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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

Most men fail to comprehend the
tremendous difference to debtors, of
high and low interest. Let these
TWO important facts be borne in
mind: First, the increase of nation
al wealth only averages about THREE
per cent. per annum, while the in
crease in population is at about the
same rate. Second, that the total of
any given sum at the end of term
of one hundred years (interest be-
ing added to the principal annually
at four per cent. would be nearly
three times as much as at three per
cent; at five per cent. more than
sac times; at six per cent. more
than eighteen times; at seven per
cent. more than forty times; and at
ten per cent. more than SeUe11 ham
bred and twenty-five times as much
as it would be at three per cent.
And yet people who claim to be fl
nanciers advocate this and that
financial system without paying the
slightest regard to the rate of inter
est which their favorite system will
cause debtors to pay, although nc
one portion of the whole financia
question is really so important al
this very one of the rate of interest
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

The SILVER BILL.-The Inter.
Oceans Washington correspondent
says:
The debate on the silver question
will be prolonged indefinitely, but
the Matthews resolutions and the
Bland bill have their places on the
calendar, and cannot be displaced
except by a vote of the Senate, SO
they will both be hashed before any
other legislation is permitted. The
silver men have changed their
minds about the Matthews resolu-
ton, and will vote down thu amend
ment proposed by Conkling, max
ing them joint resolutions, So as to
secure the action of the President,
Sut will allow them to go on record
as an expression of opinion only OF
the Senate and House on these very
important subjects.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
Our Market Report
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS.
EnpOria Markets.


EAPoRIA. AS. January IL, 1878.
Roads keep bad and markets dull We
quote:
WHOLESALE.
Fall wheat-9Oc TO 81 90.
Spring wheat-75 cents.
Corn-Shippers pay Is 70 to cents
Oats-Shippers pay Is to l6 cts.
Rye-20 to so cts.
Bariey-15 to 25 cts.
Hay--$4 90 to $500 per ton.
woOd--$s5O to 4 90 for soft and green wood;
800 and 800 for dry hard wood.
Coal--Lyon county and Fort Scott $500;
Usage shaft 81. 90; McAlIister, $3.50.
Cattle on foOt-Butchers pay AZ to s1S for
fat COWS; 23E to AZ for fat steers; calves, Sc
sheep, 81 cents.
Hogs on foOt-3kc; dressed, 81 to 4c.
RETAIL PRICES.
FlOur-Soden's Eagle, 1856 per 100 lbs; IL
$685. 3x. $500; Little Beauty, 81 IS. era
ham, $500.
Armor's Flour-A A So so; Ak fall So 20; Al
spring s. 90; SIX A 50 50; sx 50 so; graham
$500; rye flour, 81 90.
Corn meal per 100 Ibs.-BoIted, 500; un,
bolUed. as cents. Bran. IS cents, shorts 20 c
mixed feed 75 cts.
Fresh meats--steak, 10 to I2Ik cts. per Ib
roasts. 6 to 12H cts; boiling pieces, 3 to cts
Veal and Mutton. 6 to l2k cents.
Fresh Vegetables per bushel-Pe each blow
potatoes, scots; onions, so cts; turnips, 25 cts
lcabbages, 5 to 10 cts each; squash and pump
kins 5 to 10 cents each.
Best butter 20 cents; eggs 12< cts; apple
81 to SIPS; cranberries I2K to Is cents.
Live chickens, 20 to p cts each
Maple Sugar-20 cts per lb.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
INC ChandIer Letter.

The recent letter of the Hon. VIM.
E, Chandler, of New Hampshire,
secretary of the National Republican
committee, has attracted wide atten-
tion. He charged wholesale bar
gaining among administration Re-
publicans, with Democrats, to make
Mr.. Hayes president. There has
been a good deal of speculation as
to how the charges would be met
by those most interested. Many of
the more important allegations of
the letter have been emphatically
denied. Secretary Sherman imme-
diatelY stated that he had never
made the bargain of which Mr..
Chandler accused him. Mr.. Ran
dali Gibson, of Louisiana, emphati-
cally denied the accusation SO far at
he was concerned. Judge Law
renee, of Illinois, disposed of the
story that he had received rewards
Mr.. Watterson, of Kentucky, de-
scribes Mr.. Chandeliers statement!
about him as wanton, malicious, ant
false. Secretary McCreary declares
that if there had been any bargain
he must necessarily have known it
from his relations to the republican
managers, and that he knew moth
ing. The assertion of these gentle
men will be regarded as no les
credible, probably, than that of MI
Chandler, and if he has any evi
dence of his charge that Mr.. Haye
was counted in by q bargain, b
must submit it.
But Mr.. Chandler has met wit
the most direct rebuff at home. HI
letter was intended to carry the NeV
Hampshire Republicans by storI
-gainst Hayes. But the conYentio
met on the 9th, and adopted resOlU
tiens commencing the labOrs of th
President in the work of pacif cato
of the South, and reform of the civ
il service, and the separation of th
| appointing power from Congress
At preliminary meeting the nigI
. previous Mr.. Chandler found so d.
cided feeling in favor of the Pre-
ident, and was so roughly handle
in the debate, that he concluded NJ
to make a contest in the convention
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
How Debtors were Treated In
Ancient Times.

Debtors nowadays may consid-
er themselves fortunate to be simply
ruined. In ancient Rome the debt
or, or rather the failure to pay =
debt, was treated as an atrocious
crime. Gibbons decline and Fall''
of the Roman Empire, Phillips,
Sampson s. Co.'S edition, vol. W.,
pages 372 and 1913 says:
"rhe cruelty of the twelve tables
against insolvent debtors still re-
mains to be told and / shall dare
to prefer the literal sense of antiQui-
ty to the specions refnements OF
modern criticism. After judicial
proof or confession of tho debt,
thirty days of grace Tin PRISON. were
allowed before q Roman was deliV-
cred into the power of his fellow
citizen. In this private prison, II
ounces of rice were his daily food +;
he might be bound with q chain of
fifteen pounds weight; and his mis-
cry was thrice exposed in the mark
ct place, to solicit the compassion of
his friends and countrymen. AT
the expiration of sixty days, the
debt was discharged by the loss of
liberty or life; the insolYeRt debtor
was either put to death or sold into
foreign slavery beyond the Tiber (;
but, if several creditors were alike
obstinate end unrelenting, they
might legally dismember his body,
and satiate their revenge by this
horrid Partition"
Why not revive this orthodox
practice of Furnishing people who
don't pay their debts?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
From Marion County i.

DEAR News 81 have not intended
willfully to neglect yen this long, but
have only been waiting fer something /
to turn up worth writing. But in this
fast age and fast country we are not |
surprised at anything, and consequent |
ly events that would be greedily grabb- |
ed by reporters in other places as
items of momentous Importance, are
passed by here as not worthy of note.
However, l II try to post yen on a few
common place matters.
| The delightful weather we have had
this fall and winter thus far, has given
to the wheat fields a most beautiful
and promising appearance. Even that
which was sown late has made a fine
growth and looks well.
Corn is mostly gathered, and all
though the crop is large the average
yield is not SO abundant as was antici-
} puted; yet it is SO plentiful and so
cheap that most of the farmers are
still holding their hogs for a higher
: figure than the present price, IS p.
: Christmas passed off with rhe usual
gayecy and good cheer among the
S district had its Christmas tree, candy
r pull, or some other merry-making af-
fair, tor the amusement and entertain
O ment of the Juveniles, and every
v yOungster in the county is now ready
n TO vote Tor Santa Claus for the next
o president.
d Peabody has made wonderful
y growth within the last year. Many
n new and attractive residences have
e been added to this already beautiful
l. and pleasant village; and several BUSH
Is ness houses of no mean pIetentions
Y have doomed up on Walnut street, Civ.
/ ing that portion of the town almos
y the appearance of city. Messrs. KOl
! lock s. Chenault have built a very
lie handsome stone. banking house which
r, would be a credit to any place. 1t is
&c stories high, with cut stone front, ant
id finished in elegant style. 1t is nearl,
completed, and will be occupied b,
n them in a short time. Mr.. Vanaukel
uoS pun up hOGOL dBu SIOI
D. house on the same street, and speak
O. of erecting a fine stone building ad
es joining the banking house just men
ID toned.
at Messrs. Rivenberg & Terrell ar
to building an extensive addition to thei
D. steam mill, and will soon have one c
if the best mills in the State.
e Mr. Martin of Topeka, and othe
Ii eminent lawyers have given thei
Mt opinion to the effect that the deed
e. now being given by the probate judg
e. to lots ia the old Coneberry site are
n good aud valid as if given by uncl
e. Sam himself, and consequently a gres
many of those lots are being bougf
up, and as the people become confider
of the safety of such Investment
II, Peabody will soon begin to grow MOI
k rapidly in that direction, as it is mol
,ir desira bic for residences than the south
ern portion of the town.
az Business in Peabody is good consiG
OF ering the times. Of course you get th
lie Gazette, and can see that we have
Du real live paper now. Walker is rec
hot and bound to blaze. He know
Gu what it takes TO make a good pape
n and a good town, and he is workin
s. for botlI. JEEMs.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
4 National Greenback Con
YenGIOn-

TOLEDO, O., Jan. "a call is is
sued for a National Convention of
the National party, to be held in
this city On the 22d of February
next. It reads as Follows:
'The undersigned, believing that
the financial policy of those in con-
troll of the Federal Government Is
destructive of the best interests OF
the people, and that If continued
will bring general ruin and unpre-
cedented suffering upon the indus
trial classes, and also believing that
through organization and unity of
action, we may induce those in pow
er to take such steps as to avert such
calamitous results, we call upon
those, regardless OF past poll .icaI af
filiation, who will unite for iRde-
pendent action to elect one delegate
in each congressional district, and
afterwards, by proper authority, two
delegates for each State-at large, to
meet in national convention, in the
city of Toledo, on the 22d of Febru-
airy, 1878, they to take such action as
wisdom may dictate.
Upwards of 100 names are ap-
pended to the call, prominent among
them being those of Wendell Phil
lips, of Mass. Peter Cooper, of N.
York; Thos. D. Hoxey, of New
Jersey; Alex. Campbell, of Illinois
BIantOn Duncan of Kentucky, and
Moses w. Field, of Michigan.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
QUIZ vvAsmINGTONLETrEk.
Secretary Hsvarts-The HaexI-
can QuesGTOR--ArEny Reform
Hairs Bogle-T'he
Indian bureau
COa.ruDafOR.

COrraPaiOH.
WASHINGTON, d. C Jan. 16, 1878.
The recent appearance of Secre-
tary Evarts in the New York courts as
an advocate for the Erie railroad, is
not regarded here as in The direction
of ''Civil Service Reform" His re-
ported acceptance of larga fee has, it
is said, nettled and huI..iliated the
Presidents aud, what is still more i'm
portant, it Is reported that Mr.. Hayes
has determined 10 at once recognize
the DiaZ Government, disregarding
Mr.. Evarts advice to the contrary, but
supported by the balance OF his Cab
met.
Runkle and Draper, supposed to
have been restored TO their old posi-
ton in the Army and Navy by PIesi-
Dental and Departmental favor, were
notified by Mr.. Conkling that he pro-
posed to have a word to say about il
and it may be that they are not yet
out of the woods, though Runkle has
1 ROb Ills SA@,OOO OaCA pay anu LII
hopes to get about $25 600.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair's memorial tC
the Maryland Legislature to review
the work ofthe Electoral Commission
and test its legality with a view tt
GUST President Hayes, If his title should
be found defective, seems bound to mis-
erably fail of accomplishing more thar
a feeble sensation. No Representative
Democrat here appears ready to en-
dorse it. Gen. B. F. Butler ha
promptly disavowed any sympath.
with the movement or any other seek
IHg to reopen the dispute settled b,
the Electoral Commissions verdict
aAd very few who fully appreciate th
sagacity of of the New York Senator
believe he would voluntarily sacrific
the sympathy now his, by giving al
and comfort to such a mad scheme.
No one seems to question the trut
, of the findings of Secretary Schurz
commission appointed last May to iI
7 yestigate the fairs of the Indian BIT
reau. The report first made, charge
l., or intimates almost universal frau
! corruption or irregularity. But wins
is most puzzling to the public is
know how a Commissioner, whose in
. excusable ignorance and credulity,
not positive guilt, was such that L
knew nothing of the shameful cond
? ton of his Bureau, and was so potter
q as to demand his immediate retire
ment, could have merited by his r.
cord the appointment of Consul GEL
). eral to Canada, which the Senate II
= fused to confirm. DE WITT.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

AOANGn SOEA q AS-A A@s DAa4L Hon
First week-Dear, dear, dearest
Mary.
Second Week-Dear, dear Mary.
Third Week-Dear Mary.
Fourth Week-Mary.
Fifth weekday, you are mis-
taken.
Sixth Week-Mary, that is silly
talk.
Seventh week-O woman, you
talk like fool.
Eighth week. want the buttons
sewn on my shirt cuffs, by
Ninth week.-Mrs. away your
cold hoofsi
Tenth week-WhatI Cold meat
for dlnneri Don't you know 9 good
beefsleak from q bad one7
Eleventh week. You're 8 foOlI
Twelfth week-(Separation. Aa.
~ goes home to her fatheF.l
Twelve montbs-(Grand finale,
John calls on Nary wfth q revolver.
Bullets, blood and police New
York Graphic.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

"Silver is unwieldy and unhandy
for general use,v say the goldites.
So it Is and so is gold for that mat
ter. If the only currency in use
where gold coins they would be
very unpopular. The fact is, Treas
ury notes comprise the only con-
venient, absolutely safe, and mex
pensive currency. But if the popu-
lar notion that such notes must rest
upon . specie basis is to be respect
ed, they may as well rest upon sill
yer as gold, and the plentier these
metals become the more popular
will be our paper money aud the
quicker 1t will be at par with coin.
The way to solve the question of
specie resumption IL to remonetize
silver. The very fact that it is in
convenient ID handle in bulk is one
Of the reasons why IL should be re-
monetized. $50,O00,O00 in silver
will be more effective in resuming
specie payment than $500, 100000 in
gold, and the silver can be had, to
that amount, while the gold cannot.
To advocate resumption, and op-
pose issuing silver to resume with,
is the most inconsistent and absurd
position imaginable.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

We are in receipt of a copy of
Messrs. Trulnbull, Reynolds & Aliens
(Kansas City, Annual Catalogue.
With it is incorporated what is now
considered a household god-Prof.
Tees almanac. The pamphlet entire
consists of 104 pages, is beautifully
printed on tinted paper, and is CON-
plete in its Information of agricultural
and other implements and machinery,
and contains also a lengthy and per-
feet list of seeds of all descriptions
We commend this catalogue and al
manac to the perusal of ali our agricul-
tural acknowledgements Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

We have received proof of the
first hundred pages of the report
of the Kansas Centennial Mona
gers, now passing through the
press. It is printed on fine, tinted
paper, prefusely illustrated, and
will contain q vast amount of val
liable information aside from the
report proper. This report is al
most exclusively the work of Hon.
Alfred Gray, the secretary of the
Board, who has bestowed upon the
work an amount of labor which is
simply astonishing, and for which
he should receive the gratitude of
every citizen of the state. We oft
en- wonder if the legislature will
ever lean to appreciate and reward
such service, as 1t deserves.-Re
al Estate Register.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
southwest.

If the ministers are right about hell,
the Eldorado folks are fearfuily reck-
less in boring holes underneath their
town.
AL. Brandley has so far recovered as
| to be up and down stairs a portion OF
Tuesday. Ii is thought he will be able
to go home on Saturday.-CottonwoOd
Fails Leader.
If any place in Kansas has needed
the Murphy movement it is Cotton
wood Falls, and now the Leader says !:
The Murphy meeting was addressed
last night by Rev. Jones. The house
was full and the speech q good one.
The interest in the Murphy movement
is as deep as ever. There are now
over 1000 Murphys in this county.
The committee appointed to interview
Mahlon Young reported that he would
close up the LIST of May.
In November and December 81
wolves, 4 wildcats, and 1878 rabbit
scalps were delivered to the Chase
county commissioners.
Sheriff johnson, of Chase, has sold q
600 pound Berkshire pig.
Catholic fair at Cottonwood Fall.
Jan. % and %.
Murphy movement has reached
Bazaar.
Judge Wagner, of Chase county
had his Christmas turkey stolen, bu
it was returned last week, thin as /,
single. 1t had been ratified Al times
and he had squandered S1.75 himsel
In trying his luck in drawing it.
The Globe, published at Golden Col.
says that man named johnson has
/ constructed railroad Velocipede 70
, the purpose OF going to Texas on it
The machine weighs forty pounds anc
its speed is fifteen miles per hour. 1
is now going east on the Santa f
: road.-Florenee Herald.
|, A nine foot coverlid for four foo
: nine person Is one OF the lates freaks
. Florence BSsAlds
Isn't thaea mighty sight better thaI
/, 4 feet 8 inch coverlid for a fee
persons
5 The Wichita Savings bank has $97,
: 00O on deposit.
What is, the duty of Democrats
I Wichita Beacon.
To take the pledge.
e Prentis LECTURES in Wichita Febru
4 airy 9Th.
Albert g. Argo, from Nodawa.
county. No., bargained to buy a farn
in Sedgwick county, but mysteriousl.
disappeared In going from the post
q Office to Cleyeland's livery stable, an,
has not since been heard from. H
had $40 in cash and $500 draft in hi
> pocket.
! Thomas Campbeil's coal shaft a
: Wichita is down $50 feet, and no Goa
yet.
The third eeal hole Is being bored a
: Eldorado and reports 8 thin strata Goa
: tas SO feet deep, and II inch strata
!, few feet below mat. If it don'E disap
. pear before shaft can reach it, a
. right.
81 A sycamore tree was cut on job
T NICHOLS farm In CoWley county, las
r week that measured over seven feet a
t the butt.
d A young woman from Grouse cree
# came into one of our dry goods store
recently, and asked for pair OF stock
ings. The neat little clerk poliJel
s asked her what number she wore
J. i"Why, two, you fool. Do you think
Z am ceptiPede, or that have q wood
en- leg ?'-Arkansas City Traveller.
Texas in Butler county were not q
: promptly paid this year as last, owing
: perhaps, to the partial failure of til
wheat crop and 20 the further fact thu
but few of the hogs in the count
have been marketed.
Mr.. shotwell, of Eldorado, wen
q skating last week, and shot we
3 through hole up to his neck in col
3 water.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

A great disaster has overtaken
the farmers of Pratt county, ILL.,, in
the rotting of their corn in the cribs
during the two and a half months
of warm rainy weather. The crop,
regarded as unusually good some
time since, is now thought to be
much less than half yield. The
corn in crib is glued together so as
to stand up in heaps, and it is much
of it unfit for feed or sale.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

Ga the 18th, Geo. H. Pendleton,
having previously received the dem
ocratic nomination, was elected
Senator from Ohio, by vote Of %
to 8 in the Senate, and 3j to 80 in
the House. The republicans voted
blank, having no candidate. Pen
dleton succeeds Stanley Matthew
after March A.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

The Secretary of the Treasury
wants specie resumption. Very
well. Let him pile up his millions
OF silver dollars in the Treasury,
and he will have it. Few men with
crisp greenbacks in their pockets
will care to make the exchange for
ailVer
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
Good Residence for Sale,

T WILL SELL my residence, corner of Ne
l. oshO street and Sixth avenue, Eaporia,
consisting of 2-story brick house six rooms
and frame addition, pantry, closets. a good
cellar, pOrches lot 100 by $50 feet full of fruit
trees, evergreens, shrubbery and flowers, and
grape bower sixty feet long, covered with
vines. Stable, outhouses. two cisterns, and as
good 9 well Of pure water as there is in the
city. The location is excellent, and the prop
erty will be sold at q bargain if sold soon.
Inquire of or write to o. 1. CASE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

The United States ntiliEs in agri-
culture 10 per cent. of their area /:
Great Britain So per cent. France
and Belgium 10; ria-Hungary,
SO, and Holland 20, This shows
eonclusivesy whence the sgricpltar-
al growth must spring.
An observing farmer points out
the following as the only difference
between q So aud $500 horse ~
The first can fall through q bridge
and not receive the least injury I,
the second will break his neck by
falling over loose cobble-stone.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

To make silver legal tender will
decrease the present value OF mon
ey, bowls Wall street. Very well.
Anything that takes from money
its present excessive value as com
pared with other property, and
makes it less desirable, is move in
the right direction.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

Suspended, Jan. l0-The Great
Darlington Savings bank, Spring
fed, Mass, S4O7, 900 deposits.
Jan. Unveils, Faulkner 81 Co.'s
banking house, Chicago, liabilities
$4,000. II. IL. HOLSTER, banker,
N. York, $4,000.
Jan. II, State Savings bank, Tren-
ton, New Jersey.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

All bat 500 of the population of
$500 OF Cortland, N. z, have
signed the Aurphy pledge, and the
LIQUOR businass is ruined. "But
this hing is bound to blow oveesa
said dealer, as he sat ia his deserts
ed bar-room, sand folks viii be
ihtrstier than before
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

Attorney General Willard Davis has
decided that justices of the peace elect
ed in November, 1877, cannot legally
take their seat until the first Tuesday
in April 1873, unless the incumbents
chose to resign.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

The Kansas Publishing House
will bring out in February "a Kan
san Abroad" comprising in a hand
some volume the European letters
by "Prentis," which in their news
paper form were so eagerly sough
after by Kansas readers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
HORSE AND MULE MARKET
QUOTATIONS,
HORSES.
ST. LOUIS MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS, January II
Flour-Dull and lower; fall superfine q co
9415; extra, 81 3O9450; Xxx. $5C095 Is
family, s.. 50a5.ej.
Wheat-lower and depressed; No. 8 red,
81 15xa1 log; No. 4 do. 81 .03ka 81 "a; No.
soft spring. 81 o..
Corn-Ffrmer for old, lower for new; 41Xc
for old, 80 for new.
Oats-LoWer; Csc. .
Rye-Lower; Sc
Barley-DuIl; No. spring 44a47c.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

We return thanks to Senator
Plumb for a copy of Stanley Mat
thew's financial speech, and to AL
fred Gray for the November and
December reports of the State Agri
cnltnral Society.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

Senator Voorhees, financial speech,
in the Senate, Tuesday, gave the
gold bugs in that body the liYelies'
shaking up they have. had. HE
Language was plain" and not tC bt
misunderstood.