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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
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One thousand stocking wcazers are
preparing TO eIBisraic from Cl8emHiiz-
Germany, 20 this cnuntry.
Chicago is the largest live ssock mar.
ket in the world. The FeceiptA there
during the month Of May Comprised
468, 395 hogs, IL. Alb cattle. and $3.50
sheep.
The St. Louis & New Orleans Trans
Dnrtatipn Company have just had tlriiy-
eFtza 20 them four new grain baFges ol
co. Coo bushels capacity each. Next
month they viii also add a new tow-boai
TO the equipment, which, Is being built
ut Cairo, the machinery for which will
be supplied in st. Louis.
Considerably more than One-haH OF
the tonnage Of the United States Il eE.
pIoyed upon the rivers and lakes. The
vessels employed ON the lakes number
1861, with an aggregate Of 506, 376 reg
lister tons. The tonnage empleyed on the
Mississippi river, comprising steam.
boats and barges amounts 20 / ,107, 474
which, averaging twelve trips year d
each vessel, gives Is, 289 ,GSS tins al
freight carried per year.
Texas 10 making astonishing progress
in all that makes State great It's area
is SO vast, and its resources 50 varied
thst it is capable Of becoming an empire
by itself No other State IL displayine
such activity in railroad matters, and
more miles Of new a0ad will be builtthis
year than in any other five States II e
estimated that the Gould combination
has brought over three million dollar:
infO Texas since the first of April, 1880
and il now has nearly SO miles under
construction.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
THE .INTERVIEW.-

New York Herald: His Grace the
Duke Of Sutherland, who is now a So
jOurner within our gales, is reported as
saying that nothing struck him IN Amer
lea so curiously as tho "InteFVieW." The
interview is undoubtedly an American
institution, Al least an American revival
of an ancient Institution. There have
been interviews written and published
ever since the enemy OF mankind held
his eveniful conference with the parents
OF the human race in the Garden of
Eden. So long as man has any
thing to say journals will be found
TO print it. The value of the interview
is very great, II is u pleasant form OF
making known ones views, A states
man like General Butler or Mr.. Blaine
or Mr.. COnkling can make cap
iLAl three hours speech on
any subject. but every reader
would prefer the three column inter
view with the question and answer. The
interview is flexible, comprehensive. and
allows q picturesque range OF expressiOC
which oratOry does not invite. The in
tervicw, therefore, Is feature that Ough
not TO be overlooked in journalism
There are interviews and interviews IL
one form It is TO be commended. in an
other ID Is . business that should be rclc
gated to the category OF Ocket-picking
Nothing is more vulgar or more vex
atiOus than for the hssty remarks OF gen
tlemen on broadway OF Wall street. o
in hotel corridors TO be published mex
morning in bold, stony and inexpugnabl
type. Il Is the abuse OF the interviey
which gives rise to the criticism OF on
friends across the sea. All true Journal
lists should endeavor 70 reform 1t.
The Manhattan Nationalist propose
10 hold Senator Plumb responsible 70
the enforcement of the temperance Law
and If the Senator does not perform thi
service, threatens him with st. John a
an opposition candidate for Senator
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The oldest man In the world is be-
lieVed 10 have becn discovered in New
Genads. At recent meeting of physi-
clans in B0golA, DIR. HeTmAndes describ-
ed visit he paid TO man named
Miguel Soils. halEbreed farmer living
In the I0ot-hills OF SierrO Mesjlla. aud
who is represented rs being one hundred
end eighty years old. The old mans
neiRhbors are Of the opinion that he is
even older. headed men saying that
they remembered Miguel - y rePuted
centeuariAn when they were bays. The old
man Is hale and hearty, and ascribcs his
long life 10 tho fact that he never was
drlak and never oyerfed. lie eais but
one meal day, aud fAs,s on the first and
middle Of each month. eating n"thing,
but drinking all the wafer he can swal-
Inv
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
Personal Ann Political.

Sessions did not hide the shells" SC
we'll this time.
No one, we apprehend, will have any
disposition 70 question the vicaFiOus
nature of Mr.. Plait's atOnement.
Hon Henry Stanberry, cx-AttOrney
General under President johnson, died
at New York on Saturday night last
He was born in 1903.
It may be that our friend s. N. Wood
of the State Journal, will be interested
in the announcement that a large new
brick hotel for hogs is TO be erected In
New York.
The Snowman who is painting for sud.
den Opulence should lose no time in at;
feeiing arrangements with Governor 81
John 10 travel with his combination ~
the great and original Kansas Ssahtnx-;1
Col. Dudley. the new commissioner
of Pensions entered upon his dasies Fri,
day. He was a gallant soldier during
the war and is himself i .pensloner, hay
ing lost a leg at Gettysburg. His pre-
decessOr. Bentley, was not soldier.
1t appears, amer all, that Mr.. Conkling
is responsible tsr the appearance of the
comet. Shakcspeare says in the play of
Julius CBser:
When beEgars die there are no comets
seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth
the desth or pfiRees.
Plat made a monumental fool of him.
self when he resigned his seat in the
Senate, but the careful embsrgo which
he seems 70 be maintaining upon his
mouth, would indicate that his ears are
not quite SO long as hIs enemies have
painted them
1t is barely possible that Conkling
will make better time without Mr.. Plat
than with him. II our memory serves
US, the primaie. was not handicapped
when he. chsliengcd the admiration of
the world b, his maichless run at Mar
ragansett Pier.
Mr. Henry Ct, Venn0r, the weather
prophet, hss handsome mustache; no
parts his shsir in the mid Idle and he is
forty one years old, His early life in
Canada was spens IN poverty. In the
University,of. aEoptrsal he is 9 professor.
and he is the antllnF Of book called
"Our Birds pf Prey.
Hancock cIn aEe Leing reorganized
in different psE 6 40 sountEy. 1.-THE
Democracy ase 10 have q
corpse for theiF ssaRdans besrer in 1884,
why don't they seiees ems thai has some
prestige? EitkaR Jefesson sor jackson
could outrun the asaperb candidate''
and carry a rail Besides
All that the Reppb iieens Of Ohio de-
sire is that the Dcmpesaey give Frank
Hurd plenty of rope enthe free trade is.
sue. Unless that effulgent advocate of
"a tariff for revenue only;"i Is seized with
lOckjaw during the canvass the re-elec-
ton of Governor Foster may be set
down as fOregone conclusions.
1t is strange how much it takes TO
awaken some people from their ways of
callOused sin. There Was-a storm at To
peka the other day right under the moss
Of r. p. Baker. OF the Commonwealth
while the other wicked editor, T. B.
Murdoch, had q close call in the way OF
. railroad accident about the same time,
and yet we presume they are both going
on in their old ways.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

Col. Martin. OF the AtchisOn Champion,
dsEenda the honor OF SIs town in .
spirited editorial In Thursdays issue
Of. hls paper, by branding as malicious
and wholesale Lies the reports circulated
by. different papers In the state. TO the
effect that . row had occurred between
Governor st. John and the mayor OF
AtchIsnn, and that His Excellency had
been threatened with personal violence
should he venture 70 make his appear
ance In that city. No one who Is famil-
lar with Aichisoa and acquainted
with the 8pirit OF lis people. will doubt
that Mr.. Martin Is correct when he says
no city In Kansas would more promptly
resent an indIgnIty upon the chief execu-
tive Of the AtAte. and would at once and
with practical unanimity denounce and
punish any person who attempted to in.
terfeFe with the right Of any one t0
freely entertain and express his opinions
he says that it is about time that this
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
COLFAX AND ELKINS.
a Romantic Incident in the Life of a
Chicago Artist.
From the South bend Tribune

"A Romantic Incident in the Life of a
Chicago Artist.
From the South lend Tribune.
In 1868 Elkins was an unknown,
struggling, and almost starving artist in
Chicago, where he had lived all his
life. He WAS deeply in love with
the girl who afterward became his
wife, but was so poor that he
could not think of marrying; Like
to the Rocky Mountains. and had brought
back portfolio of studies. FIom one of
these studies he made picture called
Morning in the Valley" In the fore
ground was pool with dash of cata-
ract, another larger body of water with
trees to the left of the picture; rugged
and almost perpendicular rocks on the
right, with a camp of tents at their base,
and in the background the snow capped
mountains. The pictare was striking
one, yet, while il attracted much atten-
ton In the window of n Chicago picture
store, it remained there day after day
and found no purchaser.
Oneday Mr. COlfaS, who had been elect
cd Vice-President of the Uhitel States.
but had not yet been inauguEated, was
passing hurriedly by along the street and
the picture caught hIs eye 1t Impressed
him with its familiarity. He examined
il more carefully and became convinced
that some artist had been To n certain spot
in the Rocky Mountains where, not SD
very long before, Mr.. COffaX and a Ger
tain lady, now his wife, had wandered
to and from a merry company of travel
ers across the continent and plighted
their vows. He sought the artist
and found that his surmises
were true. He asked Elkins to
put a price on the picture, and
he ventured to say $500 The price was
paid, and it enabled Elkins TO marry.
Not only that, but the fact that the Vice
President Of the United States had pur-
chased a picture of Elkins for $500, was
soon flashed over the country, and Elkins
found himself famous, and with mOre
orders for pictures than he could I'LL.
II WAS nothing for him to command
| $1,000 to 5000 each for his larger
paintings, and there are a few of them
that are valued at $4,000 each. The
| London Art Journal IN 1876 pronounced
his paintings the best at the Centennial,
| which was the highest compliment that
could be paid an artist by the best
authority in the world, for Europe and
Americas painters were represented
there.
It was at this time that Elkins' sue.
cess appears to have turned his head.
He was then but thirty years old, but IN
less than three months he became ha-
bitual drunkard, and an income of $40.
coo 70 2G,000 year coon dropped to
the price of the one or two pictures q
year he might paint in his sObercr mo
| manic
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The census bureau gives the grain
product of the United States for the
year 1879. From these tables it Is shown
that from o., 326, 0J2 acres planted in
corn there were raised 1,772, 000, $40
bushels; from 81, 4S7 ,OG5 acres in wheat
the yield was 2S7,745. 69G bushels; 49,
1901 acres OF oats produced 407 ,07O.-
712 bushels; zoos. 46G acres devoted TO
barley gave us 44,149.479 bushels; the
1,S44.321 acres sown in rye brought forth
18,91S,705 bushels. and the $40, 3O4 acres
of buckwheat gave a return of O,S21, 721
bushels. The total acreage for cereals
in 1879 was 11S,G65,6l0, and the yield
nearly three thousand millions of BUSH
els, or an average Of fifty four bushels
TO each individual of our fifty millions
of population. No wonder two thOus-
and immigrants arrive on our shores
every day.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07


The details OF the Mexican railway
calamity do not mitigate its horrors.
Out of 274 persons only twenty escaped
unhurt, the fall of the train INTO the riv-
er being followed by a fire. which COM
Pleied the work OF destruction. The
accident was plainly the result Of poor
workmanship and gross carelessness-
To attempt 10 cross n wooden bridge
undermined by freshets, with train
composed Of two engines and several
freight and passenger cars, was fOOlhardy
in the extreme. We're the bridge of
only average strength it was clearly q
great risk tn place on it the dead weight
OF two engines. Fortunately no Ameri-
can builders are responsible for the cal
Amity. The line was built and managed
by Mexicans. who, it may be chaTitably
assumed, were new to the business
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The New York Tribune demands that
the Albany Legislature shall elect Mr..
Depew To the senate. What If an Alba
ny grand jury should elect Mr. DepeW
To the penitentiary?- st Louis Globe
Democrat
Now don't be SO awfully "brash," Mr..
Mccullough. Unless the public prints
have fiagrantly mIsrepresented matters
at Albany. the election of Depew is q
part of the program of the Stalwarts,
who have made propositions TO the
HalC-breeds for a compromise on that
basis. Mr.. COnkling having, with char
acteristic valOr, deserted the field when
his fight with the administration was
getting too warm for him, and having
handed over the senate to Democratic
control now asks to be returned as the
colleague of man whom he has denounc-
cd as n mOnOpOlist and q corrupt ring
ster, devoid of character and unworthy of
public confidence. His grandilOquont in
veclives against mOnOpOlies had scarce
ly died upon his lips, when his friends
approached the faction which he so
bitterly assaulted in his recent speech be-
fore the conference Of Stalwarts, with
oycrtnres looking toward the election Of
Depew. the alleged corrupti"nist, as a
Bleans of securing Mr.. COnkling's re-
turn TO the seat in the senate which he
resigned without just cause or prOvOcs-
ton. We do not wish 20 be
regarded as advocating the cause
Of Depew. He has never been
our choice for the place TO which
he aspIres. We believe New York has
statesmen who would more acceptably
represent her in the councils of the ma
ton. But the sO-ealled Stalwart journal
lists and politicians who are raising such
clamor over his candidacy should not
fail to bear in mind that if he is elected
TO the United States senate, Mr.. Conk-
ling may be held directly responsible
for that result, as the vacancy would not
have occurred had he proved loyal to
his state and true To his party.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

is exact or approximate matters little.
The failure of the supply may happen
two or three years earlier or later, but
unless statistics are wholly groundleSs
and deceptive it is certain TO occur with
in so short time that we ought at least
10 begin to realize the predicament,
whether we have any means of averting
it or not
That il can he absolutely averted seems
clearly impossible; but it can no doubt
be postponed, and its effect rendered less
sudden and detrimental to our industries,
if some remedial measures are employed
without delay. Economy in the meth
DDS of saving; the avoidance of the
wasteful practice of making square tim
Der in the woods; the prevention of for
est fires, which are Of:en kindled from
the shavings where this work Is done
the encouragement of importation of
timber from abroad, and removal of all
restrictions upon such tradc-these are
some of the eXpedients proposed for
breaking the force of the calamity
Leffel Mechanical news.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

Senator Ben Hin says that the south
ern people ought IN be grateful for the
ab6liIiOn Of slavery, because II has
taught industry and selE.reliancc. The
sword, he says. forever defined the con-
stitution Is providing federal govern
ment, and he believes that the constitu-
tion should regulate civil service IN
this country. He says. I'VE would
rather have had the war than slavery"
Senator Hill believes that General John
con Is suspicious, selfvilled and over.
bearing. and Is unjust In jeff Davis,
There wAs always dispute in regard TO
the rank he held toward Lee, General
Lee said that 10 Richmnnd fell he could
hs stronger In . military sense. make
his own plans and fight FOR two years In
Virginia; but he found that he could
nOt get away.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
LUCKY HARVARD.

Harvard has recently secured 100000
for the new law school. President
Eliot while walking along the street in
Boston, met an old gentleman we'll
known for his liberality toward the
college. AS they passed each other the
old gentleman asked, seemingly in jest,
"What do you want now 81 The Prcsi-
dent replied in the same tone, "a new
law school," A few days afaer the Pres.
ident received an invitation TO lunch.
laef isas I'LL ID his hes.
they sat talking about general college
matters, until the subject of the law
school was brought up. When asked
what amount would be needed for the
building, the president named 100000
His host excused himself for moment
and soon returned to the room with pa.
pers which gave 100000 to Harvard
University for a new law school build
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The late Thomas Garfield, uncle Of
the President, who was killed last week
by an accident, was SO remarkably gen.
erous and genial man that he was uni
VERBALLY known in his neighlorhoOd Us
"Uncle. Thomas" His nephew. it is
said, owes much of his success To the
good old man. He took in sOme meas
ure the place Of the boys dead father,
helped him with money and advice, and
when the General WAS nominated al
Chicago the kindly uncle wrpt for joy,
Though nearly eighty years old. lie was
Vsry. sIrong. AMI has o(len been known
to lift into place stones whichlwcre too
heavy for his masOns 10; hAndlc,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

This is the first time we ever heard IT
was the duty Of q U. g. Senator to en-
force the laws of 8 state. We always
supposed that Governors were elected
for that purpose. We see it stated that
Governor St. John has several times
threatened, before public audiences,
TO enforce the liquor law. When
he gets through ''swashing around"
In New York, Philadelphis, Illinois, St
Louis, Colorado, and other places, he
may give his attention to home matters,
and undertake the task Of enforcing the
laws Of the state. By the frequent an
we see of opening saloons
in the towns and cities in various pOr-
tons of the state, We fear the whisky in
terest, who seem more determined than
ever TO fight the Law, will get big start
ON the governor
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

10 inquiries whether there really was a
premium on the first issue of silver dol
lars of 1873, on which the eagle appears
TO have eight ail-festhers. Upward of
= million OF these pieces were struck
and issued, and they are of no more
value than other dollars. The dollars
struck of since the first issue show but
seven feathers in the eagles tail, owing
TO = change in the position Of the arrow
the eagle holds in its talon, by which
one Of the tail-feathers Is concealed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07
REGARDING TORNADOEs.

The Chicago Inter Ocean asks: Is
there any protection against such lorna
does as have recently devastated portions
OF Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri Is il
possible for any department of signal
service to give warning, and, if this
could be done, would it be of any great
beneftG Is there any general law gov.
erning such storms, or any peculiarities
that may be taken advantage of in re.
sorting 10 remedial measures? These
questions have been in the minds OF
thousands. and they have moved Mr.. j.
w. Phelps To write as follows TO the
New York Times:
There are facts that may he promised
concerning such tornadOes; first, they
will generally come from the southwest
second, they will occur only las u gen.
eral Fule) in the warmest season of the
year and in the hottest hours of the day,
and third, their tracks will never exceed
the fraction OF mile in width. These
facts suggest the idea that some
protection against these storms is
not impossible. It is proposed,
as you will doubtless remember from a
communication made ID you ABOUT
year ago on this subject, 70 establish one
or more magazines of powder or dyna-
mite in sOuthwesterly direction from
the prairie city or town, under charge
of the police, to be exploded whenever
u tornado might approach. It is CON
ceived that ii magazine of several
hundred pounds weight of powder
were To he exploded at an Op-
perfume moment The force of the
storm might be broken up aud destroy
ed. A subterranean vault, with an cleo
trical battery connected with one or more
magazines. would enable one single po-
licemsn To explode each or all the mag
aZines at any moment that he might
choose. 1t is true the remedy proposed
might prove g failure, but it seems
worthy of trial. 1t is certainly worth
observation and study. The extent Of
territory between the Rocky Mountains
and the Mississippi river may possibly be
more limited than is supposed. There
ought to be q careful record kept OF ev-
cry known tornado that occurs, whether
ON the prairies or ON the margin of the
Gulf of Mexico. The more violent ones
seldom occur east Of the Alleghanies,
and not many of them east of the Mis-
sisSippi as far north as Dakota.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The Mississippi Press Association
have decided that candidates. for Office
must, in the future, pay $i5 G"r an
nonncements In the journals of that
Stale. II that rate should ever become
fixed In this state IL would Ia m'derate-
ly interesting to watch the lively com
petition between Jay Gould and the
average Kansas editor over the purchase
OF desirable railroad thOrOughfares-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

The question as to whether cyclones
ever occur in the night is still occupying
attention. We quote:
Was not the cyclone which passed
over Rarshfleld, No, some two years
ago, and did ~ much damage. night
storm Lawrence Journal.
No. The Marshfield cyclone struck
the town between 8 80 and 4 O'Clock In
the afternoon OF April 1Sth, 1880. Find
same storm about 8 p. IN. On the same
day, however, . portion of Fayetteville,
Ark was destroyed by cyclone which
occurred Mt 8 80 p. IN. THIS is the iateat
hour DC which we remember tS have
heard .,of cyclone Occurring.-Atchi'
son Champion.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

a. Many Southern politicians of the first
class are talking about Secretary Bob
Lincoln Is the man whom the Demo
Gratis will try to defeat for president at
she next national election. He dresses
in the most fashionable style and keeps
his beard and mustache in fine trim. He
Is, however, modest, and he is 80 active
that he will not permit anybody To take
much of his time.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

An imposing array OF distinguished
KGnsans are already looming up in con-
nec,ion with the gubernatoriaI canvass
next year. We believe il Is entirely safe
10 say that Kansas IL. the agricultural and
political center OF the saccharine inter-
eats of the country, There Ia not a foot
Of ground In the commonwealth that is
not available for the production of hill
Of aorghum or political candidate.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

An English traveller says-"In France
the knee Is bent 10 two things money
and esprit, in England, one end pne on.
ly1sOcial POaitian, On GeEmaA soil ii
10 otherwise, and the hun blsst professor
iS'held In esteem, becauSe he represents
In his own person, no matter how un-
worthily, the mighty brotherhood Of tho
learned. Germans, by the way, can new
sr understand why it Ii that in England
q professor, a teacher. Gelehrte, holds
M rank
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07

II Mr.. Conkling Is sincere in his
avowed opposition TO monopOlies, how
does II happen that his friends have pro
posed compromise which involves the
election, TO the United States Senate, Of
Depev. who, It is alleged 10y the Stall
warts, il the paid tool of the corpora
tons and the arch ringster OF the En-
nira afafey