The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
NuBs OF NEWS.

The railroads at st. Louis are still
very much embarrassed by the floods.
Moody had two immense audiences at
Surgeons tabernacle in London Mon
day.
a Hon. Frederick Douglass lectured at
Memphis Thursday night to large au-
dience.
FOrty-four unsafs buildings, six dan
gerously so, are reported'in one precinct
in New York.
A railroad accident is reported to have
occurred in New Jersey, in which twelve
persons were killed.
Secretary Folger- proposes to adopt
an aggressive policy in his management
of the treasury department.
France has decided 10 occupy the
principal points in Tunis with a corps
of 10000 men until January 4.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, and wife, have returned
from their bridal trip to Europe.
A polar wave of formidable dimen-
sions, 10 which q heavy snow storm is
added, is making it lively in the east.
American artists have keen invited to
present designs for a monument for
Alexander IL, to be erected at Moscow.
The James A. Garfield post of the
Grand Army of the Republic is to be
organized at an carly date at Fort Scott.
At Alta, WIS, Mrs. Verrier induced
her mother and brother to eat poisoned
soup, and both died within few hours.
Rev. DIR. R. s. Storrs, of Brooklyn,
was handed a certificate for $50, 900 on
the thirty-fifth anniversary of his pas
torate.
Whisky dealers are Of the opinion that
the recent conference will result in a
less anomalous condition of the whisky
market.
Over one million sewing-machine
needles were made during the month o!
October at manutactory in Manches
ter. Conn.
New York provision dealers are ir,
ritated over the making of contracts in
Chicago for direct exports Of hog pro
ducts to France.
The Carson Appeal boasts of young
Chinaman, known as Charley, who has
accumulated 1885, by peddling veg
etables in that place.
Elliott county, KY, is in q state oil
turmoil all the time, owing to the reign
| of terrorism inaugurated and kept uI
by gang of outlaws.
Colonel L. v. 3. Howell, a mining
operator from San Francisco, meeting
| with no success in New York killed
himself with revolver.
The fifty,fifth annual report of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad company
shows q gain of nearly 8 per cent. in Tho
earnings of the Chicago division.
The president of Mexico is SO ill az
to vomit blood. The minister of finance
has resigned, and General Trevino in
tends to give up the war portfolio.
Fishers Station, Ind, has been thu
scene of pitched battle between TIVE
warning factions, in which two mel
were killed and several fatally wounded
By the end of the present year tin
Mexican Central railroad will reacl
Queretaro. The rails are laid to Venfl
Hermosa, and the grading is well undo
way.
Throughoutthe southern states Thurs
day, in the observance of Thanksgiv
ing, the main topic in the pulpits wa
the life and service of the late Presiden
Garfield.
The success of Mahone's movemen
in Virginia has emboldened some am
bilious young Democrats in North CaI
Olins to attempt break in the ranks i
that State
Six hundred delegates have informs
the secretary of the national tariff COZ
vention, 70 be held in New York, q
| a. III al
to be present
The National Bureau of AgricultuF
, and two private firms have issued est
mates of the cotton crop for the preseI
. year. and the average shows yield c
Z ,62o, $50 bales.
Thanksgiving was generally observe
. throughout the country Thursday, an
in Ohio. according to custom, the go'
! ernor pardoned two convicts from ID
state penitentiary.
: Cigar manufacturers, of Milwaukee,
, have taken stand against further el
5 enactment of the cigar makers uniog
5 Workmen will be compelled to col
r form to certain rules.
Articles of Incorporation of the Chic
: 60 Streator and Bloomington raiIWa,
: with capital of 81 500 900, have bee
!, filed at Springfield by party of capita
+ lists of New York and Streator
Lieutenant Luke Clark, of the Unite
? States army, threw himself in front of
Z moving train at Bucyrus, Ohio, and WI
cut to pieces. For three months he hs
4 been engaged in counting lady.
. Senator Mahone predicts that all me
t opposed TO sectionalism will be invite
n 10 participate in the next national r
publican convention. as > means ,
:. breaking up the solid south, he recoE
e meDds filling the Federal Offices
d North Carolina, Mississippi and TIE
; nessee with men who are found TO
r the most satisfactory 70 the people.