The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-11
READING.

MIR. EDITOR: wish to correct my
correspondence last week in regard to
premiums aw arded at the fair to our
citizens. I do not wish to do any one
injustice, or exagerate the truth as re-
CARDS my own neighborhood. Instead
of Mr.. Appleby getting four blue rib
bons he got one, and three had on
pink. 1 reported on hearsay before.
His stallion got the second premium;
one colt and sheep the same; and one
two year old colt the first. 1 am glad
to say Miss Mary Appleby carried off
the pink ribbon on riding. The blue
would have pleased me better, think,
if my jumps, on hearing of old Mr..
Appleby getting the blue ribbon for
riding, had been measured, it would
have been about 3 feet high. Well
done, my old friend, may you have the
pleasure OF riding at our fairs for many
years yet; and if you do, the blue rib
bon isyOurs, every time, I'll wager.
Reading is on the improve. Mr..
John-is building Il stone blacksmith
shop. Mr.. Thos. Boyes is putting an
addition on his house; Mr.. Peter Rink
8 making inside improvements on his
touse; also building fine cellar cave.
Mr.. VIM. Douglas, our enterpris-
ing farmer and stock raiser, Is putting
up large quantity of hay, intending
to buy and winter large number of
cattle this coming winter.
And the best of all is we are GO
ing to have wedding; yes, sir, real
wedding. Now, 1 have been told this,
and I have the best reasons in the
worldto believe it is so. Our Squire,
our Justice of the Peace, our drug store
man, our Mr.. w. II. Penfield, con-
found. him, is going to get married.
Everybody is surprised. We had all
commenced to think this reckless man
was never going to get married.
Didn't think he wanted to marry, but
now-we know better, he does want to
get Wife, for rumor says he does, and
Is going too. But what troubles us, is
We don't know when. Oh, If we did,
wouldn't
Emporia have custom til ough,
For cow bells,iyou know.
Then sound the bell
For happy, anxious viii, &c.
The notorious Sam Wood-as
saRea1ing," the Ledger's correspond
ent terms him, and who is puffed to
che extent OF the Ledger's capacity (P)
is no doubt saint in the eyes of those
who look at Sam Wood, and at the
time of looking think of nothing and
nobody but the holy being above mem
toned. We did not hear this wonder
full mans speech, SO highly spoken of.
But having seen this wonder of the
age and heard him blew Basson, alse,
1 have a fair idea of how he stripped
thesscribbler of his clothes, then chaw-
ed him all to pieces, just as this great
Sam Wood would have chawed hunk
of one of those innocent quadrupeds
that wears long ears, that he (Sam
Wood became possessor of in Texas,
and which were the innocent cause OF
isldetention on cheap board in one OF
those places, numerous siiato Texas,
where daylight is seen through cross
bars of iron. Could this good and
great man have got hold OF those
mules at that time, It would been bet
ter for them had they never been born
although those mules were not of those
needy adventurers, this great Sam
Wood was, and tried to part them
from their ancestral homes, which, by
the way, he did not do preference tC
: former reports; Heavens, how fright
! fully 1t must have been to see the faI
fly from Stotler, Eskridge and others
Thank fortune 1 was not there.
have had a presentment for some time
that this notorious Sam Wood, IL le
run at large, would do some serious
;. injury to somebody. And now he hal
! done it, Mr.. Editor, is it right tina
such q herce being should be alloweG
. to run at large, who knows what mex
ii he mag do.A Tearing those parties ii
81 EmpoEia so frightfnlly to pieces, is no
d the only case of this kind he has don,
: or attempted to do, last spring at tn
s soldiers re-union. This notoriou
4 Sam Wood tried to do harm to Judg
! lIanbseks but fer the timely interfer
! enee Of Capt. Payne, it would hay
= been better had Mr.. Hanback, neve
! been born. For If Sam Woods fierc
b searching eyes can cover three mer
: they could, with the help OF thei
: possessor, annihilate one man in n
8 time Now, Mr.. Editor, hope to d
t. no wrong In speaking of this notorIou
d character, and the crime committed b
o him, as Il Is . fact, cannot help but b
+ fact, for the Ledger corresponder
j, reports the same 10 that paper, an
l. the Ledger itself speaks of it rs 3 we
a. aes6raplIshed JOB. FxPo.