The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-17

The Arkansans are trying to
patch up their dilapidated consti-
tuition.
The Carlists party, OF Spain. have
been shooting some foreign cores
pondents as spies.
The Republicans defeated the
Carlists in an engagement near
Bilboa one day last week.
A destructive fire occurred al
Streator, Illinois, on the 18th inst.
Loss about 100000.
Gov. Caldwell, of North Caro-
lima, died of cholera morbus on
the 18th inst.
A man in Andrew county, Mis-
souri,, killed another with club in
q quarrel about a gale in u division
fence.
David Brown, a saloon keeper Of
St. Joe, suicided Tuesday morning.
The same day Mrs. Allison
dropped dead on the sidewalk
woman of McConneIlsyiIIe, Pa,
laboring under a fit of insanity
killed her husband, and almost
killed two of her children.
Congress refused to extend any
patents on sewing machines.
The ladies ought to extend vote
of thanks.
The railroad property of Mis-
souri,, which has heretofore been
assessed at about SIT, 100000 is
| this year put up to $5O,OO0,OOO.
J. H. Diggs & Co, wholesale
dealers of New York, have suspen-
ded business, with liabilities of
100000.
a letter from Ohio informs us that
the greatest drOuth known there for
twenty years, is now prevailing, or
was at the time the letter was written.
All the late crops and vegetables were
almost destroyed.
John Mitchell, the famous Irish pa
triot and exile, is making arrange
ments to return to Ireland to become n
candidate for the British Parliament.
Nearly $4,000 have been collected in
this country to defray his expenses.
A young man tried TO assassinate
Prince Bismark while lac was driv-
ing in the country last Monday.
The ball grazed his wrist. The
populace were wild, AMI threatened
to lynch the young man.
President Grant has made one
appointment which seems to give
universal satisfaction Everybody
is pleased with the appointment OF
Mr.. Dennison as the head of the
government for the District of Co.
lumbia.
The tax payers of Washington
have formed league for the pur-
pose ofprotecting their rights in
the time to come, as well as to
prosecute the officers who have
heretofore illegally collected and
expended their money.
James P. Everett, deputy Il. S.
Marshal, was found dead in the
road near Lynchburg, Tennes see,
last Sunday morning. He had
been shot twice in the head. The
Murderer is unknown.
The oil depot at Weehawken,
New Jersey, took fire last Saturday
night, and burned all day Sunday,
consuming the depot and other
surrounding buildings, all the
tanks, cooper shops, a number OF
cars, several barges and lot OF
cord wood. 1t is estimated that
10000 barrels of oil were burned.
The burning oil ran out into the
river and burned away a part OF
the piers and trestle work of the
wharf. The loss is estimated at
| 100000.
The Cuban insurgents and
Spaniards are trying to comprom-
ise- Two Venezuelan gentlemen.
who have been with the insurgents
for two years are trying to secure 4
reconciliation.
Mrs. Walsh dedicated the great
bridge at st. Louis on the Fourth
by pouring upon it, out of a silver
pitcher, waters from the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, the Gulf of Mexico
the lakes and Mississippi river
saying:
"With the waters of the Allan.
tic, the Pacific, the Gulf, the lakes
and the Mississippi COMMUNICATED
emblematic of the union effected
by their mighty spans-T christen
this structure, the Illinois and St
Louis bridge, and invoke the bles.
sings of the Almighty upon it, its
builders and the commerce to which
it is henceforth aud forever dedicat.
ed".