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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-20

The Texas Central now runs its trains
through to st. Louis over the NJ. K.
and r. road and Missouri Pacific.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
GEN. GRANT IN KANSAS.

A letter was received at the governors
Office yesterday from Gen. Grant. 1t
was in reply to an invitation from the
governor, ON the part of the officers OF
the Shawnee county agricultural society,
10 attend the fair here. The general
says he will not come east till about the
LIST of November, and that he hopes to
visit Kansas.
We have no doubt that he will do
so if he is invited and proper arrange
ments are made. We would suggest
that there be a meeting of our citizens,
and formal invitation be extended to
him. Topeka can get up rousing
demonstration, and the people of the
state would turn out en- masse.-Com-
monwealth, l2th.
Gen. Grant will undoubtedly wish to
see Kansas, and no state will give him
more hearty and enthusiastic reception
If he comes via the A, 7. & S. F. raIl
road a reception at Emporia might be
arranged for and would be attended by
an immense multitude
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
THE "SOLID SOUTH" AND THE
TREASURY.

A year ago the New York Tribune is
sued an extra containing the various ar
ticles upon the subject of southern
claims which it had published in previ-
Gus months. This compilation, prepar-
ed from official documents at Washing
ton, brought the record of demands up
on congress for internal Improvements
at the south down to March 10, 1878, and
for private "relief'' to March 26, 1873,
and showed the enormous aggregate of
$3.50, 100000. This vast sum was stated
to be only the beginning of what the SOL
id south would demand. The truth of
that statement is proved below. The
Tribune has caused the record to be
completed from official documents to the
close of the extra session of this year,
and this is the appalling result: From
March, 1878, to July l, 1879, emitting
various blind claims for enormous un-
specified sums, bills were introduced in
to congress calling for 1851 1851 900 for
internal improvements in the south, and
the private claims amount to $53, 415,-
942 more. The official records, then
emitting the independent estimates OF
Judge II. w. BARLEY, counsel for large
number of claimants, prove that within
period of less than two years solid
and disloyal south has demanded from
the treasury of the nation which for -four
years it sought to destroy, and which il
now seeks to bankrupt, a sum vastly
greater, by reason of the blind claims
which are not reckoned, than $1,2S7,
524,7 35. These figures need no com
ment to show that the rule of the solid
south means shame and ruin.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
w. j. JONES.
His Treatment by the Greenback
PoIIficinns


Politicians.
Our Greenback friends lay great claims
II freedom from the usual influences
that control other political parties. One
of the chief planks in their platform Is
that "the office should seek the man"
They tell US they are not politicians, nor
are they partiZans. Actions, however,
speak louder than words, and their treat
ment of Mr.. Vim. J. Jones, lately placed
upon their ticket for Register of Deeds,
by their own motion, and without Mr..
Jones consent, shows the hollowness of
their heightened professions. Last year
the Greenbackers nominated Mr.. Jones
for Register without his seeking, and he
was elected, enough Republicans sup
porting him to accomplish that end.
This year, when their convention assemb-
led, representing about One-third of the
county, they sent committee to Mr..
Jones, consisting of w. B. Ross, l.. o.
Priest, Mr.. Dumbauld, and Robt Clark,
to ask Jones TO accept the nomination
from their convention again. He DIS
tinctly told them he would not submit his
name to their convention. Notwithstand-
ing this, they nominated him, thus show
ing their consistency, so far, III their pro
fessions that "the office should seek the
man" They knew Jones had made a
good officer, was accommodating and
obliging to the people, and had only been
in office one gear. But now mark the re-
suit. When the Republican convention
met with its two hundred and thirteen
delegates, representing all parts of the
county-every township-they conclud-
ed to do an act of justice to Mr.. Jones,
and to accede to the almost universal de-
mand of the four or five hundred Welsh
Republicans of this county, and placed
the name of Mr.. Jones upon the Repub-
lican ticket, Notwithstanding he had not
been elected as Republican the fall be
fore. The circumstances were peculiar
in this case, and the Republicans did not
propose to be partizen sticklers in case OF
a small county office.
This action threw the Greenback man.
and for partizan purposes soley, because
they can say nothing against Jones as
an officer or man, they repudIated their
own voluntary work, and Immediately
decided to nominate another man for the
office.
The statement is being made over the
county that Mr.. Jones sought and ac-
cepted the nomination of the Green
hackers, and then sought the same from
the Republicans. This is positively not
true. He distinctly told the Greenback
visiting committee that he did not want
his name used by the convention of that
party. We very much mistake the SEN
timents of the people of this county if
they will allow the Greenback politi-
clans, purely from partiZan motives, to
SANDER a good man, and a good officer,
one who was brought up among us, and
who is an honor to the county.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
DEATH OFM. J.PARROTT.

Mark PARROT is dead. The old settlers
and especially those who took part in
public affairs, will remember him rs one
the most brilliant and generous hearted
men among those who engaged in the
carly struggles of Kansas. lie died ut
lakewood, near Dayton, Ohio, last Satur-
day afternoon. His mother, sister and
other relations were with him. 1t is
known that he had stroke of paralysis
near two years ago, which nearly depriv-
ed him of speech, He was about fifty
one years old. lie represented the Terri
tory of Kansas in congress, and came
within one vote of being elected United
States senator at the first senatorial cleo
ton. lie was a natural born orator, and
his eloquence called around him a body
of adherents, who deemed him fit TO fill
any place within the gift of the people
of Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

be at least 10000 Mr. Runnells, Chair
man of the Republican State Committee,
estimates it will be % 5000. This will III.
gain of % 900 over two years ago ana
IL, 900 over last year. In the fifth Con-
gressional District, Thompson, (Rep.l IS
undoubtedly elected over Calhoun, (Fu-
sionist) Legislature returns indicate
that the Republicans will have major
ity on the joint ballot of 60.
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Returns from Is
polling places in Iowa give Gear 9,236
Trimble, ,463; Campbell, 1850.
CHICAGO, Oct 15.-Eighty-fiv polling
places in Iowa give Gear, (Rep) 1879
Trimble, Dem /, S47 Campbell, Green.
backer,) 4,416; Dugan, prohibition
only few hundred votes. The conclu
sion drawn from the figures that the lie
publican candidate will have majority
over all.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Oct. 15.-The Re
publican state cOmmitte and State Regis
ter have up to this hour returns from
forty-three counties and partial returns
| from as many more. They indicate the
majority of the Republican state tlckei
TO be $4,000. a Republican gain of %
COO, over 1877, and 1000 over 1873. Ii
the legislature the Republicans claim
| 90 out of 30 senator's elected this year
with a chance of electing all, and 80 on
of the 100 members of the house. Tit
prohibition vote in the state will probab
| ly not be over 5000.
The sixth congressional district, which
elected Greenbacker to congress las
year, goes Republican this year. TIT
seventh, which gave Gillett, Greenback
er Tor congress, 200 majority last year
now gives 3,S03 Republican majority thi
l,lI "a m
rhe sixth, that elected. Weaver, Green
hacker, to congress last year by 2, 100
goes Republican by 1850 this year. Tn
Republican state committee claim tn,
election of Thompson to congress in tn
fifth district to fill the vacancy, by
over 5000 majority, Republican gan
of nearly 5000
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

The Chicago Tribune, which was a
Liberal paper in 1872, has interviewed
a large number of citizens of Chicago
on Gen. Grant and the third term. The
Tribune says 0ditorially: The senti-
ment of those interviewed may be sue
cinctly restated as follows: All agree
upon the strong probability of Grants
nomination; large majority agree in
believing that he can be elected, and a
considerable proportion agree that it
will be desirable to nominate and elect
him. The Republicans were unanimous
in their declaration of support in case he
be nominated. This statement includes
a fair representation of the Liberals
who supported Greeley against Grant in
1872. The Democrats all seemed to be
impressed with the strong hold Gen.
Grant has upon the people; nearly all
conceded his election if nominated; and
few quite large proportion of the
number of Democrats who were seem
intimated distinct purpose of voting
for him ~
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
OVER THE STATE

The rain of Thursday and Friday last
week extended all over the state, and
was the heaviest we have had in over a
year. Wheat goes into the winter quar-
tiers in better shape than ever before. 1t
could be no better-Commonwe
Topeka Is to have n first class opera
house, described by the Commonwealth
as follows:
The proposition is to erect a building
simply for such purposes as have been
indicated, and placing it under such
management as will give 1t the highest
tone and standing. The hall to be on
the ground floor, with high ceiling, and
entrances and exits on three sides. The
auditorium to be nearly if not quite
square, with seating capacity of one
thousand. The parquet and parquet circle
to be on a gradual incline, so that one
seat will be as good as another through
out the entire hall. The stage to be
forty by sixty feet, with all the latest and
most approved machinery, and fitted up
with the finest and best scenery. Such
a building as indicated can be erected,
the interior furnished with iron folding
chairs, the walls handsomely decorated
and the stage furnished complete, for
$4,000.
KANSAS SHoOTING.-The state tourna-
ment closed Saturday at Salina with the
match for the gold medal. The score
stood as follows Lawrence, 10; Wichita,
10; Abilene, 10; Topeka, IA; Salina, 8;
Mcpherson, Is: Ottawa, II.
Mcpherson and Wichita teams tied on
10, and in shooting off the tie, McPher-
son won the medal by score of 8 to
Wichita's 6 out of ten. This virtually
closed the tournament, but two or three
sweepstake shoots were had in the after
noon.
Taking it altogether the tournament
was complete success, and reflects
credit on the president, DIR. L. G. WATSON
of Ottawa, and the secretary, j. NJ. Gree
ley of Salina, and to Willis Kessler,
chairman of the board of managers.
The next meeting will be held in Law
renee, at the call of the board of man.
ayers, sometime between April 1st and
July 1st, commonwealth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
A FEW MORE QUESTIONS.

The following questions are asked by
one of our Pennsylvania subscribers, l.
A R., with request that we answer
through the NEWS:
Q. How many railroads at Emporia {?
A Three
Q. Through whit section on Eagle
creek does the Emporia ami Eureka rail
road pass?
A. Sec. 2, town. 81, range Il
Q. What is the name and distance of
the first station south of E.. ,,oria, and
what is size of the place:
A. Eagle creek no size at present.
Q. What would it cost to build IL
story house Is by 20 feetg
A. From 800 to 5000
Q. How is the land $ to 10 miles south
and southwest of EmpQria?
A. Some of it No. /; some also some
what broken.
Q. Which is the cheapest kind of fence,
and how much?
A. Wire; three wires costing from 80
to 40 cents per rod.
O. What is the price of medium pine
boards, fencing and building?
A. From $25 to $35.
q. What is the name of the school
house on sec. 30, town 20 south, range
IL, east, Lyon county;
A. No. Co.
Q. What wages are now paid for
country school teachers
A. $50 to $40.
Q. What railroad shops has the A, r.
IL >. F. located IN Emporia:
A. A large new round house, which
Will have repairing shops connected
with it.
q. Is there any demand now for a
blacks NTH, in or near Emporia?
A. Good many blacksmiths here.
Q. viii the Presbyterian college be
located in your city?
A. Decision has been postponed for
one year.
q. What are carriages and buggies
selling for there?
A. Imported slopshop buggies, from
$50. to 800. Good imported and home
work, $3.50 to $500.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
DANGER IN WALL STREET.

We have so often cautioned our read
crs against the whirl-pools now running
so furiously in Wall street, says the New
York Mercantile Journal, that we
prefer TO let our neighbors raise the dan
ger-signal this time, rather than tell
again what outsiders may expect if they
come in now. The New York Herald
says:
For some weeks an almost unprece-
dented speculation has ragged in Wall
street. Even the widest fever of the year
following the war was equalled i'll the
street last week. Now undoubtedly the
country is once more prosperous; the
wheels of industry and trade have begun
again to move; and Wall street natural
ly responds TO the new feeling of conf
dence But what is going on down there
just now Is not wholesome. 1t is over
done. Nothing in the renewed activity
of industry and trade, for instance. makes
Il stock which was quoted at Is year
ago, safe purchase now at IS, or one
which was quoted at 4 last October now
worth 1917; or one which brought 2 at
that time worth 1917 now. We could
extend this list of comparisons, and it
would show curiously enough that the
SlCoI liSO mas ldhCu IDlalCC CuliICly III
what are called fancy stocks, securities
about the real value of which the out
side people know little or nothing"
We advise the general public to stand
from under. There was bound to be a
general rise in securities from last year
because then prices were too low; buy
ers and investors were too cautious But
the pendulum has now swung too far
in the other direction, and there will
presently be pause in the street and a
swinging back to more moderate prices.
Then the people WHO have "gone in,'
as the saying is, at the top of the market
will be left high and dry, and the pru-
dent and skilled manipulators of the
street will go off with their pockets full
of other peoples money.
1t is not matter which affects the
country at large. No real or legitimate
interest is advanced by the Wall street
fever which just now prevails, and none
will be injured by the reverses in the
street which are sure to come But we
advise everybody to keep out of the
street just now. 1t is a good time to
stand from under.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

Here is a chance for Ike Eaton, of
Leavenworth. Capt. George j. Martin, of
Dillingham;, publishes the following chal-
lenge to the spiritualists of Kansas:
"Spiritualism as taught by modern spirit
Halists has no foundation in fact, but is u
sham, delusion, and n snare, and when
combined with truth, reason and logic
cannot stand. l will meet any spiritual
list in the city of Atkinson, or any other
place agreed upon, and discuss the prop.
position as above stated. The party nc
cepting the challenge Will notify me to
meet them in AtchIson To make all neces-
sarY arran gements for the discussion.n
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

Tilden's funny assertion that he has
taken no. steps to secure a nomination,
and intends to take none, reminds the
New York Tribune of the venerable
darkey who was discovered lifting "A fine
pullet from his neighbors hen-roost at
midnight, and was asked what he was
about: Eyer see, boss, me and Sam
Jones had a 'spute bout desc yer hens
o. yours. He said dey was Cochin
Chinans, and said dey wasn't, and 1
was Jest liftin' one oh dem down keerful-
ly to see. Dey don't lay no eggs, do
dey, boss? Case if dey do, Use power
full sorry disturbed them"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
WEATHER PREDICTIONs

c. c. Blake, of Decatur, ILL.,, has gained
some celebrity for accuracy as a weather
calculator. His horoscope for this
month and to March, 1890, is as follows
October, 1S79-Will be quite warm
and showery.
November, 1871 hardly know wha,
to say about this month my calculations
make it a sort of chopped sea"-a con.
glomeration mixture of all kinds OF
weather; but not very cold.
December, 1S79-Will be like NoYem
Der, "only more so.'' It will be warm
wet and disagreeable; cold snaps will be
shoU and sharp.
January, 1SS0-Will be rather warm
wet and muddy, part of the time. There
will be some cold weather, but moi
steady cold.
February, 1SS0-Wln be much like
"a nuary-a considerable amount of rain
and snow ap9 moderate amount OF
cold weather
March 1SS0-Will be changeable; rath
er wet, especially in the middle of the
month, and only moderately cold.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
SOUTHWEST.

Five new buildings are soon to be
erected on Summit street, Arkansas
City.
John Irons, formerly of Cowley coun-
ty, has struck a fortune IN Colorado.
The Enterprise says: 1t is rumored
in Harper county, that the Santa Fe
railroad Co. will not build their branch
from Wellington to Caldwell, but direct
ly to Anthony, the county-seat of Harper
county. If they do, Caldwell will be
left with the bag to hold" This is
the way it looks from our side of the
house.
Willow Vallew expects to be station
on the Eureka branch.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

The activity in the lumber trade in the
New Brunswick districts manifest from
the rate of wages for lumbermen, which
this fall is $lS month, while at the
corresponding time last year it was but
ton nnllnrS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

1t is skilled labor for which there is
greatest demand in these times. The
Scientific American mentions that re-
cent advertisement for twenty-five skilled
workmen brought only one application,
while two others, one for book-keeper
and another for a clerk, brought 347 and
230 applications respectively.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6.
G. T. Ferren having resigned the office
of treasurer of Center township on ac-
count of his having moved to this city,
j. Ii. Ferren was appointed to fill va
cancy.
Clerk was ordered to advertise for bids
to furnish Lyon county with wood the
coming winter.
The third quarters report of the su-
perintendent of the poor farm was re-
ceived, accepted and ordered placed on
file.
After passing on all business in rela-
ton to the redemption of lands and town
lots, the board adjourned to meet Octo-
Der Goth, 1879. WIN. F. EWING,
Countv Clerk
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
NEW JERSEY,

NEWARK, Oct 1.-THE city election
to-day gives nearly $500 majority for
Fielder, Democrat, over Mackey, Re
publican, for Mayor. The German
vote, heretofore Republican, was almost
solid for Fielder, the main issue being
on Il liberal constitution of cthe Sunday
law For common council the Repub-
licans elect and the Democrats Z. The
new common council will stand, IS Re
publicans, IL Democrats and Liberal.
The Democrats are celebrating the
result by procession and music.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
TIE ELECTION NEWS.

The news from Ohio and Iowa, pub
lished in our telegraph columns, Is all
the most stalwart Republican can desire
Especially is the result in Ohio crafty
ing, because of its bearing upon the
national contest close at hand. Both
parties marshalled their forces to the
fullest extent, and the battle was a holly
contested one. The ablest speakers on
both sides were sent from all over the
country to engage in the campaign, and
it was the most thorough and enthusiast
tic one made since the war. Victory
has perched again upon the Republican
banners in the Buckeye state, and as the
saying is, we believe it has "come 10
stay"
One of the noticeable features of the
result in both Ohio and Iowa, is the
sorry figure which the so-called Green
back party cut. This party, we think,
may be regarded as effectually out OF
politics. The agitation on financial and
economical questions which brought
that party into existence, undoubtedly
did good, but there is now no more use
for distinctive party based on financial
questions than there is for five wheels TO
q wagon, and the intelligent voters OF
that party realize this and are rapidly
taking their places again in their old
parties preparatory TO the presidential
contest of next year.
The grand old Republican party makes
n good beginning for 1880, having car
ried every state in which there has been
an election this year. Boys, buckle on
the armor and go marching along. AT
ter all the fears OF Republicans, this
country is not to be entirely surrendered
10 those who seek the destruction of its
best features and truest interests. Re
member the fight is the same it was in
1861, to establish fact that this is n
Nationl
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

Here's what the Kansas Pioneer, or
gan of the Greenback party, has to say
about fusions. We commend the para
graph to Greenbackers: coalition is
wrong in principle and seldom increases
the Grcenback vote, and lowers the par
ty in the estimation of all classes"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
OVER PnoDUcr1oN. An exchang

OVER PRoDUCTIoN. An exchange
says:
'They begin to think in Pennsylvania
there is such thing rs having too much
of even such a staple as petroleum. In
Mexican county the flow is so exceedingly
generous that no less than 100, 900 gallons
are said to run TO waste daily. The tanks
are full and the production is 5000 bar
rels per day-mQch more than can pos
sibly be handled to advantage. The
streams in that part of the state are de-
scribed as being literally rivers of oil,
while the earth has absorbed such guam
titles of it that in some places the ground
is mass of greasy mud several inches
deeDo
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

BY the new railway programme of the
Pennsylvania railway, from Philadel-
plia to New York, the same distance is
to be run in ninety-three minutes-the
motto being ninety-three miles in nine
ty-three minutes. A mile minute !;
taking water from the tanks in the track,
anil. in winter, heating the cars from the
steam of the locomotive, as the lightning
shuttle flies to and fro.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17

The successful working of the nation
al banking system has so far excited the
admiration of our Canadian neighbOrs
that, as appears from the Washington
dispatches this morning, Sir Edward Til
ley, the Dominion Finance Minister, has
gone to the national capital to investi-
Uatn IL