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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-21
Christmas Facts

SnF1StmaS Il actS.- L ue scleClloh
of Christmas presents should be commenced
at once, and S. T. LITTLE, 10S Baltimore
street, Cumberland, has just received an ell
egant supply Of Jewelry, Watches, CHAINS
Silver and Plated Ware, Cutlery, &c,
which the public should see. You can get
ANYTHING you desire in this line of goods at
his establishment, at the very best prices.
Orders sent by mail will receive prompt
and iudiclous attention.
In Fancy Ladies' fine Cuffs and Collars,
Boxes, and PerfHmery.
at BEALL, BAUsH & Cos.
Christmas is coming, and will soon be
here with its hopes, joys, and all the scenes
of hiarity that custom has affixed thereto.
Speaking of custom reminds us of the
yearly present from friend to friend, rela-
tive to relative, and through AL the other
connections OF the hnman family
Nothing can be more appropriate for
this purpose, or 10 yaa
or will be more -ewNGLA
highly appreciat. - - asSeS9$
ed, than one of - sg I ss m NJ NJ
those Fine Large @2 IA
Photograph axsSss ~ u
made by ROGERS, GSEelAs t3Ss>sE2/
handsomely franz @1SlN-s
cd and ready to
hang up in the parlor. The price has been
reduced so low that none can find fault on
that score.
Give Rogers call and see for yourself
Beautiful Velvet Frames with metal lining
G. de V. size, reduced to 20 cents each, and
all others in proportion
A large assortment of Ladies and Gents
fine coored Silk Hamdkerchicfs
just received by BEALL, BAUsH 4 GO.
MORRISON & Bros Cough Syrup and
Liniment which was introduced IN this
county last spring is the best in market.
Try it Oct l9-3m*
For Handsome Christmas Presents eX-
French Paper and Envelopes in
AND Fancy
Fine Toilet Soap, o X es,
at BEALL, BAUsH & Cos.
An Astonishing Fact.-A large
proportion of the American people are to-
day d ying from the effects of Dyspepsia or
disordered liver The result of these dis
eases upon the masses of intelligent and
valuable people is most alarming, making
life actually burden instead Of pleasant
existence of enjoyment and usefulness as
it ought to be. There is no good reason
for this, if you will only throw aside pre-.
judicc and skepticism, take the advice of
Druggists and your friends, and try one
bottle of Green's August Flower. Your
speedy relief is certain. Millions of bot
ties of this medicine have been given away
to try its virtues, tn satisfactory results
in every case You can buy a sample bot
tie for ten cents to try. Three doses will
relieve the worst case. Positively sold by
all Druggists on the Western Confident.
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MUM & CO., 81 Park Row, N. Y.
Branch OfIlcc, Corner +. and 7th streets,
Washington, d. G.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
Democrats 10 Desert COH1E-

ling.
The new Democratic paper at
Washing ton, the Post, on the 18th,
publihed an article which announc-
ed that Senator Conkling would not
receive the further support of Dem
ocracic Senators in his contest with
the President. The Herald, also
Democratic, says if the President
sends in Roosevelt and Prince
again, lthey will be confirmed, by a
number of Democratic Senators,
who voted in the negative before,
either changing or refraining from
voting. The Chronicle, Republican,
in long article on the situation,
says it is known with certainty that
if the President stands out against
the Senate, he can have every de.
cent nomination confirmed thai
hereafter ali the Democrats, except
Eaton, of Connecticut, will stand bJ
the President and against Conkling
and thus, with the sure support o.
Hosr, Dawes, Burnside, and Mat
thews, the President will command
the situation. These utterancei
doubtless represent the present pc
sition of the Democratic Senators
They have come to the conclusion
that to help Conkling is really t.
help build up Republican strength
in New York, State upon who's
vote the next national election ma!
turn. The breach seems to widen
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

We publish to-day from the Kan
sas City Times q lengthy account
of an interview the editor of that
paper had with Senator Plumb. 1t
will be read with interest by the
Senator's constituents, and most of
his utterances, If not all, will I'M.
doubtedly be heartily endorsed By
them. Senator Plumb, as we al
ways believed he would, will prove
an active, live and useful member
of the Senate, who will watch close
ly the political affairs of the coun-
try, and the business interests of the
State and nation. We suppose there
are some inaccul acies in this report
of his sayings, as there generally is
in such interviews.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

Wonders never cease. An emf.
nent electrician announces that he
has nearly perfected an inYention
called the kaleidoscope. 1t is con-
structed on the theory of transmits
sion of waves of light, as waves of
sound are transmitted by electricity
through Bells telephone. Persons
separated by any distance over
which It lie possible to transmit
waves Of light and waves of sound
may not only converse with each
other by means of the telephone,
but see each other in the act by
means of the electroscope.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
The Case CrearIy and Square
" stated.

The fact is that there meyer was q
hill before Congress at any time from
1870 to 1877 to tsdemonetiza the silver
dollar" No such bill was ever pro
posed, or ever referred, or ever debated,
or ever passed Congress. There was a
bill for revising the laws relative to
the mint, assay officers, and coinage of
the United States. That bill in no
word abolished the silver dollar. There
was nothing in the bill relating to the
silver dollar of 4121s grains. Gener-
ally the bill protested TO be CONSOLE
daton of sixty years OF varied legisla-
ton, and in which there. were but few
changes made. In fact, the act of 1873
did not demonetize the silver dollar
It prohibited, by implication, its furth-
er coinage, but the dollar remained
legal tender. The characterization of
The silver dollar was completed in 1874
when, in the codi1cation of the laws,
that part relating to the coinage was
falsely stated to contain the existing
law without change, in which, in
tact, the existing law wac changed
and tie silver dollar demonetized by
the change. When the gold organs,
Lhei elorp, declare that the bill to de-
in1GeIiZ the silver dollar was four
years before Congress and repeatedly
| acted on, they do not state the truth.
There was never a bill before Congress
protesting to be a bill to demonetize
silver. The act of 1873 professed TO re-
enact the existing law, and recited q
list of the silver coins lawful to be
coined from the list the silver dollar
of 4l212 grains was omitted. That
was the whole action concerning the
silver dollar. 1t was effectual, but 1t
was nevertheless Indirect: and even In
that form did not propose to, as it did
not in law, demOnetize the silver
| dollar.
In other words, as the Nation con-
fesses, few scientific men, and men
interested in coinage, found bill re-
vising the regulations of the mint, and
under cover of legislation for this pur-
pose, they tried an experiment of COM
hitting the United States to one form
OF metallac money in order TO increase
the value of gold. The experiment
was successful so far rs obtaining the
Legislation, but it has proved to be the
most costly event in the history of the
country except the War of the Rebel
lion.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed has, in a recent
letter, acknowledged the receipt of 8
statement by Comptroller Knox, il
which tn at gentleman insists that the
coinage of the silver dollar was moi
abolished secretly. Mr.. Weed for the
present withdraws in charge of secrecy
but that does not change the fact thai
the coinage of the silver dollar was
prohibited indirectly by law in which
the silver dollar was never mentioned
and that this fact was not known ex-
cept to very few persons, and thai
the law was passed mainly on the as
surance of the experts that it contain
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
Our Market Report
DOMESTIC ANO FOREIGN MARKETS.
EmROrIa Markets..


EAPoRIA, KS. January 8. 1878.
Roads bad and very little produce coming
into market. We quote:
wHoLEsALE.
Fall Wheat-$1 90.
Spring wheat-76 cents,
Corn-shippers pay Is cents.
Oats-shippers pay Is cts.
Rye-2o to 80 cts.
Barley-15 to IS cts.
Hay--$5.G0 per ton.
Wood--$s5O to 400 for soft and green wood
s4"0 and 500 for dry hard wood.
CoaI--Lyon county and Fort Scott s.. OQi
Usage shaft % .0Oi McAllister. $3.50.
Cattle on foOt-Butchers pay "a to 21< for
fat cows; 216 to 2s< for fat steers; calves, Sc
sheep, 81 cents.
Hogs on foOt-3Hc; dressed, 4Xc.'
RETAIL PRICES.
Flour-Soden's Eagle. $s.65 per 100 lbs; Il
SS-25; 3x. $500; Little Beauty, 81 %. Ora
ham, $500,
Armor's Flour-A A So so; Ak fall So 20; AZ
spring So 90; 3x a s. 80; 2x B 81 IS; graham
$500.
Corn meal per 100 Ibs.-Boited, 500; un-
bolred. rs cents. Bran, SIS cents, shorts 70 c.
mixed feed IS cts.
Fresh meats--Steak, 10 to I2x cts. per lib;
roasts, 6 to lax cts; boiling pieces, 3 to cts
Veal and Mutton, to l24 cents.
Fresh Vegetables per bushel-Peach blow
potatoes, Scots; onions, 50 cts; turnips, IS cts
cabbages, 5 to 10 cts. each; squash and pump
kins to 10 cents each.
Best butter IS cents; eggs 20 cents; apples
81 to SIPS; cranberries 1212 to 10 cents
Live chickens, 20 to p cts each
Maple Sugar-20 cts per Id.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

show the enormous aggregate yield
of 1000, 600 bushels of wheat for
1877, which is 100000 bushels
more than ever before produced.
The same authority shows the corn
product was 1,300, COG, 900 bushels,
with correspondiDgiy large Yields
of oats aud, potatoes. TDe report
sho VS. that there never was greater
abundance in the land. Out of the
wheat product it is estimated, after
deducting for home consumption ia
food and seed, that upwards of
ITO, 100000 bushels of wheat can be
spared for export. The largest ex-
port yet made in one year was 9l,-
00U,000, with an average of $1,000,
900 bushels. The department is all
so 10 receipt of information from
the wheat producing sections of
Europe, from which il is ascertained
that the wheat crop in Southwest
ern Europe, which produces the
largest of the surplus, is good, in
Southern Russia amounting to %
per cent above the average. The
crop in Northwestern ana North
ern Europe is poor. 1t is stated in
communication from Southern
Russia that If the war 81 ould stop
shortly there will be large ship
ment, and that shippers are ready
to take advantage OF the fl ST OPP
portuuity. Great Britain is eff -
ing the lowest market, which will,
it is stated, require about 100000
bushels from the present seasons
yield. The American surplus will
have its usual demand in the Eng
fish markets. with an increase SUBJ
ject to the contingencies of the ex-
listing struggle in Southwestern
Europe being prolonged into an
other season. The department is
also in receipt OF very fattering ac-
counts of the encouragement which
the great yield of the past season is
having on every class of enterprise
The acreage of winter wheat 70.
this year is greater than that of last
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
The New VOlame Of The LIv-
Ing Age.

The new year of Littell's Living Age
opens with the number for the week
ending January 9th.
Owing to the recent establishment
of important periodicals abroad-nota-
bly, The Nineteenth Century In En-
to the simultaneous inn
prOvenent of others, q fresh impetus
has been given to foreign periodical
literature; the ablest living thinkers
and kwriters being enlisted in it's
service eso an extent heretofore
probably unequalled. The Living Are
presents with satisfactory complete
ness what Is most valuable In this lit
erature. The publishers already an
nounce for early numbers of the new
year, articles by Louis Kossuth, ex-
Governor OF Hungary Con the Turkish
Question: Prof. Max Muller, Prof.
Goodwin Smith the Duke OF
Argyll, Rt. Hon. w. E. Gladstone ION
Courses of Religious Thought,) Rich
ard A. Proctor, Prof. Owen and others
(Studies in Science,) Frances Power
Cohbe, Alfred Russell Wallace, Prof.
j. g. Blackie, Edward A. Freeman,
Matthew Arnold, j. Leslie Stephen,
John Ruskin, and other eminent writ.
ers.
In the department of fiction the best
foreign authors will be represented in
serial and short stories. The publica-
ton of q new story by William Black
is 70 be begun in January, from ad-
vance sheets, and other attractions
will follow. The volumes of this
STANDARD. weekly magazine for the new
year therefore promise 20 surpass even
the previous ones in interest, and i'm
portance to American readers.
The beginning of q new volume is q
favorable time tor new subscriptions
and the publishers still present to new
subscribers for 1873 the last seven
numbers of 1877, which contain the
frat installments of fine new German
serial, translated for The Living Age
also q serial story by Miss Thackeray
aud the usual large amount of othei
valuable matter. For fifty-two num-
bers of sixty-four large pages each (ol
more than three thousand pages a year,
the subscription price [$S) is low
while for $1,000 the publishers offer tC
send any one of the American 81
monthlies OF weeklies with The Living
Age for q year, both postpaid. Littel
q Gay, Boston, are the publishers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
About RaIIranGIs.

1t is stated that the railroad COM
panies propose TO cut off excursion
rates entirely. We hope they will
not do this. By so doing they
would decrease their business large
ly; would stop the best means of
popularizing and advertising their
roads, and would remove a means
of much pleasure from the reach of
the people. 1t may be the excur-
sion business has abuses, but II
should not be discontinued if our
judgment is worth anything. By
the greatly reduced rates offered on
occasions suitable for excursions,
thousands of people are induced to
travel who otherwise never would
use a railroad. Instead of entirely
disseminating the excursion bust
ness it would seem to us a display
of energy and business tact on the
part of railroads to encourage their
more frequent occurrence. If the
railroad companies would complete
ly abolish the dead-head business,
which costs them hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, and would deduct
the amount thus saved from their
regular rates of fare, we believe they
would largely increase their bust
ness. This sort of a reform would
oct q, tho oauoa NAV kba ohaaNan;1O
of postage rates did. The govern
ment largely increased it's revenue
from postage by reducing the letter
rates from five to three cents, and
still further by the introduction of
postal cards. The nearer the rail-
roads come to the demands and ne
cessities of the people, the more
they will be appreciated and patron
lied by them. We always thought
it unjust that the privileged few.
who are generally the best able to
pay their way, should travel free,
and that the expense of conveying
them should be borne by those who
pay. If the practice of running
special trains, or cars, for men be-
cause they happen to have some in
fluential office, and OF distributing
thousands of passes on one ground
or another were discontinued, and
the great expense thus saved were
applied to placing travelling fscili-
ties within The reach of the people,
we believe the roads would do q
good thing for themselves and the
people. The present practice OF
favofiBg classes of people is contra
ry to the spirit of our Institutions.
and is thoroughly vicious. We
heard an official on hundred mile
road say, a few yeaTe ago, that tine
company had given away, at the
regular rates of fare, $65,O00 worth
of tickets in Q year. This had to be
made up by those who paid then
way. We have long thought thai
the whole "dsadshead" system on
railroads ought to be stopped, and
lif 1t were discontinued, the people
would be benefited. We make no
pretensions of a knowledge Of rail-
road management, but we believC
our suggestions to contain justice
and sound business principles.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
MrIrers a. skratara.

Here in America, IL is q common
thing for editors aud literary men,
generally, to speak in public with
quite as much ease and confidence
as they write in private. There is
no more finished, graceful, pleasing
orator in the country to-day than
George William Curtis, the editor
of Harper's Weekly, the fascinnat-
iugly Rossipy "E4sy Chair" of Har-
per's Monthly Magazine; Horace
Greeley and Henry j. Raymond
were ready and, fluent speakers :;
Watterson, of the Louisville Court
er-JOurnal, is a self~possessed ora
tor; and A. X. Mcclure, of the
Times of this city, is an accomplish
ed public speaker. 1t is altogether
different with our English cousins !;
few of those who can write for the
press can talk from the rostrum, as
was made painfully apparent res
Gently at q public dinner given in
London to the gifted war cores
pondent, Archibald Forbes, who
made a miserable bungle of an at
tempt to acknowledge the marked
compliment that had been paid him.
He only said few words; his ut
tersnce was confused and tremu-
loqs he remarked in a hesitating
way, that he never was good speak
err that he would rather stand and
be shot at for half an hour than
stand up and speak for the same
length of time. He was not alone
in his awkwardness; few of his
brethren of the pen who were pres
ent at the festive board did any bet
ter. They all can poiRt to the fore
most of their predecessors in litera-
ture as incapable orators. Thacke-
ray could not speak impromptu.
When he took to lectnring, he read
his matter in q hard, prosy way.
Douglas Jarroid, witty in private
conversation, was an idiot when he
got on his feet for the purpose of
making a speech. Once upon q time,
Mark Lemon and his fellow humor-
lists, of Punch, went to Lincolnshire
to help their friend, Ingram, In an
election. bot one of the wits could
make even an apology for a speech,
TO tine surprise, if not disgust of the
people that had assembled to listen
10 something exceptionally rich
from the acknowledged hnmor-
lists of London. Why American
writers should excel as orators, is
an open question, There is a rea-
son for it; q profound one, no
doubt, that q philosopher will some
day find out, aud having found, give
to the World.--Printers' Circular.
The reason Is very simple. The
fact is that the habit of writing,
by itself, units a man for speaking,
beesnse the habit of his mind is to
work in conjunction with the mo-
tions of his hand in using pen or
pencil, and sneh mems ideas come
freely only when their hands are
moving in the customary manner.
1t is like the boy who spelled down
the whole elAss until rival, having
noticed that the spelier always FUN
bled certain button on his jacket
as he spelled, siyiy cut it OF, and the
next time the class stood up, the
spelIer's hand missed It's familiar
hold on the button, his mind be-
came confused, and he missed words
he knew perfectly well. Writing
with ease is q matter of practice,
with nine people out of ten, and so
is speaking, and when the skilled
writer's fail TO speak well, all they
have to do is to persist in trying IN
til their minds become accustomed
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

Senator Dawes has introduced q
bill to carry out Capt. Howgate's
plan of colonizing the polar regions
for the purpose of exploration. 1t
authorizes the President to send out
an expedition to establish a colony
ct or near Lady Franklin Bay, to
detail such officers from the navy as
are needed and to equip a govern
ment vessel. The bill provides for
an appropriation of $4,000. The
committee on Naval Affairs has il
under consideration, and are likely
to report it favorably.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

ed no important changes in existing
law. Nor does Mr.. Knox,s statement
change the fact that the dollar was de-
monetized in 1874 by q change of the
statutes by the eodifiers,-they making
the assertion that no change had been
made. In the meantime, the people
have heard of the whole TRANSACTION.
and they demand the restoration of
the silver dollar, and, whether the
scientific men and those interested in
gold approve it or not, they will in
sist on having that dollar made legal
tender.-Chicago Tribune,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

SUsPEN Goth, the bank
ing firm of Meter So Co., New
York, with heavy liabilities, also
the PAssaic county Savings bang,
Patterson, New Jersey. On the
18th West Bosten Savings bank,
AIso the Peoples Savings bank, N.
Y, with dsposits OF 500, 100. s On
the 18th the Real Estate savings
bank ofSt. Louis, suspended. LA
bllities S247. 900, Also the Derry
awnings bank, Manchester, New
Hampshire. Also the Jersey City
savings bank, Nj. Also, Decem-
Der 10Th. Brooks bank, Lawvilie,
N. III. Dec. 3lst a run began on
the Rochester, N. Y, savibgs bank,
but 1t stood. Bonner s. Co.'S. bank
ing house, New York, suspended.
Also, the Bankers and Brokers as
ISOLATION. Also, j. f. Jackson, bro
1ker. Bonner owes some 100000
he lent money to parties on cash
collaterals, such az bonds, and then
sold the bonds, or borrowed larger
amounts on them than he had lent
and IN this way did an immense bus.
insss, at other peoples .eKpens e
Bonner is q genuine s.1iDanceir."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04

The annual report of the Treas
urer of South Carolina, if q full
and fair one, and not colored in or.
der to mislead, shows that the 'tcar-
pet-bag3 government of that State
was lavish and reckless In its squan-
dering of public money, The fol-
lowing statement OF total disbuFse.
ments for three years-not consec
utive-exhibit . vast disprOp0rtioD
of expenditures, for which there
should be some explanation.
!. The purposes for which. these
large sums were expended during
the rule. of Republicans, exclude
the idea that there could have been
any reason for this extravaganza in
the prosecution OF public works,
the payment of debts OF previous
years, or. any special exigency in
the pnblic service. They were all
years of peace, and of comparative
business prosperity, u is not
strange that the people who paid
the taxes should finally revolt
against zach misgovernment and
manifest corruption. The time had
evidently come when 4 stop should
be put to such prodigei reckless
ness, waste and plnnder. And the
Republican party could not afford
to maintaIn such gQyernmense ~
force Of arms,