The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-02-22
suNIiARY OF NEws:

Twenty years sgo the Facinc HAL =. |
s. Company began business With = CAPT
tai Of $500, 600 and Two small steamers.
They have now feet Of thirty steam
chips all paid for. and have during their
existence divided over s1o.OOO.Oo0 TO
the Shareholders.
The reports from West Tennessee rep
resent the rebsl rsiga of terror as eon,in-
uing. and several Union men have been
driven out sud threatened with death be.
cause they refuse to sign memorials
against tAe Loyal Militia bill now before
the Legislature.
Ex Chief Detective Baker has testified
before the Impeachment Commi .tss that
be had in his possession letter, signed
by Andrew Johnson early in the war,
PIedging his support to JEFF. Davis under
certain conditions. He doubled it's gen
uiOeness. but the handwriting had been
pronounced to be that Of Mr.. JohnsoD's
by the latter's secretary.
A new variety of spring wheat. from
Odessa, has been received at the Agri-
cultural Department. Il weighs sixty
FIVE pounds to the bushsl. and is said to
be very superior quality.
Canada is excited about gold discover
les there, and il is believed that gold ex-
lists all through tract of country 100
miles broad
The shock of an earthquake vas expe.
vienced at sandiago. CalifOrnia, on the
lst inst.
A correspondent furnishes the Danvills
(Ky.) Advocate with an account of s
grand RABBIT hunt 10 Lincoln county on
the 22I ult. There we're eight guns in
use Give shot-guns aud three rifles. and
on fifteen acres of land one hundred and
fire rabits we're killed 10 six hours!
An English paper says: During the
last few weeks several ships arriving al
Liverpool from the United States have
brought over as portions of their cargoes,
barrels containing lurkies. geese and
other birds. sufficiently pickelsd to enable
them to reach the 'oId country in edible
condition.
The Western Reserve Chronicle says
that the sheep in that section have suffer
ed much during the cold weather. many
IF Than, fr.a1;r0 ~ doth
A correspondent of the Hartfod Cour'
ant states that that city has eight hun
bred grOg-shops and forty thousand in
habitan,s, ono grog shop to every iftJ
inhabitants.
The Boston Post says: "The sus
pense which has prevailed for some time
in business as well as financial circles, IL
reference to what may be done in Con-
grsss, appears 10 have less influence as
week after week passes away. There is
already better demand for some descrip-
tions of goods, and more hopeful feeling
in regard to the future. The belief lie
gaining ground Ihet there will be no i'm
mediate change or distu rbance of the
currency. A fair spring trade is cousid'
cred highly probable.
1t is said that the disbursements of the
United States Treasury for January were
very large, and that there has been an
increase of four millions in the Nationa
debt. There has bean bat very small
reduction of the greenback currency.
Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, sails this
month for three months tour in Europe
The Pennsylvania Legislature have rati
fed the constitutional amendment, max
Jog the twentieth State to do so.
A Missouri blacksmith has prepared I
horseshoe for the Paris Exposition, made
of raw ore from the Iron Mountain.
Half the shoe is finished, and the other
half shows the ore IS it is dug from the
mine.