The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-10-14
STATE ITEMS.

iue OtanQ loCge L. ~. ~. r cDnyeneS
IN Aichison yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Cardley. of Lawrence. preach
ed his farewell sermon Sunday.
-Ex-Auditor Thoman, of this State, i
about to move to Little Rock.
The Wabaunsee County Fair com
mences on Tuesday next.
-McPherson county will have a fair @,
the 18th and 18th inst
The Republicans Of Neodesha hav,
nominated S. S. Benedict for representative
The Marshall county fair, accordin:
to the Neus, was a success.
Senator PETER intends to publish a pa
per at CofFeyville.
| Leroy artin. Esq, of Chase county, is 9
candidate ior county treasurer.
The Republican county convention
meets at Buriingame, October 18th.
| Meeting of Agricultural Exchange So.
ciety at Burlingame, October 18th
Mr.. and Mn. Tom Fenlon, of Burlin-
game, celebrated the fifteenth anniversary
OF their wedding Last Thursday.
Col. Z. c. Manning, of Cowley county,
has declined to be candidate for Repre-.
sent3'...
Icy have buckwheat near Neodes hs
which measures six feet four inches In
length.
james Grimes, of Marshall county,
boasts Of yield OF thirty-nine bushels OF
wheat to the acre.
Thirteen Russian families are expected
to settle in the southern part of Chatauuua
county.
The Shawnee county fair will "pan
OUT all right financially, counting the $500
to be paid by the county.
The irregularity with which the Law
renee Standard makes its appe arance is
very distressing.
The Santa Fe road has received three
splendid engines from the Union Pacific.
recently purchased OF that road.
&C. c. Clemens, Of Topeka, has gone TO
Washington City TO be absent for several
days.
&C. NJ. Scott, publisher of the Arkansas
1rdueiT, has been summoned as a grand
juror to sPpear at the U. s. District Court
in this city next Monday.
Friday evening Margare. Hamilton. a
young girl residing in Kansas City was Ia
tally burned while Lighting a lamp filled
with gasoline.
In Brown county, John p. Davis has
been nominated by the Republicans for
representative, c. H. Lawrence for sheriff
and J. B. Allison for treasurer.
Web. Wilder's book approaches COM
pletiOn. 1t pans out much larger than was
expected. 1t will make book Of $50 pages.
315 of which are already in type
Hon. Geo. Z. Peck, U. S. District At
torney, has gone East. He is on his wav
to Washington to contest the Usage land
case in the U. S. Supreme Court.
AT the Salina Advocate office NAV be
seen two good specimens Of cotton grown in
Saline county by Mr.. +. Shelton and Mr..
NJ. p. Hitler.
The Friende Yearly meeting for Kan
sas begun yesterday at Lawrence at 20
O'Clock. About one hundred delegates are
already in the city from abroad.
The Sumner County Press is authori-
ty for saying that DR.. w. H. Moore. of that
county, has pumpkin vine fifty yards in
length 1t is still growing and has already
pumpkins on II.
The following Republicans have been
in Labeite county: For Teas
nrer, q. NJ. Caldwell Eegisie-, CAPT. Pat
rick Clerk, S. 7. Herman: Sheriff, Mai.
Abbott.
The Arkansas City Trauelsr has been
presented with five watermelons which ag-
.regated two hundred and seven and half
pounds. The largest weighed fifty and one
iaif, ami the smallest thirty-fve pounds.
The Kansas Academy Of Science will
convene at Topeka on the l4,h and 18th of
october. large number from different
'arts OF the State will be present, and the
Meeting will be a most instructive one.
Kansas ii represented in the st. Louis
air by a fine collection of agricultural |
PRODUCTS exhibited by the A., T. d S. +. X.
Z. Company. The location SECURED in the |
all was favorable one, and the collec-
ion cannot fail to be ''big ad." for Kan
as.
The st. Marv's Times saws: "Col. d. |
:. An.hony arrived at his home in Ieaven-
'or,h on last Tuesday, much improved in
eal,u and spirits. We are more than
leased 90 note the above, and are anxious
= waiting 10 hear the clear ring of his 'old
oOse quill" in the columns OF THE TIMES
5 in the good old days OF yore"
The public schools Of Chetopa open to-
borrow with the following corps of teach
- selected by the hoard Of education; Prin-
pal, Pra J. A. X. Smith, Grammar De-
Prof. Van Landingham: Inter
lediate Department, c. 7. Smith; Primary
apartment, Miss Leggett.
The Olate Nems Letter saws: "Mr.
enjamin Boz, on his farm about six
lies northwest Of Olathe, raised splendid
'op OF millet, and has Just now harvested
second crop from off the same grounds,
most as heavy as the first. What are
,u going to California forg'
= ear Of corn, eighteen rowed, meas
i'm, .rteen inches in length and eight
circum 'erence was left at the Chase coun-
Leader Office, by II. N. Simmons, on
uesdsy last. He has another measuring
urteen inches long, but a portion of it 5
as broken off by fall.
The Wabaunsee County ,Nus saws i
)ne week ago last Thursday, Carl Fink G
arted from Alma with his team, for his
'me on the West Branch, and when near
T. kreigs place it is supposed his team I
came fractions, and threw hin from the
,gon. He was found in tn, T, I'd suffer .
8 from internal injuries, WIS t. ken to his
me, where he died on the lnday follow 4
g." .
The Wichita Eagle says: 3
Judge NJ. S. Adams met With quite a se-
re accident the other day, in which he :,
d his left foot and ankle badly bruised +
d sprained. We believe he was lust :
Irting to Winfield in buggy to attend y
nrt, when the team became frightened
d ran away, tumbling the Judge and the 2
lver unceremoniously into the dirt. He o
1t present able to be out on crutches. c
The Arkansas CITY Trureler says: A e,
lid of Mr.. Hoffimaster was severely in ci
ed last Wednesday morning by the e. d
'sion of powder flask with which it was n
lying. The child was left in charge of a Q,
lie girl, who did not notice the danger Il
Plaything with which it was eng-ossed. D,
2 left the room for some purpose, when re
} little boy approached the stove and D
nmenced puring the contents of the flask b,
the fire, the result being an explosion &C
which it was severely burned in the face v;
other parts of the body. O,
Mr.. Geo. Thompson, of Boston, Elk We
nty, Kansas, writes us as follows an
here will be over one hundred per cent. vi
re wheat sown in this part of the county w
q last year. Farmers are becoming con- De
ced of this one fact, that Southern Kan. pr
is destined to be the great wheat srana. ur