The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-23

The Methodist Missionary society has
purchased the new iron building corner
OF Eleventh street and Broadway, New
u DIRK. They pay for it $500 900, thus
securing one of the most eligible sites
in the city. 1t is 10 serve as a general
Methodist correctional building. and
center for the vast publishing business
as well for the offices of the Missionary
Society, which celebrates in this way it's
semi-centennial. The building covers
half an acre.
The Congregational and New School
Presbyterian churches OF Plymouth, H.,
have entered upon a cooperation:
They are to worship six months in the
Congregational house. and six liz the
Presbyterian, each to keep up its sepa-.
rate organization. Rev. MIR. Swift, of
Iowa, is preaching for the United con-
gregatioms. Rev. Mr.. Barnes, who was
the late minister at Plymouth, has TAX
en- Congregation circuit I'm Missouri,
with the Belmont battle field rs his
center.
A subscription paper, circulated fof
some chafitabie purpose, was presented
10 a wealthy French manufacturers, who
subs cribed 20 francs. Twenty francs ~
Said the lady who presented the list to
him: ''why, your son has subscribed SO
| francs" That's all very WELL" replied
the manufactures. my son has q rich
father, and can afford it,
A Nashville druggist has invented
rat-paint made of a preparation of pbos-
phorus. You first catch rat and paint
him. After dark he looks like a ball of
Fl c, and going among his fellow rats.
they become frightened and vacate ths
premises, the sphorescent rat fol-
lowing of course and hurrying up the
rear.
a company has been formed In Lon
don 10 supply the city of Panama with
water. The project win cost EGG, 600
10000 to be subscribed in London and
fl0,000 in Panama. A gas company
has likewise been formed, and both gas
and water will be introduced in Pana-
ma i'll January next.
Mr.. Samuel Miller, of Campbell coun
ty, Virginia, died on Saturday. He
was the richest man in the State, and
bad made all his property himself.
Though impaired by the war, the es-
tate is estimated at S3,005.000. He made
a number Of requests to benevolent
institutions.
A douhle-ender locomotive is the last
railway invention. IL has no tender,
but carries water in tank over the
boiler, and coal In box in the rear of
the furnace. 1t has trucks and cowcatch-
ers at each end, and runs with equal ia
cility either direction.
Cleveland has a woman who has been
married seven times in eight years
Two of her husbands are dead. The
other five, from foUr of whom she was
divorced, still live. Her daughter. now
seventeen, has been twice married and
twice divorced.
a big fellow who went into one of
those one dollar stores, in Portland,
Maine, where they sell any article with
in the walls for that surn-pounced on
the stove for his dollars worth, and
would not relinquish his claim until
they paid him 81.
The Cheyenne Leader says that the
men sent out to work ON the Pacific
march overland for White Pine. 1t is
difficult to find laborers to keep the track
clear of snow.
A young man fell dead in the whiri
of a German waltz. at Chicago. last
week. The shrek of his partaer, as the
lifeless body dropped on the crowded
ballroom floor, was the first warning
the jewellers had that death was among
them.
The Des Moines Register says the
grasshoppers recently ate up half an
acre of tobacco for a man near that place.
and when the owner went out to look
at It they sat on the fence and squirted
tobacco juice ia his face.
The corporation of York, England,
has passed resolution directing the
clerk to sue gentleman Of the city for
refusing to accept the Office of Alder
man, to which be had been elected. The
fine is $50.
One day last week Lowell (Afass.
youth, TO whom his adorable had said
mo- Inadiy plunged into mill dam
but it was too cold, and he crsWied ont
wstter and better man.
The church at Bunyan,s birthPlaces
for which contributions are asked, be.
| longs to the State establishment ana
/ Bunyau would not be allowed 70 pre2ch
| IN il if he were alive. :
young woman was arrested "a PEey-
idenee the other day because she Locked
sorrowfnIIy, and 3 botfte Of laudsHs 2
and letter directing where szse snoulu
| be buried were found IN her Pocket