The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-15
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS.


They are finding $4,000 diamonds
up on Jim River, in Dakota.
Eighteen thousand emigrants left
the Mersey for the United States dur
ing the month of August.
1t is evident that Tammany isdying.
The New York Herald scents the de-
cay and hits the carcass kick.
The democrats of Kansas City were
"scooped" in the election for members
of the school board last Saturday.
1t is said that the German Govern
ment has notified Victor Hugo that he
will DO permitted to travel in that coun-
try.
--Louisiana'ss ugar crop is estimated at
225,00O hogshesds. The plantations
have a capacity for growing one million
hogsheads.
The thermometers for county
building and offices" under Tammany
management costs $500. How is that
for high?
Mr.. Seward writes home from Italy
that he will return to the United States
next month, and thus complete his voy-
age around the world.
"A tremendous hurricane passed ov-
er Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday last,
800 houses were blown down, many
lives lost, and q great destruction to
crops in the neighborhood.
-"Old Abe" the war eagle of the
Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, is still
tenderly cared for at Madison; and last
week was taken to Racine to attend the
reunion of the boys of Company X.
The knaveries of Tammany have
compelled the German democrats of
New York to abandon their party.
They say they can abide few thieves,
but there are too Tam-many of them in
New York.
"A gang of counterfeiters have for
long time had their headquarters at
Fl. Wayne, Indiana. Twenty-one of
the crowd have been arrested at differ
ent times, and $4,000 in counterfeit
money captured.
"A detachment of the Seventh cav
airy has been ordered to Florida to as
sist the revenue officers to make collec-
tions. Two companies of infantry and
one of cavalry will remain at Raleigh,
n. c., during the Ku-Klux trial, which
will commence this week.
Some of the Nebraska papers are OPP
posing the new constitution to be SUBJ
mitted to the people of that State, on
the ground that the changes proposed
are too radical, its requirements too ex-
pensive, and its burdens too heavy to be
borne, until the population of the State
is at least three times what it is now.
An American writes from Berlin
s"The Germans do not like the English ;
they treat them with consideration be-
| cause they pay well; but there is q
strong feeling of resentment at their
sale of supplies to the French during
the late war. One frequently hears the
remark: ST England is not careful,
her time will come next; and we will
treat her as we have treated France"
The Mexican minister disclaims any
responsibility on the part Of his Gov
eminent for the late attacks on Ameri-
can vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, and
says it has long been the intention OF
the Mexican authorities to thoroughly
protect the coast of the Gulf, but unfor-
tunately internal dissensions have par
alyzed the efforts of the Government
and made it financial impossibility to
institute any such protective measures.
Edwin 0. Sargent, ofEllsworth, Me-,
has just returned there after an absence
of eleven years, for the last seven of
which he had not been heard from, and
was supposed dead. He was wounded
during the rebellion, in which he serv-
ed in a Massachusetts regiment, as was
supposed fatally, and the father has ever
since been drawing a pension on the
sons account. The son, however, re-
covered and sailed for Australia, where
he has been living.
James Gordon Bennett, the veteran
of the New York Herald has offered to
give 100000 toward completing the
great Catholic cathedral on Fifth aven-
ne, New York. But 81. Peter, Cath
Ollie paper, replies to the offer by say
ing to the aged, bed-sick proprietor Of
the Herald, it would be better to abol-
ish the personal column in your paper
than to give the money. ''The new
cathedral will be finished without this
mans money, but his own soul can new
er be saved, if he does not, while he is
still spared, destroy that column OF
abomination, and shed many q tear Of
repentance for the awful sin OF having
set it up."
"A picnic party numbering sixteen
grown people, :snd several children, in q
large furniture wagon, while crossing
the st. Louis 3 Vandalia Railroad ct
the junction with the ColiinsvilIe plank
road, two miles and a half from East
st. Louis, on Sunday last, was struck
by an excursion train. Three men were
killed. and eight others badly wound
ed. Several others were less seriously
injured. Only three in the whole par
ty escaped unhurt. Every effort was
made to stop the train as soon as the |
party were seen, but the team seems to |
have baked directly on the track, and
could not be started in time to avoid |
the collision.
STATE TTENs.