The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04

Another freight train was dItchcd on
the Missouri Pacific Tuesday near
Council Grove. The engine and pair
of trucks were thrown from the track
but no one was injured. The road was
cleared that evening by the wrecking
train under charge Of train-master
Welch.
The supreme court proceedings pub
lishcd in the Commonwealth Wednesday
morning, contains the following entry:
City OF Emporia ct al VS. William T.
Soden. Error from Lyon county. lie.
Lambert, Burns, Hurd, aud Campbell
for plaintiff: A. Gillett, Scott & Lynn
for defendant Submitted
Mr.. G. A. Ferdinand has leased the
room now occupied by 1. d. Fox S Co.
and will remove the Emporia Pharmacy
to that location about the Goth of March.
Mr.. Ferdinand has been in Emporia
nearly year and has established an ex
cellent reputation as an enterprising
and reliable druggist and business man.
We are pleased to Eote the fact that
he has secured ono of the most eligible
business rooms on Commercial street
where he will enlarge his facilities and
conduct one of the best drug houses in
The state.
An old lady named Van Ormer, ar
rived in Emporia Wednesday, on an
early train from the west and made in
quiry at the depot FOR the city marshal
She was on her way to Lincoln, Nehras-
ka, where she has SOME children with
whom she is going to make her home.
At Newton she lost her pocket book, and
the authorities there forwarded her to
this point, from which she hoped to OBJ
tain transportation TO Atchison. She was
properly cared for, and sent on her
journey to-day.
The lecture of Rev Mr. Kirby, at the
Normal Sunday afternoon, on the RE
laiion of Christianity to Educational
and Intellectual Forces" was we'll at
tended, and proved one of the happiest
and most able efforts of that gifted
speaker. Space forbids review of Mr..
Kirby's line of argument, but his elo-
quent plea for u broader and more en-
| lightened presentation of gospel truth
revealed his position as being in the van
of the progressive thought of the times,
and struck sympathetic chord in the
minds and hearts of many Of his hearers.
A little girl named Thomas, was ac-
cidentally shot in the hand Tuesday,
with a cartridge from "A toy pistol in the
hands of colored woman living at DIR.
Trueworthy's. The cartridge was ex-
tracted by Mr.. Fred Newman, who
met the child on Sixth avenue, and
after binding up the wound,
sent her home. The innocent cause
of the accident felt dreadfully dis
tressed over it, and she will probably be
troubled with no further curiosity re-
garding fire weapons, which are much
too carelessly handled by the juvenile
portion of the community.
Commonwealth: A party of eastern
ladies and gentlemen arrived in the city
Monday and took rooms at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, to remain until Tuesday
morning, when they took the Santa Fe
train for New Mexico, Arizona, and SO
ON to California. The party is COM
posed of the following persons: Henry
+. Durant, a capitalist and philanthro-
pIst, who gave one million dollars to the
Wellsby college, and his wife and neph-
ew Julian Taylor; Prof f. n. Horstord,
who occupies the chair of Chemistry at
Harvard college, and two daughters, Mr..
Marshall, Miss Longfellow, daughter of
the poet, and Mr.. Mansfield.
The Emporia defendants in the test
liquor cases recently decided in the su-
prcme court, were notified Friday by
Esquire Fletcher TO pay the fines incur
red by their violation of the law in con-
tinuing in the liquor traffic after the
amendment, and their attorney has sig
nified the purpose of his clients to step
up to the captains office and satisfy all
claims. The fines arc merely nominal,
as the proceedings were instituted sole
ly for the purpose of testing question
of law, and as the remainder of the sa-
loonists in the city closed up immedi-
ately upon the decision of the mooted
point, no action will be brought against
them.
At the recent meeting of the home be
nevolent society, the report of the presi
dent, Mrs. 1. E. Perley, showed that quite
a number of poor families had been ma
: terially aided during the winter, and
that the organization had made crafty
ing Roadway in banishIng cold and hun
ger from more than one household il
Emporia. There is nothing so effective
as organized charity in carrying GU
the schemes of philanthropy, ant
. the people of our city can hit upon nj
. more effective method of reaching tint
distress of their fellow creatures than by
aiding the ladies engaged in this praise
worthy work. PatroniZe the charity
, ball, and thus reinforce the home benev
; client fund.
Between $135 and $3.50 have already
been raised by subscriptions and tn
sale of tickets to the charity ball
to be given on Friday evening
at Bancroft hall for the bene
fit of the poor of this city. 1t is desires
to raise the sum to at least $500, and 4
e this end it is hoped that all benevolen
/ people will assist the enterprise. Tn
$ entire proceeds are to be turned over T.
/ the Home Benevolent Society, through
which considerable supplies of food
c clothing and money have bee
dispensed among the INDECENT pee
!, pie OF Emporia during tn
/ past trying winter, and much suiferin
e alleviated. 1t is with view to supply
y ing the noble members of that organizs
r ton with the means to continue thei
IT good work, that the ball is given, an
lie the meritorious character of the objeC
n should prove an ample warrant of il
abundant success.
y Mr.. p. c. CowlIng, of Ohio, who IT
Gently purchased a large sheep ranc
al east of the city, Of J. X Finley, upo
t. which he has made extensive and walt
j. able Improvements, arrived in Empori
d from the east Monday, with lot {