The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-01
THE NEWS N BRIEF.

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Hon. Alex. Nc Donald, senator elect
from Arkansas, isexpected to visit his
old home, Fort Scott, this week.
Several communications were sent to
the House of Representatives on Fri
day, from the Secretary of the Interior,
inclosing official papers showing an
immediate necessity for an appropria-
ton to furnish supplies to destitute In
dams at and near Fort Cobb, III the In
dian Territory, the big bend of Arkan-
sas river, North Platte, Neb., and in
Kansas, and Dacotah Territory.
1t is now announced that no change
will be made in the place of holding
the National Republican Convention.
The committee, owing to the shortness
of the time, is forced to decline the
proposition of the citizens to erect a
''wigwam" on the Lake shore. Crosby's
Opera House will be fitted up to hold
$500 spectators exclusive of the mem
bers of the convention.
The American Shoe Tip Co., of Bos-
ton, paid dividend of 81 per cent, on
the 1st of April. Tie capital stock of
the company is 100000. The Mckay
Sole Sewing Machine Co., of Boston,
paid semi-annual dividend of ten per
cent, at the same date.
The son of Robert Morris, the color
ed lawyer of Boston, will graduate this
summer at the college of st. Sulpice,
Montpelier, France. The parents will
be present, and the entire family viii
then make an extended tour on the con-
| tinent.
The Secretary of the Interior demands
immediate appropriations for the Indian
tribes in the Indian Territory south OF
Kansas, around the big bend of the Ar
kansas, and also for those tribes in Ne
braska and Dakota.
The second trial of John II. Surratt
has been set for May 18th, before Judge
Carter, in the District of Columbia
AIessrs. Merrick and Bradley are en-
gagged for the defense.
The Minnesota legislature has virtu.
ally abolished the gallows. Hereafter
in that State capital punishment can moi
be inflicted in any case without the unan-
imous consent of the jury that convicts
the criminal.
Eugene sdiscards trails, and all fe.
male Paris is cutting off the extra length
of its dresses i'll despair at the mutabil.
ity of human affairs.
The Bloomington Normal University
opens its spring term with the follow
ing attendance Normal school, 240
high school, 127; intermediate school
Al; primary school, 127. Total, 600.
The widow of the late Senator Nc
Dougall, of California, has gone to law
in Chicago to recover possession of land
that is now worth a million of dollars
which, she alleges, was fraudulently
obtained from her father.
Texas cattle in large numbers are be.
ing sent to New Orleans for the supply
of the West. They are driven to the
Sabine, and are transported thence by
rail to Cairo, from which point they are
distributed along the line of the Illinois
Central.
j. $50 i'll cash and some truck" as
reward for his achievements in the
/. South.
w. r. Swan, of South Paris, Me-, has
maple orchard of 150 trees from which
, he has obtained thirty barrels of sap ey.
cry day since the Esd of March.
, The Mississippi State Journal says
sWhenever rebels agree to live in peace
with the Union men who saved the gov.
eminent, order will be restored to the
South; but until this consent on the
, part of traitors is yielded, there will bC
trouble"
: Greeley is i'll favor of having Nye, o.
Nevada, appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, assigning as his reason, thai
':Nye can borrow more money, and pay
, back less, than any man in the United
States"
! The news from North Carolina indi.
Gates Republican victory, even the
Conservatives now admitting that the
constitution has doubtless been adopted
, In that State, as in Georgia, the vote
for the constitution was much larger
than for governor, so that it is not yet
certain that Gov. Holden is elected. o.
a Republican majority in the Legislature
5 there is probably no reason to doubt
; In Georgia, also, the Conservative dis.
: patches at first represented that the con.
: stitution was entirely defeated, and
Gordon, rebel candidate for governor
elected by large majority. Itnow ap
: pears that the vote for Che constitution
: runs largely ahead of that for Repub-
} lican candidates, and that the Conserv.
atives themselves consider the election
of Gordon very uncertain, while tho
Republicans claim the election of Bull.
lock. The constitution has probably
been adopted.
The Des Moincs Register, 18th, LEARNS
that the wheat and oats crop of that re-
gion, despite the cold, is in fine condi-
ton and growing nicely.
Among the ashes of the Erie railroad
. wreck was found body, and on it an
accident insurance ticket for $4,000
around which the fire had burned ev-
erything away, but leaving this, and
thus identifying the charred remains.
The Massachusetts Homeopathic So
, ciety. by a vote of thirty-threc against