The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-11
STATE ITEMS.

-Can,iidates are scarce in Fort Scott.
DR.. Stine lectures in PaoIa this week.
Fort Scott wants narrow gauge road
The Fall wheat is not much damaged.
The farmers are plowing in Cowley
county.
-Wyandolte wives are opposed to the
Can Can.
A coal shaft is to bc sunk in Washing
ton county.
A good vein of coal has been discover
ed near C.yde.
The Independence Ka,,san looks very
well.
The GrasRPpcr is now the Valley Falls
Ner Era.
The Ottawa Times has been enlarged,
and looks much improved.
Senator Ingalls, will be home about the
18th inst.
The Columbus Courier and Journal are
not on friendly terms.
Mr.. McMeekin, late of Topeka, can now
be found in Manhattan.
Fort Scott is being consumed. The
latest is $1,000 fire.
After Monday the Atchison Rairio will
issue a morning edition, daily.
H. S. Perkins is conducting a singing
school at Burlingame.
The Holton EIpres roll Of honor ought
to be larger than it is
Arkansas City has had row. Jones was
the assailant, and is at large.
The Topeka Commonwealth is in favor OF
biennial sessions. Sensible.
The AbIline Chronicle enters upon its
sixth volume, and we hope viii not stop m
till it reaches its sixty-sixth.
THE South Kansas Tribune comes ont
in new dress. Glad to see evidences Of
prosperity.
The Usage Shaft Is no more. 1t has
been sold to Mr.. Mcdowell, and will here
after be known as the Usage City Free Press.
Sen. Ingalls,, OF this State, presided in
the Senate during the closing hours of the
Forty-third Congress.
We have received the first number of
the Odserrer Of Nature, published by the stu
dents of the State University.
The Weseln Progress advises its readers
not to keep too much Kausas City money
on hand as it is considerably below par.
Hon. Samuel r. Peters has been ap-
pointed Judgeof the Ninth District, to fill
the vacancy caused by the election OF W.
r. Brown to Congress.
The criminal court of Leavenworth ha.
been abolished. Criminals can now &C
scott-free in that city.-Ft. Scott Monitor.
No side hits at Deacon Houston.
Rev. J. NJ. frey of Emporia, has ac
cepted call from the Lutheran church a
Lockhaven, Pa. He was good, intelli
gent man, but little bigoted.
The Topeka Commonwealth very mag
unanimously suggests the idea that Leaven
worth will have public buildings at SOM
future time.
REV. T. W. GREENE's speech on the re
ligious amendment is being copied from
THE TINES in every portion of the coun
try.
The Cofseyville Courier is responsible,
for the following:
Senator Brownlow, of Tennessee-as Dea
con Houston, of the Leavenworth Conmer
cial, would say, has ''taken up the tripod.
He is editing the Knoxville (Tenn.) VIII
and Chronicle.
Noble l.. Prentis has left the Junction
City Union and will soon help the Common
ueaIh along. The Union is a good paper
but We will miss old Pen, Paste and Scis
sOrs"
The EmpOria Neus says that severa
emigrant wagons have passed through tha
city, en- route west, during the last few
| days, which shows that there are those wht
still have confidence in the resources o
Kansas.
The Kansas City Times and the Leav
enworth TINES constitute political librar,
| of the EXTREMIST, hottest, and most emphatic
type. They are political opposites, and on,
cannot read both without hearing both side
of the questioh,-aRd that is necessary t.
an intelligent verdict-Bwiiag'on Indepea
d,a
The Paola Spirit says:
Jim. Snoddy, of La Cygne, received a val
entine, and thereupon rushed into print
| to the extent Of half column OF both pros,
and poetry, aimed at some imaginary en-
emy. The shoe seemed to pinch little
Great men have their troubles as well Al
| the lesser ones!
The Fort Scott Monitor says that Mr.
Manlove has turned over his bookcase ant
library to the gentlemen who were his bonds
men, and they propose to dispose of it by
lottery. Ii is to he divided into fifty prizes
ranging in value from sixty-five to five
dollars.
-Emporia has never had a murder, bu
came near having one the other night ,wher
Mcdowell shot s. J. Houts, his son-in-lav
and partner. The Neus is "tickled to death
over the affair. Strange, Emporia has new
er had saloons before this year, and this il
the first attempt at murder.
The local Of the Leavenworth TINE
has up "corner," to make people believe
he is an early riser "of mornings" He talk
about "lunar bow" at o'clock A. NJ. i
he saw one at that hour, it was in bed-ht
never got up to see it-because we were NJ
all night carrying wood to a sick woman
and didn't see it.-Wichita Eagle.
How did you feel, dear Eaglef "So-so
did you not?
The Washington Cd. C) !Sg says Jo
-eph b. Stewart was brought into the Polict
Court this morning by Lieut.. Kelly, on 8
warrant sworn out by Stephen A. Cobb, 4
Representative in Congress from Kansas
charging Stewart with obtaining SlO5 b,
false pretenses Mr. Stewart waived an ex-
animation and was held for action OF the
grand jury, bonds in the sum Of $500 beinl
fixed. Judge Paschal entered upon hi
bond.
The Leavenworth Herald says:
We learn from our exchanges and cor
respondents that wheat is enduring the win
ter admirably, and looks well, in all part
of the State We will have good crop un
less it is injured during this month. 1t j.
highly gratifying to the farmers, that witt
all their discouragements during the past
season that there are now strong indications
that the coming season will be fruitful
one.
The Marshall county Ne,,s has an edu
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