The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-03
NEWS AND EDITORIAL ITEMS.


Marsh to be surveyor of customs at
Kansas City.
The German army marches into Paris
to-day. Where is Victor Hugo's terrible
proclamation
Ex-Sec. of State Rodman, of Missouri,
is in Washington lobbying for land
grab claim in that State.
The Missouri House is considering a
resolution to abolish the Congressional
election law just passed by Congress.
Last Sunday, a collection of over So
600 was taken up in Henry Ward Beech
er's church for the French relief fund.
Congress has passed the bill to en-
courage the holding of national and
worlds fair at Philadelphia, July 4th,
1876.
The House and Senate are at a dead
lock on the income tax repeal question.
Our poor millionaires must continue to
sweat.
The l.. l.. g. G. and NJ. X. 81 T. rail-
road companies have made a cohpro-
mise about the land grants along their
routes.
Col. Stokes, of Tennessee, and Gen.
Heron, of La, want to be Sergeant-at-
arms of the House, in the new Con-
gress.
Speaker Blaine and Clerk Mcpherson,
expect to be re-nominated as to repub-
lican candidates for the offices in the
new Congress.
A New Jersey farmer holds the lucky
ticket which has drawn the Hamilton,
Ohio, opera house prize. His name is
not yet known.
Charles IL. Burrows, President of the
Pennsylvania State agricultural college,
died at Bellefort, in that State, Saturday,
aged 67 years.
The worst gang of eastern counter
feiters has been broken up by the arrest
of VIM. b. Dow, its leader, and many
prominent members.
Ex-senator Sumner, it is said, has
prepared strong anti-Grant speech,
him not to deliver it.
In South Brooklyn, Monday, 4 new 3
story and basement brick buildings,
which had just been erected on 18th ST.,
fell to the ground. No one was hurt
Baron Gerolt, the Prussiau minister
at Washington, leaves there in May,
and will be succeeded by Herr Schlazer,
as minister of the new German Empire.
Henry Samuels, paying teller of the
Camden, N. j., First National bank has
been using S11, 900 of the bank funds to
buy himself farms. He has refunded.
and ought now to be promoted.
The President has appointed Henry
d. Cooke, of Jay Cooke & Co., as gov
eminent collector for the District of
Columbia, and James Woodward as
Surveyor of Customs at Kansas City.
At the Stadt theatre, New York, Sat
urday night, a cry of eight" in the up
per gallery was mistaken for Sire, and
the audience made grand rush for the
street. No one happened to get crush
ed.
Senators at Washington say it will
be impossible to get two-thirds vote
in favor or annexing San Domingo.
The insurmountable objection is the in
expediency of annexing more tropical
territory.
The Pennsylvania coal carrying roads
have united with the coal mine owners,
and advanced the carrying rates. This
will suspend mining in the entire
Shamokin district,and make coal at the
east much higher.
The Missouri river is running at ON
aha, and promises to break up at Yank-
ton and Sioux City. The water is low,
however, and the small amount of snow
in Montana does not promise a good
river the coming season.
Good. Tuesday, the House at Wash
ington passed bill to Immediately re-
peal all duty on foreign coal. Now let
the Senate promptly agree, and the
Pennsylvania coal monopolists will
open their mines in hurry.
The Wheeling CIV. W Savings Bank
broke Monday, with $4,000 of liabili-
ties. Many private parties and work
the defaulting cashier, is in Jail. The
city treasury loses $4,000 it had on de-
posit.
Gen. Pleasanton says that hereafter
no officer ofthe internal revenue service
can also hold any other public Office, or
be engaged in any other employment,
except in so far as acting as store
keeper under section 81 of act of July
20. 1868.
The Arkansas House has passed a res
olution which, though ostensibly adj
verse to Governor Clayton, recognizes
his legality as Governor until convict
ed by the Senate of the charges made in
the impeachment articles. The Govern
or now thinks he can get along without
government help. He has declined his
seat as q. S. Senator elect.
In New York, Tuesday, Muier &
Stevens carriage factory on East street
burned down. Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000. Michael Curley's carriage fac
tory next burned. Loss $4,000 insur-
ence $4,000. Schultz s. Walkers min
burned. Loss $4,000, and the falling
walls severely injured nine firemen.
Monday, the business house of c. II.
Berry, in Wheeling, w. ", was de-
stroyed by an incendiary. Loss heavy.
A week before Mr.. Berry received an
anonymous letter by mail, saying the
writer had burned him out before,
would burn him out again, and would
keep burning him out until he ruined
Berry and satisfied his revenge. That
cuss needs q missionary.
A prominent but very indiscreet,
man at Delevan, Wis, anticipating the
early demise of his wife, who was lying
sick, proposed to a widow who came in
to comfort him in view of his prospec-
tive bereavement. The wife happened
to overhear the proposition. The effect
was electrical. She few into passion,
fared up, jumped out of bed and de-