The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-08
NEWS SUMMARY

NOVEMBER 1.-The public debt state
ment for October shows a decrease in
the debt for the month OF 81 ,7O9, 402. -.
Taylor's wooden mills, at North Salem,
n. H, burned. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
$62, 900. The Secretary of the Interior
has received from Gov. Wallace, of New
Mexico, letter informing him that
since the publication of the Presidents
proclamation lawlessness existing in
that territory has almost entirely subsid-
ed. Theodore NJ. Vail, general super
intendent of the U. S. railway mail SER
vice has resigned. Reports come in of
serious damage to shipping by storms
during the past few days on Lake Mich
igan. "A Parkersburg, w. Va, dis
patch says that along the line of the Bal
timore & Ohio road, near that city, dip
liberia is raging worse than ever known.
-. Caleb Cushing withdrew from the
Butler ticket, because of advanced age,
and not having a years residence.
Hazard, the defaulting bank president,
narrowly escaped beng mobbed at Lo-
ganspOrt, Ind. James H. Wheatly,
proprietor of the sugar refinery, Brook
Ign, is missing with nearly quarter of
million dollars of trust funds. e. . The
prophetic conference at New York, COM
posed of representatives of various de-
nominations, to consider the subject of
the millennium, closed its sessions.
The German government has sent three
thousand marks for the relief of suffer
ers by yellow fever in the United States.
-. French election returns show large
Republican gains. GARNER Pages, a
French statesman and historian, aged
rs, is dead. .MaynOrth college, Dub
lin, was partially destroyed by fire; loss,
$50 goo. The Russian press deprecate
the giving of direct assistance to the
Ameer of Afghanistan, and advocate be-
nevolent neutrality "A dispatch from
Constantinople says the Porte has in
formed minister Layard that the propos-
ed reforms will be introduced in the pro-
vinces of Asia Minor
Nov. 2-Reports from Memphis state
that over $1,000 refugees have returned
to their homes. :. There are still some
cases of fever in New Orleans, and the
turn absolutely safe. d.. Robert A. Pc
drick, employee of Bernhard & Hutton,
importers, has confessed to defrauding
them of $109, 600, and the custom house
, of duty amounting to $4,000. Gen
Dudley, of Richmond, Indiana, formerly
of Pope's army, has discovered among
his papers diary which contains daily
, entries of the whole Pope campaign, and
settles many disputed points brought be-
fore the Fitz John Porter commission.
: The McKillop s. Sprague CONNER
cial agency, New York, has suspended.
st. Petersburg journals report a
: large number of suicides and attempted
+; suicides in the Russian army in Bull
garia. Mount Vesuvius continues spas
modic eruptions. AT the request of
? the British ambassador, Ahmet Kaiserli
Pasha has been ordered to evacuate Var
ma definitively, and bring the troops and
war material to Constantinople. >. Lord
Advocate has accepted $4,000 bail for
John Stewart, one of the directors of the
5 city of Glasgow bank. {. 4. 1t is stated that
Great Britain has concluded to purchase
Delago bay, in southeastern Africa from
Portugal, for $3,OO0,O00. The interna-
tional pedestrian tournament terminated
with Corkey as victor. Sixteen thou
, sand persons were present at the close,
and much enthusiasm prevailed. .Pri-
vate kilograms confirm the statement
2 that the government of India contem-
plates the adoption of a gold currency,
! making English gold coins legal ten
: der throughout the country.