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

Thursday night, to protest against iegis-
lation il Missouri prohibiting the rian-
ufaciure OF liquors. A protest VIII be
sent TO the legislature, and at the spring
election candidates will be required TO
sign az anti-prohibition pledge before
they can receive The German vote.
TOLEDO. Feb. 14-The outlook this
morning Is more favorable The water
lowered thirty inches from the highest
points and is still receeding slowly.
Tbs gorge abreast the city is firm, the
water passing out from underneath.
Above the city the river is reported
clear, and it Is expected the Lake Shore
trains viii cross the river and middle
ground to-day.
There is in progress u movement to
make the divorce laws of Maine more
stringent, prompted by the fact that q
proportionately greater number of d.
vorces are annually granted in that state
than anywhere else in New England.
In 1873 the divorce rate in Maine was
| one for every 1851 Inhabitants, while in
Massachusetts only one was granted for
every 2.e96 of the population.
4 more ungainly, strange and awk-
ward figure than that of Thomas Car
| lyle in the last days of his life can hard
| ly be imagined. The stopped and thick
! set frame was attired in rough. ill-fitting
and almost shabby clothes. His face
was rugged and sombre, set IN bush of
| gray-white hair and beard. Beneath the
| heavy brOws, within deep hoilows lined
and worn, shone dull the bluish-gray
| eyes. His nose was a handsome Scotch
nose, staight, fine and bold.
Dun, Barlow & Co.'s New York man.
ager said the other day that Ohio stood
in the best rank of active states for bust
ness honesty. There were 152 failures
in the state last year, and thirty eight in
Cincinnati city. The total liabilities
of these failures was about 81 500, 600 in
a community of $1,000 business firms
There are about the same number OF
firms in business in Ohio as Illinois
rising $1,000 in each case, or about one.
half the number that exists in the city
and state of New York.
When a Montana girl hears in the
watches of the night an unusual noise in
the chicken-coop, she jumps out of bed
and without stopping to put on either
dress, stocking or shoes, PUSHES out into
the cold and snow, and reaches the coop
just in time to rescue an imprisoned
chicken from the jaws of q ravenou'
coyote. She then fastens the door, which
through some carelessness or Oversight
| ushS OCCA -GAA ACASOlCl1 O4IA
to the house and snugly tucks hersel
under the bed-clothes to warm her feet
The simplest post Office in the worl,
| is in Magellan Straits, and has been es
tablished there for some years past.
consists of ii small cask, which is chair
ed to the rock of the extreme cape in til
Straits opposite Terra del Fuego Fac
passing ship sends a boat to open til
cask and to take letters out and plaC
t others into il. The post Office is sci
e acting therefore; it is under the prote,
i ton of the navies of all nations, and u
to the present there is not one case TO r
f port in which any abuse of the priVil
d ges it affords has taken place.
r Professor David Swing, of Chicag
who has been so widely quoted, is tai
n almost gaunt, and wears his straigl
IS hair down over his ears. He is gratef
,e and has winning smile He says III
novels, of which in his opinion the
are, perhaps, not more than twenty re;
- ly great ones, rise or fall with the co
- ception of the noble woman, but that Il
+ more the novel gets away from the ide
woman the greater the novel. becau
re she is only the white ribbon which bin
% the fragments tOgether-a priestess, II
IL divinity.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14-Twenty-sev
s meetings in sympathy with the cause
IN Ireland were held in this city and vici
le ty yesterday, under auspices of the va
Gus land leagues. Hundreds of NJ
n names were added to the membership
"a branch leagues and at nearly every me
o. ing arrangements were made for pub
demonstrations during the conf
Ii. month. Among others the followi
n resolution was adopted at Brook
id meetings.
70 Resolr6d, That we advise workingm
of this and all ether American cities a
h towns TO organize anti-rent leagues
~ mcdiately.