The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-08
State EGems.

Council Grove has public library.
The Central Branch railroad is COM
'lete TO Concordia.
Manhattan is shipping building stone
o Leavenworth
A successful religious revival is in
progress at Manhattan
Sbyuler Colfax will lecture at Abb
enc on the 10th instant.
The Parkerville temperance club has
,ne hundred members.
A proposition is on foot To change
,he name of Sktddy to Aetna. Oh,
don't.
NJ. S. tyler has sold his elegant resi-
lence in Manhattan to Jesse Winehip,
for $4,000.
800 hogs have already been slaught-
cred by the Abilene pork packing |
company.
It is said that the dubious prospects
for ice is the cause of the rapid growth
of Murphyism in Southern Kansas.
General Fitzpatrick is so well pleased
with Kansas that he is going TO pur-
chase a section of land in Dickinson
county.
Burgett, who killed Terrell at New
Years frolic in Cloud county has been
bound over in the sum of 30 600.
A tramp who had obtained lodgings
at the farm House of Henry Barry, in
Saline county, the other night, decamp-
ed before morning with silver watch,
seven pounds of butter and ten dollars
in money, which he had stolen from
his entertainer.
The new union depot at Kansas City
is completed.
Usage county is talking up county
historical society.
Six hundred families have settled in
r nsh county since last August.
Short Greek trembIes in anticipation
of visit from the Murphys.
Parties are prospecting for lead and
iron in Leavenworth county.
The Kansas Central railroad is erect
ing new depot at Leavenworth.
Since the Murphys have captured
Humboldt John r. Goodin has gone to
Washington.
A wild cat weighing thirty-four
pounds was killed last week in Jackson
county.
One hundred families from Lancas-
ter county, Penn, are going to locate
in Wyandotte county.
An effort is on foot to establish q
telephone line between Plasanton and
Mound City, a distance of seven miles
Bishop Vail has do mated $500 to the
Episcopal church now being erected al
Victoria. IE will cost nearly $4,000.
Alex. Mcdonald, "formerly of Kan
srs," aud later a United States Sen.
ator from Arkansas, is now living in
Chicago.
J The amount that Kansas will receive
from the five per cent. on the sale o.
the Indian lands is estimated a
100000.
The Wamego Tribune has invented
plan to increase Lits circulation. II
offers the Tribune free to any one who
feels too poor to pay for it.
A man in Chetopa recently spirited
away his daughter to parts unknown
to prevent her from marrying a mar
whom the "cruel PARENT" disliked.
Underlying the town of Cherokee
Crawford couaty ;, is a strata of fire
clay three feet thick. 1t is of super
ior quality, and a company has beer
organized, buildings are being erect.
ed, and the manufacture OF friedrich
tiles, etc., will soon be commenced.
1t is now understood that Chic
Joseph and his band of Nez Pierce'
will Dot be returned to Idaho, but viii
be sent to a reservation in the Indiar
Territory and treated much in the
same manner as the Modocs who were
dominciied in that locality few years
ago.
The grade is completed from Viii.
liamsburg to Burlington.
The Burlington Patriot ''swoopG
down. ON that handsome gentleman
with plug hat, E. G. Smith, of the
Queen organ, which he reports to b.
manufactured at Burlington.
Judge w. L. Marc, of Leavenworth
started recently in good health OF body
and mind, to attend meeting of banl
directors at Olney, Illinois, and die
not arrive there, and has not beer
heard frem. His cane and satchel have
been found in a Cincinnati hotel. NJ
reason can be assigned for his myster.
ious disappearance, and his wife anC
family are In great distress over 1t.
The Chicago Railway Review, say
that the Missouri River railroad bondI
! issued by the city of Leavenworth
i amounting to $3.50, 900 are to be re
funded at thirty-five cents on che dol
lar. The new bonds are per cent
and $4,000 are to be paid each yea
on the principal.