The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-17
NEWS AND POLITlC-.

The sum of s3l, 600, 600 is invested
in wine-making in California.
Five hundred million postage
stamps were issued last week by the
United States.
Nilsson is reported to have made
S427, 1882 during her late visit to
this country.
Our domestic commerce, main
tanned by means of the little postal
"money ORDERS" has already reach
ed the annual sum of $4,000
being one-twelfth as much as our
whole foreign commerce.
The total loss blythe late earth
quake in Iuyo county, California,
was: Lone Pine, S132,000; indie
pendence, S43,s50; Camp Indepen-
dence, S26, 500; other places, S34.-
$50. Total, S237 100.
Gov. Warmoth, a reformer who
has made 100000 in three years
on salary of $1,000 year, made a
speech in st. Louis, eulogizing Mr..
Greeley and Brown. lie said {:
"Greeley and Brown are the best
nominations that could be made.
One represented honesty, the other
enterprise" Very good; but rath-
er a reflection on Greeley's enter
prise and Browns honesty.
There was a meeting of Demo-
cratic editors at Chicago, on the
9Th. Eighteen papers were repre-
scented. After considerable discus
sion, n resolution endorsing the
ticket and platform of the Cincin-
natl convention was voted down.
The New York Tribune publishes
together congratulatory dispatches
received by Mr.. Greeley from Judge
Davis and Garrett Davis.
The Cincinnati Commercial. q
Liberal paper, with more brains
than honesty, gets off the following
rough one on the nomination of
Greeley: ale had the support of
the least responsible and reputable
elements of the convention" 1t
seems that the "least responsible
and reputable elements of the con-
vention" were the majority, how
ever.
The Baptist year book for 1872
says that in Georgia the Baptists
number 145, 254; Virginia has 1885,
$50; North Carolina has So, 800 F;
South Carolina has 1891. Every
eighth person in Georgia is Bap-
list, and every ninth person in Vir-
GINA and South Carolina is of the
same persuasion.
The supreme court of Ohio has
refused TO issue a DidndaDaus against
the directors of sub-school district
in Norwich township, Franklin
county, for the admission of colored
children. There is separate school
in said township for colored youths.
The court sustained the constitu-
tionality of section thirty-one of the
common school law of Ohio, and
held that the organization of separ-
ate schools for colored children is
not in conflict with the provisions
of the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
The political news from Ohio is
most reassuring. The Republican
State Genital committee had meet
ing at Columbus on Thursday, and
the expression of the members was,
that the party is really stronger
now than before the Cincinnati con-
vention Whatever disaffection
may have existed previously, has
been almost wholly healed by the
tie nomination of Greeley and
Brown; while many Democrats, dis
gusted with the unprincipled tactics
of their party, are boldly proclaim
ing that they prefer to vote for Gen.
Grant.
DIR. Carlton and DIR. Lanahan
went ut each other in the Methodist
conference at Brooklyn on Friday
last. Carleton submitted his report,
to which Lanahan's name was also
attached. Lanahan asked to have
his name withdrawn, Hs he had
nothing to do in the preparation of
the report. "He had never signed
the document, and pronounced the
financial part of it untrue" l"Or-
der, order,"l "The report says, by
clerical mistap, $4,000 of the
profits of one year got into another.
1t was no clerical error, but sup
.pressionI' lie added that for four
years his name had been signed to
reports that he had never seen in
manuscript.