The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-13
NOTES AND NOTIONS

the charlty concert.
Miss Estabrook will read at the NJ. E.
sociable Friday evening.
Mrs. Nellie Cragin went TO ST. Louis
Tuesday, where she will remain for
sometime.
The weather has turned to be cool and
delightful. Light frost is reported for
this week, and fires are in vogue.
Frank Dosicr, greenback candidate for
Congress, spoke To fair audience at the
court house last Saturday evening.
The Friends quarterly meeting will
DE held at Toledo, Chase county, on Sat
urday and Sunday, the 18th and 18th of
September, 1878.
The Wilson county agricultural and
mechanical association holds its eighth
annual fair ut Neodcsha September 18th,
18Th, 18Th and Goth.
B. +. Irwin lost bunch of tax war
rants, ON Tuesday, and all parties whom
they are against are notified Ia pay no
one but Mr.. Irwin.
, Parties who can furnish railroad ties
should read the call to-day for bids A
lot of men could be put to work in this
way. No time to lose
Senator Ingalls, and Congressman ID.
&. Haskell passed through the city
wednesday on their way to attend the
settles meeting at Humboldt, Thursday.
ii. Malone, Saturday, permitted us to
look ut two pears grown on dwarf pear
trees five years old. They grew about an
inch apart on the same limb, and weigh
respectively IL and II ounces, the largest
hcing IL inches in circumference
Capt Somers saw at st. Louis, II few
days ago, lady from the south who
had lived on biscuit a day for five days,
and who had been compelled, when her
husband died of yellow fever, to dig his
grave and bury him with her own hands
The ladies of the Methodist church
will give one of their pleasant and en-
tcrtaining socials, at the church, this,
(Friday,) evening The entertainment
will consist of choice readings, vocal and
instrumental music, after which, refresh
ments and n social time. All are in
vited
Miss +. NJ. Estabrook, assisted by her
pupils, will give an entertainment con-
sisting Of readings and Rotations, at
the Presbyterian church Saturday even
ing September 14th This will be the
last entertainment which Miss Esta-
brook can give bere, as she is going east
Ia pass the winter.
The charity concert sent 10 Memphis,
on Wednesday, $500. This, with the
$50 sent by the Knights of Honor lodge,
$50 from the Odd Fellows, and 800 TO
come from the masonic lodge and chap
ter, makes $500 from Emporia. The COM
mittee have 1896 on hand as a nest egg
for further contributions. Another con-
cert would be good idea.
Mrs. II. Prosser has just completed a
quilt composed of scraps that she has
had left, and were too small to enter in
to the composition of quilts that she has
formerly made. 1t is not Il snowy quilt,
being composed of all kinds and colors
of calicoes, but she has arranged it with
small siX-sided star blocks. Each block
contains twelve peices. There are seven
hundred and two blocks, together with
the border. The quilt contains S,4S9
pieces, and none but her own fingers
have cut, pieced or quilted on the same
She has given il the name of "NebulP.''
AMBER SUGAR CANE.-This is IA new
variety of sugar cane, the seed of which
was received last spring by Mr.. Charles
+. Wright, from Massachusetts. lie
planted one-eighth of an acre on the
Wright farm, near this city, and the
patch yielded % gallons of molasses
ground out of Ames' cane mill 1t is a
very nice article, of excellent flavor
The cane is easy To cultivate, and al
though planted late and kept back by
wet weather, il ripcned the earliest OF
any cane here. 1t is claimed that this
cane is suitable to northern ATTITUDES,
and yields 1000 pounds of sugar to the
acre.
HOME MARKETs.-Shippers are pay
ing 16 to 18c. for corn, 10 to 1S for oats
40 to 80 for No. 3 barley, 75 for No.
barley, 90 for rye, $21I per 100 lbs fol-
i've hogs No. 2 wheat soc, No. 3, soc
No. 4, Acc, rejected, 40 to soc. Wheat
has gone down DC in Chicago, and 13c in
Toledo since last week, and all markets
are very fiat. Freights have advanced,
which largely accounts for the decline
in prices of produce.
Grocers retail butter at l5c, eggs at 10
potatoes at SOC, onions SOC, tomatoes 81
apples Toe, peaches 25c to $3.50, sweet
potatoes $1.60. Grapes yet on hand al
&c per lb. Cabbage, squash and melons
plenty at sc each and upward. Hay is
So per ton.
OUR REAL ESTATE BUsINEss.-Whilt
we have made about dozen sales of rea,
estate lately, We do not mention salel
because as newspaper publishers we fee
it best to refrain from using any advant
age that might give us over other. agen
cies. We expeud a good deal in various
ways for advertising, because we believ,
advertising pays, and so far our list hal
not only increased much faster than W,
expected, but we have made more sale
than we had any idea of doing in the frs
months of our enterprise. We conside
our land department on a solid basis
and are satisfied that it was a judiciou
business enterprise. And we believ,
also that our advertising has attracted
immigration to an extent that has ena
bled other agencies 10 do more business
than they would have done had we no
opened a real estate office. This ough
TO be satisfactory all around
GooD JURYMAN.-Sheriff Lowe sum
mOned a special panel of 145 jurors, 4
appear at the court house last Monday
from which TO pick jury in the Ban
croft case. Deputy Nichols served tn
summons on a man in Waterloo town
ship, who, after hearing the paper read
stared "a minute and then said, II hav,
paid my taxes" II am not after an,
taxes" said Nichols, 'this is subpop
ma to serve ON the jury" "But- can
prove | have paid my taxes" insiste,
the yeOman. Il tell YOU" replied Mich
OILS, that l don't want any taxes-all