The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-09-06

rations for 10000 people at hel
fair on the 10th.
Topeka millers have combined
to sell flour by the car load at Kan,
sas City prices.
| Waubonsee county turns out
forty-six plums as big as walnuts
to four inches of limb.
Kansas cheese is taking a place
in the market equal to the Ohio
and New York factories.
1t is thought hogs will only
bring two and half cents a pound
on foot, this fall in Kansas.
A letter from Republic county
says Greeley's mother don't know
that he is out in that section.
Mrs. Winters, of Leavenworth,
whose husband was murdered in
Jail, sues for $25, 900 damages.
Grape growers in Douglas coun-
ty have combined to keep the price
up to four cents per pound.
The Lawrence d Topeka rail
road has paid $4,000 for the right
of way through Douglas county.
Chas. Price, formerly of Olathe,
has been elected to the State Sen
ate in North Carolina as Liberal.
One-fitth of the land in Kansas
has been given to railroads. Gree
ley thinks one half should be given.
The earnings of the NJ, K. & T.
for July were $40, 5O4 same month
in 1871, 1925; increase, 500, 279.
The Atchison d Nebraska rail
road is now running to Lincoln,
Nebraska, lag miles northwest of
AtchiSon.
Jefferson county politicians at
tend to business at camp meeting.
Their religion don't interfere with
their politics.
A number of counties in South
ern Kansas have resolved to test
the constitutionality of the rail
road assessment law.
A jaguar or American tiger,
made a sensation, last week, by at
lacking herd of cattle near Oak
land, in Jewell county.
Criticising a speech of Sam
Woods, the Lawrence Journal says
the only thing like his voice is
that of Barnum's sea lion.
Two cents will buy a pound of
Texas steer at Baxter Springs, but
it takes a quartsr of a dollar to
fetch q square drink of rot gut.
An eight year old boy at Tope-
ka, last Saturday, had both feet
cut off just back of the toes by
the cars of the A. 7. d S. Fe road.
The ladies of DIR. John Halls
church, in New York, have con-
tributed $1,000 toward the cree
ton of a Presbyterian church at
Netawaka.
A number of farmers are
troubled because the State Agri-
cultural Society has raised the
price of admission to the fair from
25 to so cents.
The question whether the Bible
is an inspired book, which has
been troubling debating society
at Olathe, has been referred to
Jim Legate.
Saturday last a man named
Tom Wells was killed at Baxter
by young man named Matthews,
whose sister Wells boosted of
having seduced.
George Dowdy, who "enticed
girl under eighteen years of age"
was sent to the Penitentiary for
eight years by the District Court
in Johnson county.
The Fort Scott Monitor con-
denses the fact thus: ''Mr. Hig-
gins, of Usage county, on Tuesday
fired q gun of wrong end fore
most, and was buried on Friday"
Northern Kansas farmers and
grain shippers complain at the
charge of two cents n bushel for
storage on grain made in ST. Louis.
1t isjregarded as exorbitant.
Farmers who are able have
stacked their oats and purpose
feeding them to their cattle this
winter in preference to selling at
the prevailing prices.
The farmers of Kansas have
raised large crops; yet they are
beginning to worry themselves
over the question of paying their
taxes. Produce of all kinds is so
low that it will take a vast quanti-
ty to bring in q small amount of
money.
The farmers of Franklin county
propose to resist the issue of the
bonds lately voted in that county,
and are forming a league for that
purpose They assert that the
bonds were voted on the county
by the city Of Ottawa, against the
viii and the interest OF the farm
ing community, and that the law
was violated in several particulars.