The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1865-06-10

OFeenDackS at san ranclsco sen AZ sew
Ienty-fve cents Oh the dollar.
President johnson has insured his life for
$4,000.
The Duchess of Buccleugh fell IN her pew
at church and broke her leg.
General Lee is writing up history of
his closing campaigns,
One of the London papers devotes twelve
columns to sketch of Mr.. Lineoln's life.
Marie AntiOnette's workable sold in
Paris recently for twelve thousand dollars
The population of Paris this year is l..
667, 841 souls, exclusive of garrison of
98, 400 men.
George Peabody. the London banker. is
about to return to his native country, to
spend the evening of his days and sleep with
his fathers.
Cigar ends are collected in the cafes of
Paris, to furnish an unwholesome tobacco
to the rag piekers and sewer-men of the
capital. @
John G. James, who died recently at
DOylestown, Pennsylvania, has left all his
property, valued at $50, 900 to the Sunday
School Union.
George Bancroft has written paper Oh
''The Place of Abraham Lincoln in HistO-
ry," which will appear in the June number
of the Atlantic Monthly.
Thomas S. Bocoek, well known both at
the North and South, and latterly as the
Speaker of the rebel House of Representa-
tives. is in Richmond, apparently unmolest-
ed.
What California needs most to-day is
rain. What she wants tomorrow is seventy
Jfve thousand females, which would equal
the male population, according to the last
census
WANTED-The tallest sour-apple tree in
the United States, and the rope with which
slavery hanged old John Brown. Apply to
Andrew Johnson, Washington, who will
soon have a special use therefor.
R. J. Breckenridge, Jr., son of the Rev.
DR.. Robert j. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
has been transferred from the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, where he has been confined as rebel
prisoner, to Johnson's island.
The F. F. V. secesh ladies of Richmond
have so far conquered their repugnance to
the Yankees as to besiege General Ord with
applications for appointment to clerkships
in the Government service.
The last words of John Wilkes Booth,
spoke on the stage, were in Shells tragedy
Of the "ApOstrate." He says, clsnchihg
his dagger, ''Traitors and slaves! hal that
thought. This, this is left me still within
my grasp; clutch it like fierce and des-
perate Joy! Look here, look here, vile
Moor! despite of fate shall triumph over
thee He Is then stabbed and dies.
A religious revival is in progress in
Philadelphia, and preaching and extra relig
ious services are held in several churches
every evening.
All work on the Notifications of Chat,
tanooga has been suspended. The rail-
road to Atlanta will soon be in running or
der.
A banner borne in the great procession at
Wilmington, North Carolina, had this ap
propriate inscription: "George Washington,
the father of his country; jeff. Davis the
destroyer of his country; Abraham Lincoln
the redeemer fhis country"
Little, shadscaly looking pieces of coin
once known as three-cent pieces, are max
ing their appearance in New York. In
Wall street the bullion dealers rapidly part
with small change for greenbacks, and ac-
eOrdingly the shopkeepers find no profit in
keeping it on hand. Peace and hard cash
are old friends.