The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-23
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In Kansas aIl was fair and bal
my.
The Mississippi Valley and Wes-
tern railroad, running from keo- |
kuk, Iowa, 10 Hannibal, Mo-, sixty !
miles, was sold at auction, last week |
to A. Il. Stone, OF Cleveland, for
100000. lie ought to move it out
west.
Peace in Louisiana. Tho lcgisia-
turc has agreed TO organize on the
basis proposed by the congression.
al committee, recognizing Kellogg
as the lawful governor, and try to
behave itself. 1t is now at work
transacting public business, and the
sooner it adiourns the better.
Ii. w. Dutton, senior editor of
the Boston Transcript, died on the
18th of grief caused by the death
within few months OF his wife
and son, aud his associate editor,
Mr. Haskell. Mr.. Dutton was 70
years old
a heavy snow storm aston
ished the Sandwich islands March
20.
Floods last week carried away 16
bridges in one day on the Union
Pacific railroad.
Nashville, April ia heavy
west and northwest wind has been
prevailing here for the last thirty
six hours, extending as far south as
Montgomery, Alabama. This morn
ing the ice was a quarter of an inch
thick. The weather is cold and ice
an eighth of an inch thick at Cor
NTH, Miles,, this morning. 1t is be-
lieved that all fruit, cotton and
wheat, in adjoining states is severe
ly injured, if not entirely killed.
The thermometer went down to
twenty-six here and to forty-six in
Montgomery, this morning.
Cincinnati, April II. Reports
from Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio,
show that the weather during the
past two days has been the coolest
for the season, known in years, the
thermometer ranging from II TO %
degrees above zero. Early fruits
are believed to be killed aud tobacco
seriously injured.
The Lowell mills have closed
again, and 5000 operatives are out
of work.
A Cincinnati telegram of Friday
says:
The cold weather The past two
nights has materially damaged
fruit. Experienced fruit growers
say peaches, pears and cherries are
killed.
y st. Louis telegram OF Saturday
Gays:
Mrs. L. l.. Irwen, a highly re-
spectacle young widow. lately of
Hannibal, Mo-, tied clothes line
around herself and little girl six
yeas old, and fastened the other
end to q stake in the ground, and
then took the child in her arms and
deliberately walked into Bear creek.
Both were drowned. Financial en-
embarrassment and disappointment
i'll love arc understood to be the
cause of the act.
A Memphis dispatch OF the 18th
says that the ice and frost there will
not affect the cotton crop, as very
little has been planted in that Sec
ton.
A mining party of lG was captur-
ed near Carney's Lake, last week. 60
ing to the Black Hills. The soldiers
brought them to Fort Laramie,
where they are corraIled under
/ guard.
Vice President Wilson is going to
California instead of Europe.
Columbus, Ohio, is astonished by
a ''Hoat suit" claim from heirs of
Joseph Goodman of Kansas City,
who claims that he has a long lost
title to forty acres of land in the
centre of Columbus, valued now at
SI.5OO,OOO. The citizens don't see
it.
The Louisiana House has re-organ-
lied, electing Estillette, compromise
conservative, Speaker. Estillette
was supported by Gov. Kellogg and
the solid Republican vote, and was
elected by 66 to SO for Wilt.
On Monday, Lexington, Mass.
held a grand centennial celebration
of the original battle there in 1775.
$4,000 people, including President
Grant, were in attendance. Concord
also celebrated imm ehsely.
) There are 1900 western bound
passengers on the Union Pacific
railroad, waiting at Omaha and 9th.
points for the road to be repaired
and trains to start again. The com.
pany is feeding 1900 of them, emf
grants, at Omaha, free of charge.
Richmond, Va, April 19.-Thert
was heavy snow at intervals yester'
day, with high, cold wind, at sun
: rise. This morning the thermome
ter is eight degrees below freezing
Early vegetables and fruits are kill
ed Advices from varioua parts o.
the state give disastrous account!
of damage from the cold. The loss
among truckers in the western par
of .the state is estimated at sever
, million dollars.
Travel has been resumed Over
I the L. L. railroad. Navigation /:
opoa vn ,..e Gpi.c. Missouri.
at Chattanooga, Tenn. Tuesday
night, the iron factory was burned
, down. Loss $4,000 and insurance
: S35, 900, $50 men bere thrown out o
, employment.
Louisville, April 20.-Reports Il
Courier-Journal from all parts o
: the state, say that great damage has
been done to the fruit and tobacco
plants by the unreasonable frost and
, snow of last week. Last season
was q very bad one for tobacco
growers in Kentucy, and much des
D titution has followed in cOnse
: quence. Another bad season, which
now seema DFobable will greatly