The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-13

Labette county is to have 100 |
lcres of cotton next season.
Linn county contributes four new
recruits to the penitentiary.
The State University has III stn-
dents from outside the State.
Republic county cast l,O70 votes.
IS of them being for Greeley.
Shawnee county taxes this wear
post up, altogether, S276, 474.33.
The Kansas magazine has success
fully finished its second volume.
The Topeka banks, last week, re-
fused todiscountaBy person's notes.
The A. T. & S. F. railroad land
will aggregate nearly 5000, 900 acres.
Norton county went unanimously
1t casts 80 votes, all
told.
Venison and Texas raw hide are
the standard varieties of meat at
present.
The drama of Buffalo Bili'' is
being played by every theatre troupe
in the State.
The new State University build
ing at Lawrence was formerly OPEN
ed last Monday.
The Smoky Hill Fork of the Kan
sas river was named by Captain
John c. Fremont.
Reeder township, Anderson coun-
ty, boasts of a vein of good surface
coal. one foot thick.
Kingsviile has the small pox bad.
ly. It prevails in q number of pla-
ces in northern Kansas.
John D. Webb and Lawrence
Hart were the parties who killed
Doc Garrison at Muncie.
. Two families near st. Mary's
were afflicted with the smallpox.
Nine out of fifteen died.
The present rush of marriages is
accounted for by the fact that so lit
tie of leap year yet remains.
Forty-nine cases adorned the rec
ord of the police court of Lawrence
for November, netting $I95. go.
A boy, near Neosho Falls, hung
himself, in q fit of passion, caused
by the scolding of his mother.
The patent outsiders beat us all
for enterprise. We are still receiv-
ing the same cut of the Boston fire.
The Commonwealth says the ru-
NOR is that Junction City is to be
the head quarters of the Kansas Pc
cific.
A seventeen pound tooth, twelve
inches long and eight inches thick,
was recently dug up near Fort
Scott.
The largest pear at the fruit dis
play in New York came from
Douglas county. 1t weighed 1919
ounces. r.....
The Lawrence ferry is at liberty,
the injunction obtained by the
bridge co mpany having been dis
solved.
st. Marys had q bad fire last Fri
day. Twelve buildings were de-
stroyed, and several families turned
ont of doors. ...s. ...f
During six months and half pri.
or to December l., 20,04O persons
registered at the NcMeekin House,
Topeka. a IN -.
Fifty rams and ewes of the best
blood have been imported from Eng.
land by English Farmers living neal
Junction City.
A man in Mcpherson county who
can walk sixty-seven miles a day, il
said to smile at the prospect of the
horse disease.
A Topeka justice made q man
pay $50 for kissing q married wo.
man twice, because her husband
didn't like it. q.
One vote counts sometimes. In
Clinton county, Mo-, each candidate
for surveyor has 1920 votes. A
new election must be held.
A correspondent writes to the
Junction City Union that the Hsu
percilious cubs" in the railway of
flee had better be abated.
A respectable woman at Lawrence
the other night, got away with 6
$50 dollar muff belonging to some
one else. KleptOmania.
Leavenworth has a woman Of
whom it is said that if seven times
seven devils were cast out of heI
there still would be deyils left.
Col. Cakes, General Freight
Agent of the Kansas Pacific, say:
Junction City is destined to be the
grain distributing point of Western
Kansas.
The district court of Shawnee
county has been adjourned two
weeks on account of the existence OF
small pox in some parts of that
county. =
Speaking of the debt of AtchisoI
| Rossington says: me cross, Nc
crown no debt, no town, is thG
way to express 1t jingingly and ap'
propriately'"
November 26th q Is year old sol
of Johnathan Bearce, four milel
east of Leroy, Coffey county, hung
Z himself by a harness Strap. No
cause given.
Usage City shipped last month
l27, 200 bushels of coal, worth over
$4,000. Twice as much would
be shipped if the railroad company
could supply the cars.
The Junction City aud Ft. Kear
ney railway track is completed from
Junction City to Milford, same
county. 1t is the northern end o.
the Kansas & Nebraska road.
The celebrated law suit of Stew.
art w. the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, involving S150,OO0, was
decided. the other day, by Judge
Dillon, in favor of Stewart.
The LeaVenworth, Lawrence &
Galveston and Kansas City & SAINTS
Fe railroad companies are bnil ding
large machine shops at Ottawa
Kansas, at cost of 100000.
The Presidential electors met al
Topeka, Wednesday, and cast the
vote of the State for Grant. John
Guthrie was chosen, on the nine
teenth ballot, as messenger to
Washington.
An expedition is forming in Caw-
ker to go to Arizona. VIM. Jensen
Mr.. Wood, Miles Marshall and
nine others already booked. They
propose to go on mules, and start
about the first of February.
The commissioners of Wabunsee
county have subscribed S150,0OO the
capital stock of the Mill Creek VAL
ley & Council Grove railroad COM
pany, and a like amount to the Man.
haitian, Alma & Burlingame railroad
company.
The LeaVenworth Times pub
lished story to the effect that q
Judgment had been rendered against
Deiahay and others in the U. 8.
E011rt for S11 On amhazzlad TndOa