The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GIeaRlngs From the Dispatches and Ex-
changes.

Happy San Franciscoians can i'm
deIge in street car ride at three cents
q head.
There has been a severe earthquake
along the entire western coast of South
America
General Pleasanton has been elected
President of tho Terre IIaute and Gin
cinnati Railway, rice N 81. Mcdowell,
who retains the place of Chief Engin-
eer.
In Wynoekie, \. j., the people take
things calmly. A deed for some prop
erty there, made out in 1896, was taken
to the county clerks Office at Newark,
Monday, to be recorded.
Friend John G. Lang and Col. d. C.
Cox have been designated by the Sec
rotary of the Interior to proceed to
North Carolina, and remove the Chero-
kses in that State to the Indian Terri
tory.
Under treaty made in 1895, an annu-
ity of 500 and $50 bushels of salt was
to be paid over to the Onondaga In
dams for the title to the Syracuse salt
springs. Nine millions bushels OF salt
were manufactured at the springs last
year.
A well informed writer says that
more than 10000 acres of the best tim
Der land in America are cut every year
to supply the demand for railway
all In OF ha II.
comotives in the United States consum-
ed S56,OO0,000 worth of wood.
The Rev. Richard NJ. Hodges, of Cam
bridge, Mass, preached, Sunday, in the
Congregational church at Bridgewater,
q sermon COMMUNICATING his erdina-
ton as pastor of that church 30 years
ago. Not g member of the church who
witnessed the ordination ia alive.
E. n. Yerger, who murdered Col
oneI Crane in Mississippi two or three
years ago, but has never been indicted
for the crime, is now devoting his tai
ents to journalism, having started pa
per in Baltimore. Being Democrat
he takes an early opportuni ty to define
his position On the new departure ques-
/ ton, and comes out in an article oppos-
ing the movement-which will be good
news to all who hope for its success.
Ex-Governor Robert NJ. Stewart, OF
Missouri, died at st. Soseph, Missouri
on Wednesday morning, September 20
Gov. Stewart was one of the ablest mer
who ever figured in the State of Mis-
| souri,, and took g firm stand for the
Union at the inception of the rebellion
His naturally fine mind was greatly in
Jured by drink, but Missouri has ha6
many sober politicians who did her in
finitely more injury than Bob Stewart
American cheese is rapidly supplant
ing English cheese in the English mar
ket itself. During the four weeks end
ing September 1st, 263, 800 boxes of i
were imported into England, rmount
ing in weight to something over 5,O0t
tons. It sells there at about 51ad pc
pound for the fine qualities, which i
l116d less than English cheese can b.
sold for; while it is said to be quit
equal to English cheese in quality, fay
or and condition. Even the famou
Dutch cheese suffer by the American
competitor. Six years ago the differ
ence was the other way, and the chang,
Is owing entirely to the skill and pain
of American dAirymen in improving
the management of their diaries.
There are 9oS agricultural societies ii
Prussia.
A New York dairyman has made
cheese weighing 5000 pounds.
, A Japanese scholar has just entered
one of the Boston public schools.
The idea of ship canal around Mag
ara Falls, on the American side, is agaiI
revived.
Ebenezer Shaw, of Sheshequin, Brad
ford county, Pennsylvania, celebrates
. his one hundredth birthday, Tuesday
A young lady of1eistes as assistant il
reading the service in an Episcopa
church at Springfield, Mass.
Judge Underwood, United State
Judge for the district of Virginia, adopt
the Woodruff view of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments, and writes
letter taking the ground that they secur
the right of female citizens to vote.
The Chicago hog show was not a sue
cess financially. The total receipt
were $3.50, and the expenses, S1O,50C
at the sale on the 2lst at Camp Doug
las, Salt Lake City, of United State
ordnance, the Mormon Adjutant Gene
raj of militia purchased 1000 stand o
arms and 10000 fixed cartridges.
John Tyler, a cousin of the great Vir
gilman, eloped from Des Moines, lows
recently, with parsmour. and turned
up shortly afterward, in tho Story coun
ty Jail, for horse stealing.
The yellow fever is raging in Jack
} son and Vicksburg, Miss.
A careful calculation foots up tn
: number ofcolored voters in the UnioI
, at S79,110.
The sale of railroads in Tennessee
when confirmed, will reduce the Stat
debt s1,5o0,Ooo.
Our soon to be honored guest, Primo,
Alexis, can swear in twelve diferen
languages.
There are twelve editors on the CRANE
jury in the United States District Cour
for New Jersey.
The Peoria Transcript complains tina
, Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, at
? tended the late Illinois Republican Stat
, Convention for two days and was con
stantly drunk during the said forty
eight hours.
, The masons of Berlin have resumed
: work after a strike which lasted al,
, weeks, and which hindered the com
: pletion of about one thousand new
, dwellings that would otherwise hav,
been ready for occupation on the LIST o
+ October, and which were even partial
ly let.
II Mr.. Summers, of Palmyra, Mo.
I placed can of gunpowder in the over
of parlor stove, last summer. On
. Thursday his wife lighted fire in TIT
. stove, and In twenty minutes the hons'
|. was q wreck. Two ladies:snd child
, of the family are suffering from frac