The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-20
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their boundaries yet.
: Minister Washburne - On = Visi
to his father, in Maine.
Cincinnati calls for a Congress o.
commercial travellers.
Sweden, Spain and Japan have
adopted our school system.
Many wealthy Cubans are selling
out and investing in Jamaica.
/ Detroit has eight hundred thou.
sand tons of shipping on the lakes
Twelve young ladies took the vel
at the st. Louis convent in one day
Hartford, Connecticut, is import.
ing large number of Swedish ser.
want girls,
A $500 lawsuit has just ended al
Wfnamac, Ind, about a horse-hire
bill Of 50.
The last month is said to have
been the coolest November known
for years. -
The first-class hotels in New York
make from Sl50OO to $500, 600 profit
every year.
The costs for trying $4,000 of the
French Communists have been IA, :
SIS, 02T francs.
A number of house.roofs in Buff
falo was recently broken in by the
weight of snow.
The Fairbanks borrowed So to
make their first scale, and are now
worth $3,OO0,OOO.
Claiborne county Mo-, has just
hung O man who murdered his
wife thirteen years ago.
A considerable number of ia
panese are now studying at Berlin,
Leipsic and Heiderburg.
The Jesuits have purchased rich
domain in Austria, which Empire
is now their headquarters.
Several States are now making
efforts to have two-thirds of a jury's
opinion to constitute the verdict.
A Mississippi youth has cleared
about $1,000 this year by the labor
of his hands in . cotton field.
Between the years 1876 and 1872,
no fewer than 800 public officials
of France have gone deranged.
About one-sixth of the potato
crop of Iowa is still in the ground,
and will remain there until spring.
The Government tax on banks
and brokers of the United States
raises less than 100000 revenue.
Mum and Scott, the Chicago grain
men with false bottoms to their
bins, have been indicted for swind-
ling.
One Indiana sheriff has had the
painful duty of selling out six
printing offices within the past
year.
Mexico having become tranquil,
France is doing duty as the political
volcano, and there is new fer
ment.
A couple were recently married
in Naugatuck, Conn.,, three hours
after their first introduction to each
other.
There is an unex pIoded shell in
the organ of the Strasbourg Cathe-
dral, and no one wants the job of
removing it.
The manufacture of palmetto
leaves into paper is soon to be put
into practical shape in Lowndes
county, Georgia.
A convict in the Kansas State
prison has been inYenting two
churns, a steam road wagon and
several other things.
The Yale school of journalism
numbers sixty-flve members, one or
two of whom may possibly edit
weakly paper some day.
A French journal has been estab-
lished at st. Petersburg with the
purposes of promoting an alliance
between Russia and France.
An unpr0cedent drouth prevails
in Southern California. Ranchers
are driving their cattle to the noun
tains to keep them from starving.
Thomas Settle, Of North Carolina,
President of the Philadelphia Re-
publican Convention, has been ap-
pointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of this State.
The eminently affable Barnum
gave fat refusal to lady who at
tackled him with q pencil and q palm
leaf fan, and asked him for his
"autogiraffe," at Bridgeport.
Parties are now given IN Boston
at which the word sire" is inter
dicted. People are tired of it.
"ConflagIation" creates commissions,
and insurance" induces suicide.
A young man who went West a
few months ago has sent only one
letter home. It came Friday. 1t
said, "Send me q wig" and his fond
parents don't know whether he is
scalped or married.
An advertisement in st. Paul
(Minn.) paper reads: 'Persous who
have contracted debts to 3. +. Sim
mons are forbidden to make pay
ment thereof except to the under
signed, Mrs. B. F. Simmons"
The Warlike tribes of Southern
Africa have been lighting with
charming ferocity. The victors fin
ished mp the proceedings with the
delightful recreation of Strengthening
one thousand prisoners. Vive le
guerre!
The sultan of Benouw recently
caught sixteen OF his subjects who
had been engaged in piracy on the
coast of Borneo, and after behead-
ing them, stuck their heads upon
poles by the shore as a warning to
others.
The harvest OF the Washington
hotel and boarding house people
demand for furnished houses for the
season. and houses that would not
rent empty for 500 a month ara
readily bringing $3.50 furnished.
The arrest of Henry IL. Blood,
formerly Treasureroft the Rockford,
Rock Island & st. Leuis railroad,
WAS on allegation by President
Cable, that he converted to his own
uee $245,0O0, portion of the pro.
ceedS OF q sale Of 5000, 900 of mort
gage bonds, and $4,000 alleged to
have been credited by him to q GER
tain firm who have proved theyneVer
received it. The money is said to
be part OF the ordinary financial
transactions of the company. Boody
is said to have made about $1,000
600 during the ak years of his
treasurership, from 1866 to 1871.
A FARMER JOURNEYS SEVENTY
MILES FROM HONE WHILE ASLEEP.
WIN. Lewis, farmer near Indian
apolis, was missed at home with
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