The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-28
State News.

WnOOPlnS cough Is raging LnFOuSu-
out the State.
Fifteen cases of scarlet fever last
week in Topeka.
The Marshall county sayings bank
has suspended.
People in Elk county are stealing
wood from government land.
Hayes City will soon boast of a fif-
teen thousand dollar residence.
Carrie Russell is dead-beating odd
fellows and masons in Kansas.
Shoes are made in twenty minutes
at the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth.
-Four Dodge City nimrods slew fifty
one wild turkeys during recent hunt.
The Short creek lead mines are now
turning OUT 100000 pounds of ore
weekly.
Prentis is beseiged with applica-
tions for his lectures from all sections
of the State.
Parsons is infested with thieves, who
steal everything, from grindstones to
chickens.
A farmer in Phillips county has rails
ed $50 bushels of corn per acre, of the
Egyptian variety, this year.
Two prairie chickens flying in OPP
posite directions, recently, in Harvey
county, came in collision and were
killed. Ass-
Colonel J. NJ. Williams, who COM
manded the first Kansas eolored troops,
is living on a ranch at Trinidad, Col
orado.
The Kansas Central railway is now
completed to Onago, in Pottawatomie
county, eighty-four miles from Leav-
enworth..
Lawrence citizens are loading shot
guns for the benefit of the unworthy
students, who pull down fences and
tear down gates.
The wife of George Rowers, of Nc
Pherson county, gave birth to three
boys, last Saturday night, the combin-
ed three weighing twenty-one pounds.
The editor. of the Peabody Gazette is
worrying because congress is trying to
tax all incomes over $1,000, and thinks
it is another stab at the country editor.
Jep Rice who was connected with
the Planters House, at Leavenworth,
for many years, Is now one of the pro-
prietors-of-the railroad dining station
at Wallace.
The railroad bed from Fl. Scott to
humboldt has been sold to a narrow
gauge company which intends to i'm
mGdiately track it and push it west
ward from Humboldt.
George Thrush, of Sedgwick, Har-
vey county, shot off nearly all of his
left hand. last week, while trying t.
get load out of his gun which had
been standing loaded for some time.
Mrs. Vaille, soprano singer at Ellis
was noted as one of the bestsingers in
Boston, and has been invited to join 8
fashionable church choir in New York
City, but she prefers Ellis.
Last Friday a crowd of about three
hundred persons consisting of men
women and children, went to a store
IN Mt. Pleasant, Atchlson county, roll
ed out barrel of whiskey, and burned
it. The wife of the owner of the whis-
key knocked in the head of the barrel
and aided sn the work.
An escaped @unatic from the Osawat
omie insane asylam, named Morehe&d
was run over by a train on the Mis-.
souri, River, Fort Scott s. Gulf rail-
road, Lenexa, johnson county, OF
Thursday evening of last week, anG
mis- remains were scattered along the
track for distance of twenty rods
His father lived near Spring Hill.
Mr.. Prentis retured to Junction City
from Abilene, last Saturday morning,
and remained here with his wife until
Monday morning, when they took the
train for Topeka. He had q large
audience ar Abilene. On Monday
night he lectured at OskaloOsa. We
wish Prentis could deliver that lecture
among the literati of Boston. It would
fairly tickle to death the eLaid old Yam
KEGS and Harvard graduates.-Junc-
ton City Union.
We have been testing corn as fuel
and the result Is as follows: Eight
bushels was burned in two STOVES
No. Kitchen, local or wood,) and q
No. Twilight heated-last just elev-
en- days, warming two rooms during
the day and one every night until elev-
en- O'Clock. This with corn at 10 cents
per bushel makes the cost about IL
cents : day for two stoves, which il
but tribe more than one-half the cost
of wood fuel At $4I0O per eerd. Ii Is
proper 20 state that the rooms mention
ed are close and easily waTmed--Jew-
ell County Diamond.