The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-23
KANSAS NEWS AND POLITICS.

Il Soldiers reunion in Lawrence
October 10th.
We now have the annual cry of
ssstop thief" It is q little lOuter if
any difference.
Pomeroy says Sam Wood is al
ways against him till the day of
election. Then he Glsoays gets him.
Msjor Williams is president of
the cenrsl committee of Miami
county. He is good man.
Fourteen young men in Atchison
part their hair in the middle.
LEROY, Kansas. makes 400 bbls of
bear annually.-lFt. Scott Monitor.
We know Leroy is in a produc-
tive country, but this is the first we
knew of her bear manufactery.
| inst as Fort Scott was getting the
machine shops, as she thought, of
1.-THE Missouri River, Fit. Scott and
tGulf road, Mr.. Coates, the presi-
sdens of the road, discovers a con-
tract which compcls the location of
the Ghops at Kan sas City, and by
treason OF this Fl. Scott is not happy.
lYou can't most always tell about
these machine shops. Railroad man
is mighty onsartlR.
The editor of the Fit. Scott Mont
tor, who is SO bitterly opposed to
Pomeroy, was in the Legislature in
1867, and voted for Pom. The same
charges were resting against him
then as now. '-,-
Some of the papers acknowledge
the receipt of Sam Woods Con-
gressional manifesto. We feel bad
We have always loved Sam, and
have over befriended him, and now
he depriyes US of this precious doc
umentl We weepl But we know
there will be another two years
from now.
Ottawa county has unanimously
instructed her delegates for Colonel
w. A. Phillips for Congress.
The colored men of Lawrence are
sound. They held a meeting last
week and rebuked Sumner for his
apostacy.
Senator Pomeroy was listened to
by large crowd at Wichita, last
week, and his speech was received
with cheers.
Wichita has bought one hundred
tons of ice in Topeka.
Baxter ships north twenty tons of
lead per day. It goes to Pittsburg.
The Atchison, Topeka Sc Santa Fe
railroad company lately paid into
the st. Louis custom house $l4,-
1888, duties on railroad iron.
A vein of coal two feet thick has
been discovered at Coffeyvillc.
The public school land is being
disposed OF rapidly in Sumner
county.
September 10th Howard county
will vote on the county seat ques-
ton.
Four Greeley men in Oskaloosa,
who were formerly Republicans.
Not very scarry.
Mr.. Horner, of tho Chetope Adj
vance, has laid aside his political
mallet and in the future promises
to be independent. lie "jist" won't
have any Office.
It is estimated that within three
months Kansas will have direct
communication with Galveston and
the Gulf of Mexico. 4a
Five thousand, five hundred and
eighty-fiAe dollars and sixty-nine
cents worth of tickets werc sold at
the Wichita depot during the month
of July.
Over 81, 500 has been subscribed
at Eureka, Greenwood county, to
oppose the sale OF Intoxicating
liquors. They are holding numer-
GUS temperance meetings in that
county.
The Workingman's Journal re-
ports ten fights in Columbus on last
Saturday afternoon and several
others spelling for the amusement.
1t was at Greeley pole raising.
Two negroes at Wallace got into
q quarrel about a woman, when one
set up a barber shop and with his
razor shaved the other nearly to
death. He inflicted wounds terri
bic and CHASTITY.
The Holton Express reports the
following: a man by the name of
John Lutz was throws from load
of oats and severely kicked by the
horses, run oyer by the wagon,
wrist broken, q hand mashed and
an arm fractured Also, a little
daughter of John Edwards slipped
off a straw stack and run sharp
hickory stick through her thigh and
three inches into her abdomen
and both are recovering.
In Waubonsee county n young
fellow committed suicide because
he couldn't git the GAL" They
jerked up the young lady's father,
- .,,olo E;,, anHar fho onnoa-
Iquences of the suicide. This is the
way they made the thing stick on
"the old man." When the case
came up for trial it was urged that
if he, the accused, had not daugh-
ter. the deceased would not have
fallen in love; consequently he
would not have been disappointed
consequently he would not have
swallowed tho poison consequently
Would not havs died. But he, the
a ccused, had q daughter, and the
d sceased had fallen in love and had
be en- disappointed, and had swal-
low ned poison and had died. Where
upo n the magistrate called upon tie
cid man to pay the price of tho
young mans life, and fixed the sun
at nine shillings and costs.
Il The Salina Herald, referring tc
the st.sreotyped assertion of thG
Republicans who are cooperating
| with the Democrats that they arr
"still as good Republicans IS ever,
puts the matter in this lights
IT, during the late war of the 70
beIIion, 9. federal soldier had left hi
place in the Union army, and haS