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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-08

Visitors to st. Louis duripg the week
Of the fair and Veilsd Prophets process
sion will be pleased TO learn that bu-
reau OF entertainment will be established
IN the ticket office on the southeast cor
ner OF Broadway and Chestnut streets in
that city. where strangers may go imme-
diateiy upon their arrival and be direct
ell TO respectable boarding houses and
good hotels, and be protected from i'm
position and extoEtlon generally. free of
all charge. This 10 . most admirable
arrangement and will tend greatly To
save visitors from annoyance.
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
EVE YEARS OLD.


The New York HerAld's Warrington
correspondent furnishes 70 that paper
9 most interesting account of q, muletto
named Shsdrock Nugent. who has lived
In Washington since 1912, and who has
documents IN his possession showing
that he was born in Frederick county.
Nd. Ia 1850. This weuld make him
one hundred aud twenty i've years old.
Shadrock was better known In Wash
Ington as the "Moon Man." on account
OF having devoted many years
to observations of the moon and deduc-
ing curious theories from his lunar
studies. He rarely leaves his home on
N. street now. His hair is q pure
white and somewha longer than IL
usual with co:ored people. He talks
glIbly OF his acquaintance with all the
presidents. beginning with Washington
and ending with Arthur. he has mo-
met President Cleveland as yet, bui
means TO do so. He says that he wa
present in 1914 when the British werI
in Washington, aud President Madison
was compelled TO drive away from thu
White House to avoid capture.
Shaddock seems to have had q horro
of matrimony, but was caught in tn
tolls at last, and became the father o
three girls and one boy. He say
they are all good children, the baby be
ing now ffty-hve years old.
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CHICAGO Wins.
THE SCORE GRANDDAUGHTER.
GO SIX, NEW YORK TWO.
Mile Emma Nevada and DR.. Ray
mOnd Married Today.
The Packing House at Junction City
Destroyed by Fire.
Turkey and Bulgaria Unsettled
About Going to War.
Other Interesting News from Home
and Abroad.

CHICAGO, Base Ball Grounds, Oct. 1.
The weather, which was cloudy and
cool al O'Clock, threatened rain every
moment. At that hour there were not
more than 1000 people present. and in
dIcations pointed to a small crowd as
compared with the two previous games
At 2 80 the first bell rang, and New York
came on the field. There were not then
more than 5000 persons present. The
second bell rang at 2:45, and the Chi.
Cages came on the field amid great ap-
plause. The sun broke forth and bid
lair to make the day good one. There
are now about 5000 people here.
3:15 p. m.-First inning-Captains
Arson and Ward tossed for choice and
the New YoEks won, sending the Chlca-
goes TO bat. Curry called time and the
play began. Dalrymple flew ont 10 Ger
hardt; Gore few oui 10 Common; Kelly
gets q reception and goes out from short
stop 20 first baseman; Chicago nothing
8 20 D. m.-First inning-New York
nothing; O'Rourke, base on balls Con-
ner flies out TO Sunday; Ewing flies out
to Dalrymple; Gillespie goes out from
Pfeiffer 70 Arson.
Second lnning-There were 10000
people present; Chicsgo,2 runs; Arson
files out to O'Rourke; Pfeiffer makes 8
base hit; Williamson struck out; Burns
gets q base on Wards error and steals
second Mccormick hits a ball 10 Ger.
hardt who misses II, letting Pfeiffer and
Burns score; Sunday goes out from fiTs
to second. New York nothing; DargaI
flew out to Dalrymple; RichaI dssn from
pitcher to first; WEIGH got a base OF
balls; Gerhardt few out to Burns.
Third inning-ChicagO nothing; Dial
rvmple, base hit; Gore. base on balls
Kelly hits to Ward and Gore goes GU
IN double play; Arson out; pitcher Il
| first batteries ale Mccormick, Kelly
Ewing and WEIGH.
$50 D. m.-Third inning-New Yorl
one; Ward few out Pfelffer; O'Rourke
base hit; Kelly, passed ball and on
wild throw O'Rourke scores; Common an
Ewing out on double play by Pieiffer.
Fourth inning = Chicago, 2; NeN
York, o.
Fifth Chicago, o; New York
Sixth inning-Chicago. 0; New Yorl
Seventh inning Chicago, O; Me-
York, 0.
Eighth inning - Chicago, o; Ne'
York, o.
Ninth Inning-Chicago, 4; New Yorl
The result of the game was greete
| with loud applause.
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ltis announced that Prince Waldemar
OF Denmark, who Is to be married in
February next to the Princess Marie De
Orleans. viii by that time have saved u
sufficient sum of money with which to
commence housekeeping, with a little
economy. The prince will then have an
income OF 100000 per annum HE
wife brings him $4,000 per annum and
the king grants him $4,000 additional.
That's what cowboy would call being
swell fixed"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-08

A most beneficial outcome OF the
National Sportsman's convention, Just
closed at ST. Louis. is the formation of a
"nauonal association for the protection
of game and hsh," the object being not
only the propagation o. the fiaer varie-
ties OF fish IN American waters. but also
to prevent their being fished during the
spawning season TIE greed % fisher
men 10 work at ali seasons of the year
without regard TO the spawning time has
led TO the almost entire extinction of
some varieties of fish, and the formation
OF an association for the purpose OF stop
ping such an unwise practice is exceed :
lngly timely. The association pro-
poses to use Its influence to induce con-
gress and the legislatures of the various
states and territories To enact uniform
game laws snd make suitable provision
for their enforcement with the still
more laudSble object of increasing the
food supply.
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a nu..el al Is a sIin,Ic.

By the margin of a small stream I
caught '.Leplocircus yirescens. (which
derives projection from mimicking the
habits and appearances of a dragon
ny, in crowd Of which il is often to
be found In form 1t reminds me of
the European genus seIlscPter0- 1t
dts over the top OF the water huster-
ing its tails, jerking up aud down just
as dragon-fiies do when Ticking the
water with the tip OF their abdomens.
When it settles on the ground it is diff
cult TO sec. as it vibrates. in constant
motion. its tail and wings, so that 8
mere haze. as il We're, exists where it
rests Aasuyalist's Wandering.
Gen. Sherman says that he is getting
too old TO kiss young ladies he meets
at receptions
The population of the world IS esti-
mated 1t 400. 600. COO.
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Total Abstinence IN Texas.

Hostetter McGinnis went to Hous-
ton one day last week to pay a visit to
Dan McGary, the editor of the demo-
cratic organ in the Bayou city. just
as he was leaving the depot, with his
gripsack in his hand, a negro ran in
front of him, and holding up his hand,
said:
BOSS, femme show you around de
town for a quarter"
''rve been in the town before. Pm
going to see Dan McGary, the editor of
The Houston Age" replied Hostetter.
''Gwineter see him, is yer? Who
am gwineter show you de way back to
de hotel after you has done seen himP
You'll need somebody ter lead yer
back ter de hotel, sartain."
This little incident, trivial as it is, is
cumulative evidence going to sustain
the charge so frequently made in the
columns of the Texas press that the
editor of The Age habitually violates
his temperance views TeIGS Stttings
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nanrarnns Nan

CIRcLEvILLE, o., Oct. 3.-Wm Book.
walter, while drunk yesterday, took a
position on the turnpike near town and
said he was going to kill the first negro
that passed. Nobody paid any attention
70 him, but when Samuel TIbbs, color
ed boy, 20 years old, came along driving
some cattle in company with white men,
BookWalter renewed the threat TO Tibbs
who lsughingly SAID he did not believe
him and rode on. Bookwalter fred and
struck Tibbs In the back fatally wound
ing him. Bookwsiter was arrested.
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The Cincinnan Commercial Gazette
Informs Us that one of the profitable III
dustries OF thai city is the sale of dead
human bodies. Il appears that the
deaIhs at the city iofirmary at that place
numbered ahont $50 last year, and that
the bodies were disposed of for snatom-
lcal purposes at sl5 each. The Law pro-
vides that these pauper dead should go
to the anatomical association of Cincin-
natl, and as that Institution failed of get
ting its quota an invest CATION was made,
hence the exposure It Is said that ar
rests will shortly follow.
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An Editor Dead.

CINCINNATI, O., Oct, "a cable dis
patch received here announces that Hon.
F. Hessaurek died in Paris, France. at
/ O'Clock this morning. MIR. HassOurek
has been for long time the principal
owner and editor of the Cincinnati
VolksblAdt. He served as United States
minister In South America by appoint
'ment of President Lincoln. Upon his
return he published a novel, entitled
"The Yearl of Andes" which had a wide
circulation. Mr.. HassaureK has been
in Europe for two or three years in hope
of restoring his declining health.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-08

The silly story that Senator Plumb is
the owner of Thousands OF cattle grazing
on lands in the Indian Territory has
again been sent out on It's travels by the
Oklahoma Chief and republished by
the Wichita Beacon. II lie worth no
other notice than to brand it as a clear
fiction born In the brain of its origina.
tors, and circulated In the interest OF
Senator Plumb's enemies. The evident
animus OF the lie destroys any weight IL
might otherwise have had.
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r,aa4n,har re-.

GALVESTON, Oct. IA special to the
News from Laredo. Texas, says: Nor
ris & Co., among the largest dry goods
dealers of New Laredo, Mex undertook
to transport large quantity of goods
shipped to them in bond for Piedras
Negras, TO New Laredo. Wednesday
they found the teamsters belonging 70
the transport train, securely tied to the
trees thirty miles north of New Laredo,
while the most valuable portion OF their
goods had been carried away by rob
berB.
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Ills no wonder that Wichita is the sub
ject OF healthy boom in business and q
stable advance In real estate. when we
consider the llberallty with which us
citizens. It's municipality and Its town.
ship comes forward IN support Of The
railroads. II appears now that in the cleo
ton in Wichita township for = subscrip-
ton OF stock TO the Omaha, Abilene &
Wichita railway, the tally sheet shows q
unanimous vote in favor OF the bonds,
thus illustrating that the people under
stand one, Al least of the sources OF gen.
uine progress, and that they are not slow
% take advantage OF it Railways are to
young and growing community what
advertising lie tn the business man. They
briog trade, disseminate knowledg, build
up the waste PLACES and command proc
psriiy. Wrll done. Wichita.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-08

The annual meeting of the board OF
managers at the National Soldiers Home
at Dayton, Chic, has just closed its la
bors. The annual report shows that
there are at present 4,34O inmates of the
home; that ih,re are 9d7 on leave of alb
sence, and about 10 temporary residents,
making total Of 800 old soldiers cared
for by the government In that institu-
tim
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nidn.. Enior ThemseIves.

Tho hotel walters who failed to ,yes
their customary tips.
The father Of the family who had to
STAY at home and pay the bills.
The girl with corns who danced and
usually had bungling partner.
The ambitious young lady who wan
ted TO 90 to Saratoga and couldn't
The Young lady who went to Mount
Desert without her ulster and nearly
The mother with several daughters
none of whom received the least atten-
The summer girls at so many OF the
resorts who looked for beaux and did
not find them
the livery racket, and saw a rival take
his girl to drive.
The lately popular blondes. who
found brunette girls all the rage at SO
many of the resorts.
The old bachelor who expected TO
find some cronies at Newport but
didn't and had to NOPE about alone
The newly arrived young lady whose
trunks were delayed and did not arrive
ia time for the german
The young fellow at Long Branch
who bought pool tickets on the wrong
horse at the Monmouth races.
The prim old bachelor who went to
the Profile house without his hair-dye
and found they had none there
The social young fellow fond OF q
morning cocktail who went to Asbury
park and couldn't get drink for love
or money.
took an extensive lot of tackle to the
fofn nd
streams all dried up.
The precocious young misses who
were not allowed to stay up as late as
their elder sisters and had TO go to bed
| at o'clock
The belle from the rural districts
who went to Long Branch to cut &
/ dash and found that none of her dresses
were in proper style.
The numerous parties that went
yachting and were becalmed and had
to stay out all night, without hunks Oh
anything to eat
The newIy-married couple making q
long trip who had to take separate
seats at different ends of the Pullman
drawing-room car.
The society girl who took her riding
habit to the mountains expecting t
make a stunning figure and found NJ
cavalier to ride with.
The young society swell who wen
to Spring lake expecting to have So
perb time and found his irate las
years tailor at the same hotel.
The girls who laid in big stock o
fancy dry-goods and went to resort
where there was not a young ma
worth looking at the whole season.
The old maid who went to bathe an
discovered on returning that someon
had mistaken her bath-house and take
her false teeth to the office.
The impecunious society swells VIII
went to cheap boarding at Al
lantic City and read about their favor
lite girls participating in Bar Harbo
gayety.
The young man who forgot his swa
low-tail and found outside the bal
> room of the Grand Union, at Saratog;
where his pet girl was promenadinE
, the sign: Full dress indispensable.
The young lady fond of fun VIII
went to Lake Mohank, the Presbytel
! ian resort, where il is considered a
, most a sin to laugh aloud and wheI
a anyone who wonld dare to dance woul
be told TO leave. -RhiiddeiphiG Time
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And now comes Capt Robert w. An,
drews oi: Sumter. s. O.. 90 years of age
aud At present on q pedestrian tour from
Columbus, 8. c., to New Orleans, width.
he goes to take look at the Exposition
in that city. Capt Andrews proposes to
walk every foot of the way. He Is said
TO be hearty, vigorous man, who does
not look over 80. He carries small
knapsack with underwear and a few
other trifies, and is accompanied by his
tnn
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Wtndow olass AIanufacturers

NEW York, Oct. The general
convention OF window glass manufae-
turers was held here yesterday, with
Thomas Wightman of Pittsburg in the
chair. The meeting was very fully at
tended and all were agreed as TO the
very unpromising outlook for the fall
trade. For although no glass has been
made for three months, there has been
no improvement in prices that is worth
mention. The stocks are yet larger than
year ago and little desire was express
ed to add to them. The matter of adj
justIng the scale of wages with the
Workmen was continued in the hands of
the same committees that We're named 10
IElv last
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Innctinn Citx Noten.

JUNCTION CRY, Kan, Oct 1 The
packing house at this point was burned
last night. 1t was'the work of an lDcen-
diary, evidently. The fire had gained
such Roadway before discovered
that 1t WAS impossible to save any of the
contents. There Is an insurance of 3d.
500 on the building, machinery and
stock. Tue loss will PROBABLY be very
high
The Central Kansas Fair is 10 session
here this week The stock is the finest
ever exhibited in this country before.
The fruit and vegetable displsy Is also
excellent The attendance is NOT as good
as on previous occasions, as the citizens
of DaYle county are at the reunion al
TOpekv this week
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-08

Mrs. Patterson, the plucky little lady
who telegraphed to Sir Charles Dixie
10 make public the announcement OF
their marriage when that gentleman was
involved In the great London scandal
has made her dispatch good. The we'd
ding takes place to-day at st. Luke'i
church, Chelsea, England.
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nhe MAYOR Arrest. d.

MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct. 2-Owing
to the precautions taken by the mayor
Of the city, the past night was quiet and
the streets almost deserted. Three
companies of the garrison OF artillery
were under arms at the exhibition build.
ings. with troop of cavalry doing pa.
troll duty outside. One hundred con.
stables were on hand at The central po-
lice station. The chairman Of the board
of health stated last night that the may
or had been arrested at the instance OF
Louis Baubien. for taking forcible pos
session of the exhi 'tion grounds for q
SMALLPOX hospital,
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A Colorado Hanging,

DENVER, Oct 1.-Information has
reached here to the effect tina; Marshall
Clements, the murderer of his brother
and brothers wife, at Ssguache, was
taken from the jail there by party of
masked men and hanged. Clements had
a knife with which ne cut two of the
men quite severely The lynching &C.
CURED last Saturday night, but the loca-
ton is remote and away from all tele-
graphic connection, and the residents
of the locality manifest a desire 10 sup
press all the information
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Mrs. Veronica Bulla OF Syracuse, New
York, having been told by her physi-
clan that certain gastric disorder under
which she was laboring could be cured
by fasting. commenced absiaining from
food on the 10Th of August, and from
that time to the present, q period Of hfty-
tour days, she has abstsined from food,
and only occasionally taken q little
water. She is still alive, but 100 weak
TO leave her bed. She has lost twenty
pounds OF flesh, but sill persists in
keeping up the fast. slthough her gas-
trlc trouble appears 70 have long ago
been starved to death
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The scrub aud palmetto lands of
southern Florida that have been Absn-
doned for years a. utterly. worthless for
producing purposes, have recently been
found the most valuable in the state for
raising pineapples. The crop for the
past year has nearly equalled in value
that OF the orange yield, and the business
10 at present In It's infancy.
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New Yerk Tribune: The new letter
delivery system was not used so much
yesterday a. the postohice authorities ex
pected. Ten times as many letters could
have been handled. But If it takes
nearly two hours to send letter be.
tween the City Hall and Twenty third
street, does not the service need "expe-
ditingr The distance referred to by
the Tribune 10 about two miles.
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A RAILROAD i'm Trouble.

ST. Louis, Oct. Judge Brewer in
the United States circuit court to-day
granted a decree for enclosure and sale
in the case of the 81. Louis, Hannibal 81
KeOkuk railroad. The decree specifies
that the price shall be large enough to
cover costs and all advances, receivers
certificates and interest levies prior to
the bonds, and that all ststutary lines are
TO be paid before the bonds.
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We give place to-day to another article
from "VeritAs' in reply TO Rev. Mr..
Mackay. AS both these gentlemen seem
striving to accomplish the same end by
different routes, we are disposed to give
them an equal showing, especially as
their controversy appears TO be exciting
some public interest
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ANNOUNCEMENT.

We desire 70 state 20 our patrons and
the public generally that Mr.. r. +. Mac
Lehman has disposed Of his interest In
the EA1PoRIA DAILY and WEEKLY NEWS
and News land ONCE 70 Mr.. A. B. New
comb and will retire from the paper
leaving Mr.. Newcomb by mutual con
sent Is editor and sole proprietor.
A. B. NEwcoMB.
FRANK P. MAcLEENAN.
E1IPoRIA. Kans Oct 8. 1885,
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sunday Nights Murders

GALVESTON, Tex. Oct IA special
from Austin says: he negro John
ston Gregg, on whose evidence Oliver
Townsend and Dock Woods have been
arrsste1, charged with Sunday nights
murders, states that he overheard Town
send and Wood planning the murders,
and On the night of the crime followed
one of them 10 the premises where it
was committed. He heard the DIS
turbance made IN committing the
crime, but then left the neigh borhOod
without raising an alarm. Gregg also
stated he heard Townsend threaten To
kill Becky Rainey. who with her little
girl was killed on Sunday night about a
month ago, and said be had not spoken
of the matter before becuuse he did not
know tn It Townsend killed her. The
story is discredlted.
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Father-Come right out in the back
yard, my son. I'll make you see stars.
Son-Are We going TO make an
American flag. fathers?
Father-What do you mean, you
young rascal?
Son-Why, I'm going to provide the
stars while You furnish the stripes
Father Calling on his Where
did you inherit this brilliaHcy? on with
your coat. my son! / must save you or
perish in the attempt = 1tiLGdel phia
Cal
She was the wife of railroad mil
honaire who was accused of making
his millions by twice enlarging the
issue of the stock of the road. The
wife of a stock-broker was calling on
her, aud admired her diamond ear
ring. Yes, they are fine stones, y
said their owner. They are brilliants
of the first water" .sYoa ought to
have some of the second water, too -
was the retort Il don't think your
husband has treated you right"
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win BE Released.

CHICAGO, oct. 3.-The grand jury last
evening reconsIdered the case of Jasper
e Sweet, who shot and killed DIR. ThOs.
Waugh September 18th, for intimacy
with his wife and for the second time
return q bill against him (SWeet) who
WAS discharged from custody yesterday
morning and Immediately rearrested.
He will be released from jail to-day.
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The obelisk brought from Egypt

The obelisk brought from Egypt at
such an enormous expense and set up
in Central Park, New York, is already
showing evidences of decay. For more
than four thousand years It had stood
the test Of an Egyptian climate. but it
bids fair In less than that number of
days to be counted among the things
Of the past under the more rigorous eli
mate of the north. Prof. DoremOus
thinks that complete coating Of paraf-
fine from top to bottom may save IL, and
this experiment Is about TO be tried. It
is to be hoped it may succeed.
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KiIled With 40 Axe.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. "a special TO
the Times says: Joseph Cochran q
quiet, retired old manufacturer killed
his son-in-law, Jas. Fl. Marcum, at
Greensburg, Kentucky. Cochran
claimed he surrendered all his property
to Marcum. on condition he would be
taken care of in old age and that he was
abused aud maltreated. Before harcum
arose from his bed bis fatheT-in Law went
into the room and hacked his head TO
DiecaS with an axe