The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-12-26
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japan to San Francisco, is sever
: days overdue. : - 4 =
There was a daily average I
/, Ale deaths in England and " ale
during the year 1871. ih'A .s'''''i
The petition to have the Unto
Trust Company. of New Yor
city, adjadicated a bankrupt, hs
been dismissed. ss-', s.sfFo.'
4 Since November l, S4S, coo hog
have been slaughtered at Cincir
natl, against, 26S,0 600 inathe sam
period Of 1872. lae
Sir Hugh Allen, whose imam
was prominently connected wit
the Credit Mobillier, Is in Wash
ington with his family. am
The Michigan paper-mills ar
suspending for want of the fusua
supply of rags. People there ar
now wearing their old clothes.
!, A clearing house for charitable
Institutions has been organized il
Now York city under the title O
Bureau of Charities" "a I'f
The London papers are far fro
satisfied with the sanitary condi
ton OF that city, and demand fur
Their wholesale improvement.
Several members of the Senat,
and House Foreign Affairs Com
mittees were in consultation with
the Secretary Of the Navy on Sat
urday, 18th inst.
Western papers demand nation,
al legislation on the treatment Of
emigrants while on their passage
from Europe and their reception
here.
Isaac Eckert, q prominent citi,
zen of Reading, and one of the
oldest iron-masters in this State,
died suddenly on Saturday, 18th
inst, of apoplexy. -f.of 1si
The holiday season is coming
on, and everybody is or ought to
be debating as to what gifts he
will choose for. his relatives and
friends. - al Eiss 81 sE{
Col. Abner Doubleday, of the
Twenty-fourth infantry, us. A,
has, in accordance, with his own
application, been retired from ac-
tive service. st.s.r rer...-
In the year ending the 3Ist OF
March last, there were 1,O43, 1884
packs Of cards in England, on
which the stamp duty of Sd. was
paid producing f13,O4S lis 80
The late Seth Adams, of Boston,
left an estate value at $1,7O1, 900,
and in his will made provisions for
an hospital specially devoted to
persons afflicted with hypochon-
dria- eH' ss.t +. f'Ha-.' a.tl
At West Chester, on Saturday,
new trial was refused to William
E. Undertook, and he was sen
fenced to death by Judge Butler.
By advice of counsel the prisoner
said nothing. eols Ia .s.'
The advocates of the restora-
ton of the ranking privilege
claim that their cause is gaining
strength daily, and that the pass
age of their measure is certain to
be secured this session. 3 aaT
The warm weather has damaged
a large amount of fresh pork at
Louisville, Ky.,. and hundreds of
live hogs shipped from that poinC
persisted on the cars before reach
ing their destination. s..,.;.ae,
Treasury balances 10Th inst.
Currency, $56S.175; special depos-
it of legal-tenders, $27, 765, 600;
coin, S4,759,929, including SAL
300, 200 coin certificates; outstand-
ing legal tenders, 1918, 221, O1S.
An argument was heard before
Judge Nixon, at Trenton, New
Jersey, on Saturday, on petitions
to force the Hoboken Savings In
stitution into bankruptcy. A final
decision will be rendered to-m0r-
row. 2i5''
Three men crushed the skull of
w. B. Wood, agent of Adams Ex-
press Company at Franklin, Ken
lucky, and robbed the safe of the
company of $4,000, on Thursday
night. Wood is mortally injured.
A number of persons have been
arrested in New York on the
charge of being concerned in the
FORGING of United States bonds.
The names of the parties appre-
hended are withheld from the pub
lie for the present,
The st. Louis Mutual Life In.
surance Company-the corpora
ton against which so many suits
have been entered recently-has
made arrangements to. re-insure
its policies in the Mound City In.
surance Company of st. Louis.
A singular seizure was recently
made by the police in one of the
principle butchers shops OF Paris
namely, q vast number of petitionf
in favor of the monarchy, which
the master aud his men distrib
uted to the customers. aaeuz
An offer made by the mayor o
Liverpool, who is the head of :
large brewing firm, to supply bee
gratuitously for the Christmas din
ner of the inmates of the Liver
pool Workhouse, has been declin
ed by the Workhouse Committee
The italian commission charged
to examine the work of, competi
tors for the prize of 2,500s. oferet
by the Ministry of Commerce t.
the author of the best paper. Oh
agriculture and industrial chemis
try, has not found any one worth,
to receive the reward. 81 i's''si
The books and papers of sever
al New York dry goods firms hay
been seized by custom officers Of
the charge OF frauds committed Il
the importation Of handkerchieft
The amounts involved are betweel
one hundred Thousand and fW
hundred thousand dollars. II
Freight business in the west ha
been more satisfactory than usus
of late. Shipments of liEe-ssocl
have been immense, and notwith
standing the falling of. of, graf
receipts, as 3 general rule, man
ayers state that the volume of bus
mess for the year VIII be in exces
OF that Of last year, . sq1o-
An advertisement in an Iris
paper, setting forth the many con
venienees and advantages TO b
derived from metal window sashee
among other particulars observe
/ shat those sashes would last fol
} eVer-and sfterWard, il the owne
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