The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-06

telegraphic news from ali parts Of the
country.
STATE.
Senator ingalls, has returned home.
Not bank in Kansas kept an ac-
count with Duncan, Sherman 6 Co.
Minnie Beals-R eade, formerly OTTO
peka, is to travel as Signora Eda Mir
ami, an Italian prima donna, and viii
begin her worlds tour in Florence. It.
ally.
The Central branch railroad at
Atchison has paid its internal revenue
taxes to Collector Anthony.
Cofey county estimates her wheat
crop 1t 400, 900 bushels corn, i 900 100
oats, 90, 600; flax seed, 10000.
B. L. Kingsbury, of Burlington,
says from the 26th OF June to the s26th
of July, 1879, the rain fall amounted
to 141s inches.
Three thousand Missouri cattle are
being pastured in Coffey county 1890
viii be kept all winter in Rock Greek
township.
| Atehison calls londly for grain ell
evator.
| Its said that the Victoria colony of
Mr. George Grant, the Englishman,
embraces the whole OF the country of
Ellis, larger than any dllkedom in Eu-
rope, and contains &c, 900 acres. Mr..
Grant deyotes himself principally to
stoek-raising He has just wintered
1000 sheep, and has $250, 900 invested
in stock of all kinds.
The lawyers association of Kansas
holds its first annual meeting in Tepe-
ka, August 10th, gives grand ball in
the evening, and next day starts on an
excursion 20 the Rocky mountains.
Prairie hay Is quoted at sI5 per ton
in st. Louis. 1t can be sent there,
baled, from Kansas, if the railroads
didn't charge so much for freight.
Shawnee county feels bad. The CEN
sus of 1874 gave it 2O,915 population
and that of 1875 foots up only l6yOsl,
of which Topeka City furnishes 1880.
A curious case is that of Augustus
ID. Lewis, in POttawatOmie county.
First wife trusted him with $50, 900, and
went to Scotland, and be got divorce
and married again. Then she came
back, and got that divorce annulled,
and then got divorce from him, with
alimony. Now she had him arrested
for theft and bigamy, because he mar
ried his second wife after getting what
he supposed was q legal divorce from
his first one. There is just one thing for
Lewis to do, cut OFF his first Tife's
head with the carving knife and then
disembowel himself with a pair OF
scissors.
Six notorious horse thieves in the
Ottawa Jail escaped Thursday night
while the deputy sheriff Parn was
asleep. He is candidate for sheriff
this fall.
On the night of the 18th, Emma,
aged IA, daughter of n. r. Stewart, 8
f Farmer near Melvern, Usage county
couldn't sleep, so she rose and dressed
and then sat the lamp on the floor ant
sat down by it. Then she went t.
. sleep, woke up with her clothes OF
; fire, and ran~fnto her parents room
! They burned their hands in extin
t gushing her clothes, but she died tn,
/ next day.
Morris B. De Camp, of Kansas City
arrived at Burlingame on the 2lst, OF
wagon trip to Colorado to improv,
his health, but was so exhausted tina
he died in a few minutes. He wa
aged %, leaves a wife and three child
rem, and was formerly agent of tn
Etna Insurance Company.
The Council Grove papers announc
the cash system, and charge SIS for an
: nouncements.
F.; The Lawrence Standard tells that
wonderful worm snake was diScovere,
s'in Judge Smiths garden. 1t wa
+, about three feet long, of dark BROW
t color and about one inch in diamete
in the center. The worms were abou
a quarter of an inch in length, an,
made a campact snake-like body, tn
r pering off to the end, and moving
i along the earth very rapidly. Pro-
Snow is investigating the wonder
Andy Wilson, on the King farm
west OF Topeka, has q field of corn
!. miles by 3 1-2. Some of it is the small
Yankee corn, but the largest portion
f the usual Western corn. 1t is SO higl
e that an ordinary sized man canno
reach the bottom of the ears. Guthri
!. and By Jewell got lost in the field las
!. Saturday.