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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-31
Facts and FancIes,

Sharon's seat in the United States
Senate should be put in the hands of
receiver.
We never appreciated the bashful-
ness and retiring disposition of the in
surance agent until we made the ac-
quaintance of the tramp.
An exchange says "the report that
the Joplin bellies use their feet for
window blinds is contradicted; they
simply lean one corner of the young
mans ear up against the sash.''
EDon't you find that it hurts your
lawn to let your children play on it ?''
asked friend of a suburban the other
day. "Yes,'' answered the gentleman
addressed, "but it dosen't hurt the
children"
A female barber has made Boston
wives suddenly fall in love with their
husbands boards, heavy mustaches
and long hair. Hitherto nothing was
so nice as q smoothly shaved face and
neatly cut hair.-Keokuk Commercial.
"What would you call model Sun
day school ?'' asked the superintend-
enG of a malcontent pupil, who had
threatened to leave. "Well, one where
they pass around apple pie every Sun
day, and don't have no lesson to learn.
That's the hair pin of school for
mev'
A paragraph is going the rounds of
the press, explaining on scientific
grounds why a girl can not throw a
stone. If some scientist would kindly
point QUO what is the safest position the
bystander can Occupy-whether be-
hind or before-when she attempts it,
he would be to some extent a public
benefactor New York Mail.
She never told her love, but she
roped him in for half a ton of ice
cream, all the same, and as much
candy as two sugar refineries could
turn out in the course OF a year, and
now he says If any worm in the bud is
going to prey on her damask cheek, it
would be advisable to let the contract
out to sea-serpents and then bet on
the cheek.-Puck.
The principal difference between life
insurance and other kinds of business
relates to the test OF solvency. The
insolvency of mercantile firm or of a
savings bank is definatelY ascertained
when the firm or bank are unable to
make payment that is due. A life
insurance company, on the other hand,
may go on meeting all its payments as
GH6y H4aGUEO iOT SenSrdIlOn aEC0E us
insolvency. has really begun.
A queer case came lately before a
French court. A peasant had agreed
to pay another 500 francs for a COW,
and the purchaser placed on a bench
20 franc coins, and a 100-franc bill.
Before the seller could count the coin
the cow had made a snatch at the bill
and swallowed it. The question was,
who was to lose, and the judge decid-
ed that the buyer, who had held the
cow by the halter when it deVoured
the bill, and not taken proper precau-
tions, and must pay it over again.
For the benefit of those who are
still cultivating the unsightly sunf1ow-
'er, under the impression that it really
possesses some hidden power 60 ward
off malaria, we may state that this
notion was long ago exploded, and now
ranks only with such remedial absur-
diCies as the carrying about
in the pockets of horse chestnuts
and potatoes as prophylactics
of rheumatism, or the equally ludi-
crous one of basking in light that
streams through "blue glass. "-Scien-
tific American.
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Cement for shoes.

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman speaks of this as "a reli-
able cement for invisible patches on
shoes. Gntts-percha one half
ounce; bis-sulphuret carbon two
ounces. In a wide mouthed bottle
put the two together and shake &C.
caslonally, until the gutta percha is
dissolved, and 1t is ready for use.
DIRECTIONS Where the patch is
to be applied, scrape the boot or
shoe until the backing is off and
the leather little rough. On this
dust with fine rosin minutest guam
tity serve the patch the same way.
Then spread q little of the cement
on both the shoe and the patch, first
having shaved the edges of the
patch. Apply like court plaster
and smooth with q warm spoon or
iron, and the shoe will soon be
ready to wear. A few hours will
harden the cement. When properly
done the patch will be invisible and
will last as long as the shoe. This
cement is water proof. The gutta-
percha shaved to thin slices is kept
in India rubber stores for the Dur-
pose. Ten cents worth will do the
work of family for a long time.
The bi-sulphuret of carbon is sold
by the druggists and costs FIVE or
ten cents per ounce. The smell
which is offensive soon passes off,
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state News.

Manhattan contributed $25.75 in cash
and 2, 400 pounds of provisions to the
relief of the Niccodemus colony.
The city marshal OF Topeka warns
the people not to give food to tramps.
He proposes to manage them himself.
Salina people are making an effort
for the construction of branch of the
A. T. & S. F. railroad from Florence
to Salina.
A horse thief in Neosho county was
caught, tried and sentenced to peni-
Tertiary within two hours from the
time the crime was committed.
Mr.. d. F. Dunnegan, of Saline Co.,
has nine hundred acres in wheat and
three hundred acres in millet on his
farm near BTockville.
A bout between Captain Folks, of
the wellington Press, and the coroner
of Summer county, resulted in an
order for beefsteak and arnica for
two.
Manhattan, with its temperance
"phalanxes," 'divisions," "alliances,"
"templars," ETC., ought to have the
whisky business pretty well under
subsection.
Miss Alice Colcher, of Topeka, the
sweetest singer in Kansas, and only
legitimate successor of Minnie Beales,
has gone to Cincinnati to complete her
musical education.
An effort will be made next winter
to take portions of Sumner, Cowley
and Sedgwick, and perhaps Butler for
the purpose OF forming new county
on the A rkansas river
General Pope, in response to a re-
quest from congressional committee,
recommends to the secretary of war
that Forts Hays, Wallace, Larned and
Dodge be abandoned.
A teud of long standing in Easten
township, LeaVenworth county, be-
tween Frederick HUppenheimer and
Gottfried Rupp, eliminated last Fri
day in the killing of the former by the
latter.
Some of the farmers on Coal creek,
in Allen county had their cattle pois-
oncd from eating poisonous substances
left lying around the camp of a man
who was selling patent solder. Eight
head have died.
George Widen, of Malvern, Usage
county, has a curbless well, into which
a child OF his tell and was drowned,
about two years ago. Last week an
other of his children fell into the same
trap and would also have drowned had
it not caught hold of some boards in its
descent to which it chung until rescued.
The father is either too INDECENT to live
or else he wants to murder his chill
dren.
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Educational.

The oldest living graduate of the
University of Oxford is Rev. Canon
Beadon, who received the degree of
B. A. in 1900.
j. L. Packard, late Superintendent
of the public schools in Chicago, has
been elected PresId ent of the Iowa
State University.
Harvard University is on the
point of admitting women to it's
medical school in pursuance of a be-
quest of $4,000, left to it by the
late George o. HoYey on the ex-
press condition that it's advantages
should be extended to women on
equal terms with men.
DIR. S. Ives Curtis, jr., now at
Leipsig, Germany, has been elected
to fill the chair of Biblical Litera-
ture in Chicago Union Park Theo-
logical Seminary (CongregationaD,
which for many years was filled by
Prof. S. @. Bartlett, now President
of Dartmouth College.
The Seuate Committee On Educa.
ton has agreed on the terms of 8
bill to appropriate the net proceeds
realized from the sale of public
lands to educational purposes. The
leading provisions of the bill are
that the proceeds of such land sales
shall constitute a perpetual school
fund, the interest of which only
shall be distributed among the
states and territories, including the
District of Columbia, in sums pro-
portionate to their respective popu-
lationS
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GOING HOME.

Where are you going so fast, old man?
Where are you going SO tastl
There's valley to cross and river to ford,
There's clasp Of the hand and parting
word,
And a tremulous sigh for the past, old man,
The beautiful, vanished past
The road has been rugged and rough, old
To your feet it is rugged and rough,
But you see dear being with gentle eyes
Has shared your labor and sacrifice
Ali that has been sunshine enough, old
For you and me, sunshine enough.
How long since you passed DER the hill, old
OF iifeP DER the top of the hinP
Were there beautiful valleys on the other
Were there flowers and trees, with their
To shut of the heat OF the sun. old man,
The heat of the fervid sum-
And how did you cross the waves, ola man,
OF sorrow the fearful waves?
Did you lay your dear treasures by, one by
one,
With an aching heart. and ''Ged's will be
done"
Under the wayside dust, old man,
In the grave meath the wayside dustP
There is sorrow and labor for all, old man /;
Alas there is sorrow for all;
And you, peradventure, have had your share,
For eighty long winters have whitened your
And they've whitened your heart, as well,
Thank God, your heart as well.
You're now at the foot of the hill. old man ;
At last at the foot of the hill,
nd tbe Ras geng aSW tH liz gGS sf gL0w
Go in through the pearly gate, old man
The beautiful pearly gate.
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People and Things

Nobody offers to shoot an apple
from Gail Hamilton's head.
"Let out your shirt-collar for a
billboard" is the latest war-cry.
1t takes $85 a day to hire Pull
mans best private hotel railway
car.
There are more than IL 900 wo-
men telegraph operators in Great
Britain.
Boston Post: Gail Hamilton
does not belong to the Penobscot
tribe; they never scalp.
There are said to be one hundred
and fifty Bcitish constables in New
York watching the Fenians.
Gov. hubbard, of Texas, is a can
didate for reelection, and hasn't
missed picnic since the season
opened.
One widow of the late bachelor
millionaire, O'Brien, has already
turned up, and others are expected
to be heard from.
Most of the whisky seizures in
Cincinnati take place in the saloons.
Each Cincinnati seizes about four
fingers of it. Cour. Journal.
A Philadelphia young lady of
color wears shoes seventeen inches
long. She has sent to Chicago to
have them made.-New Orleans
Times.
A Minnesota man has a double
jointed calf which walks backward
as we'll as forward. 1t ought to
join the Democratic party.-N. Y.
Herald.
Mrs. Don Cameron ia reported to
be very hilarious over the fact that
while she received 100000 worth
of presents, Madame Blanc's only
amounted to $4,000.
Eugene NJ. Pomeroy, a New
York lawyer, acted as referee in a
will case involving $1,000, and put
his charge for the service right
down to hard times prices, SIC, 600.
The fine-looking young Scotch
man who set out in Toronto to
walk 5000 miles at the rate of for
tY miles day has changed his mind,
after few days pedestrianism, and
is looking for situation. Exer-
else no object.
John Jasper, with his sun-moVing
notion, is not so ingenious as the
old darkey who triumphantly har-
monized the Copernican system
with Joshua's experience by asking,
els there any account of the sum s
being started again 2"
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RuaIness EtemS

Australia exports about $240, 900 q
year, and imports nearly as much.
Nearly all of this trade is carried on
with England.
The man who could do all the bust
ness he wanted to do without advertis-
ing, has been compelled TO advertise at
last. The new advertisement is headed
"Sherifrs Sale.
The practice and principle of insur-
ance is of great antiquity, and was
known in the time of Claudius Caesar,
A. d. As. It is certain that assurance
of ships at sea was practiced as early
as the year 40, A D.
In former years a large portion of
the toys used in this country came
from Europe. Now the trade is the
other way, and the OldWorId is buying
largely from America, not only the pc
euliarly American Inventions, but also
the toys which formerly were made
abroad. The export trade In toys,
which amounted last year to over 81,
100000, began five or six years ago,
According to stPoor's Manual" 1884,
S36 miles OF railway were in operation
at the close OF lS76-of these, TO select
but q few instances, 1872 were in
France, 1902 In Russia, 1888 in
Great Britain, 5,2lS in the Dominion of
Canada, 2,49S in Australia, 1852 in
British India, 8,229 in Germany, and
~ 800 in the United States.
Thirty thousand tons of fresh beef
and mutton, worth 81, $50, 600, were i'm
portedi into Great Britain from this
country during 1877. The bulk of it
was cold by the butchers as 'sprime
English beef"
Advice from fifty-seven points in
Southern Ohio, Indiana and Northern
Kentucky, State that the prospects for
8 large crop of wheat are exceedingly
good The acreage sown last fall was
larger than ever known Not one re-
port is unfavorable, although from 3
few points there are apprehensions
OF rank growth.
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for each period Of five years, from 1855
TO 1875, inclusive; also for 1877:

for each period Of five years, from 1855
TO 1875, inclusive; also for 1877:
In February, 1855, S,60l.
In June, 1860, 107, 206; increase in 5
years, 1,146.4l per cent.
In June, 1865, 135 ,S07 increase in 5
years, 26.6S per cent.
In June, 1870, 364, 399; increase in 5
years, 1882 per cent.
In March. 1875, 531 1855; increase in
8 years, 1915 per cent.
In March, 1877, 592,916; increase in
2 years, 11.63 per cent.
Increase in % years, 6,793.57 per
cent, or 25l.6l per cent. per annum.
The average increase in the United
States from 1850 to 1870 was 2.22 per
cent.
The national census of 1870 gives
the percentage of increase from 1860
TO 1870 as follows, ia the States named !:
Arkansas, 1925 per cent; California,
47.44; Illinois, 48.36; Iowa, 1851 !;
Kansas, $685. 30; Mennesota, 155.-
81 Missouri, 40 80; Texas, 25.3S. Neb-
raska was admitted in 1864. In 1870,
she had population of 122,993. No
comparative data concerning the pop
ulation of this State.
Immigration to Kansas during the
present year Is unprecedented in the
history of the settlements of the States.
Her cities are crowded with strangers,
establishing new homes and business
relations, and her beautiful prairies are
swarming with Intelligent and thrifty
immigrants, purchasing improved
farms in the eastern counties, and set
thing upon Government lands in the
western.
Bradford Miller, Esq, is now engag-
ed in taking the census OF Topeka,
which is icing taken Gas of the first
day of March," and he has ascertained
that on that day there were in the city
of Topeka 2,040 immigrants, not en-
titled TO be included in the census re-
turns of this year. They were "look-
ing around" "prospecting," visiting
the Agricultural Rooms, gathering in
formation regarding the relative adj
vantages of the various portions of the
State, before going out in pursuit OF
lands. AS these prospective residents
left, others took their places, and thus
1t has been from day to day during the
spring. What is true of Topeka in
this respect, is true OF all other por-
lions of the State. The most notable
feature in the whole matter Is the
trains of white-covered wagons, con-
tanning families, household goods,
stock, ETC."
CORN AND WHEAT.
The following statement shows the
acreage of corn and wheat, the leading
products of the State, for sixteen
years, from 1862 to 1877:
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Senators who Deserve 20 be
ERe-Elected.

Rochester IN. W Democrat and Chronicle.
Elsewhere we have thrown out a
few thoughts in regard to the import
ance of returning to the United
States Senate its experienced Republic
can members, where happily in them
worth is combined with experience.
From certain recent utterances in
Kansas journals, which seem to indi-
cate the reelection of the accomplish
ed senior Senator from that STATE, we
are pleased to illustrate our position
by a reference of his merits, and to
cordially approve the purpose of the
Republicans of Kansas. The election
of Senator Ingalls, occurred under cir
cumstanees peculiarly calculated to in
form him with Independence, and to
urge him to the attainment of an hon.
orable fame. 1t was at once the rec
ognition of high capacity, and the
stern rebuke of the political practices
in which his predecessor had too freely
INDUCED. It Is not too much to say
that he has more than fulfilled the
anticipations that attended his appear
ance in the Senate. Known Co his
own constituents as an able lawyer, q
brilliant speaker, and man of worried
requirements in letters, he modestly
deferred an active participation in de-
bate until he had won, by his manly
bearing and his Incorporating Re-
publicanism, the esteem and the conf
dence of his associates; but, early in
his senatorial career, he became known
as an able presiding officer, and he was
proposed by many western journals as
q candidate for the e-presidency, an
honor that might have been bestowed
upon him had not territorial consider
atoms induced the nomination of
an eastern man for the Office.
During the last two sessions of Con-
gress, Senator Ingalls, has mingled
freely In debate, and has demonstrated
his power as well informed an incis-
i've and trenchant orator, as well as
a graceful and scholarly rhetorican.
He is always listened to respectfully
and admiringly, and In personal char
acter lis the peer of any senator. His
financial views, which he has eloquent
ly expounded, are not such as COM
mend themselves TO eastern sentiment,
but they are doubtless honestly enter
tanned and reflect the opinions of his
constituents. 1t has rarely happened
that q Senator, in his first term, has
achieved so much OF position and per-
suasiveness. as has Senator Ingalls,
His reputation has been fairly earned
and both himself and the State he re-
presents are 10 be congratulated upon
his success It Is gratifying to note
that his return to the seat he has
adorned Il well assured.
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SOu1hWeaG.

Nearly all the Southwest editors are
just ''famishing" over boquets sent in
by sour dear lady friends"
The Winfield and Augusta stage
driver don't cuss, even when his team
balks six times in a trip. Pass them
chromos.
Newton charges $500 per year for
liquor license, and three saloons have
walked up to the captains office AMI
planked down the lucTe.
If the Gazette is not quite so good
as usual this week, Peabody folks will
know the reason why.-Peabody Ga
zette.
We thought it better than usual.
Was the editor sicks
Barton county, we judge from the
Great Bend Register, is happy. The
population has increased 1000.
in the past year, and is now
S,233. Acres in winter wheat,
81 ,43O; spring wheat. 6,231 corn, D.
943. Bushels old corn on hand, 90, 592.
This is a good showing sure for so new
q country
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FARM ANIMALS.

The farm animals of the State, in
1877, numbered horses, 240, $50 mules
81, 470; oxen and other cattle, Ole, 463 :;
mich cows, 26O, 455; sheep, 2O4, 1SS !;
hogs, 697 ,1S7. The increase in the
number of farm animals since 1868 is
summed up as follows:
Horses--Increase IA years, $50 per
cent, or average of 81 per cent. per
annum.
Mules-Increase, IA years, LAY per
cent, or average of log per cent. per
annum.
Oxen and other Cattle-Increase, Id
years, 427 per cent. or average of 81
per cent. per annum.
Mich Cows-Inerease, IA years, 431
per cent, or average of 81 per cent.
per annum.
Sheep-Increase, IA years, 1913 per
cent, or average of 81 per cent. per
annum.
Hogs-Increase, II years, 335 per
cent, or average of "a per cent. per
annum.
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Temperance Reform.

The anti-license ticket in VirdiD,
ILL.,, was elected by majority of %.
Over 1900 persons have signed
the temperance pledge at Windsor,
ILL.,, aud in the immediate vicinity.
In letter to the National Prohi-
bitionist Wendell Phillips says !:
"There certainly is not one-tenth
part of the drinking in Maine that
there was before the law was en-
acted, and probably not one-twenti-
eth as much. 1t would be safe to
say that not one man in 500 in
Maine can get at liquor. If this is
not success, let any man show
greater success in the execution of
any law in Christendom."
DIR. T. M. Post, of st. Louis, says /:
81 believe the police of nations and
municipalities will be compelled
ultimately to take in hand the mat
ter of the manufacture aud sale of
intoxicating drinks, as much as to
guard against crime, riot, fire and
and pestilence, and that it has the
same right in one case as in the
other-the right of society to protect
its own life. I believe that moral,
pecuniary, sanitary and police in
terests will require this; and that,
moral suasion must precede and &C.
company it, legislation must sup
plement and confirm moral meas
ures and results"
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The developments in regard to
the Fall River defalcations become
more astounding every day. The
indications now are that Hathaway
and Chace, the two detected mill
tressurers, have made away with
over two millions of dollars. The
loss of this immense sum falls up
on both rich and poor, and many of
the stockholders of the Border City
mills are left without a dollar.
Once prosperous citizens are ruined,
and persons in humble circumstan-
ces, who bought stock as safe and
profitable Investment, are once
more wholly dependent upon their
daily toll. The two tressurers ap-
pear to have been combined in a
league of crime and deceit.
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NOTICE is hereby given: That petition
IN has been presented to the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners of Lyon county, asking
IoWs-tO-Wit:
Commencing at the northeast corner of the
northwest quarter of section ten, township
sixteen and range thirteen; thence running
in a northeasterly direction; thence aRglin 2
south until it intersects aid section line If
teel- rods, more or less, to the place of begin
ming. And the necessity of vacating said
road on section line fifteen rods, more or less,
said line running down Onion creek. and
making it impracticable.
And whereas, Oliver Phillips, P. j Stoops
and L. E. Condell have been appointed and
on the Sd day of June, at 10 a. m, to view,
survey, and locate said road and to give to ali
parties hearing.
By order of the Board of Co. Commissioners.
WIN. +. EWING, Co. Clerk.
April 10th, 1873 9I&9l
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Sherif's Sale.
District Court, Fifth judicial District, Lyor
County, Kansa
E. z. HOLDERAAH, PlGiasi9,


n ARK PATTY, eL al, DefendG1t.)
DY virtue of an order OF sale issued out Of
1.-the District Court of Lyon county, Kan
sas, in the above entitled action, 1 will, on
Monday. the 10th day of June, A. ID. 1873 at
eleven O'Clock q. m, at the front door of the
court house in the city of Emporia in Lyon
county, Kansas, offer for sale at public auc-
divided three-fourths OF the following de-
scrlbed real estate situate in the county OF
Lyon, in the State OF KansaS-to-Wft:
Beginning at point on the north line OF
section twenty-five 1871, in township nine
teen [i9l and range ten l10l, thirty mine 1897
and IL 100 rods east OF the northwest corner
of said section; thence east on said line thIr-
11e, east thirty and 4S 100 rods 30 S>/10Ol
thence north SO 90 west thirty-two 1897 rods
and 81 t 100; thence north 1Ie west III s. /I0Cl
seventeen and $500 rods to the place OF
beginning.
And in case the said undivided hree-fourths
shall not sell for enough to pay the judgment
rendered in said action in favor Of the plain
till and against the defendants, Mark Patty
and James Miles, on March 30th, 1873, for
81, 95I .o3, and S12 90 costs, and accruing costs
and accrufng interest thereon at II per cent.
per annum from said date, then shall i'm
mediately, and at the same place, offer fer
sale at public auction to the highest bidder
for cash the other and rem aiming undivided
one-fourth of said described real estate to
pay the deficiency.
Said real estate win be sold as the property
in the decree therein, to satisfy said order OF
saerir,s ONCE. NAV 9. 1873.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
lest Lyon county, Kansas.
GILLErT 8 FoRDE. Att'ys for plaintiff.