The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-14
NUMBER 23

A Marquette county, Wisconsin
white girl, of sixteen has become
IS attached to rowing band of Indians
aud will not leave them.
The mortal remains of lit steam-
rs boass lie at the bottom of the Ar
kansas river.
~ Robbing birds nests is fined S25
in Massachusetts, every time tho law
is enforced.
a Pennsylvania temperance lee
turer recently realized twenty-five
q cents from his evening effort.
In Selma, Alabama, rose gera-
a MUM has been successfully grated
with a japouica cutting, and the
former now bears full grown f1ow-
err of the latter.
There are two reasons why peo-
pie don't mind their own business.
One is that they haven't any bust
D ness, and the other is that they have
!. no mind.
The Pail Nall Gazette thinks that
! John Hays CLANS Brietmann" is
rather good work. 1t is; but not
half so good as Wendell Phillips
: ''Nasby Letters"
Black and white striped suites ap-
pear to be the fashion st present
with both sexes. An investigator
of fashion plates appropriately calls
this the hour of zebramania.
Mrs. Farragut, widow of tho Ad-
miral, is to have pension of
$1,000. a pension of fifty dollars
a month has also been conferred on
| - ~ A
A brick fell from 4 scafToId en-
the head of passing negro. "Fling
dem peanut shells anoder way up |
dere, won't yer!" was the darkey's |
advice as he scratched his wool.
A lady occupied tho pulpit and |
six young ladies passed the contri- |
button boxes in the staid and sober
old State Street Methodist Church |
in Troy on Sunday evening.
Schoolmistress Ito dull little boy):
Johnny, Pm ashamed of you.
When l was your age could read
twice as we'll as you cam" Johnny,
Eyes but you had different teach
er from what l got"
They have found a new cave near
Knoxville. 1t has all the stalactites,
stalagmites, flag, pulpits, drums,
etc., that a good cave should have,
and also a creek which furnishes
sufficient water power to run two
mills. T.;
An attorney in that delightful (
country of New Mexico, gave
weight to his argument before a
jury by threatening to put bullet
into the brain of any man who in
timated that his client was guilty. I
Baron Rothschilds has just pur-
chased a splendid estate in England,
comprising nearly four thousand c
acres, with deer parks and a noble !,
mansion, which up to the time of =
Charles III. was royal property. The =
price paid was in the neighhorhood
of million dollars. I
Durham, Me-, thinks it has big
thing i'll a two-year-old boy who
weighs fifty pounds and measures i
three feet four without his stock c
ings. 1
Crowds of negroes were baptized c
at st. Louis recently. One old lady, f
dc Lord OATS five times Use been i
baptized" i
a county official who insisted on
fishintf within the domains of an
Illinois farmer, was lately ducked b
i'll the river by the farmers vigor- y
GUS wife. :
Duringi recent visit to Egypt, l.
Professor Owen, an English savant, q
discovered the tables of the old I
law. These tables contain @
thirty commandments, and among
the thirty are the ten command
ments of the Mosaic Decalogue. &
The others refer to lesser matters, =
such as the removal of a neighbours II
land marks and SO on. II
An affectionate Detroit man was I,
sent for the other day to demonstrate =
with his sister who was trying to q
take poison; he knocked her down IL
and dragged her round the room by g
her hair, and finished by tenderly
her that ''if she didn't go
to work and let suicide business A
alone, he would break her neck for O
her." W
The following pathetic note was L
picked up on Danbury, Connect Z"
cut, street: "Dear Jane-I hope d
you amt mad because l didn't laff Z,
at you when you lafft at me last Il
night at the post offs. l amt prowd :.
dear Jane, but l have got bile I'M II
der my arm, and can't laff as /
usud TO, as Heaven is my Judge. :,
Yours, truly. HenFy."-[ Boston -
Post. II
A new style of bracelets are call q
ed the Marguerite Wristlets," and ;,
are of gold, made quite wide, aud 81
divided into small squares, on each
of which is design In enamel, rep y
different scenes from the
opera of Faust, and each of these
squares opens by small spring dis IL
closing an appropriate motto or P
verse. b
a correspondent of the Savannah U
News says that there is a man liv- II
ing in Colqnitt county, Ga, who Il
now has third wife and a family n
Of thirty children. He owns sever
III thousand acres of land, about
], 900 head of cattle, and about two Il
thousand five hundred head of Il
sheep. o
a CERTAIN Sioux citizen is a mill IL
Iionaire in Confederate money. This \
immense fortune was amassed by Il
Aetns Vi enetSb, TACT, anu FiSlu a
economy. His great wealth has not +,
made him close-fisted and penuri- L
Gus. lie disburses his money with =
great libcrality, and is generous to -
3 fault.
n
Will the vandals never cease to
shatter the traditions that haye crys-
talized in history? Is there no linn y
it TO the relentless work of destruc- =
tioa? The fate of Pocahontas will Y
serve eEeRlpi grGtid. The story of i
that young female was quite as e
much a part of American annals as il
the battle of Bunker Hill. and 1t ia .;