The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-01
GLEANINGS.


= Salt Lake is constantly rising.
The surface is seven feet higher than il
was seven years ago.
|. - Paris has, according to the latest
estimate, 100000 inhabitants. nearly
double the number OF New York.
- There were I0II7 money orders
paid at the Chicago post-office in Feb
ruary, amounting to S165, 132.
= The largest Sunday school in tue
world is at Stockport, England. 1t has
800 teachers and 5000 scholars.
= Bishop Thompson, of the n. E.
| church of West Virginia, died at Wheel
ing on the I'D. of typhoid pneumonia.
- An old bachelor is described as a
traveller on life's journey who has en-
tirely failed to make the proper connec-
tons.
- AT Des Moines, Iowa, all licenses
for the sale of beer and liquors expire
on the LIST of April, and they will not be
renewed.
- California papers complain that the
| feminine element is getting TO be disa-
greeably prominent in the public affairs
of the State.
= The World says of Gen. Butler,
''no dog could bite him and live" 1t is
supposed that this is the Worlds obitu-
airy of "Shoo-fiy" Cox.
= Mr.. Gromoff. the richest merchant
in Russia, has died and left all his
| troubles and roubles behind. The lat
ter numbered 22,O00,000.
- "Where are you going?' asked
| little boy of another who had slipped
and fallen on an icy pavement. '.Going
to get up" was the blunt reply.
- Vsetoria has grieyed and disguised
| the London tape-seilersAe yzPaekfng her
valise for Scotland carrier than common,
and arranging to stay there longer than
usual.
- Robert ID. Holmes, Past Grand
| Worthy Master of the Grand Lodge of
Freemasons of the State of New y ork,
died of consumption on Saturday
- Vice President Colfax is to deliver
the address at the twenty-fifih anniycr-
sary of Philadelphia Division of the -
Sons of Temperance, on the 10Th OF
March.
- The New York Nal suggests to
| Mr.. Revery johnson, as an excellent I'll
tie for his forthcoming account of his
English experience: "On Treats and
Treatids."
- Punch'S "He smole a CHASTITY
| SIQllc, anu u WINK lie " uilk,
have been initiated by Il minstrel Wit,
who said, ''He sneezed snoze, and said
l snoZe it."
| = The noted pugilists, Jem Mace and
| Tom Allen, are announced to fight on
the 10th of May next, for 5000 side.
The last deposit of $1,000 was made on
Monday.
- Advices from San Domingo TO.
March 10th, state that, as far as heard
from, the elections had shown n large
majority in favor of annexation TO the
United States.
The new issue of fifty cent notes
are to bear the bust of the late Secretary
Stanton. They will be printed on the
new silk fiber paper, which cannot be
easily counterfeited.
- James Fisk. ir.. is reported TO be
ambitious of building more magnifi-
cent depot in New DIRK than Wander
bilt's monster station. lie has offered
100000 for sight on Ninth avenue.
"A teacher in South Boston asked
her scholars ir they knew who gave the
order RENTING afternoon sessions on
stormy days. a bright little urchin in
stantIy responded: George Peabody
A Montana vigilance committee
caught very obnoxious character set
him on his mule, and told him he had
precisely fifteen minutes to leave the
country in. He replied, Scents, if this
mule don't balk, fivell answer"
"A young man in the vestibule of
chuch in Newark, n. j., accidentally
shot himself in the head during the pro-
gress of a prayer meeting. lie won't
carry his pistol any more in the same
pocket with his handkerchief
| Nh 49,, ~ Io,l-o,.
who now lives with his mother at Bonn
on the Rhine, is said to have committed
extensive forgeries there, and TO have a
good prospect of passing many years Of
his life in Prussian penitentiary.
- San Francisco proposes horse rail-
road to the ocean beach. There are the
seal rocks, the long line of tumbling
turf, the view of the Golden Gate, the.
ramble on the sandy shore, the aspect OF
the Pacific melting i'll the horizon, etc.
- Mrs. Esther Morris is a Justice of
the Peace at South Pass, Wyoming, OF
$50 pounds, of masculine features, 81
years old, and holds court dressed in a
calico gown, with a worsted breakfast
shawl, green neck-tfe, and green head
dress.
i -"Anna Brewster writes from Rome
that young Astor, of New Y DIRK, WHO'S
studying sculpture with Tadolini, is
called by the English ''your American
Marquis of Butte" and is pursued by
i. fortune-hunters almost as much as his
namesake.
- 1t was long while ago that New
Hampshire Judge, in charging a jury,
said: "The counsel for the State and for
the prisoner have talked of law, as was
right; but, gentlemen, you and I have
something else to consIder-it is not law
we want, but justice.
- "Mack" writes to the Cincinnati
Enquirer: alexander III. Stephens once
told me that he considered Jefierson's
first inaugural and Lincoln's first inau-
gural the two best pieces of compost
ton of the kind in the country. He
meant, of course, as to their literary
merit"
- Further correspondence has taken
place between Gen. Candy and Cover
nor Walker, which the former proposes
to submit to the President and Secretary
of War. Slight rows had taken place in
Richmond, but nothing serious. The
controversy has been carried into the
courts.
= The subscription in behalf of the
family of the late Edwin N. Stanton
now amounts to the SUM of $4,000
OF this, New York and Pennsylvania
have each contributed $55,O00; Boston,
$4,000, and Washington $4,000. 1t has
not yet been decided how the money
shall be invested.
= Miss Dix, after tour of the South
ern asylums and prisons, decides that
snuff-dipping is the predominating cause
of insanity among Southern women.
Miss Dix has put the cart before the
marc. Those women were crazy before
i they began to dip. Sensible women
won't dip.-Gdleesfo1s Civittan.
! - Pursuant to summons, a large num-
! Der OF Masons assembled In Hope Lodge,
/ New York, on Monday evening, the OBJ
ject being to take steps for the erection
OF Masonic Temple and home for
aged masons. Grounds have been pur-
chased at cost of $4,000, and sub
scriptions to the work are being made.