The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-27
STATE.

Coffeyville is about oat of debt.
Cherokee has only three lawyers.
Happy.
Mrs. Senator Ingalls, is eonvaiesc-
ing.
They have band of gypsies on
Short creek.
The Kansas Pacific road is being
laid with steel rails.
Hand-shaking has commenced for
the fall election.
New discoveries of lead are made
daily at Short creek.
A flock of sheep at Hays recently
brought So per head.
Eighty county Normal institutes
are now in session.
Winfield has fifteen doctors, TWEEN
ty-two lawyers. and Manning.
Since January four engines have
been 6itched on the Santa Fe road.
Salt butter applied as salve will
kill the chigger and allay irritation.
The corner stone of . new Catho-
lie church has been laid in Concordia.
Farmers in the vicinity of Vic
toria claim thirty bushels of wheat
to the acre.
A black rat was caught in Leav-
enworth last week that weighed
over two pounds.
The Coffeyville Journal is publish
ing an interesting series of original
papers on Kansas.
Some of the people at Humboldt
anticipate snake bites by carrying
the remedy in their pockets.
DR.. 8. M. Birce, of Mound City,
has raised new variety of peach,
hardy and prolific, which ripens
about July lat.
In removing his last years straw
pile, Mr.. T. B. Myers, of Cowley
uncovered nine well-filled
sacks of old wheat.
A bull in Alien county overturn-
ed mule, and broke the arm of the
rider, Mr.. Davis, besides injuring
him internally.
A Brazilian bean pod, twenty
seven inches in length, has been
added to the curiosities of our State
agricultural department.
John Luke was killed in his bed
by lightning, in Mcpherson county,
last week, but his wife, who slept
beside him, was uDiniured.
A herd of horses stampeded on
the bridge across the Arkansas at
Great Bend, and broke 1t down. It
took several days to repair it.
A. o. Spalding, deputy u. S. Mar
shall of Leavenworth, has resigned
under the Presidents order, he be-
Ing a candidate for sheriff this fall.
Sensible.
Miami county, though harvesting
an average yield of twenty bushels
to the acre, has not raised enough
wheat for home consumption.
A father took his daughter to a
house of lll-fame in Galena, and left
her. The mistress cared for her over
night, and warned her away in the
The new NJ. E. church at Meriden,
in its efforts to get relieved of debt,
so that it could be dedicated, raised
S2I0 more than necessary to meet
all expenses.
The Olathe taxpayers are urged
to instrHct their county commits
sioners to levy no more tax TO pay
interest on bonds until the holders
agree TO accept fifty cents on the
dollar. So it goes.
An old man attempted to cross
the Arkansas with q wagon and
team but failed, and he unhitched
md rode out, leaving the wagon
With young lady in it. She drift
ID on a sand bar, aud remained there
until a young man rode in and res
cued her.
A Young girl, thirteen years old,
near Atchison, was short |
distance from the house repairing a |
'ence, when she was attacked by q |
young and stalwart negro, but |
oravely and successfully defended |
herself with her Ratchet. infiicting
several severe wounds.
A conscience-stricken individual,
who stole SIS in money and . ticket !
rom Lsavenworth TO Lawrence
from q fellow boarder in April, |
1877, and has since been wandering
% avoid detection, has reached Kan
'as City on his return to make resti-
luton and receive punishment.
Miss L. NJ. HolllDgswortb, of
Leavenworth, found her bed too
warm so stretched on the floor, |
where she fell asleep. She was soon |
afterwards almost covered by a
swarm of large black rats, and they
began to eat of her fingers. The
pain aroused her, bat her left hand |
End one of her feet were severely |
Mr.. F. Wheeler, of Leavenwerth, |
had 8 sick cow and ne took a bottle |
Of turpentine to his stable to doctor |
her, and q lamp to give him light
during the operation; but the COW |