The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-14
STATE ITEMS.

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The Kansas Farmer sails into the
Topeka lottery. rsr .rgc.e
A patent outside has spoiled the
Marysville News.
The boys did not follow the pillow
barefooted last week.
At Lawrence they talk of importing |
English sparrows.
DR.. J. J. Crook, OF the Leavcnworth
Herald, has sold out.
Immigration is pouring into Kansas
from all directions.
A Neosho county thief recently rob-
bed Sunday school.
Topeka has received heavy invoice
of Tennessee negroes.
Thu State. Penitentiary turns out
fonr hundred pairs of shoes daily.
Arkansas City is to own halt inter
est in boat on the Arkansas river.
The lola mineral water neither
cheers nor fnebriates, but simply
ply sizes.
Topeka Times: Web Wilder is the
Bristow of the Kansas administration.
The Santa Fe company are receiving
ten new engines and a lot of new
coaches.
One perso n out of every five in Kan
sas is a member of some religious de-
nomination.
! Kansas will be shown by a map at
Philadelphia twelve feet wide and
twenty-four feet long.
One commercial house in Kansas
City alone pays to the railroads $4,000
a year for freights.
The State school fund amounts this
year to so cents per scholar-ten per
cent. less than last year.
1 A good deal of excitement about the
dog tax. The only way to get rid OF
paying the tax is to kill the dog.
Horace Greeley, Fred Douglass,
Stephen A. Douglass and Wendell
Phillips voted at early county seat
n elections in Allen county.
The entire State of Kansas has teen
surveyed by the General Government
and the Surveyor Generals Office was
discontinued April 1st.
Oskaloosa Independent: Jefferson
county is digging its own coal at IL
cents per busheh. Wood at this point
only two and three dollars per cord.
= /. nho oont.oaA ,,-;oo G.. o-ooSioo, tI,s
: Kansas building at Philadelphia, is ter
thousand dollars. or this amount Col.
: orado pays $4,000, and the Archison
Topeka g. Santa Fe railroad pays ST.
600.
An Anderson county man died re
Gently from the effects of an injury o
the shoulder, caused by the kicking o
. gun about a year ago. A tumo
formed just below the shoulder, which
was removed after his death, ant
, weighed seventeen pounds.
Leavenworth Times: A wealth!
lady of Lawrence is thoroughly repre-
sented in the Kansas State Penitenti
!. airy, she having two sons, two neph
4 ews, a grandson, and a son-in-law il
r that institution. She has had relative
Y in the Penitentiary ever since its or
f ganizatIon.
: The fight over the water work
question in Kansas City is terrific
!, The republicans have ticket in tn
field, and the democrats are divide
and have nominated two tickets. Tn
!, upshot of the quarrel will probabl
cad in the city being swindled out {
: about one million dollars by the waite
q works ring.
oil Mrs. Abrams and her little son wer
frozen to death last Monday nigh
1t near BelleYille, in PottaWattomi
g county. They left their home to go
% q aeighbors, but Mrs. Abrams fallin
l. behind, her husband took the babe an
fastened on to the neighbors, intenC
g ing to return for the wife. he depOi
u tied the babe, but his wife and be
IS could not be found. Tuesday mornin
10 their bodies were found in a snow drii
Ir The King Solomon Grand Lodi
20 of colored Masons for the State
IS Kansas, held a spiritual meeting
e. Lawrence on the Esd ult., to celebra
t. the incorporation of the grand lOdg
/ Grand Master w. D. Mathews,
st LeayenwOrth, delivered the addrei
Thirty three subordinate lodges we
ne represented. The officers of two ne
d. lodges, one in Olathe and onein Eud
lie IA, were publicly Installed in Liber
b. Hall.