The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-04

She says the battle is not always TO the
strong.
Ofenbach has contracted to fur
nish the Paris theaters with three OPP
eras before next October, or forfeit
$4,000. .raf..
= Gossips link the names of General
Sheridan and Miss Harris, a Washing
ton belle and blonde, in their matrimo-
NAL talk.
-Rocheforte is said to suffer from
diseased nerves of the neck" DIR. Ma
poleon favors amputatioR of the dis
eased part.
j G. Strawn, son of the great Nor
gan county farmer and stock raiser, re-
turns an income for 1869, of Sll 600 as
farm profits. s-a
- The House committee on Pensions
framing bill granting
pensions to all the surviving sotdlers
of the war of 1872.
General Robert Williams, who
married the widow of Senator Douglas,
has been ordered to report to Generai
Candy, in Virginia.
Ex-senator Henry S. Lane, of Indi-a
ana. and his lady celebrated their silver
wedding at their residence in Craw-
louisville, last week.
"A l.
spring styles of bonnets are going to be
awful Something like sunfower OH
the peak of a haystack.
1t took George Peabody three
months and four days to find rest IN
the bosom of mother earth after the
subsistence of life's fitful fever. .-.
Miss Dix commenced her philan-
thropic work among the hospitals, jails,
and close prisons, over thirty years ago.
She is now at work in Tennessee.
"A Texas paper reports that ex-
Confederate Postmaster General Regan
has written and published letter IN
which he approves of radicallsm in all
its parts"
General Sam. Houston's brother,
John H., died in Washington suddenly
| of apopiexy on Friday, nearly eighty
years of. age. He had long been en-
ployed III the Treasury Department
| Among other extraVaganees perpe-
trated by the Sultan of Turkey, in hon.
or of Eugene, on her late visit 10 Con-
| stantinople, was the preparation of
| dish composed entirely of ostrich brains!
| "A queer mode of punishment late
| w adopted by a certain Poughkeepsie
| school teacher is that of compelling
| student to run around the school house
| four hundred times; whole distance,
| five miles.
| -Heber Kimbalrs forty-two chill
| dren are arming themselves to prevent
| the collection of Brigham Young's tax
on their deceased fathers property. 4 !.
division of troops will march upon their
encampment
| On the 18th of February the emanci-
| patton of the Russian serfs will be COM
| plete, as from that date they will be
! permitted to migrate from their COM
munes, and settle in any part of the
| Cars domains. ........ re-
| Senator Nye carries in his pocket
book note from the late President
Lincoln written in pencil on a fly leaf
| of book, which runs as follows: 'tDear
| General, Come up tonight and swap
| jokes-Lincoln" eee a
| = paper in Augusta, Me-, reports
/ that at one of the residences in that city
a lady sits at an open window even dur
ing the coolest days of winter. This
suggests that there is probably young
man over the way. a-
| The entire alphabet is found in
these four lines. They form pleasant
stanZa for a child to learn:
God gives the grazing OK his meat,
/ He quickly hears the sleeps low cry
who h safte s his his n psites wheat bts
| During the rebellion a Southern
clergyman, who had come through the
| lines. asked General Sherman his views
about the war. General Sherman re-
j piled ''The Union must be preserved
1t will then stand against the world. 49,
The members of the Ecumenical
council are dying off quite IS fast az
Mr.. w. II. Russell predicted, and some
the mortality is by dogma declaring
= | hishonS tn he impeFishable.
"A negro named Gardner was
hanged at New Kent Court House, Va,
on the 1lth. His speech on the gallows
was, in its way, model. 1t was a.
}, follows: 81 am not guilty. I don't
know whether am gong to heaven or
he'll"
Messrs. Harper Brothers have at their
own expense engaged Hiram Powers,
, the sculptor, to erect suitable tomb
stone over the grave of the historian
| Hildreth, late American Consul at Tri-
este, who is buried in the Protestant
cemetery in Florence. .,.
8 - The Chinese are becoming extern
5 sive purchasers of real estate in San
5 Francisco, where animproved real es-
: tate pays l per cent. month on leases
: to persons who desire to build. The
sales of valuable property of this kind
to Cinnamon in January amounted to
: S44,500
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has not
4 yet selected a lawyer to defend him.
: He is in depending mood, and looks
. forward to five years seciusion. His
n objection to the Supreme Court of JUS
!, tice lies in the notion that the jury "will
a be composed of large land owners de-
8 voted to the empire, who will sacrafice
,; him to save his own cousin, the Emper-
. orr .ss..- f.... .-..
J, Il would not give much for Your re-
d ligion unless it can be seen. Lamps do
d sounds no drum, it beats no gong, and
yet far over the waters its friendly
spark is seen by the mariner. So let
Il your actions shine out your religion.
= Let the main sermon of your life be IL
d Illustrated by your conduct, and it shall
It not fail TO be illustrious. 49, - i'fs
a - Until the year ITO this law was
J: in force in England: "Whoever shall
IL entice into bonds of matrimonys any
e male subject of Her Majesty's by means
e of rouge. white paint, Spanish cotton,
L steel corsets, crinoline, high-heeled
y shoes, or false hips, shall be prosecuted
y for witchcraft, and the marriage de-
2, clared null and void" Isn't it about
: time for this law to be re-enacted?
Cincinnati is wildly exercised over
>. spiritual manifestations. AT very sue
4. cessful se3nce, the 0tntr H1Snt. uah
q burst into tears when the medium de-
hi scribed very accurately tall, bfue-eyed
,e spirit standing by him, with light SIDE
20 whiskers, and his hair parted in the
e middle .sDo You know. him in
n CURED man at his side, in sympa-
I thetic whisper. .Know him, guess /
do" replied the unhappy man wipin&
his eyes. aHe was engaged tony wife.
Ne If he hadn't died be would have been
T. her husband instead of me. Oh, George,
George he murmured, in a. voice
choked with emotion. why, why did
you peg cut ?"
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