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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The Potter committee is in sad guam
dairy. 1t has discovered nothing of any
consequence, and expects to discover no
thing to invalidate the election of Presi-
dent Hayes. Its object was to cast ohio
guy on the Republican party so as to in
fiuence the late election, and that object
having failed it has no longer any, reason
for continuing the investigation. On the
contrary, the cipher dispatches proving
the deep corruption of its own party in
that election, must now be investigated,
or the committee will be covered with
ridicule-which it will not however es-
cape if it keeps on adjourning to the end
of the season., or if it demits its func
lions alfOpefheY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
EMPORIA MARKET,
kMPoRIA. Dec. 10

kAPORIA, Dec. 10.
RETAIL Potatoes, SOC per bushel; sweet
pH"t = :, 81 co; apples, 81 to $780, onions soc
carrots, So i,arsnips, soc; cabbage s 30 1Oc
each. squash, . 10 l0c; butter l6 to 1sc per Id
eggs, 2Oc per doz. flour, ST. 80 to So per cWt
corn meal, 81 per cwt buckwheat, IS; chick
ems. 81 rs to 81 90 per dozen; turkeys, sc to &c
per pound; chickens, sc to &c per pound lard,
s to &c; cranberries, 10 cents per quart; cur.
rants, 10 cents per pound; prunes, 12Kc
Fresh meatS-Best steak, Toe per pound; best
roast, &c; boiling meat, 4 to &c; veal, 8 to lOc
mutton, to l0c.
WHoLEsALE-No. 3 wheat, Csc; No 3, 55c;
no. 4; ~ to 60c; corn, 1Sc; oats, 10 to I5c rye,
25c; barley, . tO50c; max seed, 81: live hogs,
81 .SO(d 81 95 per 100.
FREIGHTs-The present rates of freight from
Emporia to Kansas City are as follows: For
wheat, rye and barley, 1S cents per 100 lbs :
corn aud oats, ID cents; hogs $50 and cattle
SO per car.
From Emporia to Chicago: Wheat, barley
and rye, 4S cents, and corn and oats, IS ceE T.
Cattle and hogs cost $500 per car which Ii
exhorbitant, and from EmpOria to ST. I.olsis
SO per car.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The postmaster general says that I'm.
less congress makes the necessary appro-
priAtion before its recess for the postal.
car service, that very useful arrangement
must be discontinued after January l,
and congress so far has taken no action
whatever on the subject. Ifthe mail-cal
service stops, mail must be distributed
1t large postofflces, involving much de
lay over the present expeditions matter
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The terrible and relentless power of
machinery was exhibited at the Amer
can iron works in Pittsburg, last Friday.
An employee named Patrick Shannon got
his clothing caught In pulley, and in a
few seconds was torn to fragments, his
remains being scattered around for 300
feet. The grasp of machinery is more
rcsistless and remorseless than that of
the mightiest and most ferocious ami.
NAL ever created.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The city of Boston has issued a q
year per cent. currency loan, called the
sewerage bonds, to the amount Of 81,
OO0,O 900, in denominations of $50 and up
ward, and no one person is to have more
than $4,000 worth during the fist sixty
days The design is TO make the loan q
popular investment on the part of peo-
pie who are afraid of savings banks, and
to procure for the city loan on favora-
bic terms The experiment, if successful,
may be followed by other cities.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

WOMAN IS AHEAD AGAIN.-Miss Mary
Marshall, of Chicago, and Mr.. Daniel
Csrral, of Warren, Pa, walked 1O-milC
match at jamestown, N. Y, last week
for $500, and Mary won. She got one LAP
ahead on the SD mile, and held that pc
sition all the rest of the match.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Kerosene used as a gargle, and little
swallowed, is sure and speedy cure fol
diptheria. In New York state scores Of
children afflicted with the malady have
been cured, and in not n single instance
where 1t has been used has it failed &c
cure. So says the Plattsburg IN. Y,
ReDuhlican
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The Car is loading ships with war
material at Philadelphia, and sending
them to unknown parts of the world.
He is also providing fleet in the North
Pacific with abundance of coal, powder
and other munitions of war. 1t is there
fore understood that he is man of peace.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The Ameer of Afghanistan seems to
have found Russia lukewarm ally in
time of war, and he has sent the VIceory
OF India letter apOlogizing for his re
fusal to receive visit from an English
embassy, and extending now an invita-
tion such as England has demanded
DisrAeli is immensely pleased with his
second great triumph of his bold diplo
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The snow storm of last week extended
over nearly all the northern states, from
Colorado TO Massachusetts,, and was one
Of the heaviest on record in many places
In the east it came down as rain, caus-
ing very damaging floods, and in the
west greatly impeded railroad travel
We are evidently going to have winter
this seaaon
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

/ Mrs. Carrie Hull. of Independence,
whose romantic baby suit excited so
much attention year ago, has just won
a substantial victory. In a suit against
her husband to recover damages for
false imprisonment and malicious prose
cution the jury awarded her $4,000; de-
PENDANT to pay costs Of suit. Public
sympathy in Independence has been on
the side Of Ms. Hall. from the begin
ming.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The A. T. s. s. +. railroad took posses
sion on the 18th of the Denver s. Rio
Grande narrow guage) which it has
leased for thirty years. This gives the
A. T. & s. F. control of the railroad
trade of southern Colorado and New
Mexico and direct connection with Den
yer and the Union Pacific.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Senator Plumb has introduced bill
to authorize the president, whenever in
his judgment the exIgcncies of the from.
tier service require, to call out $500 en-.
listed men for army service during the
period Of such exigency.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The Boston Herald says there are sew
eral gangs of bogus commission mer-
chants there, under an organized leader,
who supplies all the capital. They OBJ
tain consignments on credit by means OF
circulars quoting high prices, and dis
pose of the goods in New York at low
rates, and pocket the proceeds More
than a million of dollars has been realiz.
ed, and as the law does not reach them,
the business still thrives." 1t is very
strange condition of affairs that the law
cannot reach such brazen faced swind
lRrs
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Senator Butler, of South Carolina, de
mics that the leaders of the Democratic
party in his State authorized OF even toll
GRATED the use of tissue ballots. Further
he promises TO denounce such work il
the Senate. OF course!
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The faction fighting at Jackson
Breathitt county, Kentucky, having beer
renewed, and several more people killed
Gov. McCreary last week sent some stats
militia to preserve the peace.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Charles Francis Adams has been in
vesting largely in Kansas City real es.
tate. Does he mean to come west and
scoop the Democratic nomination for
the presidency as n western candidate?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

According to the returns received by
the national bureau Of agriculture At
Washington, the aggregate yield Of this
years wheat crop in the United States
amounts to l2S 600 900 bushels.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Grain and Produce.
FIour-$S 4564 40
G rain-Whear. No ? red, 9O1c; Nc red
2oKc Rye, 43c. Barley, 65c@SO
PrOvisionS-Pork. 81 25(07.75. Drv salt
meats S25O93.7O. Bacon, So S7@5: Lard, IS 40
Fiour-$3 OOG$5OO.
Grain-w heat No. 2 red winter, soc: No
spring, S2%c; No. 3spring, zoe Corn 3OzSt
Oats, 2oc: Rye, 45c. Barley. 961kc.
Proyisions-Pork, old S. as; neW$7 65; Lard,
3.55@S CT; clear Sides, SO SO
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

The First National and the CONNER
cial banks of Saratoga, n. Y, will not
have to resume. They suspended on the
18th, after a lively run. -
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Hon. B. GYatz Brown is said to have
Just inherited 10000. That is better
than the Vice Presidency.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20

Charles Francis Adams has bought 3
so, 900 site for a cotton Taill at Kansas
City.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
New York Money Market.

New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. IS.
MoSEY-3HdTper cent. Prime mcrcan-
tile paper, 495 per cent.
Gold-Sold at par, for the first time in seven
teen years the brokers cheering ard waving
tn irhats.
transforming rates, 1z@9 per cent
Bonds--Cioyern!ncnt, quiet: railroad, firm ;
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
Notice.

E The annual meeting OF the stock hold ers ef:
the First National Bank or EmpoTia Rzrsas.
viii be held at said bank on the 18th cay Of.
January. 1873, AZ O'Clock. p N Tor the pun
year II. c CROSS Pres't
pee leth, 1873. d2zti-WsIis-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
Assignee's Sale.

In pursuance of an order of the District
Court of the United States for the district of
Kansas, made IN the matter of Cook Chan
delier. bankrupts in bankruptcy, on the 81
day of January. A. ID. 1873 /, Henry C. Bran
son. assignee of the estate and effects of said
bankrupts. will. on the 22d day OF January.
A. D. 1919, in front of the court house door,
in the city of Emporia, county of Lyon, state
of Kansas. proceed to sell at public auction.
described tracts or parcels of land being in
the county of Lyon, state of Kansas:
Sec. TIP. Rg. Acres
Sk and n e5< of s e Or. 9 16 ID 100
Swx of W qr....... 10 16 10. 40
n Wqr -. .......-... 10 16 10 - 100
HENRY {. BRANsoN, SUI
( 6lw4. Assignee
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
Live Stock Markets

1--WE STOCK Markets.
KANSAS CITY, Dec IS
Cattle-Receipts light. owing to the snow
embargo on trains. Poor stock dull; higher
IN .' - -
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-20
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
THURSDAY, DEC. 10

The Senate will to morrow vote on the
bill to count the electoral vote, MI Da-
Wis of Illinois offered bill to appropri-
ate 100000 acres of land for national
charity hospital.
The House passed the pension appro-
priat!On bill, agreed to take recess from
Dec 90 to Jan. 9, and discussed Woods
resolution to investigate election COM
missioner Davenport,s operations in the
city of New York.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
WOmen's Treatment of Women.

There is a general sentiment that
women do not stand by each other, as
men do by men; that we are envious,
narrow and small, where our sex is con-
cerned; that the greatest obstacles pro-
fessional women have to overcome are
the prejudices of women themselves; !;
that if woman commits a fault,
nobody is so quick and ready to heap
opprobrium upon her as another woman.
All this is, to a certain extent, unhappi-
ly true; but it is by no means generally
true. The fashion of women sneering
at women is passing into disrepute; so
that nowadays, no woman who expects
to pass as a well bred lady is guilty of
the bad taste of speaking disparagingly
or slightingly of her own sex. Now and
then one does it, thinking thereby that
she wins the esteem of men by so doing.
She can make no greater mistake. Men
admire large-mindedness and large
heartedness in women, quite as much as
women admire those qualities in men.
The more strongly and loyalty women
stand by one another, the more respect
fully they treat and speak of one another,
the more women honor women, have
faith in women, the better for us, the
more credit to us. We can not expect
men to honor and revere us, unless we
ourselves honor and revere our owr
sex.-Mdry a. E. Wdger-Fisher, in Sun
| ddu afternoon for October.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
Registration of Third-class Matters
Circulars to POstmasters.

With the view of affording public con-
venience and of promoting the efficiency OF
the postal service, the Postmaster General
has ordered that the registry system be eX-
tended to mail matter of the third class, to
take effect on the LIST October, 1878, and that
the registry fee for each package of such
matter be fixed at the uniform rate of ten
(10) cents, additional TO the postage now re-
Quired by law.
Postmasters will, therefore, on and after
the date mentioned, register to any post
Office in the United States, or to any foreign
country within the limits of the Postal
Union, all packages of third-class matter
that may be offered for that purpose.
No packages, however, must be received
for registration as third-class matter until
a proper examination shall show it to he en-
titled to transmission through the mails as
such matter.
the registration and admission into the mails
Of matter that is unmailable, and also te
prevent the admission at third-class rates of
matter upon which postage is properly
chargeable at first-class rates under existing
laws and regulations. Postmasters should
require packages to be put up securely so as
to safely bear transportation, but not in such
a manner as to prevent an examination of
their contents, either at the mailing Office or
the Office of delivery. Matter offered for
registration in violation of these require
ments will be treated as now provided by law
and the postal regulations.
Both postage and registry-fee must be
fully prepaid with postage stamps affixed TO
the packages.
Registered packages Of thirdclass matter
will, as far as practicable, be treated in the
mails the same as registered letters.
The name and address of the sender must
be indorsed, either in writing or in print,
upon each package of third-class matter
offered for registration; and there may be
| added to this n brief description, in writing
or in print, of the number and names of the
articles inclosed. No additional written
matter, except the address, is permitted by
law. A request to return may also be print
| ed, but to write such request would by law
subject the package to postage at first-class
| Qetter) rates.
Unclaimed registered packages of third.
class matter will be treated the same as un.
claimed registered letters.
For the present, at least, the registered
package envelopes, forms and blanks now
provided for registered letters will be USED
for the registration of third class matter
but when so used, they must be indorsed
either in writing or with stamp, with the
words, third-class NATTER" SO to pre-
serve the distinction on the records between
| the two different classes of registered mat
ter. When from its form or size a packag,
can not be inclosed in a registered packag,
envelope, the envelope may be used as nov
provided for similar cases of first-class mat
ter. 1t must not, however, be so applied a
| to conceal the address, or prevent the film,
| up Of the /" record of transitO
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
The Silent Stranger.

A stranger sat in the corner of the
car hence to New York, in an easy atti-
tude, his feet upon large black trunk.
The gentlemanly conductor, going his
rounds, at the first station politely in
formed the stranger that the trunk must
be put in the baggage-car. To which
the stranger nothing replied. At the
second station the displeased conductor,
more decidedly, told the stranger that
he must put the trunk in the baggage
car. To which the stranger nothing re-
piled. At the third station the vexed
conductor more imperatively told the
stranger that he must put the trunk in
the baggage-car or it would be put off
the train. To which the stranger moth
ing replied. At the fourth station the
irate conductor had the trunk put off
and left. At the fifth station the molli-
fed conductor, addressing the stranger,
begged him to remember that he but
done what his duty required, and that
he had only done it after repeated warn
ings, and that it was solely the strangers
fault. To which the stranger laconical-
ly replied: "Don't care faint my
trunk i"-BoSton Courier.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
The Study Of Common Things.

Speaking of the grievous neglect of
attention to common things and COM
mon employments as means of educa-
ton, the Philadelphia Public Ledger
sensibly remarks that cit is in the
study of common things, that are so
plentiful all around us, but so little un-
derstood, that an education may be
gained of which at present we have only
begun to conceive. Schools are numer-
Gus, books are abundant, every child is
now made master of the elements OF
learning, yet there is a lack of practical
education; the effects of the school are
apt to fade away on the farm and in the
factory, and separation, if not an an
tagonism, often takes place between
study and daily life. We need a
bridge which will carry the scholar
with his habits of study and inquiry
safely into the life of profitable labor,
without obliging him to drop what he
has taken so much pains to gain. Such
a bridge may be found in the study of
common things. Ordinary life pur.
suits furnish abundant material for
such study. Every object we see
or handle in everyday life has
a history well worth perusing, a COM
position well worth analyzing, future
well worth conjecturing. However
common it may be, it has that in it, and
about it, which will forever prevent it
from being commonplace. Every en-
ployment we engage in, however
mechanical or Insignificant it may
seem, will escape from all such odium
if it is pursued with an active brain as
well as busy hand-if its resources are
examined, its history studied, its meth
ods compared, its best purposes follow
ed. Such education will make labor far
more valuable by introducing into it
the element of thought; it will increase
the power of observation, and stimulate
the curiosity, which is the germ of
knowledge; it will invest the world of
common things with richer meaning
and keener flavor; and, best of all, it
will give continual occupation to those
higher faculties of man which are apt
to rust in the tame routine of every day
life, when not thus lifted out of the re-
gion of commonplace"
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05

OF extensive smuggling now being conduct
ed, it is said, with the connivance of the
Mexican Government officers on the border.
The latter are said to be making large profits
from this contraband trade. The reports re-
ceived are such as to indicate that the Gov
ernment which was born of revolution may
itself be compelled to surrender to revolu-
ton.
The threatened war between the Argen-
tine Republic and Chilli had not yet broken
out, according to the latest advices from
South America, but peaceful solution of
the difficulty seems improbable. 1t is eN-
pected that Peru and Bolivia may take
part in the contest, should war be declared,
the former on the side Of Chilli. The result
would determine whether the Argentine
Republic or Chill should have the privilege
of conquering the savages Of sterile Pata-
gonia.
Gen. Grant was entertained by the citizens
of Zurich, Switzerland, on the 23d. He is
now in Paris.
A Berlin dispatch says that after a strict
investigation into Hoedel and Nobeling's
cases, no trace Of a conspiracy could be dis
covered.
England is threatening to invade Afghan
istan with an Indian army, on account of the
Ameer having received Russian represent
atiye with great favor, while at the same
time refusing a British Mission entrance to
his dominions. Russian influence at Cabul
is believed to be responsible for this indig-
nifty to Britain's representative, and it is not
unlikely that very serious complications may
result therefrom.
DIR. August Heinrich Petermann, the well
known German geographer, died from ap-
oplexy on the 26th.
Gen. Phillippovich officially reports that
the Bosnian revolt has been effectually sup
pressed and that the main portion of the
Austrian army can be withdrawn by the
end Of the present month. Gen. Jovano-
vich telegraphs that after five days violent
bombardment, KlobsXk, the last refuge Of
the Herzegovinian insurgents, had sur
rendered, having made n brave defense.
The destruction of the fortified rock was
Immediately commenced. The Austrian
loss was trifiing.
War talk again prevails in consequence
of Gen. Trevino approaching the Rio Grande
with u 900 men from Central Mexico. 1t is
thought that Trevino is aiming at the Presi-
dency Of Mexico, and may take decided
steps to gain popularity with the Mexican
masses, who deeply hate Americans.
Telegraphic dispatches from India leave
little room for hope that the Afghan diff
Guilty will be arranged peacefully. The
Government is Fastening on military prepa-
rations, and troops are being collected from
all sides and sent TO various points on the
! northwest frontier of India.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
Abe Lincoln on His Muscle.

Few were aware of the physical
strength possessed by Mr.. Lincoln. In
muscular power he was one in a thou
sand. One morning while we were sit
ting on deck he saw an AK in a socket
on the bulwarks, and taking it up, held
it at arms length at the extremity OF
the helye with his thumb and fOre6ngerI
continuing to hold it there for numbe1
of minutes. The most powerful sailor
on board tried in vain to initiate him
Mr.. Lincoln said he could do this whe
he was eighteen years of age, and ha
never seen day since that time whe
he could not. 1t occurred to me, whe
reading the details of the plot that tel
minated in the death of the Presiden
that his abduction, which was at OF
time proposed by the conspirator
would have resulted very disastrous
to those who should have the temeri
to undertake it. The plan proposed "
to waylay the President at night duri
one of his frequent visits to the War
partment, where he was in the habit
| going to read the telegraphic dipatc
during the time of important militj
movements, and where he would OF
remain until very late hour, return
alone through the grounds of the w
House. A half-dozen men were to s.
and carry him off, but had they atten
ed it they would probably have TO
that they had met their match, fol
had the strenth of giant. Judge 5
of Chicago, who was an intimate fr
of his, says that he has seen him
into crowd where two powerful
were fighting, and, taking each by
collar, hold them out at arms leng
the most helpless and ridiculous
tion.-Gen. Nele, u, Scribner for
tober.