The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-28
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Very few Americans are left in
Alaska.
Excellent -leighing is reported al
Quebec.
The Internal revenue receipts yes
terday were $l75,Sl6.
There Is neither poet nor fe-
male lecturer in Iceland.
A large number of people are ar
irving in California 10 spend the !
winter.
A snow storm prevailed in the |
central and northern counties OF |
Main on Saturday.
Snow fell yesterday at various
points north. At Lewiston, Me-, it
was five inches deep.
A prisoner Ih the Dubuque jail
escaped five times, at an expence to
the county of $500.
The steamer Russia, from New
York for Europe, yesterday took
ont S4S5, $50 in silver bars.
In Lafayette, Ind, the Common
Council has mode IL lawful for city
officials to get drunk.
Jones thinks the man who told
him that buttermilk was the milk of
a goat, was tryins to fool him.
The planters of Louisiana have
been reducing tho pay of their
hands fran SlS and-S20 p month to
SIS.
The managers of the railroads
centring in Boston have decided on
enforcing n reduction Of operating
expenses.
The town clerk OF Lancaster
went cunning lately, and kept four
young people two days waiting for
their marriage certificates.
The Louisville colored school
now has 642 pupils, and bids fair
soon to he one of the largest in the
city.
Bull Hun was a farm when the
famous fret battle was fought, but
low il is n village of 800 inhabi-
tants.
When your pOcketboOk gets
empty, and everybody knows IL,
you can put all your friends in it,
and It wont "bulg out worth a
cent.
The Providence Journal says that
not q single dollar has been diverted
from Senator Sprague's estate as a
settlement upon his wife or child
rem.
Mr. Martin Madison, of the firm
of Madison, Pearce IL Co, of
southampton, will reach the ripe
old age OF a hundred and fifteen in
May next.
II will cost the taxpayers of Bos-
ton SJ,070000 TO widen and i'm
prove the streets of the district
swept by the great fire of one year
ago.
There is no truth In the rumor
that the Danforth Locomotive
Works at Paterson, n. j., have sus-
pended. The denial emanatcs from
the firm.
The physicians of Memphis have
resolvedto erect a monument to tic
memory of their professional bretb
ern who died during the yellow To-
YER epidemic.
The strike of the employees on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia Railroad terminated on Satur-
daY by the men resuming work Mt
reduced rate OF wages.
The manner of advertising for a
Husband in Java is by placing an
empty floWer-pot on the portico
roof, which is as much as to say
Young lady here ; husband wanted.
An American diplomaiiat, MIR.
Wade, having lately died at Pekin,
the Chinese attributed his decease
10 the inpxpressibie emotion which
nc experienced Mt seeing the august
face Of the Emperor.
The strike of the Bricklaycrs' L u
ion. of New York, continues with
out any prospect of success, build
ers finding an abundance of non-so-
ciety men to ill the places made
vacant by the strikers.
After mature deliberation the
nail manufacturers Of New England
have decided TO reduce the wages OF
their employees ten per cent. The
lower rate of compensation is to
take effect on the first of December.
10 tho philosopher there is some
thinG peculiarly instructive 10 stand
Upon the street-coner in n large city,
and watch the men all rushing
around trying to mako money, and
the woman all floating around try
ing TO spend it.
Tho banks OF Cincinnati have dis
continued the Clearinghouse certif-
,cate system. Only $4,000 worth
OF the paper in question was used
by the fiscal institutions of the
Queeu City in their united efforts
not to he swamped by the panic.
The editor of the Globe asks
.'Shall we initiate: :" Thank you; we
don't care If we do St. Louis Dis
patch. The invitation was not to
The editor of the Dispatch. We
knew he was full.-LSt. Louis
Globe.
Tho Washington correspondent OF
tho Boston journal says mat army
officers returned from the Yellow
Stone expedition report that the
greater portion of the land near the
line OF the Northern Pacific is val
ueless.
4 Boston base singer leaves for
New York on the Saturday night
I. express, sings morning and after
uoon, and returns TO Boston on the
sunday night express. lie has all
his expenses paid, and receives
two thousand dollars a year salary.
Joaquin Miller. in his Life a.
mong the Mobocs,s says: when !
die | shall take this book in my
hand, and hold IL up in the Day of
Judgment He means that he
will show the book 10 prove that he
was too stupid TO he responsible for
his sins.
\ photographer in Gloucester
HAS been astonished by young
woman who came to ask, mcekly
and innoccntly, How long does
it take to get a photograph after
you leave your measure:'
The Congregationalisl has seen
this item in o late invoice of fash
ionable New York furniture: ''F,le
gantly upholstered knceling
for the weary and heavy Laden
The rallying cry in Kansas, up
on which newspapers of divers
views are unamcrous is: Let no
man be elected 20 office who owes
over five years subscription to n
local paper
some base caluminator says:
The Indians first called the place
on which New York was built
Observation-Disclosures. The transla-
ton OF it is 1.-The place where they