The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-16
HERE AND THERE.

One of the signal service observers in
Indians is a lady.
Buffalo Bill, the travelling actor, owns
about $500, 600 worth of cattle in Texas.
1t is the habit of whiffets to make a
small breeze. They can't help it,
The prospect for good wheat crop
seems to be encouraging in all quarters.
The grain fleet this year from San
Francisco will number more than 425
ships of the largest class.
Barnum is getting and immense
amount of free advertising on account
of the elephant, Jumbo"
The nice little tract OF 1925, goo acres
of land in the Texas Panhandle is set
apart for school purposes.
The New York Sun says: There are
100 per cent. more divorces in Philadel-
phia yearly than in any other city of
the Union"
Mrs. Frances Grant, residing at Rock
Ferry, near Liverpool, England, has
placed the sum of $500, 900 in the hands
of trustees, directing that the interest
accruing therefrom be paid to the de-
serving poor, without regard to class or
creed
Inter Ocean: Mrs. Swisshelm having
finished up the fellows who are living,
is piling some hot shot into old Father
Abraham for trading off Sara. Mrs. s.
accidentally heard of this nefarious bust.
ness last week.
The walkists who participated in the
six-day walking match in New York
late ly claim that they have been swim.
died out of about $40. 600 by the gentle
men who held the gate receipts.
Michigan in 1881 maintained its posi-
ton Us the largest saltprOducing state
by placing in the market $3.50, 800 bar
rels of this staple, exceeding by nearly
100000 barrels the previously unprece
dented yield of 1880.
Already word comes up from the
south that the laid" grabbers are getting
in their work. Parties are accused o
securing government rations and start
ing q store with them. This seems 4
be the universal charge wherever laid
is distributed.
Epitaph hunters may be glad to know
that a rich reward awaits the enterpris
ing searcher in the lonely mountain
gulches of Colorado. The following
specimen will serve TO illustrate the pre-
vailing sentiment of these last tributes
lie had sand in his craw,
| But was slow on the draw;
So we planted him out in the dew.
Mrs. Sarah f. Howe, the manager O
the ladies' deposit swindle at Boston
stands good chance of long term o
Imprisonment, the upper court having
decided against the exceptions taken Oh
her behalf She will be sentenced at tn
next term Of the criminal court o
Suffolk county, Massachusetts,, and
the maximum penalty is awarded will
go to states prison for thirty years.
The Astor estate, in New York, i
valued in the tax list for 1881, at $11,
100000. The personal estate of VIM. b
and VIM. x. Vanderbilt mot including
the new houses. on Fifth avenue) is val
ued at $3,2J0,0OO; Mrs. Cornelia NJ
Stewart, $3.50, COO; A. T. Stewart & Co
$3,OOO,O0O; Peter and Robert Goblet
$3.50, 900; Ex-Governor Edwin D. Nor
gan, 81 100000; james Gordon Bennett
81 200, 600; Elizabeth Burr, $780, 600
Ames r. Emo, $4,OOO,OOO; s. S. Higgins
$2,O00,0O0; Robert Bonner, 5000, 900
Lorillard estate, $2,500,000.
The natives of the large island o
New Britain were formerly of such {
bloodIhirsty disposition that, when they
had no common enemy to handle, they
Immediately fell to fighting among
themselves. Traders were afraid TO have
anything to do with them. and it was 1
disheartening field for missionary efforts
During the last few years, however, thu
various tribes have been brought into
friendly relations, and opened a vigor
Gus trade with the outside world. They
have currency of their own, an estab
lished rate of interest of 10 per cent, ant
are scrupulously exact in financial trans
actions.