The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-12
EMPoRIA NEW s.
FRIDAY, April z. 49,
GLEANINGS.

Nelly Grant is going to Europe
with Mrs. BOrie.
There are $50 liquor saloons in Da.
Iowa.
An eight pound rat was recently
killed at Great Bend, Ohio.
The coming of the Devil has been
defnitrl. predicted by Pho Nomo.
IIildebrand, the outlaw, has been
killed again in Southern Illinois.
A twenty-four foot circular saw
is the poplar sensation at Trenton,
4. J.
Mrs. Upper. of Des Moines,
Iowa. lost $1,000 worth of bees by
cold weather.
Themryor Of a city in Ohio was
arrested recently for carrying
slnng shbt In his pocket.
Buckwheat. ground fine and un.
bolted, is utilized for the adultera-
ton of pepper in Chicago.
George William Curtis recently
walked down Pennsyivania avenue
arm in arm with Carl Schurz.
1t Is again becoming the fashion
for ladies To wear their fans sus- |
pended by IA gold chain from the |
waist.
Two deeds were recorded in EN-
NETT Co.. Iowa, last week, which |
involved the transfer of 81 800 acres !
of land.
Alexander II. Stephens is tired of
writing those sparkling six column
paragraphs for the Atlanta Sun. and
wants to draw out.
The long-haired and widowed
people of Chicago celebrated the
twenty-fourth anniversary of the
revelation of spiritualism, last We'd
nesday.
The widow of the late Gen. Hen
ry w. Halleck, who lately removed
from Louisville to Faribault, Min
esota, Is reported TO be worth ST.
100000.
DR.. Mary E. Walker wants So
OO0 from the conscience fund as a
remuneration for her services in the
hospital during the war, and Repre-
sentative Lansing has introduced a
49, ~ HNg SAAsss 1h4Ouhts
Nicholas Ferkel, of st. Louis, was
content to marry the illegitimate
daughter of the great Colonel Da-
venport; and the Colonel set Mich
olas down in his will for a $4,000
block of ground in Davenport,
Iowa.
a Second Adventist in New York
State has been fattening an OK for
the past ten years, for grand feast
when Christ shall appear. He has
spent nearly all his property in feed
ing and purchasing food for that
OK.
McCullagh, of the st. Louis DEM
ocrat, is translating the poems of
Brian Boru from the original Irish.
Nc. is an accomplished linguist,
and plays a better game of draw
poker than Bob. Schenck. He is a
pupil of John Logan's.
Texas has copper and silver ore
In practically inexhaustible quanti-
ties, and coal, which rivals the best
anthracite of Pennsylvania. These
minerals are to be found in the re-
gion known as the Staked Plains,
in the northwestern and other por-
tions of the State.
People in the suburbs can make
hot-beds by going to sleep while
smoking.
A Wisconsin editor speaks of a
wind which 'just sat on its hind
legs and howled."
The Tiffin (Ohio) Agricultural
Works Will make eight thousand
horse rakes the coming season.
There is one place at least where
Forrest is appreciated. In Texas
he drew an immense audience at S.
a ticket.
A Californian who used giant
powder 10 shoot ducks, is having
the butt of his gun picked ont Of
his face.
They have a woman acting as
conductor on the Hannibal & St.
Joseph Railroad, on one of the pas
senger trains.
A recent visitor TO Mr.. Carlyle's
study says that an earthquake might
turn it upside down, but could not
add to its disarrrangement.
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the we'll
known Methodist minister and
pioneer, has recovered, after all, and
NAV live to preach long time yet.
The new management of the
Union Pacific Railroad has taken
hold in earnest, revoking all the
passes issued by Tom Scott for the
first thing.
Knoxville, Tennessee, is so
healthy that the undertakers 90
about the streets and despairingIy
ask those whom they meet, "Ain't
you dead yet?"
A Michigan gin-mill keeper has
this evasive arrangement: Youput
your ten cents on a SPOT marked
"whisky )" the apparatus revolyes,
and directly you, see a glass of
whisky and don't know of
course who gave it to you or how
it came there.
A farmer was driving two ladies
through Peoria, Illinois, the other
day, when sudden jolt of the wag-
on threw his passengers over the
tail-board. He drove merriIy on,
while about three-quarters of the
population of Peoria divided into
two multitudes, one mob assisting
the bruised and jolted ladies, and
the other crowd chasing the wagon
with hideous shrieks and yells. The
sad affair cast gloom over the
entire community.
Some California journals are adj
vocating the propriety of making
the office of the State School Super |
intendent eligible to women.
The Germans of Memphis will
hold their annual spring festival |
May ., and expect to secure Carl |
Schurz as the orator of the day.
Ex-Governor Curtin has a leave |
OF absence from his post at St. |
petersburg. 1t is said he is coming |