The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-06
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Nickerson is to have two newspapers
A Presbyterian church has been OF
ganized at Augusta
The Interior reports fiftesn new build
ings going up in Hutchinson.
Mr.. Alvah Sheldon is the new posi-
master at Eldorado.
The Congregational church, in Ster
ling which the Gazette says is wealthy
and intelligent, is withuot a minister.
The Kingman Mercury says: Choice
two-year-old cottonwood trees were sold
on our streets last Fridry at $1.25 per
thousand.
There is some talk of starting the pro
posed Santa Fe branch railroad through
Marion and Mcpherson counties, from
Elmdale, Chase county.
The Winfield Courier expects, when
the railroad is extended from Wichita,
to get wheat from Winfield to Kansas
City for 211z cents bushel.
The trouble now between the Wichita
Eagle and Walnut Valley times is about
which has the incest printing office.
Bent seems to be a little ahead. Hear
him:
The government superintendent of
public buildings has examined the quar-
ries near Cottonwood Falls, and pro-
nounces the stone superior to any other
in the state
Albert Griffin, of the Manhattan
Nationalist, is deliveringa course of lee
ures on temperance in Council Grove,
which is awakening much enthusiasm
and doing good.
Henry E. Smith, mail carrier between
Oxford, Sumner county, and Milan, rob
bed the mail. Major CroweIl, mail
agent, got after him and soon took him
in. He is out on bail. He owned up
when confronted by Crowell.
Emeiine Eikenberry has sued Bazaar
township for So, 900 damages for injuries
received last 4th of July, by being
thrown from a wagon in which she was
riding, the result of bad road. The
case will be tried at the adjourned term,
next February-Chase County Leader.
Is the Santa Fe railroad company only
trying to tie the hands of some of the
southwest counties, by getting bonds
voted, in order to keep out other propsi-
tons? We hear so, and those best post
ed in the towns seem to be making no
moves on the checker board.
The Emporia NEWS has blossomed in
to a daily, so they say. The daily NEWS
may succeed, and we hope it will, wheth-
er the proprietors ever let US see num-
Der of it or not; but then we think they
might send US specimen copy OF the
old thing, anyhow.-Marion Center Rec
ord.
Excuse haste and a bad pen," boys.
It's all right now.
Let us see. Your building is IS feet
long; ours, 103 feet; yours, an inside lot /;
ours, corner lot; yours, an inside stair
way; ours, an iron one on outside; your
14x20; ours, SOx22; your sane
tum lighted with q greasy kerosene
lamp; ours, with four light chandelier;
yours, 7x9 glass in three windows; ours,
solid French plate, full pane, on weights,
Win I'VE Iull WINDOWS In Sanctum YOU
have no hall; we haYe; you have no
business room; we have; you have but
45 feet for printing Office; we have go
feet; you have no carpets; we have; you
have no shade trees; we have; you have
mortgage; we haven't; your foreman
and devil are red-headed; you chew to-
bacco and spit on the floor; you show
no newspaper ability; your town will
soon be whistling station on through
line; you are played out and yon know
it; you have no blind eye; we have; you
are not vice-president of railroad we
are; your Office will no more compare
with ours than tadpole will compare
with full-sized frog. Our subscribers
pay up; you dun yours through the
Eagle Don't talk to US about printing
offices. There is nothing in Kansas that
will compare with our new quarters.
Goodbye, old man. You have lost your
grip. Put poor mans plaster on your
back, liver pad on your stomach, and
AXE some pills and you will feel better.
Brace up and talk about something on
which you are posted. When does the
Wichita Bobtail start south Walnut
Valley Times.