The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
Psnnsly vania and New Jersey expect
iue peach crops rexs season.

A man 10 Vermont has just given S4.'
900 to the Baptist Home Mission Society.
AT q bull-6ght in Seville. Spain, 90
horses and balls we're killed in two and
half hours.
Coaches running from Junction City TO
Santa Fe, New Mexico, make the trip !
regularly in seven days and two hours.
E Farnllabotsrs are wanted in the interior
Of Canada. st $50 10 ef5oper year With
board. ~gI7'5 TG9EE
Virginia is agiiatipg the subject Of the
aPpOintmentsOf board of commissioners
TO represent her interest at Washington.
A man in Fredericksburg, v. vas
knocked down by lightning and cured of
rheumatism. - asa e saa0se eesI
/ A new suspension bridge over the Ohio
is talked of at Wheeling. to lake the place
ofthe present. structure. Whiehsia deemed
neither cOmmodious or safe. .a1da 1aI
The storekeepers of Columbus. o..
threaten to charge an entrance fes to shop
ers. The female mind in Columbus is
agiIated andfexeited. ~,
/ W4sHIEGTOs. March is.-CharIes
James, the well known aud talented law
yes, died 10 this city on Saturday night,
after an illness Of several weeks, having
been frst stricken down while arguing a
case in the Supreme Court, about mouth
ago. Haasg
The sbewano( Wis. journal reports the
birth of three girls weighing seven pounds
each. by tie wife of Mr.. Martin Cooper.
welI-tO do farmer of the Slockbridgs
Indians. a-t -sa
| A negro was hung up at Cerssco. Iowa.
last Wesk. by the neck, and forced 10 con
fess whether he had stolen some money,
of which he was suspected. He confess
ed that he did, as anybody else would
nave done to have saved bis life.
The Governor has appointed Will am
Karimer, of Lsaven worth. ]. P. Root, of
Wysndoite. aud F. P. Baker, of Topeka,
Commissioners of the Blind Asylum at
iWyandoIte. The buildingis to be erect
ed this year. -.s .als
Two young lads of Richmond. Ind,
were practieing the broadsWord exercise a
few days since when one of them made q
lunge in high fierce, and cut his oppo
nent's arm about half off, Percy Wig
gins is the name of the unfortunate young
ster. III .,-
The Milwaukee Daily News, Iabid
Coppcrhead paper, has been selected to
publish Iha laws of Congress. AS the
Copperheads of Wisconsin and Mr.. Doc
little are the only johnson men in the
Slate, Of course the selection of such
sheet is entirely satisfactory TO them.
The body of female. in an advanced
stage Of decomposition. was found. on
Tuesday night, on saud bar in the river
opposite the town of Atchison, Kansas.
It has been terribly mutila,ed by dogs the
gathering of which round the carcass. led
to its discovery.
At Copake, Hudson county, N. Y,
last week, four young men attending a
social party in the belief that a companion
had brought aud hidden bottle at loqu-
or, searched for and found bottle filed
with a solution of corrosive sublimate,
portion of which they each took. They
were not expected to recover.
MONTREAL CANADA, March I8.-Al-
though there is nothing on the frontier to
cause alarm at present. active preparations
are being made the have troops in readi.
ness to move actively to any point.
A gentleman in California having made
lady present of pair of pistols. after
several trials of skill they concluded to 60
through the forms of duel. They took
their positions. fred at the word, and to
the Terror of the lady, the gentleman FELL
She threw herself frantically upon the
corpse, embracing and kissing it with ev-
cry GuiOblOu Va CDGc0IuCuLs y uOSE SuCu
magical Influences the gentleman revived.
and rose uuhurt from the ground, add
aud-they are to be married.
A few days since, as the train bound vest
from Fort Wayne was crossing the bridge
at Hobart, the passengers discovered a
boy in the water. holding on to q cake Of
ice and apparently hal!-dead With cold.
The conductor, being informed of it,
stopped the train at Clark's Station, ts!e-
graphsd bach to Hobart, and the boy was
rescued from bis terrible situation. Had
not the dispatch been sent, be must Ger.
tainly have persisted in q short time.
An American company has engaged to
keep ship, during the Exhibition, at .
distance of three nautical miles from the
French shore; the said ship TO be 6tted up
as a restaurant and clearinghouse. and
devoted to the exercise Of ell the games of
hazard which the French Government, in /
its paterua1 solicitude for the we'll being
Of its subjects, has made illegal on the
sUil of France.