The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-18
GENERAL INrELLIGEScE.

Harte are at the Isle of Shoals.
The emigrant arrivals in New
York average about $500 daily.
| Two licenses to sell opium were
recently sold in Honolulu for $685.
600.
i More than 1000 new post roads
went into operation on the 1st
inst
Mrs. Corpse, of London, took
poison by mistake, and was still a
corpse.
The Shah made Bismark mem.
Der of 'eThe Sun and Lion" order
of the east.
Rev. o. B. rockingham has a
biography of Theodore p rker in
preparation. o, pshaw.
The Buffalo Express is anxious
to know what Ben. Butler and the
potato-bug were made for.
Mrs. Senator Sprague invites
clergyman and school teachers to
fill her eighty rooms at Newport.
Six new public school houses
are building in Boston at cost of
100000.
The harbor of Stonington, Conn,
is being raked for old British
bomb shells.
The Connecticut legislature has
passed the bill for state inebriate
asylum.
A Harper's Ferry man has a
whole mountain on his hands,
which he will trade even for a
shotgun.
A blind beggar at Dayton, o.,
recently had his pocket picked of
1925. "Going it blind sometimes
pays.
Over 10000 sheep have recently
been driven into the mountains on
the cast side of Fresno county,
California, for range.
At Greenville, Tex, dry goods
box and three legged stool di-
vide the doubtful honor of furnish
ing the mayors office.
The mayor ef Albany, n. Y,
was burned in effigy the other
night, and scare was caused
which brought out the fire en-
gines.
A man using broad AK struck il
/ 49, ri hold Nf ha
die. A flash of lightning went for
the AK, and the man let go of the
handle. He is better.
The German government has in
vested S10,000,000 of its surplus
funds, which the French indemnity
has made to overflow, in United
States five per cent. bonds.
An immense forest fire in Cum
berland and adjoining counties of
southern New Jersey has just been
quelled after having burned over
5000 acres of land and destroyed
$35, 900 worth of property.
The commissioner of the general
land Office announces ruling that
parties making entries under the
first section of the timber culture
act of March Sd, 1873, are entitled
to twenty-one years to complete
the planting of the prescribed area.
| Prof. w. C. Kerr, state geolo
gist for North Carolina, has dis
covered that the supposed 'tsilyer
caves" in Mitchell county are pro-
badly mica mines, worked by CO.
temporaries of the mound build
ers.
Some colored Migrants, recently
arrested in Georgia, were allowed
their choice of II months in jail
or II months indenture to work,
and chose the former. Now, who
doubts the black mans ability to
civilize.
Another Washburn looms up on
the political horizon already
| gloomy with Washburns. It is
Israel Washburn, jr., who proposes
to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, of
Name, in the Senate of the United
States.
John C. Beard has grown on his
farm near Centeryille, Cal, about
one acre of madden, the root of
which is used for dying purposes.
The seed was brought by Mr..
. Beard from Holland TO be used as
! an experiment. which, so far, has
proved most satisfactory.
i Secretary Richardson is reported
J to be hunting up position of some
. sort in Alaska to which he can APP
point Miss DIR. Major Mary Walker,
, he having promised that dreadful
female four years ago that, in the
then improbable event of his beconl-
ing secretary of the treasury, he
I would thus provide for her. And
: now she is holding him to his word.
A novel bnilding association,
having 200 members, has lately
been started at Stamford, Conn.
Each member pays in 50 per week,
|, and as fast as the houses are built,
l lots are drawn to determine who
5 shall be the pcssessor. This pro-
, cess is continued till all members
of the association are supplied
with houses. Wen Jine.
8 Among the lessons of the Bos-
: ton fire is that high rents are not
{ always necessary conditions of a
/ large business. Several dry goode
{ and leather houses are named
) which nov pay but fraction OF
!. their former rents, having located
3 on the outer limits of the neigh.
; borhood Of their trade, bat which
: find their business equally vel
4 | sustained.
7 Recently two whales were found
q floating in Santa Cruz bay, on the
7 Pacific coast. They were stripped
Z and yielded over Z, 900 gallons Of
oil. These whales were of the
species known among whalers as
: the sulphur bottoms. They
were probably the victims OF thu
| sword fish, as no signs OF the har
2 poon were found. The carcasseE
) were beached several miles below
: ISoquel.