The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-07
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toS''iii i'iAstitu IN tue lace OF open oppOSi-
ton, moral apathy and ignorance OF the
| oppressed negro race. The report was
OF very cheerful tenor. both as TO the
past, present and prospective work in the
south Rev. Charles L. Woodwork. of
Boston, discussed the report.
The report of the committee ON eduea-
uonal work among freedmen followed.
and both reports We're adopted
a. III. Bross, of Michigan, submitted
the report of the committee 10 which had
been referred the papers on China. Ii
spoke highly OF tht Chinese nation. den
recated the spirit of the anti Chinese bill.
and recommended more considerate
treatment of the Chinese. Ii was also
adopted
At the afternoon session a paper on the
union of churches and union of church
and state was read by the Rev. Stuart
Robinson, of Louisville.
There was no regular session tonight
but sort of love feast was held, 1T which
farewell and cougTatulatory speeches
were made by several delegates, and n
very pleasant and agreeable evening was
spent The meeting is considered very
successful one Iii regard to the quality
OF the addresses delivered, but the attend
ance has not been very large. The pa
pers read will be published in pamphlet
form, for general distribution, and it is
thought they will have "A strong influence
IN promoting the canSc for which they
Were prepared.
Kentucky Will ''Shake" With Grant.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 30-Extensive
arrangements are being made in this
city for the reception of eX-President
Grant, who Is expected to visit Louis
vile during the latter part OF next month.
Regarding the matter the Couricr-Jour
nal says: Gen. Grant teIegraphs a re-
Spouse to the Mayors Invitation, in
which he says, in a hearty, informal way.
that lac does not know when he will go
east, but when he does he will drop in
on Louisville. It is sufficient to say at
this present moment tina we shall all
welcome Gen. Grant-that. politics
aside, there is not a man, woman, child
or dog in Kentucky who VIII not be
glad to see him and to extend to him an
old-fashioned, cordial greeting"
The Post Office Department
WASHINGTON, Oct. 80, 1S79.-The re-
port Of the auditor of the treasury for
the post Office department, for the fiscal
year ending on the 30th of June last,
shows that the actual cost OF the postal
service during this period was only So
OBJ 40, Il remarkably small deficit. which
is nearly 81 100000 less than that of the
preceding year The total revenue of
the postotlice department for the last iis-
cal year was $30.041, 9S2, an increase of
1864, 400, and total expenses, $33, 013, 437,
Il decrease of $109I, 467 in comparison
with the preceding year. OF the last
named amounts &70j,6l2 was saved by
the law changing the basis of Dostmast-
ers' compensation from commission on
stamps cancelled, and the remainder by Il
reduction in compensation allowed rail
roads. The states returning the largest
revenues We're New York, with $4,710,-
30; Pennsylvania, $2,712 1913; Illinois,
| $2,39S ,627; Massachusetts, $2,0S7, 22S ;
| OHIO, $1,916, AGO; Missouri, S1,12I555,
and Michigan, 1905, 4S7. Alaska foois
the list with u revenue of $53.
The principal items of expenditure
were as follows: Compensation of post
masters, 81, 49,, 239; clerks in post offices,
81, 413, 29I; letter carriers, $3.50, 906
railroad transportation, 100, FOG; star
service, by horse and ordinary vehicles,
| S5,537 ,245; steamboat service, $6,651, :
07S; foreign mail transportation, $293,-
OF; receipts from stamps, stamped en-
velOpeS and postal cards, $2S, la, 014,
| and from box rent, 81 3S1, 1872; net rev
enuc from the money order business,
! 1919, 226; aggregate gross revenue at the
eighty-eight free delivery post Offices
was about $4,000, 600, and their gross
| expenses, including the pay OF letter car
rlers, etc, amounted to Il little more than
$5,000000.
Auditor McGrew's report shows that
the number OF domestic orders is
sued during the fiscal year was 6,372 ,2243
amounting $SS, 2J4 $40; and the foreign
money order business was as follows
| Canadian, 1928 orders issued, amounting
to $316,2S3, and 20,741 orders paid
amounting to S339,O72; Great Britain
64,310 orders issued, amounting to $S94-
$50, and 1870 orders paid, amounting
to $345, 75l; Germany, 1912 orders is
sued, amounting to 1929, 1888, and %, 462
orders paid, amounting to $G39,54
| Switzerland, ,235 orders issued, amount
ing to $S6,17l, and 2,010 orders paid
amounting to S55, 1923; Italy, 1910 orders
| issued, amounting to S103,352, and 34g
orders paid, amounting to $1,000. The
total amount of fees on orders issued was
! 1862, 042, and the total net revenue to the
| government from this source, $219, 22G.
Guests at Wedding Poisoned.
DETROIT, October 30.-At the wedding
of the daughter of l.. ID. Heath, at Spring
Lake last evening, all of the guests, of
whom there were more than one hun
dred, were made iii by poison. in some
ingredient of food, supposed to be arse
mic in baking powder, or the tiavoring of
cake. Although several we're danger
ously i'll for number of hours, all are
expected to recover.
Roumanian independence
WASHINGTON, October 3I-The state
| department confirms the truth of the ca
| BILE dispatch that Minister HANSON has
| been instructed to proceed shortly to
| Buchares; TO formally recognize ROuma-
man indedendence and establish diplo-
matte relations between Roumania and
the United States.
Committee OF Safety.
MEMPHIS, October 31-rhe commit
tee of safety adjourned sine die this af-
ternoon. Since organizing they have
spent forty thousand dollars in main
tanning people in camps and providing
for INDECENT poor of the CITY Undertake
ers report one Intermcnt, jackson Trigg,
colored, who died beyond the city limits.
Weather very cold, with prospects of
rain before morning The thermometer
at 8 O'Clock tonight indicated As.
Communists.
PARIS, October 31.-The official re-
turn, to be laid before the Chamber of
Deputies, shows 3,064 Communists am
nestled, 1900 being prisoners and LOO
condemned by default. About one thou
sand remain excluded.
One Hundred More
HERNE, Texas, Oct. 31-One hundred
negroes have arrived here in wagons
from different points in the BraZos rIyer
bottom. They will go from here TO Kan
sas, by rail.
Major Gen. Hooker Dead
Garden CITY, L. L., Oct 3l.-Major
Gen. Joseph Hooker died this afternoon.
Gen. Hooker had been in his usual health
until an hour before his death, and pur-
posed going to New York tomorrow to
attend TO business matters. He gave a
large dinner party at the Garden CITY
hotel on the 25ih, and has seemed to he
in the best of spirits. and to enjoy the
society, of his many friends as fully
as at any time in his life He took his
accustomed walk il the park during the
afternoon, and did not complain offeeling
i'll until about tour O'Clock, when he re-
tired to his apartment and summoned
his valet, who helped him TO seat,
where he rested about an hour, then
rose and busted himself about his rooms,
till. at ) :45, the valet hearing the general
struggling for breath FASTENED 10 his
side and assisted him TO lie down upon
the bed, at the same time ringing for
help. The hotel superintendent hurried
to his room, but when he arrived there
the general was dead.
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