The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-31
GLEANINGS.

OLEANkNUSs
The State Republican Convention in
Ohio is to be held at Columbus, June
81.
The salary of Rev. Adirondack Muir
ay has been increased by his Boston
congregation to $1,000 year.
The equestrian statue of Gen. Scott,
ordered by Congress, is completed at
Newburg, n. 7. 1t cost $4,000.
The Goldfish aristocracy of New Eng
land are in high spirits. The fishing so
far this season has been very successful.
The Grand Master of Ohio has arres-
ted the charter of a Masonic Lodge, be-
cause its members elected the keeper of
q whisky saloon for their Master.
Only 6,S57 persons were arrested in
Cincinnati last year. The other half of
the population expect to receive the at
tention of the police during the current
season.
Chief-Justice Mason, of Nebraska, has
delivered an opinion against negroes
sitting as jurors in that State, on the
ground that jury duty isa burden and
not privilege
The Colonial Government at Jamaica
want Yankees to come there, buy de-
serted plantations. and raise coffee. The
abandoned land will yield an hundred
dollars profit per acre, generally.
The new Kansas Senator, Hon. Alex
ander Caldwell, ought to be able to
keep clear of the Congressional "rings."
He is already worth 50 ,O0O, 0O0-enough
for comfortable living, certainly.
A Buckeye paper says there is one
country in Ohio which does not offer a
candidate for Governor. The name
of the country is not given, however,
and we take leave to doubt the story.
Interesting to the ladies: Silk is said
to be worth it's weight in silver the
world over. The purchaser of a heavy
silk for light price is paying for dye
stuffs, and the dye soon destroys the
silk.
The Rothschilds now own the princi-
pal quicksilver mines in the world, it is
| said, and are able to control the market
| for the article at prices that suit them
selves much better than they suit pur-
chasers.
William III. Corwin, only son of the
late Hon. Thomas CorWins recently
graduatedat the Hahnemann Medical
College, Philadelphia, and has entered
upon the practice of that school of med
icine at Lebanon, Ohio.
A Scranton Pa) temperance society
pays for all the liquor that ten men can
drink if they will inform on the man
who sells it to them. An astonishing
number of men out of work are looking
after these situations.
A Massachusetts, mathematician has
been working six months for a satisfac-
of ho Fol
''if the Colt pistol made q fortune of
four millions for its manufacturer,
how much ought the horse pistol to
make 90
The new land grant measures which
passed the Forty-first Congress were ::
Oregon Branch Pacific Railway, AGO.
600 acres supplemental North Pacific,
Ill 100000 acres: Texas Pacific, with
New Orleans and Fort Yuma, Cal,
branches, Is, COX, 900 acres, a total of 49,
100000 acres.
Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff, who is
running against George Francis Train
for the Presidency, propounds the fol-
lowing conundrum: "How can a per-
son, being a womsn, obtain the qualifi-
cation of being q man ?" We are reluc-
family compelled to give it up.
An appreciative North Carolina re-
porter thus compliments the managers
of a recent hanging in that region !:
'sMuch credit is due to our Sheriff and
to Mr.. Mardon, the executioner, for the
neat and dextereus manner in which
their unpleasant duties were per-
formed"
The Fenian Convention in N. Y. on
Friday afternoon passed a resolution ex-
pressing willingness to unite with the
Irish Confederation, in case the latter
would consent to haye the united or
ganization governed by body compos-
ed of five members of the Fenian Broth
erhood and five members of the Irish
Confederation.
Several places have claimed the cham
pion mean man. but Canaan, Conn.,, can
take the belt. A man there, who en-
ploys his father in his workshop, lost a
child, and naturally the grandfather of
the child wished to attend the funeral.
The son permitted the old man to go to
the grave, and when he got home dock
ed the poor fellow half day lost time.