The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-01-27
STATE ITEMS.

-Iherc aES lo5-"" icHh1 ~ "Ai~
Kansas.
Council Grove Is shipping brooms to
Denver.
Manhattan tslks of an "0!i Settlers
Reunion"
-sa!:na Is rebuilding her burnt dis
irict"
-CofeyyiJle prayer meeting. are well
attended.
The Herd Law is 10; very popular in
Allen county.
they are talking OF removing the State
Capital to Emporia.
The Augusta Ga=stie favors Col. Plumb
for L. 5. Senator.
Hog stealing is regular business in
Anderson county.
The Presbyterian church at Lyndon is
without pastor.
Manhattan proposes 10 engage IN the
manufacture OF starch.
Wheat, in Montgomery county, is from
II to ii inches high.
The Journal thinks that Kansas City Is
very much afraid OF Lawrence.
Tom Stivers, of the Atchison Champion,
has a boy, only few days o'd.
1t is said that the castor bean crop OF
the State will realize 81 100000.
The Manhattan Nationalist still ad-
heres TO Blaine and Bristow.
Lawrence had a $1,000 frs Sunday
morning. Small insurance.
The Lawrence Journal speaks Of the
necessity Of a reform school in this State.
Everybody in Kansas is looking for
friends, in the spring, to locate in Kansas.
The girls of Waterville have discarded
croquet and taken to pitching horse shoes.
Prof. Baldwin is going to Fort Scott.
Topeka had big centennial tea party
last night.
The City Marshal OF Topeka has just
scue!ched a keno house.
A psten. has been Issued to Jno. A.
Bowen, of Eureka, for hay leaders.
Major Hopkins is kindly spoken OF by
every newspaper in the State, simply be-
cause he is god officer.
Our exchanges are urging The Legisla,
ture TO pass law this winter protecting
birds.
| There are but five voters N Tecumsef
township, Shawnee county, in favor OF the
! herd law.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Whitcomb, OF Law
renee. celebrated their silver wedding OF
Thursday.
Perry d. Kimbley, a prominent citizeI
Of Independence, was drowned in the Yer
digris river last week.
There are six ladies employed in th,
centennial rooms in Topeka, preparing ma
terial for the exposition.
The Republican State Committee vii
hold a meeting at Topeka, en- Wednesday
10Th inst, at . O'Clock p. NJ.
-Pottawatomie hunters are having goo'
success this winter in catching beaver, mink
coon and other fur-bearing animals.
Times are reported dull in St. Mary;
and the merchants have stopped advertis
ing. Great mistake, gentlemen.
There are one hundred and seventy
six students in attendance at the Agricul
,ural College; Of this number Riley count
sends seyenty-two.
A party of thirteen farmers, frop OH
and Illinois, have been looking around i
Morris county. Several Of them purchase
land, and will begin extensive improve
menis.
Nelson Abbott, Esq, the founder an
for many years the editor and pub, .sher {
the Atchison R'riot, is now one OF ::..Ye pat
fishers of the Central Baptist, the orsan {
that denomination at 81. Louis, Mo.
; The Olathe Mror says: Mr., J. l
Z u : = - ntI while Il lrty
ing cos on Saturday evening, was kIcke
by the animal, and was kicked by the an
NAL. and his lett lower jaw broken, an 1 a
So seriously bruised about the ribs.
The Baxter Springs Repu5lioan says
. Kansas can boast OF as fine class Of mt
in the Legislature this season as ever grace
the halls OF the State Capitol.
There is talk among some Topel
printers, of going to Burlingame and sta
: ing a paper to take the place OF the Chrcr
D.. oIe which has followed the County Seat
:, Lyndon.
: -ihe Cherokee Iader says: We hs
: fears that the recent warm weather woul
swell the buds OF frui. trees, but we are 4
formed by those who have examined the
that they have not swollen enough to {
any damage.
e The Wilson county Caizea says:
f the last three months not less than tho
sand head of sheep have been brought
Wilson county from Missouri and 9th
5 parts and every few days We hear OF IN
IS who propose going abroad TO get fiocks,
r of Others increasing their tlocks who ha
:, given the sheep business trial.
The Wa,hena Reporter says: The Il
mers OF this section are in hig giee at {
Is encouraging prospects for magnificent Gro
e of wheat next harvest. 1t has grown ;
II along to this time, and is now 50 large
TO cover the ground and give self-protecti'
:, to its roots, SO that March winds, freezi
d and thawing, or any other unpropitio
weather, is not ap; to do it any damage.
The Kansas City Journal says:
Friday night, the marshal Of Wyandoi
, was suddenly called TO attend Mrs. Til
= who Of late has been attending the protra,
Is ed meetings OF the M. +. Church, duri
G. the proceedings of which she acted son
= what strangely, but on the evening me
;, toned showed unmistakable signs Of inss
IL ity, and was with difficulty kept subdued.
Is -ItIs rumored that Sampson. one of t
n State Executive Committee OF the Patro
1t of Husbandry, has absconded from Wich
h carrying with him something near SIS
900 belonging to the members OF the orc
in the Topeka Blade. We ha
heard that Mr.. Sampson was behind in
accounts, but cannot believe that he !
Ir abeconded, or that he is in arrests to tn
es amount.-W Walnut Valley Times. s.@sss -
n Our readers will hold the Thsyer 4eadli
g. responsible for the following: ,. 7. Wrig
of Highland Park, saw hog on the fa
u Of Mr. Owens about ten miles west of Til;
/; er, that weighs loco pounds, and is
L. lieyed to be the biggest hog in the COUNT
g He is of the Poland China breed, fonr ye
= old and six feet and ten inches long, a
three feet and four inches high. He
quite able to walk around, and his owl
in,ends,o make him weigh 90 pounds
The Atchison Champion, in an arti
r on the Cooper apportionment bill, says
Fer instance, Leavenworth county, havi
v a population of 1000, is given one Sci
l. tor, and WyaRdotte with 1858, is a
e. given one Senator. Atchison, with pol
:, laiion of ~, lS7, has one Senator, and Cra
;, ford, with s, ,SS6 inhabitants, also has o.
IN These instances are only samples Of |
p glaring injustice of the whole bill.
" apportionment for Representatives is j
ir as consp,cuously unfair as that fer Sci
ton. .
The Atchison Patriot SAYS: Saturd
night Mr.. Henry Dunton, foreman in s
tons foundry, fell from the Four;h-str
Ne bridge into the creek below, cutting
- head and causing slight conclusion Of I
u brain. He dragged himself TO Brunswi
he drug store, where he obtained tempor:
IN relief, aad was taken TO his home by Off