The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-16
PEOPLE AND rEsl NGs.

A School of Mines will be esiab-
lished at Denver.
Ex-Congressmen ShelIai arkcr, Of
Ohio, and Wilson, of Indie Ea, have
formed a law partnership, al Il
opened an Office in Washin ,ton.
In the exciting spelling match be-
tween twelve Champaisn county
Qll.) lawyers and twelve member
of the Young Ladies' Literary Sos
ciety of the Industrial University,
E s. Smith, lawyer, was the vic
or.
NJ. SeQnin, the reputed inventor
of suspension bridges. died on the
lst of March, in France. lie was
railway builder IN 1925, when the
carriages were propelled by ropes.
He had attained the advanced age
of 80.
The house occupied by George
Bancroft in Washington, where he
is compiling his history, has had
for its tenants James X. Paulding,
Washington Irving, john r. Ken
nedy, William Writ, p, ter Force,
aud Jared Spsrks.
Edgar Poe said: ''To villify
great man is the Ieadiest way in
which little man can himself at
tain greatness. The crab might
never have become q constellation
but for the courage it eVinced in
nibbling Hercules on the heel"
The Hartford Post says: sit is
said the executors of Cakes Ames
have discovered by his accounts
that the money he claimed to have
paid to Mr.. Colfax and others was
in fact used for his own purposes at
the time he was hard pressed by his
financial embarrassments.'
a curious piece OF testimony to
the stringency OF the period, is AZ
forded by the paper manufacturers,
who state that the rags received at
the mills this winter arc noticeahly
more ragged and threadbare than
heretofore-ther result of the careful
economy practiced by the people
generally on account of the pres
sure of the times.
An honest old farmer from Clin-
New York to pass Sunday with his
metropolitan friends, being asked
by one of them this morning what
the people up in Northern New
York think of the Beecher scandal,
replied that ne never tried it, and
didn't know anything about it-that
he and all his neighbors burn kero-
sene.
After ten years Of successful de-
sertion from the Union army John
Lounsberry has been captured in
Tioga county, Pa. In 1864, while
stealing through the camp lines.
he shot and killed Col. Butler,
who was endeavoring to capture
him. Since that time he has lived
an outlaws life, has never applied
for n pension or a foreign mis-
sion, and even now does not care
for notoriety- He is in the Pitts
burg Jail.
In the Office OF one Of tho hotels
recently a gentleman snapped his
finger TO a boot-black, and as he
put his foot on the box he said /:
"You look like a good, smart boy"
"See here, mister!" replied the boy
as he rose up, a brush in either
hand, Owe had that game played
on me a dozen times, aud now
want to know whether this is a cash
shine or whether you're going to
pat me on the head when ] get
through and tell me that I'll be Gov
ernor of Michigan some day ?''-
Detroit Free Press.
Three baptisms by immersion
will cure any disease and insure
salvation. Such is the belief of a
new sect at Manton, r. l. Con
verts are numerous, the baptisms
taking place out of doors in icy
water. The other day a woman
recanted upon getting her feet in
the freezing stream, forgetting ex-
pected reward in present chills,
and tried to get away. The minis
ter, however, would not allow
backsliding. He is big and Draw
ny. SEEING the woman by her
clothes, he immersed her the re-
quired three times. Between
each douse she screamed, and
struggled.