The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
NuRS OF NEWS.

Pratt county's treasurer is only TWEEN
ty-twO years old,
Mr.. Hoar introduced bill providing
for postal card with II flexible cover 10
conceal the message.
Five more of the Jeannette's crew
have arrived at Irkutsk.
So intensely cold has been the weather
on the Sahara frontier of Algeria that
hundreds of soldiers and camels per-
ished.
Ottawa boasts of a hog which weighed
eight hundred pounds dressed, and it
was found outside the newspaper offices,
too,
The city of Milwaukee is TO have a
regular system of kindergartens A
proficient lady has been employed as
director of them at salary of 81 500.
A party of Canadian Pacific railroad
surveyors have just come out
of the woods and heard of the death of
Garfield.
The statement is made that ninety
men were legally hanged in this country
during 1891, and nearly hundred were
executed by Judge Lynch
Arkansas City has turned water into
her canal. The fall is twenty-one feet
to the mile, and furnishes great power
for manufacturing purposes,
At st. Louis. No., $50 yardmen and
mechanics in the machine and car shops
of the Missouri Pacific railroad were
discharged SATURDAY. This is the re-
suit of the Gould system of rctrench-
ment.
A farmer residing near Lynn, Ind re-
Gently received from Cincinnati letter
containing two smallpox scabs. 1t was
neither dated nor signed. but gave, the
advice 10 go home and die. Detectives
have been put to work on the case.
At Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
Beecher retracted the remarks he had
made concerning the Brooklyn Board of
Education.
A plan for the utilization of the dCs-
ert lands in Colorado has been prepared
by Representative Belford, of that state,
by which they will be rented Oresold for
q nominal sum to those who will redeem
them for agricultural purposes.
A prodigy of nine years, with big
head, named CessArfno 'Galeotti, who
improVises on the piano, IS the sensa'
ton in Paris, and Madame Adam de
clares he will prove the Mozart of the
nineteenth century.
Prominent men in England are about
to arouse public sympathy in that cOun-
| try in behalf of the Russian Jews, and
| to organize scheme for their immigra-
| ton. A well known lsfaelite will head
| the subscription list with $4,000.
The Dunkers of Indiana consider
| grammar as frivolous, and therefore pro-
| test against their children being taught
| IL In the public schools. The superin-
tendent decides that the teachers may
| omit the offensive study, but tells them
| to impart to the Bunker pupils "all that
is practical in the subject"
The liquor prosecutions all.oy the
| state seem to be followed with greater
number Of convictions than when first
/ commenced. The latest are those 81
Minneapolis, where Aunson and Ray.
mer were each fined 800 and costs,
which are &100 more.
Among "on dts" in connection with
the Guiteau trial, is q prediction that
Juryman Bright will hang the jury, on
the ground that Guiteau is insane.
/ BrIght's father was for some years an
inmate of the government insane asylum
here, and died in that institution. The
authority ayers that the son has always
been considered by his intimates very
peculiar man"
The woman suffrage advocates now
ask the appointment of special com
mittee of the house to consider the petj,
lions that have been presented in their
behalf similar TO that appointed in the
senate. Hitherto the petitions for a
constitutional amendment comforting
suffrage upon women have gone TO the
| judiciary committee, where they have
not always received the most respectful
consideration.
| John A Guiteau has published a la.
ter on his brothers case, and says ne
hopes that the jury will disagree or ac-
/ quit Cox,s Instructions were m0re-fa-
Vorable than he had feared they might
be, and public sentiment was now
changing in favor of a belief in his
brothers insanity. He says Guiteau
has been misrcpresented by the press,
and il will be q wonder If he is not
hung before April /. He says in
Washington people understand the case
better than outside, and people there
believe largely in Guiteau's insanity.
Some of the Republican senator's are
censuEing Ingalls, and Blair for having
delayed action upon the bill 10 grant
Mrs- Lincoln . pension. Senator Farley
informed the Republicans that the Dem.
ocrass had no objections to offer and
that they woald unite In putting the
bill through. Senator IRgalls very EN-
| phaticaIly disclsimed any idea Of oppos.
ing the resolution. Indeed, he expressed
his hearty approval Of It He thought
the bill did not allow enough, and that
as the pension couamitiee, had the sub
iect under consideration it had better go
over. AF. BLAIR also suggested that as
the matter Was before 3 committee Il
Would be better to wait The senator's
who we're urging immediate action say
thaG MFs. LincoIn's needa are pressing,
and delay will incopyenienes her ye<F
i much. aad some indignation has been
| expressed hy them at being defeated In
4 their purpose By objections from the