The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-02
STATE ITEMS.
PARSONS has $50 houses.


Topeka has strong salt brine
two miles from town.
A Burlington man has q grand
mother 10S years old.
Six hundred and fifty-four in
surance agents in Kansas.
A White Cloud factory turns
out 10000 shingles per day.
Leavenworth has q chestnut
tree which bore fruit last year.
Chinch bugs will not survive
the recent lingering of winter.
A missionary tent is to be dedi-
Gated at Highland shortly.
At Sergeant they duck dead
beats under the spout of the rail
road tank.
Two hundred passengers per
day pass over the NJ. X. d T. for
Texas.
Marshall county recently adopt
ed the herd law by five hundred
majority.
Greenwood county has had
twelve or fifteen deaths from spot
ted fever.
"Pillow case dances" to pay of
n graveyard debt Is the style at
Usage Mission.
Texas cattle dealers predict that
fully 100000 head will be driven
to Kansas this year.
Tho question: Shall colored
children attend the white school
or not? is exciting Ottawa.
Friday last a five year old son
of James Baldwin, at Rossville,
was burnt to death in hay stack.
Kansas fruit has taken the first
premium at every genealogical ex-
hibition where it has competed.
One melon seed in Douglas
county, last year. covered thirty
feet square, and yielded $50 lbs. of
melon.
Sixty-two carloads of cattle
were shipped from Hiawatha dur
ing the last thirty days, valued at
about $4,000.
The mayor and council of At
Gibson, and Junction City, cannot
agree upon appointments OF GER
tain officers.
Southern Kansas papers are of
the unanimous opinion that the
associate press reporter at Par
sons is an awful liar.
The Rev. S. NJ. IRWIN, of High
land, is claimed to be the Oldest
white inhabitant of the State. He
settled in that vicinity in 1887.
The story that last winters Leg
islature lowered the interest on
unpaid taxes to % per cent. is not
correct. The old rate remains.
The Cherokee Il. To- Advocate
complains because the Nation pays
SO q bushel for potatoes that are n
drug in Kansas at thirty cents.
Congressman Phillips refers his
nomination of a cadet to West
Point to q competitive eXanina-
ton at the Agricultural College. to
be held May 10.
During the year 1872 there was
shipped from Fort Scott and vi
cinity 1872, 900 bushels of coal, al
an average price of nine and q
half cents per bushel.
The Council Grove Republican
hopes Barnum will take the whole
outfit of Kaws to Europe, and, in.
stead of returning them, present
them to King William.
Coffey county has purchased go
acres of land belonging TO James
N. Lane, two miles from Burling-
ton, for the purpose of poor
farm, paying therefor $50 per
acre.
The question threatens to disin-
tegrate society at Lawrence
should a young man leave his
music lesson 10 splI WOOu Wnen
his mother is at home and perfect,
" well?'
A Southern Kansas woman's
triumphs are thus set forth: "Hali
an acre of tobacco, three corn
fields, twenty-eight turkeyf, and a
congregation, in which she leads
the choir.
The Lawrence Journal says
The Kaws cannot fail to be popu-
lar in Europe. They can swear,
or affirm, as the case may be, that
they have never belonged to the
Kansas Legislature.
A Farmer in Riley county has
thirty-five acres Of land fenced in
with . hedge and protected by a
cottonwood windbreak. Inside of
that enclosure are situated his
house, barns and large orchard.
Year before last its owner deposit
cd in bank from the sales of that
orchard 1000 cash. He attend
"a .