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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-03
BEST OF The TELHGRAMs.
Earthaunka in Ala.hn.

SAN Francisco, Dec. 28.-Prof. Da-
wilson received from Alaska to-day the
particulars of the volcanic disturbance
in October last. near the entrance Of
Cooks inlet. On the morning of the
9th of October the settlement fer fishing
at English bay heard a heavy report,
and looking in the direction of the
sound ssw Immense volumes of smoke
and flame suddenly burst forth from the
summit Of hit. Augustine. The akY
became obscured in u few hours after
Great quantities of pumice dust began
TO fall and eoEe 6ne a0oolh stone. AT
8 80 an earthquake, with wsFe thirty
feet high came rushing oyer tbs hamlet
sweeping away All the boat6 and delug-
ing the houses. The tide at the time
being low saved the settlement from
utter destruction. This Waa followed
by two other waves about eighteen feet
intervals by others. Pumic9 ashes fell
TO 3 depth Of I'VE inches, making the day
so dark that lamps had 20 be Int.
At night the surrounding country was
illuminated by tiames from tho
crater. Ordinarily 4ount Augustine
Is covered with Snow. THIS year &c
Is completely bare. An examlnA-
ton after the disturbance subsidized
found the mountain split In two
from base to summit. ,Ths northern
steep had fallen 20 level with the sur
rounding country. Simultaneous with
the erup1lon was the creation Of Q new
island in the passage between Cheens-
houFa island and the main land, seventy
FIVE feet high and amIle and half long.
The violence of the volcanic action
4, - 49,
on the peninsula OF AIAaks, lying to the
west OF the active volcano. at Illeanna,
$4,000 feet high, burst into activity,
emitting immense volumes OF smoke
and dust, and fiames were visible q
night.
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. Aoefdent 10 cen. arant.

Nav YoRx, Dec. 81 Gen. Grant In
leaving home to-day sIlpred upon the
Ice and fell. receiving n severe shock
and seriously Injaring his thigh. Fred
efick Grant, his son, says he has seen
the surgeons who attend his father. but
was unable 10 determine whether the IN
Jury was dangerous. They said, how
ever. his limb would he paraly7ed Tor
the time being.
Another account says il SCENE that
Gen. Grant while alfghtlng from coupe
at his residence Mondhy eveaing, slipped
and fell ON his left aiap, Eeceiylng So
rious injury to his teg about four inches
below ttlc nip Joint The sHFggtSasS stsyy
no homes were broken.
No bones are broken and the supposI.
ton is that a hruise % the seiatlc nerve
has been sustained The general inaIne-
diately after the accident, was assisted to
his bed, where he has remained since,
lying on his back. While the injured
legsis most painful, the generals health
is otherwise good, and lie is even com
paratively cheerful under the circum-
stances The surgeons all say it is moth
ing serious, hut at the same time pre-
dict that it will be several weeks'b before
the general will be able To leave the
house
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Co,or.a rsaohsr.. Convention.


Sr. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-The convention
of colored school teachers which has
-heen in session the past three days at
Jefferson City, have effected the permit
nent organization of State Colored
Teaehers' Association with Inman f.
Page, OF Lincoln destitute, as president.
Resolutions were passed tieclaTIng thai
facilities for the higher education of
the colored youth ought TO be provided !;
that an Industrial school sought TO be
established as department of Lincoln
Institute; that the state ought to put a
premium on character and make per-
sonal morality superior to mere iatellec-
tual test in the examination of appli-
Giants for school certificates; that the
welfare of the colored schools demands
county institutes for colored teachers !;
that teachers should better fit themselves
for their work by the study of the hest
literature, history and the highest
thought of the age: that circulating
libraries would greatly promote the eff
cheney of our teachers, and that the sur
plus revenue of the national treasury
should be employed in diminishing the
enormous percentage of illite:acy in the
SGIlth and west
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Kansas fares as well As could be ex-
pected, under all the circumstances, at
the hGnds of Dir. Speaker Carlisle, in the
GOrmation of his committees. Mr.. Ryan,
from this district, has place on the
Committee on Appropriations" one of
the most important of the committees
Dir. Anderson is on the committees on
'Public Lands" aud Payment of Pen
sioEs, Bounties and Back Pay" Judge
Peters has places on the committees on
"Commerce" and LAW Respecting the
Elections OF President and Vice Pres
ideDt'' and Enrolled Bills." Mr.Perkins
is 9 member Of the committee on sIndI-
an Affairs" An important place. Mr.
Morrill, Is on the committees on "Educa.
don and Invalid Pensions" Jud g
Hanback, is member of the committees
on Pacific Railroad" and "Expendit
ures OF the War Department" Ii vii
thus be seen that Kansas is very fairly
treated
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prRsonII Ann p0fIrIcAI.

3Ir Springer fnas sams Satisfaction
ii reitrsing 10 there speak-f a. s'Il,aI
man CARLISLE .
The wi'e Of Gete.'.i r a. = AM. ,, "
= es.ng e sHssh from e ! ,.rp s. d II.
We Iiinesnn on I'assd-s
THE NEss ~asia i'Ir - u. isaa,-
tie q a !. iair t;.issFs-s,n ~ = 7-ks d l'os
np.,n tpr .. uisl.rs % hug. e. wsIv
5 nHfor Logon msks- tiiv ,i-t,ineiit
that ..e Is y, csnd.c a,e n,t president.
ils is sialply in The hsn + fi.is wife
sre tina, jim Bsaiue has s,.pelu,i,d
TIA be delsg.I- IS the Chicago s:anven-
ton Aha. aha, abs r -eoe ts,nk
ling.
Carlisle gave The east ta, chairman.
ships. The rast viii NJ eIsr Mr. car-
li,le's party two electorzl votts. /. will
get even in 1884
William Hunter, assist ant secretary Of
stale Al Washington, has b-en in the
government service fifty -tIrer ears. aid
promises TO last > seol While longer
=. A1tDeW AfHo1u lcctlftA "a DaitlmOFc
the other evening 10 an audience OF fl.
teen people The numb5 Of persons in
that city who ere taking treatment for
insomaia ssens % be Fapsily decreasing
1t il snn0uncsa Sh4s Mary AnderSou,
the actress, has rot Oaly succeeded well
on the Sssge IN England, but she has
completely captured the handsome and
very wealthy young Duke Of Portland
and win mary him.
Troy chief Soas Fres Trader At Law
renee. Who processes 20 have heeaa Re
publican at some time ia his hfe. pro
poses that the election Of n successor 70
Congressman Haskell be made on ahe
issue of Protection and Free Trade. We
hope the Issue will be made and the
Free Traders get q big belly ipll OF j.
Next fall viii be good time 70 ever
lastingly sock II to the Free Trade ont
fit in Kansas.
Troy Chief: A few Democratic con-
gressmen keep snoFtIng and believing
about the hanging Of O'Donnell, and
calling upon the United States govern
ment TO ayenge the murder of an Amer
lean citizen. This Is done for effect up |
on the Irish vote. but they have net
word 20 say about the murder of ]. p |
Matthews, native born citizen, by Mis- |
sissippi Democrats; and Matthews
hadn't killed anybody, OF tried TO kill
anybodYIeither.
Old MT. Thurman, who started on
winter tour of the southern states, and |
got as far as Pennsylvania, where he
struck Uncle Simon Cameron, turned |
his course homeward and Immediately |
erected s senatorial lightning rod. He !
hopes 70 slip in between Pendleton and |
Standard OIL Company Payne. and the |
number of people throughout the coun-
try who will be glad if he does, is by no |
means small.
E. V. Smalley, in an article in the
last Atlantic entitled "The Political |
Field" gives it as his opinion that a re-
action in favor of the Republican party
has taken place which will enable it to
enter the canvass of 1884 with about the
same show of strength that 1t presented
in 1880, distributed in about the same
way. He anticipates. therefore. q close
and exciting campaign, to be decided in
a great part by the character of the can
didAte put In nomination.
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RAILROAD LEGISLATION

Sr. Louis 5Io5e-Demosrst The ap-
pointmeni Of Mr. Rsagan o the head a
the committee on commerce brings 10
mind the fact ths1 he h very -much ib-
terested in the matter of the regulation
of railroads. lie has furnished The most
careful and far-rsaching measure for the
consideration Of congress thai ever has
been placed before thst body, anal he
has come nearer securing SctIon on the
subject than any otheFS man. IL Mr..
Reagan had attempted Les perhaps be
would haze succeeded ais bill was In
many respects sdmirablys ffsmed, but IL
was found 10 involve some, impractica-
billiies, and the fate II MI with added
to the accommodating tsssimoaT - 10 line
difficulties Of legislAtine ION the Su bject
II Is 10 be hoped thSt be viii now be
disposed 10 approach the matter IRON
smother direction; thSt lnsusAd Of trying
TO enact direct leGiSlEtiOR ne will fOilo~
the example of the states which have
made the most progrsA with the prob
lem and advocate the appointment Of
competent commission up0n Whoae
suggestions the required regulations
may be gradually evolved. The plan
has been proposed In coDgress before.
1t Is not a new one. butt has gathered
strength OF late, and pos1bly II may DO
found feasible 10 act on il this winter.
The proprieiY Of railroad legislation
ON the part Of the General Government
is growing increasingly plain. The
property OF numerous corporations has
no reference TO state lInes, and If II was
placed under one Get OF regulations in
essential matters. II would obviate an
immense amount of lobbying a the State
capitals, to say nothing Of the 1mplih-
cation that would ensue. For legisla
tive control Of . trunk line across the
continent to be chopped up INTO a. many
different sections IS there sFe different
States through which II passes. IL mani
testify inconVenient. especially when the
Solons of those States pOsssss different
views with respect TO ratea. disErimlna-
tions, etc. The constitutional right Of
tue 0eucID OONcAulncAs " ~ a. NA-~
premises undoubtedly exiSts. In fact,
action Of the General Government IL
the only means by which diScriminA
tions and other abuses having rsfsrence
20 localities in different States car be
met.
Let any one glance at . map of the
United States, and notice how those
veins OF commerce, the railroads, form
a network Of increasingly ine texture
all over our vast domain, and ask him
self If the independent system can be
left much longer without coming under
general and consistent system of laws,
so far as government has anything to do
with 1t. Complaints arising from the
lack Of 1t are already numerous. The
time for direct legislation in matters Of
management has not arrived, for the
requisite experience hEs not been gained.
The experiment Of commission prom
uses well. Let lt be tried.
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New York Sun: Hers is . significant
resolution introduced IN the senate by
Mr.. Plumb
& s'Thpk tia secretary Of sWar isfoEm the
selsls q the names aud rink of afilcers
Of the army On detached service (inciud-
ing Officers on sick leavel, where serving
and what service performing, and the
lOagth ogtime detached; also whether
o1iceEs thus absentare needed with their
Commands, and, II 50, what superior
military reason called for their being
detached"
An examination Of the Adjutant- Gen.
erals report win show that this inquiry
Is timely. One Of the causes of deser-
ton enumerated by Gen. Drum is the
lack OF attention 70 their companies by
many line oillcers. II whom by far too
large. a number are absent from their
commaBds % detached service. In
some eases these absences have been
prolonged t<yond reason. There is
lItGIe doubt that Secretary Lincoln will
not be reluctant IN give All The informa-
ton cslie,l Cor, N he aecessiiy Cor more
method aad more regard for the later.
ests Of the service in the detaehment OF
company officers must be apparent to
him.
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Amarican Pork.

WAsHiSGToN, Dec. 2S.-Comnission-
or Loring says: "WhIle Dr. Detmers'
communication In Chicago paper has
unfortunately been accepted by public
men abroad To the prejudice of The
European market against Ameri-
can pork. F. d. Curtis. one OF the
commissioners employed to investi.
gate the diseases of swine, re-
ported tn the agricultural department
that no great amount of disease
exists among western hogs. He also
says the statement of DIR Deimers IN re.
gard 10 feeding swine oifal is wholly in
correct, and that great care has been
taken by breeders and feeders To secure
healthy animals Commissioner LOring
accepts Curtis statement in. full, and Is
confident that Detmers is greatly mis-
taken
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AInrdarar Hanra1I

NEVADA, Mo, Dec. 28.-William Fox
was executed here today at exactly 12
O'Clock Tor the murder of Tom Howard,
May Goth of this year. The doomed
man made no address from the
scaffold. After the black cap was
put on he shook hands with
the sheriff and deputies, when the
trigger was pulled and the cold blOoded
murderer swung iato eternity. Fully TO-
600 men, womsn and children witnessed
the execution, which took place in a
natural amphitheatTe one half mile from
the business portion of the city.
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The reAppolntmeot OF Nathaniel p.
Banks Is mprshAl OF Massachusetts, calls
to mind what he was only few YevFs
ago, and his history furnishes another
prominent illustration Of the vanity Of
political life. Twenty years ago he was
one of the most prominent figures In
American politics. He served as con-
gresham, governor, speaker OF the
house, and general In the army; and
then all at once he dropped out OF pub
lie notice almost as completely IS IL he
had never been heard Of, and they say OF
him that he IL now simply broken
down old man, very poor, and depend
ent uDon his salary f1r s-l:viIe.
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No ntors Na,ls For a whI1e.

PTTsBURG. Pa, Dec. 29.-In accord
snce with resolution adopted at the
last meeting of the Western Nail Asso-
citation, all the factories in the west will
close down tonight for period of six
weeks. The manufacturers hope to i'm
proSe-theIr trade by restricting produc-
tion. The suspension throws oyer 5000
men out of employment
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NEWS m BRTEF.

Two hundred Paris students. feeling
offended at an article in a Communist
journal, beseiged the Office last night
and demanded resraction. which the
sdstor refused. They finally dispersed,
has VIII meea again tonight and pursue
Q determined course.
There h . revival amoaR the British
dynamiteEs % destroy life and propsrty
By explosives. In addition 20 other
ssmilar attsmpts, = box OF explosives,
a1th fase attached. was found on she
track d tAe Great Western railway near
Ax@ins1er thie moEnisG.
. i isfepoEtsd that tie Preach govern
zsns hss ondeEsd Admiral Courbet 70
fnlloW up his victory q sonsay with the
utm0t rE0mplnsss sad ensEgy. and II IS
probable he will make an attack on
Eong- Hoa before marching against Bac-
HIM.
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Railway Statistics.

CHICAGO, Dec, &c The Railway Age
In IT'S next issue win publish a sutnma-
~ OF the railway building in the United
States for the past twelve months. 1t
shows that 1900 miles of mann track
were laid at an approximate cost of
ef65y OO0. goo. making the total miles Of
railway in the country TO date about $780,
600. The construction during 1882 was
the largest in the history of the country
Ill 600 miles; the year before. 800.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-03

According 20 the Church Temperance
Society modern EnglishWomen drink
much more than their mothers and
grandmothers. The evil IS said TO be
due to the grocers. licenses. which en-.
able people Of respectable position to get
alcoholic liquor without the disgrace
and unpleasantness Of going into pub
lie house. The habit once began IN this
say Is not 70 be stopped. How FAR the
drunkenness Of women is really On the
Increase, says the St Jamesss Gazette. Is
4 difficult matter 20 decide; all the more
50 when Ne are told that IN the vast EHss-
i0rity Of cases i IS secret drinking which.
Is doing harm II Is a question aIicIl
can only BE denif with BY tho Who
have hsll except, nal facilities for 1.
Letting some data on the ssl1ess But
Il Is At any rate worth noticing that the
abase az sTocers. licenses vas preefseIg.
thar eli ii las expected and iresIi ted
when sle system MAS FIRST introduced in
1850.
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: seuahbls Vyi.h Horse Thieves.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. 29.-For a
long time past the northeastern part OF
this stste and southern part of Missouri
has been infested with horse thieves,
whose headquarters II il believed have
been at Cape Girardeau A farmer nam
ed Kimblc. living 10 Missouri, had three
horses stolen and organizing posse of
seven started in pursuit of the thieves,
who numbered three, and who were
Overtaken near Forsythe, Mo. The
thieves turned on their parsuers and
severely injured two of them. James
end Andrew Davis, former residents of
Cape Girardeau, were shot dead and the
third one was fatally wounded.
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With Tree ballot and an honest count
these states Honsd pnle Iiie Rrpuhliea4
ticket. but ihay are .ennniel in Tie solid
saRIh VIA IAnfk eeBils asre Is 4 the
election hai alseaiy tsksa psScs Tie
vote Of these states Is equal ia the vote
of The state of New York; "a within
two Of oqualizing the vote of Ohio
and Indiana combined; and falls
only twn short of the combined vote of
New England. The distinctly shot
gun states in the electoral college,
therefore, may be inferred from the
foregoing figures 1t is possible for
these states, with their method OF fraud
and intimidation, to elect the next
president and vice president of the
United States.
The Democratic party by encouraging
the system Of crime that is practiced in
Some of the southern states TO carry an
election count, and. do il hnasi-
ingly. upon a solid south This means
153 ELECTORAL votes, or only 4S less than
amajoritY. Add to this New York, 90
votes. and Indiana, 1851, and that
would more than elect. Add to this
OHIO %, Indiana Is, New Jersey 9--47,
and that would come within one Of an
election. The Democratic party will,
therefore, enter upon the contest with
loaded Dice, so to speak, and il will re.
quire only foIty7eight northern votes to
n,,t the srDuarv,p,ar,% oc sIn T-,;tad i@a&aa
under the control of the section That
sought to destroy it, and some of the
states Of which now defy the laws and
trample upon the constitutions and are no
more loyal to the Union than they are to
the empire of Russia. IfanybodY doubts
this let him read the official report OF the
recent trials in South Carolina II any
body believes that tbs presidential eiec-
tion may. with safety to the country. be
carried by such methods as are sustained
and boosted of in South Carolina and
Mississippi, let him speak out.
The southern states have quite as
many rights. as the northern states. A
white man in South Carolina is entitled
to the same weight in the electoral college
as a white man in Ohio or New York OF
Vermont, but he Is not entitled To double
that weight, and if he demands equal
rights he must do equity; he must obey
the constitution and the laws, and recog-
nize the equal rights OF all citizens, re-
gardlcss OF race. color, nationality or con-
diIion before the laws. This is the qnes.
ton that is now looming mp before the
American people, and 1t is TO he tried ST
the bar Of pubic opinion And decided
by free ballots in November. 1894
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The Courier-J Journal denounces pro
lection per sc as robbery" and also says
that free trade is "impracticable." II
seems disposed to tolerate the robbery
to the extent of incidental protection, y
because that win be necessary in order
to raise revenue sufficient for the needs
of the government. If this "lncidental
protection" were not needed for revenue
then of course the C. j. would go in for
free trade, pure and simple, as it re
CARDS the protection of American indus
tries against fOseign competition as moth
ing better than ''robbing'' the American
consumer TO benefit home '.monopolies y
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The preponderlnce Of the solid sOutb
in the ehairuAzships Of che committees
ofthe house 8 the subject Of soOe in
yidlous remGks. But II 10 perfectly
logical that he part Of the country that
furnishe the most Democratic votes
l.anld hve the greatest number Of
high places. iRdeed. It would
ssamptuons were the south 70
% the nomination Of southern
or the presidency. BY the aid Of
not gun they can assure him the
- electoral vote.
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A hint for kansas: The suit sf the
state Of PeHnsylvani, against the West
srn Uuion Telegraph company for si45..
900 taxes on stock dividends has been
compromised, The company paying $50
600. kansas ought 10 haye little alice
ofthe same.
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We earpesalY nus. .whila the mattef h


We earnestly trust, while the matter il
fresh ia The public MAD. sad before the
popular sense becomes DAD 70 the enor.
nifty OF the csime OF the lEeAfI1ian muE.
deFeFS. that SONS strung inflnencs Will
be beonght 90 bear upon GoveEEnF Click
to have him, az the proper time, order
the execution Of Reed ana PeaEee
In accordance with the provis-
ions 0f the laws of Kansas
There were no extenuasing etFcnmslaR-
ces surrounding the horrible deed 10
which they have confessed, andI4heFs IL
30 plea Of mercy which can - lmadafn
their case. They struck down. in the
full prime Of his useful and well-sea-
sonel powers, . peaceful citizen. and for
a few paItFy dollArs. murdered in the
in the most baIherous manner.
q helpful husband, aud fond father, who
was hastening 70 JOIN the objects Of his,
care around the home circle. which he
loved so well. They did not offer him
even the poor clemency which the foot
pad shows when he demands the money
or the lie of has victim, and no argu-
ment can be sGccessfally urged In favor
Of the psrpetuAtIoh Of the miserable
llvss of these foes TO the safe-
ty of human lifs and properly
beyond the lImit-nxed by the stAautes.
This paper has continually opposed
any movement 10 anticipate tbs law in
the case OF these criminals. bat &c now
urges that every pressure be brought 10
bear upon the executive OF the st&te for
their legal execution. and We ask the
press OF Kansas to join US in the crea-
tion Of G sentiment which will bring
about this end.
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LAWRENCE, Kas-, Dec. 26-The sa-
inon-keepers Of this city have given mp
their fight on the prohibitory law, and
all have closed back as wei a< front
d.a0rs
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UnempHoyed LABOR.

LAWRENCE, Mass, Dee. 29.-At tie
Washington Mills 15G hands have been
discharged. It is expected that fully
800 win be unemployed within a few