The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30

Canon Delaqua COMPANY. which own,
40, OO0eaeres of land in New Ne~ico in
GLIDING copper and gold mines Fas1
ern capitalists are largely interested in
the enterprise.
Kansas Methodists.
/ LAWRENCE, July a6-fhe Metbodist
camp meeting of the state of EaRsa.
opens to-day. There are 400 minister,
aud 500 lay delegates to be permanently
encamped ON the grounds.
Yellow Fever
MoBuE. Ala, July 27.-The ENGLISH
bark, r. w. Wood, arr lived at ouara1tinf
With yellow fever. The second mate i.
very Ill and everybody on board have
Deen down except three men. Two have
General News Briefs.
An eruption of MI. Vesuvius began on
The Coopers' strike at Kansas CITY is
Mt an end
Sixty-one deaths from yellow fever are
reported at Havana
A site has been selected IN Central
Park, New York, for the Egyptian
obelisk.
The Chiacgo Republicans opened up
with great enthusiasm
The government is always bull ding at
washington, and yet pays rent in that
city to the amount of $1,25O,OOO.
The college and Methodist church at
Harrison, Boone county, Arkansas, were
recently destroyed by an incendiary fire.
The work of searching for the dead
at the Hudson river tunnel is still pro
crossing and an extra gang of men have
been put on.
The official census returns of the
whole state of Rhode Island show a
population of 276,710; gain of 59,307
in ten years.
During the year ending June Both
there arrived at New York 263, 726 i'm
migrants, an increase over the preceding
year of 165, SOP.
The German and Republican clubs of
San Francisco have been making extern
slve preparations TO receive secretary
Schurz, who is expected TO arrive in that
city to-day.
The Halifax Rowing Association have
decided 10 challenge Riley, of Saratoga,
to scull race with Warren Smith; dis
lance three miles and stakes one thou
sand dollars side.
General Hancock, in addition to his
present duties, has been assigned to the
command of the department of the south
during the temporary absence of Briga-
dier General Augur.
In an alteration between Edward
Schroeder and DIR. Alfred Lefevere, both
OF whom occupy prominent social posi-
tons at Oakland, California, the latter
was shot dead ON the 9th.
vitation from the executive committee
attend its meeting in September next
that he will do so, if possible
Doctress Thompson, of Bradford
Pennsylvania, has been arrested for send
ing advertisements to procure abOrtions
through the mails, and in default OF
$4,000 bail, has been committed to Jail
John Diggs, a negro who recently out
ragged Mrs. James Schiffiy, near Darnis
town, Md, was taken from the Rock
vile Jail in the vicinity of Washington
on the Goth, by a mob Of fifty men and
hanged.
A lively war Is progressing between
the Chicago, st. Louis 81 New Orleans
railroad, and the Louisville and Nash
VILE company. 1t has so far resulted il
Il reduction of about 80 per cent in pas
senger fares.
Gen. Grant has accepted an invitation
and is going to Boston the last of Sep
TENDER at the request of the MiddleseN
club. A grand banque. and reception
will be given in his honor, at which all
the New England governors and many
other distinguished men will be present
The Washington weather bureau never
does things by halves. According to the
record the recent drouth was the mos
protracted for many years, the heat OF
July was the greatest felt in that month
since 1876, and now the rainfall for july
is the heaviest known for ten years.
Gen. Mcdowell telegraphs adiutant
general from San Francisco: Il have a
long dispatch from Mexico General
Vale, dated COrizola, 18th, saying thai
he takes the field against VIctoria's band
with $50 cavalry and $50 infantry, and
has the authority to cross the line sent
him by our president"
The American Bankers Association
have made arrangements on an unusual
scale to hold their convention on the
18th. 18th and 18th of next August al
Saratoga Springs. Over seven thousand
invitations to bankers at home and
abroad have been issued, and the pro.
ceedings are to be printed for extensive
circulation in Europe as we'll as the
United States.