The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-09
THINGS.

Legal tenders outstanding, $751;
317,38l.
Gladstone's age is 63, and DIsra
ellis 67.
A scarcity of seamen is noted at
San Francisco.
All of the San Francisco hotels are
crowded to repletion.
The cotton crop of Texas this last
season is estimated at S20,0OO,O0O.
New Hampshire's manufacturing
profits for 1872, were worth ST. ,OOO,-
600.
London supports 10000 paupers,
one in twenty-eight of her popula-
ton.
Condensed peat fuel is now offer
ed in England as substitute for
coal.
Texas has six newspapers devoted
to Religion, Temperance, Masonry,
and Odd Fellowship.
a correspondent of the Liver
pool Post thinks the wheat crop of
1873 will be the shortest one upon
record.
Lady Burdett Coutts supports a
sewing school of 200 pupils in Spit
altields, and night school in Shore
ditch.
By yetOing one little bill provid-
ing for extensions, Gov. Hartran fit,
of Pennsylvania, wiped out 1922
private bills.
Sundry bootblacks about Court
Square, Boston, make from SIS 10
S25 a week, aud have hundreds OF
dollars in the savings banks.
The people of Portland have sub.
scribed for G000 copies of a PAM
phlet on the resources of Oregon,
| for free distribution. Other sub.
scriptions for the same object are to
be made.
The Parisians, who have 10 ewes
for the sun that has set, are now
nearly unanimous in the expression
of the opinion that Louis Napoleon
was pompOus humbug and poliri.
cal charlatan. They should have
found that out before Sedan; but
up to tibet untoward event he was Il
great man.
In Paris recently there were nc
less than IL suicides in one day
i've of them women, from uufortu-
nate attachments. When women
| love without return they take to
laudanum; when men do, they take
to liquor. Death cures one-drunk.
enness the other; which is the ex.
act difference between the sexes.
The Sacramento Record advances
a very probable theory to explain
the reason why the Modocs muir.
dered General Candy. Among the
majority of Indian tribes, the fall oil
chief is the signal for the flight OF
his followers, and, reasoning from
analogy, they supposed that if they
could only kill the chief white Off
GERS the troops would at once dis
perse and leave them masters of the
| field
Many attempts have been made to
re-roll Bessemer steel rails, with q
poor result, but it is claimed that
this important feat has just been
accomplished at the Elmira Rolling.
mills. The Elmira Advertiser goes
into ecstacies over the fact, and well
it may, if time should prove the
process to be a perfect success. The
great end is said to have been eff.
fected by the use of some patent
fiuX. We trust that it may prove q
permanent fact, and that the rail
rolled may be by no means the last.
The work of the East Tennessee
Zinc company at Morsy Creek,
, Tenn, ari TO be sold on April 80, at
Morristown. They were erected to
manufacture oxide of zinc from
carbonate and silicate ores abundant
in that region, with coke as fuel.
This proved failure and the COM
pany then commenced importing
anthracite from Pennsylvania. This
would not pay. The true cause OF
failure was the want of little COM
mon sense, and perhaps to much
theoretical science. 1t is by no
means the first instance where lab :
oratory experiments have failed to
work on large scale.