The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-05
STATE ITEMS.


Faro is the leading game at Atch-
ison.
Water is getting scarce in Allen
county.
Pneumonia is prevalent in Leav-
enwerth.
Vic. woodruff is to make another
descent on Kansas.
Rev. Mr.. Earle has concluded n
successful series of meetings at
Leavenworth.
Anderson GLADDEN., of Doniphan
county, has killed thirty-two foxes
this winter.
Linn county is going to try that
little county seat wrestle over again
in February.
Gov. and Mrs. Osborn's Wednes-
day evening receptions are very
popular in Topeka.
Clark county, Missouri, has sent
car load of provisions to the
Changers of Reno county.
The city council of Chanute has
prohibited card playing in the cor
poratc limits OF the municipality.
N. W. Reynolds has been APP
pointed confidential agent" at
Washington of the Usage Coded
Land settlers.
The citizens of Spring Hill,
johnson county, have subscribed
81 900 with which to prosecute the
dram shop act.
AT the last meeting of the Wash
ington county commissioners, q
pauper was 'Het to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder"
Governor Woodson, of the old
Territorial days, is writing
in the Office ofthe District Clerk
of Montgomery county.
Chatham, of the CoGeyville Cour-
Ter, foolishly trusted a lady calling
herself Zulu Fawn," and SCOT len''
on the settlement.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to vacate the town site
of Polermo, once the leading town
of Doniphan county.
A "circle hunt" in Butter county
recendy failed on acc punt of the
weather, but forty-four deer were
seen by the hunters.
Eskridge cannot say that ne has
lived in vain. He is the everlast-
ing resource of the correspondents
of the Emporia papers.
The Atchison Champion says a
contributor has sent it joke that
would not be received even by
"Harper's Drawer" Horrible!
Chas. Meyer, a German tobaccon-
ist, committed suicide at Leaven-
worth last week, on account of de-
preston Of spirits caused by sick
ness.
st. Mary's had legal dance the
other night. The Mayor, Justice of
the Peace, Police Judge and City
Attorney were in attendance.
"Man was made to mourn" A
consignment of what was supposed
to be ''apple jack" for Wilson coun-
ty, but turned out to be apple bus-
ter.
The Coffeyville Courier remarks
that soft answer turneth away
WRATH and more, than that, Gre
quently prevents bleeding at the
nose"
Rev. l. S. Kalloeii has been invit-
ed to take chargeofa church in San
Francisco, but is going to look at
the ground before forming decis-
ion.
The Paola spiri; says Miami
county is the garden OF Kansas"
1t strikes US that we have heard the
same claim made by several other
G. B. Schmidt has gone to Ger
many to establish central emigra-
ton agency in the interests of the
Topeka 81 Santa Fe Rail-
road Company.
The Fort Scott Border Sentinel
aud Pioneer have consolidated
This is entirely proper. A border.
sentinel and pioneer are about
the same thing, anyhow.
The case of the State vs.. Geo. w.
Smith, defaulting treasurer of Leav-
county, has been dismiss
ed, his sureties heving paid in S67,-
900 to the county.
The Jewell County Diamond
publishes notice warning the pub
lie against Rev. j. Ammons, who,
has been acting as a relief soliciting
agent for Jewell county.
State Senator. Bridges has been
presented with gold~headed cane
by his Masonic brethren. We didn't !
know he was one of the kind of
Bridges that needed propping.
Up in Doniphan county there is q |
church which is owQed by four de-
nominations, but the woodpile be-
longs to but one, and that denomin-
alton plays f'freeze OUT on the 9TH
er.
The Burlington Chronicle COM
plains because man spent twenty |
cents out of his last half dollar for
tobacco. Still man has right to
choose his food, and that man pre-
fers to chew tobacco.
The newspapers are thanking the
railroads for refusing legislative
passes this winter, but we do Dot