The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-20

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Philadelphia wants national cele-
bration there, in 1876, of our centennial
celebration of July 4th, and also a
worlds fair.
DR.. VIM. Cunnington, leader of the
Walnut street theatre orchestra, Phila-
delphia, was found dead in his bed Sat-
urday morning.
The late express car robbery, at AL
bany, was committed by notorious
thief, called "Yank Filkins." A reward
of $500 is offered for him.
A Havana dispatch says a large num-
Der of leading Cubans have published a
card declaring their firm devotion to
the Spanish cause. Just so.
Colored Cadet Smith, of West Point,
is probably to be expelled for breaking
his tin mug over the brass mug of an
insulting white cadet. Such is life in
America.
The San Domingo commission takes
along Professor VIM. Blake, formerly
of California. as mineraIogist and geol-
ogist. No one has yet been selected to
act as hippopotamus.
Filkins, the express car robber, put
up at first class Saratoga Hotel Thurs
day night, but has not been seen since.
He may come out as fashionable but
terhy there next summer.
On Thursday last the steamer Hornet
landed a cargo of war material on the
Cuban coast, for the rebels, but Spanish
troops came along and gobbled the en-
tire lot. The steamer escaped.
New York held great mass meeting
Thursday night in honor of italian uni
ty and Papal downfall. Gen. Dix pre-
sided, and Beecher, Bellows, Bryant
and Judge Everett, specialized.
The Cherokee Indians want Grants
treaty ratified. 1t agrees TO pay them
S2,500,OO0 for some 100000 acres of
land they vacated in southern Kansas.
Their friends at Washington, just now,
are numerous.
In st. Louis, Saturday, the roofs of
several buildings were crushed in by
the snow. 1t rained all day and the
walks were in horrible condition, the
streets flooded with slush and water
and mo such day was ever before seen
in St. Louis"
Red Cloud says his tribe is starving,
and wants Government rations. The
| Crows have stolen sixty horses from
them, and two hundred from the Chey-
ennes. The latter recovered their stock
after a fight in which seven Crows and
one Cheyenne expired.
President Johnson appointed E. NJ.
Ford, of Chicago, as Governor of Wyo-
ming Territory. Friday, Ford expect
ed his family to arrive, so he disappear
ed, leaving note to say he had gone
and drowned himself. The family can
be on hand at the funeral.
Gen. Neill, of Governors Island, N.
Y, having refused to obey a writ OF
habeas corpus relative to an enlisted
minor, Judge McCunn has issued a
non-bailable warrant for the General.
1t is now for the civil and military
powers to see which is which.
After all, the spade is playing an i'm
portant part in the seige of Paris. A
| Versailles telegram says that mines and
countermines are so plenty around fort
Mount Valeins that both sides expect
every moment to go up like balloon
and come down in small pieces.
Prince Alex. Kavageorgewich has
got into trouble. He lives in Hungary
and has been sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment for helping to kill Prince
Michael Obernovitch, in 1868. Some
of our first families may be acquainted
with the parties named. If not, nc
matter.
The steamer Buneos Ayres sailed
from New York Saturday, for France,
loaded with $4,000 worth of arms and
war material for the French govern
ment. This is the fourteenth cargo OF
war material shipped 10 that source
from New York, valued altogether al
Si2,000,000. And other vessels are be-
ing loaded. Rather singular neutrality
1t is said that if the Senate fails tc
confirm Admiral Porter as Farragut:
successor, he will be out of Office alto
gether. To save him from this the Sen.
ate may confirm him. Better save the
country from such an affiiction. Later
He was confirmed Friday, by vote o
thirty to ten. The Senate must have 4
strong stomach to swallow such porter
Bishop Simpson declines to go as
commissioner to San Domingo. HI
prefers to attend the investigation o
the Methodist book concern. Exon
: gresham Dodge has also declined
, President White, of Cornell University
/ takes the latter's place. Fred. Doulas
; is anxious to go. The Commission il
to sail Monday, in the frigate Tennes
see. A swarm of spectators go along
Murder will out-sometimes. On
telegraph column to-day details the sin
gular discovery of the murderer of MI
Rogers, a N. Y, banker in 1868.
will be remembered that as Mr.. Roger
was sweeping the snow off his owl
/ walk, in broad daylight. man Stable,
him. All efforts to trace the murdere
a were fruitless. At last, however, he ap
J. pears to have revealed himself.
r Another Mississippi steamboat hor
ror is reported in to-days telegraph. Al
affecting incident is related by Mr.. Ev
ills of st. Louis, one of the survivor:
; He says a man and wife, cabin passen
: gers, came floating by him, both holdin
to a plank. The lady cried "Husban
1 am freezing-let go the plank, an
let us die together" The husband
with an heroic love not surpassed i
i fiction, Ioosed his hold of the planl
q eIasped his wife in his arms, and bot
sank together beneath the dark water