The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The nine furnaces at Pittsburgh
produce 100000 tons of iron annu-
ally.
The franking fraud has led an
untroubled existence of ninety-one
years.
The penalty for using postage
stamp the second time, if discover
ed, is $50 fine.
There is some talk of removing
the capital of Georgia back to Mil
legeville again.
In Oregon, since the commence
ment of the Modoc war. bald headed
men are subjects of envy.
1t is discoHraging to be Informed
that the hemp trade in central Ken
lucky is exceedingly duh.
Reavis, the capital mover, has
again let loose book upon the I'M
fortunate denizens of ST. Louis.
Cleveland is suffering from a
strike of the coal miners in the Ma
honing and Tuscarawas valleys.
Farmers in Texas are trying to
held the pillow, but as general
thing their teams are too strong for
them.
Cincinnati made I1.O38,S29 proof
gallons Of whisky in 1872, nearly
all of which was used for home con.
sumption.
Texas has sent man TO Europe
to invite the people to come over
and sup with the long horns and
tarantulas.
Another man in Massachusetts
has been embracing a circular saw.
He will not do it again in this
world.
Mr.. Edward u. Morgan, one OF
the oldest bankers IN Louisville, has
closed out his business there, and
will remove to California.
The House Banking Currency
Com mittee have decided 10 report a
bill increasing the currency $1,000,
coo per annum for five years.
A case in Hartford, Conn, is re-
ported of lady giving birth to one
child on the 18th and another one
on the 18th of the same month.
The Holly Water Works, which
have cost Columbus. Ohio, SJJ0,OOO.
or about double the original esti-
mate, are already failure.
A servant girl at Milwaukee,
while scrnbbing the front door
steps few days ago, froze both
bands so badly as 10 require ampu-
tation.
Hon. N. Bushnell, of Quincy, I'LL
nois, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee of the Illinois House OF
Representatives, died a few days
ago.
The two wives OF Memphis man
have just become cognizant of each
others existence, after % years of
matrimonial participation.
A wealthy citizen of Newport re-
Gently made a bequest of $4,000 for
the benefit OF "those who are too
proud to beg and too honest to
steal.'
The ice supply for next summer
promises to be abundant in Mime
sofa, if housekeepers can get refrig-
orators to hold cakes sixteen feet
thick.
People living along the Toledo s.
Wabash railroad show a disposition
to test the State railroad law by re-
fusing to pay the full fare de-
manded.
A Philadelphia murderer, named
Patrick Smith, has been found
guilty, though numerous experts
testified that he was of unsound
mind. The world moves.
There is family at Newark, N.
j., whose members are dying off
from sheer excess of fat. One of
the children, aged Is, recently re-
turned to $50 pounds of dust.
A recreant husband in Patterson,
N. j., has been compelled to pay 81
weekly for the wife's support, the
court having refused TO recognize a
divorce which he procured in Indi-
ana.
Mayor Medin, of Chicago, is unan
Imousiy upheld by the press and all
good citizens of that city, In his con-
test with the rule of boards and
bummers, and thus far has come out
triumphant.
There are so many lunatics in Vir-
GINA that all the asylums are filled. |
When q man goes crazy now, he is |
Kept in Jail until another lunatic |
lies, when he is admitted to va
ant place in the ass lum.
The Patrons of Husbandry in
county, claim Il at during |
he six months preceding Septem-
Der. 1872, the members of that order
II the State of Iowa saved on ship
nents and purchase S500,OO0.
The Governor of Wisconsin rec
In his late message the
prohibition of la:rs al which there
S rafting" for religious an beney-
lent objects, on the ground that
hey have a tendency 10 encourage
The fTnit-growers of the Brighton
district, Macoupin co., ILL.,, report
each buds ali killed and the trees
eriOusly injured by cold.
A Dodge county (Nebraska) far
Ter claims the champion potatoe
rop of the west. Last season he
.fsed loo bushels on quarter OF !
n acre.
Snakes get away with 10000 peo-
lie every year, in India, aud this
Oes not include the species thai are i
,nnd in boots. t