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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
THE TROUBLE IN FRANCE

The great prosperity of France, of
which her people have been wont to
boast for some years, seems TO have col
apsed suddenly. The failure of the
Union Generate, great banking insti-
tuition, with q nominal capital of q hun
dred millions offrancs, has carried dis
may into every capital Of Europe. The
stock Of this institution was at a very
high premium, and it had & large
amount of deposits. II made vast loans
to companies, and stimulated specula-
tive enterprises. The collapse in Paris
caused a great demand for gold, which
was drawn chiefly from London, The
Bank of England paid out nearly mill
lion sterling in one day. Both France
aad England have been drawing gold
from New York. There is, Of course.
no saving TO what extent this drain Of
gold may go. American securities are
very largely held in Europe, and If they
are sent back to be sold and remitted for
In gold, there may be hard enough times
here. or course, wheat IS as good as
gold to remit, and when the scarcity OF
money forces spectators to sell at ship
ping prices, IL will 60 forward fast and
afford substantial relief. England has
been suffering from financial depression
and crop failures. Russia has been and
is going through the hardest Of hard
times, and now it seems France is TO
suffer in the samedireclion. 1--we have
good crops next year tbs prosperity Z
our country ought not TO be checked.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
RuRN THE RUGS.

Kansas City journal: y Kansas far
mer thinks that by proper exertion the
chinch bug may be SO eifecLually de-
struyed that there will not be enough
of the tribe left to damage the crop next
season. tie claims that "lhe bugs found
in fields sccrcted ON corn stalks and 9th
or exposed places will upon examina-
ton be found 20 be dead, reducible TO
nowder and almost odorless. 1t Is only
the ones that take refuge about the roots
of the tall rank grass of the ravines in
the fields and around them, and in all
prairie grass wherever u thick coating
may be found, that live TO do harm the
next Sc Ison, and it is not only my opin-
ion, but that of others, based upon act
ual experience and close observation,
that all this old grass, rs soon and when
ever it can be done with safety, should
be burned, thus robbing them of theiI
shelter and exposing them to frequent
freezing and thawing and the drying
winds, for IL is This that destroys the m
and VIII enever 81 exposed they seem &c
die of evaporation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
BY BALLOON 10 THE NORTH
POLE

The failure of the Jeanette expedi-
ton throws new interest around the sub
ject of reaching the North Pole, and the
matter is not at all likely to be aban-
doned. Cheyne's suggestion to under
take the trip in balloons will undoubt-
edly be attempted. Capt. George E.
Tyson, an old Arctic navigator, Is Of the
opinion that il is utterly impossible for
any ship TO reach the North Pole and
return alive, and that sledge journeys
are impracticable. We have, with the
assistance of steam and other modern in
ventions and the increased knowledge
and skill of navigators, got but little
nearer that frozen region than did the
seamen of three hundred years ago.
The Arctic Ocean presents natural OBJ
stacles that cannot be surmounted by
any appliances now in use. As there is
no reason to look for success by the use
of ships, the Captain favors
the use of balloons-Com.
mander Cheyne's idea. He would
have four balloons started at the same
time. England should send one from
the northern end of Spitzbergen, Ger
many from Franz Joseph Land, Ameri
ca from Cape Union, which is in lati
tude % degrees, 90 minutes. and Russia
from the Siberian Isles. near where the
Jeanette was lost.
These balloons should start about
May /, as they would then have foul
months of continuous light and pleas
ant weather before them. A single
day, according to the captain
would bring the balloons neal
the pole if there were favorable
wind. as from Cape Union the distance
to the pole is only 4S0 miles, the othel
stations being but little farther away.
After the pole was reached the meI
would have the entire summer before
them in which to get back to their start
ing point. They would float down with
the Arctic current, which moves south.
ward, in skin boats, which would be a
part of the baggage of the balloons. AND
even If they should not get out of thu
Arctic basin, but be frozen up, they
could build snow huts and pass the lonG
Arctic night in safety. The next year
they would repeat their attempt at get
ting beyond the frozen barriers. Lieut.
Schwaika, another old Arctic explorer
also favOrs the plan.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
OVER THE STATE

Many interesting fossils arc being I'M
earthed at Wellington by Santa Fe
graders.
Within radius of forty miles about
Wichita are held upwards of 5000
head of sheep.
A Canadian Pacific engine recently
injured wolf SO that the engineer cap
tured him and started q menagerIe.
Prentis is of the opinion that the eli
mate of Kansas is not adapted TO asthet-
ic bieeches, and that in this region the
male leg is not an object of interest.
Eleven patents were issued by Auditor
Bonebrake during the past week, aggre-
gazing 1910 acres of land; 1880 acres Of
school land averaged $34T1k. and 100
acres agricultural college land So per
acre.
The Kansas wheat which carried of
the premium at the Atlanta exposition
was raised by j. II Fullinwider, of But
Ter county The average yield of the
crop was tweniy-seven bushels to the
acre.
A. p Riddle, of Girar,i. has commenc
ed the issue OF very neat little paper
called the Kansas Workman" devoted
to the interests Of the A. o, U. W. in
Kansas Il is furnished at % cents a
year.
There arc $40 newspapers and period
icals in Kansas; 80 daily, s16 weekly. !
semi-Weekly, 81 monthlies and 2 semi
monihlies Shawnee cOuniy leads the
list with Is, Leavenworth county follows
with 10, LabeIIe with Q, Aichison with
g.
Small -pox prevails Al Argentine, Rose
dale an Kansas City, Kansas. There
are TIRES or four cases at Rnsedale, four
or I'VE at Kansas City and len or twelve
Al Argentine At ali three places the
injected houses sIe guaranteed, and a.
those who have not had it have been vac
cinEted there is little If any dangerOf its
spreading.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
MORE REGGING

Can il be true that Governor St. John
has been begging money in the east TO
help enforce the temperance law? The
statement To that effect has several times
be, published, but We have not believed
it. We have heretofore credited it to
the opponents of prohibition and 10
those who might be possessed Of a de-
sire IT, make political capital against the
governor. The Boston Herald is re.
sponsible for the assertion that he il
asking in the east for fund Of 100000
10 enforce prohibition. If this is SO
Kansas is presented in the pitiabIe sptc
tscle of passing law and ask
ing the eastern people to contribute
funds. to enforce it; OF, II
other words, the people of Kansal
have not the virtue within themselves
and do not take interest enough in The
temperance reform TO enforce the law
The Herald says:
~Kansas has been said to bc Of New
England origin, but bellies It by her rcadines
to n K and receive aims on the slightest provo
c4LlOn. NO new EukiAuu sSbDc HOulu 90 ~
The self res peet Of Gov. st. John should hav,
forbidden him iron going to the east to bel
fjr a fund OF OOot0 to help enforce It, 9TH
prohibitOry law II the Kansans were Il
earnest about the law. they would raise tn
money among themselves, but their refusa
- put their hands Ia their pockets show
that they would prefer to see IL remain I'M
enforced"
There Is no doubt at ali Blu
that The temperance people o
this state would cheerfully con
tribute the necessary means t
enable the governor to do what woulC
be proper for him to do in the direction
Of enforcing The law. If they would no
do this then they are not the kind o
fricnts of the measure VIC take them q
be. IL will certainly weaken cur effor
to go outside of our state TO ask aid Il
support it, and we shall be extremel,
glad 10 know that such statement q
that made by the Herald, and by paper
in our own state 10 the same effect i
erroneous. Such acts would be at ono
an acknowledgment Of weakness
which the friends OF prohibition haG
better not make.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
AwoNpEnFt1L CROWN.
A Sufficient Number of Houses Erected
ia New York Last Year to Make a

GOod-Sized city.
New YoRK. Feb Z inspector Ester
brooks annual report was submitted to
the fire commissioners yesterday. Dur
ing 1881 plans for 2,6S3 buildings, to
cost $43 39I SEQ, were filed al The build
ing buIeau. In 1880 the number of new
buildings r,cted was 2,22I2, ut cost of
SEQ, lla,33j. There were more buildings
erected last ycar, and their estimated
cost WAS greater, ihsn in any previous
year
OF last years buildings. $40 were
dwellings, whose estimated cost was
| $12, 521 500; 1856 were flats, costing S.
| $50, 4S0; sos were tenements, costing
| IS, 2S4, 100; s were hotels, costing 1928,
| ECO; 123 were stores. costing $3,643. 500 /;
ZIG were factories, costing Sites, 935
ID were places of amusement, costing
| 81. 196, 800; 6 were churches, whose ag
| gregate cost WAS $4,000, and were
school houses that were Ia cost S217, 600.
| One thousand four hundred and ninety
seven plans for the alteration of existing
buildings, at d cost of "a. 142, 0T0, were
filed Two thousand two hundred and
twenty-five buildings were found to be
unsafe, 2. 229 were either pulled down
| for this cause or strengthened
| Mr.. EsterbTook, having refused an APP
| plIcation for the building of two addi-
tional stories upon the house at Fifth
avenue and Fifly-second street, formerly
belonging TO Madame Res,ell, a commits
sion was appointed who reported in ia
vor of granting the application. A
mandamus was thereupon granted by
the supreme court. directing Mr.. Ester
brook to give the required license The
| general term yesterday reversed the or
der, holding that permission in such
cases WAS within the discretion of the
inspector.
In view of the great and increasing
number of city structures over 100 feet
high, the fire commissioners yesterday
ordered the chief of the department &c
prepare report, suggesting improve
mcnts in the apparatus of the firemen
and also in the means of escape from
such buildings and their. better preserya
ton from fire, and in other respects de
vising ways and means of escape for the
better protection of life and property
| The chief was also directed to report al
points where the number of hydrantS
were not sufficient to supply the engines
in case of fire.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09

1t is now stated that if the A. T. s. s.
F. company build the Kansas City s.
EmpOria road they will not accept the
local bonds voted to the enterprise, as
the stock they would be required to is.
sue in lieu of bonds is more valuable
than the local securities They will,
therefore, build where they please, and
may start some towns of their own in
place of going to the points required in
the propositions submitted to the peo-
pie to vote bonds. We clip this from
the Ottawa Republican:
"If the Emporia and Ottawa railroad
company, in that trade, was to have the
local franchises, how will the directors
come out now that the X. G. s. s. Fe
company is running the machine, and
refusing to go 20 certain points, releas-
ing one township In Usage county to
the amount of $40 900, Pomona, 5000
and Ottawa $4,000, total of 1000.
This local company must lose, If this be
the result"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
a DIsGRACEFUL ELECrIoN

The contest now going ON at Topeka
between Mccall and Bush, over the
sheriff's Office. is attracting some atten-
ton, and exciting much disgust. The
election was holly contested. and the
means used to secure votes. as developed
in the testimony, were simply disgrace
ful. It is proven that Bush paid out
81, 700 10 secure the Office for two years,
and that good deal of it was given to
bummers, and paid directly tor votes.
Mr.. Bush was respectable farmer pre-
viOus to that sad experience as AN Office
hunter, and 1t is stated that he mortgag-
ed his property heavily for the money
for campaign expenses. The cormo-
rants having bled him of
all they could he is left with
the bag TO hold, and no assets but the
loss OF his money and selErespect.
When popular elections descend TO the
degree of depravity that was exhibited
over the contest for sheriff in Shawnee
county, they are simply farces, and all
good people become disguised, and no
wonder SO many of the better classes
withhold themselves FROM participation
in elections.
The Aichison Champion closes IA
article on this subject in the following
language:
ave suppose an attempt to put Cap
| tain Bush in an insane asylum would
be resisted by himself and friends, but
we submit there is not q person con-
fined at Topeka or OsaWatomie who
has ever committed an action more
devoid of reason than has he. The
man who seeks an office as Captain
Bush has done, and by the means which
he has used, is as crazy on that point as
any withered female who sits moaning
and moPing In an insane ward and
| fancies that she is the Virgin Mary.
Could Capt Bush, and he is the type OF
| thousands, give now any reason why he
should wish to be sheriff of Shawnee
county, and expend in that direction
| $1,000, and load his farm with mort
cages and himself with q burden of
debt which may crush him to the end
| Of his days? Is there any reason why
any decent man should put himself in a
condition to be bled by.a lot of black
and white loafers, whom he would not
associate with except for campaign pur-
poses?
We wish Captain Bush's case were a
solitary one, but it is not. The same
craze exists in other counties beside
Shawnee. It takes men from their
shops, and farms, and stores, and Offices,
and homes, and makes bankrupts and
bummers of them. Once fastened on a
man, the petty office-seeking craze is
well nigh incurable. Repeated defeats
do not help it. 1t is as bad as gamb-
ling, only it never WINS. II is a pity il
Il nnrsn,r,a Ia s,nnninnAnd for
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09

The discussion of the Mormon prob
lem has served TO bring the anti.polyga-
my branch of that detestnble organiza-
ticn To the notice of the public. This
small body of Mormons claim To have
the true prophet IN the person of Joseph
Smith, the son Of the original Smith,
who found the golden plates of Nephi,
was kicked by the devil, built the first
temple ut Kirkland and the second
temple at Nauvoo, led the first ex.
odus of the Saints and was killed by a
Missouri mob. The present Joseph lives
somewhere in Iowa. II will be sur.
prise to most people to learn by the Pc
tilion of his followers In congress that
they support missionaries in Utah to
preach against polygamy. They claim
to have converted 10000 persons in that
Territory, and they ask of congress Wig.
orous measures TO extirpate the pernic-
ious doctrine and practice introduced by
Brigham Young.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
Sensible Dressing.

There is a class of women one meets
with every day whose dressing is above
reproach. They go out to walk, not tO
show their clothes, but to add to their
fine stock of health
They look as if they could sit horse
well, and as if they used often the lux.
ury of bath. They wear thick-soled
shoes, with low, broad heels, shapely and
wellftting.
Their walking and church suits are Of
cloth, plainly made, but of exquisite fit.
Their gloves and bonnet strings are above
reproach. The hair, well cared for, il
prettily waved or curled about the fore
head, and worn low, to show the shape
of the head-a style that artists love,
Unless nature has been very niggardly,
no false hair is allowable. The bonnet
is close and very becoming, and the face
is protected by veil.
An ample parasol or umbrella is ready
as protection against sun and rain
What fault can the most ceDsorious mar
find with costume like this2
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
KANSAS AND THE APPORTION.
NENT,

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean writes that the
Kansas members are preparing vigor-
Gus opposition to the proposed appor-
tionment bill. They claim that the cal
culaiion is defective and that their state
should have seven representatives; that
they are made 10 represent 1900 more
people each than the New York con-
gressmen, and IL 900 more than Penn
sylvaaia congressman, according to the
proposed bill. They say that for the
past five years they have not had more
than half representation, and they want
the new bill To do them justice. To
which the Atchison Champion adds
some very sensible remarks, as follows
1--WE are glad To know that our repre-
sentativcs in congress are giving this
matter attention The proposed ap-
portionmcnt bill is an outrage. Any
upporlionment that does not recognize
the rapid growth of the newer states Is
based on a wrong principle and ought
To be opposed. To start Kansas of, at
the beginning of u decade, with con-
gressmen representing 1900 more peo-
Pile than the congressman from New
York, is grevious wrong. For in three
or four years the Kansas congressman
will each represent constituencies out
numbering those of New York con-
gressmen 10000 or $4,000, and this I'M
Just disparity will continue to increase
until the end of the decade.
Our representatives may not, perhaps,
be able TO defeat this unjust bill, but
they will, in opposing it, have the salts
faction of knowing that they are fight
ing a measure of outrageous injustice"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
NUBBINs OF NEWS

Guiteau has been vaccinated.
Thayer claims to be the hcalthiest
town in Kansas.
Rents are three times what they were
in Atchison year OF two ago.
The RiddLeberger debt bill has passed
both houses of the Virginia legislature.
Germany will not adopt an interna,
tional bi-metallic standard without the
concurrence of England.
A Swede in Chicago drank five pints
of whisky to cure the smallpox. He
died from whisky, not small pox.
William II. Stapleton, editor of the
Denver, Colorado, News, is TO be Post
master General Howe's private secre-
tary.
The total value of exports of petrole
UNI and petroleum products for the
twelve months ending December 81
1881, was $4S, $50, 1O3; for tue same pc
Rod in 1880, $34, sos, 645.
There is acommotion in Unity church
Chicago, over sermon by Pastor mllI
in which he virtually abandoned belief
in personal Deity and in the immortal
ity of man.
When Sherman's per cent. funding
bill reaches the house it will be con
fronted by the claim that it is revenue
measure, which ought to have origin
ated in the lower chamber.
When Mrs. Lincoln, who raised this
lion in Frayne's combination at Boston
visited it Thursday, after separation
of years, the lordly beast wagged its tail
gave her its paw, and licked her hand
like dog.
Up to date six counties of the state
have made application for space to dis
play their products at the next state fair
Indications now point to the fact thai
all other efforts in this line will be
utterly insignificant besides the one tc
| anmn
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Vertigo affiicts MIR. Longfellow and
prevents him from working.
Sarah Bernhardt, while playing
Camille at Genoa, tainted and spat
blood, and the audience fled in dismay
from the theatre.
The Hon. Jacob Sleeper has been su-
perintendent of a Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school in Boston fer fifly-two
consecutive years.
The latest political gossip that reach
es us is to the effect that ]. s. Danford,
of Usage City, is sure enough candi-
date for U. s. senator.
George E. Bryant, the new post
master at Madison, Wisconsin, voted
for Grant thirty-six times at Chicago,
and w. H. Armstrong, of Pennsylvania,
Cameron delegate, is appointed com.
missioner of railroads.
The Tilden advertising bureau is do
ing too much. Some of the anxious
agents have more zeal than discretion.
The Quincy Herald. which was the only
paper in the United States to endorse
the assassination of Garfield, has de-
clared for the sage of Granercy Park for
president in 1884. No doubt il will be
induced to ''crawfish,'' as its friendship
will certainly do more harm than good
Oscar Wilde, Tho Boston Traveller
asserts, went to his lecture in that city
in knee-breeches and long hose. DIS
covering the plagiarism of the sixty
Harvard students, he sent to his hotel
for the conventional evening dress of the
| average man, and thus attired made his
appearance upon the stage. This was
the cause of the twenty-five minutes de-
lay in beginning the lecture.
A Washington letter writer's ro-
mantle story to explain why Presiden;
Arthur has chosen the Oldest and shah
biest church in Washington as his place
of worship, will be appreciated. Says
the correspondent: Every Sunday
morning he may be seen walking, I'M
attended, like the humblest citizen,
across the ever green Lafaye cite square,
with its brown General in the middle,
which lies between the White House
and the moss-grown sanctuary, wherein
he quietly takes his place in the old
pew that Madison occupied nearly sew
enty years ago." Many years ago. an
humble young lawyer, he attended that
church while in Washington on profes-
sional business, and heard a voice in the
choir that, for him, as for others, had
especial attractions. He became &C
quainted with Its owner afterward, and
married her. Her name was Ella Hern-
don, and her father was an officer of the
navy, stationed at the government Oh
servatOry.
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Colorado has n subterranean lake of
considerable extent. covered with soil
about eighteen inches deep. On the
soil is cultivated field of corn, which
produces thirty bushels 10 the acre. The
ground is black mari in nature, and in
all probability was ut one time an open
body of water, on which accumulated
vegetable matter, which has been increas-
ed from time IL lime, until now II has a
crust sufficiently strong and rich to pro.
duce fine corn. While harvesting the
hands catch great string NJ fish by max
ing hole through The earth. A per.
son rising on his heel and coming down
suddenly can see the growing corn shake
all around him. Any one having sufii
Client strength to drive tt rail through
the crust will find on releasing it, thai
it will disappear altogether.