The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
All steamboats, coming up the
Mississippi river are quarrantined
at Cairo.
The New York Cotton Exchange
subscribed $500 for the Memphis
sufferers.
Chicago is literally assisting the
Sufferers by the pestilence in
Memphis.
Grain is evidently being moved
to the seaboard, despite the scare
ity of currency.
The Indians of Arizona are
again on the war path, attacking
small and issolated parties.
Lamper d Co., grain dealers, of
Boston, have suspended. Liabili-
ties, 100000; assets, $500, 900.
Bakers shoe factory in Jersey
City closed a few days ago, for
want of currency to pay their en-
ployes.
In consequence Of the scarcity
of currency the manufacturers of
Cincinnati propose reducing the
number of their employees.
John Howard Young, the mon
ey order clerk in the Brooklyn
postoffice, has absconded, leaving
a la1ge deficiency in his accounts.
There was received at New York
week before last, 2, 953, 122 bushels
of wheat-nearly one million of
bushels in excess of any one week
on record.
The New Brunswick Carpet
Company suspended in conse-
quence of an assessment on stock
holders made to cover n deficit
caused by defaulting cashier.
The Supreme Court of Illinois
has rejected a decision affirming
the validity of the State liquor
law, which, it will be remembered,
is the same as that in force in
Ohio.
The workingmen of Boston and
vicinity are preparing to give a
grand reception to Joseph Arch,
the champion of the English agri-
cultural laborers, On his arrival at
the hub.
Capt. Buddington, of the Polaris,
and several of his Arctic associ-
ates arrived at New York from
Liverpool a few days ago. They
were sent to Washington in a
United States vessel.
OF the few Senators and Repre-
sentatives who have not drawn
their back pay, all of them, with
one single exception, have taken
the increased compensation from
the 4th of March last.
The grand jury of Brooklyn,
have indicted C. Sprague, the de
faulting city treasurer, and his
deputy, Nj. T. Rodman. They al
so indicted Kate Stoddard for the
murder of Chas. Goodrich.
The city authorities of Little
Rock, Arkansas, have placed under
quarantine the southern division
of the Fulton railroad, and all
points on the river below the city,
to prevent the spread of yellow
fever.
The expectation from England
of railway carriages for passen-
gers seems to be greatly on the in
crease. Whilst the value in eight
months of last year was E22,303,
the value in the last eight months
was fSO,6OO.
A curiosity in shorthand writ
ing was shown at the Vienna Ex-
position by Herr Schroeder, pro-
fessor of stenography at Vienna.
1t consisted of the whole Iliad of
Homer written in so small a space
as to be enclosed in a nut shell.
A Michigan editor finds it nee
essary to deny that he has a tame
mosquito so large that q New
foundland dog can run under it
without touching, and says the
whole story originated with some
reckless defamer of Kalamazoo.
Mr.. Mcdonald, President of the
National Miners Association, is
preparing a history of English,
Scotch and Welsh coal miners,
which will contain a mass of curl
GUS information relating to the
legislation in England with regard
to coal mines and coal miners.
King Cacobau, the reigning
King of Feejee, has had built for
his own special use, a neat little
covered carriage, which is to be
borne on the shoulders of six
men. On the panels are four me-
dallions, two representing the Fee
jeean crest-a dove bearing an
olive branch-and two with his
Majesty's coat of arms and the
words, liking of Feejee," with the
initials c. r. (Cacobau Rex sur
mounted by a crown. The inter
Tor of the carriage is gorgeously
decorated.
A medical man, discoursing up
on sleep, makes this remark: zone
man may do with a little less sleep
than another; but, as a general
rule, if you want a clerk, q lawyer
a lieutenant, a physician, a legis-
lator, a judge, a president, or q
pastor, do not trust your interests
to any man who does not take on
the average eight good solid hours
of sleep out of every twenty-four
Whatever may b. his reason for-it
if he does not give himself that
he will snap some time just when
you want him to be strong
The Massachusetts, Commits
sioner of Education says that the
diseases incurred during schoo
life prepare many victims for lin
gering illness in later life. Many
troublesome complaints, not of :
perceptibly fatal character are con
tracted at school. Headache
bleeding at the nose, diseases o
the eve and spine, affections of thu
bronchial tubes and lungs, anC
other complaints, are induced o.
! aggravated by the collection o
numerous children in school unde
, unfavorable conditions, as ventil
lation, light, heat, cleanliness ant
exercise. School furniture is re
} sponsible also for much curvatur,
of the spine and short sight.
, The Nation has found, by an in
spection Of the DIRECTORY" of tn
Z last Congress, that of BIT Senator