The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-03

/. rive native OuDaQS nave Deen un-
earthed in Cuban boarding houses, act
ing as Spanish spies.
Rome, by new census, has 1852
inhabitants; 1850 of them are priests,
monks and nuns.
A woman named Mrs Clifford, living
in Marion county, Iowa, died Saturday,
] from the effects of fright at the eclipse.
The London actors are combining to
mob all American actors who may have
the temerity to appear before the Brit
ish people.
A young lady in Neenah, Wisconsin,
was lately very much provoked at the
rain, and accused it of familiarity be-
i..capse il began to pat her (patter) on her
! back.
Ii a woman at Pittsfield, Massachu-
lfsetts, has made, cleared and saved up
!. $1,000 in gold by the labor of her own
hands, within the past twenty-five
| years.
Il One of the best '.locals" in the West
/ is said to be theiady reporter of the JEFF
fefson (Iowa) Era. She is particularly
good in her descriptions of prize fights
and dog fights.
An old lady in Iowa weighs seventy
pounds and has the dropsy. She has
DeeH tdpPeu ever SO many times SINCE
last March, and had 179poUnds of water
taken from her.
1 a Detroit paper gives among its mis-
| cellaneous paragraphs wood cut of an
immense eye, with the explanation be-
neath--''P Portrait of Andrew johnson.
BY himself" ,ss ~. s.,r-,r.
Two .;gentiles2 have been elected to
the Utah legislature. One of them is
editor of the Corinne Reporter. This
! is the first defeat of Mormonism, by
ballot, in the Territory.
the fall of the temperature during the
eclipse twas nothing TO the GOODNESS
produced in Democratic bosoms when
Rosecrans' letter declining the nomina-
ton for Governor was made known"
The house of Harper & Brothers pays
100000 year for white paper. The
circulation of their periodical works is
as follows: "HaTpe1'S Bazaar (weekly),
10000; Hayper's Weekly, $4,000; Hor-
pel's Magazine, l1S,000.
DuEf, the rebel butcher, whose deeds
of blood form one of the blacklist pages O.
of the rebellion, is iii jail at Little
Rock, Arkansas, for numbering negro
in cold blood. The feeling against him
is intense. --55.-.
the green-room of the Omaha theatre
for. the privilege of dancing the can
caa. Neither would yield, and SO the
evenings performance came to sudden
end. 49,
The Chinese have entered upon their
sacred and imperial records that Bis
marck invented the needle-gun. AS the
records cannot be altered, Dreyse, the
inventor, will lose the honor of immor-
tally in the Celestial Empire.
The banking house of Thomas F.
NJ orris & Co, at Yonkers, New York,
suspended operations on Thursday. 1t
is supposed that Mr.. Stokes, the cashier,
is defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
Persons who have arrived at WASH
ington from Virginia give distressing
accounts of the effects of the long
drought i'll that State, and assert, unless
they have rain soon the corn and tobac-
co crops will certainly be thoroughly
destroyed Letters from Georgia also
represent that apprehensions of great
danger to cotton crops are felt in that
State because of the long dry season.
An order has been issued from the
War Department forbidding the resi-
dence of settlers on military resrva-
! tons. ALI intruders will be notified
/ by military commanders to leave the
reservation, and if they refuse. to do so
they will be removed by force.
Philadelphia is nervous lest her sup
ply of water shall give out. The Schuyl-
! kill river, from which the city is sup
! piled, has dwihdled to small stream
owing to the drought, and over two
hundred canal boats are reported stuck
in the mud between Philadelphia and
| Norristown.
1
| In a speech at Wilmington, Ohio, q
few days ago, Senator Morton, of Ind,
referred TO the Cuban question thus:
'Spain made haste within two months
after the rebellion to eoncede bellige-
rent rights TO the Southern Cenfedcra-
cy, and the diplomatic correspondence
| will show that our government, in po-
| lite and studied phrase, thanked her
| for her moderate and friendly act, and
with what propriety / have never yet
understood. And If we should now, at
| the end of nearly year after. the be-
ginning of the Cuban revolt, recipro-
cate the compliment, by conceding bel
| legerent rights to the people of Cuba,
the most fastidious Democrat should
not complaint. .l.. ...-...
The ST. Louis Democrat, in an article
commenting upon the Tennessee cleo
tion, says: ''The Republicans of Ten
nesses, fooled by Andrew Johnson, have
now been misled by Senator Brownloy,
and cheated by Governor Senter. It
has been their misfortune to, put their
| trust in men whose violence of Ian
j guage was thought to indicate deep
| conviction, and whose professions
were accepted as measure of devoted
patriotism. They may one day learn to
choose more wisely"
/ A letter to New York paper says
that there are now about 100000 con-
tributing members of the order of Odd
Fellows on this continent comprised in
E3,400 lodges. Total receipts of the or
der in two years, nearly 100000; ag-
gregate amount expended in the same
'iitime for relief of the distressed, burial
of the dead, succor TO the widow, and
education of the orphan, about $1,000
600.
+ COMMISSIONER WILSON, of the General
Land Office, is in receipt OF returns
showing disposal of 81 ,025 acres of the
public domain during the past month,
at the following local Offices: Junction
City, Kansas, 81, 6S6 acres; Topeka,
Z Kansas, 1853 acres ; WinDebago City,
Mimi, $3.50 acres Humboldt, Kansas,
4,797 acres. The greater part of the
lands were taken for actual residence
and cultivation under the homestead
law; the remainder was sold for cash
and located with military warrants.
Humboldt describes spot in the At
lantie Ocean, a little to the west of the
Il Azores, of very great extent, complete
: ~ covered with dense mass of marine
= negotiations. A Frenchman proposes
!, that the experiment be made of taking