The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-08
TELEGRAPH AND NAIL ITEMS

I
who committed suicide at Syracuse
recently, was the originator OF the
Cardiff Giant humbug.
The gold, silver and bronze prize
medals for the Cincinnati Indus
trial Exposition are to be made 1T
the mint in Philadelphia.
| The total imports last week at
New York were Sc, SOC, ST, of which
| 2,T66, S67 were dry goods and ST.
10000 general merchandise.
y recent visitor to one of the
islands on the coast of Maine dis
covered q school of forty scholars,
all of whom were grandchildren of
one man.
A Lafayette hotel cook will
wager that he can kill, pick, dress,
cook and serve chicken in six
minutes, but he won't wager that
the man who eats it will live half
an hour.
4 rumor comes from Paris
Naval and Military Gazette) that
a motive power which will super
cede steam for locomotion, both
by sea and land, has just been dis
covered.
The visit of the Shah is bring
ing his country to public attention.
An English translation of DIR. Pol
labs work on Persia, published in
Leipsig in 1868, will soon be print
| ed in London.
Information from Madrid has
been received that the Cortes, by
large majority, have resolved that
they will confer no farther politi-
cal privileges on Cuba until the
insurgents shall lay down their
arms.
The Fourth of July tornado
which visited the West came upon
a marriage ceremony in Wisconsin,
| and killed the preacher just as he
pronounced the words, 81 now pro
nounce you" The couple are IN
some doubt as to the precise char
acter of their relation.
Amortgage for $3.50, upon which
eighteen months interest had ac-
cumulated W: declared null and
void at Lyons, y. Y, recently, on
the ground that $25 paid for serv-
ices in procuring the money for
which the mortgage was given con
stituted usury.
A waterfall 1900 feet high has
been discovered in British Guiana
by the governor-surveyor of that
colony. In 1870 the great kaie-
teur Fall, 1876 feet wide and $50
feet high, was discovered by the
same gentleman, who has rendered
many services to geographical
science.
Letters from San Antonio, Tex
as, say the feeling on the other
side of the Rio Grande against the
Americans is said by those who
have lately returned from thence
to be one of bitter hatred, and
desire for revenge for the insult
offered by Mackenzie pervades GER
tain classes.
A Russian paper, the Woronish
Telegraph, speaks of the activity
of the French agents in Furchas-
ing army remounts in the Russian
markets, and the consequent rapid
rise in the price of horses in Rus
STA. 1t is stated that the French
government has given authority
for the purchase of 10, 900 remonnt
horses in Russia
The american Booksellers
Guide" says that the circulation
of London newspapers is stated
upon good authority to be as fol-
lows: The Daily Telegraph, no.
600 copies; The Standard, 100000;
Daily News, 80, 600; Echo, $4,000;
Times, 10000. The morning and
evening papers together give n
sum total daily of $4,000 copies.
A Prussian amazon has appear
ed IN Spain. A VaIentia paper
says: 1--WE have had the pleasure
of seeing the Prussian heroine
announced who will, it Is SAID,
command n battalion of voIun-
teers against the CarIists. She is
well-grown, hardly twenty-five
years old, has rather 4 pretty face
and blonde hair. She wore a long
upper garment, long riding trows-
ers and Phrygian cap, and car
ried a cavalry sword.
A private letter received at
Washington, from Havana, says
that all attempts to investigate or
take depo itions bearing on the
claims of any American citizens
for loss of property at the hands
of the Spaniards are thwarted, and
the Spanish authorities assert that
they have counter claims to the
amount of many millions for the
Virginius, Edgar Stewart, and
other Yankee blockade runners.
A westmoreland (Va.) CORES
| pondent of the Richmond Wing
has seen an authentic copy of an
| entry of the birth of Washington
in the Bible of his mother, in the
following words: George Wash
ington, son to Augustine and Mary
his wife, was born We 18th day of
February, 1872, about 10 in the
morning, and was baptized the Sd
of April following, Mr.. Beverly
Whiting and Captain Christopher
Brooks, godfathers, and Mrs. Mil
bred Gregory, godmother."
The charitable ladies of Chicago
have a pleasant way of raising
money for benevolent objects.
They rent rooms in the heart of
the city, and spread 4 splendid
fifty-cent luncheon for business
men. The tables are decorated
with flowers, and are served by
, pretty volunteer young ladies.
!. The managers receive free supplies
in abundance, and their landlord
!. refuses to charge rent, so that
, weeks operations usually fill the
treasury to the desired point.
The wealth of Astor is now com
puted at $500, 100000. The prop
erty of old John Jacob Astor, the
father OF VIM. B. Astor, was left
by him in trust for the benefit of
his heirs. After the expiration of
the trusteeship, which will occur
at the end Of the third generation
that is, after the grandchildren
; have passed await will then be
divided among all the descendants
, of the old man, the law not allow
ing q trusteeshIp of that kind to
extend for a longer period of time.
q SOUTHERN EETERPRsE-A Gin
: cinnati telegram of July % says:
: A band of Kuklux rsided the
r farm, If Arpa Mr.a- I1--,-- Al -