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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13
OVER THE STATE

A druggist at Topeka has been arrest
ed for selling Hostetter's bitters. The
bilious citizens at the capital should be
thankful that the new temperance law
does not prescribe liver-pads.
Auditor of State Bonebrake issued
fifty-nine patents for school bonds dur
ing the month of April, embracing g.
575 acres, of which 3,O40 were east and
3,065 west of the south principal merid-
ian. The former brought 1896 and the
latter 1915 per acre.
There were III Farmers Alliances or
ganized in Kansas up to April /, includ-
ing flfty-five counties. a strong appeal
is being made for these organizations
to be kept up, SO that in time, by united
action, they may become powerful in
their efforts to promote the interests of
the farmers.
As it is generally understood that the
embargo upon all species of intoxicants
st the state capital is proof against the
devices of the most consuming thirst, il
is rational to infer that the party who
was observed TO interview a wooden In
dian on Kansas avenue, the other night,
with such cheerful persistency, was an
inmate of the neighboring asylum, out
on a short leave of absence.
The Parsons saloons closed on Satur-
day night and the door knobs of all the
gin mills in the town were decorated
with Grape on Sunday morning. The
druggists have refused to give the re-
quired bond and the doctors to take the
oath, and the consequence is there is not
q drop of anything containing alcohol
to be had in the city. So says dispatch
from that place, and the rumor that sew
eral prominent guzzlers of the town
have experienced sudden aud radical
conversion from Ingersollism TO belief
in literal perdition, wsuld seem to jus
tify the accuracy Of the report.
Augusta is fast becoming one of the
prettiest towns in the state. 4 large
number of fine buildings have been
erected, several are now in process of
erection and more in contemplation.
We are just booming; that's what's the
matter with us.-Augusta Gazette.
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Municipal Elections

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 1.-The cleo
lions In New Albany and Jacksonville,
Indiana, for municipal officers, yester-
day, resulting in the election of tire
Democratic ticket in the former except
marshal. In the latter, Warden, Demo
crat, was elected mayer for the fourth
tins. The result on the balance is
mixed.
ST. PAUL, May AT the municipal
election here yesterday, the entire Demo
cratic ticket was elected by majority
ranging from 10 TO 200. Edmund Rice
was elected mayor by a large majority.
One Republican measure, the voting of
bonds for high school building, was
carried by large majority.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 5.-At the
municipal election yesterday the entire
Republican ticket was elected. The ma
jorily for d. w. Gruabs, for mayor, will
be between 200 and 300, while on the
balance of the ticket the majority ranges
from 10 to 1900, which are about the
usual majorities. The council stands is
Republicans, and Z Democrats the board
of aldermen stands 8 Republicans and 2
Democrats.
At Richmond, Ind, the entire Repub-
lican ticket was elected.
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New York Tribune: General Grants
frank and entertaining speech in the
City Of Mexico ought to dispel all dis
trust from the Mexican mind as to the
motives of his connection with the new
railway enterprises in that country. 1t
explodes completely the absurd notion
thai he has some Interior purpose in the
of an annexAtion. HiB object
ID busiR ess- and not,pOlities, and the, con-
nectIOn he seeks to establish between the
United. States and Mexico is purely
commercial one. His account Of his de-
feat and disappointment in his scheme
for annexing San Domingo, and the
conclusion he came to as the result of
his mistake IN that affair, that the peo-
Pile of the United States do not desire
more territory, is a curious example of
his simplicity and Open-heartedness,
when lac gets out of his shell of habi-
tual reiicence. Now that they have his
assurance that he is not An annexatiOnist
the Mexicans will no doubt welcome
him with unrcservcd cordially.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

For am king o. ihe May, mamma /;
l am king o. the May''-John F. St.
John.
There are well grounded apprchcn:
sions that Dave Payne, the athletic blow
hard of the Oklahoma fizzlc, will take
the lecture field.
When Gorham is driven To seek alb
sOlute repose from his editorial and po-
litical cares, he should sit down and
count over his friends.
The frigidity of Charles Francis Adams
is the acme of incandescence compared
with the arctic GOODNESS of Senator Burn
side when he is fighting mad.
If General Grant is annexing Mexico,
he is accomplishing the work in noise
less manner that Is eminently worthy of
the only and original great American
Sphinx.
Dorsey says that Brady is a scoundrel
AS reciprocity is the law of admiration,
we presume that Brady has an equally
exalted view of the moral attributes ol
Dorsey.
We respectfully call Sol. Miller's at
tention to Abe Steinberger's description
of the "racquet" The Nestor of tho
Chief had better keep sharp eye on his
baggage
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GETTING WARN.

BY our kilograms to-day from Wash
ihgton it will be seen that the fight be-
tween the President and Senator Conk-
ling is assuming an interesting and de-
cidedly belligerent shape. The Presi-
dent has taken the very decided step 10
Withdraw. all the ConkIipg appointments
in New York, and he has as decidedly
refused to withdraw the name of Mr..
I Robertson. This can but be regarded as
bold declaration of war on the great
New York senator, which he win not be
slow to accept.
This difficulty will be deeply regretted
by every Republican, and hailed with
delight by all shades of opposition to
the party in power Its effect on the
party cannot but be disastrous, cspec-
tally in the state Of New York. 1t win
undoubtedly divide the party in that
state, and give it again into the hands of
the Democrats.
Mr.. COnkling is great man, and the
Republican party is under obligations to
him, but we. think he is demanding a
.little too much of President Garfield,
when he undertakes TO dictate
who shall and who shall not hold Office
in New York. This is asking little
too much. The Chicago convention, af-
ter the nomination of Garfield, virtually
said to Conkling, select the man for
vice president. His man was nominated.
The party was disposed to give him full
credit for all he had done. He had been
favored IN all possible ways. President
Garfield in assuming the duties of the
presidency thought it proper TO attempt
TO heal the divisions in New York, and
it was with this view that Mr.. Robert
son was appointed. His ability and
fitness are not questioned. His APP
pointment was endorsed by the New
York legislature and by the press large
ly. The only reason Mr.. Conkling OBJ
jects to Robertson is that he does not
like him personally-thatt they are polit-
ical enemies. The president did not
feel bound 10 carry Mr.. Conkling's per-
sonal quarrels into his administration.
This is about the status of the matter as
we understand it, and it is certainly not
to the discredit of James A Garfield to
learn that he has determined to be presi-
dent Ia fact as well rs in name The
Republicans of the country will endorse
his position with few exceptions.
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The trial of monk in the Province
of Pultova for the murder of brother
monk throws II vivid light upon the NOR
ais of Russian monastries, and particu-
larry upon the monastery of Peresloif.
1t was proven in the trial, which result
ed IN the sentence of the murderer to
lifelong Imprisonment in the Siberian
mines, that the brotherhood were in the
habit of palming of upon the peasants at
eXorbitant prices, rs relics of various
saints, secondhand images which had
been bought for a trifling sum at the
Great Fair. Instead of using proper
bread for the communion they employed
the refuse from their own tables, and
fabricated sacramental wine by mixing
tea and vinegar. But these examples of
fraud and pcnuriousness fade into insig-
nificance when compared with the
drunkenness and debauchery which pre-
vailed in the monastery. These disclos
ures have fortunately aroused public
opinion in Russia, which will not be
satisfied, the Golos says, unless immedi
ate action is taken to purify the monas
tic institutions of the Empire. al
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sprang into skiff and seized the oars.
As she neared the middle of the river
her husband saw the Indians coming in
full force and yelling like demons.
'Wife, wife," he screamed, "I'am COM
ing; drop down a little lowerm
With this he sprang from his crag and
descended like an arrow into the water.
He rose near her; in a moment the Ca
noe was along side of him, and she help
ed him 10 scramble into it amid a show
er of shot and arrows that the baffled
Indians poured upon them. The daring
wife did not speak a word; her husband
was more dead than alive, and all de-
pended on her strength being maintain
ed TIL they could reach the bank. This
they did, just where she had started,
right where the baby was still lying
growing and laughing. Some men pull
ed the skiff high up on the sand, and
the wife slowly arose and helped TO lift
Van Bibber to his feet, then, seating her
self, she wept wildly. The baby is now
grandfather, and that rock is called
"Van Bibber's Rock" to this day.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13

ST. Louis Globe Democrat: 1t is all
nonsense TO speak, as many newspapers
do, Of the Globe Democrats position on
the Conkling- Robertson question, as the
result of ian effort to keep the Grant
movement alive for 1884," The Grant
movement is dead and buried beyond
the hope or desire for resurrection. If
there ever was any intention to put
Grant forward again. its fuliillment was
rendered impossible by Grants own
conduct in Withdrawing from the great
body of the people, among whom his
strength lay, and seeking fellowship
and fayOrs among the wealthy few of
New York AS a citizen of Illinois,
spending the long summer evening of
his life at his old home, Grant was pos
sible candidate; as a pensiOner upon
the bounty of few millionaires, the
suggestion of his candidacy would be a
suggestion of lunacY on the part of him
who made it. We are for Mr.. Conkling
in the fight which the president has I'm.
wisely forced upon him because we are
unwilling to see a great and brave man
Hcauselessly and needlessly assailed by
men of his own party.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13

A new evidence of the civilizing in
fiuences of Bourbonism is furnished in
the fact that numerous converts to Nor
mOnism are being made by propagan-
dists of that abominable heresy in differ
emit parts of the south. This is signifi-
cant. The emmisaries of pOlygamy
have given evidence of their mean cum
ming in selecting for their field of oper-
atoms section where the leaven of pop
ular education is practically an
known and where the standard of
general intelligence is consequently
far below that of the free north and the
great west. The fabric of MOrmonism
Is founded upon the grossest forms of
error, and while it derived its early i'm
petns from men Of talent, but Of i'll
directed force, its perpetuitY is condi-
toned upon the ignorance and de-
pravity of its future recruits. The
south may claim that its peculiar
systems have been maligned by
designing politicians, but until the
disciples of Brigham Young meet
with the same success in obtaining rein
forcements in New England and Kansas
that have crowned their efforts in Mis-
sissippi and Georgia, the country will be
slow to believe that Bourbon domination
is conducive to the highest forms Of
mental and moral culture.
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Fighting the Floods

ST.. LOUIS, May 5.-The levee along
the river bank at point opposite Name
oki, on the Chicago s. Alton road, about
eight miles above East st. Louis, broke
this forenoon, and the water is now over
flowing strip of bottom land between
the Chicago & Alton railroad track and
the river. The crevasse is said TO be
fifty feet wide and several feet deep. The
effect of this break will simply be to
overflow the narrow piece of bottom be-
tween MameOki and Venice on the south
and some farming lands on the north be
tween the Chicago s. Alton road bed and
the river. \ large extra force OF men
has been put to work on the Chicago 81
Alton track to patrol and strengthen it.
Unless the river is high enough to over
flow this embankment at some point, no
material damage will be done other
than washing out some growing crops.
The situation in East St. Louis is practi-
cally unchanged. The river seems to be
nearly stationary today, and many have
ceased to fear any great additional rise
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NEWSPAPER cuRIosIrIEs.


Managing editors are Looking for the
following curiosities, which when found
will be made note of:
Some one that can write of fishing
without referring to Izaak Walton.
A correspondent who refers to an ar
ticle in the paper, who read it of his
own accord and did not have "his atten.
'tion called" to IT,
4 writer on free trade who can pro-
duce half a column without the aid OF
sthe Chinese WALL,
A theatricalIcritic who will not allu de
to ''the palmy days of the drama"
A critic on art or music that can write
an article that persons Of liberal educa-
ton can understand without the aid OF
at least two dictionaries.
A correspondent who writes of a sea
voyage without mentioning the sea run.
ming mountains high" or "a life on the
ocean wave"
A financial newspaper article of over
one quarter of column in length that
does not mention Vanderbilt or Jay
Gould.
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A SETTLERS ESCAPE FROM INDIANS.

Just below Kanawha Falls, in West
Virginia, writes q correspondent of
Louisville paper, is an overhanging
rock jutting out about one hundred feet
over the seeihing whirlpool, and about
the same height above. This was once
the scene of remarkable adventure
The Indians were in hot pursuit of Van
BibbeF, settler and man ofdistinction
In thoae early days. He was hard
pressed, and all access TO the river
above and below being cut off, he was
driven 20 this jutting rock, which
proved TO be the jumping of place for
him.
He stood ON the rock in full view of
the enemy, who yelled triumphantly at
the certainty of his speedy capture. He
stood up boldly, and with his rifle kept
them at bay. As he stood there he looked
across the river and saw his wife with
her baby in her arms, ali helpless 10 rem
der assistance. They stood as if petrified
with terror and amaZement. Presently
she cried at the top Of her voice:
Leap into the river and meet mem
Laying her baby upon the grass, she
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COMBINATIONS.
BECOMING More Critical.

ST. LOUIS, May 4.-The sitution in
East st. LOus is becoming more and
more critical, and unless the river ceases
to rise, of which there is no immediate
hope, the entire city will be submerged
Everything possible is being done to
prevent this by strengthening and elc-
waiting the dykes and railroad embank-
mentS, but these have been surrounded
by water so long that they are more or
less soaked, and the pressure in places
is so great, there being from ten to thir-
ty feet of water bearing against them,
that the probabilities are that there will
be several, if not serious breaks, and that
the whole city will be engulfed. A
break is already reported in the o. NJ
II. r. embankment, mile north of the
relay depot, and the Vandalia track is
flooded for some distance. Should this
break reach any considerable width, it
will prove as disastrous as q creVasse in
the Madison levee several miles north
would be, as it would let the flood direct
from the river sweep out over the bottom
to the east and north, which, in a short
time would circle around to the south
ward and come into East st. LOUIS, from
the rear. Many people have already left
East st. Louis, and others have moved
themselves and their household effects
" LhC otOAlCS
Some of the merchants are removing
their goods to this city, while others are
piling them up on high shelves or stor-
ing them on the second floors.
Several railroads have taken their
movable property from the yards on the
island, and some decline to receive any
more freight for shipment at present
The Chicago IS Alton, Ohio s. Misslssip-
pi and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
dykes across the slough from the island
to the mainland, have either settled to
such an extent, or become so weak, that
they are no longer serviceable, and these
roads viii remove their rolling stock
from their yards on the island to safer
ground. In fact, the yards on the island
are in such danger of inundation that they
will have to be abandoned. The Cairo
& st. Louis narrow gauge road is sub
merged in many places on the bottom
and has suspended operations. The
trestle of the Cairo Short Line, leading
to the island, south of the bridge, has
been abandoned, and the road will have
TO reach its freight yards by another
track
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13

From table in the Cincinnati Com
mercial, showing The ratio Of votes to
population in; ffty-niDe of the larger
cities Of the union, it is shown that In
dianapoIis casts the largest proportional
vote. I to each 1856 of population, and
the smallest is cast by Providence, r. l.,
being only-l to each ll3os of population.
albany caslst the second largest proper
-tionaae vote in ahe. eRsiFe list, and the
average for eight cities is. 1 to 4.95.
The vote of New York city q 10 ESD is
relatively smaller than any Of the eight
cities. from thai. state. Philadelphia's
vote isl 10 4e7 Btooklyn's to 5.27;
Chicago's TO Gil; Boston's 1 10 6,79;
ST. Louis, / TO 736; Cincinnati's to
40. The average OF the cities reporting
is to 574
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GRINDING.

The senate has finally gone into ex.
ecutive session, and quite "a list of the
nominations submitted to that body by
the president have been confirmed
The Robertson appointment has not yet
been acted upon, and it is not likely
that the circus will begin till that vexed
question is brought up. The newspaper
correspondents represent Mr.. Conkling
as intent upon gore, but the various ru
mors that prevail concerning the support
he can muster in the senate, in making
his figtft against the administration, will
be verified or refuted by nothing short
Of a vote on the appointment in
question. 1t is morally certain
that the President win yield moth
ing in the premises, having acted
in accordance with his best convictions
In this matter, and not being disposed to
make any concessions to what he evil
IDENTIFY regards as an unwarranted spirit
ofdiclatiOD on the part of the New York
senator. We believe that public senti-
ment is with the administration in the
contest, and that Mr.. Conkling will
make nothing by allowing his personal
animus TO ferment the elements of dis
cord at time when so much might he
accomplished for the country and the
Republican party, by harmonious action.
In the meantime, the advises from
Washington are explicit in the state
nent that after the TRANSACTION of the
necessary business by the senate, the
fight on the majority rule will be re-
snmed, and if necessary, the deadlock
will be maintained all summer. While
this alternative would be deeply de
plored by the country, the people would
be more fully recOnciled to such dis
pensation AS succeeding.th accomplish
ment of the business upon which the
senate has entered than they showed
themselves to be pending its action
upon the appointments which have &C
cumulated during the progress of its
windy debate.
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This is the way the New York Herald
looks at it: The rebellion has gwen us
two names that will always be written
in the lists of military heroes-RObert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. We do not
think of any other Confederate names,
except perhaps that of President Davis,
that will be known outside Of close his
tOrieal study fifty years from nov. On
the northern aide We have Sherman.
Sheridan and Grant, the possibility OF
all military fame concentrating in the
commander in chief of the army, leav-
ing TO Sherman and Sheridan the lesser
fame OF SOalt and Desaix. ttf'ft ii'
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One libel suit has already grown out
of the exposure of the Star-roule frauds.
John II. Minor, who is alleged 10 have
been one of the favored contractors, has
brought AN action for damages against
The Cleveland Herald. There are 5000
newspapers in this country, and if this
thing is kept up, 1905 will soon hnye
libel suits ON hand, and the jury panels
will exhaust the voting population and
put an end, for n time at least, TO bust
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The "grasshopper bulletin" is fast tax
ing rank with the stock and market re-,
ports in Importance on the Pacific coast.
Indications at present favor the ranch
men. Black spiders, which prey upon
the 'hoppers, have made their appear
ance in great numbers, and are describ-
cd by an imaginative Nevada journalist
as sitting crosslegged under every blade
of grass, patiently waiting for the grass
hopper eggs 10 hatch, when they make
short work of the newly fedged hop
Ders 49,
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The fact that Sam Wood was able TO
give u bond of two hundred dollars for
his appearance at court to answer TO
charges preferred against him in peti-
tion filed in Shawnee county by Rev.
Allen Buckner, would seem to indicate
that there are still a few people in Kan
sas who are not acquainted, even by rep
utation, with the erratic financier of
ElnnhnIn
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The Commonwealth shies its castor in
to the common council of the city of
Topeka by fulminating the dark
intimation that the absence of
water works at the capital is
due To the fact that certain of the city
fathers are waiting TO been seen" before
committing themselves to such an i'm.
provement. If this is the case We would
suggest to Brother Baker the propriety
Of quoting the price of councilmen in
the regular local market report for the
benefit OF contractors as wen as the gen.
eral public.
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New York Herald: Two hundred
Mormon proselytes landed yesterday.
Why do not some of the missionary So
cieties send out able men to follow the
Mormon recruiting agents through Eu-
rope? Better still, why do not the right
eous start colonization societies, so that
poor but spirited European peasants
need not outwardly accept u vulgar
faith in order to securetransportation to
the United States and get home when
they arrive?
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General Brady is little anxious lest
he may not get full and fair hearing.
He fears the newspaper men, and dis
graced contractors are conspiring to in
jure his good reputation. This is mis-
take. The only conspiracy he need have
any fear of is that of the official table OF
Star-route figures, published the other
day. That is not the work of either
correspondents or disgraced contractors,
but of General Brady and successful
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Nas,,viIIo paoas

NASHVILLE. May 5.-The fourth day
of the Nashville association race, result
ed as follows:
First race-Mile heats, for all ages
Long Taw was the favorite. Pacific
won, taking second and third heats.
Julia Bounce won first heat; Long Taw
third. Time 500, 81, and :5424
Second race-Dash mile and a quar-
ter, all ages; twelve started; Boulevard
was the favorite Annie Augusta won ;
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