The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-08
NEWS ITEMS.

- Pierre Soule, of Louisiana, died in
New Orleans on Saturday. aged SO. He
will be remembered chiefly for his share |
in the preparation of the famous Ostend
manifesto, and for his devotion to the
policy of the old slave oIigarchy.
The cost of the law department of
New York city last year exceeded that |
of the United States under the General
Government in 1867 by the nice little |
sum of S445,92S. One of the reasons
for this extraordinary excess is the high |
salaries paid to the District Attorney
and the Judges. $4,000 was paid to
the District Attorney SO 900 to Coun-
sci O'Gorman; and $1,000 to Clerk
Sweeney and $4,000 to each of three
Judges. 1t is not strange then that
there is always a scramble for these
offices.
= The annual report of the President
of the Kansas Pacific road, makes the
following exhibit of its business: Re
ceipts from freights, 81, SOC, AIS. II pas
sengers. express and mails, SIT, 55l. 10;
miscellaneous, S7,909.65; total receipts,
S2,225, 820.I1 ; total working expenses,
81 1856, 1902; net earnings, SS39, 690.09.
Average length of road operated, 43S
miles. Lands sold during the year,
1884, 1S5 acres cash receipts from that
source, S247, 2S6.49; notes, $760, 904.9S
total, 81, O0S, 191. At expenses S35, SOL. 80
net proceeds, $972, 639.65.
The friendly" Indians of Wyoming
are amusing themselves by killing and
mutilating the whites. Several pros
pectors have been found dead, and it is
feared that an overdue stage has been
way-laid and the passengers murdered.
= Steps will be taken to investigate
matters connected with the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment-to ascer-
tain whether the ratification of Indiana
was legal, and whether New York had
right to withdraw her assent.
= 1t is stated that General Butler is
about to start an organ in New York,
to counteract the influence of the TgS6-
uRe. He wants man for President
under whom he can be Secretary of
State. He will advocate free trade and
denOunce Grants foreign policy.
= mass meeting of brokers, bust
ness men and others was held in Chica-
go on Saturday evening, to consider the
subjects of national taxation and rev.
enue reform. Resolutions were adopt
ed favoring the reduction of the nation
al taxes, etc., and against the reduction
of the national debt at the present rapid
rate.
=. The widow ofGen. Thomas objects
to the remains of her husband being
buried at West Point, and they will
therefore be inferred at Troy, n Y,
where she will hereafter reside. The
burial will be under the supervision of
Gen. Meade, and will occur on Friday,
the 9Th inst.
The Ecening Post has leading
editorial calling on the Republican par
ty to go to work and rid the country of
protective tariffs, and says that since the
extinction of slavery and the adoption
of the fifteenth amendment this is the
great duty of Republicanisln.
A girl was married in Sioux city
less than year ago, at the age of Is
years, and she is now the mother of
three plump, healthy children-all girls.
The New York papers say that "A.
L. Stewart and III. B: Claflin s Co. are
at loggerheads over the sale of unbleach-
ed muslins and Merrimack prints.
Stewart has thrown upon the market
| vast quantities of Merrimack's at ten
cents per yard, while the manufacturers
themselves charge twelve. The Merri-
mack men struck his name from their
| books, and refused to sell him any more
goods. He is reported to have imme-
diately procured a supply through a
Philadelphia firm, and there is terrible
flutter among the dry goods people, who
declare that if Stewart persists in his
present course he will ruin pretty much
every importer and jobber in the city.
= The shoe trade in Boston this sea-
son is about ten per cent. larger than
that of last year.
| - 1t is understood that General Ames,
Senator elect from Mississippi, is to be
married to Miss Blanch Butler, daughter
of General Butler.
- Mr.. Justin Mccarthy will return
to England in few weeks, but only for
short visit, it is said, as he intends to
make this country his future home.