The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-09-27
STATE NEWS.

Inc n. a. q L. mas opened an Of
fee in Chicago.
Franklin county is shipping to-
bacco to st. Louis.
The doctors are full of business
all over the State.
Lawrence is receiving iron for her
Carbondale road.
Kansas now has a grand lodge OF
Knights of Pythias
Chetopa will vote: Grant, 246 F;
Greeley, 81; doubtful, 10.
Topeka has 2,27O children, or SOC
more than last year.
Fort Scott is to have a railroad to
Jefferson City, Missouri.
Linn county has discovered an
eight pound msstodon tooth.
Kansas has had already seven days
hard rain this month.
In Northwestern Kansas there are
four men to one woman.
The city of Lawrence has bond
ed Indebtedness of $3.50, 494.
The Leavenworth carpet factory
has fifty looms in operation.
Seven new railroad companies
recently incorporated in Kansas.
Scientific folks in Kansas are to
meet at Manhattan, October 8.
The fruit crop of 1872, in Kansas,
is estimated to be worth $500, 900.
There is a chasm of $1,000 in the
school land accounts of Miami
county.
Snake bones were recently taken
from q forty-twO foot we'll in Cav
ker.
During the fair the BARRIERS of
Topeka had the impudence to charge
twenty-five cents for q shave.
A citizen of Topeka, recently,
was relieved of tape worm forty
one feet long.
The base ball ground in Lawrence
has been abandoned and the fence
taken down.
The fruit centre will, in five years,
be in Southern Kansas, prophesies
the Parsons Sun.
Bill Mathews, of Leavenworth,
is the latest Liberal conversion.
Things aciH be pure now.
Kansas railroad men are moving
down into Texas, and taking fat po-
sitions on roads there.
The Sheriff of Howard comfy
has aft out" with three thousand
dollars of the peoples money.
The wealthiesE lady in Leaven-
worth recently gave twenty-five
cents to the Home Mission Society.
A Topeka house, within thirty
days, handled 100000 lbs of oats,
100000 lbs of corn and $4,000 lbs of
bran.
Ben Akers, of Leavenworth, re-
Gently invested $1,000 in ten head
of fancy horses. One was a 5000
stallion.
Wood in Leavenworth sells at Sc
per cord by the car load. In Law
renee it is SIS per cord by the wagon
load.
During the past twelve months
the Fort Scott post Office collected
on money orders S4O,5O0, and paid |
out $4,000.
Another fellow gone up for pull
ing gun out of a wagon muzzle
end foremost. Ralph Jones, of Cher
kee county,
The Kansas Pacific wants $500, 600
from Pueblo for the extension of
the Carson branch. Pueblo thinks
100000 enough.
The court has granted a perpetual
injunction again st the collection of
tax tor macadamizing the streets of
Fit. Scott.
The Kansas Pacific is sending i'm
migration agents to Great Britain,
Germany. Sweden, Holland and
other parts Of Europe.
Two hundred and forty deaths in
Lawrence during the last twelve
months. Two hundred and thirty
five during the year before.
Mis- p. d. Bullock, a graduate
of the State University at Lawrence,
has entered the medical departing nt
of the University at Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
A big sac of stock near LeaYen-
worth recently resulted rs follows:
Good cows aud calves, S27.50;
horses from $40 to SIS; sheep, $3.50 /;
hogs, almost nothing.
La the fourt -iehest counties, the
average value of farm property is
as follows: Leavenworth, per acre,
$l2; Wyandotte, $40; Douglas,
S1l.12; Shawnee, SOLO.