The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-15

Robert G. Buckell, the new judge
Of the Supreme Court of Alabama,
was formerly an intelligent COM
positor.
Darwin's nomination for member
ship in the French academy was re-
jected lately by a vote Of 20 to g.
This ought to teach him better man
ners,
The costs OF proving by jury,
that Susan B. Anthony was not q
man, as figured by the clerk OF the
court, were S204ll, exclusive OF
lawyers fees.
The Illinois Central railroad has |
completed a sale of 100000 acres of /
land south of the Terre HAnte and |
Alton railroad, TO party of Ger
man capitalists-
The fashion in Illinois now is to |
send to the Board of Railroad Com
missioners, at Springfield, COM
plants of extortion by the railroads,
and such complaints arc numerous.
Sixteen years ago n North Caro-
lima boy was thrashed and sent out
to hoe corn, and that was the last
seen of him until the other day,
when he came back from California
worth $4,000.
The necessary documents have
been signed, sealed and delivered
for the building OF an iron bridge
at Atchison over the Missouri river.
The American Bridge Company OF
Chicago have the contract.
Maggie, the informer in the Fenian
trials, is said to belong in ST. Bar
tholomew's Hospital in London, un-
der the name of Kennedy. lie has
been shot three times and MORALLY
wounded by unknown persons.
The st. Louis Globe learns that
the railway robbers have reached
their rendezvous in Jackson county,
Missouri, notwithstanding the efforts
made to head them of. They cross
ed the Big Muddy in a skifE, about
twenty miles below Kansas City.
The Department of Agriculture
has ordered 400 bushels of wheat
from France, and an equal quantity
from Chilli, embracing all varieties
OF winter wheat, and the cargoes
are expected to arrive about the lst
of September, and will be distrib-
uted In season for fall sowing.
NJ. Krupp has just insured his
steel factory at Essen, in twelve
German companies, to the amount
of $5,937,9l2. This sum includes
the value set upon only the por-
tions of the establishment liable
to destruction by fire, and not that
of the steam foundry, railroads,
telegraph lines, canal system
special shops, and metal stock.
The latest estimates greatly re
duce the losses of the Baltimore
confiagration. The Fire INSPECTOR
have concluded that it will not eX
coed three hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars, and may be found Il
be much less. The congregation
whose churches were burned wor
ship with others of the same de
nomination, aud are making ar
rangements to rebuild their destroy
cd ediflces. Gangs of men are EN-
ployed in clearing away the debri,
of the fire; and temporary struc
lures are being erected rapidly
and business is being resumed II
them.
A correspondent OF the Scien
tific American says: 1.-THE bes
remedy for bleeding at the nose
as given by DIR. Gleason in one o
his lectures, is vigorous motion
of the jaws, as if in the act o
mastication. In the case of
child a wad of paper should b
placed in its mouth and the chill,
instructed to chew it hard. o
course an adult does not need tn
paper. 1t is the motion of tn
jaws that stops the flow of blood
This remedy is so very simple tina
many will feel inclined to laugh q
it, but it has never been known t
fail in n single instance, even i
very severe cases." f,.
OF all the odd deaths IN tn
world, this reported from India i
certainly the oldest: A native
while catching fish in a tank, pu
the head of one in his mouth an,
bit it, as the fish was rather trouble
some in the way of wriggline
Suddenly one of the sharp point
in the back fin stuck in his hand
he opened his mouth to call 70
help, and the fish, giving a quicl
plunge, jumped down his throat
and there firmly stuck. 1t wa
only taken out by small pieces
after he had been carried to tn
hospital. He was so exhauste,
that he died as soon as it was re
moved.
GOLD PoM."-We were recent,
talking to one of our neighbors VIII
did not take the Telegraph, Tn
subject was in relation to farming
We had our friend feeling as thougl
we were pretty good farmer, an,
that he would like to take our pape
three months, just to help us alon,
II we would take it in wheat; bu
we suggested that among othe
things, our "knobby" farmers ough
to form q promolOgical society, an,
engage in the culture of fruits. ii
did not wait for us to get any fur
Their than Chronological society.
AAC AOW 0AA " 1NAOAo hO
his feet and made q terrible to dc
He said he didn't want the paper i
we "were going to try to turn tn
farmers movement into a politica
party to git old Pomeroy into powe
agin! No; we'd had enough of oil,
Pom, &c. We tried to explain
but II was of no use. We sought
dictionary; but he said "if the Bibl
would say it," he "wouldn't belieY
but that old Pom. was mean man.
-Waterville Telegraph.
Prentice milford thus writes O
his experience at the Vienna Ex
position: "Of course got lost
couldn't find the .Ausgsng
This, in German, means the git
out place / must have Wake,
seven miles in that maze of build
ings before the 'Ausgang' present
ed itself. / knew that it wcul,
come sooner or later. 1 knew tina
IL l simply stopped and stood stll
the tAusgang' would come aroun,
where / stood. / think abou
five hundred other people wer
similarly lost, for they kept com
ing up to me and inquiring in al
sorts of languages where the Aus
gang was. / said to them, i an
simply fellow.worm of the dus
like YOURSELF Yesterday, or. tn
day before yesterday, or last week
or maybe last year, 1 managed
with n great deal of difficulty t.
get in here, and I've been wander
ing around ever since, trying t
get out. Some raid 'Yaw,' ant
some said So"