The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY. MAY !, 1875.
LATEsT TRLEGRApas.

--LATEST TEH.EGRAHHS.
Judge Pierreponf, OF New Y ork
has accepted the Office Of U. s. At
tOrney General.
Mr. OVerstoltz, late independ-
ent candidate for Mayor of st. Lou
is, will run again for that Office, and
probably be elected.
DIR. John Bull, of Louisville, the
great medicine man, IL dead.
los new members Joined Beech
ers church last Sunday. Bowen
and his wife among the communi-
cants.
Near Wilksebarre, Penn, lives q
fighting family named Connel. On
the 18th ult., they shot two eonsta-
bies for trying to levy on their
goods. The sheriff then went out
with q body of one hundred, broke
in the doors, and captured the old
man and his relatives. One OF the
cunstsbles will die. The other has
q dozen buck-shot in him, but
hopes to recover.
A Detroit colored barber. Friday
night, cut his wife and daughter in
TO small pieces with an axe.
The democrats carried Montgom-
cry, Ala, Tuesday, and fired 100
guns.
Logansport, Indiana, elected re-
publican Mayor, Tuesday, for the
first time in ten years. New AL
bany and Jacksonville went demo-
cratic, indianapolis went republic
can.
The American revivalists, Moody
and Sanky, in London, England,
preached last week TO 100000 peo-
pie.
During the great b oston fire Mr..
Armstrong; $4,000 house was
blown up TO stop the flames. The
city is now sued to pay the dam
ages.
S. r. Wells, the phrenologist died
in New York in April, aged 65
years. Prof Fowler is still bump
tious.
Prospects no better for the end of
the coal miners strike in Pennsyl-
vania.
The United States Hotel at Sara
togs was sold at auction Saturday,
by the sheriff, on a mortgage fore
closure, and brought $4,000 cash.
Some one there must have trunk
full of stamps.
ColumLis, S. c., was struck Sat-
urday bV a fearful tornado, which
blew Off roofs and did great dam
age.
NEW York, May 1.-Miss Ida
Greeley, eldest daughter of Horace
Greeley, was married to-day to Col.
Nicholas Smith, of LeavenworLh,
Kansas, at the residence of her aunt.
Mrs. John T.. Cleveland. Rev.
Father Farrell, an old friend of the
fsmily performed the ceremony &C.
cording to the rules of the Catholic
church. There was present a large
number of invited guests, including
judges and military men. After
the ceremony the bridal party en-
barked on the steamer Abysinia for
Europe.
The public debt was reduced in
April $2,325, 346.
Bengal, Asia, suffered from a
great famine last year, and now
millions of rats are eating up the
crops and driving living things be-
fore them. Whole villages are de-
serted as the rat armies approach.
"Bill King" the ex-postmaster of
Congress who went to Canada to
avoid testifying in the Pacific mail
investigation, has returned to his
home in Minneapolis, Min. But the
next Congress may make things so
warm for William, that he will be
glad to get back to Canada.
The "American team" of six or
more rife men, goes to Ireland in
July to competewith the Hibernians.
Postmaster Pease of Vicksbnrg,
has discharged his white clerks and
put In black ones.
An Omaha telegram OF Friday
says 700 returning California emil
grants had arrived there within a
few days, most of them very anx-
iOus to get back east, and resolved
to stay there. And yet the Califor-
mia mania RACES.
The Northern Indiana Methodist
Conference, which has Just adjourn
ed, voted down a resolution author
izing women 10 preach.
A postal convention has been
concluded between the United
States and Japan. The postage or
newspapers not exceeding two
ounces in weight has been fixed at
. four cents, and provisions have
been made for the transmission Of
tho samples of merchandise ut the
same rate.
HERE AND THERE.
The great "independents' have