The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-19
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

Hon. Henry Wilson is 60 years of
age.
st. Joseph has 81 lawyers and IS
doctors.
Moline manufactures $4,000
churns annually.
The Masons of Keosaqua, Iowa,
are building a temple.
The machinists of Detroit are
forming a literary society.
Quincy preachers are trying to
stop the Sunday horse-cars.
The CHERRY grippe" has succeeded
the cucumber collie" in Virginia.
Executions for murderers will
hereafter be by shooting in Austria.
Some Western cities protest
against the ringing of church bells.
Peddlars in Europe give servant
girls narcotics and steal their hair.
Fort Wayne is to have open-air
concerts, supported by the city
council.
Muscatine burned 4O5,C2O fire
crackers and 194, 600 torpedoes on
the 4th.
The cornerstone of a new SEM
mary was laid at Mitchelville, Iowa,
on the 4th.
A wine company, with a capital
of $4,000 is projected in Chilli
cothe, Mo.
A frisky twenty-four-year-old
carried the marshal at Winterset on
the Fourth.
The Wabash at Terre Haute is
to be stocked with shad and other
foreign fish.
Sundry progressive young ladies
in Plymouth, Mass, have adopted
paper costumes
Quite number of st. Louis
families are spending the summer
in Jacksonville, Illinois
The new liquor law closed all
but one saloon in Meredosia.- Five
saloons survived in Jerseyville.
Luther Parrish, of Vaudeville,
Michigan, aged 81, a veteran of
the war of 1872, died on the 18th.
Four Japanese youths of noble
descent have arrived at Ann Ar
Dor to SO through the university.
Seventeen lodges of Knights of
Pythias will assemble iIfstate con-
vention at Greeneastle, Aug.'15.
1t requires fully one-half of all
the American iron produced to
build our railroads and keep them
in repair.
Red foxes have become so ma
merous in Jennings county Indi-
ana as to make themselves an in
tolerable nuisance.
F. K. B. Twyman, of Howard
county, Mo-, measures So inches
around the waist, and weighs only
10 pounds short of 400.
A Dayton woman whipped her
child while it was dying of the
smallpox, and whipped her hus-
band because he demonstrated.
A Pouhkeepsie man died on the
same day that the news came of his
having inherited $4,000 from a rel
alive in the old country.
The daughter of a Spanish no
bleman entertains the citizens of
Bay City, Michigan, with dilapi-
dated ACCORDION.
Over LOO, 900 feet of lumber has
been distributed in the city of
Holland Michigan, since the fire
by the relief committee.
A woman well-known for her lit
erary and social accomplishments
was drunk and reeling about the
streats of Detroit on Wednesday
last.
If any one knows of book can
vasser being killed by lightning he
will confer a favor by communi-
eating with the Danbury, Ct,
News.
George Shooting. Sc years old,
loaded and unloaded eight loads of
hay, near Watertowa, Wis, on Sun
day last, with the thermometer up
among the nineties.
A wealthy man in Pike county,
Ind, recently died, having left his
property to all the widows within
q radius of eight miles from his res
idence.
Statistics prove that there are
more people die of consumption In
Delaware than any other State in
the Union, in proportion to popula-
ton.
A correspondent at Ridgeway
Michigan, says that the wells are
all drying up, and streams that
have run since the days Of Tecum-
sch have failed. Cattle are driven
miles to the larger streams.
The Terre Haute (Ind.) Jour-
nal, Dan. W. Voorhees, organ,
says that under no circumstances |
viii it support Horace Greeley,I
and that it is sustained by thous-
ands of Democrats in that State.
D. C. Shepard, of st. Paul, who
h8u ms rlgnt arm ana shoulder
crushed by an accident on the /
Northern Pacific railroad in Deem
Der last, has commenced suit against
the company for $4,000 damages.
Col John Strawn, a well-known
resident of Eacon Illinois, died last
week. He was brother Of Jacob
Strawn, the great cattle-raiser, and
had been resident of Illinois since
1929.
On the 9Th inst, the town of Glyn-
lon and the surrounding region Of /
he Red river valley saw the heaYi-
st rainfall ever known In Minneso-
D. The prairie surrounding GIyn-
lon Wss covered to depth Of seF-
raj inches with water, and much
lamage was done. Ii
A father living at CatskiIl, whose
on had been rescued from drown !
lg by steamboat hand. on being ;
bid that the latter had injured his
1atch in the operation. replied !:
He ought to have known enough
} take his watch OF before jump
sg."
Some time ago q gentleman see- c
" o most extraordinary mass OIL 2