The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-06-02
LATE NEWS NOTES.

1 daIHeIu one - conSBuereu out {
danger.
The Railroad Conductors Mutus
Benefit Association of the United States
met at the Coates House, in Kansas Cit
Thursday.
Gen. Williamson, commissioner fth
land department, relires, and it is e1
pected that Mcfarland, of Topeka, vii
succeed him.
Prominent politicians al Washingtol
from Ohio, say that the Conkling rov
will have no effect upon the Republ
cans OF that state.
Senator Conkling's reception at Al
bany was very cordial and enthusiastic
Both houses of the legislature adjourneG
to allow members 10 see him.
The secret of the war on Attorney
General McVeagh is an indirect sttemp
of the star route men to check or breal
down the proceedings against them.
The Virginia readjusters who went Il
Washington to confer with Malone, ar,
disappointed at not receiving more en-
enlargement from the Republicans.
Secretary Blaine has gone to New
York. The fact of his departure ex
cites general comment and il regarded
as imprudent and damaging to the
President.
Mr.. Will. S. Hays is q candidate fol
Mayor of Louisville. 1t is only neces
sary to state that Mr.. Hays is the author
of ''MOlIie Darling" Every reader can
now figure ON the majority of the Other
ElIow.
Napoleon Gould died Monday, aged
02. He has been member of Chrys.
ties MINISTRIES, and later of Bryant's
Company, and is said to have been the
fines. banjOist that ever played on the
Stage.
Gen. Grants railway contract has
been approved of by the Mexican con-
gress, and he and Mr.. Eads having been
successful IN securing the favor of the
government for their schemes, are CON-
ing home.
It is expected that the total arrivals of
foreign immigrants at New York will
reach 5000 or $1,000 this mOnth-more
than for any previous single month, and
surprising by 10000 OF 1900, the arri-
walls for the entire year 1877.
The immigration commissioner of
South Carolina is securing good share
of the foreign immigration for his state.
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas are NOV
ing in the same direction-all of which
goes to show that the world moves.
The London correspondent of the
Guardian reports all classes
of trade in Russia in deplOrable cOndi-
ton. Many English merchants are
up their affairs preparatory to
to England.
Fanny Mordaunt, well known act
ress, was almost blinded by red pepper
being thrown in her eyes by an unknown
man, at her home in Brooklyn. The
Tailed with tina! of Ser
geant Campbell, who, on arrest, told sew
eral contradictory stories, which lead TO
the belief that he was the man.
Cyrus w. Field, of New York, pro-
poses to expose one of the fOulest con-
spiracies ever cOncocted to wreck rail
way property. The property is sup
posed TO be one of the elevated railroads
of New York, and he declares that men
If high standing of various professions
md kinds of business are implicated.
Cyrus seems TO think he has got a sensa-
ion.
1t appears that the people of New
Haven write more letters in proportion
20 their aggregate number than those of
any other city in the United States, the
average being 116 in year. Kansas
City comes next with 1Oe. II is hardly
l fair comparison, because the pOpula-
ion is made up so largely of students.
Among the commercial cities Kansas
City leads.
The Northwestern River Improve
nent and Canal Convention is in SEES
lion at Davenport, Iowa. 1t is the
sense of the convention that the con-
gress of the United States should de
Use by law, and sustain by liberal and
efficient appropriations, a system of
cheap transportation by water route,
the Mississippi river and lis
with the Atlantic seabOard
and tho Gulf of Mexicn
A Washington special says: A re-
port coming to the Presidents attention
that he had expressed himself to the eC-
feet that he would advise the Republi.
cans in the New York legislature to
unite and return COnkling and Plat with
the understanding that they should not
the administration, he has
the rumOr as untrue and
ridiculous. No such compromise has
been thought of by him.
Nebraska crop reports show the acre
age of spring wheat to be about so per
cent. greater than last year. with pros
poets for a good yield; corn will prob
ably be as good as last year. In south
ern Minnesota and Dakota the crop
prospects were never better. The in
creased acreage in eastern Dakota is full
ly 100 per cent. on account of the heavy
immigration. In central Illinois winter
wheat will not produce more than one
third of the ordinary crop. Corn, how
ever, is being planted on n grand scale,
and promises an excellent crop.
The applicants for the Mexican mis-
sion have all abandoned the attempt to
to get the appointment at present.
1t is not the policy or inten-
ton of the administration 20 remove
Minister Morgan, at least not before
next winter, so the several applicants
have been informed at the state depart
ment. Morgan has been active in secur-
ing all the grants for railways and other
concessions from Mexico tending To ia
cilitate communication between that
country and the United States and to
build up our Mexican commerce. It
appears that Gen. Grant before leaving
for Mexico, advised the administration
to retain Morgan because Of his service
in the direction of developing the COM
mercial relations between this country
and Mexico, and Of his intimate knOwl
edge Of all that had been accomplished
in the way of Mexican concessions, and
of the objects and desires Of that gov.
eminent
We believe the whole public debt
could be funded in greenbacks without
interesL-Topeka Journal, Greenback.
Well, how could it? What induce
ment would there be for the holder of a
bond bearing interest to exchange IL FOL
q note bearing no interestI The suppO
| sifion Ia absurd What would be fhOII OH