The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-28
aLRANrNGS.

Moss agates, of very rare quadty,
laye been found near Reading, Ia
Baltimore claims to have the cleanest
streets of any city in the Union.
Over thousand acres in Monroe
County, Iowa, have been sown with fax
this spring.
In Switzerland, law is proposed
making it unlawful for any one under
IL wears of age to smoke tobacco.
There are in the world about 10000
miles of railway, that have cost SlO,OOO,-
100000, and give employment to over
1 100000 persons.
The Austrian Government has APP
pointed number of Postmistresses,
but they receive only two thirds OF the
salary paid to Postmasters.
Methodist churches were built in
this country in 1870 at the rate of nearly
four every working day, the number
being over twelve hundred.
The Buffalo Express mentions a fam
lily near that city which has lost seven |
children by a malignant disease within |
the brief space of four days.
The Irish immigration to America,
formerly so extensive, is now rapidly
on the decrease. English and French
immigration is increasing, whilst that
from Germany is the largest.
The loss from fires raging during the
past week in the woods of Orange and
Sullivan counties, n. ", will exceed
S3,O0O,0O0. A number of horses and
cattle are supposed to have been burned
Miss Eliza NJ Clark was recently IN
animously reelected school superinten-
dent OF Burlington, Vermont, and at
the same time the people voted to pay
her ninety dollars extra for her services.
A Lockport dog got needle fast in
his tongue, and The animal was chlOro
formed in order that the needle might
be extracted. The surgical operation
was success, but the chloroform killed
the dog.
A man passed through Jacksonville,
ILL.,, last Sunday, who had footed it all
the way from Denver City, Col, draw
ing a hand cart containing clothing,
cooking utensils, etc. He was on his
way to Indiana.
Philadelphia has 1l4,203 dwelling
houses, of which 104, 6SS are Of brick or
stone, and the remainder, 1854 of
wood. With the exception of 6,94S,
they are all small two and three story
buildings.
A Maine farmer, whose hog, while at
large on the highway, alarmed horse,
and thus caused a young lady to be
? thrown from carriage, has been or
dered to pay the injured woman $2,S33
damages, after a trial lasting three
days.
A verdict for $4,000 has been rem
dered againt the Metropolitan Horse
D. Railroad Company of New York City
| i'll favor of Edward Casey, for seriou:
a personal injuries by being thrown from
his wagon in consequence of a collision
Z with horse car.
General Carroll Tevis, of Philadel
phia, who formerly held a command il
5 the Pope''s Zouaves at Rome, and ha'
}. since led a division of Bourbaki's army
+ of the Loire, has rejoined his family il
;, London, and will soon return to thi
country. He won the Cross of the LIE
: gion of Honor during his French ser
# vice.
n Many persons will be surprised t.
: learn that the island of Sicily is Target.
O supplied with newspapers. Not fewe
n than hundred journals, daily, weekly
:, fortnightly and monthly, are published
i in Sicily, thirty-eight in Palmero itself
n and thirteen in Messina, seven or eigh
v in Catania, five in Syracuse, large por
q ton of them more or less scientific o
n literary.
h The chemichal person who has dis
covered Il process by which fusel OF
can be taken from whisky, tried it on
&c barrel of the Cincinnati article the 9th
- err day. The Louisville Courier say
q .'he found the residuum to consist Q
five pounds of strychnine, fourtee
u pounds of rotten tobacco, and dishwa
| 70 hnl in
e The mixture was then exactly the RICH
l. condition to suit the educated Louisvill
&c palate.
% Boarding at some of the Washingto
M taverns is costly. Senator FentOn ha
~ been paying for parlor, two bed room
e. and an Office at the Arlington, $1,000
r month. S. S. Cox and his wife, $3.50
in week. Simon Cameron's bill for tw
-. rooms was $3.50 a month. Helmbol
was charged $50 day, but he makes hi
y money out of patent medicines. Th
E. others pay their board bills and lay u
t. fortunes out of $4,000 year.
lie Sam Cox paid Ben Butler small II
Of stallment of long standing "shOo-fy
~ account the other day. Sam in speec
referred to Dawes as "the gentlema
from Massachusetts," Butler, Othel
of wise engaged, caught the words but NJ
ne Iney intention. w nat SentlelndH IfOl
20 Massachusetts, ?" "Never mind" L,
&c sponded Sunset impatiently, Il reterre
20 to the honorable gentleman from Ma
t. sachusetts." Benjamin subsidized, bl
OF he'll keep one eye on Cox until an OF
pOrtunity occurs to return the compl
n ment.
V, Some days ago all the saloon-keepel
ga in Waverly, Iowa, were arrested an
fined for liquor-selling. They held a
- enthusiastic mass-meeting and resolve
or to languish for an indefinate perio
j. within the prison walls, rather than pa
IT. the amount demanded. This heroic d
=. termination soon yielded to the discon
Ut forts, however, and the required gree
OF backs have fluttered into the city's co
ng fers, except in three cases of apparent
as incurable inpecuniosity, the victims
IL which are still enjoying the public no
pitality.