The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-01
STATE ITEMS.

OunLys 1
An Iowa man is buying wheat
ind baleing hay 1T OswegO.
The NilIers' convention at Fort
Scott was slimly attended.
A 'Himited" abstinence c:eIy |
has been organized in Fredonia. 1t
will be popular.
Frank Root, of the HoltOn Ex-
press, has received fifteen gopher
scalps on subscription.
The Paola& Fall River railroad
has fallen into the hands OF al.
Assignee" Now its
gone.
Fifteen persons lately united on
profession with the Congregational
church in Neodesha.
The cost of board in the State In
sane Asylum ia nineteen cents a day
for each individual.
The Wyandotte ladies have for
warded supplies to the Central lee
lief Committee al TOpaka.
Track laying on the Kansas Mid
land road between DeSoto and Kan
sas City, has been completed.
Wsrren White, once a poor Law
renee boy, has risen to be Chicago
base ball player at 81, 800 year.
Hon. w. ii. Schofield, of Frank
lin county, has returned from
Europe, whittier he went OH rail-
load business.
Nat G. Barter will run the Bor-
der Seminal at Fort Scott as a
weekly, and will have Oscar Ed
wards 10 help him.
Trask, of Oswego, has been an
editor again for only two weeks
and they have already began to
steal coal from him.
The Usage Coded Land case is &c
he argued in the Supreme Court o.
the United States on the first Mon
day in February.
II. D. McCarty, the present StaII
Superintendent of Public Instruc
ton, taught the first public schoo
in Leavenworth.
Retrcnchment aud reform ha
commenced at Lawrence by the re
duction by One-half of the fees o
the city weigher and measurer.
The Fredonia Citizen wants t,
know who "Mrs. Milton Short" i
who is soliciting aid for the suffer
ing people of Wilson county.
The annual net receipts of the 81
Joseph railroad bridge are $500
year, or one and eight-tenths pc
cent. on the investment.
The Shawnee county commission
ers declined to take any notice c
the petition asking them to direC
the county attorney to dismiss III
Pomeroy case. r..
ID. L. English, Esq, of Spring
, field, Illinois, has been selected
, fill the State University Chair {
Greek language and literature dur
| ing the leaye OF absence of Pro
T Smith. @
) The Garnet Plaindcaler hG
: heard of one or two men from Al
} derson county being in the east 81
letting aid. 1t says no one Is auth
orized TO. ask relief for Anderso
s county.
a settler in NeoshO county III
other day shot three OF a mob {
men who endesvored TO drive hil
from his claim. At this point tn
assailant lost all interest in the Ian
, title business.
At meeting of the citizens {
= Ford county recently, resolution
were passed notifying the inhab
tants of this and other States this
AllC SOuulS tOuii 5uppOLL It's ON
destitute, if there were any, an
that it needed no aid whatever.
The Jewell County damon
says: "Mapy have received none
from the east, either by way @
loans from friends, or money duC
and relief funds now begin to al
rive, so that our merchants hav
done and will continue to do a GOO
business"
The mixed school question ha
been settled, according to the Wath
ena Reporter, by a teacher name'
Smelling. lie has run a partition
part way across the room, and put
the white children on one side ant
the colorcd on the other. Thus the,
cannot wink and make faces, smil
and grin at each other, while tn
teacher sitting in front has full view
of both departments.