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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-23
A LIVELY OCTOGENARIAN.

As Captain L. D. Abel, aged seventy. eight years
the Oldest living Hudson River captain by the waywas
crossing the loot OF Liberty street yesterday, under
the escort of . policeman, a reckless truck driver
Knocked him down with the pole OF his vehicle. The
old gentleman scrambled 10 his feet as quickly as his
years would permit and IN his indignation scizcd tho
truckman by the loot dragged him from The cart and,
much 10 the qualification Of bystanders, gave him
dfupbiug, he signs of which are likely TO last him Tor
several days Tnc policeman stood by aud enjoyed
the fun, and remarKed-sBc jabors old man, If 20
hadn't put on the polish yersslt 30 nstsly I'D have
taken the dA7il In /"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-23
STOLEN HORSE AND WAGON.

Henry Miller, who was captured at Elizabeth, N. j.,
BY Police Oftoer De La Mott on charge OF stealing
horse and wagon from Hobokcn, yesterday brought
before Recorder McDonough, OF HoboKcn. The owner
Of the properly, Mir. Bartholomew Gray, oil No 70
Prince street IN this city, swore That the property re-
covered from Miller his, aud was OF the aggregate
value of $3.50 The prisoner told complicated story
about having bought the Same from German friend
IN Newark. The Recorder committed him, in default
OF $500 bail to the county Jail IN await trial.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-23
CRIMINAL ARITHMETIC.

Frederick Wbyta, decent looking young nan was
charged At the Tombs Court yesterday, by y. r.
Ingcrsol Of No $50 Front street, former employer,
with havirg 20 altered an order us to receive I'M
properly 81 rom the person paying he order was
lroauccd ia aud the alterations SHOWN IL col
sisted prenxing the Ggure seven u the figure
i've, making It read $75 The prisoner pleaded nos
getty, and was romsndcd until to-day.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

Senator Blaine, in view OF the
possibility that the president may
not recognize Packard or Cham
beslain, is very earnest in favor
ing, by consent Of ali parties, 3
new election in Louisi ana and
South Carolina, and has 80 ex-
pressed himself to the president.
This, Senator Blaine believes,
could now be had by common
consent Of all political organiza
tions, and could be conducted in
3 peaceful manner, free from the
ENHANCEMENT Of a presidential
contest. The result of the cleo
ton, whichever party might pre-
vail, would, in Senator Blaine's
judgement, bring peace and con-
tentment to those states more
certainly perhaps than any other
mode of adjustment now possible.
This policy, Senator Blaine thinks,
would harmonic all the elements
Of the republican party, and Sc
cure at the same time the cooper
alton of all the democrats in the
south who desire peaceful ad-
justment of the existing Difficult
ties on an honorable basis.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
Marrow Gauge Pro.pect,.

The friends OF the narrow gauge
railroad proposition are meeting
with Encouragement everywhere.
The talk about the parties who pro-
pose to build the road being unable
to do so, IL, 90 far as we can learn
from the most reliable sources, en-
tirely gratuitous, and comes from
those who don't wantit built. Like
all other great enterprises. it con-
fiicts with other interests, and
therefore meets with opp0siti IN
from interested parties. We have
no doubt If the counties interested
take the stock required of them, the
road will be built at once.
We understand the plan now is
to build from here to Eureka and
thence through the southern pOr-
ton OF Butler to COwley, to Ar
kansas City, with q line from Eure-
ka south through ChautauquA and
Elk counties. The question of vo.
ting Aid has been, or soon will be,
submitted in Greenwood, in the
southern townships OF Butler, and
In the other three counties. We have
assurances the aid will be voted land
IL 1t is, work will commence at once.
We are also reliably informed that
II the A. I. & s. +. Company build
. road from Florence to Eldorado
the Narrow Gauge will build one
from Augusta to Wichita. This
would form . complete system for
the counties named, and one
which would give the people cheap
transportation, for we fully believe
the narrow gauge railroad is the
key which will unlock the transpor-
tAtion question. People are NOV
Ing for them in all sections of the
Weaf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
STATE.

COOP HAUL.-The following il In.
terestinG.
Lincoln, Nsb., March 9.-Lase week
parties came to Lowell in search Of Q
drove OF 400 cattle, stolen from kan
cas-. This stuI endous theft was &C.
complished by thieves dTiviag through
Kansas and picking up . few stray
steers here AID there till when they
reached LEVEL the drove numbered
400. The cattle were captured in the
ssndhilIs near Lowell. The parties
were about 70 ship then to Chicago.
Two of the thieves were captured ia
Lowell and one here. Officers ara af-
ter the others. This is one OF the
most remarkable robberies On record.
twenty-five varieties of fish are
found In Kansas water.
o. Le Roy Sedgewick, proprietor Of
the st. Marys Times, owns . writing
machine.
Horse theives are moving again In
iiGerent parts OF the STATE.
Hstchinson received 1890 goat
skins from Mexico on one invoice.
Coneyville Is becoming noted for Its
trade in furs.
The grange elevator at Lawrence Is
in rannlag order.
The prctracted meetings have ended
generally throughout the State.
There il quite . movement frsm
northeastern Kansas 70 the Black
Hills.
The Kansas City grain market is In
Q condition OF blockade. The elevators
are all fail with quarter Of = miIliou
bushels In cars standing on the tracks.
Railroad freight rates are Hrm and
nyielding at figures so high that it
takes :one bnshel TO place another &C
the seabOard. Prices Of corn are q
cents here and IS cents 10 New York.
Station agents Of railroads 20 the west
and south of here have been advised TO
receive no more corn for shipment 20
this market, e there Is no place 90 put
iE. Innediate relief IL demanded, and
If the railroads don't come down the
Rrain dealers will have 70 Look to soma
Otasr means Of transportation . move
this grain to market. Captain Russell,
an cid river man, stated as the Beard
Of Trade yesterday that he had made .
carefsl estimate Of the actual cost Of
carrying corn frOn this point 70 Sc.
Louis by water, and found it 20 be ~
cents. There Is now movement On
feot among some Of the grain dsGleTa
70 test the feasibility of this prospect.
Times, March 11th.
The grain that clogs Kansas City,
AtchisOn, Leavenwsrth, and the rail-
roaAs, nearly al comes from Kansas
lsd It is bat portion Of cur crop. ;
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

great deal Of good. At present he
lie doing harm. His Blade is the
organ OF his peasonal hatred, and
the retailer of every scandal, wheth-
er true or not. We have written
this to express our opinion of that
kiHd OF journalism. aud not 10 sag
ought against the editor personally.
The Blade has been spelled by puffs
from newspapers which profess
to admire its Independence, when
the fact is it is no more IL dependent
tLan other Journals. There is an
awful sight of differences between q
paper which is truly independent
and one which is simply . black
guard. People who -trnckle to an
editor because he will print things
which No ieurnalist possessed of q
proper respect for himself and his
fellows, will publish, are not very
admirable characters. The Blade
has been . disgrace to the uewspa.
per profession, and we hope it will
reform. If Wilson's fistic fests on
Saturday shall have this result, his
action can be endorsed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

the advantages he possesses for de-
Ing 80 most economically, cannot
be secured, we question whether
any other responsible party can be
obtained for this purpose, or whsth-
err the Board of Regents would feel
justified in committing the school
to untried hands.
We understand that the Board
will be convened at the earliest
practicable day, and this whole Ques-
ton will come before them for con-
siderstion and decision. In the
meantime we have a few plain and
practicable suggestions to offer.
We submit that every interest of
the town and country demands flu
ture harmony of expression and &C
ton On the part Of all citizens, re-
garding this vital questionable
continuance OF the Normal School.
This is no time for chickering's and
recriminatiOns. All good citizens
should set their faces resolutely
against such q suicidal course. If
there lie to be q future for the school,
it can be secured only by united,
harmonious action.
The citizens Of Emporia should
recognize the fact that the Board of
Regents are the legal custodians OF
the Normal School, responsible for
Its management, and that our duty
IL not to criticise and asperse their
action, but to aid them as far .
possible in securing the end, in
which all are concerned, viz: the
maintenance of q first class Normal
School. They are class of men
who have the best Interests Of the
school at heart, and their haDds
ought to be strengthened in every
proper way.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

Our annual exports to Europe are
increasing. The steamshiP,State of
Pennsylvania, which sailed from
New York for Liverpool. took out
seventeen Kentucky mules, all large
fine animals. ranging in height from
fifteen to sixteen hands and three
inches high, and built in proportion.
They came from Stonewall, Scots
county, Kentucky, are three years
old, and are said to be the first ship.
ment of the kind to Europe. The
cheapest among them in Kentucky
cost $3.50. They are to be used foI
dray purposes in Glasgow. It lie sta.
ted that during the coming week
smother consignment of ferty bead
of Kentucky mules will be made to
the came place.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
EvarGs as Ho T..

Pen portrait Of our next Secreta.
~ of State: "Evarts Is q little fel.
lew, thin as 6 shad, with as narrow
. head as ever topped q pair OF foil
grown shoulders, and q hatchetey,
Indian sort of q face. He suggests
nothing SO strongly IS an animated
tomaheWk. A great sharp nose
overshadews all the face except the
mouth, which is too wide to be
overshadowed. 1ts corners 1.-THE
mouths, not the nose's) are pulled
down until the face is given q vine
gar expression, which is not lessen-
ed by the blscknese of the cavern
Gus depths ont of which the little
steel-gray eyes peer always with q
keen and Watchful look. The chin
is IS sharp ss the corner of . toma-
hawk, and in shape IL very like il.
Customarily the chin lie sunk upon
the chest, as though the thin neck
was too weak 10 sustain erect the
weight Of brain. He generally site
with his arms folded and has the
appearance OF being always in Q 1T
Of deep meditation"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY. MARCH 1s, ls77.
Tho ApproprIalIons.

One OF the most important chang
90 made by the Legislature at its
session just closed was that in re-
gard to the fiscal year changing it
from November 30th to June SOlh.
This necessitated appropriations for
seven months OF the current wear,
that IL from November 30th, 1876, to
jane 9th, 1877, and for two fall
years besides, or until June 30th,
1879. The advantages of the change
are apparent at . glance. Under
the old system, the appropriations
for half the year were behind the
expenditures. Now everything IL
provided for beforehand.
The aggregate of the eppropria-
tioDs made by the Legislature is
$320,e74.40 for the balance OF the
current year; $685., 400 for the year
ending June Both. 1873, and $476,-
els for the year ending June Both,
1879.
The State tax levy ia one-half .
mill less on the dollar than it was
last year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

The theory that in times of danger
woman keep their presence Of mind
better than men, has received = shock,
In New York, on the 9th, st Xavier'G
Chuch was crowded with women and
children when Father Langachi0r wa
preaching q powerful sermon on "HelI
and DamAation," when suddenly G
young woman in the gallery shrieked
aud tainted. Then some idiot yelled
flrs, and all the efferts Of the priest,
choir and the organ, to stop 3 panic
were OF no avail. We clip frem the
telegraph report:
The women in the gallery rushed to-
ward the exit and almost crazed with
fear, pushed and fought their way into
the narrow stairway leading to 18th
street. The stairway Is but four feet
wide, and within three or four steps
of the bottom makes sharp turn be-
fore It reaches the vestibule. The
crowd of maddened woman rushed
down stairs, and would probably have
all reached the street in safety, but at
the bend in the stairway an aged and
very stout woman, In her eagerness to
reach place of safety, fell headlong
down stairs. Before she could regain
her feet the frantic crowd pressed on
toward the vesCibule, came upon the
PROSTATE form, and those in the trent
| ranks fell upon her. In Q moment
the passage way was choksd, and q
scene OF the widest confusion and
most intense excitement enSuea. The
crowd in the rear pressed on with al
most irresistible force, and nothing
could be done to stop their advance.
The crazsd women fought their way
toward tho choked up stairway,
trampliRg upon those who had fallen
in front, and crushing the life out OF
them. They screamed and fought like
maniacs. Every effort TO hold them
back, 80 that the stairway could be
cleared, was OF no avaii. Father
Whyte and several other priests, who
were in the church parlOrs as the time
the panic occurred, rushed round te
the front of the church, and assisted
by policemen, by main force dragged
cut some of the women, who were
lying on the stairs. A number OF
women were thus got cut alive, and
emily slightly injured. In the struggle
for life they were almost denuded Of
their clothing. As the priests and
police, aided by 8 number Of citi-
zens, made their way up the staircase,
they found lying on the steps fonF
other women and q small boy. They
were taken out TO the open air bat
life was extinct. One woman, Anna
Forbes, was brenght out alive and
apparently not much injured. She
walked with the assistance Of police
men to q drug store on 9th avenue,
near 10th street, where she expired In
q few minutes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

A new industry in this country
is the manufacture of sugar from
ordinary corn. The Chicago Trib-
une reports 4 sample of the raw sa-
gar manufactured near that city
from corn. and says it is white aud
very sweet, and that it can be made
into pure graDUlated sugar, by the
use OF alcohol to remove the for
eign matter contained in the crude
product. A bushel of corn yields
thirty pounds of raw sugar, and
this, when purified by alchohol,
gives twenty-seven pounds Of good
sugar, marketable at four cents .
pound. In other words, bushel of
corn made into sugar would bring
$l.00. The Tribune advocates an
exemption frem taxation Of alcohol
used in manufactures, thereby fos-
tering this new industry In the pro-
dHction Of sugar. II the new arti-
Gle can be demonstrated to be o
good substitRte for cane sugar, it
will, no doubt, be favored by the
removal of any restrictive taxation
upon its production.-HoltOn Re
corder.
With the most ardent desire that
the above statement will prove to
be correct, and admitting that it is
correct, we would respectfully In
quire what kind of . sugar it is
which can be seld for only four
cents per pound, when the COM
mOnest brown brings considerably
more than that?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

Senator Davis, OF Illinois, has
settled his political status. The
question arose, in making up the
Senate Committees, whether he
should be assigned to positions by
the Republicans or by the Demo
Gratis. He at once stated that he
was an Independent Republican
that he expected to vote with the
Republicans on party questions.
whenever he consistently could
aud that he desired to be assigned
to Committees by the Republicans
The chances are decidedly that If he
had acted In place of Judge Brad.
ley, in the electoral commission
Hayes would have been counted in
just as he was.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

Orrin T. WEIGH, Superintendent
of Insurance for the State of Kan
sas, sends rs Q tabular statement OF
the fire insurance business done in
Kansas for 1876, by companies lo-
Gated east of this State. The COM
pAnies named are fifty EIGHT in num-
Der. They wrote policies during
the year amounting to $50, 400, 1866,
and received premiums to the
amount of S3lS,132, paid losses to
amount of S156,304,4O, which was
81, 40046 less than the losses incur
red. The per cent. Of losses paid to
premiums received for the past three
years has been as fellows: 1874.
64.62 per cent. 1876, 1919 per cent.
1876, 1851 per cent. The Continen-
tai of New York issued the great
eat amount Of premiums, S2,5lS, 1852,
in 1876; the Etna issued 81 ,269, 2S4 /;
the Home of New York, 81, 300, 42S
the Phenix, New York, Sl,OO7,5 1l
the Phenix of Connecticut, SI,l27-
24S. The latter paid the heaviest
losses, $l5,S6444. Eight companies
suffered no losses at all. The report
shOws that Mr.. Welch keep q sys-
tematic account of the insurance
buRinesa.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
shorl-Eaora safes for 1875.

S@A-OA $500 tSeD1CS AOG ASO -
We give from Short horn Reporter
the following condensed report Of sales
of Short-horn cattle for 1875:
Illinois takes the lead with Is sales,
1890 head sold for $404, 1886, average
1929.
Iowa next, had 20 sales, 1923 head
sold for 1914, 100, average $307.
Kentucky Is sales, 1OI1 head sold for
$276,725, average 1912.
Missouri sales, 125 head sold for
329 800 average S236.
Canada 8 sales. 17S head sold for
$124 1886, average S643.
Ohio 8 sales, 135 head sold for S34 =
635, average s257.
Indiana sales, 50 head sold for
$24 ,595, average S267.
Kansas sale, A head sold $685.,
average $751;.
New York, 10 head sold for 1885,
average e436.
Minnesota head s0ld for IS, oS6,
average $685..
Wisconsin, II head sold for 81, 4os,
average $117.
PannsylvaHia, IL head sold for a, o3S,
average 1925.
Connecticut, IL head sold for $1,S40,
average $167.
Grand total 40l4 head sold for 81
266, 805, average %341.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

The coroner's jury investigating
the railroad disaster, at Ashtabuls,
Ohio, has returned a verdict to the
effect that the persons deceased,
whose bodies were identified, and
those whose bodies and pieces of
bodies were unidentified, came to
their deaths by the precipitating of
the cara in which they were riding
into q chasm In the valley of Ash
tabula creek, left open by the fall
ing of the bridge, and by the crush
ing and burning of said cars, for all
of which the railway company is
responsible. We are glad to soc
that there is at least one horror for
which Providence lie not held res
pousible.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16

The statement has been going the
rounds of all the papers that Sena-
tor Plumb and WhiteIaw Reid
had been apprentices together in .
printing ONCE in Ohio. We think
this Is 3 mistake. We are of opin-
ion that Mr.. Reid never learned the
printing business, and We are very
sure that he and Plumb did not
work together. We do no. know
az that makes any difference, but
ne suppose the impression got ont
from the fact that Mr.. Reid succeed
ed the Senator AZ editor of the Xe-
mia, Ohio, News. About the time
Senator Plumb left the above pa
per to come to Kansas, Mr.. Reid
came out of Antioch College. We
remember to have seen him in Xs-
mia. He was . rather verdant and
awkward looking young man. We
think lie had been furnishing items
from yellow Springs, the seat Of
the college, for Plumb's paper.
Those items were spicy and created
a good deal of interest. not only
outside, but among the boys in tie
Office. We have an indisiinct rec
election of being introduced to Mr..
Reid by Mr.. Plumb, as the Yellew
Springs correspondent of the News.
The college was some ten or twelve
miles from Xsnia. Mr.. Plumb left
the Xenia News in 1856, and after
it had undergone one or two chang
es of proprietOre, Mr.. Reid became
its editor. This is probably the
foundation of the story that Plumb
and Reid were apprentices together.
The News afterwards fell into the
hands OF Coates Kinney, . man Of
considerable literary talent and
fame, and the author of that beauti-
full little poem, "The Rain Upon the
Roof"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16


We have already recorded the fact
that Mr.. John HabbertoD, author OF
that charming little book, "Helen's
Babies" and at present one Of the
editorial staff of the New York
Herald, has met with sad loss in
the death of his second son, Charles,
the "Toddie" whom the readers OF
the story will remember as its most
enterprising and inspired mischief
maker. He was only four years
old, but the freaks narrated by his
ia Their, SO full of precocity and vital
ity, can hardly be called exaggera-
ton. His energy and vivacity were
something marvellous. His head
was large enough for a number sew
en- hat, and his conversation was
delightful to listen to. He died
from membraneous Group, during
Mrs. Habberton's absence at Hart
ford. She returned with her hus-
band, and took the child's body
from their residence on Columbia
Rights, Brooklyn, to Hartford for
interment. This is the second son
Mr.. aud Mrs. III. have lost. Two are
still left them-Lawrence, who fg-
ures as "Budge" in this book, and
Frank, the youngest. e a2tt
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
Divorce BaSInesS I'm Chicago
Inter Ocean March Goth.


We publish this morAing a remarka-
bic communication on the divorce
lawyers of Chicago, q communication
which in ali its substantial recitals,
and, We believe, in its minor state
Hsnts, is strictly true. The inter-
views were held, The advice given, the
modus operandi explained.
We learn from this a nd other sources
the following facts relative to this
business:
/. Anybody, for any cause or any
purpose, will be furnished q divorce
by these Chicago lawyers on APPLICATION
inside of thirty days, and at an expedi-
ture of from $50 to 5000.
2. That defendant need net be notifi-
ed, may be kept wholly ignorant of
the entire transaction, and find him
self or herself single man or woman
without word of warning or q sus-
piclon of the affair. A deserving
woman may be robbed of the sup
port TO which she is entitled may be
left with q helpless family on her
hands may, indeed, be living with q
man who has ceased TO be her husband,
and who is waiting q convenient op-
portunity to reveal the fact-and all
this under the coloF-the sanctioned
law.
8. The libertine who regards the
matrimonial state as iFksone may ac-
complish his purpose by q marriage
he does not intend to observe, and
have divorce from his victim await
Ing his return Irem the bridal trip.
But we need not enumerate the op-
portunities for outrage and oppression
which this system offers to the I'M
worthy. They are numberless, and
| will readily occur to the reader.
How does it come that such unheard-
OF facilities have suddenly been afford
ed in this businessf
The DEGREES are rendered by Terri
| tortal courts, under Territorial laws,
and we presume by the collision in
many instances of Territorial officials
Sometimes, no doubt, the decree is
forged, as ia cases when great haste lie
demanded; but this seems rarely
necessary, for the work of the courts
IL generally very speedy. Where re-
guiarly granted, the DEGREES are, for
all practical purposes, valid, and
though some of the States would
probably refuse to recogAize divorces
obtained in this way, such refueal
could hardly be carried to the extent
ef punishment for big&my in case OF
remarriage, and at best would amount
to very little.