The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-12-01
Kansas News.
Tar will kill fruit trees.
Kans as is sOlidly republican.

Tar will kill fruit trees.
Kansas is solidly republican.
Kansas peanuts are sh ipped to Ohio
Cheap jewelry swindlers infest the
State.
The Parsons Sun has suspended pub
LEGATION.
Milk cows should be fed on wet
food in the winter.
John Mehl is tanning an antelope at
Marion Center.
The Humboldt brewery has COM
menced operations.
Slack water navigation is suggested
for the Neosho.
Hay bound upon trees will protect
them from rabbits.
Old Shoes " are at a premium in
the Second District.
A farmer at Rossville lost $50 tons
of hay by prairie fire.
The fourth floor of the Russell flour
ing mill is being put in.
The herd law was defeated in Allen
county by majority of Coz.
The amount paid in Leavenworth
for dog tax this year was $l,S75.
Up to date, 6,O0O snakes have been
killed at their den near Concordia.
A hen in Republic county has laid
an egg measuring 90 by inches.
Several snow-plows with engines
attached, have gone to the mountains.
The young people of Council Grove
have organized dramatic association.
D. S. Sauble is building The finest
stone barn in Chase county, at q cost
of $4,000.
There hasn't been 9 steamboat, eth
er up or down the river, at Leayen-
worth, for two months.
The State Grange will meet this
year at Manhattan, Riley county, on
Tuesday, December 18th.
Wild geese, white swan, and sand
mill cranes, are abundant in Central
and Southern Kansas.
The proposition to buy and make
free the bridges across the Arkansas
river at Wichita has been defeated.
The fall immigration to Kansas has
about ceased, only an occasional
schooner being seen headed westward.
The Hays City Sentinel suggests the
propriety of knocking at the door be-
lore entering neighbours house.
A Neosho county hen has laid, set
and Matched eight times this year, and
has q month and half to go on yet.
Many of our citizens are interested
in organizing q military company.
So says the Council Grove Republican.
Good coal underlies nearly the en-
tire surface OF Lincoln county. "A
number of mines are already partial
ly developed.
1t is claimed that more poultry, but
ter and eggs are shipped from Bar
lington than from any point on The
NJ, Z. & T. read.
During the present season DR.. w. L.
Challis, of Atchison county, has shear
ed from his flock of 1, 500 sheep, over
4 ,O60 pounds of wool.
A farmer walked into Frankfort the
other day, pure hased so cent worth of
tobacco and 70 cents worth of sugar |
and started back home.
The State Sabbath School Conyen-
ton will be held at Wyandotte on the
9Th, 9Th, and 9TH of December. FL. |
of Topeka, is secretary.
The Southeast Horticultural Society
of Kansas will meet in Burlington,
November 90 and 80. This will be the
first meeting of the kind ever held In
this county.
A man was picked up dead Drunk,
from the railroad track at Blue Rapids
where he had gone to sleep. In his
pocket handkerchief the sum OF $l65
was foand tied up.
The elections of justices of the peace
n Greenwood county have net been
declared null and void, for the reason
hat they were not embraced in the
herif7s proclamation. II
An cid lady in Paola prepared poi.
oned butter which she spread on
bread for the rats. They ate of the
)utter, when she gave the bread TO her
;hiekens, and they died.
The sheriff of Morris county is thus
described by the Republican: Is His {
eight Is feet 8 inches, his width 10
eet IL inches. his conntenaace is q .
onpronise between 9 terrier and ].
.crilla, and his gait Is cross between
he Waddling OF duck and the gym
lastie feats OF tpmble bug. . 1t