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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

New York Tribune: There is a Ger
tain similarity between Randali's finance
and his economy. He devoted himself
during the recent campaign to aperiina-
ciuus effort to show that the Democrat
ic party, during its control OF congress,
had reduced expenses, whereas the truth
was that during i've years it had in
creased the expenditures at the rate OF
$3.OOo.0OO year. Now he advocates a
reduction" in the interest on the bonds,
which. If carried out, will take over a
million dollars out of the treasury and
present il TO the bondholders. In one
case he ''reduccd" by presenting his par
ty with more money to spend, and in
the other by bestowing handsome do
nation upon the bOndholders. The
trouble with Randall is not that he does
not know enough, but that large part
of what he does know isn't so.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
The settlement OF Low err Oregon is 60

The settlement OF Lover Oregon is go
ing on At an unprecedented rate. A Ger
man couple has recently arrived with
fourteen children. the mother being but
twenty-five years OF age. The were mar
ried in the fall of 1870 and the following
summer their married life was blessed
with twins, both girls. Less than two
years later the woman. who was then
eighteen years old gave birth to four
children. three girls and a boy, the latter
living only II lew days. In the summer
of "a, three more girls registered at the
humble hearth and in 1875 boy arrived
solitary aud alone. Seven years after
marriage the arrival of another cluster of
four, this time two boys aud two girls,
was an event that created some conster-
nation, and two years ago two more lit
tie haxen haired girls came to the for
tunate couple.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28


A few of the more nervY members OF
the legislature are skirmishing around
the remote edges of the railroad prob
lem, and several measures have been in
troduced in the house looking toward
the enactment of law regulating
freights and fares on railroads in the
state. We regard ii safe To say that not
few of the more experienced of
our state solons will tackle this ua-
dertaking with degree of caution in
spired by the knowledge that, as rule,
when it comes tOa square tussle between
legislative bodies and railroad corpora
tions the latter, By dextrJus turn of the
wrist peculiarly their own, almost inya-
riably succeed in getting the eundor-
holt" The railroad corporations of Kan
sss are comparatively young 10 years, but
they have attained sullsses srcssiii 60
render extremely interesting their con.
test with forces which undertaks 70 an
tagonize their purposes
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

There is disposition on the part of
journals opposed to the prohibitory
amendment to question the feasibility
of affecting such legislation in the Kan
sas assembly as will render it operative
aud make it the restraining force which
was contemplated by Its authors 1t has
been intimated through these
sources that not few Of
the members in both houses are manifest
ing a disposition 10 shirk the duty Of
experimenting the amendment through
the enactment OF sufficient laws for its
thorough enforcement, by the introduc-
tIun and support of measures which
will fail to cover the ground, and allow
prosecution OF the traffic by the en-
ployment of corrupt and ingenious sub
terfuges. We must say that We have
no apprehension that the will of the peo
pie in this matter is to be thus thwarted.
While the majority by which the amend
ment was carried was small in compari
son with the result on the state and
nstiona! tickets, it WAS amply suf-
icicnt To- indicate the strong drift
of public sentiment o. the
question OF prohibition, and the leg
iSlator who manifcsts "a disposition to
temporize on this issue is not, to say
the least, treading on very safe ground.
The people of Kansas desire to see q
thorough test Of what is regarded by
many as an experiment but even
this class demand for it fair
chance. They have endorsed the
letter OF the measure, aud they
now demand its observance IN spirit and
we have too much faith in the sovereignty
OF the people to believe that they cannot
hold To u strict account any of their rep
resentatives who would presume upon
their stupidity to the extent ofdisrregard-
ing their expressed decrees- The
amendment will be enforced, all pro-
phecies to the contrary nOtwithstand-
iup
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
d, OVER THE STATE.

The public schools At Wichita were
obliged to close two days, for lack of
coal.
The Florence Herald says that some
SITS people were registered at the hotels
of that city during the year
Judge w. p. Campbell, who has been
upon the bench for the last ten years.
will enter upon the practice of law at
Wichita.
There is a man in Topeka who is said
to be so lazy that he has applied to the
A., T. & s. F. Co. for position as a rail-
road sleeper.
Fred. Paulding, the young actor. is a
Leavenworth man. The New York
Times speaks of his last performance as
renewed attack upon the public peace.
The city council of Junction City is
sued an ordinance requiring all persons
doing business within the corporate
limits to take out license. This is done
to raise a revenue to run the city govern
ment.
An effort is being made to organize
sugar manufacturing company at Kin
slew, Edwards county. Sterling, Rice
county, is making Il move in the same
direction. A sugar mandatory at
Larned is said to be a success.
The newspapers of Greenwood county
are quarreling over the county printing
and the editors are calling each other
GLARS" "drunkards," 'swindlers," rob
bers of the peoples money" etc. 1t is
not always expedient TO be too truth
full.
A large amount of corn is being burn
ed for fuel in western Kansas this win
ter. Where there Is an abundance of it,
and no market, II does not seem so great
a waste; but when prices go up ic the
spring, many Will wish they had not
done so.
Kansas has 72 towns and cities with
over SEQ inhabitants. Three of them
have over $4,000, four between 5000 and
| 10000, three between 5000 and 5000.
fourteen between 1900 and 900. and
twenty-four between 1000 and 1000 in
| habitants.
The editor of the Sterling Gazette is
using hay for fuel, and says that 100
| ullu AcDt Ills
Office, which is % by 80 feet, comfortably
warm for a whole day. He has a stove
of the Mennonite pattern, specially de
signed for the use of hay as fuel.
Oswego Independent: The first ship.
ment of cotton from Labette county was
made last Saturday from oswego, via the
st L. & 5. F. TO ST. Louis. consisting oil
six bales. It was of superior quality
and our cotton-gin men say that they
think they will be able to move one
hundred bales during the season.
Larned Chronoscope: The Santa Fs
company, during the year 1880. have
shipped to this station 1915 pounds
or AZ car loads, of tree freight 10 the
needy, who have suffered in consequence
OF the drought Of the last, and the sea
son preceding the last For "soul
less corporation" this is = very extensive
charity, and includes more genuine
practical Christianity than = regimen
of loud-nouthed political Christian re
tfUrmsED would do In lifetime
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

A committee on restitution on the
frontier has been appointed in the lower
branch of the state legislature, crafty
ing evidence that our state representa-
tives are awaking to the vast import
ance of providing measures for the sup
preston of the shame and
disgrace which Kansas annually suffers
by reason of the appeals which are made
outside of her own borders in behalf Of
those alleged to be starving in the
counties on her western frontier. That
there has been great distress among the
settlers in those districts, 1t would be
folly to deny, but that the extent of their
suffering has been shamefully exsgger-
ated by dishonest solicitors travelling
through the east. with the
reprehensible object of obtain
ing supplies which are never ap-
piled in hehalf of the purpose for which
they are donated, is equally true, as is
also the fact that Kansas has suffered
irremediable damage from this cause.
There can be no question brought to the
attention of the present legislature
which more vitality effects the interests
of Kansas that this very problem of
frontier restitution and it would be worse
than folly for the representatives of the
people to lightly estimate its serious
bearing upon the welfare of our CON-
monwealth. Kansas is abundantly able
to take care of her own poor, and it is
the paramount duty ofthe legislature to
ascertain the exact demands Of the case
in question, ald then 10 take prompt
and effective measures for meeting
them. Every citizen of Kansas
who honors her grand traditions
and POUNDS his hope upon her splendid
future, is sick to loathing Of the publish
cd poverty of state which is equal to
the production of enough grain and beei
to feed and wool to clothe six times Is
many people as her population mum
bSrS.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
HERE AND THERE

AS the distillers of New York are
making Jamaica rum out of old boots,
snakes may be looked for with more
than ordinary regularity.
If Prof. Proctor's big comet comes
along and slips into the sun it will make
u brilliant splash. The photophone
ought to be prepared Immediately to
convey the sounds to terrestrial basis.
An exchange says that Ben Butler has
been arrested on suspicion at Winfield.
This is the first intimation conveyed to
the public that Kansas was infested with
the General, or that any spoons were
missing in Cowley county.
The Ladies' Cooperative Dress Asso-
citation in New York expect, as the net
result of their association scheme, to get
three dresses for the same money which
they now pay for two, which will send
the stock so per cent. above par.
An exchange says that South Caro-
lima girl committed suicide because her
father was defeated for the legislature
The plausibility of this story would have
been more fully established il the scene
of tragedy had been laid in Ohio.
The Telegram says that Winfield does
more for its INDECENT citizens than any
town in southern Kansas. Convincing
evidence OF that fact is afforded in the
notably cheerful tone which always per-
vades the columns of the daily edition
| of that journal.
| The New York Herald estimates that
Jay Gould made from five to eight mil
| lions by his recent manipulation in tel
egraph stock, within the short period of
n few days. There are a considerable
number of Kansas editors whose revep-
Eues for an entire year do not reach those
figures.
Clergymen are not admitted to Girard
college, Philadelphia. The other day a
mild looking young maa with plug
[ bat and white cravat asked for admission
and was ,peremptorily refused. Very
] angry, he started away, remarking that
they might sgo 70 hi with their id
Institution See here" said the guard,
you can go i'm The young man gave
the ccunterslgn.
The Pekin, China, Gazette was estab
/ lished foar or i've thousand years ago,
but well bet dollars to buttons that
net month passes but what some
old snoozer with gray pig-tail, from the
remote edges Of lie celestial empire,
drops into the office aud informs the ed
itor that he has been taking the paper
ever since il was started, and that he
was present when the first number was
"struck off"
Mr.. MiIlington, of Crawford county, a
member of the lower branch oe the Kan.
sas legislature, proposes an amendment
to the constitution admitting of female
suffrage. He is sanguine As 10 the
feasibility of submitting the question to
vote of the people, though be has
probably failed To estimate the full
strength of the opposition which he will
encounter at the hands of members who
have been so extremely unhappy az Il
marry women with long heads and shorI
hair
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

The politicians who prophecied i'm.
mediately after the late presidential cleo
ton that Missouri would be a Republi-
can state within few years, were build
ing better than they knew. The pre-
diction is already beginning to assume
the faint outlines of a reality,
which is Enthusiastically forecast
by the introduction into the
legislature OF innumerable dog bills
. proposition to submit a prohibitory
amendment to the people, q bill to sup.
press gambling, and one to create the of
nee OF state printer. So much for th'
influence of proper associations. We re
ally believe there would be some hops
Of retaining Kentucky if she could b'
picked up and set down somewhere or
the Kansas border.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

DIR. Sutton, representative from the
63rd district, has introduced in the leg
islsture an act to enable the board of
county commissioners and treasurer of
Lyon county To turn over certain moneys
from special to the general fund of
said county. and an act to license dogs
and providing for the payment of dam
ages sustained in the manning OF killing
of sheep by dogs, declaring unlicensed
dogs a nuisance, and declaring under
what circumstances they may be killed,
and prescribing a punishment for kill
ing licensed dogs, and TO provide penal
ties for the violation of any provision of
said act by officers or others.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

From the report OF the legislative pro-
ceedings in the Topeka Commonwealth
we note that Senator Hackney, in the
senate, and Representative Lennon, in
the house, have each introduced a bill
for the establishment of an institution
for the 'eeble minded and idiots, said
institution To bc located Within two
miles Of the city of Winfield, in Cowley
county. We are not accurately inform
ed as To the strength of the Greenback
vote in Cowiey, but we believe it
will b. cheerfuliy conceded that large
measure Of expense in the way of Car
fare would be obvialed by locating the
proposed asylum in a community which
is strongly tinciured b. tho sOft-money
fallacy
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

In Buchanan's time it required about
10 per cent. to float United States bonds.
This was in the days of Democratic
power. Now, when the Republican pol
Icy predominates, Fernando Wood in
sists that 8 per cent. is sufficient to give
the national bonds boom. Secretary
Sherman thinks 31S about the right fig
ure, but Mr.. Wood thinks himself bet
ter nnancier than the Secretary. who
has already accomplished fiscal results
which i've years ago would have been
considered wild impossibilities. II
would have been a sensible thing for the
house to have adopted the recommends
tons OF Secretary Sherman on the re
funding question.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

A dawning statesman from one o: the
embryonic counties of Kansas has intro
duced a bill in the legislature TO pro-
vide bounty for the slaughter of rattle
snakes. If this measure should @
through, and the temperance members
of the assembly succeed in supplement-
ing the amendment with legislation of
adequate rigor. the coming season will
be an extremely tough one ON all varie-
ties of serpents in Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Col. Robert Ingersoll has had ample
opportunity during the last two years
TO test the sufficiency of his cold philos-
ophy. Within that time he has lost a
father, a brother and sister, the latter
having died within the past ten days.
1t is said that he is completely broken
up by this latest bereavement, and has
aged fully ten years within n week. The
doctrine of materialism may be highly
rational and in the line OF the most adj.
vanced thought of the times. but il is n
broken reed 10 those who stand beside
the collins o. their cherished dead.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Between 10000 and $4,000 calves were
shipped from eastern states to western
pastures Ia 1880 Ia b, fstiened. The
railroads thus got two !reightages.
They also realize the ancient saying that
he who continues 10 lift at a calf will
finally be able to carry an OK.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Atchison Champion: The Florence
Herald reports Elder Mitchell as CON-
planning that the Greenbackers promis-
ed him $3.50 for making canvass of
the state, and failed to pay him. The
Elder has no right to complain. Ac-
cording to his theory promise to pay
is payment, and hence he is paid in full.
lie believes in fiat money. and his party
gives him practical illustration of the
utility and beauty of his system.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Usage City Free Press: Last week
the stockholders OF the Usage County
Bank met IN this city, and perfected
their organization by electing the follow
ing officers: President, P. l. Bonebrake,
OF Topeka; vice president, L. Severy, of
Emporia; secretary and cashier, T. L.
Marshall, of Usage City.
Directors-W. MartindAle, of Madi-
con; Lewis Humphreys. Of Arvonia; T.
J. Peter and W. w. Miller, OsagS Gty
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Denver is agitating the question of a
permanent exposition Of the mining and
industrial products of Colorado. The
proposition is TO erect large building
suitable for the purpose nj Denver, aud
MI il with specimens Of ColDradn's
mines. agricultural products and manu-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

W. B. Strong and j. Mulvane, Of Tope-
kA.
We are informed that the stock, $780,
900, has about all been subscribed and
that assessments were made at once TO
An extent that places the bank in good
shape with ample funds to meet the de-
mands of business.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Reports from Leadville, Colorado,
show that there is great suffering among
the miners. The snow is deep and min
ing operations are suspended. The
gambling houses are deserted and pro-
visions are enormously high. Perhaps
here is another side to this Lcadvillc
business, but II hasn't been exhibited yet
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

According to the officially revised CEN
sus returns. Kansas City is the thirtieih
city in the Union; 81. Joseph. The fifty
seventh; Leavenworth, the ONT hundred
and-forty and Aichison. The one
hundred.and -foriyeighth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

A bill introduced in the New York
legislature provides that twenty lashes
be laid upon the bare back the
wife.beater. This is very good 80 far As
1t goes, and will probably have to an
swer the purpose until public sentiment
is educated up Ia the pitch Of making il
. crime punishable by death, for n man
TO infiict personal violence upon n
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

General Garfield is being vigorously
memorialized by the Republican mem
bers of the Buckeye Legislature, recon-
mending Governor Foster 20 a cabinet
position under the new regime. II our
recollection is not at fault, VIC believe
that all prophecies to the effect that Ohio
would not be represented in the next
cabinet have thus far been ventured in q
purely facetIous spirit, and the absurd
prediction has been generally accepted
In the sense in which 1t has been en-
ployed by the humorous paragrapher.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

II seems to be concluded that congress
will ct order an investigation of the
Aorey forgery. 1t is alleged that the
sagacIou4 Samuel J. Tilden vetoed the
proposition on the ground that the IN
vestigation nigh: take range entirely
too wide, and lead u unseemly expos
ures of the tricks OF the Democratic MI.
tional committee. Evidently Mr.. Til
den retains distinct recollection Of the
ciphcr Investigation,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

III Hancock had been elected, The au-
thor of the Morey letter would not now
be hiding IN the swamPs. His exploits
as a forger would have been made the
basis OF an application for a postoffice.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Il is the opinion Of good financiers
that il would be better for the govern
ment To- succeed in floating 81 per cent.
bonds al par, than to fail in making 3
per cents. buoyant.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Kansas is moving in the direction Of
manufacturing her own text books. BY
and by the only thing we shall have to
import will Ire hard coal and drunkards.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
Missouri Legislatnre.

ST. Louis, Jan. ga Post Dispatch
Jefferson City special says Morgan Bo-
Gov. Crittenden as police commissioners
of this city, have been confirmed by the
senate Boland is the man who assault
ed ex-senator Armstrong at the Planters
house a few evenings ago. A bill was
introduced in the lower house making
the keeping of gambling houses a felony,
punishable by Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
The Telegraph Consolidation.

NEW YORK, Jan. President Green,
of the Western Union telegraph com.
pany, says the agreement has been
unanimously ratified by the American
Union and Western Union boards, and
will be by the Atlantic & Pacific board
this afternoon. The Western Union
board considers the agreement still as
unfinished business, and only the gener-
al outlines already known will be given
to the public. The stockholders meet
on the 5th of February. and the contract
does not go into effect until the stock
holders raiify it.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
At recent meeting of the Tammany

At recent meeting of the Tammany
com miltee of organization. John Kelly,
who was popularity supposed To u politi-
cal corpse. was elected chair
man and made an address
mapping forth the future of the
New York Democracy. This will have
u tendency to inspire distaste for re
pose" in Mr. Tilden and will act as an
equalizer upon his paralyzed members.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
ohio Coming 10 tn. Fore

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. ia memorial
signed by every Republican member of
the general assembly, recommending
Governor Foster for position in the
cabinet under the new regime, was for
warded 10 Gen. Garfield to-day Gov
Foster has written General Garfield that
The memorial does not meet his approval
and that he must not be held responsible
for il.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
Hatch Calls a Halt.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Rufus Hatch
has begun a suit in the supreme court
against the Western Union, the Atlantic
s. Pacific and the American Union tele-
graph companies to prevent the pro-
posed consolidation. He has obtained
an injunction restricting the defendant
companies from entering into any agree
ment of consolidation and from increas-
tiers.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28
The evidence that James Abran Gar
field will be the next president dc Eacto
10 accommodating.

John Kelly met nil the exigencics Of
the situation when he said tn an inter
viewer ut Chicago that ''the people beat
Hancock
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

Use Leis' Dendefion 4onfc, the great
blood and liver purifier and life giving
principle, a preventa,ise Of chiIls and
sgue, and q sure cure for dyspepsia
Price 81 per bottle. Far sale by all
dS0SSSts-
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-28

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-Tbe Tammany
committee on organization met this
evening and organized by electing John
Kelly chairman. Kelly made an address
in which he declared Tammany would
never again combine with any party or
faction. and their candidates would be
chosen from the best class of Democrats.