The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-11
NEWS AND POLITICS.

L
The yield of wheat in Tennessee will
be larger than for several years past.
The New York Halt states that it
costs the United States $4,000 to edu-
cate every cadet who graduates from
West Point.
The Lcavenworth Times of the 9th
says: '.Seveteen hundred thousand
million grasshoppers few over the city
yesterday in enthusiastically direc-
ton"
Grant and Colfax are pledged to ex-
ecute the laws of Congress, but Sey-
mour and Blair are pledged to execute
the Union men of the South who up
hold those laws.
Bavaria has now oyer ,S24, 421 inhab-
itants, very small increase over the |
last census. Since 1915 over eight hun
dred thousand Bavarians have left the |
country. Most of them have settled in
the United States.
Gen. Sherman has returned to st.
/ Louis from his trip to the Rocky Mount
aims. He reports the Union Pacific rail-
road finished 100 miles west of Omaha,
and that it will be completed to Green
River, GO miles further, by October LIST.
The bill for the suppression of the
Ku-Klux passed to the third reading in
the Tennessee legislature on the 7th. 1t
imposes heavy punishment on persons
found masked and disguised, and also
, attaches penalty to any one who may
!. be found giving encouragement to Ku
KluX Klans.
The ordinary expenses of the gov
ernmcnt for the last fiscal year were a
; hundred and forty-six million dollars.
A reduction has been made in the APP
+ preparations for the present year from
t one hundred and forty-six to ninety
: one millions. And yet it is charged
4hat the financial administration of the
2 Republicans is frightfully extravagant.
, y The Louisiana State Senate have GUST
!, cd white senator to make way for a
7. colored competitor who claimed the
= seat. The white claimant was elected
IS by fraud.
!. The oldest son of the late Hon. Ste.
s. phen A. Douglas, now Private Secreta.
> ry of Gov. Holden, of North Carolina
/, is making Republican speeches.
j. The Dubuque Times says the Western
S. Democrats console themselves with the
10 reflection that if PendIeton could moi
IS be nominated, Seymour cannot bt
t. elected. *'t
o. The Richmond Enquirer says tn,
r1ay. Of tho Cou+Ia,u SfotoC how.
Mt seen the day when they could use thu
e. bullet, and if God in his anger permi
In the necessity to arise they will see
n again.
e, During the last three years, two citi
It, zens of New York, Chauncey and Hen
> ry Rose, have distributed among tn
charitable associations Of the city, in al
of unostentatious manner, the large sun
e. of S1,150,OO0, equivalent to over 81 200
f. n day during the whole period.
ne For every three hundred and fit,
&c bushels of potatoes removed from GU
- fields, the soil sustains a loss of ninety
Sc two pounds of potash; consequent,
to wood ashes is one of the most valuable
ne of manures in the culture of potatoes
o., Among the natural resources of Ne
:" braska are found to be exceedingly ricl
=" salt springs at Lincoln. A Mr.. Itch
IN enor has put up block of kettles
~ which are turning out fifty barrels pc
he day, and the yield may easily be mad
es ten times that amount. The water i
III said to be much stronger than that a
o. Syracuse, and these springs must prov
- mine of wealth.