The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-23
HERE AND THERE.


shutting down on account of dull bust
ness.
On the 18th the Mississippi bad an
average width of forty miles from Cairo
down.
The people of Chicago are among the
best patrons of the winter resorts Of
Florida.
With all its shortcomings this paper
has meyer yet tackled the picture of
LYDIA Pinkham.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad com.
psny is going to build an Independent
line between Baltimore and PhiladeI.
phia.
The northern cities and the national
government are again extending the
helping hand to our southern brethren
That is right.
In India the proportion of non-christ
tians to christians is $50 to /. OF the
100000 christians, 650,O00 are Roman
Catholics.
In Georgia The colored people pay
taxes on betNe $6,OO0,O00 and 81, COO
600. In Louisiana they pay taxes on
$25 100000.
The Wisconsin assembly by vote Of
40 to 43 refused to order the bill for the
restoration of capital punishment in that
state to third reading.
During the twenty years ending with
1896 there were condemned 10 death in
England and Wales 512 criminals, OF
whom only go were executed.
Kansas City stands next to Chicago in
the number of hogs packed the past sea
son. No wonder st. Louis gets her
"bristles up" about Kansas City.
The Chicago and Kansas City Air
Line railroad company filed articles OF
Incorporation at Springfield, Illinois,
Wednesday. The capital is $5,OOO,000
The general conference of the Meth.
Odist Church South will meet in May,
and it is probable that plans looking to
q reunion with the northern church will
be discussed.
Hazel, the great walkist, has hurried
off to England. He didn't get his big
money, and had he remained in New
York a few days longer he would not
have had cent left.
The London directory of directors for
1882, shows that one gentleman is chair
man of ten companies and a director of
five more We don't know whether that
beats Tom Anderson or not, but we
guess not.
Feet washing as religious rite is OBJ
served by the Union Bethel church of
God, Philadelphia. We know fellows
who might practice that religious rite
without serious objection on the part of
their associates
Wisconsin promises to be the most
lively of the western states for some
time to come. How can it be otherwise
when a bill has been introduced in her
legislature to move the capital from
Madison tn Milwaukee.
w AOu GIIlOul WIZ IiSL lIllO
the Union it was given two representa-
tiv,s in congress. This number was az
terward increased to six. Now, after a
period Of ninety years, the state returns
to the original number.
The banks of Ireland show an in
crease in deposits aud cash balances of
$1,000, 900 the past year. The improved
condition of trade and business in Ire
land will DO hailed with delight by
Irishmen in this country
San Francisco is still suffering from
the decentralization caused by the reign
of the sand-lotters. While all other
great cities of the land are booming
real estate in the city of the Occidcnt is
still depressed, and the business show
ing fails to keep pace with the times.
Emigrants are passing through St.
Paul on their way to new homes in the
far northwest at the rate of nearly a
thousand day. They necessarily travel
In jolting, ill-smelling emigrant cars,
but palace cars will be none too good
for their children a few years hence.
General Ben Butler, counsel for the
Iowa Farmers Association in the barb
wire suits brought by Washburn, Moen
& CO., has interested Attorney General
Brewster in the question of the validity
of the various patents, which, he be-
lieves, will result in favor of the farm
ers.
The legislature of Michigan is win
ming some praise for the promptness
with which it has dispatched the bust
ness before it and made ready to adjourn.
Among other things it has rearrang-
ed the congressional districts and voted
$3.50, 900 to the sufferers by the recent
forest fires.
Says the Rochester IN. " Herald
A Chicago lady in Washington writes to
the Inter-Ocean that a lady who died
recently in Boston left $4,000 to Susan
B. Anthony and S25, 900 to Lucy Stone,
to be used for the achievement of wo-
mans suffrage. That's pretty good
lift for the cause.
Advice as to where you should sit
when on railroad train is rendered,
free of charge by the Railroad Journal,
an accepted authority on such matters.
1t says that next to the forward car in a
moving train the rear car is probably
the most unsafe. The safest seat, it
thinks, beyond question, is nearer the
center of the last car but one.
Half the silver half-dollars circulated
in Montana are alleged to be counter
feits made by the Chinese in San Fran
cisco. They are described as OF exactly
the weight of genuine ones, and one
thirty-secOnd part OF an inch larger in
diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents worth of silver, which is all on the
surface
Everyone will be glad to know that
some thief has stolen in st. Louis and
probably destroyed, the manuscript of a
lecture entitled THE Birth, Mission and
Destiny of the Great American Repub-
lie, as FOreshadowed in the Sacred
Scriptures and the White Hosre of
Revelation, SO Vividly Foretold in the
Gorgeous Symbolic Language of St
John"
OVER THE STATE.
Topeks's stockyards will be in opera
tion in ninety days.
Galena boasts of the strongest G. A.
R. post in the state.
Commonwealth: Eighteen deserters
from the regular army passed through