The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
NEWS, POLITICS AND PERSONALS.

Inc plan OF union depot in Chicago
sufficiently large to accommodate the
various lines of railroad centering
there, has been abandoned as imprac-
ticable.
Thomas Murphy, Collector of the
Port of New York, yielded to the war
his unrelenting enemies have been ma
king upon him, and sent his ressigna-
ton TO the President on Saturday.
Connolly has resigned the comp
trollorship, and r. w. Green is appoint
ed in his place.
There is a movement on foot among |
Tammany politicians to reconstruct |
their organization. Tweed will be call |
ed upon to resign as grand sachem and
president of the democratic general
committee, and sachems Hall and Swee- |
ney will be invited to quit.
Returns from all but five counties
in Wisconsin give Washburne, republic
can candidate for Governor, 9,547 ma
jority.
Over 5000 wooden buildings have
the fire-three- quarters of them by the
Relief Society.
The Tribune says Charles O'Con-
nor has expressed the opinion that
Tweed will escape punishment through
flaw in the indictment.
President Grants strongly impress
ed with the necessity of practical re-
form in the civil service, and will speak
decidedly on this subject in his annual
message.
The Mormons propose to compro-
mise with the government. They
want to hold convention, get up
constitution prohibiting polygamy, and
be admitted as State.
The Puget Sound country seems to
be in bad way just now. They don't
know where the terminus of the North
ern Pacific railway will be, and every
body is in fever of excitement All
the land on the coast has been bought
up by spectators, and there is an utter
stagnation of business, and no building
or other improvements are being made,
everybody awaiting the location of ''the
future great city" Letters from there
say that those intending to emigrate
thither had better stay at home.
"A Salt Lake dispatch says: cit is
said that a number of well known citi-
sens, polygamists, are making arrange
ments to send away their plural wives,
| ~ I,n int hn fnrfh I'M y
trials for lasciVious cohabitation go
against the defendants. Nobody be-
lieves that any of the well-to-do Nor
mons think of abandoning their pres
ent homes and their property because
of the enforcement of the law against
polygamy. The Mormons claim ear
: nestly to believe that their plural wife
doctrine is of God, but many of them
begin to have grave doubts as to the ex-
I, pediency of continuing its practice in
violation of law"
-SroRM-The sleet and snow storm
which commenced at Omaha on Friday
noon continued till Sunday morning,
and extended over the whole country
t from the Rocky Mountains to the Mis-
souri, river. Everything was covered
with a heavy coating of ice, causing a
downfall of telegraph lines. The Un-
ion Pacific trains were snow bound at
s various points between here and Chey-
5 enne. The express train due on Satur-
f day afternoon arrived about midnight
' on Sunday. The storm was reported
t as still more severe in Southern and
? Western Colorado.
: 1t is said that the chances of Sena.
tor Sherman for reelection to the Uni.
ted States Seuate are dubious; thai
: some of the representatives chosen by
I the Republicans from Hamilton county
d will not vote for him under any cir
: cumstances. Many democratic jour.
+ nails are in favor of uniting with such
+. Republicans as can be found to take
o part in the scheme, and sending ex-Sec'
e rotary of the Interior, Jacob D. Cox, to
; fill Sherman's seat. The political at
# mosphere, just now, seems to favor
Independent movements of every kind
!. The Iowa City Republican, which
r stongly supports Senator Harlan for re-
L election, makes the following state.
o ment in relation to the Senatorial con
}, test: "Harlan has been ground be
tween two opposing forces-the malice
: of his enemies, and the folly of his ex
8 ira frisnds-and is defeated"
General Joseph E. Johnston is pre-
pairing for the press a history of his
: campaigns during the late war.
Robert Lincoln is said to have los
all he possessed by the Chicago fire.
Tweed wants his place of tria
1 changed from Albany to New York.
Two or three New York savings
: banks have suspended. They were un,
: der the control of Tweed and his con.
: freres.
!. Tweed has at last succeeded in sell
ling the lease of the Metropolitan Hotel
to Charles Leland, who soon takes
charge. tits stated that Tammany Hall,
on Fourteenth street, is to be sold, as
Tweed, SweenY and several others are
the principal stockholders, for the ben
eft of their estates.