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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25
The Weather.

CHIC AGo, Dec. 22.-The weather
throughout the west aud northwest,
which has been steadily growing mllder
since Friday, is again growing much
colder. Omaha schedules II degrees be-
low zero this morning, Kansas City zero,
st. Paul below, Fargo 81 below, Win
nepeg Al below. The temperature here
is IA degrees above, but is steadily fall
ing with a prospect OF much colder
weather. Heavy SHOWS are reported in
Colorado.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

David 81. Bailey, formerly of Kansas,
10 adjudged by the United States court
to be indebted to the government $780,.
900 for fees collected, while consul al
Hong Kong, Chins, and not accounted
for. Bailey made no defense.
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The Glove Dsmncrai suggests that
Missouri ~ill come alb lat as near to get
tiag representative 10 the new cab:ne,
as char .c'tr in one OF SCOTS novels
once came Ia bsing married. Sir Wal
ter makes his man boast that he once
~ss on the very verge OF mairimonY.
He is asked 10 explain the circumstances
and he replied that he asked his sweet
heart 10 marry hm and she refused.
Kansas Is jast shout as near the verge of
cablnet position as poor old Missouri.
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According to the Whatcom Reyielle
Washington Territory is a great place
for sons. Henry Ward Beecher's son
runs q steamboat on Puget sound; Dan
Voorhees, son has just been elected a
delegate in congress; Gen. Tom EwIDg's
son edits paper up on the Skagit river
and Isaac 8. Kalloch's son tries to get a
living without work after the manner OF
HIS ilIustrlous father
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Wires Down.

San FRANCISCO, Dec. M.-For eight
days past the telegraph lines from this
city hEVe been interrupted to some ex-
tent. The greatest trouble was on the
overland wires, between here and Og-
den, which suffered very serious inter
ruptIons since December 10. The wires
between here and Ogden and WashIDg-
ton territory were down for three days
owing to twenty miles of line prostrated
between Yreka, CAL, and Portland,
Ore. Last night all the lines were re-
ported in working order.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

Bill Nye has pu blished al amusing
tAke.of on the late mania for book crit
cisms. Many men barely able to read
are now publishing dull criticisms OF
books which are not generally read, and
concerning which there is no general H.
tsrest. therefore Mr. Nye formally re-
Views Websters Dictionary, and gives
the public a few valuable suggestions
conCeTninO IL
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

Jay Gould takes a rosy view OF the
business outlook. II think" says Mr..
Gould, shat the year 1885 will be q
cy-mAking year. The balance OF the
trade of the world is now in our favor.
Foreign nations are buy ing of US more
than We are buying Of them. They art
paying US tue difference In hard gold
coin. Millions OF this reaches US on
every incoming steamer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

Globe Democrat: II may fairly be
doubted II the Sherman Days contro
versy Is Of as much importance as seems
TO be supposed. At best, the result can
only be TO furnish an additional reason
why old Jeff should have been hanged {;
and on that point the evidence is already
amDIe and conclust, a
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

A native journal of India recently
gave philosophical explanation OF the
Loyalty of the people OF tina: country to
England In the even, OF Russian en.
croachments upon lite borders. When
the English came" it said, "they plum
cred now they are satiated. 1.-THE Rus
ans come, they must come hungry.
We prefer u boa which is satiated to q
hungry blacksnake, though the boa may
be larger.
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AntI-Mornon meeting.

CHICAGO, Dec. ga meeting was
held here tonight to, give expression
to the sentiment of the city on the sub.
iect of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Il. j.
DoolIttle, president. In the opening OF
the meeting he reviewed the history OF
Mormon!sm, touching upon the Mis-
souri, troubles, the Danltes, and the
Mountain Meadow massacre. Rev. Mr..
McNeice. OF Utah, said the Mormons
claim the balance OF power in Idaho and
Arizo. and that in Utah the gentiles are
practically DISTINGUISHED. Resolutions
were passed calling on congress TO pass
the anti Mormon bill introduced by Sen
ator Cullom.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

A distinguished ex-confederate officer,
now q resident OF Washington, who. as q
young man, "soVed his wild oats and
tarriei long at the vine cup" snd who
fought brilliantly through the rebellion,
recantly married a prominent society
lady who is a devoted Roman Catholic.
The groom In speaking of his marriage
said to one Of his club friends: az have
tried rum aud rebellion. am now 20
ing IN tor RomanIsm."
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Providence Journal: The small wits
Of the newspapers who cay that this IL
tue first time General Grant was ever
known 70 decline anything are perhaps
not old enough 90 remember that he de
clined TO take General Lees sword
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Shot His Lawyer.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. Disc. 2S-A spec
Ial to the Sentinel from Oshkosh says
that word has been received there Of the
shooting of District Attorney w. f.
Macarthur on the street ct Neenah this
evening by Paul Steinel, q client who
claims Macarthur swindled him in man
aging his case. SteineI is reported to
have threatened to shoot Macarthur for
several years. The ball penetrated the
lungs. and Macarthur is said to be In
critical condition. Steinel delivered
hjmseIf nm
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Hery ksRarkahls Reeesery

Mr.. Geo. v. Willing. of Manchester.
Mich :, writes: Ny wife has been A
most helpless for i've years, so helpless
that she could not turn over in bed alone.
She used two bottles of Electric Bitters,
AID IL SO much improved that she is
able now 70 do her own work"
Electric Bittefs will DO All that Is
claimed for them. Hundreds of tesiI-
monials attest their great curative DOW
ers' Only city cents q bottle at B.
Wheldon's. (bl
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BIDDEFoRD, Dec. GA dispatch TO
the Biddeford pool this morning says
Nothing has been learned concerning
the identity of the schooner wrecked on
Beach Island Sunday night. That II
was an English vessel Is conf ectured from
the fact that it was loaded with pine
slabs. The vessel has been built within
a few years. Nothing of the crew has
vet been discovered.
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a pemocratic Contest .

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 23.-T. a.
KIupp of Chicago, who appeared before
the state board of canvassers to contest
the election of Chas. ]. Mutheran TO the
lower house from the Thirteenth eenA-
toriaI district, today filed notice OF con-
test giving his reasons Tor claiming the
seat. Both Klupp and lutheran are
Democrats and the contest cannot there
fore affect the strength of the two prin-
cipal parties or the tie now existing.
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a WonasrfaI D,.oorarx.

COnsumptIves and all who suffer from
any affection Of the throat and lungs can
find certain cure in DR.. Kings New
Discovery for consumption Thousands
OF permanent cures verify the truth of
this statement No medicine can show
such . record Of wonderful cures. Thou
saHds Of once hopeless sufferers nov
gratefully proclaim they owe their lives
70 this New Discovery. Il viii cost Won
noth1ng 70 give Il . tgIAl. Trial bottles
free at B. WheldGn's drug store. LARGE
size $1.00. fbl :
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Ineendsartsm.

ToEoETo, Dec "a during last whit
er and spring number Of incsndi aEy
nres occurred IN Georgetown ami viein-
rty, the sufferers being chiefly otic-
ers charged with executing the provis-
picIon pointed to q notorious character
named Francis Sidney belonging to
Syracuse, n. Z. who confided 20
another party thar he had done the work
as the instigGtfon Of liquor dealers. Sid
ney believing himself unsafe went 70
the states a government detective got
information OF his return last week and
succeeded IN aErestiDg him YESTERDAY at
Lindsey He took hiua to OakVlIIe To-
day where he WAS indlcLsd. He Is want
ed Il Coberg and other places should
be turn queens evidence as expected,
there will be sensation.
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The statement is made that Gen. Grant
is filling two large volumes with bis
history oil the war. After they are I'm
Ishcd be will write another book, giving
his political experiences from the surren
der at Apron lt,ox 10 the present time /,
isisa!d that tais.ast book will be one al
the most Interesting books historically
that n - yet bsen given TO the country
a. IL " II cover al INSIDE view of An
drew Johnsnn's administration, oi
whIch ve'y liIJle is known.
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Nina On Fir.

PtTTsBUEG, Pa. Dec 23-PainteT-
town coal nine, situated one mile north
of IrWins. Pa, and operated by the
Pennsylvania gas and coal company, is
burning The IRE originated twenty
five feet IRON the mouth where there is
q stove in which FIRE is kept by the trap
per-. About $50 men were thrown out
Of employment, and although The CON-
pany is doing all in its power to sub
due the flames it may be several weeks
before work will be resumed,
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4 Strange Accident.

CHICAGO, Dec. PA Daily News
Lincoln, Illinois, special says: Last
night thirteen tramps slept on the boil
ers at the coal shaft here. About O
o'clock this morning one Of the number
accidentally turned the blow out valve
allowing the steam and hot water
from the boilers to escape,
burning and scaidlng eight
of the men severely, two of whom IL il
thought cannot survive. ALI became
panic. stricken and found difficulty il
escaping from the building. They were
all burned badly about the face, thr0et
and head, and several badly scalded on
their bodies
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,gbi,e Lines ON the DARK COntInent


The mos. important international
work OF our era is the effort which Is
making by the European nations 70
open no Africa 30 the civilization and
trade of the old world. Great Brisain il
taxing possession Of the Upper and
Lower Egypt, and u asserting
her authority as against the B0erS,
the final result OF which will be
an extension of her power over
por,iops OF South Africa now In
Possession of the native tribes. The
Fnrooean movements in Western Africa
have left only $50 miles OF the seaboArd
in native hands between tbs desert OF
gshafa and the cape of Good Hope.
During the last year England and 1ers
maav have taken possession OF oVes
Thousand miles OF sea coast. South OF
the Sahara desert, France claims juFis-
dictlou over GOO miles Of coast line,
Great Britain over 1900 miles, Germany
over $50 miles, Portugal over 200 miles.
while the republic of Liberie has 356
miles of SEES coast An understanding
has been arrived at between Great Britain
and Germany. and both OF these powers
win set together In opening the Congo
land TO settlement. Under the auspices
of Belgium, Lieut.. Baker has started ct
the head or an expedition 20 establish
trading stations right through the heart
OF Africa from the west 70 the east coast.
Having conquered Algeria ana annexed
Tuuis, France viii probably next over
run Tripoli and Morocco. Thus from
overy quarter Is Europe pressing to-
wasd the interior of AfElcas and b. fhe
close Of this century the Dark Continent
VIII be dark nolongeT.
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No Malls for a Week

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. GA meet.
ing OF the directors OF the Oregon u Cal.
ifornIa railroad yesterday decided tc
transfer the road to the Central Paci f1C
aud increase the stock. One hundred
and thirty miles of the line is completed
IN Oregon. The roads here are block.
AIDED with snow. There has been nc
eastern mails for q week.
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Smash-up.

CINCINNATI. Dec. ga Times-Star
Chattanooga special says: Distinctions
on the track of the New Orleans &
Northwestern railroad near Purvis,
Mississippi threw the entire north
bound express train from the track last
night. Engineer Robt Turner and the
fireman were killed. Others were in
iured. The names were not obtained.
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sou,h.rn kan..s R.,Iwnv

The short and most direct route to
KA sas City, st LouIs, Chicago, Omaha
and all points east aud north; ana the
short line from Kansas CITY to Cherry.
vale. independence. Winfield, Well,
inRton, ani Harper, Kansas
and all points in Texas and the Indian
Tertiary. Trains Tor the east iesve At
6 90 n. -. b. HYNEs
] L. BARNS, Gent. Pass. Agt
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

There IL but one Democrat IN the re-
cently-elected Dakota legislature. OF
course Vest. CockreII & Co. do not want
Il admitted into the Union.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

Missouri Prohibitionists expect to fol-
low the example OF those OF Kansas and
will have . mass state convention At
Kansas City commencing January 13
1885. The good st. John will be there
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

The Leavenworlh Times says that the
fever which recently broke out among
the Inmates OF the Kansas state penItsn-
tiarY has entirely dIsApp cared, and
there Is not . case OF IL nov in the insti.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

II Is said that southerners do not like
prominence that Phil Sheridan is to
have In the Inauguration parade. They
did not like his prominence in some
thing more than dress parade years ago.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

1t IL said that up 70 date Gen. Norma
duke has eighty i've applicants for the
position Of s6jutAnt general Of Missouri,
No wonder he bad to go To Texas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-25

A Rhode Island preacher recently ap-
piled tor an apt uew name to alcohol.
He called it aqua mortis-the water of
HaaSh
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ARductioa.

: NKwsYoRK, Dec. 24.-The direct L.
5. Cable Company and the French Co
BILE Company made reduction In cable
tariff this morning 80 Great Britain Ire
land and France 70 forty cents per word,
meeting cut made by the Mckay
Bennett Cable COMPANY,
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The proposed speech Of Senator In
gals on the ADMISSION OF Dekota will
be mighty interesting reading. Let the
Confederate brIgaciers begin TO hunt for
stumps TO hide behind.
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Baekisn.s Arn.en a.Iv.

The best sAlve IN the world for cnts
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The situation at Traverse. d. t.


Traverse, D. T., Dec. 22.-The SIT
evening. A blizzard has been blowing
since yesterday and it is extremely cold.
The thermometer was 20 degrees below
zero at noon. Traverse has secured the
county for arms, and sufficient have been
gotten. Men from all parts of the coun-
tY are constantly arriving despite the
cold weather. The officials feel relieV-
ed. Headquarters are at the court house
where the register OF deeds has removed
the records. It is thought sufficient
force is on hand to safely keeh them.
a SOY sent out this morning has just re-
turned from WilmOtt. The men are
still trying to open the safe but have not
vet succeeded. The mob will be kept
under arms until the safe is opened and
its contents known. II the records are
not found the mob will Immediately
move upon Traverse. No one Is per-
mitted to leave the town without exami-
nation. The sheriff having sufficient
force to secure the safety of Traverse,
will tomorrow, with posse attempt to
make some arrests. If resisted he will
take the whole force AID serve warrants
regardless of consequences. His forces
are sufficient to enable HIM to take the
offensive. Although smaller IN number
than the mob, his men are much more
reliable, being mostly Americans and
leading citizens of the county. If the
two forces meet and a regular battle be
fought the conflict must take place In q
day or two. If the sherift's posse should
be resisted to morrow and any of them
injured it would make war to the knife.
Every man in Traverse Is q deputy eher-
if. The motto is peace, il possible;
force, If necessary" A telegram has
| been received from the United States
marshal to the effect that q deputy mar
shall is on the way with warrents for the
arrest OF those overhauling the mail. The
governor Will furnish all the assistance
necessary TO have the mob punished to
| the full extent OF the law.
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A CANDIDATE.
WILLIAM NJ. EVARTS WRITES A LET
TER ON THE N. Y. SEkAT0RSHIP.

More About the Brooklyn HOrrOr-rhe
Debate on the Nicaragua Treafy-Live-
IL Scenes in . Dakota County Seat
Big Fires and Cold Weather-COngres-
sional PrOceedinEs-Other Matters OF
Iatereat
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The Mission Of Christian Eihics.

From an article by Bishop Henry c.
Potter, IN the November Century, We
quote the following: THE mission of
Christian ethics TO our modern social
science is 10 speak not e word of warn
ing, but also q word Of encouragement.
Til at branch of science has concerned
Itself largely in our own generation with
the relations of capital 70 labor, with the
improvement of mems homes and streets,
OF prisons and alms-houses and hospi-
tails. One of the most encouraging feat
has been the hearty and often
generous interest which landlords
and capitalists, men of science and men
of the various professions, have shown
in bringing every latest scientific discov-
cry TO bear upon the practical elevation
of the poor, and the physical and intel
lectual improvement OF the less favored.
the immense sums of money spent for
placing educational advantages within
the reach OF the masses who spend their
lives in daily toll, and the sums scarcely
less vast, which, In our mother country,
If not in our own, have been spent in
building model cottages and tenemeots,
and even factories, for the poor, IL
demonstration of this. But In all
this expenditure OF money
and wealth there is often in.
volVed an experience OF encouragement
which it is able TO ignore. The classes
who are most benefited By these forms
do not care for the social science.
Model dwellings and rules of hygiene
are equally distastefui and uninteresting
to them. If you appeal 10 them TO con-
form their lives 10 wiser rules Of clean
Illness. temperance, frugality, and fore
cast. too often you eppeai to them 10
vain. Essays on light and drainage
and ventilation, which laboriously you
circul ate among them, are left unread
Even the most elaborate and costly
scheme for theIr advantages fail of any
practical effect. IL is t0lerabiy we'll as
certained, for instance, that the Peabody
lodging houses have not reached, or.
at any rate. have not greatly benefited,
the class fog whom they were designed.
These have shrnDed homes involving
rules of deeency, cleanliness. and self
restraint, which would have been TO
them intoleFable. As they would have
sh0nned 9 pFIeoo; and the Peabody
model tenements became the homes OF
the better class of skilled mechanics,
and even Of cIergymen snd other pro
EessionAl men, BY whom they were IN no
sense needed. In other words, no argu-
ment Of the science Of sociology By itself
Was strong enough efficiently 10 reach
the class TO whom Il was addressed
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Ended.
C..TrIHoaaA TeI
Died.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. 2a.-The
strike at the SADLY coal mines IL ended.
All the three hundred miners have re-
furued TO work.
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shot and KILLED .

NYAcK, n. Y, Dec. 24.-Abrsm
Gurnee, a grocer at Partridge, N. j..
was shot and killed IN his store last
night by Sanford Sisco, negro.
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AMBER, Ill, Dec. 24.-Major L. ID.
Sanger, of the Eleventh infantry, United
States army, died here yesterday Of heart
disease.
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CONGRESSIONAL PRooEEDlNas.
RENATE.


MAsHIxeToN. D. c., Dec. 2S.-Jonas
presented a memorial of the JOINT CON-
mercial association of New Orleans, pro
testing against the ratification of the
Spanish treaty.
Vest submitted a concurrent resolu-
ton providing that congressional
speeches shall be printed as delivered,
with the exception of verbal amend
ments, and when speeches are withheld
for revision for uIore than one week, the
speech shall be printed Is delivered.
Referred.
Vest said the record of what was said
and done In congress should be what It
puTported to be instead Of being CARL
cature as it was today. The effect OF
tue untruthful representations now made
could not but hsve most Injurious
effect, especially on the young men Of
the country, when they learned that In
stead of speech beng delivered TO
full house and in the presence of crowd
ed galleries and with loud applause and
Immense bouquets to reward the orator,
that the orator did not deliver the speech
at the tune al all, but at the time OF the
supposed delivery was taking leisuFelY
| luncheon IN the congressional restaurant
or plseidly smoking in the CLOAK room;
This was becoming so we'll
understood that it was touching that
public sense of humor and the opinion
OF the country was getting TO be that con-
| gress was nothing but 8 variety show
| where there was nothing al all except
| pay, He cited as abuses OF the printing
| privileges the case of 3 member OF con-
gress who delivered ten lines OF remarks
and then printed as part of his speech q
complete copy OF the constitution of tbs
United States, and another who printed
as part of his remarks poem of ninety
pages, entitled, ITO the Immortals, >
and dedicated to congress. But there
Wss q more scandalous abuse shown
last session when a member, after deliV
erlng q few sentences of speeches, sup
plemented them with all the chapters
on the tariff contained in Blaine's book
and had them thus printed at public
expense. Copies of that speech it Is said
were sold by campaign committees
at 10 cents thousand and distributed
under franks through the mails. Another
instance cited by Vest was where iden
tically the same speech appeared printed
as having been delivered by two mem
bers Some member of the literary lob
by had sold q copy of the speech to twt
different men.
HsWley remarked that any copies o
speeches sent out by campaign commit
tees were paid for.
Vest asked whether it was not tru
they were ranked through the mails?
Hawley replied he believed it to b
the custom of both political parties Il
distributing copies of congressiona
speeches to frsuk them.
Hale called up the naval appropria
ton bill as reported yesterday by hir
from the committee on appropriations
and it passed.
Morgas from the committee on publ
lands reported favorablY a substitute 70
the bill to forfeit the lands granted tn
New Orleans, Baton Rouge & VlckE
burg Railroad company.