davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1881-05-14
Petty Trickery.

In its issue of May 9th the Oregonian.
which untruthfully boasts Of paying 5000
per month for telsgraphic dispatches.
has what it publishes as cable dispatch
from London, the subject beng Gilbert
and Sullivan's new opera Patience,
which WAS placed On the London boards
ON the night Of April 23d. and full
account Of the same appeared in the New
York Herald of the oath. A sample OF
what this new opera is We append . san.
pie taken from the Herald Of the Path of
April:
Mr. Gilberts receipt for making . heavy
dragoon is the following:
IL you want . receipt for that popular mystery
known to the world a q heavy dragon.
Take ali the remarkable people in history,
Rattle them Of to . popular time.
The plnck Of Lord Neison on board Of the
Victory,
Genius Of bismarck devising plan;
The humor Of Fielding. which sounds oontrs-
coolns.. .; Page. about to Trepan.
The science Of Julien, the eminent musico.
Wit of Macaulay, who wrote Of Queen Anne.
The p.faos Of Paddy - rendered BY Bouci-
cault,
Style Of the Bishop Of Sodor and Man;
The dash Of d'Ors.y. divestsd of quscksry;
Narrative powers q Dickens and Thacker.y,
Victor Emanuel, Peak hunting Peverii,
Thomas A4uinas md Doctor Sacheysrsll
Tupper ant Tsnnysou, Daniel Dsfoe,
Anthony Troliope and Il Gaizot;
Take Of these elemsnts al that Is fusibls,
Melt them al dos in . pipiin or crucible.
Set them TO simmer and take % the scum,
And . heavy dragoon ID the residuum.
, 1881-05-14

II Is oui.e rorder;n! hes msrg thIass
there zrc IN this wsr:d etIch 20: 90 sos
SAINT if yOu can only make yourself think
, 1881-05-14

Az OLD SroKY IxPR5vED.-Esse sines
Tennyson wrote the pathetic story Of ''Enoeh
Arden" And showed the world bow soms
wanderers may Be unable to return to thei,
homes. even when they want to do 20. dozens
of husbands who had not be-, heard frsn for
years have reappeared among the scenes to
which they long had been strangers. Some
returned with better hearts than they took
away with them and some came bsck with
improved tempers. bat in one respect tbsy
we're remarkably aliks-all of them xere i'm.
pecunious and quite ready to sink their PRIDE
and live On the ssyines Of their wives second
husbanda A Pennsylvania, however. has
suddenly wrought IN improvement IN stories
# this kind for on returning 10 the hsso@
Of his family after - snsenoe Of foartesa
years be broaght With him mat Gtrls for-
time. This . is3ssd . pdD paft-sa OF .
ku-hanA \ thses - asy maze of ths nns
kind Aaatiag aGoand tie county ssd usesr-
tss vkethsr 70 setsr. - thsir cd bon.s
they en- safsly tksvv dnsbt 10 tbs vleds
nd rs.ppsne. Es aas vin 81 vsere ~
have hsss q vkse tAsy hare b.s desag 9
oaiv ths3 vln ssas hsck viii pasafy 8
J neasy . ths1 psskstA
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

In appointing Hon. Geo. r. Peck, of
Topeka, regent ofthe State University at
Lawrence, TO fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of Judge Mcfarland,
Governor st. John has honOred the state
no less than the talented gentleman
whom he has chosen to occupy such an
important position. Mr.. Peck is, in
every sense ofthe term, representative
Kansan. and no man of his years in the
state has been more jealous in word and
work in the development of the highest
and best interests of the commonwealth.
He is liberal and progressive in his
views of matters and men, is a gentle
man of elegant literary culture, and is
thoroughly enlisted in the promotion of
a system of education that has done
more than aught besides TO advance Kan
sas to her present proud position among
the sIsterhood of states.
Mr.. Peck is himself a young man,
whose past successes have inspired him
with laudablc aspirations for the future,
and we doubt if there is citizen in
Kansas who is in more hearty sympathy
with the young men and women of the
state who are earnestly DESTROYS of fit
ting themselves for an intelligent solution
ofthe problems Oflife, or one who, in the
capacity of regent Of the leading institu
ton of learning in the state. would labor
more earnestly in their behalf.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
ENCOuRAGING. BIZ TRUE.

The following, under the head of
THE Presidents True Condition" APP
peared in the Kansas City journal yes
teTday:
On Monday morning the Times con-
tanned a gloomy "special'' from Wash
Ingion which represented the President
10 be in much worse condition than
the surgeons were willing should be
made public, and carrying the idea that
there was no hope Of his recovery. DIR
ID +. Alger, Who Is warm friend IF tue
Rock wells, was SD much annoy ell by the
Times special that he at once wrote
to Col. G.. o. Rockwell, Of St. Louis,
whose wife is q sister of Mrs. Gar
field, and asked If he believed there w;sj-
any foundation for the statements alluded
10, Inclosing the special" Col. Rock
we promptly responded by mail, and by
the courtesy of Mr.. Alger. Col. Rock
wells letter is given below in fall
ST. LOUIS, August %, 1881.
Mr.. u. II. Alger, Kansas City, NO.:
MY DEAR ALGER-Yours of yesterday
was received this morning. / am in
daily receipt of kilograms and letters
from Washington. ! have one before
a. m, which closed: at looks brighter
this morning. What the future may
bring rs. or what complications may set
in no one can tell. This l do know
from recent letters from Mrs Garfield and
DR. BOynton. The newspaper reports
are grossly exaggerated, and the clipping
you sent me is largely OverdraWn.
have ut no time lost my faith> in the
Presidents recovery. / believe he is
stronger and has more vitality left than
the papers indicate. can only say that
am very hopeful yet, and that hope is
based on knowledge Eeeeived from 1.-The
inside.n They are either greaEeIy de-
ceived or, the President has fair show
to get well. am yours, very tru ly.
G. o. ROOSEVELT.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

The Louisville Courier Journal keeps
alive its hope that the President will re.
cover by recalling the following expert
ence: There is a man in a stones
throw of us as we write, who is pretty
live man yet, who lay in bed eighteen
months with bullet through the body
and a shattered leg, and in that time he
fell off from 100 to rs pounds. He had
pyemia badly, and gangrene, and chills,
and diarrhea, and erysipelas; and had
10 be nourIshed again and again, for q
week at time, by enema, because his
stomach rejected food and got so weak
that he was unable to indicate that he
was conscious; and was worried with
morphine; and was cut into a dozen
times for pus cavities and abcesses. He
had everything that anybody had said
the President was threatened with, and
had it bad; on account of which, and
other cases more or less similar, we are
disposed to trust nature. good cOnsti-
tuition, and pluck against all the
scientific theories which leave experience
out of consideration"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
Personal AND POLITICAL.

81 see it stated in the papers that my
wife, the Princess Louise, is in Paris."-
Marquis of Lorne.
We knew il. McGill, the jailor, who
was attacked by Guiteau is an Ohio
man, and former resident of CIncin-
natl.
Gen. Swain, says correspondent,
spends twelve hours out of every twenty
four with the President, has lost twenty
six pounds in weight while nursing his
friend, and his hair has grown many
shades grayer meanwhile.
The editor of the Quincy, Illinois,
Herald is seeking notoriety by his at
tacks upon the President and his glori-
fication of Guiteau. 1t looks to US as if
Cook, the Ohio man who slapped the
mouth of Morrison for saying the Presi.
dent ought to die, is needed badly at
Quincy.
New York Herald: The loug-eclipsed
visage of Mr.. Samuel ]. Tilden be
comes more visible to the eyes of the
Democratic politicians of the state.
Some of them wear the expression OF
men who have seen ghost, but others
assure their neighbors that the old gen.
tleman is undoubtedly alive.
Gen. Joseph Gerhardt, a German Of
much prominence, and who served this
government with distinction in the wal
OF the rebellion, recently died at Wash
iugton. He came to this country afteI
the German revolution, and was an init
mate associate of Carl Schurz. Aside
from this his life was singularly FREE
| from reproach.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

According to U. S. Marshal Henry, of
the District of Columbia, President Gar
field has had queer supersiitions con-
corning the length of his life. He be-
lieved, when a young man, that he
should die when he was thirty-three
years old, the same age al which his faith
er died. When he went into the war, he
believed he should never return alive.
Then he got the impression that he
would die at forty-two. "He said,"
Capt. Henry states, ''that that was what
the number of the regiment meant. He
would go to hotel, and if the number
of his room CHANGED TO be AZ. or any
product, or any multiple of AZ, he
would say, There, do you see that num-
bers tell you it means me- Ofcourse
his friends would plague him great
deal about this, and accuse him of being
superstitious, but he chung to his belief
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

During the month of July there were
102 railroad accidents, of which forty
one were in the nature of collisions, IF
ty-six of derailment, two of boiler explo-
siOns, two of broken connecting-rOds.
and one was due to a broken wheel. Of
the collisions, twentY-three were from
the rear, seventeen from in front, and
one from the side The derailme1ts
were due to variety of causes. Three
were from broken rails, three from
broken wheels, three from broken axles,
two from broken irestles, two from brok-
en- bridges, one from spreading
rails, three from accidental OBJ
struction, eight from cattle on the
track, four from washouts, one from
land slide, two from misplaced switches,
and one each from runaway, flying
switch, malicious obstruction, rail pur-
posely misplaced, while nineteen are
uuaccOunted for. OF the collisions, as
far as explained, eight came about by
trains breaking in two, four by mistakes
OF neglect to obey orders, three by mis-
placed switches and one by fog. The
record for the year shows that the great
est number of accidents occurred in JAN
uary and the smallest in April. The av-
erage of deaths by accident was one and
one-fourth daily.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

While there has been disposition on
the part of the people to cling TO the be-
liefthat some fortunate turn in the Presi-
dents condition might take place, even
at the present stage of his extreme pros
tration, tn avert the terrible calamity
which his death would entail upon the
country, il Is a mournfnl fact that the
hopelessness of his recovery becomes
daily more apparent, and the depressing
conviction is fast gaining ground that
his demise is now but question OF time
and may be expected at almost any
hour. The brave struggle which this
grand hero has waged for
his life through all the,
complications which have be-
set the pathway to recovery has touched
the tender chords in every loyal heart
throughout the great American republic,
and has enlisted the ardent sympathy of
the civilized world, to an extent never
before known In the annals of time. 1t
seems that so sad dispensation as the
final triumph of the grim monster over
such high and dauntlesS soul cannot
be, and yet, anxiety deepers into dread
as the days wear away and no word of
cheer comes from the sick chamber Of
the sufferer, who, TO all human seeming
must 60 down to the grave unless he be
upborne by the prayers of the people
and be lifted out of the valley of the
shadow by the Everlasting arms" which
are underneath him.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
HRRR AVN rHEpR

II may interest the ladies to know
that long necks are coming into fashion.
The style, we believe, was first inaugu-
rated by Sarah Bernhardt.
IF these incisions," says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, ''were made in Guiteau's
hide it is more than likely the flow of
pus would not be so healthy"
Much more ''laudable," however
A man in the east, who is said TO have
married four women in one town, was
lucky enough to be shot and kilIe4 by
the officer who was looking for him.
The fortunate nature of his escape can
only be appreciated when we endeavor
10 imagine what he would have suffered
if his quartette OF wives could have got
ten hold of him.
Mr.. De La Maiyr, the Greenback ora
tor, it seems, was addressing a public
meeting in Wisconsin, the other day,
when he made the imprudent statement
that "no Christiancould accept interest
on money Thereupoa a Methodist
clergyman in the audience, the Rev. Mr.
Horton, arose and asked him: "How
about the parable Of the ten talenssy =
Mr.. De La Matyr, being himself q cler.
gyman, could not reject the authority
referred to. 1t is said he was consider
ably staggered by the conundrum, and
his answer could not be reedily heard
by the reporters.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
The question of sewerage is being as

The question Of sewerage is being ag-
iiated in Atchison, and there is talk Of
levying special tax for the purpose of
establishing through system of drain
age in that city. The Champion, in its
editorial treatment of the question, says:
A system of sewers will be expensive,
and should not he undertaken in a hurry,
or without considerable thought. EN-
poria is talking of such an improve
ment, but before entering upon il, has
consulted the best expert authority on
such subjects, Col. Geo. Waring, of New
port, X ]. This gentleman is recog-
nized as an authority in sanitary matters.
and has agreed to furnish plans, specifl-
cations and estimates for system of
sewerage for EmpOria.
Our city engineer no doubt knows as
much about such matters as other gen.
tlemen of his profession, but he has not
given it special study. In our Judgment,
before the council takes any steps in this
matter, it should consult Col. Warning,
and, if possible, secure from him plans
for complete system of sewerage.
What is done in this direction should be
permanent, and complete in its details.
The expense will be large, and the sys
tenn adopted ought TO be carefully ma
tured by the best authority in sanitary
matters.
The special message of Mayor East
man to the council Of Emporia, recently
published in THE NEWS, is then sub
mitted by the editor, who commends its
suggestions to the people of Atchison.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
Clear the Track


The most magnificent fete ever wit
messed in the western country will be
the Soldiers Reunion at Topeka, Sep
TENDER 18th. All the latest scientific
discoveries are being brought into requi
sition. All the newly-found comets have
applied tor space" IN which 10 make q
display.
Comet "a" will be the Reunion proper
with nucleus of 10000 veterans.
Comet "B" comprises the great mill
tary encanpment and prize drill, in
which the crack companies of the wesi
will compete for a special purse.
Comet '-CT' represents the campfire Of
comrades of the G.. A. r. to be held in
Capitol Square.
Comet "D'' is the first state meeting
of the Kansas braes bands, fifty in mum.
Der. with over five hundred instruments
in jubilee of popular aiFs-
Comet 'tE'' refers 10 the sham battle
and storming Of the fort, on the grounds
Of the State Fair Association life-like
representation Of the most exciting incl
/ dent Of modern warfare.
Comet 'E' Is the grand chorus oi
male voices which will make the welkiu
ring with songs OF tent and field-ths
most enhancing vocal performance
since @ihe moon and stars first sang to
gether."
Comet &c" consists Of three hundred
beautiful young ladies who have volun
teered to preside over the COLLATION. in
the State House grounds. dispensing
smiles and provender with equal proFu
sion.
Comet Al" is the gorgeous illumins
ton by the famous Flambeau Club o
Topeka. under command Of Major An
dersop, which will greatly excel al
former demonstrations, producing /
drop at q distance Of twenty miles AMI
repeat.
In shoFt, Kansas avenueR from III
bridge to the Fair Grounds will he
perfect zone OF blazing planets for tai
day and date only.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
The Drou.h in Kentucky

BARDsTowN, KY, August 24.-It is
now nearly two months since rainfall
in this vicinity. The effect of such a
drOuth on corn and grass may be I'M
agined. Farmers report that rain, even
yet would help late corn. Water for
domestic purposes is becoming exceed
ingly scarce, and many farmers are CON-
PEELED to drive their stock three or four
miles TO water. The distillers through
out this country are hesitating and un-
decided whether to go into active opera
tion or not the coming season. The ad-
vance in corn, the dull market for
whisky, and the large quantities in bond,
are the reasons advanced for a temper
airy suspension. Some few distiliers
who have made contracts for corn, will
run on reduced capacities. Should the
present advance in corn be maintained,
il is safe to say that the coming season
the product will not be over one-half of
the past season.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
The HARTFORD News.
EDITED BY "JINGo."
THURSDAY, August z


THURSDAY, August %.
Stephen Rule returned yesterday from
Illinois, where he has been residing for
some months past. Mr.. c. w. john
son is building new house upon his
farm southwest of town COmlIs s.
Thompson have the contract. :. We
learn with pleasure that Mr. T. r. Sned-
iker, of Eagle creek. has sold his farm
and contemplates removal to this city,
where he will erect a substantial resi-
dence. =. Prof. G. W. Wilkins, of this
place, is an applicant tor the Reading
schools. He is an accomplished gentle
man and would, if employed, give salts
faction -. Quite an excitement
has been generated on Eagle
creek by the presence of a mad
dog. Several other dogs were bitten, one
of which has since died of hydrophobia.
the remainder having been shot A calf
belonging to Harry Stratton was bitten
and finally died in the greatest agony
.G. w. Price is buying and shipping
fat hogs; they command a high price,
some having sold as high as six cents per
pound on foot. .. There is great scare
ity of all vegetables, etc, in this city, not
a potato being for sale at any of the
groceries, and furthermore, it is said
they cannot be obtained at any price
This is all due to Vennor's dry, hot sum-
mer. The Hartford water mills re-
sumed work yesterday and soon their
deservedly popular flour will he put up
on the market
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

New York Herald: Herbert Spencer's
theory of punishments in education is
that they shall have a characteristic re-
lation to the offense. If child plays
with matches he would punish the child
by deliberately burning its fingers.
Operations in cornering breadstuffs
usually results in punishment of the
operators in the same fashion. 1t takes
a little while for the producers 10 open
the floodgaies of supply, but as soon as
they swing on their hinges the glut
comes and oyerfeeds the spectators.
A corner in breadstuffs was tried
last year and failed. When the
same kind of disaster befalls the present
spectators, who again are forcing the
prices of grain and meats and dairy pro
duce up to an unnatural height, they
will have no sympathy, for they will de-
serve none. The honest public can look
with comparative indifference on the
rise and fall of wildcat stocks in Wall
street. Those fluctuations ruin only
men who willingly engage in them, but
when Wall street methods are applied
to initiate the prices of the necessaries OF
life they affect the community at large.
They distress the innocent and Cypress
the poor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
Arthur and Gartield,s Relations

NEW YORK, August 25.-The Tribune
says: Whatever conclusion the cabinet
may have reached, the friends of the
Vice President have urged that the c6bi-
net cannot take upon itself to decide
when the inability Of the President
exists, and IL is known that Gen. Arthur
will not heed the suggestion of the cabi-
net as to acting in place of the Presi-
dent. II is safe 10 say, also, that while
Vice President Arthur will not disregard
any request of the cabinet or of Blaine
to come to Washington, he is adverse
TO doing so while the President lives.
Precedents in cases show where there
is not absolute need, the Vice President
should qualify Immediately on the death
of the President, and Gen. Arthur be-
licves there IL nothing in national affairs
to warrant undue haste on his part. In
the event Of the death of President Gar
field, personal friend says, il the op-
portunity is given Vice President Ar
thur through the threatened calamity to
the country, he will prove as much of a
statesman as he is now regarded as q
politician. 1t is denied that the person.
al relations of the Vice President with
President Garfield were ever unpleasant,
much less hostile. After the resigna-
tons of COnkling and Piatt, when il
was decided there was no way open for
compromise or reconciliation, General
Arthur plainly told the President that
he felt bound in honor to sustain his
friends, and added: trust, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that you will not think there is
anything personal tn you in my action.
The President in his usual way, took
hold Of General Arthur by the shoulders
and said: My dear fellow, nothing of
the sort. know you have no such
petty feeling at all.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
KiiIea BIZ Llghtalnz.

FULroS, Illinois, August 25.-Mr. and
Mrs. 81. Temple, residing on the farm of
A D. Mitchell, about two miles south of
tins city, were instantly killed by light
ming during q heavy thunder storm
about I'VE this morning. They had
arisen during the storm and were in the
act of retiring when the fatal stroke en-
tered the building. An infant about
four months old was between them st
the time. They were killed but Il was
uninjured. Four other children were
also IN the same room Ia bed, but were
not injured in the least. The storm was
severe in this vicinity. The rain was
much needed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01

Tue National Republican has more
spite to the square inch than any news
paper in the country. Ever since the
Star Route investigation caught Brady,
one of the owners of the Republican, it
has been firing away at the postmaster
general. mo rogue e'er felt the halter
draw" etc.
Atchison Champion: We have heard
comparisons made between the present
year aud the years 1860 or 1874, in Kan
sas These seasons afford no
parallels In 1860 there was no rain
or snow until late in May; in 1874 the
drouth was much more prolonged than
il has been this year.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-01
FRIDAY, August 90


Mr.. A. B. Fullen last spring pur-
chased land adjoining town on the east,
and now he is having serious trouble
about the title of the part upon which
his new residence stands. Charles
Baysinger has traded his farm east of
the NeOsho for his fathers place north
east of town and in the spring he will
build a house upon his new place.
Squire Nees has notified the keepers of
all the restaurants, confectionery stores,
ETC., that no more throwing of dice or
other form of gambling for cigars or
any other article of value will
be allowed in the future. This is GER
tainly a move in the right direction. :.
Robert Fleming has taken his depar.
ture for Illinois, where he will remain
some time visiting friends. Henry
Fuller returned yesterday from ST.
Louis, where he went last Monday with
a tram load of cattle. &C. L. Hoover's
new house east of town is about com.
pleted. Thomas Goodnight did the
job. Miss Lizzie Slack came down
from Emporia this morning and will re
main until next week, visiting her sister
Mrs. w. J. Brogan. The Oregon fever
has again broke out in this vicinity
and large number talk of emigrating
there. Better stay in sunny Kansas"