The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-24

| Kansas City proposes to go into
the hog-packIng business heavier
than ever. ~, $50
~ The receipts of the Indepen.
dence land Office last week were
| lO6,642.76. .t- 5 --
| G. G, Sawyer, a wel,known
Lawrence printer, recently died at
Sacramento, Cal. / -'-- ~
| The county commissioners Of
Shawnee county have repealed the
igopher scalp law. ~ -i.s s-s'
The Paola Spirit says it looks
as if personal fight was liable
! TO spring up between itself and
1.-THE Paola Republican. Strange.
Harry st. Clair, formerly Kan.
sas City horse thief, lately turned
up in Denver as a candidate for
Superintendent o., city schools.
James E. Hope, or Wichita, has
obtained q patent on an improved
projectile. 1t is claimed that If
can be fired around q curve like q
boomerang. r .ssr- '-a-,.d a.
The Kansas dentists met in con-
vention at Ottawa, on the 14th
inst, and discussed the latest
methods of lifting teeth from their
foundations. EJIt"T.v .s
The elm tree at Elgin, Kansas,
to which the thieves who stole
McNamce's horses were hung, has
since served as gallows for three
cattle thieves. ii I'D 4 ~
Dan Bayless, merchant of nine
or ten years standing in Highland,
failed last week. Liabilities some
$4,000. Supposed to have fail
ed full-handed.
"Alderson's Grove" six miles
west of Atchison, was set ont
tfourteenryears ago, and can now
be seen from eight counties; two
in Missouri and six in Kansas.
In an emigrant train which re-
Gently passed through Topeka
were.a man ana, his wife aged SO
and 70 respectively. They were
going west to grow up with the
country. ~, .t- .o7.
Two young citizens of Perry,
named Joe Cotton and Frank Nc
Cracken, went off with Ashow."
They returned "out" $3.50 or $500
and ain" ST in money and lots of
experience. -7r bi5""
DIR. Root, late minister to Chilli,
was in Topeka the 18th inst. He
proposes to deliver lecture this
winter for the benefit of the To-
peka Library Association Sub
ject-South America. s.-a .-
A specimen of Montgomery
county cotton, raised by Mr.. Bow
man, was sent to, Boston, and there
graded as ''fair middling," about
equal tO Sea island cotton in fibre
and worth, ginned, % cents in mar
ket. -.9a,.s-'-
Alta dramatic performance, Civ
en- by the Fort Scott Egotistical
Club, Miss Ella Terry's dress
caught fire from gas jet in the
dressing room, and she was badly
burned about the neck and shout
ders before the flames could be ex-
tinguished. g.~rv .LEly
William Waller, n messenger
boy in the Parsons telegraph of
flee, only, fourteen years old, start
ed out to learn the business about
four months ago, under S. S.
Woodland, superintendent of tele-
graph, and now he can send forty
two words per minute. ...r.
If you want to- see how it is
yourself that others see you, run
for Office. This reflection is sug-
gested by the following from the
Parsons Herald: "Our private
opinion is that we would rather
see DR.. Conhor's blind pig leader
in Sabbath school than Mr.. Park
hurst as Judge of the 18th Judi
cia1 District" . -..,.
Mr.. Henry Brannan, colored, of
Topeka, was not satisfied with
borroWlng Pitt Dennis comb, but
went to comblngDennis' wif,'shead
with it. This Familiarity SO affect
ed Mr.. Dennis. that he gave Mr..
Brannan jelt in the head with
an ak, The doctor thinks his ear,
which was neatly sewed on, will
always be little stiff.
! A SAD ASc1oENH-on the I1th
inst, prairie ifrekwas- started by
a spark from a locomotive on the
A. T. d. S. +. railroad, near the
residence of Robert McPhilamy,
one and half miles east of this
place. Mr.. McPhllamy anticipat-
ing the danger that might result to
his property by fire, undertook to
put it out, and in his efforts to do
so was Assisted by his wife, and
while she was engaged in fighting
the fro her clothes were ignited
by the flames, and before assist
ance could be rendered her-heI
husband at the time being some
distance away-her clothes were
/ nearly all consumed, and her body
so severely burned that death re,
| lieved her misery on Monday
l3th.--Osage Chronicle. ~
OsAGE INDIANs.-A gentleman
who has been spending part of this
summer among the Osages in the
southwest, reports that they are
being npldly civilized Two hun
settled upon, claims. each having
from fiveto my acres in cultiVa
ton. Three hundred and fifty fami
but IL is reported that most of then
will settle down during the coming
\ year. They have called & council
which Is now Ia session endeavor
ing TO organize 9 government q
the model OF our State govern
msnts. The agency buildings ar,
trapidiH apprOac hfng c0mpletion an(
tcouase ot q chapel, and schoO
hons tie latter being two storie
higb VIII 3asements forty by sixt,
I fest and having an eli besides. 4
nsw1hiIf Is also, being erected, an,
the Indians who have farms alread,
: in cultivation are sowing Wheat anl
preparing for next years harvest
: Usage Chronicle. -a -7t" f..
" fThsaa hitGRsekaSa pi ion which
Z probably knows as much, abou
|, Senator Ingalls,. plans1and poiicie
: as the Washington telegraph
, gossipers, says--aud every frien
a of Ingalls, and the state will b
o glad TO hear itSEaIr.T sgoss ia
I While not Indifferent ! to th
y claims of political. friendship, nc
8 insensible to uthes consequence
L | Which init. - .-aal..s..