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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-10-06

BARLEY and hay were among the ship
ments this week 10 the Cargo Muchacho
mines.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-10-06

BABBIT METAL for sale at the SENTINEL
Office.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-10-06

JUICE PoRTEa left here Thursday to
hold court in Maricopa county.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-10-06

Col. II. c. HODGES book on Arizona is
said to b. out We have not yet seen it,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-10-06
Station for Sale.

TheU ldersigned offers for sale OATMAN
FLAT Station and toll road, with tools and
every thing complete. Price $500 currency.
A. II 3m. WIN. FOURR.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
WESTERN GRAIN TRADE.
The Direct Shipment Project-How 1
is Viewed In New York

The Direct Shipment Project-How it
Is Viewed In New York.
New York Bulletin.
kilograms from st. Louis state
that the old project, which had pre-
viously been undertaken and aban-
doned over and over again as i'm
practicable, TO open q direct grain
trade between that city and Liver
pool, is once more afoct. The scheme
is for the railroads centering at St.
Louis to combine with the elevator
companies, the Mississippi Valley
barge company and the ocean steam
ship companies,to pool the risks and
send cargoes of grain via New Or
leans to Liverpool and other Eu-
ropean ports. By this plan it is
claimed that the trade will be speed
lily built up. while the risks On ship
ments will be divided among all the
parties interested.
Investigation made here as to the
probable success of the new scheme,
shows that the project is open TO the
same objections which have always
been found TO exist, and New York
merchants are not apprehensive that
this movement will be any more
successful than former efforts in the
same direction. The trouble has al
ways been in the heating of the
grain in transit through warm eli
mates, and this is the case even now
with shipments made by the way of
New York. How much greater
would the difficulty be, then, when
grain in bulk would be sent through
the warm region of the Mississippi
valley, around by New Orleans and
through the Gulf of Mexico. The
experiment of kiln-drying has been
tried, but that adds to the expense,
and was not found to work we'll in
practice. Another obstacle is the
necessarily long ocean voyage, which
also adds to; the cost of transport.
Altogether, the scheme is not view
ed with favor here, and it is pre-
dicted that it will be found just as
impracticable as previous attempts
at diverting the trade in the pro-
posed direction. Oae leading grain
dealer here does not regard the
scheme as at all feasible, and says
unless the Originators have some
other designs or appliances for car
rying it out which are not apparent
on the surface, and of which mer-
chants have no cognizance, the whole
thing must unquestionably share
the fate or its predecessors and be
ultimately abandoned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
Cheap VIsItIng Cards,

The American AgrIculturist calls
attention to q sWindle of petty de-
tails, but large in the aggregate.
Eastern firms aud others are adver-
Using to furnish visiting cards at q
price which does not cover the cost
of good cardboard. These adVer-
tisements are directed to the young
people, and receive attention usual
ly from none but the young. The
first one or two orders from any To-
cality are filled promptly, as q rule,
and large inducements are offered
to agents. In this way 1t often hap
pens that some person IN the vicin-
ity consents to act as agent, and Sc
cure club larger or smaller, as the
case may be. The names and mon
ey are sent on, the advertising firm
pockets the money, and the agent
Is left to make good the loss of the
patrons who have ordered cards.
All this is bad enough, but the evil
does not end there. the lists of
names secured in this way are turn
ed over to the publishers of obscene
literature, who use the lists in di-
recting circulars, &c. The first ad-
vertisements for cards, SC. fire.
quently appear in the amateur pa
pers, where they escape notice, ex-
cept among the young. The Agri-
cuiturist advises all parents whose
children have sent their names for
these cheap cards to carefully SUI
peryise the mail matter received by
the children. 1t has been of late,
more than once asserted that iitera-
ture of evil tendency was more free
Iy circulated among the school child
rem of the country that ever before.
The exposure by the Agriculturist
seems to explain one reason why
| this is 80.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
PlaInness of Speech.

We remember reading a few
months ago, in college paper, ed
tied by girls, that reside was q bet
ter word than lire, and that young
ladies should use the former word
in preference to the latter. Some
times, without doubt, it If better to
say reside than live, and residence
instead of home, but the best rule
for AL persons, young and old, is to
use PLAN English words and not
those derived from Latin, Greek or
any foreign tongue. There is An oc-
casiOnal writer, like GibbOn or DIR.
johnson, who can safely indulge in
the ornate manner of speech. They
have g wealth and strength OF
thought that finds its fit vehicle of
expression in the pomp and magni-
fieence of Latin derivatives. But
such writers are rare and should
never be set before youth as safe
models for imitation. 1t is wiser
TO take Addison and Dean Swift,
Bunyan and the translators OF the
English Bible. The Saxon speech
Is the strongest, the most full OF pa
thos, OF power, of earnest passion.
The phrases that make the most re-
marked impression upon us and that
are longest retained In the memory
are made of short, simple, plain,
home like words.-St. Joe Herald.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22

deposits from the savings banks to
the United States treasury, and the
moment this is tried to any coDsid-
cradle exteat, the banks will be I'M
able to cash the deposits, and gen.
eral run would ensue which would,
In the condition of real estate val
ues, precipitate tie worst financial
criiss the country has yet seen.
While we hope that no such effects
may ensue, it seems as IL this posi-
bility or probability would be worth
taking into consideration by the ex-
perieDced and ssgaciOus finsncIers
who propose to fund the six per
cent.bonds in q shape that will make
them unquestionably payable In
gold only, whatever may be the
consequences to other interests than
those of bond holders.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
A CATASTROPHE.

No human being who saw that sight
But felt a shudder of pale alright,
He sat in a window, three stories high,
A little boy, with no one nigh
A stranger saw him, and stopped to stare;
A crowd soon gathered to watch him there.
4 CLEAN hutter lin airy flight
Came past the window butterfly bright.
From fields Of clover and perfumed air,
Wayfaring insect, what brought you there?
The baby saw it, and eagerly
Reached out to catch it with Growing glee-
With fat, pink fingers reached out-and fell
The awful horror, no tongue can tell
Poor little baby. so sweet and bright
Pale faces quiVered and lips grew white.
Weak women tainted, strong men grew weak
Up rose one woman's beart-piercing shrek
Hurrah for the awningl Upon the fly
1t caught the youngster and tossed him high
The bounce prodigious made baby scowl;
He caught his breath, sir. and set up howl
All blessed the an ming that had no flaw,
But u madden baby you never saw!
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
KANSAS.
The state Richer and With
Be1Ger Prospects than
Ever Before.

BeGGer Prospects than
Ever Before.
ROCKFORD, ILL, May 3O.-Your
correspondent has just learned
some very interesting and impor-
tsnt facts about a section of coun-
try which all the manufacturing
cities of Illinois are intimately con-
nected with. 1 allude especially to
the Estate of Kansas. DIR. r. p.
Lane, President of the Second Ma
tional Bank of Rockford, and a
gentleman of great observation,
has just returned from a long
Western trip, in which he seems to
have made critical examination of
the actual condition of the State of
Kansas. lie informed your CORES
pendent in an interview to-day
that he finds Kansas in an unex-
pectedly thriving condition. By an
admirably arranged system of
State statistics he found that no less
than sc, 100000 bushels of corn are
now in the hands of the farmers, as
they had large surplus from last
year. The winter wheat is growing,
and bids fair at this writing to be
the finest crop known for many
years. 1t is large and headed out,
and in the judgment of the Kan
sas farmer entirely out of danger
from either 'hoppers or drought.
The acreage of corn will be larger
for 1877 than any previous year.
Corn looks very promising, aud the
farmers have commenced to Guilt
vate it..
Many farmers are stocked with
fine cattle and a good many sheep.
The farmers are also getting back
their hogs which they had before
the drought and 'hoppers cleaned
them out. A conversation with
four or five of the leading bankers
of the State reveals the fact that the
financial condition of the people is
good. The banks haYe all of them
more money than is needed for the
ordinary business operations of the
country. There are happily but
few borrowers, for the reason, cap
italists say, that in most of the old
settled portions of the State farm
ers are out of debt, and if they
want to raise money have plenty
at grain or cattle to sell, which
they will do rather than ask dis
count at banks. Time loans made
on real estate are few and small
amounts; and we have it on the au-
thority of the best business men in
Kansas that they could lose this
years crop and still go on and pay
their debts.-Chicag Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22

the poultry and egg product of the
country equals that of cotton, and
IS but little behind that of wheat.
Here is a new branch of export,
capable of indefinite expansion,
there being no reason why Ameri-
can crystalized eggs should not go
abroad to an enormous extent, for
the supply of the great shipping
ports of Europe and South Ameri-
ca. In Lima, Peru. to illustrate,
eggs sell at 81 per doz, equal TO 81
per pound crystahzed. 1t is urged
that American Consuls should be
instructed to use their influence
more positively IN favor of Ameri-
can products, especially such as
have real merit and are not as yet
wide famed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
a Few Items for Mothers TO
kkead

A correspondent in writing to
the Middletown Press offers the
following seasonable suggestions
to mothers of afflicted children:
We hope that mothers will re-
member that good brandy is a cure
for sumner complaint; in bad Ca
ses teaspoonful in milk three or
four times a day.
A flannel cloth wet in hot bran
dy, or better, camphor and brandy,
mixed and heated, will relieve the
pain of the bowels, if frequently
laid over the stomach ana bowels.
Bits of scraped ice are better on
the tongue than drinks Of water.
For stings and poisons, a strong
solution of saleratus and water inn
mediately and then frequently APP
piled, gives relief and sure cure.
For burns, an immediate applI-
cation of flour covering the burn
and wrapped so as to exclude
the air; then burn lard until it is
quite brown and apply, and relief
and cure will soon come. Do not
wash off the flour if it clings, but
put the lard over it.
At night, in extreme warm
weather, lemon squeezed in tepid
water, to sponge off the tired-out
little body, will give rest to moth
er and child. Saleratus is good,
but lemon is best. Even washing
off the little feet, neck, and palms
of the hands, in tepid, never very
cold, water, will induce healthful
sleep.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
LEGAL NOTICES.
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.

GEALED proposals will be received at the
- County Clerks Office, in the city of EN-
poria, until noon of Monday. July I'd, 1877, to
build and place in position the superstructure
of a combination wood and iron truss bridge
across the Neosho river at Harttord-said
bridge to include two spans of eighty 1901
and one hundre IDOL feet respectfully, and
to be made substantially as required and set
the office of the County Clerk OF Lyon county.
Bidders must be prepared to close the con-
tract on day of letting, and give bonds to full
I'LL conditions of same. Payment will be
hand. and no payment will be made until
completion and acceptance of the bridge.
Masonry.
At the same time and place as above sealed
proposals will be received for the necessary
piers to support said bridge. There are three
piers fully set forth in the plan, all to be built
in frst-class pitch face work, laid in courses,
each alternate course q header, hammer
dressed to proper bed with no joint more
than three fourths ri of an inch thick, and
no course less than eight Isl inches thick,
with top course reaching entirely across the
pier, and to project six [6l inches entirely
around. The centre pier to be laid In best n.y.
an average projection Of four al feet with
the face hammer dressed to q smooth surface
the side piers to have face finished on every
side, and built same as centre one, except no
ice break, and to be laid up dry.
The stone to be used must not be less
lin face of piers) than two feet long and two
feet wide, and every stone must be three l3l
times as long and one and one-half times as
for inside filling must be of same thickness
as corresponding outside course.
The right to reject any and all bids is re-
served.
BY order of Board of Co. Commissioners.
j. s. CRAIG, Co. Clerk.
June 9Th, 1877. M-2t
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
NepOslsm to be weedea Out.

A New York Times special says
WASHINGTON, June 9th. - The
Secretary of the Treasury to-day
addressed a circular letter to
chiefs Of the various divisions in
structing them to inquire whether
any of their subordinates have
relatives by blood or marriage en-
ployed in the department, and to
report to him in writing the names
of such persons, with degree of
relationship and the positions
held. The issuance of this circu-
lar has caused great consterna-
ton in the department. Its pur-
pose is to ascertain whether two
or more members of the family
are employed, but the fear is en-
tertained that the Secretary is de-
termined to remove relatives with
out regard to their connection
with the same household or faml-
ly. There are notorious cases of
nepotIsm and instances where
those holding Office are abundant
~ able to support themselves with
out aid from the Government, and
to correct these abuses is the main
desire Of the Secretary. 1t has
always happened, however, that
this class has been passed over
when discharges have been made,
and the few who have been dis
charged were speedily restored.
An instance is related of a lady
now in National Bank Note Re-
demptlon Agency who receives
$1,000 per annum, and whose hus-
band is practicing physician in
Washington. There are numer-
GUS cases of this kind, and if Sec
rotary Sherman can succeed in
relieving the department of this
class he will accomplish what
some of his predecessors have at
tempted but failed to do. It is
scarcely possible Secretary Sher-
man proposes to dischage an eff
cient and faithful officer, the
head OF a family, because he may
have relative in the department
also the head of a family and an
equally capable officer. A judici-
Gus application of the rule about
relatives will promote the service
and work no injustice to individu-
ala.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
Us That Busfness.',

Mr.. j. T. Stevens, of Lawrence,
State Lecturer of the Grange Asso-
citation, seems to make the {" fur fly"
to speak metaphorically, wherever
he goes. 1t is only few days ago
that somebody down in Franklin
county was pitching into him for
being so severe in his remarks there,
and now we see the lowing re-
port of a spec III of his in CoWley
county which, if it had been made
by any outsider, would kick up
rumpus sure enough. However,
faithful are the wounds of a friend"
says the good book, and we pre-
marks, as he doubtless makes them,
in that spirit. We quote from the
COwley County Telegraph of May
9th:
Con Saturday last State Lectur-
er Stevens addressed the members
of the County Grange, and other
farmers, in the court mouse, and In
his address presented many whole
some truths. His entire lecture
was replete with telling points and
good advice, that If followed would
make the farmers mucn more pros
porous and a great deal happier.
lie advises cooperation, and
showed how the cooperative asso-
Citations of England had succeeded,
and what vast wealth they had &C.
cumulated in the space of thirty
years, and advanced this as proof
of what can yet be done in the
same way. After finishing up his
advice in this line, he then rolled
up his sleeves and gave the farmers
such drubbing as they have been
long needing-holding up, as it
were, a mirror before them and GER
tainly causing them to believe that
the poets wish,
SO wad some power the giftie gle us
To see Oursels as ithers see us,
had been especially granted to
Them"
Mr.. Stevens gave them q drub-
bling on almost every point, and ev-
en- the farmers themselves acknOWl-
edged that he had not said any too
much-that it was just what they
needed.
He raked them for buying a
whole raft of farming utensils and
machinery on time, and then leav-
ing them out in the weather all
winter-for failing to keep their
promises, and displaying SO little
Judgment in the management
of their business matters. Why, "
he said, eff the business men of
your to WINS had as little regard for
their word as has the average Kan
sas farmer, they could not buy q
dollars worth of goods ON time.
You will buy anything, from a
threshing machine down to an old
cart with wheels that will wsbble
oil over the prairie, whether you
need them or not, just so you can
get them on time. You give your
note, take your old cart home and
pile it up somewhere, and that ls all
the attention you give the matter
until some thirty or forty days after
the note is due you are in town,
and the man who holds the note
calls you in and tells you the note
is due; you express great surprise,
and sorry you cannot pay it to-day,
and probably in four or six months
after, if you can't put up some job
to cheat him out of it, you pay the
note" And then he asked the farm
ers '.if that was business"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
FruIt Prospects i'm the state,

In the proceedings of the State Hor-
ticultural Society at its recent meet
ing at Abilene, as reported in the
Dickinson County Chronicle, we find
the following reports of the condition
of fruits in various parts of the State /:
Howsley, Leavenworth - Peaches,
Hale's Early in good condition; also
Crawford's Early. The seedlings in
jured by curled leaf, and fruit Tell off.
Had given up all varieties of plums
except the Wild Goose, on account of
their liability to attacks from curculio.
Had eighty trees of Wild Goose heavy
lily loaded with fruit-which would
probably be thinned by this insect,
but would make fair crop. Imperial
Gage, also full, but might not be able
to save any from this insect. Pears
quite promising but not near q full
crop. Cherries,all but the Early Rich
mond failed-they about half q crop.
Apples never could have produced a
better bloom, but for some reason fail
ed to produce their fruit fully, but
will make from half to a full crop.
Straw berries a failure. Gooseberries
have widowed to quite an extent
Prospect for grapes good.
Mr.. Grub, Brown county-About the
same prospects as for Leavenworth.
DR.. Delhi, johnson ceunty-Pros-
poets the same as in Leavenworth
county, except the pear, which is do
ing well, also q good strawberry crop
Also report that gooseberries have NOT
widowed where the ground is under
drained.
Mr.. Wells, Pattawatomic county
Fine condition of fruit in general.
Dickinson county-But few ample
trees large enough to bear-prospects
good. Peaches, good prospect, but
trees afflicted with the clrled leaf.
Cherries, splendid prospects. Most
kinds of small fruit promise well.
DIR. Bohrer, Rice county-Peaches
suffering from curled leaf, except or
yearling growth. Most fruit trees in
orchard too young to bear. On his
trip found many dead trees.
Mr.. Van Demen, Allen county
Prospects for all varities good, except
the strawberry, which was q partial
| failure.
Mr.. Cutter, Davis county-Apples
bloomed profusely, but failed to set
reaches fair crop. Small fruit, ex-
cept strawberries, good.
Douglas connty-Apples generally
good. Peaches light. All sIaall fruit
except strawberries, good. Grape.
very good.
From the general discussion it Seems
that IN all parts of the State peacl
trees are affected with the curled leaf
and that in some localities this is con
fned 70 the seedlings, and in all case
the seeding are suffering the most.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER Kansas CRY,
EHPoRIA u SoUTHKBE RAILROAD.
EAPoRIA, June 9Th, 1877.
pIDS viii be received at this office until
II June 18th Tor the earth work and mason
~ on the first division OF the Kansas CITY.
Emporia and Southern railroad, from EN-
Poria 70 the crossing Of Verdigrfs river in
lhcations can be seen at the Office Of the Chief
Engineer, at Emp0ria, on and after June 10th.
1871. Bids will be received for all or any DOR.
ton OF the work. Bidders will be REQUIRED
to complete their contracts within ninety
days from date OF letting. The Company re-
or 70 alter Or change the line or grade Suc-
eessful bidders viii be required 70 give q sat
isfactcry bond 70 the Company for the due
completion of their contracts.
24-7t L B. FULLER, Chief Engineer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22

There are various ways of under
taking the reformation of the in
temperate. Some of them have been
long tried without much success.
Hard words have lamentably fail
ed and always will, since they mere
ly increase the modification and ir-
ritability from which the inebriate
has tried by his excuses to escape.
Criminal punishment makes "roun-
ders," steadily descending to abso-
lutte degradation and death. An alb
solute refusal of all help which can
do any good sends the offender to
the society of his old associat ties and
equals in infirmity; while mere pity
is of no more value than mere de-
nunciation. What the patient wants
is clip to help himself. If he has
good Intentions, it is everything to
him that they should be recognized
by others, and that he should find
himself respected just so far as he
is worthy of respectively York
Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-22
NOTICE TO LAND OWNERS

IS hereby given that the undersigned
commissioners appointed according 70
law, wiz on the 18th day Of July. 1877,
proceed to make appraisemelt and assess
ment OF damages for right Of way for the
Kansas City, Emperia and Southern rafI.
road, from the city Of Emporia to the
southern line Of Lyon county, through
such lands IS shall not before that time
have been granted 70 said company bv
the several owners thereby.
q. BORTON.
Van =. HOLMES,
9t5-t d. MuLcoNERYs