The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-11
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Yirginia is happy over chlrrch

the present season.
T A London dispatch announces the
death of j ohh E. SiideiI, ex-Minister of
the x-C9nfederacy. 71-y rs
Gen. Parker, ex-Tndian Commits
sioner, 1s TO return to his former pro-
fession OF civil engineer.
/ Rev. James L Vsllandigham is pre-
Iparing biography of his brother, the
late G. L. Vallandigham.
One thousand and seven acres in
New York city are devoted to public
parks, squares and places.
A Memphis paper has seen some South
American leaves thirty-four inches
across. This leaves all other foliage in
the shade.
Agnes Leonard-Scanlan has written
q romance for the Chicago Magazine,
entitled "The Local Satan 1t is said
to be devilish good.
| An official report says 407 COO, 600
francs of the French indemnity were re-
ceived by Germany on July 18th, and
| SO, SOC, goo since that date.
The Stockholm (Sweden) 4ftoaJIaIet
| boast that the three Scandinavian king
doms have more able novelists than any
other country in the world.
The Tredegar Iron Works, at Rich
mond, Va, are reported as turning out
| five tons of iron now to every one
| turned out before the war
A London letter says that two prom
inent communist talk of visiting the
United States and of lecturing in de-
tense of their ideal federation.
The first twenty mile section of a
three foot gauge railway, known as the
North Il South Railroad, in Georgia,
has been put under contract.
Twelve hundred and eighty cars of
wheat were inspected in Chicago on
Saturday last, the largest inspection ever
recorded in twenty-four hours.
Minister Bancroft, at Berlin, was the
only gentleman in citizens dress at
recent theatrical performance given in
that city in honor of the Emperor
One minister in New Haven receives
$25, 600 salary another, $4,000; and
large number of young men in that city
are now studying for the ministry.
The New York Commercial says the
history of wooden pavements in that
city is "the tale of a stupendous impcsi-
ton contrived and successfully prose-
cuted."
Laura d. Fair, the California muir
deress, is out in q long card TO the pub
lie, re-asserting her innocence, and ask
ing of the newspapers ''the charity of
their silence"
William Oakley, who was killed by
lightning at Pacific's Bay, on Sunday,
owed his death to a metal badge which
he wore on his breast, and which at
tracted the fatal shaft.
The Anamosa Eureka says: ''Mark
Ward, a boy about Ia years of age, has
constructed sewing machine, with a
jack-knife, from pin boards and wires,
that makes perfect stitches"
Sixty millions of young shad have
been Matched at Holyoke, Mass, this
season, and have been turned into the
rivers therebout. If they live they will
be fit for the table in three years.
After all that is said about the inordi-
nate valuation of city real estate in New
York, we are still in this respect be-
hind London, where sixteen lots were
sold not long ago for S225,OO0 lot.
In number of county Democratic
conventions in Maryland, the new de-
parture dogma has been voted down.
Old Maryland is unquestionabIy Joined
to her ancient idol of Democracy.
The Ohio portion of tho Atlantic 81
Great Western Railway was sold nj
Akron to Senator Thurman, Gen. Nc
Clellan and W. b. Duncan, trustees, for
81, 1885, 800. There was no other bids.
Danbury, Connecticut, is in an ecstacy
of expectation. The other day some
one found pearl in clam, and now
the whole vicinity has deserted the cert
ainty of bakes for the prospect of
pearls.
A young woman not wholly uncon-
nected with church choir leaned too
far over the gallery, last Sunday, TO
look at a new bonnet, and now one of
the deacons is going around with his
head in a sling.
A New York rag picker, named
Honora Greater, who has haunted the
cutters of that city for the past fifteen
years in an indefatigable exploration of
store sweepings and swill tubs, has Just
died in tumble down shanty, of star
walton, though she had $1,000 in the
savings bank.
A Brattleboro, VT, husband. who had
posted his wife, took it all back thus:
Having advertised my wife last week
while under the influene of intoXica-
ting drink and the advce of others,
hereby give notice that said advertise
ment was without just cause or provo
cation, and is hereby retracted."
ConstaAtinople is to be connected
with the opposite Asiatic coast by
railroad tunnel, consisting of sheet-iron
double-tubes, under the water of the
Bosphorous. The tunnel is to become
about l 200 feet long, ten feetin diane
ter, in the clear. and to be placed thirty
six feet below the level of the water, in
order not to obstruct navigation.
James Gordon Bennett has begun 10
repent of life of journalistic sin, and
has entered into negotiations with
Fifth avenue Catholic cathedral looking
to another world. The Archbishop has
agreed to do everything he can for him,
and the penitent has deposited 100000
as part consideration.
The Grand Jury of Sonoma, Cal,
Fecomended in a recent, report that
.for the safety and comfort of bald
headed men, the loose plastering be re-
moved from the ceiling, or that the
Sheriff be instructed so furnish parties
having business in the court with pill
lows or suitable shields to cover their
heads with"
q A Tennessean, who has been raising
and preparing opium experimentalIy,
is authority for the statement that the
yield per acre is from thirty to fifty
pounds, which varies in price from
$3.50 to SI0per pound. One hand can
cultivate easily and well four acres,
which, at a yield of thirty pounds,
would be SI.200.
The latest matrimonial engagement,
announced by jenkins in his most fe-
icitous style, is that OF Miss Chandler,
only daughter of the millionaire Sena-
tor from Michigan, to Eugene Hale, the
young, handsome and eloquent Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Fifth
Maine District. It is said that the
lsdy's parents only consent to the en-
gagemeilt upon condition that the
young couple shall live with them after
the marriage, as they are unwilling TO
separate from their only child.
The New York Post enumerates tho
Democratic Presidential possibilities.
and says: "On the whole, the list of
Democratic candidates is not very en-
couraging. The most prominent men
are the most Objectionable TO the Dem
ocrats themselves, as in the case of.
Hancock and Hendricks, or to the peo
pie outside of the party, as in the case
of Pcndleton while the ablest and best
men Ike Randolph and Thurman. are
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