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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30
SCHOOL Tories.
CONDUCTED BY LYON COUNTY TEACHERS
Items and communications Tor this depart
ment to be sent to o. b. Wharton,
Emporia, Kansas.


Graduating Exercises In District ~.
An event of no little educational I'm
portance took place at the Wells schoo
house on the evening of Friday, July
this being the time set for the com
mencement exercises of the first com
mon school graduating class in Lyon
county, in accordance with the system
inaugurated last fall by Superintendent
Wharton. School district No. % has
always been one of the most progressive
districts, and in this matter school
board, teacher and pupils have fully
sustained their reputation for pro
gressive, thorough, advanced school
work. The class included five members
from district %, and one, Miss Mary
Brislen, from district 81, known rs the
Ruggles school, on the Neosho.
This is new district, Mr. Warren
Stone, most efficient teacher, having
during the past year had charge of the
first school ever taught therein. Mr. A
A. Wells is teacher of the RInker school
and deserves great credit for his earnest.
ness and activity in encouraging and as
sisting his pupils to complete the course
in the common school Studies The ex-
exercises were largely attended and
highly appreciated. The program was
rs follows:
Salutatory and essay "Tntemper-
ance," B. F. Hollingworth
Song-"The Dying Boy" Mollie Ire
land. sd,
Essay-"The First Time" Lena Fife.
Essay-"Voyage of Life,' Mrs. Rachel
Wells.
Essay-"Self Reliance" Mary Gibson.
Essay-"E Education" Mary Brislin.
Valedictory-"A Year." Matte Fife.
Those who heard these productions
speak of them as meriting the highest
commentator and of the unusual ex-
cellcnce for the degree of advancement
attained by the pupils. The valedictory
was especially well written and appro-
pirate. Mr.. Wells, the teacher, in a
short address embodying in few well
chosen words ideas fitting to the &C.
casion, presented the class to Superin-
tendent Whortan, who conferred upon
them the diplomas they had so well
earned. Mr.. Whortan in his remarks
detailed the merits of this graduating
system, and especially emphasized the
importance of tins class exercise as not
only the first in the county, bit IN the
state, its members thus taking the rank
as the pioneers in one of the steps of edu-
progress. President Welch
of the Normal was present
and entertained the audience with a
brief address, in which, while keeping
them in a genial good humor by his
pleasant references to his own expert
ence. he embodied some sound, practi-
cal thoughts. He endorsed the gradu.
ating system heartily. A final song,
Goodbye" closed these exercises,
which may be fittingly denominated
commencement of system
we trust will ere long be adopted by all
The schools of the county.
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Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that a petition has
been presented to the board of county com
mlsSloners OF Lyon county, Kansas, asking
Tor the location OF a county road rs follows
to-wlt; Commencing on the north line of Iy-
ON county, at the northeast corner OF section
the section line as near as pracficabIe he
tween SECTIONS % and n. 2S and % ana % and
IS three miles, To the third standard parallel
AT the southeast CORE OF section y, towns hin
10, range IL, the termination of said road
Ana upon said proposed road the board an
pointed the follow ng viewers: X. Pollock
Levi Smith and Hiram Miller tn maet ~ ~ ia,
beginning of said road on the 10Th day of
August, A ID 1880. mt 10 O'Clock m and in
conjunction with the county surveyor to view
locate and survey said road, and 10 give ali
parties hearing BY order of the board
3O4Sl WIN. +. EWING, Co. Clerk.
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York, New Jersey and Connecticut. lie
thinks this pivotal point will be carried,
but that it will only be done by vigil
anee and vigorous work MIR. Evaits
will speak in New York in September,
and, Judging from the views expressed
ia conversation, viii make an expose of
Democratic shans more effective and
Characteristic than he did in his speech
in the Cornell campaign.
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If 1t were not natural impulse for II
Democratic editor to lie, the summary
manner in which their attenuated stories
have been refuted by the Republican
press in almost every instance in the
present canvass, would tend to discour-
age Il continued effort in this direction
in behalf of the Hancock boom. The
salary grab, Credit Mobilicr and DE
Golycr rOOrbacks have been cifcctually
puncturcd; General Grants alleged On
dnrscmcnt of Hancock has been proven
10 he a groundless fiction; the reported
Justification of Cameron, Logan,
Conkling and scores of other leading
Republicans has turned ont 10 be a
Democratic invention; the decision
which the Democratic press affirmed
had been rendered 10y Judge Swayne
against General Garfield in the De
Golycr case, has been demonstrated To
be II garhled extract from an attorneys
brief, and now Hamilton Fish comes out
and publicly gives the lie to n Demo
cratic rumOr to the effect that he was in
sympathy with Hancock and the party
Of which he is the figure head. If Jack
FalstalI thought this "wOrld was given
TO lying" three hundred years before the
organization of the Democratic party,
what would be the opinion of that
obese knight regarding the achievements
in this direction, of the nineteenth cen
fury, could he be permitted to revisit the
glimpses OF the moon and read cam
paign edition OF Democratic journal
over his cup of sack.
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\ letter received ut Republican head
quarters At Washington says that the
cause ur The delay In the promuls;ltio
Of the letters OF acceptance of the Demo
cratic candidates grows ont of serious
differences ON several points, especially
the grccnLack and tariff questions. The
western Democracy have insisted upon
controlling the general policy of the
campaign, and that Hancock should, in
his letter, make his declarations so that
they may not be misunderstood. The
New York Democracy insist that as
New York is the pivotal state, doctrines
best suited TO that market should take
precedence. The letter states that from
what is known of the trouble the leaders
are having in getting them TO harmon
ize, they will he curiosities in their way
II states that it may be some days before
they are made public.
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The public debt statement in another
column, recently issued by the treasury
department, Is campaign document
which it would be well for voters of all
classes to consider. 1t demonstrates
the results of fifteen years of Republican
ascendancy, and furnishes an
array of facts which no amount
OF Bourbon buncombe can face
down. 1t is probably upon the showing
of the figures alluded 10 that the Demo.
cratic party base their inportuuatc de
mand for u Change"
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The highest percentage of municipal
growth shown by the census is that OF
Denver, which has increased during
the decade al the rate of $50 per cent
Minneapolis ranks second with rate OF
100 per cent, and Oakland, California,
third with rate of 233 per cent ST
Paul and Camden, n j., share toe
fourth place with Il ralc OF lO7 per cent
Grand Rapids Michigan, is credited
wit: 93 per cent; ST. Joseph, Missouri
with 81 per cent; Omaha, Nebraska
with 70 per cent. and Atlanta, Georgia
with rs per cent
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The political iconoclast has nailed the
Democratic lie that General Hancock is
grandson of John Hancock, by pro
ducing a list of the latter's defendants,
which shows that the only children
ever born to him, two in number, died
long before either of them reached the
age of maturity. The superb candi-
date, therefore, seems 10 be minus a
grandfather, unless Mr.. Darwin's theory
can be made to subserve the cNigencies
of the case
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The Democracy are just now devoting
themselves to the tender but arduous
task OF licking into shape. rs it were, the
lncongruous issues which divide that
organization, and are giving their ener-
gies to the construction of policy
which shall harmonic the soft and hard
money factions of the party and the evo-
luton of letter Of acceptance for their
putty candidate which shall strike re.
sponsive chord IN the breasts of all true
believers in the widely diverse tenets of
the great unterritied. Amer a patient
months canvass of the situation, the
Democrats have arrived at the cheerful
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A GOOD SHOWING.

In 1865 the public debt OF the United
States was $685. per capita. and the in
terest charge 1920 per capita. This
year the debt is $37.74 for each indi-
vidual, and the interest charge $1.56.
The debt has been reduced per capita
more han half, and the interest charge
nearly two-thirds. But in the mean
time the population has increased a lit
tie over 100000. The total debt has
been reduced over $S00,000,000
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Ex-Minister Washburnc set sail iul
Europe on Saturday, in the hope that ia,
trip will benefit his health, and contrib
ute to the cure of Il throat trouble with
which he is annoyed. lie expects to re
turn in October, and will do all in his
power to insure the success of the Repub
iican ticket, during the closing days orthe
canvass. He says if the Republican
party rises TO the height of its mission
there can be no doubt of GarGeld's clec-
asa,
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General Rice, of the Miami Republi-
can, has sold that paper to Mr.. l.. j.
Perry, of the Paola Citizen, for $4,000,
and turned over to the purchaser reli-
able list of 1000. We shall expect to
see Perry make things boom in Miami
county AMIN.
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TIMELY SUGGESTIONS

The New York Sun, whose hydro
phobic Democracy has never been ques
toned, but which seems, nevertheless
to be strangely awake TO the infirmitie.
of ITS party, volunteers the following val
liable advice To the great untcrrifed:
Employ no nincompoops.
Fill up the soft places in Edward
Coopcr's head.
Do not let Abram Hewitt bob about
too much.
Cut General Hancock's letter down to
three sentences, and, if needs be, pick
them out for him from one of his orders
If Mr.. Tldcn will give advice, take
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Ex-senator Doolilllc publishes the fol
lowing card, in denial of story circu
lated by Democratic newspapers about q
supreme court decision affecting Gen
Garfield:
CucAGo, July 20.-A serious error
has been made by some newspapers in
supposing that the DeGolyer case ever
went 10 the supreme court, or that
Justice Swayne used the language AT
tributCd to him in commenting upon it,
In the brief submitted to Judge Farwell
in the circuit court here, another case
Burke vs.. Child. decided in the supreme
court, was cited, and Justice Swayne's
opinion stated. But the mistake has
been this: That part of the language
Of the brief which followed the citation in
the case of Burke VS.. Child is attributed
TO Justice Swayne-language which he
never used, for the case was never be
fore him. AS l was the counsel who
submitted the brief, il is just To Gen
Garfield, Justice Swayne and to myself
that | should at once correct this mis-
take. j. II. DooLITTLE.
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IL Is recommended that the delegates from
each county be selected in such manner. on
the 18th day OF August, 1880 the various
county central comm ittecs may determine
and that such committees, In counties having
more than one representative district shall
distribute the delegates between the districts
so that each district shall have at least one
delegate. 1t Is recommended that two weeks
notice OF the call for the election Of delegates
be published in each county paper, or n pa
per OF general circulation therein, before thu
election OF such delegates
by order of the Republican state central
committee. CYRUS LELAND, JR,
Attest Chairman
WILLIAM THOMPSON. see,v.
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Notice.

Henry Augustine and Mrs. Augustine mart
ners as Augustine Co, non-Iesidcnts OF
the state of Kansas: - "a
on arc hereby notified that on the eth day
OF fully, 1880, o w. Miller as Plaintiff FLED
ms bill OF particulars against you, as defend
ants, and obtained an order of garnishment
poria- Lyon county. Kansas; that YOU are re
CURED to answer the same on or before the
ZOtn gay OF August, 1880, at 9 q. m , or iudg-
ment VIII De rendered against you at said
GATE, Tor the sum OF S92 80 cents, by said j = .
ana the garn1shee will be required TO turn
belonging to you. '' "'''
49, BACHELOR & BACHELLER.
oOt5- Attorneys for Plaintiff
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The Chicago Tribune is authority fol
the statement that Gen. Grant will soor
take up his residence at New York. lie
has been offered and has accepted Ia
crative position which will nccessitatC
his residence in that city. His trip ID
Colorado and New Mexico is said 10 bc
in connection with this affair He was
offered the presidency of the DeLesseps
canal company, at u salary OF $4,000
but he declined
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The funeral OF the rag-baby in
Ohio took place very quietly from the
residence of its father, Senator Pendlc-
ton, the day after the Buckeye Dcmocra-
cy swallowed the Cincinnati platform,
and the only mourncr of any prominence
present was Mr.. Thurman, who is a
relative of the bercaved parent of the
"Ohio idea"
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Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is SOIL
that he has been forbidden to make any
speeches until there is adccided improve
ment in his health. The Republican
party should make his speedy GONZALES
cence a matter of earnest, importunatc
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National Republican Ticket
FIR President,
JAMES a. GARFIELD,
or OHIO.
For Wee Presideat,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
or NEW YORK
REPUBLICAN STATE CoNyENTION.

A delegate convention OF the Republican
OF the state OF Kansas will DC held IN Repre-
sentative Hall, in the city % Topeka. 81
Wednesday, the 1st day o. September. laaO
ut the hour or 10 O'Clock q N for the pur
pose OF nominating candidates Tor the follow
ing Offices: Associate Justice OF the Supreme
Court, Governor. Lieutenant Governor, see
Rotary Of State, Auditor OF state. Treasurer d
State, Attorney General, superintendent O
Public Instruction, and State Central com
mittee.
The basis OF representa- ion in said state
convention shall he one delegate an'l. one al
ternate for every two hundred ami my votes
cast, and one delegate ami one alternate iOI
each fraction OF one hundred ami twenty i've
or more votes cast for Albert ~ Horton
chief justice. at the November election IN
1878, and one delegate aud one alternate foi
each other regularly organized county, Oh
county with a township organization. at,
tached to another county for school purposes
which delegates and alternAtes are appOr
toned 10 the several counties rs follow
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The first indictment for rape under
the laws Of Missouri, which makes that
offence punishable by death, If the jury
shall so determine, was found by the
grand jury at st. Louis on the 2Gth.
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. ?.

No0emOer, 1851.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO
Proposing amendment to section one of arti-
Gle eleven of the constitution of the state of
Kansas. relating to property exempt from
taxation.
Be 10 resolved 6y the Le0iskature OF the s,,ta
OF Kansas, tioo thirds Of all the members
elected to each house coacgrrin0 tAereiR:
SECTION ! The following proposition to
amend section one of article eleven of the con-
stltutlon of the state of Kansas, shall be sub
mitted to the electors of the state for adop-
tion or rejection. at the general election to be
day ia November, a. ID. eighteen hundred
and eighty: That section one OF article eleV-
en- OF the constitution OF the state of Kansas
shall be so amended as to read as follows:
section 1. The legislature shall provide for
uniform and equal rate of assessment and
taxation; but all property used exclusively
for state county, municipal literary ednca
tlonal, scientific, religious, benevolent and
charitable purposes shall be exempt from
SEC. :. The following shall be the method
OF submitting said proposition: The ballots
snail be either written or printed, or partly
printed and partly written, thereon, '1For the
proposition to amend section one of article
eleven of the constitution OF Kansas striking
out the clause eXempting two hundred dollars
900 personal property from taxation:n or
Against the proposition to amend section
one OF article eleven of the constitution of the
state OF Kansas. striking ont the clause ex-
emptIng two hundred dollars ($2OOl personal
property from taxation"
skV . i ms RESOLUTION shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publication in
in the statute book. -
1 hereby certify that the above bill origin
ated IN the senate, January 21st, 1879, and
passed that body February 18th, 1879
Lf MAN u. HUMPHREY,
HENRY BRARDLEY, Presd't of Senate
Secretary OF Senate.
Passed the house February Goth, 1879.
SIDNEY CLARKE,
WRIT W. WALTON, Speaker of House
Chief Clerk of House.
Approved March 4th, 1879
JOHN T.. ST. JOHN.
~. o. Governor
OFFICE OF SECRETARY % STATE S.
1, James Smith, Secretary of State of the
state Of Kansas. do hereby certify that the
foregoing Is 2 true and correct copy OF the
original enrolled Joint resolution now on fjle
in my Office, and that the same took eject by
d. 1879. -
In testimony whereof have hereunto sub-
scrlbed my name and afIi xed nv Of
SEAL fetal seal Done at Topeka, this lst
day of July, a. -. 1880.
JAMES SMITH
faa or
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SENATE JOINT REsoLUTIoN NO /,

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8,
Proposing an amendment to article ifteen @
the constitution of the State of Kansas re.
latlne to the manufacture and sale of intox.
icating liquors, by adding section ten IL
said article.
Be il enacted by the LegisIature of the S,ak
y hdnsas, ttoo-thirds Of all he member
elected 10 each HOESe eOfiRg therefor:
SECTION I. The following proposition II
amend the constitution of the state of Kan.as
shall be submitted to the electors OF the stat
ton 70 he held on the Tuesday succeeding the
nrst Monday of November. a ID. eighteen
fifteen shall be amended by adding section ten
thereto, which shall read as follows: s.The
manufacture and sale OF Intoxicating liquors
shall be forever prohibited in this state. ex
cept for medical, scientific and mechanical
purposes -
SEC. 2. The following shall be the method
of submitting said proposition to the electors :
The ballots shall be either written or printed
or partly written and partly printed; aud
! those voting for the pFonositien shall vote.
ton - and those voting against the PROPOSE
tion shall vote, "a gainst the proposition to
SEC. 3. This resolution shall take effect and
the statute book.
hereby certify that the above resolution
originated in the Senate, February sth, 1873,
and passed that body February 2lst, 1879,
HxERY BRANDLEY. Presd't OF Senate.
Secretary OF Senate.
Passed the House March Sd, 1879.
SIDNEY CLARKE
WIFI W WALTON, Speaker of House
Chief Clerk OF House.
Approved March seh. 1873
JOHN p ST JOHN. Governor.
The STATE OF KANSAS,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE IS
I, james Smith, Secretary Of State of the
state OF Kansas, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is q true and correct copy Of the
original enrolled joiEf resolution now on fiIe
In my office, and that the same took effect bY
publication on the statute book. MAY 2O 1879
In testimony whereof have hereuntc sub-
scriDed my name and affixed nv Of
SEAL fetal seal Done az Topeka, this LIST
day OF July, A ID. 1850
JAMES SMITH.
Oct % Secretary of State
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conclusion that the only Symmetrical
Feature of their canvass is The candidate
who has enhanced the grace of his con
tour by the aid of "A CORSET
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Straved-Sfs Ramard-

On or about the 10Th of April, 1850. three
mare colts left my premises. One is a dark
IRON gray; one deep red bay, past two years
oid; anu the other dark bay one wear old
q al p ~, with figure on left shoulder
CT SloIor information of their whereabouts.
cots Emnarid k BEN.
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l, ID. w. Eastman county treasurer of I.y-
on county, do solemnly swear that the above
ana foregoing statement show the true con
dltIon OF the funds in the county treasury to
the best of my knowledge, on Monday morn
ing, July 81. 1889. ID W EASTMAN
Treasurer Lyon county, Kansas.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
- day of July 1850. WIN f EWING
County Clerk
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The soldiers who are going to vote for
Hancock are the fellows who tried to put
daylight through him less than twenty
unnra nnn
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Within a radius of twenty-five miles
of Bradford, England, there are . mil
lion and half people engaged in
wOrsted manufacture alone.
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Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that q petition has
missioners OF Lyon county, Kansas. Sskine
for the location Of . county road, as follows.
to-wit: Commencing at the southwest cor
Ter CT the northwest quarter OF section 81
township Is, range1z; thence north on the
section line as near IS practicable to the
northwest corner of section &c, township rs.
range II. And upon said proposed road the
board appointed the following viewers: VIII
WAymans J. II. LeopeP and Geo Burns 70
meet At ths beginning Of said road. on the
A. m, and in conjunction with the county
surveyor to view, locate and survey saiSI
road and to give all parties heaTln1 BY
order or the board. WM. y. EWING,
so&Si County Clerk.
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The rails used by companies within
radius ofsix miles from Charing Cross
London, would form a single line OF
$50 miles.
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VISITING CARDs-New and latest
styles, neatly printed. at E C. MacLen-
nan & Co.'S News job Office. 2I1tS
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The delegates will be elected ON Friday,
August 20, 1850, Mt O'Clock y m ut the usual
places OF holding elections, except ETporia
township, which will be neld AT the court
house in Emporia ut O'Clock J.. III , and the
election for delegates from the city of Empo
ria Will commence at : 80 y. m and be held
open for at least one hour, in the different
wards, at the places to be hereafter named.
The number of delegates to tho Judicial
District convention and the senatorial con-
Nention Will be named in the above call before
the county convention meets.
T.. BOTTOM, Chairman.
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Treasurer's Quarterly Report.
STATE or KANSAS.
LYON COUNTY

LYON COUNTY
COUNTY TREAsgRER's OFFIcE.l
kAfokIA, Hans, Jaly 20, Iss0
1he toiloWi ng Is a correct statement OF The
amount OF money iOr the several funds IN the
county a treasury for the quarter ending JuIy
FUNDS arrpny.,r,- .-
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Use Leis' Condition Powders for
horses and cattle. For sale by all drug
gists- dies &w17ltf
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Proposed Amendments

To tie Constitution Of tie State Of Kan
sds, Submitted by tie Legislature at ats
last session for ratification or rejection
6y the electors Of tie state, at the qen-
eral election to be held on the I'd day of
N0Uem6er, 1880.