The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-24

Alice Carey bequeathed all her prop
erty to her sister Phoebe.
The Mississippi House has appointed
committee to investigate the Aber-
deem riots.
There are said to be 81 600 clergymen
in the United States, their average pay
being about 500 a year.
Queen Victoria's private fortune is es.
timated at SIT 100000, and people ask
why she did not dover the Princesse
Louisa, instead of flashing parliament to
do it.
1t is said that Mr.. Greeley is so addic-
ted to agriculture that whenever he is
asked a question he invariably says
shay" before he answers to any great ex-
tent.
Railroad managers are perhaps not
to blame for the conduct of those they
employ, but is it not strange that none
of them employ a civil engineer to run
the engine?
A Massachusetts boy told his moth
ar, on returning home the other day,
that George Washington's widow had
been i'll his school begging money to
help repair his tomb.
The Atlantic Telegraph says in No.
L: "We print l 900 copies of this num-
be of the Telegraph, and have but two
men themselves, those two paid in ad-
vance,
Colonel Won Schmidt, the California
engineer, has undertaken to drill q tun-
mel five miles long through the Sierra
Nevada, to bring the water of Lake Big
Ter to San Francisco. He will COM
mence next summer, and expects to fin
ish his work in $50 days.
In New York, on Saturday, bow
but 4 years old, gave his brother, aged 2,
dose of creosote, which killed him.
Their mother had placed box of walls
containing medicines on the table, and,
while her back was turned, the boy
picked up one and gave his brother a
swallow from it.
A Richmond woman, correspondent
of a Virginia paper, said she interview
ed Governor Walker the other day to
ascertain his position on a railroad
question, and that he asked, before COM
hitting himself, what her own predilec-
tons were; and, when she said that she
was on the fence, he graciously said,
''Then, Madam, wish no more honor
able position than to be sitting by your
side"
A tavern keeper, who had abandoned
traffic in alcohol after being engaged in
the business number of years, was
asked the reason. He took down an
account book, and opening it said
'Here are forty-four names upon this
book. They were my customers. OF
these, thirty-two are in drunkards'
graves, ten are professional topers, and
know not the whereabouts of the 9TH
er two"
A favorable report comes concerning
the operations of the Suez Canal. The
receipts of the Canal amounted to 49,,
900 during the month of December
the heaviest returns of any month in the
year. The English are making extern
sive use of the canal i'll their commerce
between the English ports and China
and India. A passenger and freight
screw steamer recently made the pass
to Calcutta, in thirty-ive days.
For the New York market ''pure Or
ange County milk" is thus prepared
The dealers receive forty cans of milk a
day, twenty-seven or twenty-eight cans
of which they skim, and then mix the
whole together. This they color with
sort of tasteless refuse from the sugar
| refineries, which gives the mixture a
thick, creamy appearance. 1t is then
sent to New York, and sold for pure
milk. They get six cans of cream,
worth $40 a can, from the forty cans OF
milk.