The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-11-17
STATE.

Peabody wants brick yard.
The Topeka Leader expired on tht
4th.
Look out for the non-explosiye oil
hunbug.
Horse stealing is common in Cowley
county.
A Norman preacher holds forth at
New Albany.
A factory for concrete is being bailt
near Larned.
Usage City shipped T7s car loads OF
coal last week.
Sumner county suffers from destruc-
tive prairie fires.
Hickory and other nuts very plenti-
full in the woods this year.
The Presbyterian church at Newton
is TO be sold by the sheriff.
Railroad tickets eold at Newton
during October amounted to $3,345.
During the month of October Usage
City shipped $23, 600 worth Of coal.
A. Atchison, during the season, one
thousand Centennial tickets were sold.
Indian hogs are sold at auction on
the streets of Independence every Sat-
urday.
A Barton county man killed thirty
three snakes the other day In one
prairie dog town.
Pawnee county boasts of being out
OF debt, with mouey in her treasury,
and low taxes.
Eggs of the hoppers have Matched
out all over the State. They'll need
stockings before spring.
A Doniphsn county man sold 1900
gallons OF wine, manufactured irom
grapes grown this year.
A thousand horses to be purchased
by the Government at Atchison with
In the next thirty days.
Montgomery county is endeavoring
TO compromise with her bondholders
at 80 cents On the dollar.
An incendisry burned stable full
of valuable horses, carriages and grain
in Miami county, recently.
Two hundred and thirty car loads of
fat Texas cattle were shipped east
from Dodge City during October.
There are five women acting at the
present time as County SupeIi nten-
dents of Public Instruction in the State
The farmers of LabeJte county have
organized Fire Protective Association
to prevent prairie fires until spring
Az incendiary burned the barn OF
Dir. Warren, containing nine head of
horses, and other valuables, in Potta-
watomie county.
A mau named Osay lassoed a three
year-old buffalo near Fort Elliott last
week, and says he will saw off his
horns, put on yoke and work him.
George w FOran asked the Leaven-
wsrth police to locK him up, as some
one sought his lie, and then shot HIM
self in the head, causing instant death,
on Sunday last.
Prof. Frank 81. Snow. of the State
University, has received boxes of earth
which contain the remains of grass
hopper eggs partially destroyed by Il
worn. Gu in. worm.
Rev. E. R. Sanborn, Free Congrega-
tionalist, challenges Rev. w D. ThOm-
as, another minister of LeaVenworth
TO q theological bout, and threatens
ILL a. NC NOCS HOt dCCcPGs
A Topeka fellow went through the
Centennial to New York, and there
took fire alarm box for street letter
box, ami insisted on working away
at the thing till four steamers were
playing on him and he was run over by
q hose cart.
Salina now calls her north and
south road the " fast line.
The Salina County Journal says ::
The largest tract of land sowed to win
tor wheat, to be found in the country
is few miles south of Solomon City
and about twelve miles east of Salina,
in this county. The whole tract COM
prises A. 100 acres. The wheat is up
over the entire piece, and presents q
beautiful sight.
Diphtheria is very fatal at st. George.
The Manhattan Enterprise says that
no less than twenty-five or thirty per-
sons have died from that malignant
scourage within the last six msnths.
The victims are principally children,
though a number of grown persons
have snccumbed TO its power.