The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-06
GLEANINGS.

Mrs. Conway is the contractor on a
section of the Western Maryland rail-
road.
Iowa has some five thousand more
Methodists than all the other Protest
ants in the State put together.
The Herald, the Gentle paper at
Salt Lake City, is fifteen months
old and has been enlarged three times.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
is said to be, in some respects, the great
est industrial display ever witnessed In
this country.
A woman at revival meeting in |
Ohio said she found her jewelry was /
dragging her down to hell, and so gave |
it all to younger sister.
Black silk stockings and pumps, |
which "went out" with the town pumps
twenty or thirty years ago, are re-
ported to be Coming in" again in New
York.
A Racine girl wanted her lover to
swear on the Bible that she was all the
world to him, and when he wouldn't
she knocked him down with the sacred
volume.
a lady in Columbus, Ohio, fell in
love while in q street car with q Cali
fornian worth $4,000 who sat beside
her, and succeeded in marrying him
within week.
a nurse girl serving in the family of
wealthy squatter iii Australia has sud-
denly stepped into a title and proper
ty of 100000 under the name of Lady
Elizabeth Morton.
A Southern paper says that a good
way to test the purity of tea is to burn
"a s.,l, u, xry1as oh f,N
tea are not more than five per cent. All
we'll enough, but what are you going to
do for tea!
A woman at Oberlin, Ohio, collected
money for the soldiers orphans, and
used It to buy bonnet. She said Or
: phans, after they got used to it, could get
along without bread, but women must
have bonnets.
A new town is about to be started on
the A., Il. 81 S. +. road somewhere in
the vicinity of the Arkansas river,
which is to have the following motto :
No cards, no swear, no drink, no kill"
So says the Leavcnworth eau.
Squabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
stockings, which he had just darned, to
a maiden lady, who contemptuously
remarked, 'Pretty good for man dar-
ner." Whereupon Squabbles rejoins,
eyes, good enough for woman, darn
her.
a California paper says than an In
dian hanging ''was conducted in the
most orderly, systematic manner, and
the utmost respect was paid to the In
dams feelings, for which the worthy
Sheriff and his assistants deserve great
credit"
The Lagrange (Texas) Ne,cs Era says
&c 60 ho
of $4,000 for school purposes, and the
only result in sight at present is rath-
err queer-looking teacher with three pu-
pills. Rather costly, we think, as an ex-
pertinent"
In one county of Kansas alone there
are one hundred and twenty-one acres
of castor beans under cultivation. Gree
ley thinks it needs no mathematician to
show that the crop will supply castors
to every bedstead in the United States.
Detroit Free Press.
"Tell that man to take off his hat in
court" said Judge the other morning
to an officer. The offender, who turn
cd out to be a lady wearing the fashion.
able sailor hat, Indignantly exclaimed
81 am no man, STRIP "Then," said his
Honor, 81 am no judge"
The Stockton Herald says: "Durine
the delivery of her speech last night
Mrs. Laura dc Force Gordon said: 8
am an American citizen and over q
years of age" To this a crusty ant
probably disguised Benedict cried out
you bet you arer The effect wa
electrical"
An old lady getting off the cars a
Hartford, the other day, attracted tn,
attention of policeman, who rendered
his aid, when the old lady pepperei
him in the ribs with her umbrella, anj
sharply soliloquized: "Clear out, yoI
bigamist, you shan't touch me-" Sh,
had read the papers.
The recent election in New Mexico
has resulted in stand-on between tn
two parties-republican and democratic
although both claim the "balance o
power" The legislature stands-sen
ate, 6 democratic, republican and 2 in
dependent. House, ii democratic, l
republican and independent.
There is great deal of superstition
among the poor people of New York
A man making with jackass through
Park street, the other day, was delayet
for some time by number of Irisl
women, who were anxious to have thei
babies kiss the donkcy's back, that the
might be cured of the whooping cough
The New York Times is again impa
tient at the delay which is show by tn
committee of seventy, i'll taking meas
ures directly against the ring thieve;
IL says to the committee: of you hav
evidence, as you say you have, whic
will arrest Bill Tweed, why in Heaven
name don't you send an officer afte
him at oncc?'
4 young wife in Troy cured her hus
band of n disposition to absent himsel
from homo at night by providing hin
with an excellent dinner and saying {
him afterwards. George, if you find
sweeter spot than our home describe i
to me and l will rival it if die in tn
attempt" a. kiss and few tears com
pleted the victory.
Charles ID. Hammentt, cashier of tn
Merchants Bank, ut Newport, II.
has been discovered defaulter to tn
nowadays, he don't amount to much
He squandcrcd none of the money o.
fast women and fast horses-only too
enough to make a living, his salary be
ing insufficient, and has been twent
years taking the $4,000.
The reorganization of the Latter Da
Saints on basis of opposition to pc
lygamy, is proceeding with great enthu
siasm at Council Bluffs, where som
1900 disciples are gathered together
under the presidency of three sons c
the only and original Joseph Smith
martyr. From the nature of the ter
cts of the new, or rather reforme
Church, it can be readily inferred this
neither Theodore Tilton nor Victori
Woodruff, will be found among its c
ders.
The suicide of Prof. Mahan, of Yves
Point, is believed to have been occasion
ed by chagrin at having been displace
from the chair he had occupied at We
Point for more than forty years. I'll
pay of Brigadier General on the r,
tired list is said to have been offere
him, but the offer was rejected. II
venerable Professors memory will
cherished by all who knew him, and e
pecially by the graduates of the Mil
tary Academy who profited by his il
structions.
The Tennessee Press Association r
Gently visited Louisville, and its men
beers were permitted to pay their ow
hotefbills. In revenge one of the
writes thus of the town: louisville
an old, dilapidated town, celebrated fl