The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-03
STATE

cd some EngllSn sP2rrOHS.
The Crawford county Jail is to be
improved by the addition of iron cells.
All the "dead broke'' fellows in the
State have the Black Hills fever.
There is man in the wilson County
Citizen office who reads the Bible.
Zero was the lowest point touched
by the thermometer this winter at
Chetopa.
The Topeka Blade has enlarged and
improved. 1t is now printed on .
Campbell press.
The castor oil factory at Fort Scott,
makes four barrels of the energetic ca
thartic per day.
A woman in Wilson county lately
gave birth to twins-cOmbined weight,
eighteen pounds.
Eugene F. Ware, of Fort Scott, has
been invited to read a poem at the
Parsons Pioneer celebration, March
Sth.
The name of Bachelor postoffice,
Mcpherson county, has been changed
to Wheatland. The postmaster got
married.
The ice put up in the big ice house
on the bend of the river called Sandy
Hook, near Lawrence, has been sold
for $4,000.
There is rose bush, or rather
creeping rose vine, on the house of Mr..
F. Barnes, at Fort Scott, which has
been in full leaf over week.
Sidney Clarke has started San Juan
Agency in Topeka, for the purpose of
advertising that country, and furnish
ing information to those seeking it.
The Neodesha Free Press intends to
introduce valuable and useful species
of grass into the country. 1t offers
pound of Alfalfa seed to each cash sub
| scriber.
Marshall county News: 'sThere is
before the Legislature q proposed
lanendment to the State constitution
relocating the State Capital. Let it
move west to Junction City,
DR.. Black, of Winfield, has an over
coat that is made Of material which is
over two hundred years old. At least
two centuries ago it was q bed cover
let. 1t is a peculiarly woven fabric
and resembles lambs fleece.
MIR. Alex. Moore has presented the
Independence Tribune with "pap-
pOose board" which he took from an
Usage Iudian dugout in 1870. 1t is
three feet long by ten inches wide,
with the head ornamented, and has
eight holes through which thongs tied
held the infant in position.
Chetopa Advance: Some scamps
have made a practice of visiting a
school house in Labette, and showing
eff their cussedness by cutting up the
outline maps on the wall, and Kidding
the windows by shots from a gun or
pistol.
Eeodesha Free Press: The prospect
for crop of peaches in Wilson county
this year looks rather blue just now.
The late cold snap killed about one
half of the fruit bads of the early vari-
cites, and all kinds are now so far ad-
vanced that any sudden cold weather
is liable to kill most of what are lett.
Fifty families from Lincoln, ILL.,, ar
rived at Kansas City Saturday, on their
way to Wichita, to settle. They had
nins car loads of freight.
A number of gentlemen met at To-
peka Feb. 18th, and organized the Par
sons, Newton & Ellsworth railroad.
r, w. p. Muse, of Newton was elected
president, and J. E. Duncan, of the
same place, secretary. The capital
stock is I'VE millions of dollars. This
road is projected from Ellsworth on
the Kansas Pacific railroad, via New
ton to Parsons, where iE is to connect
with the Memphis & Parsons road.
The Association of Congregations
Churches and Ministers of Southern
Kansas will hold its annual meeting
with the church at Parsons, beginning
Tuesday, April 4th, at z o'clock p. M
Each church is entitled to represen-
tatiOn of pastor and two delegates.
The A. T. & S. F. railroad was COM
pleted to Pueblo, 633 miles from Kan
sas City and ST miles from Atchison
t It connects at Pueblo with the Den
YER q Rio Grande narrow gauge, and
: is now competing line with the Kan
. sas Pacific to Denver.
Last Saturday, two boys in North
Topeka, named Thomas Jones an6
J Harry Baird were smothered to death
by the caving in of 3 sand bank in
which they were playing.
The Agricultural College at Man
r haitian has 1S4 students.
The Hiawatha Dispatch says: The
, Central branch of the up railroad
is new gobbling any number of farms
I in this county that hard working mel
: had honestly purchased, labored hard
+ to improve, but owing to adverse sea-
: sons, ill lack and grasshoppers, canno
pay for.
Last Sunday night, Prices block il
: Atchison was destroyed by an incendi
t airy fire. Mr.. Price lost all his deed
!, to real estate and other valuable doeu
. ments. The building Is one Of the hes
known in the State. It was insure,
i for 5000.
: The largest stock Of cigars pipes. smOE