The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-10
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The music people of New York
wanted $4,000 per apnum to teach
music in the public schools, of that
city, but the department OF education
could not see it. Music must be lux
ury there.
Subterranean cables are to be laid in
Chicago and the telegraph poles re-
moved.
Eva, adopted daughter of Henry
Wilson, aged ten years, is in school in
Clarendon Hills, Mass.
Don Carlos is In stew with his gen
erals and now proposes calling on
Gen. Boum to take command.
Prominent physicians of San Fran
cisco have prepared a petition praying
the legislature to suppress quackery.
The Russian government has just
purchased for $l25,OGO the celebrated
painting of "Danac," by Titan.
A young drunkard in Cranston, r.
l., mistook his mother in the dark for
an officer come to arrest him, and shot
her, infl'cting a mortal wound.
The Rev. T. F. Bird gave notice at
the recent meeting of the Congrega-
tional Union of Victoria, Australia,
that he would move a vote OF sympa-
thy with Mr.. Beecher.
Six boys of Portland, the youngest
ten years of age, the oldest fourteen,
having been sent to the Oregon peni-
Tertiary for grand larceny, the people
are now demanding a reform school.
A christian Chinaman, All For, gath
ers his countsymen on Sundays and
evenings in chapels built at his ex-
pense in Virginia City, Nevada, and
has them instructed in the English Ian
gusge.
Mr.. Sturgeon said, in a recent SER
mon on public speaking, "Moreover,
bretheren, avoid the use of the nose as
an organ of speech, for the best au-
thorltles are agreed that it is intended
to smell with"
Fifty years ago Mr.. and two Misses
Keith OF Bridgewater, Mass, married
Miss and two Messrs. Robinson. The
six are still living, ard the last of their
golden weddings came of on Thanks
giving eve in Raynham.
A Boston professor bought in Dres-
den a fine copy of Correggio's "Read-
ing Magdalen," for which he paid only
seven dollars. On his arrival home he
sent it to be framed, when it turned
out to be one of Prang's chrOmos,
worth four dollars.
According to the last census Michi-
gan has 60372 more males than females.
There are 1886 WidOwers and divorce
ed males over twenty-one, and 1854
widows and divorced females. Thirty
nine per cent. of the population re-
present married people.
At Norwich, Conn.,, the other day a
tramp was given an old vest. He soon
returned with five-dOllar bill he said
he found in one of the pockets. The
gentleman of the house was so we'll
pleased with his honesty that he gave
him dollar, aud the next day disov-
cred that the bill was wretchedly-
executed counterfeit.
The only son of Dan voorhees, con-
templates making the stage his pro-
fession. His dramatic talent is con-
sidered by those who know him best to
be of no common order. Mr.. Voor-
hoes has organized an amateur COM
pany in his native city, Terre Haute,
Ind. has drilled its members himself,
and has been travelling through Indi-
ana, giving theatrical representations,
meeting everywhere with considerable
success.
The expedition which is exploring
the vast and hitherto unknown Oke-
finoke Swamp, in Georgia, has discSY&
cred that there are no extensive lakes
on the east side of the swamp, as has
been believed. The supposed
lakes are in fact prliries covered with
swamp grass, and forming in the RAINY