The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-16

The grangers of Marion county en-
joyrd themselves hugely during the
holidays. They Toasted on the STAT
things which they have raised with
their own hands.
The Ottaw aJournal is authority
for saying the mail messenger of
L L. and G.. Il. X. refused 10 let /
the boy rescued from drowning |
near Garnett, last week, warm at
his stove. The Journal justly says,
that, she is an overgrown pig. unfit |
for any position"
The Olathe Mirror says a Mr..
Giles and wife were going TO town
in q wagon when one of the wheels
of the wagon came of, letting them
down with heavy jar. The wagon
was fixed, and they started on their
journey thinking nothing more of
the accident until Mrs. Giles diseoy-
cred blood oozing ont of the mouth
OF her babe. 1t died in a few min
utes. The jar, it is supposed, burst
a blood vessel. The babe was three
months old
In his annual report, Rev. DIR. F.
S. McCabe, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church. Topeka, states
that in the past five years four
hundred persons have been reeeiv-
ed into connection with the church,
and that in that five years but ten
adults connec ted with the church
or congregation have died-and of
that number six or seven were
quite advanced in years or were
invalids.
l Mr.. Kalloch says: "We have
done our full share in our habit of
public speech and writing to Sc
cure the odious soubriquet of "the
rotten commonwealth" and 3 little
sense of self-respect would seem to
teach us that we can put our talents
to better service for a state that has
so ilIustrious history and so
graad future as our own"
"Orange." in letter to the To.
peka Blade, favors the idea of abol-
ishing all county offices. He think
that township officers can rur
county affairs cheaper and better
than county officers. This would
prevent large Gums of money from
accumulating in the hands of on
man, and save from the temptation
to embezzle or speculate on publil
r funds. And it would be well tt
change the spring election to fall
and save the expense of one cleo
ton. He goes in for retrenchment
3 There is q ghost excitem emit i
3 Topeka. The ghost is troubling
respectable family" who are no
spiritualists. A little girl of tn
p family, however, has been attend
! ing the the children's lYceum of tn
spiritual society. That may &C
count for the unlocking of doors
and moving of furniture about tn
: house. Topeka is after Kansa
City.
A telegram from LeavenwoFt
to the Commonwealth says: eth
general feeling among the polite
ans and citizens generally, as we
as the leaders here of the farmer
Q movement, is, that the leadership {
. the opposition in the Legislature
= which has been assumed by Yor
and Clarke is most unfortunate an
IS likely to be disastrous to thi
Is party"
- The reformers of the Legislatul
say they are not authorized to forl
a new party. Hear them:
70 WHEREAS, They had by this cal
d Gus on yesterday has been inteI
preted to mean the formation of
:, new political party in the state {
III Kansas, it ia therefore
81 RESOLVED, That inasmuch as Il
10 authority has been given us by OF
70 constituents to form a new politics
g party, we disclaim any intention {
usurp such authority.
" Furnished to the press of TopeE
"a by order of the caucus.
A. A. STEWART,
20 GEO. f. ROGERS,
RI WIN. SIMPSON,
JONATHAN WEAVER,
NJ. TINKHAM,
Committee.