The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-21
Southwest.

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EIdorado wants hotel, city hall and
more sidewalks.
The Mennonites are building a
church at Halstead.
Christmas trees will be plenty
throughout the Southwest.
Mrs. I. r. PheRis, of Eureka, is on a
visit to old friends in Indiana.
Elder Harvey of Eldorado baptized
eight sinners in the Walnut, at Win
field, last Sunday.
The hogs on Grouse creek, Cowley
county are dying by the hundred with
disease resembling quinsy.
Winfield proposes to form a stock COM
psny and put down a coal hole, say $50
feet. We will suggest to Winfield that
long, for sale at bargaln.--Eldorado
Times.
If they will wait short time they
can get one nearer home.
Douglass will have new Christian
church.
1t is proposed to organize an Episeo-
pal church at Eidorado soon, and the
Times man will jine.
Newton is talking of $4,000 in
bonds for q city hall and engine house.
The Democrat figures up how We'll
llngton may become the railroad
center.
Total taxes for all purposes in Har-
vey county foots up $50, 1850. Rate
of taxation. three mills on the dollar.
We regret to see that our beloved
brethren the editor of the Walnut Val,
ley Times, and his honor, the district
judge of the Eldorado district, are
about to clock horns," as it were. If
they tell the truth of all they know
about each other, there will be some
fun.
Twenty-six buildings going up at
Arkansas City.
The market reports in the Times Is US
ually taken from the Kansas City Journal
Of Wednesdays of each Week.-Eldorado
Times.
Is they? That's queer.
Butler county will pay $4,000 to the
tax gatherer.
Douglass has the "Murphy move
ment."
Old Mr.. Lucky struck poor streak
of luck a few days ago, and died at
Arkansas City.
A party of five, caught in two SEM
ings, in the Shawkaska river, Indian
Territory, last week, six thousand
pounds of fish. Fish have accumulat-
cd rapidly in the last few years in that
stream.
And now it turns out that father
Nickerson has not made a proposition
to push the Santa Fe through Sumner
county.
"By the way, how many miles of mar
row gauge have you built this week.
Eldorado Times.
Several. Now will you come out
and state how many pieces of Pennsyl-
vania coal you have given away this
week to goslins as specimens of coal
from the Eldorado hole. But you
couldn't fool Finley.
Newton News: Last week, Mr.
Dickinson of the Arkansas Valley
Town Company, went to Spearville, a
water station on "Dry Ridge" Is
miles west of Kinsley, to lay out a
town site. Before leaving the place he
sold % lots to sundry persons, receiv-
ing 800 cash. The Arkansas Valley
catches them.
TIE Wichita Eagle informs US that
Grant Matthews, young lad fifteen
years old, was accidentally shot and
killed while out on a hunting expedi-
ton last Monday.
Nothing has been doing in the stcoal
hole'' for the past several days. All
hands seem to be waiting to get good
ready.-EldoradO Times.
They run out of specimens of Penn
sylvania coal to hand around to visi-
tors and had to stop till there was a
fresh arrival.
The editor of the Courant at Cotton
wood Falls visited the county Jail a
few days ago in company with Sheriff
elect Jabe johnson, and pronounees
the institution as foul as q hog
pen and chicken coop. The editor
raises his voice for reform, and believes
Jabe will reform.
The Courant gives an account of q
fight Observation-Disclosures andFrauk
Allison at Cottonwood Falls, a few
days ago. Allison got the worst of the
bargain. In the evening they got to-
gether again and Allison stabbed
Brandley severely with shoe knife.
Brandley is in critical condition.
We Judge Scott, OF the Arkansas
City Traveller is kept tOlerably busy.
Here is what he does:
"Besides the every day pursuit of
publishing newspaper, attending
post office, making collections, or rath-
he Is notary public, agent of some
Ohio capitalists, buys and sells corn,
oats, and flour, deals heavily in and
makes a specially OF cord wood, posts
and rails, buys, trades and sells Texas
and Indian ponies, is q member of two
railroad companies, and q director in
the Arkansas river navigation Gem
pany, deacon in a new church organ
ization, is interested in a racing pony,
contractor for buildings, and other
minor enter prises, too numerous to
mention, all to make both ends meet.
Then we understand the ladies re-
celve full share of his attention.
TOPEKA, KAN, Dec. 14.-E. B. Cap
en-, conductor on freight train on
the Santa Fe railroad, was killed about
noon to-day at Peabody. He stepped
on guard rail to separate q train,
caught his foot and was thrown under
the cars, and the train passed over him,
cutting of both his legs. He lived but
three hours. He was formerly on the
Missouri Pacific. i
It was the great merit Of the act Of
March, 1863, that in strengthening the
public credit it removed all doubt as to
the purpose of the United States to pay
their bonded debt in coln.-The Presi-
dents Message.
Yes; but coin don't mean gold.
To show that gold alone was not in
| tended by the act alluded tn nv the