The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-10


fall, and owners and pickers are
preparing for the harvest.
The Attorney General of Ar
kansas has Withdrawn the sui
against Governor Baxter, and the
Governor issued his order dis
banding the MALTA of the State
The trial of a new hydraulic
cotton press, known as the Taylor
press, took place in Charleston, S
! C., 3 few days ago. It turned oui
about seventy-five bales Of cotton
per hour.
Admiral Winslow, u. S. N, who
commanded the Kearsarge when
she sunk the Alabama, died at his
residence in Boston Highlands
on Monday evening. He had been
i'll for a year.
Some of the villages along the
New York and Oswego Midland
railroad, it is said, are bonded to
the extent Of 80 per cent. on their
assessed valuation.
A Washington special says the
Southern Claims Commission will
report three thousand adjudicated.
1t is expected that the aggregate
will reach 81 100000.
Two young ladies OF La Cros sc
were standing by a ditch thirteen
feet wide, which they didn't know
how to cross, when their escort
said Snakes" and they cleared it
at bound.
The "burnt district" in Chicago
is rapidly rebuilding. Since the
beginning Of last year fifty-six
persons have built sixty-five
houses, some of them handsome
ones, and have expended 1926, 900.
The Texas papers are making
merry at the expense Of a young
city man who bought q fine or
chard of two hundred apple trees
in Stuben county, and tapped ev-
cry one of them in order to secure
a supply of cider.
The power of women is finely
illustrated in the case of q Ken
lucky girl, who firted With a loco
motive engineer, and SO distracted
his attention that he neglected the
boiler, and an explosion occurred,
killing three men.
the telegraph line to the top of
Pixies Peak has been completed,
and competition opened with
Washington. A stene house will
at once be erected on the summit
for the use Of the signal officers,
four of whom will be stationed
there during the winter.
The supreme court Of Illinois
has decided that telegraph COM
panies are bound to transmit mes
sages correctly in the first instance,
and that an additional charge for
repeating to insure correctness is
fraud upon the public. A similar
decision has been given in Ohio.
A Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch
says 1000 of the heaviest and
most prominent provision and live
stock dealers AMI packers from all
parts Of the Union, representing
twenty-five million dollars, partici.
pated in a meeting and cattle
show, Wednesday. A banquet
was held in the evening, A regu-
lar association was organized.
1.-THE Unity of the Republic" is
the title of 8 new lecture which
Senator Sumner is to begin deliv-
ering in 2 few weeks. He has
been engaged preparing it during
the summer, and will deliver it al
Springfield, and then at Boston
October 81. It is stated that, from
that till the meeting of Congress
he will lecture four or FIVE times in
q week.
Here is q Caucasian newspaper
with q vengeance. The BirminR
ham Ala News says: "This il
a white mans paper, edited by 1
white man, printed by a white man
paid for by q white man, support
ed by white men, and il support
no man for Office who refuses t;
stand squarely upon the platform
i that this is q white mans country
and q heritage to him and his chill
dren forever"
4 A wicked attempt was made
few nights ago, to blow up q schoo
house In Houston, Pa, with gun
powder, the evident intention be
ing to destroy the lives Of tn
members Of q Lodge Of Goo
Templars, then in session in tn
building. A can Of gun-poWde
was exploded under the building
which was slightly lifted from il
foundation, but no person Wa
harmed,
It is rumored that Henry {
. Bowen has sold the Brooklyn On
, ion, and that he has made som
negotiations for the sale Of tn
Independent, with 9 view to q PEI
: manent residence, with his famil
in Europe. The purchasers Of Cd
Union are stated to be Benjami
, f. Tracy, ex-U. S. District AttoI
u ney; James Jordan, Police Pres
dent; William Richardson, Alder
J man Of the Twenty-second WarC
Controller Shredder, John r. HeE
and others, who have purchase
9 controlling interest and made
. stock company.
n The Governor Of Mississippi
! has issued his proclamation d
] lclaring his belief in the recer
& topinion Of Attorney General No
q ris, that under the constitution a
!. election can be held until NoYen
! beE 1874, when CongressneI
b State officers and members Of Cd
fl Legislature viii be elected. 3
]. appeals to the people Of the Stat
: and enjozns on all officers Of th
= State in the several counties, {
= aid him in carrying into prsc4ics
4 effect the provisions Of the Coz
. stitution bearing upon this moi
g important question. The RfIo
e Ame4 organ, deaounees the Or.
; clamstion as ineendiaEy and rev.
tlutionary.