The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-05
STATE ITEMS.

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Humboldt is TO have a dam across
the Neosho, ana the paper mill has
| got down there.
The Marshall County News re-
fuses to publish church fights.
The Walnut Valley Times is agi-
tating the shade tree question in FL
dorado.
Offers are TO be found on the
Walnut and its tributaries in S 1uth-
ern Kansas.
The Marysviile News alluded to
"a fool and new newspaper at Hoi-
tom"
A "whole LOT" OF former Jefferson
county men are now in Colorado,
and doing well.
Those elegant farmers, the Otoes,
say there will be no more grasshop-
pers for six years.
The Mormons of Wilson county
propose to migrate to the Arkansas
valley, near Great Bend.
The Kirwin Chief says the story
that family lately starved 10 death
in Phillips county lacks thickness.
Severance, Doniphan county, is
mad about car load of unsolicited
relief sent there with SOS freight on
it.
The papers in the northwestern
counties acknowledge the receipt of
considerable amounts of relief
goods.
A number OF the Coffeyville bust
ness men the other day donated g.
600 pounds of flonr TO the destitute
of the vicinity.
Seven divorces per term, Is the
average amount of business
transacted by the Wilson county
district court.
One deprayed man in Woodson
county drew % cents worth of cof-
fee to alleviate his restitution, and
traded the coffee off for tobacco.
a doctor in Washington county
claims TO have treated successfully
forty cases of cerebro-spinal men,
nights within the last four weeks.
| President, and acting Superinten-
dent Lvford, of the Kansas Pacific
railroad, is arranging to stop all
freight trains on his road on Sun
day.
1t is said that an Eastern gentle
man offered $1,000 for 500 copies of
the State Board of Agriculture for
1874, to send to his friends in the
East.
An investigating committee lately
canvassed Auburn township, Shaw
nee county, and found Sc families
containing 292 persons, possessing
S29.6O.
The Presbyterian and Congrega-
tional churches of Burlingame have
formed a union under the name of
the Presbyterian church of Rurlin-
game. Sensible.
According to an eastern paper,
Rev. John III. Barrows, has accented
call from the Eliot Congregation
al church of Lawrence, Mass.
Dennis Jordan, Il San Francisco
contractor and his men, lately con-
tributed handsome sum for the
benefit of st. Vincent's Orphan Asy-
lum, Leavenworths
We find this solemn truth drifting
around in the papers: "You can't
eat enough in week to last YOU a
year, and you shouldn't try to adj
vertise on that plan either"
Rev. Mr.. Award, late the Baptist
clergyman at Wathena, bought paint
and putty with his own money and
painted and f'glazed' the new Bap-
fist church at Wathena with his own
hands.
When a rural rooster hauled some
wood to Mr.. Mcintyre, of Coffey-
NAlIC1 oANA OiN hOL Auu HILL SSI HOIlc,
he (the rooster) left the following
'tnotis" on the premises: "n b. mr.
mack en- tire heare IL yore woud
now Twill see yu amonda."
The Woodson County Post tells
of an aid distributing depot which
keeps a sign out, "Rags bought
here" The relief agent makes the
relieved" leave their "Old buds"
when they get new ones, and he
finds his exceeding great reward in
selling the rags.
A liberal donation of 10000 pack
ages of vegetable seeds has been do
mated to the State by John Klein,
st. Louis. Mo-, through their agents,
Chas. S. Donahue. The seeds will
be sent direct to the Agricultural
Department and distributed by them
to the different parts of the State.
A reduction of$25 per month will
be made on the salaries of all fore
men in the Wyandotte shops of the
Il. p. A reduction of $25 per
month on all clerks receiving 1925
per month, and $40 per month on
clerks receiving 500 per month a
reduction of SO on clerks receiving
$50, snd fifty cents per day on all
mechanics, from the first of March,
1875, and the hands will work ten
hours a day.
D. p. Greeley has brought suit
against the NJ. r., +. S. Il G. Z. II.
Co., for $1,000 damages for being
put off the train between Chero kee
and Girard, October, 9th, 1874. He
says that applied at the ticket Of
fee at Cherokee for ticket, but the
agent would not sell him one, and
told him it wonld not cost him
more on the train than to buy q
ticket. The price of q ticket was
sixty cents. The conductor de-
manded seventy cents, which he rs-
fused to pay, and so he was put off
the train.