The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-26


Isaac Kalloch and "Joseph Savage" I
plain, blunt men, who speak right
on, are all booked for addresses at
The county fairs this fall.
A Manhattan man undertook to II
stop horse the other day by stand
ing in front of him and holding up
q piece of scantling. The scantling
was not hurt much, considering the
force with which it was driven
against the holders cheek.
The Winfield Courier says little
Allison, of the Telegram, is "a hid
cons crawling reptile" without
wishing to interfere at all, we take
the liberty of asking Kalloch II the
Courier couldn't help him a good
deal on his Leavenworth contract.
Senator Ingalls, aad DIR. Grimes,
of Atchison, passed through here q
few days ago on their way to Gren-
ada, the end of the A. T. & S. F.
road. They also visited Wichita.
They returned through here last
Friday night. aa 5lls teiN4
Coy. Osborn was recently called
to Hartsville, Tenn, by dispatch
conveying the sad news that his
aged mother was dying. Hereached
her bed side before abe died, but
followed her remains to the grave
during his stay in the place.
The Leader has fine peroration
on the Cottonwood Falls city conn
ell, which ends thusly: "On taxing
dogs our councilmen are grand
On. whisky licenses they are sub
Iime!! And for doing nothing,
superlative adjectiyes fail u.s."
The leading rattlesnake of Miami
county was recently executed by q
Mr.. Timmons. According to the
Paola Spirit, which never exagger-
ates, the snake was five feet six
inches long, seven inches around the
waist, and had "a head on him as
dig as IrylhS-pdn
Sol. Miller says that the appoint
ment of Thomas RYAN as assistant
United States District Attorney is
q good one. 1t is so seldom that
Solomon says good word for any
body, that it is undoubtedly Toms
duty to send Solomon 50 invariably
in advance for a years subscrip-
ton to the Troy Chief.
Three years ago q farmer resid-
ing near EldoradO gave his son three
hundred dollars in money. The
young man went int the stock bus
mess. He now has so head of cat
tie, pair of good horses, and $3.50
in cash, which he proposes to in
vest in cattle this fall. In three
years he has cleared $1,000 on a
capital of $300.-Eldorado Times.
The author of the following is
still at large, but strong hopes are
entertained of his capture and ex-
ecution: "Norbeigh, the LeaVen-
worth we'll cleaner, is nearly a0eL
man again. He says he does not
want to clean out any more wells,
Norbeigh covered up again"
Our DAILEs.-The Citizen is In
debted to the following daily pa
pers for an exchange: The Law
renee Journal, Lawrence Tribune,
! Fort Scott Monitor, Topeka Blade
and Atchison Globe.-Fredonia Cit
izen.
In the case of the last three, the
Citizen is thankful for mighty small
favors.
Mrs Bailey Pitcher of Sumner
county took strychnine for quininel
few days ago, to keep off p chill
In less than an hour afterwards she
was a corpse. The medicine was
procured OF a neighbor, who bought
it at Wellington for quinine. Mrs
Bailey's remains were taken to Will
county, ILL.,, her former home, for in
teIment.
The Wichita varieties theatrical
company went over to Winfield to
give q show. The mayor W anted
them to pay $l5 license which they
refused to do, and went off without
an exhibition. If what we have
been told of that company be true,
the town is 10 be congratulated, and
the mayor should have a vote of
thanks.
Some of the Illinois excursionists
thought Peabody and surroundings
about the incest country they saw
while going through this State.
We saw Peabody for the first time
few days ago, and fully agree with
the aforesaid excursionists. There
is not a more thrifty looking town
between here and Withita than this
same wide-awake Peabody.
The Butler county Fair, at Doug
las, was in all respects success. In
closing notice of the Fair the Au-
gusta Republican says: "Horses
were generally good but not extra.
One horse from Emporia competed
for the $50 premium on fast trot-
ting, but Mr.. c. H. Lambs animal
left him so far behind he had no
appetite for trotting any more"
| Rev. Mr.. Foss, an aged COngre-
| gationalist minister of Topeka, has
for five years made practice of Wis
iting the Shawnee county jail, DIS
tributing tracts, newspapers and
good council among the prisoners.
His ministrations have thus extern
ded to two hundred persons and he
has been treated with uniform re-
spect by all of them.
Wheat in this section of the coun-
try is an excellent crop this season.
Mr.. Meanor threshed $50 bushels
from u acres and 80 rods besides 8
| lot that was spoiled by bad stacking
which he estimates at 10 bushels, SO
that the crop averages about 81 blu.
per acre. Mr.. Stewards winter
wheat averaged 81, and the spring
wheat % bushels per acre, not con-
| sidering the damage caused by poor
stacking, which was considerable
Winfield Courier.
Two young men occupied an i'm
provised bed on the floor of an
office in Peabody last Wednesday
night, with large map of the Unit
ed States for their only covering.
A little before morning one of them
awakened the other by stumbling
over chair; and in explanation
said, with chattering teeth, "That
map of North America is all right
in the summer, but it won't do me
such q night IS this; I'm trying to
find a map of Afriea.-Gazette.
Rev. Mr.. Metcalf, who had been