The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-04
en- taken up as unfinished business

and the senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2I-HoUsE-The
post route bill was reported and recon-
miited.
Mr.. Speer, at The examinations of the
morning hour. called up the Contested
election cases of Yates vs. Martin, in IA
. vor of the contestant Yates
The discussion was protracted. Mr..
keifer presented the case of contestee
Martin, and at the conclusion of the
speech he warned the Democratic party
if it did not place the seal of disapprov-
al upon such practices as had been re-
ported in this case, day was coming
when it would be swept from the halls
of congress by the American people.
Mr. Russell also warned the Demo
cratic party that if the reasonings of com
mon elections are adopted, some Is or
20 gentlemen from the south in the next
congress would wake some morning and
give place TO men who had been counted
in whether elected or not
At the conclusion of Mr.. Russell's
speech Mr.. Springer demanded the pre-
vious question, and the Republicans re-
fusing TO vote. the house was left with
out quorum. Adjourned.
Senatorial splinters.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 26-Ninth inef-
fectual ballot for U. S. Senator; Oliver,
IS; Wallace, IS; Grow, 81; scattering,
II. Adjourned until tomorrow.
GALVESTON, Jan. 25.-The News Aus
tin special says: MaxeY was elected
senator en- the first ballot
Trenton, Jan. 25.-The legislature
voted to day for Q. s. senator. Senate
VIM. J. Sewell (Rep.l. 12; Theo F. Ran
dolph (Dem). 5. House-Sewell, 81;
Randolph, 20. A proclamation of the
election of Sewell will be made to NOR
row.
CHICAGO, Jan. &c The Evening Jour
nails Madison, Wisconsin, special says:
Philetus Sawyer was to-day elected L.
S. senator, to succeed Angus Cameron.
WHEELING, W. ", Jan. 25.-The leg
islature to-day elected Johnson n. Cam
den, Democratic caucus nominee, U. s.
senator TO succeed Hon. Frank Here
ford after the 4th of March next. The
Republican votes, twenty in ALL were
cast for A. NJ. Campbell, editor of the
Intelligencer, this city.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 26.-On the
Both ballot Lowell E. Jackson, state
credit Democrat, was elected 10 the sen
ate.
The Both ballot for senator stood:
Jackson 20, Maynard 25, Rose i. As
soon as Jackson was declared elected he
was lifted out of his seat by his friends
and escorted to the stand and said that he
would do whatever lay in his power to
allay all sectional agitation and bring
prosperity to the country. He would
not only represent the state, but the
United States, in the broadest sense of
the word.
Petitions for a Divorce.
Providence, R. l., Jan. 27-In the
Office Of the clerk of the supreme court,
of Washington county, to-day, William
Sprague filed petition praying for d.
vOrcs from his wife, Katherine Chase
Sprague. Petition recites the facts OF
the marriage, and says that he has ever
since on his part, kept and performed
all his marriage covenants, but said
Katherine Chase Sprague, unmindful of
her marriage VOWS and disregardIng her
{ marriage covenants, violated the same
in this, that she has willfully and with
out cause deserted the bed and board of
the petitioner, which desertion. although
not for continued term of five years,
yet was under such circumstances to en-
, title him to decree for divorce. That
she has maintained improper intimacies
, with other men; that she has repeatedly
without cause declared that she would
not live with the petitioner; that she has
squandered the property of the petition
/ er, thereby increasing his financial en-
! barassment; that she has without cause
turned and driven her eldest child and
persisted in a course of slanderous and
I abusive language, and publications of
and concerning the petitioner, with the
p view and purpose of harrassing, vexing
. and annoying him, and with such effect
/ thus rendering his life miserable, and
/ thus destroying his domestic peace and
' all happiness incident to the marriage
relation; wherefore the petitioner
e prays, etc.
G. Reform in New York.
ALBANY, N. z, Jan. Ex-senator Nc
l. earthly, from the special committee to
s investigate affairs in New York City, for
the purpose of securing more economy
e in city government. reported by bill to-
e day. The bill provides-first, for an cleo
t ton in April or May of board of al
It dermen; second, for the appointment by
r the mayor of a head of the departments
: of political justices and marshals, with
= out confirmation by the board of alder.
), men, and for the removal of heads of de
t partments and marshals without the ap.
J, proval of the governor. The heads of de
partments are reduced to one, except pub
e lie charities and corrections. Taxes and
l. assessments and police are allowed two
l. commissions. The park department is
> to have control of parks and sidewalks
, adjoining the same only. The mayor Is
q charged with the duty of cleaning the
n
assessment is to consist of the mayor,
o who is TO act as chairman, the president
s of the board of aldermen, the comptrol.
Ter, and three citizens, tax payers not
=, otherwise connected with the city gov
y eminent, commission or Office, support
J. ed by, or the salary which is paid from
= the city treasury. The people OF New
3 York will be given hearing upon the
S subject of the charter.
Big Business.
CHICAGO. Jan. 27-In the later edi
tions of the evening papers, dissolution
e notices of the firm were published to
gether with notification that business
would continue under the management
l. of other members OF the old firm OF
. Field, Letter & Co. These are Marshall
J Field, Joseph N. Field, Henry Field, Lo
/ renzo G. WoodhOuse, Henry J. Willing
and Harlow W. Higinbothan. The las
five named are believed to own one THIRD
/ of the business; Marshall Field owns
another third, besides the third which
Letter disposed of, and which it is un
derstood was taken chiefly by MIR. Field
l. 1t is said that the price agreed on wal
about SO, 500, 600, and that the buisnesl
o amounted to $1S,000,0 900 in 1873, $40,
600, 900 in 1879, and $24 00O, 900 during
the last year, on which the profits werI
o about ten per cent. These figures are
+ however, mostly conjectured, as neithe
u party to the transaction will do NOR
than give assurances of the completion
of the dissolution. Mr.. Letter will no
engage in other commercial enterprises
but will devote his time to his extensive
real estate and mining connections.
!. Death from Spider Poisoning.
le ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 26.-Arehibald Glib
son, Second Lieutenant of the Seventh
re cavalry, and son of Chas. Gibson, an ole
s. and prominent lawyer of this city, diet
at the residence of his father this morn
70 ing. Lieut.. Gibson died of inflammation
~ of the brain, believed to be the result o
n a circumstance which occurred while b
q was at West Point. One day while OIL
parade, spider got into one of his ears
40 which had already been injured by scar
a. let fever. By the rules, he was not allow
ed to raise his hands, and he stood il
the ranks more than an hour, while tn
T. spider worked its way into his ear
N When dismissed his ear was full o
a, blood, and the insect could not be re
IL moved for two days. This caused cor
" rosion of the bone next to the brair
~ and gave him a good deal of troubl'
y He went to his regiment in norther
IA Dakota, however, and after performin
40 considerable service and suffering fror
a severe attack of sickness, he cam
=, = home, expecting to resign. but as tpro'
4 ed, only to die.
- On the warpath.
an ALBUoUERQUE. New Mexico. Jal
i 27.-The Indians are on the warpat
90 near San Jose A driver of the ma
was killed. Three miners were kiile
he at Chloride Gulch, and were horribl
IN mutilated and burned. The bodies {
d four women and children were brougE
et to San Marcial. A squad of cavalry pI
Nv to flight some Indians who were rapid