The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-11

| ioos IOSI DFotncE III the STATE ponlGen
tiary. They are both learning thu
same trade.
Some parties are talking of putting
up fax and lint factory at Independ
ence on condition that the farmers O
that vicinity will agree to raise on,
thousand acres of fax tor a series O
years, and the manufacturers agree Il
buy all they raise at fourteen dollars s
Ton, pulled by the roots and delivered
at the mandatory. Flax will yield
on an average OF one and half tons tc
the acre. This gives the farmer
twenty-one dollars per acre deductinq
six dollars per acre for pulling and de-
livering, and will give him a net profit
OF fifteen dollars per acre. This will
surely pay as it is sure crop in this
country.
ga well known family of this city
purchased 3 quantity of fifty-cent
green tea, lately, of one of our GRO
GERS, and began its use next morning
for breakfast. Nothing wrong in the
tea was detected however, until sud-
denly the lady of the house found her
face swelling painfully and in such a
manner as to cause no little alarm. A
physician was Immediately consulted,
who pronounced the swelling a result
OF the use of arsenic in food. The tea
was examined, and proven to be dam
gerously poisonous. No blame was in
any way attached to the merchant, as
low priced grades of tea are liable to
be crooked. "-Lawrence Journal.
The Burlington Patriot wants Geo,
I. Anthony nominated as the republi-
can candidate for Governor.
On Saturday afternoon last a little
daughter of Mr.. Ierly's about three
years old, living in the southern part
OF Gardner township, fell upon pair
of scissors with which she was playiag,
and the point of the scissors penetrat-
ed her face just beneath the eye. From
the effect of the wound she died on
Sabbath night.-Olathe Mirror.
The man who would have said it
was possible to build a new railroad in
Kansas during the past year would
have been thought lunatic. Yet a
new road IL miles long, has been
built and on the 10th day of this
month it will begin to transact bust
ness. We allude to the road from OF
tawa to Williamsburg, known by its
proper title as the Kansas City, Bur-
lingtOn & Santa Fe railroad.-Law-
renee Journal.
A young lady, school ma'am living
| east of Fredonia, taught her school as
usual till the time OF closing for the
week the evening following (Satur-
day. entertained company in the per-
son of young gentleman who called,
Sunday morning became the mother
| of fine child, and few hours there
after was regularly and legally made a
wife. If any other county can troi
out school marin that will beat this
Wilson county will surrender the
palm.
At Wallace, on the X. p. road, on
the LIST inst, the round house and thres
locomotives were burned. Loss. &7O,-
900.
The Kansas river has frozen solid
above the dam at Lawrence, and the
ice harvest begun there Wednesday
That dam is useful in more ways thar
one.
A terrible ARRAY took place Jan. Sd
at Appleton, II miles southeast of Fl
Scott. A desperate named Dick Da.
Wis shot and killed Samuel Harvey, in
a blacksmith shop, and a brothe: o.
Harvey, with admirable presence o.
mind, picked up a bar of iron an6
Drained the desperate, whose head fell
into the forge fire, and was burned tc
crisp.
The Lawrence Tribune finds some
very palpable errors in the railroad
distances given in the Kansas Agri.
cultural report tor 1875, and thinks
that the book was printed in Chicago
Its criticisms prove that the worl
ought to be revised for errors before
another edition is printed.
The Topeka Blade, st. Marys Times
Garnett Plainaealer and the Western
Progress are blowing about their fas
lady compositors, and it is now pro.
posed to haYe trial of speed at thu
State fair, the winner to receive a pin
back. The Blade puts forward Mis-
Annie Swsyze, the Times, Miss Alice
Evans, the Plaindealer, Miss Funston
and the Progress, Miss Annie Wilson.
Council Grove has organized a re
publican campaign club, with L. P
Rude, president, and Frank Morriarty
secretary.
We have become convinced of lat,
that the doors in all church building
should be in the same end of the hous,
as the pulpit. 1t is very inconvenien
for the congregation to turn rounC
every time either of the doors ar,
Opened.-Iola Register.