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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05
Il NEW INCENTIVE.

New York Tribune: From time to
time, Of late years, complaints have been
made that eligible young men shrink
from marriage. Many explanations of
this unnatural hesitancY have been Of
fereds but none which do not involve be-
lief IN discreditable access of selfish
ness in the young man of the period.
Now, however, discovery has been
made which promises to cause Q strong
reaction, and which must enlist
in the cause OF Hymen the very
egotisn which has latterly been
struggling against his gentle bonds. For
the municipality Of Paris has recently
issued q publication which undertakes
by the most solemn statistics to demon.
stTate that marriage is a preservative
against death from cholera. It gives q
ratio OF deaths by cholera
per hundred thousand male
inhabitants during the late epidemic.
and the exhibit certainly does justify the
inference drawn from it in a singular
manner. Thus, of persons from 25 to 80
years OF age. 81 single and only 10 mar
Fied men died of the disease. From 80
to IS years of age. 70 single men and but
81 married men died. From 40 TO As
Years, 162 single men and but As mar
ried ones died. From so TO So years, 1877
single and but 81 married men fell vic
TINS. II 10 curious, too, that as age in.
creases the immuHitY of the married
mAnIrises, SO that the bachelor of sixty
and upward seems by comparison
almost 8 doomed man.
Now it is obvious that the most selfish
young men will be not merely willing
but eager to marry if by SO dong they
can obtain so many more chances of es-
Gaping the cholera; while the young
women, ever ready, with their character
istlc tenderness and amlability, to amel-
Iorate the lot of the sterner sex, may be
expected to devote themselves to this
work of beneVoleEce in truly mission
airy spirit. There may, perhaps, be some
miserable cynics-conirmed bachelors,
wretches without homes, who know not
the price of spring bonnets or sealskin
cloaks, and who possess no acquaintance
with paregoric and perambulators,-
capable of lnsinuating that If they are
offered their choice in such q case they
will select the cholera. But il is safe
assumption that these nisanthropic
wrecks, so to speak, will fail to gain a
hearing. and that not even the prospect of
unlimited mothers-in-law will restrain
the impetuous ardor of our marriageable
youth when they realize the situation.
In short, marriage as q prophylactic
promises.tS be unprecedently popular,
and happily it is q fashion which few
are likely to be denied by sheer stress of
circumstances. For he must indeed be
poor who cannot afford to keep himself
alive, and that IS what the new discovery
amounts to.
Leap year has passed av :. but the
luckless spInIsters who sar 1t disappear
minated may now take art of grace
Be she homelter than the traditional
hedge fence and poor tn the legend
srV church mouse. t girl who wants to
marry may hencefort b nsole herself
with the proud reflection that she is at
a Cholera Preventive, and in that sign
eho Will assuFodlY conquer.
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LIST OF LANDS
For Sale by the
NEWS LAND AGENCY.
Below we give partial list of Real
Estate placed in our hands for sale.

HI. $50 acres; 40 acres IN cultivation, 80
acres timber, 160 acres bottom: good stock
and well water; splendid feed lot; stone
Emporia Price. $40 per acre.
IlS2. 800 acres; 60 acres fenced and in cul:
tivatiOn good frame house of rooms; good
barn good well, stock water and cIstern;
miles from Emporia. Price, sl4 per acre.
IlS6. A farm Of la0 acres flrst-clRss bottom
land, fenced and crOss-fenced with hedge;
good orchard; good two story frame house OF
rooms; COED well and abundance OF stock
water; miles from Emporia- Price, 1900
1857 farm of so acres first-class bottom
land, fenced and cross-fenced; good orchards
good one and q hall story stone mouse: IN IN
finished 2 miles from Emporia. Price. $500.
l72. AZ 50 acre farm. all fenced. 90 acres
in cultivation, young orchard planted, GOOD
stone tagging underneath, soil good, abund-
ance of wa err. good range. frame house OF
rooms, goOt out buildings, / mile to school
house and IL miles from EmpoTia. Price 81
600
Ills. lGo acres, all fenced, so acres in Guilt
yatIon, small house permanent stock water,
| = mile to p. .. and rail road station, very
desirable location and good soil. terms easy
II0l. A farm of sO4 acres. all fenced, 16O in
cultivation, fences hedge, bareed wine, large
frame house rooms, barn 81 81 well nnlsn ;
| ed, apple and peach orchard, good soil, good
location, miles from Emporia, terms easy
| lI6I A farm of 800 acres, all fenced, 100
acres in cultivation, so acres timber, l60 acres
| bottom, never falling water, small orchard,
house Of rooms: near sfnG ce s s 20 iieS lr0
lii. $40 Acres; $50 acres fenced and cross,
| fenced into six separate lots; W
acres under cultivation; 10 acres timberi loO
acres bottom: balance second bottom run
| ming stock water in gravel-bOttom crock :
| range first class and permanent: frame mouse
| of one story and four rooms; orchard oil 500
| bearing apple trees, 500 young apple trees
Just commencing to bear; $50 peach trees 81
cherry trees and some small fruit; II miles
from Emporia; By miles from railroad sta
ton: y mile from school.
1850 An Eighty acre bottom farm,
all fenced with hedge: house has seven,
rooms; very large orchard; good location
six mi eS from EmDoria-
llb3. Eighty acre farm with bottom land,
| timber and water. small house, good orchard,
Is mile from EmDoTia.
ITS. so acres all fenced. 60 acres in cuitf-
| walton 10 acres timber. 30 acres bottom. rest
seconu bottom. water Dow creek and good
well. good range. good stable and correls
| small house, Emporia IL miles, railroad sta
ton miles, school miles. Price $3s pei
! acre.
| II6I. $50 acres all fenced, 30 cultivation, 81
acres tiHber l60 acres bottom. = mile never
! falling running wates, fair buildings, small
orchard, RmpOria miles, railroad station !
miles, shooI mile. Price $500. on easy
ter ms
/ tracts varying in size, from 80 acres to 300
lole sections, well watered and averaging IL
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closely guarded to-day in consequence
of letter received by the authorities
that an attempt will be made to blow uD
the buildings with dynamite during the
examination of Newbold. The evidence
produced egaIns. him is in the shape of
letters. received from South England.
threatening 70 blow up the town hall in
Derby. The prisoner admitted the hand
writing on the envelope containing
these letters was hIs. When asked 10
explain away this evidence he said he
could not although he insisted he was
innocent OF any wrong Chief consta-
BILE when he asked the magistrate to re-
maEd the prisoner declared the detec.
tIves were in possession of other evidence
against Newbold of more serious and
circumstanfIsl character than that al
ready produced. Newbold was remand.
ed until February z.
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K1NsAs Ar NEW ORLEANs.


New Orleans PicaYune: Genius is
royal ID its ability to gid and gioEiiy
common place creatures and 70 mould
into forms of beauty the most simple
and homely material.
Some very curious and interesting ex-
amples OF merItorious art work, exc
cuted In the rudest material, are to be
seen IN several of the state exhibits
Straw, corn, Spanish moss, raw cotton
and the like are used with wonderful
skill and wrought into the most pleas
Ing and beautiful objects, and III the
most unexpected manner. By way Of
illustration several examples will be
noted.
In the Kansas exhibit q statue OF
Ceres, the Goddess of Grain, Is seen
standing on 9 lofty pedestal crowned
with q chaplet Of wheat ears and bear.
ing in her hands sickle and sheaf OF
grain. The statue stands twelve feet
high on pedestal thirty feet in height.
The pose is easy and graceful, the dra-
perry classic in form and falling in nat
ural lines and curves, displaying the
limbs and figure in the most approved
Greciau mode.
would not be taken for q bundle of
straw, which 1t is; but when It Is ap-
preached aud Its real nature disclosed
its artistic excellence appears all the
more strikingiy. It loses none OF its
beauty Of form, and gains in beauty OF
detail. The figure Is clad first in a
vest or close fitting shirt of mail, COW
ering entirely with grains of golden
wheat, which shine with q metallic
lustre. Over this Is the loose chlamys
or mantle, like an overdress, made of oat
straw, ana trimmed with fringe of oat
heads. Below this, at the ankle, Is 3
skirt OF wheat straw. with ruftie or
ffounce OF the spiked heads of the grain.
Over the lett shoulder. inclinIng to the
right, Is a scarf of white wheat straw
with purple border made OF the heads
of the broom corn or sorghum cane. The
form is properly developed, and the ef-
feet of the coloring and the combina-
ton of material IS extremely fine.
The figure stands on a pyramidal ped
estal relieved with cornices and projec-
lions, the whole covered with white and
yellow and purple grain and straw laid
OFF in panels and wrought into the forms
Of mosaic and patterns of parquetry.
Great shaggy heads of buffalo as the GEN.
ters Of large medAlions, stud the sides of
the pedestal, which is surrounded at the
base by an embankment of sacks of
snowy flour. This work which attracts
universal attention was the work Of Pro-
fessor A Robe, artist to the state com.
mission
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

Tee Topeka 'urnal grbSsly mIsrep-
resents this paper ON the position taken
In regard 10 General Hatch's hum ane
method of removing The boomers from
Oklah"ma without bluod,hed. The IN.
justice done u Is rarity ,casloncd by a
garbled quotation from The News. We
have simply to say that General
Hatch was instructed by the war
d0parIm, Mt TO see Iha. the boomers va.
Gated the territory. Couch threw up In
trrnchments and told Ha'ch he would
fight. That General Hatch declined to
invite or allow any firing upon the
boomers, hut simply surrounded them
aud brought them e terms without bod.
iiy harm u n single person, Is greatly q
: his credit. and Is the plan that we com
mendet 10 General Hatch
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MYSTERY SOLVED.

The following is the account Of what
is known at Kansas City as the Sheldon
mystery and ITS solution, which recently
came TO light:
Gov. Crittenden has within few days
received letter from the British minis
ter al Washington, informing him of
Alfred Sheldon's arrival in England,
alive and we'll. Mr.. Sheldon who was q
resident of this city and q member of
the Blue Springs Milling company, dis
appeared mVsteriouslY On the night Of
MAY 4 last. He was said to be short
$50 900 in his accounts, and one theory
was that he had been kidnapped
and was held until wealthy friends in
England should make up the deficit.
Another theory was that this was a ruse
Cd Sheldon's part to get away. At the
request of the British government,
through the state department at Wash
ington, Gov. Crittenden took active Sc
cret measures tor investigation of the
case and the rescue OF Sheldon ifkidnap-
ed as alleged The correspondent gives
the following account of the affair, which
he asserts is IRON reliable source:
On MAY 4, about midnight, two men
came to SheldOn's house in a buggy and
arrested him on pretended warrant and
IDOh uluu away lucy WcEO JOlucu ny
wO other men, and the prisoner was car.
ried to place near Blue Springs and de-
| tanned at camp in the
woods for several weeks, his cap,
tors meanwhile compelling him &c
write to friends for money. The meI
demanded $4,000. At length one
night a member of the gang prom
ised secretly to release him. The mar
then took him to q railway station nea
by and gave hun $40 in money and leT
him. Sheldon took the train at the sta
} ton; the narrative does not state whert
he went from there. The conclusion
IS that Sheldon's captors were pressed 81
closely by the detectives that, becomin
alarmed. they released their prisoner
} Sheldon's wife, who remained some tim
in Kansas Civ, is now In England. Ru
mors have arisen from time TO time Ii
this city that Sheldon had been seen il
various parts OF the state in disguise, bu
none of them has been verified. The il
tellIgence from Jefferson City at leaS
/ establishes the fact that Sheldon Is no'
, In England.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

Governor Marmaduke OF Missouri has
q valet who attempts to enter the higher
social circles on the strength of his mag
nIacent presence, Assisted by gilt
edged card announcing his name and off
cial position. II now becomes peril
nent point of information to know jus;
what a valet Is. In this dilemma We are
greatly assisted By the following from
the Atlanta Constitution "a great many
heightened New Workers have Wallets. A
valet is q man employed to put another
man to bed when the other man cant
get there himself, In this clim ate the
police perform that duty with JUNCTION,
only they put a man to bed IN the station
honse
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05
Corrigan, of Kansas City street rAlI

Corrigan, of Kansas CITY street rail way
lame yesterday sold his interests To q
syndicate headed by w. IL. Rolmes
The new company will at once make the
Improvements necessary 10 redeem that
corporation from It's present disgrace
iul CON lition and management The
new concern will spend shout 100000
in new cars, 81. will reduce long dis
;ance fares ami may soon introduce cleo
trio motors Kansas Guy is t. be con
uratnlafad
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FARMING LANDS.

1882 A farm of 40 acres, so fenced. 81 in
cultivation. Frame house 5 rooms unfinish
ed. Young orchard growing. Thelye miles
from EmpoTia, thrse miles from rail road sta
ton, school house near. Price 5000 terms
easy,
ISL. 400 acres, 100 fenced, 80 in cultivation,
good large story stone house of rooms,
good outbuiIdings. good orchard, all kinds of
fruit, good well and ponds, good soil, En-
poria II miles. r. Z. station miles, school
near.
1883. 82O acres; 100 acres fenced. 100 acres
in cultivation; miles from EmDoria. Price,
Sc 400.
1870, 800 acres, all fenced; 60 acres in culti-
walton; good stock water; about so acres first
class bottom lard. about 10 acres tint Der, bal
ance in meadow; small house of 2 rooms;
miles from Emporia. Price, S14 per acre.
l19I. $40 acres all fenced and crsss-fenced
some timber; abundance of living water
good stock corrals; new two-stOry frame
house of rooms; good large barn; all the
improvements are hrst-clAsS; miles from
Emporia. Price, $4,000.
1872 20 acres first class bottom; Is acres in
cultivation, 8 acres timber: good well and
river water; boz house Of rooms; miles
from Emporia. Price, $3.50.
IIss. A farm of $50 acres first class bottom
land. fenced and cross-fenced with hedge;
good new two-stOry frame house of rooms
good orchard; good feed lot; TX miles from
Emporis. Price, 500 per acre.
We have large list of unimproyed land il
acres in q body, several half sections and VII
price from So % per acre to SIS per acre.
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Boston Transcript: At Sunday
school concert in town near Boston, a
picture ,f the Madonna WAS used IN the
exercises Onc "f the little girls asked
"Teachcr, ~ that the mother OF Jesus ~
eyes" replied the Il arh,r. "And Is that
jesus =" "Yes" And who is the other
bpyr" THAT is ST JOhn." "Whatl the
Fl. John who was up for president ~
The teacher suspects that that girl hears
more political than religious CONVERSE
ton nj her home
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Piiiai I,,Ait Cti': "It II a IA ,,Ier of
lit a''h ,!.,t". \ 'enve-N rks', sir,
nnd uiu>J tax. as o"
Tina Is IN. O,sible, !noE'r My b. st
men are all sick. NV cdst m rs are com
ing In by the HUNDREDS, and 1 must be at
my post"
"If your custom should temporarily
drop on you could then find time to
rest, couldn't yous'
Certainly; but how can temporarily
stop all my old patrons from rushing in
on ME, even il the case should BE-. as you
say, matter of life and death y"
Easy enough. Stop advertising"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

The Oklahoma resolution memorial
izing congress to enact q law that Will
open for settlement SO much of the In
dian territory as is not absolutely need
ed by the IndIsns at present located
therein, passed the house Tuesday. The
Interesting discussion of the matter will
be found elsewhere In this paper.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05
A Serious Wreck.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. 30.-The
Philadelphia express on the Reading
road was wrecked at Green7ille this
morning. Some lives are reported lost.
The accident occurred between Danforth
avenue station and Cemetery bridge.
The train was running rapidly when a
wheel of the forward coach broke and
the car was derailed. 1t ran into coal
train and was upset and the other
three cars wrecked. The accident was
witnessed by a mounted policeman who
telephOned the facts to police headQuar.
tiers. The various hospitals dispatched
surgeons and ambulsnces to the scene
Up to the present time twenty-five
| wounded persons were removed from the
| wreck and manv more are yet to be ex.
tricated. Seventy passengers were on
board and 1t is remarkable that many
were not killed outright. At far as can
be ascertained the injured are follows
| w. Calhoun, Philadelphia, PennsYlvs
MIA, head cut severely, both thighs in
| iured and severe internal injuries.
B. Wink, severely cut.
j. Kelly, lett arm injured.
j. L. Holloway, severely shocked and
cut.
J. Connolly, severely shocked and cut
e. G. happen, bruised and cut.
81. d. COrcoran. head cut.
The above persons are all residents o
Philadolpbia.
Chss. Fraly. Bound Brook, cut snc
bruised.
H.C. Wadee, Bound Brook, cut anc
bruised.
The rear brakeman broke the uppe
windows of the rear coach and helpeC
out the passengers. The newsboy, D
Curron, SAID he was in the rear car, ant
after the car bumped along for few
moments it stood on end. Then he fel
oyer the stove and was pulled out of tn
window. The overturned stoves set fir
to the wreck, but was it eXtinguished b,
the efforts OF the brakemen and rescuet
passengers.
The Long Branch express came aloni
nine minutes after the disaster. but wa
stopped by danger signal.
A special train was sent on
from Jersey City and brought bacl
the passengers from the trains
Those from Philadelphia were all NOR
or less the worse for shaking up. Tor
clothing and dirt begrImed faces wit
bloodstains. betokened the ordes
through which they had passed. Sew
|, eral gentlemen who were cut and bruiG
ed severely refused their names for pub
LEGATION on account of alarming thei
| friends. The track was torn up for
considerable distance. The tender an
cars were piled up in confused Mass.
, The cause of the accident cannot b
ascertained, but it is certsiR the car
; were off the track some distance beyon
the switch, thus proving the latter nc
the cause of disaster.
In the front ear were twenty passeI
gers. All but two were removed froI
it in an unconscious condition. The
were carried into the waiting-room &
: the Danforth avenue depot. Severl
physicians attended them in less than q
2 hour after the accident occurred. A
: the injured passengers have recovere
t consciousness and are able to wal
3 about. Eight of them were Only slight
E injured and declined to give the
names. They were placed on q speci
t train and taken to New York.
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Hatch and the Boomers.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. 31.-General Hatch
reached Caldwell yesterday. He says
Couch and the boomers would not capt.
ulate until the order was given to ad-
vance upon their camp, when they came
TO terms and were escorted to the Kan.
sas line. Three lIeutenants were
arrested yesterday for resisting
the Federal troops. Gen. Hatch esti.
mates there were altogether nearly four,
teen hundred invaders In the territory
Guards have been stationed at avenues
of ingress. The boomers, however, de
clare their intention of returning. a
meeting was held in Arkansas City yes.
terdey at which resolutions were passed
denouncing the action Of the govern
Tnenf
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

Arkansas Traveller: On an Arkansa:
railway train passenger calls the con
ductor and says: at seems to take some
time" eyes, they are rather slow to.
night" Why don't you burn coal, sc
you wouldn't have TO stop and Woo
upP Then what are you stopping here
for ~ ''Oh, didn't understand you
when you said it took 'em some tune
We are waiting tor the train robbers t.
blow open the express safe. Don't b,
in a hurry; they'll be through hcr'
pretty soon. All, here they come nov
Better hold up yozF hands, reckon"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

The New York Tribune gives the fol-
lowing Is an appropriate new motto for
the Democrats: "The office should seek
the man and not the man the Office; but
this being an era of good feeling. We are
willing to meet the offices half way"
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A citizen Of Missouri has struck a RI

A citizen of Missouri has struck q rich
bonanza by publishing work on How
TO Get Ofllce,'' AMI tile Democrats are
lining the pockets of the author with
shekels- Now, ii this same Individual
wants u become a bloated bondhOldeI
Indeed, he only has To write work fol
the Republicans on How to Keel
Office" Having no office and not wish
ing one. We will charge anything fol
this advertisement aud pointer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

Emporia Democrat: There are prob
ably few men in the state Who have Q
more extensive Knowledge of pioneer
days in Kansas and who are so rich IN
the traditions aud anecdpt.s connected
with the history of that period as Jacob
Stotler, now editor Of the Sumner County
Press, but formerly of The News of this
city. Mr. S,oll-r has consent,d to do
nate to the Slate Historical society the
gavel which he used when speaker oil
the Kansas house OF representatives &C
years ago; he has also Consented To read
before that society paper. giving &
sketch OF the doinss of the session as be
recollects them
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The proposed National Cattle Trail'
which is supposed will greatly benefit the
Texas stock men is exciting u large de-
gree of opposition from Kansas cattle
men. The Lone Star state has sent dele
CATION of lobbyists TO Topeka, but We are
OF the opinion that they are on u wild
goose" chase.
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InSarear Earned

NEW YORK. Jan. 30.-Secretary Hen.
son of the Missouri. Kansas s. Texas
railroad says the company's earnings re-.
ceived for the first ten months of 1884
show, with those estimated for Novem-
Der and December, that the company
have Just earned interest on its bonds. OF
something less than $500, 600. Tit
secretary does not look for q surplus
after paying fixed charges.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

The crack so prominent In the liberty
bell, which has just arrived at New Or
leans, appeared while the bell was being
tolIed at the funeral of Justice Jchn
Marshall, July 8. 1885 Since then the
sweet tones of the bell have been silent
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

New York Tribune: A tramp called
upon a gentleman in Bath, Me, and of
fered tn saw wood tor his dinner. The
gentleman accepted the proposition, bu
was unable 10 find the saw. He was Sc
pleased, however, with the fellows will
ingness to work that lne gave him 4
square meal. A short time aflerward hI
discovered that the tramp had stolen the
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

AndV Wilson, one of the cattle kings
of Kansas, died at Topeka this week
He was only about 46 years old and
came to Kansas in 1867 He owned a,
one time more than 1000 head of flint
cattle on farm Of about 5000 acres &
few miles from Topeka. He had no US
Tor poor cattle but always s,rove to g
the best and To bI eed such.