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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
SNAKES IN THE ILLINOIS FLOOD.


The increased number of snakes in this
vicinity since the late rise in the river
has been a matter of general remark
among our citizens. Many have bottled
and Gagged the reptiles for pets to amuse
their idle hours, while many others have
captured the dispicable crawlers and
preserved them in alcohol as specimens
in natural history. Among the many
startling stories which have been rife dur
ing the flood none is more remarkable
than that told ola man near SagetOwn,
Ill. The story runs that he took skiff
and rowed over the placid back-water to
visit the devastation OF his hitherto pro-
missing acres. Beneath could be seen the
green corn, the tassel just peeping from
the stem; the heading grain, which but
a few days previous had offered boun-
teous harvest, but now stamped with
total destruction, stood mute monuments
of promises unfulfilled. Useless fences,
which told of the stock which few days
ago graZed on the green heritage, were
too lar sunken below the surface to in
terfere with the progress of the skiff,
which smoothly glided over the pamper-
ed rivers water. Fast in the Respondent
thoughts which now engrossed the farm
er's mind, he was soon startled by the
appearance of a snake which swiftly dart
Cu IHtO Ills llbtiC OOdt. HIS NOuQGI
was increased to amaZement. when snake
after snake rapidly trailed his Shiny
body into the skiff, and thus they contin-
ucd until the capacity of the watery con
veyance became insufficient to hold the
Shiny reptiles and the disheartened farm
or without too close a proximity. The
predicament was mOmentarily increasing
with horror, but 4 moment was given in
which to choose death by the venomous
creepers or death in a watery grave. He
chose the chance of the latter and
plunged into the water. Half dead he
was found on the shore that afternoon
where he had been waited, clinging to q
friendly board which he happened tC
grasp when in the last stage of drowning
The boat was found drifting along
sluggish current, filled to the top witt
snakes which had gathered from the
river. Those which did not perceive thu
danger of decapitatIon and dart back in
| TO the water were taken to the shore anC
rapidly despatched.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
SOME THINGS THE REPUBLICAN PAR.
TY HAS ACCOMPLISHED.

The Chicago Tribune enumerates some
Oftlle things which the Republican party
has accomplished in the face of Dem
ocratic obstruction and hostility:
They conquered the rebellion.
They preserved the union.
They disbanded and restored the vast
army TO peace footing.
They adopted the constitutional
amendments giving freedom, the
franchise, and civil rights to the slaves.
They cared for the soldiers and sailors
of the Union.
They cared for their widows and or
phans.
They found war and restored peace.
They found slavery and they gave free
dom.
They abolished the wildcat currency
of the states.
They gave the people the best secured
currency In the world.
They have saved the people from the
loss ofmillions of dollars each year in
broken bank bills.
They have saved the people millions
of dollars each year by making the cur
rency of equal value in every part of the
country.
They have reduced the interest bearing
debt of the nation $627, 537, 1874
They have reduced the annual interest
charges from T15O,916,507, to $19,633,9 Sl
"a saving of 81 ,343,7 ZIG year
They have maintained the national
debt and honor.
They passed the resumption act
They defeated initiation and opposed
''fiat" money.
They made the greenback worth 100
cts. on the dollar.
They have fostered American indus
tries.
They have protected American
mechanics.
They have collected the public re-
venues at less percentage of cost than
ever before.
They have handled the moneys of the
government at less perbhntage of loss
than ever before.
They have secured peace to the coun-
try at home and abroad.
They have made the name America re-
spected in all quarters of the world.
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upon the fact that it led the press Of the
country in lis reports of the Bender in
vesligalion 1t could hardly have done
less and maintain its shining reputa-
ton as the champion journalistic liar OF
the nineteenth century.
The Democrats seem disposed to rely
very largely upon the favor of God" for
success in the present canvass. They
probably found their trust in divine aid
upon the fact that Providence has always
smiled upon our country, and that whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
The Kansas City Times thinks that
Barnum ought to hire the bogus Ben
ders TO travel with him as the two big
gest liars in America This might be
a good enough arrangement for the Me
Gregors, but how would it look to leave
Brother Mumford and Doc Struggled
out in the cold?
Atchison Champion: A little patent
outside Democratic paper in north
western Kansas, gravely informs his
readers that Hancock is sure to carry
New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, ILL.,
nois, and California" He makes this
announcement upon the principle that
lying don't cost anything, and there is,
therefore, no reason for being penurious
in the business.
The completion of Washington's mon
If the father of his country had devoted
his heaven-bestowed talents to the &C.
complishment of a fast of forty days, in
stead of confining himself to the idiotic
specially of never telling n lie, his mon
ument would have been finished long
before the sod could have had time 10
grow upon his grave
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
HERE AND THERE

Democratic spOrtsmen report the
woods tOlerably full of Republicans this
year.
The most recent accession to Han
cock" is the man who struck Billy Pat
terson.
DIR. TanAer's stomach seems to be con-
structed on the plan of an Alabama bal
lott box.
After the first Tuesday in November
Garfield will be called the great Buckeye
Thresher.
The Blenders and Gen. Hancock will
please keep inside of the rope Maud
S. has the track just now.
If Tanner and the Blenders arc not
soon retired, people will forget that there
ever was such a man as General Han
cock.
The Democrats have now got the ma
jority for Hancock and English in Indi-
ana down to $4,000. This is still $4,000
too much.
The kentucky Democrats are organic
ing themselves into voting squads pre-
paratory to their annual expedition to
the north poll.
The proclamation recently issued in
New York that the cats must go, has
been promptly followed by the establish
ment of mammoth bootjack factory at
that place.
New York Tribune: Specie pay
ments We're resumed year and a half
ago, and the people are not taking mon-
ey or presidential candidates on credit
any longer.
The Salvation Army has collared Kan
sas City. If the citadel surrenders, we
shall expect to hear that the birthstone
market is glutted and that Texas is for
rent at easy payments ON long time
/ The veracity of the Kansas City Times
might have been greatly promoted had
the bogus Blenders possessed sufficient
knowledge of polite literature to accept
positions upon its reportorial corps.
We have a poem entitled 'sRoll on
Terrestrial Globe" We don't know as il
is necessary to print it as the darned old
thing will probably "ron on" anyhow.
If it stops Wen take the matter under
advisement-
The Kansas City Times plumes itseli
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
MOROCCO

The country, shut in by the Mediter-
ranean, Algeria, the Desert of Sahara,
and the ocean crossed by the great chain
of the Atlas; bathed by wide rivers,
opening into immense plains; with every
variety of climate; endowed with inesti-
mable riches in all the three kingdoms
of nature; destined by its position to be
the great commercial highroad between
Europe and Central Asia-is now occu-
pied by about 100000 of inhabitants
-Berbers, Moors, Arabs, Jews, Negroes,
and Europeans-sprinkled over a more
vast extent of of country than that of
France. The Berbers, who from the ba-
sis of the indigenous population-a saw
age, turbulent, and indomitable race
live in the inaccessible mountains of the
Atlas in almost complete Independence
of the imperial authority. The Arabs,
the conqueFing race, occupy the plains
Ia nomadic and pastoral people not en-
tiTely degenerated from their ancient
naughty character. The Moors. cor
rupted and crossed by Arab blood, are in
great part descended from the Moors of
Spain, and inhabiiing the cities, hold in
their hands the wealth, trade, and COM
merce of the country The blacks,
about $1,000, originally from the Sou
dan, are generally servants, laborers,
and soldiers The Jews, almost equal
in number TO the blacks, descended, for
the most part, from these who were ex-
lied from Europe in the Middle Ages,
and are oppressed, hated, degraded, and
prosecuted here more than in any other
country in the world. They exercise
various arts and trades, and in thou
sand ways display the ingenuity, plia-
bility, and tenacity of their race, finding
in the possession Of money torn from
III
their woes The Europeans. whom
Mussulman intolerance has, little by
little, driven from the interior Of the
Empire toward the coast. number less
that 1900 in all Morocco, the greater
part inhabiting Tangiers, and living
under the protection of the Consular
flags,-Morocco, Its People, De Amias.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
CUBAN BELLIES AT SARATOGA.


The Cuban bellies have taken Saratoga
by storm this season They are here in
great numbers and are creating decided
sensation. Various rumors are spread
abroad about the immese fortunes they
possess. One dark eyed AudaIusian
beauty is reported TO be the heiress to
s., 900, 900; another sylphlike creature,
with almond shaped eyes, luxuriant
dark tresses and that Understandable walk
of the Spanish beauty, who seems TO
glide over the ground instead of stepping
like an ordinary mortal, is put down al
=, 100000. They are from that ever
beautiful and most unhappy island, Cuba.
But whether the stories concerning their
vast estates are fabulous or not, as such
reports generally are, these Cuban bellies
have a fortune in themselves enough to
captiyate the fancy of our society youths.
We expect, however, the inxeterafe old
beaux who are TO be caught with nnthine,
but a golden bait, and who are not worth
the trouble of fishing for them. Last
evening two ofthese scnoritas, the Misses
Joye, sang most delightfully."- in the par
Tors of the Grand Union Hotel, drawing
around them thFOng of enthusiastic
admirers OF their lovely voices. They
sang some pretty Spanish ballads and a
Creole duct, which was the very ideal of
music in tropical land, under the fun
orbed moon, and with Spanish guitar
for accompaniment.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION.

A very important case has recently
been decided by the u. =. circuit court
roI this state. Barbour county some
years ago voted TO issue $l35,O00 in
bonds to secure railroad The agree
ment was that on the completion of the
road to Medicine Lodge $4,000 of them
were To be filed with the state treasurer
in escrow, and that when it was CON-
pleted through the county, another $780,
600 should be given to the treasurer.
Instead of thus filing the bonds we're
taken TO Topeka and registered, and then
taken TO New York and sold for % cents
on the dollar TO Charles f. Lewis, who
was an agent for London syndicate.
1t was claimed that the bonds were
fraudulently issued, which fact was adj
mitted by the plaintiff; hut it is claimed
by him that he had bought them in
good faith and for full value after they
had been thrown upon the market. The
court, however, holds, admitting the in,
dividual good faith of the plaintiff, that
It was his duty to know before he pur
chased the bonds that they had been is
sued and put in circulation in accordance
with the law that authorized their issue
and that he purchased at his own peril
and so denied him judmcnt. 1t is al
opinion of great Importance to many
other counties of this state, settling ,
long and bitterly fought contest.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
A REMEDY FOR SCARLET
FEVER

DR.. Z. Woodruff, for nineteen years a
practicing physician at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, furnishes the Springfield,
Qll) Journal the following: "Wash
the child from head TO foot with strong
sal soda water warm, then wipe dry.
Then Immediately bathe freely with oil
from beef marrow or oil from butter,
applied freely. Then give freely catnip
tea, or some good sweating article,
pennyroyal, etc. Repeat every half
hour or as often as they get worrisome
or wakeful, and in one or two days they
will be entirely cured. l have been
called to cases where they have been
| fully broken out, and in this way
entirely cured them in twenty-four
hours. have had thirty cases on hand
at time and never lost n case my life.
| But now | am old about to give up bust
ness. and seeing from the papers that
our town is infected with the epidemic,
wish to do all the good / can. 1t is so
simple. You do not need to call a
doctor. A good nurse can attend to
them. If by opening the pores of the
skin and sweating you can let off posion
which is an animalcula, or animal in
the blood, the cure is complete. The
kinds of hard colds and coughs. l take
the ground that all diseases are caused by
a st0ppage Of the pores of the skin,
retaining the poison, or living animals,
in the blood, and all you have to do at
first is to open the doors of the system
and let them out, or drive them out. All
people know a warm bath is good. But
you apply the oil to the skin, and it
keeps the pores open for long time and
gives the enemy chance to get out. L
hope all will try it, and they will soon
be convinced -
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20

ed the window and peeped in. There
sat the long-legged pauper on his bed, in
a very short shirt, and nothing more; he
was dangling his legs contentedly back
and forth, and Wheeling the music of
''Camptown Races" out Of paper-over-
laid comb which he was pressing against
his mouth: by him lay a new jewsharp,
a new top, solid india-rubber ball,
handful of painted marbles, five pounds
of 'store'' candy, and well-knawed slab
of ginger bread as big and as thick as a
volume OF sheet music. He had sold the
skeleton to travelling quack for three
dollars and was enjoying the result!
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
CENSUS FRAUDS IN THE

The statement of Senator Butler at "A
recent meeting held at Bennettsville,
South Carolina, that the new census of
that state will give 1t population of
over l. 100000, an increase Of over 80 per
cent, followed by Gen. Kennedy's as
surance before the Confederate survivors,
reunion ut Lexington ON August >, that
the census returns would show an in
crease of 80 per cent. in South Corolina,
have caused considerable alarm in Re
publican circles, and confirms the re-
peatedly expressed fears that the census
returns would be "doctored" TO cover
the fictitious majorities in the Demo
cratic counties. Owing to obstacles, emf
grants have given South Carolina wide
berth, and il is an undeniable fact
that for every person who has
moved into the state To live
during the past ten years at least six
have left for more prosperous localities
The whole increase, equal To some of
the western states into which the tide of
emigration has flowed unchecked, must
therefore be ascribcd to natural causes
Will the most barcfaced Bourbon dare
assert that the registry Of births-which
statistics will prove did not exceed the
death rate 10 per cent.-wlll sustain the
outrageous cheat about to he practiced?
1t will be seen that the increase in the
population in western states exists chief
ly in cities, and does il not appear
strange that Charleston and Columbia,
the only two cities of prominence in
the state where the Democratic enumcr-
ators could be watched, did not share in
this wholesale creation of humanity
The population of both the cities remain
about the same as reported in the last
census.
Superintendent Walker, in a recent in
terview at Washington in relation to
this question. said that he has had no
official information on the subject, but
when the schedules are received they
will be given very scrutinizing investi-
CATION, and any information in posses
sion of parties cognizant of error or ir-
regularIties, will be appreciated as lead
ing to intelligent inquiry, and affording
a basis Of supplementary enumeration
if necessary. Gen. Walker is deter
mined to have an accurate census, with
out reference to political interests, and
to remedy the gross frauds on the govern
ment by excessive and unwarranted
enumerations in many localities in 1870.
If any irregularities are shown in the
south, OF anywhere else, they will be
remedied by the superintendent in the
exercise of the special authority dele
gated for that purpose. The disposition
in the south to compensate, in some way,
for the little progress made there In
population or industry in the past de-
cade is well known at the census Office,
and while full justice will be done in
facilitating accurate, every bar will be
placed to information not warranted BY
absolute knowledge of the facts, the
Democratic political managers in the
south to the contrary Notwithstanding
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
A PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY.

oaratOBa letter 70 COuGicr -JOurnal
1t is a man. The man is Kentuck-
ian. The Kentuckian is Nicholas Smith.
No woman creates such sensation, no
other person is so frequently pointed
out, or draws forth such comments. Like
the English professional beauties, our
pride of Kentucky dresses and poses for
admiration. Long dark curls fall upon
his shoulders and frame his face; his
languishing dark eyes are full of-alert-
ness to catch admirfng glances his manly
form is clad in cream-tinted wooden
goods; his sombrero resting on the clas-
sic head recalls Don Juan. or some other
spanish lady-killer. A gentleman once
told me that he Travelled in the West
with Nick Smith, and, as they were be-
yOnd the influence of society and admir-
ing woman, that he found Mr. Smith one
of the most charming companions he
ever met with. He laid aside his vanity,
egotism and conceit and showed himself
as talented and cultivated man. AIr.
Smith and his wife haYe a cottage here.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley is with them.
She is classical beauty, and does not
show any consciousness of her charms.
Mrs. Smith has an infant three months
old, and goes very little into society.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20

There arc unpleasant insinuations
afloat that a certain very prominent can
didate on the Grcenback state ticket de-
parted from Cottonwood Falls the other
day under circumstances which render
his financial responsibility a matter of
very grave importance TO his landlord at
that place. In short, the currency en-
ployed by our nameless and distinguished
friend does not seem to have been 'cOm-
mensurate with the demands of trade"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
PROSPERITY OF KANSAS.

The quarterly report-of the state board
of agriculture just issued shows that
the area in wheat this year aggregate
2,2fO.3G7 acres, an increase of $50, EOS
acres over 1879; area in corn 3,54S, 474
acres, increase of 553, 404 acres over 1879.
During the year ending March LIST last,
1910 farm houses were built IN the
state at an aggregate cost of $4,223. $50.
The railways of the state have a mileage
of nearly $500 miles, and the assessed
value of railway property aggregates
S2OJ547 500 Sixty-eight of the seventy
seven organized counties of the state are
trayersed by one or more railways The
crops of small gram, except
in the extreme western third of the
state. have been generally good, and
corn promises a very heavy yield; II
never looked better at this season. A
very heavy rain prevailed recently
throughout the state
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20
POLITICAL POINTS.

Ohio and Pennsylvania are about as
sure for Hancock as Alabama is for Gar
field.
The Democrats are notably tardy in
claiming jeff Davis as San accession to
Hancock"
IL the Democrats call conference
they must not forget to extend a special
invitation TO Jim Barksdale, the Yazoo
shootist.
The person who depends upon John
Martin for his political pabulum will
never know that there was ever IA Demo
cratic rebellion in this country.
The Syracuse Standard hits the bulls
eye when it observes that no party can
hope to win votes by promising to do
that which its past record and conduct
bellies.
The audible silence OF General Han
cock on the subject of rebel claims
would seem TO indicate that he had
profited by the experience of Mr.. Tilden
in 1876.
The Democratic party may as well let
up on their demand for change" until
the people weary of the prosperity
which the Republican party has given
TO the country.
The only enduring set of principles
ever advocated by the Democratic party
owed their cohesive power to the fetter:
of four millions of slaves which
bound them together.
The search for the Blenders seems Il
be about as remunerative as the efforts
of those Democratic editors who are ex
ploring the country for Republican,
who are going TO vote for Hancock.
New York Tribune: The enthusiastic
free counters of Alabama, in their yea
for reconciliation, should be careful anC
not get the Democratic majority large
than the total voting population of tn
state.
1t must be conceded that Hancock ha
beautifully fat cheeks, a seductive
double chin, and superb" mustache
And yet all the photographs of this un
paralleled aggregation of physical excel
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20

Within the past five years, the solid
south, which controls and moves the
Democratic party, has repudiaied in the
aggregate $272,0O0.OO0, and the Ten
nessee Democracy, no later than yester-
day, split up ON this question, and put
in the field two tickets, one of which,
with large following, openly advocates
the Republication of the state debt. The
pleasing catch words incorporated in
the Cincinnati platform in relation to a
"strict maintenance of the public faith
state aud national" is most too thin
TO cover the record of such a party.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20

Senator Plumb relates little incident
in relation TO the recent manifesto of
David Davis, that is too good to be
withheld from the reading public. The
Colonel, on his recent return from the
east, was riding along in the train with
Representative Conger, of Michigan, and
Senator Kirkwood, of Iowa, when the
former, picking up late paper,
CHANGED 10 hit upon the late letter of the
Illinois senator, declaring his endorse
ment of Hancock. Glancing deliberate
ly over its contents, he folded up the
paper and remarked: "Kirkwood, did
you notice that David Davis bowels had
moved again Y,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-20

Col. John O. Carpenter, of Leayen-
worth, was in the city short time last
week. The colonel is prominently men
toned rs "a candidate for governor be-
fore the Republican state convention.
He is an old resident of the state, has
had valuable experience in our legisla-
turc, and is well acquainted with our
history and wants-is successful law
yer, and at present is collector of internal
revenue, which office he is filling with
distinguished ability and correctness
He is popular everywhere, and his nOmi-
nation would be hailed with delight by
those who know HIM. and would undoubt-
eddy be IA strong one before the people.
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The Democracy seems to have accom-
plished one of the requisites to success
in maintaining rigorous quaratine
against the mouth of the superb" can
didate, whose letter of declination il re-
ply to an invitation TO be present at the
Columbus reunion, appears in another
column. The Generals managers seem
10 be impressed with the belief that, I'M
der certain conditions, presidential can
didAtes like children, should be seen but
nnf heard