The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-10
VOLUME II.
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

: A fire at indianapolis, Wednesday,
burned r. Boyd's oil store and Randall
Il Grubb's tin store.
Wednesday the Connecticut Iepubli-
cans re-nominated Congressman j. l..
j Strong and S. w. Kellogg.
The Washington reports of contem-
plated Cabinet changes are again pro-
nounced to be mere canards.
A New York dispatch says Sc ocean
vessels were lost during Jan'y. Value
r of vessels and cargoes So, $4,000.
At Omaha, Wednesday, the west end
of the new Union Pacific bridge trestle
work fell down, injuring four men.
A letter from Valparaiso, South A
merica, says the magnigcent $4,000
theatre there was burned down Deem
Der 10th.
The New York chamber of Commerce
seconds the Boston movement to ship
provisions TO France. All will approve
this act of humanity.
| Virginia City, Nevada, was mostly
destroyed by fire Thugsday. A Mr..
Abbotts, Pat Lyons, am ! darkey call.
ed "Snorkey" were burned to death.
Commissioner Pleasanton has decided
that the 216 per cent. upon all I'M
divided profits of corporations of any
kind, must be paid for the entire year of
1870.
The national debt report, made We'd
nesday, shows a reduction of the debt
during January of S4,O4O,9S6,75; coin
balance on hand S99,O67, 500; currency
S24,S27, 1854.
| In Beloit, Wis, Wednesday, the IN
ion block was destroyed by fire. Loss
on building, $1,000; by Lawrence Sc Co.
wholesale paper dealers, $4,000; Free
Press Office, $4,000.
! Wednesday, the West Virginia legis-
lature elected III. G. Davis, democrat,
of Piedmont, to succeed United States
Senator Wiley, republican. Davis had
81 majority on joint ballot.
The San Francisco Bulletin shows
that the Congressional scheme to COB
BILE the government land near that city,
is q most outrageous swindle, ana if
passed, the bill should be vetoed.
Mr.. Lampson, President of Column
bia College, D. c., has been elected
President of the Morse telegraph
monument association, and a contract
made with Horatio Stone to furnish
the monument.
The Nebraska House has refused, by
a vote of II to %, to impeach Governor
Butler. The Senate has had a Mr..
Brock put under arrest for refusing to
answer the questions of an inVestiga- |
ting committee.
A San Domingo correspondent writes |
that the antiBaez party there is bitter |
ly opposed to the annexation with the |
United States, and is making ready to
fight, if necessary, to preserve the indie
pendence of the Island.
Rev. DIR. Cheny, rector of Christ |
church, Chicago, is on trial before an
august ecclesiastical council, for the he
NOUS crimes of making infintisemal
baptismal service omissions. How can
he be adequately punished?
Some wealthy Bostonians propose to
raise 100000 with which to purchase
food and send it to Paris, if our govern
ment furnishes a ship to carry it. AS
the Germans are just now feeding Paris,
they will hardly object to even small
contributions.
AJapanese embassy interviewed Pres
ident Grant Wednesday, and one, the
Japanese assistant minister of finance,
said they came here to study our finan-
ceal system. If they ever manage to
comprehend it, we hope they will en-
Tighten the WASHINGTON officials.
The Senate still delays to ratify the
nomination of j. Cramer of KY, as
minister to Denmark. Sumner objects,
saying that all the committee on foreign
relations can learn about Cramer is that
he is brother-in-law of Grant, and to-
tally unfit for the position.
Messrs Butler and Loughridge, of the
House judiciary committee, have re-
ported in favor of Mrs. WoodhulPs pc
tition, that the 14th amendment confers
the right of suffrage upon all female citi-
zens. Mrs. Woodruff will use the Hall |
of the House to lecture on this subject,
Monday.
The ''higher law" does not prevail in
Cleveland. DIR. Gallentine, who shot
and killed DR.. Jones, for the alleged /
seduction of Mrs. Gallentine, was Thurs
day sent to the penitentiary for ten
years, the full term for manslaughter.
1t is to be hoped that the health and
morals of that city will soon show de-
cided improvement.
Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, has
had quite set back, on the question of
admitting one Brooks to seat in the
State Senate. Wednesday, the Senate,
by vote of Is to z, struck Brooks
name from the rolls, and the House 4S !
to 30 indefinitely postponed the resolu-
ton to impeach Lietenant Governor
johnson.
Thursday the Sheriff of San Francisco
returned from an interesting chase,
all the way to Mexico, for horse thieves.
The Sherif7s party killed ten of the |
thieves, and then captured four, with
50 horses, on Mexican territory. The |
prisoners were handed over to the |
Mexican authorities, who promptly
hung two, and shot one; the fourth be-
ing pardoned on account of extreme
youth.
The Indians in New Mexico have
just run Off 5000 sheep from Belden,
and lately attacked party of Is gold |
hunters, killed 2 and are now besieging
the rest. A few Quakers ought to be |
sent there with sugar and ammunition |
to distribute among these excited red |
men, and read them sympathetic edito-
rails from the New York Tribune in !
order to calm their perturbed spirits.
Fun alive. At Williams Fork, Colo
RADIO river, few days ago, great fight
took place between the Cinnamon and
the Monhave Indians, and the Indians
were defeated with loss of SO braves.
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