The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-16
STATE ITEMS.

ella, Ohio IL,
The hay presses are pressed win ou- i
mess at Humboldt.
John Smith has been raising hard
hell almonds in Wilson county.
Ottawa points with pride to grass
copper seven and half inches long.
About fifty students are in attend Z
nee at the Normal school at Con-
,ordia. /
1t is said that sixty-two families OF
will settle In Ellsworth
county.
MarysYille is erecting two churches
and 3 private residence, at cost OF
s25y 900.
Topeka has refused by a majority of
800 to vote s25, 900 In bonds for street
Montgomery county has two cases Of
total blindness prOdaced by eerebro-
spinal meningitis.
Wilson county rolls in luxury. Two
parties down there have made 1900
gallons of sorghum.
Olathe's military company, the
"Poole Guards" numbers sixty musk
cts, and lately paid Lawrence visit.
DIR. George 81. Dubois, of LeaVen-
worth, committed suicide on Sunday,
the 5th inst, by taking iaudnnm-'
Mrs. O'Leary, whose cow kicked
over the lamp that set Chicago on nre,
is said to live In LeavenwOrth at pres
ent.
The usual number OF boys sailed
over their horses heads at the county
fairs which have been held this year.
Twenty-eight thousand dollars
worth of horses from Akers; farm near
Lawrence, were lately sold at ProVi-
dence, Il. 1.
Hon. b. X. Bruce, the colored Unit
ed States Senator from Mississippi, has
been visiting lately in Atchison and
I.eavenwoIth.
The beef and pork packers are max
ing a great demand for the Alma salt,
it being about twice as strong as the
salt shipped from the east.
There is an immense number of Tex
as cattle in the Arkansas valley. The
range in Kingman county Is swarmins
with many thousands.
A bronze fountain, donated by c. K
Olmstead, and recently received from
New York, is soon to ornament the
public square at Blue Rapids.
johnson county has no grasshoppers
but is troubled with 1eas, "skeeters.'
and candidates. The November frost
however, will kill all of these.
Ex-United States Senator Caldwell
is now an honest farmer, and lately
shipped one hundred head of three
year cid steers that weighed 1,l0(
each.
The FAX culture has increased Il
such an extent that parties talk of es.
tablishing at Ottawa a mandatory o.
machines for threshing and separating
fax.
The heavy hand of Major John II
Crowell has fallen upon James Clark
who has been mail carrier between
Sycamore, in Montgomery county, tC
Winfield.
Lowell II. Webb, of Fort Scott, sou
of w. C. Webb, has passed a success
full examination and been admitted in
to the Naval Academy, at Annapolis
as cadet midshipman.
| The friends of candidate up north
urge in his behalf, that, in past cam
paigns, when other candidates dealt
out whisky, he treated the voters tc
bread and cheese.
Some Topeka rascals stole several
horses and COWS and sold them to Men
nonites, from whom they were taken
by writs of replevin. They were
strangers, and they took them in.
The editor of the Marshal County
News confesses that he has never Civ.
en- the finance question any attention
further than to study how to get the
money out of the delinquent subscrib.
er.
The A, T. & S. r. r. r. company il
building four large barracks in Har-
vey, R emo and Sedgwick counties foi
the use of the AennOnites while they
are putting up houses on their own
property.
Economy has reached such a pitch
in the management of the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence & Galveston railroad
that Prairie City will hereafter be but
a flag station, and yet Prouty publish
ell paper there years ago.
Judge Bassett, of the Douglas county
district court, excuses many persons
on the plea of business engagements.
He says that any man who has any bu-
siness to attend to these days, ought
not be compelled to sit on Jury.
Miss Mary P. Wright, of COffey
county, has concluded to be candi-
date for the Office of superintendent of
public instruction of that county,
Miss Wright formerly wrote tor the
Kansas Magazine, and will doubtless
be elected.
An itinerant beggar gathered up
quite sum of money IN Burlington q
few days ago, and it was afterwards
discovered that the fellow owns eighty
acres of land in Coffey county, and is
pretty well-to-do in the world.
There is q family in the eastern part
of johnson county of seven children,
six boys and one girl; the boys all
born on Monday, and q difference of
just two years in their respective ages.
The head of that family knows what
"Blue Monday" means. junction
City Union.
A drove Of cows must have passed
through Leavenworth recently, for
this is the way the local of the Times
expands himself: 1.-THE streets were
crowded yesterday afternoon by the
cream de Ia cream Of the city" This is
the way the lola Register studies It
out.
Ed. r. Smith, county clerk OF Lynn
county, holds his Office in q room
which is also used for religious wor-
ship and for Good Templars' lodge
room. On the walls are sherif7s sale
notices mingled with such notices as
"Watch and pray" Over Smiths desk
Is, "a charge to keep I have"
a prisoner who is incarcerated in |
the Atchison jail On the charge Of In
sanity, has been interviewed by a re-