The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-10
VOLUME IA.
NEWS AND EDITORIAL ITEMS.


al present claims on account of the FeniaI
raids on Canada.
A fire at Hastings, Mimi, Tuesday
lie night, destroyed three business houses
Loss $4,000.
The widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne
n the author, died at Kensington, Eng
l. land, Wednesday.
Christine Nilsson, the prima donna, il
going to build $685. 600 house at Peoria,
s. ILL.,, and live there.
Gen Halpine is going to sue Great
3 Britain for damages, for imprisoning
him as bloody Fenian.
: The late heavy rams in the northwest
: promise a speedy opening of the Mis-
l. souri, and Mississippi rivers.
c Henry b. Wall, q heavy defaulter to
: the Hancock county, Ohio, treasury,
$ was arrested Wednesday on his farm
near Des Moines, Iowa.
Judge Chase's health improves, but he
will hardly be able to resume his seat
this spring. He expects to spend the
summer and fall in Europe.
And the Germans marched into con-
quered Paris in splendid array, and the
Parisians restrained their wrath, and
Paris is pretty much taken.
President Grant has made the follow
ing new posmasters: John w. Nike,
Clinton, Mo. j. E. Lathrop, Columbia,
Mo. j. c. PARROT, Keokuk, Iowa.
Col. Fisher, late commissioner of pat
ents, says he dismissed Grifins, chief
draughtsman, for levying black mail on
the female employees in his department.
In New York, Wednesday, sam Col
lyer and Billy Edwards, prize fighters,
had a desperate impromptu fight, in
which both were handsomely mauled.
The English members of the high old
Alabama commission visited Congress
Thursday. They know what to do to
make themselves popular with that au-
gust body.
Thursday, in Chicago, while VIM.
Martin, John Smith and VIM. Price
were raising a house, it fell on them
and smashed Smith and Price to jelly,
and fatally injured Martin.
Forty cars loaded with tea and silk,
and twenty with silver ore, passed Om-
aha, bound east, Thursday. 1t would
cost more to smash up that train than
to burn several trains of passengers.
Congress has agreed that hereafter
no new treaties can be made between
the government and any Indian tribe
or nation. Present treaties stand good
that is, as good as they have ever
| done.
That little Cuban rebellion does not
seem quite crushed. Near Margerie, on
the 10th, 400 Spanish troops had fierce
battle with 600 Cubans, lost 160 men
killed, and retreated. The Cuban loss
| is not known.
The Alabama commission is giving
dinners all around. The American
side is to be reinforced by George Ber-
miss and E. H. Derby, two Boston men
who are said TO be great students of in |
ternational law.
Henry d. Cooke declines the office of |
| Governor of d. c., in order to negotiate |
our new loan in Europe. The Presi- |
| dent has requested him to name his sue |
cessor, who will probably be Exon |
gresham Riddle.
SO far 5000 female women have petit
toned Congress not to allow female |
suffrage. We hope that when this |
measure is adopted, these 5000 will be |
specially excepted from either the right |
or duty of voting.
Railroad men will soon get to be con- |
sidered railroad fiends, from the way
many of them act at their internal |
smashups. The accidents referred to
in our telegraphic report to-day fur
nishes an instance.
ID. II. Denton, director of the Chi |
cago board of trade was expelled Thurs |
day, for obtaining a certificate that g |
cargo of bad oats and musty barley |
were No. 2 oats. He charged that other
| directors are doing just as bad things.
The government has ordered the
store ship supply" to take supplies |
from New York to France. Mr.. Lam
Ter of the chamber of commerce COM
mittee, has sailed in the Cuba to per-
sonaly superintend the distribution in
France.
While off Mimtlan, Mexico, Feb. Z
and 8, the U. s. Ship Kansas felt two
strong earthquake shocks. The sensation
was as though the ship was pounding
on rocks. An eruption of the volcano
Oricabo had been previously reported.
The public debt was decreased ST.
3l7,9 $50 in February, and is now $780,
70S,S14. The total decrease for the past
two years, since March LIST, 1869, $780,
754, Alb. Considering the immense rev.
enues of the government, this decrease
has been what we had full right to
expect.
The Japs interviewed Grant Thurs
day. Prince Fusiala expressed great
admiration of American enterprise,
hoped for closer relations between both
nations, and said Japan was earnestly
seeking to progress in all that is great
and good. The President made an APP
propriate reply.
The New York First National bank
| mas sSdrtcu the new government per
cent. loan by taking 81, 100000, and ex-
poets through its country allies to take
care of 100000 more. Sec. Boutwell,
thinks S1OOOOO,O0O will be promptly
taken at homo, and the same amount
abroad, thus ensuing the final success of
the plan.
The Nebraska legislature re-assem-
bled Tuesday, and heard its investi-
eating committee report Gov. Butler,
Ex-Sec. Kennard and other State off,
GERS guilty of the charges of corruption,
&c, against them. Impeachment res
olutions will be at once brought up and
voted upon. The excitement is run
ming high.
The Senate has authorized another
patriotic swindle by an amendment to
the army bill, authorizing the making,
and payment of claims for stores of any
kind furnished to the union armies by
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