The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
GENERAL AND Personal
I.em. Of In.ere.. From rar ana Sea-

Items of Interest From Far and Near
There is an increased demand for tie |
revised New Testament.
Sir. Vennor predicts heavy snowfalls
at the end of this week. !.
Indianapolis claims TO have the first
church 10 adopt the electric light.
w. H. Vanderbilt has issued 1000 To-
vilatIons TO a ball at his new residence,
February II.
Three Chicago men and one Canton,
Illinois, man. are the largest land
owners in the world.
J. NJ. Dixon, postmaster at Esnis,
Texas, has been arrested for embezziing
$500 of government money.
A guano island, four miles square,
has been discovered in the Gulf of Cali
foTnia, near Port Labos.
"A watch stolen from San Francisco
lady more than year ago has been
returned to her from China.
Efforts to cnlonize the northwest TN
territory are being made by all The relig
ious organizatitRs III Canada
a new colonization Company. with a
capital of $50. J00, 600, has been flrmed
at Montreal, with Sir Hugh Allan As
president
The London Times announces on
good authority that the government has
decided 10 buy up the telephone compa-
MES in Great Britain.
About $4,000 acres of land between
Jaffa and Jerusalem have been secured
OH which TO form 4 colony for the perse-
cuted Jews of Europe.
Charles w. West, of Cincinnati, has
made another gift of $3.50, 600 to the art
museum, the interest only 10 be used by
the association.
The fire commissioners of Boston
have ordered rope fire-escapes TO be sup
piled by all manufacturers employing
five or mere hands.
At meeting of The Philadelphia
branch of the Jewish alliance it was an
nounced that party of $40 Russian
refugees will soon arrive.
Captain Stone says Mr. Vanderbilt in
tends to make road-Eorse OF Maud S.
the coming spring, and that she will
never again trot against time.
The new Chinese minister brought
with him, among other delicacies, lot
of sharks fins, birds nests, rice brandy
and kind of cake never seen by Ameri-
can bakers.
Arrangements are nearly completed
for the establishment of line of steem-
ers called the Black Star line. between
Grimsby, England and New York and
Philadelphia.
The total cost of the public and incor-
porated charities in the state of New
York last year was nearly $1,000 600.
The total number of individuals benefit
ed was 183, 065.
The marquis of Huntley, who fled
from England to Greece to escape i'm
prisonment for fraud, is preparing to
settle permanently in the western sec
ton of the United States.
Alex II. Stephens celebrated his 10Th
birthday Saturday at Washington. He
has served twenty five years in congress,
and was vice president of the southern
confederacy for four years. No man is
more popular or more revered by his as
Sociates.
The Jewish relief fund promoted by
the lord mayor of London amounts to
5000. The widow of Baron James
Rotchschild recently subscribed 81 200.
Aid to the amount of $4,000 was given
TO party of 373 Russian refugees en-
route for the United States.
A California man worth nearly a half
million dollars recently attended the
funeral of his son. Just before the cof-
fin was lowered he unscrewed the silver
ed handles, and, taking them back TO
town, sold them to an undertaken.
New York State employs 30,S26 school
teachers, of whom %, 738 are females
Last year 1,021 ,2S2 pupils attended her
public schools. The state expended,
$31 ,091 $50 invested in school houses
and sites.
The report of the Roman board of sta.
tistics shows that on the 31st OF
December, 1881, the population of Rome
and her suburbs numbered 167, 327 males
and 49,, 965 females-a total of 800, 1892
souls. The increase of the population
in the last two years has been 81, 4l6.
Professor Doremus, the New York
chemist, has been anaIyZing the milk of
the mother of Barnum's baby elephant,
and reports that it has twice the richness
of that of jersey cow, and that it is
very palatable. His estimate is that an
elephant would produce 1000 pounds OF
butter year.
At the funeral obsequies of Col. John
Newman, at Crestline, which was at
tended by Mansfield Commandery, X.
T., and the Odd Fellows, the preacher,
Rev. Marcus, of the Dutch Reformed
church, took that opportunity of de-
nOuncing secret societies, to the indig-
nation of the people attending the funer,
al
Col. Ingersoll does not mean that it
shall be said, after death, that he turned
from infidelity on his dying bed. His
secretary, who writes shorthand, is in
structed to take down accurately what
ever he may say on that occasion.
"There Will be no opportunity" he says,
'for any one to put into my mouth at
terances contradicting the expressions
of my entire life"
Elizabeth L. Comstock, who so long
has labored in behalf of the Kansas
refugees, is still under the care of her
medical advisers at the Sanitarium at
Dansville, N. Y. Word just received
from there says she is slowly improving,
and hopes by the coming summer to be
able to resume her duties. Her associ.
ate, Laura s. Haviland, assumes her dIi-
ties in the Kansas work.
Some notion of the cost of land trans.
fers in England may be gathered from
a letter recently written by law firm
in defense of their profession against
the charge of high fees. The land in
question was sold for $4,000. From
the government it was necessary to oh
tain stamps, which cost $685.. and the
agent of the vendor, who merely sold
the property, was paid 81, 165. The law
firm, which acted in behalf of the pur-
chaser, received 5000.
One of the wealthy and fashionable
women of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, astonished
large company of keno gamblers by
walking coolly into the room where they
were at play, accompanied by police
man. She was in quest of young
brother, who had become possessed of
an uncomfortable mania for gambling /;
and she not only took him away, but Sc
cured enough evidence to convict the
proprietors of the place, which was
closed.
Colorado Cuttings.
DENVER, Feb. IS. "A Republican
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