The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-01-28
GLEANINGS.

Brlgnoh Is coming money Ill Cali
fornia.
= Ben. Butler aud Boutwell, are fifty
one years of age.
= The Woman Question-"Cap you
let me have $50 this morning."
= Brooklyn is furnishing coal for her
poor at the rate of 81 900 day.
= The color of Mr.. Spurgcon's nose
has excited newspaper comment.
j. Wilson Shaffer of Illinois. has
been confirmed as Governor of Utah.
= Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, has been re-
elected United States Senator from
Maine.
Horace Greely's salary as editor of
the New York Tribune is $1,000 per
annum.
- Fisk defends his action in buying
Beecher pew, by stating that he won ii
on bet.
Good farm hands in Boyle county,
Kentucky, are hired for the year at $50
and board.
= Last year the average cost per pu-
pill in the Pennsylvania Agricultural
College was 1857.
= Mcfarland is to be tried in March,
and it is said that his defense will be
temporary insanity.
- President Grants first veto-sub-
ject, renewal of a pistol patent-took up
six newspaper lines.
- The London Crystal Palace has de-
clared a dividend of Ia per cent. 10 the
original shareholders
President Grant has 10, j "a sui.
from Siberia, made of Siberian furs, and
cut in the Siberian fashion.
- Secretary Robson saws some of the
statements in Wells letter ''are not sup
ported by official records"
There is an old-fashioned parlor
game that has never been improved
upon, and that is counting.
- The gambling bells in New Orleans
have been closed, in conformity with the
recent act of the Legislature.
- One of the devices to cure poor
Carlotta of her insanity was that OF set
ting her 10 work AT sewing machine.
- The Virginia negro who recently
stole valuable horse and killed him for
his hide, has been sent to prison for
eighteen years.
- The Princess Matternich gave a
Christmas dinner to one hundred poor
children, and sent them all away with g
beautiful Christmas gift.
- The Portland and Kennebec rail
road has offered free passage To the Leg
islature of Maine TO Portland, to attend
George Peabody's funeral.
The Novelty Iron Works, New
Y DIRK, have at present go men employ
ed; the Quintad Iron Works, $50; and
the Morgan Iron Works, 432.
"A correspondent says that there
was one thing about the recent French
ball III New York suggestive of Para
disc. They were all naked and were
not ashamed
- The locomotive engines on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad are
being converted into coal burners. The
growing scarcity of wood is the cause
of the change.
- Judge Aaron Loveland, of Nor
witch, Vermont, the last survivor OF
Daniel Webster's class ut Dartmouth
College, died on the Sd instant, aged
ninety years.
- A large meeting was recently held
at Corinne, Utah, for the purpose of fa-
voring the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Ter
ritory, and the annexation of the north
ern portion to Idaho.
- One of the Democratic members OF
the California Legislature, who howls
most fearfully about Chinese immigra-
ton, is reported to have swarm of Chi
namen employed OH his rancho.
- The Navy Department offer for sale
800 guns. consisting of 30-pounder and
20-pounder PARROT rifles, and 35i gun
carriages. Many of these guns are new.
l.sli IF hnE a,ss, l.I
"A Russian Princess having fallen
in love with an Italian actor at st. Pc
tersburg, the Emperor has given the
dangerous young fellow his passport and
commanded him TO leave the Empire.
- A she goat. on the farm of Mr.. W.
L. Barker, near Smileytown, KY, gave
birth to four kids last March, and again
on the first of January TO four more,
making eight kinds inside Oft months.
- The "dead lock" between the Jail
physician and Louisville General Coun-
Gil in regard to furnishing medicines to
prisoners continues, and the prisoners
continue to suffer for want of necessary
physic.
- Mr.. Michaels, n juror in Muscatine,
Iowa, kept the court waiting. When
found he was drunk lying on Il lumber
y
with the case, and the place was filed by
a supernumerary.
- Hon. c. Z. Wilkinson, of St. Jo-
seph, gave the following toast in honor
of newly married couple who were
celebrating their joy by big supper:
MAY their two souls be as distinct
as the pillows, yet one as the sea-
- An unfortunate couple were mar
cd NJ q istT in h.
laundering clergyman, who dated the
certificate one week later by mistake, so
that though they were married on Christ
mas, lit didn't go into effect until New
Years"
Josh Billings has issued supple
ment TO his famous essay on the mule.
Here it is in full |'The mewl is larger
burd than the guse or turkey. II has
two legs to walk with and tHo more to
kick with, and it wares its wings on the
side of its head
= The message of Gov. McCook, OF
Colorado, recommends female suffrage,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF Indian tribal reia-
tons, the election of Governor and 9TH
er Territorial officers by the voice ofthe
people of the Territory, and a thorough
immigration aid system.
= The Hoosac Tunnel is now in the
naHds OF the MeSsfS. SBaniy, OF Mon
treal, as contractors, who have agreed to
finish the work for S5,000,000 before
March l, 1874, and expect to complete it
long before that time. Gov. Claflin es-
Inmates that the tunnel will cost the State
altogether, 100000.
= In reply TO Dom Piatt's assertion
in recent letter, that "we do not have
promotion from the ranks" the AFmy
and Macy journal says that out of the
2,77l officers of our army, between sew
en- and eight hundred entered the SER
vice as private soldiers, and that only
622 ever enjoyed the advantages of West
Point.
= a startling incident occurred dur
ing the services at st. Peters on the oc-
casion of the first congregation of the
Ecumenical Council. While the leading
bishop was praying before the confess
sion, piercing scream ran through the
church, followed by a feeble CRY. 4
woman-one of the vast tbrong gather
ed to witness the ceremonies-had given
birth to a child.
= DIR. C., of Sycomore, Illinois,
riding in the country one day, saw o
cf, urOr orota t,oSf t.oadinO