The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-02
SOUTHWEST.

9th alt.
Mr.. Warner, living near Garfield,
loss 1oO mead OF sheep during the re-
cent rains, by exposure They had
just been sheared and the cold rain and
chilling winds were too severe for
| them.-Larned Republican.
That's the way people who lose
sheep generally manage.
Forty families ofsLatter day Saints. -
just from Salt Lake have settled on
Rattlesnake about thirty miles from
Larned.
Another good and Trustworthy man
has been mentioned for Congress in
this District. We refer to Hon. j. J.
Buck, of Emporia.-CsttOnwood Falls
Coura
Wellington will celebrate the 4th.
Strawberries were ripe last week Ia
Sumner and Cowley counties.
One day last week Mr.. A. B. odell,
of Nenescah township, Cowley coun-
ty suffered quite heavy loss by fire.
His hay, corn, stable and pIg-pen,
with several hogs were burned. The
fire was set in the hay by his little
four year old boy who was stroasting
an egg" as he said. As soon as the
hay got fairly to burning, realizing,
in q degree, what he had done, he
rushed lin and asked his mother
for q drink Of water. She gave It to
him, and instead of drinking 1t, he
ran out and threw it on the burning
hay stack. This was the first his
mother knew of the fire. The damage
to Mr.. Odell is not less than a hun
dred dollars.
The Larned Republican Is the name
of new and good looking Republican
paper just started at Larned, Pawnee
county, by Pallock & Andrews.
Col. Plumb of Empoiia has accepted
the Invitation to be orator on the 9TH,
he has State reputation as q speak
er, and we feel justified in saying that
those who may come to Marion Centre
on the 4th to hear him will be amply
repaid.-Record.
Hutchinson can boast of the young
est grandmother in the valley. There
is lady in this city who Is not quite
thirty-fOUr years old and Is the grand
mother of a splendid child.-News.
The Harvey County News claims to
have pie plant leaf fifteen feet in
circumference.
DIR. Asaac Howe, of Wisconsin, and
a Mr.. Morgan, will Jointly publish a
paper at Florence. The fl rst number
will appear about the first of June.
Monday afternoon, May %, a strip
of country about five miles east and
west and six miles north and south,
lying south of the London crossing on
the Nenescah, was visited by q hail
storm, which we are sorry to learn.
played sad naVoe with the splendid
wheat fields in that yaciniy. The
storm seems to have gathered on the
Nenescah, extending only few miles
up and down the river, from the point
mentioned, and moving south and east,
spent its fury before reaching this city.
The magnificent wheat fields in the
path OF the storm, that on Monday
morning promised q rich return for the
patient toll and waiting of the hue.
bandman, were left q fearful waste In
its wake. Some of these fields look as
though reaper had passed over them
and scarcely stock remains to be
seen. Not less than q thousand acres
are more or less seriously injured,
while several hundred acres are utterly
destroyed. The hail fell in prodigious
quantities, and the stones were said to
be the size of 3 walnut. Chickens,
birds and small animals were destroy
ed and men and stock that were ex-
posed were mercilessly pelted. A
heavy fall of rain accompanied and
succeeded the hail, and the prairies
were flooded for the second time this
season. We have been unable to Sc
cure report of the losses in detail,
but we are satisfied they will aggre-
gate several thousand dollars.-Sum-
ner County Press.
DISTRESSING AccEDENr.-On Hay
10th while the three little children of
1. N. Orr, Of Corn Hill Butler county,
were playing together in a reom, the
second son, Willie, aged years, got
hold of loaded shot gun, not know
ing that it was loaded, and by accI-
dent discharged its contents, the
whole charge of chicken shot enter
Ing the head of his little sister, Matte,
Eve years old, killing her Instantly.
The bereaved family were almost fran
tic with grief at the loss OF their little
daughter. On Sunday q very large
number of neighbors and friends turn
ID ont to attend the funeral. Mr.. Orr
and family have the heartfelt sympathy |
If the entire community in this hour |
IF their greatest suffering.
The assessors returns from. twenty
I've of the twenty-six townships of
his country are in. Estimating the |
anne increase In acreage Ia this town. |
hip over that OF last year, and we
lave thirty thousand acres OF wheat In /
Butler county to-day. This Is an In
crease in acreage of more than 100 per
,ent. over last year. Should nothing
happen to this crop we will have In |
he neighborhood Of zoe, 600 bushels Of
irst rate wheat. This ought to and will
Dring into our county q half-million
dollars. -Eldorado Times.