The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
STATE ITEMS.


-Topeka's horse fair opens today.
State Convention, today, at Topeka.
Great Bend has just erected new mill.
A ,hree-yesr-old colt in Marshall
county, weighs /, ,2S0 pounds.
Frankfort, Marshall county, wants q
bank.
Moody will establish a soap factory at
Abilene.
-Oskaloosa is taking steps to organize q
graded school.
Raw elk has gone up fifty per cent,
which is good news for Franklin county.
A Methodist camp meeting is now in
progress at Auburn, Shawnee county.
Five prisoners escaped from the Atchi-
son county Jail last Sunday morning.
The Western Kansas saloons give a
chrome with every drink.
A woman died last week while shout
ing at camp-meetiDg, IN johnson county.
-Paola is one Of the liveliest towns in
the State.
Another invoice OF Mennonites is ex-
pected soon.
They made big haul of horee thieves
in Riley county the other day. =
The freight train time-card on the
Kansas Pacific road has been changed.
-Dysentery is prevalent in Doniphan
county.
A seven year old boy was killed by light
ming near Brantford last week.
Nearly every arriving train brings i'm
migrants into Montgomery county.
S. A. Long, OF Newark, Wilson county,
has disappeared. He owed considerable.
Cherokee county is excited over a
Beecher-J ilton case.
Rev. A. NJ. Averill, of Emporia raises
white blackberries.
Intensely warm weather prevails
throughout the entire State.
A Girard firm wants one hundred
bushels of castor beans Immediately. What
a country and what people.
The NJ. K, +. S. & G. railroad is
transporting one hsndred car loads Of corn
per month from La Cygne.
A big excursion party leaves Emporia
on the 24th, for Pueblo, Colorado, via the
A., T. Il S. +. railroad.
N. B. Cogswell, Of Chelsea, Butler
county, will raise 100 bushels Of corn TO the
acre this season.
A girl in Wilson county was bitten by
a tarantula last week. The tarantula died,
but the girl still survives.
He got drunk and lay down on the
railway track near Ellsworth the other
day. The obituary notices were very short.
A. F. Robinson, of Abilene, accidental
ly shot himself few days ago, while out
hunting antelope.
There are already thirty-One cases
docke,ed ior the next term of the District
Court, which meets at Bslleville.
Col. c. c. Carpenter, of Black Hills no
toriety, is back in Kansas again, and wanti
to organize another expedition.
Twelve men were thrown out of EN-.
ployment by the burning of planning mill
at Fort Scott, few days ago.
A bunch of lowland grass was brought
into Lawrence the other day, which meas
ured twelve and one-half feet in hight.
The handsome residence If John H.
Irwin, al Atchison, was destroyed BY fire
last Saturday, resulting in loss OF 5000
The grasshoppers which have beer
operating in Colorado, have touched West
ern Kansas. Touch us very lightly, q. II
The German Lutherans at Manhattan
have raised over 81 900 towards erecting q
church there.
Six cars were ditched last week on the
ST. J x d. c. Il. r., seven mics west o.
Wathena.
A man named Bush, in Mitchell coun
ty, got a divorce the other day, and three
hours thereafter was unit-d in holy bonds
to a girl who suited him better.
They say the delinquent tax list of Cow
ley county as published in the newspapers
ia beautiful specimen of typography. il
excites little or no admiration, however.
An Abilene belle knocked fellow dowr
while playing croquet the other evening. Il
was all in fun, but the victim didn't like il
a Bit
A party of foreign gentlemen, consist
ing of emperors, princes, prime ministers
and other small fry, passed up the X. p
road the other day.
A car bound for the West, the Other
day, passed through Abilene, which con-
tained horse, COW, calves, and Bohemian
men, women and children, besides miscel'
laneous traps.
- Arrangements have been perfected fol
locating colony Of one thousand families
of Germans in two townships of the X. p
Railroad lands in Ellsworth county. They
will arrive within a week or two.
According to the new school Law, every
district treasurer is required te produce q
certificate from the clerk, showing that his
bond has been filed and accepted, before he
can draw any money from the county treas.
urer.
A young married man at Enterprise
became too intimate with a girl in his
neishborhood, and to hush the matter up
lie has agreed to pay the girl $500; 500
down and the balance TO run "a a life in
surance policy with interest.
An eating match come off in Dickinson
county last week. One man Tailed on the
outside of twenty-one roasting-ear in 13
minutes and hall, while the other fellow
similingly dropped the twenty fifth cob at
the end of the thirteenth minute.
John Duncan, of Madison, died very
suddenly last Thursday. He went out TO
feed his stock and staid 20 long that his
family became alarmed and went to look
after him. They found him Just alive. He
was brought in and expired in a few min
utes. Cause supposed to be heart.disease.
MIR. and Mrs. John Wi.eman, of Mar
shall county, quarreled. A few days ago
John had occasion to 90 to town. and dur
ing his absence Mrs. John packed up the
furniture, hitched the horses to the wagon,
and bade adieu to the scene OF her sorrow.
Wise-woman, wasn't she?
The Hays City Sentinel reports that Sec
tion rich in fossils and petrifactions. The
bones of q mastodon were found thirty feet
below the surface. A petrified fab two feet
long was taken from the center of . huge
rock. A tooth thirteen inches long has also
been found. One of the big bones of mas
todon found there measures thirty inches in
"A soldier got drunk at Wichita the
other day, and essayed to run that quiet
town. He was knocked down fourteen
was shot in the neck, several panes of glass
and innumerable bottles and glasses were
broken, several persons were seriously in
jured, but they arrested the boy in blue.
Judge Halderman.
Judge ]. A. Hslderman, of Lsavenworth,
addressed the Hayes and Wheeler club At
the Sabeths school-house, on Saturday
night last, Judge Halderman Ia the heat