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

Potatoes Sl.1U Dushei nc NfasS-
hopper Falls.
Heavy forst at Marion Center
last Thursday.
The grasshoppers have cleaned
out Billings county.
The new Presbyterian church at
Oxford is nearly completed.
A grape vine at Augusta grew
twenty-three feet this season.
The new bridge is completed
across DOYLE creek at Florence.
Wichita carried on the Texas cat
Ito premiums at the Kansas City fair.
wichita will have a rip at Rip
Van Wrinkle. Shades ofJo Jefferson
The Florence school opened Mon
day, with Miss Lou DAVIS as pin
cipal.
Sid Clarke Is BROWSING around in
the Southwest, cor words 10 that
effect" ~
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad is selling land to the Men
nonites.
&c. Lambdin and wife, Of Eide
RADIO, are visiting the Cincinatti Ex-
position.
Ohio has SO natives in the Kansas
penitentiary, and Missouri comes
next with 80.
All the Southwestern counties
are we'll represented at the State
fair this week. a.
Three empty stock cars were burn
cd at Florence, Thursday during
the high winds
The Congregational church at
Cottonwood Falls has a new nine
stop Prince organ.
Missouri apples, hard, small aud
sweet sell for 81 per bushel at Pea
body, says the Gazette.
c. G. Hutchinson, author of the
"Resources of Kansas is one OF the
head grangers of Reno county.
Dwelling houses are scarce in
Winfield. The Courier thinks fifty
could be rented within q month.
Col. II. T. Wilson celebrated, on
the 18th inst, the close of his thir-
teenth year of residence at Fort
Scott.
Wilson Shannon, Jr., son of ex-
Governor Shannon, died at Law
renee few days sgo, after briei
illness.
Elder VIM. Gable, of Elk Falls, Il
vouched for 10y the Elk Falls Exam
liner as a good preacher and stone
cutter.
The Eldorado Times thinks the
man who puts out fire to the prairie
this fall, had better first make
his will.
A Topeka livery man ADVERTISE
that he has not had a runaway
among his stock in five years. Tha
may be nothing strange.
In Norton county the great polit-
ical parties are known as the buffalo
hunters, the Solomon valley party
and the prairie dog party.
There is talk of moving the tow
of Kalida, Woodson county, two
miles. 1t will then be in the geo
graphical centre of the county.
The Junction City Union dom
like secret nominating conventions
IL there Is any good thing around
PrentIs wants to know about it.
The colored folks of Topeka hav,
resolved that If they can't send thei
children to the white schools the!
will let them grow up in ignorance
The editor OF the Florence Pho
neer beat the bed bugs by setting
the legs of his bedstead in cans o.
water. Florence bed bugs are YER
dant.
The State shrubbery in Capito
square, Topeka, is dying. The mex
legislature should make an appro'
priation for a watering pot and {
man TO use il.
The Concordia Empire warns old
bachelors of that county who are
engaged in kissing babies for cleo
pioneering purposes. that that dodge
is "too thin"
Mr.. Bobb, of this town, has raised
about 500 bushels of peanuts this
season. He expects to realize S70(
for the crop. Peanuts are a sure
crop in this section.-EldoradC
Times
AS soon as practicable printing
Office, a telegraph Office, sewing
room and several workshops are to
be added to the Agricultural col
lege, for the benefit of its lads and
lasses.
Col. Chas. Clarkson, for two terms
chef clerk in the Office of Secretary
of State of Kansas, and well known
throughout the state, died at his
residence in Sedalia, Mo-, on last
Sunday.
The Atchison Globe, edittd by F,
G. Adams, recently from the rural
shades of Waterville, talks about
Country newspaper scribblers."
There is a slight touch of December
about that.
Prof John ID. Parker, of Wyan-
dotte, wishes information on the
subject of tornadoes. Any person
who has recen tly had tornado
about his premises will please write
to Prof. Parker.
Tom. Barber, of Toledo, who mi
grated to Texas year or so ago,
has returned. He reports crops in
that state call dried up" and says
he don't want any more Texas in
his'E.-Chase County Leader.
Serg't BEGINNER, formerly weather
signal officer at Leavenworth, is to
be located on top of Pixies Peak.
lie says the place has its disadvan-
tages, but then it is livelier than
Leavenworth.
The members of the Wichita
cornet band covered themselves
with glory" at the Butler county
fair, at Douglas; also took the
premium. They are highly compli-
ted by the papers.
We learn many substantial i'm
PROPONENTS are being made in FL
dorado, among which is the Nation
nj RnnL hniIdinn Eanhinr Dan