The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-21
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Paoia has twenty-five candidates
for mayor.
The troops on the neutral lands
are preparing to move.
The new hotel at Atchison is to be |
called Tho Otis House. /
Severe winter destroyed fifteen
per cent, Of the bees in Kansas.
Fort Scott COngregationalists are
to have q new $15, 900 church.
! Methodist church at OIathe lately
received, seventy-fve recruits.
The penalty on unpaid taxes has
been reduced to 25 per cent.
. Ten acres of the city. of Leaven-
worth is in dispute in the courts.
One hundred thousand acres of
unimproved land in Cofey county.
Sixteen divorce cases pending in
the EeavenwOrth county district
court.
The issue at the spring election In
Lawrence promises to be temper
ance.
The X p. transports trees and
shrnbbery to Russell county with
out charge.
The first boat of the season on the
Missouri was at Leavenworth, Tues
day of last week.
Parsons was two years old March
8, and the Sun goes of to the extent
of eight columns.
G. w. Babcock has been reap
pointed and confirmed Surveyor
General of Kansas.
Topeka voted, last week, by 1900
majority, to aid rolling mills to
amount to 100000.
Four Of Fort SCOTS school marms
are soon to become brides. School
marms please notice.
The Missouri was closed los days
by ice--six days longer than has been
known in many years.
The Parsons Sun thinks the aver
age Kansas legislator may be a
knaVe, but he is no fool.
The cost of the Caldwell investi-
cation was $4,000; of the Pomeroy
investigation about $4,000.
Wednesday last, 200 passengers
arrived at Atchison by the various
railroads, and 1,012 freight cars.
In Kansas, one person can culti-
vate six acres of peanuts and have
time enough to attend other crops.
Peanuts yield from So to GO BUSH
els TO the acre in Kansas, and are
worth from 81 so to $500 per bushel.
A jealous railroader in Fort Scott
named Cooper, brutally beat his
wife, few days ago, and then lit
out.
When Kansas lawyer quotes
Latin to the jury, he is fined by
the judge for profanity and con-
tempt"
The Wyandotte poor farm asylum
has an inmate named Mrs. Willard,
six feet three inches high and still
growing.
A farmer named Glathart, four !
miles from Lawrence, last Sunday |
lost $4,000 house by fire. Insured
for $1,000.
Governor Osborn's intercourse |
with the Legislature and those in
attendance was such 40 to extend |
his popularity.
The Nebraska editors want their |
Kansas brethren TO unite with them
at Lincoln, and take an excursion
to Salt Lake City.
Tuesday last, man named Combs
in Wyandotte, while cleaning a pis-
tol, accidently killed his little boy,
aged eighteen months.
Significant-The Legislature vot-
ed increased appropriations for the
Penitentiary, and cut down those
for literary institutions.
An Iowa man, ninety-nine years
old, is selling out for the purpose of
to Kansas. Retains his
senses remarkably. VIII settle and
grow up with the Slate.
1t is now claimed that the old
peach trees throughout the State
have generally been killed by the
severity of winter, but that the
young trees have escaped.
The Official testimony in the Pom
sroy investigation at Washington
makes a volume of 243 pages. The
;ross-examination of Pomeroy by ,
Judge Thurman is terrible.
Report is that the NJ. X. & T. has I
bought an interest in the Texas I
Central, aud 1t is henceforth to be I
allied the Missouri, Kansas & Texas s
lear through to GALVESTON.
The Troy Chief calls attention to 1
he fact in political history that ev- q
Try Governor of Kansas who at t
empted to stop into the Senate died '
and warns Osborn.
.J,B. McAffee, of Topeka, has con-
racted with the State fer the use of :
onvict labor. He proposes to man :
fracture wagons, and is to pay the ..
tate fifty cents a day for unskilled
men, and sixty for mechanics
The opening up of the Lawrence ii
, Southwestern railroad has reduce
d the passenger rates to and from II
and all points west of p
here on the A. T. & 8. Fe road and Il
he East, Gixty-five cents. The old :,
stes were made by way of Topeka, =
ut are now made by way of the o
hort line, via the Lawrence & g
outhwestern.-Ldsc. Journal. N
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