The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-03
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have Increased. in the same time about
40 per cent. The total value of farm
products Is placed at 81, 97O,444. The
population of the State is 531, 156.
There are 74,905 dogs in the State, and
they destroyed last year 5,233 sheep.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road report earnings for January at
$256, 800, an increase over January,
1875, of $5s, 900.
The herd law went into effect in Da-
Wis county on the 10Th.
There are $4,000 head of cattle being
fed in Wilson county.
A Lawrence lady lost finger re-
Gently by the slamming of door.
A Joint stock company has been or
ganized at Fort Scott to ship corn d.
rect to Liverpool via Galveston.
Large quantities of the lola mineral
waters are being shipped to different
towns along the line of the l.. /. & G.
road.
L. Bullene, of Lawrence, has bought
the well known Jersey heifer "Violet,"
of E. A. Smith, of the Norwood stock
farm, for $500.
Cherokee and Crawford are said to
be the two best coal counties in the
State. The next in order are Usage,
Bourbon and Labette counties.
A pretty young lady is teaching
penmanship in Usage county, and her
classes are crowded with young men
who take deep interest.
Ed. Jaquins, of Howard county, is
buying sheep AMI letting them out to
persons on the halves. He will buy
5000 head.
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety has organized system of what
it calls ''fruit Stations" in various
parts of the State, with a view of gath
ering facts bearing on the culture of
fruit.
A vein of lead ore has been discov-
cred in digging well near Cherokee.
1t is twenty-eight feet below the sur
face and appears to be of sufficient
richness to pay for smelling.
A two foet vein of coal has been dis
covered nineteen feet below the sur
face near Tonganoxie, Leayenworth
county, that promises to yield great
wealth to the owners.
The annual address delivered at the
Agricultural College last fall by Noble
L. Prentis, has been neatly printed in
pamphlet form at the college printing
Office.
Prairie fires have been raging fear
fully in Mcpherson county. The In
dependent says that $25,OOO will not
pay the damages and losses sustained
by the people from the fire during or
days OF last week.
"Leap-frog' is now one of the popu-
lar amusements INDUCED in by the
young felix's of our city.-Holton Ex-
press. 1t is all right so far as the
boys are concerned, but the girls have
no right to indulge in this fascinating
game, even If it is ''leap year."-Junc.
City Union.
"Prof." Charles r. Tuttle is getting
up history of Kansas, in Leaven-
worth, and says on page 20:
"The forest must be cleared to make
room for the cornf1eld. For the &C.
complement of this the pioneer pre-
pares his axe, and day after day he
tolls on. Tree after tree bows its lofty
top"
Just so, Professor. You are evident
ly an old settler.
The n. X. g T. railroad has paid
1000 taxes into the treasury of COT.
fey county, and as the county gave ii
no bonds, it finds the road profitable
| On the night of the 10Th, near Atch.
ison, son and daughter of JOSEPH
Merlatt, while riding home on on'
horse, were overtaken by runaway
team, and both killed.
The Atchison ladies had expected II
hold Q grand Centennial party ON tn,
ed, bat on hearing of the defeat of tn,
Centennial bill in the legislature, in
dignantly resolved not to hold thei
party.
j In Abchison on the 18th youn!
man from the country, named Nelson
Pierce, found . bottle Of nitric aci,
} and mercury standing on hotel coun
ter, and took it up and shook it, an
after shaking it, drew the cork, whel
the contents flew out in every direc
ton. The face of young Pierce wa
terribly burned, and he has lost bot
his eyes. He has been suffering tn,
, most intense agony ever since. Sew
eral others standing near when tn
stuff exploded had their clothing bad
.. ~ burned.
, The new Union depot at Kansa
: City is to cost 81 ,OO0, 900. The Kansa
roads want it located on the State lin.
Il Judge Foster, of Atchison, has de
cided that If . prisoner escapes froI
the penitentiary, he cannot be impris
ed for longer than the time at whic
!, he would have been discharged If b
had not escaped.