The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-11
SENS AND EDITORIAL ITEMS.

A number-one truss bridge is to be
built at once at Arkansas City.
! Serious damage has been done the
oat crop in New York by rains.
Wheat in some parts of Iowa fails to
reach an average of ten bushels to the
acre. Corn is good.
In some localities in Wisconsin the
tobacco crop has been completely ruin
ed by the recent hail storms.
Horace Greeley and Weston are an
nounced as the attractions at the Cen.
trail Iowa Fair In September.
A monster mass meeting at Cincin-
natl determined that no effort
would be spared to defeat the proposed
repeal of the Sunday laws.
Twenty-Five Keno gamblers were
fined In indianapolis on Monday The
police are raiding the gambling heils Of
that city in lively manner.
The ArAansas City Traveller says that
driving on the trail was slacked up very
suddenly. Last week thousands OF
cattle were passing along the route
every day. This week not one herd
has passed, and it is said that the driv-
ing is about oyer for this season.
The New York Trfbead .says Mrs.
BlOomer, the originator of the costume
for women which still bears her name,
and one Of the pioneers, if not the piO-
neer, in the woman's rights movement,
is now said to be living quietly, with
ont either social or political ambition,
in rising Kansas town, engaged in at
tending to large family and -four
ishing farm.
A very strange phenomenon was
witnessed on Lake Winnepiagee, Sum
day afternoon, by two men, anchored
of Rattle Snake Island in small boat.
There was scarcely breath of air stir
ring and the surface of the lake was
unaffected by even . ripple, when the
center OF the lake seemed to sink down.
and Immediately following three large.
waves, the largest over FIVE feet in.
height, dashed over the rocks of the
island, for moment threatning des-
truction to the boat.
They have first-class sensation near
Germantown, Ohio, in the shape of
manifestations ofspirits. At the house
of a Mr.. Benjamin furnace was moved
and milk crooks upset, eatables werc
disturbed and the whole household was
disarranged in the most extraordinary
manner. Eight members of the family
though not all residing together, appear
in an article in the Cincinnati Com
mercial of recent date, reciting the cir
cumstances with singular particularly.
The atlantis are old citizens and have
the general respect of thepeople of that
country. 50
II Is stated that q great meeting of
the State Camp of the Sons of America,
was held at the Astor House Tuesday
afternoon. 1t is understood that
proposition to enlarge their ritual, so
that all citizens opposed to Catholicism
could not become members, was voted
down, thus keeping the organization
purely native American. The order is
reported to be in very fiourishing con-
dition, and has large camps in every
ward in the cities of New York and
Brooklyn. Si. ~
The famine in Persia is terrible.
There was q partial failure of the crops
last year owing to the dranght. Taxes
were increased and many fed the coun-
try. In some places wheat has risen to
nine times its usual value, at others
people are selling their children to the
Turcos to save their lives, and many
are eating their children, having eaten
all the domestic animals and even YER
min. In Ispahan men were caught dig
ging up corpses and feeding them to
| their families.
The investigation. and proceedings
relative to the cause of the massacre on
the Staten Island ferry boat, on Sum-
day, bring to light the fact that in the
eighty ferry boats in and out of the
harbor, there are not an average of four
life preservers to a boat, and these are
not within easy reach of passengers.
The laws relative to the safety of pas
sengers are virtually disregarded, and
about all the other steamers here are
concerned. The inspection of all steam
ers is considered farce by all steam
boatmen. -
! A terrible tragedy occurred Wednesday
at London, Shelby county, Indiana !:
Mr.. Henry Ellington, for some time the
unsuccessful sutton Of Miss Lizzie Smith,
made a final proposal for her hand and
was rejected. Wednesday, while her
parents were at church, he attacked her,
throwing her to the ground and stamp
ing upon, her. He then took brick
and beal her head ana face shoekingly,
severing one ear ana breaking her jaw.
He then fed to the woods, leaving her
for dead. An alarm was raised and he
was pursued and caught by the neigh
bors. He is now in Jail. Miss Smith
was alive this forenoon, but her recov-
cry is impossible. Ellington expresses
himself as only sorry he did not make
sure work of her. 1t is feared he viii
1 be lynched.