The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-12
CURRENT ITEMS.

1t is estimated thatl5, OOO, 900 tons
of bituminous and 100000 tons
of anthracite coal were mined in the
United States last year. There was
imported 43l los tons of coal.
1t was Diderot, not Horace
would not get right until the last
king was strangled in the CUTS of
the last priest.
Miss Laura Fair Is having q new
trial in San Francisco this week.
Within the past few years Paris
has lost 100000 of its resident in
habitants. The number of vacant
apartments exceeds 10000. Rents
have fallen in a proportion which
ranges from one-eight to one-fourth.,
The depreciation in the value of
land and house property is estimat-
ed at 20 per cent.
The Pennsylvania Central rail-
road has invested $4,000 in saw
mills at Apalachicola, Florida, TO
saw out cross-ties for the Southern
Pacific railroad. The ties are to be
sawed from cypress and juniper,
and "chemicalized" in some such
way as to render the wood indie
structible and proof against the
prairie fires of the West.
Claim attorneys are offering TO
collect for one-legged and one
armed soldiers the increase of PEN
sions due them by the last act of
Congress. Our mutilated heroes
should observe that, by waiting pa
tiently, they will receive the in
crease just as early through the
proper channels, free of expense.
The commissioner of pensions
will soon announce the steps neces-
sary to establish claim.
During a recent debate in Parlia-
ment over bill to restrict the Ii
quor traffic, Mr.. Pimsol said that
he had visited America in order to
see for himself the workings of our
prohibitory laws. At Portland.
Maine, he was told that the only
alcoholic fluid that could be sold
was sacramento wine" When,
however, he asked for some of this
the reply was, (Which sort will
you have?" Fourteen different
varieties of "sacramental wine"
were offered him. One of them
was the very best of corn whisky.
This statement was received by the
House with great laughter.
Miss Ida Greeley is a young lady
of about eighteen, of medium
height, handsome, with the soft
dark eye, shapely features and fine
of her father. A mass
of dark brown hair is done up in
becoming folds about her head.
Her manners arc affable and cor
dial, Der conversation ready and
sprightly.
Some idea of the immense influx
of people from the United States to
Europe this season, may be had
from the fact that the mail steamers
of the Hamburg line take from
New York on an average, 225 cabin
passengers on each trip On their
voyages from Hamburg to New
York they carry in all between
eight hundred and one thousand
Two vessels of this
line leave New York every week.
The whole number of cabin pass
eugers who have left this season for
is estimated at over fifty
thousand.
Frederick Hudson, for many
wears managing editor of the New
York Herald, says of young Ben
nett: 'That he is good journal
list, and inherits many of his fathers
traits. More than a year ago, the
dead founder of the Herald sold
out the entire establishment to his
son, and young Bennett has been
the responsible manager and con-
troller of that paper for years.
The Herald will not fall of, l assure
you. People, perhaps, don't know
that both the Abyssinian and Liv-
ingstone enterprises were the work |
of James Gorden Bennett, jr. He |
planned these enterprises and car
ried them out"
Tennessee contains 100000
acres of land, of which nearly |
{, 100000 are improved
A hundred men are employed two
hours every morning in sweeping
off the dirt accumulated by the
Boston jubilee
The Territory of Alaska contains
266, 529 900 acres.
One-seventh of Arkansas has
been sold for taxes.
The largely increased mails to be
carried from Chicago to New York
have induced the managers OF rail-
wars to put OH mail trains proper,
each to consist of one locomotive and
three mail cars, to be run through
in twenty-four hours. Several cars
are now building for this purpose,
each fifty feet long and adapted for
fast running. No stoppages are to |
be made except for coal and water,
and it il intended that the distance |
(962 miles) shall be accomplished
in the time stated, which would be
running over forty miles an hour.