The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
President Grant and family 90 tc


President Grant and family go to
Long Branch Juue 4th.
The grasshoppers are invading
Illinois, and the east is getting
scared.
On the Goth, the Chicago Whites
beat the st. Louis Browns o to 4.
Chicago felt happy again.
w. w. Embry was released on
the Gath inst, on a bond OF $1,000.
]. e. Stone. NJ. w. Delahsy, G. II.
Miller, q. r. Jennison and Joseph
Clarke are HE securities.
The Winfield Courier proposes to
cut of the west end of Kansas, at
the line of Peace and Ellsworth, and
let that become a territory. This
would leave the State about 200
miles square.
Col. Anthony continues to i'm
prove, aud the doctors now kindly
allow him two chanc hes in five for
recovery. Our hope expressed at
first, that "his pluck will beat death
and the doctors" is very likely to
be verified.
And now platinum is said to
largely exist in the Black Hills.
The best point to leave the railroad
and get to them by wagon is at
GhaUanna II 20 M InnhA a aoo0
as the Government permits, an i'm
mense rush of miners will begin.
Gen. Sherman's biography, just
out, is one of the most interesting
books published in a long time.
His first real experience in war was
at the battle of Bull Run. He treats
of various other parties besides
himself is very free in his opinions.
and has written very entertainins
work.
Rains have fallen in Pennsylvania
and extinguished the many great
fires in the woods in Pike, Wayne,
Sullivan and Monroe counties.
Hundreds of saw mills have been
destroyed. Wild game of all kinds
has been driven into the cleared
land, and herd with the cattle in
their enclOsu in the Lackawana
region.
Mr.. Whittle, who was business
manager of the Elgin watch COM
pany, resigned his position last year
and in company with q musical
man named Bliss, started ont to get
up religious reYivals. They have
had great success in Detroit, Pitts
burg, Louisville, Lexington, Gin
cinnati and Nashville, and are now
going to wake up Memphis.
Grasshoppered settlers on gov
ernment claims In Kansas are to be
allowed an extension of time of
payment whether they have left
their claims or stuck to them. Those
whose crops were destroyed or SER
iOusly injured in 1874, will be en-
titled To an extension of one year
from and after July 1, 1875, and
when the injury occurs in 1876 the
extension will date from July l,
1876.
The Kansas Centennial commit
zee met at Topeka on the 18th and
18th. Kansas is to have n building
by itself, SO that 1t can show all its
articles together. The committee
will offer two premiums of $50 and
S25 respectively for the first and
second best display of grain and
grasses in stalk, consisting of wheat,
oats, rye, barley, timothy, clover
AJAX, ETC., under such rules as it de- g.
ignates. Geo. T. Anthony is chair
man of the committee.
Three years ago, Fishback & Co.,
paid $456,00O for the st. Louis
Democrat, and retired Messrs. Nc
Kee q Houser, who started the
Globe, and waged bitter war on the
Democrat Last week they pur-
chased the latter paper for $500, 900,
anu EOloAuCO OWA CuLtOE1dl
corps. The consolidated paper is
called the Globe-Democrat Be-
sides losing S156,OOO it is said Fish
back u Co., sunk a very large
amount in running expenses.
A very sudden and fatal horse
disease broke out in st. Louis
Saturday. Its cause is ineKplica-
BILE, but the horse doctors say it is
an Atmospherical epidemic, like
the human cerebrO spinal msngiti-
lis. 1t comes without a moments
warning, and is very quick and ia
tat. There is no running at the
nose.
When first affected, the victim
staggers blindly, which is follow ed
by violent sweating, the water liter
ally pouring from the brute's body.
The animal then falls, and perspirA-
IiOn ceases. A nervous twitching
aud paralysis of the hind-parts is
next discernible, accompanied by 9
curvature of the neck and spinal
column, denoting extreme pain in
the brain, caused by an eIfusion of
membranes. The eyes are also
cantorted.