The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
NUBs OF NEWS.

CuNSS 1OElCE is going 10 T icIluds
rs recuperate from the GuIteau trial.
Is The Sultan of Turkey has sent to tn
. country for specimens Of the most in
proved agricultural implements.
IS One per cent. of the population {
n Germany is kept under arms.
IS This country has lately contribute
q $50, 900 to the irish Land League funds
A Vermont farmer yearly fattens 3
500 turkeys, 2, 200 geese and :, 100 duck,
e One lot of his poultry last year brOugh
l $l0,SOO in the Boston market
In the palace of the Gar wood will b,
! used as fuel, because the regIcidal Nj
hillsts are suspected OF having liked III,
coal with dynamite.
This seasons ice cFap On the Kenne
bee river IS estimated at /, 800, 600 tons
not an insignificant addition to the pro
digiOus harvest of the fields and orchards
of Maine.
Speaker Keifer has positively forbid
, den the sale of liquors in the house
5 restaurant. Drinks must now be car
: Fied into the capitol concealed abou
{ the persons of members.
Gen. G. A Whittier, of Boston, il
putting up on Beacon street the fines
house ever seen in the Hub-seveu
SeoeACS AlStS pNCt MY AOOihSy the iSdIkCSl
Wlne-cellar IN The country, and to coSl
about sos, 600.
Mrs. WhiIelaw Reid, daughter of d
o. Mills, the millionaire, it is said, has
been rendered a cripple fer life by AT
attack of rheumatism.
Madame Christine Missions favOrite
+ amusement is shooting. She has been
staying at country house belonging &c
Queen Isabella, where she shot quaint.
~ o; pheasants in the royal preserves.
Not dollar has been received by
ScoyiIle In response TO his appeal fur
funds to save Guitean from the gallOws.
This is the unanimous Endorsement
from the country of the righteous YER
dict of the jury.
| Venezuela is the first government TO
accept the invitation conveyed in eX-
Secretary Blaine's circular To attend a
congress of the powers at Washington
in November next. She accepts.
There is a fair prospect of the Suez
canal being lighted by electricity, so
that ships may pass through il at night,
instead of coming to anchor as at pres
emit.
Commander Cheyne seems sanguIne
of securing $40, 900 on this side of the
/ Atlantic toward the expense of reaching
the north pole by balloons. Sir Hugh
Allen and other citiZens of Montreal OF
fer TO assist in obtaining subsidy
100000 from the Dominion govern
ment.
John j Finn, OF the editorial staff of the
Chicago Daily News, has been appoint
ed by The President United States Con
sui at ChemniiZ, Germany. The salary
is 1900, and the fees collected there in
1880 were over $4,000.
the congressional library, according
to the librarians report, numbers 42O,-
092 volumes, as against 396, 7SS volumes
year ago.
Smallpox in Chicago kills, ON an av-
eFage, one person 10 every ~, 900 of
population, and a gOodly proportion of
the victims who die at the Chicago est
house are tramps from other towns
A son of the late Senator Wagner, re-
Gently killed in the frightful railroad
accident at Spuyten Duyvil, was nearly
killed last Saturday in trying to catch
an outgoing tram at Schenectady. lie
caught the rail of Il car and was dragged
/ forty yards before he could pull him
self upon the platform.
A young man travels in "a tern Texas
vaccinating the negroes with bee swaX.
He charges dollar, represents himself
as being appointed by The United States
government, and threatens thtttiire pen
alties await those who refuse 10 be- OPP
Grated on.
| Ii is singular fact that the frontier
counties are the richest in proportion
to population of any in the stale.
Official reports show that Trego, Ed
wards, Hodgeman and Pawnee rank
first, second, third and fourth iu wealth
per capita.
The failure of MIR. Thomas Hughes
Rugby colony is announced by the
Rugbean, which says that the venture
was a "fasco almost before the echoes of
applause over its beginning had died
away" The location of the settlement
in the wild mountains of Tennessee was
unfortunate, and the men who joined it
were not of kind 10 hew success out of
a forest.
So far as engineering and financial
considerations are concerned, the pro-
posed tunnel under the English Chan
mel is now thought 10 be entirely prac-
ticable, and if the political obstacles,
arising from anxiety as to the security
of England, are overcome, il probably
will not be long before one may travel
by rail from Dover to Calais.
The memory of Chief Justice Marshall
is to be honoFed by the erection of a
monument in Washington. Shortly af-
ter his death in 1885 the lawyers of the
country contributed 1900 for this pur-
pase. 1t was invested and reinVcsted,
and now amounts to $50 0OO--enOugh TO
secure respectable statue.
In his message to the Chicago coun-
ell Mayor Harrison recommends the ex-
tension of the police telephone system
rover the entire city, in lieu of an in
crease of the police force; an enlarge
ment of the old lake water tunnel, and
The securing of an amendment 10 the
state constitution enabling the City to
issue bonds for necessary improvements
The circulation of cameIs is prohibit
ed in the streets of Paris. Or late sever
al persons had used cauels, surmounted
by kiosk and led by a negro, for adj
vertising purposes. The phenomenon
attracted attention, but ii frightened the
horses, The ingenious persons referred
to have Immediately replaced the camels
by dOnkeys.
A syndicate has been formed for the
purpose OF constructing a railway from
the seashore of the African Gold Coast
Through the rich mining districts OF
| NASSAU. The line when completed,
will open o country where palm oil,
india rubber, ect, abound. and pass close
by the properties of numerous gold
mining companies.
The contract for the erection of ihe
new Texas state capital 81 Austin proves
to have been taken by q syndicate of Ill
limos politicians and milliOnsires, who
iexpect to spend about $4,000, 600 on the
building and make several times that
amount by selling thO 5000 600 acres of
fertile land in the d Panhandle of Texas
la tract over twice as large as the whole
state of Delaware-Which the legis-
lature appropriated to pay the bills.
i While opening up graveLpit near
Bellefountaine, Ohio, last week. the
workmen unearthed a human skeleton
that had evidently been there many
years. With it was a fife, parts of it
Il with the metal mouth-piece being in a
good state of preservation. Near the re-
mains was large cannon-ball. The re-
mains are supposed 10 be one of Hull's
soldiers, fifer. Hull marched through
Logan county during the war of 1872 TO
Detroit, one of the finest pixies in the
county, being located on "HulPs
Trace"
A number Of years ago Baptist cler
igYman, named CleYinger, was one of the
most popular men in two states. His
house was built in such a manner that a
large hall which ran through il was ex.
actly on the state line between Ken
lucky and Tennessee, and whenever a
runaway couple came TO him TO be mar.
ried the oblIging parson, on the first in.
timatiOn OF an approaching pursuit,
would usher them across the hall into
: the state from which they had not c0me
. and from which they could not be legal
iy dragged by relentless parent.
Queen Victoria presented; IN hei
|, rial Parliament in London Tuesday, a
scheme for more important legislation
!; than has been proposed in Great Britain
for over half 9 century. Changes IN the
form of government of towns and cities
criminal code reform, revision of the
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