The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-01-09
Ole Gnrpuria sgews.
- MATrERs IN BRIEF.

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Coal sells in London at So per caldron.
The Memphis cotton market Is stagnant,
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Beauty often suffers, but it oftener makes
= others suffer.
Gen. Comonfort was recently assassinat-
ed in Mexico.
The paper containing many fine points
the paper of pins.
The number of languages spoken in the
whole world is 4,o6l.
. = Gen. B 6der is raising an army of colored
troops in his department
He that loves not the early morning loves
not the memory of his youth.
1t is very uncomfortable thing for a
man to get tight-in his boots.
Do you indorse a scoundrel when YOU
make your mark upon his back?
.5a A cross wife, like the bird of Minerva.
does most of her hooting at night.
The shock of an earthquake was recent
ly felt in Louisville and Cincinnati
Cork carpeting has been introduced in
England. tits durable'and slightly.
Generally women. adorn themselves for
Stheir enemies more than for their friends
The rebel Senate passed bill prohibiting
the enrolment of substitutes in the army.
The Government is releasing all the boats
it has hitherto impressed into the service.
,,. Gen. Carr has assumed command of the
Second Division of the Army of Arkansas.
-. A slow pulsation is the sign of long
life, not only in individuals but in law suits
Sweets the music of the sea-shell. We
can't say as much for that of the bomb
shell. +,
Little Rock advices state that the fears of
an attack on that place are no longer enter
tanned.
-lr Put couple of Englishmen before two
huge beef-steaks if you want 10 Sc sweep
steaks.
=, North Carolina is nearly abandoned by
rebel troops, there being but two brigades
in the State.
Senator Sumner claims that the Message
takes the same ground as his Atlantic
Monthly article.
Let your troubles be what they may,
never say die. Let your hair turn gray or
white, but never say dye.
Maj o Gen. Burnside and staff are in
Washington, having been ordered to report
to the Adjutant General there.
"a young gentleman says he thinks that
young ladies who refuse good offers of mar
riage are too ''No-ing by half"
The American banker Peabody, in Lon
1nent of the poorer classes of dwellings.
All citizens at Chattanooga from the
North are being enrolled with view of COW
ering the draft The order causes stir.
Mr.. Harlan of Iowa has presented to
Congress a petition of the citizens of that
State, praying for the total abolition of sla
very.
Maj Gen. Foster has created new mil
itary district in his department, to be known
as the Military District of Central Ten
nesseH. 5l5 4s.A ettA
The shoddies are smackiDg their lips at
the prospect of Government spending mil
lion dollars week during the year for army
clothing.EAL -
Suspicion has been excited that John
Morgan escaped out of the front door of the
Ohio Penitentiary with tie conniYauce of
his keeper.
"You don't understand your business,
Boniface;' did you never have gentleman
stop with you before?" "No. not if you
are one"
Report says that John Morgan reached
Richmond via the Big Sandy river. JEFF.
Davis has given him command in the
Army of Georgia. C
The Ironsides and three monitors. while
attempting to pass distractions in Charles
ton harbor, became entangled, and were
partially disabled.
Among the prisoners recently captured
in Arkansas is the notorious Handy Lane,
who boasts of having killed over 100 Union
citizens with his own hands.
The running of the blockade into Will
mingtong to increase. 1t is esti-
mated that half a million dollars worth of
goods arrive every "a hours.
Richmond paper say, of 80, 900 prison
ers held in Richmond since the first of Jan
nary, 1862, 671 have died, which they con-
slider a very small proportion.
An Englishnan named Watkins, known
to have killed three men and eonfessing to
six other murders, was recently hung in
San Francisco by a vigilance committee.