The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-28
NEWS ITEMS.


There arc forty-two Grant Clubs in
New Hampshire.
General Phil. Shcri dams engage
ment to Miss Grace Hilton is called a
observation-disclosures.
Twenty-Five firms in Chicago did
a business exceeding two millions each
in 1867.
The New Orleans I5.jBss,ro nolsts
the name of General Grant for Presi-
dent. 1t is stated that two other papers
in that city-the Republican and the i'd
cocote will follow suit.
Tho Central City, Colorado Register
says that the Cheyennes have killed on
~ three men since signing the last treaty
and that was only to try the new guns
presented to them by tho Peace Com
missioners.
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm has just had
a decision rendered in her favor by the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania which
gives her some 100000 worth of prop
erty near Pittsburgh, TO which her di-
vorccd husband had claimed exclusive
right.
Senator James w. Nye, of Nevada,
who made the caustic reply to Mr.. Doc
little, on Friday the oath uIt., was born
in Madison county, New Y ork, Juue 10,
1915, and will therefore be fifty-three on
his next birth day. Senator Morton. of
Indiana, will not be forty-five till the
fourth of August next.
A Berlin cable dispatch says the ne
gotiation of Hon. George Bancroft on
the subject of the naturalization of Ger
mans in America, &C., has been brought
to successful issue. The North Ger
man Bund agrees fully to recognize
and accord all the rights of exemption
from military duty ETC., of native-born
Americans to Germans naturaliZed, ac-
cording to law, as citizens. of the United
States, after they have spent five years
in the United States. A treaty is to be
signed by Mr.. Bancroft ON the 22d.
About twenty-five years ago, ac-
cording to the New York Times, the
valuation of real and personal estate in
the city and county of New York was a
little over 1928, 100000, and the taxation
thereupon was nearly 81, 750,0O0. This
year, while the estimated property val
ue had, by the last valuation, risen only
to S73G,0O0,000, the computation for tax
es calls for about S22,OO0OO0. The tax
alton has thus grown from $3.50 per
head to over S30-nearly six-fold. All
under Democratic rule.
The restitution in many of the lead
ing Eastern cities is attracting general
the January report of the Association
for improving the condition of the poor,
there has been greater destitution than
at any period since 1854. Factories,
boundaries, and all kinds of manufacto-
ries are closing and journeymen me-
chanics in every branch, are being dis
charged on every hand.
Tho schools carried on in Georgia
under the protection of the Freedmen's
Bureau now number 145, with 239 teach
ers and Il, 481 pupils, white and colored.
Of the schools, Al are open in the even
ing only. The colOred people also sup
port 40 schools of their own, with ], 400
pupils. This is not avery extensive ed
ucational establishment for SO large a
State as Georgia, but it is a great deal
better than could be shown there in the
plantation era before the war. Certain
" better era has dawned upon the
South.
The Cheyenne papers claim that be-
sides gold, Wyoming will be rich in the
baser metals. Copper, iron and lead are
found in inexhaustible quantities along
the base of the mountains for long
distance from the Colorado line north.
Good serviceable coal can be found in
quantities to suit all over the Laramie
PLAINS, in which same ncighborhOod
goodly sprinkling of oil and mineral
springs have been reported. In the new
Territory the agriculturist will find ex-
ceIlent farming lands contiguous to
mountain ranges, which will always af-
ford good markets for the produce he
may raise.