The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15

o--~S o--o RatSC ASSOaAay pau WdA $4A4
SO more than If 1t had been let at legal
rates. There is just one way to pre-
vent fraud on either the paper or
county, and that is to pay printers the
rates fixed by law.
Another county-seat election will be
held Ia Usage county March II.
Linn county jail full of tramps.
sieIghIng In northern Kansas last
week.
Joplin mixers are moving to Short
creek.
A Methodist church was organized at
Ellis on Sunday, the Sd inst
One J. n. Hainss is deadbeating Odd
Fellows In southern Kansas.
Rocks county, way out on the plains,
has saw-logs four feet in diameter.
Sveral houses in Southern Kansas
have been struck by lightning recently.
A driving park association has been
organized at Burlington, with 8 capt.
tai of $500.
A farmer in Wabannsee county re-
allied $500 for his crOp of broom corn
raised on % acres.
Kansas tremps complain that they
are not offered cold tongue. The kind
they receive Is warm.
Mrs. Starrett, of Lawrence, now oc-
cnpies an important position on the
editorial staff of sAe st. Louis Daily
Post. --Et 49,. IS
An excursion passx from Joliet, IlIi-
lihniss recently puEchased 5000 acres
of land In Russell connty for farming
purposes. vozS ssI s
Is is estimated that the merchants
and stOckmen of Ellis county had
1S75.Ooo deposited in che First National
Bank Of Kansas City. -
4 Charles B. Peck, formerly of Law
renee, and brother of Captain George
IL. Peck, is now receiver of the Chi
tcago q Lake Huron railroad.
The total number of rabbit scalps
received by the county clerk of Labette
county, during the pear 1877, was TO-.
SIC; wolves and wild cats 20.
John Burnes, an employe of the
ROsedalo rolling mill, was killed las
Thursday by the explosion of pot o.
motion iron, which he and three others
were carrying.
A twelve year old girl Of Crswfort
county attempted to pour kerosene In
70 . stove out Of q can, few days ago
The next thing In the programme wa
q funeral.
A saIOen keeper at Fort Scott has
been fined so and costs for selling
liquor to man In the face of the fac
that his wife requested the dramshoI
keeper not to sell any liquor to hel
husband.
| Henry Kelley, one Of the oldest resi-.
denss Of Hayes City, was found dead in
bed On Friday Of last week. Verdict
of the eorOner's jury, died from expo.
sure and an excessive use of intoxicat-
Il ing drinks. @
Captain Henry King. OF Topeka, viii
have Kansas story in the next num-
Der of Scribner's Monthly. He will
/ also haKaza Raekx Easantsin sketch
lsIassz1tsdsby Prof WeFraIl Of Tokeka,
TN "A esriy number OF LippIncott's
Magazine.
Two school boys at Newton, aged
respectively 10 and IL years, recently
attempted % ravish . school girl aged
IL years, but the girl escaped. The
young brutes were expelled from
school, and subsequently the father OF
the girl rawhided the Oldest offender.
The boys had been in the habit of send
ing obscene notes to the girls. Other
boys take warning.
Skiddey has no liquor saloons.
Good steighing at Enterprise last
week.
The Salina Presbyterians are build
ing a parsonage.
Abilene has received eight car loads
Of ice from Denver.
A movement for the erection OF a
church at ParkersVilIe is on foot.
Twenty houses were erected at Cliff
ton during the month Of January.
A whole car load of hogs, recently
rhipped from Abilene, averaged 42s
pounds to each hog.
Robert Brown, who formerly prac-
lived law at Mcpherson Center, died
recently at Trinidad, Colorado, OF delir-
fum tremens.
Last year Clay Center shipped 1,728
car loads of live stock and grain, and
Wichita 1850. Balance In favor of
Clay Center, 387. Now let the Eagle
A Beloit firm has recently shipped
5000 dozen eggs, and thirty -fiye hun
dred pounds of butter to the Boston
market.
Damon Lodge, Knights OF Pythias,
propose to have celebration at abb
lene, February %. The lodges at Sa-
linz, junction City, and Clay Center
are expected to participate.
The Abielue Chronicle says that
about . year ago Mr.. J. o. Beebe, a
carpenter who had resided there for
some time before LEFT with his family
for Oregon. BE went - far Is Salt
Lake City with company, but there
ha aenarnted frorn them and skarfad
alone. He got abount one hundred
and fifty miles beyond Salt Lake when
he was attacked by indians and killed.
Three Of his children were also killed.
His wife was horribly mutilated, and
&c was thought she could not live, and
with two children was captured by
the Indians. This massacre occurred
about two or three months ago. A |
short time after some United Stats !