The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-10
EDITORIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

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Saturday night the cadet barracks at
West Point were partly burned down.
Loss $4,000.
At Galesburg, ILL.,, Sunday night, the
Michigan Central railr'd station build
ings were burned.
There is no prospect of the House
and Senate agreeing on the bill to abol-
ish the income tax.
Monday morning four dwelling hous-
es on Grand street, Brooklyn, were
burned down. Loss $4,000.
-Four vessels are being loaded at New
York with provisions for France. Each
takes 10000 barrels of flour and pork.
Bolivia, South America, is enjoying
civil war. Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
have formed an alliance against Column
bia.
In East Saginaw, Michigan, Sunday
morning, the Hovey block was destroy
ed by fire. Loss $4,000; insured 49,
GEO.
1t is again asserted that Grant will
reconstruct his Cabinet on the 18th of
March. The contradiction 10 coming
along.
The Adelphi Theatre, Boston, was
destroyed by fire Sunday am. The COM
pany lost all their wardrobes. Loss
$4,000.
The civil war I'm San Domingo is as
lively as ever. The commission had
best inspect that lovely island with tel
escapes.
The full telegraphic report is pub
lished in each days News, either as a
condensed telegram" or under the dis
play head,
The House at Washington, declines to
allow the use of its Hall by Mrs. Wood
hull, or "any other man." for any kind
OF lectures.
Secretary Boutwell, advises Congress
not to repeal the income tax now. The
amount it brings in cannot be spared
from the revenue.
The oppressed rcd mon killed fami-
ly of eight persons near Decatur. Texas,
Jan. 3lst. More sugar and powder
should be given them.
Another lie--that President Grant
has sent messenger to San Domingo
20 recall the commission. But il was
good canard while il lasted.
Rye, in N. II, experienced a slight
earthquake at six o'clock Sunday morn
Ing. Just to wake people up so they
could get to church in good time.
A large holel at Iuka Springs, Tennes-
see, was destroyed by fire, Monday,
with its contents and adjacent buildings.
Loss, 100000; insurance 100000
1t is again reported that the British
Minister ut Washington is empowered
to settle the Alabama question, and
thus save Schenck from going to Eng
land.
Milton Turner, a eolored gentleman
from Missouri, wants to go as Q. S.
Minister to Liberia, and is recommend
ed by prominent Missouri Congress
men.
Secretary Fish asks for $4,000 addi-
tional funds to meet the extra legation
expenses at Paris, London, Belgium
and Madrid, in consequence of the war
In France.
Washington is to hold grand carnival
February 81, and %. to celebrate Wash
ington's birthday anniversary and the
7th and list New York regiments are
going to participate.
In New York, Saturday, messenger
OF the Chatham National bank, had his
pocket picked of notes and drafts
amounting to $4,000. Payment has
been stopped, and the parties concerned
will not suffer.
So far tho Germans In the United
States have contributed $4,000 to aid
the sufferers in the fatherland on ac-
count of the war. The executive COM
mittee in New York now issue a call
for increased efforts in this line.
The Remington Bank, Philadelphia,
robbery would not have occurred but
for the Waterman, one Murphy, DISC
beying his orders, which were not to ad-
init any ono into the bank after 1t had
closed. He haa been suspended-hut
not by the neck.
In Cobourg, Canada, Friday night, a
IRE destroyed Sutherland & Cos. store
on King St., the telegraph and express
Offices, McCullum & Co.'S. hardware
store, and the branch bank of Toronto.
The contents of tho telegraph and ex-
press offices, and of the bank. were saw
ed.
A Memphis rebel, Col. Duncan Nc
Cray, has been appointed clerk of the
United States court there. Before the
war, he was a member of Congress from
North Carolina, and during the war q
member Of the rebel Congress and n
colonel in the rebel army. Pretty we'll
reconstructed.
Another frightrul railroad murder,
by which many passengers were killed
and burned, is reported in our tele-
graphic columns to-day. There is no
remedy for such accidents; but there is
preventive, and that is to place legal
value of not less than 100000 upon
each passengers life destroyed.
The British Minister at Washington
assures Secretary Fish that the British
Government has peremptorily ordered
the Dominion authorities to restore the
license fishing system, so as to give
American fishermen all the rights and
privileges to inshore fishing on the
British coast of North America. The
contradiction of this report has not yet
arrived.
The New York chamber of commerce
has notified Minister Washburne at
Paris, that it will place 100000 to his
credit to be used in purchasing food
for the population. The chamber ap-
peals to the American public to ut once
subscribe money, and provisions, which
may be sent to the treasurer No. q
Pine street, N. Y. It's matter of con-
fidence, Of course
Cramer, Grants brother-in-law, was
confirmed as Minister to Denmark at
the Senate session Saturday. The de-
bste is said to have been very bitter