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No less than a hundred and seventy.

NO less IMAM hundred and seventy
three inventions of -couplcrs were
brought to the notice Of the Massachu
sets railroad commission at a recent
meeting. They were all intended to en-.
able cars to be connected or detached
with safety to the limbs and lives of the
railroad men, Many hundreds of such
devices have been patented within the
last few years, but it appears that all the
desirable features have not vet been met.
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1t is said that the great desert tract in
Northern Africa into which it is pro
posed to turn the waters Of the Nlediter-
ranean was formerly an estuary of that
sea, from which it was detached by
some commissions OF nature. Traces OF
the old water courses have been found,
and the surveyors have been able to fol-
low them for long distances.
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The best test of a human life is the amount
of good it has been and done TO others Mrs.
Lydia L. Pinkham may be given seat OF
honor among those who have helped to change
sickness into health, and to transform tho dark.
ness Of suffering into the sunshine of rest and
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full of deep rich color-yellow, red
blue--in. harmonies that artistic re.
sources with definite purpose can not
always compel.-Harpor's Magazine.
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The Andrews Parlor Folding Beds receive the
highest commentator wherever used, in Ho
tells, in Boarding Houses and Private Families.
Keeler's, So to 81 Washington street, Boston.
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Yet rivers TO the ocean run.
The bald and gray may live serene
By using the famous Garholine.
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"Wells' Health Remover" restores health
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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
THE MORRISON IDEA

There is no doubt but that the Hon.
VIM. Morrison, a. a Democratic presi-
Dental candidate, is parading very near
the head Of the procession. He is the
author of "A new political policy,
which has been before mentioned in
these columns, and which is attracting
. good deal of favorable comment among
Democrats. 1t Ia yet too early TO tell
what will be the outcome of the Morri-
son idea Of running the next campaign,
but any proposed new departure for that
hunker party is interesting. This policy
IL, In short, to cut loose. If necessary,
from the present Democratic moorings,
90 sharply define the issue on the tariff
and make It the question between the
great parties, expecting, on the one
hand, TO lose Democratic votes In the
0ections that are Democratic, and TO gain
Republican votes in the west. In other
words, If the Democracy may expect 10
lose votes in New Jersey on the tariff
issue. It may hope to gain votes in ILL.
uois, Wisconsin, Michigan and other
western states. Morrison, IN fact, under
his policy, is of opinion that the De
mocracY may reasonably hope to secure
che electoral votes of some western
states which have hitherto been regarded
- surely Republican. It Is now
rumored that so great q Demo
cratic light rs Mr.. Hewitt, Of
New York, Is ready to support any
tariff bill which Mr.. Morrison may pre-
sent, and that he has given his assent Il
the new departure proposed by the
ways and means chairman.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17

New York Tribune: The Spectators
who have been trying to put up the price
of grain are having hard time. What
with posted wheat at home and accumu-
lation of unsold grain abroad, the pros
pect for forcing the old world to buy at
our own price is no. quite as favorable
as some flaming statements made it APP
pear month ago. The millions who
consume wheat IN this county will
shed no tears ii the spectators fail TO
make bread dearer.. With enormous
stocks in sight, we find that other coun-
tries have so far taken Grona Orrs Atlantic
ports 100000 bushels less wheat
since September than they did during
the same months Of the last crop year,
which does not sustain The reports OF
unprecedented demand abroad In
flour exports, also, there bas been a de-
or ase OF 6So339 barrels, eanal to 3.o6i,-
52j bushels, so thas the demsnd hasihus
lar been %. 0G0,Oo0 bushels less than ii
wss in IsSs. Tie attempt to extorl
high prices from consumers This year
does not seem likely to succeed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
CAPITAL Keynotes,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Anderson's
bill, providing for the adjustment OF
grants of land made by congress in aid
of the construction of the Kansas Pacific
and Atchlson. Topeka & Santa Fe rail
roads, was referred to Post, Willard and
Durham. Monday, January %, Is
named as the day for its consideration
Persons interested are invited to be
present on the day the measure is to be
considered.
At meeting of the house COMMITTEES
on the Pacific railroad, bill was intro.
duced by Anderson proposing to amend
the Pacific railroad sinking fund act 90
as to provide that the companies pay into
the sinking fund annually an amount
equal to one-tenth the principal and in
Ierest due the government, and resolu
ton was introduced by Anderson re.
guessing the secretary of the interior to
inform the house whether the Union
Pacific company are in arrears in any
respect, and if so, whether ne has taken
steps to enforce the law, Referred to 9
subcommittee consisting CT Thompson
Jordan and Wilson. The resolution
will be considered Monday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17

A large number Of the leading Demo
cratic papers are denouncing the
Democratic caucus in Ohio and it's can
didale in unmeasured terms. This is
from that Democratic luminarY. the
Louisville Courier Journal:
"Mr. Payne Is q man of force and char
Acter, and he has long desired some high
office, yet his nomination, even more
than the defeat Of Mr.. Pendleton, will
cause great regret among Democrats
Ontslde of the state of Ohio. The reason
of IL 10 that, whether justly or not, Mr..
Payne has come to stand for what Is
worst in Ohio politics. The forces
which, since the election Of Gov. H0ad-
ly, have gathered about him are just
those which were used by lot of un-
scrupulOus politicians In Cincinnati 10
secure the defeat of the Democratic
ticket last autumn. This ring now seems
20 be dominant, and il is especially OBJ
noxious The whole aim and. purp1se
of the Cincinnati movement was 10 de
feat Mr.. Pendleton; he was 10 be defeat
ed at any cost, and he has been beaten
by means which are exceedingly disrep-
Unable. MIR. Pendleton can bear his
defeat with great equanimity, but the
manner in which il has been accom-,
plished makes il matter of serious re-
greet 20 the Democratic party.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
STOCK SourRs.


Points and Items About Kansas stock
Usage City Free Press: n. Luby. of
f; l10 creek, near Scranton. took lot OF
cattle and hogs. his own raising. 10 KaDs
sas City last week for which he received
nearly two hundred dollars. Last win
ter be sold twelve thousand dollars
worth, and says he can sell every wear AZ
hast Thousand dSllsTs worth.
CsWker City journal: Cattle are dy.
ing from eating snut corn. Farmers
should see thar it is kept from their
cattle. Oliver Gibson, Of Phillips coan-
ty, lost six head. Henry sharp. or
Naomi. reported the death Of some cattle.
in that vicinity, supposed to be black
leg but IN all probability eating of smut
corn WAS the cause Of their death
Kansas Central Cowboy Horses in this
vicinity seem 10 be effected with some
| kind of epizooiic. The symptoms are
like those of destemper. although the
animal does not cough. He runs 81 the
nose qaite freely. The disease seems g
weaken him down. In some 5auimais
the lips and the mouth become alfEl{
sore. 80 much 80 that it is difficult fn1
them to eat
Westmoreland Period S. b. Ta9isr
an extensive farmer aud stockraiser 81
this township. informed Us the ether
day that ne recently sold a SOW four
Years old and twelve Of Der pigs for
which he realized 1927. Last August
he sold from the same SOW 50 lsfnaiE ffl,st
total of 467 ia money and he has
seventeen pigs left. The SOW and enc
of her pigs weighed 1.O40 pounds.
Minneapolis Messenger Here
sheep item Five years ago AIr. Sec.
Of Westmoreland. Poffaw etetn he a -
had seven sheep ard two lambs
what they would do IN Eve Fe5
used no income from them dnfiHr
time. but invested eyerSthi1a Gss-....
from the sale Of wnni wethers. lallzt
old ewes into other sheep, and It tie sE9s
Of five years had roo sheep for 3sfifSs
he hes bsen offered $500
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
PENITENrIARY NEWS
a Talk with Warden Jones, on His Way


/
TO Santa Ee
Topeka Commonwealth; Col w. C..
Jones, warden of the state penitentisry
at Lansing, was In town yesterday max
ing settlement with old "Ad Astra Per
Aspera,T for the month of December.
The report shows that under Mr. Jones'
management this institution has not or
ly become self. supporting but Is MAX
ing the stlte considerable money The
net proceeds of the last month. as can
be seen in capitol items. Is considerably
over seven hundred dollars About
$4,000 bushels Of coal were taken out OF
the mines, every ounce of which, except
that used by the state, was sold. and
still the market demanded more. When
Col. Jones took charge rs warden, on
the 10Th day of last April, there were
64S prisoners in the pen. Now be has
7O6, and during that time about one
hundred, whose times expired, have
been turned out. Therefore, crime must
be on the increase. At least, more con
victs are gong into the pen than are
getting out. Reed and Pierce, the muir
derers of W. II. Mcmillan, are being
worked in coal mine about seven huR-
dred feet below the surface. The pros
pect of his getting TO hang these two
scOundrels about next Christmas Was
suggested to Mr. Jones but he seemed to
think that they will never be hung.
Said he: Under the present law, no gov
ernor will take any such responsibility
upon himself. 1t was q cowartlIy iegis
lature that passed such q law. No
doubt the evidence against those fellows
Is sufficient u hang them. but Gov.
Click didn't hear It, We have thiitg.
three life prisoners, and about half Of
them were sentenced u BE- banged after
= certain length of time, but none were
ever executed The Colonel goes from
here TO Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the
purpose of making new contract with
Gov. Sheldon. for the imprisonment OF
New Mexico conyiets that are confined
in the Kansas penItentiary for safe
keeping. They have sixty-three now i.
he also expects to continue his journey
down 20 chihuahua, before returning
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
OVER THE STATE

The story of that glittering sub.erra-
mean gin-palace in Topeka sounds lit
tie like Marsh Murdoch.
A horse-radish factory has been opened
at Atchison. This will afford the farm
ers of northern Kansas fine market ion
their turnIps.
The statement that II. w Young Of
the independence, Kan, Star, is to be
editor-in-cbief Of the Democratic daily
at Topeka Is gong the rounds of the
Kansas press. We have not the leas'
doubt but that il this statement is true il
will he Il good thing for the d. d. at T.
Rev DIR. Phillip Krohn, of Atchison
took the position, in u sermon delivered
TO an immense audience ON Sunday
night, that the old idea of physical
hell is an absurdity. 1t is quite appar-
ent that the Doctor never stopped over
night at Lawrence hotel during the
vermin season.
ToI eka business mtn have held a
meeting To take action in regard to the
new freight rates established by the
railroad commissioners II is claimed,
and some figures were brought forth to
substaujia,e tha claim, that the new
rates discriminate uniayuaHlY against
the trade at Topeka.
TIE Kansas City Times has informa.
ton through : man wac has been to
Topeka, tharit is the intention OF Mr..
TOuzllin, The present manager of the
Santa Fe railroad 10 inaugural. a big
fight on the people oftlis state II Mr..
Touzain has any su.h purpose we ad-
wise him TO let III c 'ntract cut.
The prospects ars ihu Emma Abbott
and her En- ,iish op IA =, mpApy will not
visit. TOrei', tu' We observe by the pa.
pers 81 th.t eI'y Inst I',e skating rink at
that Place was the sc,ne oa Saturday
night o. i.ish'y CXh'iarrin: pig-race
1t is reissu. in.s :" note iht the state
capital is sust ioins her reputation as a
high-art center
The Lelvsa@ nth Dsily Stmdard
filings Il co,Gra and malt at General
Rice, of the Fort Scctt Monitor, about
protection a." We viii not be- surprised
e. lie RI tina! Ike Standard is sorry it did
that, for Gene raj Rice is at home on that
subject. W. appreherd that If the
Standard hes any appreciation ct it.
true coad.,i'n alf u; this time next
week it Will wis.,, it had staid n it,
hole.
The A'clis IA. Leavenwosth and Kan
sas City papers are saying, since the 50
looms closed IN Topeka. that the tawn is
dead The c ,mmonweallh, IN answer
to these falsehoods. says;
"Fhe cIosIng of the saloons has LETT a
few store rooms va;aIt. which anybody
of II asnRablc sense ought t. know would
| be the fact. However, most of the sa-
loon men have held la their lt.ai :, aad
will not sub-.ct 10 Iarti 8 desiring ia eli
ter into other business pur- lIjts. Every
saloon building could be rented tu some
business man at a lair rental, but an or.
binary business man will not pay tne
| fancy price which the owners of build
| ings rented to saloon keepers hgYe been
enjoying There are few kinds of bust
ness thai will pay 1925 per month for 8
| first-class stOre-room, and plenty which
won't pay 800 for room good enough
for saloon ana poor for anything else.'
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
GENERAL GOSSIP.
Progress of The Mutt Trial-The De-
tense Emotional insanity.
The Sorghum Growers ia cOuncil al
st. Louis.
The Victims of the Railroad Accident
Pennsylvania
$4,000 tsft to ST. louis Ia.lI.u.ion.
me Mutt trial.

PITrsBURG, Pa, Jan. 16.-The croWd
in attendance at the Mutt trial TO-DAY
was not so great, owing TO tae colo
weather and the fact that only those hav
ing tickets were admitted. The prose
cution rested last evening.
Mr. Playford opened Tor the defenst
this morning, outlining the case, which
will be, on the part OF defense, emotional
insanity. He made an eloquent address
and said the defense did not deny the
killing, but would show that at she time
the deed was committed the past wrongs
and outrages heaped upon the family
made the defendant unable to control
that after the shoootine
of his father the liability to mental dis
turbances was hereditary in the family.
DR.. Fuller testified that he had been
the family physician for seventeen
years; always believed that
James was mentally deficient and
was inclined to hnrbor feelings
of enmity until he became a monoma-
MAC. He considered him an imbeclle
but not an idiot.
Mrs. Mutt saic he was always good
boy and much attached to his parents !;
considered him not mental
ly strong. On hearing Dukes
letters read he became morose and upon
his acqGittal the former became greatly
excited. Once, when he came home
from town. he was much agitated and
said: Mother, don't you think that
william, Dukes, had the impudence to
look at me and laugh" For q week be
fore Dukes was shot he would scream
murder" in his sleep, and frequently
walked the floor and wept.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
A CASE IN POINT.

Topeka Daily State Journal:
While the railroads claim, and no
doubt justly, that their officials under
stand the transportation question much
better than any Legislature or railroad
commission can, instances frequently
arise which make Il manifest that they
don't know II all, and have great deal
vet to learn. We find notable one de-
tailed in the German. Amt ricsn Advo-
cate, Of Hays CITY The story 1t tells
is rs follows: A -tockmau there had a
hundred 4 crs TO s.ll, aud a purchaser
ut De2vtr "R red H. trk IN IN AT Ellis
a. K1u-a- Co rtire has bling the
sell,r real TIN -mpunt nf freight
between Ellis and X ,nsas City abnYe
whS he conld 10 market them at the lat
ter p%c Or ,p"yn the q p
II tx nffl N the rate per
- u X $40. aud to
ID NV $l65; HI the rough rate per
Car load lrom Kansas City e Denver was
only 800. The stock man offered to
pay the 800, Kansas City rate, from
Ellis to Denver, but this offer was re
fused by the company. He according
ly shipped the cattle to Kansas City,
paying the $40 per car freight, and the
Denver man bought them there and had
them shipped back through Ellis to
Denver at the 500 rate. Thus the rail-
road hauled the cattle three hundred
miles for nothing. or six hundred miles
for less than nothing, according as the
charge is figured on the Kansas City or
the Ellis rate; while the stock man was
out several hundred dollars. We would
like to know on what principle any rail-
road man can justify that $l65 rate 10
Denver, whose only effect is to give the
company SIX hundred miles of extra
hauling for the sake of landing cattle IN
Denver at SOS a car less than their tariff
rate.
It was to obYiate such outrageous dis
examinations against localities as this
that the people of this state insisted ur-
on law TO regulate the railroads
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
PRESIDENTIAL inability.

THIS Winle-, as during the last, Il is
probable that the question Of prcsiden
tial inability win be discussed 10 con-
gress, as there has not been any determ-
NATION of the problem which pressed
itself upon the country duIing the final
sickness of President Garfield. The
opinions of many eminent lawyers were
published in 1881, which showed the va
rant and aniagonIstIc views tsken OF the
subject OF "inabiliiy." Mr.. Trumbull,
for instance, beiived that the term in
cluded physical ard mental inability or
either TO perform public acts, and that
public opinion should determine such
inability. Judge Cooley believed that
Temporary inability was not intended, but
such inability, a. in the opinion Of con-
gress, threatened ultimate Inconvenience
topnblic affairs. Gen. Butler thought
everything which prevented .
president from discharging his duties
paralysis, absence, capture, insanity, etc,
constituted inability and when determ-
ined by the vice president. as sole judge.
the latter should proceed TO exercise the
presidential powers Prof. Theo-
dOre Dwight thought that
Congress should fix rules
OF evidence touching the inability OF the
president. 1t certainly Appesrs reason.
able ana proper that tue determination
being judicial process, congress should
lay down rules which may be promptly
applied In case of the Inability" OF
President Arthur. Pie dental ina
bility" seems to be a mental OF physical
impossibility for the president TO dis
charge nfs official duties as vas the case
during Presideu Ga feds lo1g illness
The bHl introduced b, Crn.r, .-tuan
McCu.t. trov- ,i,4i.r n 9o.s e ia
sa-s.-- tic / ra.
- bh }" .. IA pr,
prov ia he D---id ial FL ctors
STA ! l t. n r'-t fr four y-ar
o : Ill V an .nd 80
a n H. v,f pres.
81 4v p a., re SECRETARY
STA ia ~ p'EroTui the preside initial
duties until Tue electoral college can be
summoned by him TO elect PRECEDENT
and vice-pTesident for the unexpired
term II would have been well If the
bill mad briefly set at rest all doubts as
TO the scope Of the word inability"