The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-01-14
NEWS ITEMS.

revenue tax in November.
--Tennyson is building for himself
{" lortily pleasure house.
Three papers in Paris are now pub
fishing Life of the Devil"
None of the temporal powers has
special representative at the Ecumenical.
"A thousand dollars can soon be sent
by telegraph in France for two per cent.
Chicago has laid twenty and half
miles of Nicholson pavement this year.
Some citizens of Massachusetts, are
moving for separate prisons for women.
"A Massachusetts paper heads its
correspondence from Chicago, 1.-The old
West"
A Bates College student out of en-
ployment, abates his poverty by saving
wood.
There is now foot of snow on the
trail leading to Yosemite, but none in
the valley itself.
1t is q remarkable fact that the lu-
matte asylums of all the Southern States
are full to overlooking.
"A boy preacher, imported from
England, is attracting enormous audi
ences in Jacksonville, ILL.,
The British Museum has lately re-
ceived fossil flying dragon, its wings
measuring four feet from tip.to tip.
A beggar in Hartford, Conn, the
other day, when q lady told him she had
no change, proposed to change bill.
Baron Rothchild's Memoirs" on
ly speak Of the loans his house advanced
TO crowns and governments.
-0ne Of the standing orders ON the
reporters slate of q New York daily is
"write up Jim Fisk"
People keep writing to the London
papers and asking why they can't have
certified checks in England.
"A coal digger in Pittsburgh, Penn,
has gone to Wisconsin to receive $4,000
recently left him by a rich uncle.
The London Times, which would be
thought q dull sheet over here, pays its
prOprietors over half million per year.
AT Burlington, Iowa, father offer
ed q young lady three cows to marry his
son, but she actually refused the induce
ment.
"A Pennsylvania Democrat opposes
the annexation of Canada, because II
there is another draft he will have no
place to go to.
| A Wisconsin farmer has just sold
for seventy cents a quantity of wheat
for which two years ago he refused
$40.
| Kentucky has received S2,236, 1863
| from the Government on account of
war expenses, and claims Sl,S50,539
more.
Mrs. Livermore is to take her Agi-
| f0fn1. n Rnsfnn Va here Mrs Howe H.
cy Stone, Garrison and Higginson will
help.
| "A tyrannical Massachusetts, wife
| prisonment for habitual i'll usage of her
husband.
In view of Capt. Saxby's prediction
of high tides, the colony of Singapore
expended $4,000 to keep out the water
that didn't come.
The works of Mfr. John Stuart Mill
are in great request in Germany, and
almost ali that he has written has been
translated there.
"A single mandatory of chloro-
form in Edinburgh makes 5000 doses
day, or between 2yOO0,O00 and 100000
of doses every year.
The st. Louis Public School Libra
ry now contains upward of 10000 vol
umes. The pupils read, at an average,
fifteen volumes per year..
The Pope's police lately made a
search for eXiled Romans who had re-
turned. About 500 were discovered and
sent back across the frontier.
! On the 22d instant ice formed half
an inch thick in the lower counties of
California. Immense damage to young
fruit trees resulted.
! The National Life Boat Institution
of Great Britain has saved over 1000
lives this year, and nearly ], 800 since its
establishment
! "A revival of religion is in progress
in Monrovia and other parts, of Liberia,
the most powerful and widespread ev-
err before experienced on the continent.
We have 6 radical paper before us
called the Morning Patriot. We don't
believe in the patriotism that doesn't
last all day.-Prentice.
| AT Paducah, key of powder ex-
ploded while q man was carrying il
across the street, and he was only slight
ly stunned.
The two Methodist bodies In Cana
da, the Wesleyans and the Methodist
Episcopals, are considering the expedi-
ency of uniting as one church.
AT Winchester, Va, man prophe-
sled that he would die on the Goth, but
he only got broken head from a chair
in his wife's hands.
| -Ninety-six pounds of wild honey
were taken from single tree in Canada,
| n. H., q few days ago. Some of the
comb was over six feet in length.
Minnesota farmers feed wheat to
their hogs, and California farmers Bart
lett pears to their cows. There is most
excellent authority for both statements.
of the 1886, SSO.s2 raised in Canada,
Europe aud this country, for the relief
| of the sufferers by the great fire in Que
bee, in 1856, all but 1892 has been spent.
Mrs. Lincoln has returned to Frank
fort for the winter. OF course there is
not . word of truth in the story of her
intended marriage with German Bar
on. She is living in retirement.
"A man in Stockbridge, Mass, got IA
prescription for rheumatism last week,
and, with a sublime Indifference to all
directions, swallowed the whole at a
dose. He died.
"A Mr.. LOOMS, of New Haven, has
presented to the New Haven Colony
Historical Society piano manufactured
by an Italian firm in London in 1856,
and claimed to be the oldest in the Uni
ted States.
The Lynchburg Republican views
with pain and apprehension SO many
stalwart and active young men of the
land, its very bone and sinew, leaving
Virginia and North Carolina to seek
their fortunes in the far west.
The total receipts of cotton at all
the Southern ports for the week ending
on the 26th ult., reached $3.50 bales,
against 81, SI8 bales the previous week,
making the aggregate since Sept. l,
1869, up to that date, 796, 1922 bales.
A California paper notices speci-
mems of cotton raised on a rancho six
miles from Los Angeles. The balls are
large and the staple fine. The cultiva-
tor Is confident that cotton can be prof
itably grown in that region without ir-
rigation.
The White Line" running over
the Kansas Pacific, has secured the trans
portation to New York of about H.
100000 pounds of beef packed at Leav-
enworth, the product of Texas cattls.
This kind of freight heretofore has al
most always gone through Chicago.
An unfortunate cigar dealer in
Noypark has hoan fo