The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-29
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Queen Victoria is now charged with
being a Ritualist.
A young lady of New York is
writing an opera on Tennyson's ''Prin-
cess"
Damon and Pythias-the alliance
between Horace Greeley and John Nor
rissey.
Dom Piatt advocates the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Groesbeck for the Presi-
dency.
= President Grant has signed eighty
two bills and vetoed one, since he came
into Office.
A brother of Susie Anthony has
loomed into the public view as q candi-
date for Mayor of Leavenworth.
- That famous female engrossing
| clerk of the Iowa House has triumphed.
She is to marry one of the members.
= On Friday last Ex-Governor Henry
A. Wise, of Virginia, was admitted to
the bar of the United States Supreme
Court.
Georgia, are distinguishing them from
the vulgar herd by parting their hair in
the middle.
the Virginia Legislature to pay them for
property taken by the Union troops dur
ing the war.
= Samuel Bowles, of Springfield,
Massachusetts,, editor of the Republican,
is seriously threatened with softening
of the brain.
lieved from the Military Committee, and
Mr.. Ames, of Mississippi, is assigned to
take his place.
pied so prominent 8 position in the lit
y-pOlitico-fashionabie world of
London as Mr.. Motley.
Whittemore and Rainery (the latter
colored) are candidates for the vacancy
in Congress from South Carolina, occa-
stoned by the cadetship investigation in
Whittemore's case.
- The leading London editor says.
can editor is generally right when he
rejects an article, but almost always
wrong when he begins to give his rea-
sons for so doing"
= The Grand Army Posts of Maine
have received their new uniform. 1t
consists of regulation cap, black frOck
coat, white cross belt, and swords SINH
lar to Knights Templar.
- In Africa, if any one comes before
king without a full-dress costume
that is straw hat and a ring in the nose
his head goes into the waste basket
before he can wink twice.
One of the latest wrinkles is an UNI
brella in the handle OF which is inserted
small tube to be filled with perfume.
1t is almost superflous to add that this
recherche article is a Partisan invention.
"A pastoral from Cardinal Cullen
against Fenianism, Freemasonry and
immodest plays, was read on the 10th
uIE., in the Roman Catholic chapels of
Dublin. Large numbers left while it
was read.
- Insanity is greatly on the increase
in California, it is said. Last year the
number OF patients admitted to the State
Lunatic Hospital was 1872, the largest
number ever admitted in one year. OF
these $50 were males, and lO2 females.
- Within eight years there have been
built in San Francisco twenty-eight
Protestant houses of worship-foar
Baptist, three Congregational, -four Episr
cOpal, seven Methodist, seven Presby-
terrain, one Mariners, one Lutheran, and
one New Jerusalem.
"A remarkable feature of the re-
V1Vals or the winter and spring IS the
ingathering of SO large q number of
adults. Some congregations have more
than doubled their membership, and
men of wealth and heads of families
are among the recent additions.
"A poet was once walking with
Talleyrand in the street, and at the same
time reciting some of his own verses.
Talleyrand perceived at q short distance
u man yawning, and pointing him out
to his friend, said, 'Not SO lOu.l-he
hears you"
- The Grand Hotel at Paris has ceased
to be the chief rendezvous of Americans.
Out of seventy Americans who arrived
at Paris on the I4th of March, only two
went to that 'Grand" establishment-
grand, only in its charges. The traveller
can scarcely find a more comfortless hO-
tel in the whole of Paris.