The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-11
NEWS ITEMS

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, is
in Paris.
The Rev. Newman Hall estimates
that the churches of Great Britain have
lost 100000 members by intemperence
within three years.
Cornell University is trying to get
Prof. Moses Colt Tyler away from the
University of Michigan, and he is now
at Ithica looking over the ground.
A special to the st. Louis Republican
says that the story of the murderer of
Nathan's being cornered in Great Bril-
tain is lie made out of whole cloth.
The only French prisoners now re-
naming in Germany are four officers
and 800 privates in hospitals, and 10 of
ficers and 20 privates imprisoned for Of
| fences. .... -...--
Secretary Fish is in retiring mood
again. That Is, the Washington repor-
tiers say he has retired from his dwell
ing place, whence they infer he will
speedily retire from the cabinet.
At RoT1e, for the first time, erimi-
nal caso was tried by jury June %. The
proceedings were largely attended.
Under the former Papal Government
criminal cases were not tried publi-
caly.
The 9th of August will be the CEN
tennial anniversary Of the birth of Wal
ter Scott. In literary circles all over the
country the day will be celebrated by
appropriate exercises.
The rent question is the most serious
one which weighs upon the people of
Paris at present. Forty thousand fam
lilies were not long since turned out of
their lodgings in that city for failure to
pay their rent,
In Michigan, under the am ended liz
quor law now in force, any person found
drunk in any saloon, tavern, or public
place, or in the streets, is liable to fine
of So and costs, or imprisonment for
not more than twenty days.
The. anti-government elements of
Paris are constantly issuing seditious
placards, of which the police agents try
in vain to detect the authors or the
place of printing. A few days ago the
police discovered one of these seditioua
presses, and several members of the
revolutionary club owning the press
have been arrested.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming Ter
ritory has decided that women have the
right to sit as jurors under the provis-
ions of the existing Territorial laws,
! Judge Fisher dissenting. Chief Justice
Howe rendered the opinion fat, under
the Fourteenth Amendment, women
throughout the United States have the
same rights as men, in respect to suf-
frage and Office holding. taii .a-
The following is the plan of voting
in Australia, and we think it would be
well if some such q syssom was adopted
in the United States, In some places at
least: The presiding officer at the poll
hands out to voter, appearing before
him, a paper on which to mark his vote
This paper is torn from ''stub shot,
of ''counterfoil, like check from q
check book. The paper and the "stuh
, sheet" are numbered alike. The presi-
: ding officer writes on the back of the
. paper the number of the voters name
on the register list. When the poll is
closed the "stub sheets" or counter.
! foils" are sealed mp, before the boxes
+ are opened, and sent to ajudge named
beforehand for that purpose. II, subse.
I quently, it is proven that there are vo.
tiers in the precinct who have not voted
: but whose names have been voted on,
these voters are summoned before the
judge in whose possession the counter
foilB have been placed. Tia real voters
, depose that they never voted. The
, judge opens the commercials, and finds
. from then the numbers of the papers
! deposi. d by those fraudulentIy person.
ating the electors It Is then seen for
whom the fraudulent votes were given,
and they are deducted from his total.