The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-21

Pennsylvania in the matter OF IRON
A very fatal cattle disease Is pre-
vailing in the vicinity of Now York.
The San Francisco school board
has discharged g school mistress for
swearing. q 20 -'-
Over five thousand persons are
employed on the Vienna Exposition
buildings. 70 pr, % 4.T ~ 1A1
The shipping tonnage of Lake Su-
periors is to 1be increased twenty
five per cent. .s
The English government has just
launched smother irop-Clad steamer
for the.Dsyy. q tzs 51s.
u; In some partAloF Maine ale tele-
graph wires were stilIicovered with
snow last week. ~ .
Lawrence county, KY, has q
young maa who L. brother-in-law
TO his grandfather. & .a-7EeJ
The Tennessee legislature has
passed a free school law, the frat
the State has ever had.
Galveston thinks she has very
cold weather when the thermometer
is AZ degrees above zero.
Poverty and crime-those twin
sisters-cost England nearly Els
10000 sterling-ssy SS5, 100000.
An immense quarry of the finest
building granite has been discover.
ed within afew mIies or st. Louis.
The Chinese gambling establish
ments OF San Francisco yield $685.
600 annually to the city treasury.
One hundred and fifty thousand
valentines pessed through the Lily
erpool postoffice last st. Valentines
day,
a financial panic was created in
Terre Haute by the bursting of the
Omaha Public Library Lottery
bubble.
Several Illinois wooden mills have
closed out recently, The proprietors
claiming that they were losing mon
ey steadily.
Robert Douglas, son of the late
Stephen A., has been appointed
United States Marshal of North
Carolina.
The Chicago Tribune thinks the
Graphic, the new illustrated New
York paper, is "made up" with a
pictfork.
There are nearly two thousand
children in New York under fifteen
years of age employed in making
paper collars.
or SSS,8l2.90 in burnt and char
red money sent to Washington from
Boston, there was value returned
for all but S522 10.
General Pope predicts quiet and
peace on the frontier this summer.
He says the Indians are disposed to
behave themselves.
1t is estimated that the Heather
Chinese annually send a million and
a half dollars from California to
the fiowery kingdom.
The rumored separation of the
Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise has not been confirmed. 1t
was doubtless a canard.
The Chicago Exposition hangs
fire, all the projectors seeming de-
sirous of sticking their hands into
some other fellows pocket.
Indications are that turf sports
will be unusually lively in all parts
of the country, and especially in the
West, the coming season.
Besides discovering two or three
planets, q Yale Professor has in
vented preparation for deodoriz-
ing boarding house butter.
A new edition Of Mr.. Greeley's
"Recollections of Busy Life, sup.
plemented with an account of his
death and funeral services, is ga
press and will soon be issued.
One hundred cases of measles are
in the town of Meredosia.
ILL.,, all of which have broken out
within three days. No deaths are
reported from the disease as yet.
The tarantulas, spiders, lizards
and snakes of New Mexico kill OF
about 1000 greasers per year, but
don't dampen the enthusiasm for q
new rebellion every few weeks.
Among the last acts passed by the
sd Congress was one authorizing
the erection in Washington of an
equestrian statue to the memory of
Gen. George II. Thomas. go
Eight weeks of the session of the |
Illinois legislature have passed, and |
The Chicago Journal says there is |
to show for it bnt a big hole |
n the State treasury.
The shipments of iron ore from
Lake Superior for 1872 exceeded |
hose of 1871 by 1876 tons, and |
he product of pigiron was 1870
ons greater for the same time.
The volcanoes of the Sandwich
In unpleasant contrast with
he present peaceful condition of
hat kingdom, are in a horrid COM
notion, and areevidently preparing
or q general eruption.
a four years' contract to furnish
{ least lOQ 900, 900 postal cards per
mum for $l.3ST per thousand, has
cen awarded to the Morgan Envei-
pc Company, of Springfield, Mass.
A member of the st. Louis cOun-
y court, elected as q Democrat, has
oined the Republicans, and the
aoss backs of that city are tearing
heir hair and making things blue.
Cranberries are so plenty in st.
'aul that the noses OF two.thirGls of
he citizens partake of the hue of
his fruit. But how do you &C
ount of the red noses in Wichita /?
An Iowa SPECTATOR has stocked 8
Trge farmentireIy with geese with Q
lew to ultimate feather beds, which I
e thinks win answer better than 1
ny other Investment in that climate. Il