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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-09-22

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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
AT WORK.
Proceedings of the Mississippi River
Commission.

Proceedings of the Mississippi River
Commission.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Mississippi
river commission consisting of General
Gilmore, president, Gen. c. B. Com
stock, Major Suter, Judge Taylor, Prof.
Mitchell, Major HerOd and Capt. James
B. Eads, have been in session since Mon
day. The whole sum at the disposal of
the commission fer the Mississippi river
is So, 10000.
The commission determined to recon-
mend the approximate allotment of $4,-
125, 900 which is for the improvement of
the river below Cairo in the following
manner:
For the continuation of the work at
Plenn Point, sixty miles from Memphis,
100000.
For the continuation of the work in
progress sixty miles below Vicksburg.
at Lake Providence, 100000.
For the work at New Madrid, seventy
miles below Cairo, $4,000.
For work near Memphis and for the
continuation of work in the harbor of
Memphis, 100000.
For various harbor works in addition
to the balance now available, $685. 900.
For the repair of levees by the stop
page OF existing gaps. 81 100000.
The sum of one hundred thousand
dollars was left unallOtted, for contin-
gencies.
The commission has decided that
work should begin on the east bank of
the river some miles above the mouth
of the YaZoo, and should continue up
wards.
The commissioners recommend the
$1,000 to be raised by local authorl-
ties be applied in such way as to Sc
cure, in connection with the work done
by the government, a continuance of
the lines of levees from below upward.
With this end in view the commits
sion, in making the allotment, took into
consideration the amount of work like
ly to be done by the local authorities.
The work at PIenn Point and Lake
Providence consists principally in mar
rowing the stream so as to increase the
rapidity of the current and prevent the
formation of bars, which have a tend
ency TO shift the channel. One of the
proposed projects is TO prevent by en-
bankmcnts the flow of the Mississippi
through Atchefalaya river.
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senator Hoar's vote for the river and
harl,0r bill is likely To give him trouble
in his canvass for reeirctiOn. The Boz
tan Herald says: The senator came
back from Washington tired and wor-
ried. To his friends At home he defends
his river and hArbor vote as one of the
best considered acts of his public career.
BuG he IL anxious aud much disturbed
III the attitude Of the Republican and In
dependent press Of the state He has
been asked Ia prepare a defense OF the
river aud harbor bill. TO be signed by all
Of the Massachusetts delegation who
voted for it, Certain of his friends have
advised him. it Is said, not to do this,
but to content himself with making his
own individual defense. They reason
that he should nsa take upon himself a
justification 0( the motives which actu-
aled others"
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CONSUMPTION CURKD.-An old physi-
clan. retired from active practice, hav-
ing had placed in his hands by IN East
India missionary the formula of sim
pie vegetable remedy for the speedy and
permanent cure Of consumption, bron-
chilis, catarrh, asthma and all throat
and lung affections, also positive and
radical cure for general debility and ALI
nervous complaints. afser having thor
oughly tested its wonderful curative pnw.
ers in thousands OF cases, feels il hrs fIu-
ty to make IL known TO Iis suffering Re.
lows. The recipe, with full particui q :.
directions for preparation and use. and
all necessary advice and instructions (. ?
successful treatment al your own home
will be received by you by return mail.
free of charge, by addressing with ssamp
or stamped seIfaddFessed envelope 10
Dr.. NJ E. BELL.
161 Il. Calvert St Baltimore. I'd
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
wisconsin Whiskyites.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 1.-THE meeting
of the Wisconsin Protective association
called by the brewers and liquor dealers
tonight concluded TO protect and up
hold the personal civil liberties of citi-
zens; to protect its members against
prosecutions resulting from alleged in
fractions of the so-called temperance
laws and other legal provisions ofwhich
the aim is wanton oppression of person.
al rights and liberties, and to secure to
all persons engaged in the sale of fer
meBted liquors the same rights and
privileges that the law accords to all
business intereats. 1t will accomplish
the object by lawful opposition to all
attempts at enforcing i'll advised tempe
rance or other legislation by using all
honorable means to have in the future
only men elected to public offices who
favor the aim of the association The
latter now numbers nearly 900 members
in the city. The convention concluded
to take immediate steps for the organi-
cation of branches in all the principal
cities throughout the state. The associa-
ton will take an active part in the CON-
ing state election by putting up ticket
OF its own If necessary.
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The Cincinnati Commercial declares
that it is not making a specially of Mr.
Blaine as a presidential candidate,
though grateful to him and TO Mr..
Sherman for defeating the third term
conspiracy. ave shall not harm any
great and good man." it says. "by our
premature and jinconsiderate support.
There are some fellows for whom we are
waiting with q club that has knots on
it, and gore on the knOtsi We do not
claim to have invented any presidents
of the United States, and would not
want a patent for one If we did H.
vent him. It is our ambition 10 enlarge
the area of choice of the people for
president. We contend that any COM
petent justice of the peace would make
q good president-Ihat there are thOus-
ands of men in the United States who
would make excellent presidents. II We
find hack load Of fellows who think
they have the presidency tied up among
themselves, we shall endeavor TO break
up the arrangement. If we find one
man upon a horse for whom it is as
sdmed that he is the great and only per
son for president, we shall pull him of
his horse if it is within our power
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communications to hold open and
guard, Kansas put $4,000 men
under arms doubling and more,
the calls upon her patriotism,
while for the four years of strife all her
people were practically under arms.
| During that time she solved several
problems, one of the most important be-
| iLg that of the military employment of
colored men. The Kansas troops first
| employed them as Transfers and quar-
termasters' laborers. They were en-
| ployed as scouts as early as November,
1861. In February, 1862, u number of
negroes were mustered in as part of the
Indian (Cherokees and Creeks Home
Guard regiments, and on the 9th of Au-
gust, 1862, under the law approved July
4, 1862, the first colored man, one Chas.
Harris, was legally recruited and sworn
IN as soldier at LeavenwOrth, Kansas.
The first legally authorized coiOred reg
imcnt was raised in Kansas, and the first
engagement in which such troops
were engaged was fought by
II under command of Kan
sas officers, on the 28th of October, 1862.
The first eolored troops, with white SOL
dIers, was this first and a subsequent
one, both being in large part recruited
and organized by this writer in conjunc-
ton with others. If we mistake not,
Kansas was the first among the western
states to give the negro equal suffrage
II is fitting that her Republican party |
should be first among the loyal states to |
give one of the same race q nomination |
(Which is equivalent to an electIon) for |
u high and responsible state Office.
1t reads almost like a romance The |
history is epical in tone and character,
and not the least marvellous feature of |
the story is the wonderful material |
growth, which, within seventeen years,
has interlaced her prairies with rail-
roads and telegraph wires, which has
made towns grow as if by magic and
covered the land with the homes of
communities, while making
the state almost the foremost in the gal
axy of agricultural properties. Kan
sas disputes with California the title of
the first wheat growing state in the
Union, while she excels all of the west
ern states in the browning glory of free
principles and institutions, logically de-
signed to make them operative.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The Civil Service Reform Association
has at last hiI upon the only practical
method of abolisLing the political as
sesment system, 20 wit: for the govern
ment officials To organize concerted
movement and refuse to pay them.-EN.
What's the use to orgnize concerted
movement" If government officials
don't want TO pay the assessment they
need not do IT, There is no Law to compel
payment. We have never heard of any
threats 10 discharge officials who did not
pay. On the contrary, it is distinctly
stated by the president and heads of
departments that . refusal 10 pay will
be nothing against an office holder.
we believe there are thousands Of OFF,
GERS throughout the country who never
paid any attention To political asses
ments," and who have the independence
60 tell the committee which makes them,
In case threats OF removal are made, TO
proceed with the removal. The howl
about political assessments" is about
,ne third composed OF humbuggery and
A Least another third of -dema9oRuerv,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
C.. ". BLAZE ON PROHIBITION.

C.. W. BLAIR ON PROHIBITION.
In view of the probability of the nom
ination of Hon e. w. Blair, of Fl. Scott,
for governor by the approaching demo
cratic convention. the views of that gen.
tlenan on prohibition, as expressed In u
recent letter to friend, will be read
with interest.
l am unalIerably opposed To the Dem
ocralic party, in convention, taking any
position on the question: Of prohibition.
IL may be n political question in the
sense in which any legislative enact
ment is political, but il certainly is not
within the domain of partisan politics,
any more than any other question of
morals or religion. Besides. the Demo
cratic party is by no means unit on
the question. There is wide diversity
of opinion upon the subject within its
ranks. and No declaration or resolution
will harmonlZe or reconcile the antag-
onisms that exist. Every Democrat is
entitled to believe as he pieases ON this
subject, and the party has neither the
right nor the power Ia change the belief
of any individual member in this regard.
IL is nne of those questions safer outside
OF pnliIics-that "A majority cannot force
All unwilling acQuiesence from the mi
norIiy, and action upon IL must be left
To individual responsibility.
believe in ehe church, but should be
very unwilling To make that belief u
shioboleIh of party recognition, and in
corporate il in the democratic platform.
These are the reasons, outside of the
right or wrong of the thing itself, why
no action should be taken in the CON
vention upon it.
And see no reason on the merits of
the question, why action should be taken.
| Whisky is certainly not q national
blessing tO the extent that we should
cling to II with such desperate and
unyielding tenacity that We cannot re-
lIBquish our hold upon ii, even in state
convention. The saloons bring US no
revenue, yield us no financial benefit,
and they are surely not such Invaluable
instrumenlalities OF civilization, that,
for their sake, we are willing to forego
party traditions, and array ourselves
against the enforcement of the Law.
Personally, my position on prohibit
ton Is this We have changed our pol.
| icy and adapted ourselves and surround
| ings to- the new order OF things at some
pecuniary sacrifice, in q municipal
point Of view. Let US give the law q
fair trial, by from three TO five years ol
| vigorous enforcement. If ut the end oi
that time we find that IL advances the
interests of temperance and good order
| let US continue 1t; and If not, repeal il
| And. in the meantime, let it stand OF
tall on Its own merits. neither supported
nor assaulted by party organization upon
the one hand or the other 1 should bG
10th 10 see the policy affirmed or an
tAgonized.
Respectfully,
@. w. BLAIR.
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THE CIR VS.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
A Train Heavily Loaded with PIcnIcers
Narrowly Escapes Being
Wrecked

PrTTsBURG. Aug. 18-One of the
most dastardly and cold-blooded at
tempts TO wreck train was made last
night at the first trestle this side of ALLIE
auippi station on the Pittsburg s. Lake
Erie railroad. At Allequippi yesterday
there was a picnic which was at
tended by some thousand or more
men, women and children, iilling some
half dozen coaches On the return from
Allequippi the train was going at a rapid
rate. Just before entering the first Tres
tie the engineer discovered large team
LAYING across the track, and the dlscov.
cry was made just in time 30 Enable him
to stop the train. Had his atten-
ton been attracted in another d.
rection but for moment
before the train would been precipitated
ia The ground below, a distance of forty
feet, and there would have been a terri
BILE loss OF life. Who put the obstruc-
ton on the track, or what native tempt-
ed the fiends To engage in such
an attempt at wholesale muir
der, is of course unknown. There can
be no doubt but what the beam was
laid across the track for The express
purpose of wrecking that particular
train. The excitement produced by the
discovery among the passengers was so
great that for the remainder of tie trim
there was much less joy than there had
been. The railroad authorities have Of
feFed q reward of $500 for information
which viii lead 10 the detection of the
would-be train wreckers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24


Under the authority OF congress and
by msans of an appropriation of SEQ, 900
Senator Hill, of Colorado. and Commits
sioner Beach. OF Wisconsin, have just
chosen u site for one of the proposed
aFtssian wells which are expected to
redeem large extent OF barren and
desolaLe land in Colorado. This expert
mental we'll Gill be dug within mile
of Akron, which Is lie miles from Den
yer, ON the Darlington aud Missouri
railroad. A second well will probably
be dug Mt Kit Carson, un the Kansas
Pacific railroad. In all that region
there are satisfactory indications OF. an
abundant snbieTraneAn dow of water.
and tue surface Is diversified by numrr-
Gus natural basins which Al small ex-
pense eoald be turned into storage res
erVoirs.5 H-1
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

A nOtewnrthy fact of the census STA
iisiics is the distribution of the sexes 10
city and country populations. In the
aggregate oi tue nation the males ex.
coed the females hy nearly 1000 600: yet
IN the fifty largest cities there are several
hundred thousand fewer males than ie-
males. In New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, New Or,
Ieans-in short, in three out of four of
the large ciIics-frmalcs are in the ma
Iority. Notable exceptions ara ST. Louis,
Chicago. Cleveland and San Francisco
the last being aided In this respect by
the large preIpnderance or- males in her
Chinese populaiiOn. Fittsburg also has
a majority of males. as would be sup
posed from the nature of her manuf'c-
turing interests.
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Fen Into a Wen.

MCPHERSON, August 17.-Yesterday
two year old child of D. L. Elliott, OF
King City township, fell into a bored
well SIXTY feet in depth. The family
heard the child's cries and found to their
horror that the little one was at the bot.
tom of the sixty foot hole, but about
eight inches in diameter. OF course
life was soon extinct. A messen ger
came TO town and had an iron hook
made with which to draw the little one
out. The hook was let down and
caught into the back of the head and
the child drawn partly out, and fell back
The hook was let down again and the
child drawn out, by taking part of the
curbing off, about IL O'Clock Wednes
day night. The head had been fear
fully lacerated with the hook.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

In 1862 Kansas had 1886 acres in
corn, and sent %, s92 bushels to market
In 1882 she has 522. 796 acres in ca'rn,
and will send 20. oil $40 bushels To mar
ket, accsIrding to the estimates Of the
best judges in the state. The increase
in acreage this year over last is nearly
200 600 acres. OF about "a per cent
while the increase in yield will be 100
per cent. Il is claimed to cost $500 an
acre to produce corn in Kansas, so that
the profit upon this years crop will
bring an enormous amount of wealth
into the state, and, together with the
magnificent yield of 100000 bushels
of wheat, this will be the most prosper
Gus season the state has ever known.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

Dayton Journal: English, the Demo-
cratic nominee for congress in the Indi-
Annapolis district, prOclaims that prohi-
biLiOn increases the amount of liquor
drank. He should carry the news to the
Ohio brewers. They would probably
contribute $4,000 Ia help the prohibit
tionisis. We infer from Mr.. English
that the Democracy fight temperance for
diversions. Some people have very queer
notions of fun Meantime in Kansas
the prohibitory law has driven the liq-
nor traiiic out of sight, and made it so
dangerous that only reckless men will
engage In IL. 20
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
The Lawrence Regatta

The only place in Kansas where q
rowing regatta can be had is above the
dam ON the Kansas river at Lawrence.
such an exhibition has never been seen
west of ST. Louis The first regatta
ever given west of the Mississippi river
was at 81. Louis last June. Probably
everybody in Kansas has heard of re-
gat;a, but probably greater proportion
of the people never witnessed one. A
rowing regatta is trial of skill, muscle
and endurance between oarsmen. Diff
ferent classes of races are made,
such as single, double, pair,
four-o&red, gig and barge. A
single race is inside by shell boats
each rowed by one man with two oars.
4 double race is by boats each rOwed by
two men and each with two oars. A
pair race Is by boats each rowed by two
men aud each with one Gar. A four
Dared she'll race is TOWed by four men
with one oar each a gig rare is by
four men with one oar each and a cox
swain. A barge race Is by boats with
six single oarsmen and c0xswain- The
crews entering regatta compete for
prizes in the shape Of gold medals and
badges. The boats are about thirty or
forty feel long and are very light, each
weighing only about seventy five
pounds
AT the regatta IN lawrence there will
h., siosyJ,. doFsbIA nair and fsDur-oare(i
shell racee. There win also be tub and
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

Smalley writes from London to the
New York Tribune: "The name Of the
troublesome Egyptian we are all talking
about is pronounced Arahbi-accent on
the second syllable-shOuld that interest
anybody. This you may take on the
authority, first, Of his friend, Sir William
Gregory, and secondly, of Mr.. COokson,
British consul at Alexandria. The true
photography IS uncertain. 1t might be
written Arab or Ourabi, or even Urabi.
The vowel is slurred in pronunciation
and has no value said an English resi-
] dent in EgYnt.n
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The American Woman Suffragists'
association will take advantage of the
critical moment when a woman suffrage
constitutional amendment is pending in
Nebraska by holding ills thirteenth an
nual meeting in Omaha ON September
IL. The object is TO arouse enthusiasm,
or ian equally desirable healthy oppo-
silion." with the hope of carrying the
amendment or making such advance for
the cause as will bring future success.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The sudden interest which has sprung
up among manyOI the editors in Kansas
regarding the culture al bruom-cnrn
would seem TO indicate that there is not
AS yet thorough unSnimiIy oil sentiment
on the part of the press regarding the
state ticket aud the platform adopted ut
the recent Republican Convention at To-
Deku
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The common school system Of the
country is in little favor NJ tue south,
and naturally the teachers who have
been employed there have not always
been of the best Anything that sdu-
cafes the teachers, therefore, must have
q beneficial effect on the schools. II is
encouraging TO learn that "summer in
stitutes, = go fcompon in the north, are
being held widely throughout the
southern states. Texas, with eighteen
gatherings of this kind, makes an excel
lent showing. There viii be hope even
for South Carolina If abe goes on in this
direction as slie has begun.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

II seems that no one is sufficiently de-
voted to the memory of Jesse James TO
see that his "grave is kept green" The
mound has not even been sodded over,
and nothing but an unsightly heap of
red clay marks the spot where the noted
outlaw lies. The prospect of the Re-
publicans carrying Missouri at the next
general election seem TO be multiplying
with encouraging rapidly.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The indianapolis Times has this
rather disrespectful description of
Brother Barnss, the Mountain EVangel
lat, who has opened up a season In that
city: ale is an average man N size,
with bushy. black hair, n rather heavy,
Iight.colored mustsche. light brown
eyes, and wears black dress suit.
Nothing hut iise lalier would designate
him Ia bs preacher. as his appearance
otherwise Il anything but ministerial,
Outside of the pulpit his appearance.
coupled with his free use at slang.
which seems Ia be always al hia tongues
end, w"uid more readily distinguish
him rs clever gambler than as min
fstar
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An Iowa man tied one end OF . flOng
cord to an aching toolh and the -0Iler TO
heavy weight, which he droDped from
q fourth story window. Two men were
taken to the the hospital ia an ambu
lance-One with broken jaw and one
with broken skull.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

Judge VIM. +. Camp5tll. OF Wichita,
publishes card announcing his with
drawal Ernm the race for the Republican
nomination AS county attorney. because
he proposes 10 vote against The Repub-
lican nominee for governor. and repudi
ates the pl.tlorm adopted AT Topeka.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

The London Times declares that
Egypt shall not be left TO drift as it may
after Arabs army is dispersed. That
is just where serious trouble is likely to
begin. The other European powers
may desire to say great deal about the
drifting Drocess
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24

Every literary Englishman is now
supposed Ia be ambitious To make a
grand leciuring tour in America. Pos
sibly they have discovered at last that it
frequently pays. and that there are peo-
pie here who are capable of grasping
the best thought Of modern civilization.
Freeman, the historian, since his recent
Visit here. pTonounces the United States
- land of general readers, and venture 5
the opinion that there are more people
Ia this country who read inlelligently.
though not profoundly, than IN Eng