The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-08-13

Y Mrs. H.C. Mann has returned from her
il east.
Is Sheriff Massey has in few OF his intcre
ing notices this week.
: IIar;ell & Longbottom have opened up
r brick yard north OF town.
W. L. Cox. Of the city gardens, will acc"
o our thanks for fhirty-three pound watt
= melon.
"A grasshopper sat upon sweet pota
r vine." Yes, and it didn't fail TO squat up
it everything else.
Mr. T. NJ. Lane, who has some OF the fine
+ stock in the county is putting up a barn I
: his premises, on Emporia avenue.
MrsJohn Carpenter, chairman of the boa
u OF commissioners, has gone to Topeka
u meet with the state board Of equalization,
pursuance Of an order OF the board.
: We asked Guard smith how hi. mules we
4 standing the grasshopper raid. His answ
u was: .Oh, very wei but the pesky thini
have eaten all the nosin' off my hogs
Andy Wilson, the great stock dealer OF u
kaw valley, WAS in town the other day. l.
says that from fifteen hundred acres OF col
planted he will not get fifteen bushels.
In spite of drouti. winds and grasshopper
Henry stein threshed two hundred bushels
rye from five bushels of seed sown last faI
He pa,tured the field throughout the white
w are authorized to announce the nam
of J. +. Nessly, of Illinois township, as cal
ddate TOR clerk of the district court. subje'
to the decision of the republican county co
l rention.
Sheriff Massey has gone TO TT. Scott to a.
company man by the name OF Long back I
this place, Long having borrowed a horse ;
the diamond front stable which he forgot L
return.
/ Elsewhere will be found a statement of tx
amounts due the respective school districts
Sedgwick county. of the July apportionmen
Of the state fund for 1874, as ordered by A
Emerson, the superintendent of the county.
There will be church service in the Germa
language next Sunday. August 10th, in tn
school house, in this city, by the Rev. II
roedman, of the Evangeiic association frol
FL Paso. lie earnestly hopes to see as many 4
can possible attend.
\ change has been made in the time tabl
of the A., +. & 5. +. railroad, which too
effect last Monday. The stock express leave
/ h..r. Loo. t,sfsh Il, .ltt h.A
through freight arrives here at 5:l5 p. N. Tn
passenger train time remains unchanged,
Another comet has been discovered by
French astromer who says it can be seen wit
the naked eye in Il few days hence IN the rigl
ascension I'D. and 52m., and his polar distanc
30 degrees. Comets. drouths meteors an
grasshoppcrs aud the end not yet
We have at last found one gentleman I
whom the hopper-grasses have proved an al
and blessing. His crop consisted extirel
OF sugar cane, and just as he was ready Z
strip it, along came the flying hogs and tool
off the last blade leaving the stocks ready I
cut and grind.
We had case in which a thousand dollar
was paid out of one of our banks this wee
under some mistake, misapprehension or foI
gerry FOR which a citizen was arrested. From
what we can learn there is evidently mi,
take may be criminal intent, but as the char
acter OF a man who has stood high heretofor
in another part Of the state l. involved W
pass over the matter at present
.The Eldorado boys, who got beaten her
| in their base ball game, 'squeaed lOudl.
through the columns of the EidoradO Time
| of last week. Their defeat was laid to III
umpire of the game. a poor excuse is bette
than none you know. Winfield Courier
Guess squea!ing is their forte. Although
| they beat filed nine of this place by calm:
upon a club that had beat them for help. yc
they keep squealing as though they were hurt
and 20 so far as to threaten.
The rhetoric display foretod by the astrom
omers came of duly last Monday night. A
one time we counted nine shooting stars with
in one minutes time, at another time ",
counted seventeen inside Of two minutes
Many of them were brilliant, but for the mos
part ordinary shooting stars. The aver
/
the naked eye up till midnight by which time
| the bacl, of our necked ached SO that we quil
| gaZin"
| The fire company Of the city affected a new
organization by the election of Phillip. fore
man; Cogdell. first assistant Adams, second
assistant Jewett, secretary; Hunter, treasir-
er and Forcy, orderly. The fire committee o.
The council was made part of the organza-
ZION. viz Iimmerly, Hess and Steele. The
members were all sworn IN last Friday night
and are now a part of the city government
rhe company by a vote sustained the action
| If the city council in rejecting the machine
| tested last week, in which we think they acted
wisely.
IN. Woodcock, our rev county treasurer,
has devised and had made book by which he
AN at the close OF each days business see the
exact amount of each kind of funds he ha-
aiken in for the day, which being added up
md carried forward will tell not only the
amount OF money on hand, but the proper
ton belonging TO state. county. schools. roads,
"tc. Mr.. Woodcock is rapidly learning the
bids fair to make careful and correct officer,
qualifications necessary TO the satisfactory
conducting of that important Office.
We have often advocated the growing OF
forest trees Tor the purposes of wood, shade,
wind brakes. and 80 forth, but not until the
present were we able TO talk from experience.
We hardly thought it possible to accomplish
the thing in single season. vet such is the
fact. \ dry season is the best. the dryer the
better. Among large number OF cotton
woods that we transplanted this spring nearly
,ne-fourth of them have fully maiured into
nice dry seasoned wood Our wife says they
bake just as good bread As the wood we pay
i've dollars per cord for. This has been a
wonderful season truly.
Col. MURDOCH: Please announce in the
EAGLE that | have received charters for the
following named oranges Greenlea', Harmo-
ny. 70 Semitic, Prairie Gem. Delano. Union,
Waco. Clarion and Pleasan: View. | have
left them in charge Of Bro. l.. y. Woodcock
tor distribution. Parties entitled TO them will
please call and get them immediately.
J. l.. ZIMMERMAN, Dep.
For the EAGLE.
EDITOR EAGLE: BY your permiss ion vii
furnish you with monthly statement for III.
month of July, 1874 aud also for the CORES
pondinc month OF July, 1873. There We're
oaded here IN July 1873. Isl cars; and in .Iu-
y lS-i. e66 cars. The cattle shipped in July
~, were divided among the several place viz;
Kansas City $50 ears, to Chicago by Atehi>on