davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
M CIavaT,a I,nekv Draw.

Having interviewed Mr.. Jno. T. Cha
yer in regard to his reported lucky
draw in the louisiana State Lottery,
we find that he held one-twentieth of
ticket No. As, 755, which drew the first
capital prize of $500, 900 il the Com
pany's drawing on the 9th of October
last, and that he has received his mon
ey-SI5 ,OOO-on the same. Mr.. Ga
ver's ticket cost him one dollar. and
was the first and only money he had
ever invested in that way.
BY an agreement with Mr.. William
Foster of this place, who also held a.
ticket in the Institution, that if either
of their tickets drew a prize they
would divide equally. Mr.. Foster re.
ceIves one half the amount.
Mr.. CiaVer and Mr.. Foster are both
well respected citizens of this vicinity,
and whatever may be said pro or con
of the Lottery itself, this amount of
money will elevate them from moderate
to well-to do circumstances, and it is
TO be hoped that it will be invested in
q way that viii give it circulation in
this city and COMMUNICATIONS
Iowa News, Nov. Is.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
PARsONlS RHTTR sLAYE.

Slavery in Massachusetts,, and
white slaves the victims. The dwell
lers of Holyake had ocular proof of it
one morning last week when Par
SONS the slave trader drove into town
from his country residence with Pole
lately arrived in this country from his
native land, chained hands and feet
and pad-locked to the seat of his wa
gon. 1t was cold and he was poorly
clad. while the tears were froze on his
face. lie was young man that Par
sons had picked up with hundreds
more in Castle Garden, and bundled
off to the bay state where he sold
them to the farmers.
The sight of man chained in slav-
cry in this manner, aroused the indig-
nation of the citizens of Holyoke, and
Parsons was speedily arrested and
lodged in Jail, while his miserable
victim, a young man, was taker
charge OF by the police and cared for.
1t now transpires that this fellow
Parsons has been engaged fol
years in the practice OF
inveigling ipnorant Poles. Danes
and Huns, Immediately on landing al
Castle Garden into surrenderine
themselves to his care, under promise
of securing employment for them. Hi
agents in New York curraled them anC
shipped them by the car load to him il
Massachusetts where he sold or rented
them to the farmers at from IS to $l2 6
month. They got only bare subsist
ence while he got a big commission
from which he made fortune.
1t is a little singular that such in
human practices could be carried on
and for three years, too, in a state that
boasts its superior culture. advance
ment and enlightenment. 1t is LITTLE
singular that slave trading but little
different in it's brutality and inhuman
ity from that carried on upon the Con
go by Tippo lib, could thrive by the
aid and conniYaDce of Christian farm
ers living almost within hearing of thu
church bells of aesthetic and cultured
Boston, where the cradle of abolition
was rocked, where Phillips and CARR
son Numbered for years against sla
| very
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
REsr YLRGLNLA.

There is a good deal of hugger-mug
ger about this state.
One day we read that it is democratic,
the next it is claimed by the republi-
cans. One day The solid south is bro
ken, the next day its soldity is all right,
saving a slight crack here and there.
First the state was said to have gone
for Harrison. In few days that was
changed and it was thought to be DEM
ocratic by few hundred. Again re-
publicans claimed it by trihing ma
iority, and now the Globe-Democrat
hints at proceedings in the state courts
to expose the alleged frauds by which
the state was carried for Cleveland.
But, what after all is of more conse-
quence than the political complexion
of the state in this somewhat bewil-
dering year of grace, is the fact that
whichever way it goes will make but
little difference in the nation.
Suppose, however, that New York
had gone democratic, then what rum
pus and row there would be. The whole
country would be in an uproar. Will
the fate of each party hanging on the
result, what fiery times we should have
what lurid skies in the political hori
zon, what rumbling of thunder ant
flashing Of lightning.
The scenes and incidents of 1877
would be repeated, and the soil o
West Virginia would be invaded b.
hosts of visiting statesmen" politca
jugglars, wlre-pullers and tricEsters
| jobbers and traders.
Charges and counter-charges, Grim
ination and recrimination would dark
en- the skies. Bedlam would be turne'
loose and the skies would reverberat
with cries of fraud and corruption.
Yes, it is a national blessing that Yves
Virginia is not pivotal state, does no
settle the question of the presidency
of party supremacy. for if it did, wher
would we be? Echo answers, ''th'
1 7 ord only knOUS ,,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
THE NEXT CONGRESS


1t begins to look now as if the demo-
Gratis are going to control the next
house. It is questionable whether the
interests of the party would not be
better served if the republicans were
permitted to organize both house and
senate. A divided responsibility viii
relieve the republicans OF much unfa-
vorabIe criticism, while the democrats
will draw upon themselves full share
of it because of the position they viii
in all probability assume relative to
certain legislative measures. The con-
troll of the house gives them an excel
lent vantage ground from which OBJ
structive tactics can be made thor
oughly effective, without supplying
any positive strength, or the ability or
opportunity to accomplish more than
merely to obstruct.
Generally speaking, there is always
more or less Odium accompanying a
dog-in-the-manger policy of that kind.
1t is difficult to avoid it.
In the view of the late election it is
not probable that the re-
publicans will bring forward any
measures in which democrats
will find it either wise or exped-
| lent to concur, and yet such tariff
bill may be introduced as Outwardly
at least, would wear the shows of re-
form, enough so to catch the popular
eye-whicb now appears to be some
what bleared from long squirting at
protection-while in reality it con-
taiQed very little reform.
! Now would it be better for the DEM
ocratic party that such measure
become law or that the attempt to
pass it be frustrated? That is the
question. In the first case it will in a
short time develop its weakness, and
prove the need for stronger measure
which is only another way of recon-
mending a democratic policy. In the
second case an obstructive policy will
only delay the time when the need fol
a democratic measure will seem i'm
peratiVe.
Then, too, with rebellious demo
cratic house worrying the administra
ton, the probabilities are that 1t would
give ear to the radical elements in the
party and seel%for revenge in the soutf
by curtailing the basis of representa-
ton, and thus depriving the democrats
of several congressman. Such an &C
would be a severe blow to the party anC
one from which it would not soon re
cover.
For these reasons it seems better
viewed from democratic standpoint
a that the republicans assume all respon
sibility for whatever legislation MAJ
come, and for whatever mistakes, ma.
follow. Let the old party try its hanC
once more at saving the country. L
it fails, or blunders, or trips itself up
why the wheel horses of democracy ar
at hand to take up the burden ant
fight it out ON their own line, if it take
a generation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

the sale of their products to home
market, when they well know that the
prices they get now for their products
are maintained by their ability to exc
port the surplus remaining after the
home market has been supplied.
One may call their course very I'M
selfish, very patriotic, and all that, but
Is it business? That is question that
will be decided in a few years at most.
In the meantime let us wait and see
how long the practice of paying out
dollars and taking in pennies win last;
how long patriotism can stand such a
strain.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
State History.


The Board of Directors of the State
Historical Society met. at Topeka on
the Goth. inst, to act upon the Sixth
Biennial Report of the Society, which
has been prepared by Secretary Adams.
and is soon TO be published. This Soc
iety is making up for the people of
Kansas remarkable library of history;
chiefly of the history of Kansas, and
largely of the local history of every
county in the State. 1t gathers up
whatever is printed in every town, in
Guiding the regular issues of over eight
hundred newspapers. OF Lyon County
newspapers it has now On its shelves
in the State House los bound volumes,
extending through the entire period
from 1866 to the present time. 1t has
5775 volumes of Kansas newspapers in
Guiding those first issued in Kansas
Territory, in 1854, and published
through all the earliest years of the
Territory and the State. 1t has now
nearly fifty thousand volumes of books,
pamphlets and newspaper files. and a
countless number of manuscripts, pic
lures, and other materials of history,
The library and collections are the pro-
perty of the State and it is safe to say
that the State is saving no other pro-
perry which will prove to be of sc
much value to the people for all time.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
COitsy County Hsws.

The course of law like love does not
always run smooth. AT the July
term of the district court one j. @.
Carmain was convicted of perjury for
swearing falsely that he had paid a
note of s126 due w. d. Triton. AS a
matter of course the jury were all
agreed that not dollar of the note
was ever paid. A new trial was asked
for and granted-In the meantime a
civil suit to recover the money that a
jury said was unpaid, was begun. AT
the present term of the court the GRIM
NAL retrial was continued. and the
civil case was decided in favor Of
the defendant. That is, another
| jury says that the money was paid
and therefore no perjury was commit
ted.
An abortion committed by young
| lady visiting at Burlington from a dis
| lance created d sens..tion there lately
Thomas Palmer and Isabella Dou
| glas of Neosho township were married
last Wednesday.
The city marshall of Burlington has
put his foot down on gambling for CT
| CARS.
| Joe HaCGOn FORMERLY Oh buEuHRJOI
was married at Fountain Colorado Il
Miss Mamie Hinch.
Prof Baily of the state university il
in Burlington as an expert witness TO
the plaintiff in the case of the water
works against the city.
Thanksgiving at Burlington this yea
will for few, find expression in Jap
anese wedding.
The undertakers complain that there
has not been death in the county il
two weeks.
A new court house is wanted badly
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

THE New York press is clamOring
for ballot reform. The late election
has emphasized the need for it. Thou
sands upon thousands of dollars were
spent in corrupting voters. The Aus
tralian method of conducting the cleo
tions is the one suggested as the best.
According to this system the state
prints all the tickets for the various
candidates. and the voter is allowed
absolute secrecy in folding and depos-
iting his ballot in the box. Since a
candidate can not prepare voters
ballot and see that he votes it, it is not
very probable that he will attempt
bribery. That is the corrective princi-
ple of the reform
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

THE New York World pretends to
give the true inwardness of Cleveland's
message of December last. Manton
Marble is given large credit in the mat
ter as chief instigator of it. The state
ment is made that all of the cabinet
but Whitney favored it. He opposed
it from the start, and never changed
his opinions about the impolicy, and
especially the appropriateness of it.
The event has, as all the world knows,
justified the political wisdom of the
secretary. who, if Secretary Manning
had been in the cabinet, would doubt
less have had an ally whose shrewd
sense would avail against the high
falutin ideas of Villas and others.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
ROUND HOUSE NOTES.

Chas. Lyons, store keeper, has taken
a two weeks lay off. Isidor Leichden-
stern has taken his place.
Walter Fyndall, boiler washer has
returned to work after weeks sick
ness,
Firemen O'Conner and Stokas are
sick.
Engineer Stafford has been sent to
Florence to help out on branches.
w. H. Umpleby and Lew Yengst,
engineers, have gone to Strong City to
help out rush.
A new engineer named Parvey has
arrived and began work on the divis-
ion.
Engineer Martin is on the sick list.
Arthur Thomas, engineer is enjoying
two weeks visit.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
AMERICUS NEWS.

AMERICUs, Nov. 25.-Services will be
held at the NJ. E. church Thursday at
10 O'Clock a. m, when Thanksgiving
viii thus pc properly observed.
The glass front was set in the Tress-
Ter s. Lowry building Saturday. The
inside work is being pushed rapidly,
with the expectation of having it ready
for occupancy in couple of weeks.
Miss Fisher is visiting friends and
relatives in the city.
There are three legal cases set fol
Friday before one of our j. P's.
The new township officers are beinl
sworn in. 1t is esquire" Lawtol
now.
The weather has been very pIeasan
the last few days for the farmers t.
gather the remainder of their corr
crop. BURLOw.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
Lurisd,ntion Extended.

Through an action of the United
States circuit court which convened
yesterday in Topeka, the jurisdiction.of
Receivers Cross and Eddy of the M, K.
s. T. have been so extended as to give
control of all stocks, bonds and other
property. Soon after the converting,
the court was divided. Judge Foster
president over one division and Judge
Brewer the other. The M, K. & T.
was represented by EllerY Anderson of
New York and the Missouri Pacific by
A. G. Cochran of the same city. The
receivers under the new order have
control over the M, K. s. It's interest
in 81 ,2S4 shares of stock in the Interna-
tional s. Great Northern railroad, TO-
600 shares of the stock in the Calves
ton, Houston and Henderson railroad
and other property valued at one and
one-half millions.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
Thankspivinp Surprise.

Governor Martin has prepared to
make several homes in Kansas happier
on Thanksgiving day, next Thursday,
than they have been for long time.
He has prepared the necessary papers
and will send the same out in Monday IS
mail, extending full pardons to six or
seven cOnvicts now confined to the state
penitentiary at Leavenworth. These
are nearly all persons who have fami-
lies living in this state and their par
dOns are to be issued tomorrow in Or
der that they may be released in time
to reach home for grand Thanksgiv-
ing reunion and dinner. OF course all
those to whom executive clemency is
extended have had their cases exam
ined into by the state board of pardons
and favorably recommended. The
board is now trying to close up its bus
mess, as this will probably be its last
session, new board being appointed
with incoming administration
ka Capital-C Commonwealth
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

THE expositions at Cincinnati and
Kansas City were both disastrous fail
ures. The one just ended al Richmond,
Virginia, was great success, half a
million people, many thousands of them
colored, went through the turn stiles,
and good round sum in the way of
profits remain to the stockholders.
Look out for the south. She'll get
there yet. you bet.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

SAYS the third party organ, the
Leader, speaking of the prohibition con-
tingent in Kansas: what remarka-
BILE likeness there is between the chill
dren of Israel in the days of the Kings
and Gsd's people in Kansas to-day. y
There are about 5000 of Gods PEG
ple' in Kansas. The balance of us
are ripe for another deluge, or Red Sea
cataclysm.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
A ChIcaso

CHICAGO, NOV q. IessL.
HoGs~Recefpts, g, coo head: market active
easier and 5Nioe lower; light, - 2 ass: rough
packing, e5.15f1525; n ixed, - 2OG5. 10; heavy
backing and shipping, s5-35G5.55.
CATTLH-Receipts, 900 head: market WA
steady: native beeyes, e330g5Z5 cows SIN
T3OO: stockerH and feeders, e2.ODfs3.33.
natives, s3.O0B4l50. westerns, e3-ZJkS3 50: Tex
ans e 5sd3.4O; lambs, 9 T5fJ5.254
WHRAT-A shade frmeF: No. red. cash
and December, 81 .031E; January, 81 -641z; Nay,
CoRE-Easy; cash. 50 3lec; December. ;sl<
January. Sic; May, 281Se.
OATa-Steady: cash and December, 25l5c:
January, 26zsc; May. 5O7zc.
hYE-S3c.
JFLAx-SI-5l.
WHIsKY-s1.z0.
PORK-IoWer; cash and Decembe6, sI4IG;
January. s14.i71z: May, e19.4z<.
IAKD-Easys cash. q 3sIk: December, eS.z7H
January, Ss.I5: May, Ss&5H
SHORT RIBs-JGnaarys III
BUTTER-steedy: creamery. 2i02ecs dairy.
l EGcs-steady: fresh. isazoc
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

DAN LAMONT has a young heir in his
family, just arrived. The perplexing
thing now is to find name for him.
Had he arrived before the late election
there would be no trouble about it. But
now, alas! it would appear to be a
mockery to christen him Daniel Grover
Lamont. How full this life is of per-
plexities and worriments.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

Who is the Globe-Democrat hitting
at in the following paragraph Can it
be Blaine?
There were, naturally enough. some
barnacles on the republican ship when,
after a voyage of twenty-four years,
she stranded In 1884. She has since
been on the dry-docks for four wears
and her crustacean impediments have
been removed. 1t would be we'll
enough to see that, on the voyage up-
on which she is about to enter. the
same old barnacles are not allowed to
reattach themselves to her keel.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

OBSERVE this fact: In 1886 General
Fisk ran for governor of New Jersey on
the prohibition ticket and got 1850
votes. This year running for president
he got only 1916 votes, while the dem.
ocratic majority was nearly doubled
The large falling off in the prohibition
vote does not appear to have damaged
the democrats much.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

HERE is sAother. A woman in Illi-
nois bet herself against a horse that
Cleveland would be elected. AS all
the world knows, she lost herself.
The winner, "a gentleman refused to
take her, and now she sues him for
breach of promise. Men will be dis.
posed to look upon that as a shrewd
leap year dodge.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

MIR AFFORD General Harrison's
private secretary, is English born.
With what ill-eoncealed disdain will
Pat Ford, John Finnerty and Jim
Blaine, and other Irish friends of the
president gaze on him as they pass in
to the White House-if he will permit
them to pass-when they go to demand
their pay.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
Talmaes on Gossipping.

The most lonesome, miserable, God
for-saken wretch on earth is a gossip.
I can tell her on the street, though
have never seen her before. She walks
fast, and has her bonnet strings loose,
for she has not had time to tie them
since she heard that last scandal. She
looks both ways as she passes, hoping
to see new evidence of depravity in the
windows. think that when Satan has a
job so infinitely mean that in all the pit
he can not find devil mean enough to
do it, and all brides and threats have
failed to get one willing for the infer
nal crusade. he says to one of his SER
geants: $50 up to Brooklyn, and in
such street, on such corner, get
that gossiping woman, and she will
be glad to do it," And sure enough,
like a hungry fish, she takes the hook
in her mouth. and Satan SlackenS the
line, and let's her run out farther and
farther, until after awhile he says: ut
is time to haul in that line." and with
few strong pulls he brings her to the
beach of fire. What do you say? That
was a member of the churchp I can
not help that. When Satan goes a-6sh-
ing, he does not care what school the
fish belong to, whether it is Presbyte-
rian mackerel or an Episcopalian sal
mon. Amidst the thunder crash of
Sinai, God said: Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy neighbor.
And in Leviticus he says: Thou shalt
not go up and down as a talebearer."
Take not into your ear that scum of
hell that people call tittle-tattle. Who
soever willingly listens to SANDER is
equally guilty with the one who tells
it, and an old writer says they ought
both to be hung. the one by the tongue
and the other by the ear. Do not smile
upon such spaniel, lest, like pleased
dog, he put his dirty paw upon you.
Throw back the shutter of your soul,
oh Christian men and women, and see
| if there be within you vulture with
filthy talons and cruel beak. Let not
this uncleaR thing rOost in your soul,
for my text says: I'VE shall hold in abb
omination among the fowls, the vul-
ture
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
ass. OuSe.

81 IDLE. NOV. "a Ib6c.
CATTLE Receipts, 1900 head: strong.
Hoas-Receipts, 1000 head; lower. ciaGics
heavy and butchers. S53045 30; packing ana
shipping, s5.l58535: light grades, Is l065S5.
SaEEP2Receipts, $50 head: steady
WHEAT-Hsgher: No. red. cash. els0e5z bid
December, eLOCsS bid; January. sLG&x. May
eI.GZ-
GoRx-UnsettIed: cash, 35cs November. 35<
bid; December. &c bid; year, Sscs January
oxTs-Firm: cash. s5e bio December, s4ss:
May. 305kc
Pt1stK-Steady: Job lots. $3.50.
T.EFxfl-Fsr1n prime steam, Ss95.
WHsaKY-Steadgs e1.l4s
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

THE governor appears to be over
whelmed with the conviction that the
magistrates whose duty it is to admin
lister the law in this county are not
sufficiently impressed with what a
Boston clergyman called "a sense OF
oughtness.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

KANSAS is somewhat behind in the
car stove reform. While her reforma-
tory efforts are confined mainly to the
car porter Minnesota is following in
the steps of New York in abolishing
that death trap. Her railroad commits
sioners have agreed to fix day when
the stove must 90.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

TARIFF REFORM says the Globe
Democrat, twas not beaten in the late
election. The tariff will be revised by
the Fifty-irst congress- So, then, it
seems that the policy of the republi-
cans will be that of the fellows who
caught their enemies in swimming
and stole their clothes
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29
Fine clothing at Gibson s. CHEAP.

at the old fleming stand 1 will sell
flour right down to bottom prices for
cash, during the present hard times.
j. w. LESH.
Buy your fresh meat and bologna of
Bircket s. White, at the old reliable
city meat market, Americas.
On and after October Is, 1888, will
sell my whole stock of dry goods at &C
tual cost, less the freight. Call and get
bargains before the stock is reduced.
j. D. GIBSON.
would say to the farmers in ard
around AmericuS that I am prepared
to grind corn meal and chop at my mill
southwest of the depot in Americas.
J. w. FLOYD.
Read Family Package Co.'s ad., for
apanfS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-29

Rev. R. NJ. Oyerstreet, well
known in Kansas, has just been reap
pointed financial agent for the College
of Emporia. We congratulate the
gentleman and the institution. Mr..
Overstreet is an especially earnest
and effective worker. Three or four
years ago he was engaged In the same
work and prosecuted it most success
fully. He is in Topeka to-day in con-