The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-25
STATE "Ennz

Food is $3.50 cord.
Parsons has a furniture factory
Employing nineteen bands.
The Mennonites spend good deal
# their money in Atchison.
Garnett in one week shipped
O,l22 pounds of butter, eggs and
,ame.
Delaware Indians sell, on an av-
,rsge, twenty deer day in Coffey-
Tille.
Flour at lola is worth from $2.25
10 $500 q hundred, while corn meal
is selling at $225.
1t is estimated that 5000 Mem
nOniies reside in Harvey, AcPher-
son and Marion counties.
About $4,000 has been expended
in improvement at the Stale PEN
during the past year.
The Menonites paid out the other
day $1,000 to parties who have |
been building houses for them.
Two boys travelled from Wamego !
to New York a distance of 1900 |
miles, on a capital of fifty cents.
1t is said that of twenty-five sim
gle men at Oswego in 1869, ali
but two have got married.
Atchison has over seven hundred
men at that place in the employ OF
the different railroads entering
there.
One hundred car loads per day is
the average shipment of coal now
being made by the Gulf road from
Fort Scott.
John II. MILESTONE, all old and
prominent citizen of Franklin
county, is advocating the herd law
in the Ottawa Journal.
The residents ofWm. Sholtz, near
Psola, said to be the finest farm
house in Mama county, was burn
ed on the night of the 18th.
The Ottawa Repubublican says
that Ogle county, Illinois, people
have sent relief to Miami county,
Kansas. If so, Oglu county has
been sold.
1t is iumored that the Normal
School at ConcordIa is to be closed
and the students will enter either
the Emporia or Leavenworth
schools.
The Lawrence journal paid 3d.
600 for the good will and telegraph
franchise of the Tribune. This did
not include any of the material.
f. S. Niccolls, of Anderson coun-
ty, fOrmely State Senator, is now
a member of the live stock firm OF
John II. ard f. S. Niccolls, of Chi
cago.
Timothy Pearson, who was sent
to the penitentiary for five years,
for the killing of Mr.. Veteto at lie
Roy, has been pardoned by the
Governor.
The Solomon Valley Mirror, pub.
lished at Minneapolis, says that but
two persons are now being helped
by the county, and one of these is &
lunatic.
The Jewell City Diamond doubt:
if the bill allowing settlers to re-
main away from their claims one
year will be an advantage to the
frontier counties.
Farnsworth & EaYes offer to builG
bridge shops at Leavenworth, pro
vided they are allowed to build
three bridges in Leavcnworth a
fair and reasonable rates.
The two little German girls, re-
captured from the Indians, left
Leavenworth for their old home in
Georgia, on Thursday last. They
were accompanied by a sergeant.
The Blue Rapids wooden mills
now manufacture goods to clothC
the convicts of the State Peniten.
tiaries of Kansas, Nebraska and
Colorado, and they stand a good
show to get like contract from
Iowa.
The Smith County Pioneer says
that Allen, Hoffman s. Co., of st.
Louis, hold $4,000 in counterfeit
bonds on sch Dot district No. 4. II
understands that counterfeit bonds
on other districts in Smith county
have been sold to capitalists in
Leavenworth.
In the contest case of j. II. NOEL
vs.. Miss Mary T.. Wright, in Cofley
county, the court decided that a
woman is not eligible to the office
of County Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, and that no one was
chosen to that office in Cofey coun-
ty at the late election. The case
will be taken TO the Supreme court.
The calaboose at Usage Mission
was destroyed by fire last Friday a
week about eleven O'Clock, and two
men burned TO death in it-one by
the name of Corban and the other
Fox. One of them was in for being
drunk and the other for setting fire
to the house of a woman of ques-
tionable reputation. 1t is thought
that the building was set on fire.
A woman recently died i'll the
northern part of DOniphan county
in rather destitute circumstances.
About ten minutes after she breath
ed her last, the mail brought her a
post Office money order for one
hundred dollars. 1t came too late to
be of any benefit to her living; and
as she only was authorized to re-
ceipt for 1t, il could not be used 10
pay for burying her.
SHE THOUGHT DAMN,-A lady
who had barely succeeded in CATCH
ing an outgoing train at Massilon,
Ohio, stood gazing at it with her
arms full of packages and her eyes
full of tears, when a gentleman ar
rived at the depot on a run, with
his valise in hand his coat on his
arm, and his face streaming with
perspiration. He sat down on his
valise, and deliberately said 'D-n
it." whereupon the lady sweetIy
smiled, and said, "ThaDk you, sir"
A SAD CLosE.-A few days ago,