The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-04-24
The TEmporia News.
INTERESTING ITEMS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.
An exchange asks, ''What makes one
happy?" Sometimes another one.
The debt of the city of San Francisco
94,76S, O61-all funded.
Tbere are over 1000 Insane persons in
the State Of Ohio unprovided for.
wAaAska psednces crabs over sig feet
The Republicans are effecting thor
ough equalization throughout Virginia
Rich gold mines have been discov-
cred, it il said, near Tyrone, Pennsyl-
rSant6 y. fill Jgt5 - SsiG' /
Last year there were 101 accidents on
the New Jersey railroads, 81 of which
Terminated fatally Alb Rak1
The Salem Gazette, of Salem, Mass,
has entered on its one hundredth year
Of existence. ..3Koo sasRsSS 81
There ara now 600 persons in the Cal
ifornia Insane Asylum-400 males, 200
a'femA1es.7o4 NO. If9n9 ears t 70
It costs the people of Illinois 81, 800,
600 annually to support the victims OF
intemperance.
:. = sA1sdy who had both legs broken on
5 8 Brooklyn ferry boat has been awarded
e4AOy00Vs s.51ego e,sV Sssst-4st
THE Union soldiers and sailors will
hold q national convention in Chicago.
ON the 10th Of May.
Ask yourself before speaking Ill of
any man--first, is it right? second, is it
kind third, Is 1t necessary.
yedWeston has won his wager, walking
IO3 miles In twenty.three hours and If
ty-eight minutes.
Mrs. JuArez was arrested in the city
4, OF Mexico, for fast driving, taken before
:, 3 magistrate and fined. Juarez thanked
the policeman and paid the fine. e0'.
saItlisytated by leading tobacco manu-
1Scturers now IN Washington that there
have been frauds on the revenue in the
form OF taxes eYaded, on about $780,
10000 pounds Of tobac co.
III is estimated that 2O(IO persons have
been killed in Texas within the last two
yeafH and p half by the revolver and
knife, and few If any of the murderers
have been brought TO Justice.
81 whipping IL extensively practiced in
the Tennessee penitentiary. During
tho-past- six months no less than 525
spunishments by logging have been ad-
iI6fniatared there, some Of which were
.eegent5-fve lashes.
Y The latest and most ridiculous error
In Typography was that of a line in an
exhibition programme, where for "The
burial of Moses, was Substituted "The
= barrel Of Molasses."
.w.RecentIy q viilager was drowned In
1eAo Tagus. The mayor ordered search
Tor the body, and described the deceased
@ follows: Ozark complexion, tall,
gsarked impeachment in his speech"
Nspoieon Is trying to reclaim the
arSat African Desert by means of drove
wells He has succeeded In getting
down one hundred, and around them
the bafhen sand has been changed into
beeuttfuI gardens. -
Large quantities of maple sugar have
,been made in New Hampshire and YER
mont this spring. The sugar sells in
Concord, N. H, for twenty cents q
pound, and the sirup for 81 6Oper gal
"A company has been formed in CAL
df0r1l4A Tor an expedition to raise frig-
ate ladenf with gold and silver ingots,
douhI6ons, etc., sunk on the Peruvian
coast nine hundred years ago.
Cable dispatches bring the gratifying
assurance that letters from DR.. Living
fgt0RAr haze been received in England.
;AisaexPlomtiops In Africa are abont
SoncgFded, and he is to return home
sooh: :
"a The-Commissioner Of Agriculture es-
timStes that 80 600 worth of sheep
are KILLED by dogs annually in the Unit
edsStates. The cost of the subsistence
aofdQgs is 1estimatsd at SIS, 100000 year.
1t is represented that the Government
lighthouse and other Government build
1Hgs situated on Absecom inlet, in the
State Of New Jersey, arc in imminent
danger nom the rapid ingress the sea is
making at that point.
= SorT Soar roR FRUIT rTRxrs.-Mr.
-Ja0.:CAse, an old friend of the Weeklu
Press, says: 'Please tell your patrons
70 Whitewash fruit trees with soft soap
instead of lime, and they will find it to
their advantage. Lime is good in the
DRY, but soap much more SO in practice.
Fruit growers try it"
The British navy estimates for the
year having been laid before Parlia-
menS John Bull is aghast. He is called
upon 70 pay the enormous sum of $56,-
100000 TO keep up, the naval establish
Hshment of 1868. The navy consists of
ga ships, including 30 iron-clads in
commission and reserve, and 65, 900 men
'Hre required for the vessels. .a
The shortest letter in history is snip |
posed to have been Senator Summers to |
Secretary Stanton, telling the latter to |
<.sltckss This, it appears, is not so, for |
the Boston Advertiser says that in Maine |
.Aperson once cent 70 another Sheet OIL
PePels en- which Was {. = and nothing
ss.seo BY rsfaSn Of mail he received
snetheF sheet having only so" The
answer, Nothing" -
At q large party the other evening,
while young lady was playing the pi-
ano with peculiar touch, q bystander re- |
marked ssTd give the world for her fin
gers" He wac greatly taken aback by
her prompt reply that he might have |
the whole hand-for his own. But then
its leap-year, You know.
al g.
New TREArY WITH THE OsAaEs.-O ur
Washington ,adyices iRfOrm as that the
commissioners to treat with the Osages
win be n this city in q fsw days, by the !
18th at farthest where they viii obtain
an outfit and 60 to the headquarters of