The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-09-20
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS ITENg,


Train will stump this State in favor Of
Female Suffrage.
A letter from western North Carolina
says that the Unionists will be in the ma
jority of three to one.
A gentleman near Spriugdals. Leaveu-
worth county, is preparing to SOW two
hundred acres Of wheat this fall.
An Illinois farmer owning q farm of
seventeen thousand acres, mas started an
agent to Kansas to buy thousand head
of cattle to stock his farm. Several other
cattle buyers are also coming 10 purchase
heavy lots here and in the Indian coun-
try. The great demand for cattle in Ilf-
nois will have a tendency to advance
prices here, as they look to Kansas prin-
ciPally for their supply. So says the
Lawrence Tribune.
We learn from the Humboldt Union, of
last week, that Col. Cess has received in-
telligence that the contract for the build
ing of the Union Pacific Railway, s. B.,
is satisfactory to the Eastern capitalists,
and that the work of grading will COM
mence at Junction City. on the 18th of
October. They are in earnest.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that du-
ring the present season no less than fifteen
thousand immigrants from the Old World
have passed through that city, on their
way to settle 10 Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota.
A Washington special says there is
good authority for believing the Presi-
dent intends attempting to. reopen regis
tration in the Southern States and to post
pone the elections.
Santa Annals trial is daily expected to
take place. His counsel will be the same
gentleman who defended Macmillan.
The general impression is that he will not
be executed, but his estate will be confs-
Gated.
A dinner was given 10 Gen. Beaure.
gard in New York. by some of his spe-
cial friends. few evenings since. In re-
spouse to a toast, be said he was in favor
OF strong government, admitted that Sc
eeesiOu was whipped out of him, and that
it would be utter folly for the south to at
tempt to get up another rebellion, the
thing being simply impossible.
The Lawrence Tribune in noticing
some grapes presented to the editor of
that paper, by Mr.. Labarriere. who lives
near Baldwin City, in Douglas county,
gives the following note from Mr.. L.,
which will be of interest to grape grow
ers:
al have resided in France, 80 much re-
now ned for its vines, for thirty -four years,
and have seen its most beautiful and best
vineyards. have several times crossed
The United States, aud travelled over Cali.
| foInis; and nowhere have I seen a soil
and climate and a country SO generally
we'll adapted to the culture of the grape
vine as Kansas. have therefore not hes
itated to embark in the culture of the
finest varieties for the table, as well as wine
making PURPOSES
1t is rumorsd that one of the PixIeys,
who murdered General Bailey, sheriff oil
Vernon county, Mo-. has been captured.
He returned to that county, and the citi-
gems, it is said, went for him." but had
to shoot and cripple him severely before
he would give up.
A man named Willis J. Stanley arrived
in Lawrence on last Saturday, from North
| Carolina, and, leaving his wife and two
children here, went TO Hesper, in the east
ern part of the county, to see some friends.
On Sunday he was taken with cholera
morbus. and died in eight hours. His
wife was sent for, but he was dead when
she arrived. HIS death caused some
alarm in the vicinity, as many were APP
prehensiVe it was cholera.-Las0rence
| Tribune.
Large numbers of Texas cattle are now
being shipped from Abiline. Kansas.
They go via H & st. 10 aud G. B. & Q.
! R R. to Chicago aud the East. There are
now 10000 head of cattle at Abiliue. and
the Lawrence Journal estimates that 100, :
600 head will be driven from Texas and
the Indian country this season, aud 2OO,-
1000 next year. The Messrs. Mccoy are
the heaviest dealers, and are making ar
raugements to put up large slaughter
and packing house at Abiline, and go in
to the business on large scale.
>~Ex rebel Gen. R. E. Lac arrived in
Washington last Monday, and having re-
ported at the War Department. in accOr-
dance with the requirements of his parole
and left for Baltimore on the noon train.
General Joseph E. johnson also passed
through Washington, Monday, on bis
way South.
Gen. Grant has received from General
Scho6eld telegram. communicating the
fact that he had ordered an election in
Virginia for the 22d Of October, under
the Reconstruction Act, thus Disregard
ing the suggestion which the President
had made for an uniform election in 81 Of
the Southern States on the first Tuesday
in November. The facts elicit consider
able comment, and the friends of the