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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

The Autobiography and Correspondence OF
Mrs. Delany. Edited by Sarah Chauncey
Woolsey. Revised from the English edition
of Lady Hanover (Boston Roberts Brothers;
Portland Lorng, Short & Harmony. Nothing
could be more charming than this biography
of the noble, elegant, lovable Mrs. Delany.
Edmund Burke said of her, "She is not only
the woman of fashion in her own age, she is
the highest-bred woman in the world, and the
woman of fashion of all ages" Yet, her biog-
rapher tells us (and Mrs. Delany's' letters at
test it) her social grace was the least OF her
merits. She made virtue attractive, goodness
and grace were united in her words and ac-
tions. And her delicate, witty, womanly let
ters have fragrance as of rose-leaves long laid
away; making the air sweet about them'
though many years are gone since the
season of their blooming. Mary Granville
(afterward Mrs. Delany) was born in 17oo'
and the period of her life saw three corona
tions and burials of British sovereigns "Her
correspondence" says the preface to these
memoirs. "notes and chronicles the changes
gradual but vast, which in that epoch of change
were Transforming the quaint England oil the
Stuarts and Tudors into the England of our
own times, and planting the germs OF what we
call modern usage, literature and habits OF
thought"
The first anecdote which Mrs Delany re-
cords of herself is that, at the age OF ten she
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

Canterbury Chimes is the title of volume
of the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, retold in
prose for the pleasure of children by Francis
Stow and Hawes Turner Boston: Roberts
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony.
If ever was poet who kept child's heart, it
was Geoffrey Chaucer. All fair things and
young are in the very cadences of his verse;
and his stories, adapted and changed somewhat
to suit them for children, cannot fail to be de-
lightful and valuable. And this prose version
is made with such sweetness and choice of
words, such spirited and apt storytelling, that
it will fully commend itself to that race of in
stinctiye critics, the children. The woodcuts
are copied from the ancient Ellesmere manu-
scripts for which the editors express their
thanks to the Chaucer society of London. In
a household where the older folk read Mr..
Arthur Glman's edition of Chaucer's Poems,
and the younger ones are made happy by the
Canterbury Chimes-sunlight and the spring
time need fear no December days.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

Irene the Missionary Boston: Roberts Broth
ers; Portland: Loring, Short and Harmony is
the title of an anonymous story which has ap-
peared in recent numbers of the Atlantic
Monthly Quite original in design and char
acters, and containing some very good touches
it fails to reach the standard of the best Amer
lean fiction. 1t will be read with interest by
many persons for its descriptions of life in the
Holy Land, and for its mild mingling of relig-
ion and romance.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

Among recent fiction is to be noted Messrs.
Harper's library edition of Miss Mulochs new
story, Young Mrs. Jardine, novel whose pur-
pose is thoroughly good, while its sentimental
ity is occasionally something too much. Its
neat and attractive binding is in the style OF
other volumes of the Library edition
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

The Boys and Girls Treasury q. b. Lippin-
colt: Philadelphia; Portland: Bailey & Noyes)
is a brightly covered volume for the little ones,
with large and very pretty picture on every
second page, and a bright story or poem oppo-
site. 1t is fund of pleasure for little people
from four to twelve years of age.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

Stories of War, Edited by E. E. Hale
Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short 81 Harmony is a capital
book for the older boys-who seem to
be particularly favored in this holiday
budget. 1t is volume made up of stories
of the war, collected from the newspapers Of
that time, and told in the very words of Gems.
Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. 1t is book
that every American boy should own and
every year that removes records farther from
the present. increases its value as a running
commentary upon the greatest struggle and
victory of our country. Its reasonable price
places the book within the reachof all; and
friends of the boys should see to it that their
library includes Mr.. Hale's Stories of War.
With this book, which tells of the deeds of our
great generals in the cause of freedom and
right, and Mr.. Lanier's Froissart, noticed be-
fore, a boy needs little more Indictment to set
forth on manly career.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-12-06

The Serpent Charmer, A Tale of the Indian
Mutiny, is translated from the French of M.
Louis Rousselet (New York: Scribner's; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmon) 1t relates in
imaginative and dramatic fashion the adven-
lures of French boy and his sister in the ter
rible times of the Sepoy rebellion under Mana
Sahib. The story is sensational in good
sense, of absorbing interest, and also contain
ing graphic and picturesque descriptions of
India. The illustrations are exceedingly good,
and the binding very effective-in brief, it is
fine gift-book, and will prove particularly ac-
ceptable to young people who are past child
hood.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
THAT REPUTATION.

bOSAO3N, august OlIA, AOtOs
EMPoRIA NEws:-Your wide awake
paper of August LIST claims a valuation
for Commercial street of $751;, 900. a
would pay the "repudIated debt" of
your f1ourishlng city, and give her a
character for honesty.
Respectfully, a SUFFERER.
We are very happy to inform the
sufferer" that Emporia does not have
any repudiated debt. Her credit is good,
and her character for honesty is first
class. She recently issued $500 in
bonds to assist in rebuilding the State
Normal school, and they were taken
without hesitancy right here at home, at
par. AS many more, or twice as many
more, would be taken, issued for legiti-
mate purposes. A few years ago five or
six thousand dollars were issued to aid
manufactures. In a suit brought in
another part of the state to test the legal
ity of bonds issued for a similar pur-
pose, such bonds were decided uncon-
stitutional by the United States circuit
court. (National Bank VS.. city of lola,
and affirmed in U. S. supreme court.)
Three thousand dollars of this $500
bonds issued were voted to aid in run
ming a wagon factory, ETC., which fact
appeared on the face of the bonds. The
manufacturing company made their
$1,000 note to the city, and gave mort
gage on their property to secure it.
They were afterward put into bank
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

Summer complaint and diphtheria are
raging fatally among children at CLAY
Center. -
The L. L. & c. railroad has been COM
pleted some four or five miles west of
Elk City.
Salina will furnish choir of twenty
voices for the temperance camp meeting
at Bismarck.
There are 1900 chattle mortgages on
file in the Office of the register of deeds
Jewell county.
Burlingame township has voted bonds
to the Burlingame, Alma and Manhat-
tan railway.
Something near thousand men are
now working in Elk county, grading the
L. L. & G. railroad.
The defeat of a $4,000 school house
bond proposition at Freedonia is claim
ed as Democratic victory.
Linn county will vote on PROPOSE
ton to appropriate $4,000 for the cree
ton of court house at Mound City, on
the I'd of September.
w. N. Emmert, now of Pueblo, form
erly of Fort Scott, is defaulter in the
sum of $4,000. The Corbin banking
company is the sufferer.
The capital city rejoices over base
ball victory. In the game Wednesday
the st. Louis Mutuals scored four and
the Westerns of Topeka ten.
The stone to be used in the water Ia
BILE course and entrance steps of the U. S.
building at Topeka comes from Cape
Ann, Gloucester, Mass.
c. G. Scrafford, on his acquittal at To
peka, received congratulatory telegram
from some thirty citizens of Sabetha,
and was welcomed on his return to Sen
eca by a house-full of friends.
On the 18th of August there is to be
sold, at the u S. land office at Independ-
ence, at public auction, 33,0SS acres of
the Cherokee strip. No bid will be re-
ceived at a less figure than 81 per acre.
Extensive arrangements are being
made for holding big Methodist camp
meeting on the fair grounds at Hum
boldt, to commence August 81, 1879.
Ministers and singers of national repu-
tation have been invited and are expect
ed
Prof. J. S. SHE, of Topeka, will con-
duct the music at the church encamp-
ment, at Bismarck Grove, August Goth
to September 4th He is now engaged
in forming choir and orchestra, and is
visiting Kansas City, LeavenwOrth, Law
renee, Olathe and Ottawa for that pur-
pose. He expects to have about fifty of
the best voices in those cities and will
have fine instrumental accompaniment.
The Olathe Progress says that Miami
equity can boast family containing
three of the heaviest persons for their age
in the state. The weighty trio are boy
seven and a half years old, weighing
1111S pounds; a lady, seventeen years of
age, weighing 272 pounds; and young
man of twenty years, who pulls down the
beam at 295 pounds. They say the warm
weather effects them only by increasing
their flesh.
A woman at Raymond, Rice county,
went into saloon, where her husbrnd
was carousing, one day last week, and
upon his refusing to go home with her
she picked up chair and with it smash
ed the lamps in the chandelier, threw
billiard ball through the glass door,
knocked her husband clear across the
room, BACKED the constable's eye and
raised Ned in general. The old man
can't drink there any more.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

ruptcy, and another mortgage on the
same property foreclosed in the U. 8. cir
cuit-cosFt, district-of Kansas, and the
city made party and answered, setting
up its claim and lien, and said court
adjudged the city's said mortgage void
because the bonds were void. Hence
this question has become stare deeisis,
as the lawyers say. 1t is true that as to
all these bonds of $500 the city never
received one cent of consideration either
directly or indirectly. 1t is also true
that if the city should attempt to levy
a tax to pay any Of these bonds it would
be enjoined.' 1t is also true that every
one of these bonds were absolutely void
on their face and as a matter of law no
one could be an innocent purchaser any
more than they could of a promisory
note that in terms recited that it was
given for an illegal purpose.
Now in bringing the suit EmpOria
had no hand, neither did she ever take a
single step toward Republication" as our
friend calls it. OF course it was simply
impossible TO collect tax which was il
legal. 1t was q misfortune to those who
had purchased the small amount of
bonds issued, and for one we think
it would be better if some provis-
ion could be made for their relief If
Sufferer" is the author of slanderous
article on EmpOria Republication, which
was widely circulated in the east
ern papers some weeks ago, hundreds of
marked copies of which were sent here
to citizens, in which several glazing false
hoods were stated, we have simply to say
that he did not help his case much, neith-
er did he accomplish what seemed to
be his purpose, to prevent the sale of
the late issue of city bonds.
We wish to state, in conclusion, that
the SANDER on Emporia was published
in the New York Independent. A rep
utable citizen wrote a reply thereto, but
as he did not enclose the money to pay
for it, the defense of our town did not
appear in the Independent. -
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

the titles to their homes, his course has
been one of trickery, theft, peculation
and crime, and his efforts to run the pol
itics of southern Kansas are farce. He
coolly robbed school district of $1O,-
900, and then talks of dishonesty in Off
cial places. He stole $500 of county
bonds from Chase county, and exhorts
the people against thieves. he changes
his politics 10 suit the popular will, be
ing Republican, Democrat, Greenbacker,
Independent, or oFreelover, anything to
get Office. He has several times crept
into the legislature on false issues, and
by bullying and trickery, and has never,
in a single instance, been known to in
troduce or advocate bills to accomplish
any of the reforms which are the burden
of his speeches. He has the dirty faced
impudence to howl against others for not
doing what he has had the chance to do,
but never did The only thing he ever
did in the Legislature was to get sparse
ly settled judicial district made and him.
self appointed judge, in which position
he was the laughing-stock of all who
had business in his court, and brought
nothing but ridicule on the bench. 1t
was a common remark that Sam
Woods court was better than a circus
for fun. But as soon as the people got
q chance to vote he was hurled from the
fat place he had made for himself. This
is the way Sam has reformed" when
he has had a chance. He would like
to reform" himself into congress,
either from Kansas or Colorado. He is
a cheap demagogue, brass faced liar,
cannot get credit for So where he is
known, and considering his ignorance
and buffoOnery it Is a wonder he can get
a respectable hearing in any community.
He is nice specimen of humanity to
set up as acanvasser for a political party,
and the Greenbackers may expect to be
cleaned out ''root and branch" so long as
they depend on such leaders as Sam
Wood. They had better persuade him
to go to Colorado and run for office
again this fall.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

z. L. White, the New York Tribune
correspondent, writing of his journey to
the Black Hills, and speaking particular
ly OF the extraordinary growth of "the
great central basin of the continent"
says that the next census of that region
will astonish the country. One political
effect, he says, will be the placing of the
"Solid South" even when In alliance
with Tammany, in hopeless minority
All the political advantage gained by
the South by the reimbursement of the
freedmen, will be more than balanced by
the increased population of the West and
Northwest, as shown by the next census
This is a consideration which many
political calculators have not thought
much about
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
SOME RESULTS.

In the last congress the Democrats
showed their prodigality in running up
the expenses of Investigating committees
that had almost to manufacture suspi-
cions to work upon, and when appro
priationsfrom the government, to protect
the frontier and check lawlessness on
the borders were wanted and demanded,
it was question of economy with the
majority in congress to cut off the ex-
penses. To-day's dispatches fore-shad-
ow bad state of affairs in the Indian
Territory ON account of lack of funds to
pay United States marshals, the Ar.
kansas court having jurisdiction over
the territory being powerless from these
reasons. Several daring murders have
lately been committed in the northern
part of the Indian Territory. The last
account details the killing of Capt. Sc
crest, mail contractor, and a member
of the original town company of Chetopa.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
OVER THE STATE

The Weir City zinc works are idle.
The Topeka insane asylum has fifteen
inmates.
A mountain lion is frightening the
people in Jewell county.
Six hundred houses have been built in
Atchison this year.
The big rhinoceros of the great Lon
don show died at Ottawa.
A Holton dog bitten by rattlesnake
was cured by applications of coal oil.
Diphtheria is raging extensively and
fatally in Republic county.
Four horses fell dead from sunstroke
in the vicinity of Arkansas City Last
week.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

How the heart of the reform green
hacker must sink within him as the news
from various parts of the country re-
ports revivals of the iron trade and bust
ness in general. Itmust be aggravating,
to say the least, to have his voice drown
ed in this sort of way, when he is howl
ing with all his might the stereotyped
cry of continued depression in trader'
He flourisheth on depressions and fail
ures of the resumption policy, and it
looks as though the quality of nourish-
ishment he has lately been getting was
furnishing him diet that is giving him
the colic-or melanchOlic, anyway.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
AT LARGE.

There arc great many good men who
call themselves Greenbackers. They have
been persuaded into the movement in the
hope that what they considered abuses
in the administration of public affairs
might he corrected. We think those who
were Republicans made a mistake in
leaving the party to bring about whole
some reforms, as the mass of that party
has always been honest, and the needed
changes could be made and have been
made better and quicker inside than out
side of the party.
The Greenback party was no sooner
organized than it was bounced by polit-
ical demagogues and scabs who had been
kicked out of the Republican party, to
such an extent as to freight it down with
ridicule in its claims as reform" par
ty. We think it was deserving of better
leaders than it has had, as a rule. The
claim of the political poltroons who fas-
tened themselves upon this reform party,
that they were martys like the old anti-sla-
very leaders, was not calculated to les
sen the ridicule with which their preten-
sions have been met.
To-day it is announced that the infa-
nous Sam Wood, one of the oracles of
the Greenback party, is now perambu-
lating the country southwest of here
making Greenback speeches. As Re
publican we could ask nothing better
than this, because his reputation is such
as to really aid the cause he opposes, but
for the respect we bear the better portion
of Greenbackers, we think they ought to
keep him at home. The idea of that old
skunk going about preaching political
honesty and reform is such refreshing
piece of impudence as TO beget the con-
tempt of all good men. From the day
he was indicted for perjury in Douglas
county, to the day he was compelled to
leave Colorado by the wrath of q people
whom he was trying to swindle out OF
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

Great Britain is not new country,
neither is Germany or Russia, but they
seem to be having some of the troubles
that we occasionally have over in this
new land. They ought to import few
reformers and sore-headed politicians
to tell them what is the trouble and that
reform Is necessary. The crops present
an account that is woefully deficient, and
American farmers will play the part of
interested bondsmen. 1t is a shortage
which they will take pleasure in putting
up for-for value received. Thirty-four
hundred coal miners on the strike, too.
Something is wrong. Reform is neces-
sary,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

The sale of public lands by the govern
ment during the year 1878 was UMPIRE
cedentedly large. During the year there
were over 6,OOO,O acres occupied under
the homestead law. The special land
grants, sales and homesteads for the year
reached nearly 100000 acres. AS we
have more than 2OO,OOO,OOO acres of till
able land yet unimproved there is room
for more
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

A prominent citizen of Memphis,
questioned as to the whereabouts of the
Chickasaw guards, reports them in camp
in the Blue grass region. He describes
the company as very fine one for dress
parade, but with no disposition to do du-
ty when yellow fever threatens. Then
the citizens call on the colored troops.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

So Mr. Gladstone really thinks that if
this country will only rely upon its own
resources, appreciate the native genius
of Its people and go on adopting labor
saving machinery, it will become strong
competitor of Great Britain. just so,
Mr.. G.. Quite right, quite right.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

Ifthe Democratic hero of Anderson
vile, Wirz, had not met with misfor-
tune, he would have been an available
candidate for Governor of his State. He
ought TO have got off TO Canada in the
clothing business until the excitement
waa over
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

$50 near and yet so far" is what must
have occurred to the Democrats and the
Honorable Bilks" of San Francisco
when they tried fusion. The Demo
Gratis would not fuse worth cent. They
nominated a German capitalist for May
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

The Iowa Greenbackers must be get
ting desperate. After wranglings and
disputes they adopt a platform and
"pledge their honor and lives to accom-
plish the principles thereon set forth"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

While the Kentucky Democrats seem
ingly gain four or five thousand votes
for Blackburn, the Republicans have
gained three or four state senators and
ten or twelve representatives.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
epidemic.

Figuratively speaking the department
of State at Washington and the Mormons
are getting on their respective and in
dividual ears.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

Baseball is again asserting its claims
as the national game. The renewed in
terest in the sport is spreading like an
epidemic.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15

fit is ''Tilden and Reform" the watch
ward does not emanate from Saratoga
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
The Cheyennes.

LAWRENCE, August 12.-The capt i've
Cheyennes in prison here awaiting trial
for murder, were examined by the senate
investigating committee tonight As
the committee have no desire to preiu
dice their case, whatever they may have
said will be kept strictly private The
questions asked were, the reasons for
their leaving their northern home, their
treatment on their southern reservation,
and the causes that led to their breaking
out of Camp Robinson. The committee
leave tomorrow for Wichita and the In
dian Territory.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
The Spanish Insult.

WASHINGTON, August 12=Sprague,
American consul at Gibraltar, in dis
patch to the department Of the state, re-
ports that he has received third anony-
nous letter from party trying to extort
money from him. A person has been
arrested suspected of completely in the
plot, but the letter asserts that the man
is entirely innocent At the same time
the cOnspirators in the third letter with
draw professedly wholly from the
attempt, and abandon all demands for
money, and disclaim their former threats
at personal injury to the consul or his
family. Sprague's family and relatives
reside in a secluded country place, out
side of the city. He has been consul at
Gibraltar 81 wears.