The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-02

Tho Burlington Patriot says:
Sheriff Hoover Killed Il.ree II,ie
deer one day last week" Frherecent
prairie fires have driven them 10 the
river bottoms, aud we learn that
al :heIn can be seen al
most any day"
This is the way the Leayenworth
Commercial addresses Anthony:
g Dead Duck Daniels Devilish
Diaphanons Dirtiness." Pour 1t
all out Bro. Houston, it will do you
good 10 get ID of such stuff.
Did you ever see MiIt. Reynolds2 |
lie weighs, when no has on all his
flesh and winter clothes. ninety Eve |
pounds. Well. he is waging war
with all his Liliputian powers,
against ali men OF large proper
tons.
A correspondent of the Lawrence
Journals thinks that Galveston is
the natural port from which
"Kans2s should snip her cereals to
Europe
The Topekaus talk of erecting .
building TO be used by the city for
calaboose, council chamber, police
room, sc. The Blade calls the
present calaboose an "old trap" q
"discredit and disgrace to civiliza-
ton"
Two young men, VIM. McNutt
Arthur Winner, painters In Which
Tia, were attacked on Christmas
night by some unknown party, kill
ling McNutt,: and wounding VIM
ner, and robbing them of their
money. The murderers set ire TO
the building, Winner crawled out
his dead partner was charred in the
fire. We have nothing very reliable
about the matter yet. a later re-
port says Winner has been arrested.
Attorney General Williams pro-
poses TO wake up the delinquent
county treasnrers. He Is looking ont
for the school money and intends TO
prosecute every delinquent. That
is just the way to put stop to such
| speculations. z1
Andy johnson attempted to
"swing the circ;e" in Topeka, few
days ago; he turned the horses
rather suddenly, making the circle
too short, and fell out of the
wagon. He was severely injured.
! One Greene who resided near
GrasshopPer Falls, has been arrest
ed for numbering the horse thieves,
Blair and Steitzel at Grasshopper,
short time ago. Wonder if he is
to be Escape gOat!"
Margaret Solomon has secured 8
Judgement in the District Court OF
49, 600, against the Kansas Pacific
railway, fer the death of her hus-
band, which was caused by an ac-
cident while coupling cars on the
road.-Topeka Blade. SUE e
The Topeka Blade in its issue the
day after Christmas says: "There
is not single case of drunkenness
to dispose of this morning, before
the Police Judge. This speaks
volumes for the sobrietyo OF oul
city" So 1t does, provided the
drunk was not too general for any
arrests to be made.
The Lawrence Standard and Vo1
a Populi have consolidated under the
! name of Standard of Reform.
was a most sensible move and W.
shall rejoice if the eonsolidatioi
shall become what it claims to be
But see, Bro. Editors it is a big thing
to be a standard ct all, and to be
Standard of reform is a "might!
big thing"
n Lawrence was lively burg OF
Christmas Eve. The Journal says
nineteen persons breakfasted a
the calaboose Christ mas morning.
n FUNNY.-Tha editor of the juno
a ton City Tribune says of wedding
4 which took place On Christmas Eve
4 In that City: "The parties. who's
. hearts are hereafter to beat as nea
f one as circumstances will permit
were the elite in their circle in fac
they were the aoIl cOHapos nentis o
! the E pluriGus qsRasDs and the Ameri
= can Eagle, and as they took thei
places in front of the minister, the,
Ionked as GORGEOUS as white ''stor
goods" on dark back-groun,
would permit"
Topeka is having a good tim
over the Marshal question. Th'
Blade wants to cut his head off
and some of the people are op
e posed to saeh procedure. Gan.
thing for row, you know"
t The papers of Leavenworth ar
having triangular fight. The Com
a mercial pours out invectives on tn
Times, and punches the Call; On.
then the Times and Call go for tht
" Commercial. g 80
The Metropolis of Kansas Is still
excited over county and city treas
urers. They have meetings
i and powow over the situation oeea
n sioDally. The taxpayers are suffer
ing and they want to punish some
q body.
d Parsons is fast gaining nOtorlet,
by its fires. They burned up the i
e old calabOose awhile ago, the ie
9 house of the n. X. s. T., and OF
last Saturday morning a store AN,
n contents were sacrificed.
8 It is said that a Mr.. Moss Il
searching for coal on the Stanton
{ farm, near Leeompton, found with
b in fifty feet of the Lawrence ant
Topeka railroad, veiu of iron TIVE
i. feet thick and fifty feet long. Som,
good lead ore has been found jus
below Tecumseh on the same road
We gather the above statement
from the Commonwealth.
We clip the following from tn
Parsons Sun. We hope there ma,
be some mistake about the matter
REPORTED INSANITY OF Cor.
HoRNER.-From Sheriff FrankIir
!. We learn that Col. john W. Horaer
superintendent Of schools of Che
topa and for long time editor o.
the Chetopa Advance, has beer
J. of1icted with mental alteration. Or
: Monday morning he attempted &c
destroy himself by jumping into