The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-02-22
MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The debt of the State of New York is
$32, 926, 1854. e
Our troops down South are opening de-,
batting societies.
The stock and floating debt of Baltimore
is Sic, O25, 900.
Half the potato crop In Canada, it is
stated, has rotted.
The Boston free public library now con-
tains 81, 366 volumes.
The coroners of New York hold about
2, 500 inquests annually.
The Rebel Ordnance Bureau offers forty
cents per pound for saltpetre.
There is pumpkin exhibiting in Phila-
delphia weighing l53 pounds.
Washington landlords and landladies are
reaping rich harvest of dollars.
There are $4,000, 900 acres of Govern
ment land in Kansas unsurveyed.
Barracks are being erected in Detroit for
the accommodation of 900 men.
There are in the United States 500 wood
engravers, of whom 25 are females.
1t is known at Washington that the reb-
els have erected 90 forts at Manassas.
Some of our soldiers at Port Royal have
One hundred and twenty. five tons of hay
are supplied to the Potomac army daily.
Boston has furnished 278 commissioned
officers for the war since April Is, 1861.
The value of the cotton brought by the
Atlantic from Port Royal is about $50, 900.
Late advices from Hayti show that the
coffee crop tbs year will exceed 100000
pounds.
M. Alexandra, French manufacturer of
gloves, sends yearly to America about Co.,
900 pairs.
The defense of New York city is excit-
ing attention. Her present defense mount
1889 guns.
Sixty-seven prisoners of war died in
Richmond between August and Novem-
her Is, 1861.
More than IL 900 horses were sold in
Chicago last year, for an aggregate amount
of 81, ISL 1897.
The wealthiest man in all Canada, Har-
rison Stephens, Esq, of Montreal, is ma
tive of Vermont.
About 1900 patients are in the army
hospitals at st. Louis-a large proportion
with the measles.
Pennsylvania coal lands are hereafter to
be taxed as well on the deposit as on the
surface valuation.
Sixty -four thousand four hundred of the
present population of Canada are natives of
the United States.
1t is stated that during the past forty years
Mexico has had no fewer than fifty diff
ferent Governments.
According to Governors messages, esti-
mates, &C., the rebels have a force of about
$780, 900 in the field.
It is stated that capital of S15,OOO,OOO
is invested in the manufacture of pianos in
Europe and America.
Some of the colored men of Philadelphia
are quite wealthy, possessing fortunes of
SIS, 900 to 100000.
Fresh oysters from Baltimore sold in
Denver City, Colorado Territory. not long
since, for SIC per gallon.
Late intelligence from New Mexico states
that twenty Americans have been murder
ed by the Apache Indians.
There is one establishment in Washing
ton where from six to eight hundred bush
els of oysters are sold daily.
There have been manufactured in Gin
S285, 900 to the War Department.
The Baptist church at Beaufort, s. c., is
the largest church in America, and the
largest Baptist church in the world.
Thousands of the persons drafted in Ten
nessee are offering large prices for substi-
tutes. The supply is not equal to the de-
mand.
The new Emperor of China, Traishun, is
a boy of five or six years old, and the real
ruler is his mother, with council of re-
gency.
The powder manufacturing company at
Bennington, VT, are filing second order
for 900 barrels of gunpowder for the Gov
eminent.
The distress In Lyons, France, is so
great, says local paper, that 700 young
starvation.
A published letter says that Federal off,
GERS at Paducah, KY, have delivered up
fugitive slaves for money, ranging from $50
to $3.50 each.
The Southern papers say that consid
cradle quantity of cotton has been sent IN
wagons through Kentucky 70 the Ohio river
for the North.
The city schools of Nashville have been
closed, the city treasury having become so
Impoverished that the salaries of the tsach-
ers cannot be paid.
In Chicago, last year, there were one
thousand seven hundred and twenty-slx
marriages-an increase of thirty three over
the previous year.
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