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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
Injunction Dented.

New York, Feb. 3.-,Judge Barrett has
denied the injunction asked for by Rufus
Hatch, restraining tie Western Union,
American Union and Atlantic & Pacific tele
graph companies from consolidating.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04

New Orleans, Feb. S.--George johnson,
colored, was convicted of stabbing negro
to death in barrel house and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04

Mobile, Feb. S.-The town of Scott or
Mandora was partly destroyed by fire this
morning. Loss, $25,000; insurance, $500.
Eight streets are total loss.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
Death on a PLEASURE yncht

Baltimore, Feb. 3.-About midnight the
boiler OF the pleasure yacht Carrie, of Phil
adelphia, exploded, making complete wreck
OF the vessel, and killing three white men
and one colored man.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
National Convention Of the Land
Leapue

Dublin, Feb. 3.-At meeting of the land
league yesterday it was resolved to hold a
national convention between the passing of
the coercion bill and its becoming operative
as q law.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
STATE SPECIALS.
TEXAS TOPICS BY TELEGRAPH.

A Er"in Wrecked Near Grand sa
line = Alex Mason. Charged with
Msrder, Admitted 20 Bail at
BFenham- Railroad Boom nj
san fO.-Engagement
Between state Troops
and Indians at Sierra
Diabi0, Etc.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
DayittArrestcd.

Dublin, Feb. S.-Michael DavltL, tho agi-
tator, was arrested hero today under his
ticket of leave.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
Cold weather.

Whitehall, N. T., Feb. 3.-At o'clock
this morning the thermometer stood 35 de-
grees below zero.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-04
Training ship Atlanta.

Plymouth, Feb. "A vessel has arrived
with the figure head of the lost training ship
Atlanta.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
The Labor Agitation

NEW YORK, April 22-The drivers of
the Third avenue street railway have
struck for an advance of wages.
The strike is now about over, and all
is quiet 1t is intimated, however, that
the strike will become more general to-
morrow for the infringement of the hours
of labor. and an advance on $1.70 per
day.
/. ST. LOUIS, April 22.-Tt is stated to-
day that manager of the Lindell street
railroad company, whose road traverses
Washington avenue, discharged, last
night, all drivers and conductors who
have identified themselves with the
threatened strike, stating that he could
find plenty of men to run his cars.
This he failed to do, and this morning
the discharged men were requested by
the superintendent to return TO work, at
least for to-day. Part of the men re-
turned, but the remainder refused, and
the line has been running four cars short
today.
CHICAGO, April 22.-The railroad
strike continues in some dep0ts The
Michigan Central has surrendered to the
men. The only place where the hands
made any demonstration was at the Lake
Shore depot. They having been particu-
larly i'll used by the management of that
road. The men, however, were not viO-
lent
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
The Star Service Steal

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 23.-Sev-
eral members of congress who were con-
spicuous in the support of the deficiency
which Brady asked of the last congress
to maintain the star-route service, are
here. Brady asked for $2,000,OO0 more
than had been appropriated, and con-
gressmen who urged the deficiency say
they did so on The ground that the star
service had to be maintained; that they
recognized the fact that Brady had been
extravaganza, but they were not willing
to make the people of the country suf-
fer by depriving them of their mails be-
cause of Brady's faults. It is said that
Brady has preserved all the recommend
ations and requests of the members of
congress for increased service, and will
exhibit them IN his defense. Members
of congress generally admit that they
have asked for and urged an increase of
mail service in their respective states,
but that they expected it to be done le-
ultimately, and most of the members
here say that they asked only such an
increase as the growth of the population
and business demanded. Rumors of
congressman having been connected with
alleged Irregularities appear to be with
out foundation, and high authority in
the postoffice department states that
nothing yet developed inculpates any
member of congress.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
A NEW OKLAHOMA MOVE
MENT

New York Tribune: The Indian
Territory is threatened with new in
vasion. This time it is not : land.steal-
ing expedition of armed white men
from Kansas, like that which cncamped
upon its borders last year. and was only
kept back by the interposition of United
States troops. A peaceful inroad of col
ored farmers from the south is what
menaces the tribes in The Territory. A
society has been formed in st. Louis
called the "Freedmen's Oklahoma As
scciation," of which j. Milton Turner,
late United States Minister to Liberia, is
president. 1t has issued a circular
promising 100 acres of land to every
colorcd man who will go to the Indian
Territory. The scheme is based upon
the assumption that negroes have the
right to settle in the Territory, although
white men are excluded. In the times
before the war, the regulations of the
Creeks, Choctaws and other hali-civiliz-
ed tribes permitted the holding of ne
gro slaves and also the residence of free
negroes among them. Whether by viT-
tue of the tribal laws, or of the old
treaties, or of some inadvertant phrase
olOgy in the United States statutes, we
do not know, the claim is now set up on
behalf of the blacks that they they can
settle on the unOccupied lands OF the
Territory under the provisions of the
homestead law. This matter is being
Investigated in Washington. Probably
it will turn out that Mr.. Turner and his
associates are in the wrong.
On some accounts, however, it would
be gratifying if their movement should
prove justifiable one. Hundreds OF
thousands of acres of the best land in
the west lie unoccupied in the Indian
Territory, and will never be occupied il
everybody Is shut out save the feeble
remnants of Indian tribes that hold them
as reservations under the provisions OF
old treaties. The climate is mild and
healthy, and the soil adapted TO the cul-
tivatlon OF cotton and corn, the only
crops which the southern negro Is nc.
customed 10 raise. 1t was lawful in the
old time for the blacks to go to the Ter.
riiory as slaves; if is is lawful now for
them to go as freemen We shall bid them
Godspeed. The Indians have no use foI
the land. That the colored men want il
and can make good use of it is shown by
the revival of the Kansas emigration
movement 1t would after all he only
an act of justice on the part of the gov
ernment to give the colored population
OF the south region in the west suited
to their habits, to which they can mi
crate with the certainty of finding a:
favorable conditions as the white mar
finds In Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota
The climate is too cold for them in tn,
northwest. In Kansas they must come
into keen competition with large whit
population. Texas would be q gooS
field for them were it not possessed anC
ruled by an intolerant white element
There remains only the Indian Territory
A million of colored people can find fer
tile farms there if the Indian treaties d.
not bar them out.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

The most interesting state campaign
OF the present year will be that in Ohio,
which will, 70 all appearances, be fought
squarely on National issues. The con.
test will not be complicated by factional
disagreements In either Of the great
parties, and the issue will be watched
by the whole country as test Of the re-
lative strength of the Republican and
Democratic organizations. The Repub-
Iicans will hold their State Convention
at CT Feland in June. Governor Foster
will unquestionably be renominated by
reclamation. Lieutenant Governor Hick-
enlooper declines a second nomination,
and his place will probably be filed by
q strong man from the south part of the
state. The present state treasurer, At
torney- General and Member of the
Board of public works, Messrs. Turney,
Nash and Paul, are likely to be nomi-
mated without opposition. Judge Boyn-
ton, the member of the Supreme Bench
whose term expires, wishes to retire,
and there are a number of candidates
announced for his place. Prominent
among them is General Jones, who re-
Gently represented the Delaware District
in Congress. In the Democratic party
there is no drift of opinion apparent to-
ward candidate to run against Foster.
Some talk is heard of Mayor Means, of
Cincinnati, and some of Hugh ]. Jewett,
who, however, is generally regarded
now as q citizen of New York.
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taGknnnh Hn %


COFFEYvILLE, April 23.-The follow
ing from the Coffeyville Journal of the
sd inst, explains itself: From present
appearances it looks as though Coffey-
vile had struck bonanza at last. d.
Davis, a harness maker of this city, dug
q well some time ago and reached a
depth of about twcnty-four feet, but not
deep enough to give plenty of water,
SO last Wednesday a drill was put in
and the work of drilling the well deeper
was commenced. On Thursday even
ing, a while before dark, after drilling
about eight feet an oily substance was
reached, but no attention was paid to it
that evening. The next morning (Fri-
day. Mr.. Davis began investigating the
truck" He drew some from the we'll
and it was of dark color, very thick
and oily, and resembled exactly the
crude petroleum of the east and when a
lighted match was set to it it burned very
readily. Everybody who has seen it
pronounces it crude petroleum The
well from which the oil came is now
only thirty-two feet deep and the oil is
running in small, but steady stream.
Whether there is anything II the matter
cannot be told just at present, but there
certainly is enough seen thus far to war
rant further investigation.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

Disraeli's effort in parliament is thus
described by one who saw and heard it:
When Mr.. Disraeli got up TO reply to
the great Irish athlete, Daniel O'Connell,
who had Just sat down, he looked as col
lected and pleasant as bridegroom on
his nuptial day. There was a moment
of intense silence highly flattering to
the youthful politician. He began in
an easy flow of graceful elocntion, and
his voice was clear and strong. look
ed forward TO a triumphant display of
his powers, when of sudden, as If it
had been concerted, as doubtless it was,
a loud chorus of discordant calculations
broke forth from the Wing and Radical
members, that rose in volume and dis
sonance till the voice of the orator
was quite drowned. He seemed
in nowise disconnected, but per-
sistently began again and again. At last
he appealed to the refractory members,
and said that as q matter of fairness, if
not propriety, they ought to allow
him to proceed, at least till he gave cause
for interruption, and that nothing would
induce him to take part in treating any
honorable gentleman in the manner in
which he was assailed. He saw at last
thati was useless to struggle against the
uproar, which was only increased by the
stentorian efforts on the Tory side of the
house to sustain him; so gathering him.
self up TO his full height, with his eyes
emitting fierce flashes of indignation,
and voice Of proud defiance, he ex-
claimed, as he brandished his right arm,
Though l sit down now, the time will
come when you will hear me"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

I We learn from our exchanges that the
culture of sorghum is TO be undertaken
on quite an extensive scale this season
in different parts of the state The soil
of Kansas seems especially well adapted
TO its growth, and as it defies, with COM
paratIve success, the influences of drouth.
the propriety of this step will commend
itself TO every husbandman who is famil-
lar with the peculiarities of this climate
Al Larned its cultivation last year was
attended with very satisfactory results,
and IA steam mill erected for the purpose
not only turned out large quantities of
beautiful syrup, but likewise an ex-
cellent quality of sugar. So far as
We can learn, this product has new
er received much attention at the
hands of the farmers in Lyon county,
though we have no doubt that il could
be made q handsome source of profit.
1t has been successfully grown in small
quantities for family consumption and
its adaptability TO our soil and climate
have thus been demonstrated. We have
every reason 10 believe that largely in
creased acreage this year, and mill, at
some eligible locality for working up
the cane, would prove largely remuner.
atiYe, and we would advise our farmers
TO venture upon the experiment by
planting, say, an acre or a halfacre each
in golden amber cane, the variety which
has most literally rewarded the efforts
of the husbandman in this latitude.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
BLOOD 81 Hars Citr.

HAYS Cry, April 22.-At 10 O'Clock
today an immense food OF water came
rushing down Big creek, bursting the
mill dam of /. NJ. Yost, which cost him
over two thousand dollars, carrying
heavy timber and stones in its course.
One mile east the government water
wagon was in the stream from Fort
Hays with fine mules attached worth
500 each, and before the teamster no
hced the flood it rushed against the
wagon, taking wagon, mules and teams
ter down the creek at least a quarter of
mile. The teamster had Il narrow es-
cape, and says it was too early In season
TO take bath. Three mules were
drowned, the other three managed TO
get loose and were carried down the
stream, when they were washed high
and dry on the prairie. The teamsier
says he gives Governor St John credit
for so much cold water for the past three
days. This county and other western
counties were visited with heavy rain
storms, and our wheat crops, corn, ETC.,
look promising.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29


The returns thus far published of the
municipal elections in Illinois show
that the women won some notable
triumphs, which are perhaps the omens
of greater and more important victories
in the future. The question of temper
ance was leading one in the canvass.
and, as may be expected, the fair I'LL
noisans were on the side OF the prohibit
uonists. The enthusiasm with which
they worked and the numbers in which
they turned out showed the keen inter
est they took In the subject. In one lii
tie town one thousand ladies appeared At
the polls and succeeded in electing three
out Of fourteen aldermen. At Mount
Vernon all their candidates were elected
by majority Of five hundred, and in
other portions of the state their efforts
were crowned with more or less success
This Is good beginning of the female
suffrage experiment in the west.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

The really cautious and hesiLating
progress Of the electric light reminds
Us Of the equally cautious and hesitatIng
progress of gas. Gas appeared in shop
after shop slowly just rs the electric
light lsnow adopted by enterprising en-
ployers, ready 10 try experiments. Gas
led these advanced shop keepers to in
troduce large panes of glass for show ef-
feet. How long it took before gas came
out of suspicion? How long It had TO
encounter the jealousy Of those interest
ed in whale oil, who had shares in whals
erss How lcng will the slectSieglight
bein superseding gas, so injurious TO
health, and especially to the eyesight?
The swittest and subtlest power in ma
ture is being turned to domestic uses,
subdivided, measured or retailed, like
any commodity of the shop. All the
plans of the electric light are good.
The inquiry is which plan is the best,
the Lontin system, the Brush system, or
the Siemens system, or one Of half
dozen others struggling into notice.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

The st. Louis Globe Democrat is moth
ing7unless aggressive. It's belligerent
attentions, which are commonly directed
against the conservative element of the
Republican party, have recently been
monopolized by local affairs, and the de-
capitatiOn of Ovcrstolz, the Democratic
candidate for mayor, has been followed
by vigorous crusade against the street
car companies, whose employees justly
protest against working eighteen hours
for a single days wages. The tow-line
is stretched this time in righteous
cause, and we hope to see it pull the
strikeTs saFeY into port. yarS "a
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

In England they are very successfully
laying the foundations for financial
panic, compared with which that Of
1866 will be rs nothing. The prices of
all solid securities have steadily crept
up since 1857, till now the small investor
can get only infinitesimal returns for his
money, and the large ones do not get
enough TO satisfy them. For instance,
the 3-per-cent oonsOls, which stood at
about 81 fourteen years ago, are now
from to 2 per cent above par. This is
the temper and condition that exactly
suits the promoter of bubble companies,
and shower of prospectuses of such en-
terprises daily falls in London. Over a
hundred millions of dollars has been
asked for by these new companies dur
ing the last three months, and the
amounts demanded still continue TO in
crease. The day of awakening will not
long be delayed at this rate.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

The young ladies of Rochester, Mich,
ping church door loafng. They have
q permanent fund, out of which they pay
for standing advertisement in the Era of
that place Is follows: 1.-THE Donkey Club
OF this city would inform the young la
dies especially and the public generally
that they have made arrangements for an
extensive demonstration on the steps in
front Of the Methodist Episcopal church
the members locating themselves on
either side of the main entrance-on
Sunday evening next. Positions taken
Immediately after the close of the relig-
ious exercises within"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
Cotton in Kansas.

CoFFEYynLE, Kas, April 23.-Capt
McTaugert, of Liberty. the pioneer cot
ton raiser of Southern Kansas, has plant
ed about 500 acres of cotton already this
spring, and he is satisfied that fully
1850 acres will be planted in this county
alone this season. He has cotton gin
on his premises, and there IS another
one near Independence, making two in
this county. Some forty bales were
ginned last fall and sold at rcmuneFatiye
prices, and q portion of that years crop
yet remains. The captain Is satisfied
that fully ten times as much cotton will
be raised this year than last, As it has
been fully demonstrated that cotton can
be successfully and proftabIy cultivated
in this latitude. This is certainly new
industry for Southern Kansas, and one
that is destined to prove highly profita-
bic. Real estate in the city and country
has advanced at least so per cent in the
last eighteen months, and q well-to-do
and energetic class of farmers and stock
breeders are filling mp the "waste places
rapidly.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
A STRANGE DISCOVERY
BY Which We May Yet Hear The
Sounds of the Fires Raging on
the Sun.

BY Which We May Yet Hear The
the Sun.
From the Youths Companion.
Prof Tyndall, of London, has just in
vented new neutrality-suspicious., which
properly used, gives most singular re-
suits, and shows that the wonders of the
photophone have only just begun.
The photophone has already been des-
cribed in the Companion, and you may
remember it is an instrument invented
by Prof. Bell for causing beam of light
to convey telephone message % dis
lance.
In the new apparatus, beam of light
from lime light or even a candle, is
thrown upon common glass flask hay-
ing long neck. To this is fastened a
rubber speaking tube that may be placed
to the ear SO that any sounds in the flask
may be heard through the tube.
Between the flask and the light is plac-
ed circular disk or metal, having mar
row slots OF openings placed like the
spokes of wheel round the edge; the
beam of light may pass through one of
the slots and fall on the flask
If now the disk is made TO turn ra-
pidIy on its axis, the light viii reach
the flask in q series of flashes, as it
shines through the slots one after the
other. When the flask is nlIed with a
gas or vapor, say the yapor of sulphuric
ether, common street gas, oxygen, per-
fumes like patchouli or Gasria, or even
smoke, and the beam of light is made
to fall on the flask in a series of alter
nate flashes, the operator. listening with
the speaking tube at his ear, will hear
strange musical sounds inside of the
flask
The pitch of these tones will CORES
pond exactly with the speed with which
The disk is made to turn, and each kind
of gas, or vapor in the flask will give q
different kind of note, some soft, some
loud and some very sweet and must
cal.
This is certainly the most remarkable
discovery SINCE the photophone, and it
shows that light may be made the means
of making sounds audible at distance,
even when the eye can see no difference in
the light 1t even suggests the idea that
we may yet be able to hear the sounds Of
the fires raging in the sun. It may, IN
deed, be only hint of yet more won-
derful and untheught OF relationships
between light and sound, which may be
utilized as a medium OF communities
fiQu
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

The agreeable prediction is veatured
in the dispatches from Washington that
this week will witness break In the
deadlock in the senate, and that that
body will 60 into executive session and
act upon at least a portion of the. nomi-
nations that have been submitted 10 it
by the president We trust that this
news is not too good to be true. The
immunity from the intense bore OF the
forensic circus, vouchsaied to the country
by the adjournment of the senate from
Friday Till Tuesday, has been so
thoroughly appreciated, that 1t would be
the very refinement of cruelty TO affiict
the public with resumption of the
windy wrangle which has prevailed at
the capitol for the past six weeks.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
4 Texas Trick

ST. LOUIS, April ga special says
that band of armed men rode up to the
house of q man named McLawrence,
living in the little town of Frio, Ed
wards county, Texas, last Tuesday, and
deliberately murdered McLawrence, his
wife and young man living with them
named Lease. No cause is given for the
horrible act and the perpetrators of it
are unknown. Plumber evidently was
not the object as nothing in the house
was disturbed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
Monetary Conference.

PARIS, April ga committee offour.
teen, and one commissioner appointed
by representatives of each of the four.
teen states participating in the interna-
tional monetary conference, sat to-day
1t was decided to- make no report of the
sittings of tho, committee. Cernuscki
and Thorman were entrusted with the
duty of draughting list of questions to
be submitted to the congress at the next
meeting of the committee, to be held
when this task is completed.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29

Mr. Montgomery. Blair says in a re-
cent letter to Missouri friend: "Lee
told my father in the room in which /
write this note, when my father at Lin
coins request, offered him the command
Of our army. that he was utterly op-
posed to secession-regarded 1t as an
archy-and said IL he owned every slave
in the country he would freely surrender
them rather than see the Union dissolved,
aud yet he took up arms for the cause he
himself had pronounced illegal and
rninous, because his relatives and friends
were involved in it.