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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
BRIEFLY STATED

Briefly stated the financial record of
the Republican party is AS follows: 1t
came into power nineteen years ago. 1t
found every department of the govern
ment stripped of everything valuable.
All had been turned over by the Demo
cratic party then, and for many years pre-
viously in control of the government, to
and Democratic rebellion. The Repub-
lican party had almost To form n new
government. Government bonds were
seeking purchasers at eighty cents on
the dollar and at ten and tioeloe per cent.
interest. The Democratic rebels had the
country by the throat The Republican
party had TO create financial policy and
Mt the same time To grapple four years
with the Democratic rebellion.
II raised hundreds of mil
lions of money and conquered the
rebellion Then 1t had To contend with
the decentralization following the war
Through all these difficulties the Repub.
lican party has brought the country safe
ly, and il stands to-day, financially, the
admiration OF the world. All its secu
rites are commanding premium instead
of being 20 per cent. discount, and it pay
81 to per cent interest, instead of II
and 12 per cent. rs when the Democrats
left the White house and department
buildings.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
The PASSION PLAY.
1t win he Produced at Booths TheaseI
New York. in December

1t viii be Produced at Booths Theaters
New York, in December
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Passion
Play" theatrical representation of the
last days of Jesus Christ on earth, will
be produced at Booths Theater, Deem
Der 6, under the management of Henry
Z. Abbey. This will be the first produc
ton in New York of play bearing on
this subject, and the second in America
The first representation was given in
San Francisco, California, several months
ago. 1tproduced a profound impression
and was the cause of much heated discus
sion. The play ran for five weeks, and was
then taken offthe stage by its author
Salmon p. Morse. Thomas Mcguire
manager of the California theatre, pro
| duced it three months afterward. The
controversy then became so bitter that
| the authorities, fearing a break of the
peace, put stop to the performance
This is the same play which is soon &c
| be produced in New York.
a Tribune reporter called upon Mr.
Abbey, who SAID:
1T bears the same relations TO the or
| binary drama as oratorio does to operatta
The subjects handled IN the every day
drama and the effects sought in It an.
entirely beneath those of The Passion
| Play I consider it the grandest thins
I ever listened to and shall try to presen
it on a grand scale. never saw ths
| Oberammergau representation, and tool
this play simply on its merits. The Bs
varian play presents the erucifixion upoI
the stage, while this one omits il. MI
Morse's play is arranged in three pre-
liminary tableaux without dialogue, fol
lowed by five acts of one scene each
The Last Supper, the Garden of Gethese
name, and the arraignment before Pom
thus PLATE are leading scenes. The fina
one is the ascension. am convincei
that the play will fill every spectato
with feelings of awe and reverence, an
earned on in a solemn and profounI
manner. No applause viii be permitte
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
HE REsEMBLED THE OLD MAN,

A good story was yesterday told at
military headquarters about young Jesse
Grant, who has just returned to Galena
from the West. Jesse went through a
number of Arizona mining towns, and
was given some prominence. At one
place a big, burlY, profane and dissipa-
ted miner who had sold 5000 claim,
took a drunken notion to distinguish
himself by thrashing young Grant, who
is small and of light build.
The big miner came up the street,
cursing as he came, and staggered into
restaurant where Jesse was sitting, and
approaching young and well dressed
man, but evidently not native of those
"diggings," who was at table near the
entrance, he slapped him heavily on the
shoulder, and exclaimed:
Look hyer, youngster, how many bits
to the dollar q"
The stranger addressed, quietly laid
down his knife and fork, deliberately
eyed the intruder for full minute and
Suddenly resolved himself into an Ari
iona whirlwind. Ali in the space of q
second or so the big miner was knocked
down several times, stood upon, sat upon
his clothes partially torn off, and with
both eyes closed, dazed and bswildered
was fired into the street.
The stranger quietly returned to hi:
knife and fork, and the miner remarked
as he picked himself up and peered curl
ously into the door:
burned eff the youngster don't resen
bic the old man."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
MRS. GHISoLM's PLEA FOR GAR
From the Chicago Inter-OceaI


From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from letter written by Mrs.
Chisoim to friend in Wisconsin. The
letter has special significance Just now.
1t is a woman's plea for the election of
Gardeld-the plea of a woman who has,
through suffering and sorrow, earned
the right to speak. Under date of Salo-
ma, Pennsylvania, July 80, Mrs. Chisolm
writes:
81 received a letter to-day from q
friend in the south enjoining me not to
fail 10 keep before those who will use it
the fact that there was petition prepar-
ed and signed by all the Democrats of
Kemper county TO have all concerned in
the murder of the 18th of April, 1877,
pardoned without u trial. This petition
is not to be presented until winter. Two
Generals of the Union are in the field
for election 10 the presidency. On the
one side /, a miserable, lonely woman.
without practical friends, however much
sympathy / may receive. and made "a
wanderer upon the face of the EARTH
with wrongs unredressed, waiting, pray
ing and watching, almost hoping that in
the election of General Garfield l may
have some hope of justice, On the
other hand, the murderers of my SON
my fair boy, my tender, loving daughter
and my noble husband-with hands red
with blood, and unpublished laboring to
elect General Hancock and then apply
the sponge of executive pardon. What
are you men of the north going TO do I?
Do you not hear the voices of patriots
calling to you from the ground where
their life's blood was poured out? My
dear sir, can you not arouse the people
They ha (yIT1p SiRQninU
Are all the sacrifices that have been
made only "a halfforgotten memory p
In cemetery near me l see a white and
bronze monument, on the top of which
is the dropping form of an angel, with
head bowed in weeping over the Sleep
ing dust of dead soldiers who fell in
many battles of the war, contending for
the same principles for which my hus-
band, son, and daughter were slain
so many years after. Near to this spot
are my dear ones. They were strangers
to the country and the soil, but believ-
ing, as they did, that the United States
was their country, it is fit they should
rest here. As l sit here breathing the
blessed air that floats above my darlings
would you tell me to forget ali about
their cruel butchery by Kemper county's
| best citizens? l know I should breathe
prayers for all mankind ! do. But
| God does not require me to mock Him
with prayers for devils accuTsed. Oh
how I remember the tender love of my
husband and remember his gentle, Low
| ing care, the sweetness of my daughter
and my brave boyi When the remem
brance of that bloody struggle, that ter
rible day, comes to me, when the lifeles:
and mangled forms of my dear ones
were brought to me; when those in au
thority turned deaf ear and refused tC
hear my cry; when all these years have
passed by and no law has been invoked
TO punish such atrocities, why should
forget? Respectfully, your friend.
| W. w. CHIsoLM."
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FUSED.

How does his, from the Cottonwood
Falls Leader of the 10Th, strike the aver
age Democrat and Grcenbacker. For
political jugglery commend us to the
honest Greenback politician:
In conversation with ID. p. Mitchell,
on the train, last Saturday, we CLEANED
from him that the Democrats had en-
dorsed Green, the Grecnback nominee
for congress in the second district; that
j. Wade Mcdonald, the Democratic
nominee for congress in this district,
would be withdrawn, and in return for
those favors the Grccnbackers are To
withdraw Vrooman, their candidate for
Governor, and support the Democratic
candidate. A meeting of prominent
Grccnbackers and Democrats was held at
Emporia, last Monday, the object of
which was Ia consummutc the sale, and
as Mr.. Mitchell, in his speech in this city
on Monday night, was profuse in his full
some praise ofthe Democratic candidates
we conclude that the changes have been
made, or soon will be.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24


Rev. ID. p. Mitchell, in his speech in
this city, last Monday night, said the Re.
publican congressman from Kansas
voted against placing the coinage OF
gold and SILVER on an equality, giving 10
neither IN advantage of preference" and
when he made that statement he knew
lac was uttering a Halsehood. The record
shows that our congressman voted fairly
and squareIy for that measure. We
were aware Of the fact that Mr.. Mitchell
resigned his charge at Hutchinson 10
stump this district at "a salary of $50 pei
day, but we do not believe his contract
requires him TO lie.-Chase County
Leader.
o, yes, IL does. lie is % get votes in
any way, and he has got so used &c
shooting in any direction with his
mouth. To influence voters, that he CAM
help IL.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
GOT THEIR CI0TBEs MIXED.

Mark Twain, in his new book, called
"Tramps Abroad, tells how party OF
tourists got wet, and what they did
when they came back TO the hotel:
We stripped and went to bed, and sent
our clothes down to be baked. All the
horde of soaked tourists did the same.
That chaos of clothes got mixed IN the
kitchen, and there. were conse-
quances. did not get the same draw.
came up at 6:15 got pair on new
plan. There were merely pair OF
ruffile-cuffed absuriities, hitched to-
gether at the top with q narrow band,
and they did not come quite down to
my knees. They were pretty enough,
but they made me feel like two people,
and discontinued at that. The man
must have been an idiot that got him.
self up like thai to ruugh it in the Swiss
mountains. The shirt they brought me
was shorter than the drawers, and hadn't
any sleeves TO it-at least it hadn't 6ny
thing more than what MIR. Darwin
calls "rudimentary" sleeves; these had
edging around them, but the bosom was
shirt they brought me was on q
new plan, and was really a sen.
sible thing; it opened behind
and had pockets in il to put
your shoulder blades in; but they did no:
seem to fit mine, and so found e &
sort of uncomfortable garment; they
gave my bob-taif coat TO somebody else
and sent me an ulster suitable for a ri.
raffe. had 10 tie my collar on because
there was no button behind on thar fool.
ish little shirt which ] described little
while ago.
When l was dressed for dinner at s 80
l was too loose in some places and too
tight in another, and altogether fell
sloEen and ill-conditioned- However
the people at the table d'hoiei were no
better of than / was; they had every.
body,s clothes but their own
A long stranger recognized his
ulster as soon as he sa~ the
tail of il following me in, but nobody
claimed my. shirt or my drawers, though
I described them as well as EaS abie.
gave them to the chambermaid thai
| night when went TO bed, and she prob
ably found the owner, for my own thing
were on a chair outside my door IN ths
morning.
There was lovable English clergy
man who did not get to the table d'sot,
| at ali. His breeehes had turned NJ
missing, and without any equivalent
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
ANpERsoNYILLE pRIsoNERs.

A meeting of prisoners of the war is to
be held at Decator, Illinois, on October
9th and 18th next, in connection with
the reunion of Gen. Grants old regi
ment and veteran association.
All who suffered as prisoners dur
ing the late war, are urged to send
their address. rs well as the address o.
all surviving prisoners, and an Invitation
will be mailed to each address setting
the object of the meeting.
w. W. KERR,
ID. NJ. BERLIN,
j. \. MILLER,
Committee
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.

The Presbyterian Synod of Kansas
will hold its annual meeting at Atehi.
son, on Thursday, October 9TH, at : so
p. m.
The opening sermon will be preached
by Rev. VIM C. Porter, of Fort Scott
The following railroads will return
delegates at reduced fare, viz: Atchison
Topeka Sc Santa Fe, Atchison Sc Nebras
ka, Central Branch Union Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific, Kansas City, Lawrence &
Southern, St. Joseph & Western.
F. S. McCABR, State Clerk.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

in any part of the house No return
checks will be given at the door, so that
there will be no confusion About $50
people will be employed. I would not
understake this if were not sure that
am right. Being sure of that, shall go
ahead; but no amount of money could
tempt me TO do anything that would
tend to bring ridicule upon sacred sub
jects. Money is not all I live for, and
believe this play will do good
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

Rev. L. p. Adams. Of Dunkirk, New
York, has been deposed from the minis
try OF the Presbyterian church at that
place, for preaching against the doctrine
of eternal punishment. His pulpit
should be filed without delay by tho
Rev Mr.. John Jasper, OF Richmond,
Virginia, who steadfastly holds TO the
progressive theory that ''thc sun do
moveu
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

The hospitaole Bourbon editor of the
Richmond Dispatch, IN behalf Of the
Democratic party, thus invites the
charming widow Butler TO throw her
self into the ouistretched arms of thai
organization. and repose her lovely head
upon its sympathetic BOSOM: Fbs
Democrat Butler is today The same
beast which he WAS rs Republican
while swinging the bloody shirt; he is
the same outcusi whose deeds during
the war branded him 10 the eyes OF a
christian people AS the greatest criminal
the world ever produced"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
Tpv THE RocKY MoIJSrATN R1Y-rE

TRY THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BTTTERs
They give tone to the stomach, stimu-
late the liver, relieve the over-taxed kid
neys and purify the blood They create
a healthy appetite, improve digestion,
invigorafe the muscular and nervous sys.
TENS and give brilliancy to the mind
Price, 81. For sale by Trimble s. Irwin,
druggists, sole agents for Emporia, Kan
sas. dS4feb13-w1Ofeb2O
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st. Louis Globe Democrat: There is
nothing in the Maine election to weaken
the allegiance or to sway the opinion Of
single honest Republican. 1t has
changed nothing in the value of the
principles for which the party has con-
tended, or of the ideas which it has en-
bodied. The Republican party still
holds the truths which 1t has indicated
In war and in peace, still represents all
that this country has that is worth the
having in the control of public affairs.
To every true Republican those princi-
pies are as sacred, those ideas as dear,
those truths as immutable as ever. They
lose none of their sanctiiy, none of their
influence, because a few thousand Re-
publicans in Maine have allowed them
selves To be misguided into following
the Greenback flag; on the contrary,
they are all the more sacred in defeat,
and the duty of vindicating them is all
the more sacred now that they are en-
dangcred.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

The Democrats Enumerated tbs Juvenile
Poultry Before the Period Of
Their Incubation.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

He said that he was not more particular
than other people, but he had noticed
that a clergyman at dinner without any
breeches was almost sure to excitere
mark
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

There are at present between 200 and
/ SEQ men at work on the Silver Cliff,
Col, extension Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, and the work Is being
vigorously pushed. The road il expect.
ed to be completed by November 10
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

New York Times: Maine is suppos-
sensible and honest communities of the
country. II has few large towns and
comparatively small proportion of the
class of voters usually swayed by pure
prejudice or by corruption. Yet it has
set the seal of ITS approval upon a trans
action which deserves its scornful indig-
nation, and which was intended TO make
elections a mockery and free govern
ment a game of chicanery and deceit.
Such result Is Of far greater import
ance than the influence which for the
time being will be exerted on the cur
rent OF public opinion in the presiden-
tial canvass. That influence may be
counteracted by the sober judgment of
the people, who will hardly see in 10
cal triumph of an unprincipled coalition
between Democrats and Greenbackers
reason for intrusting the national gov
eminent TO the former. But the evi.
dence of political decentralization of a
community like that Of Maine to such a
point that 1t is no longer capable of rec
ognizing and condemning rascality like
that Of last year, is something that must
'give" pause to every rejecting citizen.
New York Herald: The result in
Maine puts a new face on the situation,
BY imparting confidence TO the Demo
Gratis and alarming the Republicans II
VIII inhame the zeal and spur the activ
ity OF both. The country now enters or
contest more strenuous and heated
than has been witnessed In our politics
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
PRESS COMMENTS ON THE
MAINE ELECTION.

Topeka Commonwealth Seventy TO
one hundred thousand dollars" is what
the Democrats used to elect renegade
Republican governor of the state of
Maine. They hoped to turn the tide in
their favor in the October states, but the
result will be light to the contrary.
There are men enough in these states
who believe in free ballots to stamp out
such proceedings"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

New York TribIne: The Republi-
cans began the canvass with u majority
against them, supposing the Fusion
should hold together, of 492 votes. The
result thus far shows that, contrary TO
the expectations oC many, the Fusion
has renamed iirn. This refusal of a
large proportion of the voters Of the
state to condemn the grossest crime ever
attempted against an honest ballot is an
other proof that there is no iniquity
which the Democratic party will not APP
prove to elect Democratic ticket.
The closeness of the vote can, perhaps,
be more easily accounted for when some
things are remembered, which Republi-
cans have been apt to overlook in their
joy over the victory in Vermont. Maine
is only one of the few states in the
Union, II not the only state, which the
return of prosperity has not fully reach
ed. In conclusion the Tribune argues
that if this disappointment shall arouse
Republicans from their too great hope
fulness it Will be good fortune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
THE NEWS.
Yes. We Havs ilsard fr0m Maiae.

Davis Undoubtedly Elected.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

in "A long period The result in Maine
illustrates the fallacy Of political predic-
tons. We cannot suppose that gentle
man of the mark and standing of Senator
BIaine INDUCED in empty boas, and
bravado. He Is one Of the strewdest
and most experienced men in politics.
tic is supposed TO know Maine more
thoroughly than any other statesman
knows any state. He has recently visited
every corner of the state 10 deliver
speeches and counsel with local leaders,
and yet, with all these advantages, he
was quite mistaken, and he went to bed
last night astoundcd and mortified. The
Democratic leaders were also blind To
what was coming, for at the last mo-
ment they were devising pretexts for ex.
planning away Il Republican victory.
Politicians will continue 10 prophecy, but
the astutest OF them can see but little
way before their noses
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

Atchison Champion: In no other
state in the Union do political convic-
tons and principles sit so lightly upon
the voters. Hard money Democrats and
wild-eyed fiatists, Democratic copper
heads and Greenback Republicans, Nye's
enforced prohibitionists" and the advo-
Gates of free whisky, men who shout for
Hancock and those who bowl for Wea-
ver-all these elements marched together
under one banner, having only one pur-
pose in common, viz, the spells of Office.
Was there ever such an exhibition OF
political debauchery, such an utter lack
of convictions and principle? Can any
intelligent, selfrespecting citizen, who
loves his country and honestly believes
in its free institutions, think that good
can follow triumph won by such a
molly mob of antagonistic forcesr Is
this sample of the reform" the coun-
try is promised IL the opponents of the
Republicans triumph in Noyember2
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Kansas City Journal: After all Maine
appears to have gone this yearjust about
as it did last. There has been large
increase in the vote, but one party seems
TO have gained about rs much as the
other. Last year we all praised tho
Maine Republicans for their gallant
fight and we see no good reason why
with the same result this year We should
not do so now. We have not lost a vote
in Maine, and the fact should nerve us
to make the same fight elsewhere. five
do as well in all the northern states a:
our friends have done in Maine Garfield
will be elected.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24

GUS condition of the country, ard to see
that their influence is felt al the polls
In October and November.
An executive committee was appoint
ed to ask the cooperation of the nusi-
ness men Of Ohio in November
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The liCode- IA the Far West

SANTA FEE, Sept. ia duel between
q Ute and a Navajo took place last
Thursday A few friends of the Indians
were present The Ute was KILLED and
the Navajo seriously injured Knives
were the weapons used. The duel was
caused by both Indians wanting to mar
~ the same girl.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-12-24
Pntrrul Street Hcene.

A painful incident is related by the
COpgregationalist. A well-dressed
gOod-loOkipg woman was walking along
one Of the principal streets of Boston
the other day, when the passsrs- by
were shocked to ses her step, turn
round upon two poorly clad children
behind her and swear at them terribly,
while they, poor, dismay ed little things,
fed from her in alarm into the street.
They did not seem to belong to her, or
to have provoked her In any way, ami
whether she was insane, drunk or only
savsgely angry was not apparent. But
that sha actually should have cursed
those little ONES, and frightened them
brutally from her was fearful thing
ind eed.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-12-24
VIerIOl Throwing.

Vitriol throwing is still a popular
diversion in the home life of France.
The Paris papers have long accounts
of one Of the most recent outraCes Of tn is
kind. Anoystsr dealer after serving a
large restauranti in Champs EIysses ask
I'd waitress to breakfast with him
in the esting-roOm.
They were ct the table, when a
highly excited woman who had been
watching outside burst in aud re eproach-
ed the man With having abandoned her
and a young child. He stammersd *
cuses. She took a bottle ont of her
pocket and flung the contents at him
and the oyster girl. They uttered
piercing screams The waiter rushed
forward and held the woman's hand.
she tried to push him off, and in the
struggle fell. The vitriol remaining in
the bottle wpnt over her face. The cor
ros i've action was frightful.