The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-05

The penitentiary has SOP eopvicts.

state News.
The penitentiary has 5O2 copvicts.
John speer has gone east to get mar
ried.
wyandotte county is to have nail
factory.
Blackberries five cents a quart at
Fredonia.
Five deaths from small pox in Cloud
county last week.
Louisville is to have a new Method
Odist church.
Deaths by drowning are prevalent
throughout the State.
Sidney Clark is "leeling" his chances
for Congress in the second district
A Presbyterian church is being
erectad at Vinland, Douglas county.
C. T. Ewing, of the Thayer Head
light, is the champion vocalist of Kan
sas.
The saloon men and temperance peo-
pie of Salina are having legal con-
test.
Colonel May, of Kirwin, has sent an
antelope to the geological gardens at
Cincinnati.
A bridge across the Kansas river
between Kansas City and Armstrong
is proposed.
Congressman Ryan met with gOr-
geous reception on his return to To-
peka last week.
An old man aged so years in Nema-
ha county has planted alone this year
20 acres of corn.
Eighteen car loads OF excuFsionists
from Houston TO Chicago passed through
Parsons last Friday.
The enterprise says that beer has
become the faVorite beverage among
many families in Manhattan.
The Odessa spring wheat is rustin0
badly in Blue township, Riley county.
and light crop is anticipated
Mr.. Bushby, of Riley county, was
bitten by a copperhead snake while
harvesting wheat one day last week.
J.W. Simpson, postmaster at West
Asher, Mitchell county, was killed by
lightning on Wednesday of last week
The Nez Perces Indians at For
Leavenworth are to be removed TO the
Indian Territory the first of mex
month.
Dickinson county has nine grain ele
vators-three at Abilene, two at Solo
mon City, three at Detroit and one q
Chapman.
The COncordia Empire publishes the
names or 40 citizens of that place
which have been attached to a petition
to license dram shop keeper.
Republic county votes, on the l3tl
of July, on proposition TO issue 500,
600 in bonds to aid in extending thu
Junction City 6 Fort Kearsey railroa,
through that county.
The Winfield Courier estimates tina
that $4,000 bushels of wheat were de
stroyed by the recent flood in Cowle.
county, and that the amount of tn
damages in the country from the foo
was about 100000. Several live
lost.
There is to be a national temperate
camp meeting at Bismarck grove, nea
Lawrence, from August I'd to the 12tI
inclusive. Arrangements are bein:
made for feeding 10000 people on tn
ground. Invitations have been ex
tended to President Hayes and cabine
the governors of several States, an
other dignitaries, to be in attendant
and make speeches. The Presider
has signified his intention to attend
circumstances permit. Francis Nun
: ply has promised to be there. AL
engagements have already been mad
with most of the railroads in the Stat
of Kansas for rate of transportatio
e not exceeding one cent per mile, an
it is expected that similar accommoda
I tions will be extended by most of til
t roads centering there. Excursio
trains are to be run from Cincinnati
] Indianapolis, Chicago, st. Louis, Lo,
t isVille, Detroit, Cleveland, and warrior
other critics, and thousands of poop
D east of the Mississippi it is expecte
D will improve this opportunity for visi
ing Kansas and extending their trip
= the mountains.