The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-16
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
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4 DR.. Morgan Dix has sixteen assistant
ministers in the Trinity parish.
i General Kilpatrick's widow. who is q
native of Chilli, will return to this coun-
try.
During the month of February there
were 1OS deaths from smallpox in Chi
cago.
Too-Too is the name of q postofflcc
Just established in Madison county Ala
/ bama.
Miss Mary Hermann, of jefferson
vile, Ind, has lived fifty-four days with
out food
The Congregational church at Great
Darlington, Mass, valued at $15, 900,
was destroyed by fire Saturday.
An emigrant excursions train of fifty
cars from Canada for Manitoba arrived
in Chicago Wednesday over the Michi-
gan Central railroad.
Justice Gray, of the United States su.
preme bench, has induced the court to
make an order requiring lawyers to re.
move their oVereSats while before that
tribunal.
| John C. Calhoun is to have a costly
monument and statue in Charleston.
Models have been submitted and the as
sociatien shortly will determine upon
the figures. ..saga.....s -
The Rev. Newman Smith, D. D., pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church OF
Quincy, I'll. has been elected to the
| chair Of Christian Theology at the An
dover Theological Seminary.
The religious people of Clarinda, Ia,
had week of prayer for exemption
from smallpox. A scourge passed by
the town, and now a day Of thanksgiving
is appointed.
Charles A. Reed, of Newton, Mass,
| devised $40, 600 each to his own town
and Salem, to be used in pIcnics to chill
dren, scientific lectures, and relief to
poor widows.
Austin, Miss, q town on the Mississip-
| ri river between Helena, Ark, and
Memphis, Tennessee, is being submerg-
ed by the flood, which is twenty-five feet
deep around the principal buildings.
Active preparations are being made
to remove the division headquarters of
the Wabash railroad from Fort WAYNE
and Lafayette to Antioch, Ind. The new
yard is said to be the finest In the west.
| On Tuesday the Iowa senate, by q
| vote of twentY-seven to eighteen, agreed
to q resolution previously passed by the
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constitutional amendment to strike the
word male" from the constitution.
Charles w. StickneY, formerly of Chi
cago, who has just been acquitted of
murder at Denver, has been released from
custody. His wife. who was the cause
of all his trouble, is at the home of her
parents, in Massachusetts, and will re-
sumo her relations with him.
ScovilIe insists that MacVeagh from
the first, believed Guiteau to be crazy
that he was not responsible for his &C.
tions, and would have nothing to do
with the prosecution.
Eastern journals say that scarlet fever
and diptheria have broken out to an
alarming extent along the Hudson river.
Some families have lost all their chill
dren.
Colonel J. z. Powers, of Keokuk, has
chartered a steamboat to take 300 Iowa
veterans of the late war on fortnight's
excursion to the battle-fields of Fort
Donslson, Shiloh, and Vicksburg.
i A band of Mexican stage robbers met
with q warm reception on the 7th.
They attacked diligence and the pas.
sengers being armed welcomed them 50
Hospitality that eleven of the robbers
bit the dust. Strange TO say not one OF
the passengers was injured.
King Milan, the new monarch Of Ser.
via, has issued proclamation thanking
!. the European powers for their ffienA
ship, and promising, by way of plat
form, that his energies will be devoted
to the dissemination of virtue and en-
lightenment.
4 The scheme to purchase the Old TEN
pie farm, on which the battle of York
town was fought, is amply another at.
tempt TO bleed the government. The
farm is good for nothing, is not market
able property, and if sold for taxes
want $25, 200 for it.
The question as to whether Brigham
Young is really dead or abducted is be-
ing agitated. His numerous relatives
are not greatly exercised over the ques.
ton, for they are in full possession of
the property. but it is not beyond belief
that the old man took to the mountains
to escape Ann Eliza.
If the crank, MacLean, had killed
Queen Victoria, it would not have affect.
ed the position of an Office holder in
1 the government of England from Prime
Minister to letter carriers.
/ A Colorado ranchman of long expert.
ence says that the winter just ended has
been more favorable for stock than any
other within his recollection. The
grass has been uniformly excellent, and
the cattle are sleek and fat.
In 1858, Immediately after General
| Garfield resigned his commission in the
army, his portrait in uniform was paint
ed by Miss Ransom. This portrait re.
manned with the artist until q few days
I xuhnn ~ rnrphacad hU MFG
GARFIELD. The late President is repre-
ssnted in sitting position, with the
| colors of the 42d Ohio regiment draped
behind him.
A citizen of Jacksonville, Florida,
has been keeping couple of large ALI
gators in q tank chiefly for the benefit of
travellers from the north. a visitor re-
. Gently stirred up the creatures with q
stick in order that ne might derive all
j possible pleasure from the show. En-.
ragged at being disturbed, they fell to
fighting with each other with fury and
much loss of blood. The fight began al
O'Clock in the afternoon, and neither
was willing to throw up the sponge un.
til II at night, when the older of the
! two acknowledged that he had had
enough. The event proved that he had
had great deal too much, for he died
, | bhO 10Y
While the state dinner to the diplo.
, matte corps was in progress at the
White House on the evening of Februa.
10th numerous kilograms came to
J Washington pleading for a respite for a
man condemned to be hanged on the fol.
lowing day in New Mexico. One, ad
dressed to Attorney General Brewster
was in his absence opened by his wife
J Their little son Benny" seeing it, was
much affected. SEEING a card, he
scEawled upon it in childish characters
"Give the poor man a chance" and
! signed il, "Ben." The card, with an
Explanatory note by Mrs. Brewster, waG
sent with the telegram TO the presidents
secretary, and on the next day a respite
, of thirty days for the condemned man
was announced.
Many romantic fiction which may
have been thought to tax credulity toe
far even Tor the purposes of art is justI
fed by 9 drama which began in Africa
: year ago and has just ended in Paris
The young daughter of Ben. Ali. in
, whose house q wounded French officer
was uuartered, nuraed the invalid dur
, ing many moaths and, perhaps, natural
ly enough, fell in love with him. Al
last he recovered sufficiently to go to
Paris, but the girl could not bear the
+ separation and followed him. Aftel
many trials and privetions she reached
the capital, only to find that the officel
j had died from the effects of his wounds
| two days before her arrival. Sick in
mind and body she went to q hotel
from which she was soon afterWard car
ried, in the last stage of brain fever, &c
1 the hospital Of La Charlie, her landlord
! having refused TO shelter her any longer
II A few days later she was buried in The
1 IyrY cemetery.
Aqueer law suit IL In store for the
PaFisians. Some two years age SaFai
BernhArdt took Ii into her head TO b
photographed, reclining at full length
In her ebony coffin nadded with Whit