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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
OVER THE STATE

They call it Jumbo" at Leavenworth.
The thirteenth annual commencement
of the State Agricultural college at Man
haitian, will be held June 9th to 7th.
The annual address will be delivered on
the evening of the 9th, by Chancellor z.
B. Fairchild, of the Nebraska State Uni
versity.
Leavenworth entertained the Knights
of Pythias in royal style, at the meet
ing of the grand lodge Of the order in
that city. The old town put on her
gala robes and nothing was left undone
which could contribute to the comfort
and pleasure of her guests.
The Arkansas City Traveller publishes
the following sensational item: "a man
who resides in this city was blowing the
other day with team of mules, one Of
which became restless, and to quiet hin
the driver threw an iron wrench at 1T.
head. 1t had the desired effect, knock
ing the mule too dead to skin" Thil
statement should at least be accom-
panied by the wrench as a guarantee o
good faith.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

Concerning the reported desire of the
Maine Republicans TO nominate Mr..
Blaine for congress the Augusta Journ-
al has this to say I'm accordance with
an overwhelming sentiment in the state
in favor of having Mr.. Blaine's name
upon the ticket and returning him to
congress, petitions are circulating about
the state asking him to accept the NOM
ination for congress. 1t was not his in
tention OF wish to be candidate for any
position upon our state ticket, but it is
strongly hoped that he may change his
purpose and consent 10 serve upon the
ticket. II would be worth a great many
votes to the Republican party to have
his name upon the ticket, and the coun-
try would rejoice at his return to seat
in congress. What his reply will be is
all conjecture"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25


There is some opposition in Iowa to
the proposition of Governor KirkwOOd's
friends to send him TO congress. 1t is
not based upon any unwillingness to
grant HIN the honor, but it is thought
that it is asking too great sacrifice of
him, as the place can add nothing to his
already well-acquired fame. The Gate
City, of Keokuk, thinks that the Repub-
licans will be looking about in 1884 for
a popular man to nominate for the pres
idency, and that Samuel ]. Kirkwood
will be just the man they will stand in
need of. 1t says that ''if he is alive and
we'll two years from now he can repeat
the victories of Lincoln and Garfield.
He rulfills every requirement of such a
candidate for president, as the people of
the United States never have failed to
elect when such man was candidate.
He meets the conditions which give the
Republican party reasonable promise
and confidence of success"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
VOL. 25---NO. 21.
PROFESSIONAL.
Attorneys at Law.
W. NJ. DUFF,
CT. RACHELLER.

a TTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
IN PUBLIC. Office with c. B. Bachelor,
Justiee OF the Peace. Emporia. Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

One of the most remarkable instances
of dishonest freight discrimination is
afforded by the Pacific railroads rates
for the transportation of wool. The
lowest rate for bringing California wool
from San Francisco to Boston is two
and three-quarters cents per pound, and
yet the same railroads contract to bring
woods from Australia to Boston via San
Francisco for two cents pound. That
Is to say, their rate for transporting do
nestle wool over the 5000 piles of road
from San Francisco to Boston is two and
three-quarter cents; but they will bring
foreign wool Z ESQ miles by sea, and then
carry II over the same 5000 miles of rail
road, all for Two cents.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

How Gilbert and Sullivan write their
comic operas together is described by
Mr.. Collier. They sit down and talk
and smoke innumerable cigarettes to-
gether," he says, "while they are getting
their ideas together, Gilbert says to
Sullivan: I've got an idea Sullivan
screws his glass INTO his eye, looks AT
Gilbert critically for moment, and says {:
Have yous really shouldn't have
thought it of you L want the girl to
sing something like THIS, continues Gil
bert. Make it the man, put in Sullivan
and by the way, want you to write
something for that chorus-something
that can sing la-te-ta and so On;' and so
they talk and joke and smoke cigarettes
till the opera is evolved"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
Dead Lock in the House.
HOTTSE

WASHINGTON, May 20.-The senate
amendment to the house bill was agreed
! to authorizing the receipt of United
States gold coin in exchange for gold
bars.
Calkins then called up the contested
election case of Mickey VS.. O'Connor in
the Second district of South Carolina.
Randall stated there were reasons why
his side did not desire to consider that
case to-day, and raised the question of
consideration, and upon a division the
Democrats refrained from voting leav-
ing the house without a quorum. The
yeas and nays being ordered the result
way: Yeas, 11S; nays, 127, less than a
quorum.
A call of the house was ordered aud
disclosed the presence of PA members
passed directing the sergeant-at-a arms to
take into custody the absent members
and bring them into the house.
Members were brought to the bar and
presented excuses and were discharged.
AT $50 O'Clock business in the house
was still at e stand stiIl. The Democrats
are firm in their determination 90 oppose
the consideration of the Mickey and
O'Conner case and the Republicans as
seIt that the issue having been made
they will not yield until a quorum for
business has been secured. The absen-
tees on the Republican side have been
notified to return at once to the city.
The Republicans say by Monday they
will have in attendance quorum of
their own party and the Greenbackers
who will vote with them and this
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
a CHASTITY DISCOVERY.
Remains of an Atchison Lawyer Found
in q Thieket.

ATCHIsoS, kas, May 17--On the
sixth day oi February last O. w. Ocker
d young lawyer OF this city, mysterious
ly disappeared, and until Tuesday last
nothing was ever heard of him. On the
morning of that day "a farmer living
about nine miles west of the city discov-
cred some of the bones and clothing of
II man N a ihickct near the Central
Branch railroad track. The coroner
went out last evening, and al investiga-
ton revealed the fact that The remains
were those of Mr.. Ocker. In 1t packet
of his clothing were found his bank
book and several letters and papers be-
longing tn him Attached 10 his vest
was watch chain identified as MS, and
in the pockets OF his pants WAS pocket
book which was recognized as that of
the fortunate man
He left this city on the night Of FebTu-
AIRY 9th, SAY ing tiiat he was going To ms
home n ar Morrow ia TINS county. He
was at that time suffering from nervous
Ornstration and was in the last stages of
consumption. His friends supposed he
went 10 the depot To take the midnight
train, but he did not get on the cars, AMI
the belief now is that he attempted to
walk home, and reaching the point
where his remains were found, fell eS-
hausted- and helpless and died. Dogs
and hogs had torn his toiy to pieces
and scattered the bones through the
brush. A human skull was und early
in April last near the place. but not un~
til last night were the discoveri 9 made
which resulted in clearing up the mys-
terry attending the disappearance Of
Ocker
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

The Memphis Avalance says that
Judge Lynch's heavy docket is now
north of Mason and Dixon's line. Since
January last he has executed sixteen al
lodged criminals in the southern states,
nineteen in the northern states and six
in the frontier states. In Kansas, Ohio,
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, states where the ordinary
courts are supposed To mete out justice,
Judge Lynch has condemned eight per-
sons during the period mentiOned."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

Chicago Inter Ocean: If Mr.. Blaine
will consent to be a candidate for con-
gress he will be elected, and everybody
will be glad. A Blaine or two is badly
needed in the house of representatives
but it will require a great deal of urg,
ing to persuade him TO sacrifice his we'll
earned leisure and return to public life,
For himself he says: "If had ever
thought of doing half have been cred
tied with contemplating, might be ex
pec,ed to hope to live a thousand years.
You may say for me that l consider my
self in private life; that l hope to re
main so, and that If am candidate
for congress, or any other office, have
not vet found IL out"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Fratricide in the Nation.

ST. LOUIS, May ia Little Rock,
Arkansas, special says: A terrible trag-
edy occurred in the Choctaw Nation
Monday last, about eighty-four miles
northwest of here. Two brothers whose
names are Jefferson and George Finley,
working in a field fell into a dispute,
when George drew a revolver and shot
his brother Jefferson, then secured a
horse and fled toward Texas. Jefferson
died within twentyfo four hours. HeIbeg-
ged PItiously that his brother should be
spared. Don't let them hang George
if die" he said to his attendants. The
FinleYs are respectable white people.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Gr.ra Rohberr At Calduen.

WELLINGTON, Kan, May 17.-At Cald-
we'll, this county, Dave Sharp has just
been arrested on the charge of robbing
the grave of the late George Woods, a
dance house proprietor, of $3.50 dia-
mond pin, which had been buried with
George by his wife. 1t seems that Da-
sid Sharp and George Spier committed
the robbery, and being caught by Spier's
girl, the pin was left in her keeping TO
hush her up. Spier was afterwards
killed in the cowboy riot at that place,
and the girl then gave it to another gam
bier. Getting mad at this fellow for
sloping with the pin, she blowed the
whole transanction, and Woods wife
filed a complaint and caused the arrest
of Sharp. Officers have gone TO Kansas
City, where the gambler is supposed 70
be, to secure the diamond If possible
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
PRESBYTERIAN Assembliss

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. May ia large
number of delegates to the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church
which meets here tomorrow, have al
ready arrived. Among the distinguish.
ed men now here are DIR. Irenius,
Prime, of New York and Rev. J. L.
Nevins, of Chefoo, China.
ATLANTA, Ga, May 1.-THE general
assembly of the southern Presbyterian
church meets here tomorrow and will
continue In session about ten days
One hundred and sixty delegates will
be in attendance, many of whom have
arrival
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
The national convention of hr.

The national convention of brewers at
Washington adopted formal pledge to
"act together in defeating the candidates
of any party that panders to fanaticism
by supporting prohibitory laws" Ap-
preparations of large sums of money
were made to defeat temperance legIsla-
ton pending in the legislature of Mich
igan; against Oppressive legislation"
in Indiana; against "hcstile Legislative
enactments" in Iowa; and the (politicaD
"interests of the trade" in Kansas. In
other words, they propose Ia defeat tenn
perance legislation by bribery and cor.
ruption if they can, for of what use is
the money otherwise? The brewers
have queer notions of morality.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
There is business for Mr.. Bergh.

There is business for Mr.. Bergh. A
New York museum proprietor has inn
ported an enormous boa constructor, with
a body twenty five feet long and one foot
thick-the longest serpent that was
ever exhibited in this country-and pro-
poses TO give him a live calf for break
fast one of these fine mornings, in order
that scientific gentlemen, who care 10
witness the spectacle, may see how easily
a serpent can get away with a calf. The
owner of the varmint says the snake
will swallow the calf alive and whole,
and, if 30, it will be interesting to every
one but the calf
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
CoNsUMrT1ox CURED.-An old physi

CONSUMPTION CURED.-An old physi
clan, retired from active practice, hav-
ing had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of q SIM
pie vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of consumption,
bronchitis, catarrh, ssthma and all throat
and lung affections, also positive and
radical cure for genera debility and all
nervous complaints, after having thor
oughly tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, feels II his
duty to make it known TO his suffering
fellows. The recipe, with full particu.
lars, directions for preparation and use
aad all necessary advice and instructions
for successful treatment at your OWE
home will be received by you by return
mail, free of charge. by addressing with
stamp or stamped self addressed en-
yelope to DIR M. e. BELL,
i61 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, Rid.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

Last year the wheat acreage in Kansas
was 1,709,744 acres, and the yield 49,
lG4, 800 bushels. This year the acreage
is estimated at 1871 900 acres, and if it
averages twenty bushels per acre, which
would be magnificent average, the crop
would amount to 39,49OOO0, or 1920
900 bushels more than the famous yield
of 1878, when Kansas headed the list OF
wheat producing states. Last year the
corn acreage was All ,554 acres, yield
ing SO,7G0,514 bushels. This year the
estimated acreage is 100000, which, al
thirty bushels per acre, a moderate
average for Kansas, would be 10000,
900 bushels, or 100, OO0, 900 bushels more
than last Wear
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
CHICAGO CURRENTS.
The Shooting by Ledwith Justified
MaIker,s XYhe=t SpecuIattons


CHICAGO, May 19.-The coroner's jury
decided that the shooting of the tramp
by the freight train brakeman on the
Chicago & Ahon railroad, Jas. Ledwitb,
Was jIstifable. The dead man was
identified as Charles Granish, of SYRIA
cuse, New York, aged twenty three, a
tramp by profession. Tie verdict is
likely to have u healthy effect on ride
stealing and abusive tramps.
The testimony before the arbitration
committee which is fixing the price of
lii corneTed April wheat developed the
fact that G.. c. Walker was the chief
holder of that wheat, having about
100000 bushels bought. Mr.. Walker
held that the operation was in every
sense a corner and only became such
after the bears had largely oveTsold the
market in hopes of breaking it. His
story was so straight forward that one
of the chief .deiaulters has already set
tied, and it is likely the committee will
fix the selling price at $1.40.
s Mount Vernon, Illinois, special
states that City Marshal r. n Smith
shot and killed Chas Cost last night,
and then escaped on horseback. They
quarreled over personal matter, when
Smith drew a revolver unexpectedly and
fired two shots.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

Scion Chase is fighting the so-called
Greenback party in Maine with as much
vigor as he ever showed against the ad-
vocates of hard money. In his paper,
Them Steers. he charges that the Green
back convention, which is called 10 meet
at Bangor June l, is only trap set TO
catch unwary Greenbackers; that it will
be in reality Democratic convention,
and will take no action which the Dem
ocracy cannot ratify at the convention in
Lewiston, Jnne 81.
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HERE AND THERE.

The butchers ali keep ar meat for
sale now.
Five hundred deaths have occurred in
Cincinnati from small pox since The 1si
of January.
One big difference between yelling
ton and Emporia is that the former is
soon to have telephone service.
EHt0moiogists will be interested in
knowing that exact cOunterparts of the
fine-tooth comb of to-day have been
found al PompeIi.
Threc-card-mOnte men are not So val
ueless, after all. One of them hammer
ed a Baptist minister of ST. Louis who
insulted lady on railroad train.
In The new arithmetic one reads In
one lot there are four calves and in
another two young men with their
hair banged. How many calves IN all !?
The Pueblo Chieftain is authority for
the statement that man WIS shot down
in Virginia the other day for refusing 10
take drink. The. ChiefIain is taking
high rank as a humorous publication.
The postmaster OF Philadelphia, in a
note to the Herald of that city, states
that his gas bill for March, 1881, was
$l,553.20. For March, 1882, using the
electric light. the cost was $149.S0; be-
ing saving OF $i,403.40
There have been eighty-one suicides
in st. Louis within the past year. II is
gratifying to note that while persons OF
taste and discrimination sometimes
make the mistake Of locating IN that
city, they always manifest willing
ness to rectify the blunder at any ex-
pcnse.
Leavenworth Times: If the office of
governor is to be bestowed upon man
who has been of some good TO the state,
who has been faithful to der interests,
and whose fortunes have been linked
with hers in her days of glory and Of
gloom, the Republican state conven-
tion should nominate by accIimation
John A Martin, of she Atchison Cham
pion.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
A LOUD CALL FOR REFORM.

A LOUD CALL FOR REFORM.
1t is encouraging to note that the pub
lie press is exposing and denouncing the
crueltIes practiced on cattle in transit
from western TO eastern points. That
the treatment of these poor dumb brutes
is often barbarOus in the extreme there
is little reason to doubt, and the neces-
sity of some measures looking to cor
rection of this great evil will be recog-
nized by all humane persons who have
any knowledge of the methods en-
ployed in the transportation of live
stock on the different carrying thor
oughfares OF the country. In relation
to this subject the editor of the Kansas
City Journal writes as follows:
The writer recently made trip from
Chicago 10 New York on u cattle train,
and Was an eye witness of most barbar-
GUS practices on the part of the person
in charge of the animals. Cars are
overloaded, the cattle jammed together
| so that they are either trampled to death
| or die OF exhaustion, and are tortured
with sharpened sticks and iron prods,
their eyes punched out, or they are
| burned with punches of lighted hay 10
make them stand. There was NO stop
| ping To feed OF water the stock between
| Chicago and Buffalo, and il WAS 80 hours
from the time the cattle were driven
| from the pens in Chicago, where they
could obtain either food or water, before
they received hay and water in Buffalo
| The twenty seven Car loads of this train
which reached New York one night,
were killed the next morning. When
the hides were stripped great clo;s OF
blood were found about the head, neck
and shoulders, and particularly ON the
rumps, where the animals had beer
prodded. horned and bruised by rub
bing against the cars. The loss in the
weight oil the tWenty-seven cars (403 cat
tle) between Chicago and New York
was q, 7S0 pounds, or about siXty-foul
pounds per head. The cattle in thii
shipment were all of superior quality
as they were bought for the foreign
market, and it was generally admitted
that they received better handling thar
the average steer in transit from tn,
west to the east.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Wonans Suffrage.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 19.-The mass
state convention of women interested in
the cause of female suffrage convened
in this city to-day. About $50 delegates
were present. Mrs. May Wright Sewall
was elected president. The welcome
address was delivered by Mrs. 2. G..
Wallace of this city. a number of dis
tinguished ladies were present from 9TH
er states, among whom was Miss Foster
of Philadelphia. A resolution of thanks
to the daily Sentinel for its advocacy
of women's rights was adopted. A tele-
gram to the United States senate COM
mittee, thanking it for its action on the
female suffrage question, was sent by
the convention on behalf of the women
of Indiana. a mass meeting will be
held tonight, at which Gov. Porter,
Rev. n Reed and many others will de
liver addresses.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Victim of Opium Habit,

PORTLAND, May 17.-Chas. A. Ball,
at one time prominent lawyer here.
but who acquired the opium habit sew
eral years since, was found at IL O'Clock
this forenoon reclining on bed in OPT
UNI joint in Chinese quarters dead.
There were three other beds IN the room
on one of which was an opium layout.
The surroundings were indescIibably
filthy and wretched. Ball went to the
joint at II O'Clock last night and was
left alone at 6 o'clock this morning and
when found at IL O'Clock he, had been
hold a inOunst
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

The following from the Chicago Inter
Ocean justlfies the inference that Eli
Perkins has secured a position on the
editorial corps of that paper: "a Ger
man farmer down at Mendoza by acct
dent buried pet hen in stack of hay
last summer, and only recently uncov-
cred her. She was alive and apparently
conscious, although merely bones and
feathers. The farmer nursed her care
fully for a few days, and she lie now as
we'll as ever, Notwithstanding her fast of
nearly nine months"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25

The U. s. marshal for the District of
Columbia explains that he has allowed
larger liberties TO the presidents
assassin than usual, To protect his health
that he may be in good condition for
hanging. In other words. he wants TO
faiten him to kill. Upon this ground
the outrageous, almost atrociOus liber-
ties allowed the execrable wretch may
h. excusable
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Murder in the First Degree.

KEoKUK, Ia, May ia Constitu-
ton, Fort Madison, special says the jury
returned vefdict of murder in the first
degree against Poke Wells and Cook
who murdered the Jail guard and a YER
dict of murder in the second degree
against Fitzgerald, who was their
accomplice. The trial has been the
shortest on record, lasting only two
days. Wells and Cook are to be i'm.
prisoned, and FItzgerald's sentence will
be determined by the judge.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
Heirs to an Immense Fortune.

DALLAS, Texas, May I'm. Brossin,
superintendent of the Dallas car factory
of this city, and Samuel B. Edmundston,
residing in Pennsylvania, have fallen
heirs to $50, 900, 900 held in trust for
them by the German government. Ed.
mundston is heir to the property on
which the navy yard in Washington
City is built. It was leased to the gov
eminent for ninety-nine years by his
grandfather, and the lease has just ex-
DiFed
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
The Brewers as Tax-Pavers,

CINCINNATI, May 1.-THE Gazette will
print in the morning long statement
taken from the county records showing
the amount of taxes paid on personal
property by the eighteen brewers and
two thousand saloon keepes IN this city.
1t makes out that the brewers pay taxes
on $31S, 900 worth of personal property,
and the saloon keepers on $3.50, 900 ;thess
amounts combined do not equal the
sum upon which one dry goods house
in the CITY paVs taxes