The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-24
KANsAn ArLaRGE.

Four saloons have closed out in
Junction City.
Lawrence gasworks cure whoop-
ing cough.
The Coffeyville Courier claims
u number of Delaware Indians
among its regular paying subscrb-
ers.
Six townships in Wilson Coun-
ty have adopted the night herd
law. One township adopts it for
three years.
The people of Atchison gave
Senator Ingalls, q serenade and re-
ception on Wednesday evening of
last week.
Miss Mary Bond, aged Is years,
and Mr.. Henry Davis, aged Is
were lately married in Washing
ton county.
The Dig prize in the Abeles lot
terry, at LeavenWorth, WAS drawn
by Mr.. Heater, an umbrella manu-
facturer in New York.
The Womens' Temperance Asso-
citation of Lawrence, has thanked
Roberts Bros. for putting in a
pump on Massachusetts street.
Senator Harvey made eight
thousand dollars last summer out
of a government survey contract,
and now he wears a plug hat and
goes to town in a new buggy.
The Lawrence dam is ION its
taps" again. Another contract
for building it has been let. It is
a ''sure thing" this time, you
know.
DR.. Mottram, of Lawrence, who
stole the corpse from a graveyard,
after a tedious trial, was found
guilty, and fined fifty dollars and
costs. That was cheap.
Professor Carpenter, of the
University of Wisconsin, has been
elected Chancellor of the State
University in the place of Gen
Fraser, resigned.
The Washington Republican o.
the 10th inst, says: washing
ton county received $1OO,OO(
worth of rain on Wednesday anG
Thursday nights"
President Grant has appointed
Jack Sickles, a former resident o
Atchison, and civil engineer OIL
the Atchison & Weston railroad
one of the Levee Commissioner
for the State of Louisiana.
The St. Joseph & D. G. railroad
has redeemed all the engine
that have been sold from time t.
time for taxes and other indebted
ness, and will no longer experience
trouble for want of engines.
The Commonwealth says tha
the Governor has appointed W. A
Shannon, of Augusta, and Arch
Shaw, of Olathe, as members O
the Board of Trustees of the Stat
asylum for the deaf and dumb.
| Prof. Miller, of Lawrence, ha
been elected assistant professor 0
mathematics in the State Univers
ity. Miss Francis Schlegel ha
been chosen professor of French
j, German, and free-hand drawing.
"Beulah" is the name of q new
town laid out in Crawford COUNTY
The Gland of Beulah" is bounded
by Cow, Thunderbolt and Light
ming Creeks.
Prentis is the discoverer of tn
above.
"Col." Sam Ryan, recognized b,
Maj. Probert and Col. Stagg, as al
officer on Gen. Rosecrans," stat
during the war, was in Salina OF
the Fourth, drunk and in rags
playing the banjo for a living, OF
rather, for the means of killing
himself.
The lola Register says: "Hov
much would it take to hire one o
the young men who run and jumI
so lively this hot weather playing
base ball, to do the same amour
of useful labor for you%' W,
wish Walker would stop gettin.
off such conumdrums. Nobod,
cam guess them.
TIL Kansas Midland railroad
has reduced passenger fare from
Topeka eastward, and there arr
indications of u lively war on ratel
between it and the Kansas Pacific
Southern Kansas people now reach
the capitol by the Missouri River
Fort Scott & Gulfs the Leaven
worth, Lawrence Il Galveston
and the Midland, at a saving on
the round trip of $3.50 in money
and two hours time
Two lawyers in Topeka agreed
to take a couple of horses as theil
fees for defending a horse thief
While they were pleading his case
a relation of the thief took the
horses up town and sold them al
auction. The lawyers walk
from the first ward to the court
house when they can't get a free
ride from clients. Those two
lawyers-well that's all right.
Since our last issue we have had
two fine showers that soaked the
thirsty earth quite thoroughly.
The chinch bugs have mostly
taken to themselves wings and
flown away. The corn crop is
looking fine, and the farmers are
beginning to look cheerful and
hopefui.-Lawrence Spirit.
A MURDERER G ONFEssEs.-ItNi will
be remembered that the whole
State was shocked by the particu-
lars of an atrocious murder of a
man named D. w. Ferris, at Tope-
ka, in. March last, whose body was