The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-05-05
STATE.


The town of Humboldt is out OF
debt.
Ottawa has a bonded Indebtedness
of SOL 900.
Lawrence has returned to the print
tive old ferry.
A Marshall county woman has
stone churn $50 years old.
The Topeka papers report Sam Lap
pin enjoying good health.
Seneca will close her schools
month earlier than usual this season.
A Leavenworth girl, the other day,
had her leg badly torn by bull dog.
The Waubaunsee cheese factory will
commence operations on May 10th.
A Marshall county man proposes to
have 800 acres of broom corn this
year.
The Indians have bought a great
number of farming implements from
Coffeyville hardware men this spring.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop
in Kansas this year will be the largest
produced in any of the western States.
The Blue Rapids wooden mill firm,
Messrs. Cook, Chandler & BsrIow,
were awarded. the contract for fur
nishing goods to the penitentiary this
year.
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board have adjourned, and will not
meet again in Kansas until after the
great exposition. They are well
pleased with everything.
A Kansas woman who kicked a
saucy servant girl out of the house,
was arrested and fined one dollar.
Cheap enough, Luxaries are getting
Within reach of the poorest these days.
The lola Register is informed that
both soft and hard shell almonds can
be successfully grown in this State.
Those who have tested it say that the
trees will bear when three or four
years old.
OF our congressional delegation, In
gals was born at Middleton, Massa.
chusetts; Harvey, in Monroe county,
Virginia; Phillips, at Paisley, Scot
land; GOodin, in Tifin, Ohio, and
Brown at Buffalo, New York.
The Ladies' Centennial Association
of Topeka, decided at their last meet
ing to appropriate 1866 for the cree
ton of stone fountain in the Kansas
building at Paramount Park. After
the close of the exhibition it will be
returned to Topeka.
Fort Scott polled 9Os votes.
Kansas pays over eight million Of
dollars for whisky, annually.
Major o. B. Gum is to superintend
the reconstruction of the dam and
bridge at Lawrence.
Six of the congregations in the EN-
poria P=esbytery. are expecting tc
build centennial churches.
The Kansas State Medical Society
will meet in LeaveRworth on We'd
nesday, the, 10th day of May.
The Attorney General says the dog
law puzzles him. He is not able tC
make anything Ineligible out of it.
Tney have Just taken the census Of
the Kaw Indian tribe, and find they
I number 4s2. They are still on the de-
i crease.
The EMPoRIA News suggests Hon
VIM. MartindaIe, of Greenwood coun-
ty, for Lieutenant Governor. He is
an excellent man.-Junction City
Union.
Mr.. S. NJ. Moss, and old settler Of
Cherokee county, living three miles
east of Oswego, has organized an In
dian troupe to 60 to the centennial.
At Hutchinson, rattlesnake which
had been captive for eight months
died the other day, having refused food
or drink daring this entire time.
Troy Chief: a farmer in this coun-
ty could not get as much for his pota-
toes as he though5 they were worth
SO he chartered a car, and loaded it fol
/ st. Louis A few days since, he re.
ceived a letter from the commission
merchant, to whom he had consigned
them, informing him that the potatoes
were SOLD, and requesting him to send
SIS, to pay the balance o. the freight
The hail storm passed over Shawnet
county Saturday March 22ds mile
wide and extending fifteen miles
south, which destroyed all OF the or
chard and wheat crops. All of the
windows on the north side of the
houses were broken. Not sign of 8
bud or blossom on the trees aFt
left. A great number of cattle wer'
killed. In some places the hail wa
eight inches deep, of the size OF hens
eggs. Wagon loads of hail could
be scraped up, sc hours af'
ter it fell. 1t did not do much damage
in the city. a -
i The Fort Scott Centennial concert
lottery did not sell enough tickets tC
make q drawing, aud has therefore re-
solved To return the money for Al
1 tickets sent In by Nay 20. So it seems
that lottery tickets sell very slowly il
these times. -. e
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