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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-11
Average

Will our readers please observe
that the aggregate of failures for the
four years of 1868, "a. '65 and '66,
when an ample volume of currency
made cash exchanges possible, was
only 2,167, and that those of the last
three months were TOP in excess OF
those of that entire period Of four
yearsi
The average per year of those four
years was only 542, but the average
per MONTH of the last three months
is I'LL The calse of this difference
between then and now was very
graphically stated by General Spin
ner in his report, as Treasurer of
the United States, Dec. 1873; but
the statement was suppressed by
Government. In the suppressed
portion of his report he said:
"Then there were few credits.
AS there was money enough to do
so, ali paid as they went, and there
fore, there was no collapse, as is usu-
al when q country emerges from q
long war. II was after the number
of people using the money had large
ly increased, and the currency de-
creased, that long credits rily
came, after which, after a while,
came suspension of all credits, and
fearful panic. The truth is, when
money is abundant, there will be
few private debts.
"When money is scarce, the ex-
changes Of commodities are made on
private credits; as it becomes more
scarce, The credits are given, and
debts made, on longer and longer
time, to give the purchasing parties,
as they call it, time to turn them
Selves Soon these private debts
becGme so greatly inflated that an
explosion takes place, that could not
have happened under better credit
system, and a more wholesome state
of the money market.
when. on the other hand. legiti-
mate money becomes more and
more abundant, credits are asked
for and given OH shorter and short
er time, until the time comes when
there is money sufficient to transact
all the legitimate business, and to
effect all the necessary exchanges of
the meTchantable commodities of
the country; then private credits
will he almost entirely unknown, ss
will commercial reVulsions, and con-
sequent panics."
But this is only Gen. Spinner's
opinion, and what does he know
about finances?
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Golden Nuggets.

Hosa BalIou; Hasten slowly,
and without losing heart put your
work twenty times upon the an
vii.
Saadi: The heart is like a must.
cal instrument of many strings,
all the chords of which require
putting in harmony.
Lowell: If his heart had borne
any proportion to his brain, he
would have been one of the great
est men in all history.
Heinrich Heine: My heart re-
sembles the ocean; has storm and
ebb and flow; and beautiful pearls
lie hid in its depths below.
Madame Swetchine: The best
advice on the art of beiag happy
is about as easy to follow as the
advice to be we'll when one is sick.
Shenstone: Were a man of
pleasure to arrive at the full ex-
tent of his several wishes, be must
Immediately feel himself miser-
able.
Berne: Every man must in q
measure, be alone in the world.
No heart was ever cast in the same
mould as that we bear within us.
Goethe: Wouldst thou ever
roam abroad? See, what is good
lies by your side. Only learn to
catch happiness, for happiness is
ever by you.
The intellect has only one fail
ing, which to be sure, is q very
considerable one; it has no con-
science. Napoleon is the readiest
instance Of this.
Pascal: If my heart was as
poor as my understanding I should
be happy; for / am thoroughly
persuaded that such poverty is a
means of salvation.
Theodore Parker: Wealth and
want equally harden the human
heart, as frost and fire are both
alien to the human flesh. Famine
and gIuttony alike drive nature
away from the heart of man.
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PubIic Debts ana Expenses

PubIic Debts and Expense
The Public has been collecting the
statistics of municipal Indebtedness
as far as they can be obtained, and
publishes them in its les ne Of the
10Th ult. 1t gives the figures for
municipalities having in 1870 more
than four-fifths of the entire indebt-
edness of that kind reported in the
census. In 1870 the debts of those
localities amounted to $269, OBJ, SOL.
According to the latest data the
amout is $744, 096, Joan increase
of 116 per cent. There remain To-
calities returned IN the census as ow-
ing S59, 20S,970 from which the Pub
lie has received no statements. AS
Stunning that those localities owe no
more now than they did in 1870, the
aggregate for the whole country
would be $S03, 3O5,0S3. Assuming
that these unascertained debts have
increased in the Same ratio as the
others, the aggregate would be
800, 5l2,S86. Allowing for the fact
that the statements: average a year
old, the entire municipal Indebted
ness of the country may be reason
ably estimated at something more
than $1O0O,OOO,O0O. The Public calls
the debt of New York ';the financial
unknowable," but estimates it to be
$l62, 495 ,306, which is more than
twice as great as that of any other
State in the UnioR. There are nine
cities that owe more than $4,000
900 each twelve owe more than
Sl0,000,000 each eight owe between
81, 100000 and $l000O.OOO each
twenty-five owe between $1,000
600 and $5,000,000 each sixty-four
owe more than 100000 each; one
hundred and twentv-nine citles owe
a total of S6S4, 547, 907. The fgures
of all municipalities from which
statements have been received sho W
an increase of more than $579.256,-
600 in six years, which is at the rate
of about 96,5O0,O00 yearly. 1t is
estimated that the payment of inter-
est on municipal debts in the couu-
try involves q tax of $50 100000 an
nually, and that the cost of main
tanning municipal governments is
10000, 600 q year.
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WHY?

Why is the game of whist so
called? Because 1t requires strict
silence; thus whist! that is to be
silent.
Why is a chief magistrate call
ed a mayor? Because of it's origin
from the Teutonic Meyer, a lover
of might.
Why is soda so called? Be-
cause it is procured by burning
the plant salsola soda, which
grows on the Spanish coast.
Why is common yellow ear
thenware called "delf?'' Because
it was originally manufactured at
the town of Delft, in Holland.
Why do the properties OF coda
and potash differ in soap making?
Because with soda, oil forms a
hard soap: with potash soft one.
Why is a chimney-piece also
called a ''mantel?" Because it is
work raised before chimney to
conceal its mantel originally sig
nntlnS clOak.
Why do pearl-ash and water re-
move grease spots? Because the
pearl ash unites chemically with
the grease, forming species of
soap, which easily washes out.
Why is concerted person called
a coxcomb? Because his resem-
blance to the fool drama, who was
dressed in Motley clothes, and
wore q cap surmounted with the
neck and head of a cock, or some
times only the crest, or comb.
Why is an embalmed body call
ed a mummy? Because of its orr
gin from the Egyptian work mum,
wax, which is used in embaIming,
The custom of embalming origi-
mated in a vanity amongst the
Egyptians of being considered
immortal.
Why are the edicts OF the Pope
called bulls? Because the seals
appended to them were formerly
of gold bullion. The bull of the
Pole Clement VII, comforting the
title of Defender of the Faith on
Henry VIII, had such q seal of
gold affixed to it.
Why is the X used as q mark?
Because Withered, King of Kent,
first adopted the sign of the cross
for his mark to his grants, be
being incapble of writing his name
The majority of the barons who
signed the Magma Charta, made
their marks, being ignorant of
the science of writing.
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American HnventIve Progress.

Under the above heading the
Scientific American of May 7th
had long and interesting article,
from which we make the follow
ing extracts:
To show with what rapldity
inventions embodying original
principales, says the Writer,it may
be noted that in the early days of
the sewing machine I16 patents
were granted for improvements
thereon in single year; and out
of the 2,6l0 patents issued In the
year 1857, 152 were for improved
cotton gins and presses, 164 for
mprovements on the steam en-
CINE, and 1913 for novel devices
relating TO railroads and improve
ments in rolling stock. In the
year 1858, three years after the
publication of this paper was com-
menced, but 600 patents were
granted; but under the stimulus
of publishing those inventions as
they were patened, ten years later.
in 1858, the number had increased
skiold, reaching 3,71O, while up
to January 1st, 1860, as already
stated, the aggregate of patents
issued amounted to 17,457; since
that time and up to the present
the total is Isl, 0I5.
And curiosity here leads US
(adds the editor) to review our
own work, extending back, say,
twenty years, or to 1858, a period
during which 170,745 patents have
been issued. We find, by actual
count, that 92,O62 applications
have been made through the
Scientific American Patent Agen
cy for patents in the United
States and abroad. This aver
ages almost ten applications per
day, Sundays excluded, over the
entire period, and the relation of
more than one quarter to the
total number of patents issuad
in this country up TO the time OF
writing.
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The Nsa= who Grew.

One day last week Detroit me
chaDic was going down Michigan
avenue, aud became favorably i'm
pressed with pair of pants bang
ling in front of q cheap clothing
store. The price was low, the good,
seemed all right and he made up hi;
mind to purchase.
81 Civ you de word of Andrew
Shackson dat dose pants are shusl
like iron," said the dealer. ''I war
rants dem every dime"
After three Or four days wear the
purchaser found the bottoms of the
pants crawling towards his knees.
1t was bad case of shrinkage, and
he got mad and went back to the
store and said:
| you swindled me on those pants
See how they have shrunk !"
The dealer looked him all over,
felt of his head, pulled down the
pants and finally said:
! Il shall give one thousand dollars
month if you will travel with
me-"
"HoW-what ?"
"You are shust growing right up
at the rate of two inches a day, and
l takes you areundt the country on
exhibition. Dose pants are shust
as long as efer, but you hat grown
out of dem."
81 don't believe It'll" shouted the
man; Il am forty years old, and
quit growing long agoi"
Il gift you de word of Andrew
Shackson dot you vas growing
Il don't care whose word you
giveI [ say these pants have shrunk
nearly a footI"
."Has de top of dose pants shrunk
down any ?" softly asked the dealer.
"Why, no."
Shouldn't de vaistband shrink
down shust as queek as dose bot
toms should shrink up? If ITS In
the cloth one part should shrink like
de odder, eh? When I sold you dot
elegant pair of pants for tree dol
lars don't suppose you vas grow
ing 80 fast, or l shall haf put come
straps on be bottoms"
"Well, don't like this way of
doing business" said the purchaser.
"Shust like me. If I sells such
elegant pants as dose to a man and
he grows out Of dem it damages my
trade. You have damaged me five
hoonered dollar, but haf low rent,
pays cash for neln goods, and can
make you dis fifty cent tie for five
cents"
The man walked ont to the curb
stone. and turning around shook
his fist and said:
You are only liar and a cheat,
and dare you out here"
"Such dings sink deep into my
heart" sighed the dealer as lie took
down his pipe. 81 dinks I sell out
dis peesness and pebbles some vases
arOuudt. Den when | sells to some
pody it makes no difference how
much he grow."-Free Press.
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SUSPENSION BRIDGE ALLRI,

SUSPENSION BRIDGE ALL RIGHr.-
An associated press dispatch
states that the engineers appoint
ed to inspect the Suspension
Bridge, have unanimously recon-
mended the resumption of passen-
ger traffic, and Great Western
trains have resumed that route. On
Tuesday the engineers made a
formal test of the bridge by fill
ing it from tower to tower with
heavy laden freight cars, the act
ual weight OF which was $50 tons.
The result was entirely satisfac-
tory. A still more trying test
was an informal enc made on
Wednesday night, when SO load
ed freight cars and four empties
broke loose in the Central yards
and run across the baidge at the
rate of fifteen miles an hour.
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A communication from one of the
representatives in Canada of a leading
firm of hardware merchants in Stat
fordshire contains the following in
relation to Canadian business: SCI
have just returned from a trip through
the lower provinces. ! find that the
whole country is over run by Ameri-
can travlers soliciting orders for their
manufactures at almost any price to
secure sale. l feel sure in my own
mind that very large portion of the
hardware trade Is altogether lost to
England. For instance, of Birming-
ham and Wolverhampton wares they
have secured many of the leading
hnes-namely, door locks, mortiee
locks, chest and till locks, cupboard
locks, butts and hinges, carriage bolts,
gas and boiler tubes, scales, and, to
a great extent, hollow wares. From
all can learn they are in a position
to retain the hold they have got"
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AgrIcul.nral Ite1n,

Mr.. HARRISON, of California, ha
5000 stands of bees.
France sent nearly SIT ,O00, coo worth
of butter TO England last year.
More Kentucky mules ara in de-
mand by Glasgow tScotland), dray.
men.
Less than ten per cent. of the area
of the Uuited States Is under cultiva-
ton.
The freight on lard from Chicago to
Liverpool, via Boston, is only % TO 55
cents per 100 pounds.
Four hundred tons of Canada press
ed hay have just been shipped from
Boston by steamer for England.
British Columbia farmers talk OF
turnips, Weighing fifty or sixty pounds
each, raised on their rich virgin soils.
Minnesota farmers are increasing
their culture of flax. The average
productions of seed per acre is about
seven and a-half bushels.
Rasp5erries, gooseberries and black
berries start to grow early In the
spring, so that either roots or cuttings
should be set early as possible.
At the four leading markets of Lon
Iion-Newgate, Aldgate, Leadenhall
and the New Meat Markets. much
as 400 tons of meat are sold daily.
The distribution of seeds by the Ag-
ricultural Department has ceased for
the season, except TO those districts of
the west which were afflicted by the
grasshopPer plague ia 1879.
The average yield of wheat per acre
in Iowa is twelve bushels, and intelli-
70 od hot
admit of no profit. They advise mixed
husbandry and more meat production.
There are various compositions used
for grating wax, but we have never
found one better than the following:
One pound of taliow, to two pounds
of beeswaX, and four pounds of rosin
melted together, and then poured into
water to cool.
Farmer Ezra Griesmer, of Berks
county, Pennsylvania, is made famous
in his own locality by having recently
threshed out one thousand sheaves of
machine forty years old. He knows
how to s'run wild de old masheen.'
The following facts are CLEANED
from the Illinois Agricultural Report
of 1875: The area of the corn crop
Of the State of Illinois for 1876 was
$685., 6S6, and the reported yield 2O8,-
1890; valued Cat 80 cents per bushel!
at S62, 992.541. The average yield was
2314 bushels per acre. The area of
meadow land for 1876 was 1,51S,75O,
an increase of 7O,976 over meadow
land for 1875. The total assessed
value of hogs in Illinois May l, 1876,
was $S,934,647; 1873 per cent. OF the
entire hog crop was lost by the dis
ease known as hog cholera. The as
sessed value of sheep for 1876 is 81, 399-
BOZ about 4 = per cent. of the sheep
in the State were killed by dogs.
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Disease spread by TaIIors.

The other day a delegation from
the Amslgsmated Society of Tail
ers waited upon the British Gov
ernmeut in the person of Under
Secretary Cross. Their object was
to lay before him some facts in con-
nection with what was called the
Sweating system" Onee'of the
delegation said he had seen instsn-
ces in which garments were lying
on bed in which fever patients
were suffering. There were a great
many instances in which such
things had taken place. They con-
sidered that if an employer got peo-
pie to take work home, he should
be bound to get the place to which
it was taken registered, and hoped
Mr.. Cross could see his way clear
to make it imperative that every
| shop used as tailor's workshop
should be so registered by the en-
ployer. A delegate from Manches-
| ter gave the results of visits to
1000 homes where this work was
carried on, aud stated that the con-
| dition of things was something de-
| plorable. La some cases four or
| five persons were at work in a
room nine by twelve feet. Some
times people were making these
garments in the midst of their do
mestic arrangements. From the
facts that had come under his knowl-
edge, he had no hesitation in saying
that the state of things required al
iteration, and that the people engag-
ed were in most unhealthy condi-
ton. They foand somewhere near
1900 people engaged in this way,
and all the surroundings of the
place were sRch az would foster and
spread disease. Another delegate
said in some instances in London a
man and woman would be at work
in small room at the top of house,
in which they lived and slept. The
people occupied in this were so
crowded together that the places
could not fail to foster and spread
disease. While people went to large
shops with snowy fronte, they did
not know that the clothes they pur-
chased were made in close and I'M
healthy rooms. He knew of a case
in which while the body of q child
who had died of smallpox lay dead
on the table, and two other child
rem were sick with the disease, the
man and the wife were at work in
the same room, and twelve fashion
able coats were in the room, which
would be sent all over the town.
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STATE NEWS.

Snipes are reported very numerous
this year.
Five or six hundred pounds of fish
are shipped from Lawrence daily.
A considerable quantity of sorghum
has been planted in Marshall county
The number OF persons now coming
into Kansas is estimated st 1000 pei
day.
j. w. Jones shipped 10000 dozen
eggs to Chicago from Atchison las
week.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, of Wichita, has reach
ed depth of 23S feet In his search
for coal.
Eighty car loads of steel rails have
arrived at Paola for the II. X. s. T
railroad.
Some fatal disease is making sac
ravages among sucking pigs in Mem
aha county.
Some vandal has cut down the only
solitary tree which Reno county
has possessed
A greyhound at Coffeyville, has
caught over 500 RABBITS this spring and
the past winter.
The coal boring at st. Marys pro-
crosses favorable, and a depth Of lie
feet is now attained.
Steamboats, laden with miners for
the Black Hills, are a common sight
on the Missouri river.
They are talking about damming
the Kaw three miles from its mouth,
at an estimated cost of $4,000.
Several floating logs taken from the
river near Leavenworth last week
were partly covered with half-chilled
young hoppers.
A child five years of age died at
Valley Falls April 22nd from eating
a part of buckeye, only living two
hours afterwards.
On Sunday, the 18th inst, 1926
was subscribed at the morning service
to extingulsh the debt of Plymouth
church, Lawrence.
Mrs. Hutson sold her oxen to raise
money to enter her land, and deposit
ed the money in the Coffeyville bank
the day before it suspended.
Levi Akers, of Miami county, has
been fined 800 and sentenced to six
months imprisonment, for killing and
wounding his neighbors' horses.
Served him right, the cowardly
Whelp.
A destructive cyclone passed through
Labette county last month. The
cloud was funnel-shaped and the end
scored the earth as with a plow. A
number of buildings were unroofed.
A boy named McCay, while on the
way from Hutchinson to Ellis county
in company with his father and an
older brother, was aecidenuy shot and
killed by the latter while putting his
rifle in the wagon.
The supply of beef needed at Fort
Leavenworth is $4,000 pounds per
month. The lowest bid received was
for troops, $685. per hundre1, and for
officers SO per hundred. The latter
eat the choice steaks, evidently.
There are 23O Smiths now on Fox
creek, as follows: Col. John Smiths
family OF 8, s. w. Smiths family of 8,
F. Z. Smiths family of 6, and Mrs.
=. A. Smiths family of 8; total, %.
Then there is Bill Smith, who owns
a farm on the creek but lives in town,
put him down as q cipher and you
have 2SO.-CottonwOOd Falls Leader.
Mr.. Carruthers, of Sedwick county,
was recently blowing, having lett his
spring wagon standing near the road
side. While going across the field
away from the road the wagon was
stolen, and was entirely cut of sight
when he turned back. Ne clue to the
heft.
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Active preparations are going
on for the immediate commence
ment of the longprojected work
of draining the Zuyder Zee. TAX
ing the average depth of water
at eight feet, it is estimated that
the work Of pumping will be com
pleSed in about sixteen wears
from its, commencement. The
total cost Of reclamation is set at
SCI, 100000, but, huge as the
sum is, the undertaking is conf
IDENTIFY looked upon as likely. to
prove most remunerative specu-
lation. The success of The
scheme will add to the kingdom
new province, nearly 100000
acres in extent. Judging from
previous experiences in connec-
ton with the Harlem Sea. it is
reckoned that at least 425. 600
acres of the land thus won will
be applicable to agricultural pur-
poses, which will richly repay the
enterprise and treasure layished
on the undertaking.
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NOTICE T0 TAXPAYERS.

COUNTY CLERK's OFPICR.l
ENPoRIA, KAs., May /, 1877.
NOTICE is hereby giyeR that the Board
IN Of County Com m issiooers of Lyon conn
ty, Kansas. will meet as a Board OF EquaIi-
zatIon at the County Clerks ONCE in the CITY
OF Emporia. on the first Monday of June, 1871.
and then and there proceed to fairly and i'm
partially equalize the personal property OF
said county; at which meeting all persons
Ieelng themselves aggrieved, can appear and
have all errors in the returns OF the assessors'
corrected l1s-3tl s. CRAIG, Co. Clerk.
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The Nation, in speaking of Pre-:

The Nation, in speaking of Pres
ident Hayes policy, says:
"There will be no trouble over
the Southern policy of the Pres
ident. But there are new issues
rising up to take the place of the old
ones, and over some of these there
may be a split. In little while
negro troubles in the South will
be thing of the past, and in
stead we shall be called upon to
decide whether we favor a national
currency, and a system of internal
improvements at the governments
expense"
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SheriR's Sale.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District, LYON
County, Kansas.
CHARLES J KEMPTOS,I
as.
ANDREW INES.
d I virtue OF an order of sale issued out of
n n the District Court of Lyon county, in
the 14th day of May, 1877, at liz O'Clock
a. m at the front door of the court house in
Emporia, Lyon county. Kansas. offer for sale
at public auction. to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described real estate, to-
wit: The east half of the southeast quarter
of section twenty, township seventeen, range
twelve, in Lyon county, Kansas.
san real estate will be sold as the property
OF the defendant, Andrew lines, to satisfy
said order OF sale.
Sheriff's Office. April ID. 1877.
HIRAM CONNER Sheriff
l5-oe Lyon county, Kansas.
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The trotter Rarus has been doing
some very rapid work in Calafor-
smith Maid, he was only half q
length behind the mare in the Sec
ond heat in 2 :l6s<. j. 81. .Conklin
writes that on April 9th j. Splann
drove him at San Francisco over q
rough track and good strong wind
blowing down the backstretch. in
2 10 the fastest mile ever trotted in
the State. He was in no company
to push him, and 1t is stated, after
the trial $S5, GOO In gold was offered
for him.