The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-01-21
NEWS ITEMS.

half his lifetime in Italy.
= There we're paid for red foxes killed
in Kentucky, in 1869, S5,795.
All Boston saw rainbow Thurs
day afternoon. Famed spot!
: There were 994 convicts in Auburn
State Prison on the 5th instant.
= Fechter is said to resemble John
Brougham i'll personal appearance.
= Efforts are being made to replenish
the streams of Vermont with salmon.
-Gunpowder killed, accidentally, COO
persons, last year, nftro-glycerine only
seven.
= Archbishop Manning, of England,
is talked of at Rome as successor to Pope
Plus IN.
- Oranges are worth in the Whining
ton On. C.) market, eighty-fve cents per
hundred.
On and after to-day, january 1st,
the postage on letters TO England will
be six cents.
The total debt of Boston is $685.
49, 39, being an increase of S5,000000
during the year.
A Boston photographer has group
ed 50 Nasty" u osh Billings and " Mark
Twain on a card.
= One hundred and twenty-five per-
sons, over seventy years old, died in
Providence last year.
- Newark, n. J., has 1921. miles of
streets, only q of which are paved, and
only 90 miles graded.
= Detroit has a female barber, who
shaves, cuts hair and shampoons in the
highest style of the art
- Price Arthur's full name is Arthur
Wellington Patrick The Duke of We'll
lington was his godfather.
: The Prince Imperial has cut his
mother-that is, he has made little
marble bust of the Empress.
There were over six hundred more
Buildings erected in Brooklyn than in
New York during the past year.
- The real estate auctioncers of New
York sold, during 1869, real estate by
auction amounting to Si0,513,443.
- The estate of the late Gen. Nc
Groarty, of Cincinnati, is less than $500,
as sworn to by the administrator.
- No person who drinks can find en-
| ployment in any position on the Bangor
and Piscataquis railroad in Maine.
- Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cor
nell University, was born january III,
1907, and is, therefore, G3 years old.
- The fivcs, twenties and fiftics of
the new issue of legal tender notes will
be put into circulation in a few days.
- The number of immigrants who
arrived in Boston in 1869, was 81. TS5,
against 20,3S4 i'll 1868, and 16,0l3 in 1867.
- Miss Botham, charged with the
murder of McNash, in Wheeling, on the
Both ult., has been released on 10000
bail.
| George w. Doe and his daughter,
few days ago, skated from Simcook to
Manchester, N. H., eleven miles, in on"
hour.
We'll executed counterfeit Dos of
the late issue, on the Trademarks Ma
tional Bank of New York, are in circu-
lation.
, The Messrs. Fairbanks have given
ST. Johnsbury, Vermont, the most cost
ly building in Vermont, for public
library.
The junction of the Union and Cen
trail Pacific Railroads is TO be at Ogden,
the matter having ut last been satisfac
torily settled.
- William Penn's carriage is owned
by Capt. Pierce, Of Cleveland, who oc-
casionaIly gives the old thing an airing
in the streets.
- \ Partisan has offered $4,000 francs
a year to be allowed to cage the murder
err Tropmann, and make a travelling
show of him.
- Daru, one of Louis NapoleOn's
ministers, was one ofthe Peers of France
who, years ago, condemned J.. N. TO inn
prisonment for life.
=. - The Cincinn att Enquirer says that
smallpox has greatly decreased in that
city for the reason that everybody has
had it that is likely to-"
= Count Bismark is said to have FAINT
ed when he received the telegram stat
ing that his favorite son Herbert had
been MORALLY wounded.
- The lecture season in Massachu-
sets this winter is said to he q success.
The larger villages rival even Boston in
the size oftheir audiences.
There have been 3I9, 600 hogs pack
ed in Cincinnati this season, up to jan
uary s, 1870. Up TO the same time in
1868, the figures were 325,O00.
= There are thirteen editors and re-
pOrters employed on the San Francisco
bulletin, whose weekly salaries amount
in the aggregate TO $500 in gold.
- The centennial anniversary of the
founding of Dartmouth College is TO be
! celebrated by the Alumni, on the 20th
inst, at the Revere House. Boston.
"A survey has been made OF n con-
siderable portion of Utah. There are
no signs of coal or other minerals, but
the soil is very fertile in the valleys.
- A little girl who picked up pack
age of coupons in Boston day or two
since, and returned them to their adver-
tised owner, was generously rewarded
with $50.
= The planters of Mississippi are
canvassing the feasibility of establishing
cotton factories OH the cooperative
principle in all the principal towns of
F the State.
- The order of the Postmaster GEN
!. eral that all free mail matter for the
next six months shall be weighed is re-
garded as the death-kneIl of the frank
ing privilege.
The London Times predicts a pros
porous year. 1t says the action OF the
New York courts aud Legislature ex-
cludes American security from Euro
pean markets.
: There are at the present time five
|. hundred and fifty young American stu
/
ward of one thousand American bows
and girls are at German schools and
seminaries.
= During the year 1869 there were
1G, ABS, 800 bushels of coal shipped from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. The total
amount shipped from Pittsburgh TO the
river cities below Cincinnati, during the
same period, amounted to 42,6725O0
bushels.
The vestments worn at Rome are de-
scribed as beautiful beyond conception,
and the ladies say the lace upon them
surpasses anything in the world So
dazzling are the eolors of the dresses
that the Bishops are likened TO bed of
tulips in appearance
i "A dispatch from st. PAM says the
| fillibusteFs to aid the Red River insur-
gents can not get within four hundred
miles of the British border by rail, and
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