The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-06


at NicOdemus, Graham county.
Judge Reynolds, an old settler of
Riley county, died August Goth.
The dam in the Solomon at Kirwin is
completed and the mill running.
The Ohioans are to have grand pic
mic at Troy, sometime in September.
A new NJ. E. church at Washington,
Kansas, is to be dedicated September 8.
Only six cases have been recorded in
the Burlingame police court in six years.
Cattle are dying at and near Chetopa
from a disease supposed to be Spanish
fever.
The Democrat says there never has
been a commercial failure in Great
Bend.
A Kansas City man has killed SCRIP
ent weighing 1875 pounds and having 40
rattles.
The Methodists of Abilene are arrang-
ing for the erection of an elegant church
edifice.
Fifty marriage licenses have been is
sued in Franklin county during the past
six months.
Clay Center has organized IA company
to prospect for coal They will have
coal ''bore" ......-
Prof. Watson, of Mich. University, is
talked of as successr to Prof Bardwell
of Lawrence.
5000 acres of school land have lately
been sold in Allen county at an aggre-
gate of $4,000.
The grist mill at Brookville is to be
opened with banquet and ball on the
10th of September
Mr.. l. c. Cuppy, of Humboldt, in a
few weeks past has lost over fifty head
of hogs by cholera.
S. S. Upton, of Burlington, former
Emporium, has been employed as princi-
pal of Garnett schools.
Mrs. A. H. Reeder, wife of the first
governor of Kansas territory, died re-
Gently at Allentown, Pa
The Wells orchard, near Manhattan,
is set down to produce from 5000 to
1000 bushels of apples this year.
The lola Register complains that
some sneak thieves have been stealing
trees from the lola cemetery lately.
Mrs. j. Clarke Swayze, formerly of
the Topeka Blade, has been elected a
teacher in one of the schools of that city.
A correspondent of the Kirwin Dem
ocrat represents the Nicodemus colonists
as reasonably contented and prosperous.
Boyd Porter, a negro at La Cygne,
was assassinated last week A man
named Collins is under arrest for his
murder
Calvin Burnett, of Lawrence, an old
settler and one of the original New
England anti-slavery men, died at his
home August 22d,
The Crawford county bank, at Girard,
which failed sometime since, has made
final payment, with interest, to the last
creditor it was owing
Arthur Signor, boy of six years, son
of Mrs. G. r. Signor, of Russell, was
smOthered in a wheat bin in the Russell
elevator, on the 23d inst
The store of S. s. Coleman at Toronto,
Woodson county, was recently broken
into and about fifty dollars worth of
merchandise stolen from it.
B. F. Shoemaker shot and killed Lee
Conley, and it is supposed MORALLY
wounded his father, Robert -Conley, at
Short Greek, on the 22d inst
The water is so low in Fall river
at Eureka that it is impossible for the
Touring mill to grind more than six
hours out of the twenty-four-
1t is reported that George c. Crowther,
who was once secretary of the Kansas
state senate, was killed recently in dis
reputable brawl in New Orleans.
A railroad engineer at Russell, Kas.
named Foster, attempted suicide with a
revolver, then cut his throat from ear to
ear, because he was tired of living.
Peace Monthly Meeting of Friends
has received into membership, by letter
and otherwise, since the first of last year,
one hundred and sixty-fve persons.
j. 1. Foot, the greenback nominee for
state superintendent, has written letter
of acceptance. 1t takes letter over a
column of newspaper space for him to
say he is a candidate
At late Greenwood county teachers
examination there were sixty applica-
tiOns for certificates. Thirteen received
first grade certificates, thirty four second
grade, and thirteen failed entirely.
The Government surveying party
fitted out at Ottawa for the final survey
of the Marais DIES Cygnes river, left Otta-
wa on Monday last. The survey will be
complete from Ottawa to Osceola. Mis-.
souri,.
i A contract has just been completed by
Mr.. Robert o. Wood, of Philadelphia to
build the railroad from Burlington to
Eureka They are to complete the road
ready for business within four. months
and will begin work next week.
Empire City Echo: Mayor Cheney
has received, on the 10th inst, 66 900
pounds of lead ore from his lease ON the
Baker tract since July 10th. This is
turning out among the best diggings on
Short Creek.
Mrs. Paisley, who obtained a divorce
in the district court at Topeka, a few
days since, was married within twenty
minutes after she was released from hef
former harness. The Commonwealth
calls it a double shuttle"
H. G. Sales, brakeman on the A. T.
& 5. F. r. r., while loading coal upon
an engine at PetertOn, on Tuesday morn
ing last, lost control of the chute, and il
came down upon him, burying him un-
der the coal in the tank, and resulting
in severe injuries.
The State Auditor furnishes the fol.
lowing table of cattle, hogs and sheep
assessed this year and last:
Cattle -76s .765 Sis 46S Inc 5Iasls