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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The London school board has erected
and opened lis 16ist school,
Nine states Of the union give women
the privilege of voting on school ques-
tions.
DR.. Alexander Winchell has accepted
the chair of geology and paleontology in
Michigan university.
Abbott female Seminary, at Andover,
Mass, which celebrated lis semi-centen-
NAL last month, has graduated 5000 stu
dents 20 OF them are laboring in mis-
siOnary fields. ~
The examinations ofthe Boston schools
are now distributed through the year to
avoid pressure of work in June. Some
of them are held in January, some in
May, leaving small number in June.
Contracts for building Mr.. HollOway's
college for women in London have been
made, and the cost is estimated at $780,
600. The whole expenditure cOntem-
plated is considerably in excess of So
100000.
A memorial hall III honor of George
! Stephenson was recently opened by the
Duke of Devonshire, AT Chesterfield. Ii
is handsome struture, costing SCI, 900,
| ,
and educational purposes.
Mr.. w. f. Forster complains that the
! English schools above elementary
schools, especially for girls, are in sad
condition, and adds that America has in
many respects an advantage over Eng
land in point Of education, and particu-
larly with regard to girls schools.
1t has been determined by the school
board of Richmond, Va, that all lady
teachers in the public schools of that
city who shall marry during their terms
of service shall thereafter be Ineligible
TO the position Of teacher, and their plac
es shall be supplied by the superintend
cnt of schools. flE E.l2fff
Rev. Edward d. Neill, of st. Paul
Mimi, declined ID. ID. offered by Della
ware college because he is So years ole
and don't want to carry to the grave any
additions to the name that has grown ia
miliar to his neighbors.- A quarter of s
century ago Mr.. Neill, refused the same
tdegree because he was too young.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
AROUND AROUT US.
cuts down its weeds.

Augusta cuts down its weeds.
Douglass is to have IA brass band.
The Wichita Beacon is going To start
a daily.
Bloody murrain is killing cattle in
Montgomery county.
Salina, too, is looking for an extern
sion of the Missouri Pacific
Great Bend is to have shooting tour
nament on the LIST Of August.
Prof. HOss, formerly of Emporia, is
visiting his son in Butler county.
A tarantula carrying a dozen little
ones on its back has been captured al
Kinsley. E.}t. t..
Miss Kate Davis, of the Davis family,
died of consumption at the family home
in Butler county last week.
The state house contractors have pur.
chased $3.50 Car loads of Cottonwood
Falls stone for the east wing.
Lieutenant CrOzier, son of Judge Gro
zier, of Leavenworth, has been appoint
ed an instructor at West Point.
Eight or ten thousand sheep have been
brought to Butler county the past month
from western counties OF the state.
y Presbyterian church was dedicated
ut Lincoln Centre on Sunday, the 9Th
ult., by Rev. DIR. McCabe, of Topeka.
Several bushels of wild cherries were
sold at Kinsley recently at ten cents 4
quart. They were picked in HodgemaI
county.
John NJ. Price, Atchison's postmaster
receives monthly income of $1,000
from his lead mining interest on Short
Greek. Bully! ~
The total debt of Lawrence is $50,
6O4, 900, on total assessed valuation o
$1,S47 ,736.00-Or nearly A per cent O
the assessed value of the property.
The Arkansas Valley Democrat is til,
name of new paper just issued at Ar
kansas City by Mr.. NJ. c. McIntire. Mr.
McIntire, is u relative d; L. A. Osgood
of this city. ~ M
| \
zette has been started in Stafford county
by Mcssrs. Ii. S. Williams and G. w
Ashton. 1t is published for the presen
in Ellinwood, in Barton county. ---
An old Greenbacker in Butler county
who was thoroughly posted on nationa
finances, told neighbor that if he die
not know who Shylock was lie had bet
Ter go home and read his bible
1t is rumoIed that Alfred l.. Sewcll, O
Chicago, has purchased two-thirds in
terest in the Topeka Blade Mr. Sewel
was the founder and long the editor O
the well known boys paper the "Littl
Corporal"
The Pawnee Indians, who not lon,
ago settled in the Indian Territory
made a buffalo hunt recently on Medi
cine Lodge creek and captured $50 bui
falo, much to their delight The mos
of the shooting was done with bows an,
arrows.
James Rust and Mary Wheat, VIII
were married the past year in Bartol
county, have just been blessed witt
twins. This is the first instance OIL
record where wheat struck by rust hs
produced 9 double yield, says the Inlan,
Tribune.
The Times is pious as we'll as a n
hgious organ. Our communication
are yea, yea, nay, nay, or words to tina
effect. This is atrue story: Ears of corr
in many fields in this county, stick on
two inches longer than the husk. It's
! fact. No huslS to spare in this count
for the prodigal son; would prefer
feed him on straight corn. A eountr
that Cant furnish husk enough to cove
the com is not worth Tying in. Wher
Il the GROWERS society s-Walnut Va
ley Times.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

THE YOU'VE ScHooLMAM's THREAr.-
This is too good to keep. Although
happening sometime since, it will bear
repeating, even at this late day. A
schoolmistress in q neighboring town
ship, who had long been annoyed by the
pervers:ties of male pupil of nineteen,
on one of the closing days of last term
kept him in and undertook to whale him,
He, however, disarmed her and returned
mistress, unable to forgive this breach
of discipline, looking at him sternIY IL
the face and shaking her fOrtef1ger 4;
him in menafipg manner, said solemn,
ly; ..WilIiam, viii give you precise
ly fifteen minutes to stop hpgglhg me
and if you disobey mel shall punish
you very severely"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Charles Dickens is compelled to sell
the former home of his father, "Gad's
Hill" His man purpose in issuing
his Dictionary of London was to relieve
him of this necessity, but it does not ap-
pear to have been accomplished. His
father bought it for So $50, but improved
il so much that it will now bring five
times that sum. When he died a reserve
price of SO, 900 was put on the property,
at which price it was secured by his ED.
est son, Charles. England ought still to
find some means of preventing it from
falling into Obscurity. 1t is not hand
some place, but it is monument Of the
great novelist.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The Commonwealth is credited with
saying that F. E. Collins, who died a
the Fifth Avenue the other day, is the
original Col. Sellers of Mark Twain
Dir. Collins used to be in Washington /
great deal, and always as friend anc
frequently as guest of Senator Pome
roy. Those who knew Collins can read
lily understand that he was good sub
ject for Sellers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

White men are beginning to feel rest
less about the remnant of Indians re-
naming in Florida. Lieutenants Pratt
and Browne have been down to inspect
them. They say the Indians number
about 800. They were happy and con
tented, and doing well, and at peace with
all men. They show no inclination
however, to adopt the white mans hab
its, and say they will live and die like
their great chiefs before them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
VOL. %.

Mr.. Hastings, of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, has been interviewed
on the presidential probabilities. lie
does not believe that Sherman has any
chances for the nomination, and init
mates thai he Is not AN aspir;mt Shcr-
mans work in Maine, lac holds, is for the
good of the party, and has no personal
significance. Blaine, Ia. believes. is
stronger today than he Was IN 1876, and
before the Republicans convention
Grant and Blaine. ss Ff III
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

1t is generally conceded that Benja
min Franklin was the American imper
sOnificatiOn of common sense. "When
he was an editor, he was in the habit OF
writing to the folks who sent in poetry
saying in hOneyed language that, owing
to the crowded state of his columns, etc.
he would endeavor to circulate their pro
auctions in manuscript; and then tied
the poems to the tail Of his kite for
'bobs.'"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Alexander Stephens says he still be
lieves in the right of secession, but op
poses its policy. That looks as if he
thought state sovereignty was still some
thing of an issue.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The Cincinnati Gazette recently gave
the records of over 500 homicides COM
United in ten or twelve counties in Ken
lucky since the war, and in but a single
instance was the crime followed by CAPT
tai punishment-unless, perchance, the
criminal happened to be a negro.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Noticing the statement that Senator
Booth favors Blaine as u presidential can
didate for 1880. the Indianapolis Journ.
ri says: IF the head of the ticket is to
come from Maine, California might very
properly claim the other part. Blaine
and Booth would sound very we'll"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

General Tom Ewing wants the people
To understand that Providence, and not
the Republican party Is the author OF
the bountiful crops. But Tom would
have howled from every stump in Ohio
that the Republican party was to blame
had the crops failed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Emancipation day was generally OBJ
served yesterday in. some parts of the
state, Ms will be noticed in the telegraph
&c columns. The colored people spread
themselves at Lawrence and Leaven-
worth, Missouri and Kansas joining
hands ut the latter place. t.et
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The AtchisOn Champion remarks that
the blacksmith at the Sac and Fox agen
CYAN Indian-whO has been receiving
Asalary Of$7OO per annnm, and has asked
that his salary be reduced and the bal
ance used for the benefit of his trib, i.
probably the only man who ever lived
that has ever been known to prefer such
n request
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
Publication Notice.
UUIIOaIIUH NUIICcI
LAND OFFICE AT TOPEKA. KAHsAs,I

41AND OFFIOE At 1UFEAAr n AbBAb,I
July End, 1873.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice OF his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim,
and secure final entry thereof at the exDira-
ton OF thirty days from the date OF this notice
viz Christopher s. Perkins, homestead ap-
Plication, No. 4.O37. for the west half OF the
southeast quarter, section q, township IS,
range ID east. and names the following as his
witnesses, viz, :. w. Call, OF Emporia, Kan
sas. and LleWellvn Horr, of Americas, Kan
Sas. W. H FITZPATRICK
weOt5. Register
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The Detroit Free Press asks leave to
nominate President Hayes for Uuited
States senator from Ohio, as Humans
successor, Hayes has always beaten
Thurman when pitted against him.
Second
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

When Payne, the author of Home,
Sweet Home" returned To Boston after a
long absence in Europe, he called upon
lady, an old schOOlmate, who said:
"Mr. Payne, don't you find Boston much
changed:" "Yes madam, he answered,
''very much-I receive many invitations
to attend church, and very few to dinner"
When the poor poet went to assume his
office at Tunis, his luggage was at once
trunks filled with books, and hardly any
alofhac
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
Notice,

Notice is hereby given that the following
desc ribed school land. situated in Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas, will be offered for sale at public
auction, at my Office i'm the court house in
Emporia, on Saturday, the Both day OF Au-
gust. 1879; said sale to be open for bids from
10 O'Clock n. m. TO O'Clock p. m of said day
to-wit: southwest quarter of northwest quar-.
ter. section SO, township -, range II, ap.
praised at IS per Acre.
ID w. EASTMAN,
EmpOria, July 20, 1879. Co Treasurer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

1t seems natural for a Spaniard to be
treacherous and murderous-that is, for
those Spaniards of which We hear the
most The diabolical threats made
against the American consul, Sprague
rs shown by to-day's dispatches, is sort
of practical illustration.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

From continual reports OF the pros
poets for light grain crop in Europe,
it looks as though Kansas was about to
cast It's bread across the waters this year,
Us well as furnish Jonny Bull his prime
airlOinS
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The Rochester Union asserts that there
were more Democrats than Republicans
in the late war. Ii the Union counts
both armies 1t is undoubtedly correct.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Another DemQcFatie councilman Of
Cincinnati has been sentenced TO the
pepitentiary for election frauds. No
wonder the Democrats were 50 persist
Chief:
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

A Town called Riverview has been laid
out on the bluffs half n mile south VI the
WyondoIte bridge and one mile west of
the Kansas City Union depot
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
EE WANTED MONEY THAT WOULDN'T

: At the treasury department in WASH
ington an old cOlored man presented q
check for $500 arreaTages of pension.
He was given the money in greenbacks.
Deed, boss, ! don't want any of that
money" he said. He was then handed
q bag containing 500 silver dollars,
which weighed 50 much he could hard
ly carry II. He was satisfied, however,
having something that 'tWonldn't burn. =
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

VoeEAees says he win take part in the
Ahie campaign If they send for him,
but he hopes they wont ask hin, as he
4eeds Ffst. SINCE no man IN politics OF
ing e &c. Measuring wind, that's a
fact-TFibnne,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Four and half millions is what Eng.
land has put in the Zulu war. The
BOnapartists have lost their leader in
the south African melee and the end is
nOI vet
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Germany ii seems is about to tax the
income derived for government invest
ments held by the people An income
tax is still an experiment for a prosper
oIIs countrv
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The chairman Of the Ohio Republican
committee, says that Ohio will give
from $1,000 To $1,000 Republican major
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Kansas City pays the government II
revenue of $4,000, of which beer pays
$4,000 aud the balance is equally di-
vided between tobacco and whisky.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Are we 10 pay anotler five million
five hundred thousand for our mess at
British fish, Ii looks As though the fish
story had not all been told.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Ewing says he expects little or no aid
from the eastern democrats. The indi-
cations are that he will not be disap-
nOinted
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

This seems To he particularly a season
of accidents, fires and defalcations-if
defalcations may ever be said not TO be
in season.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
LEGAL NOTICES.
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of l.
L. Halleck y 20 was dissolved on July LIST,
1879, and the business will be continued under
the firm name of L.. l.. Halleck 4 Bro who
will collect and pay all accounts of the late
firm. L. L HALLH,K
d1O4tI-W30t3. w. JAY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

A well-spring OF pleasure is q he althy ba-
by; keep your baby in good health by using
pr Bulls Baby Syrup-the friehd of in fancy,
Price % cents. W3ltI
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
A TYEO . HERMAN,
Dealers in Meats of all KindsI
The Best and Cheapest Meat Mrket In
Emp0ria.

Have now on hand and for sale cheap large
amount Of Pork Ham, Shoulder and Bacon,
thOrouRhIy salted, cured and smoked. and
equal o tie very beat that can be found any
WheFe TheV have also . large quantity OF
iard by the farreI or pound Cali and see il.
All orderS receive prompt attention, and
\ @a1I. ne best OF Beef Mutf0n and Veal.
e usual, kept 1t our InarFct tn west side of
C0mmerciaI street a.i.I o-us 30. Emporia.
Kansee. All ktp : HERMAN
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

The Topeka Commonwealth is going
10 indulge in new I'Iilding for ITS bus
mess. We are glad To Ilule It's prosperity
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Virginia believes that zone day she
will rival France, and finally distance
her" in vine-growing and the manufac-
ture of wine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Do You Want a Well or Cistern2
am fully krep1red TO N kc tube wells In
CITY or country. on short notice. a. Il always
get good well IL water can he had ut all Dr.
ameter OF bore, - tnches-Rhen tubed up, IL
inches. ! also dig and stone up cisteTnS OF
any SIze In the best manner. and ct very mod
erGte prices. Orders requested, and prompt
IL attended to. Call on or address
j. A. SIMMONS
Market st, between 5th and 9Th avenues,
EmpOria. Wind.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

st. Louis pays government revenu
of little over $4,OOO,OOO; Chicago pays
$4,000, 900, and Cincinnati $I0,OOOOOO.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Why shouldn't he have at life's gingerbread
An occasional moderate hunkr
Why shouldn't he, one week in hfty TWO.
e.. junk citing. juDkety. jankY
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
TIE EpIToR,S VACATION.

IL ~ nOW the season of the year
Wien the editor packs his trunk,
fnd with dozens al journalistic frien,l-
toes Junheting, juhk ety. junki
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Late statistics give the following COM
parisOn of the number of cattle and
swine in Great Britain-England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland-with that of the
United States. The figures are both in
tereSting and suggestive:
CATTLE. SWINE.
Great Britain 970l, rs . Z, 767. $50
United States q, 5za.4Q 8, az 800
And the dispEopoFtiQn is constantly
increasing, for the number Of cattle in
Great Britain is eliminating, while ours
wakes greater year by year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

LONDON, August Ia telegram says
that cholera is raging among the troops
returning TO India FROM Afahanistan,
The Tenth HussaFs lost forty men n
one day, and the Seventeenth Foot one
hundred and ninety-five men.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

As sober " any mdaik;
i;Ul now he's OIL 4or Il ;srsIh,. .stis,I time,
y MI gets Junk citing, Jsuk II y JuIIk
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
Fishery Question to be Resurreeted.

WASHINGTON, August LIN snticipa.
ton of the early reopening of the Noah
American question, Evarts will request
that American vessels be sent to cruise
In the shore fishery grounds of the Do
minion. Information of recent date
Halifax tribunal. The object of the
presence Of American vessels Is TO secure
the latest inflammation respecting these
fisheries, as basis for future. neg0tia-
ton with Great Britain.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

LIvERPoOI, August 1.-Leading grain
circulars say the present is time of
much uncertainty as to the weather. On
the condition of the weather during the
next two weeks depends whether the
prices Will remain about as at present,
or are to be considerably lower
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

For n.onths he has :oiie.i in M sanctum
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
EDUCATIONAL,

The London school board has erected
and opened lis. 16ist school,
Nine states Of the union give women
the privilege of voting on school ques-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
CLEANS OF HumoR.

The hoy that 10 his mother says.
4 > Ie the pantry passes.
And sights the tempting syrup cup.
-Oh give some niolasSc- -
Advanced to ripper years, 81 i'll cries,
when wean- eel from his classes,
And lOungIng at some watering place,
- .aNr.s fsaz
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08
FACTS ABOUT WOMEN.

Texas thinks of giving ladies half of
the positions in the state departments of
the landSffice, treasury. and comptroller.
eNl,o ..n,,n. oIu.I,o :. 1:1:. =.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-22
S4ERiFF'S SALE.

DYV RTUE OF DECREE AND ORDER
of issued of and under the seal of the Hon
seoot Judicial District Court in and for Ornsby County
and ate Nevada the 4th day OF January A. d. 1879
IN Judgment in favor of Robert Livingston and against
j. c. Dorsey an1 Maggie P Dorsey, defen ants, for the
$50 principal Of debt, and the sum Of 81 liS 90 IN
date of judgment rate Of p per cent
per month until paid and the of $50 81 counsel fee,
and of suit taxed at $40 so, and accrng costs III
the sum of IS 60 and all which may accrue by rea-
of sale etc all in United states gold com, and to me
directed commanding sell certain real property set
and described in sid order OF sale and In pursuance
thereto have levied upon and will expose AZ public sale
between the hours of and P to wit, at P. M,
GU TUESDAY, THE 18th AY OF JANUARY, A. ID. 1879,
ordered the following described property All that Ger
tain piece parcel OF land lying and being situated IN
Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada. bounded and de
scrbed fellows commencing at point on the nOfth
of Washington where said street is ntersecte
bv the section line between Sections seventeen and ei
zen az Isl in Township IL north Range 20 east and
running thence along the north line OF said Wishing
street point hundred and seventy feet west
intersection Of WShn and Minnesota streets
north side of said Washington street. thence north
hundred and seventy feet thence east to said section
line thence south along said section line hundred
seventy feet the place of beginning with
all and singular the tenementS hereditamentS and appur
thereto belonging in anysise appertaning
S. T. SWIFT,
Carson Cftv January L. 1879. Sheriff