The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-21
BRIEF ITEMS.

A new patent nail machine, that make
120 minute, has been invented by
Pennsylvania.
It has been proven that silk resists de
cay under ground for longer period
than any other textile fabric.
"a mute, inglorious Milton" in
Michigan Jail has written poem emit
tied can Idle in fore cantoes."
The only establishment for the manu-
facture of plate glass in this country, il
at Lenox, Massachusetts,.
There were 100000 tons of Goa
mined in England last year, and 5000
600 tons of pig iron manufactured.
There is temperance revival among
the Roman Catholics of Boston, which
has the cordial support of their bishop
Within ten months the Methodists Of
the State of New York have raised hal
a million of dollars to found q univer.
sity at Syracuse.
Theodore Tilton is to have associa.
ted with him in the conduct of his pa.
per the Rev. William L. Clarke for
merly editor of the Liberal Christian.
New discoveries of gold are reported
from Georgetown, Colorado. A speci-
men brick was lately shipped from there
weighing SS8 ounces, and valued at 81,
O35.
Josph Won Berlichingen, killed on the
I'd of December, before Paris, was the
last of the Berlichingens to whom
Goethe gave renown in his "GOtz of Ber-
lichingen."
Some of the lady school teachers in
San Francisco oppose the election OF
Directors of their own sex as certain to
result in the election of male teachers
exclusively.
Ben. Halliday has perfected arrange
man emigrants to Oregon, TO settle on
the lands of the Oregon and California
Railway Company.
At Waterbury, Connecticut, recently,
number of photographs of burning
building were taken at midight, when
the flames were fiercest, by the use of
magnetism light.
A colored barber, named John H.
Morris, of Leavenworth, who has for
the last two years been studying law,
will soon apply to be admitted to prac-
tice that profession.
Judicious pruning is healthy for any
tree. Trees often die for lack of prun-
ing. Branches should be cut away
when small, but fear not to attack even
large branches when in the way.
The other day Brooklyn boy went
up on the roof of house to fly a kite,
which was so large aud unmanageable,
that he was dragged from the roof and
preciPitated to the ground and instant
iy killed.
Walt Whitman is reported to have
said that, before he went to Washing
than St at any one time and yet he has
always been one of the most contented
of mortals.
A Georgia paper tells with much glee
how two Louisiana "ladies" grossly in
suited General Longstreet at hotel ia
bic in New Orleans, because he has ac-
cepted the results of the war, and is now
loyal to the government.
California has 74S successful billiard
saloons, one of which has bar inlaid
with gold and moss agates, at cost of
100000. Three thousand dollars per
day is not an uncommon sum to be
taken at the bar of some of these sa-
looms.
An Alabama law gives the heirs of
every one murdered by Ku Klux 5000,
payable from the County Treasury and
Mrs. b. r. Thompson and Mrs. Mary
Campbell are in Court at Huntsville
for $4,000 each, for murdered hus-
bands.
New Bedford takes the prize for
length of years in domestic service.
Mrs. Lucy Almy, aged eighty-four, en-
tered the service of Mrs. Abigail Rus
sell in 1910, and at the time of Mrs. Rus
sells death, a few days ago, had lived
with her sixty-one years and half.
The workmen on the foundation of
the new Kansas City Depot have bored
down to the depth of forty feet, seeking
rock for the foundations to rest upon.
AS yet they have found nothing but
soft blue mud. They will dig, however,
until they strike bottom, if they go clear
through.
When Henry Ward Beecher visited
England, eight years ago, but three or
four pulpits were open to him, owing
to the public sympathy for the South.
He proposes to soon visit England
again, and is notified by the English In
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applicants by day and night to preach in
their pulpits.
The report of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture comes to the
startling conclusion that such is the
wholesale destruction of the American
forests there will be an actual famine
for wood in the country within thirty
years, unless immediate measures are
20 IN oN1rv1lxy khnYv. MD
Mr.. John Keyser, of New York, has
at his own expense erected and furnish.
ed hospital in New York city. 1t will
accommodate 200 patients, and has thus
far cost $150.O00. It is to be called the
''Strangers' Hospital" in which patients
will be accommodated at moderate com.
pensation, or gratuitously. as the cir.
cumstances may suggest.
One Meek, in Oregon, an old hunter
conVersing with an English traveller
the John Bull finally asked: "Why, sir
you must have lived here long time ?
To this Meek said: 81 have sir: you
may well say that" Pointing to Mount
Hood, said he to the Englishman 'tDC
you see that mountain? Well, sir
when L first came to this country thai
mountain was hole in the ground"
The Board of Bishops of the African
Methodist Church have just held &
meeting in Washington. The next
General Conference will meet at Char.
lotte, North Carolina, on the third
Wednesday in June. The statistic.
show a membership of $4,000, 694
preachers, Bishops and 16 annual CON
ferences. Two entire annual confer
ences have been organized since 1868.
The Rev. DIR. Sanders, of Philadel
phia, Formerly of Morristown, N. j..
has given land and buildings valued a
100000 above certain membranes
for the purposes Of hospital, to be un
der the direction of the Presbyterian
Church. By the terms OF the gift it il
expressly provided that none shall b.
excluded from the benefits of this insti
tuition by reason 'tof creed and color
A wealthy Presbyterian gentleman
who died recently, was SO enamored o
the Rev. DR.. Gathers systematic bene
ficence principles, recently introduced
into the American church, that he en-
dowed chair for il in Princeton Col
lege, and an effort is to be made by tn
Methodist Bishops and conferences Il
introduce into their institutions of learn
| ing similar branches of instruction. Tn
Presbyterians and Baptists are also re
1 al 10 r,1 n .