The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-12
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county.
Peabody is receiving considerable
aid for her destitute.
Cattle in the Indian Territory are
doing remarkably well.
John r. B. Jennings has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Grouse creek,
Cowley county.
Prof. Wilkinson, OF Winfield, has
gone to Wisconsin to solicit aid for
Cowley county.
Col. Naming has been sent up to
Topeka from Winfield, for the pur-
pose of preventing any division of
COwley county.
John Bryant, living near Win
field, had his house destroyed by
fire on Monday of last week, with
its entire contents.
Caldwell has had another railroad
meeting, and this time the Texas,
Wellington s. North western railroad
ia to be built, sure.
Some of the "needy" in Harvey
county got drunk, and the
Kansan thinks if they can bny whis-
KY they can buy food. Good logic.
The Ksnsan thinks that the Wich-
ita and Southwestern r. r. COM
pany should extend its line to Sum-
ner county.
The new land Office will be open.
ed at Larned on the 18th inst. The
territory which forms the new dis
trict has been detached from this,
and comprises about fifty counties
Range 10 West, in the dividing line
| between the two districts. BY
placing Barbour county In the West
ern district great inconvenience re-
suits to the settlers in that county,
who, in order to reach Lsrned, will
be compelled to travel a long dis
lance over an uninhabited- country.
And then, all those settlers in Har-
per county, God help theml they
are in the same predicament.-
Wichita Beacon.
A "young mems social circle" has
been organized in Wichita.
The Chase County Courant has
got a new roller from the looks OF
last weeks Issue.
The Eureka Herald says that an
examination has been made to ascer-
tain if the chinch bug is likely to be
a pest the coming season, and that
none have been found, where list
year at this time, there were thous-
ands.
A bank is about to be started at
Marion Center.
Mr.. James Wolson, of Elm creek
township, Morris county, shot and
killed his oldest son on the evening
of the Goth ultimo, in self-defense.
The Cottonwood Falls dramatic
club is 10 be revived.
The Odd Fellows of Chase county
will give ball at Cottonwood Falls
on February 22d.
"Mennonites 1 never heard
them called that BEFORE" remarked
an intelligent woman of our town
the other day. "Why, in New York,
where | came from. thew were call
ed Nodocs. Newton Kansan.
A large amount of building will
be done in Newton the coming
season. So says the Kansan.
The interest In the Union revival
now in progress for four weeks,
continues on the increase, great
numbers nightly attend, many ex-
pressing desire to obtain religion,
and manifesting q deep interest in
the cause of salvation.-Wichita
Eagle.
There is one smart woman in
Hutchinson When daylight comes
her husband only has to whisper.
"My love, get up and stir the Goals, :"
and she slides right out of bed.
She don't resort to any such base
and tyrannical measures as, "get up
and stir them yourself, you old
knotted headed rip" but goes and
makes two fires, aud coming back
she bends over him and sweetly
says: "Arise, my dear, and greet the
king of day"
Ter that is william, and unworthy
the respect of any honest man.
Hutchinson News.
The Wellington Press objects to
having people stake things as they
come" when it come to their wood
pile.
The editor of the Walnut Valley
Times advertises a stray Thomas
Cat. 1t left on account of the scare
ity of eatables.
| We would agree 10 pay, as much
at least as the Kansas CITY Times
gave towards the Lincoln monu-
ment, for the absence from all our
exchanges, one issue, of the Cali
fornia joke, about the utter failure
of man to milk mule in the dark
We may be deemed a reckless
spendthrift, the fact is we are are
reckless in this matter but we know
how nearly the item must have
spent itself, so to speak, because
from reliable data we can swear
} that it has been applied to nearly
every neighborhood in Kansas
Wichita Eagle.
, The Hutchinson News and the
Commonwealth have d me more for
: the poor than any other papers in
Kansas.-Hutchinson News. ,a.,
SNow.-Snow fell last Thursday
/ evening, to depth of six inches.
: We learn that it did not extend ten
miles from Arkansas City, and that
the streeks were dry in Winfield
and Wichita.-Arkansas City TRAY
eler.
INCENDIARIsM.-On last Tuesday
evening, two men came to the corn
crib of w. j. Hamilton, near the