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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-16
HOUSE PLANTS.

The question so often raised by our
correspondents as to whether it Is
healthy to keep plants in our living
rooms and sleeping rooms is answered
by DIR. J. NJ Anders in a recent number
Of the Philadelphia Medical Times. Ex-
periments made by him show the value
of plants as natural and perfect "atomiz-
ers." The average rate of Transportation
for plants having thin soft leayeS-like
geraniums and lantanas-is found TO be
an ounce and half of watery vapor per
square foot of leaf surface for twelve di-
urnal hours of clear weather. At this
rate, a great tree like the Washington
Elm at Cambridge, which has been esti-
mated to have two hundred thousand
square feet of surface, would eXhale sew
en- and three-quarters tons of water In
twelve hours. The rate of Transportation
for q house plant is at least fifty per cent
more rapid than for one in the open air
and it Is evident that q number of such
plants must have a material influence
on the humidity of the air in which they
are kept. Experiments made by means
of the hygrometer show colclqsively
that house plants may properly be classed
as therapeutic agents. As to their un.
wholesOmeness because of giving of
cafbonIc acid gas at night, it has been
shown by experiment that il would re
quire twenty thrifty plants to produce
the amount of gas equivalent to that ex.
hailed by one baby sleeper. A practical
application of the data gained by the
experiment in the carefully prepared
formula: Given q room twenty-five feet
| long, twelve feet wide, and twenty-five
high, warmed by dry air, dozen thrifty
plants, with soft thin leaves and leai
surface of six feet square each, would, il
well watered and so situated as to re
ceive the direct rays of the sun (prefer
ably the morning SUM for at least sever
al hours, raise the porI,Ortion of aquer
Gus vapor to about the health standard
It is evident, then, that every houss
mother can keep the air of the wintel
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THE KENTuCKY Idea.

Elsewhere inthis paper will be found
extracts from n speech made by General
Preston, of Kentucky, upon the occasion
of a ratification meeting recently held at
Louisville in thai state. The report in
our columns includes such portions Of
the fiery orators harangue as il was
deemed prudent 90 suppress in the local
journals, but whose utterance by the
rabid speaker. was sworn 10 by The
stenographer who reported the address,
The expressions of General PTesIOA arc
in no wise in advance of the sentiment
of his party, and his radical appeal but
reflects the popular idea of both north
ern and southern Democrats, who are
thus early placing themselves in an atti-
tude 10 obtain what they arc determined
to secure by fair means or foul. Tho
incendiary utterances of the Kentucky
brigadier is but the echo of tho declara-
ton on the part of northern journals
that Hancock will take bIs seat" and
it is to the end that the Democratic
party may be warmed up
to the work in hand, that
such stimulating pabulum is being dis
pensed from the stump and through the
press. When every Democrat in the land,
in pursuance of General Preston's All.
vice, becomes inspired with the heroic
purpose of "killing where he stands, any
Republican who ever attempts TO steal
another electoral VHLe." 1T will be an
easy matter to convince thS Eny 81
bummers and hoodlums who flock n
the standard of Democracy that the Re
pGbllnsRs are making the attempt, and
the carefully perfected scheme of secur
ing the Inauguration of HANCOCK with
out regard to the verdict of the ballot
box, will be well under way. The Dem
ocratic party has fairly shown its clover
foot, and we feel perfectly secure in thu
hope that the .AEeCin4p people w1lf ney
er allow the priceless je%3 ri c9nstitn
tIonal liberty to be tramplesi under thi
feet of the unclean beast.
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THE REASON THEY SUP
PORT HIM.

New York Tribune: Southern Demo
Gratis are already getting more than
enough of the superb soldier" talk of
their northern allies, and their newspa-
pers are making haste TO explain that
they do not accept Gen. Hancock be-
cause of his record, but because OF his
refusal To protect Unionists Of Texas and
Louisiana from rcbel persecution in 1867.
That means that the bulk of the Demo
cratic party will vote for him, not he
cause he fought well in the war against
secession, but in spite of that fact, and
because he WAS willing To carry out the
''policy" of the renegade johnson; be-
cause he believed that the rebels who
had murdered Union men should lie
tried by courts and juries; because he
believed that the civil authority should
be supreme, when the only civil authori-
" was exercised by state governments
which congress had pronounced illegal
in the reconstruction acts; and because,
in fragrant violation of an express act of
congress, he released criminals, arrested
by the military authorities on the writ
Of = rebel judge who had no right under
the reconstruction acts TO a seat on the
bench. 1t will hardly answer TO run q
candidate in the north because he
fought for the Union and in the south
because he did his best to nullify the eff
forts of congress to establish the logical
results OF the Union victories. The
record is too contradictory and promis
cuous TO endure scrutiny.
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THEY CANsr nOIr.

Whatever may be the ultimate result
of the presidential canvass of 1880. we
hold il rs sclfevident truth that the
DemOcratic party, by a fair and untram-
mcled expression OF the popular vote,
cannot secure possession of the govern
ment for the next four years. By their
own confession, their entire hope of sue
cess in November is based on the YER
dict of the solid south, which arrays Its
1873 votes as controlling factor in the
campaign against the sntfras.$ az the
citizens of the great north, whose SUI
perior educational advantages and
the privileges of "A free ballot rem
ders it overwhelmingly Republican in
sentiment. The evidence is unmistaka-
BILE that five out Of the twelve southern
states are largely Republican, and would
so declare themselves in default of in
timidation, and by . iair return of
the vote cast under impartial auspi-
ces, This is fact that defies suc,
cessfA contradiction, ands has besn
proven by the testimony of commit.
tees appointed to investigate the charges
OF prescription in the south, AID by the
incontrovertible evidence of thousands
of refugees who have left their homes
within the past year to find under alien
SIX hes and amid the rigors of a northern
climate, those civil and political privil
eyes from the exercise of which, they
are UNANIMOUS in declaring they are de
barred in their native states. There is
positively no room to question the fact
that the party which has been shrieking
fraud for the last three years, and which
has the monumental cheek to assert il
its platform that "a free ballot is a RICH
preservative of all rights, and must an,
shall be maintained in every part of tin
United States" is founding every hop
which inspires its efforts upon the forci
BILE Acknowledgement fthe loyal Republl
cans of five states, whose freedom wa
purchased and whose rights as America
citizens were established at the expens
of billions of treasure and rivers of pa
triotIc blood. The American people car
: not waive sthe tremendous issu
which is set up by thi
revolutionary policy on the part of til
I south between the two parties, and the
may rest assured. that, sooner or latel
, the cries of doWntrodden race whic
} have been going up to heaven for L
: these many years, win set in operatfo
| those secret but inevitable forces whic
= move the wheels of eternal justice an
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TIE KANSAS CITY AFFAIR

The fur which has darkened the air
in the vicinity Of I{7RsRs City ever since
the Grant reception ON ihs I'D, j. begin
ling to scatter somewhat, and The public
are getting some additional light on the
all-absorbing topic of the Van Horn
st. John imbrpglio. The editor of the
Journal, in the language of Sairey
Camp, "denighes the impeachment" of
Intentional insult, and attributes the
lack Of attention of which st. John com
plains to those unavoidable circum-
stances incident TO every gathering of
the magnitude of the Kansas City
demonstration. The matter, after Il
week of the most yoluminous discus
sion and endless explanations, seems tn
have resolved itself down to II question
| of opinion between Governor st. John
and Col. Van Horn, the former hold
ing to the view that he was sighted and
not treated with that degree OF consider
alton that his position demanded, and
the latter staunchly maintaining that no
invidiOus discrimination was made
| against pts JhIll'l anu lilhl II NCl ldlilIl
was not a part of the programme to in
suit the chef executive of Kansas,
The press of the state have gwen free
expression to their divided sentiment on
tina question, AMI while there can be nc
doubt that the people of Kansas would
he anything but tardy In rescnting any
indignity offered To her representatives
there seems To be II disposition on tho
part of number of our local journals e
accept the explanation Of Van Horn in
good faith, and frOwn upon the con
tcmptible course of the Times in utilIz
ing this unfortunate occurrence to vent IL,
private spleen upon Il rival newspaper
The authorities of Kansas City could Ger
tainly have no object in Stumbling thu
representatives of siilicvhich has con
tTibated in such o generous measure Il
its prosperity, and could unmistakabl,
evidence of its purpose so to do be furn
ished, it would certainly prove anythin.
but winning operation to that ambi
tious municipality. We have read will
considerable care what has been writer
pro and con in relation To this matter
and are led TO the belief that it has beel
viciously exaggerated by the Kansa
City Times with view To selling in
prejHdicial light its cOtempOFary-of th
journal.
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THOSE FLAGS.

1t seems that General Hancock has
some claims TO Tie kindly consideration
of the soiid south, after all A recent
dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, to the Gin
cinnati Commercial Of the End, says that
n gentleman in that city received on that
day letter from friend I'm Vicksburg
who was a resident of New Orleans at
the time General Hancock was in com.
mand of the latter city. He Incloscs a
copy of note sent by General Beaure
gard to General Hancock IN reply to an
invitation frun the latter to dinner. The
note ran thus; General H.-Pleast
don't humble me by those flags. III
come and see you, but first remove
them" The flags were accordingly
ordered down, and Beauregard dined
with General Hancock, who was thus
guilty of an open insult to the flag to
soothe the irritated nerves of an unre
pentant rebel.
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oYER THE STATE.

The Flambeau club of Topeka is al
most well enough advertised TO solicit
foreign engagements.
An unusually heavy rain has deluged
the country in the vicinity of Dodge
City and cattle men are jubilant.
The official census of Leavenworth has
not yet been made public, but the Times
thinks it will reach about 1900, and
that the population of the county viii
not fall short Of 10000.
Major George Reynolds, OF Parsons,
who died at St. Louis on the 9th, was
prominent politician in the state, an ex-
member Of the state central committee,
and was At one time identified with the
NJ. X. & T. railroad.
A special dispatch TO the Kansas City
Times from Wamego says there is much
excitement in Louisville over the finding
of the body of Evans baby In a mill
pond. The father of the girl Evans, of
the Kansas Reporter) is under arrest to
prove who might be the father of said
baby.
Atchison Champion; The most salts
factory reception OF Gen. Grant, in this
section of the country, appears TO have
been at Emporia The people turned
ont because they wished TO see General
Grant; the reception was not specula-
ton. and nobody Was snuRbed or
"sassed."
Topeka Commonwealth: The State
north Of the city, is progressing quite
rapidly. The walls of the first story are
completed ana look vol IL is worth
while TO take drive out thai way The
road is u pleasant one and the distance
about right.
The first Presbyterian church at Dodge
City was recently damaged to a very con-
siderable extent by lightning while u
number of beer saloons IN its close
vicinity came out of the storm without
the smell of fire upon them. This Oc-
cnrFence gill scarcely be utilized by the
local clergymen ia pERaf of the doctrine
of special providences.
At the suggestion of the Soldier town
ship horse thief protective association
the shawnee county commissioners have
decided ~ offer = regard Of 5000 for Tho
capture of every horse thief. This is {
good idea, and will prove a great aid u
the association. They can afford Il
spend some time hunting for horsC
thieves if they are paid for it.
Eureka Graphic: A disastrous out
break of Spanish fever has occurred
among the cattle of Burlington and is re
ported as coming this way. 1t wa
brought TO Burlington by Texas coloreC
eXOdpsicrs Fifty cattle We're stated Il
he dead on Monday. Setenieen nes
cases had occurred yesterday morning
The disease as yet had not spread mori
than five miles from the city II is de
scribed rs very fatal, killing its victims
ia five or seven hours. Parties on tho
east side or the county viii do well to in
quire into the matter ana take due pre-
caution against infection.
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TELEGRAPHIC.

A Kentucky BOuFbOn's Voice for Bind.
LOUISVILLE, July Sin a speech
made here Tuesday night, at the Han
cock ratification meeting, General VIM.
Preston made use of the following ex-
pressions. They were suppressed in the
newspapers at the time, but are now
taken from a sworn copy of the steno-
prapher's notes They show the politi-
cal temper of this section, and come
| from personal friend of General Han
cock:
1t was an inspiration of the party TO
select man whose very name would
stop forever the odious cry raised by
Morton, now deceased, and the foul
horde that then assisted him in sacrific-
| ing the prosperity of the nation to the
damnahle lust of power of the Republi-
can party.
They talk to me OF pacific candidates,
| but have been so long under pacific
lead that l want a little powder and ball
now, even if it comes from the other side
against me. (Applause) Let us have
| it. (Applause) / remember Hancock
well, for 1 have known him for thirty
years, back to when we so wonderfully
triumphed under Winfield Scott When
we landed at Vera Cruz Hancock was a
lieutenant colonel, and was at the far
distant war. No liYelier nor more beau.
| JlIul form passed through thQSe QarE
tropics, where death waited for the
American soldier far away from home
than Winfield Scott Hancock
So, when Seymour was put UPS
statesman of high culture, man o.
graceful thought, lifelong Democra
and an entirely pacific man, man who
won't fight for anything-and when We
put up Mr.. Blair, l thought he was s
good general-and he was a Conserva
tive. God knows how tired l am o
hearing you call yourselves Conserva
tives. You have never won a victor
since you ceased to call yourselves thu
; "Unterrified Democracy" Applause.
You want TO stand and tell every Repub
lican that if he ever attempts to stea
another electoral vote from you you viii
kill him where he stands. loud ap
plause.) Tell them to go to the devi
with their bonds, but you propose tina
another electoral vote shall never be ste
len from you. (Applause.)
/ know that when / first heard tn
name "Unterrified Democracy" it mad
my blood run cold. I think Andre1
Jackson first got it up, and it should b
our name now. And be assured, if 20
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Mr.. John Kelly reiterates with threat
ing emphasis the sanguinaTy intimations
of the Democratic press, and In recent
ratification speech made at New York.
proclaimed with awful soiemnity To n
trembling world the prophetic intelli-
gence that 1.-THE gallant soldier. Winfield
Scott Hancock, will take his seat" The
General belongs to party whose repre-
sentatives in Congress have scored Il
superb record at taking Seats" and so
thoroughly imbucd have the great I'M
washed become with the idea that their
candidate for president must follow their
lead, that nothing save an unfortunately
located boil, malignant case Of hem.
Orrhoids or the trifiiing obstacle OF Re
publican majority in November Will be
allowed to Interfere with the consumma.
zion of the Democratic programme.
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VOL. %.

are in; only by the parties whose stand
ards they bear. 1t is hopeful sign that
we are able to do this. Once il was not
so The election OF General Harrison,
in 1910, was a national frOlick, n uni
versal glee club. In 1914 we tried to
sing Henry Clay into the white house,
but failed. Things were gcttinga little
more sober. Then came in the era Of
stump oratory and great popular conven-
tons. So these national struggles be
came more and more earnest until the
present, and this is the most earnest of
all. Popular education, a wider diffu-
sion of knowledge, and the pressure of
deeper and deeper interests, have brought
about this favorable change in our great
quadrennial struggles. In the contest
now before Us there is perhaps less rea-
son for party, bitterness than in any since
the days Of Monroe; but never before
had we greater cause for earnest thought.
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Senator Don CamerOn's health, says a
Washington dispatch to fine Cincinnati
Commercial, is so much undermined as
10 cause his friends serious apprehension
and only an entire abstinence from all
excitement or mental strain, nc is adj
vised, will assure his restoration. lie is
under the care of physician and has
dropped everything but attentiOn To his
nervous condition. He is taking sui
phur baths and medicine regularly, and
is utterly unable To do anything requir
ing the least strain upon his nervous
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THE ARMY WORN.

The army worm, now devastating parts
of Long island and New Jersey, is SO
called because it appears in such large
numbers, and because, like others of is
species, it moves in columns and follows
a leader. It is q caterpillar. the larva Of
a moth, and noted for its
voracity, as it well may be, since 1t can
eat, it Is SAID, more than double its own
weight in twenty -four hours. Although
less gluttonous, as a rule, it is more
destructive than the locust, from il
greater fecundity aud wider distributioI
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The New York Hour Processes TO
know about the peeuniary condition OF
Gen. Grant and says: "The entire
property of Gen. and Mrs. Grant yields
them an annual income of $4,000. Dur.
ing the trip around the world, the ex-
penses of his party we're at the rate OF
$25 900 q year, serious encroachment
upon the ex-president's capital. Lucki.
ly, however, young Grant, who lives IN
New York, and is @ director in several
mining companies. specialized SO pru
IDENTITY and successfully on his fathers
behalf, that q welcome addition was
made to his income. During the first
two months of this year Grant, jr., made
$4,000 tor his father, mostly in Chryso
lite" The public will be pleased tC
near this and hopes it may be all tru'
as stated
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1t is now stated that General Garfield's
letter of acceptance will be given TO the
public in few days and will define his
position ON the issues of the day in
such manner as 10 afford his party the
clearest possible views of the opinions
of its standard-bearer on those questions
which divide the two great political or
CARNATIONS. The public win have the
satisfaction of knowing, when it appears
that it expresses the individual views Of
the writer and that it has not been in
dicted by proxy, on the Democratic
ulan
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rIME FOR THouGHT

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette: This
is time for sober thought, and not for
wild enthusiasm: for reading and study,
rather than for gathering in excited
crowds to listen to impassioned har-
angues. In this battle the press leads.
rather than the stumpspeAker. Princi-
pies, and not the personal character Of
the candidates, are 10 be looked into
the records of the two great opposing
parties pre- 10 be scanned instead Of the
records of individual men. Both are
worthy men; let them be judged and
dealt with only BY the company they
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Emporia congratulates herself upon
the fact that it is the only town in Kan
aas at which General Grant stopped ON
his way to Colorado and New Mexico,
and the fact that our celebration in
honor of that event has been reported in
all the metropolitan Journals Of the cOun.
try has invested our little city with a
prominence that will increase its fame
which has already spread to all parts Of
the union. Emporia Is boomer and
the civilized world is rapidly realizing
that fact
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The Democratic platform would have
been just rs adequate To the support of
Joe Blackburn, the Kentucky fire-eater,
who, during the extra session announced
himself in favor Of "Wiping out every
Vestige Of war Legislation from the
statute books" as it is to General Han
cock, who fought to suppress the re-
bellion; and, in place of English, might
have been embelHshetf with equal pro
priety byJim BarkSiAie. the hero of the
YazOO shooting affair The debility
of that instrument is only exceeded by
the monumental cheek of its distin-
guished trainers.
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rooms moist by having thrifty plants in
them, and there is every reason 70 be.
lieve that the lives of many persons who
die from pulmonary complaints might
be preserved by this agency at once so
agreeable and so salutarY. In many in
stances comsumptive tendencies have
been cOunteracted by working among
nlanfS
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Topeka Capital: THE EsIPokIA News
ofTuesday devoted eight columns to Gen
Grant, in honor of his visit to that city,
giving a review of his military and his
political careers and his tour around the
world, together with full account of the
reception at Emporia. Well done, Mr.
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Publication Notice

To Henry p Eaton, George W Spencer. Jno.
B. Weeks, n j. Starlight. Z j. SeariRht
and the unknown heirs and deyisees nj
Henry p Eaton, deceased:
lou and each Of you are hereby notified
tnat you have been sued by VIM Clark and
that be has hled his petition against you in
the DIST let court Of Lyon county, KANSAS in
Al action wherein the said VIM. CLARK Is
plaintiff and you and each of You are cefend-
ants tnat you must answer said petition on
or before the 10th day OF August A ID. 1880.
or said petition Will be taken as true and 4
Judgment Will be rendered accordingly. adj
Judging said plaintiff to be the owner md in
the actual possession Of the following de-
scrfbed real estate in Lyon county. Ra2sas.
to-Wit: West halt of the southwest auartef
Of section z, township n, range IL, and quiet
each and every part OF 1t. against any and an
claims Of title therein OF SAID defendanfs and
each and every Of them. and for costs
ALAEBIN GILLETT
! 3St3 Attorney for Plaintiff, Empnria. kas.
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We have bdfOre. ns n copy Of the
Fairplay' Colorado FiHnte of june "a
which gives AN account of the rash o,
miners Ia what Is known as Horseshoe
Gulch. We clip the following from
the paper. concerning mine
an which MIR. J. L. Graham, late o.
Emporia, and parties of this city ART
concerned:
Coop ORE.-AndeTson and Limburl
are developing the recent discovery %
the De La Motto, which is located in
the cliffs that forlu the northern bounda
ry of the Horseshoe. Ffhc value Of thu
ore produced is said to be in the neigh
borhood of, 300 ounces to the ton.