The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-07
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bred years, died in New York on
Sunday.
H. W. Burt, d. Co., brokers and
bankers, of Buffalo, N. Y, have
resumed business. lf
Three hundred new vessels are
reported to be building on the,
Clyde at Glasgow Scotland;
Precautions against importation
Of cholera into Ireland are being
made in almost every seaport
town.
The custom-house officer is cx-
pected to go where the duties of
his position call him. Emphasis
on the duties!
The newspapers are full of
relics TO be exhibited at the Cen
tennial Exhibition. The latest is
q ladle $50 years old.
The sub-treasurer at New Y ork
on the 10Th ult., paid out $3.50, 900
coin, on account of November in
terest, without rebate. u
A peach tree, in Missouri, on
being transplanted to a new soil,
is reported to have taken to pro
duciug white plums.
Heavy rains have visited the
neighborhood of Limerick recent
ly, and the lowlands along the
Shannon were inundated.
Telegraph postal cards are now
issued by the English government.
The cards are deposited as letters,
and collected hourly by carriers.
Five hundred miners at Leith,
who struck against the employ
ment of one man, have gained
their end by the sacrifice of E250C
in wages.
Alarming accounts of distres;
resulting from failure of crops ar
rive from Hungary. II is stated
chat IN some parts q famine pre-
walls.
An Italian father and daughter
are fighting in the courts at st
Louis over $4,000, the proceeds
of twenty years of street. beggine
in the large American cities.
Minnesota has more miles O.
railroad than Massachusetts, the
former having 1906 and the latter
1858. In 1868 Massachusetts, haC
1885 and Minnesota only 81 miles
Special trains in France having
for some time past been convey
ing specie to the frontier are now
employed in the transit of gun
powder and arms. "The bounda
ries must be guarded"
Two of the transatlantic com
panies have given free passage
from Liverpool to New York tc
Americans who were. rendered
penniless in Europe by the failure
of American banking-houses in
London.
The emigration in the quarter
ended 30th of June from England
to the United States was ( 1906
British North America, 1905
Australian colonies, 48l3, and al
other places, 1928. Total, 100, 90T
One hundred years ago England
produced only g16, OO0, 900 bushels
Of wheat, two-thirds OF the crop O.
Minnesota. Now, having estab
hshed good farming, she produces
100,0O0,00O, four times as much al
Minnesota.
Recently a gentleman in Lon
don bought a box of old papers al
auction for f5. In IL were subse
quently found autographs of Ra
cine, Alfred de Musset, Balzac
Moliere and many marshals of the
First Empire of France.
Five thousand persons are
thrown out Of employment by the
suspension of the Harmony cotton
mills in Cohoes n. Y. The pay
rolls of the mills foot up $4,000
monthly. 1t is said that the mil
will be opened in two weeks.
In the gold valued at $3.50, 600,
600 which is being gradually mel
ted and coined in Germany there
are 193,154 ounces of American
eagles and 273,I59 ounces of gold
napoleons. The American eagles
were obtained in England.
1t is stated that nearly all the
wire is constructed and the con,
tracts out for a new cable Between
England and some point on Long
Island. The capital is $4,000, 600
and the directory embraces promi
nent English and American CAPT
talists.
Delaware farmers are said to be
trying to calculate how many
drinks of apple Jack go to an acre
on a basis of four bushels of ap
pies to gallon. Before the prob
lem is solved it is likely that there
will be more per acre among the far
mers than they reckoned upon
and fewer, gallons.
In Japan there are said to be
trees four or five hundred years
old, which produce teas worth five
dollars a pound. Japanese wri
tiers say that the tea tree was in
troduced into their country from
China nine hundred years ago
The plant is utilized as a hedge in
the lanes of the villages an6
around the kitchen gardens.
The teredo. or ship worm, about
which so much has been written
wcna substantial victory in San
Francisco the other day. The OBJ
ject of its attack had been wharf
at Main street. AS usual its worn
was hidden, and two thousand one
hundred sacks of wheat were I'M.
loaded on thewharf without suspi
cion. Then with q crash it gave
way, and ten thousand dollars vii
hardly cover the loss. ?. &
The German government has
directed large purchases of gold
to be made, and as there is con
siderable quantity of it already in
store, it may be assumed thai
coming will be carried on mosi
energetically. Henceforth the ar
tistic point is also 70 receive more
consideration in the new coinage
than hitherto. And the COMMITTEES
appointed for this purpose has ar
rived ut an understanding on tho
subject afE
If you feel dull, drowsy, debili.
tated, have frequent headache
mouth tastes badly, poor appetite