The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-25
WHAT'S GOING ON.

AS HdHy as 4SyOOO Ic6bCHS nave
'een mailed at st. Louis in q sin
lie day.
A New Yorker, whose name is
Unknown to the public, feeds 200
'oor people every day.
John F. Chamberlain, the Long
Branch gambler, is going to es-
'ablish himself at Washington.
A story is told that before he
was fairly in the clutches of the
law, Boss Tweed embarked for
Europe, but was so seasick that
be returned on the pilot boat from
Sandy Hood.
Michigan has 1865, 900 in the
State Treasury.
Mrs. Admiral Farragut receives
a pension of $500 8 year.
More than a million square
yards of wooden pavement in
Washington City will need res
toration within two years.
Cleveland amuses itself with
spelling schools"
A word to ladies only: 1t is to be
called "underall' instead of
'chemiloon."
In Russia there is a religious
society called the Raskols; in this
country the society is not relig-
ious and the name is spelled
slightly different.
Mr.. Hornsby, of Kentucky, has
invented a cannon before which, he
says, iron clads will disappear like
the "baseless fabric of vision"
Colonel Sam Pike, after having
started thirty four newspapers in
Ohio and Kentucky, has quit the
business.
American gas fixtures Ahave
been introduced into the Imperial
palace at st. Petersburg.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was at
Savannah, Georgia, on the oath
ult.
Five thousand men are now EN-.
ployed on the Centennial build,
ings.
The public printing of the State
of South Carolina has, in three
years, cost $91S, 500.
Burglars are doing uncommonly
well in Chicago this season.
Alex. Stephens will come dow1
on the the Administration with al
his weight, which is eighty
pounds.
For the crime of seduction
Thomas Love, of Rochester, n. Y.
has been sent to the penitentiary
for three years.
Bradlaugh has been lecturing il
Chicago.
Charles S. Hampstead, the old
est licensed lawyer in Illinois
died at Galena last week aged 50
Major William Gentry, late
"People's" candidate for Cover
nor of Missouri, has drowned TIL
memory of his defeat by commit
ting matrimony.
Tom Thumb has become
Knight Templar.
Vic. Woodruff is an invalid an,
a bankrupt.
| Col. Renick reports that in seve
Nebraska counties, 1900 peopl
need aid.
1t is said that Senator Morto
will oppose the financial policy c
the President.
The white-eyed Pomeroy boy
the young Massachusetts murder
er, has been found guilty of mul
der in the first degree, but recon
mended to mercy. He is fiftee
years old.
The Little Rock and Fort Smit
r. r. has been sold under deere
for 81, 900, 900.
Brigham Young is 7G years old
The Cuban forces are now re
ported as well armed with Rem
ington rifles.
A Darien ship canal company
to be formed with a capital c
$IOO,O0O,O0O.
After the 1st of January. all FIRE
passes over the Pennsylvani
railroad will bear photograph G
the "deadhead" on the back.
The first drove of hogs entere,
Chicago in 1926.
Henry Clay Dean owns tel
thousand acres of land in Mis-
souri,.
Narrow gauge railroads are pro
jcted in Ohio, Minnesota and Ore
gon.
Some folks in Iowa want to SEM
old man Harlan back to the Unit
ed States Senate.
Bishop Alemany received S., 900,
for marrying Miss Sharon, tn
San Francisco millionairess.
Massachusetts, Representatives
say that the defeated DR.. Aye
paid $4,000 for his nomination
and non-election. How what have
you yankees got to say about tn,
Rotton commonwealth"
Peace has been so far restored
in Arkansas, that only about five
murders a day are reported from
Little Rock.
The Reformed Episcopal church
now numbers forty ministers, thir
ty-six churches and 5000 commu
nicants.
Another cold residenter," Hon
Baltic Peyton, will probably be
sent to Congress from Tennessee
vice Head, deceased.
And now it is said that the
Hoosac tunnel will have to be
arched with brick and will not be
ready for use until next summer.
The prohibition party in New
Hampshire has made nominations
for State officers and Congressman
to be voted for in March.
1t is said that some of the wo-
men lobbyists who figured in Andy
Johnson's time are again lowering
around Washington.
Mr.. Wright, of Iowa, has intro
duceI q bill in the Senate fixing
the salary of the President. after
the present term, ut $500
Over two thousand counterfeit
tickets have been taken on the
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