The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-04-21
TERRITORLAL NEWS I1EAs.

The county Treasurer of LeayenwoEth
county gives notice that he viii redeem the
''scrip'; of that county with bonds, at a
premium equivalent to one-fourth their val
ue-the bonds to run fifteen years. bearing
ten per cent. interest.
The Pony Express from st. 10. to San
Francisco. now runs weekly, making the
entire distance of 240O miles in $40 hours.
The express carries only telegraphic dis
patches,
1.-The tide of emigration for the Jeffer-
son Gold Mines has now fairly set in. Leay-
enworth, Kansas City and st. 10. papers
speak Of the crowds hurrying forward to the
plains from those places as being largely in
advance, of the emigration of this time
last year. Lawrence, too, and the interior
towns of Kansas, are sending forth their
hundreds and thousands. The emigrants
are generally of the right stamp-being men
of energy and character.
jackson county elected the entire Dem
ocratic ticket for county officers at the re-
cent election. This lisa Democratic gain.
The Iowa Point Dispatch says that a
gentleman of that place is now engaged in
buying hogs, ''to be delivered next fall, and
paying 81 for all that will average two hum
dred pounds''-one-h half in advance. Cheap
enough.
The last Pixies Peak Express arrived in
Leayenworth a few days since, bringing
Stages in gold dust and several passen-
gers. Rich diggings are reported to have
been discovered few days before the Ex-
press left the mines.
The City Council Ct Leavenworth has
appropriated $500 for the purpose of max
ing "a survey of the Smoky Hill route to the
mines, which is believed to be shorter than
the Platte route. We are OF the opinion
that ultimately ali the other routes will yield
to the Santa Fe OF Arkansas route. Il is
certainly the best adapted for trains of wag-
ons and stock. as timber and water are more
plenty along it than any other. while it is
also the best natural thoroughfare in the
world. It's more southern location, also, is
favorable to the early growth of grass.
The Osawatomie Herald learns that
"seyeral attempts have been made to arrest
Capt. Montgomery, upon writs arising from
offences said to have been committed pre-
vious to the passage of the Amnesty Bill.
Allthese he promptly resisted. 1t is to be
regretted that our Territorial functionaries
cannot abide their own laws, as every in
fringement will be met with that determin-
alton characteristic of the man who has
been bounded down until forbearance ceases
to be virtue"
The delinquent tax list of Wyandot
county includes over four thousand lots in
Wyandot City.
The Marysville Marshall Co. Platform
has the following in regard TO ''wind-
wagon: saa
sThere appeared in our streets. yesterday. a sin
gular looking vehicle, fitted up with a sail and
cutter, like boat It had the necessary maehin-
cry attached, so that two men could sit in the
wagon and by turning crank propel themselves
onward at the rate of eight miles an hour This
wind wagon was built at oskaloosa, and the pro-
expected it would so far If this experiment
proves successful, land we reason why i.
will not,) til ere will be no more use for mules and
oxen t'
The Quindaro Tribune says that the
ParkvilIe & Grand River Railroad will be
completed to point on the Missouri oppo-
site Quindaro by the FIRST day of December
next. This road intersects the Hannibal &
st. 10. Road at Cameron, some fifty Oh
sixty miles west of St. 10.
-Lykins county is making preparations
for an extensive Agricultural Fair and Horse
Show this fall. The invitation is to be ex
tended to all Southern Kansas to participate
The White Cloud Chief says tha
Northern Kansas is full of mad-dogs. One
man in the vicinity of Troy, Doniphan
county, was bitten by rabid dog. one day
last week, and Immediately after attacked
with hydrophobia.
"A German named Leon Phillip s, living
near Garnet, Anderson county. died sud
denly week before last. A few days after
his death the conduct of his wife so excited
the suspicion of the neighbors that they
caused the body Of her husband to be ex-
humed and examined. The stomach was
sent TO st. Louis for examination; the wife
and her mother. living with her. were ar
rested and examined before q magistrate.--
The result was that the wife was committed
for trial at the next term of the District
Court. on the charge of poisoning hel3 hus.
bano. and the mother discharged. It was
shown on the examination that the wife had
purchased arsenic at two different times