The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-10
STATE ITEMS.

-COwiey county feeds one prisoner.
No grasshoprers in Cowley county.
Parsons is anxious for fire depart
mcnt.
BROWN county Sunday schoo, concerts
are popular.
The Topeka Times does not believe in
hanging.
A carload of seed corn was distributed
by tie Commissioners at lola last week.
The best beef steaks at Burlington are
selling at eight cent- pound.
Blue grass grows two feet, ten inches in
Harvey county.
-Paola is jubilant over cheese factory.
We hope it will pay.
Congressman Goodin. in 1859, was To-
cal on L newspaper published ut Hum
boldt
The Highland University commence
ment exercises opened up on Sunday,
with Baccalaureaie sermon.
The Waterville Telegraph is mistaken.
Col. Anthony can not sit up. He writes
his name while on his back.
The Winfield Hor end Iar7 has an in
terestirg letter from Leayenworth this
week.
The Marshall County Ners and the
Wateryille Telegraph are Iuarrelline. Will
one of them tell us what is the matter?
The breakfast and supper station Of
the X F. Railroad is to be changed from
Salina TO Abilene.
We understand that the City Council
OF lola have granted dram-shop license
without the usual petition.
Senator Ingalls, will deliver the annual
address at the Highland University Com
mencement, on Wednesday evening, the
9Th inst
On Tuesday, two young men from
Henry county, Mo-, passed through st. Ma
rvs with 220 head OF sheep, taking them 10
the western part of the State.
The luna;ic who runs the Sabetha i'd
rance says there is not too many papers in
this State. This assertion proves conclu-
sively that there is at least one editor too
many.-SGi1a Herald
The Commonwealth SAYS that Governor
Osborn saw Geo. +. Prescott, formerly OF
the Leavenworth Commercial, in California
He is figuring" on the establishment OF a
Democratic newspaper in San Francisco.
The Handel and Haydn Society, OF
Lawrence, and the Musical Union OF Tope-
ka, will fraternize in joint picnic at
Glenn's Grove, on the Midland railroad, on
June 23d.
Gilmore, OF he Fredonia Ciiaen, is
only 26 years Cd, Roberts, OF the Oska-
loosa Independents, Is two wears younger,
and Hart, Of the Abilene Chronicle is only
"a, and they all publish good papers.
The regular July term OF the Supreme
court is adjourned to October. The dock
ct for said term will be made early in Sep
TENDER, and all attorneys having cases for
trial, will be notified Of the day set for the
hearing OF each case.
"A new presidential ticket is being agi-
tated: Bill Allen, Of Ohio, Tor president;
and Ike Eaton, of Kansas, for vice-presi-
dent. Surely, Kansas has suffered enough
by this time to en.itle her to the honor of
the head OF the tickei.-.S. MUy's Times.
County seat elections are the bane of
this State, and Usage seems TO be particu-
larly afflicted. We do not care which town
is selected, but we hope, for the good Of
the county. that this matter will be settled
in June.-TINEs.
The ST. Mary's Times very sensibly
says:
Plant corn. Dvn't let foot OF land lie
idle Corn planted in this month will
make excellent feed, and ii the season is
propitious will make good corn. Keep the
planters going.
The Republican saws that a colony of
five families from Cooper county, Missouri,
passed through Paola on Tuesday, bound
for Colorado. There were thirty-six per-
sons, eight wagons, twenty-seven horses and
sixty-one head of cattle. They said they
Travelled in johnson and Cas- counties,
Missouri, for thirty-six honrs without see
ing a single field OF oats, corn or wheat, or
a particle of grass for their stock-every-
thing entirely eaten up.
The trustees OF the Insane ASYLUM
have appointed three commissioners, con-
sisting Of Or. W. H. Grimes, Levi Woodland
and Geo. Wyman, to superintend the con-
struction of the Topeka asylum. They will
meet in Topeka on Wednesday, June 9, to
commence operations.
I'm three weeks more harvest will be COM
menced. May wheat is now changing IT'S
color and assuming its usual golden hue.
The crop of wheat is above an average,
and If no disaster should happen, large
yields are expected. Our farmers do not
fear any damage from the grasshoppers,
and are all in good spirits.-Soion,oa Ga
s1te.
Wheat is safe from the bug now. The
bugs came out in great numbers in the
spring, but the wet weather was too much
for them. Several farmers tell US that
they are not breeding and that their num-
bers are rapidly diminishing. 1t will take
them some time to get 4 start, and there is
not much reason to fear them.-Euesa
Herald
The TINES is correct in its position on
the baneful effect Of county-seai elections.
Did the TINES man ever live in , town
that was county-seatless, yet was the best
town in the county? That's what ails
Usage City, and love for the eternal fit
ness OF things makes US long for the county,