The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18
New orleans Alarmed.

rise of water in the Mississippi river
and tributaries, Gen. Ross Bussey, ex-
mayor Patton. Theo. FaressGll, snperin-
tendent Of The gas company, and Thos
J. Eden, Esq, Of the association.
referred To the great danger of the city
from overflow in consequence of the con
dition Of the levees in front of the city.
Gen. Bussey advised that COCO or Is
900 men be put TO work at once To
strengthen them. 4 mass meeting of
properly holders and business men will
be called for Monday night in front of
the city hall, to devise ways and means
to avert the threatened danger.
Winter Wheat
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 15.-In response to in
quiries sent TO railroad agents through
out the winter wheat growing belt tribu-
tary 10 st. Louis, the Post-DIspatch to-
day publishes full report of the acre
age, present condition and prospect of |
the winter wheat crop. The reports /
given show that so far the damage of the |
late sudden and severe changes in the |
weather, has been very slight, and only |
in few localities, and that the acreage |
will be mich larger than last year as |
the present condition is favorable and |
prospects fair to good. Reports from |
Illinois are particularly encouraging, |
and indicate large yield and excellent |
quality.
Pennsylvania SenatOrship
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 1.-THE
twenty-eigth ballot for United States SEN
ator was as follows: Boyne, SO; Beaver, |
80; Wallace, 81; Phillips, 1. The con-
Tention then adjourned.
General and Personal.
Most of the Chinese in New York
wear American clothes.
Prof. franklin Carter, of Yale, was
elected to succeed Chadbourne as presI-
dent of Williams college.
General Simon Cameron, it is rumor-
ed, will accompany General Grant up
on his proposed journey to Mexico.
If the democrats obtain control of the
senate David Davis will probably be the
chairman of the judiciary committee.
HARRIsBURG, Feb. 14-Twenty-scyenth
| ballot for U. s. senator: Bayne, 80
Wallace, "a; Beaver, 81; Shiras, 1 Phil
lips, l.
The Greenbackers in congress an
nounce their determination to nominate
a speaker for the house and stand by him
to the end.
| Lord BeacoDlield has followed the ex
ample of Sir Gladstone in giving his
tenants remission of 90 per cent on
their rents.
Many consumptives are cured by go
ing to Minnesota, while many native
born young Minnesota people die with
lung troubles.
Mr.. William D. Howells, the editor of
the Atlantic Monthly, is likely 20 have
considerable power with the Garfield
administration.
A we'll has been dug in the center of
the ninety-mile desert, New Mexico, and
a windmill placed thereon. The water
} is abundant and good.
) Douglass, the Ute chief, confined for
several months at Fit. LeavenwOrth, has
, been taken to Fit. Garland, and will be
2 taken thence TO his tribe.
: A bill was introduced in the New
York assembly Friday having for it,
object to investigate and break VI
: special rates on railroads.
.. The ways and means committee of the
, Kansas house was instructed Saturday Il
|, report bill for the increase of accom-
, modations for the insane.
1t is denied in the latest Mexican dis
q patches that Jay Gould has permission
: to survey line between the Rio Grand
II river and the city of Mexico.
: The eastern liquor dealers association
Il have stenographers at work at Topeki
), taking full notes of speeches and pro
g ceedings on the temperance bills.
Il New light was thrown upon the anti
guilty of Susan B. Anthony in the Kar
sas Legislature Friday. Mr. Legate saiC
. it took the world 1900 years TO produc,
: her.
Ie A Chicago physician says that prot
IS ably 10000 people in that city are injul
Is ing their health and endangering thei
d lives by using hair cosmetics and fac
v powders.
d Mrs. Hayes has a record of the Whit
If House entertainments under her rule i
the shape of large album, containin
ID diagrams of dinner parties, names {
T. guests, etc.
rs Both branches of the Colorado legi
IL ture have adopted resolutions of syn
ee pathy for Ireland; also u resolution ell
re dorsing Mr.. Belford's position on ii
~ silver question.
A bill will be reported favorably t
the senate providing for the creation {
1e new territory to be called Pembin
at and TO be erected out of the nOrtheT
I'd half of Dakota.
2, Mr. Dennis F. Murphy, senate repor
~ er for thirty years, says that RoscC
. Conkling is the most eloquent oratC
- whom he has reported since the days
y Daniel Webster.
he In the Kansas senate Friday afternoo
n the substitute for Hackney's and Strang
ne temperance bills was taken up on THU
20 reading and again debated, section |
j section, and finally passed.
at. Mr.. Edwin Booth has been dini1
k, with Baroness Burdette-Coutts, to me
tn Mr.. Henry Irving. Mr. Booth is said
ut be in every way pleased with the result
n of his London engagement.
~ The Kansas house passed the bill 81
d urday appropriating $4,000 for the r
Ill lief of the poor on the frontier. The Sc
lg ate took up the bill later in the day b
OF adjourned before disposing of it.
= The Boston Traveller says that if Sen
-. tor COnkling would devote himself e
f clusively to the law he would occur
h. the place at the bar which was held
NJ William Pinckney sixty years ago.
10 A congressman asked delegate Ca
m non the Mormon representative, no
III. many wives he had. II have enough
Al. keep me from interfering with the wiz
of other men," was Cannon's quick i
- joinder.
pr A record of the great historic part,
10 is found on tombstone in a cemete
ps at Portsmouth, N. H, which read
Tv Here lie the remains of - -
N. a kind father, an affectionate husband,
IN. true Democrat"
m The floor of the building in which Il
he inaugural ball is to be held covers
nd space of almost three acres. There wi
of be $50 instruments in the orchestr
There will be a reception until II O'cloc
ng and after that dancing as long as Il
NJ dancers please.
al 1t is stated that there are only abo
ms 25,0 600 bushels of oats in store and ado
m in New York, and the city consumptiC
ity alone is about $4,000 bushels per day.
as looks like an oats famine before the ope
es- ing of navigation.
"a, ST. LOUIS, Feb. IA Post Dispatc
III jefferson City, special says a bill W
introduced in the house to prevent 4
Va sale of limited railroad tickets by "a
re- roads. The bill abolishing the burei
" of labor statistics was killed.
nS BRooKvILLE, Canada, Feb. IA
> . man named Reed, who is in Jail for &C
IN. tempt of court, fell into sleep cont
he uing for eighty hours which terminal
is. in death while he was asleep, wi
pulse and respiration regular.
ATcHIsoN. Kas., Feb. 14-A very
ZEN we're snow storm has prevailed all d
les along the line of the Central Bran
on railroad west of this city. It exten
Ige west as far as Geographic commune
on ton goes. About Twelve inches of snC
Iut has fallen.
'et- There is scarcely any possibility til
rd- the apportionment bill win be passed
to this session, and it is feared that the 81
IN ate will not be able to dispose of the
he funding bill in time to admit of acti
yht by the house on the amendment of {
i've senate before adjournment.
y" The Kansas state university asks So
1 'm $40 for next year, and $25, 400 for {
Iiu following year, and will probably get
ne The Missouri state university came We
eG near being cut off with $4,000 for T.