The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-21

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A.mad dog was killed in Troy last
week.
A Troy man packed 5000 hogs last
winter.
Seneca plants her court house square
in potatoes.
Last year saloon licenses in Leaven-
worth paid s9,527.
Parsons has had fOrty-two business
failures in three years.
Leavenworth expects to have man
ufactory OF wire goods.
The story that grasshoppers will
freeze to death is fraud.
In Usage county the severe winter
killed the blackberries.
The twin brother of the Car of Pat
agonia lives in Topeka. That's a good
place for him.
No grasshoppers in Western Kansas,
beyond the settlements.
Five divorce cases pending in the
District Court for Nemalla county.
Woodson county is to have colony
all the way from the Netherlands.
One hundred per cent more wheat in
Montgomery county than last year.
Vice President Wilson was at Leav-
enworth Tuesday, and called on Col.
Anthony. He then went to Lawrence
and Topeka, on his way TO Colorado.
Lawrence has a bonded indebted
ness of 500, 262.23. OF this large
debt, about $272, 900 is for railroads,
and 500 900 for the University.
Fred H. Griffin, of Manhattan, is in
the habit of catching snakes by the
tail and Jerking their heads Off. On
the Sth, ne saw a rattle snake mount a
stone wall, and grabbed its tail, but as
he did SO the head came out OF differ
ent hole and bit Fred's hand. He
sucked the wound, and had it laneed
soon as posi- BILE, but his arm swelled
and, he suffered considerably for sever
al days. The Nationalist omitted to
say whether or not Fred killed the
snake in question.
Junction City has started boot and
shoe factory. The business men tax
ing $1,000 worth of stock.
Mrs. Minnie Beals Reade, originally
of Topeka, has made her debut in
Italy, after three years of study there,
as prima donna, and is duly praised
by the Italian papers.
Usage county holds its county seat
election on the 18th, and is in fever
f excitement.
The Kansas City Times says that
Col. Anthony has an insurance on his
life of $4,000, ten thousand in the
Missouri Valley, ten thousand in the
Alliance and five thousand in the
Northwestern of Milwaukee.
Coffey comfy claims the champion
horse thief of the state, one w. w.
Compton, formerly q sergeant in the
9th Kansas. He was lately arrested at
Wichita, and brought to Burlington.
One of his exploits was selling horse
to Mr.. Crotts and then stealing it as
soon as he got his pay.
This is good story, from the Tope-
ka Times. In a thunder shower there
on the 9th, Mr.. Chase, of 9Th avenue,
ran to adjust his water spout to fill
some barrels, when a stroke of light
ming struck him on the back and burnt
4 hole in in his coat. He dropped the
spouting and skedaddled into the
house, but found no other injury ex-
cept that to his coat. He didn't even
have n lame back.
WyandOtte is in luck. Men boring
there for coal have struck a vein of
gas. 1t burns splendidly, and comes up
with loud roar, at the rate of 100000
cubic feet per day, Next they struck
an excellent vein, or salt water. They
expect t. find coal very soon, but if
they don't, the hole will pay very well
in producing salt and in furnishing
gas for fuel.
Topeka is not to get the insane asy-
lum. The buildings at Ossawotomie
are to be enlarged to the extent of
SOL goo, the contract being awarded to
Smith, Sterling & Lowe, OF Lawrence.
a very business like man named
Casey, came to Atchison last winter,
with several thousand dollars, and
opened a gorgeous boot and shoe store.
He won general confidence, and credit
at the banks. He started east and
bought an $4,000 stock in Boston, paid
some cash, and got 80 days time. This
he quietly reshipped to Lincoln, Neb-
rasKa, and sold it for $4,000 cash. He
went TO st. Louis and Chicago, and
bought $4,000 worth in those cities,
part cash, the rest on time. The Chi
cago lot he shipped to st. Louis auc-
ton house, and sold for cash. The st.
Louis lot he shipped to several points,
and forced its sale. In Atchison he
kept q store full of boXes-two pairs in
a box. just before bills became due he
vanished, leaving many Atchisonians
to mourn, as well as the eastern deal
ers.
A Manhattan woman wanted to get
a room plastered, and managed to buy
the lime and sand. Then she sheared
her dog to get the hair, put the plaster
on herself, and papered the walls.
That's the way grit wins in Kansas.
A colOred man in Riley county, ap-
plying for aid, was offered a job oil
saving cord of wood, to which he re-
"lied. as quit dat business, sab. y
An other applicant was white man,
who owned nine horses, 20 cattle, 80
sheep, had recently sold and got the
cash for S4OO worth of hay, and just
Ireeeived ten sacks of flour from a
tneighbOr in part payment of u debt,
Both of these got government rations.
CAPT. Henry King, Mayor Anderson.
land Hon. John Guthrie, have been APP
pointed by the Secretary of the Treas
Jury q committee To select a site for the
government post office in Topeka,
Tke selection is to be made by the
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