The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-14

Newton is having to vote on $4,000
bonds for city hall and engine house.
A number of the farmers in this vi
entity will psck their own pork this
scason.-EldoradO Times.
Whose pork did they pack last sea-
son?
Wichita dealers expect to ship 5000
live and dead hogs from that city this
season at an average price of two cts.
per pound less thai last ssasOn.
Coal. are entirely surrounded
by this very useful and alui,sst iBdis-
pensable article. Messrs. e.. ii Rurris,
J. III. Ferren, j. B. Lipsey and Farmer
Adsit, have all opened veins a few
miles up the river, ranging in thick
ness from s to II inches The one Mr..
Burrit discovered had the ground
washed from off it by the recent rains,
and ne was but few hours in digging
an hunred bushels OF first class coal.
Coal has been discovered and mined
over in Lena Valley fol some time.
Mr.. j. A. Cleveland, half mile south
of town is operating his mine, aud the
coal he brings here is of the best quail
Ity.-Madison Times.
Push on the narrow gauge.
The man who stole the reaper and
mower from Eureka last summer, and
broke jail there last month, has not
been caught.
Chase county has Mennonite nam
ed Oberman, who is doing ali lie can TO
cure hard times by economy. His vile
died Nov. 18th, and neighbors found
him preparing to sink the body in the
IcreeK to save the expense of coffin
A half mile of new rails are to be
laid on each section of the A. T. & S
F. Road between Emporia and New
ton.
Workmen have been busy through
the past ten days remodeling the jail
All four sides of the nan room are be-
ing cased in iron, and cells are being
erected out from the wallis, leaving 9
passage way around them. The hole
through which Patterson escaped will
also be made secure. As originally
built this Jail presented no greater re.
sistance to any one attempting to gel
out than would be found in an ordina.
ry stone wall. Eureka Herald.
1t is hoped that the assets OF thu
Wichita National bank, will pay IS CT
OIL the dollar.
Petitions for the pardon of j. C. Fra
ker, the Wichita banker, are being
signed by many citizens of the south
west.
The South Haven, Cowley county
base ball club has u batter who lets hi
club fly and strike spectators In th'
stomach. He killed boy named Nose
ley there in this way, on the I'D ult.
| The Eldorado Times says that tn
A. T. 6 8. F company have submitted
proposition to extend their branch
there into Sumner county.
We are glad to learn that our fellow
citizen Mr.. e. L. Meyers, will proba
bly, be appointed one OF the United
States Commissioners to the Paris ex
position to be held next summer. w,
suppose then there is no doubt of hi
fitness for the position. Born in Paris
he speaks French, German and Eng
fish, and is a gentleman Of thorough
enucation and culture, and will do hon
or TO the country. It is also prope
that southewesG Kansas the creates
wheat producing section in the world
should have one of the twenty repre-
sentatives of this government. We al
sure that all who know Mr. Meyer
whether living here or elsewhere, will
join us in wishing that he may be ap
pointed.-Hutch. News.
A $4,000 stone bridge has been bull
across the Cottonwood river at Hart
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