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

n established. ut Kankakee, Ill.
brunswick, Ga, will soon have thre
cypress single manufactures.
Topeka is talking of union depot 70
, the h. p. aud A, T. s. s. f. roads.
The Rothschilds have a monopoly O
} all the quicksilver mines in the world.
A catching attitude is assumed b,
he Kiowas and Cheyennes in New
Mexico.
/ On Friday last the Apaches murdered
a stage-driVer between Santa Fe anC
Messila.
Nineteen people in Hayti have beer
arrested and placed in prison, for Can
nibalism.
France will soon have 100000 mer
under arms, with Mcmahon the chief il
command.
Great activity is anticipated at Cincin'
natl in the campaign on the repeal o.
the Sunday laws.
The Elgin Watch Factory last wear
made $4,000 watches, worth 100000
| SHPIOJ Ing SoO ulAuAS'
We learn that the towns of New Chi
cago and Tioga are to be consolidated
soon and called Tioga.
The Union Corn Planter works, OF
Peoria, ILL.,, employ capital of $780,
900, and 100 operatives.
The National Soldiers Home at Day
ton, Ohio, lost $4,000 the other day, by
the burning of the laundry.
A second track from Buffalo to To-
ledo is spoken ofby the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railroad.
An appropriation for a nSw State
House at New Haven, was defcatek +. in
the Connecticut legislature.
A convention of the nail maufactur-
ers of the United States will be held at
Pittsburgh, on the 10th prox.
A company has been formed in Phil
adelphia to manufacture steel capped
rails under the Beazall patent.
Preparations at Cincinnati for the APP
preaching Industrial Exposition are
proceeding with great activity.
One man living near Lawrence ex-
poets to manufacture Oh his farm this
year, six thousand gallons of wine.
The ex-Empress Eugene, it is stated,
is DESTROYS ofdisposing other diamonds,
valued at 81, 100000. Poor woman.
Old Williams, the proprietor of the
Missouri House, Denver, attempted
suicide by taking poison on Tuesday.
At Denver on Saturday last. at 2 Pm.
the thermometer is reported as mark
ing ITO in the shade, and at p. NJ. los
A new hotel, the Hubbard, just erec-
ted at Sioux City at cost of $80,0 is
rented, and is to be opened Immediate
ly. -.
Copp u Richardson, grooers, of Quin-
cy, have been found guilty of disposing
of their property to defraud their credi-
tors.
The Spanish authorities in q friendly
way declined to adhere to the neutrality
laws laid down in the Treaty of WASH
ington.
Ebenzer II. Bullock, alias Frank w.
Morgan, convicted of forgery, in Him
OILS, in September last, was arrested in
Washington, the 26th.
DIR. w. W. Dawson, of Cincinnati
has been elected to the chair of surgery
of the Ohio Medical College, made va
cant by the death of DIR. Blackman.
The Colorodo Methodist Conference
elected Rev. B. L. Vincent as the dele
gate to the General Conference, and ex-
Gov. John Evans as the ay delegate.
A young man from Cincinnati was
robbed of his clothes and money, by a
confidence man named Tilden, during a
trip to the mountains as travelling COM
panions.
Mace and Coburn have signed an az
| ticle of agreement again to fight Nov.
3Oth, sGor $4,000. 1t will be a pity if
they should fight without being mutual
ly annihilated.
That terrible scourge, the yellow
fever, is raging violently in Brazil.
Nearly every stranger in the city of
Pana has died with it, among whom are
the English consul and his wife.
The Lamar Insurance Company of
Chicago says the telegraph, has explod-
ed, and applications will be made for
the appointment of receiver and a
thorough examination of its affairs.
There are fifty manufacturing estab-
lishments in Rock Island, ILL.,, and vic
Unity, which have capital of S3,20l, ;
coo, employ 2,036 hands, and sells goods
to the amount of SIS, l33, 600 annually.
There are one hundred indictments
against as many Ku Klux in North
Carolina, and the number will probably
be increased to one thousand by the
time specified for the term of the cir
cult court.
No plant yields anything like SO much
nutriment from the same extent of soil
as the banana. Baron Humboldt esti-
mates that it returns twenty times as
much as the potato, and lib times as
much as wheat.
/ The Commonwealth says the work OF
opening bids for the Kaw lands began
on Wednesday. They number about
four hundred, and no elections in the
matter will probably be had within ten
days or two weeks.
The Oxford Times exceeds any paper
on locals, considering lis opportunities,
that comes to this Office. Its opportu-
mites are few, but its RESOURCES bound
less. 1t is the only paper in the State
south of the Arkansas.
The Arkansas TrareleT says that 4OC
calves were shot out of one herd, dur
ing the drive from Texas to Kansas.
last month. All young calves are shot
as fast as they are born, so as to be rid
of and allow the cows to be driven.
A heavy freight train collided with q
construction train on the Toledo, Wa
bash & Western railroad, about sixteen
miles east of st. Louis, on Tuesday last.
killing six laborers, wounding several
others and smashing up several cars.
Mr.. Joseph Bowen, of Virginia, was
at Fort Scott on Monday last, seeking
for land in Kansas for colored citizens
of that State, many of whom will come
here if they can find such location al
} they desire-and that is not doubtful.