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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-08-18
The Agricultural Clipper ENGINE,
LOOK AT THE PRICES

1OOh nj ILL ulObO'
On Cars at Westminster, Nd, 5.horse
"Clipper' Engine on Wheels weighing 1900
pounds, price $3.50. G.horse, do, weighing
1850 pounds, S4s5. s.horse do, weighing
1000 pounds, 500. Extra for Hand Pump
to iill Boiler with Cold Water, SIS.
Every Engine is carefully tested and run
with 40 lbs. Steam until known to be perfect
and complete in all its parts and is warranted.
They are furnished with Pump and 4 Feet
Hose, Heater, 8 Speeded Governor, Glass
Water Gauge, Steam Gauge, Whistle, Blower,
Try Cocks, Safety Valve, Blow.oif Cock,
Smoke Stack with Spark ArreSer, Double.
trees, Neck Yoke, Drivers Seat and Tool
Box, Funnel to fill Boiler, Ash Pan, Wrenches
and Fire Irons.
N. B.-lf you want an Engine, please to
order at least 4 weeks before you wish it
shipped from Shops, giving fill and clear d..
rectons for shipment, your Post Office,
County and State.
Clipper OF of Wheels. horse $500; do.
j-horsc $780, do. Ghorsc $685.; do s.horse
$3.50.
Bay State where you saw this. aug 90
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STOCK FEEDERS, LOOK TO
~ YOUR INTEREST!

! am now manufacturing Feed Cutter for
fodder, hay or straw, that is superior to any
other cutter ever invented. 1t cuts faster and
brushes the fodder, putting the stalk into such
a condition that cattle win eat all up. The
todderatter beingc passes through crusher,
thus making the hard corn stalk as soft as the
bladei while all other cutters leave the stalk
IN short hard pieces, and the chewing Of such
hard piecesbyyour stock produces sore mouths
which, instead Of q benefit to your stock, i
an injury. | claim this machine TO be superior
to all Others. To satisfy yourselves, feeders
OF stock and farmers generally, are respectful.
ly invited TO call and see this Cutter a Crusher.
to be found at the foundry, near depot West.
ern Maryland Railroad.
3. WAGNER,
Danstf Successor 70 Wagner 4 Matthews.
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1! LUMBER |!
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1 60. -
7 HAVE just returned from the Lumber
a Regions-and am now receiving the lar
gest selection Of LUMBER ever offered at
this place, at Reduced Prices, consisting Of
Yellow Pine, Spruce and Hemlock
JoIST AND SCANTLING
of all lengths and sizes, "A, ga, GA and 8 4
White Pine Boards and Plank, Yellow and
White Pine Flooring, Dressed and Undressed
Notwithstanding, White Pine Cypress and
Chestnut Shingles, Walnut and Ash Boards
and Plank, Plain and Headed Pieketts, Shin.
gle and Plastering Laths, prime lot of Chest.
nut Rails and Posts. Also all the different
KINDS OF COAL,
Thinking large sales with small profits bet
ter than small sales with large profits, have
concluded to adopt the former as my guide,
and hope shall be enabled to carry it out by
persons in want of anything in my line giving
me call before purchasing elsewhere.
EDWARD LYNCH.
Near Depot, Westminster, Nd.
feb 20-tf
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NOAH WALKER & CO.,
THE
CELEBRATED CLOIHIERS
OF
BALTIMORE, MD.
BALTIMORE, MD.
RULES farNELF MEASUREMENT.

and full line of samples from their immense
stock Of Cloths, Cassimers, Coatpgs, Shirt.
ings, &c, thus enabling parties in any part of
the country to order their Clothing and Shirts
direct from them, with the certainty of re-
ceiving garments of the very Latest Style and
most Perfect Fit attainable.
Goods ordered will be sent by Express to
any part ofthe country.
As is we'll known throughout the Middle
States they have for Forty. Three Years EX.
CELLEDin all departments Of their business,
which is a substantial guarantee as to the char.
aeter ofthe Goods they will send out.
A large and well assorted stock Of
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THE THUNDER STORM.

M DAVID RATES
The storm clouds sweep
Through the azure deep
Like ships Of war on the main;
And the mar and the rattle
Ofthe upper battle
hre fiercer than that on the plain.
Inh-atlilEe scout
The seud flies out
While The heavier mass moves slow.
Us tanks cniarging,
sif Is charging
ilacalm elemental foe.
The centre is strong,
And the wings are long
They bend down the vanlted arch;
And the llghtnings Fash,
And the thundeE crash,
A. ltmoyes on the line ofits march.
Now bending low
Like an areher's bow
The shat CLEANS forth with q hound;
And the bolts frnm tsqulver
The strong oaks shiyer,
And scatter the fragments round.
TO the len and the right,
In It's fury and might,
Il poufs the ire
From It's heart Of fire,
TIL the armament glows and burns.
How puny the boast
Ofthe serried host,
In is pride and pomp arrayed,
Compared with the length,
And the terrible strength,
by the thunderstorm displayed.
With Its banner unfurled
Der the trembling world.
II sweeps DER the Garth with Its fan;
And the wrath that It filings
From is rushing wings
Is a blessing from Heaven to man.
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War Bulletins.

july %. - Russian kilograms
claim that Raouf Pasha, the new
Turkish commander on the Danube,
has been defeated with loss OF
IL, 700 killed, at Eski Sar- where
he attempted to surround and an
initiate Russian army.
July 26.-The Shipka pass, one
of the most important ia the Bal
kan mountains, was attacked on
July 23d by Russian army under
General Gonrks, AMI although des-
perately defended by the Turks,
was finally carried. This gives the
Russians q certain road through the
Balkans.
$4,000 new troops have been sent
to reinforce the Russian army in
Asiatic Turkey.
The Russian reserve of landWehr
have been called out.
july 2S.-The Russians have be-
gan an active siege of Silistis. Some
Russian torpedo boats went down
the river to within short distance
of the city and had lively engage
ment with two Turkish monitors,
and then returned In safety to the
Russian lines at Terchnovadt. They
managed by this expedition to dis
cover the amount of Notifications
and strength of the Turkish gar
rison.
July 30.-A great battle took
place on Sunday, July % near
Rustchchuck, between the Turks
under Ahmed Eyoub Pasha, and the
Russians under the CzArowitz, and
the Turks were finally routed, los
ing 30 cannon, ten standards, 5000
prisoners, and a large number of
killed aud wounded.
The Russians are modifying two
new army corps, and $4,000 recruits
will soon encsmp at Plajisti.
The Montenegrins are vigorously
bombarding Nicsics, and have ST.
fenced two of the heaviest Turkish
batteries. They are confident of
soon capturing the city and garri-
con.
A battle at Esidche, near Rasgad,
Sunday, resulted in the defeat of
the Turke, with q loss of $50 killed
and $50 wounded. The Russian
loss WAS heavier, but they routed
the Turks.
Mehemid Ali on the oath began
marching his army of 10000 men, to
attack the Russian rear, by way of
TirnOVa, and q great battle is ex-
pected to result in a few days.
The Emperors of Germany and
Austria will rub their imperial nos
es together August 9th.
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Coun.x Pout.ie..

By reference to another column il
will be seen that the Republican
Central Committee of Lyon county
will meet in this city on the 4lh OF
August, Saturday nex', to consult
rs to whether a county Republican
convention shall be held for nomi-
mating candidates for GIe various
county officers to be elected this fall.
They very sensibly invite all Re-
publicans who wish to do so TO be
present aud take part in the consul
tation. This is right, because all
Republicans are alike interested in
the welfare of the party. 1t is hoped
that every member Of the commit
tee will be present, and that there
will be large attendance of others.
Whatever course is adoped, there
should be u full and free discussion,
and then, after fair majority has
decided upon the coarse to be pur-
sued, there should be unanimity and
harmony. Let as many Republicans
as possible be on hand.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

The latest returns received at the
agricultural department in Wash
lngton show that the yield of win
ter wheat already safely harvested
Ia the most remarkable known in
this country for many years. Spring
wheat also promises an uhprecedent-
ed yield. The wheat Yield last year
was 266, 100000 bushels. This year
it will be more than $4,000, 600
bushels. The average export for
i've years has been 81 100000 BUSH
els. The hig hest ever known was
SO, DOC, 900. A favoring circumstance
in connection with our own abund-
ant harvest is the existence of q de-
creased production in Southern Rus
sia, growing out of the disturbed
condition of affairs in countries ad-
iacent to the Black Sea. Recent of
fetal adVices from Southern Russia
place the yield at less than one.hslf
of former years. Russia, in the
wheat trade with England, hitherto
has been our only great competitor.
She now Is widely distanced by our
ewn rich harvesIs. Up TO 1872 Rus
STA supplied nearly az much wheat
as the United States to the markets
of the world. Last year the Rus
sian supply was but one-third that
of the United States, and for the
present year 1t is shown by official
communications that the proportion
of the Russian wheat will be much
less.
1t is shown by official reports that
the wheat yield in California the
present season is small, SO that one
hundred millions surplus lies east of
the Rocky Mountains, and must
reach the seaboard by rail or river.
In less than thirty days every artery
of commerce will be laden with the
great staple. There is every indi-
cation that the demand from Europe
will be fully up TO the aggregate of
our surplus of wheat, and the pros
poets of our corn crop, of which
thirty million bushels are annually
exported, are such that any foreign
demand mp to several hundred mil
lion bushels could be met.
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Hard Pan.
Inter-Ocean.

"On With contraction p and Son
10 specie paymentsl" are the two
branch roads of the fork which con-
verges 1T the beginning of the road
to industrial ruin, hard pan being
lite terminus. At length some OF
the travellers have arrived there.
ing the way. Other cities have
come, or are coming, within sight of
hard pan and are growing alarmed
at what they see at this terminus,
and are anxious to get back to the
point whence they started. For
years the country has been max
ing haste, by the enactment of ac-
celebrating laws, by the urging cries
of stnmp-speakers, by the appeals
of editors and pamphleteers, to
reach hard pan. Now that the place
is close at hand for all, the general
illumination of suffering is Visable.
Those who predicted this end were
unheeded. They were styled Vis-
iOnarie3 and stigmatized as fanatics.
All their efforts to arrest the down
ward movement of the country
we're met with derision.
A few commercial centers have
arrived at hard pan before the rest,
but all are moving thither with dis
agreeable rapidity, and who has
been benefited? So ar,the only re-
suits have been barbaric ruin, in
creased loss of employment, great
or stop of industry, misery, wretch
edness, and death. Other cOnse-
quences are to come, unless the
wheels are reversed.
The startling events that have
been developed within the past
week are the veri1ication of the
predictions made by the anti-con-
tractionists. just such results as
we have before rs were fully fore
told. In almost set wOrds they
were foreshadowed in 1873 by the
late E. B. Ward, of Detroit. He
insisted that if the action of the
government on the money question
continued to be what it had been,
the workiDgmen would be driven
to desperation, and would resort to
brute force and bloody violence in
seeking redress of grievances.
That day has arrived. All perceive
its terrible results. 1t certainly has
not altered the situation for the bet
ter, but has made it much worse,
except so for as IL raises the hope
thai The road to industrial ruin and
general bankruptcy will be sban.
dOned.
Are those satisfied with their ex-
perience with hard pan who have
been clamOring for contraction of
the currency, who resist the remon-
citation of silver, who demand the
resumpticn of specie payments on
January lst, 1879, in the face of in
surmountable obstaclesP If they
are not yet satisfied, they will be
ere long. 1t requires only q little
further trial of their visionary the
cries to bring them to their senses.
AT this rate, they soon will them
selves be seriously touched by the
general disaster, and made to feel
in their own persons the calamitous
consequences of their own meas
ures. Then they will too late wake
up to knowledge, and will not be
able to extricate themselves from
the common ruin. Why not stop
now2 Why not save what is left
Why not turn away from hard pan
and seek the road TO prosperity
while 1t may be found?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

Here is g man whom Henry Ward
Beecher would condssoeRd to pat
on the back:
A poor, dilapidated specimen of
humanity applied at q private house
yesterday morning for the Job of
carrying in q half ton of coal from
the sidewalk, and q bargain was
struck at twenty cents. When the
work was completed he was asked
II he would not prefer taking ten
cents and having a good break fast.
The reply was NO, that he had been
to breakfast, AID the money was OF
more value. He said he had work
the day before, but he was driven
off by the mob, and lost his lob.
But he could get enough to eat at
one meal for . nickel, and when it
was necessary he could get along on
one such meal day. Therefore his
twenty cents would support him
four days at Q pinch. And thank
ing the housekeeper for her timely
patronage, be politely lifted his hat
and walked away.
"HIs rawbOned cheeks through penury
and pine,
Al SHRINK into his cheeks as he did never
dtne.*
Such 9 man would accumulate
WeaIIb on ninety cents asy.-K. C.
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President Vanderbilt, of the New
York Central & Hudson River r.
T., has issued g circular stating that
of the 1900 employees OF the COM
pany less than 500 struck and no
injury was done to property. In
recognition Of their fealty he directs
100000 to be divided rateably, &C.
eording to their positions on pay
roll, among ali the employees engag-
en- In operating the road. He says
no man who In time of trial EN- bar-
raises the company can remain or
re-enter its services, and adds the
pay will be increased the moment
business iustifes 1t.
This Is very generous, but as Mr..
VAnderbilts net profits from the
road are $5.OOO.OOO per year, he can
Afford to give away one-flftieth OF
It once In q few years, to save reg
ular increase Of wages that would
amount to several hundred thou
sand . year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

Governor Cullom of Illinois hit
the nail square on the head in his
proclamation when he said:
"While the right of the people to
assemble peaceably and discuss
their real or supposed grievances is
guaranteed by our form of govern
menf, and the ballot-box ia omen
for the correction of all evils in leg
islAtion, violence and outbreaks
against the laws are thus left abso-
lutely without excuse or jnstiflca-
Hon."
This is exactly what the working
men should remember. They have
the votes, and 30 long as they vote
for men who legisiate in favor of
capital and money against labor, so
long they will be kept out of ade-
9uate. They must right their
sgrongs at the ballot box, and until
AheV do IL there Il will never be
done. The spectacle of q million
men elaEaoring for better wages and
voting for hard money and specie
payment IL loo. sbsuEd to REQUIRE
comment Voting, not striking, IL
ihs "way out" Of their troubIes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

Secretary Sherman states that
there are 100000 of greenbacks
deposited In the United States
Treasury for safe keeping. If the
purchasing value of these 100000,
600 promised to decline, instead OF
advance, it would be fun to see how
quick they would be drawn out OF
the treasury and exchanged for real
estate, grain, manufactured articles
and labor. But as long az their pur-
chasing value is increasing it pays
to keep them locked up.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

The "people" after all, have taken
but 3 small amount of the 4 per
cent. bonds, and the great capital
lists who are combined under the
title Syndicate" take the most OF
the amount already subscribed. The
figures are reported az follows.
Washingtou, $65e, 500 New York,
1851, 500; Philadelphia, $l45, $50
Baltimore, $l0.950; Boston, $738,
400; st. LouIs, SI87,850; Chicago,
aSl. O5O; New Orleans, $eQ5, 500
Cincinnati, $929, 800; San Francisco,
S63, 100; total, 95,9e2,5O0; SyndI-
cate. $50, O0o 600; grand total, $6S, +.
9S2, 500.
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District Court Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
County, Kansas.
Jesse Hunt, ,
VS..
e. Hunt, ct al.)
pY virtue Of an alias order of sale, issued
O out Of the District Court of Lyon county
Kansas, in the above entitled cause, will, on
Monday, the 3D. day of September, 1877, at ten
O'Clock g. m at the front door of the court
house in the city of Emporia, Lyon county,
kansas, oner for sale at public auction, 20 the
highest bidder for half cash, balance in eight
cen months at ten per cent. interest, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit: Com
mencing fOFty-t rods east of the northwest
corner of northwest quarter of section TWEEN
ty, township nineteen, range twelve: thence
east on section line one hundred and eighteen
rods; thence south on quarter section line one
hundred and sixty rods; thence west on quar-
ter section line one hundred and eighteen
rods; thence north one hundred and sixty
rods, to place of beginning: containing one
hundred and eighteen acres, except one hun
dred feet decided TO the II. X. q f. X. K. Co,
cemetery, as described in said deed. Also,
certain piece of timber land, commencing at
northeast corner of southeast quarter of north
west quarter of section twenty-seven, town.
ship nineteen, range twelve, in Lyon county,
Kansas; thence west sixty rods; thence south
eighty rods; thence east sixty rods; thence
north eighty rods to place OF beginning: con-
tanning thirty acres.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendants to satisfy said order of sale
Sheriff's Office, August 81, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
Sl-5t Lyon county, 4 ansas.
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Our Market Report
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS
EmpOria Markets.

EMPORIA, KS, August 8, 1871
The market is now well supplied with fresh
vegetables and fruits Black berries are near
ly gone. Peaches and apples will soon be
abundant. Ripe grapes, Hartford Prolific
and Ivy Seedlings, will be in next week. The
grape crop is very fine. Grain and live stock
quiet. Oats are down 70 Is cents.
WHOLESALE
Wheat-No. 81 IS; No 4 81 10; rejected
50 cents
Corn-25 cents.
Oats-l5 cents.
Hay-$3 90 per ton.
WoOd--$S 80 to 81 for soft and green wood :
II and 81 80 for dry hard wood.
Coal--Lyon county and Fort Scott IS 90;
Usage shaft 100 per ton; McAIlister, So 80.
Cattle--On foot to ~ cents for fat COWS
IN to ~ for fat steers; 8 cts. for calves, and
cts. for sheep.
Hogs-$s6O to Is on foot.
RETAIL PRICES.
Flour-Fancy fiours IS 90 per 100 lbs
SOden's hour--Emporia Eagle a rs per 100;
xxx a 80; Xxx a 70; Xxx s. 90; Snowflake
So 50, Beauty p IS.
Armor's-AA, 81 50 xxx, 81 20; xxxA. Sc 90;
xxxB. s. GO. Rye -four s. 90. Graham -four,
"A o.. Spring " heat, Xxx, s..
NOAA AC0A-OOAOCus ~ Avs uADOAScUs per
100 lbs.
Stock Feed-Barley and oats mixed, ITO
per 100 lbs; corn and oats, 81; ship stulr, 20
bran oOc, bran and middlings mixed, 70 cents.
New PotatOes--6Oc per bushel for choice.
Butter-Grocers pay IL and sell for l5c.
Eggs-GrOcers pay &c and sell for1O cents.
Cheese--15 cents
Poultry-Chickens. grocers pay 81 80 to
y % per doz., and sell for 70 to 25c each.
Fresh meats--lsK cts per pound for steak ;
9 TO lax cts for rOasts; s to cts for boiling
pieces.
Veal and Mutton--6 to l2x cents. according
to cut.
Hams--1s to Is cents, by the ham. Bacon,
12k cents by the pound.
Lard = Rendered 131S cents; leaf lard, 10
cents.
Peaehes--$s to 50 per husheI.
Cucumbers--10 cents per dozen.
do for picking, 80 cents per 100
Cabhages, new, 8 to cents each.
Green corn--1O cents per dozen
Tomatoes 81 90 per bushel
Beets 80 cts. per busheI,
Onions--$1 per bushel.
New apples--$1 80 to 81 per busheI.
Blackberries--90 cents per quart.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

The internal commerce of our
country is, as It ought to be, vastly
more important than our foreign
commerce. The estimated value of
ships, American and foreign, en-
ployed In our ocean commerce, is
100000, 900, and that of our rail-
roads lie S4,6OO,OOO,OOO. The value
of our imports and exports last
year, was 81, l2l ,634, 277, and of arti-
cles transported on our railroads
$4,000, 100000. In other wordp,
the value Of our railroads IL 90 times
greater than that of ships engaged
In commerce with this country, and
the value of articles transported on
railroads is 16 times greater than
that Of our foreign imports and ex-
ports. 1t can be thus seen how the
stoppage Of railroad business for a
week affects business.
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While it is an admitted right z,

While il is an admitted right for
q man to sell his labor for the high
est price he can command in mar
ket, he has no right, either legal or
moral, to eoerce or prevent others
from selling their services on their
own terms. To do so is to deny to
others the very right which he ss-
serts for himselE-K. G. Journal.
This is doctrine which must pre-
vail, If it has to be enforced in the
shape of grape and canister.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03

Every days work on the main
line Of the Pennsylvania railroad
moved one thousand tons of live
stock, five thousand tons of agri-
cultural products, seventeen humid
red tons OF merchandise and man
ufactures, and vast quantities of
coal, petroleum, iron, stone, lumber
and other articles. Multiply this
by four, for the four trunk lines,
and some idea can be formed of the
tremendous damage inflicted upon
the country by the stoppage of the
freight traffic during the eYentful
week terminating on SATURDAY. last.