The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-25
SOUTHWEST.

SOUEE4OS Essga'.
Trying law breakers and supporting
panpers, are the two biggest items
OF expense in Greenwood county.
Third of July celebration at Quincy
ard Twin Grove, Greenwood county.
A man passed through this city last
week with one hundred and sixteen
prairie dogs, four burrowing owls, and
two youthful jack Yelling
ton Press.
The Winfield Courier claims that fiat
boats, loaded with wheat, can float
down the Arkansas to the Mississippi.
Ii says that Major Darrah has gone
down IN skin to Fort Gibson i'm very
low stage OF water, and that after lac
passed Salt Fork there was plenty OF
water for boats drawing Is inches To
feet.
The Marion county Record tbua de-
seribes the Mennonite style OF exist
ence: The new Mennonite town oil
Onadenan 10 about miles from Marion
centre. IL Is a quaint looking place,
inhabited by curious people, curious
% us Amerieans-bnt withal Il frugal,
honest, intelligent class of folks. The
houses, we should guess about twenty.
live la number are, the most of them,
queer specimens of dwellings At a
distance they look like Indian wig
vans. The roofs are matched with
hay, and descend almost to the ground.
With few exceptions the family
dwelling place and the stable are I'M
der the same roof, separated by par
tition. This, while not elegant to the
American mind, at least exhibits Il
coinmendable sollcltude for dumb ami
mails OH the part of our Russian friends
which can scarcely be ridieuled by
those Americans who permit their
stock to freeze while they themselves
occupy comfortable quarters"
Remento, Cowley county, is now
known rs Salt City. The hole being
bored there is $50 feet down, and has
struck slate looking like coal.
NEARLY KILLED.-M. S. Roseberry,
one OF the county commissioners, liV-
ing four miles northwest of this place,
fell from house, striking his head on
beam and injuring himself very Sc
verely, last Thursday evening.-A. c.
Noadn.
Cottonwood Falls will celebrate the
Third of July.
,x,oII ~. -.
ny bottle of yermifuge, and Il box OF
bug eXterminatOr, one in each end OF
their Hutchinson News.
Catch one, and swallow his medicine
VIM. Vennum, the recently appoint
ed postmaster, of Cottonwood Falls
has resigned as councilman, it being
against the law for postmaster tc
hold any other Office whatever.
There had been sold in Newton thi:
season, up to the 10Th 100 reapers and
mowers combined reaping and moving
machines, ) headers, mower. and L
threshing machines.
At Halstead, on the 18th, Eli Dodge
IL boy of fifteen, went into Il mill POND
to battle, was taken with the cramp
and drowned. His mother tried to jumI
into water 8 feet deep after him, bu
was prevented by a younger son.
The late hail storm in Butler oOun.
ty, picked up board 8 feet long,
feet wide, and y inches thick, on the
farm of c. u. Strong, and landed it oil
the farm of w. /. Hoy, lat Coal Creek
| Is msles from where it started. 1t i;
said that the same storm commenced
rs tornado in Kingman county
where IT. blew down over dOZer
houses. The storm passed directly
east through Missouri and Southern
Illinois, striking the Ohio river nea
the Indiana line. 1t passed throngI
Louisville, Kentucky, within Is hour
after IL left Butler county doing consid
cradle damage all along its track. Blu
the strangest part of all of it is that /
prophet in st. Louis predicted thu
storm six weeks ago.
All the books, papers and records o
Butler county are kept in woOdel
desks la the court house. Even tn
books containing all the records of ii
tie to property in our county are KEEP
In wooden desk with nothing but
board partition between them and the
hall of the court house. Should the
court house be burned, it would COS
the county Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars to replace these records. Besides
"a general destruction of all our county
books would bring on law suits tina
would last for years.--Eldorado Times
Butler county is out of lebt and ha
$4,000 in its treasury.--Times.-
GLOW did Sam Wood get Mrs. Ken
ne,l's shawl ?" is the question that nov
asitates Cottonwood Falls.
Last year Frank Gallote, deput.
treasurer of Cowley county, IMPORTS
quantity of eggs from Italy, not on
of which spoiled and now has fin
lot of silk worms in splendid condition
which he feeds on our common mul
berry, and says they are healthy an
doing splendid and will begin to spi
Cocoons in about ten days.
Mr.. Salter's sheep averaged seve
pounds of wool to the head, bringin
him 1925 for each fleece, and bringin
in all about $1,000 cash, besides tn
lambs. The sheep were fed on rye an
grazed on the prairie during the win
ter.--Winfield Courier.