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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

The intrinsic value financiers,
who take a Mexican silver dollar
for only 80 cents, and the United
States silver dollar for 100 cents,
will please read the following:
The director of the mint states
that the full weight of the M eXican
dollar is 4l7.790536 grains, and its
fineness 902.777. The American
standard silver dollar is 4l21& grains
weight and 900 fine. AS silver bull
lion the Mexican dollar 10 now
worth about 81 cents our dollar as
silver bullion is worth S9.43 cents
Measured by the gold stardar d.
Our dollar being a legal tender it
can be used for 100 cents. The
Mexican dollar not being legal ten
der is worth what it will bring at
bullion, at present only 90 cents.
1t does appear then, that the Civ
ing of legal tender power to a dol
lar, even specie dollar, does have
the effect of raising its value
above the value of dollar that has
the most intrinsic value of the two.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
Rnn6 NnfIca

NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition
IN mas been presented 10 the Board of
County commissioners OF Lyon county, ask
ing for the location of . county road as fol-
lows: Commencing at the southeast corner
OF section thirty-twO, township eighteen,
range eleven; thence west on section line 10
the southwest corner of section thirty one
township eighteen, range eleven; thence
north on section line to the northwest cor
ner of section thirty -One, township eighteen,
range eleven; thence west to the north
west corner of the northeast quarter of
section thirty-six, township eighteen. range
tens thence north to centre of section twenty
1--WE, township eighteen, range ten, which
point is the termination of said road.
And we would further ask, that all that
portion of the Emporia and Americas road
mat lays between the south line Of section
twenty -one, township eighteen, range eleven,
and the northeast corner of the Southwest
quarter of section twenty-five, township
eighteen, range ten, be vacated.
And whereas, j. B. Moon, j. Grant and T.
Z. Hall were appointed and ordered to meet
az the beginning of said road on the 10th day
OF August, 1878, at ten O'Clock, a M to view,
survey and locate said road and give to ali
parties a hearing.
By order OF the County Board
81 65z WIN. T. EW1NG, County Clerk
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

PRED, the right to go on and sell up
to any time prior TO the filing of
redemption claims, then the COM
pany can resort to sham sales at
once and practically bar other per-
sons from following Mr.. DudY-
motifs example. If it had not the
right to sell at all after The three
years were passed, then all its sales
since the expiration of those three
years have been illegal and it must
disgorge. If the railroad company
had the right to sell after the three
years were mp, it still retains it,
and can very quickly organize a
wheel within a wheel, and thus
put its lands out of the reach of
Secretary Schurz's ruling. The pre-
empt0r would then be met by the
company's statement that the tract
he filed an application for, was sold,
and none could afford the legal con-
test which would result. That the
ACSSA SbNl . "1bC anu
courageous ruling is doubtful on
this very important point is to be
regretted, and he had best save set
tiers time and trouble by a supple
mentary ruling so plain that there
can be no doubt as to whether or
not the company lost its right to sell
after the three years exclusive priv
ilege expired. We are inclined to
think that the Secretary means that
the company may go on and sell any
unpre-empted lands, and in that
case it will certainly not be slow to
dispose of all desirable lands in a
lump to some ostensible purchasers,
and thus save to itself the very
large amount which it had expected
to realize from year to year from its
land department. His concluding
words are as follows:
If the views l haye expressed in
relation to the sale and disposal of
said lands are correct-and l see no
reasons to doubt their correctness
the sale and disposal of lands in the
conditions OF those applied for, if
unsold at that time by said compa-
ny, is clearly within the jurisdiction
of the land office, like other lands.
By the terms of the grant by which
said lands, or proceeds which shall
arise from the sale thereof, Injured
to said company, it is provided that
the land remaining unsold at the ex-
piration of three years from the time
when the entire road was compile
ted, shall be subject to settlement
and p Exemption like other lands,
at a price not exceeding 81 % per
acre; in other words, that said
lands shall revert to the public do
main for sale and disposal for said
company under the presumption
laws of the United States; and
whether it be considered that said
lands are public lands in q general
or special sense, cannot, in nv opin-
ion, affect the jurisdiction of the
land office in making sale and dis
posal of the same.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

booked after mine, it is having a
good run. II has good rooms at 50
per day, and an elevator. The saw
ing of $I50 is an item in these
times. 1t is centrally located and
can accommodate 500 guests. We
can recommend it to people coming
to Chicago who wish good accom-
nom odati ons at the figures quoted,
and all this without having our shat
chalked."
l have seen but little of the city.
1t seems lively, though there are q
large number of cards, "for rent"
in use. There are undoubtedly
heavy Gales among the business
houses, but we learn they are made
at such low figures that there is lit
tie profit. There is little or no
building going on in the business
part of town, if we except the gov
eminent building, which has made
but little progress in the last year.
The tax question is still in bad
shape. Chicago is certainly going
through the financial mill, ami it is
a serious question as TO what is to
become of her debt. 1t is stated
that her cases in bankruptcies for
the first six months of this year foot
up nearly 100000. st. Louis, in
the same time, only lost little over
100000. If kind providence, or
the fellows who are running the fl
nances, could discover some way to
let Chicago out of her present
trouble, we doubt not she will come
out all right.
Barnum's great show opens for a
week here tomorrow, and as l
write 1 can hear the wild beasts
and rare birds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
Southwest.

Wichita has organized Board of Trade.
Ellinwood is organized as city OF the
third class.
Butler county has organized an agricul-
tural society. -
The Blade is the name of a new paper
recently started at Walnut City, Rush
county.
George Monroe, late Of Arkansas City,
was murdered near Seward, Nebraska,
few days since.
Judge W. r. Brown is candidate for
the legislature in Reno county. So says
the Hutchinson News.
The rear of the Congregational church.
at Kinsley, was struck by lightning on
the night Of the 10th ult.
Sterling is to have a new hotel to be
built by a stock company. About $4,000
stock has been subscribed.
The farmers of Sedgwick county an
nounce mass convention to consult as to
farming interests, marketing crops, etc.
The wife of Wichita eating house pro-
prietor eloped with 'Egay lothario,' after
Inc pair AAu uEuSBeQ the husband and
robbed him of $65. He is disconsolate
over the loss Of the money.
A shooting scrape near Harris Mills in
Chautaqua county resulted in the serious
wounding Of q Mr.. Bybee, at the hands
Of Mr. Fell. Bybee has been suspected of
stealing horse from Mr.. Fell. ~
The Arkansas City Traveller saws the
commissary at Ponea Agency was COM
pleted last Thursday evening, the total
cost being 8, $50. The building is 24xTO
feet, ten feet high, and contains i've rooms
two offices, store, council room and
store room,
Thomas Henley, residing FIVE miles
southeast OF Eldorado was struck by
lightning and instantly killed, last Tues
day, while stacking hay near his house.
The bolt came down out OF a bright cloud.
there being no rain at the time. The cur
rent struck the pitchfork, glanclng OF in
70 the head Of the deceased, fraeturing
his skull and burning OF his entire ehOth-
ing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
AN OLD STORY.
South Carolina Resistance to U. s.
Authorities,

COuLn OarOllna Resistance TO U. b.
Authorities.
Another opportunity for "concil-
iation" has been furnished in South
Carolina. The doctrine of State
Rights is the question at issue, and
the South Carolina spirit, old as the
days of Calhoun, has been manifest
ed. The case is this: Last June a
deputy q. S. Marshal with a posse
of three revenue collectors went to
arrest an illicit distiller. in Pickens
county, whose employees offering re-
sistance, one of them was killed by
a collector. The four officers were
indicted for murder. Section 634 of
the revised statutes prov ides that,
"when any. civil suit OF criminal
prosecution is begun in any court
of State" against a revenue officer
of the United States "for any act
done under color of his office, or of
auy law or of any right, title or au-
thority claimed by such officer or
other person under any such law"
then "the suit or prosecution may
be removed at any time before the
trial or final hearing thereof; for tri-
al before the Circuit Court next to
be holden in the district where the
same is pending"
Under the provisions of this stat
ute the U. S. district attorney ap-
piled to the Judge of the State court
for a removal of the case to the U.
S. courts. Judge Kershaw, ar ex-
rebel general and fire eater, has re-
Gently given a lengthy decision re-
fusing this transfer of Jurisdiction,
declaring the law unconstitutional
and threatening that the whole pow
er of the State must be overcome
before the pri soners will be sur
rendered. He refused bail to the
indicted men, who now remain in
Jail and thereupon a writ of habeas
corpus was obtained by the govern
HAOhL nbSOA hCy IIOLA LAC SICIh "a lAC
U. S. Court, and served by the mar
shall on the sheriff having custody
of the prisoners. He refused to rec
ognize the writ or give up the pris-
oners, thus openly defYing the U. S.
authorities. The President and At
tOrney General propose to act
promptly, and issue will be square,
ly Joined with the South Carolina
courts. Threats are freely made by
the press of that State, that any at
tempt to transfer this case accord
ing to the statute, will be resisted
by force; but the law must be en-
forced. If it is not, the violators of
the revenue laws are without re-
straint, in fact, are virtually under
State protection; and it is we'll that
little South Carolina should learn
that too many times has she placed
herself in open defiance of national
authority.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

p. d. Maxson has succeeded U. F.
Sargent as Chairman of the Green
back State Committee, and Mr.. Sar-
gent becomes Secretary. Every
man of common sense in that party
feels that it was a great mistake
not to kick Sargent clear out. He
seems to be the biggest blunderbuss
that ever undertook 10 run a party.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
RO0d Nnfice

NOTICE is hereby given, that petition
IN has been presented to the Board OF
county Commissioners of Lyon county, Kan
las, asking for the location of q county road,
as follows, tO-wit: Commencing at the south
west corner of Emporia TOWNSHIP; thence
running west in the quarter section line to
the southwest corner of the southeast quar-
ter or the northeast quarter of section six
teen, township nineteen, and range eleven, to
meet the already established road running
west which is the terminus of said road.
And whereas, James NeWlin, Geo. B. Cooper
and Lewis lIutz, were appointed and ordered
70 meet at the beginning of said road, ON the
18th day of August, 1878, at 10 O'Clock a. m .
and in con junction with the County SURVEYOR
view, survey and locate said road, and to give
to all parties hearing
BY order OF the County Board.
WA. +. EWING,
3l&35 County Clerk.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

The two rival steam wagons,
Green Bay and Oshkosh, competed
on the 10th, for the prize of $4,000,
offered by the Wisconsin legislature
for a successful land locomotive.
The Green Bay broke down at Ev-
ansville, and the Oshkosh finished
the trip successfully. Both were
then shipped back to Madison on a
railroad car. 1t would seem as if a
successful land locomotive could go
back home itself, and not depend on
being shipped by rail.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
Senator Plumb Gives the Army Com
mission Some Wholesome Advice.

WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator
Plumb of Kansas, a member of the
joint commission of Congress on
the reorganization of the army, has
not attended any of the meetings of
the commission, which is holding its
sessions at White Sulphur Springs.
He leaves for his home to-day and
has sent word to the commission
that in his opinion, it would be wise
to change their place of meeting to
some point on The frontier, where
they can observe the workings of the
army on active duty. He has urg-
ed upon Senator Butler the impor-
lance of forming subcommittee
and visiting the important military
posts in the West, where the rou-
tine of army life can be seen and the
committee be aided by actual obser-
walton in adopting the proposed re-
forms and suggested changes. 1t is
understood that a majority of the
commission favor the plan of Sena-
tor Plumb, and that he will have an
opportunity to'meet his colleagues
in the West.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

Professors Gilbert and Hayden
are to try novel balloon race at
Cincinnati, at an early date. Hay
den bets $500 to $500 that he will
rise higher and stay up in the air
longer with the balloon Levisteele,
holding $4,000 feet of gas, than Gil
bert can with the balloon Aerken-
backen, holding $4,000 feet of gas.
Each is to send a man with the rival
balloon to measure the heigth attain
ed and to report the time of suspen-
sion. This is the best chance to go
on "bust" we have heard of.
Would it not be a good way to de-
eide presidential contests
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

Last spring a district court at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, committed Mrs.
Ida Price to Jail for contempt of
court in refusing to DELIVER up her
child to her divorced husband, the
court having so ordered. On the
10Th ult. the supreme court of that
state ordered her release, on the
ground that she was improperly
Imprisoned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

Elsewhere will be found the Kan
sas Greenback platform, and call for
q Greenback Congressional conven-
ton for this district. We have ma
ny greenback readers who want to
keep track of what that party is do
Ing, and we do not intend that they
shall need to seek any other paper
for the information they desire.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

Surgeons now amputate a mans
leg without hurting him or BULLDOG
ing him with chloroform. A spray
of carbolic acid is thrown into the
wound, and the patient contem-
plates the work of the instruments
with calm admiration.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

Mrs. Maria IL. Brown, wife Of the col
Ored Baptist preacher st Junction City,
was fatally burned by the explosion Of .
can cf kerosene, At junction City, last
Sunday. Her mother and sister were al
so badly injured.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

NOTICE is hereby given: That the follow
IN ing described school land, situate in
Loyn county, Kansas. will be offered for sale
at public auction, at my ofilce in the court
house in Emporia, on Saturday, the 94th day
OF August, 1878. Said sale to be open for bids
from 10 O'Clock a. m until O'Clock ~ M Of
said day-tO-Wit: r.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
Road Nofice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition
IN has been presented to the Board OF
County Commissioners of Lyon county, Kan
as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the north
west corner Of section fourteen, township
seventeen and range eleven; thence west on
sections ten and fifteen, nine and sixteen,
eight and seventeen, seven and eighteen, OF
township seventeen and range ten, which is
the terminus OF said road
And whereas, T. b. Maxson, John w. 10y
ana Worthington McCreary were appointed
and ordered to meet at beginning of said road
on the 14th day Of August, 1873, to view, sur
yey and locate said road, and TO give to all
By order OF the Board of Commissioners
July 2. 1873. WIZ f. EWING.
31&82 Countv Igsrt
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
Republioan County Convention,

The Republicans of Lyon county will meet
In delegate convention at the court house, in
the city OF Emporia, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1873,
at 10 O'Clock a. m, for the purpose OF placing
In nomination candidates for county officers,
as follows:
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
PROBATE JUDGE.
COUNTY ATTORNEY.
COUNTY SUIT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
COUNTY GENITAL COMMITTEE.
Upon the adjournment Of the county con-
Ventton, the delegates in attendance from the
S2l and SD representative districts, respect
lively, will meet in district convention, and
each put in nomination a candidate for rep
resentative; and select a district committee;
and choose delegates to the state convention
70 be held at Topeka, August 18th, 1873; and
also delegates TO the Congress- Onal convcn-
ton TO be held Mt Wichita. August 18th, 1873
The county committee have appOrtioned the
number OF delegates to which Lyon county is
entitled in the Congressional convention rs
follows: For the sal district, delegates; for
the SD district, 3 delegates.
The representation from the several voting
precincts in the county convention, will be as
follows.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
i'm L. r. BAILEY. Agent.
NOTICE.

fEIHE undersigned gives notice: That he
l. was on July 27th, 1878. appointed by the
Probate Court of Lyon county, Kansas, ad-
of the estate of George easier
deceased. 81 -3t+ H G. PHELPS.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
WANTED.
FOR SALE.

WTANTED-Ten tons cast scrap iron at
w EmpOria Foundry. Cash pail 2l-tI
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

DEACH TREES for fall of 1878 at 10 cts
l. each where variety is taken 1 can
furnish variety from the EmpOria TO the
latest, largely of Alexander, including most
OF the Old and new popular varieties. Coos
berries and Blackberries Is Cts per dozen:
pie plant 80 cts. per dozen.
CHARLES HINSHAW,
Silt AmericIs kas
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
DELEGATES.

The primary meetings will DC held Satur
day, August 81. at O'Clock p. m, in the coun
try precincts; in the city at y. IN.
Ed. BoRTON, Chairman
j. NJ. KERR, Sec'y. Co. Central Com.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

EOR SALE.-3S head of prime two and
three year old steers, at my residence,
miles west of Americas.
3l-9t SACK Eft
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

The term interconvertible in sec
ton four, means that the holder of
say $40 in greenbacks has the right
to exchange them at any time for a
$40 bond drawing three per cent.
per annum, and the right at any
time to hand over his bond and get
back his greenbacks, with whatever
interest might have accrued on the
bend while he held it. This would,
Of course, necessitate a postal bank
system, and largely abolish the pres
emit amount of bank business, but q
postal bank system, once adopted,
would be as easily understood and
as popular as the present money or
der system is.
When the time comes that the
Gresnback party can largely con-
troll legislation, some compromise
between conflicting interests will
have to be adopted, and it is safe to
say that the interconvertible bond
viii then be found worth at least an
attempt to understand, and that
most of the men, hard money and
paper money, who have so far
thought it not worth their attention,
win ultimately agree that it is the
only solution of the problem. G.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

A NY one wishing to buy two good heavy
~ farm horses, wagon and harness, will do
well to see 30-StE NOSE lOPPOER
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

NOR SALE, the property of II. j MaItby.
H. II. MS. Madras Civil Service, EmpOria
HORSES Stud horse, Veto, weight 400
pounds, IA hands high. Veto is by Kentucky
whip, out of a Morgan dam, and is ID years
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

TTIH0SE wishing sweet corn to dry will
II please leave orders at the Grange store.
SO-St j. v. RANDOLPH
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

IME for sale at my residence, i've miles
- southeast of EmpOria, Kansas.
SO-u w ROSS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02

TIVE DOLLARS REWARD.-Strayed
- from Dow Greek, Lyon county, Kansas,
about the LIST of April, one brown or dark
bay three-yeaF old Highlander iiily; gOod
size, long. slim tail, some white on right hind
food between fetlock and hoof on inside with
some black spots in, and think little on left
hind foots anne place. The above reward will
be paid to any one who will give information
that Will lead to the recovery of same at hard
ware store OF Louis Litz. EmpOria, or
p. II FINLEY
DOW creek, Lyon County, Kansas, or address
me at kmPoria pOstOhice. 3O.tf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
FIVE CENTS A LINE
ESTRAY,

STRAYED-Fromt the subscriber early last
- spring one bright bay mare years old.
about 10 hands high; both hind feet white;
'front.' teet black; white spot in forehead also
= Whlte stripe on the nose; small white spot
on the point OF right hip; II brand on lett
shoulder resembling figure Z; branded on
right shoulder with figure 8. A clever re-
ward for her whereabouts or return 10 me.
Hl-ff 4
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-01-17
Talk With the Bark On.

The jackson Tribune an Sun say
of the schemers and demagogues in
the Legislature who defeated the
settlement of the State debt ques-
ton: Public opinion will yet hold
these men to fearful accountable
ty. Though they have temporarily
branded every man in the State in
the face of the world as a party to
scheme to repudiate the State
debt, simply by virtue Of his citi
zenship, yet when the cyclone of
popular indignation comes, as it will
come, under the singing disgrace of
the State and her people, such would
be leaders will be destroyed, root
and branch, and the pople will re-
member them only to curse their
memory. Judas Iscariot betrayed
his trust with protestations of love
on his lips, and the man who says
he loves his State and people, while
he leads or seeks to lead them into
reputation, finds in the treacherous
apostle his prototype and peer, and
he is too mean to merit the poor
privilege of hanging himself.