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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09
OBITUARY .
Death Of Forest b. Page.


This gentleman died on Saturday morn
ing last, Aug. Sd, aged about As years.
He had for years been afflicted with con-
sumption, which at times he bad seemed
to resist almost to such degree as to en-
courage the hope that he would recover.
The last year, however, the disease made
such rapid progress as to destroy such q
hope among his friends. All last winter
his health declined rapidly. 1t was his
purpose in the early spring to take trip
south for the benefit of his health, but the
cold weather holding on so late he did
not get off. He grew rapidly worse, and
finally was confined to his house. We
believe he had not been to his office for
some four months. 1t was known months
ago that he must die and though his death
caused universal sorrow, it was not unex-
pected. Daring all his illness Mr.. Page
was patient. He was widely known and
beloved, and his house was constantly
visited by friends from Neosho Rapids,
where he had lived so long, from here
and other sections of the county. 1t was
matter Of qualification, and comfort to
bim throughout his illness to know that
he was so kindly esteemed and remem-
bered.
Mr.. Page settled at Neosho Rapids, in
this county, In 1857. He was one of the
prOprietors of that town, and helped To-
cate and survey it. Here he lived and
took great interest in the growth and de-
velopment of his locality. During the
War he for some time held the position of
Deputy Provost Marshal. He was after
wards for short time agent of the Kaw
Indians, when they were IOca-
ted on the reserve between here and
Council Grove. He was three times sent
to the legislature from his district. First
in 1868; again in 1865 and last in 1871.
In this position he acquitted himself
well. In 1875 he was nominated
and elected Register of Deeds for Lyon
county. He was reelected in 1877. In
all his official positions he displayed
more than usual competency, and ac-
quilted himself creditabIy.
His funeral took place Sunday. his re-
mains being taken TO Neosho Rapids for
tnterment. He was followed thither by
many friends, among them about forty
members Of the Odd Fellows lodge Of
this city, he being member OF the lodge
at his home town. His funeral was large
Iy attended from different parts of the
county, the people thus showing the es-
TEEN in which he was held by them. He
leaves a wife and two children to whom
the public sympathy is extended in this
hour OF their bereavement.
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EVERYBODY's BUSINESS.

Newman has few silk eloaks left whicl,
he is offering at very low prices. Any la
dy wanting really elegant garment at q
great bargain, should call at once. 27-ti
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES. - We are
prepared to furnish physicians and the
public generally with homeopathic tritu-
rations, dIlutions, mother tinctures, etc.,
etc., at st. Louis prices. Orders by mail
will be promptly filled, and sent securely
packed in wooden cases.
lift KELLOGG & HoYT.
E. p. Bruner has purchased the right
Of and is manufacturing buttons CombI-
nstion Chimney. They are light and du-
rabIe. call and see. SOFT
Jacksonville Business College and Eng
fish Training School. Unsurpassed adj
vantages for sound Business Course, a
thorough English Course or a complete
PennsGashtp Course at this College.
fall term opens September Sd. Send for
college journal and catalogue to post
office box $50, Jacksonville, Ill. 29-6t
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FREHCH'S RESTAURANT AND CREAM
PARLoR,-179 Commercial street, west
side, between Sixth and Seventh avenues,
Emporia, Kansas, carries the best line of
creams in the city.
Cream by the quart or gallon at reason
able rates.
Choice foreign and domestic fruits a
speciality. 21-3m
Newman still has fuII lines OF hand
some colored hosiery for ladies and child
rem which he will close out at q heavy re-
duction. 27.tf
Ladies wanting parssoIs or fans should
not fail to call at Newman's as he intends
slaughtering prices on these articles IN or
der to reduce his large stock. 27.tf
For Stationery, Blank-books. Pocket
Cutlery, Pocket-boOks and Lamps, go to
lift NORTH & RYDER's. 8
For delicate shades of Mixed Paints,
White Lead, Oils, and Window Glass, go
to lift NORTH & RYDER's.
Now don't you forget it, but be sure
and go to j. s. Watson's for your. coal
He sells the celebrated McAlister, "BIack
Diamond' and there is none better in the
market. Also the Fort Scott and Usage
shafts the Emporia wood and coal yard.
S-tf
Newman is largely overstocked in Ia
dies neck wear of all kinds, including lace
collars and cuffs, ties, scsrfs, ETC., and to
close the lot out will almost give them
away for the next few days. 27-tf
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If you want to sell or buy farm or
piece Of unimproved land, you will con-
suit your own interests by calling on or
corresponding with S. B. Riggs, Real Es-
tate Agent, corner Of Commercial and 4th
avenue. 24-tf
If you want prescription neatly and
carefully compounded, go to
lift NORTH & RYDER'S,
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For choice Perfumerles, Fine Soaps and
full line of Brushes, go to
lift NORTH s. RYDERs.
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Fine-,Iames Smiths Imperial cigars.
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Liverpool and London and Globe In
surance Co. of England, assets $2S, zoo, 900,
SUrnITIs 900 O0O oo,oFrst Loo. -,
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Newman still has full lines Of hand
some colOred hosiery for ladies and child
rem which he will close out at heavy re-
duction. 27.tf
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CEMETERY WoRK.-John Morgan, mar
BILE cutter, does all kinds of cemetery
work in the best manner. Headstones
ana monuments out of American and
Italian marble. Prices moderate. Shop
corner of Merchants street and South av
nue., Emnoria, Kas. 2S-tf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

For Stationery, Blank-books, Pocket
Cutlery, Pocket-boOks and Lamps, go to
lift NORTH & RYDER's. q
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

Ladies wanting parasOls or fans should
not fail to call at Newman's as he intends
slaughtering prices on these articles IN or
der to reduce his large stock. 27.tf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

For delicate shades of Mixed Paints,
White Lead, Oils, and Window Glass, go
to lift NORTH & RYDRR's.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

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Fine-,Iames Smiths Imperial cigars,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

L have at various times had an oppor-
tunity to examine and use the above
commended work, and can also commend
1t heartily as a valuable assistant to the
student Of the Holy Scriptures.
E. L. ALLEN, pastor Church of
Christ, Emporia, Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

Jacksonville Business College and Eng
fish Training School. Unsurpassed ad-
vantages for sound Business Course, a
thorough English Course or a complete
PennsGRsbip Course at this College.
fall term opens September Sd. Send for
college journal and catalogue to post
office box $50, Jacksonville, Ill. 29-6t
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-09

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Z. T. Bruner has purchased the right
Of and is manufacturing buttons Combi-
nstion Chimney. They are light and du-
rabIe. Gall and see. SOFT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
The California Flood-Poisoned by
Mushrooms-Suic

Mr.. Editor 81 have made an at
tempt TO write You something about
this part Of California. Since my
return here on the seventh OF Feb :
ruary . great deal of rain has fallen.
We have had about two months of
very steady rain here since the rainy
season commenced. During that
time the water gauge gives us
30 71-100 inches at this place. We
have also had some storms hero that
blew down a number Of large shade
trees and also the epire Of tbs Con-
gregational church but fortunately
tbave was no lives lost by it falling
and bat little damage done to the
main building. Tho water has not
OVERT owed at this place bat it has
overlooked a great many places
along the Sacramento valley. A
number Of lives have been lost and
the loss of property along the Sacra-
mento valley is about ten million
dollars. Our rainy season is about
over. The change on the programme
next is hot weather and clouds of
dnst. The thermometer stands here
in the shade from sixty-fve to eighty
now. We had an accident here a
few days ago similar co one that oc-
cured about two years ago by which
three out Of family died. They
were poisoned by mushrooms. A
lawyer requested stage driver to
bring him in town supply of the
so.called mushrooms, He did SO
saying, "There they are; you must
Judge for yourself, | am no Judge of
the article. /" "These are mushrooms .
says the limb of the law, and he had
them sent 10 the hotel and cooked
for supper by the Chinese cook. The
result is that the proprietor of tho
Chico hotel, lawyer Hutton, Judge
Clark and the Chinese cook who
tasted them TO see il they were sea-
soned enough are all lying very
sick at the Chlco Hotel and one of
the walters has died from the effect
of eating a supper Of toad stools. A
man last evening took fifty grams
OF morphene and put an end to bis
life. lie was stranger here.
Chico, Butte Co.. Cal, March 23a. 1878.
X. u LAWRENCE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
paper read before the French

4 paper read before the French
academy of Science which gave the
results of mary experiments, states
that milk having been exposed at
various temperatures varying from
~ degrees to 2l2 degrees Fahrenheit
ELECTED the following summary of
facts: The rise of tha cream is more
rapid as the temperature to which
the milk is exposed approaches (32
degs.) the freezing poin:. Tue VOL
ume of cream is greste when the
milk has been effec.aally cooled. The
yield OF butter is also greater when
the milk has been exposed TO a very
low temperature. FInalIy,the skim
med milk, the butter aud tho cheese
are of better quality when prepared
under the above circumstances.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
The Crisis.

What think you would be the result if the
earth should stop spinning around the sun?
Were you ever near large and intricate ma
chine when one of its wheels became clogged
or broken--near enough to hear the grating.
Earring clash, the sudden, deafening crash ;
Astronomers assure US that precisely similar
effects, only on an inconceivably grander scale,
would be produced if our earth--one of the
wheels in the universe machine should sud
denly cease its revolutions. In other words.
there would be general clash and crash of
satellites, planets and systems What. we
term financial crisis are due to similar causes.
One of the wheels in the fnance-machine be-
comes clogged, perhaps shattered. The terri,
BILE Wall-street "crash' which follows is com.
municated to every part of the financial mech
anism of the country. But analogies do not
stop here. There is that other mechanism. the
most intricate of all-sometimes called an or.
ganism because it generates its own forces
the human machine. When one of its mem
bers fails to perform its Office, the whole syss
tenn is thrown into disorder Members before
considered unassai.able, break down under the
unnatural pressure. The shock comes, and
utter prostration is the result Reparation
can only be effected by the restoration of the
impaired parts and the REIMBURSEMENT of its
levers,-the physical forces. There is one
part of the machine more liable to disorder
than any other,-the liver,-the great balance
wheel of the machine
The liver being the great depurating or
blood-cleansing organ of the system, set it at
work and the foul corruptions WHICH gender
in the blood, and rot out, as it WERE the ma
chinery of life, are gradually expelled from
the system. For this purpose Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, used daily, and DIR,
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, taken in
small doses, are prominently the articles
needed. They cure every kind of humor from
the worst scrofua to the common pimple,
blotch, or eruption. Great eating ulcers
kindly heal under their mighty curative inhu-
ence. Virulent blood poisons that Turk in the
system are by them robbed of their terrors,
and by their persevering and somewhat pro-
tracted use the most tainted systems may be
completely renovated and built up anew. En-
iarged glands, tumors and swellings dwindle
away and disappear under the influence of
these great resolvents
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

ACCORDING to the official state.
ment of the Secretary of state, it
cost S25,S74S7 to pay off the en-
ployes of the late legislature. 1t oc-
ours to the Herald that at least
twenty-five per cent. of these .em-
ployes" could have beer dispensed
with, and still the interests of the
State would not have materially SUIT
fered. But then, come to reflect,
couldn't the people have contrived
to get along very comfortably and
happily if the Legislature of 1873
had not convened? 1t is true that
we are indebted to the late legisla.
ture for the inestimsble blessing of
having the impenetrable wilds of
northern Lincoln County declared a
estate Park )" for the priceless boon
of having the office of Insurance
commissioner created expressly for
the use and behoof of Q Madison in
surancs agent; and for the precious
privilege of paying another INSTALL
ment of $4,000 on accout of the
thrice paid paid Calkins & Proudft
"cIaim" but these and other vitality
important measures that received
attention at the hands Ut the iegis!s-
tare. during the past winter. might
have waited another year without
proving very serious hardship to
the people of the State. --iSheboygon
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

WHEN our friend, Luther Brown
says that Garfield aud other peoples
money advocates, quote Washington,
Jefferson, Hamilton and others Of our
early statesmen, "with an air of tri-
umph as though they proved some
thing by repeating them," he uses the
argument of the pettifoging lawyer.
Garfield quoted from those men not
for what they believed but because
Kelley, Carey, Pomeroy, Butler,
Devil & Co. quoted from them on the
other side of the question, and mis-
represented every fact and misled hon.
est men like Mr.. Brown. "Slippery
politicians" always have aud al.
ways will manage paper money in q
way to get advantage of the people,
aud when we can have money that
can't be taken from the people, mon.
ey that every man knows is money
when he has it in his pocket. the Won
der is that men who like Mr.. Brown
who were "wise in their daynncan snow
be found so ignorant or stupid as to
oppose" the honest money, bat will
allow themselves to be entapgled in
tho meshes Of the slippery politi-
clans"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
The Demon and Drink.

1.-THE late Rev. ]. J. Talbot was a
victim OF drunken debanch at Elk
hart. No one excels the drunkarG
himself IN an eloquent portrayal of
the effects Of drink. The following
IS an extract from one of Mr.. Tai
bots own lectures.
Il have run a career of dissipation
and degradation In the Internal
slavery of Alcohol. But now the
struggle is Overland | can survey the
field and measure the losses. | had
a position, high and holy. The de.
mon tore from around me The robes
of my sacred Office and sent me forth
goddess, a kissing and bywofd
among men. Afterward | had bus
iness, large and lucrative, and my
voice in ali large courts was heard,
pleading for justice, mercy and the
right. But the dust gathered on my
open books, and no football crossed
the threshold of the drunkard's of
nee. had money ample for all ne.
cessi.ies, but that took wings and
went to feed the Golfers of the fiends
which possessed me. | had home
adorned with all that wealth and the
most exquisite taste could suggest.
The devil crossed the threshold, and
the light faded from it's cham bers !;
the fire went out on the hottest of
affairs, and, leading me through its
portals, despair walked forth, whilst
sorrw and anguish fingered within.
had children--beautiful to me at
lenst, as dream of the morning
and they had SO entwined them
selves around their fathers heart,
that, no matter where it may wan
der, ever it came back to them on
the bright wings OF fathers indy
ing love- His destroyer took their
hands in his, and led them away. /
had wife, whose charms of mind
and person were such that to see
was to remember and to know her
was to love her. For thirteen years
we walked the rugged path of life
together, rejoicing in it's sunshine
and Borrowing in its shade. The in
fernal monster couldn't spare me
even this. | bad a mother who for
long, long years had not left her
chair, victim OF suffering and dis
ease, and her choicest delight was
in the reflection that tho lesson
which she taught at her knee had
taken root in she heart of the young
est born, aud that he was useful to
his fellows and an honor to her that
bore him.
But the thunderbolt reached even
there, and there it did its most cruel
work. Other days may cure all but
this. All ! me never word of re-
proech from her lips; only shadow
of great and unspoken grief gather
ing over the dead old face only a
trembling hand laid more lovingly
os my head only closer clinging
to the cross only q piteous appeal
to heaven, if her cup at last were not
full. And while her boy raved 10 his
wild delirium two thousand miles
away, the plying angels pushed the
golden gates ajar, and the mother of
the drunkard entered into rest.
And thus | sand, clergyman
without cure barrister without
brief or business father without
child husband without a wife
son without a parent !; man with
scarcely friend /; man without
hope-all swallowed up in the m@l-
strom of drink
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

ABOUT these times we witness the
signing of teetotal abstinence pledges
by all the old soaks from b. Gratz
Brown down to the X-roads loafer.
The wind is in the temperance sails
nov and these fellows ride in the pop
ular breeze. AS long as regular
drinks were popular and powerful it
was impossible for them to resist the
cup. But now they can reform
with the least Effort and heap the
mesnest denuaciations upon the heads
of mon who have been always sober.
Ifsaloop poison had been sudden death
TO few thousands who ride to power
ON qood-intentioned peoples weak
nessss. society would be so much the
gamer and the saloons would deserve
credit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

Mr.. j. w. DoDeE, of Shenandoah,
Pa, sends us paper containing por-
traits of three of the Mollie Maguires,
tried in that State for murder. Three
of these men were hanged at one time
at Bloomsbury, Pa, on Monday, last
week. The wholesale conviction and
execution of these demons in human
shape that has been going on in
Pennsylvania for two or three years
will soon break their murderous asso.
Citations. One of the men hanged,
Patrick Hester, had for years been
the Tweed of his township-held the
best offices and disposed of the others
to his friends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
A Letter From General Grant.

Judge John +. Long, of ST. Louis,
has just received the following letter
from General Grant
Smyrna, Asia Minor, Feb. %, '78
My Dear Judge-Since my last
letter 10 you have hsd q most in.
teres,iDg visit to the ancient places
on the Mediterranean and up The
Nile. You hare PROBABLY seen from
the papers my general route and
much better descriE tone then could
give in the limits ~ le.ler | get
the papers from the states now with
much more regularity then fer the
first few months after my departure,
and they not only folla up my linz
Of travel Gnd what | 1 frosn day TO
day very closely. bus snms II them
speculate upon my designs, l see.
they may know them but if they
do, do not. | have been under The
impression that | was carrying out
long-cherished desire to travel and
see as much of the old world as pos
sible before settling down in home
where to spend the remainds Of my
days in quiet. Bat if l was where |
was one year ago, and for the pre-
vious seven years, | would put y
most determined veto upon the re-
pudiation bill-cailed Silver bil,--if
it should receive the vote Of congress.
| fear it has passed, hnt hope, if so,
all business men 10 tho country will
work to dofeat It's operation By re-
fusing to make contracts except to
be paid in gold coin.
| see Ulysses has been 10 St Louis
twice since Christmas. You saw
him no doubt. He gave me hut lit
tie news from there. sn9 says moth
ing about the revival of business. |
hope there will be change for the
better soon. x = x y
1t is my desire to visit Austria,
Prussia, Russia. Sweden, Norway,
and Denmark before returaiog, and
as do not wish TO visit either Of the
countries until warm weather, it will
probably be October before ] do go
back.
Yours, very truly, u s GRANT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

JUST where Mr.. Edison, of the tel
ephone, the photograph and other
modern miracles, whose mastery of
the details of practical science and
gunins as an inventor are acknowl-
edged by everybody will stop in his
mad inventive career is something
beyond the reach of the prophetic
eye of the journalist, and it is no
wonder that even the New York
World, which can see as fer into a
milestone aa anybody else, gives up
the task. His last idea which is now
assuming shape at the Patent Office
at Washington, through the usual
processes that are necessary for the
protection of the fruits of meohani-
cal genius, is called the aerophone,
and wonderful instrument it prom
ises to be. 1t is constructed some
what after the manpeY of the phon-
ogrt oh, and attached 20 q !oeol0.
tive promises to MAKE itself heard
four miles eff, ard 20 announce in ar
ticulats speech, the name AID num-
her of the train, where IL will stop,
when it will be due or any other in
formation that may DO necessary.
This might sound preposterous #
any other man but Edison aunoHnc-
ed IL but Edison has confidence IN
it aud the public have confidence in
Edison
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

THE Madison Journal, referring to
the appointment of a collector for
New Orleans, thinks the wisest course
would be to choose some one who has
"not been especially prominent in the
old squabbles." First-rate idea. We
like the soft wayof doing things. Get
some woman, some Miss Sweet or
gentle Anna; some namby.pamby.
skim.milk sort of man who never
had an opinion and therefore never
told one. Send down Stanley Mat
thews or some other puke.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04

A. J. Turner, of this city, returned from
Puckaway, on yesterday, after a weeks alb
sence. He brought home a nice lot of ducks,
goose, and fine string of pickerel and bass.
His particular mission was for "canvas backs, 3"
but he found but very few at Puckaway, all
though he saw large fiocks on Buffalo Lake on
his way home.-Portage Register.
He is Railroad Commissioner you
know. T. State pays him annually
$4,000 or so, and the railroads give
him "passes" to go on particular
missions" for canvas backs. He'll
need q canvas back before he pockets
all his salary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-04
THE latest war news improves the

THE latest war news improves the
advantages for England. 1t is stated
that Austria demands that prelim-
inaries for peace with Turkey must
be modified. If this be true Austria
is not ready to encourage Russia in
war with England. It is stated also
that France was asked to sign Rus.
sia's preliminaries but answered that
she would not participate in com.
bination against England. Russia is
making additional demands on Tur.
key, probable in game of bluff. There
is chance for Russia to back down.