The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-30

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in fIresIry will Ike held at Cincinnati.
o, April 2529
So far $1,000 have been collected for
Mrs. Sergeant Mason and the baby, and
it is estimated that the fund will reach
$1,000, il not more.
The building and the repairing Of
fences in 1879 in the United States cost
$75, G20, 600. II is estimated that The
sum expended on them 10 1871 was 81.
747 1882
1t is sla'ed in Washington that Grner-
al Swain, judge advocate general. will
report to the secretary of war that the
court martial which tried Sergeant Ma.
son had no jurisdiction.
The Chicago papers estimate that the
gamblers of that city took IN about 49,
600. 900 last year. The New York Trib-
une remarks that the fool crop must
have been unusually large.
jefferson Davis has throat trouble
which now prevents him from making
That's sad The old mans throat
troubles ought to have been sffectually
cured long ago.
Eastern papers speak of the large
number of young men who are leaving
and will leave New England for Dakota
and the west in the early spring months.
The west will receive such boom the
coming season as was never before
seen.
Ii pearls are the oysters tears, the
bivslve i'll which = fisherman of Long
Island few days ago found sixty-three,
some Us large rs pea. must have had Il
life full OF affiiciion and sorrow. He
musi, in some way, have got hold of
"Old Jays" communications to the
Sentinel.
Speech making still continues in CON
gress ON the Chinese immigration ques-
ton. If this thing is kept up much
longer the Chinese will certainly go,
and We should not be surprised TO learn
that n large proportion of the white
population had got discouraged and
made up their minds 10 go too.
The canal system of Ohio has not
proved q very profitable investment, and
the legislature has before it II prnposi-
IiOn authorizing the abandonment of q
part or all of them 10 the railroads. But
the board of public works has made an
elaborate report against the scheme on
the ground that they hold the railroads
in check as TO freight rates.
The dishonest bank cashiers now
serving out their terms of imprisonment
in many penilentIaries throughout the
land villa take heart when they learn
that Royal b. COnant, who was convict
ed two years ago Tor stealing $4,000
from the Eliot National Bank of BOs-
ton, has been pArdOned. The poor
mans health would not bear cOntine-
ment.
Seth Green, the great fish man, be-
lIeves that California mountain trout
are destined to succeed the brook trout
in eastern streams. The latter are dis
appearing as the water of the creeks
and brooks becomes more exposed to
the sun. He finds that the mountain
trout is one of the most gamy of fish.
During the past ten years Mr.. Green
has distributed over 2o,OOO,OO young
fish throughout the country.
At a town in northern Ohio a lot OF
people who had got worked up at q
Methodist revival, went insane. The lead.
er tried TO kill his wife saying she would
rise again the thiId day. We apprehend
that no difference how religious man
may become this sort of experiment will
not become popular with the wives OF
the land A Mrs Dora Miller at Elgin
Illinois, also became insane from at
tending Methodist revival.
Mary Ann Hermann, the poor lunaliC
who beat Tanner at his own game and
died last week after a sixiy-three days
fast, uttered only one cry of suffering
during her long period of torture anC
that Was shortly before her death, when
singularly enough, n severe attack of th'
humps was added 20 her miseries. Du
ring the last twelve days of her life SHE
lost twenty pounds in weight and at the
time of her death weighed scarcely NOR
than seventy-five pounds, having los
105 pounds in all during the fast.