The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-25
STATE.


The Leavenworth court house cost
an even $152,OOO.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes re-
quire $50 beeves per week.
An agent of the A. T. 6 S. F. says
he has 800 more Mennonite families
for Kansas.
The Memories are already manu-
featuring cheese.
Paola has q maidstone which recent
ly affected a cure.
Usage Mission has a doctor named
Slaughter.
Wathena is to have glass factory.
A man was fined 500 for shooting a
horse, recently, in Marshall county.
A woman east lays claim to the
Blue Rapids town-site. She is di-
vorced wife of the original owner.
Ellsworth, Great Bend and Dodge
City have taken much cattle trade
away from Wichita.
Goodin,ou democratic congressman,
will vote for Sunset Cox for Speaker,
and Bob Mitchell for clerk.
An eastern exchange: Softly now
the tender-hearted wife imparts to her
searching husband the intelligence
that she sent his linen clothes to the
Kansas sufferers last winter.
Topeka and Shawnee county pay
twelve thousand dollars for the new
insane asylum site there.
The Oswego Independent figures
that the birds captured and marketed
last winter in Labeette county had q
capacity to devour 1873 ,667, 712 grass
hoppers per day.
A man who recently inspected Col
GRADE for a sheep rancho, says that
central Kansas has more grass on one
acre than Colorado has en- ten.
| The Leavenworth Times has the fol-
lowing description of the parasites that
have fastened upon the hopper: 'These
grasshopper parasites are, the largest OF
them, about the size of a head of q pin
and are of light red color. They have
eight eyes and proboscis or trunk
through which they take their susie
nance. Through microscope they
look like bedbugs, and resemble thai
insect closely initheir motions and
habits"
A. NJ. Blair, of Ottawa, q strong
friend of Senator Harvey, is said to be
the gentleman who is after G. T. An
thongs place as collector of internal
revenue for Kansas.
The Leavenworth Times of the It'll
inst. contains this sad announcement
"Mrs. Ramsey, the unfortunate wife o.
Alexander Ramsey, late sheriff of FL
lis county, died at the Sisters Hospital
at an early hour yesterday morning
Her remains were packed in ice anC
sent to Hays City in the afternoon
It will be remembered that Mrs. Ram.
sey was bereft of reason on hearing O
the killing of her husband, who wa'
shot while in the execution of his duty
at Stockton, in Rocks county.
James G. Clark, the singer, was ar.
rested at his concert at Wathena, Sat.
urday evening, for not having procured
a license.
The Atchison relief society dis.
bursed the past winter $3.50 in cash
besides other aid.
It is said that the railroads of Kan.
sas have agreed to pay one-half of the
ten thousand dollars TO be raised to pui
} up separate buildiRg for Kansas a
the Philadelphia Centennial.
The Junction City Union thinks the
centennial managers crowd the noun.
ners when they ask for a Fourth o
! July collection in the churches. Ths
few who have all the church burdens
to shoulder, are the only kind of peo
pie who will go to church on that oc
casion.
The Leavenworth Daily Commercial
I of the 18th inst. contains crop report
from fifty-eight counties of Kansas
The aggregate surpasses all previou
years ia the prospect for immens
crops.
The city of Topeka charges auction
Q GERS an annual license of $50. At tn
I last meeting of the council a petition
4 asking that this license be reduced {.
8 SIS per year. vas refused. a motion
:, TO reduce the licenses of retail liquo
r dealers from $500 to $500 per annun
I was rejected. A motion was finally
. carried to make the license for sRcl
: dealers $425 per annum-
II The Atchison railroad bridge will b
I completed August 1st.
The case of Edward S. Brown, o
Virginia, vs.. ex-U. S. Marshal nc
: Dowell apd his bondsrnen, ~ recove
the value of property unlawfuIIy con
ri fiscated during the war, was finall.
r acted on in the II. s. District Court q
: Ieayenworth last week. Judge Mile
decided thet Brown could not recove
$ from the said Mcdowell or his bonds
men.