The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
state news.


hereafter to be published at Topeka.
The coal shipments from Usage City {
last year amounted to 2Is car loads.
The Blue Rapids paper mill now
runs day and night, and employs ten
hands.
Mr.. Culver, late of Osceola, Iowa, is
about to erect a grain elevator at Great
Bend.
Robert Proctor, poor man at Blue
Rapids, has recently fallen heir to
$3.50, 900 in Scotland.
One 81. E. Smithers has subscribed
$500 towards the erection of an Epis-
copal church in Hays.
The shop men on the M, K. 6 T. at
Parsons have been cut down to seven
working hours day.
The late treasurer of Crawford coun-
ty, E. w. Majors, is defaulter to the |
amount of 81, s5e.75.
Coal retails at fifty cents per bushel,
or twelve dollars per ton, at Eureka.
Fifteen thousand rabbit scalps were
captured IN Linn county during the
last three months of 1877.
The total amount of the deposits in
Simpsons bank at Lawrence, at the
time of its failure, was $4,000.
Burglars in the house of Postmaster
Ben. Gale, at Atchison, recently, were
frightened away by his snoring.
The public and Sunday schools of
Topeka, which were suspended on ac-
count of the scarlet fever, have resum-
ed. Dos.
Sn1suf g.SG so -
Seven hundred and eighty-four car
loads of stone were shipped from Cot
tOnwOod station during the year 1877
There are forty-one breweries in
Kansas, which sold 3d. 1927 barrels of
beer between May l, 1866, and May l.,
1876.
A doubled-headed calf was recently
born nj Paola.
j. B. Clough, from Cleveland, Ohio,
has purchased seven sections of land
near the center of Woodson county,
for the purpose of dairy farm.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad paid out to employees in To-
peka during the year 1877, $2S7, 600,
and $lS,6OO.05 to other parties, making
in all, 1905, 6OO.O5 disbursed by the
road in Topeka during the year.
Senator Plumb and L. P. Rende
have purchased the interest of T. c.
: Newlin and @. II. Wilcox, in the bank
ing house of j. w. Simcock s. Co., at
Council Grove.-Junction City Union.
John Maloy, of Council Grove, has
received the appointment of U. S Com
missioner for the district of Kansas, to
examine into offences against the fed
ersl statutes.
The farmers of Mcpherson county
have been blowing for spring wheat,
and will sow The Odessa variety.
They think the ground ought to be
= well settled before the wheat is drilled
3 in, and that, when Odessa is sown
/ about the first of February, being ear
r ly, it will escape the chinch bugs.
The Frankfort Record says that
s while Marion Kennedy, who lives
n north of that city, was recently pitch
r ing over a straw stack, he was aston
!, ished to find hog under the stack
alive and we'll, after the burial of elev.
en- weeksl He had managed to sub
sist on straw and mud, having eater
> out large hole in the ground The
> hog now refuses corn and swill, pre-
ferring to seat dirt"
= The earnings of the A.,T. & s. F
road in 1876 were S2,4S6,5s2 and il
1877, s2,73s, 46s.
Samuel, son of Bishop Vail, died il
Topeka on the 18th, aged 9 years ant
j. months.
- A German immigrant society ha
g been organized with headquarters a
q Topeka, and the following officers
l. Edward Fleischer, of Atchisor
President; John Walanoff, of Law
renee, A. Thompson, of Elinwoo6
Vice Presidents, and Oscar Seitz, G
a. Salina, Treasurer.
The State Board of Agriculture o
s. the 10th, voted down a resolution
~ have State fair, and then adopte
" the following:
ResOlUed, That it is the sense of tn
=. meeting that if ways and means ca
be secured in advance for the paymen
of premiums, there shall be Stat
Is fair held aE1cler-- the auspices of Ii
u State Board of Agriculture, in 1873.
a W. II. Cook, of Wyandotte, VIII
g. went insane after his defeat by NJ
at Haskell for the nomination to Congrel
OF in 1876, died on the ID at the Mt. Pleas
ant, Iowa, insane asylum.
~ In the advanced sheets of Alfre
r Gray's forthcoming Agricultural n
e. port, we find a statement showing I'll
tie number of hogs which have died
ID this State during the year endin
70 March, 1st, 1877, as shown by the As
SCISSORS returns. The total numbC
~ was 81. 565. They were valued
as $492, 500. OF this number, Donipha
county lost 1904, johnson county 10
p 7,14s, Linn county 7,1O5, Wyandott
y county 5,553, Atehison county $50
n Brown county 3,178, LeavenwOrt
W. county 2,9l7, and Miami county 2,24
s The same report quotes statistics pr
I'D pared by the National Boardsof Ayr
CULTURE showing the losses of hos
during the year ending April LIST,
'r- nineteen States Secretary Gray adj
nj q report for Kansas, made up fro
the official returns of Assessors. II
on average mortality among hogs, in Il
ut nineteen States enumerated, was a.:
De per cent; that of Kansas was s.s p
s cent. The loss in Kansas is SMALL
en- than that of any other States exec
" Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio al
he Nebraska. The year 1876 was one
ir unusual disaster to swine.
= In Kansas there are s74 grang
+ with a total membership of 1856
to Only four new names since the Ia
If maetinO NJ the National GRANGE