The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-10

Of 32j voices in Brooklyn.
Two more Atlantic cables are to lie
laid connecting Europe and America.
The bullion shipments from Leadville,
during November, amounted in value to
81 ,OS2, 900.
o'Leary aud Weston are 10 walk for
IA consecutive hours. go-as-yoa please,
for $4,000.
Prof. Swings salary has been raised |
by the trustees of his church from $7,- !
600 to $1,000.
The Washington Republican puts in
an oar for Secretary Evarts for senator
from New York.
Buenos Ayres is bidding for Irish en-
igration. President Rica offers them Il
free land grant of $4,000 acres on the
Rio Negro.
The Bcrnhardt ticket spectators Of
Boston are likely 20 be badly left. We
believe the Bernhard boom has no.
where met expectations.
Senator Lamar, IL Is thought, will not
be able TO take his seat in the senate this
winter. He is reported 10 be failing
rapidly since the election.
A farmer of experience in wool-grow
ing has said there is more money in
growing wool at 90 cents pound .than
to loan money at 10 per cent interest.
Il is stated that Talmage's tabernacle
Is in desperate financial straits. Four
months arrears of salary are due him,
$1,000 notes are falling due, and there is
bat $50 in the treasury.
Since the beginning of the sixteenth
century more than 100000 acres have
been won from the water in Holland,
and reclamation still goes on at the rate
OF about eight acres day.
The American bible society, on the
night OF the second instant, celebrated
the semi-miliennial of Wycliffe's trans
lation of the bible in New York. DIR.
Storrs made q mastery and scholarly
address.
Secretary of war Ramsey was school
teacher at Kuiztown, Pa, in 1888. He
fell in love with Kutztown girl and
asked her to marry him, but she refused
because his purse was as lean as gi-
ralfe's neck.
Baltimore s. Ohio railroad has very
sensibly rescinded its order imposing
extra storage rates on grain in its eleva-
tors at Underwater. This was done upon
the removal from the elevators of part
of the grain.
keenan,, of Okolona States notoriety'
has started fiery secesh sheet at
Memphis called the Solid South. In his
salutatory he prays God 1.-The day may be
not far distant when the Union will be
come a thing for worms to feed upon"
Some of the Republicans of Milwau-
kee, who feel they can afford to sink
enough money TO establish new morn.
ing paper in that city, are about to enter
upon that undertaking. They do it be-
cause of dissatisfaction with the course
of the Sentinel. The Hon. Horace
Rublee will be editor-in chief of the new
organ.
If Ohio is the mother of presidents,
| New York may be called the father of
vice presidents. Chester A. Arthur will
be the seventh vice president elected
from that state. Hts six predecessors
were Aaron Burr, George Clinton, Dan.
iel ID. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren,,
Willard Fillmore and William A.
| Wheeler.
George w. Williams, the cOlored
member of the Ohio Legislature, is or.
ganizing an exodus to New Mexico
He reports that party of New York
capitalists have purchased over 100000
acres of Hand in New Mexico, and pro.
pose to coloniZe II with negroes from the
south. The colored people are to be
charged the government rate for farms
be given ample time, and aided in de.
veloping themselves and their children
to their fullest capacity. And when he
gets the thing all IN working order
George can probably go to congress
from 'his district"
Atlanta came very near having yam.
kee and Republican for mayor. Hen
ry 1. Kimball lacked only fifty-four votes
of an election, in spite of the opposition
of the entire press of the city, and the
overwhelming Democratic tendencies OF
the community Mr. Kimball has been
one of the chief agents in starting the
new life of Georgia. He built for AT
lanta the largest hotel south of Wash
ington, and the capitol; got their fail
grounds, and led ia the introduction oI
water into the city: His excuse for run
ming for mayor was that he wanted to
clean and pave the streets.
The fact that so many sermons were
preached about the Passion play on tho
very morning when the announcement
of its withdrawal was made excites ia
cetious comments in many quarters
The guns were fired after the target haC
been taken down, and the ministers wert
unable to train their artillery upon any
other object. The Albany Argus makes
this caustic suggestion: Now let tn
sensational ministers show rs much re
gard to public opinion as Manager All
hey did. On demand, he withdrew tn,
sensational play. On demand, let then
. withdraw the sensational sermons"
there truth in the coarse gibe that tn
legitimate gospel draws no better thar
the legitimate drama? 1t is u comics
sion which tie pulpit cannot afford u
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