The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-22
The Emporia. News.
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Porte Crayon is in the lecture field.
Cork has elected Fenian Mayor,
Cholera has broken out in Bombay.
Chillicothe. Ohio, is growing figs.
The trichine has reappeared in Berlin.
Stewards new store employs 1000
girls. -.
Minnesota is paying SO for wolf
scalps. 7di no
Iowa has 1880 miles OF railroad.
A velocipede school has been started
in New York. &i5aaa 1-if'
Kennedy is singing Scottish songs in
New York. ,.r.
Carrier pigeons are coming into use
again in England and France.
Antelope meat from the plains is
plenty in the Chicago market.
The Manufacture of sugar from sor-
gho is engaged in in Louisville.
Maine has been haying to the extent
of million tons this year.
Astronomers assert that there are
land and water on the planet Mars.
A right to fish in Taunton Great Riv-
er, Mass, has been sold for Sis.
Mrs. Caroline Fl. Dali has been lee
turing on Social Science in Detroit.
A submarine cable from Sau Francis-
CO to Hong Kong lie talked of.
A Bremen ship has arrived in Charles
ton with 800 German emigrants-
The New York Sorosis is regularly
chartered. TF
A first-cIass veIocipedc costs $50 gold
in Paris.
Barnum is going to start museum
in London.
Mrs. Boomer is now blooming in
Omaha.
Public worship is regularly conduct
ed in Chicago in eight languages.
There are thirty million bearing grape
vines in California.
The French envoy at Berlin has a
million francs year to spend in secret
service.
Carlotti Patti will return to America
next year under the management of
Mark Strakoech.
Governor Hoffman is thirty-Rine, the
youngest Governor New York ever had
except Seward.
Greeley has been lecturing on 'Wom-
an" in Washington, where there exists
lanentable ignorance on that subject.
Boston wants to invest million dol
lars in a hundred feet wide street that
will run straight for at least hundred
yards.
Francis Joseph, of Austria, speaks
every language spoken in his checkered
empire with the greatest ease and flu
ency.
A plantation containing 645 acres
twenty -one miles from Charleston, S. c..
was sold recently at public sale for $500
Mr.. goel Taylor, of Cromwell, has
during the last fifty years rescued one
hundred drowning persons from the
Connecticut river.
A Minnesota farmer says: 1--WE raise
400 bushels of potatoes to the aero here
which would be a big thing five didnt
also raise bugs enough to eat EN- all up
Mr.. John Jenkins, of North Barn
stead, New Hampshire, raised the las
season 100 bushels of ears Of corn Oh
40 square rods.
George Francis Train says that Eng
land is the only place where God ant
the devil are harnessed into a doubl
team to run Church and State.
The Rev. Mr.. Rogers, the Ritualisti
Episcopal clergyman who recently en-
tered the Roman Catholic church, ha
been lectur!ng in st. Louis on Ritualism
Robert Nichol, of Greenock, Scotcl
savant, shas discovered that pound O
.fof
insects. ''-'
1t is said that Napoleon III contem
plates abdication in favor of his Sol
whose succession is to be ratified by
popular vote of the people.
Vassar Female College has been con
ferring the degree of Bachelor of Art
Oh young lady graduates, and we ma
intimate that Maid of Arts would b
preferable.
An agent of a New York jewelr
near Harris Fork, I'm Utah The result
of six weeks' labor were two and hal
bushels of these stones.
PetropaWlowski,i in Kamschatka, hs
apost Office with one mail a year, an
even then it sometimes fails altogethe
ThQIpustmaster has q salary of sewers
hundred roubles. - .'--
Six members of the Smith family
Middletield, Mass, have been competin
in raising fat hogs-the owner of tn
smallest hog had to give a dinner to ii
0thersJi- IL resulted in the slaughter
pigs weighing from 500 to 6S4 pound
At the close of last year the twelv
leading railroad companies of Englan
owned $685., locomotives, estimated [
have cost in the aggregate eighty-tw
milfion dollars. The London and Nortl
west alone had 1 ,453 locomotives.
An Austrian soldier, who was We
eran ofchfteen battles in Europe, fC
which he wore as many medals, and (
Maximilian's campaign in Mexico, lat
~ applied to the Mayor of New OrleaI
for means to get to the North, here
hoped to be further assisted on his wa
home.
Mr.. Greeley is naturally very prou
of the 1ri6N0e. He is garrulous ov'
its merits. He has hazy notion tn
IL will play a prominent part in brin,
ing on, the millennium. 81 cherish Il
hope" he says, ''that the Tribune wi
flourish long after / shall have moulde
ed into forgotten dust, and that IL
stone which covers my ashes may be,
to future eyes the still ineligible il
scription, Founder of the New Yol
Tribune"
The Alma (Wis.) Express repor
most wanton ease Of abuse of a lit
child, five years old, at Durand.
seems that after whipping the little oil
nearly to death, the parents threw it i