The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-07

made on the organization of the caucus
This was affected by the Oliver men
electing John NJ. Pottery. of Franklin.
as president of the caucus, by u vote of
sixty-nine 10 fifty-one. The result was
generally received as an evidence of
Crows weakness. The caucus was con-
Quoted without any discussion. B. L.
Hewitt, of Blair, was nominated for
speaker of the house.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 3.-Thc Missouri legis-
lature will meet at Jefferson City Wed
nesday The trains which left here this
morning and tonight took up large
number of members from the various
sections OF the state. Governor-elect
Crittenden will be inaugurated next
Monday
ALBANY, n. Y, jan. 4-The state leg
islature met to-day. Gen. George Ii.
Sharpe, Republican, was reelected
speaker. Erastus Brooks received the
votes of the Democrats.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 4.-The Tennessee
legislature met to-day. The house WAS
organized by the election of w. b. Ram
sey, Republican, of Shelby, as speaker.
The senate balloted twenty-five times
for speaker without a result. Ramsey
is regarded more of Greenbacker than
a Republican. The Republicans were
forced to accept the declaration of War
rem, Greenbacker, and ignore the caucus
nominee, r. r. Butler, TO prevent the
election of Il Democratic speaker. The
state-cTedit and low-taX Democrats acted
in the harmony. The Democratic sena-
tors of both wings held a caucus to-
| night, and resolved TO vote for Demo
Graf tor sneaker of fhp senate
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Jan. 1.-THE general
| assembly met this afternoon and listened
to the reading of the governors annual
message.
HARRIsBURG, Pa, Jan. 4-The first
| biennial session of the Pennsylvania leg
islature was held here to-day. The Re
publican caucus nominees were elected
officers. In the senate sensation was
caused by L. B. Coke, Il Democratic
member from Luzerne county, declining
TO take the Iron clad'' oath. He made ii
long statement, showing that he had
used money in securing his own election
| and therefore could not conscientiously
allow himself to be sworn in.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 3.-The legisla-
ture met at Sacramento today and effect
ed an organization without delay.
There is Republican organization in
both houses.
The Nevada Legislature also met and
organized at Carson City; also the terri
torial Legislature of Arizona at Prescott.
The Telegraph War.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. AIN the U.
s. circuit court Judge Butler granted
preliminary injunction, restraining the
Pennsylvania railroad company from in
terfering with the wires and offices of
the Western Union telegraph company
along the route of the railroad until the
case can be fully heard in the same court
before judges McKinnan and Butler on
the nth inst.
Itemized Intelligence
Garfield is said to like long dinners.
| There is an American horse car COM
paDy in Bombay.
There were 1883 transfers of real es-
tate during the year 1880 in Shawnee
county.
Mary Anderson is winning new lau-
rels in New York in the PRESERVATION of
| the character of Blanca.
Joseph Cook is giving the Welshmen
bioplasms. At last he has found PEG
pie that can talk back TO him and use
him up.
The First NJ E. church at Canton,
Ohio, one of the most beautiful edifices
in the state was destroyed by fire on Sun
day the 2d inst.
kilograms report that quail and other
wild game persisted in great numbers
all through the Ohio valley, by the Sc
we're cold weather.
South Bend, Indiana, has a boy II
years of age whom court of competent
Jurisdiction has pronounced to be the
father of bouncing baby.
Colorado shipped bullion to the value
of S22, 100000 during the past pear. The
bullion output of the Leadville mines
was 30, 7S6 tons, and the bullion produced
by the Leadville smelters amounted TO
$15, 2SS, 900.
There are some very economical girls
in New Jersey. For social entertain
ment the other evening a young lady
chose to be a shepherdess, because she
said she could afterward use the crook
for cIstern pole.
/ Sojournor Truth, now we'll over a CEN
fury old, declares that she will not die
until American women can vote, for she
couldn't bear to go into the heavenly
kingdom without being full citizen of
the American Republic.
j During the past year 1877 vessels ar
rived at New York from foreign ports,
against SOFT in 1879. Arrivals from do
q,
against 9,993 IN 1879; southern ports,
$3.50, against 1851 in 1879.
Owners of large herds of beef cattle
a large herd meaning sag twenty thou
sand or thirty thousand-winter in Chi
cago or St. Louis, or IN the south, whence
they return 10 their ranches in the
counting up" time in the spring.
| A Kansas farmer writes that many
people who "ge vest must expect to be
disappointed in not finding the pleasures
and conveniences of the east, where the
farms were made picturesque and COM
Portable by our hard working forefathers.
Marie Roze says that of the great
| singers of today not one is italian.
English, she thinks, will be the medium
for the opera of the future Christine
| Nilsson believes so. Patti prefers sing
ing in English before an English audi
ence.
The Sioux chiefs have finally accepted
the terms offered by the Chicago and
Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and ST. Paul railroads for the right
of way through their reservation. They
will receive So an acre for all the land
taken by the railroads.
General Garfield has big black New
| foundland DOG named Veto. If the
general has occasion TO use the execu-
tive's great prerogative as often as
Mr.. Hayes has done, that dog is likely
| to be as famous as Bismarck's. ITO set
his dog Veto on congress" may yet be-
come a capital proverb.
There is outstanding at this date
| United States currency 10 the amount of
| $500, SIS. 424. During the past six
months the redemptions of national bank
notes have aggregated $22 399,0 5O. The
national hank notes outstanding amount
to $343, 219943 The net increase of ma
tional bank note circulation during the