The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16
state news ana Notes.

Episcopal church, Manhattan, 10
having q 81 900 organ built at Utica,
New York.
G. A. Hutchinson is the new
Presbyterian minister at Eureka.
A movement Is on foot in Topeka
to build a residence for the Rev. Mr..
Martindals, late state agent for the
American Bible Society, who has
gone totally blind. Mr.. Black, late
Of Blacks bank, Topeka, heads the
subscription with 500. The resi-
dence proposed will cost $1,000.
FOur inches of sneH in Potta-
watemie cOnnty sleeti0a day.
"Giles" thinks the city ,sehsols Of
Topeka = failure. But another man
goea for stGiles" and says he don't
point ont wherein or mention .
remedy. It is easier to growl than
anything else in this world, and
more fashionable. The kind Of
brains that can pick flaws with eve
~ existing thing are plenty, but the
kind that makes good, sensible sug-'
gestions to better things is awful
scarce.
Topeka has made her library free.
Junction City is to have Q new
hotel 47xS2 And three stories high.
We wish another town we know of
could raise the Spunk to follow suit.
Prouty has . new suit Of clothes
and has only been in Junction City
about q month. There hs0st be
some credulous cuss up there in the
clothing business.
open, Paste aud Scissors" says
the lst national bank at Paola had .
run 9 few days agO, and that GIVEN
ty-fiVe dollars were drawn out"
That must have been awful.
The ststs agricultural college has
telephones.
Colonel N. 8. GOss is hunting
birds in southern Texas.
Seventeen births occurred in one
week recently ct Burlington.
A narrow gauge road between
Topeka and Fort Scott 10 talked Of.
TurDips are said to be sure pre-
vsntiys for the prevailing hog dis
ease.
Eighteen thousand bushels Of
peaches were shipPed from Fort
Sect this year.
A dam is nearly completed across
ths Solomon river ct SCandia, Re-
pablo county.
T. w. Hurlbert, af Burlington.
has received 9 patent for "weed
fol ding attachment for plows."
Seventeen hundred persons have
identified themselves with the Muir.
ply temperance movement ct Fort
Se0tt.
A colony of Dunkards from
Pennsylvania have purchased sever
81 thousand acres Of land near
Frankfort, Marshal county.
F. p. Baker has sued DR.. Nun
ford. of the Kansas City Times, for
libel, in the United States clrcait
court. $4,000 damages are asked.
Major Beman, Of Topeka, late ad-
ljutant-gsnsral Of the state, has been
appointed clerk Of the commission
to appraise Kansas Indian lands.
The editor Of the Commonwealth
has an order to ship several brace Of
prairie chickens to New Zealand,
for acelin0tizAaion in that country.
q. B. johnson, formerly attorney
general Of Missouri, has formed .
Law partnership at Topeka with
willard Dayis, attorney general Of
Kansas.
The Missouri Valley Life InsuF-
ance company has made up its i'm
pAirment, and received . certificate
from the superintendent to that ef.
feet. They are now ready for 61si.
ness.
On the 3Oth nit, Rev. James II.
Defouri, yicar-Seneral OF the Cath
ole diocese Of Kansas, and who
has been q resident Of the state for
Afteen or twenty years, took ont
biD arst naturalization papers.
While Q eOIored man and his wife
were attending churce in III. Pleas
ant township, Atchison county, last
Sunday, their residences burnfTD
and their tWo.year old child was
haFnad to death with it.