The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-12
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Fare from Chicago to Baltimore
and Washington, So.
Deaths in Cincinnati last week.
l24. Principal causes of death,
consumption 81.
The coal brought to st. Louis last
month by the VandaIia railroad ag-
gregated 540,750 bushels.
It Is said that over 10000 cows are
kept for dairy purposes within q radi-
US of twenty miles of Wheaton, Ill.
There was mined last year In Ohio
100000 bushels of coal. One rail-
rosd-the Hooking VaIley-brought
into Columbus 22,OO0,oOO bushels.
The honse force bill was read a
first and second time in the senate.
Beyond this the senate took no ac-
ton 1t therefore failed.
Advices from Bunos Ayres states
that the palace of the Catholic arch
bishop of that city was sacked, and
the houses of the Jesuits set on fire.
Craig Mo, was the scence of a
} bloody fracas On Saturday night, in
which John Redmond came to his
death at the hands of John Shaw
and George Williams.
William orion, President OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
having resigned his trusteeship of the
New York Tribune Association,
Bayard Taylor was elected to fill the
position.
They don't laugh at Indiana now.
That state can hand over the ssbelt.'
Names Supreme Court granted 4s7
divorces last year, and means to do
better work when there is more
counting.
Owing to the strike of operatives,
six mills have been stopped at Fall
River, Mass, the monthly pay
rolls of which amounted to between
100000 and 100000. The assess
ment upon operatives az work has
been doubled.
AT Cambridge, Mimi, on Friday,
an officer attempted to arrest VIM.
II. Kosterman, well known trad
or of North branch. Kosterman
refused to be arrested, when the of
ficer drew a revolver and shot him
through the heart, causing instant
death.
Difficulties in formation of the
new French cabinet haye arisen.
The Left will not consent that rep
resentatiyes of the moderate Right
shall enter il. If the negotiations
fail, President MacB1ahon will form
ministry without further con-
sultation with parties in the assem-
bly,.
Says correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch: 1t is supposed that
| there will be no Democracy until
next Christmas, when the bunkers
will proceed 10 turn out all the
menials and officers of Congress,
and police the Capitol building with
Confederate soldiery and members
of the Northern Peace party.
The rush for whisky and tobacco
stamps under the new law is great.
At Richmond, Va, 100000
worth of tabacco stamps, and at
Cincinnati S249,57S worth of whis-
ky stamps, were sold last Saturday.
At the latter city the ten distilleries
are running on full time and pro-
ducing over 10000 gallons daily, !
The receipts in four days in st.
Louis were, for tobacco stamps,
Sl06, 1850; and for whisky stamps,
$45,41S.S0. These figures represent
1886, 2S0 pounds of tobacco and 6l,-
SS4 gallons of whisky.
The power afforded by the Mis-
sissippi River at Minneapolis, Mimi, |
is something almost beyond belief !
1t is claimed to exceed the entire
motiye power that moves the a.
100000 spindles and the 1000 mills |
of Great Britain. Minneapolis has
now the largest Touring mill in the
United States-one of forty-run of
stone, and is now building one of
one hundred and four-run of stone,
which will be by odds the largest in
the world.
No better proof of the rapidity
with which the Southwest is grow
ing can be given than statement
we find in the Denison, (Texas)
News, that four hundred barrels OF
wheat flour, made in that city, was
recently sold III Kingston, Jamaica.
The -four is said to be of a superior
quality and sold well. 1t is only a
few years since st Louis had to
make flour for Denison; at the
present rate it will be but a few
years more until Texas will be max
ing all her own flower.
An cold miner" has written let
ter TO the New York Sun, declaring
that the only orc to be found in the
Black Hills is that kind ofmica call
ed "emigrant gold" and that there
is not enough of the article to make
the pens with which the correspond
ents, who have written up the coun-
try, have done their writing.
The interest of the farmers of the
West in the subject Of transpOrta-
ton was shown in the Senate on
Tuesday last, when Mr.. Window,
of Minnesota, presented a monster
petition containing the autograph
signatures of 50,624 farmers. Of
this number, 1882 reside in Min
nesota, 1854 in Wisconsin, 17,154
in Iowa, 5,S3S in Nebraska, and l.
625 in Dscota-with Illinois and
Kansas to be heard from. In pres
enting it, Mr.. Window very per-
tinently said that it was but a faint
expression of the sentiments ana
demands of the people of the North
west. This petition is probably the
largest eyer presented in Congress.
Many years ago Edward Everett, of
| Massachusetts. Dreseufad the natl.