The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

There arc eighteen colored members
of the new Virginia Legislature.
The centenary Of the birth Of Beeth-
oven occurs in December next year.
| Captain Lott, Of the Cunard steam.
| ship Russia, has crossed the Atlantic
three hundred and seventeen times.
The King of Prussia is an artist. He
is trying to improve his complexion BY
using brandy, and with success.
Prentice says that man was the cons
sideration at the creation. Woman was
| only ''side issue.'
Princess Metteraieh calls veloclr
fede n machine that sets fool on
rollers.
Robert Tombs practices Law intermit=
tentiy at Washington, Georgia. and en-.
tertains poor opinion OF mankind.
/ NJ. Lesseps officially announced that
/ the ceremonies of the opening OF the
Suez Canal will take place ON tine l7tk
of next November.
Miss Rye arrived in Toronto this
month with between seventy and eighty
English servant girls, her most recent
/ Importation.
a party Of self-styled rcfOrmers have
been holding meeting at FarmingtQn,
/ Mass, to advocate the immediate pay=
ment of the national debt by ASSESS
Inent.
The Hon. Edward Mcpherson Is TO
sail for Europe on the 18th inst, for the
benefit of his health. Archbishop
McCIoskey will sail ON the 7th Of Au-
gust, to attend the Council. ~
The New Bedfore Mercury says that
i'm view of the drunkenness prevalent
! in that city. in spite of the. new Massae
chusetts prolIibitory law, ''the question
is not where the pins ga, but where
does the Ium come from Z"
! At the late Saratoga Convention MISC
| Anthony was interrupted BY 9 man
I who asked, 'sWhat is to be done WITH
] st. Paul's saying, '.that women should
be subject to their husbands? Z" She anr
swered, "The same as men do With
the rest of Paufs sayings-pass them
4 by"
! Several members of the captured Cu-
ban expedition will bring suit against
the Cuban Junta for refusing TO pay
them for the money expended, and tho
clothing lost during their: stay on Gard;
ner's Island. Many of the fllibusters
are entirely destitute. ia, =,
! Miss Ida Lewis. the young woman
who saves shipwrecked mariners as
Newport, X. l., has become snch u Hone
ess, that last week she had, one day, .
| hundred visitors, and another day,
hundred and fifty.
The official returns show that the vote
! for Walker was 900 short Of the white
registration, and that for Wells IO,OO
short OF the colOred registration. /, Qbf
! jectiomable clauses In the constitutions
were defeated by 10000. There apr
pears to have been an enLiEely new deal
in politics, as only twenty-fOur mem:
bers were elected TO the Legislature who
/ had been there before.
A Stokes editor thus pays his coIIi=
piinents to a cOnfrere, who advocates
| the election of Gov. Senter: "The dia-
| bolical corruption of Pearne knows NO
hight, no depth, no width, no breadth.
In him is concentrated all the vile cons
tamination which makes up fend la.
| carnate." -
| The internal revenue and custom re-
ceipts continue to come in heavily, and
the prospect is so favorable that this
Treasury Department expects to show
a reduction at the end OF the month. tR
/ the public dept, OF at least eight millions
of dollars, and perhaps more.
The Viceroy of Egypt recently signed
a contract for sixty thousand Reming-
ton rifles. They are an American weaP-
OH, made at lion, n. Y, and large nuHs-
bers of them have been sold ~ the
| Spanish authOritis in Cuba.
Gen. Wright, Chief Engineer OF the
| IIopOAdto
and making contracts for clearing
away the timber, throwing up the earth.
works and con structiDg the approaches
to the bridge on the east side of the riv.
er. The sub-cOntracts for the masonry
on both sides, will be let in the COURSE
of few days, and the first of the IRON
cylinders. for the piles will arrive next
week. The work goes Oh, and even the
/ most skeptical now begin TO realize that
the LeaVenworth bridge is no myth.--
bulletin.
Toads arc capital helpers I'm taking
care Of vine patches. Lay boards. hes
| tween the rows to shelter them in the
day time, and they will make q carnival
of the bugs ut night.
| Gen. Ames says that there IL really
| but one issue in Mississippi, and that Is
| whether the loyal men or rebels will
control the State. Gen. Ames Is openly
| la favor of the Republican policy. He
! is strongly opposed to the movement OF
making Judge Dent Governor, its
chief support must come from the Rebel
Democracy.
Recently, Jeptha Smith, q lad OF
eighteen, living near Cassville, Barry
county, No., slipped and fell over bluff
at Carlisle's mill He first fell dis
tance of forty-five feet, alighting on HE.
feet. Here he rebounded and fell an-
OIHcr thirty lectJ DfIHSluE UP vi nIo
shoulders aad then, by q series of falls
of ten Or twelve feet at time, brought,
up against a tree, making distance OF
some hundred feet in all. Singularly,
he sustained no serious Injuries, aud
| was about as usual i'm q few days.
A boy of fifteen, in Blackhawk coun-
T., Iowa, whose father died three years
ago, leaving his widow and son an
! eighty-acre farm, burdcned with q
81 COO mortgage, has taken whole ana
sole charge of the farm, hiring help
only In secd-tiine, harvest and thrash.
ing, paid Off the mortgage, purchased .
harvester, salky pillow, = wagon and 8
set of harness, besides an $50 sewing
machine for his mother, and is now out
of debt. He is member OF the Cedar
Valley Agricultural Society and atteiids
school three months each winter.
United States District Attorney
| PierrepOnt, at New York, has been
| authorized by the President to call oit
all the military and naval forces at that
city to- prevent the departure of Ia.
ban expedition said to be about ready
to leave that port. He has taken
measures with the naval officers and
military iI the forts to obey his ilstric-
! lions.
Prominent bankers and merchants Of.
New York city have rendered loan OF
| g. 10000 for the purpose of continuing
the construction OF the Kansas Pacific
Railroad on to Denver City and the
mountains. To do this IL is necessary
20 buiDd 30 miles Of road. We are
glad to learn that the good work is to
go on, and that we will soon have rail-
road connection with the Union Pacific