The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-28
SOUTHWEST.
Butler county has peaches.

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The grasshoppers gre in the Indian
erritoIy by this time.
The grassiiopperS have left the en-
Ire Southwest.
The Peabody Gazette is year old
nd is very healthy looking.
The Republicans OF Butler county
will not hold a convention this fall.
Peabody has man who Is too lazy
o run Or office.
Abram Bales, OF Toledo, had a fine |
,ow killed by railroad last week.
The fruit trees and hedge plants are
not eaten mp on the road between FL |
dorado AID wichita.
About thirty families OF AIennonites
have just SCI tied six miles west of
Marion Center.
The corner stone OF the new Metho-
dist church ut Hutchinson was laid
In Belle Plain the people wait for
their mails till the z. n. plays few
games of croquet.
The Southwest papers charge candi-
dates IS for announcing and thus keep
them out OF he field.
A number of parties from the east
have been in Newton the past week in
search of land.
Numbers OF parties pass through
town each day on their way east from
the counties west, hunting work and
something to eat.-Elderado Times.
SAVE THE GEAss.-Saye the prairie
grass from fire. Save your stacks from
prairie fires. Feed will be scarce.
We need all the prairie glass this win
ter. Every precaution should be ia
ken ty tho farmers to prevent the
grass from being burned this fall and
winter. The grass Is well cured and
will make excellent feed the most OF
the winter. save the prairie grass and
hang the first man found setting out
fire.-Eldorado Times.
Considerable property has changed
hands in this city during the past few
weeks, and q more cheerful state OF
feeling is already manifested.-Wel-
lington Press.
Horses, mules, harness and ali sorts
| of farming implements are being sold
cheap on the streets of Wichita, BY
those who are leaving the country
Wellington Press.
Some fellows In burning a lot of let
tiers, etc., set out a prairie fire in Sum
ner county which did good deal o
damage. We hope the utmost car,
will be exercised in the matter OF set
ting out prairie fires, as every foot O
grass will be needed before spring.
From various parts of the count,
we learn that already the trees an
hedges recently stripped OF their leave
by the grasshoppers are beginning t
bud out again.-NewtOn Kansan.
We hear of few families in thi
county who are going east to spen
the winter, and will return next spirns
AS they can raise money enough {
pay railroad fare, we judge they ar
not in q strapped cOndiIion.-Newto
Kansan.
How much will they make by pay
ing their fare east and back, and loOs
ing their time? II we have an ope
winter, which is not unlikely, the
could do much work on their places.
| The following resolution was passe
by the Harvey ccnnty Republican con
VentiOn:
ReSO!ced, That our delegation [
Congress be requested TO use all legiti
mate means to procure GOVernmer
assistance for the Kansas sufferers b
the grasshopper rail.
Sumner county commissioner hav
taken action looking to the relief {
needy settlers in that county.
The grasshoppers got SO hungry {
Wichita that they had. to go for the eaG
tor beans. But the sun flowers an
Texas drovers escaped.
John HOrner, the treasurer of MOI
rls county, being short in his account
$1,000, the commissioners declared tlI
oftice vacant and appointed MalcolI
Conn in his stead.
The railroad company's freight tar
riffs enormous and can only be consld
cred in the light of down right rot
berry. While the rate for first elias
freight from Atchison to Cottonwood
over 100 miles, is 75 cents per 10
pounds, the rate from Emporia, onI
Y miles, is GO cents. Our merchant
and others are In much the same posi-
ton as the traveller, when highway
man puts pistol to his head and re
quests him to deliver.-CottonWO
Falls Leader.
SALT WoRks.-The recent he
weather, unfavorable as it may be {
the general comfort of US poor mortali
has yet been quite a wind-falI to tn
salt manufacturers near Ramanto, an
enabled them last week to manufac
ture 5,0l7 pounds of 1irst-class market
able salt. This is the largest amour
ever made in one week, by twenty O
thirty pounds, but for the past tw
months the average yield has bee
over 1000 pounds per week.-Arkan
sas Traveller.
TIE ExoDUs.-For the past weel
teams have been passing through tow
on their way to find q more cOnRenis
resting place, where the drouth AM
grasshoppers have not Visited. We ar
sorry to see this, for in most cases
cannot fail to be an illustration of tin
proverb, tout of the frying pau int
the fire." and will only tend TO ftsrthe
impoverish, if not utterly strip them o
| what little possessions they NAV hav
taken with them.-ArkaAsas Traveller
MINING.-The following is takel
from Dexter correspondents lette
TO the Winfield Courier of last week
For some time it has been supposed
that the "hard-finished" part of How
ard and Cowiey counties were rich n
minerals OF some kind, "a il evidently
was meyer intended for anything else
Acting upon this superstition q party
of men, headed by two experienced
| miners from Joplin, NO., commenced
| prospecting on last Monday, which re.
suited in finding ''lead blossoms" in q
canen on the farm of John G.. Harris
In section 6, township 81, range east
in sufficient quantity to convince them
that they had struck "lead" and
with work and capital it might span
out a fortune for each of them.
They Immediately opened joint
stock mining company, sent for the
necessary tools TO prosecute the work
and will commence this morning to
sink 1iVe-foot shaft, resolving to 90
down as long as their money lasts.
DIR. Greenies brought to our Office
several bolls of cotton Just beginning
to open nicely The crop was planted
on the 18th day of May On the 18th
day OF July the first bloom appeared,
and on the 18th of August the field was
struck with grasshOppers. Had the
cotton been given three months time,
the shortest time in which cotton ma
lures at the south, he would have been
able TO have gathered at least 200
pounds of lint to the acre. The second
picking would have run from 6 to
100 pounds TO the acre, and the last
picking about 100 pounds.-Wichita
Eagle.
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