The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-27
THE NEWS.
Tom Hood, editor of the London
Fun, died on the Goth.

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The brig MADEIRA has been lost in
he Mediterranean, and several of
ler crew drowned.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad |
sent out its first through train from
Chicago eastward, on the Odd.
The secretary of state has invest
ed 100000, accrued interest on the
Geneva award fund. in United States
bonds.
The New Orleans returning board,
on the sd, completed the city re-
turns, counting the protested boxes
as they were.
The mayor of Philadelphia has
a committee of citizens
to receive contributions for the des-
titnie in Nebraska and Kansas.
A general order has been pro-
malgated from the war department
announcing that recruiting will be
resumed under certain restrictions.
Another 5000 stolen from the
American Express company, at Gin
cinnati, was recovered on the 23d,
in q bed-tick i'm the Hackney house.
During the temporary absence of
their mother two infant children of
Mr.. james, of Greenpoint, Long Is
land, fell from a cradle into an open
fire and were burned TO death.
A woman with a boy answering
the description of the long-lost
Charley Ross, has been traced to st.
GATHERINGS, Ont, by detectives.
The child is in custody, and the wO-
man under arrest.
The grand jury in the Chicago
criminal court has found ninety-two
indictments against gamblers. The
city is infested with burglars, and
robberies are of daily and nightly
occurrence.
The 'longshoremen's strike al
New York remains unchanged. The
number of men Offering continues
very large, and no difficulty is ex'
perienced except from unskillful.
ness nf green hands.
On the 2Ist, near EnGaola, Ala, Q
number of negroes wrecked train
upon which were dozen or more
on their way to Democratic iolli
fication. The engineer and fireman
were badly injured.
Poland, the man who has eXper
fenced '1he freedom of the press,
says he was lately interviewed il
st. Louis by six different reporter
at one time, and that they published
six different packs of lies.
Bishop Dame, lately arrested i,
Southern Utah, ana confined a
Beaver, is being brought to Sal
Lake for safe keeping. lie is charg
ed with being connected with tn
Mountain Meadow massacre.
a heavy gale prevailed in Chica
go since eleven o'clock Sunda,
night, and there are apprehension
for the safety of shipping on tn
lake; but up to l p. III, Monday
there had been no disasters rcpor
ted.
Gail Hamilton seems TO worl
close up TO the edge of duty. Sh
has been writing on "Littl
Brceches." If Gail would furnis
material to make small pair 81
well, she would, of course, be wei
welded to duty.
a man giving the nUme of Mi
chacl Z. Norton, was arrested Of
the 22d, in Jersey City, in his labor
atory, which was supplied wit
dies of American silver coin, fur
mace and a crucible for melting met
ais.
The attorneys for Mr.. Beecher, Of
the 23d, filed in she clerks Office O
the Brooklyn city court n notice o
appeal from the order of the gene
raj term, denying the motion for
bill of particulars in the Tilton suit
An unsuccessful attempt wa
made on the night of the Dist, t
murder NJ. Il. Gerdy, sheriff of 81
Mary's parish, La. Gerdy was call
ed up out of bed and fired at through
a window, but only slightly woun
ded. No arrest.
The Taxpayers and business mel
of the District of Columbia ar
signing a petition to congress ask
ing that the district be governed di
rectly by congress, through commits
sioners, without a popular election
of any officer whatever.
a row occurred at a hOrsc-race
at Marshfield, Mo, on the ODD, il
which a young man named McCary
was shot and instantly killed. She
Alsup, sheri1-elect of Douglas
county, aud Tom. Layton, also Of
Douglas, are under arrest, charged
with the crime.
\ new dodge of the SHOWERS Of
the queer" is TO take a counterfeit
ten and genuine, cut them in two
FASTING the one-half of a genuine
bill and the half of counterfeit TO.
gether. The operation necessarily
gives the bill thus produced a rag.
ged appearance, and is very well
calculated to deceive any one not
taking particular notice.
The anti-secret society agitators,
in convention at Chicago, resolved
to ruinany newspaper which should
refuse to lend them the gratuity OF
its columns for the spread of their
cause. Suppose now they resolve
to ruin the grocer who objects to
donating them each sack of flour
when they arc hungry?
"rhe course of true loye never
did run smooth" and Christopher
Smith, of Cincinnati, now langnish-
es in dungeon. Christoper wo'ed
and won the daughter of an opulent
merchant, but alas for the bright
hopes of youth, she was only 10, and
the law did not permit Evangeline
Maria 10 marry until she was of age.
What could the young man do!
lie could not lie; TO beg he was
ashamed; but love, which laughs at
locksmiths, came to his aid; so he
told his Dnlcinea to put the figures
eighteen in each of her shoes, and
stand thereupon. Happy thought