The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-10
STATE.

A revival of religion is shaking Wa
thena.
The Paola Spirit is square out for
the herd Law.
Topeka consumed s42 turkeys on
Thanksgiving.
Independence is to have a 1000
pound church bell.
Good coal within two miles of the
To peka postoffice.
A herd of buffalo has been collected
for the Centennial.
Las Animas is shipping dressed beet
direct to New York.
Twenty-Five candidates for the
Speakership of the House.
An Alabama colony has recently To-
Gated in Harvey county.
The Kaws are on the Salt Plains,
hunting buffalo, but finding few.
The libel suit of Hines VS.. the Leav-
Times, has been dismissed.
Hutchinson's school house is too
small for the number of her children.
Sankey, the renowned reviyalist,
owns land in the POttawatomie re-
serve.
A Cottonwood tree was lately cut
in Jackson county that was 40 feet
high.
The total number of acres in Kansas
under cultivation is little over ,OOO,-
OCO.
Four or five business firms of Hol-
ton have eribbed, so far this season,
1000 bushels of corn.
The fine-haired young men of Neo-
sho Falls take "slung shots and billies"
with them to dances.
LeavenwOrth is Growing a good deal
over its poultry show, to be given De-
eember %, 20 and 80.
Tue Leavenworth school board, five
to four, resolved to admit colored child
rem to all the public schools.
The Topeka Commonwealth an
itself unaltersbly opposed to
all third or even second, presidential
terms. One term is its platform.
The new union depot at the State
Line will be built of brick, and will be
$50 feet long, 90 feet wide, two stories
high, with q tower and mansard roof.
The Lawrence Journal says that the
Congregational church in that city
at least six members who are
able to get up and get off as good a
sermon as any minister in the State.
On the 9TH, the Leavenworth police
found q girl, named Hattie Smith, for
chilly detained in house of i'll repute,
and escorted her to the Home. She
claimed to be from Rochester, N. Y,
and said she had been kept in the house
for a week. Thin.
The Topeka Commonwealth states
that two miles west of that city are
thousands of acres OF splendid coal
land, with Is inch veins Ia feet below
the surface. It is being opened very
and thus Topeka has found a
new bonanza.
The Paola Republican very sensibly
that the lite of one man like
Prof. Farnham, who lost his life from
the bite of mad dog, Is worth more
10 the State than all the dogs that may
inhabit it for thousand years.
The Summer County Press says:
From careful estimate. made by COM
petent men in each township, we have
been able to figure up thirty thousand
acres of wheat growing in this county.
Estimating the yield at twenty bushels
per acre, which Is below the average of
1875, and We have an aggregate OF six
hundred thousand bushels for the Gen.
In April, 1874, the city of Fl. Scott,
Kansas, received q judgment against
he Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road company for one hundred thous- |
md dollars, for alleged breach of con-
;raet, In not locating their machine
hops at that point. The company APP
pealed TO the supreme court of Kansas,
which court, on the LIST, at Topeka, re-
7ersed the Judgment. The case has
been hOtly contested, and the result
Eives great satisfaction 70 the company
md especially to Judge T. C. Sears, its
.hief attorney. :