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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-06
PeopIe and ThIngs.

Ex-Treasnrer Spinner is the most
successful fisherman in Florida. The
secret of his success is said TO lie in the
fact that he uses his autograph for
bait, and the fish imagine it is q new
kind of worm.
A literary fiend says: Horrible as
It may sound, we are glad that war
is about 20 occur in Europe. The Rus
sian and Turkish names will kill off
the individuals who read aloud In the
grocery stores.
Millennium times have come to the
South. A contemporary remarks that
sFthe White-liner and the bulldozer can
now lie down with the colored lamb,
and all hands take Jamaica ginger
when they haYe the collie.
The architect who discovers q plan
whereby q double house may be built
so THAT you can hear all that Is said
next door without the people in the
adjoining house being able to hear 8
word that Is uttered in your side, will
haYe no reason to complain of a stag
nation Ia business.-Norristow Her
aid.
It is said that ssthe moon has gained
about an inch in rapidity of motion"
within the last hundred years. This Is
no doubt true, for young men VIII tell
you that when talking at the gate with
their sweethearts the moon goes down
much quicker now than it did when
they were boys waiting to rob a water
melon patch in the dark.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
tChildren and fools speak the truth
An unfortunate widower has found
out that this Is true. Preparing, not
long since, for ride with young la
dy, and desiring TO blind the eyes of
his housekeeper respecting his errand,
he very politely informed his little son
that he should go too. ''No, guess
not answered the little man in round
abouts. "WhY, yes; wash your face
and come along,' persisted the father.
ashanti do it,, replied the urchin.
''Why didn't you go?' questioned the
lady in charge, after the father had
lett; she wished It, I think. Didn't
ether retorted the boy; She said In
the bedroom he'd give me ten cents If
I'd stay at home boston Adv.
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rae Resources of tlae west.

EAe Resources Oh 1ae west.
West of the Mississippi and to
the south west, extending to the
canyons of Colorado, there is a
broad savannah, of a million
square miles of new, fertile, and
but partly occupied land, towards
which the moving population of
the world, and the restless ente:
prise of the nation is directed. A
growing power to one day hold
the destinies of this great nation
as in q palm. It is no exaggera-
ticn to say that a million beings
are annually crossing the father
of waters to make home in this
fertile region, aud that its popuia-
ton is increasing at that rate at
this time.
This is the great outlet for idle
people, for the surplus capital, the
machinery, manufactures, and sur
plus products of the Icons and
shops of the east. Any one OBJ
serving the steady tide swelling
westward with their loaded bag
gage trains daily crowding the
highways. will not wonder at the
increasing demand for implements,
manufactures and necessaries and
the increasing supply of products
seeking an outlet by our railroads.
Hard times always move an in
creased army of pioneers to the
new country, where a farm may
be had for the occupancy, and
gold and silver for the digging.
Where was the wilderness, the
Great American Desert the hand
of toll has touched it as with a
magic wand and broad acres of
grain and corn and cattle covered
pastures spread away beyond
view. The desert blossoms as
the rose. While st. Louis receiv-
ed from the West, but 100000
bushels of wheat in 1873, in 1876
she received 100000 bushels.
While she received 100000 bush
els OF corn in 1870. she in 1876
received $4,000, 600 bushels.
While she shipped, but 100000
tons of freight Westward in 1870,
she in 1876 shipped 100000, tons.
The cotton coming from Texas i'll
1870 was but $4,000 bales, in 1876
245. 900 bales.
The lead mined in Missouri in
1870 was $4,000 pigs, and in
1876 665, 900 pigs. So with every
article which is produced or con-
sumed by these new people. The
saw mills, -four mills, wooden
and cotton mills, foundries and
machine shops, wagon shops and
blacksmith's shops and the hard
ware and grocery stores are IN
creasing and extending as if by
magic. The man riding through
the Neosho Valley, the Arkansas
Valley, or by st. Louis and San
Francisco and the Iron Mountain
roads, will be astonished TO see
Villages, hotels, shops and manu-
featuring, where year ago there
were but the crossroads Age of
Steal
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IudRInH Wool.

Many farmers have been annoy
ed when selling their wool, to find
that the acute and practiced eye
of the wool buyer had detected
the fact that his sheep had been
allowed to run down to q low condi-
ton at some time during the grow
ing Of the fleece. They are half in
clined to think that the buyer is
merely trying to depreciate the
cost. AS matter of fact, there
is nothing which renders wool SO
useless for certain kinds of manu-
facture as unevenness or break In
continuity of fibre; and there is
no defect more common, and moth
ing that year by year touches the
sheep grower more severely on the
tender part of his anatomy-the
pocket. However good the wool
in other respects, the keen eye of
the buyer singles out the defective
wool. and down goes the price of it.
And it is not mere fancy that
regulates the prices, for the un-
even wool Will break at the
weak places during the first pro-
cess of manufacture. Some per-
sons suppose that this uneVenness
of fleece is hereditary in certain
animals, and uneveness might be
made hereditary by generations
of ill-usage and neglect. Rat a.
the wool Of an entire flock il
found to be uneven one year and
not so another, it shows that man.
agement has more 20 do with it
than descent. II sheep are allow
ed TO get INTO low condition, are
neglected, underfed, or not proper
~ attended to, the pores of the
skin will contract, and the wool
that issues will be OF very fine e.
bre. AS soon as the animal re-
covers a vigorous condition, the
pores again open and q longer
and stronger fibre grows. The
wool is thus weaker in one place
than in places at each side of il,
and breaks at the weak place on
the sligtest strain. Nothing in
duces unevenness more easily and
surely than want of water. It Is
q common notion that sheep can
do without water or . very little.
Ii supplied with roots they will
not want much water; but it is.
we'll and humane, too, that water
should always be within their
reach. Not only IL it important
that the fibres should be even, but
the feeces throughout should be
even as regards length, softness
and density and firmness.-Wis-
consin Farm Journal.
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Dean ora G,a.te.s. !.

Some particulars not here tofore
published in regard to the recent
death of Mrs. Ruth Beator are lust
made public. She was known to
the amusement world IS Fanny
Wallace, and resided in Bergen
township, Vernon county, Wis.
Her exact height was six feet four
inches and weight 5S5 pounds. Her
coffin was six feet eight inches in
ienght aud three feet six inches in
depth, and was lowered into the
grave By sixteen men. The door
of the house had 10 be cut ont two
feet in order to get the coffin in and
cut. Mrs. Beator had been q resi-
dent of that county for many years,
though absent great deal, having
been on exhibition ali over the UNI
ted States. She was q member of
the Advent church, and e native of
Pennsylvania.
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Fraternity between the Northern
and Southern Presbyterian Churches
is not so firmly established as has been
supposed. A communication from
the Southern Assembly, sitting in
New Orleans, to the Northern, In Chi
[cago, complains that the latter body
has not taken back the severe censures
of Southern Presbyterians uttered
during the war. The Southern Assem-
bly, wishes the Northern to declare
that these 'obnoxoious things were
said and done in times of great excite
ment, and are to be regretted, and
that now, on calm review, the i'm
putstions cast upon the Southern
Church, of schism, heresy, and bias
phemy, are disapproved." The dis
position of the Northern Assembly at
the time of this writing is to make to
the Southern Church no further over
lures than have been make.
Very important action was ia ken
by the Northern Assembly on the
question of Publishing Sunday news
papers, which came up on an appeal
Of the church at Sewickly, PennsYl-
vania. A report was adopted, in
which It Is set forth ''that any volun-
tary participation In the publication
and sale of Sunday newspapers is in
consistent alike with obedience to the
law of God and membership In the
Presbyterian Church. %
At Q meeting of ruling elders who
are commissioners to the General As
Isembly, the question of the partEcipa-
ton Of women in the exercises of
prayer-meetings was fully discussed.
Upon taking vote, forty elders, or
more than half, acknowledged that
in their churches the practice of such
participation was established. Fifteen
more declared In Its favor. The Board
Of Church Erection reported receipts
for the year Of sos coo, and balance
In hand of $4,000; 172 churches have
been built during the year.
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AS Butler is one of the counties
where THE NEWS circulates, we pub
lish the following abstract of the as
SCISSORS returns for 1877:
Number of inhabitants 1l,2SS:
acres under cultivation 99,863; acres
of winter wheat % ,679; rye $685. /:
spring wheat 6S211z; corn 80 ISL; bar
ley 519k; oats $40; irish potatoes
917; sweet potatoes $50; sorghum
COZ s1-2; millet and hungarian 7,173 ;
old corn on hand, March 1st, 1877 1888, :
Oh: produce of gardens marketed
SIS value of poultry and eggs sold
s., 252; pounds of cheese made s 1914;
pounds of butter made 264, 1913; num-
Der of horses 1870; mules and asses
762 mich cows 4,6l1; other cattle TO-
PSI sheep 3,111; swine 1856; value
of animals slaughtered or sold for
slaunhter 1923, 536; no of apple trees
in bearing 3,7l6; no of pear, SO; no
of peach 1897; plum, 2,170; no of
cherry 3,lS6 apple trees not in bear
ing 66,97I pear 1850; peach 2I2, e61 ;
plum 1855; cherry 1904.
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ROBBERS Dale Owen.

Mr.. Owen was an author and pol
itician and a son of Robert Owen,
the philanthropist. of Scotland,
Robert Dale was born in Glasgow,
November Z, 1901, and educated at
Hofwyl, Switzerland. Accompany
ing his father to America in 1925.
he edited with Madame Darius
mont, the New Harmony Gazette,
afterwards called the Free Inquirer.
He was afterwards member eff the
Indiana legislature from 1885 to
1S47; chairman of the Indiana con-
stitutional convention in 1849 and
Charge d'affairs at Naples in 1888.
After fifteen years labor he pro-
cured the passage of laws in Indiana
securing to women Independent
rights of property; and, during the
rebellion, he served on two impor-
tant government commissions. He
was prominent in the organization
of the Smithsonian Institute, and
one of its first regents. Among his
literary works were popular
Tracts" in 1880; "Moral Philoso-
ply" 1881 "Pocahontas," a drama,
1887; "Hints on Public Architec-
ture," in Smithsonian Contribution,
4to., 1S49; "Plank Roads," 1856 !;
f'Footfalls on the Boundaries OF
Another World, IS49 ''The Wrong
of Slavery, and the Right of Eman-
cipstioD," 1864; "Policy of Eman-
cipation," 1863, and "Beyond the
Breakers" 1869.
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The Jews Letter TO n Chris

Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga,
June 10Th, Judge Henry Hilton,
care of Messrs, A. T. Stewart &
Co., New York.-Dear Judge:
My family has for many years pat
ronized the Union Hotel, at Sara
toga, but were informed yesterday
by your managers that orders
from headquarters are to exclude
all Jewish families from the list
of guests that season, alleging as
q reason that there existed a preju
dice among Americans against
the people of that persuasion
which had injured the Union to
that extent last season that the
headquarters proposed to roost
them, namely, them all, without
exception; that all rooms except
garnet chambers were engaged.
Now permit me, dear Judge. in
your own interest and in the in
terest of Mr.. Stewards valuable
estate, the lions share of which
you seem to have acquired, to say
that you are adding to many seri-
GUS mistakes which you have made
since you have inherited that
estate, by refusing Abundance to
the Union hotel to large class of
people, irrespective of their re-
spectability, wealth and proper
bearing, merely to pander to a
vulgar prejudice, under a mistak-
en- notion that, by so doing, you
will fill the house with other ma
tionalities. You will find your
self mistaken. You are no judge
of American character The civil
lied world is beginning to be
more tolerant In matters of faith
or creed or birth than you believe.
They desplse intolerance, low
cunning and vulgarity, and will
not patronize him who seeks to
make money by pandering to the
prejudices of the vulgar. Iregret
that you are running the Union
at loss. 1 regret you are max
ing no Roadway In your wholesale
departments in New York and in
Chicago, anG that even the Ninth
street retail store, SO popular and
prosperous under the manage
ment of the late Mr.. A. T. Stew
art, has now lost its best patrons.
A little reflection must show to
you that the serious falling off in
your business is not due the
patronage of any one nationality,
but to the want of patronage OF
all, that you, dear Judge, are not
big enough to keep hotel, nor
broad enough in your views to
run a dry goods store. You have
tried competition with experience
ed and popular houses in the
manufacture of carpets, of wool
ems, of silks and of scores of ar
ticles of minor Importance, and
you have succeeded in none, and
you never Will, and 1 would cs-
pecially volunteer the advice, for
which l charge you nothing, al
though you once charged $4,000
for an advice which was worth
nothing; that if you want to save
the rest of the once valuable
estate of Mr.. Stewart, that you
advertise large auction and sell
your merchandise and your hotels
to the highest bidder, and no mat
ter at what sacrifice you get rid
of them, you will come out better
than by holding on to things you
cannot intelligibly manage.
Trusting that you will SO avail
yourself of friendly and dislnter-
ested advice, 1 reman, dear Judge,
Yours, very truly,
Jos. SELIGMAN.
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SheriRs Sale.
District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
county, Kansas.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District. Lyon
county. Kansas.
A. s. KIHBALL.
De.
8. L. DAVIDSON, ct dI.>
DY virtue of an order OF sale, issued out of
ID the District Court Of Ly on county, Kan
sas. in the above entitled cause, I will, on Mon
day. the Sd day Of July. ISL. at 10 O'Clock q m.
at the front door Of the court house in En-
poria, Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale Mt
public auction, TO the highest bidder for cash,
the following described real estate, to-wit:
The southeast quarter of section nine. town.
ship sixteen, range eleven; the southwest
quarter of section ten, township eighteen,
range ten; the northeast quarter of the south
west quarter OF section seventeen, township
twenty, range eleven; northeast quarter OF
section twenty-seven, township twenty, range
eleven; west half OF the northeast quarter
and east hair Of northwest quarter Of section
6ye, township nineteen, range eleven; south
east quarter OF northeast quarter OF section
thirSy-oue, township nineteen, range twelve:
south half of northeast quarter OF section
eight, township sixteen, range twelve, in
Lyon county, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold Is the property
Of the defendants, 70 satisfy said order Of
Sheriff q once, May SOth, 1877.
Est. HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff.
LYON county. KanRAs
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NoTIcE I0 LAND 0WNERS

Is hereby given that the undersigned
commissioners appointed according to
law, win On the 18th day Of July. 1877,
proceed 20 make apprsisement and assess
ment Of damages for right Of way for the
Kansas City, Emporie and Southern rail-
road, from the city OF Emporis to the
southern line Of Lyon county, through
such I2nds - shall not before that time
have been granted 70 said company by
the several owners thereby.
L. B0RroN,
Van r. HOLMES.
a st H. AULeoNERY.
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sheriR's Sale.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
County, Kansas.
III. PICKERELL,
%.
8. W. FIFZGKRRALD, ct dI.D
DY virtue OF an order of sale issued out
ID Of the District Court, sitting within and
for the county of Lyon in the above entitled
cause, will, on Monday, the sd day OF
July, 1871, at eleven O'Clock o. II. 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
northeast quarter of section six l6J. township
nineteen he, range eleven I'LL in Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
OF 8. W. Fitzgerald, ct al, TO satisfy said
order of sale.
Sherifr IS ONCE, June 20, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
asst Lyon county, Kansas.
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JACKSON.

Acres land cultivated, s.75s; not cult
waited, 6,T36. Acres winter wheat sown
fall '76, 1T0; rye, PIG. Spring wheat sown
III, 101; corn, 6,5es; barley, %; oats, 46S.
Irish potatoes planted. 40; sweet pota-
toes, 4; sorghum, %; millet and Hungs.
rian, 2T8. Old corn on hand Mar. LIST, III.
50 $40 bushels. Acres meadow, timothy
s5<; pralrie, $3.50. Acres pasture limo
thy. 8; prairie, S67. Garden produce mar
keted, $2O2. Poultry and eggs sold dur
ing year, S638. Pounds cheese made in
factories, 8,6OO-prIce 1Icfb. Pounds but
ter made, q, CSC. No. horses In township,
08s; mules and asses, 45; mIlch cows,
i,06s; other cattle, Asa sheep. 795;
SWINE, 746. Value animals slaughtered
and sold for slaughter, SIS 92. Hogs that
died Of cholera year ending Mar. 1st,'77, 1.
Sheep that died during year ending Mar.
lat pi7, o. Pounds wool produced, 1,5S0.
No. apple trees bearing a.s24, not bear
ing Asa; pear, bearing g, mot bearing
4o0; peach, bearing 1901, not bearing
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Some men have very peculiar tastes.
La one Of the daily papers recently we
found the following advertisements -
Wanted, = boy 70 sand-paper." Now,
why did that man yearn for q chance
70 sand-paper q boy? II he must
sand-papar someth' ng, why couldn't
he be satisfied to rub post, or his
aunt. or even the top Of his own head |?
There Is something morbid In this In
Suitable longing for boy to polish OF,
and Is seems to Us some check ought
% be put on the man.-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
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SheriR's Sale.

District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
county, Kansas.
CHAS. e. BUTTERs,I
C. F. PIERCE & COS
DY virtue OF al order of sale issued out OF
Id the District Court, sitting within and
for the county of Lyon, In the above entitled
cause, Will, on Monday, the Esd day of July,
1877, at ten O'Clock q. m, at the front door Of
the court house in Emporia, Lyon county.
hansas. ofEer for sale at public auction to the
scribed real estate, to-wit: The northwest
quarter Of section eleven iii. township sew
enteen III, range eleven III, in Lyon c0un-
ty, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
of the defendants, c. =. Pierce & Co., to salts
~ said order of sale.
SheriR's Office, June 9th, 1871
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff.
Asst Lyon county, Kansas
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NOTICES
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.

@ EALED proposals will be received at the
- County Clerks Office, in the city OF EN-
poria, until noon OF Monday, July 30, 1871, to
build and place in position the superStructare
across the Neosho river at Hartford. Said
bridge to include two spans of eighty 1901
and one hundred (100l feet, respectively, 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 eceptance 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 first-class pitch face work. laid in courses,
each alternate course q header, hammer
dressed to proper bed, with no Joint more
than three fourths [xl of an inch thick, and
no course less than eight tSl inches thick,
with top course reaching entirely across the
pier, and to project six t6l inches entirely
around. The centre pier to De laid in best hy-
an average projection of four l4l feet, with
the face hammer dressed to a 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 Tin
face of piers) than two feet long and two feet
wide, and every stone must be three I3l times
as long and one and one-halt times as wide
side filling must be OF same thickness as cor
responding outside course.
The right to reject any and all bids is re-
BY order of Board OF Co. Commissioners
June 9sth. 1871. 26:2s
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STATE GOVERNMENT,
CITY OFFICERs,

Mayor-Thos. Morrison.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap. $3.50 sst
Police Judge-Geo N. StOwel.
City Attorney-J. Jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. Forde.
1arshal-Thos. FlemminR.
Chief Engineered. e. McMurtric.
Councilmen-1st Ward, A. A. Baker, !. f :.
Perley. I'd Ward, II. b. Lowe, j. Ii. Davis.
Sd Ward, John Henson, e. p. Bancroft. 9TH
Ward, Ed. Borton, e. Nichols.
Board of Education-1st Ward, J. Jay Buck
n. T. Nix. Sd Ward, ii. W. AcCune, L. l..
Halleck 4th Ward, j. A.Moore, l.. Is. Kel-
logg. Treasurer Board Of Education, d. w
Eastman.
Justice Of the Peace-C. B. BachelIer, Geo.
CoHstables-T. johnson. II. W. Gilchries
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Estimatipp the produce of an ,

Estimating the produce of an acre
in oats at so bushels, they will con-
tain $50 pounds OF flssh-forming
food and 672 pounds Of fattening
food; while three tons of hay off
the same acre will carry $50 pounds
fiesh-formers and 2,790 pounds of
fat-fOrmers. Hay is q standard food
for cattle.-Exchange.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

Judge District Court-E. b. Peyton.
CLERK District Court-G. w. Frederick.
Sherih-Hiram Conner.
Attorney-T. N. Sedgwick.
Treasurer-Jos. Ernst.
Clerk. 8. Craig.
Register Of Deeds-F. 3. Page.
Supt. Pub. Instruction-O. B. Wharton.
Surveyor-Harry Hibben.
Probate Judge-E. w. Cunningham.
COroner-DR. b. HI. CHIrTENDEN.
I'd. 8. GILMORE,
Commissioners-$I u. A. TAYLOR,
IT, a. WOOD.
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TMPoRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
IL Rooms over Emp0ria National Bank.
Open every afternoon from to 8; every eyeng
Ing except Friday, from TO 8. Life member
room nee. % c. HcMURTRIK, Preg't.
J. II. STEELE, eec'y. = 80 81 :
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San Francisco seems to be an un-
healthy place for children. During
the year ending with May last, S73
children died of diptheriA in that city.
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KNIaHra OF PYrHTAa

DAMASCUS LODGE meets In Odd Fell
IL lows hall every Monday evening.
Members in good standing are cordiallytin-
viked to attend. n. RYNO, c. c.
W. T MCCARTY. z. r s. -
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The tax levy ia Cincinnati is three
per cent. on an assessed valuation close
TO the full market value Of property.