The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-16
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III "A QenSe log cuNeIQpeu NeN
! York harbor on Friday night an,
Saturday afternoon. -
The United States steamer Sa
ranae arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu, on Saturday.
s. The steamer Eliba, from Coo
Bay for San Francisco, is reported
! lost with all on board.
{ A splint basket factory at Ra
cine, Wisconsin, turns out ovel
! 1000 dozen baskets per unnuIn,,, ! /.
A pillow factory is to he estab
lished at Millington, H., 20 furnish
plows for the grangers of thai
State. ae
Three men were suffocated by
coal gas in the cabin of a German
vessel at Wilmington, N. c., on
Friday night.
| A stranger is reported to have
frozen to death in the waiting
room of the railroad depot al
Hamburg, Iowa. a1fe
/ A cannon, weighing fifty six
thousand pounds, of the Bevan
pattern, is being mounted on Fort
/ Carol. Md. ,t1eaH .
| The agents of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company at San Fran
cisco state that the steamer China
is not overdue. 5
Brigham Young's cannon facto-
ry has turned out ninety eight
pieces of artillery, and he has
1900 stand of arms.
DR.. Larry Marsh, one of the
delegates from England to the
Evangelical Alliance, is detained
at Richmond, Va, by illness.
Col. Samuel w. Owen, well
known in military circles at Wash
ington, D. c., died in that city on
Friday night,aged forty-nine years.
The City Council of Yeddo,
japan, has passed an ordinance
directing all children to be labell-
ed with their parents names and
residence.
In the United States Circuit
Court of Trenton, on Saturday,
the patent pavement suit of Gui-
Diet VS.. Barbes was decided in IA
vor of the former.
Maggie Jordan recently on trial
in New York for aiding in the es-
cape of the murderer Sharkey
from the Tombs, has been releas-
on $4,000 bail.
The fourteenth annual meeting
of the National Educational AS
ISOLATION will be held at Detroit,
Michigan, on the 4th, 9Th and 9th
of next August.
During the month of December,
1873, the United States Treasury
disbursed &c., 900, exclusive of
the interest and principal of the
National debt.
The Baltimore ladies are pre-
pairing to hold a bazaar for the
benefit Of the poor. Some of the
most noted social leaders are in
terested in the movement.
A large number of members of
Congress arrived in Washington
on Saturday. Those from the
west report the trains running
regularly On all the roads.
The fund for the families of
Professor Promoter, of Geneva,
and Rev. a. Carraca, of Madrid,
lost on the Vile du Havre now
amounts to four thousand dollars.
In Cincinnati, B. D. Rogers,
bookkeeper of the firm of Samuel
Davis, Jr., & Co., has been arrest
ed on the charge of embezzIing
$4,000 of his employers money.
Prentice's hat factory in Brook
lyn-which suspended operation
during the panic-resumed work
on the 9Th inst. Five hundred
persons are employed at this es-
tablishment.
The internal revenue receipts
on Saturday amounted to $347, 705,
making the total receipts $780,
534, for the month, and $49,022,-
$50 for the current fiscal year to
date.
1t is reported from Corinne,
Utah, that Colonel Chapman,
president of the Portland, Dallas
& Salt Lake railroad, has located
the terminus of the road at Co
rhine.
| The striking locomotive engi-
neers on the jefferson, Madison &
Indianapolis railroad still hold
out, and assert that they will not
resume work until all their de.
mands are complied with.
Star buttons are the latest
They are about the size of a silver
dollar and are made of bone, the
star being raised. On the red
ingote these new buttons are ex-
pected to show to great advantage
The unfortunate Spanish iron
clad Arapiles was fioated on Sat
urday from off the mud-bank OF
which she had grounded the pre-
ceding day. A dense fog prevent
ed the receiving of her armament
The sixty survivors OF the Vir
ginius, on examination of Unitet
States District Attorney Bliss
: agreed in their statements tina
they had no knowledge that tn
vessel was on filibustering ex
petition.
John W. Norton, formerly 81
perintendent of the money orde
: department of the New York pos
.. office, has been committed on tn
: charge of embezzling moneys en-
trusted to him in his official CO
a pacity.
l The Congressional committee
E having in charge the formation c
f a plan for the disposition of th
e Geneva award are so divided
: opinion that it is exceedingl
: doubtful if they submit any prop
5 osition at all.
2 A cargo of torpedoes arrived ,
u New York on Friday, from Ens
land. They were ordered for ha
. Dor defenses duriug the receI
7 7 trouble with Spain, and viii
unloaded at Willett's Point, an
;, carefully preserved sa
.e Andrew Donan surrendere
If himself to the New York polit
le on Friday last. stating that he BE-
appropriated $4,000 belonging
his employers, Radake Il CO.,
~ Austin, Texas. He is now penn
: less and wishes to be sent HON
,r Captain Louis L. Forrest, wh