The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-24
STATE ITEMS.

Salt destroys chinch bugs.
Big floods all over the State.
-Wathena will have a glass factory.
Prof. Curr was in Emporia Thursday
Ottawa will celebrate on Saturday
July Sd.
The Louisville Reporter says that Their,
are no grasshoppers in that vicinity.
The Emporia Ne,rs says that there is 3
luxurious growth of grass in that country
The Kansas Pacific road has been thor
oughly abused by the press of the State.
N. r. Lee, an old citizen of Chast
county, eied suddenly last week.
City Attorney Kicker, of Topeka, ha:
returned home from Ohio.
The Girard Press is well edited week.
ly newspaper.
-'Pen, Paste and Scissors,"is specially
of the Junction City Union.
The Fort Scott Monitor prints interest.
ing miscellany on the third page.
The Burlingame cheese factory turn,
out $50 pounds OF cheese day.
A Butler county cheese factory uses a
ton OF milk day.
Harvest hands are wanted in Saline
county.
Minneapolis celebrates on the 9TH OF
July.
The Lawrence journal, Standard and
Spirit are having little family quarrel"
Col. Phillips expects to return from
Washington early in July.
Newspaper quarrels are becoming an
| other feature OF Kansas journalism.
-Labette county will harvest 100000
bushels of wheat this Summer.
In Bourbon and Crawford counties the
crops are comparatively light.
The Salina Herald thinks that town
should be selected as the place for the mex,
State fair.
The Hutchinson Neps saws that Kansas
people have no use for the Kansas City
Times.
The City Clerk of Ottawa reports thirty
dogs registered, as the sum total of those
entitled to live.
The Winchester academy gave clos
ing entertainment at that village, last Tues
day.
The census takers appointed by the
State Agricultural Society report a popula.
ton in Topeka OF 200.
An Usage county man recently sheared
fifty pounds of wool from seven head Of
sheep.
The "kromo" of the Valley Falls Men
Era will undoubtedly be a profitable in
vestment for that paper.
The assessment made last year on
Chase county for State purposes, is S., 1887
of which 81, 1861 have been paid.
The Burlingame Chronicle has been the
official paper Of Usage county since lis first
issue.
The Howard county Ledger is making
. war on on the canine race to save some
tough old mutton. Itisa good idea.
One hundred thousand head of cattle
have been shipped from Wichita this sea-
son already, principally win,ered stock.
The Ottawa RepuHiorn congratulates
"the commercial metropolis upon arriving
at maturity, and wish her citizens unbound
ed prosperity"
The Normal Institute OF this city will
be we'll attended during the summer months.
Our exchanges speak very kindly of the in
stitution.
-"Major-General" Pren,is. of the Tope-
ka Commonwealth, is being complimented on
his address to the students OF the Agricul-
tural College. 1t was good.
The Topeka Commonwealth is fitting up
the old quarters occupied by the Blade in
1S73-the rear of the old Record Office. and
will move in the last OF this month.
Rev. Professor Allan Cum, the success
sor Of Kalloch, Is pastor of the Baptist
Church in Leavenw0rth, Is delivering an
el1eEtaining bctlze through IL StsSe On