The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-08-09
STATE NEWS ITEMs.

from the surface.
A Normal Training Institute for the
State at large, will be held here at the
Normal School, CONNIE ncing near the
middle of September, by the faculty of
the school and the State and County Su
perinteDdsnts Of Public Instruction.-
PGola Repw5IieaH.
This is the frst We have heard of a
Normal School in Paola. We thought
ours wss the only one in the State.
Advices from the Spring river country
and Southern Kansas, states that such
heavy yield Of grain was never known
before since the settlement of the State as
the present season. In the Spring river
country, 10 Missouri, new wheat is sell
ing at Gfty cents per bushel. and -four at
Eve d,llars per barrel. and the market
rather oVerstOcked at that.
The Burlington Patriot makes a note of
the following as an effect of the Railroad
Bond vote in that county: 'The County
Treasurer's sale of school lands came off
in this county on Monday following the
election on railroad bonds. The result
OF the electiona had psrceptible effect on
the sale. Prairie land sold at eight and
ten dollars per acre, and a tract at timber
land, near Ottumwa. sold for S42 rs per
acre. Timber land in the same vicinity
had heretofore sold for $50 per acre
Bids for lands we're spirited aud Dumsr-
Gus. The splendid sales were attributable
to the bright prospects of the railroad"
The Kansas State Agricultural C1llege
lands are now offered for sale. They
comprise some 10000 acres, located in
the best part Of the State. along the I'M
ion Pacific Railroad, and offer peculiar
inducements to all who want to secure
first GLASS land for farming purposes.
Hon. J. P. Usher. Secretary of Interior
under President Lincoln. and now Attor-
ney Of the u. P. R. W., E D., has an 800
acre farm q few m,, mo- west of the 6ourish
ing tow 4 Of Ottawa, in Franklin county.
Five hundred acres are we'll timbsrsd,
upon a portion of which there are 6n' saw
logs and heavy timber of different Varie-
ties. There are $50 acres under high
81 ate of cultivation and nearly 400 acres
fenced. The crops this season look fine
iy; the yield of corn on the farm will be
from eight to ten thousand bushels. Mr..
Usher has 60 graded COWS and abont 1OC
common cows, some 400 hogs, and quite
a herd of horses, mules De.
An Ohio gentleman. lately returned
home from a visit to Kansas, writes to a
friend in Emporis as follows:
Vegetation is very small aud back
ward here, compared with the West.
Corn, when fret came home. in most
fields, was only about two feet high, and
of yellowish green-a very pretty color
for something's, but it don't bring corn
worth a cent. Farmers here, though,
think everything in a very hourishing con.
ditiou, and some of the poor deIuded ask
If Kansas crops really do look as we'll as
they do here together with some such
questions as the following: Il suppose
: grasshoppers are tdkin' everything clean
out thar" How about those L juns
Il suppose it is pretty dangerous living
there, amt it?' DC. &c. The grasshop.
er question is especially troubling. They
seem surprised to see me safely back from
> country where everything green" il
Instantly cropped u
I" Grasshoppers and Indians ''-botl
g T. -,
! been used as raw head aud bloody bones
: to scare emigration away from the State
e A few Kansas newspapers, led by th,
( Leavenworth Conservative,-ths leading
paper on that question in the State
= have filed their columns with disma
a eroakiugs about the grasshoppers. Tn
. circulation of these journals being limited
: the damage would have been slight, bu
that interested papers in other STATES cop
a led them to turn emigration away from
o Kansas. Then, when the grasshoppe
fever was somewhat abating, it is rele
8 graphed all over the country that the To
: dams are devastating Central and West
j ern Kansas, killing scalp'ng' burning
i No State, not naturally of extraordinar
r fertility, and offering splendid induce,
g ments to emigration, could Withstand tn
). lying and crOaking that Kansas has endur
ed for the last eight years, of which this
8 grasshopper and Indian matter is only
{ supplement. Early in the spring it seem
ed certain that the emigration hirherwarC
would be of the most unexampled charac
ter; but it has been mostly frightene.
, away by alternate drOves Of gracshoppers
> drouth, Indians. dealt out to the Eastern
E public by leading papers" and leading
a men" of the State. Is it not tims we hac
( the last of such criminal fOolery
KANSAS FARMER.