The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-11
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
LeavenwOrth is q years old on the
18th.
Douglass county declines TO pay that
$4,000 attorney fee.
In parts of Usage, Lyon, Wabaun-
see and Morris counties there are a
number of natural wells fifteen to
twenty feet across. They have been
explored to the depth of 60 to 100 feet
without finding bottom.-J. c. Union.
Go way from home to hear the news.
We have lived here eighteen years and
never before heard of such wells in
this county.
Gov Osborne has Just returned from
visit to California, made partly on
account of Mrs. Osborne's health,
which we are glad to learn has been
considerably improved by the trip.
The Governor thinks Kansas will do
to take a good deal of stock in yet.
California is depressed, business dull,
and crops short.
Prof. Perkins, OF musical fame, sails
for Europe this month, to travel there
year.
Mrs. Sewers, of Spring Hill, has
fat hog. Saturday the grasshoppers
lit on that hog, and she swept them OFF
all day. with a broom and saved the
pOrker from having his blood sucked
out of him.
The GrasshOppers having left Miami
county, a farmers convention was
held there on the 4th, and resolved
that every possible aid should be ex-
tended in replanting the fields with
corn and other seed. The county COM
missioners were asked to use the pub
lie funds to buy such seed, to be dis
tributed to the farmers by township
trustees, each farmer giving his note
payable to the county in IL months,
with seven per cent interest after ma
turity.
There are 1855 oranges of Patrons
of Husbandry in Kansas, and the to-
tai membership of the order, March
31st ult., was 4O,44O.
The Commissioners OF johnson
county have made an appropriation of
81 200 for the purpose OF procuring
seed corn for replanting where the
corn has been destroyed by the grass
hoppers. Approved notes will be re-
quired from the farmers making appli-
cation for seed.
Mary A. Spring edits and publishes
the Cherokee, Crawford Co., Index.
Mrs. Osman, near Girard, took her
baby to the creek, and laid it on a
sheepskin while she picked gooseber-
ries. A big rattlesnake came along
and laid down on the sheepskin also.
She killed it, lifted the sheepskin and
found another rattler under it; killed
that and started for home.
The farmers of Douglass county asks
the rich men of Lawrence to loan them
seed as follows: Corn 10000 bushels,
potatoes 10000, buckwheat 500. One
merchant, F. w. Read, offers to loan
his customers 900 bushels of corn, 3
bushels to each, and take their notes
for six months without interest.
That's the kind of Reads we like to
read about.
Capt. Geo. T. Anthony, of Leaven-
worth, Collector of Internal Revenue
for Kansas, has been requested to hand
in his resignation by the President of
the United States, with the further in
timation that his removal will follow
any protracted delay in the matter.
This comes straight" Who his sue
cesscr will be is not certainly known,
although Mr.. A. NJ. BLAIR, of Ottawa,
has been favorably mentioned in con-
nectiOn with the place. We presume
this change is but a ratification of the
great cOnvulsion in Internal Revenue
circles, caused by Secretary Bristow's
raid on the Whisky Ring, and deter
mination to have general "cleaning
out" all around. We hope Mr.. AnthO-
man. It will be difficult to find more
competent man than Mr.. Anthony
himself.-Paola Republican.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad Company have during the
year ending May lst, 1875, sold over
two hundred thousand acres of land.
The road will be completed in July to
Pueblo, Colorado, and cars will
then be run through from Atchison.
From some cause to us unexplained,
an Immense number of miserable
black worms have made their appear
ance seemingly in the wake of the re-
treating grasshoppers. = Lawrence
journal.
A storm visited Prescott, Linn Co.,
on the I'd inst. Three vacant dwellings
were completely demolished, frag-
ments being scattered for a hundred
yards. 4 barn containing a hay press
was blown down and scattered pro-
miscuously some of the timbers were
carried fifty yards and left standing in
the ground. Three dwellings were
moved off their foundations. A va
cant store was carried thirty feet and
left with one side torn OF. No person
was injured. Three-fourths of mile
southeast of town school house was
nearly torn down and demolished.
Mr.. Bancroft, formerly of the A, T.
s. 5. F. railroad, has been appointed
superintendent of the ST. Louis. Law
renee and Western pheasant Hill,
Lawrence and OaFhoHdalel railroad.
a convention of ten delegates from
each township in Miami county met in
Paola, Thursday, TO consider the con-
dition of the people and DEVISE meas
| ures to relieve the destitute.