The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-17
Bancroft. r liAn7s
STATE.

clerks.
The Usage Chronicle spells it ''Mary-
dezeen."
Seneca schools have a German de-
partment.
Twelve lunatics in the I.eavenworth
county Jail.
Ten thousand bushels of fax seed in
Seosho county this year.
Three thousand five hundred head of
sheep in one drove on its way TO Fort
HayG.
Prisoners in the Marshall county jail
almost made their escape by means of
a tooth pick.
Eight thousand sheep have passed
west through Humboldt within the
last thirty days.
Hay making on an extensive scale in
Crawford county. One firm employs
175 men and 100 teams.
Many of the farmers of Shawnee
county are agitating the question of
adopting the herd law.
In Seneca a peculiar disease has
broken out among the cattle. A sore
mouth which effects their eating.
The Hiawatha Dispatch has castor
bern pod two feet three inches long,
and about three hundred seed burrs.
Nine candidates for county clerk of
Shawnee county. This in base ball
parlance would be called the clerical
nine.
A COW in Nemaha county recently
gave birth to two calves at an interval
of two weeks between each birth. Both
calves are doing well.
The Courier complains that there is
not threshing machines enough in
Montgomery county. The wheat will
not be threshed before cold weather.
The grass crop of this year is sim
ply immense. Not only are the cattle
all fat, but the prairIes everywhere
are burdened with excellent hay, mil
lions of tons of which no one will cut.
Three hundred car loads of wheat
were shipped over the NJ, X. & T. road
kets i'll July. The Parsons Sun thinks
the shipment for August will probably
reach eight hundred car loads.
The Kansas Pacific railway c;'mpany
has Just cons ummated very import
ant real estate Transaction. Sine sold
To- an English company twt five
thousand, seven hundred and eighty
acres nf land at an average al 81 per
acre, thus realizing over one hundred
thousand dollars. The land is located
in Russell county, Kansas, just east OF
the Victoria colony.
We are glad to announce to the wheat
growers and tradesmeu of Kansas and
Missouri, that on the first of October,
the NJ, X. & T. and Houston & Texas
Central railroads, will connect with q
daily line OF steamers four miles below
| Houston, for New Orleans, Havana,
| Liverpool and New York. This means,
it really ought to mean, the best pos
sihIe outlet for the immense produce OF
the great Northwest, and the best route
| for the importation of all our goods
and wares. We must look to our mar
| kct and the best route of transporta-
tom Parsons Sun.
The Atchison Champion Gays that
Great Bend has struck a bonanza. Ex-
| tensiVe salt marshes exist in Barton
county, south OF the Arkansas. and are
being utilized. Nessrs. Stewart &
| Jty.;,.i,, G,,-,, t,yo furnaoac IL, OnN RI tiOp
near the marsh, and Mr.. Morgan has
another. The water in the marsh is
| said to yield about twenty-One and 8
third per cent. of pure salt, whittier,
cleaner and of finer grade than the
Michigan salt. Salt water is also found
| in great abundance on the Cheyenne
bottoms.
The jury in the libel case of Hughes
editor of the Marysville News, have
disagreed, standing six for conviction
and six for acquittal. The former six
make the following explanation Of
their action: ave, the undersigned
jurors, in the case OF the State of Kan
sas, plaintiff, VS.. 7. Hughes, defendant
for libel, have no hesitation in stating
that we believe the wrong done wal
not intentional, but under the law Civ
en- by the court and the evidence in thu
case, we could not render verdict o
acquittal."
The Chetopa Advance thinks that th'
acceptance of the position of genera
manager of the II. & st. 10. railroad
by r. S. Stevens, means the ultimate
control of the NJ. X. & I. railway BY
the Joy interest. 1t thinks that thu
mortgage on the NJ. X & T. in the In
dian nation is worthless. 1t says the JOy
interest now controls the II. & st. Joe
the Mo. River, Fort Scott & Gulf, ant
all that is needed is road from Colum
bus to Chetopa, (about thirty miles,
and some plan to get hold of the NJ. K
& T., in the Nation, and then that in
; terest will reach Texas easier ant
cheaper than it could in any other way