The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-22
STATE ITEMS.


Cloud county is talking new court
house.
Topeka has poultry fanciers as
ISOLATION.
Washington county has adopted
the herd law.
DIR. Ashmore, the wife murderer,
is at last in the penitentiary.
Capt. Levi Hensel has ''gone on
the St. 10 Gazette as city editor.
Fifty-two complies took out mar
frying papers in Harvey county last
year.
Scion O. TEACHER retires from
the attorneyship of the L. l.. & G.
II. II.
Ward Burlingame will succeed
Capt. Morris as private secretary to
Coy. Osborn.
The cost OF board in the State H.
sane Asylum is 10 cents day for
each Individual.
A large amount of flour is ship
ped from Marshall county 10 the
destitute counties west.
Gen Fraser. State Superintend.
ent of Public Instruction. has rent
Ell a cottage at Topeka.
Several newspapers call for the
abolition of the Office of State Su-
perintendent of insurance.
The Ottawa University building
burned on the 10Th Inst. 1t cost
100000 and was not insured.
w. f. Barnes, of Vinland, Kan,
raised twenty-seven hundred BUSH
els of apples the last season.
The News estimates that the
mills of Marshall county ground in
1874, over 100000 bushels of grain.
The Mennonites have purchased
ten sections of railroad land in
Pleasant township. Harvey county.
The ''native lumber" business OF
Kansas is increasing. One firm in
Paola advertises for 100000 hoop
poles.
Morgan county, Illinois, has sent
eight car loads of supplies TO Kan
sas, four of which went to Reno
county.
The Kansas Pacific company has
had made fifty maps of its line and
lands, each four feet wide by seven
TEEN long.
1t took four Atchison policemen
one day last week, to get away with
q cripple who had fortified himself
with benZine.
A Sedgwick county mathematic-
ian estimates that there were fifty
bushels of grasshoppers to the aero
last summer.
'Dutch Bill" the notorious three
card monte man, is operating on
the Missouri Pacific, between Kan
sas City and Atchison.
The Paola Spirit regards it sim
gular circumstance that the Kansas
Legislature has no United States
Senator to elect this winter.
J.J. Neviaus, mail carrier on the
route from IIiawatha TO Atchison,
narrowly escaped freezing TO death
on the cold Friday of last week.
There was an increase of 1862
children of school age in Kansas
during 1874; and then the increase
of those hinder school age. Oh,
my!
Lawrence had skating carni-
val" on Thursday night of last
week. Twelve hundred people
were present TO skate and look at
the skaters.
a farmer in Greenwood county
says that by burning over a piece of
grass two years old, he DESTROYED
ct least n wagon bed fnlf Of chinch
bugs.
The Eureka Herald says that cat
tie in greenwood county are in at
least twenty per cent. better condi-
ton than they were A. this time last
year.
Several car loads OF wheat have
been shipped from Portland, Ore
gon, billed TO the Relief Society at
Topeka. So says the Leayenworth
Commercial.
Last year Wasser, OF the Girard
Press, was presented with boot
jack. This year he has received a
volume of poems. Both ends are
now furnished.
The Grasshopper, of Grasshopper
Falls, tells how Judge CaGy, of that
town, fourteen years ago, advocated
the damming of the Kaw and was
laughed at for his trouble.
West Wilkinson, of the Seneca
Courier. requests the man vino
steals his wood to take cord wood,
instead of that already cut for the
stove. The suggestion is a reason
able one and ought to be needed.
The Leavenwo rth Commercial
points with pride to the fact that
Kansas beats the world for weather;
ITO degrees above zero last summer
and 20 degrees below this winter;
a variation of 40 degrees in the
temperature of the year.