The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-23
GENERALITIES.
n Mormon elder from Utah is AT
Saratoga ION mission

iSan, is visiting relatives in Bed
ford, Vt.
1t cost $S,7SI,9i5 to support the
poor of London last year.
A New Orleans church had a
baby show to raise money to pay.
the pastor.
An oswego doctor recently gave
a prescription with directions to
take q spoonful every three years
/ Congressman }. Ii. Sloss, of AL,
ALBANIA, has devoted his extra back
pay to the poor people of his dis
! trict,
| The Rev Mr.. Hay. of Des
Moines, Iowa, has a wife who is
physician and daughter who is
studying law.
4 Brigham YouAgc says that he
planted himself NJ Salt Lake in IS47.
with 40 souls, and though sur
rounded by Indians, he had no
trouble with them.
a fossil specimen of the extinct
dodo, a bird of immense size and
peculiar formation, has been found
in the gypsum mines at Fl. Dodge.
1t has been bought by an English
man as Il gift! To the British mu-
| scum.
/ An assessor in San Bernardo
! asked Il woman how many chick
ems she had, and, doubling her
word, proceeded to count them.
She took him to the hee-hive.
kicked it over, and invited him 60
count the bees.
| Replying to an official inquiry. n
county clerk in Virginia has sent
word to the State capital that his
county ''never, up to this time, has
been afflicted with resident notary
public, lawyer, or preacher, and for
twenty years has been without a
! DOCTOR
Mark Twain, few months after
his first baby wos born, was holding
it on his knee. His wife said "Now
confess, Samuel, that you love the
child" Il can't do that" replied the
humorist, "but l am willing to adj
NIT that | respect the little thing
for its fathers sake.
a Connecticut mother learned of
her daughters contemplated eIope-
mept, and on the night appointed
| for the flight she put some lauda-
| mum in the girls tea. The latter
fell asleep aud did not wake up un-
til the next morning, and in the
meantime Romeo got tired OF wait
ing and went home Disguised. Ilc
goes with another girl now.
a guest Mt the mansion-ln any
other country il would be called The
palacc--of the late Samuel Colt
noticed that tho gas was burning all
over the house. Great chambers
unoccupicd, large halls and stately
corridors, were blazing like the day.
. \ OH are eNtravagant with your
gas said The stranger to the butler,
who was showing him the house.
Perhaps so, was the reply, "but
the colonel owns the gas works, and
we like TO patroniZe him.
The Sugar Planter, of Baten
Rouge. La, expresses the opinion,
derived from observation and from
information received, that never
crops of sugar cane promised so
finely. The cane is now well up in
the fields and, contrary to expecta-
tons, the long rains had not at ali
injured the seed III the mats and
winrows. All the indications there
fore point to n prosperous season for
the Louisiana sugar cane planters.
Lottery dealers say that none of
the tickets bearing numbers from
one to fifty ever come to the United
States from llavanna. Number one
is the exclusive property of eX-
Queen Isabella of Spain, who has
bought il every drawing for the past
twenty years. Spanish grandees
and Havana merchants monopolize
the other small numbers, in the hope
that luck will change at last, none
of these numbers having ever drawn
a considerable prize.
Parties engaged in the iron busi-
ness at Cleyeland, are bailding
barges aud will hereafter tow their
iron ore from Lake superior in these
cheap freight carrying crafts and
not depend upon sailing vessels for
their supplies. Buffalo parties are
doing the same thing, and will soon
have their barges ready for service.
The fact is, the barge system is be-
coming popular, because it is more
relia Bile as to time and cheaper in
the long run than the old system
of sailing.
The total internal revenue receipts
for the month of April were 81 ,56G.-
400 %; the total receipts for April,
:.
receipts from all sources for the first
four months of 1872 were SII,0Ij,-
936, and for the first four months OF
the present year so .094 500. There
seems 10 be no doubt that the estf-
mated receipts for the present fiscal
wear, namely, 10000, 600, will be
fully realized. The receipts already
amount TO over 500, 000,0 900, with
two months remaining of The fiscal
year.
The Farmers Milk Company, the
new organization with 100000 cap
ital FOR disposiHg eff the farmer
milk in New York City without the
aid of Iniddlemen, has started bust
ness in Connecticut. This is one of
the most important enterprises to
the farmers OF The Housatonic,
Shepang and Naugatuck valleys that
has ever been undertaken. IL il
succeeds as its projectors anticipate,
| the milk distributing business in
New York City. will go into the
hands of an honest company, con-
trolled by the farmers themselves.
Thirty thousand Highland pines,
or Scotch frs, have been shipped
| from Dundee, Scotland, TO this
country, TO be planted in the arid
plains west of the Mississippi. The
Highland pine is very hardy. and of
rapid growth. and believed to be
well suited to the peculiar country
| for which it is destined. Whether
or not it is the beet species of tree
for the plains, it is generally con-
coded by all who have examined
this vast region, which exceeds in
| its waste area all The occupied land
of the Eastern States, that for
est planting il all that is needed to
restore the humidity Of climate that
will turn what the old biographies
called the Great American Desert
into arniling gradeR.
EsE on. A REcEIrT.-In q city
not thousand miles from this 10
caitty, there lives Il lawyer, crafty,
subtle, and cute as fox.
An Indian Of the Choctaw tribe.
kiser, by name, owed him some
money. The lawyer hal waited
long for the tin. His patience at
last gave out, and he threatened
the Indian with law suits, process
ses and executions The poor
Choctaw got scared and finally
brought the money to his creditor.