The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
NUBS OF NEWS.

OF Col cnnvicts in the Arkansas state
prison more than one hundred arc muir
derers.
The Garfield memorial exercises will
take place in the house of reprts enla-
tives on the 9th Of February.
Restrictions have been removed, and
American cattle will now be received IN
Canada for breeding purposes.
Agent HatIon is bringing five Arapa
hoe chiefs from Fort Wasnakie to see
their children in the school at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
The students at Harvard have caught
the aesthetic lunacy, anu about fifty of
them attended Oscar Wilde's lecture the
other evening in knee brooches and 9th
er utter attire.
The only really cheerful feature of the
recent fire in Park Row, New York, is
the destruction of the Office of the Truth
newspaper in which the celebrated Nor
ey forgery first made its appearance.
A 500 diamond pin, belonging to
Providence young man, was recently
lost, and after several days found in the
giZzard of Il hen, after il was killed on
suspicion that it had gobbl. d up the
missing jewel
Statisticians estimate that the pOpula
ton of this country has increased over
| 100000 since the taking of the census
in 1880, making our population upward
of 80, 900 600. II is believed that in 1890
it will approximate 60,0O0,O00
The actual losses by the great fire in
| Newspaper Row, New York, will ag-
gregate over 81 100000, and the contin-
| gent losses are inca'culable, as an i'm.
mense number of patents and models
L 4
stroyed.
A man was arrested i'll Cincinnati last
week for distributing infldel tracts at a
revival meeting. He maintained that
he was not a crank, and that he had as
much right to scatter his bills among
alleged Christians as they had to scatter
their pamphlets in saloons.
On Tuesday evening an extraordinary
lunar phenomenon caused much com
ment at Omaha. Large double haIos
were observable around The moon, bi
secting each other accurately and one
running through the moon. 4 beautiful
lunar rainbow was also visible for sew
eral hours.
"Mrs. Emmons," says the Washington
Republic, as the name Of the lady daily
seen in company with a large stag
hound which matches in the color of il;
shaggy coat the shade Of her ulster. The
; dog has private room at WoEmlcy's
and has its meals served to il in as flint
] style as any other dignitary residing
J there"
A lady sued the Continental Passen
ger Railway company, Philadelphia, fol
injuries sustained by falling in crowd
ed car in which She was Obliged 4
; stand, and received verdict OF $l2,0Ot
, damages.
J In 1881 there were S22 deaths from
smallpox in Chicago. 1919 in PhIladel
phia, Asa in New York, and Al il
} Pitisburg, which had the greatest RIor
taliiy in proportion to population
A Philadelphia who bnIids TeTrigera
I tor cars has made an offer 10 the family
) of Guiteau, the assassin, TO exhibit Gui
= teau's body, after rira:h, IN this c"untr,
and Europe. for the benefit of tn
s family He offers To spend $2j 90 ii
9 fixing the remains.
| The physicians who attended the lat
! President Garfield have decided not (,
1 ask stated sum for their services, but
6 stating what they did, leave the sum &
2 the generosity Of congress.
West Virginia has reckless biga
3 mist in DIR. Love, dentist, who makes
j round of the principal towns every yeal
9 remaining from week to two month
= in each. He grows sentimental Will
working in the mouths of 10 men, an,
has sometimes been whipped for his al
dacity; but In seven instances his ad
vances have led TO marriage. The seve
E wives are living, and the doctor has gon
: t. Jail.
a The works for utilizing some of tn
: enormous water power of Niagara rive
! are now IN progress under the auspice
!. of the new company formed not lon
q since. In 1880 q canal three quarieFs o
s a mile long. 35 feet wide and 10 feet deer
e with fall of 2 feet, was CONSTRUCTED
Z. The canal leaves the river above the fall
3 and empties into reservoir below
y Four wheels were in operation former
) iiy. The new company has nearly com
s pleted wheel pat near the reservoir a
8 feet long by 20 wide. and sunk in tn
e solid rock 81 feet. In this pit will b
' placed three large wheels, to which til
p water will be led by huge iron pipes
J. This will give an available head OF IS
7 feet, ana the possibility Of power seer
inexhaustihle.