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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-11
r.rIa,d oud TurIeey.

The English government is grow
ing rather uneasy over the war be-
tween Turkey aud Russia. Mr..
Gladstone is the leader of the oppo-
sition TO the government policy of
interference in behalf of Turkey.
The liberal clement sustains him
enthusiastically, and this party 10 so
strong as TO embarrass the desires
eff the government. Mr.. Gladstone
offered resolutions in the House of
Commons, Tuesday, strongly disap-
proving the course of the govern
ment party.
There was q great meeting at st.
James hall that night in support OF
Mr.. Gladstone's resolutions. Thorn
as Hughes presided. The Dukes of
Westminster and Argyle sent let
ters of sympathy. Resolutions were
passed declaring that for England to
engage in q war which might have
the effect of prolonging Turkish rule
would be crime against the world.
The meeting separated in disorder
an amendment having been propos-
ed to vote confidence in Gladstone.
A large meeting was held at Ira
falger square the same evening at
which counter resolutions were pro-
posed, expressing confidence in gov
eminent and Mr.. Gladstone. II is
impossible to cay which were car
ried.
There is little doubf, though, but
that the government party will pre-
vail. In the first place, it is known
that Turkey is very heavily in debt
to English monied men, and this
interest, the same that carried SO
much English sentiment against the
Union in our recent struggle, is with
Turkey. And then, again, it can
hardly be pleasant to England to
have Rlssis, q growing power, OBJ
tain any advantage whatever in this
contest which is practically going
on all the time between them for
supremacy In Asia. Whatever good
things may be said of the English
people, it cannot be denied bnt that
they are extremely selfish and jeal-
GUS of their prosperous neighbors.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-11
Tourist.

We have the "Rocky Mountain
Tourist" with compliments of the
A. T. s. s. T. r. Z. Co. 1t is hand
somely gotten up, illustrated with
cuts of the scenery in the mountains,
and filled with tho most charming
and instructive reading matter. The
descriptions are VIVID, clear. gossipy
and practical in every feature. Mr..
Pangborn, the author, Is an old
newspaper man, and the treatment
of the Tourist is more of the Jour
nalistic order than of the STEREOTYPE
ed book writer. This leads to fresh.
ness and originality, and while the
interest of the reader is very clever
ly sustained to the end in point.
that tbs fact rather than fancy guild
ing the writer, is so plainly apparent
as to lend additional charm, and
lead the reader 10 fights of really
delightful anticipation of personal
experience among the Alps of Amer
lea. Regarding the Rocky Noun
tain Tourist as beyond all compare
son the most elegant and complete
publication of the description ever
issued, the Atcbison, Topeka & San
ia Fe K. r. has purchased the exclu-
sive right TO it for the sole benefit
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-11

The Quarterly Meetings of the n. e. |
Church, on the above District, will be |
held at the times and places As follows:
PrincetOn-Saturday and Sabbath, June |
I'd and Sd; services to commence at IL ..
m, Sat.
BaIdwIn-Saturday and sabbath, June
9Th and 10th; services to commence At IL
a. m, Sat.
Ottawa--Saturday and Sabbath, jane
9th and 10Th; services to commence At 8
p. m, Sat.
Internationally and Friday, June
14ih and 18th; services to commence AZ
"a p. m, Thurs.
WiIliamsburg-Satur and Sabbath,
June 10th and 18th; services to commence
st ~ p. m. Saturday.
Colony-Tuesday and Wednesday, June
10Th and Goth; services to commence at 9
p. m. Wed.
Io'a-Thursday aud Friday, June 2lst
and 22d; services TO commence on Thurs
day, at "a p. m.
MISUNDERSTANDING and Sabbath, June
sd and 24th; services to commence Sat.
at p. m.
Humboldt ct-Saturday and Sabbath,
June 23d and oath; services to commence
at 1o1< =, m. on Sat.
Mineral Point-Tuesday and Wednes.
day, June 26th and 9th; services to con-
menee Tuesday at 2p.m.
Eureka-ThursdA AZ and Friday, August
I'd and Sd; services to commence Al 8 p.
M, Thursday.
Bell Grove-Saturday and Sabbath, Au-
gust 9th and 9th; services TO Commune e
at 2 p. m. Sat.
VirgiI-S4turday and Sabbath, August
18th and 18th; services to commence Sat-,
at IL q. m.
Garnett--Satr r lay and Sabbath, Aug
18th and 18th; services to commence Sat-,
at 8 p. m.
Garnet ct--Saturday and Sabbath,
August 18Th and 18th; services to com.
mence at p. m. on Sat
Leroy-Thursday and Friday, June 18th
| and 18th; services TO commence Thursday
at p. m.
Neosho Falls-Saturday and Sabbath,
June 3Oth and July 1st; services to GEM
mence at 211 p. m. on Saturday.
Extraordinarily and Friday, July
9Th and 9th; services to commence Thurs
day at 1-2 p.
Strawn-Saturday and Sabbath, July
7th and Sth; services to commence Satur-
day at 2 1-2 p. m.
| Burlington--Ssturday and Sabbath, Ju-
ly 14th and 18th; services to commence at
p. m. Saturday.
Burlington ct--Nonday and Tuesday,
July 10th and 18th; services to commence
Monday at p. m.
| Americus-ThursdaV and Friday, July
18th and Goth; services to commence
Thursday at p. N.
| Emporia-Saturday and Sabbath, July
21st and 22d; services to commence at 8
D. m. Saturday.
| Emporia ct-Saturday and Sabbath, Ju-
ly 2Sth and Goth; services to commence
Satul day at 2 LIZ p. m.
Big Creek-Tussday and Wednesday,
August 2Ist and 22d; services to COM
mence at IL p. m. Tuesday.
The District Stewards will please meet
me at Humboldt. on Thursday, at o. M,
the 31st of May. trust the Pastors will
see that every District Stewsrd will be on
hand, as there will be important business
to transact other than that of arranging
for the support of the P. E.
| d. P. MITCHELL,
Presiding Elder.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-11

The mystery is explained. We
have often wondered how the be-
nighted roosters at Wichita got a
living. We have been at a loss to
account for the continued existence
of the animated, Nurkocks, the oil
agenous Steele, and the unctious
Griffenstein. Bat it was for coun-
ty editor. somewhere in Kansas, to
explain the matter. Here it is from
the Beloit Gazette, published in
Mitchell county.
"The AtchisoD, Topeka and San
ta Fe Railroad employs hundreds OF
travelling agents to induce immi-
grants to locate on the lands the
Government gave them in the Ar
kansas Valley. ThBY have 3 vast
treeless sandy plain, and travellers
over the State pronounce it to be
but one degree removed from . des-
ert. The upper Solomon Valley
which never had an advertising
agent in the east, has fed the people
of the upper Arkansas Valley for
oyer two years, and it now begins
to penetrate their inteIlects that
they missed it when they did not
ceme here in the frat place."
We will look on the map when
we get time and find ont where the
supper Solomon Valley" is, that has
done all this Kindness to eur Wieh-
ita friends. At present the supper
Solomon Valley" must be content
with our feble thanks. We feel q
great interest in the salvation OF
the Wichita boys.
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Par.on RrOvnlOw Dead.

The death of this eminent man at
Knoxville. Tenn, is announced.
He was born in Virginian, in 1906.
His boyhood and youth were full of
privation. having been left an or
phsn at eleven years of age. In ear
ly manhood he espoused the Wing
side in politics, and soon became q
journalist. His boldness and the
vigor of his style of writing, won
fer him great notoriety. His pro-
slavery writings made him unpopu-
lar at the North. But when the
heresy of secession was originated,
he violently denounced it, and ON
the breaking ont of the civil war, he
was made a prisoner for about a
year. On his release he came north,
and by voice and pen aided the I'm
ion cause. With the occupation OF
Tennessee by the Union armies, Mr..
Brownlow returned to his home.
and in 1865 was elected Governor,
aud reelected in 1867. He was
elected to the Uuited States Senate
in 1869, and served his full term.
During the later years of his life he
was a paralytic, but his fiery spirit
seemed insurmountable by disease,
and to the last he was a power in
his State. His sons, James and
John, served calamity in the Union
army, one as BrIgadier-General, the
other as Colonel.
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Progress of the Russian Cam
DnfEm.

Progress of the Russian Cam
pniEm.
The dispatches of the 9Th report
ed that the Russians had taken Kars,
an important point in Asiatic-Tur-
key, some thirty or forty miles from
the division line between Russia and
Turkey in Asia. The Russian army
in Asiatic Turkey is about 100000
strong, and is under the command Of
Grand Duke Michael, brother of
the Gar. This army but recently
crossed the Caucasus mountains, by
means of a splendidly macadamized
road, made by the Russians since
the Crimean war, having reached
there by railroad from the river
Don in two days time. 1t estab-
lished its base of supplies at Erivan,
back some Afty miles from the Tur-
kish line. This army at once pro-
ceeded to business, and the result is
the capture of Kars already. This
is q city of about 5000 inhabitants,
and in the Crimean war cut an i'm
portant figure. In that struggle it
was strongly fortified by English
engineers, and was strenuously de-
Tended against the Russians. It was
finally taken by means of starvation.
1t has now been In Turkish posses
sion for over twenty years. The
next move of this wing of the Rus
sian army will be for Trebizond, on
the Black sea, an important Turkish
port, and ErZeroum, the capital of
Armenia, on the west bank of the
Euphrates, about ITO miles from
Trebizond, and about the same dis
tance southwest from Kars. These
are two of the most important COM
mercial and strategic points in
AsiatIc Turkey. When they are ia
ken, as they undoubtedly will be,
probably afIer hard fighting, the
Russians will have control of the
south shore of the Black Sea and
Armenia After this there must be
some sharp naval work on that sea.
Meanwhile, the other wing of the
Russian army has reached the Dan
ube, and the news that they had eff.
fected q crossing of that stream may
be looked for any day. 1t seems
altogether plausible now that they
will cross at soma point on the Ser
Wan frontier, from whence the army
could easily pass the Balkan noun
taiRs and march In the direction of
Constantinople through the heart OF
Turkey. There is no doubt but that
both wings of the Russian army
mean business. quick, sharp and eff
fectual, and at this distance from the
scene of conflict, we must say il
looks mighty bad for the "sick man, /"
Turkey. We guess, if anybody out
side OF England has any tears to
shed for the Mussulmen, they had
better get ready to shed them.
p. 8. Later dispatches contra
dict the report that Kara has been
taken by the Russians, but it Is con-
siderea sure 10 fall inIO their hands
at an early day.
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OUR MARKET REPORT.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS.
Emnoria NIarkets.

EAPoRIA. KS, May 10, 1877.
= Flour has advanced an average of 50 cents
per 100 since our last issue, and is frm with
an upward tendency. Wheat is higher than
for many years. Corn is firm to-day at 85
cents. aud very little coming in. The ship
pers have marketed all their stock of corn,
and consider the market as very fuctuating.
Good beef is getting scarce. Butter is down
to about summer prices. Fresh vegetables
still scarce and high. The markets generally
are in an unsettled condition. No damage to
speak of in Kansas so far this season by
grasshoppers, and the orIy damage from that
source is from eggs yet unmatched. We quote
to-daS as follows:
WHOLESALE.
Wheat-No. 81 10; No 81 so; rejected
81 Is to 81 %.
Corn-35 cents.
Oats-20 to % cents.
Hay--$3 90 per ton.
Wood--$3 50 TO 81 for soft and green wood !;
"A and 81 50 for dry hard wood.
Coal--Lyon county, Fort Scott and Usage
shaft 81 90 per ton; McAIIister, So so.
Cattle--on foot to 81 cents for fat COWS
81 to AZ for fat steers.
Hogs--s3 80 to 10 on foot; S % dressed,
per no pounds.
RETAIL PRICES.
Flour-Fancy flour. IS 70 per 100 lbs.
Soden's -four Emporia Eagle s. 75 per 100;
xxx IS So; xxx 500; Xxx a 20; Snowflake
"a So, Beauty s. %.
Armor's-AA, s. 90 xxx, 81 60; xxxA, 81 90;
xxxB. So 40. Rye -four 81 as.
Corn meal-bolted, 81 30; unboited. 81 IS per
100 lbs.
Stock Feed-Barley and oats mixed, 81 10
per 100 lbs; corn and oats, 81 ship stun, 20
bran Csc, bran and middlings mixed, 10 cents.
Potatoes--$1 IS per bushel. and very scarce.
Butter-Grocers pay lax and sell for 10 cts
Eggs-Grocers pay and sell for 81 cents.
Cheese--15 cents:
Apples--$1 so per bushel.
Cranberries--15 cents per quart.
Piep1ant-3 cents per h.
Lettuce-1Oc per bunch
Maple Sugar-2h cents per lb.
PouItry--Turkeys, live. 8 cents per Id.
dressed, 10 cents. Chickens, grocers pay
81 70 and sell for - per dozen.
Fresh meats--1O to I2H cts. per Id. for steak
Z to cts for roasts; s cents for boiling pieces
Pork to 10 cents. Hams Is cents; bacon
121k cents.
Lard - Rendered 1915 cents; leaf lard. 10
cents.
Cabbage, Sweet Potato and Potato Plants
assorted-4Oc per 100.
Clover Seed-$lO per bushel.
Bluegrass Seeds per bushel.
Hungarian seed--5Oc per bushel.
MilIet seed--60c per busheI.
Fresh oranges--per d0z., 81 cents to 81, sc
cording to quality.
Fresh Lemons. per doz., so cents to 81, ac
cording to quality.
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An Adventure.
EMpoR1A KAN, May 3rd 1877

EMPoRIA KAN, May 3rd 1877.
EDITOR News With your per-
mission will relate little circum-
stance which is really laughable now,
but wore a more serious aspect at the
time it occurred.
Last Tuesday at five in the morning,
my brother started to drive me to DIR.
Stevenson's to continue medical treat
ment under the "Vapor Bath system"
There was cool bracipg wind, and
we glided along at the rate OF 1S
miles per hour (by the watch) until
We arrived at Shows ford on the Neo-
sho. Here our ardor was cooled a
little as well as the spirit of the horses.
The river was barely fordable, being
swollen by recent rains. However
We started in full of hope. When
about half way oyer (not being &C
quainteduwith the crossing) we got
too low down, and finally went over
the rifle. We reached for the bottom
but never struck it. Fortunately, in
due time, we came to the surface
pretty much as we were travelling on
land, minus two pairs, of double blank
cts, buggy, sshion, seat, etc. We wer e
now squarely headed for st. Louis, in
Is feet of water, with a rapid current
to back US. The horses f1oated gently
along with scarce struggle, or even
an effort to swim. Knowing my
brother could not swim, or at least
that he never had swan q stroke in
his life, 1 thought the buggy would
support him, and forgetting my help
less rheumatic condition, struck out
for the shore. / soon reached a friend
ly limb near the bank. On looking
back beheld my brother coming with
IN few feet, as valiantly as an old
veteran in the harness. We climbed
the bank together and paused q mo-
ment to look at the team q hundred
yards below. We had given them up
as lost, for neither of US were in a con-
dition or willing to take water again.
The current changing to the oppo-
site side, the horses swan to the shore,
and were led out by an emigrant and
family who witnessed the ''show" per-
formed in less time than it takes to
write it. To nay certain knowledge
there was no liquor aboard, as some
would suppose, it being strictly 9
cold water arrangement. But say
unto you, if some unseen spirit had
handed nae hot sling about the time
l reached the bank,'I think ! would
haye Sung it, so do. A'fsW minutes
drive brought Us to the Dr.'s hospit-
able doors, where a good meal, dry
clothes, q warm room and hot bath
did much towards smoothing the
rough adventure of the merning. Years
may pass away, but as long as live,
I shall remember the 1st day OF May,
1877, and the lesson learned on that
occasion that, ''caation is the
parent of safety. Respectfully yours +,
w. E. Cox.
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RlnNInRH6.

A couple of weeks ago we eonsid-
erately rendered the orange COM
plected railroad king of Eldora-
do, the protector and promoter of
the Butt End Side Track, leading
from Florence TO the forks of the
Walnut, near the residence of old
Doc White, and blow hard editor of
the w. v. t., situation on the
narrow gauge as brakeman. We
did not expect, in his present state
of elatIon over the B. E. S. T., that
he would accept our kindAess. But
hear him blow about it:
"a dry land town at the forks of
the Neosho, with a State Normal
school without an appropriation,
and bad reputation generally, sees
fit TO poke fun at US on the subject
of railroads, the editor of the NEWS
going 80 far as to offer US the posi-
ton of brakeman on their EmpOria,
Puget Sound 81 Sims Hole Narrow
Gauge Railroad. EmpOria is put
Ting on airs, and wants to compare
herself with Eldorado. Emporia
Great Godfreyil Trying to crowd
herself in upon decent people. A
town that was fenced in and white
washed years ago, wanting to be
galvanized into life by little cheap
advertising. Emporis, a little town
run by four or five old women and
few preachers, trying to lock horns
with the coming metropolis of the
Great Southwest. We can give Ell
dorado teaspoonful of tartsr-emet-
ic and she can pnke up a better
town than Emporia any day. There,
if you can beat that, sail In, Mr..
News"
Now old gusty windy, staEd up.
Its chad reputation" is it? ca ha /
ca hal! ca hall! o Jerusalem.
That's good from Eldorado, a small
board town, with handful of lean
ing shanties, surrounded by bluffs
and alkali prairies. The head quar-
ters for ballot-box stuffing, and Ger
rymandering townships to commit
frauds on the unsuspecting citizens
of the outlying country. Bad
reputation" Ell? The only repu-
tatiOn we ever heard of Eldora-
do having was that of being the
"butt cut of original depravity," and
if civilization ever overtakes the
town, and justice is meted out to
her, there won't be men enough left
to NOW the usual weed crop on the
business street. Metropolis of the
Southwest Fan US. Shades OF
Lecompton and Minneola, arise and
walk forth.
We have two firms in Emporia
that do more business than your
whole town, and more than it ever
will do; because when Emporia gets
you surrounded, you will be even
smaller 'pertsters' aud fewer in the
bill than you are now. 1t is well
enough for you to blow over your
side track now, because it won t be
long, no, not long, until you haven't
breath enough to raise breeze. A
OOaEO fence anu WulteWaSn won 90
you any good. You will have to
move your board shanties over to To-
wanda or to Augusta, and the owls
and bats will rcOst in the cab of your
little cheap locomotive. There went
be enough of you left to do even az
good a Job of puking as Emporia
did when she heaVed you up-ca ha
ca hall ca hall! However, Empo-
ria is not disposed to be hard on
the vice president of the Butt End
road, and when he gets very
hungry he can call on our PEG.
pie and they will take care Of him.
Give us some more wind.
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Baltic neet into Mediterranean wat
THE RUSSIAN ARMY.


The Organization of the Russian
army is simple and efficient In
der the law which went into force
i've years ago, there is an annual
CONSUMPTION TO which all men over
Il are subject. The period of ser
zee is 15 years. six being spent
With the regiment and nine in the
ssserVe. the men remain with the
colors only as long as EasY be re-
CURED 10 keep the farce a. its fall
compliment, and during the remain
ing period they are sent on luriOugh.
1t follows frnm this system that eV-
cry man in Russia capable oil mill
tary duty is a soldier. After ac-
quitting then selves of their six
years service, the soldiers pass into
reserve for another period of nine
years, during which they are liable
to serve only in time of war. The
law does not apply to the Cossscks
and other Irregular tr5G ps, number
ing about / 10000. Last ear the
strength OF the Russian army, on g
peace footing, was as follows: Bat
tallions, 853; squadrons, 2Sl; guns,
I,422; officers, 33,043; rank aud file,
Isl ,S29, making q total force o.
1868 men. Placed on a war foot
ing the strength of this army would
be 1,2l3,25 men, including 39. $50
officers. The strength of the Va
rious divisions of the Russian army,
according to an official return, was
as follows in 1874 the same rela-
tive proportion still probably ex-
ist between each arm of the service.
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Gen. Grant Duff has written an
article in the Nineteenth Century
upon the Eastern question, in
which he arrives at the cenclu-
sion, from q political survey of Rus
STA, that her real object is rather to
gain advantages in Asia than En-
rope. He goes on, says the Chicago
Tribune, to show that both Austria
and England can combine and pre-
vent her taking Constantineple, Sc
securing control of the Danube, or
permanently acquiring territory ia
Turkey in Europe, but that no pow
er can stop her progress in Arme-
MIA. Austria, France, Italy and
Germany have no interest there, and
it is beyond the power of England
to prevent it. 1t is his opinion that,
whether the Russians establish a
protectorate in European Turkey,
annex it or withdraw from il alto
gether, they will secure Asia Minor
and keep it, and, before they con-
clude peace with The Turks, will
secure certain rights in the holy
land. The strength of the army
which the government has thrown
upon the borders of Armenia, the
celebrity which has characterized its
movements, and the force of the
blows which il has already struck,
favor the theories advanced by the
writer. The real danger to Constan-
tinople may yet come from the Rus
sian Army of the Caucasus.
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The proposed extension Of the Leav-
enworth, Lawrence and Galveston
railroad from Independence, to Arkan-
sak City ia to be called the South Kan
sas, Western roilrosd and mass
meeting of citizens from various coan-
ties, in favor of it was held at Sedan,
Chatauque county, April 3lst. It Is
intended the road shall start from Os-
wego, on the n, x. s. T. railroad,
thence to Independence, thence up
North Caney river to Peru and Sedan,
thence to Cedar Vale and through
Cowley to Arkaesss City. The COM
pany is now fully organized, charter
ed under the State law of Kansas, and
ready to act. Being q standard gauge
it will have competing lines frem
Independence and Oswego, and e
direct line to Ksnsas City and st.
Louis.
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AMERICAS

Corn is up and the late frost don't
seem to hurt it mach.
Mr.. Watson and family started for
Iowa, overland route, on Tuesday
merning. We are sorry to lsse them
from our community.
The n. E. church of this place hold
their quarterly meeting next Satur-
day and Sunday. The administration
of the sacrament will take place next
Sabbath.
Harmy Heasly, has retired from the
dry goods business, which will be
carried on by Mr.. Gibson. Mr.. Heas-
Iy intends going into stock business.
Mr.. Carpenter, shipped some hogs
from here Wednesday morning.
d. L.