The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-15
ENFORIA NEVs.
,tAIDAY, NoyEMBER5, 1872.


4 lt0kIAL NOTES.
:SGnnt's majority in New York is
10000. : e
The horse disease is devastating |
oipcinnati. ss.2 81
The Republican majority In Kan
SOS, 50 faf, fS 81, 00O-
TITS now said 4 good many lives
werelOst inIthe Boston fire.
1000 working girls are ont of
employment by the Boston fire.
New York Is very uneasy about
fires, aud will remove her mansard
roofs &c once. Ton ~
The majority in Pennsylvania for
Grant, Is now stated at over IL, OOO'
and still growing.
The latest and most trustworthy
sceousts say the Losses by the Bos- |
ton i1re win not be over $40, 10000.
Judge Peyton's msJorities are as
follows; Lyon, J129; Coney, SO /; |
Usage, le9; total. 1888. That's
pretty close for . small district.
sJudgei Campbell is elected Dis
trfct Judge In the 18th distLici,
and Judge Brown in the 9th dis
trict. l'leg IA -
There are three candidates for
Speaker. We learn. Kellogg, of
Leavenwortb, VeaIe, of Topeka, and
Soofeld, -of Seneca.
The Republican caucus of the In
diana legislature held at Indianapo-
Lis Wednesday was unanimous for
thelre-election OF Morton.
There will be about twenty DEM
ocfAts, Liberals, and Independents
In our next legislature. Several-of
them will act with the Republican
party. -'."
Ths editor Of the Springfield Re-
publican Is contemplating to fol-
low In tho footsteps of Brick
Pomeroy, and moving his establish
ment 20 New York.
The N. K. 1T. r, R. is compile
ted to, Red River, Texas, which
makes that road six hundred miles
long, All this work has been done
In the last three aud a half years.
S.rhe country will learn before
Grants second term is out, tina,
there is more genuine reform in his
civil service plan, than in all the
political platforms of the age. He
proposes to give it thorough trial,
or-we are mistaken.
THANKseIvING.-T No.
yefnber 18th, has been designated
by The proper authorities rs a day
Of Thanksgiving AS the people OF
Kansas ought to STEEL thankful that
Il II as well with them as what 1t is,''
we trust the day will be very gen.
orally, observed.
.lItTwas reported around here,
some weeks ago, that one II. Gree
ley was running for President OF
the United, States. From the ex-
animation of the election returns
we,conclude that the speakers and
papers who gave currency to the
report, were mistaken.
PTRTY.-One of the "purtiest"
things we have seen lately is Gov
ernor Harvcy's "full-sheet poster"
looking thanksgiving proclamation.
Its rs nice as q speckled horse bill
We are glad it is out, because if we
had simply read the announcement
in the newspapers, we should moi
have enjoyed our turkey.
The Kansas Pacific has sued the
Union Pacific. for S1,0O0,O00. T.
wants these damages against tn,
Union Pacific. for failure to comply
with the. provisions of an act OF
Congress-, providing that no dis
elimination be made in favor of one
roGd,against the other, and also to
oblige the Union Pacific to comply
WIN eAio provisions.
How Is this for an item ofextrav-
agance? 1t is stated by the New
York World that during the last
decade, the United States have i'm
ported from Paris, for purposes OF
dress merely, more TIA, II S200,O00,0O0
worth of goods, in the form OF bonn
bazines, grapes, merinos. shawls,
silks, laces, toilet articles, jewelry,
hats, leather, gloves, trim mings, hu-
man hair, &c, the latter OF which
articles has mainly been used for
the pupose of .disfiguring our wo-
men and making them bald.
TEE GENERAL TEsULT.-The fol-
lowing States are known to have
gone for Grant, by large maj0rities:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necIcut, New York, Penns, lvAnia,
Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Indi
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama.
CALIFORNIA;, Oregon, Nevada, Missis-
sippi, Arkansas, Virginia. The total
electoral vote of these States is 2SS
West Virginia, Louisiana and For
ida were in doubt at last accounts.
but may be set down, with tolerabIo
certainty for Grant. These have Is
ELECTORAL votes. Missouri, Mary
lAnd, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia
and Texas were carried by Creole!
six States with Go electoral
votes. The number necessary "a
elect o President Is 1S4. Grant will
have more than 100 majority in the
Electoral College. His majority OIL
the popular vote o the country will
be zoe, 900 or 100000. Was there
ever 2 parallel to this victory