The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-09
SOUTHWEST.

The Augusta Republican says the
upland corn needs rain.
The Republican learns that two
large business blocks are soon to go
up in Augusta.
Augusta has Grant and Wilson
club.
Travel to Butler county is on the
increase.
BUSINESS IS BUsINEss.-Messrs.
Wheeler & Bur6ette, of this place,
contracted yesterday for one hundred
cords of stone for their new water
town. Substantial work will COM
mence on this Observation-Disclosures
Times.
Eldorado is turning much attention
| to fast horses.
About three miles southeast of town
a cave has been discovered on the claim
owned by Jas. Small. Mr.. Small has
not yet explored it to any great ex-
| tent, as he will first have to make q
boat for that purpose. After descend
| ing fifty feet down nearly n perpen-
dicular crevice of limestone rock, he
beheld q lake of pure, clear water ex-
tending in a northeast direction as ifar
as the vision could reach. He threw
stone as far as possible, and could hear
nothing but the splashing sound that
water gives echoed back to him. The
hight of the roof above water is seven
| or eight feet. Ne intends exploring
the lake with boat At an early day
testing depth and size. We should
like to have a full report when this
subteranean sheet of water is more full
ly eXamined.-Eldorado Times.
a lady on West Branch named Goo
ing was last week bitten by a rattle
snake. The snake was coiled in or
near hens nest, from which she was
taking out eggs, when bitten on the
hand. No antidote was at hand, but a
poultice OF tobacco was applied, and in
one and half hours some whisky was
given her. We understand she has
entirely recovered.-Eldorado Times.
The Winfield Judicial Convention
was 4 fizzle.
Several gentlemen were, a few days
since, examining the gypsum beds
near Oxford, with view of making
use of that material in the manufac-
ture of bricks or blocks for building
purposes. The gypsum deposits of
Sumner county and Southwestern
Kansas are the most extensive in the
world.-Oxford Press.
Oxford is going to bore for coal.
L. Hill, three miles south of Oxford,
Sumner county, has twenty acre
field of corn, on second sod, which
averages twelve feet high.
Upland in Sumner county produces
just as well as the best bottom land in
the State.
Buffaloes were killed last week
twenty miles south of Hutchinson.
CoRN.-There are no forests in this
vicinity, yet there are corn fields al
most equivalent in appearance. Some
of them in sight of town stand out
against the horizon like distant groves.
We learn that sod corn planted early
is, on an average, twelve feet high on
many farms and still growing.--Hutch-
inson News.
Hutchinson is fighting the whisky
ties, and is bound to keep them down.
Mr.. Ninde, of Peace, called on us
Tuesday afternoon and gave us many
items of information concerning his
beautiful little quaker city. Peace is
located on the A. I. & S. F. r. R., Is
miles west of Hutchinson, in very
fertile portion of country. From all
we learn of it we have great conf
dence of its success. Mr.. Ninde SAYS
that the town proprietors in the Sc
curing of citizens and settlers, are far
more particular about quality than
quantity. This is a good principle
and one which has greatly contributed
to the success of Hatchinson.-Hutch-
inson News.
Charley Mey ars done business enc
day in Hutchinson, and in that period
he was fined three times and rested his
weary head in the calaboose at night
Charley is Disguised, and says Hutch
inson is worse than Cottonwood Falls.
he has gone to Great Bend City.-Cot-
tonwood Falls Leader.
Seven homesteads were taken in one
day last week on Rock creek, Chase
county.
Mrs. w. S. smith, of Cottonwood
Falls, killed two rattlesnakes in her
smoke house.
Last Saturday, we were shown q
branch of a grape vine, about two and
a half feet long, from the vineyard of |
Mr.. Isaac Alexander, on which were |
twenty-seven large punches of grapes.
How is that for drouth? The grapes
were the Concord, and it was accident |
ally cut of while moving down the |
weeds. Cottonwood Falls Leader.
The rummies at Cottonwood Falls |
pay no attention to the license ordi-
dinanee. They disobey it at pleasure,
and the Leader calls on the officers TO
attend to their duties
Arkansas City has organized Grant
and Wilson club with kellogg, of the
as president. I