The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Gatherings From the Press Dispatche


NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Gatherings From the Press Dispatches.
The German army will be placed up
on a peace footing Immediately and
reduced to an effective strength of four
hundred thousand men. General Won
Moltke has been created a field mar
shall by the emperor of Germany.
"A dispatch from Berlin says the chol-
era has increased at Koemburg. The
ratio of Deaths has advanced from fifty
per cent. to seventy, and even eighty.
The deaths for last week ending the
18th were three hundred.
The exposition of swine, under the
auspices of the Illinois Swine Breeders
Association, is opened at Dexter
Park, Chicago. There are on exhibi-
ton about 5000 of the finest specimens
of thoroughbred swine probably ever
before brought together. The weather
was showery and the attendance of
visitors very slim. The exposition
continued until to-day.
"A sail boat capsized in Lake Mendoza
Wisconsin, on Sunday evening last, and
DIR. John T. Wilson, of Milwaukee, and
Mr.. Bemis, of Madison, were drowned.
Hon. James Ross and Daniel Knight
were washed ashore, on Monday morn
ing, in q very exhausted and critical
condition.
We hope the efforts now being made
to bring the polygamists of Utah to
terms will succeed. The grand jury
of the q. s. court was empanneled at
Salt Lake on Thursday. All the polyg-
amists were excused. The Mormon
journals are very bitter on the United
States law officers in consequence.
Chief Justice Mexican, in his charge to
the jury, said: You are summoned, not
to try criminal cases, but to say what
criminal cases shall be presented for
trial. In the discharge of this duty
you will be governed by the same prin-
cipals of law which govern grand juries
in Maine, Montana, Germany and Ar
izona-principles oflaw are everywhere
applied throughout the republic. The
cases of murder, arson, larceny, bigamy,
adultery, and riot in Utah are the same
events that occur elsewhere through
ought christendom. Ifthere is anything
peculiar in the present sentiment in
Utah, it is in the peculiar conduct of
some of the men here and not in any
peculiar principles or policy that are to
be enforced here. Utah being in the
United States, the people Of Utah like
the rest of the people of this country,
are amenable to the laws of the Uuited
States. Those who obey the laws must
and shall be protected in their rights,
and those who do not must answer at
the bar Of justice; and those mon of
influence who in practice defiantly
trample on the laws themselves, and by
precept induce others to do so, should
be the first to feel the firm grip of the
law rather than the obscure men whom
they have enlisted. 1t is your duty and
mine to enforce the law, and let us do
so without fear, favor, affection, preju-
dice or the hope of reward.
General Reynolds, commanding
troops be employed to aid the inhsbi-
tants of that state in recovering their
cattle, stolen by the Kickapoo Indians
and other marauders and carried into
Mexico. Ten thousand cattle have thus
been removed since June LIST. General
Mckenzie has been instructed to relin-
quish his proposed expedition into
Wichita, Indian country, and retire up
on Jacksboro, Cook county, on the ex-
treme northern frontier of Texas, where
an attack was attempted by the Sioux
and Cheyennes lately and defeated and
driven into that locality by General
Owds.
The remains of the late President
Lincoln and his two deceased children,
were removed on Tuesday from the
temporary vault to permanent one
just completed for their reception in
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. There
were no ceremonies at the removal.
Robert L. Lincoln, only surviving child,
was present. as were also Senator
Trumbull, Judge David Davis, Judge
Treat, Gov. B. Crate Brown, of AIissou-
ri, the Illinois state officers and officers
of the Lincoln monument ASSOCIATION,
and many ladies.
The English hop crop has been gath
cred and yields about one-third of an
average crop.
Supervisor Perry Of North Carroll
ma has seized four tobacco factories in
that state, for evasion of the revenue.
It is the intention of the commissioner |
of interna revenue to rigidly enforce |
the revenue laws throughout the south.
Complaints are constantly reported at
the treasury department of open VIOLA
ton Of the laws in that section Of the |
country. It seems to be the part Of an
organized plan to defy the government
in every manner possible.
The excitement in New York over
the Tammany frauds is still raging. |
General McClelland declines the prof |
fered comptrollership. Hall is troubled. |
Tho people are determined there shall |
be thorough cleaning out, and if pos |
sible a general 6isgorging of stolen |
property. O'Gorman has written q |
letter to Mayor Hall, in which he ex-
presses the opinion that legal steps
should be taken to recover moneys
paid by the city on grossly extravAgant
contracts, and asZs for the mayors in |
strustions in the premises. The Mayor |
replied that O'Gormon 10 head of the |
law department and has full discretion |
to bring any action at law he may see |
fit promoting good money credit or
benefiting the treasury, and leaves the
mhtter in his hands. The committee |
OF seventy to-day sent a communication
to Mayor Hall requesting him to in