The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-27
VOLUME IA.
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

The sale of the American edition o
Tennyson's poems has been forbidden
in England.
a crisis In the English cabinet is i'm.
minent. There is bitter opposition
on account of its weak policy toward
Russia.
Boston has just received from Italy q
statue of Gov. Andrews, and will place
it in the State House with proper cere.
mony.
The census has been retaken In the
the 10th, 18th and 18th wards of N. Y,
and shows 1858 less population than
the first count did.
Judge w. z. Chillon, Ex-Chief JUS
tice Alabama Supreme Court, and G..
NJ. of the Masonic State Lodge, died at
Montgomery Saturday night.
The people of San Domingo are
Awaiting with much interest the arrival
of Grants Commission. They want to
handle Q. S. greenhacks badly.
The war news, to-day, is very impor-
tant. The French are again whipped
all around the ring, and Paris begins to
perceive its desperate situation.
a cavalry raid just made in east Ten
nessee destroyed seven illicit distiller-
les, and 1900 gallons of whisky mash
Eleven other stills were found, but not
running, and so could not be molested.
The country has been relieved of the
costly services of a number of internal
revenue officers in the New York,
Brooklyn and Cincinnati districts.
In New York, Saturday, A. c. Red
cliffe was arrested on charge of SNUG
Cling into that port $4,000 worth of
diamonds. He did not give any to the
the revenue officers.
Some of the pardoned Fenians are in
New York, but won't be publicly re-
ceived until their comrades arrive.
Meantime the entire democratic party
is wonderfully excited.
At Toronto, last week, the widow of
Hon. Thomas Darcy MCGEE was found
dead kneeling with her prayer book in
her hands, having evidently died while
praying. Her funeral, Sunday, was
very largely attended.
Saturday evening the mail car of a
Pacific II. II. train was broken into at
Alto, near the summit of the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, and robbed of mail
bags and 100000 in greenbacks.
Quite financial success for some future
aristocrat,
Up to Sunday, the German consul at
New York had received $685. for
the fund to aid disabled German SOL |
diers and dead soldiers families. Prob
ably more than that amount has been |
spent in this country already for lager
beer in honor OF German successes in |
France.
One of the Atlantic cables was bro
ken somewhere Off the Newfoundland
coast last fall, and the ships sent to re-
pair it have been driven away by ice
bergs. The cable cannot be repaired |
before spring. If the ice breaks the
other one, what will we do. for news
from Paris.
IA ShaA SOhtSSI 10 SV4nS Oh OCb"SSh
the eastern and western members of
Congress on the appOrtionment bill.
The eastern members want to hold their
present numbers, while the west de-
hands strict division according to
population. The eastern coOns might
rs we'll come down out of that tree.
Friday, on motion of Mr.. Pomeroy,
he US. Senate passed a resolution ex-
ending, for one year, tie time at which
settlers on public lands in Kansas and
other places are required to make pay
nent therefor. The House will doubt
ess agree, and the resolution will prove
! great relief to thousands of honest
pioneers.