The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24


Americas Department.
r.. w. RANDALL. Editor.
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Americas, September "a, 1869.
Frank Taylor is at work upon dwell
ling for himself, near the cheese factory.
j. p. Gibson is getting up the coun-
tiers and shelving in his new store room.
They are stylish for this country.
Any persons having unimproved land
for sale near Americas, can meet with
ready sale by applying to Randall &
Miller.
Every day we see farmers ia town
hunting for help to work on their farms,
and very few of them succeed in get
ting it.
a number of our carpenters are now
out in the country erecting buildings
for the farmers. There is great amount
of improvement going on in the conn
try.
VIM. G. Miller is building residence
on Main street, to be completed in two
weeks.
j. w. List is also building on the OPP
posite side of the street.
The stone masons are to begin work
to-day upon the culverts between Amer
icus and Wright's creek, on the rail-
road. The bridge at Wright's creek
was commenced some time since.
Mr.. Philip Gimble, who purchased
the Kits farm some weeks since, ar
rived on Tuesday with his family from
Peoria, Illinois. Intends to sow some
wheat and build upon the place yet this
fall.
There is a clamorous demand for
house room in town. a number of
small houses would rent constantly at
good figures, and be an inducement to
people to come here who do not wish
to unless they can rent buildings to
move into.
Mr.. Samuel 10y picked an apple
from one of his young trees, this week,
that measured fourteen inches in cir
conference. The same tree had many
others nearly as large. He gathered fif-
teen bushels at one time from his young
orchard, and has a considerable quanti-
ty still upon the trees.
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5. &. James measured some prairie
grass upon the highest land northeast
of town, last week, the stalks of which
were nine feet in length. There are
hundreds of acres of grass in that vicin-
ity that stands as high as a persons
head, with heavy heads of seed at the
top, all Oh upland.
Mr.. a. T. Plowman informs us he
has nursery of twelve hundred peach
trees, grown from the seed, this sum-
mer, mostly all budded and doing well.
feet in height, and as thrifty looking as
those of any other State. He has one
tree two years old that has made a
growth this summer of six feet.
Rev. J. A. Collins will close his Ia
bors for the present quarter, in this
place, next Sabbath, and intends, we
understand, to visit his former home in
Ohio before entering upon the work to
which the next Presbytery may assign
him. Should that body grant the wish
of the Americas congregation, Mr.. Col
Inns may be expected here again.
Robert Mahan brought into our office
some specimen ears of corn, the other
day, that grew upon his farm east of
town, to show what upland ground was
capable of producing. One of them
was upwards of twelve inches in length,
and contained sixteen rows of grain.
Some of the other ears were nearly as
large.
RUNAwAY.-Dr. Wamsley alighted
from his buggy in front of the post Of
flee, Saturday evening, and stepped in
to see if he had any mail. His horse,
unmindful of his reputation for ''hon-
esty," started down street at gate that
caused greater amount of noise than
is customary upon our streets, which
brought out crowd just in time to see
the buggy capsized and piled up pro-
miscuously in front of Esquire Kits.
Nobody hurt, including the horse.
A HoAx.-Rev. T. w. Winter, at the
close of business letter from Lowell
vile, Ohio, of Sept. Sd, adds the follow
ing:
ZIP. S.-Since writing the above, we
have heard that disease called the
black tongue is raging in Americas.
Some young men who were about start
ing there gave it up and went into Iowa
l hope the story is not true"
No such disease was ever known to
exist in this country; not a single death
has occurred In Americas since the year
1864-fve years,-and none but three
or four infants and two or three aged
persons have died within five miles of
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