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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-14
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TAs MIN csOry Starts andsr Very Fsvsrabl.
uspicea.


Tat min osory Starts sndsr Very Favorable
uspiess.
Over two hundred busy hands were
pushing the green peas out of the fat
pods yesterday morning when the
NEWS representative called in at
the canning factory. For several
days the boys and girls have been
waiting for an opportunity to go
to work in this new industry and
when the word was sent round
that everything was in readiness, they
were on hand in full force. Many
faces may be seen there that are smil-
ing and q good many sober ones.
There are several young ladies and a
number of elderly women at work and
they make swift hands. Quite a num-
Der called this morning too late to Sc
cure work as the vegetables have not
begun to come in in any great quantity.
and it was amusing to watch their long
faces as they left the building. In a
few days however. work can be
furnished twice as many more.
The shelters are furnished with peas
and square wooden box. When the
box has been filed with the shelled
peas it is taken to the check-man. He
takes the box and gives the picker
a tin check. These are~kept by the
several workers until the end of the
week or pay day when they are re-
deemed by paying the laborer for his
work. This enables the latter to tel
how much his weeks wages will be and
it also enables the company to tell al
the end of each week how many
boxes of hulled peas they have received
and how many they have to take cart
of.
The payment for these little tiI
checks will put considerable money intC
the hands of those who need it and the
factory will no doubt prove great
benefit to the city in general and to the
shelters in particular. Mr.. JohI
O'Loughlin of Lawrence and his son Of
Garrett have been employed by thu
company to manage the canning bust
ness. and from the manner in which
the work has been done SO far, they un
derstand fully the canning business
They have each had years of experience
in canning and are highly recon
mended by men in the business all Owe
the country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-14

Marriage licenses were issued to the
following persons within the last
week.
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A RED nose wipe lis an appropriate
emblem for democracy.
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THE PROCESS.

From the hullers' hands the peas are
run through tanning mill to blow out
all dust, and then they are poured into
perforated tin buckets, scalded and
wrinced and poured out on long table.
Two women, with tin shovels and fun
nels, put the peas into the :-cans, filing
them almost full. The cans are put
into crate and dipped once more into
boiling water and held there for some
minutes, allowing time to cook them
well. The water they are dipped in
has been sailed, and this is all the
seasoning they receive at the factory.
From this crate they are taken once
more to table and after being wiped
dry are ready for the cappers, who seal
up the cans with pieces Of tin made for
the purpose. After being soldered air
tight they go into the professor or
steamer. In this air-tight vat there is
nothing but steam. The heavy pres
sure of the steam finishes the work of
cooking and they are ready for the
labels. This is in brief, the process
through which every can must go and
it is interesting to watch the process.
The building was visited by a great
many yesterday. Nearly all hands
are as yet akward, but in time speed
and efficiency will be gained.-News.
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AOOls
i The democratic party
! Is pledged to revise the
} ltarin In a spirit OF fair
, mess to allinte tests, but
, in making a reduction
! in taxes II is not pro
-lp0Ssd TO iRjure any do
! Inestic fadustrfes, but 70
lIrelieve the people from
! the crushing war tax
lies which have paral-
-lyzed business, crippled
. Industries and de
labor of EN-.
3 Iployment and of Just
TIE sySteRs OF
J, idtrect taxation knOlofl
Has "iaterndI reUeatse,, 4
, Ia Sodr tao. = Tax.
sles collected at the Gus
. tom houses have been
1.-THE chief source OF
d federal revenue. SzcA
d tAey 5tsIst continue 20 Be,
q Moreover, many indus
q ltrles have come TO rely
upon legislation for
Successful continu.
lance, 50 that any
change OF law must be
at every step regard.
ful OF the labor and
lnanffol fhna Fnunl-al
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Message, Democratic Platform


Dec. D..
Our scheme of taxa
ton, by means OF which
this needles surplus 10
taken from the people
and put into the public
treasury consists of 4
tarin or duty levied up
on importations from
abroad, and internal
revenue taxes levied
upon the consumption
of tobacco and spirit
Gus and malt liquors .
IL must be conceded
that none of the things
subjected to internal
revenue taxation are,
strictly speaking, nec-
essaries: there appears
90 be no just cOmpE1ias
Of this t,i.sdtiO1s 6y ths
consumers Of these 0rti-
cIes, aud fhers seems 10
Re nothing 80 toslI able %
bear the burden tcithOttl
hardship 20 any portion
Of the people.
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have been displaced by incompetent
and unframed men for political reas-
Ons only, in the mail service, in the
Indian bureau, in the land department
till the public business has fallen into
imbecile and ineXtricable disorder.
meanwhile, have greatly increased.
An appearance of economy" has been
secured by inadequate appropriations,
supplemented by deficiency bills, or by
the refusal to pay the acknowledged
and ascertained obligations of the
treasury. The courts in the United
States in many districts have been
closed, and justice denied for want of
funds to pay jurers and witnesses. The
spirit and even the letter of the civil
service act have been violated to secure
partisan results, and the commission
have amended the statute requiring
preference to be given to Union soldiers
ny adding provision that they shall
not be above forty years of age. AS
the war closed tWenty-three years ago,
this regulation renders any soldier in
eligible who was more than seventeen
years old when it ended. And thus
excludes the great mass of veterans for
whose benefit the law was enacted.
Upon the questions affecting the rev.
enues and the resources of the nation,
an issue Of still greater consequence
and Importance will be presented for
the decision of the people in November.
The Democratic party distinctly prom
ised to reduce and distribute the sur
plus in the treasury; to readjust the
tariff; to provide against the threatened
contraction o. the currency through
the approaching extinction of the pub
lie debt. They have had three years
power, and have not only done nothing.
The surplus has reached the highest
amount known in our history. The
president first exerted an admitted
power to use it in the purchase of
bonds, and then with suspicious incon-
sistency refused to exercise it, upon
the shallow pretext that his authority
was uncertain. lie issued an ante
nuptlal proclamation to congress upon
silver, which his party in the house of
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
CONDENSED TELEeRAMs.

THE Treasury surplus is S103, 900.
The discrepancy between this amount and
the surplus as stated in the Presidents
letter OF acceptance, $3.50, 100000 is due to
the fact that the President includes about
81, 900 900 fractional silver coin on hand
as part of the surplus, while the treasury
officials do not.
A wATERsPoUT broke on the mountain
side near Van Buren,, Ark, on the Sth and
flooded a portion of the place, causing
great damage. The main business street
was inundated, and also many residences.
FLOODS in the south of Spain have
caused the loss of many livos and enormous
damage to property.
REV. MAXWELL P. GADDIs, sR., super
animated Methodist minister, died at Day
ton, o., on the Sth, the seventy seventh
anniversary of his birth.
WHILE Mrs VIM. II. Walker, Of Jack
sonviue, Texas, with her four children,
were out riding on the 7th, the team ran
away and her babe of six months fell under
the wheels and was killed. Another child
four years old was stepped on by the
horses aud fatally injured. The mother is
wild with grief.
The race troubles in Fort Bend county,
in what is known as "the Texas sugar
belt," are now over. A number Of obnox-
ious politicians have been ordered to leave
the county, and have done 50, and the bet
ter element is again at the helm Of public
affairs.
THERE was an enthusiastic meeting Of
business men held at Columbus, Miss, on
the Sth, to devise ways and means for the
revival of line of steamers on the Tom
bigbee river between Columbus and points
below.
THE quarrels of the Sioux, Crows, Pie
gans and Gros Ventres have become vio-
lent, and a bloody war, in which the four
tribes intend to take part, seems imminent.
DIsPATCHEs from central and western
Michigan, state that the corn crop has
been severely injured by the long con-
timed drouth and recent frosts. In the
vicin4y OF Battle Greek the loss is so per
cent, and many farmers are cutting corn
for fodder
GREAT damage has been done to crops in
/ New York State by frosts. Il is estimated
in some places that half OF the late crops
have been injured beyond recovery.
AT Columbia, S. c., on the 7th, the
/ Congaree river rose fifteen feet, over
/ flowed its banks and inundated thousands
/ Of acres Of cotton and corn lands.
FIFTEEN hundred dollars was sent to
! Mayor Hewitt, OF New York, on the sth,
! for Jat ksonyille, Fla. Advices indicate
these contributions during the day for the
fever sufferers Norfolk, Va, $500:
Augusta. Ga, 1000; Mobile, Ala, Ss7i
Charleston, s. C., $1,000. SaYaunah, Ca,
has fund OF S49S6.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14

these are suckers, constantly in mo-
ton, for they are the family purvey-
ors, not only securing prey, but ex-
tracing therefrom the needed nutri-
ment, for the physalia has no proper
mouth nor alimentary canal.
Other ribbon-like streamers are very
long; one, measuring five or six inches
only when at rest, could extend itself
to twelve or even eighteen feet! Rope
like tentacles these, possessing re-
markable stinging power, supposed to
be used for benumbing their booty;
each performs its appointed service in
the family economy with aptness and
dispatch, neither is there any show of
interference with one another's special
line of work.
1t is a common trick with ''oId salts"
to make novice pick up a "Portu-
guese man-of-war," " for their brilliant
coloring renders them very attractive.
Alas! their stinging power, which not
only causes intense local pain, but a
most uncomfortable irritation, contin-
uing often for weeks, is any thing but
a cheerful reminder.
The nettle-natured tentacles can, it
is said, seize and destroy, through this
SUPPLE venom, creatures much larger
than themselves-wea eapons of warfare,
doubtless, to secure rich booty for the
suckers, their coadjutors in provision
ing the fairy-like craft.
A jelly fish weighing two pounds
when examined after death by an ex-
pert, was found to weigh but thirty
grains; the dried tissue, very deli
cate texture, strongly resembles ex-
tremely thin paper.
The delicately organized vOyagers
move along in grandly independent
fashion, bearing within themselves as
one may say, propelling forces, fully
equipped cOmmissary department,
and goodly number OF cheerful,
humble retainers. A wonderful friend
ship is known to exist between these
Portuguese ''men-of-war" and some
small fishes of the genus NOmeus, and
these midgets of vassals swim about in
a most reckless manner, lodging in
and out among the deadly lObes that
are swift destruction to others of their
kin. just here the physalia appears
in the role of protector. No doubt
these mites Of followers "act we'll
their part, " for the law of compensa-
ton must somewhere enter in. 1t is
| recorded that these dainty little guests,
sporting and gambolling about their
hosts with such ease and freedom, are
of the same vital tints as the flowing
tentacles, and naturally enough out
siders of the sea-born crowd regard
them as veritable stingers so en-
| phatically to be avoided; thus perfect
safety is insured these lesser folk, un-
able of themselves to assume the de
! fensive.-Harper' Bazar.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
WHEAT GRADES.


The Minnesota Warehouse Commissioners
Said to Have Reduced the Grades of
Wheat In that State-Surprise Expressed
and the Effects OF the Action Discussed.
CHICAGO, Sept. Sword has been re.
ceived in Chicago that the Minnesota
State Warehouse Commissioners had
taken the important and unexpected step
of reducing the grades of wheat in that
State. For some days there has been d
rumor that No. Northern might be sub
stituted for No. hard, on speculative con-
tracts, but no one anticipated the sweep
ing changes that have been made. Prac-
tical1y the old grade of No I hard has
been wiped out altogether. The old
names are retained, but that is about all
that is left. Hereafter Nos. 1 hard and
Northern will consist of ninety per cent.
of the old grades and ten per cent. Of
damaged or frosted wheat; and the mix
ture of twenty-five or fifty per cent of
frosted stuff is permitted in the lower
grades. Several Board of Trade MEM
bers who were seen expressed great sur
prise at the action of the commissioners.
There was a diversity of opinion as to it's
effect One of the most prominent
brokers interviewed said the effect of
course would be lowering of
values as well as of grades. To
lower the grade in Chicago would
try, and foreigners will lose confidence
in our grades in consequence of the Min
nesota commissioners action. The inn
mediate effect will be bad, and he feared
that the ultimate effect will be worse. He
confessed being q big bull on wheat, but
thought this move would give them a set
back. The effect on foreign markets
would be worse than at home. Two other
heavy brokers did not agree with these
news. They thought the action Of the
Minnesota commissioners could have lit
tie effect other than a tendency to hold
the Chicago market a little irmer, and
have bad effect on Mimi nesota wheat.
A dispatch from MINI eapolis says:
''Of the Northwestern markets Duluth is
perhaps the only one that will be affected
by the new ruling, and the effect there
will be to weaken the stiff squeeze that
has been in existence there for the last
two months. Prices have been kept up at
an abnOrmally high figure, and for no
other apparent reason than to squeeze
money out of some operators on the short
side. Wheat can not be bought at Du
luth and sold at a profit in any market in
the world, nor is there any use Hor the
grain at Duluth. If the admission of
frosted wheat into the hard grade will
turn enough wheat in that direction to
break the corner at Duluth, the effect
can not be called harmful, except to a
few spectators, while from the Minne-
apolis market there will be removed an
incubus that has rendered local milling
oper ations extremity unsettled"
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
TWO COSTLY CoFFINs.
Artistic CRskets OF "A Most Luxurious ID
aerlptLon "A waItlnR Two Hoalonlmna.

Artistic CRskets OF "A Most Luxurious De
seriPtLOn Awaiting Two BOstOniRns.
In Boston nothing is held TO be too
good for a genteel corpse. Two cof-
fms, just now in process Of construc-
tion by a local manufacturer-tO be
used some day by the granddaughter
Of Baron Won WurtemburR and her
husband will not cost less than five
thousand dollars apiece. They are
made Of mahogany, seven inches thick,
carved in bold relief with the most
elaborate designs. All Of these are In
some manner emblematic Of death. On
the panel spider-itself symbolic ot
the grim destroyer-has caught the fy
at last in a web so delicately executed
that you fear 20 breathe upon 10 lest II
blow away. In another place "a Grif-
fms claw supports a human skull from
a fracture from which lizard is
crawling. Still another panel shows
an owl in the act Of capturing mouse,
and 40 Oh, the intention being to ex-
press the idea that death comes soon
or late to every living thing.
On the top OF each coffin is carved a
coat-of-arms, and every available
inch Of the interior is beautihed by
the cutting tools. Inside these
superb caskets arc swung two silken
bammocks for the eventful reception
Of the Baron's granddaughter and her
spouse. They are not dead yet, be Sc
understood. Quite otherwise. But
having no end Of money, they wished
TO die regardless Of expense. A 1923
900 dollar mausoleum in local cem-
etery will serve as a receptacle for tbs
costly boxes Boston Budget,
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
PORTUGUESE MEN-oF-wAR.
Queer Little JeIIy-Fish and How Natur
Has Put Them Together.


Has Put Them Together.
'Look! look!' cried our little enthu-
siast over the way, as with utmost
caution she opened a small basket.
Once in a lifetime, If at all, may com
mon mortals be permitted to entertain
such guest; it was caught, or rather
found, this noon. So much for us has
this dreadful storm brought-an epoch
of enjoyment very rare!
I'VE can have it but a moment" =" she
added; lit is too precious to be loosely
handled-and, too, science claims it;
in fact, the distinguished stranger is
even now on its way to the natural
history rooms--an honored member
viii it be, alive or dead-the first in
more than forty years, the captain
says, known to have strayed to our
quiet harbor."
This was our first and only glimpse
of that singularly graceful little Great
ure, Physalia atlantica, well known to
sailors as the Portuguese man-of-
war" Even as we watched with al
most breathless interest the rapidly
fading shell like tints of the quivering
tentacles-for the little life was we'll
nigh spent-we chronicled the coming
of Physalia to our inhospitable shores
that dull September afternoon as our
red-letter day of the season.
The proper home of the physalia is
in tropical waters; and only at rare in
tervals do they float northward in the
warm current of the gulf stream. In
the Gulf of Mexico they are seen at
their best, as with crest upraised and
rainbow-hued appendages streaming
like banners, they set forth, a busy
little colony of ocean travellers, in
search of nourishment and innocent
delight.
This wonderful jelly-fsh has an oval
shaped body Zone mentioned is said tc
have been scarcely bigger than a hens
t egg), the greater part OF which is ar
/ air sac enabling the Eliiputiau sailor
to float upon the surface Of the sea.
Numerous appendages Of various
kinds and Of different lengths hang
/ from its under side; the shorter o
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14

WAsHINGToN, Sept THE President
sent to the Senate this afternoon a mes
sage in answer to the resolution Of Sem
ator Sherman asking what information
on the subject Of the Chinese treaty had
been received by the State Department
The President transmits two dispatches
from Minister DENLY, which contain, he
says, the only information which the
State Department has on the subject.
The first is dated Pelrin, September.5, and
says that IL is believed that the treaty has
been rejected and that he has demanded
positive information. The second is
dated September g. and says: Treaty
postponed for further consideration
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
WRECKED WHALERS.

Accounts of the Storm Which Played
Havoc with the Whaling Fleet at Point
Barrow-The Vessels Lost.
SAN Francisco, Sept. THE seamen
rescued by the United States cutter Bear
from the wrecked whalers in Behring
sea, on August 3, describe the storm as
something terrific. The vessels were an
chored between Cape Smith and Point
Barrow on that day, waiting for the
breaking up of the ice so that they could
start on a whale hunt. During the after
noon it began to blow from the south
west. All of the vessels, with one ex-
ception, Immediately set sail for the
northeast side Of the point, some of them
anchoring between the shore and bar
located on the east side Of Port Moore.
On the bar the water is only two
or three fathoms deep. The wind
increased in violence, and swung
around to the north, making a heavy
sea which broke on the bar. The first
vessel to part her cables was the schoon-
er Jane Grey. She struck an iceberg,
which knocked large hole in her. She
sank shortly afterward. When the storm
had subsidized several efforts were made
to raise the vessel, but without success
The Bear lay at anchor with the other
vessels and escaped unharmed. She
supplied the vessels with all her spare
anchors and chains, and rendered all
assistance possible. The shipwrecked
sailors were transferred at once
to the Bear, and she being short
Of provisions started at once for San
Francisco. All of the rescued speak in
the highest terms of Captain Healy of the
Bear. The three barks which were lost
belong in New Bedford. The Young
Phoenix and Mary Andrusan were owned
by Bartlett & Sons, of that place, and
were valued at $50. 900 and $4,000, re-
spectively. The Fleetwing was owned by
]. & W. Wing, Of New Bedford, and
valued at $50, 900. The schooner Jane
Grey was owned by Wright, Brown & Co,
of this city, and the Ino by S. H. Frank
& Co. They we're valued at $4,000 each.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14

LOWER BRULE AGENCY, Oak, Sept. l.
The commissioners have not yet done
any thing of Importance, having devoted
the time to preparations for the coming
work Prominent Indians say they are
about equally divided now, which Is
decidedly promising, in the face OF the
fact that nothing substantial has been
done TO win friends for the Sioux bill.
The outlook for securing signatures at
this agency is decidedly bright aud 1t is
expected that three weeks hence COM
paratively all the signatures at Lower
Brule and Crow Greek agencies will have
been secured in favor Of the bill.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
Run Down by the United States WarshIp
Boston.

NEW York, Sept. S.-Captain Hiram D.
Houseman, of Keyport, n. j., owner and
master of the oyster slOOp Tuona, has
filed with the Collector of the Port OF
Perth Amboy a protest in which he says
that while engaged in dredging for Oys-
ters at a point two hundred yards off the
Southwest Spit buoy in the lower bay at
nine O'Clock yesterday morning, he was
run into by what he supposed was the
United States warship Boston, which was
then returning from the cruise to test her
gun fittings. The steamer carried away
the Tuona's bowsprit and topmast, tore
her new mainsail to pieces, knocked
overheard shoveIs and baskets, parted
the bobstay and the facing on the gaff,
and tore off the lazyjack, the
toplift runner and one block on
the toplift. The damage is esti-
mated at $500. Captain Houseman
and his crew were busy with their dredges
and did not see the steamer until she was
right on top of the sloop. 1t was a clear
day, and Captain Houseman says he-was
entirely out Of the main channel Be-
sides, steamers must keep clear of sailing
vessels under the law. Captain House,
man said he was once run into by a navy
yard tug while lying at dock in New York,
and that he never received any pay for
the damage done. He is poor man and
can not afford any loss, much less one of
a fourth OF the value OF his slOop, which
be suffered yes terday.