The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-10
STATE.
PAoIa has a $50 pig.

Topeka only owes $4ss, 400.
Kansas apples are the best in the
market.
The Palace Hotel at Topeka is to
be rebuilt.
Only three women in the State
Penitentiary.
Only one crazy person in Mont
gomery county.
Great Bend is soon to have a
Democratic paper.
Cherokee county has recently paid
for 633 RABBIT scalps.
Lawrence had five burglars FRI
day night of last week.
Foul air in well at Leavenworth
killed 8 man last Saturday.
Topeka had some $25, 600 worth of
freight delayed by the strike.
Girard has had q. bank failure i;
Crawford county bank closed.
Attic age of sixty days Empire
city had a population. of 1900.
The LeavenWorth narrow gauge
is receiving iron for its extension.
ElwOod, Doniphan county, has q
Mormon church of fifteen members.
1t cost $l2,759 to run MoodsOn
county for the year ending June 80.
1t is said there are seventeen can
didstes for sheriff in Shawne county.
Parsons has subscribed $4,000 to
the Memphis & Ellsworth narrow
gauge.
Thirteen mills in Montgomery
county-four of them run by water
power.
The original owner of the Galena
tOwn-site asks 5000 for a four-acre
reserve.
The Second Colorado is making
arrangements for a reunion in Kan
sac City.
Cawker City school bonds COM
mand premium of one and a-half
per cent.
For all purposes during the year
1877, the State of Kansas wants
$726,142.91.
Atchison merchants had 100000
worth of goods detained on the road
by the strike.
Twenty thousand dollars will be
offered as premiums at the Kansas
City exposition.
Goodness gracious there is a
place in Atchison county advertis-
ing for doctOril
There are some forty or fifty nor
NAL Institutes running in different
parts Of the State.
Thomas Benton Murdoch is after
ID. II. Anthony with a butcher knife
absnt that pension. i.eift
The PIeasanton Observer saws il
is the "Gnawmal" that ails the
school marms just now.
The railroad from Lawrence to
Pleasant Hill is literally covered
out OF sight with weeds.
Total valuation of property in
Kansas, $l37, 4SO,529. An increase
over last year of $3,648,2I3.
The neighbors near Girard last
week made q troublesome family
named Merchant get up and leave.
The U. S. Marshal is after the
county authorities in Douglas de-
handing a levy, TO meet railroad
bonds.
The Independence Tribune gives
some wheat figures which show q
yield of from ten to twenty bushels
to the acre.
The famous "Price villa" at
Atchison, has been sold to the St.
Benedictine Sisters for seminary (:
price $4,000.
Jason Yuran, formerly of Blue
Rapids, has received an appoint
ment in the Sixth Auditors office,
at Washington.
John Herley, of Allen county, has
received an appointment in the
Treasury Department, at Washing
ington, as messenger.
3 George A. Crawford is now
known as the father Of towns. Fort
Scott, Ossge Mission, and Empire
City are his children. Us Afs
Atchison City and county have
employed Matt Carpenter to fight
their bonds. The county has given
him . retainer of $1,000. 2
H. p. Saxton, of Troy, has seven
or eight Winesap apple trees, which
have made about eight dollars .
year each, for the past several years.
The editor of the Ottawa Repub-
lican advertised for . horse, and old
sprained plugs enough to mount q
brigade were Immediately offered
him.
The Florence, Eldorado & Wal
nut Valley railroad was completed
to Eldorado July 31st. And EldO-
RADIO win celebrate some time THE
month.
One man says that the last Month
ly Report of the State Board of
Agriculture. concerning fruit, will
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