The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
Cheese factories are suspending for
want of milk.
Green sorghum is killing cows in
Phillips county.
The Concordia Empire reports that
people are moving west as well as
east.
The Fort Scott foundry builds steam
engines for Colorado and Texas.
The first lot of new corn was sold in
Fort Scott on the 18th ult., for 80 cents
q bushel.
There is q tree near Irving, Marshall
county, which giIths nineteen feet and
four inches.
The Grange committee has reported
the County Attorney of Labette, as ga
bore and a humbug."
A buffalo lately astonished Mrs. w
T. Woodward, of Phillips county, by
walking into her door yard.
A smart scamp lately swindlGd the
First National Bank of Wysndotte .out
of $1,000 on q forged check.
Over twenty thousand bushels Of
wheat were shipped from Parsons and
OswegO to Galveston on the 10th ult.
Now it is said that the chinch bugs
eat gsasshoppers. It il the OIathe Mir
ror that makes this reflection.
The Cofey and Anderson county
farmers broke the Sabbath extensively
to save their fodder from the grass
hoppers.
Washington township, Washington
county, claims more good bridges than
any other township in Northern Kan
sas.
West Wilkinson sOrrowfully announ-
ces that there is no truth in the story
that grasshoppers eat delinquent sub.
scribers.
Col. Walker, city marshal of Law
renee, traVersed the Black Hills long
before the Custar expedition, and
found gold there.
The Oswego Register says that since
the decision in the Usage Coded Land
cases, jumping claims is the order Of
the day.
The French colonists in Franklin
county engaged In the silk culture ap-
pear at last to have got their business
on satisfactory basis.
We are glad to see that NJ. L. Sar-
gent has been re-appointed general
ticket agent Of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad company.
A citizen of Ottawa lately received
So from 9 man who stole hog from
him seventeen years ago. The mans
conscience made him shell out.
Rev. Mr.. Van Wagner, formerly of
Atchison, recently spoke in a Ply
mouth church prayer meeting, avow-
ing his confidence in Mr.. BeecheE's in
nocence.
The Lawrence Journal cOngratulates
Bob Stevens on having got away with
the party In the NJ, X. & T. company
who were DESTROYS OF Ousting him.
Charles Albright, who was private
secretary to Reeder when Governor OF
Kansas, Is q candidate for the United
States Senate from Pennsylvania.
The editor of the Hutchinson News
has seen tho scalp of an Usage Indian,
taken In a recent fight in Barbour
county, and says his curiosity is en-
tirely satisfied.
Mrs. Stannart, q lady of seventy
three years, who resides in Indiana
county, Pennsylvania, climbed to the
top of the University dome at Law
renee, on the first inst.
The Phillipsburg Sentinel says there
are as many dogs as men in Phillips
county. There are localities where it
Is hard to tell where the dogs leave of
and the men begin.
The Chetopa Advance says that a
barrel of -four made from Southern
Kansas wheat will make twenty-five
pounds more bread than -four made in |
northern ATTITUDES.
Mr.. Michael Pointing, an old and re-
Ipeeted citizen Of Coffey county, was
Drutally murdered last Saturday by a |
lalE-bred named Mcdonald. Mr.. Pom
ing served three years in the 9th Kan
as.
A few days since, VIM. Cook, of Wy
Indotte county, received letter con-
aiming two Prussian bank bills, in
sayment Of some money he gave to
,o0r German boy to pay his fare
rom Wyandotte soma eight years ago.
10 says the Gazette.
At OskalOosa, the school meeting
evled but two mills on the dollar for
eachers' wages, instead of ten as here
Ofore, and put the whites and blacks
Ogether In the public school. School
Fin be taught just long enough to OBJ
ain the State money. II
Three wise men in Brown county
ot ON the county board and fixed the
alary Of the County Attorney at $50
'er annum. He sued them and will !
ct and the county will pay the
osts. A stupid county commissioner
probably the stupIdest thing on q
arth.
Mr. George A. Caffin wanted to mar
7 Miss Hattie Emmett, Of Lawrence. {
LATHE voted aye, and George went of
nd cut up corn for 3 week to raise
as funds for license. When he goti
ack he found Hattie had married a ,
[r. Chadwick. So runs the world .
way.
There are twenty-five bachelors
/ Fredonis, including the editor OF
le Citizen.
CoRN.-The grasshoppers have
0ne bat little IL any damage to
I'm in Wilson county that would
I'VE amounted to anything had
icy not come, and it Is generally
Itiimated that half Of . crop will :
. raised. We have - good 3 corn q
'op - any county In the State and
much larger and better one than
OF OF the other counties. 2
Freedoms Citizen. III
In Wilson county the young men 9
ke their girls to camp meeting la