The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-26
NEWS AND Politics IN BRIEF.

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have been wounded in recent battle, aud
to be on his way back to the City Of Mex
leo. guarez has given orders that in case
Macmillan is captured he shall receive
honorable treatment and be escorted to
any port on the coast he may select for
embarka:ion.
The New York Times calls attention to
the fact that the Russian possessions
which We have recently acquired have
vast supplies Of wood and coal, articles
that are scarce 10 Califoruia. The i.dense
pine forests of the territory recently &C
CURED, viii be source of immense
wealth; and the coal mines, of which we
have become the owners, are wanted to
supply the steamship lines of the future
on the Pacific.
Throughout France there are to be
elected shortly, 500 male and 10 female
delegates from the various trades. to rep.
resent them at the Paris Exposition
Women are to vote at these elections as well
as men. Every workman and Workwo-
man of Paris is to be given a ticket to
the Exposition by the government, SO
that they can make at least one visit With /,
out cost. ,s
Elk Representative Kasson, of Iowa,
sails at once for Europe as special com
missioner of the government, to negotiate
for reduction in international postage.
The Postoffice department is determined
to obtain lower rates of ocean postage.
The richest negro in Philadelphia is
Stephen Smith, a lumber merchant. He
owns seventy FIVE houses in fee simple,
and is worth not less than $4,000
Harris Lindsey, bounty broker during
the war, is worth $3.50. 900. There are
FIVE artists and number of musicians
that receive distinguished attention
Philadelphia has $4,000 colored people
who support seventeen churches.
The Boston correspondent of the Nor
wich (Copn,) Bulletin ''uuhesitaiingly
risks the prediction that John A. Andrew
will be next President of the United
States.' -
The New England Emigrant Aid Com,
pauy, which did so much for the settle
ment of Kansas, has selected new field
of operations. Fertile land is cheap there
and the climate is charming. A few
thousand New Erglanders would control
tue State. -
1t appears to be fact that Secretary
Seward is negotiating for the purchase Of
of British America. but the British Min.
lister at Washington does not anticipate
his success. s-s
The Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle
saye: The very moment that Ben.
Wood & Co. show their heads plainly
and run up boldly the Democratic flag and
call on the Southto stand by them as a
unit, that very moment will the North be
unit against the South and all, the Dem.
ocratic champions. There will be DC
peace for the South until the Democratic
party marches off the field of battle. I"
The Colorado Times says that board is
SO and $40 per week at that place, and
chat -four is selling at Sc per hundred:
Up to the 18Th, according to the State
ment of the Commissioners of Emi grafton
there had arrived at New York. since the
frat of January. 80. 863 foreign emigranIa
against 43.863 during the same period
last year.
The New York Legislature has passed
an Eight.Hour law, which it is expected
Gov. Fenton will approve. notwithstapd,
ing a strong effort 70 induce him to veto
it. ~ ,el
A Montana paper says ''the mortality
of Helena is extraordinarily good. Only
seventeen men were killed during the past
two weeks
The Illinois Legislature, in redistrictiOg
the State judicialIy, left Franklin county
out in the cold, aud its citizens are anx.
ously iDquiring what they shall do
about it.
That county must have had wide-
awake representative in the Legislature.