The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-31
NEWS AND EDITORIAL.

yelled in Central Park, New York,
on the 90 inst.
General Sheridan reports upwards
of 1000 Indians collected at Fort
Berthold, ready to make war on the
railroads.
Louis A. Rosccrans, son of Major
General Rosecrans, was lately
received into the priesthood by
Bishop Rosecrans, at New York
city.
The Huston trial still progresses,
and proves him to be one of the
worst clerical scoundrels unhung.
The Senate Tuesday night after u |
9hours' executive session, advised
the President to negotiate the adj
dItional article to the treaty.
Tornadoes in Eastern Indiana and |
Western Illinois have been more
than tearing up things lately.
Houses, barns, trees, fences. in fact
everything in the way was entirely
demolished.
Several bodies who persisted in
the snow slides in Utah have been
recovered.
A number of laborers who at
tempted to burn the villages on the
Port Jefferson railroad on Long
Island have been arrested.
In the Methodist General Confer
ence on the % inst. memorials were
presented advocating the union of
all Methodists, and demonstrating
against advancing women TO the
ministry.
20,000 emigrants landed at Castle
Garden last week, the largest num-
Der on record.
For the first time in twelve years
Congress will end this session with
every state and every congressional
district represented. The Senate a
few weeks since was made complete
by the admission of Gen. Ransom,
Of North Carolina, and Friday the
House rose to its full number by the
admission of Mr.. Rogers, demo-
cratic member from the same State,
whose disabilities were removed by
the passage of the general amnesty
acton Thursday.
The latest novelty in divorce jur-
isprudence comes from London,
where q woman met the petition OF
her lord with the plea that she had
been led into evil solely through
the plots of an agent employed by
her husband to watch her move
ments. Her defence met the ap-
prevail of Lord Penzancc, who de-
cided thatthe husband was respon-
sible for the acts of his agent.
The mails have been irregular in
Arkansas, lately, and the "1ocal" Of
country paper has resorted to the
almanac for items, and threatens to
use the Bible, il the mails don't soon
come. He thinks nc could find
some new and interesting items fol
his readers from the latter source.
1t seems reasonably certain thai
the Senate will advise the Presi
dent to negotiate the proposed sup
Elementary article to the Treaty o.
Washington.
The Spanish cabinet is more
troublesome than a whole furniture
shop should lie. Marshal SerranC
declines to build a new one, anG
Admiral Topete will take his turn
The Hon. Mrs. Major DIR. Mary
f. Walker was taken for japanese
the other day, aud the gentleman
who made the mistake was taken tC
n surgeon. o these womenI
Commend MS to the japanese fol
whOle-souled charity. One of TIE
ambassador princes, named Kodami
went and had himself baptised
"John Phillip" to save his frequent
American visitors from everlasting
punishment for saying "Kod-dam-
me-"
II is reported from Mexico that
John Jose, of CleYeland, Ohio, was
assassinated by the local authorities
or Chiapas, and that other Ameri.
cans have been imprisoned and
prosecuted in that terrestrial purga-
tory, because they demanded inves.
tigation and indemnity before the
United States and Mexican Mixed
Committee. 1t would be well
enough to commission q few of the
blue-coated guards of Gods coun-
try to strengthen out some of those
degenerate sons of heather Spain
iards.
A man named Crawford, broth
er-in-law of Commodore Wander.
bilt, shot a detective named Hen
derson in New York on the night
Of the oath ult. He was bailed in
the sum of $4,000.
The increase of the railway pos.
tai service during the past three
years is one of the most striking il.
Illustrations of this country. The
statistics just made up show that
the increase in 1869 was $500 miles,
in 1870, 1890 miles, in 1871, 6,1O7
miles. The total number of miles
OF postal railway service in 1868,
was $4,000; in 1871, $4,000.
Schurz has made speech in the
Senate, deploring the muddle into
which the Alabama Claims negolia-
ton has becn brought, but was care
fnl not TO commit himself for or
against the supplemental article.
He thought 1t contained principle
that ought to have been in the orig
inal treaty. The "hind-sight" of the
distinguished German is always
good, but he is never ready to shoot
when he has chance to hurt or
help anything.
The Boston Journal decides that
Horace Greeley's venerable uncle,
who has just died in New Hamp-
shire, was a man of sound judgment
and wise foresight, as one of his last
remarks was: Horace will never
be President of these United States
He Is not the man; 1 know him
He is not the manl'
Perier, Bon and Bandin, the three
who were convicted of participation
in some Of the most outrageous
acts Of tho Commune, were execu-
ted the 18th ult., at Sartory, They