The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
alaIe NEWS.

think there were more.
state News.
Garnett reports . pig weighing
700 pounds.
An Usage county hog Melted the
owner $38,16.
Antelope sells at two cents a
pound at Hays.
The fifth wife of Julius Casey
died at Topeka on the 2lst.
Ellis county claims the NEST prom
ising wheat In the State.
A hog ten months old, in Jack
son county, weighed 400 pounds.
The A. T. s. S. F. railroad is re-
placing the present iron rails with
steel ones.
A creditor has seized the nre ex-
tinguisher of Ottawa to extinguish
q debt.
Schuyler Colfax will lecture in
Atchison on Abraham Lincoln,
January 18th.
Valley Falls complains Of a wal
of races, in which whisky and brick
bats play a prominent part.
Two Frenchmen and as many
bears created q sensation on the
streets Of Topeka on Wednesday.
A mass of silver worth about
$1,000, was discovered in the debris
of the wreck of the train on the X. z.
The Commonwealth, of last San
day contains the doings of Topeka
for q year in extra condensed style.
An Agassian society at Oswego
is well sustained, and it publishes
valuable weekly reports in the In
dependent.
Mrs. Brackenbury of White Cloud,
aged 50, was killed in a railroad &C.
cident on the st. 10 81 Denver road
recently.
The Usage Coded Lands, about
GOO, 900 acres, are open to actual set
tiers at $l,25 per acre, with four
years to pay for them.
A Mr.. Record, of Florence, has a
copy Of No. 1, Vol. 1, of the Herald
of Liberty, published in Portsmouth
N. H., in the year 1908.
A tannery is to be established at
Salina Immediately.
The railroad buildings at Bismark
will be removed 10 Salina.
The bridge over the Neosho at
Council Grove has been pronounc-
ed unsafe several times.
Sixteen persons were confirmed
at the Episcopal church in Sa1iAa
one week ago last Sunday.
The people of Salina are growing
FESTIVE under the requirement that
all grain shipped from Salina shall
pass through the elevator.
twenty-five thousand acres of
land in the viciRity of Yates Center
WOodson county, have been sold to
q company of Mennonites by the NJ
K. g. 4. road.
The residence of Mr.. HosmOr was
burned in Usage county by
the overturning of q lamp. The
women of the house, being alone,
were intimidated.
The State Historical Society has
secured q room in the Capitol. The
next annual meeting occurs on the
Tuesday following the third Mon
day in January next.
The Oskaloosa Independent noti-
ces 3 new invention by Sam. Pep
Pard-a friction clutch" the use of
which, it is claimed, will add to the
power Of rotary machinery one-half
Two blsck-and-tans had q -umpus
in church at Burlingame, aud the
pastor stopped his service, took one
in each hand, and threw them out
of doors. His reverence then re-
sumed. ,sfrv
Three boys were nearly drowned
by falling throagh the ice ut differ
emit times lately, at Lawrence; the
last enc coolly informing the men
who came to rescue him with hooks
not to tear his clothes.
A team backed against the rail-
ing of the approach to the Waksru-
sa bridge, Douglas county, recently,
and broke il down, letting the wag-
on oyer the side. The harness was
cut and the wagon fell twenty-five
feet.
The Valley Falls Independent goes
for the lawyers ofthat place, intima-
ting that they are q pestiferous lot
of broil-makers and community dis
turbers.
A week ago last Saturday, . man
living in Phillips county was shet
by his stepsen, who put q charge Of
buekshot in his back and load Of
fine shot in his head. The man trav.
eIed q mile and . hnlf after being
shot, and has q fair prospect of get
ting well. His assailant ia now in
Jail.
Wolves are numerous and troub-
lesome in portions of Miami Co.
A Leaveavorth butcher WA in
Vited the sHSa night to attend q
minstrel show, bat positively refus-
I'D, evs VII . free ticket was Of
fered. When pressed for q reason
be replied: eff should go, 1 should
Zee SO many people who owe me for
neat that it would spoil all my fun. !"
Augustus Wattles, an old timer.
He'd in Mound City on the 18th inst.
He was conspicuous in the Free
State troubles Of 1856, and At one
line was connected with g. w.
Brown in the publication Of the
Herald of Freedom. He was known |
a the old time as 'Parson Sly !