The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-11
Itemized Intelligence,

The senate failed to act upon the ap-
portionment bill. 1t is therefore not a
law.
All the appropriation bills were signed
| by President Hayes and, therefore, be-
came laws.
Senator Strang is supposed TO have the
| best chance for the appointment to the
| judgeship of the sixteenth judicial dis
trict of Kansas.
Suit has been instituted against Sam
uel J. Tilden to compel him to explain
| his operations in connection with the
New York aud Iron Mountain mine.
The Charleston News and Courier
says President Garfield's treatment of
the Southern question is broad, and on
| the whole, statesmanlike-
The Nebraska legislature, before ad-
journment, submitted to the people of
the state an amendment to the constitu-
ton allowing women to vote. 1t is sup
posed that this will be big advertise
| ment for the state.
Mardi Gras was celebrated in Mem
phis in grand style. The crowd was the
largest ever seen. The industrial pro-
cession, representing the manufacturing
and business interests, made an unusual
ly interesting display.
From 100000 to 100000 worth
of birds nests are annually imported in-
to Canton, most of them coming from
Java. They are very expensive, costing
from $50 to $40 per pound. The nests
are composed of pure gelatine, secreted
by species of swallow and deposited
against wall.
Miss Grace CORTLAND, the lady whose
exploits in the New York stock market
have earned for her the name of the
witch of Wall street." visited the Chi
cago chamber of commerce, and was re-
fused admission to the floor or permits
sion to address the busy spectators.
She was much incensed, but confided
her prophesies TO the Inter Ocean, to-
gether with her opinions of various dis
tinguished stock spectators.
The Inauguration of President Gar
field was attended with much greater
ceremony than has marked the advent of
any of his predecessors to the office.
The throng of visitors to the capital was
larger, the decorations of streets and
buildings more profuse, the parade
grander, the ball more brilliant, and the
entire proceedings more satisfactory
than on any other occasion of the kind.
Even the formalities in the senate cham
Der, conducted in the manner prescribed
by rule and precedent, seemed to have
borrowed freshness and interest from
the surroundings.
Talking with a correspondent, Presi-
dent Hayes said: II shall go back to
Fremont, the home of my boyhoud, the
place where my children were born and
have grown up; the place that l have
recognized as home all my life, and set
tie down there again. That feel to be
really my home, and am probably better
content there. l have warm personal
friends there, and the members of my
family are much attracted to the place.
They always speak of it as home, and
my children always say they prefer Ere
mont TO any other place, Often in
speaking of the pleasure they anticipate
in q return to il, we ask them if they
prefer it to Washington, and their in
variable answer is that they do.''
General Garfield's mother is type of
the northern Ohio pioneer mother, and
has not yet forgotten the lessons of thrift
and economy taught her in early life by
necessity. In the hurry and hustle of
the morning on the way TO Washington,
the porter forgot 10 extiEguish the lamps
in the car, and they burned At full head
long after daylight. At last the lighted
lamps attracted the old lady's attention,
| when she said to the president-elect:
y aulGS, put OL1l InOSe iaLAipS- It's no use
wasting the oil when it is doing no
good" General Garfield called the por-
ter's attention TO the matter, and the
waste of Illuminating oil was stopped
| Immediately.
| Mr.. ROose. the treasurer of the church
of which General Garfield is member
| in Washington, says: I've have not
yet heard from all our agencies, but We
shall have enough money, l am sure, to
put up stone church of a respectable
character. General Garfield has been
constant attendant of our church with
his wife ahd mother. and liberal giVer
have known him TO give money TO the
church when he did not have it. and had
TO borrow it TO give. When he was
nominated for president be said 10 me:
In no event must my connection with
this denomination go into the presi
dency / would rather be defeated than
elected as any UNCONVENTIONAL candi-
date. or have the religious question made
| an issue His instructions were kent
said Roose. "but we made an awful still
hunt for him in Indians. where we had
20, 600 members.