The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-13
GLEANINGS.

Six newspapers are published in Mon
tana Territory.
Twenty new newspapers were started
| in California this year.
An elk weighing over 1000 pounds
was lately killed in Oregon.
v A new colony for Colorado is being
organized at Oakdale, Illinois.
Helena, Montana, has skating rink
and park lighted up every night.
The first coin made in the Philadelphia
mint was the copper cent, in 1893.
The strongest religious denomination
in San Francisco is the Presbyterian.
The corner stone of the new Capitol
building at Albany, New York weighs
% tons.
is under arrest for passing counterfeit
money.
The California miners have just got
to singing "Shoo Fly" and ''Not for
Joseph"
Henry Hospers, of PeIla, Iowa, is in
Holland as Iowa Commissioner of I'M
migration.
The original Cardiff giant, while in
transit through Buffalo, has been seized
for debt.
They want railroad from San Jose to
San Francisco. Consequence-another
lottery in prospect.
San Francisco paid Col. Won Schmidt
$4,000, cash for removing Blossom
Rock from the harbor.
Some of the California papers advo-
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dish the Legislature or curtail its pow
ers.
A smart lad hearing his mother re-
mark that she was fond of music, ex-
claimed, '"Then why don't you get me a
drum? ?"
A deer wedged between cakes of ice,
was captured alive in the Mississippi by
some pile-driyers near North McGregor
Iowa, the other day.
Greedy, Col, will have forty miles of
wire fencing, for which $4,000 have
been appropriated. An old fashioned
lyeeum is in full blast.
A raid was made on the milk dealers
of New Orleans last week, and forty
seven of their number arrested for SELL
ing an adulterated article.
The real estate transfers, during the
year just closed, in Hamilton county,
Ohio, (the one in which Cincinnati is
located) amounts to $1l, 100000.
A colored man sued the theatrical
management of Denver Col, for refus-
ing him admittance to the parquette.
The management paid damages and cost
of suit.
California is making an earnest effort
to suppress the lottery business. The
law forbids it, but the success of the
Mercantile Library scheme has induced
a great many ventures.
A party of hunters near Helena, Mon
tana, discovered Chinaman hanging in
the woods. The body had been hanging
for months, and was dried and shrivel-
ed like mummy.
Denver, Col, is building a 100000
Masonic Temple. Helena, Montana,
Boosting of more Masons than any city
of its size in the United States, has, as
yet, only a $4,000 building.
There are more than 5000 Postoffices
in the United States, but only a little
rising one thousand are of the classes
requiring appointments from the Presi-
dent. The others are appointed by the
Postmaster General.
A Nebraska girl, who married fell
low of mean reputation, was taken to
task for it by her uncle, 81 know uncle"
she replied, "that Joe is not good for
much; but he said l dared not have
him, and 1 won't take a stump from
anybody"
A Morgan county, Illinois, CORES
pondent of the Prairie Farmer, planted
Early Rose potatoes March %, 1870; be-
gan digging June dug the last of the
crop, August IL; planted some of the
potatoes the same day, and dug second
crop November 5; the second crop be-
ing better than the
The Sigourny Oowa) Ne,cs chroni-
cles the fact that Mrs. E. McClenahan
of Van Buren, township, KeOkuk coun-
ty, has made her husband ''supremely"
happy, by presenting to him the TWEEN
second pledge of connubial affection
and a fine bouncing boy at that.
Mr.. McClenahan is now about sixty
years of age, but is a hale, hearty, and
well-preserved old gentleman.
The changes in the population in
California will work some singular
changes in the Legislature at the next
San Francisco will have
twenty-one instead of twelve members,
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House. The mining counties will have
fifteen instead of thirty-three; the agri-
cultural, including some commercial,
forty-four instead of thirty-five. This
shows some suggestive changes in the
labor and business of California
The Canada Farmer gives some ac-
count of recent trial of two "dOuble
furrow plows," imported from Scot
land to Ontario. No very definite de-
scription of the plow is given. 1t is
said they are some what complicated (;
run OF three wheels; that one can be
by any man or boy of ordi-
nary Intelligence, and that one costs a
bout as much as two of the iron plows.
The work done was highly satisfacto-
ry. each pillow cut two burrows each II
inches wide and 6 inches deep, doing
the work better than the best plough
man could do it. 1t was thought that
with three fast walking horses each
pillow could pillow four acres of land in an