The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-17
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS.
GleamIngs from state Exchanges


The freight receipts at Topeka of the
K. P. r. w. for August were $4,000.
About $4,000 pounds of freight were
received.
The healthfulness of the city at pres
ent is attested by the fact that not sin
gle burial permit was issued by the City
Clerk in the past week.-Lda0rence Iri-
6nne.
The railroad bridge at Ottawa was
completed a few days ago. The dirt
filling at the ends will soon be done,
when the iron will be laid down and
trains crossed.-LGs1rence Republican
Journal.
The Leavenworth call of last Friday
says: 1.-TWO car loads of iron for the
Leavenworth bridge arrived at East
Leavenworth yesterday. Eight or ten
more are on the way, and will probably
reach here to-day or tomorrow. An
agent of Mr.. Boomer arrived in the city
the other day, for the purpose ofreceiv-
ing the bridge material as fast as 1t ar
rives."
TAX LEvY.-The County Board met
yesterday and levied a seven mill tax
for general couRty purposes for the en-
suing year, and three mills for interest
and q sinking fund. This is a mill less
than last year, notwithstanding the in
terest on the county bonds to the A., T.
& S. +. r. r. has to be provided for
now and not before. Last year $50, 900
was levied, and 1t paid the running
expenses of the county and $4,000 old
debts.-State Record.
A LARGE YIELD.-Upon nine acres of
ground G. E. Gaylord, Esq, sowed nine
bushels of large white rye last fall, and
last week had the proceeds threshed,
which yielded the enormous amount of
302 bushels; thirty bushels and one
peck to the acre-same amount to the
bushel sownl This is an unprecedent-
eddy large yield, and is but onother
evidence of the fertility of the
Blue Valley. The seed was brought
from Massachusetts, by Senator Pome-
roy. 1t is used extensively in that State
in the manufacture OF fiour.-Lring
Recorder.
The English Lords are having gay
and festive time killing buffalo upon the
great Western plains of Kansas. They
are accompanied by several Generals of
the American army and a brass band.
The force OF the elegant illustration
once used by the New York World of
the futility of hunting ducks with a
brass band is somewhat weakened in
this shooting of wild buffalo accompa-
MED by military brass band. The
English Lords will have wonderful
stories to relate upon their return to
their little Island.-Repts6lican Jour
nal.
The threshers report a good yield of
small grain throughout the county.
Spring wheat generally averages from
twenty to twenty-five bushels. We
have heard of fields of oats that yield
100 bushels to the acre. Mr.. Pinkston's
fall wheat measured from the machine
Al bushels to the acre Mrs. McManus'
3516 bushels. Where the grasshoppers
spared the fall wheat it is all good, and
we trust large area will be sown this
year. AS yet there are no signs of the
grasshoppers and we trust they will not
come in again as this is not their ma
tive locality we hope this season has de-
stroyed the last of them, and that they
will not visit us again.-Chase County
Banner.
The editor of the Chicago STANDARD, a
religious journal of high character, has
been travelling in Kansas recently, and
records the views of our State in his
paper. We have only room for this ex-
tract:
From this extensive trip in Kansas
we are persuaded that it is a good coun-
try. Those who seek n home within
its borders cannot well fail to improve
their worldly condition. We saw at
Junction City field of wheat of thirty
acres, as good as we ever saw in any
State. The field has been cultivated
nine years. The last two years it has
been planted in corn. On June 7th the
wheat stood thick OH the ground,
plump, four feet high, and was fully
headed out. The agricultural reports
show that Kansas yields more wheat to
the acre than New York, the great
wheat growing State, and more corn to
the acre than Illinois, the great corn
growing State. But the great staple of
Kansas is cattle. 1t is one of the great
grazing States of the Union. We heard
of several instances of thrift among the
Kansas farmers which are worthy of
note. We have already mentioned the
college farm at Ottawa. The improve
ments were commenced four years ago,
and nursery stock has been sold since
last September, from forty acres, to the
amount of $500. A gentleman who
has farm ten miles from Lawrence of
four hundred acres, has realized in the
last two years, from cattle and grain,
$4,000. We saw a farmer at Paola,
rum VII ScILlcu II1ebI
borhood thirteen years ago. His stock
in trade consisted at that time of one
wife, eleven children, four yoke of oxen
and wagon. He now has two hundred
acres of land, well stocked and improV-
ed, and is free ofdebt.
We would not convey the impression
that all who go to Kansas get rich far
otherwise. God has a better portion
than wealth for most people. Some
will become discontinued and fail any
where, but skillfnl management, perse-
vering labor and economy are sure to
win a competency in Kansas. Like all
new countries, Kansas needs a popula-
ton who are willing to work for a liv-
ing, and who will cheerfully put up
with the Inconvenience incident to a
new country: Farmers and mechanics
are wanted-laboring men and women,
not spectators. There. are too many
now in Kansas who want to live by
their wits. What is wanted is sober,
honest, industrious men, who can work
and are not impatient to get rich in q