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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15

The total length of the Southern
Pacific, from New Orleans to San
Francisco, will be 1897 miles, of which
all but $50 miles have been completed.
The various sections of this line are !:
Southern Pacific, 1868; Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad
(''Sunset' route), 43l; Houston to
Orange, LOG, and Louisiana Western,
112. The value of the property Of the
road is $3.50, 900. The Southern
Pacific has a land grant in California
of II 700, 900 acres and the s'Sunsct"
route grant in Texas of $500, 200 acres.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15

The Garfield gush il apparently
over, and a retrospect is now in order.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15

N"TicE.
TIE, BEST OFFER YET MADE,
Eour of Frank LP.tic's Publications
One Year for ontY 81. 10.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15
IoIlN CALDEEWooD. rIlos. Y.
DrS. CuldcrWOOl 4 Aby.

Practitioners i'll Medicine anu Surgery.
Office on Grand street, IN roar of Il. W.
Mcfee's Drug Store, and opposite }. w.
Smiths carriage shop.
January 23, 1850. n2O:ly
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15

Tho health of Monroe since the mid
die of May has been moro unsatis-
factory than any year of tho fifteen
since the war. We know of no local
cause to which we can ascribe the sick
ness, any more than exists in the
country generally, where thcrc has
been more than the usual amount Of
summer diseases. We should suppose
that the unusually damp and cool
weather of May, which was SO sud-
denly followed by the oppressive heat
of juno, allowing no time for ncces-
sary changes in the human system, is
the prime, if not the sole cause Of so
much i'll health and of the Iassitudc
and excavation from which all alike
have suffered and against which they
arc now heroicalIy struggling.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15

a year or two ago wool as a narke-
table article in Monroe amounted to
nothing. But such is not the case to-
day. The trade is growing rapidly and
is fast becoming one Of the leading
commercial industries of the city
Mr.. ID. Stcinau, who deals exclusively
in wool and hides, shipped Wednesday
to Cincinnati $4,000 pounds of wool.
This wool was ali picked clean of burrs,
giving employment TO little boys for
days at n fair remuneration, and it
should bring Il handsome price. Pre-
vious shipments have exceeded this,
| and they have been not unfrequent.
Now, gentlemen build, that cotton
| mill, and attach machinery for
| making woiIcn goods. The same en-
| Cine can run both.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15
JAllAc.s II. STROLLER.

S~UAcsA H. SueOu1a0r.
A lsrORNEY AT LAW, Mouroo LIT
"A Will practice law In North Louisiana,
before the supreme Court ut Monroe, Fed
erNl Courts of Louisiana. Court of Claims,
and Supreme Court OF tho United States ut
Washington City.
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Dr. TT, Richardson

:" AS resumed tho practice of Medicine,
III Ac may be found, when not profess
sionAlly engnged, at Moore's drug store
during tho day, and at his rosidcnce at all
other hours. Monroe, Feb. &, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-07-15
SUCCESSION SALE.

Ouachita Parish, July 1.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14
THE KANSAS RAILWAY.

The Kansas City Journal, in speaking
of the above named enterprise, says:
Those who have interested them
selves in the enterprise have assured
the Journal that they will certainly build
the road. A survey of the road will be
made at once, and while the exact route
cannot now be giveu,it will pass through
the following towns: Starting from
Kansas City the route lies through Bald
win City in Douglas county, CeniropOiis
in Franklin county, Pomona in Frank
lin county, Quenemo in Usage county,
Lyndon in Usage county; Usage City,
Council Grove, Salina and Lincoln Cen
ter in Lincoln county, from which point
il is expected to extend the road ulti-
mately in a northwest direction TO the
north line of the state ofsKansas. An
other line starting from Quenemo will
run to Emporia. That much of the road
which connects Salina and Emporia with
Kansas City Is included in the contrac:
above referred to, and will be built as
fast as the work can be done. Besides
hoping to make connection with the
Burlington and Missouri in Nebraska
near the north Kansas line, for Denver
making short line TO the Colorado cap.
ital, the company also have their eye on
the wide strip of unoccupied land be
tween the Kansas Pacific and the Sants
Fe, known as the Walnut Valley, ard
will probably build from Council Grove
or some point in that vicinity, up the
Walnut river to Pueblo. The capital
stock of the company is s., 900, 900.
The enterprise is one Of great magni
tude and Of the highest importance 4
Kansas City,
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Election Proclamation.

Notice is hereby given that special cleo
ton viii be held at the several voting pre-
cincts in Jack on township, in Lyon county.
Kansas, on the 18th day OF February. A ID.
1881, to vote upon proposition TO subscribe
20 the capital stock Of The Kansas
City & Enporia railroad company, in &c
cordaace with the following terms and con-
diiions, to-wit:
Shall the board OF county commissioners Of
Lyon county, Kansas, subscribe for and in
behalf Of jackson township in said county,
take the capital stock OF the Kansas City &
IS 600, and ia payment thereof issue and de-
liver TO said railroad company the bonds OF
said township 10 the amount of $4,000 paya-
BILE principal and interest at the fiscal
agency OF the state Of Kansas, In the city
Of New York, in thirty years after the
date thereof; with the privilege reserved
part of said bonds at any time after five years
from the date thereof. by giving notice there
fn denominations OF 500 90 each, and to
draw interest at the rate Of seven ca per
cent per annGm from the date Of their deliy
cry TO said railroad company, payable semi
annually Cd the 18th days Of January and
July. in each and every year, and ali interest
date Of delivery OF said bonds, to be can
celled and returned TO the board Of county
commissioners Of said county.
Said bonds to be issued in consideration Of
the construction, operation anu maintenance
Of the said railroad through said township,
by the most practicable rontc.
immediately after the proposition is voted
By the people OF said township and the result
Of the election duly ascertained and declared.
said subscription to the capital stock OF said
railroad company shall be made, and the
said bonds OF the township shall be duly exc
cufed by the said board OF county commits
sioners, according to law. and deposited in
escrow with the fiscal agency of said state
in the city Of New York. or with such other
party as may be mutually agreed upon by
and be satisfactory to the said board of coun-
ty commissioners and said railroad company
Said bonds shall remain in possession OF
their custodian aforesaid, untiidelIyered mp.
on the certificate OF said board or county com
missioners as hereinafter provided, and at
the same time the said railroad company
shall execute an amount OF stock Of said
company equal in amount to said bonds, and
place the same in escrow at the same place
and with the same party 10 whom said bonds
session said stock shall remain until its de-
livery as hereinafter provided.
The said Kansas City q Emporia railroad
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HERE AND THERE.

A seat in the New York stock ex-
change costs $4,000. This is almost as
expensive as taking . orchestra chair
for Bernhard
The superintendent ice crop all over
the country has developed mild symp-
toms of hydrophobia in Murat Halstead,
editor of the Cincincinnati Commercial.
The sale of tickets for Bernhardt at
ST. Louis already amounts to about $10,-
600. Has Joe McCullough's great religi-
Gus daily been subsidized by the French
actress!
II the scramble for state printer and
sergeant-atarms keeps up at its present
temperature for a week longer the back
bone of winter will certainly be broken
ut Topeka.
There is not much doing among the
cabinetmakers of Kansas these days.
Public interest throughout the common
wealth just now seems to center on the
manufacture of state printer.
IT is really asserted that John Kelly
proposes To lecture. AS Josh Billings
has graphically observed: "When man
once begins TO go down hill, everything
seems to be creased for the occasion"
A Leavenworth man dropped some
thing" us he turned an icy corner, and
when James Brow laughed about it, a
bullet in the leg made him pucker his
mouth the other way. Some men have
no appreciation of humor.
Anent the Whitaker muddle at West
Point, the Detroit Free Press says:
J This is u nation of $4,000, 900 people
and vet one little darky with sore ears
has kicked up fuss which has made his
name more familiar than that of any vice
president we ever had.
Mr. Moody was followed to his lodg
ings fortnight ago by a convert who
wished to ask him whether it would be
right, now that he had professed to be q
christian, to pay his whisky bills. The
evangelist told him to pay all his debts
no matter how bad they might be, and
then to make new start.
: The Passion Play is TO be produced a
: Denver. If we have been accurately in
: formed in relation to the popularity o
sacred literature in the metropolis o
| the centennial state, it may become nee
essary for the management to print Ii
brettos to familiarize their patrons will
} the plot of the proposed drama.
l 1t is asserted that there was a yer!
IcOnsid.rabla increasa instead IF diminu
l ton, in the proceeds at the old Teff
l House on the opening day OF the stat
I legislature this year, as compared witt
the showing of past sessions. Thi
would seem to Indicate that the decision
of the supreme court is not essential il
determining whether or not the prohit
itory amendment is now in force.
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company or their assigns shall construct and
equip as aforesaid, and have in operation
railroad or standard gauge, SO constructed
as to form one continuous line from Kansas
City, in the ftate of Kansas, to the city of En-
pnria, in said state, within two years from
the delivery OF bonds in escrow, as here
matter set forth said road to be constructed
IN a substantial manner, with steel rail, and
the equipments thereof 10 be such as are or
dinarily used in constructing and operating
such roads. and shall lie sufficient for the or
binary traffic OF the road the work OF con
year after the deposit Of said bonds in escrow
rs aforesaid.
That no part OF said township bonds of said
Jack son township, In Lyon county, shall be
delivered or in any manner disposed of by
the party holding them in escrow, nor be Of
any binding force validity upon said town
shall be substantially completed and trains
run thereon the entire length OF said road
through said township, across the towDSite of
Seosho Rapids, and a station or depot thereof
permanently located on the townsite Of Neo-
OF Badger creek. on the north side OF the Ne
OSLO river in said township. and the same
certiacd 10 by the county commissioners OF
OF $25 GO shall be delivered to said railroad
company, aud a like amount OF the stock
Of said railroad company shall at the same
time be delivered to the said board of county
commi IS Ioners.
Il is however provided that in case the said
railroad company or its assigns, shall be him
dered or delay ed in the construction or equip
ment Of said road by any legal proceedings
Ifes the time go consumer shall be added TO
the periods hereinbefore fixed for the com
pietion OF said road.
That the form of the ballots to be used ut
such election for and against said proposition
shall be follows:
shall the board OF county commissioners
of Lyon county subscribe for and take the
capital stock OF the Kansas City & Emporia
RAILROAD company for and IN behalf OF Jack
son township, in said county, to the amount Of
Szo,eo0, and in payment thereof issue and de-
nxer 20 sAia railroad company the bonds Of
sald toM1sbIp TO the amount OF SIS COOP les.
'.Shall the board of county commissioners
Of Lyon county subscribe for and take the
capital stock OF the Kansas City & Emporis
railroad company, for AMI in behalf OF Jack
son .i toWnship, IN said county. to the amount
OF $29 CD and IN payment thereof Issue and
denver TO said railroad company the bonds
SO.
The polls at said election shall be opened at
on said day.
Given under my oficial hand and seal. this
10th day of January. A ID. 1881.
J b. MOON.
Sheriff of Lyon county, state OF Kansas.
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YESTERDAYS FOREIGN MARKETS.

Wall. Street.
NEW YORK. January IL.
Honey-5D6 per cent. closing ut ).
Prime Mercantile Paper-595h per cent.
Governments-Steady for SIS an US and u
o. per cent higher for AXIS and As.
State Securities Inactive.
Live Stock MARKETS.
KANSAS CITY, January IL.
Cattle Receipts, 66S; shipments, S97 market
steady and fairly active for good cattle; ma
tive steers averaging 1881 to 1915 lbs. sold at
s. 2505; cows, 81 60Gs IS
HogS-Receipts, 1905; shipments, 120i mar
4 So; bulk at 81 1901 60.
Sheep-Receipts, 50; shipments. =; mar
ket steady; natives averaging 100 lbs, 81.
ST. LOUIS, January II
H0gs-Active and hfm; Workers and Balti-
10 so ncI m 1a Packiag Dot s SS
shipments. G, 100.
Cattle-Fafrly active ior all grades; export
Steers brought S. and i05o to IFS lbs s' Is 7oS
12K; southwest steers of $50 to 925 lbs, So 80
D3 o1h good 70 choice cows and heifers, $50
sjo st0'ker'' 1893 so; receipts 7OO' shipments
sheep-strong; good to choice, "a 5O@5 co;
choice to fancy, $5Gs 80; receipts, 200; ship
Grain and Produce Markets.
KANSAS CITY, JANUARY II.
Wheat-Receipts. 499 bushels; shipments,
81 ,021 bushels; in store, 49,, SIS bushels; No l.
1 corn:Receipt;. a.lsS bushels: shipments
4 s39 bushels: in store. 2s2, 1873 bushels; No )
mixed. 291Gs0s.c; No. white mixed. SOC
Eggs-Msrket dull at &c per dozen.
Butter-Steady at l59l6c for choice.
ST. LOUIS January IL.
Flour--Firm and higher; family, 81 GOA IS
choice. 81 s005 o5; fancy, s. 2595 CO.
Wheat-No. red winter. 81 0lx; No. 3, red
941<c bid: No. red, S3<9SSHc.
COrn-Easier; 49,. @s9xc.
Oats-EIIgher: SIC.
Rye-SIow; S6kc bid
Barley-Dull; choice to fancy, S0c0$I 10.
Pork-Firm and slow; $I3 90 asked.
Dry Salt Meats-Strong; 81 10, 6 90, 8 50.
Bacon-Dull; IS Is, Z 10, 100
Lard-Betteri IS 90 asked; s. so bid.
Eggs-Quiet at 2sc-
CHICAGO, January IL
9Sc.
Corn Unsettled and lower; S7kc.
Oats-Active. firm and higher; Size.
Rye-Firm; No. 2. S90SSc.
Barley-Steady; 81 Is.
Pork-Active, but lower; SIS o525'S 10.
Bulk Meats-Shoulders. 81 40; short rib, So O.
| short clear. 81 20
Lard-Easier; IS IS.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14
A WONDERFUL BUSINESS GROWTH

The history of the widely known
house of Joseph Burnett & Co, of Bos-
ton, shows a large and fiourishing in-
dustry, which has grown from small be-
ginnings. The extensive business Of
this house. which has extended to near
" every civilized country in the world,
had Its origin in what might be called
an incident, or an accident, some thirty
years ago. At that time Mr.. Joseph Bur
nett, the founder of the house, was doing
II large apothecary business on fremont
street, opposite the Boston museum.
A lady who had lived in France and
become accustomed to French methods
of cookery, came into Mr.. Burnetts
store one day and asked him If he could
not make q decent flavoring eXtruct for
her, as she found those in common use
abominabie. She wanted an extract of
vanilla. This was made. which pleased
the lady very much, and from this SIM
pie beginning has grown business, one
single branch Of which now consumes
one-fourth the entire Mexican product,
which is the only recognized best quail
ity of vanilla in the world.
1t may be here remarked that an eK-
tract of the Tonka. or Snuff Bean" Is
largely made and sold for Vanilla ex-
tract, though the favor of the TOnka is
no more to be compared with the Vanil-
la than a burdock Is to a rose. Some
fifty persons are now directly employed
by this concern in the varied work of
bottling, labelling, packing and boxing
their various 1iavOring extracts and
toilet preparations, all of which are of
an altogether superior nature.
Burnett's Cocaine is a remarkably
fine preparation in liquid form of de-
odoriZed cocoanut oil, for promoting
the growth of the hair and beautifyingit,
and It is generally acknowledged to pro-
duce a finer effect than any other hair
dressing.
Burnetts Kallislon as q wash tor the
complexion, to allay Irritation of the
skin and scalp, and for the bites of in
sects, stands unriValled among the pre-
parations of the day. Lately and by &C
cident it was discovered TO be an almost
sovereign remedy for itching piles.
Burnett's Cologne Is really Cologne.
The oil of lavender commonly used to
make cologne water with costs about
$I75 pound, while the Mitcham Oil
| of Lavender, used by the Burnett's is i'm.
ported ut a cost of $26 pound. Every
thing used in the Burnett preparations
are of the very best The spirits used
are made especially for their use, and
are the purest product of the still that
can be produced. 1t is Mr.. Burnett's
pride TO feel that he Is giving no infer
Tor article to the conflding public who
patronize him. He has associated with
HIM in his business two of his sons,
whom he has brought up in the way of
fair dealing, and the spirit of pride in
the production of superior goods which
he has made the system of his life, and
they will no doubt continue the business
IN that way when he shall have retired
, from its active pursuit, which will not
be in few years, for Mr.. Burnett is q
hale, young looking man at the present
| time
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14
OF SPEAKER JOHN

son.
Mr.. j. b. johnson, the new Speaker of
the Kansas House of Representatives,
upon taking his seat yesterday made the
following address;
GENTLEMEN IL beg you to accept my
grateful thanks for your expression OF
confidence in electing meto preside over
the deliberations OF this House.
Ii is gratifying to me because of the
unanimity and good feeling with which
il is done am assured that there Is
no bitterness left behind
The usefulness of this session viii, In
great degree, depend upon the good
feeling that shall prevail among us.
trust we may enter upon the busi-
ness before US with q firm purpose TO
transact il in conscientious, just and
prudent manner, giving To each other the
broadcast liberality in the expression oil
opinion and interchange OF views upon
the important matters that will be pre-
sented 10 US.
The importance of this session can mo-
| be over estimated. We are the repTesen
tntivcs of great commonwealth yet II
it's inELncy-great in all the elements Of
wealth and power-but yet greater in III
undeveloped possibilities.
| This state IS to-day ana TOT years ma
been the central figure In the naiioah
progress. Kansas in all great questions
has stepped to the front All eyes hav'
been aud are now turned upon Us.
The men of Kansas In the past hav
not been unmindful of their position
nor have they wasted their opportuni
ties. May We learn wisdom from thei
example, and so legislate as TO invit
capital, muscle, brains and enterprise :
our borders, so that these almost limit
less prairies, zone vast fallow ground Q
Gods own clearing" may be peopled b
the highest order of civilization.
am not uDmindful of the Difficult
aud responsible duties that are in th
position to which you have elected mi
In their discharge shall need the assis
ance Of every member OF this house.
: 1t will be my constant effort to a.
, minister the rules of this house wit
strict impartiality towards every men
: Der, and ] beg of you to judge of my d.
: cisions and conduct with q large amour
of allowance for my inexpsrience.
am now ready TO take the oath I
office, and proceed with business.
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Hewitt, of New York, has a happy
knack of modifying the dishonesty of
the Democratic party. He says the
hard money doctrine of the Cincinnati
platform was diluted" to catch the
votes of the Grcenbackers IN Maine.
Mr.. Hewitt attempted TO dilute
the infamy which was practiced
in the forgery of the Morey let
ter, by declaring his belief that the
letter was genuine. He did this to Sc
cure il possible the election OF Hancock
and English. Afler they were defeated
Nr. Hewitt saw plainly that the letter
was forgery, and so declared IN a pub
lished letter. He was ready to take advan
tage OF any dc ception which gave his
party a hope of success. After thai
hope vanished he FASTENED to expose the
dishonest practices which caused its de
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14

A. d. 1881. there will BE- held general town.
chip election in the said county of LYON and
state Of Kansas, and the officers at that time
to be chosen are Is follows. to-wit: Town.
ship trustee, 70 wnsmp treasurer, township
clerk, two justices Of the peace, two consta-
bles, and one road overseeT in each of the sew
eral road districts in each township in the
sald Lyon county and State of Kansas, and
votes of electors for said officers will be re-
ceived at the polls Of each election district in
salu county for SAID township officers
In witness whereof have hereuntA set ms
hand. at my oflice at Emporia, in said county
this list day Of January, A. ID. 1881
J Il. MOON,
WztS sheriff of Lyon county. Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14

( The Topeka Capital, one of the ever
Welcome visitors to the inner sancium OF
The News, came to our table yesterday
n quarto form and enlarged to meet the
demands which is made upon its col
amns as one Of the most popular jour
aals in the state. The total abstinence
plan has always proved conducive to
material prosperity, and brother Hud-
sons cold water proclivities are reflect
ed in the vigorous and healthy tone of
his clean-cut newspaper.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14

The eternal fitness of things is strik-
ngly verified in the fact that Mr.. Ken
gard Philip, the plant tool of Barnum,
nd who gained so much and such I'M
,leasant notoriety in connection with
he Garfield Morey letter forgery, has re-
1red from journalism aud become a
raveling salesman of undertakers' sup
lilies. If his late patrons have any re
,ard for the public olfactories they will
Encourage him with liberal orders.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14

1t Is said that the present legislature
ill be the handsomest body of men who
ave ever assembled within the walls OF
ae capitol ut Topeka. This can scarcely
the result of the defeat of the
'usion candidate in the send district. 1t
really impossible 7" estimate the eN-
ent TO which &c. "" would have en-
anced the average of comeliness in the
ower houRe
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-14

At the legislative reception
held at Topeka on Tuesday even
ing, the proceeds of an enter
prise evolved by Sam Radges, by
which sack of Hour was sold and
resold nearly sixty times, together with
the profits realized from dance and
other philanthropic schemes, amounted
TO nearly $3.50, which will be donated to
the destitute settlers on the frontier. In
this case the end juslifies the means,
and II is certainly reassuring to learn
that projects of this kind have not been
utterly monop0lized in the interests OF
evangelical associations.