The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-03

the learned professions. Of this last |
group one person In the whole hum
dred is teacher, three-quarters of a |
man is doctor, One-half of man is q |
lawyer, and less than half man q |
preacher.
The Fort Scott Monitor changes
hands regularly three times year and
every man is happy when he gets out
OF it.-PiOneer.
We see the story travelling through
the papers of the State that Geo. A.
Crawford had gone. into bankruptcy.
We think the report was started by
Thatcher, of the Lawrence Journal.
We are certain no paper in the State
desires TO do injustice to a citizen like
Geo. A. Crawford, whose enterprise
and public spirit has been felt over the
whole State, and who has done much
for the advancement and improvement
OF his own locality. The story is en-
| tirely false. It Is true that by the loss
by fire of Touring mill and wooden
factory, and the immense depreciation
of values, he has suffered immensely,
but We are confident that he is amply
able and willing tn secure every debt
hO "" CS ~ SItC c0LlSA0CNAOeh va I1lS
| tors, and then leave him quite a conn
petence, provided real property le-
tains any Value at all.
We believe there has been no
thought of throwing him into bank
ruptcy, and no danger OF such u result.
Fort Scott Pioneer.
More money will be brought into
Kansas this year in exchange for her
products than in any previous year of
her history.
The owner of Smuggler,the celebrat-
ed Kansas stallion, challenges the
world for $4,000, one or ten miles,
against any stallion.
Lawrence ships ice to Texas.
In Allen county corn is being en-
gagged at twenty cents per btrshel.
The Insane Asylum at Ossawatomie
is full to Overlooking.
During the past ten years Kansas
has paid 81, 900, 600 for education.
/ ut isasngsested that the James broth
ers be invited TO address the Kansas
City fair.
A berry resembling green wild
grapes, killed child in DOniphan coun.
ty last week.
Four hundred cases ON the docket fol
the district court of shawnee county
The Usage Free Pree office has boy
nine years old who sets and distributes
900 ems per day with ease.
Judge A. Ri. Horton, of AtchisOn, i
is said will locate at Beloit.
The sheriff of Riley county has ap
painted a cOlOred deputy.
A HOlton man, seVenty-eight year
old, has commenced suit for divorce
The Salina Journal says Andy John
sons successor looks like John Martin
of Topeka.
1t is estimated that there will b
75O, 900 acres more wheat sOwn in Kan
sas this fall than last.
John p. DeYereux has resigned tin
position of Land Commissioner of thu
the Kansas Pacific railway.
Theodore AlvOrd has left junction
City to live in some eastern town.
Nothing makes a weekly newspape
editor of gigantic intellect, so happy
as to have some other weekly news
paper editor of gigantic intellect copy
some item from the columns of the pa
per published by the first weekly news
paper editor of gigantic intellect
Such an item is always republished
with proper credit, and profoundly in
teresting and appropriate editOria
comments added thereto. Then botl
1.-THE gigantic editorial intellects are a
happy as a couple of clans at ebl
tide. 'Ht We'd
Mr.. Edward johnson, living one anC
q half miles west Of Chetopa, while
boring for coal, has discovered at Z.
fdepth of eighty feet, what is pronounc
ed plumbagO, or black lead. The veil
lis three and a half feet thick, and tn,
article is said to be Of good quality
The Usage County Chronicle think
that county had best be divided.
The Usage county fair is to be hell
at Burlingame, Sept. % and 80.
Clarence N. Abbott, eldest son of tn
,, editor of the Atchison Patriot, wa
T drowned lately while crossing Greel
river, Utah. He was a very promising
fyeung man.
The Topeka Westerns beat the Kan
} sas City Browns, 26 to Z, and now To
I peka smiles calmly.
, Geo. Martin, a farmer who lived
miles from Topeka, shot himself dea
on the 18th, because he feared starya