The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
In one of the Nevada mines, artillery
is used to knock down quartz.
1t is reported that Gilmore, received
$4,000 from the receipts of the jubilee.
Reverdy johnson has resumed the
practice of his profession at Baltimore.
The plains of Texas have been literal- d.
~ covered with strawberries this sea-
son.
A Baltimorean wants to immortaliZe
Stonewall jackson, by naming COOK
stove after him.
A man at Augusta, Maine, owns
pig which was assessed at sou last
year.
VIM. Cullen Bryant is to be made an
honorary member of the German Free
Trade Association.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife, when
divorced, married the artist, Bierstadt,
has cured himself of opium eating.
Gen. Prim does not allow the Span
ish officers or soldiers to take part in or
discuss politics.
Miss Anna Smith, mills county,
Iowa1 q girl of nineteen, is working
farm of 100 acres on her own account.
Commodore Worden, of monitor
fame, il at Dresden, and Is said to be
much improved in health.
Kate Field says Grant looked at the
review of the Massachusetts, militia as
! if he could be knocked down with
feather.
1t is reported that Chinese temple il
TO be erected i'll New York city within
six months.
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connecting it with other places, and sew.
enteen moro arc building.
Lowry, who married Ann Surratt, has
been dismissed from the Surgeon Gen.
erals employ, by order Of the Secretary
of War.
1t is said that Henry J. Ray1nond's
maternal grandfather and grandmoth-
er, and one of his uncles, died Of apo
plexy.
| Prang has kindly given eight of his
chromos to the Massachusetts, Lunatfc
Asylum. Let us hope they are '1ost,
not gone before"
A Boston paper gives the dimensions
ofParepa-R osa's voice, as follows: 800
feet long, 300 feet wide, and as high-as
the Coliseum"
The Rev. Mr.. Richardson, of WASH
ington, Ohio. is one hundred and six
years old, walks five miles on Sundays,
and breaches sermon.
Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, and
Gov. Hayes of Ohio, have both been re-
nominated by Republican conventions
of their respective States.
1t is now claimed that large orchards
breed insects and disease after the man.
ner of large cities, and that the remedy
is small farms and small orchards.
Suit has been brought against the city
of New Orleans for 100000 by Charles
johnson, who was wounded in the nee
joint by pistol shot during the riots
OF 1866.
Brigpoli and Mcclellan will sum-
mer at Long Branch. The former OF
these musicians is noted for holding
his tenor, and the latter for changing his
base.
The new seal adopted by Wyoming
Territory bears an elk's head, shield,
a train of cars and agricultural imple-
ments. with the words, " Let us have
peace"
/. California wheat is so dry that in conn
ing East through and into humid at
mosphere in gains greatly i'm weight by
absorption. This is quito an element Of
profit to the shippers.
Over dozen PhiIadelphia pastors
have united in the determination to at
tend no more Sunday funerals unless
the necessity is certified by physician.
AS yet they have had none this year.
Greeley denies that he owes HIS bust
ness success to McElratll, the old pub
Usher of the 15ibaas, and adds that the
only reason his own fortune is not more
ample is that he never aimed to make
money.
The Republicans from the South al
icge that Chief Justice Chase, during
his recent tour. has been actively con-
ferring with Southern Conservatives,
with view to organizing new political
movements.
d Mr.. Motley has been for some time
the guest Of Mr.. Charles Dickens. On
; the 9th of June, accompanied by 1fr.
Dickens and Mr.. Wilkie Collins, he paid
visit to the Chatham Garrison, where
he dined with Gen. hurry.
In Kent, Md, a negro has been dig.
ging for money pointed out to him in a
dream. He digs only at night, his moth
er sitting by him with an open Bible,
for "iuck,' and to keep OF ghosts.
! Gen. Sherman remarked the other
. day that, in his opinion, the shortest
J way to compel the Indians TO settle
down to civilized life was TO send ten
regiments of soldiers TO the plains with
orders ia shoot buffalo until they be-
came too scarce to support the redskins.
1t is stated that the chief of Cherokee
Nation, Lewis Downing, is Baptist
! preacher; the chief of the Choetaw, Ma
aioH, SiIas Wright, is a PresbytSFis,t
preacher, and the chief Of the Oreek Ma
ton, Sumuel Chihote, is 0 Methodist
: preacher.
The late Henry J. Raymond worked
for a long time on the New York 1rfb-'
assae for So her week. doing an immense,
amount of labor. and to Mr.. Greeley's
; satisfaction. which has beeiI often and
freely expressed since then by the white
coated l,I.iloso phcr OF the Tribune