The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-12
state.

Col. N. s. Goss is bird hunting in Tex
as.
Atchison expects to pack 300 900 hogs
this season.
The maple worm nuisance has reap
peared in Topeka.
The people OF Girard are threatened
with a whisky war.
The Methodist church at Concordia
was dedicated last Sunday.
A gang of seventeen counterteiters has
been unearthed at Empire City.
The Catholics of Council Grove and vi.
cinity propose to erect a church.
There is talk of starting democratic
drug store'' at Troy, for campaign pur-
poses.
The Catholics of Frankfort are agita-
there.
A saw mill at Baxter Springs is to be
transferred to DardeneIles, Arkansas, in
fiat boat.
The silver wedding eff Colonel Thomas
Murphy and wife, of Atchison, was cele-
brated on the 18th ult.
A contract has been made for the i'm
mediate construction of telegraph from
Solomon City TO Minneapolis.
Captain Henry King visited Abilene
last week, to obtain ''points'' for an aIti-
Gle in Scribner on wheat raising in Kan
sas.
A brute in Miami county built fire
under a baIky horse, but failing to make
the animal go, he punched out the horses
eyes.
Four people were killed by lightning in
Cloud county last week; two at Glasco,
one on Ten-Mile creek, and another near
Concordis.
A man recently started from Los Ami
mas, Col, for New Orleans, in a skiff. He
was making seventy miles a day when he
passed Larned.
The German Lutherans have or
ganized a Sunday school at Glasco, Cloud
county, and teach their scholars in the
German language.
!, Last Sunday, Bishop FInck, of LeaVen.
worth, confirmed seventy-fOur young per
sons as members Of the Catholic church
at Mount Pleasant.
The Usage Mission journal complains
that members Of the Murphy club and
Good Templars, at that place, signed pc
/ titiOns for license. The GIrard Press al
50 makes q similar charge.
. Washington county will send a delega
, ton to the republican State convention il
favor OF Martin for governor and dele
CATION to the congressional convention Il
; favor Of Cy Leland for congress.
} Last Tuesday, the prairie band of tn
{ | Potawatomie Indians, residing in jackson
. county, received their semi-annual pay
q ment from Uncle Sam. 1t amounted I
: $22O9 per capita-makIng the whole sur
received, $1,000.
A tramp entered a school house, abou
nine miles from Concordia, one day la.
: week, and finding the school mistrei
r alone and engaged In sweeping, violate
g her person and then murdered her b
a cutting her throat from ear to ear.
81 Mr. Allen Phillips and Mrs. Mary ]
= Phillips, two aged citizens Of wabauI
see county, were instantly killed by
stroke OF lightning while on their WIS
home from VISIT TO their son. Mr.. L. ]
l. Phillips, OF North Topeka, a few da,
+ ago.
l. The Chautauqua News says that fe
"a days since Rev. Records fell from an a
"a pie tree seriously injuring his ankle, di
abling him for some days. His son job
:" near the same time was thrown from b
10 horse, breaking his collar bone, and huI
lc ing him otherwise. Frank. another so
n split his foot terribly with an AK, Al
IA Charlie, another, had his eyes badly i
= jured while working in wheat; all hu
near the same time and disabled at ono
- although no two Of them were togethe
"a or knew 1t che time Of the others mi
l. hap, till after it occurred.
it The value OF the Kansas crop this We.
- Is estimated at S45 .0OQ, 600. This win /
the largest yield ever known in q sing
Be state. tits q big figure, but it can Il
"A several millions and then beat Califo
- MAS best crop, which was $50, 0OO, %
" When we reflect on the facts connect.
:. with Kansas, 1t tells Of = future IA
eludee even Imagination. Kansas is y
b. \ new state, and not third Of her Ar,
has even been touched by the pillow.
70 u the marvel Of the century. And mex
can anybody discount the future OF
city that II the natural and permanel
factor for all this Immense agrieultur,
be Wealthf-K. q. lopFnal.