The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-28
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A Bounce baby has been born fl
Richmond, Va.
farmers and land owners of Nebraska
Brook trout two feet long are caught
In the mountain streams of California
Six young ladies' have been on tria
at Clinton, KY, for disturbing public
worship.
Mrs. Stanton says woman,s dress is q
sheer Invention of the devil to bcfool
and belittle her."
Blonde hair is dying ont; and it is
asked, what will the ladies do who have
dyed?
The latest thing I'm the pipe line is
imitation mcershcaum made OF bread.
The pipes harden and color beautifully.
A Massachusetts, lad recently sold BOZ
muskrats Of his own trapping, and with
the avails thereof paid his last winters
tuition at school.
Two local reporters on the Montgom-
cry (Ala.) Mail recently fought a duel
because they differed as to the color of
an actresses eyes.
There is at Portland, Me-, a ''Widow's
Wood Society,"" Commenting upon
this fact, some one asks: "Who ever
heard of a widow that wouldn't.
A hundred thousand herring were
east ashore by the tide in Kataya Bay,
Martha's Vineyard, on Monday of last
week, and were carried of and sailed.
The Central Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny has already discharged about two
thousand men. Most of them returned
to California, but many of them went
TO the White Pine mines.
Cory O'Lanus favors the entrance of
women into the political arena, on the
ground that "Every woman is bound to
do Il certain amount of scolding, and if
she does n good deal in public she won't
do SO much at home"
A Wisconsin paper having exulted
over the fact of its coming out in new
dress, rival sheet remarks: "In this
as in everything else, they are an age
behind our Office, which was supplied
with new material years ago.
Two Hawaiians attempted to desert
in tub from the bark Oriole, of New
Bedford, one evening, when twenty-five
miles off the Marquesas islands. They
returned swimming, in about eleven
hours, having lost their tub.
A mare was stolen in Texas village,
and subsequently, was heard from in a
distant town. The owner sent n mes
sage in regard to her, and day or two
afterwards received a reply as follows
Your mare Is here; / will bring her /;
thief hung"
a temporary understanding between
the officers of the Union Pacific and Gen.
trail Pacific Railroads has resulted in es-
Publishing the rate of fare between New
York and San Francisco at $40 for first
class, and $50 for emigrant and second
class passage.
Vermont newspapers are discussing
the necessity of having bill passed by
the State Legislature compelling railroad
companies to build their bridges high
enough to clear the heads of brakemen
standing erect on the top of freight cars
Many lives have been lost by means of
low bridges.
The mother of the late "Artemus
Ward,' after waiting in vain for the
public TO erect a monument over the
grave of her son, and feeling mortified
that there is nothing to mark his resting
place, has determined to put up grave
stone at her own expense.
Eli Goodro, fifteen years old, and
Louisa Stebbins, aged fourteen, who
work in one of the Chicopee Mass
tOAiOSt W IuSJ Week.,
and were married. Their parents at
first proposed to separate them, but on
the advice of Palmer Jones, conclud-
cd 10 let them alone.
The legislature of South Carolina has
passed an act providing that whenever
large estates are put up for sale, and are
likely to be knocked down at low
prices, the State Commissioners shall
buy them all up and sell them to immi-
grH,ts at cost, giving them, when nee
essdry, five years to pay for them.
The Fond du Lac Reporter is re-
sponsible for the statement that five
sections of Lake Winnebago, north of
that city, not one foot of which has less
than twenty feet of water over it, has
been sold and resold by Spectators
South, for twenty years, and still they
are at 1T. Parties have even come there
TO sec it. 1t has been valued at $4,000.
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