The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-07-18
GENERAL INTEREST.

The Americas club, of Boston, was
Just ready to sit down to an elaborate
dinner at the beach when a sudden wind
storm carried the sheltering tent out to
sea, and overturned the tables, breaking
all the dishes and running the eatables.
The city council of Pueblo, Col pass
ed an ordinance against the carving of
concealed weapons, and on the follow.
ing day most of the male residents APP
peared on the streets with revolvers and
daggers stuck in belts outside of their
coats.
Strong drink is the curse of Africa,
according to Mr.. Mckay, missionary of
the American board ''Go where You
will" he says, 'you will find every nj ght,
when grain is plentiful, every man, wO-
man and child reeling with the effects of
alcohol"
A recent performance of "Around the
World in Eighty days." in Orenburg,
Russia, was marked by a tragic disaster.
A hire breaking out in the scenery, a
German actor lost his life in the flames,
while the panic-stricken audience, in a
mad endeaVOr to escape, crushed three
persons to death, and injured many 9TH
ers.
The strOngest-chested, if not the sweet
est singer of the world, is one MORO,
who, in the Berlin variety theater, treats
his audience to selections from the
"TroubadOur," while a weight of 700
pounds rests upon his breast. He chal-
lenges the singers of the world to com
pete with him in his specially for
purse of 500 marks.
According to a decision Just rendered
by the supreme court of California, law
yers are not at liberty to decline the
defence of impecunious prisoners, if as
signed to that duty by the court. Judge
Clark, OF Sacramento, requested young
attorney to take charge of the defence in
case. where no compensation could be
expected, and adjudged refusal to be
contempt of court, for which he imposed
fine. Upon a writ of habeas corpus is
sued by the appellate court, this decision
was pronounced sound law. The liabil-
ity to serve gratuitously is declared TO
be one of the burdens of the legal pro-
fession, for which its privileges are am
pie compensation.
Bishop Haven says that abolitionism
was not born in Boston, but in Ohio.
William Lloyd Garrison, its acknowl-
edged father, did not learn it in New
England. He had to go south to find its
real father. 1t was alive and fourishing
when he took it up. He was its pupil
obedience to its claims. 1t has usually
been considered that Baltimore was its
birthplace. Benjamin Lundy, it was
supposed, started his journal of enamel
patton first at Baltimore; and Lloyd Gar
risOn became his pupil, and afterward the
master. But the first issue of the first
abolition paper was in Ohio, which, af.
ter several months, was removed to Ten
nessee, where it obtained wide circula-
e Al. i
i've antl-slavery paper in the country.
Life among the Fall River mill oper-
atives is pictured by the Boston Herald
as round of drudgery. They live in
crowded and often cheerless tenements,
although the common laws of health
are not generally disregarded, and some
of the homes are beautified with pic
lures, carpets, and flowers. Men, wo-
men and children work together in the
mills, and the home is little more than
lodging in most cases. The wives
and mothers are bound to a perpetual
slavery. They work as hard as any,
body in the mill, and, when the mill
day is over, their duties become terribly
onerous. Upon reaching home supper
is to he swallowed, and then, while the
rest of the family find rest or recreation
all there Is of housekeeping is perform
Ell ny tne Wlle, occasionally assisted by
her children if they are old enough.
There will be no time the next morning
for cooking breakfast, and it must be
looked out for over night. Dinner is to
he taken to the mill, and its substantial
materials must be cooked during the
evening. While the kettle is bubbling,
or the frylngpan is siSzing, or the oven
baking, or all together are sending out
their heats, the washing of the bed and
personal clothing for the household may
be performed, the old mans trousers
mended, or the children's clothes made
or repaired. If one of the brood is sick
it may also receive attention at the same
time. The wife and mother tolls thus
for her family, living a life the like of
which no Southern slave ever dreamed
about. Intemperance too commonly
adds its sOrrows to the rest