The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-28

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The fund for the relief of the daugh-
tiers of Chief Justice fancy will, it is
said, reach the sum of $4,000.
The President is receiving oongratu-
latofy messages on his late message
from all parts of the country.
Louisiana planters will contribute
100000 hogsheadS of sugar for sweeten-
ing the worlds juleps, this year,
The city council of Lawrence has re-
solved to purchase the steam ferry at
that place for the free use of the public.
Large works are now in the course of
erection at Chicago, for the manufac-
lure of steel rails by the Bessemer pro-
Teess.
The Louisville Journal nominates r.
\. Leonard, of Chicago, for the Presi-
dency, because he shoots bis hrother-in-
law.
Baron DudeVant, the supernumerary
husband ri Madame George Sand, died
the Sth OF this month. He was 20 years
old.
1t is the custom of gentlemen in
Louisville, Kentucky. to celebrate the
death of their morther-in-law by elegant
banquets.
Alexander H. Stephens, the mummy
of the rebellion, writes approving the
Mobile Registers opposition to recon-
struction.
A railway station at Dryden, u. Y,
was recently set fire by lightning, trans
mitted along the telegraph wires, from
a distant stOfm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the-Lske is dead,
He was rs, aud leaves white wife and
fifteen children. He was big Injun of
the Choctaw belief.
Terre Haute claims more banks than
any other city of its size. One is ma
tional, and the other thirteen or SO are
of the faro and keno varieties.
The High, Low and Broad Church
parties Of England are ClcFerly desig=
mated "Attitudinarians," "PlPtitudina-
rians," and "Latitudinarians."
The season for sitting on circular saws
has begun. A man down east sat on
one, the other day, and they buried
both of him i'll the same grave.
The Omaha Tribune calls loudly upon
the thirty-fiYe thousand old maids in
New England to consult Horace Gree
ley aud then go west and buy land.
Sound philosophy for Sorosis: "It
is quite astonishing how the monster
man can be subjugated and assuaged by
Il iudiciOus variation of his meals"
James Ticknor Fields is about to re-
tire from the management of the allan
tic Monthly, and will be succeed by
Mr. Howells, the present assistant ed
itor.
Philadelphia is building houses at the
rate of 800 a month, and expects soon to
be so well supplied that each inhahitant
can have one to live in and another to
rent.
The colored citizens of Akron, Ohio,
are organizing colony TO form q set
Element in Kansas. In a circular they
say: Land is what we want, not legis-
lation."
The young man who was caught
straining his sweetheart to his bosom,
the o her night, justifes himself on the
gfou"d that he has right to strain his
own honey.
Germany supports thirty-two profess
sionarly humorous papers. Their con-
tents generally might be read at funer-
al without greatly disturbing the due
solemity of the OCCASION,
Every lady reader ought to observe
the following short rules for the use of
furniture: Keep water away from
everything porous; alcohol from var
nish, and acid from marble.
Greeley says the best way to raise
Cashmere shawls is 10 draft a Cashmere
goat upon the Sweet William, and
mulch with whale oil soap, to keep off
hnns R,YVfao pnSf
Gen. Banks has acquired distinction
as the ohly leading Republican who has
not been nominated for President with
in the last three months. He is not yet
entirely out of danger, though.
Madam" said a pompous husband,
whose wife had stolen up behind him
and given him a kiss; "madam, 1 con-
slider such an act indecorousw Excuse
me" retorted the wife, II didn't know
it was youp
Brigham Young always wears mourn
ing. His mother-in-laW and wife have
got into the habit of dying at intervals
of about three weeks, and so the funer-
al weeds are kept perpetually blooming
on his hat.
Among the people who attended a
Cardiff giant matinee in a Down East
town lately, was an aged man, who had
lost his brother by a mysterious disap-
pearance, and was heard to murmur, as
he stepped lively away, sit amt him.
a recent calculation shows that New
York city daily spends Ss,a00 Gor bread
and $4,000 for cigars. The amount in
vested in drinks" is not given. II
costs the United States annually for
tobacco S6O0,0O0 600, nearly one-third of
the national debt.
4 house was burned the other day in
South Shrewsbury, Mass, and the unu-
sual occurrence prompted an investiga-
ton of the records. when it was discov-
cred that the last fire in the town took
place in 1776. Poor place to locate an
insurance company, that.
a Connecticut democrat sent his son
to New York to complete his educa-
ton. After short time the son wrote
TO his father that he was studying
Horace" On learning this the pater-
| nal parent replied: GCome home;
don't want Greeley to make . republic
can out of my SON."
A new physiological discovery has
been made by an experimenting young
man-namely, that the pulse of young
ladies is generally stronger in the palm
Of the hand than at the wrist. As to
more elderly females, even little boys
know by stern experience that the
palm of the maternal hand beats awful
strong.
The receipts of the Suez Canal during
the month of December amounted to
E32.OOO, the heaviest return of any
month during the year. Tha work OF
deepening the canal has been going on
without interruption, and il is said that
Notwithstanding the large dimensions
OF most Of the ships, not . single
ease Of accident or grounding occarred.