The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-07
state Items.

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Paola has a man by the name OF Oys- |
ter. Wonder if he ever worked him
self up into a stew Huntington Pat
riot.
He has undoubtedly been in many
a pickle but we await the next issue OF
the Ottawa Republican with painful
anxiety.
Woodson county has 1888 acres OF
winter wheat to harvest, against l.
305 acres last year, and has on hand
IO7, 187 bushels OF old corn.
A fair association is talked of at
Council Grove.
Two farmers in Cloud county have
planted 30 900 trees this year.
Work is in progress on the Beloit ex--
tension of the Central Branch railroad.
Salina employs eight freight wag-
ons between the business houses and
depot
A young man in Mcpherson county
gas gone insane from the effects of the
bite of rattlesnake year ago.
A daily paper to be called s'The
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the Office of the Salina Advocate about
the 18th of June.
A Cawker City man sold a lot in
that place for a $4,000 diamond ring
and after ward learned that the ring
was purchased at SO cent store.
The Central Branch road is propos-
ing an extension from Concordia to
Scandal, and points in Nebraska.
A Mcpherson county man has just
returned home after wandering four
years through California, Oregon and
Washington Territory In search of a
better place than Kansas. OF course
he didn't find it and is now willing to
remain in Mcpherson and attend to his
little business.
Cherokee county has revoked the
bounty on rabbit scalps-
A catamount weighing 65 pounds
has been caught in Russell county.
A Miss Coffee has cowhided young
lawyer at Lawrence named Leeper.
She made him leap.
Hon. Sidney Clark returned to Law
renee from Washington, one day last
week.
Miss Amanda Way, the temperance
advocate, will pass the summer in Min
nesOta.
General T. T. Taylor, of Reno coun-
ty, says he is not candidate tor 1t
Governor. Correct.
P. II. Herman, of Kansas City, 'for-
merly of Kansas is y candidate for the
Missouri legislature.
Fort Scott has twent-four licensed
saloons, from which the city obtains
an annual revenue of S,4OO.
A man while lying insensible on
street in Kansas City from an apoplec.
tic fit was robbed of $32.
A Lawrence boy, aged II years, hal
been sentenced to ten days imprison.
ment for stealing cherries.
Colonel J. E. Hayes, formerly State
Treasurer, has gone into the dry goods
business at Olathe.
A terantula as large as a mans hand
and with tusks or fangs half an incl
long, resembling cats claws, was kill
ed near Neodesha, last week.
Captain J. Carey French, of De
Norte, Colorado, formerly of Kansas,
has Invented new army tent, which
has been favorably reported upon by
an army commission, and which will
undoubtedly be adopted by the gov
eminent.
An old man at Farnersburg, Mont
gomery county, who is a merchant
, hotel keeper, and a respectable citizen
went to Independence one day las
week, got blind drunk, stole bolt o
muslin, got caught and was fined Sol
and costs.
w. j. Van Enron, of Grove town
ship, Reno county, was caught in a re
cent whirlwind in that county, liftet
+ from the ground to distance of fifteel
or twenty feet and dropped dow
again, breaking his neck and causing
ms tant death.
The Peabody Gazette says that A
, H. McLain, of Harvey county, has
farm of $40 acres on which he has 81.
miles of hedge; $4,000 forest trees fit
teen feet high; $4,000 peach trees
mostly bearing; and small fruits of al
kinds, besides immense fields of wheat
corn and other cereals. Five years ag,
} this land was raw prairie.
The Indebtedness on churches AM
parsonages in the South Kansas NJ. E
Conference is S12,424.
: Atchison folks are making prepare
tions for big reception of the editor
on the 11th. Free eating and dancin
with Atchison's handsome women
3 will attract the boys to the railroa
{ center in large numbers.