The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-02-04
GLEANINGS.


= Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by our
standing in our own light.
The balance in the Sub Treasury at
New York, Saturday, was-gold, S75,-
065, 72S; currency, $3,S76,O23.
- Edwin NJ. Stanton's mother was
visiting friends in Urbana when news
of her sons death was received.
1t is reported that Gen. John c.
Breckinridge has been appointed attor-
ney for the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
The new French coinage is to bear
the profiles of the Empress and the
Prince Imperial alongside that of the
Emperor.
1t is now believed that the Pope
will proclaim the dogma of infallibility,
but will permit the recording of adverse
opinions.
The Aichiganders in Washington
will celebrate the thirty-third anniver-
sary of the admission of that State into
the Union.
= The London Times, commenting on
the situation in Spain, says she must
choose between abolishing slavery and
losing Cuba.
The Missouri Legislature, Friday,
ratified the 18th amendment. In the
House the vote stood Sc to 81, and IN the
Senate, % to 3.
During 1869, 100000 bushels of
coal were shipped from Pittsburgh
South and West. This was the product
of eighty mines.
- The Regents of the University of
Michigan have passed resolution, the
effect of which will be to admit females
on an equality with males.
= The total debt of Pennsylvania is
S32, Sl4, 600. The receipts at the State
Treasury during the year, were S5,24l,-
600, and the expenditures, S4,750,OO0.
- The Hon. VIM. Strong, of Pennsyl-
vania, will probably be nominated to
the place on the Supreme Bench, made
vacant by the resignation of fudge Grier.
= 1t is reported the Senate Judiciary
Committee will bring in bill extending
the action of the Civil Rights bill so az
to include the Chinese on the Pacific
coast.
- 1t is said that in Wood township,
Clark county, Indiana, there are eight
schools, and majority of the teachers
drink strong drink. Some of them to
excess.
- The Rawlins fund in New York
city amounts to $50, ZOO. The Stanton
fund is now $50, 1000, and it is thought
100000 will be reached by the end of
next week.
The London Saturday Reriey
thinks the chances are decidedly against
the reputation of the debt by the Uni
ted States, because its payment is easy
and profitable.
A decree has been published in
France permitting the sale of all news
papers on the streets. Foreign papers
will be distributed hereafter without be-
ing subjected to censorship.
- The President, in conversation, said
Hoar's nomination would not be with
drawn Mt present, and that he much de-
sired his confirmation, though he will
avoid a collision with the Senate.
"A private dispatch received in
Washington says, Davis, Radical, has
been elected Governor of Texas by
majority of 775, and that both branches
of the Legislature are Republican.
VIM. Naughton, President of the
Columbus City Council, was run over
by locomotive, yesterday afternoon,
and terribly injured. His arm aud leg
were amputated, and he will probably
die.
The United Presbyterians in the
South are taking steps TO license as eX
horters, some of their laymen, and en-
ploy them as workers in holding ser
vices and expound the nature Impractical
godliness.
The army officers having easy places
in Washington do not want TO go to the
frontier, and are all trying to get special
| exemption, on the ground that the bust
ness of the War Department cannot go
on without them.
= The Commissioner of Internal Rev
| hn- rat.sNn ..as.x of
stamped tobacco in the Indian Territory.
1t is asserted tobacco has been sent from
the adjacent States to be manufactured
| there TO avoid the tax.
- The Indiana Board of Agriculture
have appropriated $4,000 for premiums
| for the next fair, distributed as follows ::
| For live stock, 5000; for agriculture,
$1,000; for mechanical, 81. 800; and for
miscellaneous premiums, 500.
- \ special from Georgia says quo
rum of the Legislature is certain to meet
and to ratify the 18th Amendment The
Attorney General of the State has de-
| livered an opinion as to who are ineli-
| gible, which makes the list long one.
-. During 1869 there were 1921 ap-
plications Tor patents, 1886 were is
sued, and los re-issued. The receipts
were 1898, l45, being $4,000 more than
in any previous year. This business has
been finished TO date better than ever
before.
While at sea, the gunboat Maria
was run into and sunk by her consort,
the Miantonomah. Four men were lost.
The accident resulted from the bursting
of the steampipe of the Maria, which
caused her to stop in the course of the
Miantonomah.
- fiowery exchange says: ''The
oyster is what is known TO science as a
marine acephalous mollusk of the lam
ellibranchiate order of the genus ostrea.
1t is also known to science that they GO
good with vinegar, disguised even in
such a name as the above"
= The Mormons are much excited
about the proposed legislation of Con-
gress Oh the subject of polygamy. The
Evening NeEs hopes that il the prOvi-
sions of the bill are carried out, resis-
lance will be made. Brigham Young
has also been making q savage speech.
"A freedmen's teacher writes of col
ored woman, who, having learned her
alphabet, said, "Now, / want to learn to
spell Jesus, for pears like the rest will
come easier if | learn to spell the bless
ed name first" A good many things
| "come easier" If We learn that name first.
| Death will put an end 10 the filling
of the money bags. Like Jesus in the
temple, death will enter and overturn
the tables of the money-changers, and
the seats of them that sell doves, and
with voice of authority he will cry.
Take these things hence !"-[ Sturgeon.
The very valuable work of DIR. j.
r. Thompson, of New York, "Man In
Genesis and Geology" has been sent as
gift, and postage paid. by the ladies of
the church of DIR. T., to five hundred of
the missionaries of the American Home
Missionary Society in the great Western
| field.
= Rev. Wesley Howe, n superannuat-
ed minister of the Central Pennsylvania
| Conference, was found dead in his bed
few days since. He Joined the old
Baltimore Conference in 1881, and rem
dered effective service to the church for
many years. At the time of his death
he was living in Green Village, Frank
lin county, Pa.
= What does happy mean? A little
girl lately said at is TO feel as if you
wanted to give all your things to your
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