The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
NEWS AND PERSONAL ITEMS.

1t is expected that the NJ. X. g T.
road will be finished to Dallas,
Texas, by the 1st OF March.
Colfax has offered his house in
Washington for sale, and will re-
turn to his Indiana home.
The Rhode Island legislature has
repealed the law forbidding the
marriage of whites with negroes,
Indians or mulattoes. If white
mans taste runs that way why
Rhode Island wants him to be graf
flied. Sound.
John p. Hale is suffering from
confirmed paralysis, and softening
of the brain and cannot live much
longer.
President Grant, It is said. has
determined to recall the federal
troops from the Southern states,
and to trust their people to just
enforcement of the laws.
The aggregate appropriations for
the ensuing fiscal year, provided for
by the various appropriation bills
passed by Congress amount to
s1s1, oO6, 1S6.
A proposition TO submit the ques-
ton of woman suffrage to a vote of
the people passed the lower house
of the Name legislature recently,
but the Senate defeated it.
The contract has been awarded
for printing the postal cards. They
are to be ready for delivery on the
first of May, about which time the
postal-card system will be inaugur-
ated..
The last word from Sumner is
that there will be nothing to fear
from the present moral obliquity OF
public men were IL not for the
apathy of the people on the subject,
Were the people indignant all would
be hopeful; but they seem to care
nothing about IL.
Jay Cooke has already made over
one million dollars, selling North.
eFn Pacific bonds.
The Louisville Ledger says that
the removal of the State capital tc
that city is q foregone conclusion
and only question of time.
While investigation is the order
of the day why not inquire into
joys bribery of Harlan while Sec
, rotary of the Interior in the pur
chase of the Indian land, on which
{ working men had settled?
t 1t is said that when Harlan wa
: shown the two checks for $500,
D each from Durant and endorsed By
8 himself, he cried and offered to re
3 fund the money. This story come
from Dawes through Bartlett, Clerl
: of the House Committee on Elec
), tions. ...
Mrs. Robert Wood, daughter o
General Taylor, for whom Speake
Blame so calamity and so feelingl.
+ asked of the House q pension O
3 $50 month, turns out to be a hum
o bug. She is the daughter of Gen
). Taylor, but her circumstances ar
6 not so straitened but that she ca
u live in Paris and indulge a fai
!, measure of extravaganza. She ha'
q son in business in Halifax, Nov
r Scotia, and doing well. He is i
Q Halifax because he was during tn
b war Captain of the rebel pirat
i Tallehasse, which destroyed NOR
D than 81, 100000 worth of America
o shipping. This son held commits
u sion in the United States Navy q
the breaking out of the rebellion
u 1t is not necessary to pension Mri
: Wood.
. Mr.. j. T.Van HON, of New York
died about twenty years ago, leaV
It ing at the death of his widow, Ger
{ tain legacies to parties named in hi
q will, and the balance of his proper
. ty to the American Bible Society
Dc This property has been managed b
II the executor, Adam Norris, broth
% er-in-law of the testator, with g.
n much prudence and economy tina
the property has largely appre
b ciated in his hands, and the widow
: being deceased, he has now pal,
9 over into the treasury of the Bibl
q Society the sum of one hundre,
and eighty-three thousand dollars