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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
EDUCATIONAL.

DR.. James DE KOven left to Racine
College $4,000 and his valuable library.
1t is reported that the teaching of sew
full full IL VIC ''0H '''
By the provisions of California's new
constitution, high schools are abolished
in that state.
There are seventy-four female mem
bers of school committees in Massachu-
sets; they are said to be efficient in their
work.
The Des Moines Qowa) school board
has forbidden the children to skip the
rope on the schoolhouse grounds, which
is as far as their authority extends.
The Syrian protestant college in Beirut
has decided to make the English Ian
guage the medium of instruction after
September, 1879. Students are already
coming to its halls from Cyprus.
Joseph Cook regards the high school,
next to the church, as the chief barrier
against communistic and socialistic in
rant and unprincipaled population.
President Angel says that one of the
mathematicians of Michigan University.
known all over the world, never went to
school but six weeks, and while the OK
en- were resting at noon, did his first
mathematical work upon a plowshare
with piece of chalk.
At Concord, n. H, last week many
ladies voted for members of the board OF
education. They approached the ballot
box in groups of two or three or more,
and perfect respect was shown to-all by
the interested crowd surrounding them.
The ladies who voted included those OF
the highest social position in the city.
Fisk university has just received the
large sum of $4,000 in aid of the great
work the institution is doing for the edu-
cation of the colored people in the south
This munificent gift is made through
Rev. w. H Wilcox, of Massachusetts
who is privileged to distribute nearly
81 ,OOO, 600 the magnificent contribu,
ton of his aunt, Mrs. Daniel p Stone,
of Maiden, Mass.-to the cause Of chris
tan education in this country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

We have been informed that new pos
tai cars have been ordered for the Santa
Fee road, which will give the agents a
whole car 40 feet long for their work.
Postal car service has been ordered to
commence on this road July LIST. This
will give the agents far better facilities,
and will enable them TO do their work
much more thoroughly than they can
now do it, and will increase the pay OF
the boys, which they deserve. The prob.
ability is that these cars will run through
from Kansas City TO Pueblo, although
there is fight against changing from
Atchison. After July 1st the wearing OF
uniforms will be optional with postal
Ger clerks and route agents, only n cap
or badge being required.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The White Leaguers are still at work
in louisiana, but Democratic officials are
slow to report their operations. AT the
recent election in St Helena Parish the
Democrats went around to the polls and
when they found that the Nationals or
Greenbackers were about to outvote
them they took possession and proclaim.
ed that only Democratic votes would be
received. When threatened with the
law the bulldozers called attention to the
release of the Tensas prisoners, and de
clared that law could not reach them,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Ex-Governor Robinson, Governor st
John, Chief Justice Horton, Auditor
BOnebrake, Treasurer Francis, and 9th
ers, in behalf of the board of directors
of the State Historical Society, are tax
ing measures to increase the member
ship of the society, and have issued a
circular for that object. This is socie
~ which, for the good work it is doing
in gathering up the materials of Kansas
history, it has become an honor to be-
long to. The members of the society
are chosen by the board of directors.
Annual members pay fee of $500, pay
able by the first of December of each
year. Life members pay $4,000. We
have been requested to nominate and
send in a list of persons for election as
annual members, which we shall shortly
do We shall be glad to receive the
names of persons who may desire TO be
come members of the society.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The San Francisco Chronicle believes
that the Democrats in Congress have done
much to harmonic the Republican party
in the Pacific states, and says: Judging
the other once doubtful states by the feel
ing now existing in California, we should
say that, no matter who the Democrats
may nominate, if the Republicans name
a good man, like Blaine or Grant, he win
carry every Northern certainly he
will not lose state on the Pacific coast
This comes from paper that has been
on the fence for two or three years, and
that did much to defeat the Republicans
in recent elections, and the utterance Is
the more significant.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

1t is now reported that General Ewing,
with other soft money Democrats in com
bination with the Greenbackers in con-
gress, has given the Democratic leaders
notice that they must allow a record to
be made on certain financial propositions
this session. If this concession is not
made it is said that Ewing and his fol
lowers will abandon the Democratic
party IN its contest with the president
on the election laws. If this threat is
fulfilled, the Democrats may be com.
PEELED to yield, as they have no votes to
snare
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Some statistician has prepared table
of wages and the cost of living in Eng
land, with the price of staple articles of
commerce, going back as far as the year
1900, During the thirteenth century
wages were about 55 cents per week, in
the fourteenth rs cents, and so on slowly
until, in the last century, they were $1-s7.
Wheat in the thirteenth century averaged
II cents, or S1S days labor, a bushel, and
now it is worth $1.46 bushel, or 21k
days labor. In six centuries meat has
nearly trebled in price, but during the
same period wages have increased seven
fold,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The newspapers of the country are
commenting quite freely on the fact that
a religious paper of New York offers a
revolver as a premium for subscribers.
This would not be at all inappropriate
if Its subscribers were to be found in
western Texas, where an exchange says
that at "the ceremony of baptism by
immersion the other day, the fourteen
candidates walked down to the water,
and fourteen revolvers were deposited
on the bank of the stream, that of the
preacher making the fifteenth"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Advices from southern Illinois are to
the effect that, Notwithstanding the sew
eral severe cold snaps of the past winter,
the prospects are that the peach crop will
he a fair one, although IL may not be as
good as last year. The strawberry crop
will, it is believed. be enormous, and the
outlook for other small fruits is very en-
courapinp
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The New York Commercial Advertiser
calls attention 70 London special, which
says that British Free Traders are getting
very uneasy in the presence of the grow
ing protectionist movement all over the
world, and that an active party begins to
show favor to retaliatory tariff. The
truth is, England has always been pro-
tective, properly speaking, in her tariff
policy, adopting free trade only as it was
for the interest of her manufacturers.
Whatever tariff that interest demands
Will be levied.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

A prominent Democrat at Washington
warns his Republican friends that they
must not be surprised If the Democrats
deem it necessary and fitting to re-exam-
inc and revise much of the war legisla-
tion which was thrust upon one section
of the country against Its will. The Re
publicans understand the Democrats.
The milk-and-water neutrals are the fell
lows who will be surprised.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
CHURCH NOTES.

March II was this year, as for some
years past, quite generally observed in
the evangelical churches of England, as
a day of prayer for Ireland.
A convention OF clergymen is to be
held in Springfield, Mass, on the 9th
and 9TH of May next, for the consIdera-
ton of the due observance of the Sab
bath.
The twenty-first annual convention of
the Illinois state Sunday school associa-
ton will be held Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, May IA, 10 and 16, in the
city of Bloomington.
The reports from India are most en-
couraging. In 1880 there were but nine
missionary societies at work in this vast
country, and probably 1000 converts.
Now there are not lesst han 100000.
The Sunday school assembly which
is obe held in the Yosemite valley the
successful: leading men of all denomi-
nations are interesting themselves in it.
Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church,
Brooklyn, of which the Rev. DIR. Cuyler
is pastor, has now a membership of
1851. This is probably the largest men,
bership of any church in the denomina-
ton.
A member of the Kentucky confer
ence, Rev. Thomas Rankin, is in his S4th
year. He Joined the conference in 1884,
and for forty-five years has never failed
to be present at the annual conference
roll-call on the first day of the session.
The National camp meeting associa-
ton will hold their twenty-f1fth national
camp meeting at Bismarck grove, begin
ming June "a and closing July a. This
camp ground is ON the Kansas Pacific
railway, near Lawrence, Kansas. By
addressing Thomas j. Crowder, North
Lawrence, Kas., full particulars may be
obtained.
1t took three centuries to convert the
first five million christians, and another
century to secure the adhesion of as ma
ny more. In the last % years in the U.
States alone the christian bodies have
gained an equal number of adherents,
and the Protestants alone now number
probably nearly II 100000.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The Atchison Champion is advised,
from perfectly reliable source, that the
Union Pacific railroad company, who
have lately become possessed of the st.
Joe & Denver, will at once build line
from point on the latter road to Atchi-
son. The object sought is connection
with the Missouri Pacific, and n shorter
and more direct route to st. Louis than
any before existing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The British ministers have informed
parliament that negotiations with the
Ameer of Afghanistan continue, but that
details cannot yet be communicated.
There was no attempt to give cheerful
coloring to the statement, and it is APP
parent that not much confidence is felt
in the successful issue of the negotia-
tions. The ministers deny any know
ledge that an advance on Calbul has
hean ordered
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The king of Siam who has invited Gen
eral Grant to visit him, is a progressive
ruler. He has recently endowed college
for the children of his court and of the
princeses, and appointed Presbyterian
missionary tomanage it. The institution
is to be strictly christian in its character
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Hon. George II. Peck, il is said, has
resigned his position as L. S. district at
forney for Kansas, and it is farther re-
ported that Col. }. II. Hallowell be APP
pointed his successor. Hallowell would
make a good officer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
Washineton vetoed two bills. Maids,

Washington vetoed two bills, Madison
vetoed five, Monroe vetoed one, Jackson
vetoed seven, Tyler vetoed five, Polk
three, Pierce four, Buchanan one, John
son vetoed twenty-one. In no single
case, however, did the majority in con
gress, whose measure the president re-
fused TO sign, attempt To compel him TO
do so by refusing to pass appropriation
bills till he did
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Kansas City is to have the telephone
system By it all who participate can
at any time have direct telegraphic COM
munication with each other, through a
central Office, with the rest shut out of
hearing
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Agitation over the income tax law
threatens to break out again in congress
under the fostering care of the Greenback
Democrats and soft money Republicans.
who claim that the secretary of the treas
nry would not oppose it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

With the mint turning out silver dol
lars at the rate of two millions a month,
and $40 interest bearing certificates, is
sued on and after the first of April, there
should be no more complaint by the in
f1nfionists
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Senator Chandler, of Michigan-com-
monty known ms Zach. Chamberlain
ing been named us a probable candidate
for the presidency, remarked with char
acteristic brevity, "TlIat bee never entered
my bonnet
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

The woman suffrage advocates pro-
pose to make their greatest effort next
month in st. Louis. A national conven-
ton will be held there on May 2, and o.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Anderson's show, which has been win
tering at Topeka, is about to take the
road for the summer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

A careful observer says that striped
stockings cover multitude of s(h)ins.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

Malaria is a synonym for foul air and
imperfect ventilation
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
Uncle Pete Elder is scooped again
this time for mayor of Ottawa

4 London dentist has discovered "a
filled tooth in mummy 1000 years old.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

A st. Louis paper thinks O'Leary
ought to be the champion walker, as he
got his practice by peddling bibles in
Chicago.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
TMPORIA
Foundry and Machine Shops.
JOSEPH G. JONES, Prop.

Manufacturer of Iron Fronts, Land Rollers,
RUINS, and every description of Iron and
Brass Castings. Machinery and Boiler re-
pairing specially. Correspondence solic-
tied. 47tf.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

SURGEONS & HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS.
DRS. NELLIS & SHERBURN. 129 Com
mercial street, west side, between 1t and 9th
avenues.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

the detective found himself weeping and
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19

The following joke ON the telephone
is going the rounds of our exchanges.
Please pass it along "The uses to
which the telephone wires are put are
innumerable. 1t is related that one of
the companies was extending a wire
over a geItleman's house, and while the
employees were busy in surmounting the
roof of an adjoining house it hung down
in the yard. A girl, fresh from the
Gem OF the Sea,'' was doing the FAM
lily washing, and knowing that the mas
ter Of the house had spoken of sending
home wire clothes-line, saw the wire,
and, supposing that it was the promised
line, hung the various articles on it,
and retired to allow them to dry. The
men soon reached the top of the house
and began to pull the wire up. 1t
seemed to them to be very heavy, in
deed, and great was their surprise to
see the fluttering garments appear to
view. The CONSERVATION of the poor
girl can be easier imagined than de-
scribed, when she found her washing
thirty feet in the air, unrolled to the
breeze. At last accounts, however,
they had been dried, and were returned
to terra firma."
Duffy and Keely, who have been put
ting up telephones in Cheyenne, had a
similar experience the other day.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19
CHARRED CHINESE.
THIRTY KILLED IN A TUNNEL.
TERRIBLE Explosion In Mountain
Tunnel, Resulting In Loss of
Life-Rescuing Party
Annihilated.

San Francisco, Nov. 1s.-An explo-
sion occurred in tunnel No. 3 on the
narrow gauge railroad from San Jose
to Santa Rosa, early this morning.
From the meager accounts thus far re-
ceived it appears that a blast was let
off about 2.700 feet from the mouth of
the tunnel, which caused an explosion
of gas generated by the filtering of coal
oil through the roof and sides of the
tunnel. Twenty-one Cinnamon and
two white men were at work in the tun-
mel at the time. Immediately about
twenty more Cinnamon rushed into the
tunnel with torches to aid their COM
rades. When they had penetrated about
fifteen hundred feet their torches caused
second explosion, more violent than
the first, shaking the mountain to its
center. The white men, Hinckle and
johnson, were brought out terribly
burned, and about ten Cinnamon, all
seriously injured. As near as can be
learned, some thirty Cinnamon are
killed. The second explosion wrecked
the engines and works. Physicians
were dispatched to the scene from San
Jose, and everything possible is being
done for the sufferers.
From additional reports concerning
the explosion, it appears that three ex-
plosions occurred. The first took place
at 11:50 p. M, the second at 1855 p.
m, and the third at 1920 a. m. They
were changing shifts at the time the
first explosion took place. Seventeen
Cinnamon have been taken out, all hor-
ribly burned. Twenty-four dead re-
main in the tunnel. A Chinaman
named All Wo was taken out burned
about the chest and injured internally.
He was found dead in his cabin an hour
afterwards, strangled with a silk scarf.
The Cinnamon say that he hanged him
self, but the indications are that he was
strangled by friends to put him out of
misery. There is terrible scene of
suffering in the camp, and ruin all
around the mouth Of the tunnel The
engine for pumping air is disabled, the
pipes broken, sheds wrecked, and brok-
en- timbers scattered all around. The
gas prevents any attempt to recover the
bodies at present. Work will be de-
layed two months. No blame is said to
attach to the contractors. 1t is be-
lieved that the white men taken from
the tunnel will live, but several of the
Cinnamon brought out are fatally in
jured.
The scene of the disaster is almost
on the top of the Santa Cruz noun
tains, in the regions where coal oil
abounds, and where boring for wells is
actively prosecuted. There is a vein of
oil running right through the tunnel,
and the soil can be ignited in places and
will burn freely. Explosions of gas and
fires resulting from the same have been
of frequent occurrence there, and have
already resulted in the loss of several
lives.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19

Oswego, N. Y, Nov. 18.-The tug
Seymour, of Ogdensburg. left Cape Vim
cent yesterday with four tugs, three
dredges and eight scows, in tow for
Buffalo. During the the night gale
on Lake Ontario was encountered, and
three tugs and all of the small dredges
and scows were lost. One tug was
picked up to-day, and the Seymour ar
rived at Sackett's harbor. OF the
crews, only six persons were saved.
Twenty-Five were lost.
The following composed the wrecked
fleet, so far as known: tugs A. o. Thay-
er, Philip Baker, Charles Ritter, John
Hickler; dredges: John Hickler No. l,
John Hickler No. and Gordon. They
were owned by John Hickler 6 Co., of
Buffalo, and had been employed OH the
.Lachine canal.
A dispatch just received from Sodus
point reports the tug Judson Morrison
arrived at that port with the following
named persons saved from the wrecks:
Capt. Thompson, Fred Stroker, Chas.
England and wife, Charles Carrigan, J.
B. Young, Henry Hickler, Jerome Nor
rison and wife, Pat Fennell and three
unknown.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Buenos Ayres: The Argentine gov
ernment has ordered two iron clads to
be purchased in Europe.
Andover, Mass: Two young sons of
Mrs. H. E. Beard were burned to death
by u fire which an incendiary started
in the room they occupied.
London: A dispatch from Athens
says the Austrian squadron has left
Piraeus for Salonica, but its ultimate
de,tination is believed to be Besika
Bay.
New York: The European ship piers
are so crowded with merchandise
awaiting shipment that there is a de-
mand for longshoremen at increased
wages.
London: The Post contradicts the
the report that Sir Garnet Wolseley has
detained the first regiment of dragons
at the cape in consequence Of the
troubles in Transvaal.
London: AS the steamer Canada,
Captain Healey, bound for New York,
was passing down the Thames, SHE
came in collision with the Woolwicf
steamboat pier, completely destroying
it. The steamer proceeded. not having
sustained any damage.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19

Augusta, Nov. 17.-At four o'clock
a committee of one from each county
waited upon the governor who was un-
able to see them as there would be no
session of the governor and council
this afternoon.
A sub committee of three was then
appointed who held lengthy consulta-
tion with the governor, resulting in
the assurance from the latter that the
returns would not be considered open
in the sense of allowing any amend
ments or corrections under the statute
until the committee of the council on
elections should report the result of
their canvass to the governor and
council and that there would be twenty
days from that time for any legal cor
rection.
1t is rumored that the town of Kit
terry is to be thrown out because, as
alleged, two notices of election instead
of three were posted, throwing it out
would change the result in York coun-
ty. A similar case is reported in the
city Of Auburn where it is alleged the
notices only six days instead of seven.
Similar changes on alleged technical
ground will change the figures in the
state senate and give the democrats
and greenbackers nineteen senators
and the republicans twelve.
The actual vote as cast gives the
republicans nineteen senators and all
others twelve.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19

A Leadville special Of the date Of
Nov. 16, to the Denver Republican, tells
the following tale of brave barber:
Last night barber, when returning
to his home was ordered to throw up
his hands by two footpads. He
answered by illing one and wounding
the other. He is accordingly regarded
as quite hero. A subscription of a
thousand dollars has been raised for
him to. day. He was then carried about
on the shoulders of brawny miners with
placard in front of him, "Extermina-
tor of footpads. This is the way a
healthy public sentiment is created.
The footpad who was fatally wounded
was able ta crawl little ways, and
finally got on the porch of John Arkin's
house, and there died, and was found
the next morning.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-11-19
OURAY UGLY.
HE DoNs THE INDIAN COSTUME
And Declares the Pow-wow Ended
Legal Lore and Exceptions
Taken by the willy
Chleftain.

Denver, Nov. 1S.-Dispatches recei-
we'd here from Los Pinos. dated Nov.
18th, indicate that the peace commits
sion is making rather slow progress,
but shor. session was held on Monday,
Ouray failing to come in until twelve
o'clock. When he did come, contrary
to his usual custom, he wore his Indian
clothing. He was very sullen and in
dicated decided i'll feeling towards
Gen. Adams, who, he said, was incom-
petent as commissioner, because, as
he alleged, of his knowledge of the Utes
and Of their affairs. Ouray maintained
that Jack had done nothing wrong, but
had failed to come to Los Pinos on ac-
count Of i'll feelings towards the men,
bers.of his tribe. Ouray proposed that
Adams be recalled, and stated his de-
sire to go with number of the Ute
chiefs to Washington to lay the matter
before Schurz.
The escort of military arrived at Los
Pinos yesterday, many of them with
frozen feet, having come through Sc
we're snow storm. The commission will
remain a few days longer at Los Pinos,
and then come to Denver, and here take
the testimony of the officers engaged in
the Milk river fight, and then proceed
to Washington.