The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-02-22

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the Smoky Hill has been organized at
Junction City, with S. NJ. Strieklsr as
President, and J. o. Hopkins as sscre
tary. The bridge is to cost $4,000, of
which amount over $1,000 have been
raised in Junction. It will be of the
Howe Truss pattern. and the contractors
agree to complete it before the expiration
of'fivs months.
KANSAS MAKUFACTUREs.-T Law.
renee Tribune Of Sunday says concerning
Kansas manufactures:
"a gentleman showed US full suit oil
clothes manufactured by his wife. The
wool was raised on his farm, spun and
wove by his wife, and then made up.
The only work which this industrious
lady did not do was the dying of the cloth
and the cutting of the garments. It is .
suit, too, good enough for any occasion.
Such examples demonstrate what can be
done, and make it paIpable that Kansas
can be independent. The suit is worth
not less than forty dollsrs, the cloth of fine
texture, and the only cash expended was
ak dollars for cardiOg and dyeing at the
Lawrence Wooden Mills, and for cutting,
buttons, etc. How many ladies will set
such an example?
The Paola REPUBLICAN has the follow
ing notice of Jack Mcdowell who was
hung at Council Grove q short time sgo.
The papers are telling some fearful
yarns about him. which are all bosh.
Mcdowell was not very desperate man,
although by nature a thief. He left Kan
sas City for the rebel army The day of the
battle of Independence, August, 1862,
and was captured on his way home in
1868, by Col. Penick's men, in Jackson
County. He told Col. Penick that he
knew where Cole YOnger's camp of bush
whacksrs were concealed, and upon prom
lee of release he pilotsd squad Of Fed
eral troops to the spot, and the camp was
surprised. Some nine we're killed and
Wouaded, and among the killed were 7.
B. Hale aud Geo. Tally, well known st
Kansas City. Since that time Mcdowell
kept pretty clear of the rebels. He led =
miserable life, stealing horses and was
strongly suspected of having murdered
two men for money. But the story that
''he led gang of bushWhackers. and was
with Qusntril in the Lawrence raid" is
all hoax. The people of Kansas City
know better than that.
The Burlington Patriot says that
Woodsou county has overpaid the State
Treasurer for State taxes, aud that no other
county in the State can claim rs much.
Watson has hog about one year old
which measures eight feet and FIVE inches
in length, is twenty SIX inches deep
through the body, and twenty-five inches
wide. He proposes to have lie hog weigh
nine hundred pounds when he kills it,
which will be soon. He says he is GO
ing TO beat all the hogs in the State of
Kansas with this hog, and we'll bet Wat
son will do it.-JGRctioR Union.
ABoUr WEArHER.-The Atchison Free
Press, in = article purporting to be answers
to the questions of a correspondent, says
eve never have two kinds of weather At
the same time There 10 Just where it
10 mistaken. We once saw the sun and
moon, heard thunder and saw lightning.
and were in the midst Of a snoW-stOrm,
all at the same moment. We were on the
road between Troy aud Highland, abou'
the 10Th of March, 1869 The afternoon
had been quite pleasant, but towards
evening. heavy cloud came up overhead,
from which issued loud thunder aud sharp
lightning. and to our surprise, instead OF
. shower of rain falling, quite snow
storm set in, lasting for more than fifteen
minutes. At the came time, the sky
vas perfectly clear both in the esst and
west. In the west the sun was just set
ting. and ia the east, The moon rising.
This is no fancy sketch, nor exaggera-
ton Waite Cloud Chief.
WoRrHY OF NORA colored man
living on Dear Greek, in this county. Ia
addition 20 4 large amount of corn and
other produce, abe past season. raised
three hundred bushels Of wheat upon Z
rented farm. giving one half for the rent.
He sold City bushels At two dollars Per
bushels, and has one hundred left. An.
other colored man 10 the county psYs
taxes on six hundred dollars worth Of
property. Both Of theesmen were sIsVss
at the COMMENCEMENT Of the war. The
man that dare longer say that black man
{ is not able to to take care of himself mus
Be devoid Of reason or an enemy to hu
mainly. We can mention similar cases