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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

The Troy Chief thus notices tho
senseless howlings of what it calls a
sample "Greenbacker," who wrote
an article for newspaper. We do
not believe there are many such
greenbackers as the kind described
by the Chief, but there are enough
of them to keep mp a senseless rack
ct in the papers, and they ought to
be discouraged by every good citi-
zen.
"He calls upon the farmers and
working men to rise and put down
the rich by violence. This is the
spirit of lawlessuess, riot, and anar-
chy. Republicans and Democrats
in Congress are doing their best TO
bring the financial question to the
standard demanded by the people,
yet these fellows are bowling, down
with both the old parties, and elect
greenback men !" Will they please
give US the name of Western SEN
ator or Congressman who is not q
greenback man in practice, although
they may not keep up a constant
HOWI LOT greenhouses AOb US say
to you, that the present members of
Congress will remain in Office until
the 4th of March, 1879. You cannot
elect men to take their places before
that time. Whatever is done with
the silver and resumption questions.
will be done before that time, to be
of any benefit; and it must be done
by Republicans and Democrats, for
there is not man of the Independ-
ent greenback party, in Congress.
What is the sense, then. in bowling
against the only men who have the
power and the INCLINATION to do
you any service ?"
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COngressmen In Earnest.

A secret caucus, irrespective of
party, was held by Congressman,
on the 2Ist. One hundred memb ers
were present. Buckner, of Mo-,
and stated the purpose of
the caucus was to organize both
houses of Congress to accomplish
three objects: First, repeal of re-
sumption; second, reconciliation
of silver; and third, substitution of
greenbacks entirely for national
bank currency. The meeting was
an animated one, and the dis
cussion lasted an hour and q half.
The result was the defeat of the
proposition respecting national
banks, and the unanimous adoption
of the other two. Even the radical
Tom Ewing thought best to make
the fight on reconciliation and re-
sumption repeal, and let the nation
al bank currency alone at present.
Gen. BENZ. F. Butler made the
speech of the caucus. It was TWEEN
tY-fiYe minutes in length, and re-
ceiVed universal attention, and con-
tanned the most radical suggestions.
The temper manifested toward the
administration is said to have been
personally very friendly, but its
tone was extremely determined.
Gen. Butler suggested measure
which q considerable number of the
persons present at the caucus con-
sidered as q very practical one, in
the event of the veto of the silver
bill by the president. He stated in
substance that If the silver bill
should pass both houses by q re-
spectacle majority, by two-thirds,
in fact, as it now seems likely to do,
and the President should veto it,
that it would be expedient, and
would probably be the duty of the
lower house, to attach q prOviso to
all appropriation bills that a certain
amount of money appropriated
should be in silver, and q certain
amount in gold. Mr.. Butler main
tanned that this was as much within
the province of the House of Rep
resentative as it is of the House of
Commons in England, said that he
could not vote for the bill that was
defeated in the House in the after
noon, as he considered that the gov
eminent was bound to maintain its
obligations to pay interest on the
public debt in gold, but he stated
that only $95,O00,O00 annually are
requisite for this purpose, while the
total amount of customs revenue is
about $l6O,OOO,OOO. He would
therefore provide that a certain por.
tion-55 per cent. of customs dues
should be receivable in gold, the
rest in silver or legal tenders. He
would also provide that of appro
priations a certain amount of the
money voted should be voted in sill
yer and a certain amount in gold
and that provision should be made
limiting silver.
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Southwest.

1t is understood that recent decis-
ion of the United States Supreme
Court declares the Texas cattle law In
Kansas, Missouri and other States, to
be null and void, because only Con-
gress has the right to regulate inter
State commerce,
Bill Griffenstein, of Wichita, is none
of your halfway, stingy fellows. At a
meeting of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, the other:day, at Topeka, he pledg-
ed 1000 to the society if they would
hold the next State faiF at that city.
Wichita would be good place for the
fair, and we hope the Board will take
Mr.. Griffenstein up at his offer
Judge S. K. Peters will bold an adj
journed term in Hutchinson ON the 22d
OF this month, to try E. B. Lawrence,
late treasurer of Rice county, on the
charge of misappropriating the funds
of the county willie treasurer.
The agent of the Ponce Indians Is
inspecting Salt Fork river, south of
Cowley county, with view to locat-
ing that tribe on it.
On the 18th w. J. Turpin, of the
Hutchinson Herald, was arrested at
that place by the sheriff of Pawnee
county, on charge of libel on F. P. Ba-
ker, of Topeka. the alleged libel being
an article in the Herald during the
SWayze excitement. Turpin was re-
leased on a writ of habeas corpus, the
citizens of Hutchinson wanting to see
him tried at home and not in Topeka
The average attendance of the
Wichita Sunday school is 500, but just
before the holidays it went up to 100
Boys will be boys.
Mr.. Thomas McCampbell, who is
digging q coal shaft . miles east of
Wichita, was seriously injured while
trying to stop q descending bucket
which threatened to XIII the men down
in the well. A sharp iron hook tore
the flesh, arteries and veins Of his arm
70 the bone, infilcting.a terrible wound.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

TRAAIPs AHEAD.-Judge Lowery,
of the Indiana Superior court, has
rendered decision holding the first
section of the vagrant law, known
as the suspected-felon act. "uncon-
s:itutional, on the ground that it
comes in conflict with the constitu-
tionsl guarantees that no person
shall be arrested or tried except up
on written complaint, and that no
person accused of crime shall be
compelled to give evidence against
himself"
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A Average for the state ............. J 90 II
OF aO4 1873 sheep, according to the

OF 204,1Ss sheep, according to the
assessors returns, 1864, or 8.14 per
cent. have died, including those kill
ed by dogs during the year. We
have no means of knowing the rel
alive number thus killed during the
year. In the west, where sheep are
herded during the day and corralled
at night, the losses by dogs are COM
parstIYely lights bat ia the eastern
counties, where farm industries are
more diversified and where hocks
are smaller and seldom herded, the
losses by predatory ours are very
large, and the per cent. of such
losses may be computed ct not less
than 8 out of the STA per cent. for
the State. The per centage of losses
of hogs is smaller than in any State
except Virginia and West Virginia.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

NEW REVENUE CoLLECToR.-We
are glad to see that Col. John c.
Carpenter, of Chanute, has been
appointed Revenue Collector fol
Kansas in place of Mr.. Blair, re-
signed. Col. Carpenter has for many
years been a prominent man in
Southwestern Kansas, having been
q State Senator two or three terms
and held other important and re-
sponsible positions. He Is a gentle
man of fine Attachments, with 6
character for integrity equal to any
of our prominent men. We hope
he will be confirmed and enter up.
on the discharge of the important
Iruat
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Ano.her Rook.

We have received a copy of THE
Kansas Hand Book" for 1873, pub
lished by j. s. BoughtoD, Lawrence,
Kansas. We have made but a
glance at it, but find nothing new in
its pages. Its matter has been pub.
iished In many shapes. But it has
the advantage of being in conven-
lent form for reference. In the COW
er is q pocket, and in this pocket is
q small colored map of the State,
containing much information. All
the land districts are shown. From
q glance we judge the map to be toll
erably correct. In it's description
of counties it'states this city is a
hourishing town of ''about 1,200."
If the author refers to population,
he made q stupid blunder, which,
considering his acquaintance here,
is rather surprising. There are one
or two other items in this book that
we object to. An instance is given
OF q farmer in Greenwood county,
who says he raised 10 bushels of
corn to the acre, and another in
Butler county raised 60 bushels of
winter wheat to the acre. These
are naked, unqualified statements,
and stranger might be led to think
this was . general yield. We doubt
the truth of the statements. But
had the author stated in this con-
nection that sixty bushels of corn,
and twenty to twenty -five bushels
of winter wheat per acre, was the
common yield, it would not have
been so bad, and no one would be
inhaled. The truth about Kansas
crops is good enough. Such state
ments especially should not appear
In 9 book.
Now these are few criticisms
we have to offer on this new book,
and we do not do so out OF any i'll
will, but with the view of impress
ing Mr.. Boughton, whom we very
much respect, with the importance
.ofHsing q little more care in issuing
n book than be would in simple
newspaper correspondence. ~
Price of the book and map sent
post paid is 90 cents. AZ .-a- 9.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

The total value of the winter
wheat crop for 1877 is put at more
than nine and half million dollars,
spring wheat at two and half mil
lions, and corn at more than twenty
million dollars. The total value of
the agricultural productions for the
year 1877 is given as $45,597, 05l, or
nearly one hundred dollars for each
iphabitant of the State. Mcpherson
county leads in the value of field
crops, her crops figuring at $l,63l.-
$40. The following table shows the
average yield and cash value per
acre, and the price per bushel, gal
lon, pound or ton of farm produce,
for the year 1877:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

HARTFORD, Jan. l6-The green
back men, in convention yesterday,
passed resolutions favoring the re-
monetization of silver and appoint
ed delegation to the national con-
vention at Toledo February %.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-The Post
says call has been made for meet
ing of citizens, irrespective of party.
to express their assent to the pro-
posed free coinage of the United
States silver dollars, and atfixing
of a permanent value to United
States silver coin, in the interests OF
the industrial demands of the coun-
fry. This meeting is TO be held al
the Cooper Institute, on the Both
inst. 1t is reported that Senators
Voorhees, of Indiana, and Jones OF
Nevada, will be among the speakers.
ATLANTA, Jan. 18.-An immense
meeting at the capital tonight, pre-
sided over by Mayor Angie, de-
manded the repeal of the resump-
ton act. Reconciliation and green
back speeches were made, and reso-
lutions were passed calling upon
the Georgia delegation in Congress
to represent these as the views OF
their constituency. The other side
will be heard on Tuesday night.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
FaIIure STATISTICS.

The annual circular of Dun, Barlow
& Co. mercantile agency, j ust issued -,
shows that the number of mercsn-
tile failures in the Uuited States for
the year 1877 were 1872, being 226
less than for 1876. The total liabil-
tiles for 1877 were $I9O,669, 900, as
against S19l, III, 600 in 1876. For
the three quarters ending with Sep
TENDER last the number of failures
had lessened by 495, with decline
in liabilities of 81, $1,000 as compar-
ed with a similar period ia 1876.
But the casualties of the last quar-
ter have been SO numerous and i'm
portant that the rate of improve
ment for the first nine months has
not been sustained. The circular
says: "But it is q pregnant fact
illustrative of the general condition
that the failures of the past year
approach so nearly those of the
year preceding, which were deemed
NOAJ OAOOooANC1 ohA bhaL OAC AoALuI CO
are really above the average of the
four years since the panic of 1873.
Time does not seem to improve
these statistics with the same rapid
ity that it did subsequent to the pan
ic of 1857 or 1861, for in tae four
years succeeding these dates the
number of failures and the amount
of liabilities steadily diminished,
the average rapidly declining
while this. the fourth year since the
panic of 1873, largely increases the
average. In the Eastern States the
percentage of failures was one il
every 1fty-eight; in the, Middle
States one ID every seventy-three
in the Southern States one in every
eighty-fiVe; in the Western States
one in every eighty-four; In the Pa
cific States and Territories one il
every forty-one of houses engsg'
ed in mercantile, mandatory and
banking lines of business. This II
. very magnificent record for our
country, and furnishes unanswera
BILE statistics in favor of the resump
ton policy and the prosperity tina
attends il.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
Assienee,s Sale.

TN pursuance Of an order of the District
i Court of the United STATES for the District
of Kansas, made in the matter of Cook &
Chandelier, bankrupts in Bankruptcy, on the
Sd day of January, A. d. 1873. l, Henry T..
Branson, assignee of the estate and effects OF
said bankruptss will, on the first Qst) day OF
March, A. ID, 1873, in front. of the Court
House door. in the city of Emporia, county OF
Lyon, State of Kansas, proceed to sell, al
public auction, to the highest bidder for cash.
ne following described tracts or parcels OF
land, being in the county and state aforesaid
the north half of the Southwest quarter OF
section numbered ten, Q0) the southwest
section numbered ten, Q0), the northwest
quarter of said section numbered ten, (lO) and
the east half and the southwest quarter OF
section numbered nine, (9) all in township
numbered sixteen, QD OF range numbered
ten Q0J.
4-bt HENRY G.. RRANSON. Assignee
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state News.
Valley Falls has a new elevator.

Valley Falls has a new elevator.
Burlington is to have q three-story
brick hotel.
Topeka is to have a reaper and now
er mandatory.
There is not a whikey distillery in
the State of Kansas.
Russia wedding ceremonies continue
three weeks, in Russell county.
Il. s. Buick has a farm of 5000
acres in Lincoln county, valued at
$4,000.
Forty thousand rabbit seaIps were
captured in Bourbon county last year.
Mrs. Senator ingalls, is rapidly i'm
proving under her treatment at Eot
Springs, Arkansas.
The Dodge City school has been
closed for five weeks on account of
prevalence of scarlet fever.
An attempt to throw Andy Wilson,
the great cattle man of Shawnee coun-
ty, into bankruptcy, has failed.
Solomon Mordicas died recently on
Sugar creek, Morris county, from hy-
drophobia, caused by the bite of a rat
tlesnake.
Alfred Ennis of Topeka, has sued
Hon. S. c. Pomeroy for $4,000 for SER
vices as attorney in the case of the
State vs.. Pomeroy for the alleged
bribery of York.
In the libel suit of D. r. Anthony
VS.. Charles q. Miller for circulating a
handful denounciRg Anthony, the
jury, after a consultation of two hours,
awarded a verdict in favor of the plain
tiff and assessed the damaged at 81.
The Commonwealth learns that Gov
Anthony has received a very elabor-
ate decision from the Commissioner OF
the General Land Office at Washing
ton, by which the State is entitled &c
five per cent. of all the Indian reser-
vations in Kansa..
In three hundred school districts o.
Kansas, textbooks are furnished free
for the pupils. 1t is estimated that i
this plan was adopted throughout the
State, that it would save the schoo
districts of Kansas at least $4,000 an
nually.
Mr.. Prentis' book is to be publish
ed early in February, and is to contain
besides the letters from Europe, tn,
authors lecture on "Pike's Peak" ant
his agricultural college commence
ment address entitled "The World
School,"
Normal diplomas issued by the nor
NAL schools, and without the signatur
OF the State Superintendent, are illegal
They should be forwarded to the Stat
Superintendent of Public instruction
at Topeka, who will procure the prop
er signature, and return the same t
the Observation-Disclosures Calendar.
OF all the evergreens set out upo
the Agricultural College grounds
Prot. Gale says that not more tina
500 are now living. These are the de
ciduous cypress, four varieties of pine
and the red cedar. The Professor reC
ommends highly the deciduous cypres
of which he has specimens of eigt
years growth and FIVE inches in diam
eter.
The bill introduced by Hon. D.
Haskell, of Kansas, in the Nation;
House of Representatives, for the pay
ment of counsel fees in the Usage Gee
ed land suits, provides that j.
Black shall receive Sl2,S33.S3; McCc
7 mas and Keghan, $12, 233, 33; Williar
Lawrence, s12,63S-S3; Wilson Shannon
has heirs or assigns, S1O,363. 33; an
William Dick, as treasurer of the ''Se
, tiers Protective Association" an
: trustee, vidual members of the associi
? ton, who have paid any portion of tt
f counsel fees for services in said litigi
3 ton, $5,25O.OO.
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Bank Failures.

January Is, NJ. M. Palmer's bank,
YanktoD, d. T., closed January 81.
A run began on the Odd Fellows
and the Clay savings banks, Phila-
delphia. Tine Providence county
savings bank, Pawtucket, R. l., and
the other savings banks in that city,
declined to pay. depositors. The
Pawtucket bank has about $1,000
600 in deposits. Jan. D, The Blu
chanan bank of st. Joseph, No.
closed. Also the Mercantile saw.
ings bank, Boston, Mass, with de-
posts of 100000.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

The accident to the Moody s. San
key excursion train at Tariffville,
Ct, last week, was caused by the
bridge giving way under the weight
of two heavy locomotives which
drew the train. Why could they not
have been at each end of the train,
instead of both being together, is a
fair question. The killed number
about 10 and the wounded so.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

Inventors are moving to have the
cost of patents reduced from one
hundred dollars to five dollars. 1t
is proposed TO abolish models and
examinations, and grant patents to
all who apply, as in England, leav-
ing the right of invention to be test
ed in the courts. The lawyers are
in favor of this system, which is
SIMPLY a fraud on poor inventors
who cannot afford expensive and
tedious lawsuits.
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Congregational Proceedings.
THURSDAY, JAN. II.

In the Senate Mr.. Wadleigh said the
family of the late Senator Morton had
discovered his written opinions on the
Chinese question, and he would read
them when making a report on the
subject, Feb. 20. Bills were introduce
ed to furnish railways for Obstrscting
inter State commerce, to classify mail
matters and regulate postage.
In the house bills were introduced to
restrict Chinese immigration TO extend
lighthouse service to Illinois river to
grant pensions to surviving soldiers
&C., of Mexican Creek, Florida, 1872,
and BlackhaWk wars. The bill to pay
soldiers of the. Mexican war three
mopths extra pay, was passed. Joint
resolutions naming Henry NJ. Stanley
as the greatest of all African explorers,
was passed. Petition of Union League
of Philadelphia, against rOmOnetizing
silver, was presented. MIR. Bright
offered q resolution to call for state
ment of tie amount of interest paid by
the government upon bonds it held
for national banks, passed. Mr.. BLAIR.
OF New Hampshire spoke on the tinan-
cial question, and Senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY,, JAN. 16.
The Senate unexpectedly took vote
on the question to refer Matthews sill
yer resolutions TO the committee on
judiciary, which motion was designed
to kill the resolution. Many Senators
were absent, and the vote stood Is for
81 against the motion to refer. Butler,
of South Carolina voted with the hard
money men. Eulogies on Senator
BOgy occupied tAe rest of the day.
The House accepted Mrs, Elizabeth
Thompson's gift of Carpenters great
painting of Lincoln reading the eman-
cipation proclamation 20 his cabinet
Bill to authorize the building of s
bridge over the Missouri river at Glas-
gov, Mo-, passed. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, JAN. 1S.
In the Senate the bill to enlarge the
Jurisdiction of the court of claims was
defeated. Petitions were presented
against taxing tea and coffee, and from
Albany, N. Y. against the silver bill,
from Auncie, Pa, for it, and from the
Michigan State grange to build canal
across that State. The Matthews sils
yer resolutions were debated by MIR
Nerrimon, and Maxey, in their favor
and adjourned to Monday.
The House election committee made
a majority and minority report on ths
contested election case in the 4th dis
triet of California, The majority Ie-
port in favor of Peter B. Wingongton,
Democrat, and the minority in favor
of ROumando PochOco, Republican.
Mr.. Mills, of Texas introduced bill to
grant public lands for State colleges
for females. Mr.. Freeman offered q
petition from the Union League OF
Philadelphia, against reorganization
of silver. The House then went into
committee of the whole on private
bills, and took up the bill of ". Fl.
Newman for property destroyed dur
ing the war ct Alexandria, Va, Mr.
Jones said there was the point of an
endless amount of such claims, and
read Tilden's campaign letter opposing
them. Without taking action, the
committee rose, and EulogIes as Sena-
tor Morton occupied the rest of the
day, and adjourned to Monday.
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FACT.-The population of the
countries having a sole silver stand
ard is 1884, 456; of those having
the double standard, gold and silver.
137, 100000; of those having the ex-
elusive gold. standard, 92,SO0,OO0
The United States is not included
In the list. Now let us hear some
body claim gold TO be the money OF
tha world.
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The new democratic governor of
Ohio, Mr.. Bishop, has removed eve
ry official in mis- reach who was in
any respect a republican, and ap-
pointed old line democrats in their
places. He does not pattern ex-
actly after the presidents recon
struction policy.
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RATWThitdS,HsSSa DEMON.

Now ready, this startling new temperance
book, by Hon j. A. DACUs, Phi D. Intenee-
Iy interesting account of past and preset at
Progress of Gospel Temperance and the
Murphy Movement over the whole land,
with biographies, portraits, addresses, incl
dents and engrd0in9s of the wonderful work
of Great Temperance Apostles. Murphy,
Reynolds, and others. Teeming with power
full facts arguments and illustrations of the
Curse OF Strong Drink: Positively the
latest and best volume. Only 81. AGENTS
WANTED, quickly. 0utseIIs everything
Address STANDARD BOOK Co,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25

Queen Victoria's speech to par
lament has caused disappointment
at Constantinople. Austria is said,
however, to have Joined England in
insisting that no peace shall be made
without her being apprised of its
taPuna
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The New Hampshire Democrats
also adopted hard money and re-
sumption resolutions, and now we
want to know which side of the fl
nancial question that concern is.
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T JOSEPH ERNST, County Treasurer of Lyon
= county, Kansas do hereby certify: That
the foregoing statement, showing the amount
Of money IN the treasury OF said county on
eat funds TO which il belongs, is correct, COM
plete and true, 70 the best OF my belief.
JOSEPH k5EST, Co. Treas'r-
Subscribed and sworn to before me this S3d
fiji VIZ. +. EWING, Co. clerk.