The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09

The third terulers propose that the
Republican party shall reject the first
choice OF n vast majority of its own
members for president, and accept the
first choice of the entire Democratic
party. This is an entirely original way
of conducting a campaign
The X roads postmaster, Petroleum V.
Nasby, is in luck. He has sold the
widow Bedott'' TO j. H. Haverly. it is
said. for the round sum of $4,000. It
is handsomer pile Of money than is
usually realized out of a widow. Locke
it up, Petroleum, and proceed to write
another as good
The tide of immigration is already set
ting in at an unprecedented rate. No
less than two thousand persons from va
rIous European countries landed at New
York yesterday, and kilograms announce
that the extensive quarters provided for
their reception at Castle Garden are filled
to their utmost capacity.
The Hon ". s. Groesbeck, OF Cincin-
the Democracy: But he will never get
the nomination for the reason that he
draws all his money out of the bung-
hole, and never knocks in the head of
the barrel. The boys banker after the
man who will cut the hoops or smash in
the head.
What explosive elements lie under
the surface Of affairs in Russia is indi-
Gated by the fact that Aelikof has
deemed it necessary 10 interdict the per-
Torrance of the play of julius Caesar.
1t is too dangerously suggestive of the
virtue there may be in staying rulers.
The latest interoceanic canal project is
for connecting the Atlantic with the
Mediterranean by a canal from Bordeaux
to Narbonne. The opening of such a
channel would practically make an end
of British domination of the traffic OF
the Mediterranean, of which Gibralter is
now the key.
Senator Thurman, since his recent i'll.
ness, has been forbidden by his ply.
sician to smoke more than two cigars a
day. He has been devoted and persis
tent smoker It is not thought that his
illness will have any serious effect upon
mis- constitution. He is rebellious pa
tient and utterly declines the doctors
command to stay in bed.
General Grant, it is said, intends tc
pay the doctors bill of the small boy
who was severely injured by falling from
warehouse while observing the Gener
ais arrival at Galveston. He will, more
over, make the youth handsome pres
ent, and if when he RECEIVERS he proves
deserving, the General will find him EN-
ployment So runs the Galveston tale.
A mine which has recently been pur
chased in penYer, Col, for SOS, 1000, wa:
discovered by two children aged Mint
and ten years. They were "playinl
mine" at the time, and had dug dOwr
four feet on the Little Chief, near RUBY
Hill, drilling and blasting five feet NOR,
until a valuable body of ore was brough
10 light. Their father, who owned thu
claim, gave them $1,000 each; and nov
has sold his interest.
The latest development in the Mime
sofa case is Ingenious enough to be thu
work Of Mr. Tilden, whom Mr.. Syringe,
says he does not visit. The committe,
on elections has voted to declare Wash
burns seat vacant, and also that Don
nelly is not entitled to it. This pro
grammc carried out, the Minnesota dele
CATION would be tied, and its vote could
not be taken in an election of president
The party would in this way escape thu
odium Of seating Donnelly. Is Mr.
Springer sure Thai he doesn't visit Mr.
Tilden?