The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-08
SITE NEWS.
Fredonis Is having a revival.


walk on side walks.
The Methodist spire in Laurence
is to be 30 feet high.
Wichita has handled $4,000 head
of cattle this season.
Jewell county has had a fifteen
mile square prairie fire.
House. breakers are annoying the
people of Leavenworth.
Fit. Scott exports half a million
bushels of coal per week.
Arkansas whisky kills ga mile
and half behind stump"
Cherokee county has the epizootic.
A dozen horses have died.
NeoshO Falls has q citizen who
has not tasted water since 1874.
a heard of 200 antelopes were
seen in Mcpherson county, last
week. Who counted them?
Five divorce suits pending in
Jewell. The county is about one
year old.
Miami county furnishes five can
didates for Office in Montgomery
county. That beats us.
Fredonia, by ordinance, prohibits
card playing in saloons and public
places.
Paola has $4,000 school house,
afIording room for 800 pupils.
Topeka post Office does double
the money order business of any
other in Kansas.
The Catholic Seminary at Topeka
is preparing forty young men for
the priesthood.
Leavenworth masculine beauties
have already engaged in the calico
ball business,
The Kansas Blind Asylum has
received box of books, a gift from
the late Charles Dickens.
The Topeka papers report that
Pomeroy has already engaged am
pie hotel accommodations.
The NJ. K. & T. depot safe was
burglarized, few days ago at Fort
Scott, to the tune of $4,000.
a "pious banker" in Kansas City
has been acting very naughty with
another mans wife.
A prisoner who attempted to es-
cape from the Leayenworth Jail had
his leg perforated with buckshot.
The Journal says the people of
Lawrence submit to nightly rob-
berries with sweet and cheerful res
ignation.
One of our State exchanges says
Hymcn don't loaf around at mid
night for nothing, and predicts a
wedding.
Phillipsburg is the county seat of
Phillips county by the following
vote: Phillipsburg, 121; Kirwin,
II.
a prairie fire in Greenwood coun-
ty, last week, destroyed the lives of
four children and eighty-two head
of cattle.
The lawyers OF Jackson county
will hereafter be furnished with
water-the county authorities are
digging a well. tt5tt
a four-year old started from
Grasshopper, last week, to see his
grandmother in St. Louis. He turn-
ed up in Wichita.
y New York agricultural paper
say the eternal advertising of West
ern lands has become an insuffera-
bic nuisance.
The Paola school grounds are to
be fixed off with evergreens and
shrubbery.
Topeka is in the ghost business.
An Indian squaw entertained a
crowd the other night with bad
English.
Taxes in Doniphan range as fol-
lows on the 500 valuation: Troy,
$3.50; White Cloud, SO; Wathena,
$40; Highland, S425.
a Leavenworth preacher recently
went out hunting and shot all day
with the powder on top of the shot
and no cap on the tube.
The Wichita Beacon says the
Leavenworth Times is the most
profoundly stupid, poorest printed,
pudding headed daily in the world.
The annual meeting of the State
Sabbath school Convention for 1872
will be held in the NJ. Z. church.
Topeka, November 18th, 18th and
l4th.
A new Pullman palace car, called
Topeka, has just been put on the
Il. T., and the Denver News says it
is the finest on any Western road.
The county of Miami had $3.50, 600
stock in the NJ. r. Eft. s. Sc G. road,
which was sold for So. Suit has
been instituted by the people to re-
cover.
The first Odd Fellows lodge in
Kansas was organized at Tecumseh,
IN Shawnee county, and was after
wards removed to Topeka, where it
is now in existence.
Beverly r. Keim's display, at
New York, of the products of the
country along the line of the K. p.
knocked the socks off anything on
exhibition there.
Wyandotte is at war with the
Missouri Pacific. The railroad has
had right of wav for five years, and
never erected even q shed for pas
sengers or freight.
Gov. Robinson seems determined
to do something toward answering
the question, "What shall we do
with our corn?" He received, the
other day, 1870 head of cattle.
One of the Fit. Scott editors is
afflicted with the horse disease.
The Kansas Banking Association
will be held at Topeka on 10Th of
November.
The M. *. II T. is now running
trains regularly to within twenty
miles of Red River.
Arrangements have'been perfect
Ell for the construction of the Atch-
ison and Solomon Valley railroad.