The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-01


the Carbonate Branch, and intend
to push that through west until they
can strike the cattle business, which
that road has lost.
The three papers in Usage county
have agreed not to publish any legal
advertisement for private individ-
uals, unless paid in advance. o. X.
The Neosho county district court
has decided that Erie, not Usage
Mission, is the county seat.
The Champion says that Atchison
is 10 be the western terminus of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road. Its cars will run over the st.
Joseph bridge, down the Wathena
& Doniphan road, and Atchison &
Nebraska, to Atchison, and take pas
senger, cattle and freight cars
through to Chicago without change
or transfer.
July oath VIM. S. May, q lawyer
of Concordia, went hunting in q
buggy, and as he got out two guns
fell and discharged their contents
into his right arm, wounding him
dangerously.
AT Atchison, on the Goth ult., an
infant son Of Col. Quigg fell into .
cemented cistern eighteen feet deep,
and the surface of the water twelve
feet from the ground. A little girl
named Rosa, niece of Quigg, saw
the child fall, and ran and plunged
in after him. Fortunately q neigh.
boris little girl saw Rosa's brave act,
and alarmed some men working
near by, who ran to the cistern and
found her buoyed up by her cloth
ing and holding the baby's head out
Of water. They lowered q ladder
and rescued the pair.
A man named Gore, from Falls
City, Nebraska, accidentally shot
himself near Clyde, Kansas, ON the
18th inst, while riding in a wagon
on his way from the west. He saw
something on the ground and jump
ed out to pick il up, when 9 double.
barreled shot gun in the wagon
went of, killing him instantly
The coroner's jury returned q yer.
dict of accidental death. Gore
leaves q wife and child in Falls City
When a good man in Topeka goes
to church, his neighbors plug up the
key hole to his door, and leave him
to get into the house as he can.
Mike Stanton, q buffalo huntel
camped at Mulberry Crossing, Ford
county, July 18th, and some unknown
person shot him and drove of his
wagon aud effects. The body wal
found on the 10th. Stanton be-
longed in Baltimore, Maryland.
On the oath ult., the old settlers
of Atchison celebrated the 18th an.
adversary of that city's birth. They
speechified, lunched and danced.
Mr.. s. Barrier, of Greenwood
county says that he has tried rolling
wheat in the fall, and thinks that Il
will kill crop every time, wher
there is a hard winter. The GROUND
should be left rough, especially ole
ground. Sod land might be rolled
but would do Just as well without it
A new disease has made its ap
pearance among the cattle in various
parts of the State. 1t is not known
what it IS. The cattle attacked die
very suddenly. DIR. Huntington
lost q fine cow the other day, prob
ably from this disease. He was out
near his herd and noticed the COW
but no signs of disease about her
While he was looking at her, how
ever, she fell forward and died in q
few minutes.-EurekA Herald.
Last week e woman arrived a
Topeka carrying a child one yea
old, but no money. Her husband
had died at Manhattan, and she wa
on q pedestrian tour to her father
home in Philadelphia, Pa. The
Mayor gave her g railroad ticket t.
the Home" in Leavenworth.
The Lawrence Journal says tina
last year the Douglas county ex
penses were $92, 4S2.62, of which
$29,7 $50 were for interest on rail- oai
bonds, S11 ,362.07 for paupers, and
only S6.915.13 for county officers
The latter class must be cheap il
Douglas county. There must b.
about seven officers, and we have
no doubt they realize $4,000 pei
year in some shape from their offices
The Commonwealth claims tina
it is the King Bridge Company o.
lola, and not the King Bridge Com
pany of Topeka, that has gone into
bankruptcy. The latter is said tc
be all right.
THAT S7,OO0.-A telegram from
Topeka says:
John Q. Page, who began an &C.
ton in the District Court of this
into the Kansas Legislature by A
NJ. York, dismissed the case to-day
paying all the costs. The suit was
to recover the money now in the
hands of the State Treasurer, on
the grounds set forth by Pomeroy
in his defence, ''that the money was
given by Pomeroy to York to be
given to Page to aid in the establish
ment of q bank at Independence"
1t was set for the IL of August, and
1t was thought q continuance would
be asked, as all the testimony in
volved IN the criminal action against
Pomeroy would naturally be ad-
duced. 1t is now a very puz zling
question who the money belongs
to, as 1t is positively understood
that POmeroy will set up no claim
to 1t on his own account.
FAIRS. The Harvey county Fair
will be held on tue 18th and 18th of
September. The Lyon county Fair
the same week. The State Fair at
Topeka will commence on the 23d
of September and close on the 18th.
The Kansas City Fair will COM
mence on the 18th of September
and close on the Goth. The Leaven-
worth county fair will commence
on the 10Th of September and close
on the Sd of October. The North
ern Kansas District Fair will be
held in Atchison, commencing on
the Sth of September and continue
five days.
NJ. Solomon, Esq, informs US that
Mr.. Lawson arrived in st. Joseph q
day or two ago, from New York,
and brought news that arrangements
for building q bridge over the Mis-
souri, river at this city have been
successfully concluded.--Atchison
Champion.