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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-12-12

Referring to that passage in the presi-
dents message relative to the fisheries
question, the London Times very sensi-
bly, suggests that the whole matter ought
TO be definitely settled finally, instead OF
being revised and renewed every ten
Years
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CURRENCY.
Burglars should not be sneezers.

Burglars should not be sneeZeTs.
Ten people laugh where one cries, and
yet they call this vale of tears.
One hundred thousand cords of timber
are required each year to shOe-peg Amer
| lea
The best way to hold your age is TO tie
rope around it. If a vigilance commit
tee does the tying, your age ends.
Columbus made the egg stand, but
Italians of less renowh have made the
peanut stand-New Haven Journal.
1t takes six years to learn "a bear to
dance, and even then he is apt to stop in
the middle of waltz and eat some small
boy up.
who can shake hands cordially with IA
friend whom he has just black-balled at
club.-New Orleans Picayune.
'If you mean we'll and do ill God
must forgive you" says Beecher. Then
why lick boy for breaking window
when he means to throw over the house
The New Haven Register heads an
article "Pandemonium.' We didn't
read it as we are tired of hearing about
these female suffrage conventions
Boston Post.
The only time you can ever get. a
woman out of a theater before the play
is over is when she discovers that no one
else wore an old bonnet on account of
the weather.
Yes, it is time the word ''boom" was
taken by the neck and pitched into the
thicket of ObScurity after "hardly ever
1t is great deal better to say that bust
ness is on the git.
Let boy place his stockings in an
iron chest as he goes TO bed and lock
them in with six padlocks, and in the
morning one stocking will be found un-
der the bed and the other on the STAIRS
Detroit Free Press.
Now the m Ehty Nimrod cleans his gun:
And goes to the field to have some fun.
He blows into the muzzie, to see if its loaded,
And ascertains, after the thing has exploded.
Wheeling Leader.
Fashionable cooking clubs consist of
heap of young ladies who want a square
meal and one old woman who knows
how to cook it. The only good result is
that the old woman gets paid for her
work.
AL OSuChSohiS IIhiiOSopneT says tndI
we cannot have cold weather until after
warm weather leaves, and vice versa.
That is just as good philosophy as any
thing said by Diogenes, and yet this
American is not known outside of his
township.
A young lady of Moultrie county sends
in communication on some prcsuma-
bly, interesting topic, with the request to
"PleaSe print if not too full ~ 1t is hard
ly necessary to say that we hurl back the
base insinuatiOn with scorn-also the
communication Tribune.
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Edison gives warning to the gas com
panies. "Let them reduce again and
again says he, "and shall still be able
To underseIl them" On Christmas eve
lac proposes to show that his electric
light is a perfect success.
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Brick Pomeroy told a Kansas City
Times reporter that in six years from
now Kansas city would have n pOpula
tion Of 10000. This tickled the report
er, only he objects 10 waiting six years.
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I, There are twenty-six two story brick
business houses on the main business
street OF Observation-Disclosures Times
We understand the editor of the Times
Is this week counting the business
houses in Boston.
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This Is a dangerous season. and often the
Sands It mothers care is no protection anainst
coughs, colds and hoarseness. IDr Bull's
ssaugh syrup should be kept in readiness
HSiee . cents W5otI
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Interesting Items.


New YORK, Dee. 5.-The leather belt
manufacturers have determined 10 adj
vance the prices ten per cent. The pat
ent lock manufacturers propose advanc-
ing prices after January LIST.
Two sIx-day go-as-yOu-please contests
are announced to take place in Madison
Square Garden, this month, The first
will he for women, and tho second for
men. In the latter contest, Murphy,
Guvon, Maber, Khsin, Brittedy and 9th
ers. are entered.
Since the LIST of January, 27.55S Ger
man emigrants have landed mt Castle Gar
den, against 81 ,;326 duringthe correspond
ing period of last year.
The oyster men complain that the pres
ent mild weather is destroying their
trade.
The butter trade is very much agiiat-
ed because of the manufacture and sale
of large quantities of oleomargarinc, or
grease butter. One dealer says AS much
as two thousand packages of oleomarga-
rine are sold daily.
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Reckless Mining

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Dec. 5.-The surface
of the earth at Mahoning started to cave
in again last night, and is causing much
alarm among the residents of the town.
They remained up all last night prepar-
ing To move their household effects The
foundations are cracking and the houses
are liable TO to sink out of sight any mo
ment. The sinking of the ground is
CAUSED by excavations in the mines.
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A TRAGEDY

It's night Two lovers lean
Upon the gate
A nearing form Is seen
1t IS their fare,
\ piercin% scream from her
The welkin rent.
sIt was. as you infer,
Her pa-ri-ent-
The lover sought to scoot-
Alas. too late
He's hoisted with a boot
Beyond the gate
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Bogus Lions.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5.--The story about
TWO lions being loose in Madison coun-
ty, Illinois, and having killed one man
and two children, published IN the Post
Dispatch this afternoon, brief account
Of which was telegraphed from here to-
dnN. DrOXeS To be n hOaN
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GTEANi POWER

STEAM POWER
WOOD " RkING FACTORY
Plans and specifications Tor all kinds OF
buildings furnished. snip in my lumber. {
and can give low figures on all contracts
Factory and shop on Commercial street. =
just north Of seventh AVeDuc, Elnporia
Give me 4 call T.. L. SIRAGUE
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DILL. j. HEILMAN.
HASUFACFuRfB or
SADDLES AND HARNESS.
Good Sleek always on hana az Lowest
Prices.
Repairing Done Neatly and Cheap.
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War in Africa.

LONDON. Dec 5. - Accounts from
Egypt state that the government is ac-
lively completing preparations for war
with Abyssinia. The war Office at Cairo,
and the harbor of Suez, where the troops
are tn embark, is very animate6. II
hosliliiiss are resumed, the Egyptian
forces Will be divided into two armies
offensive and defensive. The former 10
be composed of 5000 men, and the lat
ter 1900, the offensive army will he
directed on the Egyptian harbor of Ark
ike. near Adna, the capital of Abyssinia-
and the defensive will take up two en-
trenched positions, one at Gosuer, on the
Rabal river, and the other at Bahia, ON
the Render river, thus commanding the
two main roads of Abyssinia, leading
from the north To the Sondon Gordon
Pasla will command the defensive army.
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A Sunday Edition.

NEW YORK, Dec 5.-Thc New York
Tribune ON Sunday next will make a
new departure, and hereafter publish a
Sunday edition. This will be the first
appearance of the Tribune on Sunday
since the fall of Napoleon in 1870.
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One Indian that Does not Lie.

Los PINos, Col, via Lake City, Col.
Dec. 5.-The commission is progressing
finely, with Jack still on the stand So
far, he has proved the most valuable wit
ness yet examined, answering all ques-
tions promptly, and keeping nothing
back. He claims that the removal of
the agency WAS the commencement of
the trouble; that at an elevation of
500 feet, with frost every month in the
year, farming was an impossIbility; that
he and his band received no ratiOns for
year, which, he claims, was a violation
of the treaty of. 1868; that his engage
menI with the troops was fair fight.
He calls Douglas a squaw man for hav-
ing attacked the agency, and insists that
Il white man, under the circumstances,
WOuid have fouOht Thornburg
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{. Joe BIeeds.

ST JOSEPH, Dec. 5.-The business
men of this city have raised the $50 100
asked as "a bonus for extending the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad to ST. Joseph, and
have informed Mr.. Jay Gould of the
fact 10y telegraph. The gift also secures
the erection of uDinn depot in thus
city early in the coming year
work on the MarysvilIc Dc Wateryille
extension will begin On Monday. and
the line will be completed january 10
This extends the ST. Joe & Denver 10
western Kansas.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
ROBERT MILLiKEY.

HUBERT NILLIht IN.
CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.--
Office at II. W McCuuc's real c-tatc Office, in
rear OF Emporia National Bank. w25tf
Z IL WILHITE, DIV
l,iriiuate OF American Veterinary CoIlcgc !
Veterinary Surgeon.
Office j. At Joseph Peaks barn. on Consti--
tuition stIeat Aiidiscasc- of animals sucress-
fully treated. Wl5I ! IL wIIHITE
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Where's Our Share /?

New YORK, Dec. 5.-The will of the
late Peter Goelet was admitted 10 pro-
bate to-day. He bequeaths TO his brother,
Robert Goelet, and his sisters. Jean b.
Goelet and Hannah G. Gerry, all his
lands and real estate, 10 be equally di-
vided among them. To his nephew, e.
bridge T. Gerry, he gives $500,000. All
the rest of the personal estate he be-
qneaths to lis brother, Robert Goe1et. jr..
and his nephews, Eldridge Gerry. Robert
Goelet aud Ogden GoeIet ir. The
estate is worth $4,000. 900.
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ocked Them In.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Ouo Wolf and
wife to-day went out to work, locking
their children in a room. BY some acct
dent, fire occurred, and before assistance
came two of the youngest were burned
TO death
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NO. so.

Smith. deputy collector of internal rev
| enue, notifying them that they must
change the size of their beer barrels To
conform to the law as amended AT the
last session of congress By that law
they are taxed one dollar on every barrel
OF .! gallons wine measure, which
contains 231 cubic inches
The beer barrels now in use contain ri
gallons beer measure, or 242 cubic inches
To the gallon. This makes difference of
one and half gallons 10 the barrel, and
involves the cost of changing the size OF
the barrels
No action was taken with reference TO
the consolidation project
General Grant
NEW YORK, Dee. 4-The chamber of
commerce has appointed committee TO
cooperate with the committees of other
commercial bodies in making arrange
ments for the reception of Gen Grant.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4-Gen. Grant this
morning received the ministers of all Ce-
nominations at the residence of his son.
Col. Grant. DIR. Goodwin, of the FIRST
Congregational church, introduced them
in a brief speech
Gen. Grant said in reply: Il am very
glad to receive the ministers of the vari-
Gus denominations and churches this
morning, and thank you for the very
cordial welcome You have extended TO
me. shall not be able to respond To
the words you have just uttered, but can
say that have always believri, and do
now believe, that a Nation, as well as an
individual, who acts from any other
principle than what is just and right,
must receive punishment The great
conflict we have gone through has been
a punishment for Il national sin, pun
isl hot
in some shape, and had to end in great
bloodshed" He thought that the strug
gle had ended 1t has left us a nation:
one that is to he preserved, and will last
many generations, and gradually work
out what may he wrong.
Did it While Drunk.
ASsoNIA, Conn, Dec "A man
named Cplon returned home drunk and
threw at his wifa a lighted lamp, which
tell into IA cradle and burned IA child To
death. The wife, endeavorlng to save
the child, was probably fatally burned.
L. :. Bonds in London.
New YORK, Dec. 1.-The London
Times, in a financial article, says that
Z. ). government bonds are hardly to
be got here now, and their prices are Il
mere reflex of those of New York.
Ih'IeitStu wages
SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 4-Thc Lacka-
wanna iron and coal company volun-
tarily increased the wages of their 1 300
workmen 10 per cent.
Ireland's Distressed.
MONTREAL, Dec. 4-St. Patrick's so
ciety have asked the clergy for permits
sion TO collect funds for the relief of the
distressed in Ireland. y mass meeting
will be held Monday NIGHT
Fate of a Democrat.
NEW YORK. Dec. 5.-Thomas Boland,
inspector of elections, convicted last
week of falsely and fraudulently issuing
certificates of the votes cast for George
Hall for alderman at the election of
1878, was to-day sentenced To two years
in states prison.
Bogus Lions.
ST. Louis, Dec. 5.--The story about
two lions being loose in Madison coun-
Il
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CINcINNARI, Dec. 5.-1he board of
councilmen at meeting to-day passed
an ordinance to grant the use of the
streets to Silsbee and associates for the
purpose of laying pipes TO convey and
distribute steam for the purpose of heat
ing. II must pass the board of alderman
and be approved by the mayor before it
goes into effect.
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Beer Makers

CINCINNATI, Dee 4-The brewers. at
their meeting to-day were astounded by
receiving communication from Ames
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The House committee on rules author
lied preventative Fry 10 report reso-
luton for the creation of committee of
nine members. To whom shall be referred
all matters Introduced in the House
which relate to the subject of woman
suffrage.
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LONDON, Dec. 3.-There are increas-
ing signs that the cotton trade in North
Lancaster is improving Some of the
mills are preparing to start again, and
some. firms have raised the wages of
their employees
THE CUBAN REVOLUTION.
HAVANA, Dec. 3.-Advises from San
Domingo to the Goth were as follows:
The siege of the city is now effective, the
revOlutionists having completely sur
rounded it on land. The only outlet is
by sea. President Gui!lermo made
Il last effort to dislodge the revolutionists
on the 18th attacking Monte Plata. After
a hard fight they were routed and oblig-
ed to take refuge in this city with a
small escort, as his army has disbanded.
President GuillermO is momentarily eX-
pected to resign. The whole republic
has Joined in the revolution.
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W. Il. R0tP,
PHNSICIA An ~ \ DBsrETRICIAN, Rra {.
ing. Lyon q, ll,.~ Ji4Cc Ist door = OF isl-t
oince. " III attend calls day or night SIS a
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CINCINNATI, Dec. "a Commercial
special from Crestline, Ohio, says that an
unknown burglar was shot there last
night by young Mr.. Taltz, who sleeps
in boot and shoe store. The burglar
was at the back door boring a pannel,
when TaltZ shot him dead from within
Two other burglars were frightened
away.
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 5.-R. II. Savers, the
late mail agent running on the Kentucky
Central railroad, was found guilty Of
stealing money from letters, and was to-
day sentenced to three years imprison-
ment in the Auburn, New York, peniten-
tiary.
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Los PINos AGENCY, Col, via LAKE
CITY, Dec Jack arrived this morn
ing. He came unattended. The COM
mission is now in session; Jack on the
stand. Jack has promised Ouray TO
give full particulars of the troubles at
the White river agency and the causes
that lead to the outbreak.
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New YORK, Dec. 5.-Thomas Boland,
inspector of elections, convicted last
week of falsely and fraudulently issuing
certificates of the votes cast for George
Hall for alderman at the election of
1878, was to-day sentenced To two years
in states prison
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CarIntta Patti.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4.-Carlotta Patti en-
tered suit this afternoon against the Post
Dispatch, asking $4,000 damages for
publishing an alleged libelous article
from the Leavenworth Times of last Sun
day, IN which she is stated to have been
drunk on the occasion of her concert
there the night previous.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The chairman
of the house committee on appropria-
tions to-day received communication
from attorney general Deyens, stating
the amount needed as. deficiency APP
preparation for United States marshals
and deputy marshals during the current
fiscal year will be 100000. This is the
amount voted by both houses last session
in the bill which president Hayes vetoed
on account of its restrictive clauses pro-
hIbiting the U.S. of any portion of the
money for the payment of deputy mar
shals Of elections. The committee will
meet tomorrow To consider the subject
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
The committee, consisting of senator's
Thurman White. Bailey, Vance. Herman.
Salisbury. Lamar, Voorhees, and Jones
(Fia.) held long meeting this evening
at which the rolls of sergeant-at-arms
and other officers of the senate. were
critically examined, with view of AS
certainIng whether any further caucus
action is advisable in regard to the dis
tribution of the senate's patronage. The
inquiry concerning this subject which
the committee were directed to invesii-
gate by resolution adopted at Tuesdays
caucus, will be continued AT another
meeting
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-24
WAITING FOR MOTHER ;

The old man sits in his eazy-chsir,
slaiob,riDg the moments away,
fDrealaibg dream THAI Il all his own,
On wis eladscme, peaceful day.
!, children have ra altered from far and near,
Els children's children beside.
And merry voices are echOing through
The homestead's hslls, 90 wide
But far away in the years long noVn
Grandfather lives again
And bis heart forgets shat It ever Knew
A shadow Of Rhei and pain,
For he sees his wife as he saw her then
A mstron comely and fair,
with her children gathered around his bOsrd,
And never a vacant chair.
Oh happy this dream Of the " Aud Lang syne,
OF the years long slipped away
And the old mans lips have gathered a smile
And his heart grows young and gay.
I3ut 3 kiss falls gently upon his brow,
From his daughters lips 30 true;
"Binner is ready; and, Father, dear,
Wesre only waiting for your
The oil man wakes at bis daughters call,
Ard be looks at the table near.
=" There's one of us missing, my child" he says;
Wewill wait TIL Mother lie here"
There are tears in the eyes Of his children then,
As they gaze on an empty chair
For many lonely year has passed
Since Mother " sat with them there.
But the old man plssds still wistfulIy:
We must wait for Mother, you knowi"
And they let him rest in his old armchair
TIL The sun at last sinks low.
Then, leaving q smile for the children here
BE turns from the earth away,
And has gone to " Mother beyond the SKIES
With the close of the quiet day.
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Fertility of Barry Farzss.

Much nonsense is circulated in regard
to the rapid loss of fertility of dairy
farms, by reason OF the carrying away OF
the phosphates in the milk. Now 1000
pounds of milk contain about three to
four pounds of phosphates, Of which
nearly the whole is phosphate of lime.
Of this less than half is phos 9horic acid.
Five thousand pounds of milk, there
fore, contain but seven and one-half
pounds OF phosphoric acid, which may
be taken as the yearly consumption, in
this way, of each COW. As wheat bran
contains 90 per centum of phOsphoric
acid, it needs only that about 250 pounds
of bran be fed t. each COW, yearly, to
replace the draught upon the soil. There
are few dairy COWS that are fed less than
this quantity of either bran or some food
equivalent to it, and it is pretty certain
that very little, if any, phosphoric acid
is really taken from the soil of dairy
farms. On the contrary, to say nothing
of the natural supply in the soil, which
slowly becomes soluble. there is good
reason to believe that every well-kept
dairy farm becomes gradually richer in
phosphates every year.
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A Remarkable Occurrence.
Albany Argus.


That persons near to death exercise
aculties entirely phenomenal, and dis
play powers not possessed by those in
health, is attested by large number of
remarkable occurrences. One such,
marked by peculiar features, and authen-
ticated beyond question, transpired in
this city few days ago. An elderly
lady, the mother of a gentleman well
known IN politics and business in this
city, herself in q low state o. health, who
now has her residence in the southwest
ern portion of the city, awoke from
sleep last Monday afternoon and at once
broke out in fit of violent weeping,
which attracted the attention of all in
the house, who were at some pains to
soothe her and ASCERTAIN the cause of
her distress. When quieted she said
that her husband, long since dead, had
appeared to her in dream, and told her
that her daughter was dying. This in
cident was related to persons in another
part of the city durinY the same day,
and before the person who told of it had
any knowledge of what is recited here
after. That the mother, who knew that
her daughter had been for some time
sick, should be impressed with the idea
that she was dying was not singular, as
that might easily have resulted from
apprehension, which had, no doubt, been
entertained. The remarkable fact is
this: On the same day, as near as can
be ascertained, at the exact time when
the mother was manifesting distress OF
mind, the daughter reused herself from
her bed of sickness, in house on Arbor
Hill, and said to her attendant: Why,
how my mother is cryingW and a
moment later Don't you hear her cry p
The nurse heard nothing, and was
obliged to say so, although the sick
woman repeatedly asserted that her
mother was crying and endeayored to
convince the nurse that she heard her.
The younger lady died on Wednesday
and was buried on Saturday.
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An Extraordinary Story.

An extraordinary story comes to us
from Russian correspondent at Odessa.
He says: "There exists under the au-
thOrity of Russia funeral island, stu
ated in the neighbOrheod of Archangel,
on the Volga. The Kalmucks convey
their sick there, and as soon as. a member
of family becomes i'll he is shipped to
the island, so great is the dread lest his
disease may be communicated to others
of the household. II, in an excep-
tional instance, the poor fellow gets well
again he is none the less doomed, for he
is lated to die of starvation N that dis
NAL island. On reaching the shores one
is Overpowered by the offensive smell.
Myrisds of flies are seen rising in swarms
from this charnel>place, and thousands
of birds take 10 flight. The ground is
strewn with corpses and skeletons. In
March, when the river throws of it's
icy fetter5, its waters rise aud food the
island, carrying sway into The waves Of
the Caspian all those human remains.
These facts are published in Psnslavist
organ by hardy correspondent who had
the courage to visit this Kalmuck necro>
polls. He asked if no authority or law
existed in the place. The law he
was told, was the nagaika, or knout,
with which fifteen or twenty strokes are
given on the backs of the Kslmucks
when they rebel against the will of the
men in power and as these men are, IL
summer, naked to the waist, the task is
no difficult one. If it so happens that
some high functionary wsnders so far as
Astrakhsn, you may be quite sure that
if he has ever heard OF tie island he
will not ask TO be taken there"