The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-07

~ - lode IN Kansas City
next week, soethe Journal says.
Over eithtx-four thousand persons
visited the New York Central Park On
Sunday, 18th. 49,
There are two hundred and twenty
thousand Odd Fellows in the United
States.
1t was lately resolved by Demo-
cratic Convention in Crawfordsville, In
diana, that,no soldier ought to be nom
mated for office. rE
Tho latest from Cheyenne is to the
effect that the yigilence committee had
Killed two more desperadoes. They are
getting rid of them in summary man
ner.
The richest newspaper publisher i'll
Cincinnati is Calvin w. Starbuck, pro-
prietor of the Daily Times. Hi: prop
terty is valued at $500, 900 or 100000.
5 Col Miller, formerly of the Gait
House, Louisville, Ky, but who recent
~ retired from the Burnett House, Gin
cinnati, made S250,OOO there in three
years.
The whisky ring in Washington,
having had opportunities for reasoning
with members of Congress, now feel
confident that the tax bill viii be reduce
ed 10 fifty or sixty cents per gallon.
y--Thurlow Weed, the Veteran Growl-
CT, has good deal TO say about played
out" politicians. The use of the term
would be happy if he was engaged in
preparing an autobiography. raF
The delegates to the National Con-
vcntion, elected by the Republicans of
Maine, were instructed TO support Gen.
Grant for the Presidential nomination.
On the 16thinst. there died at Cam
den, Ohio, Mrs. Haskins, an old lady
F116 years of age. She was born III Bur-
lington, VT, in 1851, and lived on Long
Island when the. British invaded New
York. Eight of her ten children sur
vive her.
1t was Lobdell, not Brick Pomeroy,
who wrote the articles III the La Crosse
Democrat. rejoicing over the assassina-
! ton of Lincoln. Brick had the reputa-
ton of them, and become great man
with the Democrats. Lobdell was
smashed and burned up at the Angola
railroad disaster, and the same fate
awaits Brick-so far as the burning is
concerned.
-PLUcK.-Sergt.. Gilbert II: Bates, of
| Wisconsin, who made a bet to carry the
stars and stripes from Vicksburg, Miss,
to Washington, unarmed and without
money, started from the former place at
i ii a. M. on the 2Sth ult. An imme2sc
crowd, headed by the Mayor, Council
and prominent citizens, with. brass
band, accompanied him as far as the
Grant Pembcrton monument, where
they babe him farewell with good
wishes.
| "A young American lady, Miss Beck
with, daughter of the American COM
missioner at the Paris exposition, has
been attracting much attention at the
Bots dc Boulognc by the agility and
grace with which she executes the most
difficult feats i'll skating. The Emperor
and Empress, it is said, watch her daily
with great interest.
New York Central Railroad stock,
which few weeks ago had declined to
as low figure as 80, is now quoted at
1925. This is the effect of Commodore
Vanderbilt's new management of the
road, recently inauguratcd.
The superintendent of an English
workhouse, in order to prepare the boys
in his charge for inspection, scrubbed
their heads, the day before Christmas,
with "blue ointment" The result was
eighty of them went to the hospital, and
one died. u
The Pittsburg Pa.) iron manufac-
turers have reduced the price of iron
one quarter of a cent per pound, and of
nails twenty cents per keg, in conse-
tquencc of the duh times. h-
Agriculture HIS assumed new
phase in Nebraska. The farmers are all
planting forests, which will bless fu-
ture generations, if not the present.
The pork packing season has closed
at Indianapolis; 52,7S6 hogs were killed
and packed there this winter.
| Anna Dickinson has come out for Mr..
Chase as President. .-;.f......- f.t.f
100000 worth of properly was de-
streycd by fire in Chicago on the 2Sth.
"A telegram furnishes the following
description of the breaking up of the
ice a few days ago at ST. Louis: '.About
four O'Clock this afternoon, (January
3Oth) while some two or three hundred
people-men, women and children,
mainly passengers, by the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi railroad train-were crossing
the river on foot, the ice suddenly broke
loose from each shore and ioated down
stream. Great CONSERVATION immcdi-
ately5 ensued, and the people ran hith.r
and thither IN terrible fright. They could
not get off at either shore, as the ice
had left the river banks, and a broad
open space of water INTERVIEWED between
them and the land. and it seemed as
though there would be terrible loss of
life. Thousands of citizens gathered on
the levee, and watched the scene with
intense excitement. Luckily the i'm
mense field of ice did not break, and
after: floating a distance of a couple
of blocks it pressed againsta steam