The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-28
STATE ITEMS.

Ihe LeaVenW OFIl I2UIeS says lilo
Kansas Stage Company has just sent six
new Concord coaches to southern Kan
sas, to increase their already comforta-
BILE facilities.
On Tuesday morning a cattle train
from Abilene was thrown from the
track near Rossville, by the spreading
of the rails. Three cars were demol-
ished and eight or ten head of cattle
killed.
The tide of immigration to this Part
of the country still continues. The like
has never before been seen or heard of.
Bad roads and rain do not check it in
the least. The tide still rolls on.-Wat-
uut Vdltey Times.
Henry Falls, Esq, of New Castle,
Pennsylvania, has leased the Eldorado
hotel for three years, and has taken pos
session. The building will be repaired,
an addition will be built on and the
house put in shape to accommodate the
travelling public. We welcome Mr.:
Falls to our town and hope he will
nat Valley Times.
The census shows Humboldt to have
four hundred more inhabitants than
Chetopa, three hundred more than Os-
wego, and two hundred more than Bur-
ington. By it Humboldt is the largest
town in the Valley below Emporia.
Since the census was taken Humboldt
has grown faster than any ether two
towns in the Valley.-Humboldt Union.
That's pretty large talk, and we dis
like to spoil it by any assertions to the
contrary, but we give it as our opinion
that Humboldt has not grown more rap
idly than this place, in the time stated.
There is no land in this county, nor
in the adjoining counties that can be
entered at $l.25 per acre. The vacant
land is all homestead or Indian Trust
lands, to be had only by actual settle
ment.-Wdlnut Fdttey Times.
Immigration continues to pour into
southern Kansas. Greenwood, one of
the best counties in the whole state, is
receiving her full share. If the people
east. who are struggling for liveli-
hood, only knew the half of the advan-
tages Kansas holds out, they would soon
fill up these broad prairies and become
prosperous and happy, instead OF eklng'
out a precarious existence as they now
do. To the laboring man, Kansas offers
the best inducements to be found IN
the whole world. He can be his own
master, and dispose of his own labor
Eureka Herald.
SEDDwICK REPREsENTED.-Mr. Bald
win, of this city, brought in from Sedg-
wick county yesterday pumpkin
grown on sod ground, that weighs nine
ty-six pounds. 1t was left at Haseltine
& Moore's grocery, as sample of what
the lower country can do in the way of
farm products. The farm on which it
grew lies between the two Arkansas
rivers-a portion of the country that
Farxy dor cd h,
less for farming purposes.-LdtcTeRce
Tribune.
NENEsKAw.-This is the name of a
new town recently laid out at the mouth
of the Neneskaw, on the Arkansas riv-
er, in Cowley county. The town COM
pany are 7. c. Hill, President; l.. b.
Wamsley, Secretary; p. ID. Maxson, L.
a. Wood, J. r. Gates, r. Freeman and
J ohn Lonehead, Directors. This town
is about 40 miles from here, the post
office address being Douglas. r. Free
man is putting up grocery and provis-
ion store; DIR. l.. Il. Wamsley, a'drug
store; and parties have contracted TO
put up mill soon. A dry goods store
will be opened there in a few weeks.
Plenty of good bottom claims in the
valley of the Arkansas are yet to be
taken. Timber is plenty and the land
is of the best quality. The town is
about half way between Wichita and
Arkansas City, and bids fair to make
post of no small Importance. Persons
in search of a location might find just
what they wanted here. We wish the
new town success.-WdEnut VGHey
Times.
DIR. Gwin, of Ottumwa, Kansas, COM
menced operations as a fruit grower
three years ago on the prairie. His
stock now consists of $500 Seeding
peaches and apricots; 800 cherries, sew
varieties; $500 currants, four varieties
raspberries, rawberries, roses and
shrubbery in great prOfusion. He has
some 400 grape vines, some of them in
bearing, one vine having made growth
of some forty-ive feet this season.
The "Macart" circus gave an extra
performance at Humboldt, not set down
in the bills. In the first act one circus
man smashed another's jaw. Then ap-
peared the City Marshal and was driv-
en- off by the circus folks. The entire
army and navy of Humboldt was then
ordered into action, and fourteen of the
showmen were arrested. Six were
fined, and not having the shekels where
with to pay, were sent to Jail, where,
for all we know, they yet remain.
SECOND GRowTH.-Kansas is deter
mined to out-do herself the present
season. Our little notes concerning
second crops of fruit on certain farms
has called out others, and score or
more of our fruit growers report SINH
lar growth. Yesterday, ID. g. Watt,
Esq, living two miles and half from
town, brought us bunch of Concord
grapes of the second growth, that were
very large and about ripe, being but
little inferior to the first crop. If this
is to become the settled policy in the
way of fruit, some blowing ought to be
done about Kansas being a fruit State
provided blowing is not out of order in
Kansas.-Ldacrence Tribune.
A COSTLY PIG.-Mr. Gray bought
Berkshire pig, sow only eight months
old, at the st. Louis fair, for which he
paid three hundred dollars. She was
the premium sow at the fair, and Mr..
Gray was offered two hundred dollars
for pair of her pigs, yet to make their
appearance on this mundane sphere.
Mr.. Gray is entitled to a great deal of
credit for his efforts to improve the
stock of Kansas, and is also entitled to
the fortune which we trust he is making
by his enterprise in that direction.-Wy-
dndOtte Gazette.