The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-20
Fort Sec mas the epizootic.

Fort Sc" has the epizootic.
Usage Cay has organized public
library.
The Douglas county tax roll foots
mp $326, 1898. or this Lawrence
pays about $4,000.
Mr.. T. Z. Tabor, six miles west of
Lawrence, has had satisfactory sue
cess in an experiment with peanuts.
The coal dealers at Topeka have
determined not to deliver any coal
for thirty dave, or till their horses
get well.
Jewell county, where the wild
bison pranced in all freedom two
years ago, is now the abode of 6,OOO
sturdy pioneers.
Usage Mission expects 800 more
Irish direct from the Green Isle.
As it already has the small pox,
they viii feel quite at home.
Poland-China hogs grow to the
site OF 700 pounds, in the short
space OF fifteen months in Kansas,
without any special care or atten-
ton.
A Lawrence fruit man, Mr.. Jen-
1fer, has Kept watermeions so they
are now as fresh and paTatabIe as
when picked from the vines last
summer.
On tb> 18th, Shawnee county
votes for against 100000 bonds
for the proposed Lawrence and To-
peka railroad, to run south of the
Kansas river.
On the 18th, the valua BILE stable OF
Louis Chartrand II miles southwest
OF Lawrence, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire. A $1,000 stallion,
two $500 mares, and three work
horses, were burned to death.
Fort Scott has on hand q PROPOSE.
lion to vote fifty thousand dollars
in bonds to manufacturing enter
prises-twenty-five thousand to q
cotton mill, fifteen to q wooden mill
/ and ten thousand to an agricultural
implement manufactoFy!.'" CO.
There is considerable excitement
in Lawrence over the appropriation
by home minister of . course Of
lectures to young men written s
uumber of years ago by a distin.
guished author who prided himself
upon their being his finest effort
The historic center II in trouble.
The citizens of RossviIle have for
mally notified the citizens of Silver
Lake, st. Marys' Mission, md Mill
creek, on the X. T. road, to "keeI
entirely from us, and that we d.
ton with them until such time a
the smallpox shall be entirely re
moved from them"
PEANUTs-Lsst Spring our littl
girl, about seven years old, planted
six hills of peanuts in the garden
and to please her we hood then
and kept the weeds dowr
without expecting any return, bu
when fall came we gathered over
peck of nice large peanuts from tn,
six hills, showing yield equal t
potatoes.-Iola Register. -
The machine shops of the Leav
enworth, Lawrence &c Galveston
Railroad, at Ottawa, which hav
been in process of erection durin;
the past Summer and Fail, are nov
nearly completed. In the cominl
week the iron roof on all the build
ings will be put on. These machin
shops consist of an engine house
boiler chop and an erecting shoE
4 Mr.. II. Tisdale, of the Southwes
tern Stage Company, has enteret
into contract with the postoffic
Department which will secure
semi-weeklY mail from Caldwell
in Sumner county, to Fort Sill, In
dian Territory, via Pond Greek
Shawnee Creek, Agency, Turke!
Creek and Wichita Agency. Thi
new ronto will be put in operation
about the middle of January.
A miserable old reprobate, nance
McShane, and called the red ped
Ter, well known on the line of tn
A. I. & S. f. road, was lately founC
dead in Kansas City. He was ono,
. gentleman of learning and respec
liability, was a graduate of Dublil
College, and could speak French
Latin and Greek with fiuency. Hi
miserable end is directly attributed
to strong drink, and is q warnin.
to other men of learning and res
pectability not to touch liquor.
I A frame hotel building, 2Ox4
feet on the ground and two storie
high, was recently moved from La
bette City to Parsons. The direc
distance between the two places j
nine miles, but to secure favorable
roads a circuit of fifteen miles wa
trsversed. Twenty-four yoke O
oxen were used to draw the build
ing, and eight days were consumed
in making the trip. A family oc
cupied it and kept ON with thei
regular housekeeping during tn
time. go.
| On the night of the 9Th, while
Frank Marshall, OF the government
printing Office, at Fort Leavenwo rtl
was on his way home from that city
he was halted by two modern
knights Of the road, and compelled
to deliver to them all the money in
his possession. The robbery tool
place at the forks of the Salt Greet
road, near Thorn HiIl, about two
or two and halfmiles from LeaVen
worth. The highwaymen yer,
coolly walked up to his mule, tool
hold of the bride and put the muz
gle of their reYolvers in Marshall'
face, and at the same time asked fol
his money. Mr.. Marshall had Jus
received q months pay from thG
government, and had $75 in hi:
| pocket, which sum he turned ovel
ITO the daring rascals