The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-10-29
NEWS ITEMS.

A tunnel of sixty feet length, the work
of six days would have prevented the
Avondale catastrophe.
Mr.. George Peabody has made an
additional donation of 100000 to the
Peabody Institute. Of Baltimore, Mary
land.
Potatoes are rotting badly in Mime
sofa.
A trunk directed to 1Iworth, Kansas,
passed over the Boston s. Albany road
last week.
Twenty-one churches have been built,
or are building, in Chicago this year.
Iowa has just abolished the use of the
lash in the State Penitentiary.
Cranberries are so abundant in Wis
consin that they are selling at two dol
lars bushel.
Governor Walker, of Virginia, who is
only thirty-seven years old, is the
youngest Governor the State has ever
had.
A man marked turtle near Tam
ton, Mass, in 1926. The other day he
found the turtle near the same spot
where he discovered him forty-three
years ago. The creature is still fresh
and smiling.
Gen. w. S. HiIlyer, the only surviv-
| ing member of Gen. Grants first staff,
proposes writing the life of the late
Secretary of War.
Fruit stains may be removed by
moistening the article affected with a
solution of hyposulphate of soda, and
adding to it a little pulverized tartaFic
acid, which is to be rubbed on the stain.
The article can then be cleansed with
water.
Mrs. Evans, one of the. sufferers by
the Avondale disaster; loses eight of
her family-her father, husband, three
sons and three brothers.
Sunfowers, when planted on an ex-,
| tensive scale, will neutraliZe the dele
terious effects of marsh exhalations.
At the New England Fair Grounds,
at Portland, the other day, an old man
forced his way through the crowd to-
ward Gen. Mcclellan, and with tears in
his eyes grasped his hand exclaiming,
lsfGeneFal, am glad. | am delighted TO
q see you, have long desired to see you.
I always believed you managed the
army as well as you knew how,1-and
General Mcclellan retired.
i Senator Sprague is. said to be the
largest employer in the United States.
/ He gives work to about eight thousand
} persons, and has recently raised their
! wages fifteen per cent.
An anecdote is told of Frederick the
Great, that just before the battle of
:. Rosebach he said to one of bis Generals,
who was on very intimate terms with
|. him, eff lose the battle shall retire
, to Venice, and there practice physic.1
"Ah," replied the General, salways a
murderer always murderer
Statistics show that the deaths from
drunkenness in England amount to
: $1,000 year; in Germany, to 10000 q
? wear; in Russia, to 10000 q year; in
Belgium, to 1000, and in France TO LOO.
In this country it is estimated that co.
600 persons annually are the victims of
intenperance.
The Springfield Republican, says that
! Mr.. Boutwell, has, during his stay in
CrotoB, Mass, been making careful in
quiries into the pecuniary condition of
. his poorer townsmen, with o view TO
testing the condition of the majority of
the people in the rural districts of the
country generally. He is said TO have
: found that they live better than they
! did before the war, have fewer mort
|. cages. and more money in the savings
! bank. The same Improvement would
probably be observed throughout the
/ State.
Gen. Grants wonderful OK, weighing
: over 4, 600 pounds. is now on exhibition
3 | at the st. Louis Fair. Says the Demo-
E cTnt: ssHe is somewhat of cosmo.
3 politan, having lived in Boston, New
5 York, Philadelphia and Washington
D City and he IL a patriotic OK, for in all
j the cities named he has exhibited him
/, self in aid of the Sanitary Commission
: and the Union Aid Society, bringing in
hax
j. excess of twelve thousand dollars. or an
j. average of 3 thousand q year since his
j birth, all of which has been consecrated
f TO the nobsest and most exalted of char
i ities.v
% Alexander Dumas recommends onion
t soup as an infailible remedy for
7 nervous prostration, headache and de-
bilisy. He prepares bis soup, which has
become quite famous among the gonr-
n mands Of the French capital, Of cream
and onions.