The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-05
NEWS, PERSONAL AKb PoLlTICs.


lected at Dubuque on Tuesday.
Governor Gratz Brown promises to I
o be at the Liberal Convention at
Topeka ON the 10th Tfft9 II
Utah is knocking for admission
INTO the Union. Their constitution .
s before Congress.
Two persons were killed by the
falling of hail floor in Frederick,
Nd, at colOred festival on Mon
day. |,
The whole Democratic ticket was
elected in Cincinnati ON Monday,
BY an average majority OF 1900.
The Republican nominees were gem
orally distastefnl.
1t is now stated that Minister
Sickles will return to Spain, and, at
the special request of the President,
will remain there until his success
or is determined upon.
No steps have yet been taken |
towards the resumption of the trial |
Of Mayor Hall, but as far as 10 |
known there Is no intention Of
abandoning the prosecution.
Generals Sheridan and Anger
have been directed by order from
the War Department, to use extra
ordinary efforts to capture and turn
over to civil authorities for trial all
persons who raid from Mexico to
Texas.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that the income tax on the
salaries of the President of the
United States and the Judges of the
Supreme Court OF the United States
Is unconstitutional, and the same
will be refunded and not hereafter
imposed.
William c. Bryant and VIM. II.
Hurlburt, now travelling la Mexico,
have receiYed many honors and
ovations at the city of Mexico, from
various associations. They leave
for Vera Cruz on the Goth, the gov
ernment furnishing special escort
of 100 men.
1 Various bills from the Senate
committe on Public Lands passed
the Senate on Monday, among
which were those to amend the
town site laws, and to declare
the Usage Indian trust lands in
Kansas, subject to disposal for cash
only and to actual settlers. in guam
titias not exceeding 100 acres, in ac-
cordance with the general principles
of the presumption laws.
T Spinner has been "investigated,'
and the Liberals have an awful load
f off their stomachs. The report is
, as follows: ...
upon the whole, the result reach.
ed by the COMMITTEES is such as to
justify the expression of opinion
that the business of the treasury has
3 been we'll conducted, and that the
l losses In the aggregate are very in
significant compared with the trans
actions of the office"
Republicans will be excused now
, for turning one Of Senator Schurz'
guns on him. He cannot object 4
, we look upon those who are trying
! to break up the Republican party, q
, he painted them in his letter to tn,
Hannibal Courier in 1868, when he
said: "TO become q tool in the
hands of the common enemy Il
about the lowest point of political
responsibility q member of tn,
Radical party can reach in this cri
. sis, whatever his personal grievanc,
a may be-"
{ A prospect of 3 water famine, say
: the Tribune, is not pleasant to con
template but various causes com
n pei our citizens to look at the I'M
I. welcome suggestion. The northern
e and middle States are without thei
, usual complement of winter rain
= and SHOWS. The streams are low
0 and springs are running dry. Il
\ the midst of this scarcity there j
E some danger that this city will los'
a portion of the watershed from
n which our prsscnt supply Is drawn
. The facts bearing on the subject
o are sufficiently strong to attrac
|. much attention.
= The Connecticut election ereate'
e but little excitement in New Eorl
r city. A special dispatch from tina
= State reports that probably Jewel
majority over both his opponent
n will be two or three hundred, ant
r two thousand over Hubbard. Th'
: vote is five thousand less than Las
? year. The labor reformsrs ran mucl
? below their computed strength, bu
the temperance ticket ran well
: The World says the Liberal Repub
< licans did not give much support Il
:, the Democracy; that they seemed
unwilling tG break with the Gran
i wing until after the Cincinnati Con
!. vention.
II In the sleGtIQR in st. Louis, Tues
day, for twelve aldermen and eigb'
|, school directors, the Democrats
made u pretty clean sweep. elect ne
nine aldermen. The Republicans
elect one, and two are Independents
OF the school directors Drobshly
six are Democrats in the eighth
ward. The Council will stand II
Democrats, 4 Republicans, 8 indie.
pendents. Liberalism" IL as good
thing as the st. Louis Democrats
want. It gives tAeH the oficeI
''like a charm" Hurrah for Carl
Brown apd Gratz SchurZ.
ERIE.-TheTe vas ggeat excite
mept in Wall street last week, oyer
Erie stock. Ths frenzy Of dealers
had not been equalIed before for
years. The number OF shares that
changed hands in one day is esti-
| mated at 100000. The opening
price was ffty-tYo, and RAPIDLY ad-
vaRced in the morninS under the
stimulus of orders TO hny, tele-
graphed from Europe. The price
reached sixty at the close. The
World etlitorialIy says Jay Gould
alone Melted profit of 1921, 600,
and expresses its suspicious that
that days business vas bqt feature
of great plot of the Sick'es COM
binatiOn.to make colossal fortunes,
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