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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
HERE AND THERE.

1t is no wonder that the wooden In
dams Of indianapolis laugh, with Bill
English posing On ihe street corners as
a friend of the wOrkingman.
The Topeka Capital. very sensible
paper in the main, has the temerity to
impIore the Kansas City Times to stop
lying. 1t might, with equal pFcpriety,
ask the fish in the Kaw river to stop
swimming,
A very Legitimate reason for abe phe-
nomenal activity of Kansas politicians,
is found in the fact that no material for
pantaloons has ever been devised which
would conduce TO the comfort of Sc
dentary position upon barbed wire
fence.
George Eliot IL about TO retire from
the world of letters and devote her de-
clining years to the nurture and admoni.
ton of her youthful husband. There
are occasional cases where genius Is
very closely allied 10 strong maternal
instinct
Among the list OF patents FcGaGtly is
sued TO Missouri, we notice one granted
to a 81, Louis man for keeping the corks
in bottles. OF course the Democracy
have been prompt 10 recognize in this
device an internal campaign scheme &c
defeat Hancock.
All the celebrated flyers that have
made their mark on the eastern circuit
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THE PRIMARIES


Next Friday, August 20, is the day for
the holding OF primary elections in the
various precincts and wards for the
election of delegates TO the county con
vention.
The delegates then elected will meet
in county convention on the 25th inst,
and the work TO be performed is the
nomination OF candidates for probate
Judge, county attorney, county school
superintendent, clerk of the district
court, the election of a new county cen
trail committee, and tic selection of
twelve delegates to the judicial district
convention and twelve delegates to the
senatorial district convention to be held
in this>city on the 3lst OF August.
4 county commissioner is also to be
nominated in the Third commissioner
district.
The delegates from each Of the two re
preventative districts are also 10 elect
three delegates to the state convention,
and nominate candidates for representa-
tive.
IT will be seen That the WORK Is IN
portant, and needs the careful considera-
ton and prompt attention of every Re
publican in the county. The time for
holding the primaries is 8 O'Clock p. m,
in the country, and 7:3O p. m. IN the
city. The day and hours were selected
by the committee with view of accom-
modating al classes of yclers, and when
it was believed there would be less con
gict with other duties than at any otheS
time.
We are glad 20 hear that the primaries
are likely to be largely attended. Every
Republican can afford to give one OF
two hours TO this work, and To use his
influence 20 have it well done.
Let every delegate come uPto the con
vention determined TO do the best thing
he can for the county and the party iS
represents. There should be no weak
places in the ticket this year.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

Wall Street
NEW YORK. August 10.
Government Bonds-Quiet
Railroad Bonds-Active.
State Securities-Dull
Money-sCG8 per cent, closing at 2.
Prime Mercantile Papcr-40G5 per cent
Live Stock Markets.
ST. LOUIS, August 10.
YorKers, - s5Gi %; packing, 81 9Oeo5 il;
butchers, s. I5Gg5 30
,Cattle-Receipts, 400; shipments, 400.
cows, s. 25Ga75; Texans, = c5ss IS. .
Sheep-Choice, 80 OO04; receipts, 1000; ship
ments, none.
KANs AS CITY. August Is
Cattle-Choice heavy steers, 50 I5G3 81 fair,
g 5o93 .. cows. s. 30 2 co; grass Texans
Hogs Receipts. 2.6s6; shipments, s2s
Market firm; sales at - SOG4 G21<; bulk Al
Sheep-Reeeipts, s; shipments, -:
market quiet; natives, 81 75e53 %.
Grain and Produce Markets.
KANSAS CITY, August 49,
Wheat-RecciptS. &c ass bushels; shipments
81. III DO. Market weak. No 2. I9e; No. 3
Corn -Reeeipts. 4,44I bushels; shipments
1884 do No. mixed. axe; No whit
Oats-No. 2. &c.
Rye-Nominal.
Bariey-Nominal.
EggS-Firm at lie per dozen
Bufter-Choice, IL 1S01zc
CHICAGO. August Is.
Wheat-No. aspiring. Sc; No. 3, soc
Corn-3s5<1 35c-
Oats 4fS24zzc.
Rye-6sLc.
Barley-75c-
Pork-$l6 151I6 so
Bu'k Meats-shoulders. s. 10; short riL
$ 30. short clear, g 50
LaFd-$7 90.
ST. LOUIS, August Is.
Flour Choice, 81 S0G5 30; family, 81 6OEs4 20
Wheat-No: red. 941SG9zk; No. Q, s6s0s6
No. 4, do, s2KQS4c.
Corn-355zQ25
Oats-25kc.
Rye-TOLc.
Pork-Sl6 co
Drv Salt Msats-S5 ., 30, Go.
Baeon-$5 SIX, Q 90, 0 20.
Larf-$7 IS
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Congressman De La Matyr has been
interviewed rs TO his experience in Ala
bama. When asked whether the state
ment was true that the negroes had
worked and voted with the Democrats,
he replied: THAT Is the report, but l
do not believe it. | had splendid OPP
portunilies To know the negro sentiment
and am certain it is all against the
Democracy. The colored people are not
Democrats" IL is source
OF encouragement to reflect that
while the leaders OF the Greenback par
" close their ears and the avenues TO
reason against all arguments in favor
of an honest currency, their fatuity on
this question does not obscure the medi-
UNI through which other important is
sues must be surveyed, Mr.. De La
Malyr and General Weaver may not have
found much in their visit to Alabama to
inspire hope in the success of the Green
back ticket in that state, but they mt
least cut their cyetceth on the supreme
issues in IL present canvass, and have
realized how utterly their party has
prostiiuted itself by consenting TO a
coalition with al organization whose
success is founded upon the disfranchise-
ment of the loyal voters of at least five
states of the national Union.
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are headed for Kansas City. This vii
afford Doc. Mumford the opportunity h,
has so long craved, of ascertaining
whether, as has been claimed for him by
his friends, he really can lie as fast as a
horse can trot-
The latest virtue discovered by the
Democratic journals in the Bourbon can
didate for vice president, is that he pays
his own debts and compels others to do
the same. Their inadvertancy in fail
ing to state that they are indebted 10 Re
publican newspapers for the information,
is probably pardonable under all the cir
cumstances.
Built on the Bluffs is the title of a
new novel that is creating IL sensation IN
the literary world. The publication has
not yet reached our table, but from its
name it is quite rational TO infer that the
story is not wholly unconnected with q
Kansas City man who has recently rear.
ed n colossal fortune by devotlng his
time and talent 20 careful prosecution
of the profession of draw poker
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A WOMAN AMONG THE SNAKES.

Ferdinand Ruel, a Holyoke French
man, is collector of snakes. He has
been in the business some time, selling
the snakes to collectors and natural his
tory museums. He always draws the
poison fangs as soon rs the animals are
captured so that they are no longer
dangerous, but even then they would not
be considered very agreeable playthings
in Il family. Prunier's wife, however,
seems to have good deal less than the
natural dread of such things, If the story
he tells of her is true. He had fourteen
live rattlesnakcs on hand at one time,
and kept them in large box in the room
where he and his wife slept. One night
when he was away from home the whole
menagerie got loose and the woman was
awakened by feeling the frightful ami
mails crawling over her.
She sensed the situation at once, but
kept her presence of mind in Il remark.
able manner. Instead of rushing for tho
first door and fleeing from the house to bC
| followed by the venomless bat otherwise
| healthy snakes, as almost any mortal
| woman or man either would have done
she was more mindful of her husband,
property, and determined to recapturc il
| Striking light she got possession of thu
| big wooden tOngs which her husband
used in his profession and then for tw'
hours, clothed in the flowing robes o
night, she had q circus all by herself, sue
| ceeding before the curtain fell, in bag
| ging every serpent of them. Since tina
| night Mrs Prunier insisted on maxim:
| the woodshed do service as n geological
garden rather than her sleeping apart
| meut
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OVER THE STATE.

The Topeka Commonwealth seems to
harbor the suspicion that Governor st.
John, considered in the light of pollti-
cal magnet, Is not u shining success.
Seventeen counties have already made
preparations 10 compete for the county
premiums offered by the Bismarck Fair
association.
The political thermometer in Kansas
nowadays never manifests the slightest
indication of falling below 10a degrees
in the shade.
We acknowledge the receipt of editors
tickets to the Western National fair to
be held at Bismarck grove IN September
and hope to be present.
The friends of the constitutional
amendment think that the multiplicity
of stories of Kansas citizens who have
been bitten by rattlesnakcs, is becom-
ing monotonous.
The present outlook seems to indicate
that Providence alone knows who will
be the next governor of Kansas, although
several of the candidates before the state
convention fondly imagine that they
share the secret.
1t is becoming matter Of some in
terest with the public to know how much
Mayor Tomlinson, of Atchison, pays the
Kansas City Times per line, for the per-
sonal abuse with which that journal is
at present complimenting him.
The rumor that Major Inman, of the
| Chronoscope, has pledged himself TO
modify the meteorological influences of
/ Kansas III the event of his election to
/ the office of governor, has been pro-
! nounced upon excellent authority, a
/ campaign lie emanating tHom the st.
John following.
1t is reported that the Topeka rolling
mill company, which means the Union
Pacific and A. T. & S. F. railroad com,
panIcs, have purchased about thirty
acres of land adjoining the present
property of the company in North To
pcka, and will proceed TO erect extern
sivc additions TO the mills.
] EuTtku w * ldNC iCSCANSO "a iSl-
ter from Mr.. Doud, the editor o. the
sun, dated Emporia, August 10, in
which he says he had just had an inter
view with Mr. l.. Severy, superintendent
of the X. c. E. &c $. r. r., regarding the
probability of telegraph line from En-
poria to Howard. and Mr.. Severy au
thorizcd him TO say to the people OF
Greenwood county, that Il requisition
had already been made by the railroad
company to build the line, and that il
would be put up in a very short time.
Howard Courant: An immense
amount of hay is being put up and ship
ped from Severy this fall. The Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe company has large
steam hay press there, and the people
of Severy and surrounding country arr
supplying all the hay the company car
handle 1t looks like old war times Il
see ricks of hay quarter of mile long
standing all over one side of the tow
site. Severy and her people will FealiEl
good sum of money from this source
as the hay sells readily there at 50 pc
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DEMOCRATIC sPONTANEITY.


The spontaneous boom which, it was
fondly anticipated by the Democracy,
would follow the nomination of Han
cock nj Cincinnati, has failed to mate
rialize. The amorous llittle tableau be-
tween John Kelley and Mr.. Fellows, OF
the regular New York delegation, was
very pretty and exceedingly novel, but
it has transpired That, aside from its dra-
matte effcst, it was little more than
futile dalliance," and that the profes-
sions of Cancellation between the two
factions scarcely survived their home
ward journey. The repeated snubs TO
Tammany by the Irving Hall Democrats
were not to be endorsed in tame submls-
sion and silence forever, and the Celtic
chief OF the former faction has finally
donneCt his war paint, and the Tammany
state committee, without consultation
with the regular or Tildcn committee,
have issued a call for a state
convention Ia be held the first
week in September TO nominate a
Tammany candidate for Chief Justice OF
the Court of Appeals, to fill the place
made vacant by the death of Judge San
ford f. Church, some weeks ago. This
step has fanned into flame all the
smOldering embers of hatred between
the rival factions, and the fight between
the followers of Tilden and Kelley is
more bitter to-day than it was a year
ago.
In the states of West Virginia, Tennes-
| see and Georgia the Democrats have two
state tickets in the field, the respective
supporters of which are hopelessly di
vided on the public credit and Other
| questions In Indiana the sound money
| Democrats have been outraged TO the
verge of resentment by the nomination
of bowling infiationist, and there are
the most substantial reasons for believ
ing that the Republicans will carry the
state in October
The notable inconsistencies between
the record of the Democratic party anc
its Cincinnati platform are bearing frui
everywhere, and the Great Bourbon love
feast, which the political seers surveyed
from the lofty summit of their earl,
hopes at Cincinnati has turned out Il
be a family row whose ardent amenitie
rival the famous attractions of Denny
brnoly fair
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New York Tribune: Sow u


New York Tribune: Now that il
seeks the confidence and votes fthe peo-
pie, the Democratic party claims TO be
the champion of specie payments. The
proyerb that liars should have long
memories might well BE- amended so as
TO read liars and Democrats. Sir. Blaine,
who is always sure of his facts, shows in
his Bath speech that the three important
acts which brought us sound currency
the Public Credit Act of 1869, the
Funding Act of1s7O, and the Resumption
Act of 1S75-were all resisted by the en-
tire Democratic party in Congress. He
shows also that Mr.. Bayard aud Mr..
Thurman, the two Democratic leaders
who have been most conservative on the
financial question, supported bill that
would have paid off the debt ut from 80
TO 60 cents on the dollar, and thus dishon-
ored the Nation and blasted its credit.
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FRIEND OF the POOR MAN.

FRIEND OF THE FOOh MAN
The New York Tribune of the 12th,
copies from the Cincinnati Commercial
an array of facts which will be of inter-
est TO the eulogists Of Bill English, the
candidate for vice president ou the
Democratic ticket a representative of
the latter paper has been delying inc
the court house records 1T Indianapolis.
and has found that by means Of fore
closures and judgments VIM. IL. English
has come into the possession of nearly
eight hundred pieces of firstclass real
estate by a system of extortinn that
would shame the soul.less avarice OF
a ShylOck. The victims of this "friend
of the poor man" in Indiana embrace ar
tisans, widows, orphans ard men of all
classes and conditions of life, who have
been ground between the upper and
neither milestone by this financial vam-
pire and have barely escaped with their
hearts blood. This, thea, is the manner
the bar'l, upon which English's claim to
the favor of his party is wholly founded
was filled. And the funds which are ex
pecied to furnish the sinews of war "a
the party which vaHnts itself upon its
devotion To 'the people" were obtained
by piIlaging the laborer, deirauding Tho
orphan, and robbing widows houses
The data in proof of these statements arr
furnished by the Tribune, and would
cover nearly two pages of THE NEWS.
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JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

A delegate convention of the Republicans
of the Firth Judicial District OF the STATE OF
Kansas, comprising the counties OF CoAey,
Greenwood, Usage and Lyon. will be held In
the court house. in the city of Emporia. Lyon
county, Kansas, on Tuesday. the 3lst uay OF
August, A. ID. 1880, at the hour of II o'clock
m. for the purpose of nominating candidate
for the ofilcC OF Judge of said Filth Judicial
District and transacting such other business
proper to come before said convention
The basis OF representation in said convch
tion shall be proportionatcly the same as that
fixed by the State Central Committee In its
call for the Rcpubll Can state Convention OF
September LIST. 1850. and the delegates and al
ternates are apportioned q said counties as
follows: Corey six co.. Greenwood six 90.
Usage twelve (l2), Lyon twelve ti2); ANA the
delegates and altcrnates from each OF said
counties shall be elected by the several county
conventions, at such times ms may be detetm-
ined upon by the several county central coai-
mittees CT said counties.
CHARLES u. GRAVES,
Chairman Rep. Co. Cen Lom Coney Go
II. G. RlZER,
Pro tenn CHI Rcp Co Cen Com. Grccnw'd Go
d. w. JACKSON.
Chairman Rep. Co. Cen com. Usage CO
T.. BORfOS,
Chairman Rep. Go. Cen Com. Lyon 60.
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Road Notice.

Notice IS hereby given that Il petition has
been presented to the board of county com
missioners Of Lyon county. Kansas, asking
for the location ola county road, as follows,
TO- wit: Commencing at the southeast corner OF
the west halt of the northeast uartcr OF Sec
tion 10, towns hip 10, range 10. Lyon county,
Hansas; thence running due west three
fOurths of n mile to intcrscct the county line
road running north and south on the line he
tween Lyon and Chase eountie> And upon
said proposed road the board appointed the
following viewers: q c. Hiatt, NJ Landley
and Il Dixon, To meet mt the beginning OF
said road on the Sth day oil September, A ID
1850, at 10 O'Clock a m anu in conjunction with
tn county surveyor, TO view locate and survey
said road. and to give all parties u hearing.
BY order of the board. VIM f. EWING,
w:54&35 County Clerk
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row for governor A bitter campaign
with senator Hill leading the opposi-
-ion Is anticipated
Concerning TIE Spanish 0utrages.
WASHINGTON, d. C., Aug. I4.-Pre-
vious TO leaving for Winsnr, vermont.
the secretary of state concluded his ex-
animation of the alleged insults 10 the
American vessel in Spanish waters, and
addressed the communication to the Span-
ish government.
Not Dead.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. I1-There is
not WORD Of truth in The specials sent
from this city last night, to the effect
that Proctor Knott had been killed in
Qullett county Knott is at home IN
Lebanon.
ROumania's Independence.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE Prince
of Romania will soon send a special en-
voy to the United States To announce
the independence OF Roumania.
L. s. Marshal Killed.
DENNIsoN, Aug. 14.-United States
Marshal Willard AyIes was shot and
instantly killed, Wednesday, at Chero-
kee Town, Chickasaw Nation, by ne
gro whom he attempted 10 arrest.
An Ex-Governor Dead.
| AUGUSTA. Ga, Aug 17.-Ex Governor
| Herschel V. Johnson died AT his resi-
dence in Jefferson county last night.
aged 6S.
| Will Receive Attention.
BosToN, Aug. 1T--Secretary of State
Evarts, writes that the case of Rev j
w. Parsons, a missionary murdered on
Turkish territory, Will have the earnest
attention of the United States govern
ment.
Two Indictments
DEADwooD, Aug. 1.-THE L. s. grand
jury returned two indictments against X
o. Adams. eX-postmastcr, for embeZzle
ment of S11,93S of government funds
Adams was placed under $l2 600 bond:
TO appear for trial.
Two-M Minute Cyclone.
| GALVESTON, Aug. 1.-THE New:
special says: 4 two minute cyclone a
Gallon demolished twenty-five houses
Five persons were injured.
General News Briefs
General Grant was handsomely re
ceived at Denver on the 18th.
Hail destroyed 100000 hills of tobac
co for Virginia planter near Danvili
on the 18th.
a large number of business building
were destroyed by fire at Eureka, Neva
da, on the Eth
, The steamship Duran, which arrive;
} in New York from Bremen on the l4th
: brought 81 ,367, $50 in specie.
: The long range rife match between
Canada and the United States took p!ac
!; at Creedmore on the 18th. In the 80
yards match the score stood: Amer
cans, 49, Canadians, 421; in the 90
yards match, Americans, 416; Can:
diopS AQ-s
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Tic people of Okolona feeling,
doubtless, that the editor of their local
Democratic paper has been a trille too
ardent in the zeal he has manifested in
the good work of collaborating sectional
nsperitieS," have passed series of reso-
lutions dcnouncing Herman as gettcr-
up of sensational matter, n notorious liar,
coward and drunkard, and characteriz-
ing his articles, and especially that por-
ton of them which refers 10 the black
race and their treatment by the southern
people rs a base and malicious libel up
on an honorable and just people. In
the language of Wackford Squeers,
"hcrc's richness" Honorable and just"
is good, but the entire dodge is too aw-
fully at;cnun;cd, and the plea that the
Okolona States is not fair exponent
of southern sentiment can never win so
long as Wade Hampton, Ben Hill and
wiper" BLACKBURN have the free use of
their mouths. 1t certainly cannot be
denied that Herman is tritie too radical
in his journalistic tendencies, but it is
worse than futile dalliance" to deny
that he is not in sympathy with the po-
litical spirit of his locality, so long as
the Democratic maiorities in the south
ern states hold up 60 their present re.
g'Ilation standard.
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The Fort Scott Jail Mobbed, -SaIaciou
Sacrllege in New Mexico, &C., &c.


Occupying ChicagO-The First Day Of the
Triennial COnclaye.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16-The first day of
the triennial conclave of the Knights
Templar of the United States opens
bright and cool, with every prospect of
pleasant weather throughout Trains
with excursion parties are arriving at
the depots at every hour of the day, and
every train is crowded to its utmost Ca
pacIty with knights and their visitors.
The streets present a scene of unusual
animation, especially along the line of
march, where the ornamentation is pro-
fuse. In the vicinity of the lake front,
where the tents are pitched and arches
erected, the rush has been continued
since yesterday, except for few hours
after midnight Here the throng is al
most impenetrable at times, and the en-
thusiasm is increased with every fresh
arrival of Il commandery. The various
depOts are all supplied with escorts for
the incoming knights, who are shown at
once to their quarters. All the trains ar
rived late on account of the numerous
special and excursion trains which are
running The brilliant display made
by isolated Knights, who occasionally
marched through the streets, is but
small Indication of what the magnificent
DOdl VIII WDCu lOSClAG1
in the parade of Tuesday, and the sub
seouent drill yesterday. Three thous
and people came into camp, but owing
to the failure of most of them
| to announce their arrival some incon-
venience was experienced in settling
them. The influx of thieves, pick-pock-
cts and burglars is very large and they
began operations yesterday by capturing
some uniforms from the tents. The POI
lice have been instructed to arrest all
! known bad characters or even suspicious
ones and locS them up during the con-
clave, but they are numerically I'M
equal TO the heavy tax imposed upon
| them.
General laurence, Brigadier General
commanding the first brigade of Illinois
national guards, has issued orders de-
1 failing 425 men 10 be stationed at the
camp
Over one hundred newspaper report
| ers have arrived, representing the prin
| cIpal papers of the country. There has
| been no general musical rehearsal, the
bands being. for the most part, late in
arriving, but the streets are well sup
piled with musicians, whose appearance
always attracts crowd, and ELECTS
hearty applause.
CHICAGO, Aug, l6.-Among to-day's
| arrivals alS Suuan4auAeIlS lFottl %. auis
Minneapolis, Palutine, Ills, Louisville,
Ivanhoe. Pa, Reading, Indianapolis,
Monroe, Mich. Detroit, CyreRe, Ills.
Monroe, n. Y, Jackson, Tenn. coloras
do, OIL City, Pa, Albany. Woodstock,
VT, Rebecca, Pa, Philadelphia, Ports
ulouth and Norfolk, Va, Columbia,
Tenn, aud Galena, Ills
At noon, about one-tL.ld Of The 1900
tents ON the lake front were occupied by
80 of the 36S Communicates which are
expected, had arrived.
The Reaqssnt commandely os Balti-
more, gave V. /. Hurlburt, N. z. grand
master, a lunch ri Which several f0asts
were proposed