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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
A WORD OF WARNING.
Two Obnoxious Laws Exposed.

VIZ ODhOAAOuS A~0"S A1APOSCus
The County Board and City Council Con-
demned.
think something should be done to
check the growing tendency In our leg
islative bodies to make laws, obnoxious
or otherwise, taking the power to control
those laws almost if not entirely out of
the hands of the people and placing it in
the hands of a few persons. Especially
is this hard to be borne when the law is
an obnoxious one, and when those who
are to execute the law have little or no
regard for the wishes of the people them
selves.
But lest / be tedious will call attention
firstly to law made two years ago, TAX
ing the power entirely out OF the hands of
the people, where it had been for years,
to sell the peoples railroad stock and
placing it in the hands of three men
the county commissioners. And, sec
ondly, to an act passed by our last legis-
lature empowering the county board of
Lyon county and the city council of En-
poria to actually issue county and city
bonds without consulting, in any way,
so far as know, the people whether
they 0he people, were in favor of the
thing or not 1t was this sort of legisla-
tion-legislation without representation
that led to revolution one hundred
years ago. And am greatly mistaken
if the people of this county and city are
not entirely opposed to this kind of leg
islation, and after they have had little
time for reflection win put it down, when
the proper time arrives, with an emphasis
that will admit of but one conclusion.
Now, if any one has any doubts in re-
gard to the obnoxious character of this
class of legislation can relieve him,
think, of his doubts BY brief statement
of a fsw facts showing the practical ap-
plication of these laws In our own coun-
ty and city, and in order to make out a
clear case touching the act first referred
TO, will go back few years.
When this county gave its bonds TO the
railroads running through it, it received
as a sort of offset, q certain number of
shares of railroad stock, with a proviso
in the law on the subject that if the PEG
pie of the county should eyer want TO sell
this stock theY could do SO, by first get
ting certain number of the voters of
the county 10 sign petition asking the
county boar; 20 e..,i N election, at which
election the T.s;cFs were to say whether
the stock should be sold or not. Under
this law only one election, think, was
held, and a majority voted mot to SELL
After this some one Tor more) got the |
law so altered that one person could petit |
ton the board to call an election, and |
under this new arrangement two or more
elections were held, majority always
voting mot ready TO SELL"
Some one still not satisfied with the
workings of the law and the decisions of
the people, the law was again altered |
and this time to the taking OF the dis.
posal of the railroad stock entirely out
of the hands of the voters of the county
and the real owners, and placing it in the
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
The ST. Louis Republican Democratic

The st. Louis Republican Democratic
organ) has no doubt in regard TO one ques-
ton. In conceding the point that the
South is becoming too numerous in office,
the Republican says: "You may pile rea-
sons mountain high to show the thing is
all right, but when all is said that can be
said, the whole fabric of truth will tum-
BILE under the weight of the one practical
fact that the North is not ready for that
sort of thing. 1t does not matter what
should be-the matter of real, vital i'm
pOrtance is, what is" Just so. But what
is the Republican going to do about it?
Are all the Democrats under the South
ern thumbS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
hands of three men-the county commits

hands of three men-the county commits
sioners.
And now comes the most unpleasant
part of my statement These three men
utterly disregarding the frequently and
publicly expressed opinion of the people,
and without the peoples knowledge or
consent, went and secretly sold the said
stock
They had the power and they exercis-
ed it in their own way. Thus did three
men exercise power which l think
would have been more satisfactory to the
people had the power to sell this stock
been left to the people themselves.
Nor is this all. This same stock is
now worth. in the taking up our bonds,
over $4,000 more than it was when sold
a few months ago, thus placing these
three men in very unenviiable posi-
ton.
In fact, the whole transaction shows
IN utter disregard for the wishes of the
people as publicly expressed, and al
though carried on with a show of shrewd-
| ness, it IS Il miserable illustration of
financial ability
And now let MS see how the law pass
ed by the last legislature authorizing a
few men i'll the county to issue county
and city bonds to rebuild the Normal
school house has worked so far.
1t would have been respectful, to say
the least, in case of this importance
| if the county board and city council had
obtained, or tried to obtain, an express
sion of opinion from those who will
have the bonds to pay.
Not so, however, for the county board
60 secretly, as it were in the night, issue
county bonds to the amount of $4,000
and in haste post off a man the same
night, who got on the cars outside the
city limits in the night, and hastened
away toward Topeka in The night, in or
der to actually sell them, before those
who would have them to pay knew OF
their existence.
And the city council did no better
City bonds to the amount of s., 800 wee
put through in the same clandestine
manner-put into the hands of an agent,
said agent stealing away in the night,
as would a thief, and so FASTENED away
TO sell them, while the good people ot
the city were asleep.
| Thus we see the workings of two most
obnoxious laws. Laws which are a dis
grace to our statutes in their present
form, and which should he eXpungetl
from them at the earliest practical period,
and they will be unless the people would
go about as did Samson shorn of their
strength and without eyes.
Now, if education is good thing, if
it is of the people, and for the people, if
it is the bulwark of the nation, what does
all this sculduggery mean, anyhow? Is
not this line of conduct calculated to
bring a really good thing into contempt
Are not its pretended friends its worst
enemies? Are dignity and honor things
of the past? THOs ARMoR.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

1t has been said, tauntingly, that but
two union generals are IN the senate of
the United States, while there are twelve
or fifteen from the confederacy. Those
who boast of this might do well to re-
member that there are number of I'M
ion officers yet scattered over the country
ON farms, in workshops, and attend
ing to professional duties-who are not
careless observers ofevents, and who can
he called on if needed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The temperance men in the Massachu-
sets House of Representatives have won
a substantial victory. The liquor law
committee had reported adversely on the
petition for law making owners of real
estate rented tn liquor dealers responsible
for damages resulting from the use OF
liquor sold upon their property when a
member moved to substitute the bill en-.
titled an "act 10 provide for the recovery
Of damages for injuries caused by the use
of Intoxicating liquors" After a long
debate the House substituted the bill by
a vote of 100 years to 81 nays
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The New Haven Union has been for
years endeavOring to lead the Green
hackers into the Democratic camp. 1t
has given up in despair and supposes a
case like this: Suppose that Maine
and California are carried by the Ma
tionals, and Ohio and New York by the
Republicans. Will anybody then stop
to consider what the Democrats are do
ing? The latter party will fizzle out as
rapidly as did the Wing party after the
contest of 1852" But suppose the four
states are carried by the Republicans,
what Them
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
An Honest Medicine Free of
Charge.

Of all medicines advertised to cure any
affection of the Throat, Chest or Lungs,
we know OF none we can recommend so
highly as DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma,
bronchitis, Hay Fever, Hoarseness, Tick
ling in the Throat, loss of voice, etc.
This medicine does pOsiticely cure, and
that where everything else has failed.
No medicine can show one-half so many
positive aud permanent cures as have al
ready been effected by this truly wonder
full remedy. For Asthma and Bronchitis
it is perfect specific, curing the very
worst cases in the shortest time possible.
We say by all means give It trial, Trial
bottles Jree. Regular size, @10O. For
sale by 3. WheidoR & Co, Emporia,
Kansas. d105t6-w
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Mr.. LOngfellow once sat in Boston
street car chatting to an acquaintance,
when burlY rustic sitting beside him,
moved by something in the poets talk,
suddenly asked: sBe you in the wool
business, misterg' mo, sir; not at pres
emit" said Mr.. Longfeilow gently, and the
farmer muFmured, I'm in the hop bust
ness, myself" Then the courteous poet,
instead Of letting the talk drop, turned to
the man and said: q have often been
struck WIN ..le Deauty Oh mat plant; its
way of growing, its blossoms, and then
the hops themselves" The hop-man was
delighted he brought his horny hand
down heavily on Nj. LongfeIlowss knee,
and shouted splendid ~ in q tremen-
do4s voice,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

General Frank Morey, former men,
her of congress from Louisiana, says that
the exodus of the colored men from that
murderous Egypt is creating intense
alarm among the planters and the store
keepers of the towns who foresee ruin
and beggary as the result. The hegira
of the colored people will make the land
woathless, because the poor white trash
will not labor on the platatiOns.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts,, thus
presents the issue between the two par
ties: 1.-THE Democrats announce that
they will break up the government if
they are not permitted to break into the
ballot-boxes. We shall unflinchingly de-
fend the election laws, and let the Demo
Gratis carry out their threat of refusing
appropriations if they dare. On this
question think there is but one opin-
ion and one will among Republicans"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Washington city is said to be full of
soldiers who have come to get their ar
rears of pensions. Most of them are with
out means of support and have to subsist
on charity. The course for all who are
entitled to arrears of pension to pursue
is to have their papers made out and for
warded to the pension bureau at Wash
ington, and afterward collect from the
pension agent as they have been used to
since their pensions were allowed. There
is no use going to Washington.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

AN EVEN THING.-We repeat the hope
that il (the last One) is the last Republi-
can legislature that will ever meet in
Kansas.-Sam Wood.
The Republicans unanimously return
the compliment by hoping that the last
Sam Wood Legislature has met in this
state. SO the hope business is about an
even thing
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
HALF WAY.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean is authority
for the statement that there is considera-
BILE nervousness in Republican circles at
Washington, caused by statement made
in the Democratic caucus Saturday, that
the Democrats had received assurances
from the president that he would meet
them half way in compromising any diff
ficulties in the way of passing the laws
required by the extra session.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
Grain and Produce.

Flour-$4 .25@$4 CO.
Grain-Wheat, No. 2red winter. 102c: No
2 spring, 9l38c; No. 8 spring, So16c. Corn,
34c1s Oats, 2I5Ec. Rye. 47c. Barley. zoe.
Provisions-Pork, 50 50. Shoulders. So IS;
short ribs, 500; short clear IS So Lard, 1886
ST. LOUIS, March %.
FlOur-$4 SOFAS. 90
GraIn-W heat. No. red. 1929; No. 3 red,
va Corn. 32&- Oats, 26A. Rye, As. Bar
Provisions-Pork, $40 10. Dry salt meats,
shoulders, So so; clear ribs, 81 30; short clear
IS 90. Lard, $685..
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Cashier Clark of the National bank of
Lowell, Mich, was another rogue who
hid his wickedness under religious &C
tivity. His word was regarded as sacred
by the directors, and once, when an ex-
animation of his books was suggested,
tears welled up in his eyes, and he seem
ed so hurt that the idea was never
preached again. In the same meeting
of the directors, he inFeigled them into
counting three notes twice as assets, thus
hiding theft OF 5000. He was ex-
posed after he had used up all the banks
surplus of $40, 600.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
ENIPORIA MARKET.
by John Fluker, Dealer in
Flour and Feed.
EMPoRIA March 81

WHOLESALE.
GRAIS-No. wheat. 70 to SOC for choice ;
No 3-55 to 65c; No. 4-35 to 55c. Corn, ship
pers pay Csc Oats, 20 to 23c. Rye, 25 to
30c: Barley, 20 to SOC. Flax seed, 81. Corn
and oats mixed, 50 per ton.
LIVE STOCK Beef on foot, 90 to 4I<c per
pound for best. Hogs, ~ to 31zc. sheep, 81
TO 81 Calves. IS to $Sper head, Fresh milch
COWS, $25 to $35 per head. Horses, $50 to 800
Ponies, SIS to $50.
RETAIL.
FLOUR AND FRED.-per 100 fbs-FlOur. 81 80
to "a % for best; corn meal, 81 per 100;
shorts, 65c; corn and oats mixed, G0c per 100
bran, SOC per 100
Potatoes. 60 to zoe per busheI; sweet pota-
toes, =; apples, slips TO 81 90; onions, 81 90
carrots, soc; parsnips, soc; cabbage 10 Zoe
eggs: loo per doz. /; turnips, so cents; chick
ems. 81 10 to - 90 per DOZEN turkeys, SC to 1Oc
per pound: chickens, &c to &c per pound /; lard,
4 to SC; cranberries, 10 cents per quart; cur
rants, 10 cents per pound; prunes, 1s1kc.
tresh meats Best steak, 121S TO 15c per pound
roast, &c; boiling meat, 4 to &c: veal 10 to I2c
mutton. 8 to lOc; pork steak. to s.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The Hon. j. d. Cox, of Ohio, believes
that the Republicans of that state will
elect their candidate for governor this fall
by the biggest majority they have had for
years, but he is confident that neither
Garfield nor Sherman will be the candi-
date. What does he say about Cox:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Philadelphia papers have been making
a census of the church-goers in the Qua
ker city. They find that there are $50
places of worship, and that So of these
have an aggregate attendance on Sunday
mornings of 81, 965-an average of 800 or
900 to a church. That is a fair average.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Reports from the Ohio iron regions tell
ofa marked revival of business, of mills
resuming operations and firms being
overrun with orders at improved prices.
The anti-resumption people should put
an end to this condition of things. II
destroys their stock in trade.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The ex-COnfederate officers in the
United States senate are Morgan, Lamar,
johnson, Garland, Cockrell, Butler,
Walker, Vest, Hampton, Call, Ransom,
Harris, Gordon, Jonas. The ex-Federal
officers are Logan, Plumb, Burnside and
Knllnnn
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

American meat, dressed and on the
hoof, is to be extensively imported into
Holland, company for that purpose
having been organized. Its operations
will be conducted at the port of Flush
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The number ofthe drowned at Szegedin
is now estimated at !, ZOO, while $500 out
of 10000 houses have been destroyed, and
1000 persons rendered homeless by the
flood
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

About 400 more of the plantation ne
groes. recently from the south, left St.
Louis Saturday night for Kansas, and
about 200 arrived there Monday by the
steamer Helena from Mississippi
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Bro. Cavaness of the ChetOpa Advance
Is still after brother Mitchell with "a
sharp stick" punching him up lively.
We opine that bother Mitchell had bet
ter let ND.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Live Stock Markets.

KANSAS CITY, March %.
Cattle-Eative shippers 81 00@4.75; native
stockers and feeders, 50 6094.00; native cows,
$2.40C93.75; oxen, So 25d3. 20.
Hogs-Receipts 2. 239; shipments, 5I5: ac-
tive; extreme range of sales, 50 SO[15 6O;
bulk. 50. 1904 IS.
Sheep-Demand steady; poor to choice, So 50
ellis.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The Indiana Democracy must booma
little for Hendricks, or he will be for
gotten. In the absence of an organ,
Thurman is booming for himself
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

1t seems somebody got "smurked' in
the last Legislature.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The President. and Mr.. Evarts are to
he invited TO the next fair in st. LOUIS.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Mr.. Blackburn is forty-one years old
and Mr.. Randall is nearly fifty-one.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Tilden is said to have added to his
wealth during the last year, one and six
ciphers. That will line several fresh
harra1S
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
Finlay, sedgewick county, TO He
PosrGAsTRRs APPOINTED.

Canola, Elk county, Duncan n. Reid !;
Diana, Sedgewick county, James White
Jaw; Guelph, Sumner county, Richard
Morley; JaFbal9, Le4yenworth county,
Samuel II. Hastings; Scipio, Anderson
county, Harmon Walkin; Ziba, Els
worth county, Thomas Beadle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
New York Money Market.
Nuur NnRE kTaroh 81

GOld-Par.
Government bOnds-Quiet.
Railroad bonds Inactive.
State securitieS-DuI.
Money! and per cent
Discounts-Prime mercantile paper, and
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
EsTARLIsHED.

Bacon, Lincoln county. Lyman Bacon
P, NJ; Delray, Usage county, Daniel
Jockey, 2. NJ; Elm Valley, Rush coun
ty, John B. Ryan, P. NJ; Little Oak
Jewell county, Norman C. White, P. NJ
Moodyville, Pottawatomie county, Ed
win n. Moody, P. M; Smithfield, Ora
ham county, James W. Smith, P. NJ,
Wilmot, Cowley county, Mrs. Amelia 1
Phoenix, p. n.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

The New York Herald says: LET
the eagle flap his wings-the doors of the
British war office fasten with American
lOckSo
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

Post ONCE changes in Kansas during
the week ending March 22, 1879, furnish
ed by VIM. Van Week, of the post Office
department:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28

*The Graphic is mistaken about Kansas. II
was admitted into the union on the 29Gh OF
January, 1861.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-19
a Good Liquid Ma u nurc.

4 Baltimore florist sends the
Boston Journal Of Chemistry the
following formula for liquid ma
nure for flowers. The materials
may be had at any blacksmith shop :
Put one bushel of the clippings
from horses hoofs into barrel, and
ill IL up with water. Let it stand
for a week, when it is ready for use.
Apply it with a watering pot. All
bedding plants can be watercd with
this liql lid every day il they are not
pot-bouud. Repetted plants should
be watered once a week until they
have plenty Of working roots TO
take up the manure. 1t will also
be found excellent for hard-woo
ed if used once or twice week.
Two or three weeks after the
plants have been watered with the
manure the foliage generally chang
es from a green TO a golden yellow,
moving from the stem down TO the
leaf, which, however, lasts only for
a few weeks when ii changes TO
dark glossy green. Plants under
this watering grow very strong;
the flowers are very large and
bright in color. Plants thus treat.
cd can be kept in very small pots
for long time without being tAdss-
planted. This is especially advan-
tageous TO the market gardner, who
can sell his plants in three or four
inch pots, while he would have to
shift them into five and six if he
used rich soil alone. Flowers wa
tered with this liquid manure will
bring twenty-five per cent. more
than otherwise besides being in
small pots, they are lighter, can be
packed closer and are easier to be
handled.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-19
Some Little Things Learned
by Experience.

If your coal fire is low, throw on
a tablespoonful of salt, and it will
help it very much.
A little ginger put into sausage
meat improves the flavor.
In icing cakes, dip the kGife fire.
quently into cold water.
In boiling meat for soup, use cold
water 10 extract the juices. II the
meat is wanted for itself alone,
plunge in boiling water at once.
You can get bottle or barrel of
oil off any carpet or woolen stuff by
applying buckwheat plentifully and
faithfully. Never put water TO such
a grease spot, or liquid of any kind.
Broil steak without sailing. Salt
draws the juices in cooking; it is
desirable 10 keep these in if possi-
bic. Cook over hot fire, turning
frequently, soaring on both sides.
Place on platter; salt and pepper
TO taste.
Beef having q tendency to be
tough can be made very palatable
by stewing gently for two hours,
with pepper and salt, taking ont
about a pint of the liquor when half
done, and letting the rest boil into
the meat. Brown the meat in the
pot. After taking up, make gra-
w of the pint of liquor saved.
a small piece of charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes
the smell.
Clean oil cloth with milk and wa
ter; a brush or soap will ruin them.
Tumblers that have had milk in
them should never be put in hot
water.
A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in
the gravy Of either roasted or fried
meat is an improvement.
The skin ola boiled egg is the
most eflicaciOus remedy that can be
applied TO boil.
Peel it carefully, wet and apply il
TO the part affected. 1t will draw
Off the matter and relieve the sore
ness i'm few hours.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-19
Thanksgiving Prociaination
The following proclamation was

The following proclamation was
issued by the President to-day:
"At no recurrence of the season
which the devout habit of religious
people has made the occasion for
giving thanks to Almighty God and
humbly invoking His divine favor,
has the material prosperity enjoyed
by our whole country been more
manifold, or more universal. Dur
ing the past year, also, unbroken
peace with all foreign nations, the
general prevalence of domestic tram
guilty, and the supremacy and secu-
rity of the great institutions of civil
and religious freedom have gladden..
ed the hearts of our people and con-
firmed their attachment to their
Government, which the wisdom and
courage of our ancestors so fitly
framed, and the wisdom and courage
of their descendants have so firmly
maintained, to be the habitation of
Liberty and Justice to successive
generations.
"Now, therefore, i, Rutherford b.
Hayes, President of the United
States, do appoint Thursday, the
9th day of November, instant, as a
day of National Thanksgiving and
Prayer, and | earnestly recommend
that, Withdrawing themselves from
secular cares and labors, and that
the people of the United States do
meet together on that day in their
respective places of worship, there
to give thanks and praise to AL
mighty God for His mercies, and to
devoutly beseech their continuance.
''In witness whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
Of the United States TO be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington,
this Sd day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sevcnty-nine, and of
the Independence of the United
States, the one hundred and fourth"
RUTHERFORD Il. HAYES.
By the President:
WM. EvARTs, Sec'y of State.