The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-02-17
KANSAS ITZES.

| The grass Is springing up green i
some piaces.-Iepekd Times Fcb. 10.
Sever car loads o. corn have been ship
ped from this station east, durYs the week
st uary's T;aes
-Leaven worth the great Numerical me
tropoii- Of Kansas. has Lo city library
Laurence Jo.ancL.
The zephyrs, last Ssiurnay, lifted ant
turned over sidewalk l30 feet long ol
Fifth Avenue.-Emporid Ledger.
Farmers from all parts Of the county
report the prospects for a good crop O.
wheat to be excellent. - Girud Piess.
e. A. Smith. Esq OF the Norwood stoci
farm, sold yesterday to L. Builene the fine
three year old Jersey heifer "Violel" fol
the sum Of S300.-Larence Journal.
John Wirkler, the hotel keeper in Al.
ma housed above sixty tons OF ice last week.
II is about six inches thick, very solid and
clear as crvsial.-Ainn Ners.
| Robert Z Cox has bought Il. w. Diko's
farm OF 200 acres, two miles southeast o'
Louisville, for 81 900. A splendid farm
Louisville Reporter.
! w. S. Anderson has returned from Ill.
inOis. lie says he saw no country that
will compare with Dickinson county
Abline Caroniete.
"Wednesday Was clear, bright, beauti-
ful day, and corn came crowding in from
all the surrounding country it was twenty
cents per busheI.-TAayer Headlight.
The engineers Of the Joplin railroad
are vigorously at work. We understand
there is some talk Of running a line to Wal
nut Station or Hepler.-Gndrd Press.
A regular prairie schooner passed
through the city yesterday. A house on
wheels would be more appropriate, for that
| is exactly what it was. IL contained a
family with household efects.-Monitor.
The ice-deales, always thankful for
small favors, partially filled there ice
houses the other day, from q little four
inch-thick skim of ice-the thickest Of the
sesson.-Osase Chronicle.
Our grain dealers have difficulty in
| obtaining cars in which to export corn.
Thousands of bushels of kansas corn is
being shipped to Baltimore, from whence it
goes to Europe.-Independenee Tribune.
About six tons of millet and FIVE tons
of hay were destroyed yesterday by locomo-
tive sparks along the line of the Kansas
Pacific, about four miles north of town.
Laurence Jou nal
Independence has more pretty women
than any town in the State. We have been
careful to satisfy ourselves on this point be-
fore making this statement.-Independen
| Courier.
From present indications We infer that
larger area of land will be broken in this
tha, hafnro
cessful and profitable wheat growing ia
stimulating farmers to renewed e1ertions
in that line -Fredonia Citizen.
The gas has been escaping in such
quantities from the bottom of the McCamp-
bell shaft that it is becoming very trouble
some 1t burns brilliantly, and there must
be coal oil or iron works Wiehitd
Eagle.
The old post office boxes in the office at
this place have been taken out and q bran
new outfit, made by Gilbert Metty, put up
in its place. We feel a good deal better
under the new arrangement.-LorisriHe Re
porter.
Two runaway boys from Lyndon ap-
piled to citizen for aid few days ago,
and he advised them to either shovel coal
in a coal-mi or else go home and masti-
cate the fatted calf. At last advices they
we're still wandering.-Osage Free Press.
Mr. ". S. Taylor, late of Indiana, has
purchased farm IN Cherry township, and
says he is remarkably we'll pleased with
our county. And so it is with everyone
who will take good look at our advan-
tases.-Independenoe Tribune.
When Mr. Dildine returned last week
from Ohio, he brought with him a half
dozen English sparrows, which he freed at
his farm south OF town. We shall hope
they will do we'll, as this bird Is one OF the
very best projections against insects we
have. -Cadnute Times.
MIR. S W. Burnett, of North Law
renee, recently sold five head of hogs to
Ridenour 4 Baker for Sl57. Their aggre-
gate weight was 2, 2,22O pounds, and he re-
ceIved S6.S0 per hundred. Mr.. Albert
Zimmerman sold TO the same firm eleven
hogsfhst averaged $50 pounds each.
Girls should be careful what they say
in the dark. As sober bachelor was
riding pas; house few nights ago,
sweetiy demonstrating voice was heard say
ing: "iou are not going to pass are YOU !"
Of course, after that he didn't-till he
found she thought he was some one else"
-Ndtioadfis.
Another effort is being made to con-
struct Railroad from junction City to
Arkansas CITY, over the line OF the old
Kansas and Nebraska road. Ii Is presumed
that the Kansas facinc company VIII tax"
hold of the work and construct and operate
the road II reasonable amount OF local
aid ls given 10 Inc enterprise--lugusfa