The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
= Dickens was buried in Westmin-
ster Abbey between Macauly and
Cowper.
= The dogma of infallibility passed
the council on the 18th. If any one
doubts the Popes infallibility he or she
is to be mathematical. Thus Popery
is digging its own grave.
= There was. a row in the reconstruct
ion committee on the 18th, and Gen.
Farnsworth denounced Butler as
scoundrel.
= The Vermont Constitutional Con-
vention on Saturday last rejected the
amendment to give the ballot to women
by vote of 23l. against to one for.
- Senators Cragin, of N. H., and
Anthony, of r. L, have both been re-
elected.
- Fare from New York to Chicago
by all routes was again reduced on the
18th, from $50 to SIS.
- The House committee on the Pa
cific Railroad have agreed unanimously
to strike out of the bill gotten through
the Senate by old subsidy Pomeroy,
the monstrous proposition to give to the
Central Branch Railroad, starting from
Atchison, the even sections of land as
well as the odd.
- Dispatches received from General
Pope's headquarters say: Fifty Indians
attacked Hugo Spring Station, thirteen
miles west of Kit Carson, Col.,' and
were driven off by the guard, with q
loss of three killed and several wounded.
No whites hurt.
"A dispatch to the Commonwealth,
states that the well diggers at the end
of the Kansas Pacific track, were attack
ed a few days ago. by Indians, and two
of them killed.
- 1t is still showing in the mountains,
and miners are jubilant over plenty of
water.
Ex-Gov. Thomas Carney and Gen.
Stone, of Kansas, are now in Texas
looking after railroad matters.
- The Paris police say that at the
present time there are in that city more
penniiess Americans and American
dead beats than there were even during
the Great Exposition of 1867. ~
A woman offered the customary
prayer at the opening of the Connect
cut House on Friday, for the first time
in the history of the State, and one of
the New Haven papers admits that she
made "most commendable invoca-
ton"
The President, in reply to a resolu-
ton of the Senate, says the State De-
partment has received no official infor-
nation concerning the reported perse-
cutions and massacre of the Jews in
Ro1mania. se
= MIR. Chas. E. MeMurtrie, of Tyrone,
Blair county, Pa, found a wallet con-
tanning 81, $50 in greenbacks and a
check for $4,000. Learning its owner,
he restored it, and when offered $1,000
as reward, refused it, and only after
much urging accepted $500, saying that
he would devote it to some charitable
object.
granting lands for the extension of the
Central Branch Union Pacific railroad
The grant enters upon even-numbered
sections as well as odd, so that the effect
is to give all the land the Government
owns in belt fifty miles wide and two
hundred long, and part of this is now
held by the Government at $3.50 pei
acre. The Washington correspondent
of the st. Louis Democrat says: ut il
doubtful whether this measure would
ever have passed the Senate with sucf
an excessive grant, but for the persist
emf lobbying of the former principa
owner, at present Senator Pomeroy.'
Senator Ross voted against the bill.
| = Butler wants to be the next Gov.
ernor of Massachusetts.
- Gen. Shanks, Republican, has beer
re-nominated for Congress in the Nintl
Indiana District.
- An appropriation of $4,000 is ask
ed for to pay the travelling expenses OF
Red Cloud and his staff
- The land Office at Lincoln is doing
d fair business for Nebraska. The sales
on the 9th amounted to $4,000, and or
the 10th to $4,000.
Alta Sale, H., on the 7tll, Bishop
Foley, of Chicago, confirmed nearly
800 persons in the faith of the Ropar
Cafholie Church
- Hon. Lafayette S Foster, Elk. u. S
Senator, has been elected by the Connect
lieut. House. of Representatives, Judge
of the Supreme CoHrt of the State.
The colored cadet business has fall
en- through. The black boy from Miss.
issippi was physically sound, but, &C
cording to the examining board, had ne
brains. The boy from South CaroIins
had good education but had no lungs
The railroad war between the New
York Central and the Erie Railroads
has broken out again. Erie tickets arr
refused ON the Central road. as are also
Pennsylvania Central tickets. 1t is said
that the Erie and Pennsylvania Contra
roads have formed an offensive and de
fensiye alliance.