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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

When resumption took place in
France, there was hardly ripple upon
the surface of political affairs. Only a
few papers. devoted exclusively to non-
ey matters, made resumption subject
of comment. It seems now that we are
to reach the specie basis On the first Of
january next withoutany serious shock.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

1t is reported that Senator Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine, will not seek a re-
election. Sorry to hear this. The 'old
man" ought to hold on for several years
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

Congress has not been in session two
weeks, and yet the Democrats are on
record as apologists for or defenders of
the tissue-ballOt frauds in South Caro-
1fna
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

The Republican papers of Iowa have
warm compliments for Blaine's action
in opening the battle on the election
frauds In the south.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

The receipts Of hogs at Chicago last
week were 261, 1O7 head, the largest on
record.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.


New York Money! Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. IL.
MoHEY-S94 per cent. Prime mercan.
tile paper, 495x per cent.
Gold-Weak at 100k
housekeeping rates, XCd2 per cent
Bonds-Government,q quiet; railroad, quiet
state securities, dull
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
Live Stock Markets.

Grain and Produce.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. IL
Grain-Whear. No red, s7Xc; No red
SOC. Rye, 42xc. Barley, 6Oc@Sl
ProvislonsMPork' t1.l5G7 az. Dry salt
new, e 1895 90. Lard, $5.s7K.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
State Normal School.
The winter term will commence on
wednesday, January LIST.

Examination for admission, Tuesday, Jan I'd
The buildings known Is the ssEoFmal
Boarding HalfsP will be fitted and furnished
for the Normal School. The usual full and
thorough instruction will be afforded in every
department Of study. The fees, payable II
advance, win be
For students classified As Normal, tuition free
incidental. 500.
For students classified ss Acadeafs, tuition.
SJ.00; incidental, 81 90.
For Students ciassided IS Preparatory, tai
ton, -
Textbooks will be furnished at cost.
Board In private families can be had for
from $50 10 81 90 per week, according 20 ac-
cOmnodat5o7s. Any desiring rooms Tor self
boarding, and furniture, can be aided By adj
c. r. PoAERoY.
zeW4- Emporia, Kansas
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
Ths 4"pDria NtDus.

There were 1858 American visitors
ct the Paris exposition.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
Public Sale.

will oner ct public sale, on the Cox farm,
three miles west of Emporia, on Friday. Dec.
s0th, 1873, at O'Clock. p. m. the following
property, to-Wit: Thirty-six head OF COWS
and heifers; one graded bull; one horse; one
mule; one srIky pillow; twenty tons OF hay,
6nd other articles too numerous TO mention.
Terms made known on day OF sale.
II FULKERSON.
H. ". PEARsALL, Auctioneer. soWls
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
CHICAGO, Dec. II.
Flopr-ss oOAss M.

. Grsin-whezt; No; a.red winter, s7kc; No
spring, S1Sfc; No. 8spFing, &c. Corn SOz<c
Oats, 1sTc- Rye, 46c. Barley. $50.
Proyisions-POrk. $3.50. Lard, FAIR S. so
Shoulders. 8 90 = $50; short ribs g. .539s IS
clear sIdes 81 50
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
Notice to Contractors,

Bids will be received by me until Saturdas,
December 14th, 1873, att O'Clock p. m, for
blu lding the approaches TO the new bridge
across Dow creek, in Fremont township, Ly-
on county Bids may be made for the stone
frame. or Tor the whole together. The Right
to reject any and ali bids Is reserved. epeci-
locations may be seen At my hoase. or by call
ing on me. Il. j BURDICk,
49t9 Road OVerseer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

Nv. TRUEW0RgHY, Il. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Emporfa.
Kansas. onIee rooms. Z Bsacrofe block.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13

The senate confirmed Halbert E.
Payne, Of Wisconsin, commissioner of
patents, and Hiram Raft, of Hutchinson.
Kansas, postmaster.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
TELEGRAPHIC.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-Gen. Roberts tel
egraphs that his force carried Peivan
pass yesterday, by a brilliant assault.
Loss 80. Eighteen guns and a large
quantity of ammunition were captured.
The Afghans fought well, but could not
Withstand the British troops. The army
moves on to Shutar Garden pass to-day.
A Labon dispatch says there is no At
CHAN forces at Daka or Cabool, and that
the British will occupy Jellalabad
Parliament opened to-day. The Queens
speech was short, and said Parliament
was summoned on account of the AT
CHAN difficulty
BERLIN, Dec. emperor and En-
press arrived here to-day and had grand
reception. The Emperor announced that
ment, and that agitation must lie sup
pressed by the strong arm of power
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Geo. Vests cot
ton mill burned to-day. Loss 100000.
Packet, Davis & Co, jewellery dealers,
Providence, r. l., failed for 1920, 900.
CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 5.-Henry God
dard and Rufus Heyns arrested for steal
ing the dead body of negro girl foI
medical college. The boiler at Hay
din's rolling mill at Columbus, Ohio
exploded, killing four and badly injur
ing several other workmen.
CAICAGo, Dec. 6.-The strike at the
stock yard continues, and Smirnig, Ar
mour s. Co. learning that their mer
were going to strike, discharged then
and hired others. There are $1,000 hog.
on sale at the other yards, and the stocl
yards Transit Company have notified al
railroads to take no more hogs at the
place of consignment, until further no
tice, there being no accommodations fo
them. At the present unprecedented,
low prices for provisions packers do no
care to engage more heavily in buisnes
than necessary; and there is no proba
bility of the strikers getting terms from
them. The strikers at the stock yard
seemed more reasonable this afternoon
and it is expected that they will go tt
work in the morning, at the old rates
The packing company has arranged t.
send its hogs to its house in East ST
Louis, if the strike continues.
THE POSTAL CAR SERVICE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
PREsmENTIAL NoMIsAqtoSs.

The president nominated Eugene J.
Ball, of Indians, consul at Pesth; David
Baily, of Ohio, consul general at Shang-
hal; Andrew j. Mccormick, United
States Attorney for the eastern district
of Texas. Postmasters7James W Mack,
Holden, and Ansel d. Brown, Burling-
ton, Kansas.
-FOUR PER cKxF. SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Subscriptions to the per cent loan,
81 KFA Qg0
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
THE INDIAN INvEsrIeATIoN

The Indian commissioners TODAY
heard ex-senator Morrill,, in Opposition
to the transfer. He advocated radical
changes IN the existing law, and said that
the Indians should be localized and
properly educated, to be prepared to
meet the coming emergency, of deliver
ing up their lands to the fast increasing
white population.
John Young, agent of the Blackfeet
Indians, Montana, said they were unani-
mOusIy opposed to the transfer
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
Domestic.

A heavy fire occurred at Danyille,
Va.
Moody and Sankey are holding
revival at New Haven.
Brewers and Grocers' Bank of New
York will wind up its affairs.
A New Orleans shoemaker assaulted
and cut his son with knife.
Two counterfeiters from Cincin-
natl were arrested at Memphis.
Two New Orleans boys quarreled,
when one knitted the other seriously.
National Bank of Tarrytown, N.
Y, failed. Bank of Chemung, ditto.
McHugh, Hester and Tully, Molly
Maguires, were hanged at Blooms
burg, Pa.
An old coIored woman fell into her
fireplace at New Orleans, and was
fatally burned.
Princess Lila Kalakua, heir appa-
rent to the Hawaiian throne, arrived
at San Francisco.
hOOt' DoauCJ - COlOBCu inuHj WIS
murdered in his bed by some party
unknown, at New Orleans.
Hon. John Allison, Register of the
Treasury, died suddenly Saturday
morning of apoplexy.
A family named Murray, in New
port, R. l., lost seven children from
diphtheria in two days.
The steamer Magenta exploded on
the Hndson river, killing three men
and sealding ten, two fatally.
Alex. Barlow, treasurer of tbs Fish.
kill Savings Bank, n. T., is indicted
for embezzlement of $69, 900.
WIN. Jackson, eolored, was way
laid and dangerously shot by an nm
known party at New Orleans.
Capt. Adams, commander OF the
United States corvette Hartford, died
at Monteyideo, of yellow fever.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
Russia and England.

How the Bear Proposes to Whip the Lion.
A London correspondent of the New
York Times, claiming to get his infor-
nation from great European auth
ority, thus sketches a plan of the war
that the whole Continent is soon to
be involved in: In Europe, Russia
will have all the fortresses of the
Danube in her hands; her ironclads
and torpedo fiOtilla will dominate the
river; and even if Roumania Joins
Austria against her, they will have a
tougher job to cross the river to at
tack the army of Adrianople in the
rear than Grand Duke Nicholas had,
On the sea of Marmora, Bedesto will
have been fortified with powerful
guns, and l25 torpedo steamers will
guard each extremity of the waterway.
Within days march of the Darda-
nelles 10000 men will have been
massed another 10000 will be
posted in the outskirts of Constanti-
nople and the Black Sea feet will
have concentrated at Midia. These
arrangements being perfected, Russia
will suddenly break up the conference,
dash forward upon the Dardanelles,
seize the Bosphorous, cram the chan
mel with torpedoes, fill the inlet to
each strait with torpedo vessels, man
her troops behind forts and earth
works on both the peninsulas, and
then "dare the astounded British
Lion to do. his worst" By the time
the English feet can move the Bos-
phorous will be closed: free COM
across the Black Sea will
enable Russia to laugh at Austria, and
before England can send an army
of invasion to undo all this work Rus
sia will have gained such grip upon
Turkey that the war will begin with
every chance in the Cars favor.
Such is the programme of Russia,
sketched by hand upon what is
claimed to be good authority. Every
move the Muscovites make indnrses
tue truth of it; and the more strongly
she fixes herself the more clearly does
it dawn upon England that the Brit
ish Government has been duped by
fair words and diplomatic promises.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
How to Save Sugar Cane.
Assumption Pioneer

A recent communication to the Su-
gar Planters Association has been
published, containing extracts from
the diary of the late Valcour Aime of
st. James which may be read with
both interest and profit. He was not
only successful planter, but a close
observer, and kept diary of his
planting business for thirty years.
| From what he says our own expert
ence as to the time of windrowing is
fully confirmed; that is, when the
cane is thoroughly frozen and the
bark split, instead of wasting time in
windrowing, cut, haul and grind as
fast as you can. The top eyes may
be killed-in fact the cane may be
partially injured at the top-still it
will keep when laid down longer than
it would if left standing. The ripper
the cane the better it will keep with
out loss. 1t is probable, if the cane
be ripe, say giving juice weighing 8
degrees, it may be windrowed sue
cessfully before the bud is killed,
provided you have such large guam
tity on hand and the season is so far
advanced as to make you fear the re-
suit of leaving SO much of the crop
standing.
An article in recent number of
the Home Journal from one of its cor
respondents, is very encouraging as
to the manner of keeping seed cane.
He says:
For the last nine years have pnt up for
seed, plant cane-stubble, old and new-talI
cane-small eane-green eane-ripe cane
straight eaDe-cr0oked cane; have put up
my cane during dry weather-during wet
weather-in a word, under all possible cir
cumstances, and l have never failed. The
extreme bad condition of the cane last fall
after the storm, gave me some apprehension
and made me fear that would meet with at
least one exception; but it only served to
confirm the rule, because on opening my
mats the cane, all of it, was found to be per-
feetly sound.
We may well exclaim, with the old
mathematician, Eureka and congrat-
ulate ourselves that one genius has
solved the riddle which has puzzled
SO many for a number of years, and
hope that his infallible rule for saving
seed cane may not prove TO be a
myth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
Advertising in Dull Times.
Augusta Constitutionalist and Sentinel

Augusta Constitutionalist and Sentinel.
The most sagacious merchants in
that part of tue Union advertise, if any
thing, more freely and literally when
times are dull than when they are
brisk. This is founded upon the
shrewd and rational idea that, when
purchasers are laggard, they most
require stirring up, and that the only
way to create the necessary agitation
is through the medium of widely
circulated public press. There is
another reason why merchants and
others should proclaim in the papers
what they have to sell, and that is the
inevitable dispersion thereby of the
very dullness complained of. We
venture to say that frequent, telling,
live advertising will wake up the
sleepy community, and that all busi-
ness men who practice this true
business precept will infallibly reap
the reward of their superior enter
prise. A Mobile contemporary puts
the case pithily Every man, in
any business, who does not take the
trouble to tell the public what he has
for sale, will soon find that the public
does not take the trouble to inquire
for itself. He will fnd-as some are
finding to-day, whether they confess
it or not-that his reticenee is practi-
cally putting up his blinds for him
and that his clerks might as we'll go
fishing as tumble over goods they do
not sell. Neither need such a reti-
cent merchant wonder greatly why
people pass has store, and go in the
next door. For human nature has
much of the bull in it, and will run
after highly -colored announcement,
as the taurine will after a red flag.
Only the kind of red flag it does not
run after, worth speaking of, is that
which is apt to follow too long and
too persistent folding of ones hands
in ones lap"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
FlOwery Prophecy.
Baton Rouge Herald.

We have an abiding faith that the
good in the land are not all dead.
That there are enough pure, upright
men left to do right for the love of
right, to put their feet upon error
and elevate justice, though the
Heavens fall. Such men will be
brought to the front. They will put
on the harness of duty and expunge
everything from their catalogue an
tagonistic to Reform, and COMFORTING
their actions to this schedule, the car
of Progress will move forward and its
followers will be legion. Their names
will be written first in letters of liv-
ing light op the golden epoch which
is about to burst the bonds of error,
and posterity viii give peans of joy,
Liberty will dry her tears, Justice
will bask in the sunlight of truth, and
with mans restored confidence in
man, the State and nation will be
united, prosperous and happy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
DONAIDsoNyILLE, La SATURDAY MARCH 80 1878

| up his bride in gin shop at Amster-
dam, and from the subsequent conduct
of the lady, l am inclined to think
an Amsterdam gin shop is not good
place to select a wife in. Her ante
cedents were of character entitled
Magdalenish, without the Magdalene's
repentance, for she punched her hus-
bands head rifled his pockets ;
sometimes locked him in his room and
sometimes locked him out; she car
ried knives and pistols in her pocket ;
and concluded by bringing baby in-
to the house while he had been two
years at sea.
In Brooklyn, on Tuesday last, a
young man was discovered dead in a
cellar, where he had literally starved
to death !; to aid his exit he had taken
a small dose of laudanum, which he
had procured in some way, and then
laid down to die. His manner was
refined; he was gentle spoken, and
had evidently seen better days. The
turf of POtter's Field closed over him
on Wednesday last. A family by the
name of Ross, in Brooklyn, was dis
covered in the last stages of destitu-
ton the children were starving and
in rags when they were found. The
father was once respectable, well-to-
do book-keeper, but the devil of
drink took possession of him till it
drove him to madness and the gutter,
the wife became insane, and at the
closing scene the Society for the
Protection of Destitute Children
came forward and rescued the worse
than orphans from life of misery,
and perhaps from the States prison or
the gallows.
We have been greatly exercised in
New York for the past week on ac-
count of genuine ghost-none of
your hollow squashes with candle
stuck inside of it, nor any thing of
that sort, but ghost that you could
pelt with boot-jacks and glass bottles,
and who rather liked it. It was the
ghost of Old Sheppard, a watehman,
known >along the docks for many
years. Old Shep got drowned, but
he would not stay drowned, and he
keeps bobbing around among the
shipping as usual; sometimes he
can be seen about midnight sitting
on the end of a bowsprit, and at other
times smoking his pipe on top of the
main truck. We are uneasy. Some
of his old friends suspect that there
are no fluids where ho has gone to,
and that the old man has come back
for a drink. Truly yours,
BROADBRIM.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30

Transient advertisements 81 per square
frst insertion; each subsequent insertion,
rs cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per square first
insertion; each subsequent publication 50
cents per square.
Editorial notices, first insertion, 90 cents
per line; subsequently, 10 cents per line.
Brief communications upon subjects of
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHEF, Donaldsonville. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30

BEN WADE's THREAT.-In 1860,
Slidell of Louisiana made bitter
speech in the Senate, announcing the
purpose of his State to secede. Ben
Wade awaited its conclusion, when
he stalked over to the Southerner's
seat, and, pounding it with his fist,
said: " Slidell, We bought your State
a bowling desert, and, by, if you
secede we will make it desertagain. II
Aud SO they did. Chicago Times.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30

SUNDAY LAW IN IBERvILLE.-By a
late law, the Police Jury is clothed
with plenary authority to close all
houses where liquor or merchandise
is sold on Sunday within the limits of
the parish. This includes all incor-
porated towns and villages. The
operation of the Sunday law has been
so beneficial in the way of Ieduc-
tion of the criminal expenses that We
presume the Police Jary at it's next
session will enact general law for
the whole parish. South.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-30
THE NEW CHURCH DOCTRINE.

l BIZ WILL SAhLEION'
There's come a singular doctrine, Sue,
Into our church tO-duy;
| These curious words are what the new
Young preacher had to say:
| That literal everlastin' fire
Was mostly in our eye;
| That sinners dead, if they desire,
Can get another try
He doubted if warmer cline
! Than this world could be proved
| The little snip-I fear some time
He'll get his doubts removed.
I've watched my duty straight an true
And tried to do it we'll
Part of the time kept Heaven in view,
An part steered clear O. hell
An now half of this work is naught,
If l must list to him,
An this ere devil have fought
Was only just whim-
Vain are the dangers have brayed,
The sacrifice they cost
For what fun is it to be saved,
If no one else is lost?
just think! Suppose when once l view
The Heaven I've toiled to win;
A lot of unsaved sinners too,
Come walkin' grandly in
An acts to home same as if they
Ildu TCdu CuClf tlJlS CIedEs
An look at me, as if to say,
"We're glad to see you here J"
As if to say, "While ToU have ben
So fast to toe the mark,
We waited till it rained, an THEN
Got tickets for the ark"
Yet there would be some in that crowd
I'd rather like to see
Ny boy Jack-it must be allowed,
There were no worse than hei
I've always felt somewhat to blame,
In several different ways,
That he lay down on thorns o. shame
To end his boybood days,
An I'll be willin' to endure,
If that the Lord thought best,
A minutes quite hot temperature,
To clasp him to my breast.
Old Captain Barnes was evils SON
With heterodoxy crammed-
used to think he'd be the one
If any one was damned
Still, when l saw a lot o. poor,
That he had clothed and fed,
Cry, desolately round his door,
AS soon as he was dead
Then came a thought couldn't control,
That in some neutral land,
I'd like to meet that scorehed-up soul,
An shake it by the hand.
Poor Jennie Willis, with cry
Of hopeless, sad distress,
Sank sudden down, one night, to die,
All in her ball room dress
She had precious little while
To pack up an away
She even left her sweet, good smile
Twas on her face next day;
Her soul went off unclothed by even
One stitch of saving grace,
How could she hope to go to Heaven,
An start from such place
But once, when lay sick an weak,
She came, an begged to stay
She kissed my faded, wrinkled check
She soothed my pain away.
She brought me sweet bouquets of flowers
As fresh as her young heart ''
Through many long and tedious hours
She played a Christian part.
An ere long will stand around,
The singin' saints among,
I'll try to take some water down,
To cool poor Jennie's tongue.
But tears can never quench my creed,
Nor smooth Gods righteous frown,
Though all the preachers learn to read
Their Bibles up side down,
hold mine right side up with care,
To shield my eyes from sin,
An' coax the Lord with daily prayer,
To call poor wanderers in.
5ut if the sinners won't draw nigh,
And take salvation's plan,
III have to stand and see 'em try
To dodge hell if they can.