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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08
Cattle Commission.

CHICAGO, August 31.-The treasury
cattle commission, composed of DIR. E.
+. Thayer of West Newton, Mass, Prof
James Law, of Ithaca, n. Y. and d. Y.
Saunders, of this city, are about TO leave
tor the west for the purpose OF invest.
eating the prevalence of pleuro-pneu-
monia among cattle. At the next meet
ing here they discuss the questions of in
lection by cattle cargoes passing through
infected districts, ventilation, transpOr-
designations of the commission SO lar
have revealed decided pleuro-pneumOnia
in Kings, Queens. Westchester, Putnam
and Richmond counties, New York
The disease has also been found in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wiz.
ginia and Delaware. So far no traces
have been found west of the Alleghenies,
and they believe none exist.
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nenied nv Grant

LONG BRANCH, n. j., August 81
The attention of General Grant has beer
called to various publications describing
frequent visits on his part to Vice Presi
dent Arthur, and consultations with the
Vice President and other public men il
reference to political contingencies in
Washington. General Grant request.
the announcement that there is no truth
in any of the statements; that he haC
been present at no consultation, and
knew of none he had only seen Genera
Arthur once since the attempt on thu
Presidents life, and that was at q brie
morning call about three weeks since
and no one was present but the Vic
President. He had met no one, the Gen
eral continued, who showed more pro
found and sincere sorrow for the Presi
dents condition than the Vice President
General Grant did not believe there had
boon any consultations of the characte
described between General Arthur anC
his political friends. General Arthur
could have no sane friend who would
intrude such subject upon him, and b.
is the last man who would submit "a
such intrusiOna.
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OUR FEEBLE MINDED YOUTH.

According to the National Conference
of Charities which closed its interesting
discussions in Boston on Saturday last,
there are fifty thousand idiots in the
United States, or one in every thousand
of the general population. Of course
the Conference referred to acknowledged
idiots, the popular impression being
that there is a much larger number.
One of the experts showed the immedi-
ate cause of idiOcy to be a defective
brain or nervous system, and with much
skill he set forth the advantages of phys
ical education and the development
of the control of the nerves and
muscular action. The boys and young
men, and emphatically the girls and
young women of the country should
give this matter serious consideration.
Would that some power the gift would
give them, as with namby-pamby legs
they stand propped up on a little switch
cane, putting from the end Of q vile
smelling cigarette until they are pale in
the face, weak in the chest, puny in the
arm and utterly worn out before they
reach the plane of early manhood. They
are not idiots, but they are weak bodied,
and will in time be weak minded. And
even if they manage, thanks to the bone
and sinew of their parents, to live to a
fair age, what stamina have they for their
children?
The young man of to-day is a curios-
ity. II he goes to theatre, between the
acts he must leave his partner for a
smoke. Satuated with scent-for he
knows nothing of good tobacco-he re-
turns to offend the nostrils of his neigh
bors and odorize the space for yards
around. Before he leaves the vestibule
after the curtain falls he is at it again.
What sight more common than half a
dozen lads, boys and young men smok-
ing cigarettes on the platform of bob
tail car? And what more trying to ones
nerves than the filthy odors they puff
into the air and over the other
passengers? Ten years of this al.
most universal habit have left their
mark in the sunken eyes, the paid faces,
the weak nerves and the fiabhy muscles
of these so-called men. That none of
them find real enjoyment in the prac-
tice is shown by their habit of splitting.
Aside from the vulgarity and nastiness
of this muscular exercise is the detri-
ment it does the general system. No
man-certainly no growing boy-can ex-
pectorate constantly without injurIng
himself. Bootblacks, messenger boys,
SCHOOL children, clerks, smoke and spit.
as together in great multitudinous
army they move along toward idiocy
and imbecility. What a cheerful pros
pect it is to be sure New York Herald.
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1t Is enough to take away ones appe-
tite to read the list of Ingredients which
made up the clambakS served last week
at the reunion of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Connecticut at High Rock
Grove, on the Naugatuck railroad. The
gigantic pot-pourri was thus composed
One hundred and thirty-five bushels Of
soft-shell clans, So bushels of hard-shell
clans, 100 bushels ofoysters, $50 pounds
of fish, 600 pounds of lobster, 1000 ear
of corn and 20 bushels ofpotatoes. There
were q few other trifles, such as Cox
loayes of bread and $50 watermelons
which helped to keep of starvation
About $500 persons We're presently
far the largest number ever assembled a
an army reunion in Connechcut-and
owing to excellent arrangements at the
grounds and an unusually efficient trans
portatlon service, managed by SnpeFln
tendent lBeach. Of the Naugatuck rail
road, there were no accidents, no delay
and no grumbling. s-s ~
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Secretary Window is doing moderate
ly well for q man who has only been at
the business for six months. The reduc-
ton of the public debt for the month of
August was S14, 1s1,221.
Even in Ohio, politics are over
Swallowed by the interest in the condi-
ton of the President, and the campaign
drags. The fight will not begin in
earnest until later in the month.
The Democrats Of Ohio, who are
counting upon the Methodists to defeat
Charlie Foster, the Republican candi.
date for governor of that state, are vel
come to the full measure of fruition
which such hope will bring them.
The failure of the New York Repub-
leap State Committee 10 pass resOlu
lions of sympathy for the stricken PTes
ident may have been, as is claimed, ar
oversight, but to put it In the mildes,
! possible light, it was very unfortunate
omission.
Some investigator has made the dis
covery that Of the twenty-three Amer
icSn Presidents only two, Washington
and Garfield, were members of any re
ligIous denomination. This is a mis-
take. Lucy Webb Hayes, the predeces
sor of the present Chief Executive, ha
been Methodist for many years "iI
good and regular standing"
The only thing which the Republican
of Ohio have to fear ia the pFeeent can
vass is the dry weather. Clement I
Vallandigham, the arch copperhead
who was buried under a Republican
majority of 100000 in the Buckeye stat
In 1853, once observed that a frst-clas
drouth was worth 10000 votes TO tn
| Democratic paFfy in Ohio
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Brother Kimball, the great church
debt extinguisher, says that there are
three standing calamities of churches.
The first is a fund for the support Of
the preaching. so that the people who
go to church need not pay. The second
Is the presence of one or two rich men,
on whom everybody leans, and whose
property the church feels at liberty TO
appropriate. The third is debt, wheth-
er of the mortgaged or floating" sort.
Comparatively few churches are endow-
ed with such a fund as Mr.. Kimball
mentions. When there is such an endow-
ment, its operation is almost uniform
ly as he states. In certain church,
whose endowment is SO great that the
highest pew-rent was only 81 year, the
members became so lazy that they had
either to go TO sleep or quarrel. Rich
men are more plenty than endowments,
and are bonanzas to churches which
properly use them and teach them TO
give. For every church which has eth.
er rich men OF endowments, there are
twenty poor ones who have nothing but
debt Kimball thinks that all church
es ought to do business on &C. o. Dr.
basis, and then there would be no church
debts
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FARM NOTES.

A sheep diary for the manufacture of
cheese has been started near ChatIa-
nooga. Sheep cheese is a popular article
of food in Austria, and this enterprise
beginning with / 900 sheep, is under the
management of an Austrian.
Until quite recently Kansas wool has
been looked upon with disfavor by east
ern wool merchants, and has always
brught a very low price. But the Bos-
ton Herald says great change has been
wrought this year. Some of the very
highest priced wool sent TO that market,
was from Kansas
A new variety of wheat called "Bul-
garin wheat has been raised this year
in the eastern part of the state. 1t has
yielded from twenty-five to thirty BUSH
els to the acre in all cases and it is said
that it will not freeze out and will stand
drouth as we'll as rye.
In view of the shortness of the corn
crop most farmers will find IL to their
interest to sell all their surplus hogs as
soon as possible, before they have eaten
their heads off. But every one who can
should save his best brood sows, for next
fall there will, unquestionably, be q
great demand for young hogs to fatten.
Young animals VIII undoubtedly CON-
mand high prices. Instead of feeding
pork this fall corn should be husbanded
and put into young pigs next spring
and snmmer-Manhatte Nationalist.
CURTIS ON THE PIe.-I have found
that 1t costs as much or more TO winter
a young pig as il does an old hog, and
we have abandoned the practice of win
tering anything but breeders. A SOW
may be allowed TO have litter of pigs
in the spring which can be sold and the
old ones can get in fine condition, on
clover, corn stalks and roots. And we
count the income derived from the pigs
as an extra gain. There is always a de-
mand in the spring for young pigs at
from So to 81 each for fatteniDg, and a
higher price for breeding stock, which
makes the profits on q breeding SOW
equal to that of a COW with great deal
less labor and less cost of keeping. By
little pains takingaand effort a farmer
can make a market for his pork at S
price more re munerative than what is
usually paid for il in the carcass. Towns
people will buy and eat more pork if
they know that it has been grown and
fattened on wholesome food. We could
have sold in Schenectady for 10c pound
q ton of spareribs produced on our farm
if we had them. Our headcheese sold
for the same price, and we expect to re-
alize from 10 to Is cents for the bacon.
hams and shoulders. The highest price
which was paid in our local markets for
pigs was cents per pound, The lard
was sold for from 8 to 10 cents per
pound, according to quality. Our pigs
arc cut up so that they may be wholly
marketed in the above forms. Pigs
grown and tattened as / have described
produce meat not only of the healthiest
character but of the very best flavor,
which of course increases the demand
for them.-F. D. Curtis in New York
Tribune.
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The Storm on the Atlantic Coast.

CHARLESTON, 8. c., Sept. 1.-Reports
from forty seven rice plantations on the
Combaboo and Ashepoo rivers, Rantout
creek, Edista river and the eastern and
western branches of Cooper river show
that the injury from the storm to both
plantations and crops has been very Sc
rious. Out of the whole number men.
toned three places only escaped with {
slight loss. The others have been en-.
tirely, or almost entirely. covered with
salt water. Breaks are reported at over
twenty places, and young rice planted
in May and June is considered a total
loss. March rice, which is nearly ready
for harvesting, has suffered from 40 to
so per cent, as many fields are still un.
der water. No definite figures of the
loss can yet be given.
SAvANNAH, Ga, Sept. 1.-Sixteen
more inquests were held to-day on the
bodies of persons drowned in the storms
This makes forty-six so far. A number
of bodies are on the plantations near
this city. The coroner will hold inquests
tomorrow
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OVER THE aTATR

Crawford's new opera house Ut Tope.
ka, will be opened on Monday evening
next by the Diekie Lingard troupe.
The contract for the new Free Library
building at Topeka has been let, and
work upon its construction will be COM
menced Immediately. -
Sidney Clark, in arecent number of
the Lawrence Tribune, pays q very
handsome tribute TO the memory of the
late Elder d. P. Mitchell.
Fredonia Citizen: II is quite COM
monty believed that after while, when
corn husking begins, the price of it in
this locality will not be above thirty
cents per bushel.
Wichita Times: Mrs. Elizabeth Plat
is announced as an independent candi
date for register of deeds. Women are
slowly but surely taking their places in
politics. The treasurer Of one of oul
counties is q woman.
Yates Center News: A great many
persons of the line of the Wichita road
seem to take delight in lying about it
The facts are that the Wichita road is 1
success; that it Is going TO be built u
Wichita, and when completed will b
one of the best paying roads in Kansas
A Mr.. Buchanan, of Arkansas City
wanted his wife to go to Missouri; sh'
refused; he threw Ratchet at her ana
cut her arm; she threw it back; h
pounded her over the head with broom
drove her into the street, knocking he
down with his fist and pummelled he
with his fist after she was down.
Parsons Eclipse: The narrow gang
has videned its track and trussel wOfl
from Weir City to Cherokee, to standarS
gauge, and VIII push the change owe
their whole line, as We understand
with sll possible dispatch. We haxu
before intfmated, and repeat again, tina
In the future our connection with tn
Gulf road through tbs H., e. & c. ana
through that with the lower Mississippi
will Be matter TO Parsons Of not nee
ond rate importance to anything.
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WHY IMPORT WOOL?

Isn't IL strange anomaly That we
should send abroad such vast amounts
of agricultural products and still be i'm
porting millions of dollars worth of
wools We talk of feeding the world
with our wheat, corn, provisions aRd
approach to clothing the world with our
cotton. Why rely upon others to clothe us
with woolens? We have increased our
export of corn the past ten years more
than 5000 per cent; why is it that we
have not begun to export wool at all
We sent abroad last year more than
eight million dollars worth of beef and
almost tan million dollars worth of hut
ter and cheese, but the wool we received
from abroad cost US nearly six million
dollars in excess of the combined price
of all these. Is it so much easier, then,
in this country to raise cattle than sheep,
to produce butter and cheese than wool
We think not. 1t is true that our wool
half as rapidly as it ought. It is esti.
the eight years past, having grown from
80 800, 900 pounds IN 1872 to 264, 600, 600
pounds in 1880. Yet in the
latter year, according to official
statistics, we still imported 12S, 1S1, 747
pounds, valued at $23, 727, $50. Did VIC
import corn in 1880? On the contrary
we sent abroad $52O10,627 worth. This
the government officials tell US was more
than 1000 per cent of increase in the val
ne, while the increase in the quantity o.
| this article sent abroad was R,Q0Q PEI
| cent within ten years. We wish We
! might see some similar increase in the
product of wool. If the corn states ara
not the regions to produce wool mosi
l
| where it can be produced at immensG
| profit. Let wool growers then emulatG
| the enterprise of the corn growers il
Illinois aud Kansas. Probably theJ
would grow RICH faster than the corr
growers. At present wool has q heavy
Import duty TO protect it which corr
and wheat growers and butter anC
cheese producers have not
| We are glad to notice that the south
in her new career eff prosperity, is pay
| ing special attention to wo0l=gFoWing
Texas leads the van in the amount pro
duced, many parts of the state being
| especially adapted to the business. He
product was put down at six millios
pounds in 1886, but at twenty-five mill
/ ion in 1880. The other gulf state
are said to have increased quite as rap
idly in the ratio Of their products, /
not in the amount We have seen fg
ures crediting them with q flve-fold ed
| vance since 1885
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, Il
congratulating the south on the inven
| ton of a new machine for separating
the hulls from cotton seed and cut
ting up the leaves and stock of the plan
50 as to form q nutrious food for animal
out of what Yas entirely wasted before
If this shall prove all that il Is claim
4 a. e n
ond only to the cott0n-gin. The plan
product which yields six million bale
OF cotton IL simply immense. This, i
is claimed, will support, besides thu
mules that raise the crop, vast focks d
sheep which may yet give the south som.
such precedence in woolgrowing as sha
now enjoys in cotton groWing. Surely
it viii be no small profit to the soutl
! if she could turn our present import
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What the Lancet Saws.

London, September 1.-The Lancet
this week says: ave do not think the
healing of President Garfeld's wound
will be promoted by probings to learn
how far the granulation has proceeded.
The most favorable signs are the fall Of
the temperature to normal and the FIRE.
quency of the pulse. This is thoroughly
safe criterion of increased strength and
tubsidence of blood poison, and
sogether with improved power
of digestion, ability TO sleep
soundly, mental clearness and cheerful.
ness, affords solid grounds for the hope
of recovery. The case is q striking il.
lustration of the power OF q good con.
stltution to hold up against an illness
that would certainly have killed q
feebler person, but another failure in
the Presidents digestive powers OF
symptoms of blood poisoning might al
any time turn the balance against him
and what we have insisted upon SO
often we are bound to repeat, that Presi
dent Garfield will not be ont of danger
until the wound is healed
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RELATION OF RAILROADS To AGRI
| CULTURE, ETC.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes as follows
under this head in the September num-
Der of the American AgIiculturist: The
outside observer, who is neither farmer
nor railroad manager, but who can weigh
testimony, finds ample evidence that the
farmers Of the East will not be subject
much longer even to what they believe
to be the abuse of railroads, and ''enAil
age" is one of the great forces that may
make them independent. In fact, If
practical men may ever be permitted TO
indulge in visions, the visions that may
soon become accomplished facts, of vast
increase in the productive power ofland /;
quick transmission of persons; if we
can send light over wire; If we can at
tach to the same posts another wire by
which to transmit power by electricity,
so that each farmer may perhaps keep
q power on tap in his barn to cut his
own fodder, churn his butter, and do all
the heavy work If we are to accomplish
here what is now being actually done in
France, that ia. operate an electrical ma.
chine by q small water-pawer on the
farm and run the plows by the power de.
veloped by electricity; If l say,
| all these things begin to be ap-
even gets mixed up in attempting to de-
L
relation his parts of speech bear to each
other-vhy then perhaps the millen.
| mum of the economist Is nearer at hand
than it has been supposed to be; the
time when intelligence and integrity
and very moderate amount of labor
will insure so good subsistence that il
will not pay to be rich. The evil tC
which refer is for every man to rush tC
the legislature and attempt to procure &
statute foT remedyiRg small difficulties
which, in the nature of things, are &
/ part of progress, and which time only
can cure. It is useless to try to curt
petty evils by statute which viii only b
aggravated the more they are legislated
upon. Let any man ask himself whether
or not he would petition the average
Legislature to provide by statute what
crop he should raise, what manure he
should use, what breed of stock hG
should buy, and how much he shoulC
eusilage his fodder; or who he should
trade with, and on what terms, o.
what wagon he should use, and how
much he should pay for teamiag-iT
short let him consider that he may be q.
lsnbiect TO meddlesome legislation n
any one, and perhaps he win doubt tina
the average legislator is competent Il
ioperate q railroad
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The suggestion has been made that
county fairs might begin in the middle
of one week and end in the middle of
another. On Sunday the gates could be
opened at half price, no committee work
or horse racing being allowed, but good
singing and religious oratory being en-
joyed. For a fair beginning on Mon
day morning much work is done on Sun
day which need not be done if the fair
is held over Sunday, making 1t in fact a
semi-camp meeting. Good deacons visit
one another's farms on Sunday and look
at stock and crops, and they might look
at stock and crops on fair grounds on
Sunday. There is such o custom in
England. .-..---... ....-.
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The reported massacres and outrages
by Indians in New Mexico are, il is to
he hoped, exaggerated. Seventy per.
sons, the dispatches say, have been kill
ed In the little town of Eureka, while
other butcheries have been perpetrated
at other points. The savages belong to
Nana's band, and unfortunately they
have succeeded in escaping from the
troops into Mexico.
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New York Tribune: There we're few
churches In all this broad land where
prayers were not offered Sunday FOR the
recovery of the President. We live in u
materialistic age, and science is con-
stantiy examining into the realm OF fix.
ing law phenomena which were once
thought to be dependent upon supernat.
ural power. but the mysteries of life and
death arc US great as oyer. Who can say
that the prayerful sympathy of fifty mil.
lions OF people may not have some effect
in strengthening the courageous sufferer
IN the White House?
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New York Tribune: The Rev. Mr..
Talmage, in his sermon last Sunday, re-
constructed the Garfield Cabinet for the
use of Gen. Arthur. He did his work
with what may be regarded as great
moderation. He only dismissed four of
the present Cabinet, retaining Mr.. Win
dom, Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. James-Al
good cards to draw to, as Mr.. Talmage
would probably say.
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More Indian OatraSaS.

ST. Louis, Sept. "A dispatch from
Fl, Davis, Texas, says q party of In
dams yesterday made q raid on Beck
fifty miles southeast OF Fl. Davis. They
drove Off large number of horses be.
longing to the ranch and other neigh
boring ranches. Last Tuesday an
other party of Indians rsided
the sheep ranch of Lawrence
Haley, ten miles from here. Yesterday
Haley's herder, with some two thousand
sheep, was killed by a rowing band OF
Indians. They also drove OF the re.
mainder Of the herd, consisting of 1900
head. The Indians have organized
hands roaming around through this sec
ton, committing deviltry OF ali kinds.
United States troops, state rangers and
citizens are in hot pursuit.
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The cordial feelings always entertain.
cd by the American people toward
Queen Victoria have been greatly
strengthened since the tragedy at Wash
iDgton by the repeated evidence of deep
interest in the Presidents condition
which have been afforded by her many
kilograms Of inquiry and sympathy with
Mrs. Garfield. At every serious crisis
in the Presidents case there has come a
fresh message of hope and condolences
from England's sovereign. The tender
woman's heart of the Queen goes out u
one who is threatened with a loss like
that which has befallen her.