The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-22

Topeka wants 70 reform.

Topeka wants 20 reform.
Minneapolis has two piow factories
The wamego Tribune is talking
herd law.
Twenty-three sccessions sere made
to the Presbyterian church at Saiina
last Sunday week.
Lewis Bugher has a farm of 1850
acres near Solomon City, 1000 of
which are under cultivation, 700 in
wheat.
A party of eastern capitalists were
in Manhattan last week, seeking q
tract of $4,000 acres for the location OF
a colony. Come here.
A project is on foot to extend the
M, K. & T. R. R., from ParkervilIe or
Skiddy to the solomon Valley, by way
of Enterprise, Abilene and Solomon
City.
"rhe Campbells are coming" surely.
Campbell of the Wamego Tribune and
Campbell of the Clay Center Dispatch,
were both presented with babies last
week.
Wyandotte county has fourteen di-
vorce cases.
A temperance c1lODy is to be located
near Ellis.
S. o. Fletcher, route agent on the
NJ, K. & T. has been appointed post
master of Parsons.
The Atchison Murphy club now
mum bers over 1000 members.
DonIphan county shipped $4,000
bushels of winter apples last fall.
1t is estimated that the liquor traf-
fic in Lawrence is yearly expense OF
$50, 900.
Eighty thousand acres OF land have
recently been taken by settlers in
Pratt county.
A colony of young, unmarried Ia
dies, from Pennsylvania, will soon To-
cate in Ellis county.
Ex-Governor Carney is in Washing
ton obtaining patent for a new pro-
cess for manufacturing looking
glasses.
Major Inman, formerly of the Ellis.
worth Reporter. is now a proof reader
in the government printing Office in
Washington.
A party of buffalo hunters were
robbed of their horses, wagons anC
guns by a band OF Indians, down OF
the Canadian.
A. A. Talmage, of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad, will succeed A. B. earn
er as general superintendent of the N
K. & T.
The friends of Major Ben Gale ten.
dered him 8 banquet in hOHor of hi
re-appOintment as postmaster of Atch
ison.
Two hundred and sixty recruits ar
rived at Fort Dodge, last week, ant
, will be parceled out to the deplete
} companies of the 18th infantry.
Atchison brags of bar keeper VIII
! has been tending bar tor more tina
twenty years, and has never taken
= drink OF beer, wine or whiskey.
The treasurer of a greenback club 6
Parsons believes that there is ne
enough currency in the county, for b
has stolen the clubs money money an
been expelled.
Lieutenant Phillip Rsade, wei
known in Kansas as the husband {
: Minnie Beals, has been relieved froI
duty at San Diego, Cal, and sssigne
to the signal Office at Washington.
n Hon. Aaron Huddleston, of Tongan
8 oxie, who represented portion I
f Leavenworth county in the house {
p the last session of the Kansas legislS
) ture, is in Washington, working ft
n an Indian agency. He is Quaker.
At a recent church sociable in Kar
s sas City, Kansas, n girl of IA and
bachelor of 40 were clandesEinel
married in an adjoining apartment
! The girl had been educated at st Mary
, and her parents are rich and respects
!, BILE. Her marriage has greatly dii
: tressed them.
? Last Sunday night a man name
: Butts, from Williamsport, Pa, campo
on Stranger creek, Leavenworth coun
i. ty, and during the night q couple {
g strangers sought and obtained pei
mission to remain with him. Some
: time afterward he awoke and foun
himself burning, with brands of fl
heaped upon him and the strange
gone. His face, hands and feet wei
n terribly burned.