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EDWARD b. BATES.

IA (I-ate of Baltimore Barr
ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL0R-AT-LA
Snow Hill. Nd.
Office opposite Court House, adjoining the
Post Office.
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CLAYTON ]. PURNELL.

Office opposite Court House, Snow HILL, Nd.
Strict attention given TO the collection Of
claims viii visit Berlin on the second Satur-
day of every month.
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A LANpLADY advertlses that she has
ga fine, airy, well-furnished bedroom,
for q gentleman twelve foot square )"
another has "a cheap and desirable
suite If rooms Cor a raspactable family
Their has ga
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EDWARD d. MARTIN

AZ . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office opposite Town Hall, Berlin Nd.
Special attention given 10 the collection OF
claims.
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Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
Correspondence solicited from all parts OF
the county,
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SIDNEY WILSON.

AFIUKNE1 A T-LAW.
Office on Washington Street three doors
above Post Office Snow Hin. Md.
Immediate attention given to the collection
Of claims
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CAMUEL II. TOWNSEND.

Office, opposite Court House. Snow Hill, Nd.
Prompt attention given 10 the collection of
claims.
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~ ATTORNEY AT-LAW.
Office, Court House Square. Snow Hill. Nd
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claims.
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nR. f. i. DASHIELL.

- DEN Isl.
Office. opposite Franklin House, Snow Fill.
Will visit Berlin on Thursday Friday and
Saturday of each week. Al operations or
the teeth performed in the most ssillful man
Fer,
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The Democratic Messenger,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ny
LITTLETOE DENNIS, Proprietor
At SHOW HILL, WORCESTER CO., MO.

Subscription, 81 Year in Advance.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
OVER THE STATE.

The Wichita Times says that liquor
Eay be purchased in that city at more
places than ever before il its history.
Topeka is torn up over contest in re-
lation to the Office of sheriff OF Shawnee
county.
East Atchison has the smallpox, and
policemen guard the bridge that leads
TO Aichison 10 prevent its transfer to
Kansas soil.
The question of the relocation of the
county seat of Dickinson county is being
agitaied, meeting Of the citizens of Alb
ilene having been held a few nights ago
to consider the matter and present argu-
ments in favor of the retention of Abb
lene as the county capital.
The contract for the excavation and
masonary of the foundation of the CEN
trail building of the capital at Topeka
has been awarded to VIM. Tweeddale, of
Topeka, for the sum of $193,S64. The
bid for the rotunda and connecting
walls was $4,000. We are glad to
know that our state capitol is to be
pushed forward TO completion.
Leavenworth has 4 new "bOom." 1t
is nothing less than an effort to secure
the national capitol on the Fort Leaven.
worth reservation. A citizen OF that
town appeals strongly through the col
umns oEIhe Leayenworth Times, to ouI
congressional delegation not to sell a
portion of the reservation, as is proposed
by bill before congress, but to reserve
that beautiful and valuable property as
a site for the national capitol, which he
AYERS must some day be moved TO the
west. THE NEWS can be set down a
with the Leavenworth man IN this mat
ter.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
LATEST sESsATIONi

The Washington newspaper cores
pondents are nothing if not sensational.
This extraordinary statement is publish.
ed by the correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial: "a prominent public
man said TO your correspondent tonight;
'''The president" said Stalwart Re
publican congressman to me tonight
will pardon the assassin Guiteau, on tho
ground that he Is insane" do not be
Iieve ihat.he will, and said so, whereup
on my friend replied: ~ know that il
seems a strange thing to say, but it i:
true nevertheless. l know what I'm
talking about, and you'll acknowledge
that ! am right before the Fourth o
July."' This may be regarded rs the
latest sensation, and will probably b'
denied in our next dispatches.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
The Mining Prospects.
TNesa6a NIon,hIvl
Behold the prOspector who VANDERBILT

Behold the prospector who VANDERBILT
over the face of the earth.
He traverseth the hills and pickett
the barren mountains with his pick.
The pangs of hunger grip his bowels in
the morning, and at night he lieth down
| with only blanket to cover him.
And the graybacks come forth and
rend him.
And he lifteth up the voice of lamen-
tation in the wilderness and cricth aloud
to heaven:
"Why hath this af1liction come upon
me, and why do the terrors of he'll COM
pass me round about?"
And while he sleeps the welves devour
his substance.
And when he findeth the groupings he
diggeth in the ground and taketh up
the location notice on the board.
Then he hieth to the valleys and
sayeth to the capitalist:
"Hearken unto me, for have struck it
big. Here are the samples from the
ground, and behold the gold maketh
lousy the rock with richness
And the twain return to find others
toiling upon the claim.
And the prospector graspeth his gun,
saying:
Get ye gone from here, for this is
holy ground"
And fire coming out of the bush
smites him on the hip, and he calleth
with loud voice:
Il am done for; take off my boots"
And they hasten to take off his boots,
and the fragrance of his socks reacheth
unto heaven.
And he giveth UP his ghost and is
gathered to his fathers.
And behold, others work the mine.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
DISEASES OF CATTLE.

We are glad To hear that valuable
report is seon To be issued, which will
have 40 important hearing on the cattle
interest in this country, and which will
settle some points which have heretofore
been in doubt. 1t is announced that
this document is nov in the hands Of
the government printer at Washington.
II is the report Of the United States Cat
tie Commission on the contagious dis
eases of domestic animals 1t has been
chiefly prepared by Prof. Law. who has
exhibited unparalleled industry in re-
search and in the compilation of the re-
suits thereof. The report will exactly
define the localities in which pleuro-
pneumonia exists, IN this country. and
will trace the origin and progress of The
dread disease in all counties where it
has prcvailed-a thing never before at
tempted by any individual, or govern
ment commission. The volume will
contain some l 800 pages, anu but lin
tied number of copies will nov I've is
sued, apd these for the use of congress
mfn anil government officials. As il is
intended Ia bring the matter of contag-
ihus animal diseases before congress for
the purpose OF carly legislation the book
will have great interest and value to
those FOR whom il is intended We may
remark, for the satisfaction of western
stock breeders, shippers and dealers,
that the report will show that pleuro-
pneumonia does not, and never has, eX-
listed in single known case, west of the
Allegheny mountains. Doctors Pararen
and Fairchild, in the interests of the
commission, having visited all the stock
yards whore large numbers of cattle are
handled, and all localities where dis
eases prevailed that were supposed or
feared by local men To be contagious
pleuro-pncumonia, they are emphatic in
their opinion as t. its non-cxistence
even in the most isolated case. This re-
port will have an important bearing on
the shipping interest TO foreign countries
and to Canada from the western states
1t will also show the necessity for legs
latiOn, by western states, prohibiting the
importation of cattle from any state east
of the AlleghenIes instead of as, in Ill
inoIs at present, from certain counties in
certain states where the disease exists
laws which haye proven SO defective rs
to be entirely useless.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
church Prlde and suahess.

A writer, whose name we do not now
recall, has the following very truthful
remarks bearing upon a matter which is
attracting no little attention among
Christian people:
In every church there are certain men
who, by their long residence, efficiency,
wealth, learning, or social position, have
come to be recognized as leaders. They
nil the important offices, or are as in
fiuential as though they did.
Such men can add very much to their
power for good by courtesy to those less
honored-tO the obscure members of the
church, especially to the young and to
those who were once in better circum-
stances than ut present. A courteous nod,
a warm shake of the hand at the church
door, in the street, or at any casual
| meeting, from such men, will build up q
church in Christian unity and attract
the people to it more than eloquent
preaching where the leading spirits form
little aristocratic coterie.
The real cause of the decline of some
important churches is that the official
members are without genuine sympathy
with the majority of the congregation.
People begin to feel that they are
ignored; then that they are not desired
then they go elsewhere or remain al
home.
A little thoughtfulness and brotherly
kindness on the part of the men and
women of position and leadership would
prevent this. Think of it, ye who wish
the church to prosper; and let all prac-
| tice it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
Amer the Polygamistn,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-In relation to
the Mormon question which has of late
agitated the citizens of st. Louis, Con-
gresham Van Horn said tonight: 81
can't see any sense in voting to seat a
man who, if he lived in my state, would
be put in the penitentiary."
Several members of the Missouri del
egation expressed themselves in s SINH
lar way, and Congressman Valentine, of
Nebraska, and Townsend, of Illinois,
were strong in their denuncia:ions of
poly gamy, SO that the disposition of the
western members may be plainly under
stood upon the subject.
The Shellenberger bill will be report
ed upon, probably, by the house com
mittee, which provides that polygamists
be disqualified from holding federal of.
fees in Utah, and next week, it IS said
the committee on judiciary will favora
bly, report a bill whereby the legisla.
ture of Utah will be entirely wiped out
to give way to Il council to be appointed
by the President and confirmed by the
senate. This last move is supposed TO be
the result of Governor Aurray's work
in relation TO the government on the
Utah question. and will react as q card
toward his retention in Office.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
ShreWdnesss

Mr.. Archibald Forbes tells an anus
ing story, rather at his own expense, of
his qualification at the apparent desire
of the "man and brother" for higher in
tellectual culture On arriving at the
station at West Chester, Pennsylvania,
where he was to lecture, a darkey hack
man offered his services as conveyancer
to convey him to the hotel. On arrival
Mr.. Forbes asked the extent of pecuni-
airy remuneration expected for the
maneuyre. The darkeY replied, "Well,
sab, If you'd jes glib me q ticket to de
lectur', sab, should be right glad"
This unusual request from a member
of that profession struck him not only as
singular and laudable, but as quite com.
plimentary to himself so he said: "Cer-
tainly; and haven't you got a missis?'
"Oh, yes, sab, rs got missis."
"Well, you shall have one for her.
and requested his agent to hand to the
knowledge-seeker the requisite cards
On reaching the lecture-room he cast q
glance over the audience to see his
colored friend, but he had not arrived,
nor did he put in an appearance.
Next morning, on getting into the
same gentleman's palanquin to go to the
SIatlOn, BIT. fOEDeS Sdius ulun see
you at the lecture last night"
mo, sab, wer not dar."
"But gave you tickets for yourself
and wife?'
eyes, sab, know dat, sah; but you
see, sab, jes sold dem tickets for dol
lar, sab, cause don't know much bout
lectur's and thought I'd rather hab de
cash, sah."
This was a new and cute way of realiz
| ing more than the usual fare, and Mr.
Forbes thought it Interesting"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
GLOOMY TIMES IN ILLINOIS.


The Chicago Times says that though
little has been said, about the serious
distress among the small farmers IN
southern Illinois from crop failures
there IS actual suffering. That it has
been known in a general way that last
seasons crops were not good, but there
had been no specific information sue h
as is now being presented TO the COVER
nor of actual and widespread distress
because of the crop failures The fail
ure was due TO drought and the chinch
bug, and the representation from per-
fectly reliable people is that the masses
of the farming community are suffering
for want of proper food for families and
feed for stock. The beasts are dying IN
considerable number for want of this
food. There is corn in Egypt, but there
is not the wherewith TO purchase it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09

In conversation with reporter ex
Secretary Blaine has replied TO recent
criticisms upon his management of
American relations with Chilli and
Peru. Mr.. Blaine says there is no
foundation IN truth for the statement
that the instructions to Mr.. Trescott,
signed by him, were drafted and com
mitted to Mr.. Treseolt without the
knowledge of President Arthur. The
instructions were twice read To the
President for criticism and change.
The change of policy recently made, Mr.
Blaine accounts as none of his business,
and makes no attempt to explain it.
Mr.. Blaine also says that he instructed
Mr.. Hurlburt not to use the influence oil
his position in aid OF the Credit Iudus
triel or the Cochet claim, but to ask tol
the Landreau claim n hearing before tht
proper tribunal. Mr.. Blaine freely cx
presses his views of the Gillian con
quest of Peru, and its effects upor
| American influence and American com
mercial interests ON the South Pacific
coast.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
The ProdIgal Sons Sister.


We read about the Prodigal Son and
the Prodigal Sons brother and father,
but we don't find anything concerning
the Prodigal Sons sister.
OF course he had sister; most prod
igai sons have; and sometimes they en-
terrain great affection for the wild, way
ward boy, which no amount Of reckless
conduct can wholly estrange. And the
respect the prodigal shows to that sister,
and the high chivalric manner in which
he holds and shields her name, is fire.
quently the one redeeming trait in his
character.
He angrily resents the mention of her
name among ribald and prohigate COM
panions, should such thing occur, and
would as soon think of presenting the
Evil One himself to her as one of them.
Instead of angrily upbraiding him for
his irregularities, as his father perhaps
does, or scornfully alluding TO them in
the manner peculiar to moral and high
| ly respectable brother, she gently remon-
strates with him and endeavors to win
him back to virtues ways through the
gentle influence of sisters love.
| He may not seem to heed her at the
time, but perhaps good seed is sOwn that
may sprout beneficially in after years.
| Who knows how much his recollections
of sister at home, good and pure, may
have aided in bringing the prodigal back
to his fathers house, meek and repent
| ant.
The reason she did not rush out and
embrace him, as her father did, was prob
ably because she was married and living
in remote part of the state. Had she
been at home her sisterly instinct would
have been the first to recognize him in
his tramp's disguise, and she would have
outdone her fathers greeting.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
Business FAILURE. for the Week

NEW YORK, Feb. Ar. G. Dun & Co
of the mercantile agency, reported the
failures throughout the country for sew
Tn days at 14G, of which tie eastern
states furnished IA; western, 81; sauth.
eru, 40; middle, 80; Pacific coast and
Territories, IL, and New York CITY z
While the failures are diminished in
number as compared with previous
weeks there are several for very large
amounts in various parts of the country
A number of them are deliberate attempts
at fraud upon creditors indicated By
preferences gwen TO friends The ne
| cessIiy for national bankrupt law wa!
| never better shown Than in several caseI
that have occurred this week. Ons
trader, Cooly, prefers his sister-in-IaN
for q 200 70 satisfy his conscience, leav
| ing nothing whatever for his other cred
itors 10 whom he owes some $4,000 o.
] go, 600
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
THE MORMON QUESTION
What is Claimed for the ssIeeOrganizesI
Church of Christ OF Latter
Day Saints

| WASHINGTON, ID. G, Feb. a-The
consideration Of the Mormon question
] by Congress is about To- receive u fresh
| impetus through the presence in the
city OF the committee appointed by The
general conference eli The "Rcorganized
Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, -
to wait upon the president and congress
and present their version of the Utah
problem and thei= proposed solution
4. Z. Gurley and Z. L. Kelley constitute
the committee and were presented by M
Kasson to President Arthur. and had y
long interviews with him Their me
MORALS set forth that the Mormon church
although clasSed and known generally
as Mormon" is and ever has been OPP
posed 10 any compromising with that
polYgamic body in Utah al 81 called
MOrmons The organized Mormon
church. under the leadership of Joseph
Smith, son ofthe original Mormon head,
and duly organized and incorporai ell
under the laws of Illinois, has for the
past thirty years opposed and dcnouuc-
ed the doctrines and practices % poly
gamy, and has all this time kept mis-
sionaTles in Utah 10 preach against il.
The result is that at least 10000 persons
in that territory have thus been extract
| ca from the corruption Of polygamy and
ITS concnmitant vices. It asks that Of
tective measures be enacted and carried
| into effect by the government for the
suppression of pOlygamy in the terri.
torres The Mormon Church saws il
mas 500 organized churches, $50 of
which are in the United States, with a
ministry of 800, 10000 commandments
and 1900 others who snstain the church
in its work. Nineteenth of these are
| citizens OF the United States, ami are II lie
| tn The OnPaFnTnEnf Tho Il
cusses at some length the legal qurs-
lions involved, and quotes from The
Book of Mormon to show that polygamy
is not part of MormOnisnn, but on the
contrary IL is expressly prohibited
by The churches. The true stand
point from which to deal with polls gamy
is, that it is no part of the Mormon faith
proper, but Is lOaIhSomc incumber-
ance- This, they say, will prevent those
who practice polygamy from raising the
cry OF persecution, and thereby holding
/ with them thousands of honest and ig-
norant souls of their number in Utah,
who are not actually engaged in practic-
ing this crime, and who otherwise repu-
dlate 1t and become good citizens The
memorial suggests additional legislation
by Congress 50 that avowed bigamisis
may not be allowed to sit as jurors when
one OF their number is being tried for
bigamy; that the statute of limitation
be amended so that all persons, male or
female, may he punished for the crime
of pOlygamY; that the humes!t AL law be
SO amended that polygamous wives
shall not be recognized under the title
OF heads of families; that the rcpufa' ion
of living together and cUhahitaiiOn be
received in the courts as evidence 10
prove the marriage relation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
AN EXTRA SESSION.

The editor of the Letvenworth Times
has been to Topeka and after interviewing
state officials aud prominent citizens
concludes the governor will call an eX.
ira session of the legislature within the
next sixty days; that the session will be
called to make more stringent the pro,
hibition law; and that the passage of the
apportionmcnt law or the failure 10
pass it will not figure in determining
thequcstiOn of calling the extra session.
The position of The News is well
known on this matter We believe il
unpolitic to make the prohibition law
more stringent until the people have had
a chance to express themselves in the
election of new legislature, and that
an extra session would be IL useless cX-
pendIture of at least $4,000 of the peO-
pies money
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
A Point for RanEnrd

WICHITA, Kas Feb. 3.-Danfprd, the
Kansas banker, who was SO long cor
rallied at Caldwell by his enrs ged cred
itors and threatened with hanging, has
Just scored quite an important point in
the courts. Yesterday in the C.,wlcy
county district court, before Judge Tor
renee, his counsel moved to discharge
certain attachments laid 10y his Kansas
City creditors. The court granted the
motion and the attachments were dis.
charged. DanfOTd's counsel now say
that he will bring suits upon the attach
ment bonds for damages against the
Kansas City creditors DanfDrd claims
that it was their attachment that caused
the run upon his Usage City bank, and
also upon his HunneweIl bank, and that
these creditors tied up something like
$4,000 to secure claim of IS 600, and
that they persistenily stood in the way
of all settlement, although some S2O,00O
worth of securities were placed in thcii
hands. Mr.. Danford, ia Kansas courts
bids fair to rival Mrs. Gaines. He has
already brought suits for damages
against the chief men of the Caldwell
mob, claiming $780, 600 He will now
tiiakeSiit iireiy for the. Kansas City boys
he lis out of business. and hav.
ing exhausted his resources in Krnsas
he will now give Missouri whirl.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
Ea.alIand Slide

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. Twenty men
were at work this afternoon digging
away an embankment which was per
haps fifty feet high, near Broadway, in
this city, for the roadway of the New
York, Chicago and st. Louis railroad.
Two of the men were on top shOveling
while the others were at the foot re-
moving the earth thrown down. The
men on top noticed crack suddenly
appear in the bank and shouted an
alarm TO those below. The men all ran
but the bank quickly caved and caught
Joe Zoesky and Henry Hart, partly
buTying them. Both of Zoesky's legs
were broken, and Harris right leg was
caught between the timber braces and
pinched completely of below the knee,
The men were conveyed to the Charity
hospital, where Harris mAngled lImh
was ampusated 3 little below the knee,
Just above the wound. ZOesky's LEFT lee
will be ampatated tomorrow Il was a
first thought both were fatally injured
but it is now believed that both will
live. They are young unmarried mel
and foreigners, who have been here bal
/ q short time. About twenty five tons d
earth cayed in.