The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-09-06
STATE ITEMS.


The State Fair is to be held at Law
reno on the cath, 25th, e6th and 9Th
days of September.
The Maeous and Odd Fellows of Fort
Scott have let the contract for building a
ball in that city, to cost 81. 200.
The Patriot says oats are selling in
Burlington for forty cents per busbel;
potatoes eighty cents per bushel; wild
Plums one dollar per bushel; tomatoes
fifty cent per busbel; hay, delivered in
stack. three dollars per ton.
We hud the following in relation to the
Americas cheese factory of Campbell &
Hill in the Junction Union: "Mr. T. G,
Hill. Of Americas, Lyon county, has rent
ed the basement of Wiley's building, as
salesroom for his cheese. which he man
ufactures quite extensively. He has in
store already some 5. 300 pounds of cheese,
and says be proposes putting in about
eight tons. Il looks to US as though Mr..
Hill had IN store a sufficient quantity 20
supply the market of Westeau Ksusas,
aud we trust our people will speedily
adopt the only correct policy upon which
any country can thrive, and encourage
producers. The quality of this cheese il
equal to the best 10 the market, and supe-
rior to pine tenlhs of it. His location al
Junction City must shortly add much tc
the business of our town, and therefore i
is, We hope for him large success. as vel
as to develop the capacities OF the
country"
A negro woman named Wilson cbas'
tised a child of negro called "Stuttering
Jack, in Burlington, a few days ago.
Jack aud Mrs. w. got into a difficulty.
Mrs. Wilson's husband, Hamilton Will
son, took the difficulty off her hands, anC
the affair ended in his being shot and
killed by Jack. The latter is in jail a
Burlington. The Patriot says they had
both been peaceabIe and industrious men.
previous to this time.
The contract for oats and corn at For
Riley, a few days ago. went for IS cents fol
oats, and $3.50 for corr, as we Iearr
from the Manhattan Radical
The ST. Joserh Herald notices COW
from Kansas weighing $50 pounds, aud
measuring in the g'rth feet. 5 inches
eaid TO be the largest ever raised in th'
west.
High prairie has disappointed those
who cultivated it this year, by producing
the best of wheat and equally as good
corn as the low land.-Manhottan hide
pendent.
Two large droves of sheep went
through Fort Scott last week destined fof
Crawford county, They were all foe
wooded sheep, and numbered 800 in all
Mr.. E. W. Patterson, of Indianapolis,
Indiana, has contracted for the erection
of large beef packing house. 1t is to
be built on the grounds of the Stone Saw
ing Company, on the rank of the Smoky
! Hill. Is dimensions are to be-maiu
| building. 14Ox24, with an ell r24x64
! There is also 10 be erected a boarding
house; capable of lodging forty men. Mr.
Young has the contract, and the materia
will be on the ground by the middle OIL
next week, wnen work will commence
| Mr.. Patterson, we are informed. is engag-
ed largely in this business al Indianapo-
lis. and we are informed has the means
| and experience necessary to push it 10 g
! success. He has already purchased four
| thousand head of cattle, and he will com
mence slaughtering as soon as it is posi-
bic to get his house ready.-JunctiOn City
Union.
! Is KANsAs FIR UT CoUNTRY.-Col. J
E. Hays, whose far IN adjoins town, in
! forms US that the first furrow plowed on
his place was two years ago the 1Otb of
last month. A year ago last spring,
he set ont good supply of apples. pears,
grapes. and small fruits of all kinds
This season he has raised straw berries.
bay berries, b.ackbsrries, serViceberries
gooseberriea, currants. grapes, and has
six apple trees loaded with fruit. He can
show Concord grape vines set one year
ago last spring from plants one year oids
which have made sixteen feet of wood
this season, and clusters set out this
spring which have grown nine feet
Okathe Mirror.
Isaac Young reached home yesterday.
He was the Commissioner of Kansas, as
the most of our readers know, TO tie Par
is Exposi ion, and has been absent some
four months. Mr.. Young felt that the
people and power of the United States
were recognized abroad, and was rejoieed
thereat, aud is enthusiastic for Worlds
Fair in the United States in 1869. Like
all other representative from this country,
he was cordially received officially. and
Hospitality met as a citizen. He worked
earnestly and served the State WE'LL
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