The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-25
STATE ITEMS.

Egg thieves are the latest in Wamegc
-Hiawatha is to have another railroad
They say there is chalk in Treg
county.
Governor Osborn has gone to Wash
ington.
-Woodson county is without jail or poo
house.
AN increased cattle trade is anticipated
this year.
The erection of an elevator is talked ol
at Emporia.
The relief bonds were defeated in Ellis
worth county.
Prayers for the recent Legislature cost
the State $500.
Baxter Springs ships six car loads o
railroad ties per day.
= forty pound wild cat was captured
recently near Troy.
Rat exterrninator failed to kill a man
at Olathe last week.
The A., I. & s. F. have greatly redue.
ced coal and grain rates.
Reports of the distribution of aid occur
now in every paper.
1t is said that seed corn from Iowa will
not do well in Kansas.
= The cheese factory at Frankfort, sold
last year $1,000 pounds.
Six thousand more Mennonites are on
their way to Kansas. -.-...-.
John c. Shea is writing poetry on the
grasshopper business.
The Garnett Debating Club is having a
tussel with the tariff question.
1t is proposed to move Highland Uni
versity to Leavenworth.
Brown county is to have another cheese
factory.
-Signor Blitts is in Fort Scott. More
Spiritualism.
The Fort Scott relief entertainment
netted 5000.
Council Bluffs is excited over tin
mines
The Fort Scott Sentinel says that Rev.
T. W. Greene will go to California.
-Wathena is excited over an imported
barrel Of saur kraut
The money order business in the Wa
thena post-oflice is very good, according to
the Reporter.
Hon. Glenn. Rohr is prominent candi-
date for Mayor of Atchison. lie is Re
publican and is endorsed by the Champion.
Five persons announce themselves in
the Monitor as candidates for Marshal OF
Fort Scott.
Mr.. Hekaelnkemper is candidate for
councilman in Atchison. Now ii they had
Pryzbylowies they would be happy.
The Salina Herald objects to The
TINES charging different crimes to that
town.
John Lyden, the Ellsworth stock
dealer, was killed in Lincoln county, and
Barney Bohan committed his crime in
Brookville.
The State Agricultural Society has en-
gagged Prof. Worral, of Topeka, to visit the
different cities of the State, and make
sketches for the next Agricultural Report.
Anderson county contains l. los desti-
tu,e persons. The county proposes to issue
$4,000 in warrants. The county commits
sioners want 5000 bushels of corn in the
ear, and 1000 bushels shelled 5000 bush
els oats 4; 1000 bushels Early Rose potatoes,
and 600 bushels Peach-blow potatoes.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, was once
a pupil Of Mr.. Farren, and for long time
a resident of this city. Mr.. Farren is now
a messenger" for the body to which Mr..
Bruce belongs-Laurenoe Journal.
A Lawrence man, who made sub
scription toward the support Of public wor-
ship, demands a deduction on account OF
several Sabbathis the minister was absent,
and the case will 60 to the courts.
The Hutchinson Neus objects to gov
ernment buildings at Topeka, because it is
only the temporary capital of the State
that the life, enterprise and snap of the
State is far west OF Topeka.
- *Of the papers of the country
believing in Beecher's guilt, We might men,
tion the Chicago Times, Tribune and Pat,
Louisville CoUier-Jounai, st. Louis Repub
lioan and Globs.-Learenponh Times.
And generally speaking the papers that
believe Beecher guilty, think none of the
less of him for the crime of which he is ac-
cused.-Mmitor.
A fellow feeling makes the Monitor won-
drous kind to Beecher.-F. Scot Sentinel.
The Paola Spirit says: "Mr. Angel,
the resident Director of the Penitentiary,
who was caught selling lurnber to the in
stitution through partner, and auditing
his own bills, resigned, and his successor
was appointed by Gov. Osborn and confirm
ed by the Senate before its adjournment"
The Salina Herald says:
Those who attended the trial Of Barney
Bohan this week, speak in very compliment
tary terms Of the management OF the case
by the attorneys on both sides. County
Attorney John Foster and A. II. Case, are
for the prosecution, and Capt. J. G. Mohler,
of this city, and Hon. Thomas 2. Fenlon,
of Leavenworth are for the defense.
-lt>ttTudN- at L ClOck r NJ, IhIs- W
Z. johnson, wife of L. ]. johnson, started
on horseback from her father's--Thomas
StOut's-house, northwest OF town, to her
own house near Halls mill. Soon after
starting her horse, which is vicious brute,
became unmanageable and throwing her of,
started to run. The unfortunate ladys foot
was held fast in the siirrup, and she was
thus dragged over rocks, hills and ravines
for fully one mile. When at last she be-
came free from the horse she was insensi-
bic, and her body was one mass of bruised,
mangled and bleeding fesh.-Houad Con'-
y Ledger.
AT the recent fire in Independence the
only buildings saved in the burnt district
were two liquor stores. Since then torna-
do destroyed the town of Houstonia, in
Missouri, residences, stores, shops, school
houses, Good Templar's Hall, in fact all
buildings were torn to shreds save and ex-
cept the saloon-that was left unframed.
Here is good text tor the Temperance and
God in the Constitution people.-Houdro
County Ledger.
A letter to the Lawrence Journal, Of
March 22d, from Tonganoxie, says:
A fatal accident occurred about four
miles southeast of here yesterClay evening