The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-29
SOUTHWEST.
The new court house at Cotton
wood Falls is TO be completed and
turned over to the commissioners
on the Ist of September.

on the 1st of September.
N Dave Brown whaled Frank All
is son at Cottonwood Falls few day
le ago. Frank got pistol and woul
'f have shot Dave only some though
$ full person wet the-caps. Then the
e made up.
!. Here is the way they run la,
/ suits at Cottonwood Falls, as re
). ported by the Leader:
r For week or more a number O
i citizens have been on the quS rSg
i about the trial of case for dam
: ages (amounting to fifty dollars,
for the non-performance of a con
. tract in which j. B. futile wa
plaintiff and E. Sherwood defend
: ant. After several continuances tn,
e case finally came up before SOUR,
McWilliams last Thursday morning
: The defendant demanded E.jury O
: his peers" and accordingly Jabt
johnson, Will. Kellogg, Geo. Mann
John Glenn and George Hill were
with the assistance of the sheriff
compelled in that capacity to swell
ter through couple of the hottest
days in the year on old chairs and
candle boxes in the abode of Justice
: by 10 O'Clock Friday morning the
. evidence was all in and the attor-
i. neys rested from their labors. The
case was given to the jury, who
after due deliberation notified the
court that they had agreed upon a
verdict, but wanted their fees be-
fore giving the result. The Jury
seemed under the impression that
the party in whose favor they gave
the verdict should pay the fees. and
to facilitate matters limited that the
verdict was for the plaintiff. The
defendant in the meantime had
gathered together his goods and left
the county. This fact becoming
known, the plaintiff refused to t.put
up" This climax was too much for
the jury, and the way they went for
that court, witnesses and even the
throne of justice itself, was not
"childlike and bland" The stento-
rian tones of the heavy juryman as
he went for the ''whoie outfit" were
resonent through Broadway. The
| lawyers went down street immedi-
ately to see a man, and Mack, for
in flight and from the other side of
the ravine adjourned court. Mack
and the attorneys are still waiting
for the verdict.
Since the closing of the gambling
houses at Wichita novel game has
been started by the gamblers. Each
one procurcs lump of sugar, places
it upon the counter, and bets that
fly will light on his lump first. The
bets run from 81 to $50, and the one
whose sugar is the sweetest wins
the money.
A moccasin snake three feet in
length entered the Office of the
Munger House, at Wichita, got into
canary bird cage, and was found
twined about the perch, with the
bird in it's coils.
Moser, formerly of this place, is
building fine residence at Wichita.
Wichita will haYe a $1,000 horse
race on the 9Th of next month.
Farmers in the vicinity of Wich-
ita are contracting to feed Texas
cattle the coming winter.
Wichita had two cases of delirium
tremens last week.
John RobiEson's agents have plas-
tered Wichita with show bills.
The Sedgwick county fair grounds
are enclosed with a board fence
seven feet high.
The Eagle says the First National
bank of Wichita is doing more bust
ness than any other national bank
in the State.
From our farmers we learn that
the crops now maturing throughout
this county, Simmer and Cowley
counties, could not be better. Corn,
castor beans, potatoes and the
cereals, in all these there will be
full crop.-Wichita Eagle.
Ex-senator Caldwell was at Wich-
tia last week.
WAsHINGToN's BIRTH PLACE.
The fact that no monument marks
the birthplace of Washington is
now attracting some attention. 1t
seems that the Virginia Legislature
once appropriated 5000 for inclos-
it with a neat iron fence, after a de.
scendant of the Washington family
had decided the ground to the State.
This was under Gov. Wise's ad-
ministration, but Wise's term ex-
pired, and tue war came on before
anything had been accomplished,
and the birthplace remains as It
was. AS all roads now lead to the
Centennial in Philadelphia, one of
the local Journals suggests that this
condition of Washington's birth
place is q National disgrace, and
that Congress ought to make an ap-
preparation for q monument before
the celebration of 1876. This is all
very patriotic, and might excite
even greater enthusiasm than il is
likely to excite if an English icono-
clast had not stepped in with the
assertion that Washington wasn't
born in this country at all. Per-
haps there is notion that a monu-
ment on American territory, would
settle the dispute in our favor.
The Eagle says it is estimated that
there will not be less than five thous-
and bushels of castor bears raised in
the Arkansas valley, and that Mr..
Richmond will try to have factory
ready by fall to work up the crop.
We contemplate the subject with a
wry face, but can commend the farm
ers of that region on their good sense
in not placing all their reliance on
corn and wheat.
The Atchison and Topeka dailies
occasionally reach Wellington the same
day they are printed, a distance of
about 225 miles. That will do pretty
well. It has not been long since it
took week for the same papers to
make this trip.
Several farmers in Reno county
are going to get droves of Texas cattle
to feed their surplus corn to this WIN
ter.
A man was arrested charged with
stealing horses in Sumner county, and
was temporarily confined in the EN-
poria Jail. The sheriff of Sumner
county, who designed taking him there
on Tuesday, went to the jail just be-
fore train time, and found his man as
nude as at birth, and there we're no
, signs of clothing to be found. They
were afterwards discovered in the sink.
The journey was delayed twenty-four
, hours.
Sheriff Moore, accompanied by Mar.
r shall Thomas, started on last Thursday
to Emporia for the purpose of nabbins
some OF the three-card monte mer
who had vietimized a number of oul
unsuspecting citizens. They arrested