The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-09-30
STATE ITEMS.

big vegetables.
Slight irosts are reported throughout
Northern Kansas, and in some localities
east.
"A white frost visited Burlington on
Friday morning. No damage was done to
crops, however, which are ali matured.
The Fredonia Citizen SAYS the Supreme
Court Of Kansas has decided the county seat
case in favor of Fredonia.
The Methodists are building church
at Carbondale, and expect to have it en-
closed by November.
The Champion don't see anybody pack
ing up for the purpose of moving to that
new city at the mouth of the Raw.
The Parsons Sun gives circus tickets to
new subscribers as premiums, and says it
works we'll.
The Temperance convention held at Gil
rard for the purpose Of nominating candi
dates for the various county offices turned
out to be a grand iasco.
1t costs S55 per car for transportation Of
| cattle from Burlington to st. Louis. Tween
| ty head Of cattle make car load, and this
makes the rate $3.50 per head.
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Ill. nsd.;a.a ~ 49,, "ho was
nently located in Olathe. A house is fur
nished him by the parish. The Catholics
Of Olathe feel exceedingly we'll satisfied.
The Patra learns that Mr.. Wasgoner,
between Buri'nston and lie hoy, has raised
PunPNTT IN s n Iens NV
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| The Seatiad learns that one oil the
troops OF company n, ruin CavaiTy, leav-
ing Hays the 18th, broke his neck by iaii,
before tne company had gone ia' on their
way W IoI' hi'e!' "nere 'iis company
was u,u'
| The Hoiton RECORDER says that L. 1.
GARDINER Of !lPPlnviile, has stalk OF
corn 10 1eet high, with an ear at the height
OF ~ ieet from the ground. lie also has
a pumpkin five feet and three inches In
circumference.
The Girard Press says: WV. Mccarthy
OF this vicinity, raised this year on SIX and
one-haii acres OF ground, two hundred and
eighty-one bushels OF Walker wheat. Irot
out your Dig yieids. we put southern RAN
sas against the world.
The German Methodist Conference re-
Gently in session at Pekin, Illinois, divided
the ST. Joseph District, making two, the
new one being called the Kansas District,
embracing TINS state, and Portion oil Mis-
souri,, with Myandotie az headquarters, the
bresiulhe eioer having MS residence al
Wyandote.
The Burlington Patriot says that Mr.
ii. briggs lately returned from Leavenwor:h
with several new carriages for the livery
stable of briggs & Stowe. They were man
ufactured at the State Penitentiary and
were purchased OF MIR. North, contractor
Tor the convict labor In this department.
The Holton Recorder says: A little
girl, daughter of VI. q. Jacobs, while on,
in the meadow, where her brother was driv.
ing n moving machine, one day last week
accidentally got in front of the sickle, and
had one of her feet nearly cu, off, DR..
Smith was called, and dressed the wound
and hopes are entertained that The wound
Will unite and the loot be saved.
The Salina K,suH saws: "The card Of
DR.. j. W. Morris new bank appears in thi.
issue. As We have said before. DR.. Morri.
is an old Kansan, having resided in Leav.
enworth for fifteen iur fifteen years, and an
Experienced banker. He has the ability
and the capital to make his new bank he
| a success"
The convention Of Renubl;cans Of III
lev county met in Manhattan Friday and
nominated for representative, DIR. C. f
l l., l..
if, jeff d. Brown; register OF deeds, II. C
Crump; clerk, VIM. Bursoyne; surveyor
&. ID. Greeley; coroner, DIR. II. S. Roberts
commissioners, Abner Allen, George L
Follson and Il. F. Eastman.
AT the recent meeting OF the Miani
Baptist Association. reports were read from
fourteen churches, and two other churches
Ottawa and Spring Hill. were received in.
to the Association. The election of officer.
for the ensuing year resulted in the choic,
OF Rev. Rob't Atkinson of Ottawa, for Pres
ident Rev, ]. p. Stevens, Clerk, and MIR
) l. Christie, of Stanton, Treasurer.
The Council Grove De,nce,at SAWS tbi,
has beeD a wear of unexampled prosperity
TO the farmers of Morris county. Wbea,
run from % to 40 bushels to the acre
Some farmers have 40 bushels average IL
the acre ior a whole field. Corn is 50 tc
!, 400 bushel. TO the acre. Sod corn this yea,
will run so bushels TO the acre. and W.
have one instance where an estinate wa,
; made, a:si 100 bushels to me acre vas the
result. Oats run from &c to rs bushels. the
last figure being reached by farmer on
Elm Creek by actual measurement.
Tie Ottawa R<pubioaa says:-The re.
cuperatiye powers Of X ansas are spreading
and the agricultural fame Of our elorio1:
Young State has scattered far and wide: for
| in an indianapolis show-window are e1hib.
tied three monster ears of corn. bearing the
significant label, "A Wall from Suffering
Kansas Now let our people take an in.
terest in our county fairs throughout the
state. and the newspaper notices of them
will he an advertisement which will herald
our fame for bio produce far and wide
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