The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-19
STATE ITEMS.
Fort Scott has free lectures.

The Alma salt works appear to be
s great success.
Dentists in Fort Scott announce
that they will ''half-sole" teeth"
with gold.
The wealthy and populous city of
Larned proposes to build a $4,000
bridge across the Arkansas river.
Nearly all the section men on the
Leavenworth, Lawrence Sc Calves
ton railroad have been discharged.
S. N. Wood talks CT exploring
the western territories in search of
a location for a colony from Chase
county.
A temperance paper is TO be
started at LeaYenworth called the
State Sentinel, Mr.. N. II. Wood
will be the editor.
Mrs. j. NJ. Crowell, of Atchison,
is the consignee of $4,000 pounds of
-four from Buda, Illinois. for Kan
6aS sufferers.
Nothing, however venerable. is
safe from insult in Kansas. The
Miami Republican denounces the
ground hog as a fraud.
The LeaVenworth Commercial
says that Jermiah Clark, late post
master at LeaVenworth, who was
reported short $4,000, will come
ont all right in his accounts.
The Beloit Gazette has heard of a
man who applied to a relief COM
mittee for horse blankets.
Rev. Daniel Young, of Humboldt,
received 100 bushels of corn from
Iowa for relief purposes, and 1t
took $l2O to pay the freight.
Thomas and Warner Lemon, SEN
fenced 10 two years imprisonment
at LeavenwOrth, have been pardon
ed ont. This is q case of Lemon
aid.-Junction City Union.
Sad news reaches us from Green
wood county. The Eureka Herald
says the grounding froze to death
in fifteen minutes after leaving his
hole on the I'd inst.
Rev. Mr.. Barber, of Shawnee
county, is accused OF shaving the
people east in the guise of relief
solicitor. Barber denies, and 'Hath-
ers" his accusers fearfully.
Big Dave Payne is canvassing for
supplies in POsey county, Indiana.
Posey has sent out more emigrants
than any other county on earth, and
ought to help feed them.
Mr.. Meredith, of the Frankfort
und.) Banner. has bought the
Hutchinson News. Mr.. NJ. comes
to Kansas with hearty indorse-
ment from the Indiana State Edi-
torial Association.
The LaCygne Journal is authori-
ty for the statement that the Marais
des Cygnes, is being surveyed from
OsceOla, Missouri, to Ottawa, Kan
sas, with a view TO making it navi-
gable for boats.
1t is reported that the commits
sioners of county up north work
ed eight days TO settle with the
county treasurer, and were finally
obliged to call on an outsider who
knew more about figures.
The learned beings who write for
the Fort Scott papers, wait till they
see man slip down on the ice, and
then rush to the office and write
that he "hOrizontalized his perpen-
dicularity."
The Ellsworth reporter says:
eve propose to sell wood at a dol
lar cord" ana then dashes our ex-
pectatiOns to the ground by adding
"When we receive all that has been
us by our subscribers"
The Washington Republican
states that many of the sufferers in
that county grumble at the quality
of the goods furnished them. One
fellow growled because a pair of
new shoes given him were out of
style.
Doniphan county is about to get
into trouble for discharging q pris-
oner from the county Jail before the
of his term. He was
put in for ninety days and let out
at sixty, and be now talks of sueing
thesconnty fof:the other thirty days
hoard.
Mrs. A. Underwood, of Dixon,
Illinois, writes to the Central Re-
lief Committee that any number of
girls, who are competent to do gem
eral houswork, can find comfortable
homes in that city, and receive for
their services from $3.50 to So per
week.