The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-09-03
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

| uiClh DioeiiS0 OoAtShS1OH. Hey are 1ull OF In
/ terest.
We see it stated that Post Office has recent
ly been established at DEBORAH, in this (Brecken-
ridge county. Where is DEBORAH?
The business Of the Emporia Post Office is
on the increase. 1t is much greater than that OF
any other Office south of Lawrence in the Territory
AS some slight evidence of this will state that
there are over FIVE hundred weekly newspapers
taken in the range of its delivery. Add to this
the daihes and monthlies taken through the me-
| dium of~the office and it makes quite mass of
printed matter for office that has been estab-
lished but little over one yearl This is exclusive
of the circulation of THE News.
The Masonic fraternity of this place have Sc
cured lot 50xl30 feet on the northwest corner of
Merchant streetand Sixth avenue as the site of an
edifee to be erected by the order so soon as cir
cumstanees will admit.
We learn that the sensation" editor of the
| Kansas City Metropolitan has volunteered to go
and fight those "Kaw, Usage and Camanche In
dians," that gave him such horrid attack of the
cacoethes scr iben9i few weeks since.
Mr.. H.. W. Flick, of the firm of Hornsby &
Flick merchants of this place, will go to st. Louis
| in few days, for the purpose of purchasing his
fall and winter stock of dry goods groceries, etc.
He informs US hat it will be much the largest
stock of goods ever brought to Emporia.
There is general ''hurry' just now amongst
those who have not yet pre-empted their land, to
get to the Land Office before it closes for the
sales. which commence on Monday the 18th inst,
in this District. -
-Emporia is not only the largest town in Sou
thern Kansas. but there is more business done
here in proportion to the size of the town than in
any other town in the Territory The business
is sufficient to support town twice as large, and
is rapidly increasing. Topeka. although nearly
twice as large as Emporia, does but little Gf ony)
more business than is done here; and with the
PROPER use of very little capital the business of
this place might soon be quadrupled. A good
Touring MILL plow factory, an earthenware fac
tory. wooden factory, and four or five more good
mercantile establishments (all absolutely needed
here noio,) would, in gear, build up here a
place of t,oo or three thousand Inhabitants, enhan
cling the value of all kinds of property more than
ten fold. Perhaps all these things cannot be got
at once; but get of them and the others will
soon follow. A good Touring mill is the great
est present need, and which no effort the part
of our citizens should be spared to obtain.
IS. N. Wood has removed his paper, the Kan
sas Press, from Cottonwood Falls to Council
Grove. where he will hereafter publish it. No
reasons are assigned by him, for the removal; but
Conncil Grove undoubtedly offers better present
inducements than Cottonwood Falls. Council
Grove is the County seat of Morris county, and is
about twenty miles north from Cottonwood Falls,
on what is known as the Kaw Indian Reserve.
road matters will be found elsewhere in this pa
per. =
The weather, has been warm and pleasant
cold and rainy, again warm and pleasant, and
again cold and rainy, during this week.
We know of several fields of corn that have
been engaged attwenty-fve cents per bushel, de-
ivered. Corn will be worth more before another
harvest. ~ --s.-.-.zr --se = s
The general health of this section of country
continues good.
Hon. j. NJ Winchell, of Superior, Usage Co.,
Kansas, has our thanks for a club of twenty sub
seribers to THE News, furnished by the last mail
A few handsful of bogus halfdollars are in
circulation in this vicinity.
The United Presbyterians of this place and
vicinity have been holding meetings in Templar
Hall every Tuesday and Friday evenings fer the
last few weeks These meetings have been well
attended and productive of good.
"A Republican Club was to have been organ
lied in our neighboring town of Fremont, We'd
nesday evening of this week. We have not learn
ed whether notit prevented by the heavy
rain storm of that evening. If it was, the Ere
monters will doubtless try it again. There are
no better Republicans anywhere than three
fourths the inhabitants of Fremont township.
-Messrs Cooper & Bills have Just turned out
some of the incest specimens of fancy wagon
painting we have seen in the Territory. Their
shop is upstairs in MeElfresh's building, on
Commercial street, and their card is in this weeks
News .-..-s e...t- -ssst-sf
ALI who have tried it agree unanimously in |
the opinion that Kansas wheat makes as good
flour as the best they have ever used, and far su-
perior to any that has been shipped to Kan sas
from Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. And we may
say, without violation of either truth or propri-
ETY., that Breekinridge County Flour Is equal to
the best and that beside it the imported trash
stands no sort of 'show" for sale in these parts
And when get better mills, the 'Breckinridge'
brand will be famed the once celebrated
"Genesee.
-Messrs. Ferguson d Hassler will in a few
weeks open large stock of Clothing, Boots and
Shoes and Furnishing Goods in the building now
occupied by Hassler & Hallberg as Bakery and
Saloon, on Commercial street. This is a branch
of business much needed here, and viii doubtless
prove profitable.
Mr. Rinker, who has Just returned from a
visit to his friends in Iowa. informs us that the
'.hard times at present existing in that state far
exceeds anything of the kind he has ever seem
Iowa is perfect wreck of her former self al.
most everybody is in debt, aud no money to get
out with. This has its effect upon Kansas, as
many of our citizens have money owing to them