The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-27
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS

Parties are shipping wheat from
Denver to Texas for seed.
A California farmer is killing on
his squirrels by scattering Jumps OF
phosphorus in his wheat fields.
Seven or eight frame business
houses in the town of Moberly,
Mo-, were burned on Monday
night. Loss about $4,000.
Business men arc penetrating the
interior of Arizona. Everything
betokens bright opening OF Inc
spring and prosperous season.
A pure quality of alum is found
in large quantities, IN the form Oh
demonstrations, on the rocks near
Lancha Plana, Amador county, Cal.
A man named Franklin Freder-
lex has been arrested in chester
county, charged with a burglary
committed some fifteen years since
in Pottstown.
Four hundred morocco dressers
of LYNN, Mass, are preparing 10
strike because their employers re-
fused to accede to their demands
for increased pay.
The steamer Edgar Stewart was
seized by the United States Mar
shall at Baltimore on Monday, upon
a libel for seamen's wages. The
captain claims that $500 is due him,
and smaller amounts to the seamen.
A fire occurred on Monday night
in the building Nos. 2O9 and I'll
Washington street, New Hork, &C.
cupied by various parties, causing
damage to the extent of S2O,OOO.
Peter McGovern, a vagrant, was
burned to death, and John +. Algo
was fatally injured by fall.
A correspondent who has adopt.
cd all the patented preparations and
popular receipts for preserving
leather prefers castor oil to all OF
them. He adds: eve hare had
boots q year old that we have oiled
with il, and the leather was soft,
smooth and waterproof to the last
time they were used. We apply 1t
clear, without heat"
The case of the United States
against +. G. Barnes, formerly col
hector of internal revenue in the
Ninth Kentucky district, was con-
cluded in the United States District
Court at Louisville on Monday, and
resulted in verdict against Barnes
and his sureties for 100000, the
amount due the government. Will
lam E. Without, formerly deputy
collector under Barnes and his sue
cessor as collector, was recently ar
rested.
Curious Illustration of the pro-
gress of enlightenment in the mod
ern days is afforded by the slight
respect paid to ceremonial tradition
at the court of Japan. The Emper-
or and Empress of that country left
.Jeddo, on the 18th of December, al
most suddenly for Yokohama in 3
saloon carriage attached to an or
binary train. Their Majesties re-
turned by sea on board q yacht es-
corted by six war vessels. That
was the first time that ancient i'm
perial custom had been so openly
set ut naught. The Empress sc ms
DESTROYS to appear everywhere, that
her presence may aid in the devel.
opment of the recently imported
civilization, and particularly on the
application of better system of
education.
The Scranton (Penn.) Republican
says: son Saturday afternoon q
miner named Martha Loughery,
working in No. 10 mine of the
Pennsylvanla Coal Company's
works at Pittston, while in the act
of breaking a massive piece OF coal
which he had dislodged, discovered
imbedded in the center of II what
appeared TO be small wooded box
OF an oblong shape. Upon touch
inc the box il crumbled into dust
like a fungus and disclosed q cop
per whistle, having q flint mouth
piece, and in all other respects
shaped like an ordinary tin whistle.
The miner frightened IL up, applied
it to his mouth and made IL sound,
doubtless for the first time in Gen.
turtles. The spot where IL lay Is
about one hundred feet beneath the
surface of the earth.
A PREACHER Orr or HIS OCcU-
PArIoN.-A writer in a paper at
Newburyport, Mass, mourns the
religious degeneracy of the times
and relates tho following: There
Is a bitter sarcasm in the story told
of a minister on our seaboard,
which, though very likely to be
hypothetical, has q terrible uuder.
current of truth. 1t is said that in
the afternoon services he found but
j.. La.,lc,I of hoarera the rest hav-
ING zone on a steamer excursion for
pleasure. He entered the pulpit
and said thus. as the story goes;
my hearers, have brought a SER
mon. but It is useless to preach Il.
find my duties as minister very
much simplihed; the times have
changed: there is but one virtue tod
be recommended, and that is mon
ey; hut one sin to be rebuked, and
that Is poverty, so you see nay oc-
cupation is gone, the ministry is
played out, and must go TO iarm-
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