The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-06
MEMS OF THE WEEK.
GIeanings From the Dispatches and Ex-
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taking of illegal fees by the city and
county officials. The election laws
were dagrantly violated. It was his
intention to keep the grand jury In ses-
sion until after the election, so as to Sc
cure to the people fair election. In
this connection he enlarged on the cor
ruption, and announced it as fact that
nearly all the fast horses and fast wo-
men in that city are supported from
the city treasury.
The American whaling feet is rap
idly diminishing. Provincetown, which
formerly had large number, the last
year had only eighteen, and six of these
have been laid up. Striking oil in
Pennsylvania has struck fatal blow at
the whaling interest, from which it
probably never will recover. The use
of whale oil is so limited that the de-
mand is not sufficient to warrant IT'D
supply at present prices.
The indictments of the United
States Senate against White and Rams
dell, the correspondents who SO fla
GRAVITY disturbed the dignity OF that
body last winter by publishing the trea-
ty of Washington, have been quashed.
Thus ends the farce upon which the
Senate spent all of its special session.
"A terrible confagrrtion has been
raging for a distance of twenty-five
miles, along the line of the Wabash
railroad in Indiana. The amount Of
damage is fearful.
When Henry Meigs was banker at
San Francisco, a wssherwoman depos-
tied her S2,5O0 of savings with him,
and 1t was there when Henry failed.
A short time ago she read Of his great
possessions in Peru, and she packed up
and went after him, presented her book
and story, and received her money,
principal and interest to date.
Spain is sending more soldiers to
Cuba. ...t- ,.s|.-f
AT the elections in Connecticut on
Monday last, Hartford, New Haven,
New Britain, Vernon and Wethersford
all went Republican.
"A coal mine explosion occurred at
Pottsville, Pa, on Monday last killing
four men and seriously wounding an
other. One man is missing.
Gen. James Totten, who served
under Gen. Lyon early in the war, died
at the residence of Gen. G. r. Smith,
ct st. Louis, on Monday last.
jim view Of the probable retirement
of Secretary Fish from the State De-
partment, New Workers are moving to
effect the appointment OF DR.. White, OF
Cornell University.
The ONCE OF the Helena, Qlls.)
Herald, together with the Magnolia
Hotel and several other buildings was
destroyed by FIRE Tuesday morning.
Loss seventy thousand dollars.
The committee of seventy have in
vited william N. Everts, who has re-
turned from Europe to deliver IN ad-
dress on the conditions Of the city.
in the Brooklyn court twenty suits
are pending against the Staten Island
ferry company for damages received in
the Westdeld explosion.
The abdication Of Qneen Victoria
seems to be certain. The statement
made on the 26th .inst., by the EXPIRE
mier, BENZ, Disraeli, has already been
announced. In proposing the toast Of
the health Of Her Majesty the Queen,
he took occasion to assure his friends
and neighbors that the sovereign lady
hes become physically, and is morally,
incspscitsted from performing her pub
lie duties longer. This assertion was
accompanied with sentences Of fervent
eulosy OF Her Majesty personally, con-
Guiding with the words that cher duties
are excessive, and that no Englishmsn
is under such complete control Of the
political traditions of the country as its
sovereign"
An enthusiastically patriotic land
lord told party Of Democrats, who
wished him to provide a supper for
Albert Pike on his recent visit to his
native town, that there was not money
enough in Massachusetts to persuade
him to do it.
Eight Republican members OF the
New Jersey Senate hold over, and the
Republicans will need to elect but three
members this fall to secure majority.
Seven counties will elect new members,
and I've OF these last year, gave decisive
Republican majorities. Four of them
at least are regarded as certainly Re-
publican.
The Theirs Government have re-
solved to sell the Crown lands in
France, with the palaces and castles
upon them, to the highest bidder, for
the benefit of the state. Some Of our
American millionaries will probably be
found among the purchasers.
The political excitement in Texas is
intense, and it is predicted that more
votes will be polled at the Congressional
election in October than ever before.
The discussion seems to be wholly con-
fined to the administration OF the State
Government, and the result is doubtful.
Alarmed Carolinians are pre-emp-
ting the attic stories of telegraph poles,
for places of refuge from the tidal wave.
Commodore Maury has resigned
the Presidency of the University of AL
ALBANIA, on account of the general pow
erty of that institution.
Oregon boasts that there has not
been Q failure of crops in that State,
within the memory of the Oldest inhab-
liant, or any other man.
Tho geologists are intensely dis
gusted with vein of coal, five feet
thick, lately discovered near Corning,
New York. According to all geolog-
ical rules and theories, the coal has no
business there, and the savants resent
Its unwarrantable intrusion with be-
coming indignation.
The Rev. William H. Milburn, of
Jacksonville, H., well known as the
'tBlind Preacher" has formally with
drawn from the Episcopal Church and
become again a minister of the Method
ist Episcopal Church. He joined the
Episeopalians some eight years ago.
The Rev. Mr.. Finney of Oberlin is
one of the living curiosities. He has
been pastor Of . church for thirty years.
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