The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-14

eumulated daring the winter.
The Hon. Joseph C. Abbott, the
belligerent Senator from North Carroll
ma, is q native Of New Hampshire, aud
has been connected with the New Eng
land press. He commanded a New
Hampshire regiment during the war,
and at its close settled in North Car
DINA.
"A Senate Committee of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature has reported in ia
vor of SO amending the constitution of
that State as to allow women to vote.
The galleries were crowded with W. ON
en-, who could barely restrain their
cheers. Rev. Mr.. Dawse was the only
dissenting member of the committee.
-Jubal Early isn't at peace yet. The
other day, as he was sitting on the
porch of hotel in Lynchburg reading
a newspaper, the editor thereof, Mr..
Glass, came up and said, ''Good morn
ing" The General, who had not fan
cied the editorial which he had just
read, refused to return the salutation,
and words led to blows, Glass getting
badly pounded.
-Sixty-two officers have been de-
tailed by the War Department to per-
form the functions of Indian Agents.
The law creating the Indian Bureau al
lows this to be done. They will prob
ably remove all the old incumbents, in
Guiding those who are holding on
through the failure of two or three of
the Quaker appointments to obtain con
firmatiOn.
The body of Mrs. Thos. Taft, who
died III Elgin, Illinois, about three
weeks since, in a mysterious manner,
was exhumed on the Both, ult., and mi
croscopically examined by the medical
fraternity of that city. The muscles
from the different parts of her body
showed trichina to exist not only in
large numbers, but still alive some
three weeks after the interment. The
case excites much interest, as it is the
only one of the kind ever having been
known in that section.
Important dispatches were received
at the Navy Department on the Sth
from Admiral Hoff, dated Havana, May
1st. He says that on April 18th one
thousand Spanish troops arrived at
Nuevitos from Villa Clara, and one day
after Gal Lesca appeared very unex-
pectedly with 1900 more from
Puerto Principe. They report no re-
sistance on the march, although large
bodies of insurgents were posted on
high ground some distance from the
road.
Russell Youne's declaration i'll the
libel suit against the New York Sun
Company, makes Charles A. Dana, S.
B. Chittcnden, Roscoe Conkling, Ed
win d. Morgan, Charles Gould, a. A.
Low, c. E. Detmold, David Bows, Geo.
Opdyke, William L. Blodgett,e Marshall
O. Roberts, A. L. Brown, T. &. Church
i'll, F. A. Palmer, F. A. Conkling, A. A.
B. Cornell, Cyrus w. Field, Thomas
Hitchcock, M. B. Blake, E. d. Smith, 7.
Murphy and P. McMartin, the stock
holders of the said company.
"A dispatch from Henry, H., states
that that town was visited last Satur-
day afternoon by terrific hail storm,
which inflicted damage i'll the shape OF
broken windows, ETC., to the amount OF
$1,000.
1t is said that Mrs. Sumner, who
separated from the Hon. Charles a year
or two ago, recently made a handsome
present to the widow of Preston S.
Brooks.
-Mumler, the spiritual photograph
er, is described as an oking
lout, with plenty of greasy, darI; hair
and eyes. He belongs to the heavy or
der of Spiritualists, of which there are
two kinds, the heavy and the fragile.
Spiritual photography is the latest hum
bug of the day.
The real estate owned by Senator
Casserly in the suburbs of San Francis
CO, is assessed,at S2,700,000, and he has
very valuable property in the city be-
sides.
The physicians of indianapolis
have organized a medical college with
a capital of 100000. The institution
will commence operations in the fall.
The Minneapolis Tribune says
1--WE learn from gentleman from the
town of Dayton, in this county, who
has taken pains to ascertain, that out of
1900 trees tapped. there was manufac-
tured $4,000 pounds of sugar, which is
considerably below the average. This
is about equivalent to ITO pounds of
sugar to every inhabitant, and at Is
cents per pound would amount to S14,-
0S0."
1t is announced that ex-senator
Lane, of Oregon, has Joined the Cath
Ollie church. Rough on the Catholics.
If they can stand it, the public can.
-Twcnty-eight thousand tive humid
red and twenty-one marriages were
solemnized in Ohio during the year
ending December 81, 1868.
"A Washington special of the St.
Louis Evening Dispatch dated Sth inst.
says when the fact became known this
morning that Secretary Boutwell, had
dispatched orders to Assistant Treas
urer Van Wyck, at New York, to buy
Government bonds to the amount of
SI,000,009 per week, on the same plan
by which gold is scld, by sealed pro-
posals after due notice by advertising,
it led to much discussion among finan-
cial men. This move on the part OF
Secretary Boutwell, foreshadows clear
ly the policy which is to be pursued
willie he remains at the head of the
Treasury Department.
The receipts of the Government JUST
ify its bonds in being purchased in