The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-18

STATE.


Montgomery grange store is fi14ia.
Coffey county expects half IA crop OF
peaches.
A Paola match factory makes 10000
matches per day.
Atchison gardens look as they did
in January.
Tarant'slss are caught on the side
walk in Wellington.
Fifty Odd Fellows st work in the
Topeka rolling mills.
The millers OF Kansas are On an ex-
eursion TO Galveston.
olathe grasshoppers recently eat two
dead cats in two hours.
A Marshall county Mason has reach.
ed the thirty-third degree.
Pleasanton, Linn county, is sinking
shaft for lead mining.
The Dodge City Messenger quits,
and says there is no room for it.
The Atchison Champion is having
its paper made at Blue Rapids.
AT Fort Leavenworth wood costs the
Government $4.9g per cord, and at Fort
Dodge $l475.
Twins We're born in passing emf
grant wagon near Seneca, recently.
Phillips county is mad because in
all the aid only one piano was received.
Brown county folks recently receiv-
ed thirt g-six copies of Webster's Die
tionary, gratis.
The consolidation of the Kansas Pa
cific and the Colorado Central portion
of the Union Pacific, will take place
July first.
George Grant, in Ellis county, is
sheariIis sheep. Ont of 5000 lambs
this season he has lost but ten.
f. w. Giles, the Topeka banker, is
enthusiastically in favor OF the intro
ductiOn of the English sparrow into
Kansas, and has a lot on hand.
Burlingame Chronicle: A new paper
is shortly to be started in Lyndon, to
be called the "Osage County WHAT
anassami."
A man living near Baxter Springs,
has invented combined pillow, harrow,
roller and cOrn-planter.
The farmers at their convention near
,Paola, last Thursday, were unanimous
in their belief that corn planted as late
as the 10th OF June may make splendid
crops.
N. Barber says that he kept 800
sheep in Missouri last year at q cost OF
81 500, and that during the past winter
he Wintered the same number near
Larned for $3.50, a difference of 81, $3.50
in favor of Kansas.
Monday night, the eth, Lawrence
was visited by the most severe rain and
hail storm it has seen for years. The
journal says: "The city was flooded,
trees which had stood the blasts of
years, were twisted into fragments
and torn from the ground. Fences were
blown down, sidewalks ripped up and
carried away. Chimneys fell in count
less numbers,and blinds and gates were
wrenched from their fastenings to such
an extent that it would be folly to un-
dertake to enumerate the instances"
John C. Williams, late deputy post
master at Atchison, has absconded, be-
Ing defaGlter in the sum of $4,000.
At Stockton, Rocks county, on the
9Th, Sheriff Ramsay, of Ellis county,
caught up to two horse thieves, and
ordered them : to throw up their
hands," They drew pistols, when the
sheriff fired at and hit one, who fired
back and mortally wounded Ramsay,
and then dropped behind his horse.
But .dhe Il plgskX sheriff fired and hit
the thief three more times, and then
fell as the thief dropped dead. The
sheriff lived only an hour. lie was %
years old, aud leaves Il wife and child,
and has held his Office for seven years.
He was Il terror to desperadoes, having
killed several of them.
One of the boys who play about the
railroad trains at Atchison, won't play
there any more. His name was George
Fails, age ten years, and Monday To-
connective took off his head.
A LeaYenworth jury has awarded
r. B. Castle 81, 200, to come out of the
pocket of Col. d. w. Houston, for libel
ing the former in the LeaYenworth
Commercial. He appeals.
During storm near Clay Centre,
Saturday, a young man named Frank
Ristin took shelter under hedge, and
was struck by lightning, his head split
open and his clothes burned off.
II. S. Niles, of Burlingame has or
ganized the ttKansas Fire Brick Com
pany," to make fire brick and pottery.
He gets the clay from his land in Ellis
worth county, and it is said by good
judges that qusensware can be made
from it equal TO the best imported
article.
John Smith, of Barlingame. has
sheared fifty pounds of wool this
spring from his seven best sheep.
Burlingame will celebrate the 4th.
The Leayenworth Commercial says
that Mrs. McNulty, the McNnlty of
Pendery s. McNulty, will in a few
days bring suit against her father,
Capt, E. Hensley, Judge John A. Hal
derman and Col. III. d. Mckay for
$780, 900 for SANDER. She claims that
the two latter gentlemen were instru-
mental in securing the publication of
hassES slettsEss bspss her action against
them.
About one hundred dollars day is
now being paid in Hays for bones. The
Sentinel says that grasshoppers cannot
hurt that crop.
The railroad commissioners of Mis-
souri, haYe ordered that only three
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