The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-12-20
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note on the trip between EmpOTia sad
this place. Through the agency of Tis-
dalo's excellent hack line, We landed here
ct 10 O'Clock Tuesday night and took
quarters at the Durfee House. This ho-
tel is nov. taking the lead in the hotel
business in this city, as it should. Mr..
Skinner is exeItiDg himself to make it the
best hotel in the place. and is uudOubt>
eddy succeeding. A man gets more Dig
nifty aud white aprons at the Eldridge.
bat when it comes down 20 the substan-
tials and the comforts of a home like
stopping place, the traveller had better
stop al The Durfee.
Lawrence Is lively. The business men
are rubbing their hands with feeling oil
satisfaction at the good business they
have been doing for the pasttWo months.
Everybody here already talks of the time
clOee at hand when Lawrence will be
great railroad center, and leave Leaven-
worth 10 the shade. It looks 8 little as
though they were in earnest. The Gal
vsston road is already out sixteen miles
and will reach tina, lively little Iown-(I
beg pardon of Kalioch and Kits-I should
have said city of Ottawa by the first day
of 1868, and there is no doubt but that
the road from Atchison via O,kalOoss
and this place to Pleasant Hill will be
built. There is now direct communica
ton with Chicago & 81. Louis aud all the
East, so that the whole of southern and
western Kansas need not go to LsaVsn
worth any more to get out in any direc
lion, but can find better facilities here in
Lawrence. A dozen or more of the best
men in Lawrence told me yesterday that
if We of the southwest had any doubt
about the early construction of the road
from here to EmpOria, we may as we'll
get rid of those doubts at once, for they
we're bound the road should be built.
They look upon a connection with the
southwest at Emporia, as of more impor
lance than any enterprise which they
have on foot. A gentleman here called
my attention TO a m alter of soma imPor-
lance in this connection yesterday. Il Is
this: It is known that the Legislature of
1866 gave the Leavenw worth, Lawrence u
Galveston company 1875 900 acres of the
500. 900 disposed of to railroads at that
session. Il WAS intended that half of
this 90, 500 acres should go to
The road from lawrence to Enporia, and
that the company was likely to absorb it
all on the main line. This is an item to
which the attention of the State authors
ties should be called, and l mention it
here for that purpose. 10 brief, am
really surprised at the extent of the feel
ing here in favor OF this enterprise. /
learned at Burlingams that work is about
to commence on the road from Topeka to
that place. There is hardly any doubt
but that the iron horse will wake up the
people Of Burlingame before they all have
4 chance to run for county Office again.
l found Burlingame quite alive under the
invigorsling prospects. The roof has
been put upon one of the churches which
has been standing with nothing but I'M
couth walls nearly ever since 1 can re-
member the town. Burlingame goes in
for churches. If it keeps on in this line
it will be called the city of churches. If
! there are FIVE or ten church members to
every meeting house in the place, there
must be hopeful stale of morals in the
village, and one is led to wonder at the
continued dePravity of the editor of the
Usage Chronicle. Said editor is work
ing hard for the town and county, and
has done much for the growth aud i'm
prOVement of both, and although he looks
rather cadaVerous from hard labor and
the excitement of having thrust upon his
delicate shoulders the position of county
clerk, he is good nalured. O. H. Shell
dOn's Land Agency is one of the institu-
tons of the town. II anybody wants to
buy land, or wants TO know anything
about land in that section of tue State, let
them address him at Buringsms. They
will find him prompt and reliable. Sew
sFal new buildings have gone up this sea-
son in and about Burlingame. l noticed
large new frame on the old Rice farm at
Dragon crossing. 1t seems to have been
built for the purpose of trying an expert
ment Of how many windows could be put
in house of its dimenlions. We could
not begin to count them With the hack go.
ing at 8 slow pace around it. The man
who had the contract for furnishing the
glass must have done good business.
1 met here yesterday, T. Dwight
Thacher, formerly editor of the Lawrence
Republican. He has lost none of his old
admiration Cor, or faith in Kansas. He
thinks OF returning to this city and engag-
ing in the new paper business. HIS has
been for two years past engaged as one of
the editors Of the Philadelphia Daily Tel
egraph.
If any of our folks want to 90 East 1
would urge them to call on ]. A. Horton