The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-07
NEWS AND PERSONAL ITEMS.

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NEWS AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
Freight ON cotton from Denisen
to st. Louis is sixty cents.
The French Assembly has made
intemperanee a penal offense.
The two Misses Greeley will
spend the summer at Greeley, Colo
RADIO.
The Senatorial election in Massa-
chusetts will be held on the 25th of
February.
Jubal A. Early refuses positively
to be candidate for Governor of
Virginia.
Kansas City Is taking thicker ice
from The Missouri river that ever
before.
Texas people want train made
up in New Yopk to reach them
without change.
The Commonwealth says Miss
Anthony has given centuries of her
life to the cause of woman suffrage.
Gideon Welles is much talked of
among the Connecticut Democrats
as their candidate for Governor. 4
The eDizootic is still raging in
Salk Lake City. The streets are
deserted and no business ia being
done.
A pair of boots in Iowa cost just
two loads of potatoes, and to raise
the potatoes just wears out a pair
of boots.
The entire tobacco crop of the
United States, last year, was 253,-
196,I0 pounds, over One-third of
which was raised in Kentucky.
Kansas City is financially healthy.
At public sale under judgment for
$26, the gross proceeds were seventy
cents.
A Nebraska farmer has just made
los feet of lumber from a twelve
foot cut of cottonwood tree, plant
ed eight years ago.
The total rainfall of Boston last
year was q little over fifty EIGHT
inches; and it rained or showed
l19 days during the twelve months.
January 2SLh was the coolest day
for fifty years in Iowa; thermome-
ter sank to 30 degrees at Council
Bluffs, 35 degrees at Usage, and 10
degrees at Dubuque.
So serious is the spread of small
pox in Boston, and SO great the fear
of its further dissemination, that the
Legislature is considering the ad-
visibility of establishing a State
vaccine institution.
The NJ. X. & T. company, in for
ty-two months, built and put in
operation SOL miles of railroad, be-
ing an average of little over q half
q mile day of completed road for
every working dav for three years
and half.
American oysters, re-laid and fat
tened in English beds, are advertis-
ed in London a dozen, delivered
free on rail for any part of the king
dom, with an Oyster-knife and re-
ceipt for cooking in the delicious
ways known in America, added
gratis"
Caldwell intends to be even with
all those who are now going back
on him and testifying against him.
Should he be expelled from the
Senate, he is going TO sue for the
recovery of tho money he spent in
buying his election. If he does,
won't there be rich developments
Mr.. L. S. Friend, the gentleman
who recently had his little grandson
returned by the Comanches, says
that during the eight years the boy
was gone, he travelled, altogether,
in trying to effect his release, more
than fifteen thousand miles, includ.
ing three trips to Washington City,
and spent more than $1,000.
The scions of st. L outs fashion
able society bid fair to rival their |
brethren of New York. The last |
agony they have adopted is velvet |
ear NUTS: with their monograms |
embroidered thereon in chenille. |
ear muffs to mbroider the Declare
ton of Independence.
The honest municipal govern
ment which New York obtained |
when it tumbled Tweed and his as.
sociate rascals out of Office, and
scared Mayor Hall into an unnatural |
integrity, cost the city over eight
and q half millions less last year
than the Tammany rule did the pre-.
ceeding year.
Forty-six years ago youth
named Lewis v. Bogy was page in
the Missouri house of representa-
lives. Some three weeks ago a
gentleman bearing this name and
his own little carpet-bag,
arrived at Jefferson City from st.
Louis. He retur ned in a few days
carrying in that same little carpet
bag his commission as United States
VIM. Bross, of the Chicago Tri-
pune, as a member of the Gree
ey Monument Association, desires
hat every newspaper in the West
md Northwest contribute some
hing to the noble object in view,
md remit to his care. A small
ally in the erection of 3 proper
ribute to the memory of the de-
parted journalist.
The Montana agricultural associ- ,
tion, among various other premi-
ms awarded, which are astonish-
ngly indicative of the productive
ess of the Territory, certified to
ames L. Ray, of Lewis aud Clark
ounty, premium of fifty dollars e
Or the best crop of wheat-one
undred and two bushels to the
that cost Mr. Ray the 7
overnment price Of dollar and q
uarter.
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