The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-16

Alabama claims commissioners.
The Russian minister has not writ |
ten home in disparagement OF Secre- |
Fish. They are on good terms.
The President has returned from
West Point to Long Branch, stopping
at New York en- route, to interview
Ben Butler.
The agricultural bureau will publish |
to-day q statement as to the present
cotton crop. The yield will be smaller
than last year.
A billiard match for the champion
ship and diamond cue is to be played
Monday next at New York, between
Dion and Foster.
Sycamore House, at Forest Point,
three miles from Portsmouth, n. H.,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss
$4,000; partially insured.
p. Knistuard and Miss E. McCloud,
students at Lawrence University, APP
pleton, Wis. took boat row Monday,
tipped over and were drowned.
The greatest Odd Fellows demonstra-
ton on record in Boston, took place on
Tuesday, to lay the corner stone Of .
new block for the use Of the order.
The income tax, under the new rate,
yields only Is as much revenue as for
merly. The receipts from other sour
ces, however, exceed the estimates.
The Cold Spring iron works and en-
tire village of Cold Spring, Berkshire
County, Mass, was destroyed by fire
Monday night. Loss unknown partly
insured.
Mayor Hall, of New YORK, claims in
his annual message that the present
system Of city government is great
success, financially and otherwise. Glad
to hear It.
Gov. Lindsay, of Alabama, testiAes
before the Congressional Ku Klux COM
mittee that that State is in more peace
able condition than for the previous
fifteen years.
The defaulting cashier of the war
steamer Wachusetts has refunded his
stealings, and the bondsmen of cashier
Foster, of the indianapolis, have paid
their bond, $4,000.
Harry Baldwin, q wealthy farmer and
pettifogger, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was
arrested Tuesday on q charge Of know
ingly using cancelled postage stamps to
prepay letters. He is out on $1,000
bail.
At New York, Monday morning,
that great fizzler, Weston, commenced
to walk 400 miles in five consecutive
days days, the first 112 miles to be
made in "a hours, which he did in %
hours and As minutes.
A young couple named Atkins fell
down $50 feet from q peak on the
Blue Ridge mountains, Virginia, q few
days ago. Mrs. Atkins body was
found dreadfully mangled, but Atkins
is still alive and may recover.
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, has another scamp.
On Tuesday Mr.. SIZZLING was arrested
there, on q charge Of attempting to raw
ish little six year old daughter of Mr..
Sapp. The Citizens are excited and talk
about stretching Mr.. Stelling's neck q
foot or two.
A horrible tale comes from the Pacif-
ic. The Peruvian ship Don Juan was
set fire in mid sea by some OF the $50
coolies who had ben entrapped on board.
The crew abandoned the vessel. The
coolies were shut up in the hold, where
all but few were roasted to death.
A son of Fred Douglass has been ap-
pointed trustee to superintsnd the pub
lie schools of certain district in WASH
ington where all the teachers and schol-
lars are white. The teachers have re-
signed, the scholars went attend
school and much excitement exists.
President Grant has been officially
notified that the young Russian grand
duke Alexis will visit the United |
States about September 1st. His feet
will 60 to New York. Several wealthy
chaps there have offered to entertain the |
duke, and give him any of their lovely |
daughters as dukess.
Some Long Island fishermen had |
good luck Tuesday. They discovered |
new and very rich oyster bed at Eat
on Neck, took out q hundred and fifty
bushels Of bivalves, which brought q
good price, and then other parties paid
them $500 to learn the location of the
bed.
Capt. Hall is to use up ~ years in
finding the north pole. He is to throw
overheard at intervals sealed letters,
containing records in various languages
of his voyage, and when he leaves the
vessel to travel by sledges or boats,
skeleton stone monuments will be laid
to show the course he has taken.
Edward H. Noyes IL . smart young
man who has been swindling various
New York hotels and steamships, by
to be an att&che Of the Ala
bama high commission, &c. Tuesday
Edwards father paid all the bills and
fines, and Edward was let out Of his
snug berth in the Toombs.
The steamer China, just arrived at
San Francisco from Japan, brings s.
$40 chests Of tea, Ill Of rice, 536 of su-
gar, 4,62l sundry packages, the Bishop
Of Victoria, ,040 Chinese, and . lot Of
laps, Of whom two are treasury OH
,ials, are bankers, and z are students, !
tent here to study American ways OF ;
loing business.
Bowen, the ex-M. c., convicted of {
oigamy at Washington, was sentenced,
to pay $3.50 fine and serve two {
Tears in the penitentiary. His second
wife asked to be punished the same, as
10th had married believing that Bowen
lad been legally divorced from Mrs.
Bowen No. 1. The scene in the court :
DOM was quite affecting, Bowen and :
wife No. 2 embracing and pledging re- i.
lniOn after he IL free man again.
dowever, he has hopes Of securing . =
new trial. Meantime he is in jail.
The wild beasts of Paris Commune
ave at length found . champion.
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