The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-14
OsWEGO.
Hts business ansR EerospecIs-
How the Crops MzSOL.

How the Crops LOOb.
DEAR NEvs-Yo valuable and
most welcome paper has made its
regular weekly visits since we left
your city, and has done much 20
satisfy our longing 10 know what
the folks of your beautiful city sreI
doing. We arrived here all safe,
and found many warm hearts and
kind friends. We are much pleas
ed with the people of Oswego.
They ale = people Oh more than or
binary cu.aIre aud intelligence. We
are well rtpie- puira in this place
with all the Varis US branches OF
trade, mechanic aris, ehufchss and
schools. Our business houses are
as follows: Agricultural rilnple-
| ments, 4 books and periodicals, 4 |;
boots and sEoes, 3; clothing, 1: dry
goods, 4: drugs, &c., q /; furniture,
| 2; groceries, 4. Backed kya thick
iy settled country, these establish
ments are doing 3 good business
for hard times. There are in this
place four organized religious scot
cites, and four houses OF worship.
In three of them regular services
are held. We have 5 very good
graded school, where the little folks
and youth are regularly receiving
instruction. We nave also an asso-
citation for mental improvement in
the sciences, that il doing a good
| work. Some years age some par
ties undertook to found college
here, but not understanding the
fact that colleges do better where
the people are, they built q mile
from town and failed for want OF
patronage, brains and money. The
building still stands as a monument
of their folly
This is the county town of Labette
county. We have = very clever sci
of county officials that deal ont jus
tice in 4 very shabby court house.
We have but one newspaper, and
that is enough for a town of ], 600
/ need not speak of the paper il
speaks for itself. l may -ay that
the proprietors, including the edi-
tor, are very nice gentlemen. We
nave lawyers and doctors in abund.
ence. OF their caliber can say but
little, as have had meager oppor
tunitics TO learn. OF ministers we
are rather scarce, having hut
two Baptist and Methodist. The
Presbyterians hope to have one
soon.
|, just now there is some uneasi
ness among the farmers about grass
hoppers. They have been Matching
out in considerable numbers for the
last three weeks, and have done
some damage to gardens, and some
. to wheat and oats in localities. Sc
far as | can learn the damage tt
crops is limited. Aside from thu
hoppers, we have fine prospect fol
: a large crop of wheat. There arr
but few oats sown, owing to thu
, scarcity of seed. Corn is mostly
planted, and is coming up nicely
We have scarcely any orchards o
apple trees that have come Int
. bearing yet. Peach trees are abund
ant, aud bid fair TO produce Iargt
crop. A portion of the fruit wa
killed by the late frost, Cor rattle
freeze), but still there is enough
alive to make fair crop.
Our entire country is underlai,
with coal, which will furnish album
, dance of fuel and afford power TO
all manufacturing purposes. | hal
omitted to say that we have a steam
: Touring mill here, and a very GOO
FIGURING and saw mill on the river
half a mile from town.
u Our railroad facilities are not III
:, best. Our people had voted bond
to the NJ, L. Sc T. road, but the
irun the road q mile from town, an
e the people went back on the bonds
f This made the railroad authorize
C mad, and they have not been in
Iclined to favor Oswego much since
There is road coming in from tn
east that would be of great value t
5 US, if finished to this place. 1t is i
8 operation to Columbus, twenty .fiv
miles east of us, and the grading
done to this place. The engineer
It have been here recently; also som
y of the officials of the road. The
It talk business, but demand of III
town more than we are able or wi
ling to payS l think we will hav
It to wait awhile. LAZARUS.