The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-11
JotsIngs.
Ex-President Grant has arrived at
Egypt.

In December 100000 bushels of |
grain, and $4,000 barrels of flour
we're received by rail in New York.
The receiver of the National Trust
Company has been authorized by the
court to pay a dividend OF 80 per cent.
Five steamers sailed for Europe on
the 9Th. Freights are very large,
every available foot of space being oc-
cupied.
Louis E. Dorton, City Treasurer OF
Quebec, is said to be a defaulter 10 the
amount, so Tar as known at present, OF
$500, 900.
Augustus Hemenway, class of 1875,
Harvard College, has given the institu-
ton sufficient money to erect a new
that will accommodate 900
persons.
From statistics compiled from the
best possible sources, it is learned THAI
Colorsdo's product of gold and silver
for the year 1877 reaches the neat sum
of 81, 1873. ASP.
Guilford White, a member of the
Suffolk, Mass, bar, for receiving stolen
bonds, has been sentenced TO the
House of Correction for two years and
to pay a fine of 5000. He was also dis
barred.
Maj. Ward Illinois State Examiner
under Auditor Needles, and J. FL. Kel-
logg, Actuary, were indicted at Chica-
go Saturday, both in connection with
frauds committed in the Protection
Life Insurance Company case.
+ On November 16 the Wilson Pack
lag Company and Libby, Mcneil &
Libby, both of Chicago, filed a bin in
the United States Court there against
VIM. B. Clapp, agent of the st. Louis
Beef Canning Company, to restrain
him from infringing on their patents
for the articles known as Compressed
cooked canned meats" On Saturday
Judge Blodget granted a preliminary
injunction, enjoining Clapp from max
ing or selling the meat until the suit il
decided.
The weekly statement of the Imper
ial bank of Germany shows a decrease
in specie of p, 200 900 marks.
One thousand three hundred ant
fourteen bars of copper have beef
shipped from Panama to England, tn
first shipment for years.
A Constantinople dispatch says i
Russia rejects mediation Turkey will
await the meeting of the British Par
lament before making direct overture
TO Russia.
The Republique Franchise, Gam
betta's organ, calls on the government
to remove the present commanders o
the several army corps. Most of thes
Generals are Bonapartists, none Re
publicans.
The London Gazette announces tn
creation OF the Imperial Order of tn
Crown of India, for ladies only. Tn
order has been conferred on all til
Princesses, eight Indian Highnesses
and eighteen other persons OF distic
ton.
Chas. Napier, an English scientist
says a vegable diet is a remark abb
help to the cure of drunkenness. H
mentions the case of an old man who's
constitution had been shattered by re
peated attacks ofdelirium tremens, ant
who was cured of his appetite 70
liquor in seven months. by dispensing
with meat.
The Rev. Joseph Cook is credite,
with pronouncing Richter's "Titan,
Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister," Hugo
Les Miserables," SCOTS "Ivanhoe,
Thackeray's 'Newcomes," and Mrs
Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin" as tn
six greatest works of fiction of thi
century, in the order named, and witt
a great gap between the first three ant
the last three.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle
(Rep.) favors a division OF the State
Owing to the action of the Democra
.cy on the State debt question tn
Chronicle says it no longer an homer q
be called a Tennesssan. East Tennes
see is Republican and in favor of pay
ing debts regularly contracted, Will
west and middle Tennessee are Demo
cratic and dishonest,