The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-10
STATE ITIus.


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buik in 1854.
The Catholic church at Neodeshs v,s
dedicated last Sabbath.
The ague is busy shaking the people up
| in Wilson county.
The town of Peabody is 1866 feet
above the sea.
The number Of postofiices in Crawford
county, has been reduced.
The next term of the Agricultural COL
lege begins August 9th.
| Sneak thieves operate with impuuity
at Topeka
MANY farmers will begin to SOW wheat
| on the 10Th of this month.
Ten thousand head Of cattle are on
their way from Texas to Cofeyville.
| A young man Of Chstopa, elofed With
his mothers servant last week. No cards.
"A lodge Of colored masons has been
organized at Parsons.
-Fio'ence, Marion county, i. organizing
Black Hills expedition.
Potatoes are. cheaper than dirt down in
Linn county.
-Emigrants are pouring into Reno
| county.
Butter is scarce and eggs are plenty in
Marion county. Cows must do 6etter. or
they'll lose their popularity out there.
The Neosho Valley District Fair will
be held at Neosho Falls, from September
2lst to the 29th.
Marriages in Greenwood county are
getting more frequent Of late. A cold win
ter is anticipated.
The time when you can shoot prairie
chickens with impunity is drawing nearer
day by day.
A large party Of excursionists from
New York, will visit Southern Kansas
shortly.
The last chrome grumbler in Southern
Kansas was lynched by the indignant citi-
zens last Saturday.
-Atchison is to have another bank, to
be called the Perpetual Savings, and TO
start out with \ cash capital Of $4,000.
The report that 800 Indians had
crossed the A., I. Il 3. F. railroad, between
Larned and kinsley, seems to be unfounded.
The large warehouse Of Ridenour Il
Baker, at Chanute, was burned last Mon
day. Incendiarism.
They had a big fire at Elvood, across the
river frim st. Joseph, the other morning.
Loss, not known.
-kansas is shipping great many cars of
wheat over the st. Joseph and Denver road
nov.
In 1874, the town site Of the city Of
NJ anhattan was under water. It's high and
dry now, however.
The first boy born in Ottawa has TO
struggle through this life bearing the cog
nomen of franklin Ottawa Smith.
1t keeps the conductors on the L., L.
4 G. r. r. busy, pulling tramps from the
freight cars.
The Mennonites who are now going
west, appear to be Of . better class than
those who preceded them.
"A man named Nimrod Shepherd has
he came to Kansas.
The Hayes and Wheeler Club, at Neo-
dasha, raised flag pole lis feet High, last
Saturday night.
-Four thousand dollars worth of stage
barn was destroyed by lightning at Edo
RADIO, last week.
The base ball fever is raging fearfnlly in |
the country towns and its victim, are num- |
bered by the score. Doctors bills run high |
this season.
-Smuggler is Kansas product, and II |
he had tried Goldsmith Maid wouldn't have |
got away with him at Buffalo. The best Of /
Us will get lazy and Indifferent at times.
Arrangements are now being made to
extend the CarbOndale railroad TO Lyndon,
thence TO Melvern, up the valley Of Marias
des Cygnes TO EmpOria and Walnut Valley.
-Wyandotte hears the honor Of being
the place where the first Masonic commu-
nicatiOn in this Sta'e was held. This was
in August 1854.
Among the first preachers in Co6ey /
county was a mulatto named Tims Shaw,
who was afterward taken back to Texas ~ /
a fugitive slave.
Prof. p. J. Carmichael, formerly of
the Emporia State Normal School has &C.
cepted the superintendency of the Public
Schools of Nevada, California.
This seems a bad year for children
down in Lyon county, the latest reports
being to the effect that they are dying of in
rapid and alarming manner there.
The representatives Of Russo German
colony have purchased fro m the Kansas
Pacific Railway Company large tract Of
land near Ellis.
-McPherson has never had . saloon
within its limits. 1t is evident that the
isn't very Thirsty one, down
there.
Lawrence has two base base ball clubs,
named respectively Tilden and Hendricks
They play a match game tomorrow, in il
lnstration OF true Democratic unanimity.
The st. Joseph 4 Denver City X. r
loses about 81 500 by the burning Of its de-
pot at Marysville. Over $25, 600 worth Of
tickets were either burned or stolen.
There is man in Fredonia, Wilson
county, who has not voted IN forty years,
tor the reasen that God il not mentioned in
the Constitution.
The young ladies at Sabetha have in
troduced game called "kiss me quick and
let me 60" This ought to be = popular
amusement.
Mrs. Mary Wilson, Of Girard, dropped ]
lead last Friday night the cause being
heart di-ease. She was ifty-four years Of
age.
Peter Cooper's glue has evidently not
yet been introduced into Kansas. His sd- {
nerents are few and far between, and don't !
eem TO stick to him worth cent. Ia
Fort Scott is to have q candy factory. I
This Is wasting sweetness on the summer !
,ir, or like playing the fiddle scientifically Q
o the untutOred savage.
-Tramps are bothering the people Of
Northern kansas. They stick closer than s
! brother, and have taking way with EN- !
they lay their hands on.
in 1875 Kansas produced IL, ,2O9, ,4OS
'ushels Of wheat, and 81, 9,798, ,766 bushels Of I,
orn; the valuation Of all crops raised dur !,
ng that year being $43,S7O,4 ,49i. II
The total valuation of real and person-
j property in Brown county this year, 10
2 S32, 5000, and the amount Of State tax
o be paid thereon, is Sl5. .5Sl 50. =
The firm Of Ellison h Leves, cattle :.
ealers At Fort Dodge, have handled eighty r
housand cattle this season, resulting in . =
roft Of 100000. =
Births. deaths and marriaees have been .
ather scarce in Northern Kansas Of late. d
What that portion Of our State needs j. h
efOrm. ,
The business men Of Great Be1d have b
sued circular 70 the effect that after the /"
OH Of August they will give credit TO no =
ody. This 10 true reform. Id
The hog cholera is prevalent in some 9
ortions Of Linn county. Green vstermel- y
rs continue to b, in demand amoog The Z
uman community o. much a ever, not =
%
They have opened Q nev shooting gal :,
nv out At Dodpe Civ This dnn't nro- | -