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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The more conservative of the Grant
organs now figure up as the result of
their estimates total of 81 votes in
favor of third term. In this count
there are included ten votes from Indi-
ana were Grant cannot possibly hope for
more than four. Sew en- is the highest
number he can lay claim to from Geor-
gia, while his managers claim twelve.
In New Hampshire, where Grant has no
following, the boomers claim two dele
gates. In New York they claim seventy
delegates, while they will not get
more than fifty-siX at the outside.
Out of the iitY-e:ght which
they reckon upon from Pennsylvania
they are not sure of more than thirty
three. This makes reduction on the
Grant estimate of fifty-two votes, which
reduces his strength from 81 TO 265
votes. As $40 votes are necessary to II
choice, this leaves him ia votes short,
more than the entire number of delegates
20 which the states and territories yet tn
vote are entitled, and large proportion
of which are claimed for Blaine and 9TH
er candidates.
The result of the convention at Illinois
will simplify the situation somewhat, but
scarcely change the prospect of Grants
inability to take the cake ut the Chicago
convention.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
Every Republican paper in the third
congressional district favors the re cleo
ton of Tom Ryan to congress.

The Democrats in congress are taking
all the rope requisite for first-class sui
eide, and the store-keepers and gaugers
employee by tn, bureau of internal reve-
nue., are adding their testimony to that
already furnished by the marshals, in
proof of the superior economy which has
stood in the way of the passage Of neces-
sary appropriation bills, thereby closing
the courts and retarding the machinery
ofthe government in its various branches.
BY the lacking of an obnoxious rider up
on the special deficiency bill, the mar
shals have been kept out of their fees for
nearly year, and the courts have been
Obliged to suspend in many places, and
now the appropriation for the payment
of storekeepers and gaugcrs being ex-
hausted, and the deficiency estimate of
$3JO.OOO, demanded by the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, when he
found this fund running low, not hav.
ing been made, another class of public
servants will suffer injustice at the
hands of partisan Legislators. 1t is said
that everything in this world has been
ordained for some wise purpose, and
when We consider the number of val
liable campaign documents which the
Democratic congress has furnished tho
Republican party within the last two
years. we incline to the belief that ever
Bourbon supremacy has its beneficen
nses
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat says
that the anti-third.term talk has disap,
peared from all sensible papers. We
suppose that this enterprising journal
has made a thorough canvass of the field,
and if its statement in this regard is as
accurate as its estimates of the presiden
tial situation, it is obviously worthy OF
all acceptation. But when we come to
measure the Globe Democrat with such
papers rs the New York Tribune, the
Springfield Republican, the Chicago
Tribune, the Rochester Democrat, the
Cincinnati Commercial, the Boston
Transcript, the New York Mail, and
scores of other anti-Grant journals, we
fail to see that they suffer irreparably in
comparison with the red hot Grant
boomer which, with sublime cheek, ar
rogates to itself and its third-term CO.
temporaries monopoly of all the politi-
cal acumcn in the country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
STATE ITEMS.


Leavenwo.th is to have water works.
Morris county claims a population Of
1900.
Bunker Hill is to have sec, 700 -four
ing mill.
Saline county will exhibit at the Bis
marck grove fair.
The fruit on the uplands in jefferson
county is all right.
Over four thousand head of cattle are
grazing ON the Fort Harker reserva-
iion
A car load of exodites will soon leave
Coffey county for their old homes in
Texas.
Willard Davis will develop more
strength for governor than many people
imagine.
Manhattan people have been excayat-
ing cyclone cellars, in which to take
refuge during wind storms.
Last year the farmers of Ottawa cOun-
ty raised sos worth of produce for each
man, woman and child in the county.
The men who have bet new hats on the
passage ofthe amendment are consulting
the barometers with feverish interest.
The accidental discharge of pistol in
the hand of Chas. Spurrier. of Augusta,
has crippled Miss Slime, of that place,
for life.
The Union Pacific railway has offered
employment TO 500 men among the suf'
fering people of western Kansas, at 81.
25 per day.
An eight-year old son of Mr.. j. n
Dickey of Ellis county, lately fell in d
we'll fifty-three feet deep and was taken
out uninjured.
The Reporter says that Ellsworth
county will produce II half million bush
els of wheat this year, the average yield
10 the acre being eleven bushels.
A Caldwell cattle droyer drank quar-
of Texas whisky and died. If he hac
gotten away with half the quantity anC
lived the item would have amounted II
something.
Our people should not cease hoping
and praying for rain. The people o
Dodge City have just been made glad by
delightful shower after a dry interva
of nine months.
The Salina Herald says that Thos
Cavanaugh obtained from one of III
Cottswold sheep, two-year old buck,
fleece If 90 pounds and IL ounces
From ten sheep he clipped 81 pounds o
wool. For the long wool 40 cents wa
J given.
The druggists of Sterling, Rice county
propose to live up to the strict letter o
the law regarding the sale or use of lie
uor. They have boxed up every particl
of spurious liquids in their establish
ments and will not use or dispose of
drop in any shape or form, or under an
circumstances.
The cheapest exhibition of generosit
that the world ever saw is the reductio
in rates, by the Kansas railroads, of tn
fare to the Democratic state cOnventiO
to be held in Topeka on the Goth. Thos
obliging thOroughfares might carry al
the Democrats in Kansas at half far,
and then save enough money tn exten
their different lines across the entiI
continent.
3 Last Sunday four mcn-Tom Ryan
/ Andrew COffey, John Mcdonnell an
2 Pat ACCOMMODATED riding in a sprin
, wagon between FredOnia and New A
7 bany. Being drunk, they frightened I'll
, horses by shouting so that they IA
4 away, capsizing the vehicle. Andre
COffey, broke his neck, the other thrt
t being badly bruised. The dead ma
!. and his companions were stone cutter
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
Educational Notes

The Missouri state normal school
building was injured to the amount of
$500 by the recent storm in the state
One of the fine educational structures
of yarmouth. N. s., was destroyed by
fire recently. 1t is supposed TO be the
work of an incendiary.
The school children of St. Louis ten
dered superintendent Harris a grand
ovation April oath. Mr.. Harris has re-
signed his position, and will leave for
Europe in a few weeks. He has had
charge of the schools for the past thir-
teen years. The kindergarten has be-
come so popular in St. Louis that the
cOlored citizens have petitiOned the
school boards to establish it in their
schools. The authorities are consider
ing how to comply with this request.
The school laws of Indiana makes
each civil township and incorporated
city or town n district municipal cor
poration for school purposes. One Off
Ger takes care OF the educational affairs
of the township. The township thus
becomes one of the units in the school
system. This plan is greatly preferred
to the small district plan, aud is admir-
ed by other states where steps are being
taken to adopt it.
Secretary Dickinson, in speaking on
Supervision" before the Plymouth
county, (AIass) School Officers Associa-
ton, says
"Only trained or experienced teachers
can properly decide upon the aualifica-
tons of teachers, or can fully understand
the proper relations of different studies,
or adapt them to the developing powers
of the mind of the child; and few per-
sons not experienced in schoolkeeping
can tell just what they look upon when
they visit school, hence the necessity
for experts as superintendents The plan
of uniting several towns under one su-
perintendent was presented as the most
practicable way of improving the
schools"
The city of Philadelphia has erected q
splendid building on the grounds of the
national exposition and dedicated it to
industrial training. Prof Walter Smith
director of Industrial drawing in the
state of Massachusetts has been asked
to plan the course of instruction, nom-
mate the the directors and fix his salary.
Teachers receive an average salary of
$60.67 per month in the new territory of
Montana. The average wages paid IN
Kansas is about one-half that amount
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

1t is now definitely ascertained that
Horatio Seymour will take the Demo
cratic nomination for president if Mr..
Tilden is acquiescent, if he can get it on
the first ballot, and if he is called to the
front by the spontaneous uprising oil an
enthusiastic party. Exactly. That
word "ir'' is a very small conjunction,
but little as it is, il contains in its two
letters all the pith and marrow of the
traditional episode known TO naturalists
as the "dog and rabbit story"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The idioiic argument that, in the event
of the passage Of the constitutional
amendment there will be more whiskey
sold and more drunkards made than nm
der the present system OF regulating the
liquor traffic, does not tally very accu-
rately with the super-human efforts
which are being made by the bummers
and gin singers to defeat il. So long as
the Citizens Protective Union bears
down upon the measure with such earnest
gravity, it is very safe for the people to
r. Ii
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The consumption of water in St.
Louis, Us shown by table carefully
compiled for use in recent congress
sional speech, is below the average of
twenty cities of the United States and
Canada. This readily accounts for the
fact that all the brewers of that city
dwell in houses with brown stone fronts
while they live, and are buried in silver
collins when they die.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

During the past two or three weeks
there has been the usual amount of false
prophets to be found declaring that we
were TO have drOuth and that the coun-
try would soon be beyond redemption,
but last Saturday, just about the time the
farmers began to think we were really
needing rain, it came, just as it always
does in Kansas, the same as in other
countries. Then on Sunday. when the
gentle Zephyrs from the south were
warming the earth and making the grass
grow at the rate of four inches per day,
it rained again, and continued through
Sunday night, and already we can hear
those same grumblers saying: Now it's
going TO be too wet" An abundant crop
is assured though.-Howard COurant
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The recent cold blooded massacre by
the gentle Utes of prospecting party
near the headwaters of the Gunnison.
rumors of which have found their way
into the public prints, is vIndication of
Mr.. Schurz' Indian policy which should
not escape the attention of the admins
iration. 4 new requisition for rifles and
blankets would now be in order.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

A favorable report has been made IN
the house on the memorial asking for
the privilege of extending the Santa Fe
railroad through the Indian territory,
and IL is thought that the legislation req
uisitc for the accomplishment Of this en-
terprise will he enacted by congress.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The Globe Democrat substantially
narrows down the contest at the Spring
Medill, Charley Farwell and Boss Hes
singon the one hand and Jack Logan and
his coadJutors on the other. But when
this prophetic and astute journal wit
nesses the people of the Sucker state in
their stalwart feat of Overturning the
machine" it VIII find that its measure
of the issue has fallen far short of the
actual and grand proportions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
THE NEW PULLMAN CAR WORKS.

The Pullman Car company have, al
last, made official announcement of the
site for their great car works. Ken.
sington, suburb of this city, has drawn
the prize. These works undoubted
ly will be the finest on the continent, and
in connection with them Will be estab.
lished paper car wheel mandatory
The combined works will cost about 81 |,
O0,0O0, and give employment to 2,OOC
skilled workmen. In connection with
the manufactures between 300 and 40C
handsome two story brick cottages will
be erected; probably, also, fine hotel
The town will be known as Pullman
The great Corliss Centennial engine will
drive the machinery.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

d. V. of the other, to sort out his various
initials without confusion? Altogether
the situation seems alarming, and it is
the duty of conservative people to call a
halt before the time arrives when the en-
tire adult population of the country for
sake their alters and their fires to pass
all their days and nights in the third
story of building with the window cur.
tains down.-Atchison Champion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

Marmaduke for Governor seems TO
be the sign by which the Missouri
Democracy expect to conquer at the state
polls this fall. The candidate who has
been named after fast horse, evidently
goes into the canvass under advan-
tageous auspices which are very obvious
TO the man who has observed the drift of
popular sentiment in Democratic Mis-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

An order is reported to have been re-
ceived by the Winchester arms company
for fifteen to twenty million cartridges
for the Chinese government. This>is the
first order, it is said, ever given by the
Chinese government to foreigners for
the manufacture of cartridges.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The movement indicated by the bank
report, says the New York Mercantile
Journal of the 18th, shows increasing
ease in the money market The deposits
are increased by $5,75O,sOO, the specie
by $685., 900 and the legal tenders by
$243, 100. These changes result in gain
of $2,790, 400 in the surplus reserve,
which now stands at $6,O61 $50 in place
of $3,277 ,450 last reported.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

.Janauscheck is furious because some
enterprising druggists have been using
her advertising busts for the purpose Of
displaying electric stomach pads in their
show windows. We should suppose the
great tragcdienne might stand il so long
as the public fail to kick against the
snactacIe
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
Nntica of Publication.

UNITED STATES LAND UFFICE.I
TOPEKA. Kans., May 3. IssO. !
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim
and secure final entry thereof. and that said
proof will be made before the Clerk of the
Court of Lyon county, Kansas, at the county
seat, on Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1880,
viz: VIM. Burnes, homestead entry No
4, 297, for the northwest quarter of the south
west quarter of section 2 township 20, range
10 east. and he names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upen and
cultivation of said tract, viz: John Crowner,
}. M Crowncr, Il. d Kennedy and T.. T..
Kennedy, all of Emporia, Lyon County, Kan
w. H..EITZPATRICk.
w19;5 Register
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
$4,000 Acres !

Having personally inspected each quarter
section of our 1900 acre tract on the east line
Of Lyon county, between the A, T. 4 ) r.
and the H.. X. q t. railroads, and IN ade full
platS and descriptions of the same, we are
now ready to ansW er all Inquiries in regard
to this immense tract of unimPIOved land
soon TO become dotted with thriving prairie
homes. This tract is mostly good high roll
ing prairie, with stock water on q number Of
sections, coal on some. and is mostly good,
tillable. productive soil, with cheap iuel
plenty Of building stone, near to markets and
railroad stations, with ample range for stock,
and within . few hours railroad ride OF Kan
cas- City. 1t IL offered at both cash and time
prices. from "a 70 - pc" acre. and Is admira-
bly, situated for colony purposes. or for old
friends coming west to choose localities near
each other. Plenty OF good coal ut 3 to 10
cents per bushel solves the fuel question on
this tract.
This is q portion Of the Old Sac and Fox
Indian reservation, and is > part of the lands
now belonging to the Reading Iron Works
Of Pennsylvania, and formerly known rs the
McManns lands-on which land some of the
best and most highly improved stock and
grain farms in this county are now located
THE NEWS COMPANY,
dGw Emporia. Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
Meeting of the Board of Equalization.

meetlng OF the board OF EquaIIzatIOn.
Notice is hereby given that the board of
County Commissioners of Lyon county, Kan
sas, will meet Board of Equalization on
the 18th day of June. A. ID. 1880, at the Office of
the County Clerk, in the city OF EmporiH, in
said county. and sit not exec eding ten days
Said board will then and ut that time hear
and determine all matters pertaining to the
assessment of the real and personal property
of said county for the year 1850.
All persons feeling themselves aggrieved
by the action oil township or city assessors
may appear before said Board of Equaliza-
ton and have any errors in tho valuation of
may demand.
Witness my hand this 5th day of May. ~
ID. 1880. Wa F. EWING,
Wl9t4 County Clerk.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CON-
VENTION

A delegate convention OF the Republicans
OF the third Congressional district Of the
state OF Kansas. will assemble in the opera
house In Newton, Kansas. June z5d. 1880. al
10 O'Clock a.. IN. of said day. for the purpose OF
placing In nomination n candidate for con
grees from said district, to lie voted upon nj
the election I'm November. 1880 The basis OF
representation In said convention will be one
delegate and one alternate for each Of the
following named counties, also one delegate
and one alternate for every $50 votes, or O
traction OF $50 votes, cast for John Francis a
State Treasurer. TT the November election an
1873. which apportionmcnt gives the counties
entitled 20 representation the following NUN
her NJ Il Rnrh.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The intimation that the inevitable
woman figures in one of the charges pre-
fered against Rev. Kalloch will not be
regarded in the light of a startling reve-
lation by parties who are familiar with
his Kansas history.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

Il Is recommended that the primaries he
held June 18TH and the county conventions
Tor the purpose OF electing delegates 70 this
convention be held June 18th, 1850, ut surh
hour and In such manner n the county com.
mutecs shall direct. IL IL also recommended
that none but regularly elected delegates or
Ia the convention, II. A. MILLIN6TON.
AtteSt:-J. W. ADY Sec'y. Chairman
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice for Publication.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. .

AUFhAAs huLII n PHI II, IooU
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim
and secure final entry thereof, and that sand
proof will be made before the clerk of the
court of Lyon county, at the county seat. on
the 22d day of May, 1870. viz: Silas
B HOvius, homestead entry No. 345, for west
half of northeast quarter of section twenty
two. towdship twenty south of range ten
east, and he names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said tract, viz: James Spill
man. ID. w. Eastman, o. J. Russell and Z.
X. Russell, all of Emporia. Kansas.
W. II. FITZPATRICK,
Xl7t5 RaRistar
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

Fifteen miles OF new sewers have been
laid in Memphis, and by careful sanitary
regulations that city hopes TO ward of
the dreaded visitation of Yellow Jack
this simmer
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The Empress of Russia has ten visits
a day from her physicians AID still
lives. What a constitution the royal
dame nust have
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The first cargo of Indian corn ever
sent to Russia, will 60 forward by the
Norwegian barqUe, Zetland. which was
chartered few days ago for Reval, a
port on the Baltic. This is another evil
dence Of the growing favor with which
this cereal is held in Europe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

Pupils in the schools in pursuit of
their studies, should there be taught the
dignity and necessity of labor, and its
vital relations 10 all human excellence
and progress, the evils of Incidence. the
absHrdity of the present passion for city
life, and the widespread aversions to
manual labor.
A practical knowledge of some indus
trial pursuit is an important element IN
intellectual culture.-EX.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
For Sale.

One span of Young Horses (mare and geld
ing).
One red short horn Bull.
Poland China rigs.
10000 Blackberry shoots.
5000 GOoseberry Shoots.
j. v. RANDOLPH,
Wilt EmpOria, Kan.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

The annual normal institute of Lyon
county will be held in the new normal
building, commencing July 9th.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21

Several schools have already handed
in work for our county fair, but as yet
no work for the state fair has reached
us. Many counties in the state are max
ing preparations for the exhibit at Bis
marck, near Lawrence, and we hope the
pupils of Lyon county will do their
part to insure the success of the enter
prise. Iowa, Illinois and Indiana are
to have educational departments at the
state fairs, and Kansas is determined not
TO be behind in this matter.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
SCHOOL Tories.
CONDUCTED BY LYON COUNTY TEACHERS.

Items and communications Tor this depart
ment to be sent to o. i. Wharton,
EmpOTia, Kansas.