The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-31
STATE NEWS.

Barton county has salt factory.
Hired girls are in demand at Enter
prise.
The new court house at Paola is COM
pleted.
On an average, Abilene has one free
fight per day.
--Quails will not be riie before the first
of November.
The ferry at Augusta took in $500
one day last week.
A floral hall is to be erected upon the
fair grounds at Beloit.
Dickinson county has about 10000 acres
in wheat this year.
Kansas produces the best fruits in the
Union. Centennial fact.
Land in Phillips county is being taken
up rapidly by immigrants.
The people Of awrence and Topeka
are very sweet en- each other.
The August term Of the district court
OF fShawnee county convened yesterday.
j. T. Mcconnell, proprietor of the
Merchants Hotel at Emporis, is dead.
There is considerable San Juan mine
fever raging at present throughout the
State.
Dodge City has but one church, which
will seat about one hundred and it is never
crowded.
Rather chilly August weather has pre-
vailed during the past week in Southern
Kansas.
The Kaw Valley Fair Association will
have big fair at Lawrence some time this
fall.
An insane woman named Mary Sheets,
from johnson county, died at Ossawatomie
the other day.
The water of the Neo-ho river was at
a higher stage here last Monday than it has
been for three years.
Dodge City has post Office fiend who
never gets a letter but il the most persistent
applicant in the town.
They have a chestnut tree in Law renee
quite heavily hung with burrs. 1t is said
TO be rare sight for Kansas.
The SedgwIck county fair opens at
Wichita on October Sd. The police force
in that city will be doubled.
John Hole, of Oskaloosa, signs his
name with J, and then punches a hole in
the paper. This fills the bill
There will be 100000 bushels of sur
plus corn in Mitchell county this year,
with 5O0,OO bushels of old corn.
business at Fredonia, Wilson county,
which has been rather slack curing the
Summer months, is picking up.
Million and Murdock townships, Butler
county, have Just received a large colony
of Germans, who represent $4,000 cold
cash.
The Sabbath School convention for the
Fifteenth judicial district, will be held at
Cav ker City on the 18th and Nth of Sep
tember.
A little girl named Brandt was severe
ly scalded at Junction City three DAYS ago,
by the .upsetting of kettle Of boiling
water.
C. K. Gensil, of Douglas county, was
arrested Saturday on the charge OF pre-
senting fraudulent claims against the Gov
ernment.
A Southern Kansas editor saws sit
isn't so far to hell as some people think"
which leads tp the inference that he's a
married man.
F. c. Bush, prominent merchant of
Peabody, had both bones of his leg broken
last week by the sudden fall of barrel of
molasses
The X. p. Land Department received
Saturday, from Salina, specimens of corn
fourteen feet, pop corn twelve feet and sor-
ghum thirteen feet high.
Providence permitting, q camp-meet-
ing will be held few rods from Barrett,
Station, on the Central Branch U. L. rail
road commencing September 9th.
John Butler hung up his vest in a sa-
loon at Olathe the other day. When he
went to put it on again $40 turned up miss
Ing, which has not yet been recovered
One hundred and forty-eight cars of
stone have been shipped from Florence du-
ring the past month, and heavier lot is
expected to 60 this month.
A case Of basterdy is the sensation in
Florence, Marion county. The defendant
settled matters by agreeing to pay the costs
and support the child for two years.
The editor of the Baxter Springs Re
publican made the acquaintance Of bed-bug
TIC otheT udys anu not having seen Hlm fOr |
some time remarked: "Ah you little ID; |
you here again."
The Burlington Patriot offers each pre- |
MUM Of So for the best half bushel of ap-
ples, assorted 81 for the four tallest stalks |
II field corn with ears growing thereon, and
S2 for the best collection of native grasses
arranged in boquet.
People in the East will please remem-
'er that the Western State afflicted by
,ras-hoppers this season Ia not spelled
A-a-n-s-a-s. 1t il, however, spelled in two
Ways, thusly: Nebraska and Colo
-a-d O.
A circus showed at Pleasanton the
ther day, and the worthy farmers all over
he county laid aside their cares and
roubles, and with their families, arrayed
n tasteful holiday attire, came in great
umbers.
A popular young business man of In
ependence paid such close attention to his
ervant girl that his wife's suspicious we're
reused. The suspicious were not allayed
y any means when the girl gave birth to
n infant, and now there is a coldness in I
nat household between its two principa!
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