The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25


The navy department is informed
that there is no abatement of the
yellow fever at Pensacola. The
commandant at the navy yard,
Charles L. Franklin, a native Of
Ohio, died on the 18th, and Capt.
Slemmer, executive officer, is down
with the disease.
Henry B. st. Marie, who captured
John ii. Surratt, died in Philadel-
pha recently. He had received
$4,000 from the government for
that service, and at the time of his
death had a suit in the United
States supreme court for the re-
mainder of the S25, 900 reward offer
ed.
President Grant, Secretary Belk-
nap, General Sherman and many
prominent officers have signified
their intention of being present at
the eighth annual reunion of the
Army of Tennessee, at Springfield,
ILL.,, on the 14th and 18th of Ooto-
Der. The annual address will be
delivered by Gen. S. A. Hurlbut.
A dispatch frem Madison, Wis
consin. September 18th, says $4,000
worth of diamonds were stolen
from the family of Mr.. Clay, of St.
Louis, relative of Henry Clay, by
a servant girl named Mary Lurey,
night before last. She and her hus-
band were arrested yesterday and
taken to jail, searched, and the jew
els found on her husband.
A dispatch from Montgomery,
Ala, says: This town has been
crowded with negroes to-day draw
ing rations in accordance with the
act of Congress appropriating $780,
600 for the relief of those made des-
titute by the overflow of the Tom
bigbe and Alabama rivers last
March and April. Crops here are
finer than for several years past,
and the whites who suffered by the
overflow are not drawing any ra-
tions, leaving all to the negroes,
many of whom Are drawing who do
not live within fifty miles of the
rivers.
1t is now thought that the grain
crop in Minnesota has been greatly
over estimated. A large num-
Der of letters has recently
been received from grain men
in various parts of the state,
and nearly every one of them con-
tain contradiction of the early
estimates in regard to the extent of
the wheat crop. 1t is alleged that
the general yield will fall very far
below the published estimates of the
gentlemen who have given the mat
ter attention. The crop in the near
vicinity of st. Paul is reported
heavier than anywhere else in the
state, and the threshing machines
are already dispelling the expecta-
lions of total crop of 25,O00,OO0
bushels in Minnesota for the year
1874. ~
The Episcopal Conve ntion of the
Diocese of Illinois has chosen a can
didate for Bishop in the person of
Prof. Geo. +. Seymour. The 7ari-
ed experiences of this gentlemen in
ecclesiastical works sho W him to be
we'll qualified to act as the success
or of the lamented Bishop White
house. The convention should be
congratulated upon the delicate,
speedy, and satisfactory manner in
which it has discharged its duty of
providing the Diocese of Illinois
with a candidate for the Bishopric
who is comparatively youthful, and
Yet whose youth is ripe with the
wisdom of lifelong and arduous eff
forts in the cause of the Church.
The National Lumbermen's Asso-
citation, which convened at East
Saginaw, Mich, last week, conclud-
ed that the Canadian Reciprocity
treaty would be bad thing for the
interests of Iumbermen, as we'll as
for those of the whole country. 1t
was further decided that the lum Der |
market was overstocked, and that it |
was necessary to reduce the manu-
of stock for the coming |
season at least One-third below |
what it has been during the last two
years. If this view of the matter is
taken by the majority of the lum-
ber-makers, we may reasonably
look for advance in price.
Woman suffrage in Iowa has re-
ceived a ''boost" from the Metho-
dist conference which was in SEES
sion for several days at Des
MONIES, closing on the 18th. A
.arge number of woman appealed
to it by petition for the moral sup
port of an opinion in favor of the
for their sex. The ma
ority report of the committee to
whom the petition was referred,
while acknowledging the worth
md power of woman, thought the
question was political and not &C.
and therefore not a
matter To be acted upon by the
The minority report
leld that women ought to have the
light of suffrage; a view in which
.he conference joined by adopting
hat report. The women of Iowa
nave obtained no ordinary verdict
rom this reverend body.
Until every citizen, be he black or ,
white, Republican or Democrat, is .
Is safe in the South as he is in the
North, the Republican party has a
mission that no other party can fill.
Bloomington Ill.) Leader. II
A little fellow who tumbled into I
! pond, but managed 10 crawl out