The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-18
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, Is, 1874.
STATE NEWS.

XIII cattle.
Salina needs $1,000 more in bonds
finish the new school house.
The calaboose in Grasshopper Fal
Is oyergrown with jimson weeds.
Montgomery county is actively or
gagged In starving five newspapers.
Tie grasshoppers did less damage /
Allen county than was expected.
MIR. l.. NJ. Barnhart will sell a hal
interest in the Lincoln County Farme
for $500. The fellow that buys vii
be CHEATED.
Fort Scott had eOnvnIsIon over tn
mixed black and white school ques
tion.
Rev. L. +. Warner has accepted
call to the pastorate of the Congrega
tional church at Fort Scott.
II. I. Green bought the railroad
bridge at Leavenworth at sherif7s sal,
the other day, for $lO5.
a meeting was lately held at Jewel
county "to ascertain the condition IL
which our county Is In"
People In Northern Kansas are put.
ting additions to their wells. They
want to get below the drouth line.
Rev. J. Mills KendrIck, of the Epis-
copal church, leaves LeaveRworth to
take charge of a parish in Columbus,
Ohio.
The lawyers of Ottawa have been
reading long lecture on manners to
their District Judge, Hon. Owen A.
BassetI.
On the 9th inst. n pony fell off the
IeavenworIh railroad bridge, eighty
feet, into the Missouri river, and came
up smiling.
A little Burlington boy, while try
Ing to catch and kill grasshoppers, fell
and broke his arm. There is no end to
grasshopper deviltry.
Fritz Snitzler, of Sedgwick county,
hauled 1000 barrels of water to make
his cabbage grow, and then the grass
hoppers got them.
j. NJ. Hagaman, in u letter to the
Concorlia Empire, claims that there
are fifty bushels of grain for every in
dividual in Cloud county.
Sain, of the WOodson County Post,
Is altogether too particular. He Is not
satisfied with cord wood, but wants 1t
cut to stove length.
Edward Barnum went into a drug
store In Paola on Monday of last week,
drank tlncture of acOnite by mistake,
and instantly dropped dead.
The Helton Express publishes list
of "Our Black Sheep" the same being
"little lambs" who skipped out with
out paying their subscriptions.
Mr.. Dickinson, of Brown County,
sent some grasshoppers by mail to the
editor of the Jackson (Ohio) Standard.
They arrived alive and hopping.
The Eldridge House at CofieyvIlle
worth $4,000, was sold lately at sher-
IFS sale for $500. Mr.. j. w. War
ner, OF Independence, was the pur-
chaser.
One OF the big attractions ola circus
travelling In the State Is "the woman
with the iron jaws" Many married
men can testify that such a woman is
no curiosity.
According to observation taken at
Lawrence, the average temperature du-
ring August was four degrees higher
than ever before recorded. More rain
fell, however, than In August, 1873.
Miss Carrie Linton, of Scott town
ship, Linn county, taught school and
investad the proceeds in a hay rake,
and went to rakinG hay at fifteen cents
an acre. On the 9th ult. she raked
thirty-slx tons.
Fruit growers In Douglas county say
that their apples have increased rapid
ly In size since the grasshoppers eat
the leaves of the trees. 1t Is doubtful,
however, If this was the Intention of
the grasshoppers.
In the school controvsy at Fort Scott
a colored brother remarked that he did
not care to have his children enter the
censual scools, but he did ask that the
cOlOred children might have degraded
schools.
The widow of Charles HadIey, dis
eased, has filed claim against the
city of Lawrence for $4,000, Tor loss
and damage sustained by the death of
her husbnad caused by falling into n
ditch on Tennessee street.
Spooner has really thrown up the
sponge on the Garnett Plaindealer.
Too much reading matter and cut
throat opposition did the business. Il
will be long time before Garnett has
another rs good n paper as the Plain
dealer.
j. C. Dougherty, of st. Joseph, went
down to Atchison and set up in bust
ness for burgler. In attempting to
enter Mr.. Ed. Fliesher's house he was
cordially received with a revolver shot
in the shoulder, and has retired from
practice.
There Is a fruit canning establish
ment at Robinson, in Brown county,
which, at last accounts, had put up
l,l5O cans of cherries, 800 cans of to-
mat0es, ] 900 cans of peaaces, 800 cans
OF blackberI les, and 800 cans of goose
berries.
The Kansas Pacific Railway Compa-
ny shows itself equal to the occasion
and offers to furnish seed wheat, tc
SOW ten acres or less, to any one who
is not able to buy, for which the recIp-
lent of these favors are required to pay
back the same amount of wheat Dor.
rowed.
City Marshal Walker, of Lawrence
who Is major-general of the State mil
itia, received letter on the 9th inst
from Coy. Osborn, instructing him tC
hold himself ready at any moment Il
organize aad take command of Stat
troops. The Governor inmates tina
lie may call for three regiments OF vol
untcers.
This is the opinion of Genera
Garfield: al believe we have en-
tered upon the business career o
American politics. We have en-
tered upon period where grea
mass meetings will perhaps never
during this period, be what the,
were in the days that are passed
We have entered upon n period il
which mere oratory passes for lii
tie. We have entered upon a De