The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-25
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Wichita has new paper, the Cour-

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Ter, printed in German.
Mr.. Weide, of Turky creek, Coffey
county, has 100 sheep and 300 lambs
and has not lost one this season. Mr..
Gropengeison, another Coffey county
sheep raiser, is now having 40 lambs
added to his flock every night.
Last Tuesday family named Hop
kins from Bates county, Mo-, passed
through town enroute for Colorado,
with one of the most singular deformed
persons we ever remember to have
seen. It was a young man twenty-five
years old, with head about the size
of butter firkin and a body that of q
year and half old infants. His body
and limbs possessed no more strength
than those of d babe, and could not
support his head, which had always
rested on cushions. He appeard to en-
joy good health, and what seemed to
be still more remarkable. this singular
being was possessed of good sense and
intelligence, and was credited with
considerable musical talent.-Burling-
ton Patriot.
A Sedwick county farmer sold
Davidson and Brown, of Wichita,
two fat hogs and remained on the
wagon, while they were being weighed,
but when the wagon was weighed he
got off. Mr.. Brown, followed and
found him made him weigh himself
and refund, at the rate of four cents
per pound for his own hoggish carcass.
Some persons, fond of hams, stole
l 900 pounds of that article last week
from G. NJ. Rizer's meat house at
Eureka.
Larned is trying to shut up the two
unlicensed liquor stores. Give the
drug stores chance, by all means.
Sumner county proposes to vote
bonds to build q Jail and purchase q
site for poor house.
Mr.. Bainbridge, on the West Wal
nut, II miles south of Eldorado, has q
spring crop of 500 lambs, and wonders
why sheep-raisers do not come to Kan
sas.
EldOrade will have to pay a tax of
40 cents per 500 of valuation to pay
the annual Interest on the 5000
township bonds it has voted for the
branch A. T. & S. T. RailrOad.
The branch A. T. & s. F. road, from
Florence to Eldorado, leaves Florence
about three-quarters of a mile frUm
the town, and follows Spring creek
southwark, crossing Doyle creek near
A. w. Allison's. 300 men are at work
grading, and several thousand ties are
on hand.
The First National Bank building at
Wichita has been purchased by Sedge-
wick county for q court house.
Cowley county claims to have r.
1856 people, $1,000 acres of wheat, and
As, 900 acres of corn, planted. Sedg-
wick claims-65y 900 acres of wheat, 49,
600 acres Of corn, and has the promise
of Senator Plumb to have q. 600 inhab-
itsnts in I've years from now.
It Is reported from Wichita that the
grasshoppers from Texas are flying
over towards the north, their native
habitation. They have been leaving
Texas In vast numbers for several days,
and all in the same direction. The
body of them, it is thought, will pass
from one hundred 70 four hundred
miles west Of Wichita.
The gross earnings of the A. T. & s.
T. railroad and leased lines for 1875
were s2,4S6, 5s2.e6; operating expens-
es, $I,175, 4s9: net earnings, g, sI1,-
0S3.65; operating expenses, .47.21 per
cent Of gross earnings; net gain $444,-
316.46. The sales OF land amounted to
122, 2Ol ,17-1OO acres, aggregating, at
the average price, $5.441< per acre,
$685., 455.17. In 1875 only 75,415 .33-1O0
acres were sold, aggregsting, at the
average price, $3.50 per acre, $416, 406.
IS. The amount Of cash on sales In
1875 were $69, $3.50, while In 1876 1t
was e16s, 751 80, an increase of 142 per
cent. The passenger trains earned In
1876, $715. $685. 90 while in 1875, they
earned emily 1887 ,253.1s!The increase in
freight receipts from 1876 was $51, :
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