The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-09
STATE ITEMS.

$4,000.
D TT. Scott is to have castor OF
: factory.
Wheat prospects are good abou
, Usage City.
Lawrence is organizing on he
half of temperance.
Forty women voted at the recen
= school election at HOlton.
A New York colony of 200 arr
on their way to Et. Wallace.
Butler county timber land i,
worth from $40 to $40 per acre.
The sum of $1I, 775, 900 has beer
invested in Kansas manufactures
The earnings OF the Kansas Pa
ciiic now run up to 100000 pei
i. month.
j. w. Williams, Jackson county
has over 200, peach trees in full
bloom.
i Barbour comfy has produced Il
gold-bearing quartz big enough to
excite people.
In Republic county a man was
sentenced to fifteen days in Jail fol-
firing the prairie.
w. S. Burke is to establish a
weekly paper in Leavenworth, de-
voted to spiritualism.
| Marysvillc has Il population OF
1905, according to Il census taken
by the school board.
The L. S. grand jury is investi-
eating some of c. r. Jennison' 5
Missouri transactions.
Fl. SCOTS fire last week des-
troyed thirty business houses and
100000 worth of property.
/ Crawford is the only county in
Kansas that has 20 Indebtedness
Of any kind. Happy people!
Four persons, three ladies and q
gentleman, were drowned at Elk
City by the capaizing of Il boat.
The State Fair this year will be
held at the Shawnee county
grounds, Topeka, Sept. %. %, 81,
! % and 90.
/ The assessors of Franklin coun-
ty have resolved to disregard the
law eXempting mortgages from
taxation.
! One accidental, twenty-five fire
and fourteen life insurance com
panies are authorized to do bust
ness III Kansas.
Unlike heavily timbered coun-
tries, the Kansas prairie has more
springs after cultivation than in
the wild State.
Atchson wants 10 take in Win
throp, on the Missouri side Of the
river, "a part of that city, to be
called East Atchison.
There are now 50 oranges Of
the Patrons Of Husbandry in Kan
sas, and the State lecturer is kept
busy organizing more.
Ex-senator Pemeroy is AT Topeka
looking after the dropping interests
of the King bridge works, in which
he is Il large stock holder.
Texas must be frightful coun-
try. A man has come back from
there to Leavenworth, and declares
he had rather live in the latter
place.
/ At Grasshoppcr Il justice Of the
peace administers all oath as fol-
lows: ''Iou do solemnly swear in
the presence Of inc and Almighty
God, if you please, sir
Jasper n. Grey, who robbed the
Burlington postoflicc some time
ago, was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary and the payment
of a trifing sum, by the L. 5.
court.
The Soldiers Re union TO come
of at Lawrence, May Both, is likely
TO be large gathering and very
enjoyable affair. We see that the
Lawrence people are making large
preparations for it. Union soldiers
who fought in the late war are in
vited to be present.
+! The fire at Fort Scott last week
burned a large portion of the bust
ness houses of the city. Few oil
the buildings were of any particn.
lar value, however, and by many il
is counted good thing for the city
in the long run, "a new and better
buildings will take the place of tlG
: old board sbanties destroyed.
A New COLONY IN KASsAs.-Mr.
George Grant, of London, England,
who last fall purchased a very large
tract of land IN the State of Kansas
has returned 10 this country for the
purpose of establishing All English
colony at the railroad station, Vic.
toria, situated upon his purchase
a number of thoroughbred Aber,
deem, Polled and Shorthorn cattle
and fine Cotswold, Oxford and
Shronshire Down sheep have been
J shipped from England for the came
, point via New Orleans, together
with number Of Immigrant
of the better class, zen route fol
the new colony. Mr.. Grant i.
accompanied by Sir George aud
Lady Prescott, Captain c. Prescott
and lion. Walter Maxwell, and will
leave this city during the present
: week for New Orleans, aud travel
/ thence TO Kansas with his colonists
N. Y. World.
There is a deaf OF SOUND sense
: in what a teetotal orator once
said: Now, boys, If you want tc
; be generous and treat each other
why not select some other placs
, besides the liquor shop: Suppose
E you go by the postofiiee, you say
E Il say, my dear fellow, come il
. and take some stampsI, Thes'
j stamps will cost no more thai