The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-20
A LITTLE RIDE.

:. Last u f1uay morning We DOarQeO
the train at the II. Il. 6 T. depot !
for Ft. Scott. The coach was full
Of men prospecting for homes and
lands. There was ono family on
board who proposed to settle near
Burlington. AS we passed down
the valley the prospecters with open
eyes were looking out for every
thing to be seen, and sTere-anxiousi
to hear everything they
could about Kansas. AS usual, we
found some old friends aboard, and
fer a while, busted ourscIf in re-
newing acquaintances.
Just before we reached Burling-
ton we disc ovcred among the COM
ers one or two preacher looking
men, and introducing ourseIf found
Revs. Haney, Ward and Smith,
and Messrs. Tobias, Shur aud 9TH
ere, thirteen in all, who had pur-
chased some thirty quarter sections
of land On the head waters of the
Neosho, In Morris county. They
were all pleased with the country,
specially that portion Of it where
they had made their purchase A
portion of the company went di-
rectly home expecting to move
their families out to Kansas at an
early day. Rev. Haney, and 9th
ers stopped off at Neosho Falls, to
negotiate with Mr.. Goodnow for
some lands for the Wesleyan Uni
versity, which is located at Bloom
ington, Illinois. We have room in
Kansas for good many such men
as we met on that occasion.
We reached Parsons little after
noon, and having twenty minutes
for dinner ran mp to friends and
while paying our best respects to 6
good dinner the train for .Ft. Scott
moved on and left US TO walk OIL
wait for the next train. We soon
decided to wait for the next train,
and having the afternoon before US
plunged about over the "1nfaE
Wonder" seeing sights and things
in general. OF course we went
around to catch little Sunshine
and found Reynolds worked up II
his best writing mood over thu
grand celebration of the third birth
day of that city, which had takel
place few days before. We alst
went through the machine shop
and foundry. They employ mum
Der of men in these shops, and d.
all sorts of work in the way of re
pairing and building of cars. The,
repair, but do not put up locomo
tives yet. , t*f3 -
At one O'Clock on Saturday mo. II
ing we again took the train TO
Scott. Two hours ride, and W
leave the train for the Wilder hous
at the, Fort. We were furnishe,
here with q good bed, which we en-
, joyed until seven a. m. The miser
able headache which went to be
with us was lost in dream land, ant
we awoke ready for "hash."
After breakfast we proceede,
through drilling rain to the N
E. church, which was full c
preachers in attendance at The frs
session of the South Kansas Con
ference. There were about eight
present, the most of whom wer
anxious TO make little history b
way of laying foundation stones
Hence the speakists were yer
prominent. The first session wi
be noted for many speeches.
Not having any special bushes
, of our own we spent the most {
our time in visiting among til
preachers, and some of our oil
friends in the city. We had goo
time visiting and eating. The pee
pie of Fort Scott live on the fat {
the land.
The almost unceasing drizzle pr
vented our doing the city thorough
ly. We visited the Monitor offic
l where we found every thing liycl
= and in good trim. Mr.. Lockerby
working hard to make the Monte
: : WhatiL3is, q good paper. We ais
visited the foundry, where W
we found G.. "A. Crawford, the bu
mess manager of Fort Scott, bus
as a mailer. When it comes to blu
mess he is just about as big q ma
for his size, as you can find an!
!, where. - --- go 80.
At noon on Monday We took IL
train for home, and landed at IL
point from which we started
: eight O'Clock p. m. s..a
We have not the space TO give
. description of the towns and couI
try which we saw by the way. BIT
!. few of the towns are improving
Some of them looked to be quit
dead. The hard times effect I'll
towns worse than the countr,
Town men can't do mnch in til
way of Improvement when bus
ness is dull. The country is farm
better than the towns. We saw
good many signs of improvement
among the farmers.