The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
MEMS ITEMS.

In the Indiana Legislature on the
17th, joint resolution ratifying the If |
teenth Constitutional Amendment was
passed by vote of fifty-one yeas
nays none.
Ernst Haberier, the Norwegian
Gottschelk, fell forward on the piano
dead, while playing at q concert in
Bergen, Norway, recently.
Poverty in Prussian provinces is
causing large emigration to America.
Two thousand emigrants reached Bre-
men in one day, on their way to the
United States.
Colonel Eugene O-ReiIy, an En-
glishman, living in Turkey has been
arrested in Syria, charged with import
ing arms and munitions under pfetense
! of a railroad survey, for getting up an
| Instruction III favor of Mustapha Fair
Pacha, brother to the viceroy of Egypt,
so as to create for the former new
viceroyaity to the west of Palestine,
| along the banks of the Euphrates. The
scheme had the approval of the English
and French governments.
The first house in San Francisco
was erected in 1916.
I'm China there is coin of which it
takes fifteen to equal a cent.
The zinc mines of Sussex county,
n. j., produces $4,000 tons of ore annu-
ally.
Twelve new savings banks were
chartered by the last Legislature of
Maine.
Tile activity in the San Francisco
ship yards is unparalleled.
Iowa is not only out of debt but
has surplus of S1,0O0,OOO in her treas
ury. @
"A steamboat is to run between
Corinne, which is situated at the rail-
road crossing of Bear river, and Salt
Lake.
Receipts from Internal Revenue
the present month have been compari-
lively heavy, averaging about $50,000,-
600 per day. The coin value in the
Treasury is now quite SS7,O0O,O0O,
which is increased $4,000, 900 by coin
certificates.
The emigration from Canada to the
United States still continues, and even
| increases. The roads leading TO Yer
mont are full of wagons and carts,
| heaped with the household goods and
wives and children, flying from a sec
/ ton of country where starvation
threatened them, to our hospitable
fields AID towns.
The cars made at Springfield, Mass,
were the first TO cross the continent.
| They arrived at Sacramento on Thurs
day the 18th inst.
! The city authorities of Blooming
! ton, H., are wisely studying the great
Fire Extimguisher since its marvellous
preservation of factory in that city.
1t is sensibly proposed that at public
expense u number be purchased and
placed at convenient points about the
business portion of the city. They are
rapidly becoming popular in Eastern
cities, since insurance companies lower
their rates on buildings in which they
are kept.
The shipments from Saginaw on
the Iltli inst, footed up 1,450,000 feet
of lumber and $4,000 pieces of lath.
The Muscatine, Iowa, journal says
the grasshoppers are approaching that
vicinity in countless thousands.
"A bed of iron ore has been discov-
cred in Warren COUNT, Iowa, eleven
feet thick. 1t is of the kind known IA
the kidney ore. Near to this, Il five
foot vein of coal has been found, that is
pronounced by iron workers as tit to be
used for smelling the ore.
-Goldsborough, N. G., has Swiss
Colony.
Seville, Spain, is to have a Protest
ant newspaper.
"A Vermont paper estimates the an
Dual maple sugar production of the Uni
ted States at 100000 pounds
-Hop-raising III Iowa is virtually
abandoned. So poor was the success
last year, that few have courage to try
again.