The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-29

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| "A lady being asked her hushapd's
| occupation, said he was engaged in
''hnlshlng. 1t was subsequently
| ascertained that it was a term in the
penitentiary to which she refer
red. - sr9s -.
The pecan crop of the State of
Texas forms q branch of Industry
and domestic wealth, taking rank in.
importance with corn and Gotten,
though we do not find any reliable
statistics.
General Forrest has contracted
with the State of Mississippi for
two hundred and seventy five con-
yicts from the penltentiary of that
State, to be worked on the Memphis
and Selma railroad. -.
In Washington Frank Jones, in
his own house, took 4 friendly drink
with Marcellus Howser, and two
seconds later perforated him with a
pistol bullet. Mrs. Jones is mixed
up in the affair."
The outlaw Hi!derband, who was
lynched in Missouri and in Jail at
Cincinnati on charge of burglary,
writes from Arkansas that he is in
fair condition, with a healthy ap-
petite for his whisky.
Some Pennsylvania wood-cutters
recently sawed down q large poplar
tree, aud found snugly enseonced
therein hickory sapiing, fully four
inches outs ide the bark. Both hick-
DRY and poplar were perfectly
sound.
A fellow in Wilmington, North
Carolina, got tired of his wife, after
living with her about fifteen years,
| aud hired another man to take her
a over to South Carolina and marry
. her, giving him mule and sos in
money, TO take her off his hands.
A few days ago a man carried q
challenge to mortal combat to 6
, Jacksonville brewer, who, as soon
as he read the message, turned tc
and whipped the bearer in a rough.
. andtumble fight, and said: "May
be some more of dem wants to make
droubles nit me-"
) "A handsome young woman, al
alleged widow, is Enoch-A rdeninI
New York with success. She get
a man to engage TO marry her anC
= settle on her in advance SO muci
money, then the first husband rush
, es in with q long beard and a revol
, | yer, and that is the last Philip RAY
ever sees of the widow and the set
Element.
! The trouble with the girls of tn,
present day is they run too much Il
extremes. THAR chignons are to,
e big and their feet are too small
I they wear too much silk in thei
trains and too little in their cor
e sages; they know too much at fiji
Y teen and too little at fifty, Th
"happy medium is one of the 'los
arts"
n Springfield, Mass, has electe,
Miss Sarah j. Williams to be cit,
physician. Twelve doctors of med
> icine in pantaloons contended fs
the honor and emolument of phys
icing and bleeding the Springfield
d paupers, and wise as they were
It they were all beaten, the whole do2
en- of them, out of the field by
woman the Board of Health con
u sidering, as we are told, that 9Th
e maj ority of patients coming unde
city physicians care are wOme
q and children, and their cases sue
IT as q woman can best attend" Wins
is to be done with the cases
; Springfield which a woman cannC
best attend, we are not informed =
10 New York Tribune.
= Phoebe Gary, at the time of he
u death, was at the head of move
's nent for the establishment of
"Woman's Dress Guild" similar I
y the one instituted in England. I'll
8 plan has been taken up by other il
fuential women of Boston, and th
~ owing are some of the rules {
= the proposed association: To pul
- chase for cash only; to buy nothin
which is not wanted merely becaus
Ell it is cheap; to dress in manne
st becoming the station in life; to pa
proper Difference to the tastes an
% pecuniary ability of heads of fam
- lies; to wear no false jewelry, falls
hair, pads, etc. to avoid all exaS
gerations even if called Fashionable
g and all unseemliness in dress, an
D. to do away with the foolish and 81
ly custom of dressing a number {
p. times day.