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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
How she Helped him Out.

81 hardly know what kind of an of
fering to make you for the coming
Christmas" fondly lisped a young
Chicago fellow To his true love, in her
fathers parlor one evening last month.
"You don't ~ said she. &
'NO," said he.
a pause of several minutes here
took place. when she suddenly laid
her little head upon his shoulder and
murmured:
"An offering, did you say e''
Eyes, DEAR" he replied, "I can't
contrive what kind of 9 one to make
you"
"Ah-hem," said she clearing her
throat. And then she parled forth
in silvery, cooling notes:
edward, dear. w-weuldn't an-an
engagement ring b-be an Offering 2"
It was an awful thing to do what
she did, but he Didn't seem to care for
that-he was SO glad-and besides it
was Leap Year.
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Exporting American FreOh
Beef
Kew York Bulletin.

The shipment of fresh meats from
this country to Europe, though COM
ParatiVely q new enterprise, is rapid
ly assuming the proportions of lead
ing branch of our foreign commerce.
Mr.. Eastman, the proprietor of the
large abattOir st the foot of West
Sixtieth street, who is the pioneer in
this trade, stated to q Bulletin report
er yesterday that bis average shipment
of fresh beef in refrigeratorS at the
present time is 200 beeyes per week.
He has his refrigerator store rooms on
three lines from this port, having be-
gun with the Williams & Guion line,
on which since the start he has dou-
bled his carrying capacity. He char
ters space and ships according to the
opportunities of the trade. He Is
aG present shipping all the market will
take. but finds that it is very quickly
gorged, and resents an over-supply
With very sudden drop. The plan OF
shipment is TO remove the cattle
PROMPTLY after killing to rooms special
ly adapted to their dressing, at the
equable temperature of SO degrees.
There are rooms enough thus provided
at the abattoir to dispose of $50 cattle,
he meat of which, being thus inter-
dressing, is prepared to enter the re-
frlgeraCOr on shipboard without being
exposed to any new violent chemical
conditions. This is the only secret OF
its preparation, with, of course, the
proper regulation of the temperature
TO which it is exposed in transition.
This is obtained by the use of q dry.
cold air refrigerator, where, by means
of fan or blow, q forced circulation
of air is maintained. Mr.. Eastman
stated further in answer to inquiry,
that while the shipment of beef offer
ed fair margin OF profit in this way,
that of mutton and hogs are doubtful.
A profitable turn might be might be
out OF shipment, but the consumpt-
ton en- the other side did not warrant
any extensive effort ia that direction.
Mr.. Eastman has refrigerators from q
single company, and has the extensiv e
right to their use in this trade.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05

The Democrats are making very
much of brief or legal opinion given
by Judge ROadley, of Cincinnati,
which was furnished to the Governor
OF Oregon, through the New York
leaders, prior to the casting of the
Electoral vote. This opinion has
been written out in q changed form
by Judge Hoadley, and published in
the Cincinnati Commercial. It will
probably be read in the Senate BY
some one of the Democrats as reply to
Senator MOrton's speech. Senator
Morton says Judge HOadly's brief mis-
sJatre both the law and facts In the
Oregon case. UAder the English pre-
cedents which Hoadley cites the far
Chest that IL was possible TO GO In the
case of Watts was TO throw out votes
cast tor bin within the territory where
he delivered the mail as Postmaster.
II the English cases were to establish
the rule it might have been considered
that those people who Obtained their
letters from him as Postmaster ought
TO have known that ne WAS ineligible
for an Elector, but this would not ap-
ply to all rhe people of Oregon, who
could not be imagined to know that
he was disqualified for the Office Of
Elector. All through the opinion, the
Important principle in the English
cases, that public notice of ineligibility
must be given, il left without consi6-
Grafton, and omitted from the conclu-
sion
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05

Dion Boucicault's plan for max
ing stage scenery fire proof is to
soak canvas and ropes in . solu-
ton Of tungstate OF soda, and
when dry primed with . solution
of silicate Of soda. No further pro.
cess is necessary to render the
scenery entirely fire.proof. The
same solutions also make wood
work partially fire-proof but for
the woodwork the frat solution
used is tungsate of molybdeum.
By such a process the whole stage
apparatus of q thsater, Mr..
BOucicault claims, may be render
ed fire-proof for less than 9I0o.
Scenery prepared in this way was
tested in New York on Wednss-
day, and We are told that the az
pertinent was successful in that
it demonstrated that scenery so
prepared would not burn.
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senator 1ngaII., nte.aIutIOn.

The following Is the joint resOlu-
tion Introduced in the Senate on
the first day OF its session, by Sena-
tor Ingalls,, of this State, providing
for Convention to revise and
amend the constitution of the Unit
ed States:
IA joint resolution, recommending
Convention TO revise aud amend
nhe Consultation of the United
States:
WHEREAS, Article i've ofthe Cen
sstituuon empowers Congress TO
call q Convention for proposing
amendments TO the Constitution, On
application of the Legislatures OF
the several States, aud,
WHEREAS, 1t is apparent that
there are important detects in the
system of Federal Government,
which render the situation of the
United States at this time delicate
and critical, calling for an exerIion
of the combined virtue and wisdom
of the people; therefore, be it
ResoIUed. l. In the opinion of
Congress u Convention of delegates
from the several States should be
held for the sole aud express pur-
pose of revising the Constitution OF
the United States aud reporting
such alterations aud amendme uts,in
the nature of an entire instruments.
~ shall, when ratified, as provided
in said article 5, render the Federal
Consultation adequate to the preser-.
WALTON aud support of the Uuion.
z. That in tie opinion of Con
gress each Stale should be repre-
T.
many delegates a. ii is entitled SEN
ators aud Representatives in Con-
gress, two of said delegates to be
chosen by the legislature thereof,
and one to be elected from each
congressional district thereof at
such tune aud place az the Legisla-
ture may prescribe, aud that no per-
SON holding any office OF profit, trust
or honor, under any State or the
United States, should be eligible as
. delegate to said Convention.
3. That in the opinion of Con-
gress said Convention should be
held at Columbus, State of Ohio,
on the second Monday in May,
1877, and without unnecessary inter-
ruption till its deliberations are
concluded.
=. i hat In the OplnlOn OF OOn-
gress the Chief Justice of the Su-
Preme Court should be the presid-
ing officer of Convention, aud that
each delegate should receive COM
,pensaiion at the rate of $40 per day,
with mileage At the rate of twenty
cents per mile necessarily travelled
going to and from the place OF meet
ing, and that all expenses of said
Convention be betrayed by the
Treasury OF the United States.
3. That, in the opinion of Con-
gress the revised aud amended Con-
situation should be reported to the
President of the United States on
the adjournment OF the Convention
and that it should thereupOn i'm
mediately be submitted by the
President to q Convention Of dele
gates,chosen in each State by the
people thereof, under recommends
tion OF the Legislature. for its as
sent and ratification.
o. That IL Is recommended ID the
Legislatures of the several States OF
the Union to apply to Convention
as Aforesaid, as provided in article
5, in the Constitution"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
EnstructIng the Postmaster.


There were vigorous inquiries at the
Post Office yesterday for the chief
clerk, and when the Captains face APP
peared st the window the inquirer
asked:
''Has eross-eyed woman been here
asking fer letters addressed to me?"
The Captain hadn't seen her.
swell, she'll be here this forenoon.
She's my wife, and she's leetle weak
in the head. She's got the notion that
1 get love letters from q woman in Ca
NADIA, and she'll be here to ask for my
NALL
"Well?"
"Well, don't get any such letters,
of course, but you mustn't give her my
mail, she might get one with a draft
liz, and not know it's value. just say
to her that you never knew of my re-
ceiviDg letter here, and that you
have repeatedly heard me say that
had the best wife in town."
"But don't know you"
"Never mind that. In dealing with
an insane woman it's best to be soft
and slick and smooth. Just shake
hands with her, praise her small foet,
and tell her she ought to be proud of
such a husband as / am"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05

An amusing story is told of the
Baron X, q member Of one Of
the oldest and prOudest families in
France, who had had arranged for
him." rs the saying is here, a mar
riage with an English lady of i'm
mense wealth. A few weeks before
the date appointed for the wedding
the lever found oat that his be-
trothed, instead of being of good
family, as had been reported to him,
was the daughter of q quack doc
tor, her golden guineas having been
derived from the sale of patent
pills. He broke off the match,
whereat his father, Count x,
who Glanced TO be q widower, was
sorely distressed. $50 many mil
liOns-and ell lost to the family.
Rather than that should occur be
would marry the lady himself"
Which he did forthwiih.-Lucy H.
Hopper.
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years. The Lutheran delegate pres
ent explained that the rule in Ques-
ton did not contemplate the cessa-
ton of friendly relations with the
Reformed Church. The motion
was lost.
The PRESBYTERIAN aud Reformed
| churches are so nearly alike in their
doctrines and polity that there is
talk of union of the English mem
bers of the Reformed church in the
United States with the Presbyterian
church.
The reformed Presbyterian church
of Ireland, and the reformed Pres
byterian church 20. S. in this coun-
try, haye hitherto stood upon the
same ground respecting service
upon iuries. The latter objects to
its members serving as jurymen On
the ground that the United States
constitution does not recognize the
headship of Christ. The Irish Pres
byterians made the prohibition be-
cause of the union of church and
state, but they have new resciuded
this rule, and it now remains to be
seen wat the denomination in this
county will do.
The oldest American missionary
society, the American Board, was
organized in 1911. In 1913 the Bap-
lists formed similar organization,
and the MethOdists and other de-
nominations followed these exam
pies. There are now not less than
seventeen missionary societies in
the United States, which carry on
322 missions in all quarters of the
world. The number of their mis-
sionaries was reported last year at
400. The mission schools have
gathered 43,O45 scholars. The year.
~ expense of carrying on the work.
including the schools, amounted
to Sl,7S0,OOO.
A committee has been appointed
en- behalf of the Methodist Episco-
pal church to enter into corresp0n-
dence with other branches of the
Methodist family, In all parts of the
world, in respect to the holding OF
an numerical conference. The COM
mittee includes the names of Bish-
ops SimsOn and Ames, Drs. A. c.
George, of New York L. D. Bar
rows, Of New Hampshire; z. S.
DonelsoD, of Ohio; I. N. Baird, OF
Pennsylvania; and the following
laymen: Hon. j. w. Marshall, Of
Washington; Hon. James Harlan,
of Iowa, and F. H. Root, of Buffalo.
The Presbyterlans ia England,
who have recently been united, are
naming a memorial fund in COM
memOration of the event. One lay
man has subscribed $I25,OOO, or
$4,000 year fer five years. An
other has subscribed $4,000 to en-
dow PROFESSIONAL chair in the
Divinity school in London. An
other subscribes $4,000, and two
others $4,000 each. Five persons
subscribe $1,000 each, and four
$4,000. About $4,000 have been
subscribed in smaller sums, and
congregational collections are now
making. The total sum subscribed
is nearly 100000.
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spank, spank. spank.
Spark. spank, spank,
From morning till night from early daylig
ill., fns..

Spark. spank, spank,
From morning till night. from early daylight
With tears in hes eyes,
"a nd with numerous signs.
A mother was welding a weapon Of might
A slipper, all woven with cardinal red,
Which she fiourished triumphantly over heE
head,
Then brought it with vengeance upon the
bare flank
OF the child on her knee,
Spank, spank spank.
lit hurts," believer he.
''islad on il, - quoth she.
Spank, spank, spank.
Spank, spank, spank.
There's maiden who now is preparing to
wed.
But do you suppose
That the fair creature knows
That the thought ever once entered her head
That ere long she'll be playing a mothers
sad part,
With her precious young darling clasped
close to her heart,
And slipper careering above his bare flank
That soon she Will learn
To spank, spank, spank,
And though below do he,
she will right merrilee
Spank, spank, spank?
st Louis Journal.
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Facing the NnusInS.

Senator Inglls, of Kans, is known
as an able man. He has now proved
that he is brave one. He has laid
incsnoclastic handsion what many
Americans have come to regard
with feelings akin to those of the
Fejee for his fetish. He has actu-
ally proposed that Congress shall
take the necessary preliminary steps
towards calling 2 convention to
amend and revise the constitution
aud submit its results in the form
of q new instrument. In other
words, he asks for q national con-
ventiou to provide new constitu-
tion.-New York Graphic.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
As a reason why American

As a reason why American farmers
ought to be contented, the Agricul-
turist gives this account of the farmer
in England: she does not own mia
land, except in very rare instances, and
is obliged not only TO pay yearly rem
tai of $40 TO $25 per acre. but to keep
the hardly worked land in coed conSf-
ton, is forced TO employ q working
capital of at least $50 an acre to be ex-
pended in artificial fertilizers. He ia
prohibited by law from killing wild
animals, such as rabbits, hares, foxes.
cartridges and pigeons, while his cats
and dogs are killed by his landlords
gamekeeper, lest they might iniure the
game. This game feeds on his crops.
and he must submit to see his fields
sometime raYaged by them. He is
obliged to raise such crops, as his
landlord considers best for the land.
He is bound TO all these requirements
by an exacting lease. which makes
him species Of serf to his landlord. =
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
COUNTING .rRE VOTE.

A Precedent where lhe Vote,
was Counted I'm the Senate
Chamber--The AEesuIE of =
FaIlure 10 Agree MIR. Mer-
toms PROPOSAL.
Special to the N. Y. Tribune OF Tuesday.
Washington, December.-Mr.
Edmunds brought up to-
day in the Senate his constitu-
tional amendment for throwing
the settlement of the Presidential
question into the Supreme Court,
and providing that in all future
elections also the court shall
count the electoral votes of the
States. He presented with great
clearness the action of Congress
in reference to- the count ever
since the foundation of the COVER
ment, and brought out precedent
OF especial value in the present
case in reference to the place
where the certificates should be
open ed. The Democrats have
been claiming, with q good deal of
vehemence, that the loDg-estab
lished custom or the Senate going
20 the House on the occasion of
counting the vote has acquired
the force of unw.itten law. Mr..
Edmunds cited case where the
parallel was remarkably close
with the present situation. Ia
1901 the two Houses differed AS
10 the power of Congress to re-
ject the vote Of State, one main
tsinIng that when objection was
made the affirmative action OF
both was necessary TO counting
the vote, and the other holding
that no vote could be rejecLed
without both Houses consenting.
The usdal joint committee was
asised to arrange for the ceremo-
mics of opening the returns, and
Was unable to agree, the House
members insisting that the even
should take place in the Hall of
Representatives. and the Senate
members declining to accede to
this. When the failure to agree
was reported, the President Of the
Senate informed the House that
on the day named by the Consti-
tuition he would open the returns
in the Senate chamber. Party
feeling ran very high, aud there
were the same predictions Of re-
sisting the declared result that
are heard now; but whom the ap
pointed time came the House
resolved unanimously to proceed
to the Senate chamber, and the
vote was counted without disturb
;ance or opposition.
There is no doubt that the Sen
ate will stand firmly upon this
precedent. AS Mr.. Edmunds
very clearly demonstrated to- day,
the President of that body must
open the returns in his place in
the chair, unless by concurrent
action of the two Houses some
other place is agreed upon.
Threats have already been made
in the Democratic newspapers. on
the superstition that the count
will take place in the House, that
should the Senators refuse to
withdraw when the vote of one of
the disputed Southern States is
objected to, they will he put out
by force. If the House acts up
on the absurd theory that the
Twenty-second Joint Rule is still
:alive, the Senate will necessarily
be regarded in the light of inter-
lopers as soon as an objection is
made to the count, because, under
that rule, it became the duty
In such q case of the two Houses
to separate forthwith and vote
separately upon the question.
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LEGAL.
NOTICE.

TOSEPH w. FOSTER, you will take no.
- tice that you have been sued by o. l.
county of Lyon, and State of Kansas: thai
said O. Case has fled his petition in said
Court In said action; that the names of the
said parties to said suit and petition arc o. I
Case, plaintiff, and s. III. Foster and you are
defendants; that on must answer said pe-
tltlon on or before the 9th day of February
ls17, or said petition viii. be taken as true
and Judgment be rendered thereon as prayed
Tor therein as follows, to-wit: Fifty and
seVenty-One one hundredth dollars with
twelve per cent. interest from May 8, 1875.
and twenty five dollars attorneys fees, on a
prom1ssory note given by you and s. H:
roster to said plaintiff, and for costs; and
the property attached, to-wit-the north hall
OF the southeast quarter of section 26, town
ship 10. and range1I, will be ordered sold to
satisfy the Judgment. EO-It
G. b. BACHELLRR,
Atty for plaintiff,
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The Public Debs upder Grant.

-
On March l, 1859, just three days
before Grant was installed as Pres
ident, the debt of the United States,
including accrued interest thereon,
less cash in the treasury, was 81, $685.
463, 26001; on Dec. l, 1876, il had
been reduced to S2,O89, 336. 099. 42-a
decrease of $436, l27. 100 SO. equal to
an average of $4.6S9, 539. SO per
month consecutivelY throughout the
whole period. During the ninety
three months there were only nine
in which an increase of the debt
took place, amounting in all to $780,
042, 542, 542 AZ; but seven of these
nine OCCASIONS have occurred since
the panic, and cover all but 50 090,-
$50 80 of the sum. Still, amid all
the losses of revenue incident to
the depression of industry, COM
merce and trade since Sept. 1, 1873,
the debt has been reduced SOL 1853,
265. 81, equivalent TO q monthly av-
erage of $1,316.90425. Had it not
been for the financial revulsion that
swept over the country, it ia more
than probable that the reduction
would have amounted to ga, 522,-
sOOs4Os III 0OuIllOu 10 lDS aCtuAI
sum, bringing the aggregate up to
1861, 659, 929 y, and reducing the
debt to Sl.957, sos, 329. SO on Deem
Der i, 1876.
During Grants administration
the monthly interest charge has
been diminished from $1O,532, 425. 80
to $7,92S 600 IL, . menthIy saving
Of $1,000, 1852 80. The decrease In
the annual interest charge has pro-
gressrd from $74,694 in April, 1869,
to 81. 253, 548.56 in NoYemoer, 1876.
Every year the latter vast sum will
be saved to taxpayers.
Prejudice aud resentment lose
their voice of carping fault-finding,
and are abashed iatO silence before
such magnificent results. And now
that iDsubordination, uttering great
swelling words of discomfort, and
taking an attitude of armed resist
ance, threatens to plunge the coun-
try into civil war, ali good citizens
experience q comforting assurance
of safety in knowisg that Grant
the man OF steady nerve, common
sense, and tried patriotism-is at
the head of affairs, fully equal to
the occasion.--Inter Ocean.