The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-25
EMPoRIA NEW IS.
FRIDAY April ., ls7a..- !.
PERSONALS.

John C. Fremont is sixty years
I'D. l.
Jenny Lind GoIdschmidt is in
Berlin. so 45
Gen. J. Watson Webb was last
1t Malta.
Mrs. Elizabeth oakss Smith is
William Cullen Bryant is still
in Florida.
Colonel Dickinson is what
they call the gentle Anna in Geor-
gia.
senator Jones, of Nevada, in
tends erecting a 800, 900 residence
in Washington.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will |
have q reception at the Arcadian |
Club before she goes to Europe. 4
The artless Barnum scrupulous- |
~ numbers all his show wagons,
beginning with sixty as his unit.
Gen. Darlington, of Atlanta,
has written q drama embracing
the period OF Buffers rule in New
Orleans.
Prince Bismarck glories in the
fact that when he formed the North
German Confederation he went
TO Switzerland and America for
models.SAI&E ~
John i. Cough continues to
travel about the country asking
will 1t Pay" when he knows
very well that it does, or he
wouldn't do it. sss
Grace Greenwood writes that II
million and half of dollars were
reported to have been Sin the pool"
for the extension of patents on
sewing machines.
The rumor is current that the
Rev. DR.. Chaplin intends to. retire
from his professional labors after
next year, desiring to go while his
laurels are still green. "'
The Emperor of Russia will, it
is said, settle $25O,OO0 n year on
his only daughter, the Grand
Duchess Maria, on her marriage
with the Duke of Edinburgh.
August Pickard, the oldest
dweller in the city of Rochester,
celebrated his birthday few days
since by scoring one hundred and
six since the year he was born.
~Veto Jack" is the title now be-
slowed upon Governor Hartranft
by some of the persons whose lit
tie bills have been so ruthiessly
slaughtered.
Speaking of the late Emperor of
France, NJ. Guizot says, "IIc was
all his life one of three things
prisoner, journalist, or carbonari
but always thoroughly gentle
man.
During Gen, sherman tour FIN
Europe he saw some British bat
tle-aags, on which were inscribed
Lexington" and Breeds Hill"
They were relics of the war of
1916. f...E .r.-..sa .- sE
Lidia Rodelrena is the name of
Russian lady who has given to
the st. Petersburg Academy of
Medicine $4,000 to endow de-
partment for medical instruction
for women.
George Brown, OF Hoosick Cor
ners, New York, owns the "Ouder-
ick Bible" n large illustrated folio,
printed at the Hague, July 30, 1857,
and consequently now 236 years
old.
Mr.. w. ii. Russell, of "Bull
Run" renown, will accompany the
Russian force to Khiva, for the
London Times, the Russian gov
erument having specially invited
the Times to send "a correspond
ent.
Mr.. Marshall o. Roberts, one Of
the merchant princes of New York,
will bring home with him from
Rome over sixty Thousand dollars'
worth of good paintings, purchased
there by himself during the past
few months.
Judge Poland, of Vermont. has
this history: His grandfather was
a Polish refugee, and had q name
so contorted with consonants that
the Vermonters, gave up the con-
test, and called him Poland "for
short" and his descendants grew
up by that name.
Helen NJ. Barnard has been APP
pointed by the President one Of
the special commissioners to the
Vienna Exposition. 1t seems to
be part of the eternal fitness of
things" that a lady journalist
should be one of the commissions
ers at that snowy affair.
Thayer, the biographer. says
Beethoven looked like little ugly
mulatto; was very short; had
yellow skin, broad, spread out
nose, and projecting teeth, over
which his heavy lips shut; with q
slight Indian look about the cheek
bone. AS spectacle he was not
q success.
Joseph Powell, who recently
died at Greenville, Tennessee, de
serves honorable record in this:
He was q member of the Legisla-
ture of South Caroline, and the
only man who voted mo- at
public meeting that passed nullif-
cation resolutions. A gold head
cd cane was presented to him,
inscribed THE Immortal No"
Madame Colet, once a poor gov
crness, was very voluminous
writer, and left q fortune of about
100000. George Sand is still
richer We have divers ladies in
this land OF the free who have
many thousands of governments
and other good collaterals, the re-
suit of pen-work.
Ii is stated, on the authority of
General Scofield TO General Sher
man, that the new potentate of
the Sandwich Islands, King Luna
lilo, will accompany him on his
return, and make a tour of the
United States, for the purpose of
personally looking into the prac-
teal working of free institutions,
and to learn more about our PEG
pie, whom he dearly, dearly loves.
Fifteen years ago Michael Can
cemi, an Italian, was four times
tried for the murder of Eugene
Anderson, and finally convicted OF |
murder in the second hnnrnn and