The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1876-09-21
OUR NGIGGBORS' DOIyGS.

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Dickinson County Chronicle Mr.. Dodge
brought us a bean pod this week that was
twenty-five inches long. This is our Centen-
NAL bean.
| The Ellsworth Reporter says: An inl-
migrant family recently arrived in this county
all the way from New Hampshire, with bed,
three dogs, cat, a black hen, basket con-
tanning five kittens. and pup with its eyes
not open, but not 4 child in the whole outfit.
The Mcpherson Independent says: A
| young tornado visited Lindsborg on Tuesday.
A heavy rain fell at that place. A whrlwind
formed among the big bluffs, and coming
down upon the town capsiZed the Swedish Free
Lutheran church completely demolishing the
edifice. The wind also damage Andersons
| furniture store.
Hayes Sentinel says : We are sorry to
chronicle the prevalence OF Texas fever along
tbs~Nalnut. a number of cattle have died.
THE preliminary examination of the horse
thieves will come Off next Saturday. Attorney
Nellis informs us that he has sufficient testi-
mony to bind them over... Myers. Russian,
| reputed to be very wealthy, arrived in New
\ ork last week, and i'll Il short time will start
for Ellis county. His wealth is estimated ut
$500, 900 to S2O,0O0,0O0.
| The proprietors Of the Minneapolis Senti-
mel have just completed new Office. Mr..
j. G. Boblett and family started for Arizona
this morning. He left here well fixed, and
| judging from appearances is likely to stay for
while. -. Messrs. James Lean and Elias
Popham started east on Monday last with four
ear loads of splendid looking steers. Mr..
Frank Sherman, of Delphos, who had only
two children lost one of them last week with
group and when they had consigned the
body to the grave and returned home the other
! was dead.
From the Solomon Valley Mirror: We
have sample of corn in our Office raised by
A. b. Murch, that was brought in within nine
ty days from planting, and was hard enough
to grind. I'VE have collected list of some
of he more important articles sold in our town
! (Minneapolis) alone during the present year,
since March lst, 1876 : Number of wagons
| sold, so plows, 375 ; cultivators. no har-
rows, 62 hay rakes, 26 : grains drills, IL !;
reapers and haryesters, -l0l sets harness,
1870 threshers, 3. OF the 375 plows Is were
gang and sulky plOws. Mrs. Jones, living
just south of Lindsey, brought us bushel of
apples grown in their orchard this year. We
shall send sample to the Centennial, as they
!
compare with apples anywhere. Two twigs
less than half an inch in diameter bore twenty
seven fair-sized apples, smooth and clean.
| The largest specimen measured over twelve
inches in circumference.
| Enterprise Gazette The Enterprise Mills
took in ninety-seven loads of wheat last week,
and the receipts promise to be even larger this
week. The above does not include the trans
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mills. The escape Of Weaver, the alleged
horse thief. from the Junction City Jail, one
day last week, was followed by vigorous
and haSty pursuit.tbut all to no purpose, the
| fugitive having apparently made good his es-
| cape. In the city of Enterprise resides lady
| who claims to be a Clalrvoyant, or fortune
teller, one who deals in the past present, and
future, unfolding the ghasty Nightmares of
slumbering centuries, and making the hair of
the tiInid sinner stand on end like quilts upon
| the fretful porcupine." Hearing of this Won
derful woman. our friend Asher, of Junction
City, determined to test her powers with re-
| gard to the whereabouts of the fleeing Wea-
yer, and at the same time have few episodes
in his own life laid bare. Taking pack of
cards, she proceeded TO read the future in their
homely "spots" and "faces." She said that
| Weaver could be found at the house Of per-
son, whom she named. at Detroit, where he
was then hiding, an, that he (Asher) would
be one of two persons, who would capture
| him. Asher and another man repaired to the
| spot indicated, and sure enough found the es
capped prisoner, and he was waltZed of TO
Junction.
The Junction City Union says: We have
received from Ii. n. Farey, of Philadelphia,
copy of the "Englishman in Kansas being a
series of letters written by Mr., Gladstone TO
the London Times in 1856. The American
edition was edited by Fred. Law Omstead.
Mr.. Gladstone visited the United States that
year, and the first thing that attracted him was
the noise about slavery in Kansas. He visited
! the Territory. The book is very rare one,
aud was accidentally found by Mr. Farey on
the shelves of secondhand book store in
Philadelphia. This makes twelve histories OF
Kansas, we have. all written prior 10 1858. -.
Another large flock of pelicans passed south
over junction on Tuesday last. followed by
half hundred buzzards. When the latter
rived over the northern part Of town they
seemed to scent something on the prairie, and
began moAing in circles. A lamb ut the Pa
cific House. when the birds had resumed their
flight, exhibited much distress and fear. and
took shelter against the porch. looking uD. and
bleating pteously. Mr.. William Lockstone
has one OF the largest petrifactions We have
ever seen. Ii is a cactus and is over one foot
in diameter and six inches thick. II must
have grown here when the winters were not
"a long and severe as they are now. for at
presenfthis cactus Is not found north Of Mex
ico.~~The specimen was picked up in this
,neighborhood.