The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-01-25
STATE TTEEs.

A WOODEN mill is talked of IN Ottawa
-Bishop Vail confirmed sixteen persons
at Salina recently.
Considerable sickness prevails in Elk
county.
Hay City is about to organize brass
band.
The average yearly rainfall in Osborn
county, is 90! inches.
Prof. Lee is 10 return TO Manhattan as
rector Of ST. Pauls church.
-Diptberia is robbing the infants Of life
out in Cowley county.
Sumner county is agitating the ques-
ton OF a county poor house.
ills estimated that Kansas will have
100000 population in 1850.
The prayer meetings during the week
OF PRAYER, at Hays City, were we'll attended.
"A sportsman Of Lincoln Center killed
eighty-flve rabbits II six hours the other
day.
An amateur theatrical company play
ed "The Gilded Age" in Topeka the other
night.
The snoF is impeding the progress Of
the trains on the railroads, all over the
State.
Fred. Douglass ia al Columbus, Chero-
kee county, on the 2Gth, where he VIII
lecture.
Mr. E ConkIyn was frozen to death
near Wichita, last week, while hunting
cattle.
Houses are so scarce Arkansas City
that stables have been fitted up and rented
ior So per month.
Detroit and Enterprise have had a
spelling match. Detroit claims the vic
tory.
Steps are being taken toward the cree
lion of Roman Catholic church in Con-
coraia.
There are 1000 Sunday Schools in the
State, with 10000 teachers and 1900
scholars.
-Thirty-three thousand pounds of live
hogs were shipped recently from Salina to
Lawrence.
"A colony OF Mennonites have decided
10 purchase 5000 acres Of land in Woodson
. county.
The State Historical Society has fitted
up for itself a room in the Capitol.
Bills amounting to about $4,000 were
allowed at the last meeting of the Commits
sioners, of Ellis County.
An Indian makes his will BY giving
his ponies 10 his friends before he dies, and
if he RECEIVERS he claims his property again.
Mary Rogers,a Quakeress, who conduct
ed several meetings in Emporia last winter
has commenced preaching there again.
Some OF the country papers haven't
quit seeing that meteor vet. They must
have seen il between flashes OF Jersey light
ming.
Those who have thoroughly investiga-
ted the matter, claim that the grasshopper
eggs are destroyed, and have no fears from
them the coming season.
The people of Washington, Kansas,
have been favored recently with a course
OF lectures on phrenology, Psychology, anat-
Omy and chemistry.
The Wamego public school children
have recently given a public entertainment
from the proceeds of which they hope to
purchase maps, etc, for their school rooms.
Capt. J. II. Ashbaugh, of Elk CITY,
while attending Masonic funeral, was
thrown from carriage and had both his
legs broken.
in the vicinity of Wichita hogs are
dying in great numbers. The disease seems
10 aaect the hind parts, rendering them
unable TO walk.
Cherokee county wants an amendment
TO the game law, changing the time of
hunting pra RE chickens and quail 10 the |
months of January, December and Nover-
Der.
The newspapers throughout the State
are publishing long editorials beginning,
There is, Just now, an exceeding IT, Illness
IN al financial matters in the East" which |
leads the average reader TO suppose that
there is looseness in all money matters in
the West.
-Chetops, a noted chief Of the Cages.
is very low with consumption, and is not
expected 10 live. He is one of the most in
teliigent and probably the best Indian of
the Osge tribe. he members Of his band
are daily mourning for him, and paint
their faces. If he dies, there will probably
be the largest mourning party organized
that has ever left the Agency.