The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-10

the pnOIIc treasury available to
| hse fnresu ming specie payment
Louis j. Jennings, late editor of the
n. Y. Times, has sold his entire
share of stock to George Jones,
the business manager, for 100000.
Gas from q leaky main in Provi-
dence, Il. l., penetrated into FIVE
houses on Wayland street, and al
most killed nine persons while they
were asleep.-Prof. Tyndall was
married in. Westminster Abbey,
I1Ontlons March lst, to Miss Louisa
Cloud Hamilton.-Don Carlos an
nounces that he has left Spain and
is unable to continue the war for
the throne there at tpresent, he will
begin it again the first chance he
gets.-Gold 114L.
FRIDAY MARCH, ,.
The wealthy men of Boston have
managed 10 evade payment of
taxes on their capital to such an ex-
/ tent that the legislature is making a
special effort to reach them.-Gen.
Schenck starts for Washington on
the 4th.-Winslow, the Boston
fOrger, is to be brought back imme-
diately.-Don Carlos, of Spain, has
reached London.-A locomotive on
the Grand Trunk railroad ran over
Ia bridge into the canal at Buffalo,
and David Hardy fell with it and
was torn TO pieces by the machin-
cry, which continued to work for
five minutes after the engine was
under water.-Gold l143s.
SATURDAY MARCH 4.
Ex-Gov. Letcher, of Va, is
stricken by paraIyses.-Lt. Gov.
Knight, of Massachusetts,, charges
that $4,000 has been paid to mem
bers of the legislature to carry
through the new prison scheme,
and an investigation is to be made.
l-Seng s. Co., proprietors of the
Sable iron works, at Pittsburg, fail
ed, for $3.50, 000.-President Grant
instructs Attorney General Pierre
pOnt to begin criminal prosecutions
against Ex-Secretary Belknap,
Mr.. Marsh, and all parties who con-
fess to being implicated in frauds
and corrUption.-Gold I145s.
MONDAY MARCH 6.
The narrow gauge railroad from
Malvern to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
is completed, and now all the
politicians can go and take
a bath. - 1t is again stated
that Gen. Babcock has ceased
to be secretary for President Grant.
Gen. Pillon writes that hav-
ing become q bankrupt, he begins
to see that he has lived too long.
Correct. He ought to have been
hung ten years ago.-About mil
lion of men are now waiting to be
struck by lightning in the shape OF
an appointment as Secretary OF
war; In London, England, Luts-
cher Sc Co, merchants have failed,
for $2,500,O00, and James Miller &
Co., tanners, have failed, for 81 Co.,
OOO.-The European newspapers
quietly observe that the United
States is one of the few countries in
the world where such frauds as
secretary Belknap could flourish
All the government post traders
have been ordered to come to Wash
ington to furnish testimony that
will result in sending them to the
peniteDtiary under the order "let no
guilty man escape."-In Middle.
berry, Clay county, Indiana, Geo.
and Thomas Watts assaulted Free
man Reed and Lewis Segle. and a
q desperate fight with knives and
pistols resulted in the death of Geo.
Watts and Freeman Reed.-Gold
11434.
TUESDAY MARCH z.
At 30 Monday morning a torna-
do from the west struck Lamonte,
Mo-, demolished a house, blew
several roofs of, and did much 9TH
| er tiamHgs.AThe two robbers, Deal
Hallan, who robbed the express car
of the K. e. & n. railroad near St.
Louis some months ago, and recent
~ tried to throw a negro woman
off the st. Louis bridge because she
knew of their crime, have been ar
rested.-The news that Gen. Babcock
ceases to be President Grants pri
yate secretary, is confined, Ulys-
fses Grant takes the place.-Marsh,
the witness against Belknap, has ar
rived at Montreal, Canada, and
cannot to be brought back. His es-
cape is the fault of Hester CIymer,
the democratic chairman of the i'm
vestigating committee, who refused
to have him arrested, though he
was notified of his intended escape.
Failures In Boston c. Fl. North
s. Co., pork dealers. s5OO,O 900; D. 81.
Olien g Co., provision dealers, $4O,-
coo; Hapgood & Co., meat dealers.
The municipal elections In Port
land, and most of the Maine cities
on Monday, resulted in heavy re-
publican gains and majorities.-
Gen. Schenck resigns as minister to
England, aud the President has ap-
pointed Richard Y. Dsno, jr., Of
Mass, as his successor.
The Nemaha county court house, at
Seneca, one OF the finest in the State,
was destroyed by fire on the 4th; all
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