The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-04
IN. R.ilra.d o,,ss,ion

WHEREAS, The great railroad corpo-
raii"ns oi The United States ars fast pass
ing away from the cuBIrol s,f the people
and The old common cndt, etc the out
yrIwth of totally different state of civ
iizatitn-is found 10 be totally made
quaie Ia the coHtrIl Oi this new engine
al modern civilization: therefore,
Res0lcea. That our senators in congress
be- instructed and our representatives re-
qucsied to ask from the congr' - ST tie.
United STATES The prompt consideration
"f This vitality important subject, and
for the enactment uf such laws Ms the in-
teresfs involved seem to demand.
Mr.. Houston of Anderson spoke at
length fiv0riEg the resolution, and Was
followed in y spread-eagle effort by Mr..
OsbUrn of Washington. who sail the time
for action had arrived, and ''he who daI-
lied wds bastard" After speaking
about twenty minutes, he was asked
which side he was nn. and replied that
he was trying to haste the railroads.
Mr.. Click, Of Atchison, came back at
them with double-shoited argument
which WAS answered by Snoddy.
Then Munsell, of Morris, spoke piece
and motion was made tn adopt the
resolution without the preamble, which
was lost.
A vote was then taken upon a mo-
ton to lay the resolution on the table and
was lost.
The resolution was then amended and
passed by vote 72 to %.
Mr.. Houston, of Anderson, moved to
reconsider the vote by which the reSolu-
ton was adopted.
Mr.. Legate moved that the Houston
motion he laid on the table, which mo-
tfOn prevailed.
Heavy Snow Storms.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA binding
snow storm prevailed along the coast
this morning. The steamer BOrima,
from London, Via Barbadoes, came
ashore ON Ocean Beach, near Long
Branch. The crew and four passengers
refused TO be landed. Mate John Pep
per WAS later brought ashore by his own
boat and crew, and reports twenty-one of
the crew and two passengers-a man
named MarSall and woman named No
ble-on board. They mistOok the lights
OF the life stations and for the II gh-
land lights. The steamer is eighteen
months old, owned by Steele, Young &
Co, London, and valued at $150,000; in
sured in the English companies. The
station crew appealed to the steamers
crew TO come ashore, but they refused
The steamer is in bad position, and
the prospects of saving her are slight.
TOLEDO, Feb. IA heavy snow storm
with high northeasterly winds, has pre-
vailed here for the last twenty. four
hours and still continues. The snow is
badly drifted and the movements of
trains on the various railroads are seri-
ously impeded. Passenger trains are
greatly delayed on several routes, and
the freight traffic is entirely suspended.
CHICAGO. Feb. ALI trains entering
this city from two to four hours late, and
in some cases no trains at all arrived.
The mails are greatly delayed, and
freight trains are far behind time The
delay is on the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Central trains, and the cause is
heavy driven snow.
Possibilities of Petroleum.
NEW YORK. Jan. 3I.-An exhibition
was given to-day in Jersey City of new
fuel-a combination of petroleum. The
exhibition WAS of such a satisfactory ma
ture that results are promised of i'm
pOrtance not easily exaggerated. Col.
Rose. of the Pennsylvania railroad, says a
locomotive can be run from New York
to Philadelphia for 81, instead of $25,
as now, with coal. The Commercial
says to produce combustion nothing
more is necessary than by means of An
atOmizer to unite dry steam and crude
petroleum, only common inch pipe be-
ing used for this purpose, one for steam
and the other for oil, with cocks to regu-
late the flow. The junction is made
within six inches of d perforated brick
retort, which the nozzle enters, and in
stantly ON II match being applied the
whole interior of the furnace-an ordi-
nary reverberatOry smoking furnace, be-
comes intensely heated, so much so that
all the exposed surface may be easily
fused if applied to the steam boiler ON
the locomotive. On shipboarl it is only
necessary To place retorts made of fire
clay on CRATE bars, thus protecting the
boiler plates from injury.
Preparing for the Inauguration.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-The Inaugural
ton ball promises to be Il grand sue
cess, and every endeavor is being made
to make il the most elaborate occasion OF
the kind in the history of the country.
Ia view of the expense attending tle
preparations n0 complimentary tickets
will be issued excepting to Presidcn'-
elect Garfield and his family. The work
Of decoration of Pennsylvania avenue
will be commenced at once. The escort
of The president elect Will consist of
about two thousand militia and fourteen
companies of regular troops and ma
rlnes. Previous To the ball d reception
will be given in the Museum building
by General and Mrs. Garfield, President
and Mrs. Hayes and General and Mrs.
Grant. Gen. Hancock has also been in
Vited to take part in the reception, and
il is thought from assurances received by
the committee that he will accept. Gen
Sherman will be grand marshal of the
parade, and will make the presentations
secretary of the committee, Assistant
Adj General COrbin, has received u
large number of orders for tickets from
persons outside of the city.
Buried by a and-Slide-Heavy Rains in
California.
SAN FRANCIsCo, CAL, Jan. S1.-A dis.
patch from Santa Cruz says that eight
Cinnamon, who were employed in cut
ting timber for the mill company ON the
South Pacific railroad, near Dougherty's
mill, fourteen miles from Santa Cruz,
were buried alive yesterday by half a
mile of the mountain sliding down upon
them. Eighteen were at work at the time,
and but ten escaped. Camp Capitala, stu.
taed on Songhal creek, four miles from
| Santa Cruz, was washed out TO sea, only
four houses being left of the town No
lives were lost. The Oreville railroad is
submerged for long distance, and the
| damage done cannot be ascertained until
the water goes down. At VIrdsor, So
nora county, thirteen inches of rain fell
in seventy hours, and much damage was
sustained by the people in that vicinity
At Placerville, in Eldorado county, in
twenty-four hours up to noon today,
seven and sixfy-four hundredths inches
of rain fell. From other places in the
! northern part of the state come almost
incredible accounts of the amount of
rain which fell during the storm.
Washington Gossip.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The report cur
rent here and generally believed is that
Mr.. Blaine has said that he should vote
! with Mr.. Conkling to reject the New
York nominations recently sent to the
senate, and that the long standing es-
arrangement between the two senators is
about to be bridged over. Mr. Conkling
went to New York this morning, il is
said to meet Gov. Cornell and Senator
Plat on their return from Mentor. Il
is said here the visit of the two latter was
in the interest of Hon. l.. P. Morton as
secretary of the treasury, and that their
visit was successful.
Gen. Grant will arrive here tomorrow
on business connected with the Nicarau-
gian canal project.
1t seems to be pretty well settled that
there will be no further efforts made in
the house to pass the electoral resolu-
lions. How the vote of Georgia is TO
be disposed of no one seems to know.
slippery Smith.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29-Cyrus Smith,
charged with defrauding the government
out of So, 0i0 worth of revenue stamps,
was arrested at Short Greek, Kas., day
or two ago. 1t is said that Smith and
others entered into conspiracy at Chi
"a ON fo cheat the uoyarnmanf hnught