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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-29
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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
A KENTUCKY WELCOME,

The Louisville city council has voted
Gen. Grant the freedom of the city, and
the whole people there are preparing TO
give him a cordial welcome. The visit
is expected on the 10th of December.
The Courier-Journal closes long article
with the following hearty greeting:
ut is good TO be hOspitable and hap
py. 1t is good to entertain cheerful
view of things and not he heart broken
more than twenty-four hours at a time.
The coming of General Grant will take
our minds, for moment at least, off
some matters which just now have Il ten
dency to make us sad and sorry
But, aside from the mere ceremonial,
which it does not seem inappropriate that
the city should extend to "a parsonage of
such distinction, and behind the display,
which might or might not be genuine,
there is a very strong and real anImating
principal which carries the open hand of
welcome to General Grant directly from
the heart of very great number of our
people, the representative of what is
known as the lost cause When we were
down he didn't kick us. When he had the
power to insult us, he treated us like a
gentleman. There are some unwritten
chapters which will decorate, if they can
| not brighten, the shrine of Grants mill
tary escutcheon; but, as long as the name
of Lee lasts, the confederates will keep in
their memory warm corner for Grant.
We have abused him often and may abuse
him again. We reserve all rights of pO-
litical criticism and civil censure. We
commit ourselves to nothing. But this
is the first time since AppomattOx that
we have have had Il chance to pay that
debt, and if we don't do the thing bang
up count us the poorest lot of poor dew
lis that tread the face of the earth"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
HOW TO DEAL WITH RATS.

A writer in the Scientific American
says: We clear our premises of these
detestibie vermin by making whitewash,
yellow with cOpperas, and covering the
stones and raftcTs in the cellar with it.
In every crevice in which II rat may
tread we put the crystals of copperas,
and scatter the same in the corners of
the floor. The result was perfect
stampede of rats and mice. Since that
time not football of either rats or mice
has been heard about the house. Every
spring a coat of the yellow wash is given
the cellar, as purifier, as rat eXter,
minator and no typhoid, dysentery or
fever attacks the family. Many persons
deliberately attract all the rats in the
neighbOrhOOd by leaving fruits and vege-
tables uncovered in the cellar, and some
times even the soap is left open for their
rcgalement. Cover up everything cata
BILE in the cellar and pantry, and you
will soon have them out. These pre-.
cautions, Joined 70 the service of a good
cat, will prove as good rat exter
minatOr a. the chemist can provide
We never allow rats to be poisoned in
our dwelling, they are so liable TO die
betweens the walls and produce much
annOVance
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
ABOUT WOMEN OF TWENTY-FIVE

The man who meets and loves the wo-
man of twenty-five is truly fortunate, and
she is equally fortunate in meeting and
loving, says writer in feminine
journal. AT that age she seldom deceives
She may not have-she is not likely to
have-then her first sentimental expert
ence; but such experience at such an
age is more than sentimental, and rarely
ever fleeing. She looks back at the
youths she imagined she was enamOred
of between the ages of sixteen and eight
cen, and often twenty-five, and they are
more than indifferent and repellant to
her-they are ridiculous, and in some
sort she, as she then was, is ridiculous to
herself. She cannot but be grateful TO
her destiny that her sympaihies and eff
fectiOns have been reserved for worth
Ter object and a higher end. At twenty
five, if ever, woman knows and esti-
mates herself She is less liable to emo
tional or mental mistakes is far surer of
her fortune, because she feels that her
fate is to certain extent in her own
hands. Not only is she lOvelier and
more lOveable, broader and stronger than
she has been, but her welded happiness
and power of endurance are in Il manner
guaranteed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

Chicago is alarmed by statements made
by some of her leading chemists and
physicians in regard TO the extent to
which articles in general use are adulter-
ated or impregnafed with peisons that
endanger health. Sugars, syrups, vino
gar. pickles, baking powders, teas, COL
ored stockings, hair cosmetics, powders
used on the face, and imperfect dishes
or utensils in which food IS cooked, can
ned, or served are the most prominent
substances IN which hidden dangers have
been detected. Cooperation is proposed
with q protective health society, recently
formed in Boston, which has for its OBJ
iect the analysis of every article of con-
sumption, and the exposure of every
merchant guilty of adulteration. Pro
tective health associations in other lead
ing cities and towns are advocated on the
ground that until such action is taken
awide and unrestricted sale of deadly
poisons in our markets will continue
thousands of manufacturers and mer-
chants win be constantly tempted, and
in many instances almost compelled by
the competitions of trade, 10 manufac-
ture and sell poisonous and adulterated
goods"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT

oko!Ona (Miss) Southern States.
Wait till the Solid South Frances up
to the polls in 1880.
The result in the Ohio has riveted the
seams in the Solid South.
Mississippi is bigger state N old
Massachusetts, in the captured capitol.
And the confederate brigadiers contin-
ue to hold the captured capitol.
Whoo-oo-oool
And the guards in gray will continue
to make laws for the boys in blue this
winter.
Whoo-oo-ray.
The coming congress must teach the
Yankee traitors that this union is not,
never was and never Will be u nation.
Let the confederate brigadiers pass an
original army bill this winter, and let
Them starve the 'nation" to death if the
SKI dares to hint or whisper a veto.
Will the Okolona States bear in mind
that the proper way to writ eNation is
with big N?-SeymOur Ind. Republi-
can.
Well, we always use a big n when
we speak of the Nation of Mississippi.
The confederate brigadIers hold the
purse-strings Of the federal government
they will be false to themselves, their
country and their God if they fail to
bring the present Infamous "administra-
ton" TO terms.
A look at Il six cent United States
postage stamp is sufficient to give a
patriot the nightmare. The diabolical
phiz with which it is disfigured makes
the felOn faces in a rougue's gallery ap-
pear respectable in contrast.
The Yankees may just as well learn at
one time as another, that there will be nc
more peace and harmony in this country
until they quit talking treason, and nc
cept state sovereignty with all that the
term implies.
The result in Ohio will be warning
to the south Rad. Elk.
1t will that!
| 1t will warn her to permit no division
| in her ranks.
1t will warn her to fling your Yankee
olive branches back in your teeth, when
! ever you offer them
1t will warn her to stand ready to re
sist imperial aggression.
When the Yankees
Burn their battle flags,
Pull down their Linkhorn monu
ments,
| Repeal their war legislation,
And confess that they were wrong
wrong, and forever wrong, and the soutl
was right, right, and forever right,
We may cOndescend to forgive anC
forget their treason;
| But not before.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

The New York Times, in noticing the
statement that Grant is TO become presi-
dent of the Texas railroad company,
says:
George Washington. after his retire
ment from public life, steadily abstained
from accepting the presidency of rail
road company, and therefore It would be
wrong for the Texas Pacific railroad
company To make ex-president grant its
president. The moment we depart from
the example of Washington we drift
away from Republican institutions
straight toward the abyss OF military des-
potism. II the Texas Pacific company
has decided 10 treat with contempt the
example of Washington, and to give TO
an eX-president of the United States an
Office which not one of our earlier ex-
presidents ever dreamed of accepting the
knell of free institutions has sounded,
and patriotic citizens would do well to
buy car.trumpets and try TO hear it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

SERIOUS TROUBLE IN MAINE.
A Democratic Plot to Nh IIfy the Elee-
ton.

A Democratic Plot to Nh IITy the Elee-
The following appeared in our dis
patches yesterday:
PORTLAND, Nov. 13.-It is reported
from Augusta that the state authorities
have certificates prepared to send out,
giving seats to seventeen Democratic
senators and eighty-five representatives,
giving them majority and quorum,
in case Republicans retire"
This is blind. To shew what il means,
we will re-state what is generally known,
that Davis, the Republican nominee for
governor, did not receive majority OF
all the votes cast ut the late election
The vote stood:
Davis, (RepublIcnp. ....-...- .......... 6S,46S
Smith, (GreenbacA1 .......-...- "A ,6lO
Garcelon. (Demoorat) ........-.... 81 ,lId
Bion Bradbury and scattering ....-..... 81
The constitution requires a majority
vote all to secure an election by the peO-
pie The choice for governor devOlves
upon the legislature. The house sends
10 the senate two nominations, selected
from the four highest voted for, and thus
the senate by a majority vote selects
from these two one TO be governor. BY
the official returns the Republicans
elected 10 senators and the opposition
IL.
In the house the Republicans elected
OIL and the opposition 60.
Under the constitution and laws OF
Maine the governor and council are re
QuiTcd To send certificates Of election 10
those senators and representatives who,
on the face of the returns, appear to be
chosen" and if the returns are irregular
or defective in form they may, under Ger.
tain prescribed restrictions, call on the
city and town authorities for such cor
rectiOns AS will make the returns con.
form to the actual results rs written in
the municipal records. Here the author.
ity of the governor and council ends, and
most properly ends, and all further off,
cial scrutiny is remanded TO the senate
and house, which are made by the con-
stitution the sole judges of "the qualifi.
cntiOn of their own members"
II seems, however, that the governor
and council are trying to make them
selves a returning board, and on the
plea of irregularity and fraud 70 send
certificates of election, as stated in the
dispatches, to IL Democratic senators
and 50 representatives, thus giving the
Democrats control of both houses and
securing the election of one of their faith
probably eX-U. s. Senator Bradbury,
who received but 81 votes for the office
of governor If this scheme is carried
out, it will be one Of the most glaring
frauds ever committed on the American
people. The result will inevitably be q
conflict, perhaps of arms.-Common
wealth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
GENERAL NOTES.

B. +. Butler: Weep not for me, my
| friends. 1t is chronic.-Buffalo Express.
The Democratic party resembles the
earth-it is little flattened at the polls.
Syracuse Herald.
1t is current bard who sings "I sat
alone with my conscience" Two to one
he never had less fun in all his born
days.
YakOob Khan says he feels as though
he had just run for governor of Iowa on
the Democratic ticket. - Burlington
Hawkeye.
The man with new tight shoes and in
growing nail seems to be the one who is
always selected by fate to be compelled
To run for train.-New York Star.
A new mode of collecting honey is be-
ing tried IN Germany. A small appa-
ratus. with wires, gives the bees an
electric shock, and they fall to the bot
tom of the hive, remaining motionless
for several hours.
The merchants of St. Louis have or
ganiZed a movement for the erection of
spacious and permanent exposition
building, like those of Chicago, Louis
vile and Cincinnati. It is intended to
finish it for next fall.
In every northern state where there has
been a contest over either branch of the
legislature, which is to help elect a
United States senator, the Democracy
have encountered crushing defeat. 1t
seems that national questions did have
something to do with this election.
At the assay office of the Consolidated
Virginia company, in Virginia City,
New, General and Mrs Grant and Ulys-
SEES Grant, Jr., were weighed on the fine
scales used in weighing bullion Gener-
al Grant turned the scale at 17O12 pounds.
Mrs. Grant at 100 pounds, and young
Ulysses Grant 176 pounds.
The increase of twenty per cent in the
mail matter handled on the postal cars
during the last fiscal year shows forcibly
the growth of the county. The large in
crease in the registration of packages is
also gratifying, since it must proceed
chiefly from commercial traffic between
the large cities and the interior.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

CHAs. LENHART.-In G. w. Browns
last letter concerning early times IN
Kansas, he devOtes chapter to Charley
Lenhart, a printer who was somewhat
noted AS u free state guerilla. Mr..
Brown says Lenhart disappeared with
John Brown ''In the autumn of 1859,
since which / think there is no intelli.
gence of him." and adds that ait was re
ported he was shot under the walls OF
the prison at Charlestown, Va, wherein
Brown was imprisoned, and where he
was accommodating with view of effect
ing the captains escape"
There is no foundation for this story
Lenhnrt was not connected with Browns
raid. He became very much disSipated
"a failing with which Capt. Brown
who was strict temperance man, had
no patience. Lenhart remained in KaR
sas until the outbreak of the war; and
enlisted in the first or second regiment
He was killed, we think, in 1862 or '63
somewhere in southwest Missouri. VIZ
remember TO have heard of his death, al
the time, but where It occurred we dc
not know.-Atchison Champion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
HOW KENTUCKY EDITORS KISS

Cream and peaches once q week,
Kiss your girl on the right hand cheek;
Apples green and apples dried,
Kiss her on the other side.
Ashland Review
That evinces Wretched taste
Take your girl about the waist;
Lift her t. her pink toe-tips,
And plant il sIuarely on her lips
Frankfort Yeoman.
No. Wanton-on the sofa sit,
Otis well If ights have not been LTD
Then place your arm her waist about,
And kiss heI till your lips give out.
Now, We think it better still:
Clasp your girl around her waist,
Stoop and kiss her ut your will,
With her head upon your breast.
CovingtOn Ticket.
5 ize the maiden in your arms
BluShing with her eTnptinR charms;
And 1t would, we think, be snugger,
Paris Citizen
Ills halfway work y0u do, at best
just fold her to your throbbing breast,
And kiss her lips, her cheeks her chin,
Hartford Herald.
Why all this rhyme? Ifyou would sip
The Grazing nectar of her lip,
What matters when, or how. or wnere,
So you can drink forever there?
Take her on your knee at twilight,
In the garden, where the old folks won't miss
her,
Wrap both arms around her tight,
And then kiss her, ki's her, kiss her:
s. A Herald
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21


Calamities never come singly. With
in less than single week the record of
disaster on sea and land has been appall-
ing. The steamer Champion sinks with
thirty human beings. The Arizona
struck an iceburg in mid-ocean, but
reached port of safety. A whaler is
.tSst with fifteen of her crew, and a Bal
tinore coasting steamer goes down in a
collision. Railroad accidents have been
unusually frequent. A train is run into
the river from the Hudson road, five
trains are reported wrecked ON the Penn
sylvania ROAD, and besides the fall of n
span OF the st. Charles bridge, numerous
minor accidents are reported. Added to
this appalling list is the Kansas City dis
aster and the destructive cyclone in west
ern Missouri and Arkansas. Is it the
beginning of the great carnival of death
: predicte1by the California astrologer
Prof. Grimer, as accompanying the peri
helia of the four great planets, Jupiter
Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. coinciden'
in 1892
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

The forthcoming report of the super
intendent of the railway mail service will
show that during the last fiscal year fif-
ty-niDe lines of railway post offices have
been operated over II, $40 miles of rail
way, performing about $4,000 miles of
daily service, and nearly 1900, 900 miles
of service annually. The aggregate num-
Der of miles of railroad mail service of
all kinds, including the transportation
not only of postal cars but of closed
pouches, was over 100000 miles dur
ing the year.
The number of letters handled and
distributed by the employees of the rail
way mail service in postal cars during
the twelve months was about 100000.
There were also nearly $50, OOO, 900 news
papers, showing total increase of about
400, 100000 pieces OF nearly 20 per cent.
in the amount of work rs compared with
the preceding year. The total number
of errors in distribution (many of which
were, however, merely technical and in
volved no delay, was 10000, or one err
TOR in each $500 pieces. The railway
mail service employs 1901, postal cars,
1 1913 route agents, PAT mail messengers,
and 1874 local agents.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21


The National Republican committee
will meet soon, and among other things
will discuss the question as to where the
next convention shall be held. The
Inter-Ocean thinks Chicago the most
pleasant place and best prepared with
hotels To entertain the convention. and
if AN interior city is To he selected we
should certainly second the Inter Oceans
suggestion. indianapolis has been men.
toned because it is believed that if the
convention is held there Indiana would
go Republican next fall. There may be
good deal of force in this argument
These national conventions undoubtedly
exercise great deal of influence in the
State where they are held, but we feaI
this argument will he more than coun
terbalanced by the lack of Accommodations
in Indianapolis. Without much infor
nation on the subject we are inclined tC
believe New York city the best place fol
the next convention. 1t might be the
means of shedding few rays of Repub
lican light through the Democratic dark
ness that pcrvades that city.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21


The dispatches have announced the
death of Mrs. Eaton, whose matrimonial
adventures made her the theme for more
gossip in fashionable circles at Washing,
ton than any other woman of her time
She first married a naval paymaster.
Subsequently, as the wife of General
Eaton, Secretary of War under president
Jackson, she was conspicuous figure in
society at the capital. Long AFTER she had
passed middle age she became cnamored
of IN Italian dancing-mastcr and married
him. The affair, which seemed ludicrous
enough, had its tragic side, as soon after.
ward, having plundered her of what
money and effects he could possess him
self of, he elopcd with her granddaughter,
with whom he went to Eupropc.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

The st. Petersburg editors have re-
ceived an official admonitien, the observ.
ance of which, it may confidently be as
sumed, will he rigidly enforced. 1t was
TO the effect that they must cease discuss
ing the relations of Russia with Ger.
many, Austria, or France. These com
prise the topics of absorbing interest 10
Russian newspaper readers at this june
turc, and the admonition, therefore, is
well-nigh equivalent to an order to sus
pend publication. In order, however, to
furnish such news and views rs the gov
ernment chooses to promulgate, new
official journal is tO he established.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21

II now turns out that Jay Cooks state,
Iaent that his creditors would receive
dollar for dollar from his assets was a
correct prophecy. His liabilities at the
time of the failure were $1,000 900, and
his assets estimated at $4,000 900. Those
who took the stocks then owned by Jay
Cook 81 c., and held on to them accord
ing to the advice of Mr. Cook, can now
realize in full their claim of principal
and interest Tho Northern Pacific pre-
feTTed stock in the hands of the trustees
was invoiced ut 161s and is now worth
in the ncighborhood ofsixty cents. Not
only will the creditors rejoice at such re,
suit. but the people of the nation will he
glad if sum shall be left over sufficient
for all the wants Of Mr.. Cook.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
JOHN W. WHITFIELD.

The death of John w. Whitfield, who
was IL prominent figure in the early his
tory of Kansas. is announced. He died
in Texas, to which state he removed at
the close iof the civil war Whitfield
was elected as the pro-slavery delegate TO
congress- from this territory in October
1854, receiving 2,255 votes to 574 cast for
Wakefield and Flennekan, Free State
men. These votes were nearly all fraud
ulent. The election, too, appears to have
been informal, and congress did not adj
NIT Whitfield. In October, 1855, anoth.
er election was held. Whitfield was the
pro-Slavery and Andrew ii. Reeder the
Free State candidate. The latter un.
doubtedly received majority of the le,
gal votes, but the Mlssourians came over
in great numbers, and voted for Whit.
field, who was given the certificate oil
election by the prO-Slavery territorial au.
thorities. He took his seat, but Gov
Reeder contested his right to it, and the
House which was then Republican-or
dered an investigation. In August, 1856
the house voted that Whitfield was
not entitled to the seat. A new election
was ordered, and held October 9, 1859
Whitfield was again elected The Free
State men refused To vote. Whitheld's
vote was 4,276. OF these, Leavenwortl
county polled 1 49, and Atchison SEQ
about three times as many votes rs eithel
at that time had. Whitfield again tool
his seat, but was in February, 1857, agaiI
Ousted by vote of the house That fal
the Free State men carried the territory
by large majority, electing NJ. J. Par
rOtt.
Whitfield was in 1886 a violent
and aggressive pro-slaveLy man. ii,
commanded the invading force from
Missouri, which in June, 1856, sacked
Ossawatomie, and killed one of Johr
Browns sons. The Free State force which
engaged him in the fight near Ossawato
mic was commanded by old John Brown
Whitfield was late in 1857 appointed t.
position in the KickapoO land office
At the outbreak of the war he Joined thu
rebels, and was not again heard of unit
early in 1866, when he wrote from Texa
to IA friend in this state that he wa
whipped, and the most loyal man In
ever saw" He has lived in Texas eve
since.-Atchison Champion.