The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Kansas is gloriously avenged She sees
the men who made war upon her now ma
king war upon each other. She stands out
pure and majestic in her uuconquerable in
tegrity, while they are crushed, disheart-
ened and demoralized Kansas will come
into the Union soon after the 4th of March
next, with her banners waving over the dis
honored graves of her political enemies
Justice is slow but sure albany Journal.
Madame Emile Zulavsky Kossuth died
recently at her residence in Brooklyn, aged
forty three years Madame Zulavsky was
sister of Louis Kossuth. and had been in
this country since the memorable visit of
the distinguished Hungarian exile.
The adulteration of gold coins is being
carried 10 an alarming extent. and the New
York banks are startled to find a considera
BILE quantity of the coins in their own vaults.
The ten dollar pieces are now chiefly acted
upon. About SIS so of value is taken out
of the centre by splitting, and the size and
weight of the original is then made up with
platina, which, being of greater specific
gravity than gold, defes detection by the
old methods.
"THE GOLD Is A LITTLE FURTHER orr
a Wisconsin man, writing from Pixies
| Peak, says: Now, in Milwaukee, l thought
'Gregory's District was the Ell Dorado
where gold LAY around loose but l have
! seen but little, and that was securely put
| into buckskin purses, and those generally
tied up. l begin to think that gold here is
like the ague in the Western States-'Not
here, but little further on
The other day two young women kissed
old Buck. When they turned away, one
said to the other "What dry work 20
The breckenridge men call the Douglas
Convention at Baltimore the Rump Conven-
ton, and are kicking it mercilessly. How
| long will the Douglas party submit to hay
ing its rump so outrageously kicked :?
A boy being praised for his quickness of
reply, gentleman observed: " When
children are so very keen, they generally
! The lad Immediately replied "what keen
lad you must have been %
| RELIGION IN KAEsAs.-Religious matters
are progressing in Kansas. The Congrega-
| tionalists have relocated their colleges at
! Topeka The Methodists have built up a
little town called Baldwin City, where they
are erecting beautiful collegiate buildings
| The towns and cities of the interior are as
yet unable to support regular ministers. and
have to rely on foreign clergymen.-DetrOa
! AdvertiSer.
The Dough faces" still persist in speak
| ing of the Republicans as a sectional
] nj - oAS ,,Il,
corded, that Lincoln received eighteen more
votes from Southern States than were cast
| for Douglas Which. then, is the "sec-
/ tional' party, and which the Sectional"
nominee?
Mr.. John b. Cough has been in Great
/ Britain nearly three years, and expects to
return to this country during the coming
August. We learn, from the London Re
cord. that he has delivered 175 of his pow
erful addresses in the provinces, fourteen in
| Exeter Hall, aud ten in theatres, halls and
chapels in London, during the past year.
| In the provinces it is estimated that over
! lao, 900 have listened To his arguments and
appeals, and over 1000 have signed the
| pledge of total abstinence while in London
he had addressed upward of 80, 900 persons,
and 1900 names have been added to the
| pledge book at the close of the meeting, be-
sides large numbers afterward. This is the
result of one years labor, and does not ex
coed that of the two preceding years. A
! few days since he delivered FIVE addresses
in Exeter Hall, London, in one week. TO very
crowded audiences, making in all 90 lee
lures which he has given in that place. He
has already accepted more than 200 invita-
tons to lecture in America after his return.
His health holds remarkably good under
these repeated exertions, and he declares
himself determined to battle the evil intern
perance so long as he shall live.-H y.
Tribune.
"One good turn deserves another. -
Douglas has been licking the hand of the
South for some time; and now the South
means to reciprocate the favor by licking
Douglas = White Cloud Chief.
The new Douglas nominee for Vice Pres
ident reioices in the name of Herschel V.
johnson. Like his iIlustgions and titled
namesake, it viii be his fortune to s'see
stars. - White Cloud Chisf.
CATTLE DYING IN IowA.-The Guthrie
vile (IoWa) Courier. of June 27th, says al
disease resembling pleuro-pneumonia has
broken out among the cattle of that county, |
and that several had already died.
We we're informed by gentleman re-
siding few miles northeast of our city,
few days since, that upon recently falling
large elm tree upon his place he discovered
a pair of Elk horns embedded in the solid
wood, located about eighteen inches below Z