The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07


The trial of Herman, at Eureka, for
murder, has resulted in verdict of
guilty. lie tried 10 f-ign insanity, but
it didn't work.
May sth, the entire furniture OF the
Teft house, Topeka, is to be sold by
the sheriff, to satisfy mortgage of
$4,000
The Lawrence foundry has built
sluice to the dam, and DOW runs by
water power.
The Douglass county mills are
grinding by the ear load, wheat grown
in Nebraska.
Col. Goss, of Neosha Falls, has OBJ
tanned patent on his revolving belt
for holding cartridges for breech load
ers.
Last Tuesday 125 chad Indians" ar
rived in chains at Fort Leayenworth,
to be fatted on army ratiOns. There
were 80 Cheyennes and Arapahoes,
81 Kiowas and Comanches. Among
the former was Medicine Water, the
chief who led the band that murdered
and outraged the GERMAN family.
Boiling hot water Is the medicine he
ought to get.
J. w. Nicholas soWed blue grass seed
year before last, in his door yard.
Last year he saw no signs of blue
grass and thought his seed wasted.
But this spring it is all coming up nice
| " and in a short time he will have a
good sod.-Eureka Herald.
W. S. Burke, once editor of the Leav-
enworth Commercial, i. delivering .
lecture entitled s'The Descent OF wo-
man, f1whieh the papers say is the fun
niest thing ever heard.
The Eureka spelling contest resulted
in favor of the ladies, Miss Lucy and
Florence Phenis remaining victors at
ter all the men had fallen.
~ The Marshall County News furnish
es the following church statistics of
Marshall county: Presbyterian organ
izations, >; membership, 19l; church
edifices, 2; valuation, $1,000. Con-
gregationai organizations, / member
ship, so; church edifices l.; valuation,
$2,5o0. Methodist organizations, 5;
membership, 341; church edifices, 3 I;
valuation, $1,000. Episcopal organiza-
items, ?; membership, 80; church edi-
ifices, l; valuation, $500. Catholic
organizations. G.; membership, 61s;
church edifces, ,; valuation, $1,000.
Marysville has three of the church edi-
fees named, worth $4,000.
Barton county has 5000 acres of
wheat.
Usage county has a county-seat con-
test in ''full bloom" The cold and
frost don't hurt it. Usage City and
Shireton, new town with ''centra-
ble'' location, are the chief aspirants.
Oswego has six drug stores. No
chance there for saloons.
The Secretary of State says that the
law requiring county Commissioners
to give bond, &C., viii not take effect
III lilG SJtIUlc uOOh
which will be about the first of MAY.
Leavenworth proposes to celebrate
her 2lst birthday, which occurs on the
18th of June next.
Auditor Wilder's history of Kansas
will go to press this month. 1t Will be
an interesting book.
A Humboldt man has packed box
full of young grasshoppers, labeled it
''Kansas Seeds" and sent it by express,
not prepaid, TO the commissioner of
agriculture at Washington.
$4,000 persons attend the 517 Sab
bath schools of this state. We have
piety as we'll as grasshoppers.
Stewart Brothers, of NeOdesha, sold
1000 bushels of wheat the other day at
sl.l5 Fer'bslsllel. A. Waldschmidt, of
Independence. was the purchaser.
The case of Samuel c. Woolston, of
Morris county, for killing his son last
summer in self defense, has lust been
tried at Council Grove, and resulted in
a verdict of acquittal. The son insist
ed upon whipping the old gentleman,
whereupon the latter very properly
put bullet into the young man, and
thus caused a funeral in the family.
The Kansas river is navigable after
all, according to the Lawrence Journal,
which says:
A singular craft is anchored off our
| city. 1t is bOS-shaped trading fiat
| boat aud came from junction City, af-
| ter which place it is named. 1t stands
six and half feet above water and is
thirty-two feet long by ten wide. The
proprietor and Captain of the craft is
Charles 0. Alden, jack of all trades,
who having been engaged in business
in Junction City for five years is now
returning by water TO his home near
! the mouth OF the Ohio. With him he
has the odds and ends at every branch
OF trade, being the remnant of his
Junction City stock. TO describe the
collection woslld he impossible. He
has dry goods. pins, needles, thread,
watches, iewelry, books, stationery,
| firearms, musical instruments, veloc-
ipede, harness, lamp chimneys, soap,
hair oil, etc, etc. And so with his
stock he is floating iazily along to-
wards his old home, stopping at each
town to sell, trade and buy. He has
also a work bench, is a blacksmith,
gunsmith and matchmaker, makes
fishing tackle and puts in glass. 1t is
a treat to go down and talk to the old
man. He is curiosity, something un-
usual. Though fifty-nine years of age
he is hearty and robust, active and joe
ular. He left Junction City in Novem-
Der last, but was ice-bOund for three
months at Wamego, and did not get
away from there till about three weeks
ago. He will remain here for two
weeks, hoping for a rise of water to
help him over the dam, and in the
meantime Is ready for business. He
expects to reach home in August.
The NJ. E. church at Lawrence has a
quartette choir, of which Mr.. Marvin,
son of the president of the State Uni
vcrsity, is the leader.
| The Oxford high school, Sumner
county, wakes the scholars with four
| hundred pound bell. The Lead
er says Mr.. Birley, living on
Rock creek, i'm Chase county,
had one of his horses fearfully cut in
! the throat, legs and breast, with a