The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-14
STATE ITEMS.
Oskaloosa has the small box.

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Cherokee county has the spotted
fever.
Kansas has 2,S44,444 acres of
school lands.
Grasshopper has nine church or
CARNATIONS.
The Southwest wants a new judi
cial district.
Lawrence has slaughtered 500
dogs recently.
Seneca had a high-toned elope-
ment, last week.
Great Bend, last week, voted $40
600 for bridge.
The rabbits are playing smash
with the trees ut lola.
Kansas was twelve years old on
the 2oth of January.
In Jefferson county they call a
Texas steer corn crib.
One pauper in Kansas to every
| three thousand population.
The frost is swapping iron rods
on the Kansas City bridge.
Thirteen hogs recently froze to
death in Doniphan county.
The entire Kansas Congressional
delegation are at Washington.
Improved real estate is cheaper in
Kansas than it was four years ago.
Legate, in his testimony in the
Caldwell case. shows Anthony up
badly.
La Cygne stock dealer lost S575
recently, in Kansas City, at draw
poker.
A span of horses in Pottawatomie
county lost 900 pounds in weight by
the eplzooty.
In one township in Miami county
there were eleven murders perpe-
trated in 1872.
The theory that cattle need no
well played.
The sheriff of Doniphan is still
Selling locomotives belonging to the
st. Joe 81 Denver.
The young ladies of Wathcna
have pledged themselves not to
marry a man who drinks.
a New York Herald editor is at
Topeka preparing Kansas Senator
ial matter for print.
The fibre of grass in Kansas is
much finer than in Missouri or any
! other Western State.
A woman was found in Shawnee
county, recently, frozen TO death I'M
der ten feet of snow.
Recently the grass widows and
grass husbands of Grasshopper Falls
INDUCED in shop"
It takes thirty-three and third
bushels of Kansas corn to buy 50
bonnet as big as your fist.
Girard wants an establishment
| for the sale of pianos, guitars, plows
and other agricultural implements.
Leavenworth people claim that
| their town is shortly to have the
third largest starch factory in the
world.
From September % to December
81, seventy-two cars, or ], 436, 290
pounds of meat were shipped from
Dodge City.
Thayer, a few days ago, suspend
ed business for the purpose of see
ing a wild cat whip all the dogs of
the town.
Lawrence boasts of a calf with
two heads. The Journal says single
headed ones, with two legs, are
quite common.
The buds on the young peach
trees are killed, but those on the
old trees are comparatively unharm-
ed by frost-so they say.
An Atchison firm have made ar
rangem ents for distributing eight
hundred bushels of fax seed among
the farmers az loan.
Forty-six of the sixty-four organ
| lied counties in the State have re-
gistered bonds with the. Auditor,
and the total amount is ST, 1876, 47S.
Perry, twelve miles west of Law
renee, has shipped, this season, 5000
hogs, weighing 625 tons, or 1,250,-
600 pounds, and has received for
them $4,000.
The Kansas City Times says that
if the Legislature had adjourned
pending the final ballot, York would
have been elected instead of Ingalls,.
If this be true, it was very fortunate
| for the State, that the legislature
did not adjourn.
Olathe people have obtained
temporary injunction, restraining
| the collection Of tax to meet interest
on S3O0,0 railroad bonds. They
want to recover the bonds, on the
ground that the company failed to
comply with terms.
Kansas ice dealers thought they
had something to brag over when
they housed their eighteen inch
cakes, bnt when Minnesota men roll
up their icebergs near four feet
thick, bright and clear as diamonds,
our men are chilled into silence.
The most notorious vagrant in
Linn county is said TO be Lewis
Grammer. His whole life has been
ungrammatical. He has been in the
poor house, Paola, Paris and the
peDitentiary. There is a clause in
his constitution which prevents him
from working, and he greatly vex-
eth the commissioners of that coun-
| ty.