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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

The above numbers represent those who are
in destitute condition and are actually on
the verge of starvation. 1t also gives returns
which pour into Dublin daily. The APPEAL
gives few extracts which show that the sit
uation in Ireland is scarcely realized in this
country
Whitsgate, 100 families, "Childrsn crying
from hunger
Kirvana, 800 families, MANY living on one
meal day"
Spiddal, 400 families, 1.-TWO hundred fam
lilies on the verge of starvation"
Scotstown, $50 families, Tho people are
dying for want of food.
Task, 700 persons, without government
aid it will be another ~"
Kilgrass, 100 persons, IAN appalling
famine threatened"
Dromers West, 1900 persons, 1.-TWO hun
drsd families literally starving"
DysArt, 500 persons, "Lsrd help us or i.
| will be too late.
Bsrrisearra. $50 families. Living on salt
and turnips."
Rosenberg, NEARLY oil in the parish
starving and only seed potatoes to eat"
Corafn, Conc family II persons living IN
shilling day"
Foxford, 700 families, Ger Gods sake send
as msney or food"
This gives = general idea of the terrible
destitution prevailing in Ireland, and the re-
III
WHAT CARSON SHOULD DO.
As yet Carson has done nothing in public
way for the famine stricken sufferers, although
Virginia City moved in the matter weeks ago.
There is not to-day in Carson single family
suffering or beginning to suffer the privations
which over 200, 600 people Of Ireland have
suffered for months. The citizens should
meet at snce in some sort of public demon
stration of generosity. The matter has been
discussed among many of the leading citizens
PUBLIC MASS nIETIEs.
To TEE CITIZENS OF CAKsoE.-Thers is at
present famine in Ireland by which quar-
ter of q million people are reduced to the |
NOAAS VI SsoA' osASh' ING AUPohss ASAA So'- |
eral hundred parishes show q state of desti- |
tuition simply appalling. As relief measures
are being taken all over the coast, it behooves
the citizens Of one of the richest States in the |
Union to put their Capital on the list of charity
givers. The restitution in the famine striek-
en- Island is SO extensive that all political,
sectional aud religious prejudiess should sink
before the enormity of the suffering. There
will be a mass meeting of the citizens at the
Opera House Thursday evening of next week
to raise money for the Irish relief fund.
The above is made at the special request of
many citizens who do not desire to parade
their names in q matter Of charity, and the
clergy Of the various churches are requested
10 road the announcement from their respec-
i've Pulpits. Thursday night has been
chosen a. it is the first night of next week
IN which the hall can be secured. 1t is to be
aeped that the matter will be suff eiantly agi-
atea between now and then to make it sue
Tess both in point of numbers and subserip-
ion.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

Tar CARSON ExcHANGB-Not one man IN
thousand really knows how to select the
right brands of liquors. 1t takes keen com
mercial sagacity to know what customers
really want. Mr.. Walker, Of the Carson Ex-
change, knows good thing when he sees it.,
and ne dealer on earth can put of poor
brand on him. Hence his success OF such
men Goldsmith says
Drink Walkers whisky with little lime
IL cramps tread and stays the hand Of Time
LrNrBn SERVICES AT ST. PRTBK's CHURCH
Full Lltany at II O'Clock on Wednesday and
Friday mornings until Easter. Full evening
services and lecture this evening at 2 O'Clock.
Ono. r. DAVE, Rector.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13

TRANSFERS GLovEs.-M. W. Hodkins is
at present manufacturing teamsters' and
loggsr's glove, which outwoars anything
ever yet sold in this section. He makes
them expressly for his patrons. and all his
work is war; anted to be Of the best. jan30
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13
RELIEF FOR IRELAND.
SOMETHING OF rHB APPALLING FAMINE wHIcH
Is DEVASTATING THE GREEN IsLk-A MASS
MEETING CALLRD.

recent number of the New York Herald
devotes a whole page to the Irish famine and
presents an array of facts and statistics which
reveal the restitution of the Irish people Id q
most appalling light. 1t gives the returns by
couniiss as followa
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-13
STOCKS.

The market yesterday showed nc special
feature. Of the outside stocks Mt. Potosi was
very strong on rumors Of strike, and sold at
81 Belcher opened at II and closed at liz
The manipuators of this stock were willing to
pay IL for their favorite, but they would not
cell at that figure, and seemed reluctant to let
stock go at liz. Otherwise the Comstock
stocks were maintained at Wednesdays rates
The feature of the early session was business
in Columbus District stocks Northern Belle
was steady at II, Mt. Diablo sold at 20a, and
Mt Potosi rallied to 81. Between sessions
the market was quiet and prices shaded of
trfie. There was some inquiry for Bslcher,
which sold at 1l4. Prices declined in the
second session of the Board. Belcher was the
only stock to show strength. 1t sold from 11s
to la.
Following are the latest street quotations :
Potosi, l. Mt Potosi, $50; Chollar, 81,
Northern Belle, Il; Union, 34!; Jacket. 9;
Mexican, log; Sierra Nevada, 2la; Mt.
Diablo, Fl; Utah, Is.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
FROM SMALL REGINN1NGs

1t is not necessary that boy who
learns trade should follow it all his
life. Governor Palmer, of Illinois, was
a country blacksmith once. Thomas
Hayne, rich and eminent lawyer, also
OF Illinois, was once bookb binder.
Erastus Corning, of New YOsk, too lame
to do hard work commenced as n shop
boy in Albany. When he applied for
employment he was asked: ''Why, my
little boy, what can you do?'' Can do
what | am bid" was the answer, which
secured him the place Senator Wilson,
of Massachusetts, was shoemaker.
Thurlow Weed was canal boat driver.
Ex-Governor Stone, of Iowa, was a
cabinet maker, which trade Stephen A.
Douglas worked at in his youth Large
numbers of men of prominence now
living have risen from humble life, by
dint of industry, without which talent
Is as gold coin on barren island Work
alone makes men bright, and 1t does not
alone depend on the Kin of work YOU
have TO do, whether you rise in it; it
depends on how you do it.-Tablet
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
HELP THE CHILDREN GROW ERECT.

William Blaikie, author of How to
Get Strong and How to Stay &c." spoke
before the Brooklyn Teachers Asso-
citation recently on physical Education"
a want" said he, ito see if in an
informal talk we can't hit upon some
way in which we can bring the Ply
steal education of school children down
to practical basis. Our children, who
are healthy and buXom when they begin
school-work, come out pale, sickly and
with round shoulders Il you require
the children under you to sit far back
on chair and to hold their chins up,
you will cure them of being round
shOuldered, and the lungs and other
vital organs will have free and healthy
play. An other simple plan is 10 have
the children bend over backward until
they can see the ceiling. This exercise
for few minutes each day will work
wonderful transformation If well
qualified teacher could be employed to
superintend the physical development.
of the children, the best results would
be SEEM
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
A KNOWING SNAKE.

A Georgia man was fishing near Il
rock, under which was snakes den,
when the reptile came gliding from a
foraging expedition. and was disappear
ing in the hole under the rock when.
with a dexterous movement, the man
seized him by the tail and threw him
twenty feet away. The snake hardly
knew what happened, and again essayed
to enter his dOmicile in the same man
ner. Again he was treated as before.
Never despairing, for the third time the
willy serpent came to the rock This
time he approached deliberately, as if
contemplating the situation. For II
while he kept his defensive position,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
SKIN-GRAFTING.

The medical fraternity of this busting
manufacturing community, and, in fact,
throughout the whole of Windham coun
tY, are greatly interested in the expert
ment of skin grating, which has been
going on here for the past twelve months.
and which has finally proved a crafty
ing success. On the 3lst of Decem Der,
1878, Jesse, an eleven-year-old son of
Mr.. Edwin Morgan, an influential citi-
zen OF Canterbury, an adjacent village
fell into a shallow vat containing a solu
tiOn of potash IN boiling water. He
struck on both feet, the liquid coming
nearly up to his hips, and instantly the
skin OF the legs began to peel off With
remarkable presence of mind, the lad
leaped to the floor, where he lay uncon-
scious for some time. 1t was found that
the flesh on both legs had been so horri-
bly, and thoroughly burned that no cells
remained for new skin to form
growth upon. The boys life was one
of eXcruciating agony for months The
scared members began to turn under his
body and actually clicked" or knit to
the back of the thigh. Last April,
young physician, George j. Ross, of
this town, finding that his older
as incurable and one which must
speedily result in death, determined to
attempt the salvation of the lads life by
skin-grafting. He was "pished and
poohed at" to use his own words, by the
old heads of the profession without
mercy, but the boys parents imploring
him to undertake tire operation, he was
finally induced TO try it. Over 1000
gratis were used, the mother of the child,
a noble-hearted Irish coachman in the
family, himself and many of the neigh
bors submitted portions OF their cuticle
for the operation. A prevailing desire
was manifested to have the child live
without becoming cripple. Hundreds
of visitors flocked to see the patient and
implore DR.. Ross to try piece of their
skins in the operation. The pieces of
flesh were pulled off with forceps and
were about three times the size of the
head of a pin, The process of grating
Is similar to that employed IN horticul-
ture. One of the limbs was exhibited
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
BUSINESS ITEMS

In California there are about 500 OOC
cattle and S,0O0,00o sheeep.
There are COCO miles of teIe"raph and
telephone wire in New York City.
Mexico, with its vast and productive
territory has only jS4 miles of railway in
| operation.
Sixty cars of iron ore per day is the
regular shipment from the Iron Noun
| tain in Missouri.
The average yield of potatoes in 1879
IN the United States Is stated to have
been only siNty-nine bushels per acre
The first real discoverer of Copper on
Lake Superior, whose exploration led 10
the development of the Cliff mine. is
now an old and poor man, living on
charity, IN AN Old obscure village in the
Wisconsin lead regions
The total cost of the Gothard tunnel
the most gigantic work OF the kind in
the world, will not exceed $4,000, 600
II has been very costly of human life AS
we'll as money, no less than $50 work
men having been killed, and 400 disabled
during its construction
The locomotives on the New York
Central railroad arc to be remodeled and
new attachment, consisting of a proiec
ton of the boiler in front of the smoke
stack, is TO be adjusted This projection
will catch all cinders and sparks. and
prevent their escape from the smoke
stack
Two hundred and thiriy-three miles of
railroad have been land in England and
Wales during the last ten Years, at "A
cost 81 nearly $15,000,OO0 exclusive of
the outlay on engines, horses and cars.
One company expended $1,60O,OOO on
the construction of twenty and Il quarter
miles, while another expended over
S3,OOO,0O0 on thirty-two miles.
Twenty years ago the deepest mining
shaits In the world reached only about
1000 feet below the surface Tie very
deepest, we believe, was metalliferous
mine in Hanover, which had been car
ried down to the depth of 1900 feet
The deepest perpendicular shaft to-day
Is the Adelbert shaft in "a silver-lead mine
in PriZibram, in Bohemia, which. in
May last, had reached the depth of l 900
metres-3,2SO feet
The increase in earnings along the
Pennsylvania lines Is reported as going
on at the rate of four to five millions a
year, and for the first four months of the
year 1t is at the rate of six millions and
i half for all lines. This is almost ten
per cent upon the share capital of the
present company. Much of il is due to
the passenger traffic, which far exceeds |
that of any time in the history of the
road, except the last three months of the |
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.

An account of a remarkable Christian
woman appears in the Boston Transcript
Mrs. Drusiila Laha was born in
Wellfeet, Mass, September 10, 1877
and at eighteen years of age was
married, her husband being then in
command of a vessel. After having been
married six years, she being but twenty.
four years of age, and having two chl-
dren, boy of four and one of two,
her husband was brought home to her
an invalid for life, having been taken
from the side of his wrecked vessel after
four days exposure to wind and the
waters. Then it was that lie became
disheartened, and saw nothing but des-
titution staring him in the face. But to
her things looked different, She started
store, small at first, of course, but for
tifty-nine years she made monthly
visits to Boston in small sail-boats,
replenishing her stock, etc; and she
says many and many a time she has
taken over a hundred dollars a day
over her counter. For fifty years she
took care of her invalid husband, who
was not able even to dress himself.
She educated her two boys and started
them in business. She also adopted,
fed, educated and placed in
good positions in the world twenty or
pha1 boys and girls, besides visiting and
taking care of the sick at all hours day
and night. She will be ninety three
years old in September.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
HOW HE MISSED 1T.

In recent interview, Gen J. = Rob
inson, chairman of the state central com
mit:ce Of Chic, in speaking of the
claims Of the hosts of men who are as
sorting that they are the only simo Il
pure original Garfield men, told Il re-
porter bow near the Ohio delegation had
been from heing neatly sold for Blaine.
General Robinson feilss the story this
way ON Tuesday, ut the convention,
the Ohio Sherman men were milking a
canvass, among North Carolina, Georgia
and Alabama delegates to see how Tie
Sherman men there would go for Blaine
The result was, eight in Georgia, eight
IN North Carolina and three in Alabama
promised to vote for Blaine The Ohio
delegation was then calvassed for Blaine,
and - out of "A were in iayoF of Blaine,
alter they saw no chance for Sherman
Warner Bateman was the only one who
hesilsted, and he had about decided to
vote for Blaine when the break for Gar
field was made. We, OF course, were
not aware OF what the Wisconsin dele
CATION had decided 10 do, and no man in
Ohio delegation had any idea, but what
Blaine would be nominated on the next
ballot until Wisconsin made the first
break for Garfield Blaine would have
been nominated by the Sherman force
and aid if Garfield's name had not been
sprung at the time it was"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
GARFIELD'S RECORD.
What Don Pint. Saws

Don PiatI's Capital, which seldom
has anything good to say of Republi-
cans, comes out today on the side OF
Garfield. In the campaign of vitupera-
ton that has been inaugurated against
him, Piatt says: ave advise the mud.
machines, called partisan papers, that at
tempts at blackening Gartield's charac-
ter will be signal failures and will
be met by protests from such emf
nent Democrats as the Hon. jeremiah
Black, Allen Thurman, and Justice
Field, who have already put themselves
on record in his. behalf Garfield's
purity is so thorough that it gives him a
perilous confidence in men, and has got
him into trouble precisely as con
hding boy gets into scrapes. In that
Credit Mobilier affair, for example,
we know, and have so testified, that
at the very time it was claimed that he
was scheming to enrich himself through
Ames' rascality, he was shining
about Washington, striving to borrow
$500 to pay house rent, and so ignorant
of the commonest financial processes
that he did not know how to negotiate
an ordinary note of hand. He has not
only lived in the open air, but has occu-
pied positions, where, like other leaders,
he could have winked himself INTO mil
lions. He holds to-day the honored po-
sition of being the only poor man among
political leaders"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
\ "BOUNDLESs PRAIRIE" STORY.
Burlington Hawkeve.


"Once over these boundless prairies'
the sad passenger said, ''over these prai
ries-" They call them 'prurries' over
in Indiana" the fat passenger said. "And
down in illinois," said the cross pas
senger, they call them 'perarries'''
And up in Michigan the brakeman
said. they call them pairs. - =" And
down in Kentucky" the man On wood
box remarked, they call them 'perars -
well. anyhow" the sad passenger
resumed, "Once over these plains
You said 'prairies' before" said the
passenger with the sandy gOatee. Yes,
and started very profound pathological
discussion by it. Well, once over these
verdant prIiries-'' The first time
said the cross passenger, you said
'boundless prairies.'" "Well, then, over
these boundless pralries once" "Only
once:' asked the fat passenger The
sad passenger sighed, but went on
Once the painted Indian roamed-'
"What for:'' croaked the woman who
talks bass. And the sad passenger went
into his shell and said he would tell
that story yet if he had to hire hall
to tell it in.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
$4,000 Acres !!

Having personally inspected each quarter
section OF our II, 600 acre tract the east line,
OF Lyon county, between the A T&S r.
and the NJ, h. a T. railroads, and made Ul /
plats and descriptions Of the same We are
now ready to answer all inquiries in regard
to TINS immense tract of unimB1oved land
soon to become dotted with thriving prairie
homes. This tract is mostly good high roll
ing prairie, with stock water on a number of
sections, coal on some, and is mostly good
tillabie. productive soil, with cheap fuel
plenty OF building stone, near TO markets and
railroad stations. with ample range for stock
and within q few hours railroad ride of Kan
sas City Ii is offered at both cash and time
prices from "a to 50 Pc acre, and is admira-
ply situated for colony purposes. or for old
friends coming west 10 choose localities near
each other. Plenty of good coal at = to 10
this tract
This is portion of the Old sac and Fox
Indian reservation, and is past of the lands
now belonging to the Reading Iron Works
OF pennsylvania, ard formerly known a. the
McManus lands-on which land some os the
best and most highly improved stock and
grain farms in this county arc now located
THE NEWS COMPANY,
uN" Emporia. Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.

Cunning IL n very cheap edishun oy
WlZdom; II develops among the ANIMALS
and hav even seen idiots who had IT,
\ yung sl0yen ends hi being 4 filthy
old nan.
However mizerly woman may Ice
she seldom shows il in her bonnet
1t allwuss bothers The devil 10 kno on
which side TO attak biZZy man.
We see in others the virtues and vices
we have got ourseifs, but we see the vices
the plainest.
There are but few things jugded by
their merits, but father by the way they
affect our opinions or interests.
The men who have the strongest int
lects have the weakest memorys. they
trust more to invention than memory.
Where theare is one man who knows
how to do e thing, and docs 1t, theare
are tire who are satisfied by telling how
IL ought 10 be done
The top ov the ladder il ticklish
spot, yer are liable to fall emmy time,
and kant pix out the spot yer are go
ing TO strike.
Menny man who has made a fust-
rate kOnstable haZ split his hiz milk hi
being made a deputy sheriff.
The man who heZ no love of APP
plauze liz either an angel or idiot, proba-
bly, the latter.
The CRATE ov mankind liv just az the
birds do, frum hand 10 mouth
A man better have no creed at all than
to have one he is always anxious to
fight for.
Jealousy sleeps with one eye open and
the other ajar.
Hope Il the halfway house between
fear and fruition.
1t IL difficult to define our happiness
without making il look suspicious
The man who IL original in manner liz
generally more or less so in thought.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25

A medical journal, the London Lancet,
can not longer shIrk the performance OF
serioaslduty. 1t says:
"The public is probably not aware of
the cruelty inflicted upon large class
of the community by the practice of
keeping shOpwomen standing during
the hours of business. In some of the
large establishments daily patronized
by ladies of fashion the permanent
injury done TO the young persons
engaged is of alarming proportions, and
1t Is time TO protest. Young women
come up from the country in full health,
and are rapidly reduced TO condition
which practically condemns them to
lifelong suffering. So fatuOus is the
discipline in many of the large houses
that if girl is seen to lean for a new
moments for relief in her WEAKNESS she
is reprimanded, and, if the offense he
repeated, dismissed. This cruelv-we
can use no milder term-ls one which
society, or, if need be, the law must put
down. We have not adverted 10 this
painful Subject until compelled to do so
bye the most conclusive evidence that the
pIactie of keeping girls standing during
business hours is large factor in the
causation of the most distressing dis
eases. The public will aid our endeavors
to put stop to this evil by interfering
as opportunity offers; but an appeal
must be made directly to the tradesmen,
especially of the large retail drapery
establishments in the metropolis"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25
WHITE WAX.

1t will be a surprise to a great number
OF our American women to be told that
the white wax, of which they make such
constant use in when engaged in their
household sewing, is the diseased secre-
tions of certain species of fly found in
the eastern portions of Central China.
Most of our countrywomen, if they have
given thought TO the subject, have sup
posed that this wax was some refined
product of ordinary bees wax-an ar
tlcle that has about it the conditions
of cleanliness and healthfulness, which
is more than can be said of the eXuda-
tions of insects due to some bodily ma
lady. These flies apparently become
diseased from feeding on the leaves of Il
partlclar kind of evergreen tree or shrub
OF which they are exceedingly fond. The
twigs Of these trees IN certain seasons of
the year are thickly covered with flies,
who, III time, leave upon them Il thick
lncrustation Of white matter When
this has increased to u sufficient size the
branch is cut off and immersed in boil
ing water, which causes the wax to come
to the surface in the shape of viscid
substance, which is skinned off.
cleansed, and afterward allowed to cool
IN pans. The trade in this article is
quite an extensive one, as it is estimated
that year the crop was worth not less
than So, 250,0 900.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-25

to the Herald representative yesterday,
and looked as though pitted with small
pox- The gratis grow fastest in the
spring months One of them is put on
a muscle, where it sinks in and deposits
= cell, after which the top sloughs OF
Although the work is not vet complete,
the legs are nearly restored To their Eor-
NAL and natural functions, and the child
can walk a short distance without a
crutch, but is still very weak from cX-
haGstion and emaciatiOn.-Dan
Cor. New York Herald