The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-07
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laid out on Elk Greek, in Coud county.
Two horses, stolen from \. T. Ste
vens, of Lawrence, in December last,
were recovered in st. Louis, january
31st. ne 80 -
A Mr.. Jordan, from Ohio, bought five
hundred acres of lard in the Vicinity OF
Olathe, last week, with tie Intention OF
engaging i'll the dairy business. lie also
bought twenty five lots in the town, and
will erect several business houses on
them in the spring.
Col. Lucas, a farmer, living in Spring
Hill Township, johnson county, Kan
sas, raised last season five thousand
bushels of corn. This is conclusive evil
dence that Kansas is a good farming
country. a.sti
A Miss Swami, living in Wilmington,
seven miles west of here, died very sud-
denly on last Saturday. We under
stand she ate her dinner, as usual, and
in five minutes after was corpse
Usage Chronicle.
The bridge across the Narais des Cyg-
! mes river, at Ottawa, is so far advanced
| that teams will cross over to-day. 1t is
a wire suspension bridge, and as fine a
structure as has ever been put up in
the west. Well may Ottawa be proud
of it.-Lo,crcnce Tribune.
No FRACTIONAL SCRIP.-We have no
doubt that many holders of the Price
Raid Scrip wonder why they do not
receive the fractional scrip to which
they are entitled. For instance party s
claim is $50 So; he receives $50, and no
doubt labors under the impression that
| the S5 cents goes into the pocket of some
clerk or hanger on at the capitol. For
the information of all such parties we
will state that the law does not provide
for the issue of any fractional scrip, and
hence none is issued. An order for
$40 50 could draw but $50; the frac-
tional scrip goes into the State Treas
ury, the law, as before stated, not pro-
viding for the issue of fractional scrip
I-LGtrTence JoatgMt;s.
Our Eastern exchanges contain ac-
counts of suffering and restitution
among the poor of their localities. In
almost every town i'll the older States
there are more or less in need of imme-
diate aid. Poor houses are filled and
paupers abound. Kansas presents a
great contrast. We do not believe there
are twenty persons i'll the State who are
In suffering condition, or entirely des-
utute. Occasionally some cripple or
lnnrm person arrives from other parts
who need assistance, but there are no
others. In this city of Lawrence per-
son under the necessity of asking aid
would be an object of curiosity. And
this, too, with hundreds of colored citi-
zens, who came here with but barely
enough clothes to cover them, and
nothing more. Every one has enough
to eat and enough to wear, and is MAX
ing good living. 1t speaks well for
the town and the State. We are under
no necessity of follow ing the example
of Chicago, where they raised a charity
ball In aid of the poor, the receipts of
which were six thousand and the ex-
penses ten thousand dollars.-LGWTence
Tribune.
Capt. W. w. White, of this place,
while at ST. Louis few days since, en-
gagged in conversation with one whom
he mistook for gentleman. Some re-
marks were made upon the effect OF the
war on the country, and of the treatment
of the Union prisoners. Inc ex-feoe!
Major (for such he proved to be) sa1d
that there "neyer was Union prisoner
starved to death in a rebel prison.. Inc
Captain, who had lost brother by
starvation at Andersonville, and another
who had been so reduced by disease
contracted in q rebel prison as per-
hans never TO recover, told the chiyal-
rous Major that he lied, whereupon ne
struck the Captain, who osailed in and
gave Mr. Rebel the best drubbing he had
received during the war; Fort Scott
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