The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-04


Rev. Edward Eggleston has resigned
the experimenting editorship of the
New York Independent. 1t is rumored
that his withdrawal was occasioned by
a difference of opinion between himself
and Mr.. Bowen, concerning the course
of the paper.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Indiana, heIda meeting at In
dianapolis on the 18th inst, and resolved
that Thomas A. Hendricks should be
the unanimous choice of their party in
that State, as Candidate for the Presi-
dency next year.
The liberals of San Salvador are try
ing to carry the coming elections, with
the object of passing bill guaranteeing
religious liberty. The clergy are ma
king desperate resistance, determined
if possible, to retain their power
among the people.
The grand duke Alexis of Russia
isat Cronstadt, completely absorbed in
the equipment of his squadron for 8
voyage to America. His fleet will be
by far the largest that has ever left Eu-
ropean waters. 1t will sail for New
OH the 18th of August.
Resolutions were adopted at meet
ing of the French section of the Inter
national Workingmei , Association in
New York city, the other night recon-
mending the suppression of all process
sions, except those which commemorate
purely American National events. SEN
sible.
The latest advices from Secretary
Seward state that he was on his way to
Constantinople, from Alexandria.
While in the latter city he was the guest
of the khedive, and recipient of osten-
tatious attention. It is thought that he
and his party will at once set out on
their home journey.
DIR. Anthony Minter, who died in
Shelbina, Missouri, on the I'd inst, left
will, and also q memorandum telling
where in his garden number of pots
could be found containing money, which
had been buried there during the war.
On digging at the places indicated, &c.,
600 in gold coin were unearthed.
A railroad meeting was held at Port
land, Maine, on the Goth, to act in the
interests of Senator Hamlin's bill,
which contemplatcs aid from the gov
eminent in the building of a great
grain transporting road from Chicago
to Portland. Governor Perham was
chosen president and Senator Hamlin
made q speech.
A bureau has been established at
Frankfort on the Main for the purpose
of supplying German capitalists with
information about American financial
and other affairs. A weekly paper, Ell
titled The German American Econo-
mist, is published BY this bureau for
the use of bankers, merchants, and per-
intending to emigrate.
The McGregor Qowa) Times says
that 100 men passed through that city
last week, en- route to n mountain of
gold, protested to have been discovered
some years ago by man named c. A.
Robson, while on his way home from
California. Each man had paid Robson
$500, in consideration of his plotting
the company to the new Dorado.
The cost of the impeachment trial of
Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
foots up S6l,s9s. The trial lasted forty
four days, and in the items of expense
is one for forty-four cords of wood
one cord for each day,-S1G5. The
printed report of the trial cost $l2, 700.
The largest item was the pay of 10
members at So per day, amounting to
S37, 400.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the disappearance of the yellow
fever at BuenOs Ayres comes that of
the breaking out of Asiatic cholera in
Poland and Persia. 1t is six years since
this last fearful scourge made such
havoc in Europe and Asia. 1865, the
cholera was very severe in Alexandria,
Constantinople, and several Mediter-
ranean ports.
In the First Wiscon n District every
tax assessed upon the annual list for
1871, amounting to S72,OO0,. has been
collected. Not one cent assessed upon
the list remains to be abated. This, the
Supervisor, Barker, reports, is the first
instance to his knowledge where every
dollar assessed on the amount of the
list has been collected and paid into the
Treasury before the middle of July.
Two men, in ST. Louis on Tuesday
last, jumped into an express wagon, in
broad daylight, and gagged the driver,
opened the safe and took out a package
containing $500 in money, and $500
in railroad bonds, all directed to the
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company, then
jumped out and walked away with their
booty. The express. messenger and
driver are believed to have been inter-
ested parties in the theft.
Augusta has little sensation. An
old clergyman from the banks and braes
of Scotia, came to this little hamlet in the
Walnut Valley with his bride, and set
Ting down in that habitation he COM
menced to spread the gospel. His
works not only followed him, but they
went forward, and his name was spok-
en- of III connection with his good deeds,
in the land of Wallace and Bruce. 1t
seems that these good tidings reached
the ears of one whom this whitened
sepulchre had loved in the days of
"Auld Lang Syne." She came hither,
and demands protection from her for
mer chief. lie is in a quandary, and is
non est. The officers are anxious as to
his whereabouts.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
Every thinking man in Emporia
recognizes the present as critical
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