The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-01-02

Street cars are not permitted to run 4eR
Sunday in Washington. $50 ,sy
Brig. Gen. Buford died in WashihgsOisy
D. O., on The 10th inst 55 ajaa1uo9
The Government had 5,777 cannon, of
all descriptions, on hand Nov. /. oHigi s7s
The Union victory at Lookout Mountain,
was among the greatest of the waruo v5rsa
The total expenses of the common schools
of Vermont in 1858 were 1916, 600. qe8 mo :
Takers viii refrain from evil speaking
when listeners refrain from evil hearing.
One thousand recruits leave Illinois this.
week to FIJI up old regiments in the field. q.
The amount Washington Irving received,
in his life for bis works was s2o5. 1888, "a.
Alexandria, Egypt. will soon. be, lighted,
with gas; Ponlpey' Pillar will be q lamp.
post. ssa las.s
Ten thousand men of the Army of the.
Potomac have re-enIisted in the veteran
corps. ea.UoT'3- tfTeo
Queen Victoria has resumed visits to her
friends for the first time since herhusband's
death. "a gairrra3 OF
The last fashionable production in Lon
don in he book line is the 'perfumedo a'-a
nanac.'' -.-,--.s ms
Gen. Corcoran died at Fairfax. Va. on
the 22d from injuries received by a fall frOmq
his horse.
Quantrel's gang of cut throats have been.
again dispersed, by some Indian troopss with
a loss of TO-
a farmer took single wagon load of
wool to Syracuse. n. Y :, recently, and sold
lit for 81, $3.50. f' sfoai
Ninety nine passenger cars left the Tween
ty-seventh street depot in New Haven OF,
Thanksgiving day. 5l H5.li ,ssdI
The Central Park in New York has three
skating ponds, and the monthly attendance
is half a million persons. l1 l o-a
Todtleben, who successfully defended S.
bastopol, is now experimenting the erection
of works on the Black Sea. rg-o-4 rsiaTI
The Marquis of Westminster's income il 10
$4,000 day, and that of the four leading
Rothschilds 200 an hour
The earliest city governments in New
England were those Of New Haven and New /,
London, Ct, instituted in 1894. 1854
tits estimated that 60, 900 to 70. 600 irish "a
Cork alone, during the past year. z5 ~
The Secretary of the Treasury has direc.
ted collectors of internal revenue to receive .
nothing but greenbacks for taxes. .e III. .a7
A battery of mounted guns has been
planted at Cleveland, Ohio, to defend ahs
city against Canadian rebel gunboats. ~ ..,ias
The President has approved and signed
the joint resolution of thanks to Gen. Grant
and his armies, and for gold medal.
Two million bales of cotton. have been
sent from the seaboard to Atlanta, Ca, by
the rebels, for safety. Grant will get it. '''I
A farmer near Lawrence cleared this year
SO 900 on sorghum He made his own
syrup and sold it for SO cents per gallon. aa9
AT Chattanooga Gen Grant captured So
cannon, on his march to Vicksburg SO sd
pieces of artillery, and at its fall 800 pieces.
A village schoolmaster received the fol-
lowing note: "Sur, as you are a man of +
noledge. intend to inter my son in your
skull"
100 years ago, Ben. Franklin, Postmaster
General of the American Colonies, made an
official inspection of the principal routes in g
has gig. ~ = eJaa
Lane is on the Committees on Agricul-
ture, Indian Affairs, and Territories; Pome-
roy on Public Lands, Pensions, and Claims. 8
Neither as Chairman. tsail q
A country editor, praising 3 successful
politician, called him zone of the cleverest
fellows that ever lifted hat TO lady or a
boot to a blackguard.'' .la,.,a...
Governor Andrew, who is always doing
something neat. obtained permission for all
the invalid Massachusetts, soldiers to come
hcme to eat Thanksgiving turkey.
Sally said fellow to a girl with red
hair, keep away from me or you'll set me
on fire." ''No danger of that replied
Sally, you're too green to burn"
G. w. Hall. contractor, and E. E. Smith.
inspector, have been convicted of swindling
by court martial in Cincinnati, and SEN
fenced for 5 years and $50, 600 fine each.
The novelist Cooper once reflected upon
State Governor by attributing the diseasein
potatoes to modification at seeing 90 smaIIa
family member in the gubernatorial chair.
A rebel paper wakes poetic over the pro-
verbal scarcity of food in Secessis, and
Plaintively says: -
Men shed their blood in vsin.sS 70 +
Unless the farmers raise more grain"
Joseph Shoemaker. of Indiana. 105 years 81
old, was seen recently hard at work chop
ping cord wood. he had cut and stacked
eight or ten cords. it Is said, during the {
summer. 80
It is stated that the recent death oil. Mr..