty of our land
scapes, ascend some elevated
point, the highest tower of the
Normal Building in this city for
instance, and if he is not filed
with admiration of the beautiful
panorama spread out before him,
he ought to live in cypress
swamp the rest of his days. From
that point can readily be traced
by the naked eye, the course OF
thirteen streams. The streams
with their timber belts present
the darkest shade of green. A
lighter shade is presented by the
orchards and artificial groves, and
still lighter shade of the same
color, by the thousands of acres
of prairie grass. Then the null
titude Of farms, with numberless
and constantly changing shades
of color in the growing and ripen
, ing crops, the whole scene cover
ed and bounded by the bluest SIX,
of the western hemisphere, forms
a perfect whole, unsurpassed ii
beauty we firmly believe, by an,
spot on the globe. Now imagine
what will certainly be true in :
few years, that the number o
farm houses, orchards, groves
! hedges, grain fields and timbe
3 belts were increased ten fold. TIL
e mind can scarcely conceive. tn
4 charms that would be added t.
E the scene.
II We are not writing this alticl
for buncombe. We mean bust
il ness. Such a scene as we hav
;. described, and which any one cal
- see if he will hold up his head an,
d open his eyes, is worth money
;t Everybody knows that beautiful
= country, other things being equa
l. is worth more per acre than
dreary and desolate looking on
u Even the soulless money-grabbe
D. appreciates the commercial Walt
le of beauty. Given a soil of unsu
re passed fertility, climate note
in for it's healthful invIgorating G
4 fects, agricultural, educationa
- commercial and social advantage
+ of high order; then add to the
m the element of beauty, and yc
~ have added dollars to the actu
T. commercial value of every acr
<; Beautiful surroundings lnevitab
= attract the intelligent, the cultiva
Re ed and refined, while the wealth
of snob IS sure to follow in the
~ wake, and invest his money in t.
1 a same neighbour Ood. We repe
Ill that beauty is worth money, an
K ga lovelier country God new
re made"
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What is Friendship but name--a cha
rm that lulls to sleep--a shade that fol-
lows wealth or fame-but leaves the wre-
tch to weep?
A clergymen was "turned down" at
q fashionable spelling-bee for spelling
drunkenness with one "n". Shortly
afterwards he returned to his parish,
and found himself coldly received by
his parishioners. He sent for the par
ish clerk and asked him what was the
cause. "Well sir.' replied the man, ga
report has come down here that you
was turned out of 8 great lady's house
| in London for drunkenness"
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Sherif's Sale.
District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Green
wood County, Kansas.
Irena Z. Miller,
Games X. Miller.

DY virtue of an execution issued out OF
ID the District Court of the Fifth Judicial
District. sitting in and for Greenwood coun-
ty, Kansas. wherein Irena Z. Miller is plain
tin, and James K. Miller is defendant,
will, on Monday, the 23d day of July, 1876, al
10 O'Clock a. m, at the front door of the court
house in Emporia, Lyon county. Kansas,
offer for sale by public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, the following real estate
to-wit: The southeast quarter of section
thirty-one, township twenty -one. range elev'
en-, and west half of southwest quarter o.
section thirty-two, township twenty-one
range eleven, in Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
of James K. Miller, to satisfy said execution
Sheriff IS office, June q. 1876.
1898 HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
Lyon county, Kansas.
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REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL
CONVENTION

A Delegate Convention of the Repub-
licans of the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Kansas, will be held at Wichi-
Ia, Kan, on Friday, the 18th day OF
August, 1870, at the hour of 10 o'clock
A. M, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Congress, and transacting
such other business as may properly
come before the Convention. Said
Convention shall concist OF the follow
ing number of delegates from the sew
eral countries in this district, viz;
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STATE GovERNMENT.
COUNTY oFFICERs.

Judge District Court-E. 3. Peytoh
Clerk District Court-G. w. Frederick.
SheriR-Hiram Conner.
8 Attorney-A. Gillett.
Treasurer-Jos- Ernst.
Clerk. S. Craig.
Register OF Deeds-F. Z. Page.
Supt. Pub. Instruction-A. d. Chambers.
Suryeyor-IIarTy Hibben.
Probate Judge-E. W. Cunningham.
ID. S. GILMORE,
Commissioners u. A. TAYLOR,
IL. A. WOOD.
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SOAK YOUR BUTTER TUBS.

Some careless dairymen pack
their butter in new tubs and firkins
without being soaked. That is
wrong, as they impart the flavor
of the wood to the butter, and de-
preciate the value from two to five
cents per pound. Soak your tubs
and firkins twenty-four hours, then
change the water. and soak twenty
four longer; and be careful to have
no decaying vegetables nor any
thing that throws out an unpleas-
ant smell in your cellar, as yonr
butter will be affected by such
things, no matter how closely it is
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