The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-23

at st. Marys at depth Of forty-niue
feet.
The schools OF lola have been closed
on account of the prevalence of scar
let fever.
A mandatory of patent outsides
for newspapers has been established at
Kansas City.
At county seat election ia Rush
county, La Crosse was selected, as
opposed to Rush Center.
District No. 2, Woodson county, has
purchased its own school books, and
loans them to the scholars.
A bed of yellow ochre has been I'M
earthed, three feet below the surface OF
the ground, in franklin county.
Mrs. Thomas Gibson. of jefferson
county, attempted to blow out lamp,
when it exploded, burning her very
badly.
Four thousand one hundred and
ninety-nine cars of coal were export
ed from this station during the year
per week. 1859 cars were used by the
A. 7. 81 S. +. railroad, and 2440 were
ssld to private parties. The average
price was abSut $40 per car (of II
tons) and shows a total income from
the one source of about $l67 $780,
Usage City Press.
Topeka will not get her govern
ment buildings after all. The bill
was lost in the conference committee.
A corps of engineers has been or
ganized at Williamsburg to survey and
iOcaJe the extension of the h. C, B.
& 8. F. railroad to this city, and they
expect to commence operation in q
few days.-Burlington Patriot.
The Legislature has passed law
combining instruction IN the public
schools Of Kansas to the English
language, and specifying that the
following branches shall be taught in
all schools, viz: Orthography, read
Ing, writing, English grammar, geo.
graphy and arithmetic.
Tom Simpsons Narrow Gauge rail-
road bill has passed and become a law.
1t provides that any railroad company
duly organized may issue $4,000 in
bonds, $1,000 of which are first mort
cages, and $4,000 of which are second
mortgage bonds, the latter to be given
TO counties, cities, and towns in ex-
change for their bonds, dollar for dol
lar, and further provides the company
shall have $4,000 per mile of paid up
capital. I'm Ter this provision bonds
can be voted by majority of the le-
gal voters.
Some of the newspapers of the Ar
kansas valley are urging the propriety
of organizing q separate editorial as
ISOLATION tor that section. Owing to
the prevalence of the scarlet fever
down there, the mevementi is undoubt-
eddy q wise one, and will be heartily
endorsed by majority of the press in
other portions OF the State.
A vein OF coal has been discovered
in Phillips county, 20 miles east of
Phillipsburg. 1t is said to be six
feet thick.
Civil service reform, il carried out,
will restore to Kansas large number
of her citizens, provided the walking
is good. Kansas has always had q
regular colony located at Washington,
waiting for some thing to turn up,
who were the terror of our members
OF congress, and of every body from
Kansas with $40 to lend. 4 former
member of congress from this state
once assured US that he had paid out |
$1,000 in vain endeavors to get mem |
beers of this delectable outfit out OF |
Washington. Civil service reform |
will be money in the hands of our |
members. 1t will be fine day for |
Washington when this Kansas crowd |
gets notice to leave, but should they |
return to Kansas in a body, we are |
not sure but the grasshopper would |
be deemed trifling calamity in COM |
parasiOn.-Com.
Ex-Governor S. J. Crawford, of EN-.
poria, has been appointed agent for
the State to collect various claims |
against the general government at
Washington and will assume the du-
ties of the position at once.
Elk county has little excitement on |
the disappearance of young man |
from Cleveland, Ohio, named Bilson,
who had came to Elk Falls on a pros
pecting tour. On the 9th ult. he
left town to take a walk a short dis |
lance out into the country to look at q |
farm, and has never been heard of
since. The man who owns the farm
that Mr.. BilsOn went TO examine says
he never saw him. No trace of him
can be found after leaving the outer
limits of the town.
Henry w. Cook, of Wyandotte'
Kansas, the gentleman who was de-
feated for nomination to congress in
the Second district of Kansas last fall,
has become a raving maniac.