The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


land will be good despite the cold and
vet spring. ~ = >
Pitching pennies has been legally fog
hidden in Brooklyn, and the youngsters
are mutinous.
Waltham, Mass, has eight acres Of
i chemical works. $50
Frogs are selling in the New Yexk
markets at 81 per pound.
The head cook at the Aston House
has salary of over $4,000 year.
| Extensive discoveries of copper have
been made in Northern Texas.
Women are gradually working their
way into the watch making business in
the East.
| Mr.. Lopgfellow's reception in Eng
land is quite as enthusiastic as Mr..
Dickens was in America.
The wooden and cotton departments
of the Washington mills, in Lawrence,
Mass, employ $500 workmen.
Maryland will derive revenue of
S74O00 this year from its oyster trade.
Nearly a thousand vessels are engaged.
They take out fifteen million bushels
yearly.
One printer in lancaster, O., Geo.
Sanderson, is 80 years old, another,
j ohm H. Wright, So; third, Edwin
Wright, IS.
By instigation of the Chinese author
tiles, 43 Chinese girls imported for vile
purposes are to be sent back, or appren-
ticed. s-~
The large alum works in the province
of Brandenburg, Prussia, have been
purchased by two Yankees, engaged in
business in Hamburg. s>T
DR.. Livingstone says he is in fine
health though the natives stole his
medicine chest some months ago.
New Orleans makes thirty tons of ice
per day by machinery, and sells it for
IS cents per hundred.
The Democracy, since the nomination
of Seymour and Blair, have an aching,
void that cannot be filledi
The Republicans of New Jersey have
nominated j. j. Blair, by reclamation
for Governor.
The New York Sun says: eff the
women could vote at the next election,
Schuyler Colfax would be chosen by q
mighty majority"
Greece is, for the first time, building
a telegraph line, and a railroad also.
The latter is six miles long. S
The "districts" in South Carolina are
what are known as counties" in other
States. The term has been changed to
counties in the Reconstruction Consti-
tuition.
An examination of the United States
statistics of manufactures, shows q clear
increase in wages in 1866 of upwards Of
80 per cent, as compared with the wa
ges paid in 1860.
The Republican journals in Califor-
MIA that bOlted during the late State
campaign, have placed the names of
Grant and Colfax at the head of their
columns.
The first Old Dominion Democratic
ratification meeting which has been
held in Alexandria. Va, since 1861,
came off recently when Seymour and
Blair were enthusiastically endorsed.
j. B. Woodruff, news editor of the
Cincinnati Daily Times, while return
ing to his home in the country, July
10th, was sun struck and died almost
Immediately.
The Citizens of Nevada and Califor-
mia have organized a company to build
u railroad from point on the Central
Pacific Railroad to Colville, the head of
navigation on the Colorado; length Of
road, $50 miles; capital stock, 81, 5O0,-
600.
The Wyandot (Ohio) Pioneer says
that strange. species of worms are in
juring the corn in the counties of Wy
| andOt, Wayne and Richland. They
appear to work mostly in sod grounds.
A great trial of Reapcrs and Mowers
is to come off at Xenia, Ohio, some
time in July-the day not fixed yet
| al, S1F
County Agricultural Society. Three
gold prizes, of 500 value each, are
offered.
Ex-Governor Extra Billy'') Smith
and A. III. II. Stuart are stumping Vir-
ginia against the Republican party and
i policy. They did the same thing dur
ing the rebellion, but Grant proved too
much for them then and he viii now.
There will be no eclipse of the moon
this year, but two of the sun and one of
the Democratic party. The latter will
be a total eclipse, and visible in all
parts of the United States.
Fractional currency printed for the
week was $4,000; shipment, $694, sos;
U. S. Notes, 1872, 265; National Bank
Notes issued, S112, O7O; amount in cir
culation, S299,823, 225; fractional cur
rency destroyed, S433, 100.
NASHVILLE, Guly 1O.-4ne banner
has received a special dispatch from
Knoxville, stating that Col. II. n. Ash
by, late of the Confederate army, was
shot and instantly killed at p. m. to-
day, by E. c. Camps.
The Knoxville (Ten.) Herald contains
the following frank admission: We do
not ask nor want the negroes to vote
either for or against us, and we pro-
pose to disfranchise them all as soon as
we get the power.
A new variety Of corn, the result OF
selecting seed and af high culture, has
been originated in Minnesota. The
yield last year was as high as 137 BUSH
els to the acre.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
offer live stock premiums, for 1858,
Amounting, in the aggregate, to $500.
The premiums offered in this depart
ment in 1861 amounted to only 81, 1898.
The trustees of the Eclectic Medical
college," of New York city, have re-
solved to establish class for female
Istudents at their next term, with pro-
fessors of their own sex. Several ladies
have received diplomas from this insti-
tuition, and are now engaged in success
full and lucrative practice.
/ Under the direction of the Health
Commissioners of the city census OF
Chicago has just been completed. 1t is