The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-10
state News.


day.
Dickinson county has eight grain
elevators.
Baxter Springs has eighty-seyen
families of colOred people.
Topeka is terribly afflicted with dead
beat temperance advocates.
A town called Anthony has just
been located in Harper county.
A three-foot vein OF coal has been
struck within mile of Independence.
Geo. Grant, the owner of Victoria
colony, died there on the 9th ult., of
rheumatism.
Lew j. Best has been appointed re-
ceiver OF the Kirwin land office, vice
j. NJ. Hodge.
A county Sunday school convention
is to be held at Council Grove on the
10th of May.
The temperance people of Girard are
prosecuting druggists who have been
selling liquors as beverage.
Several Williamsburg people were
poisoned last week from eating fish
that had been baited with diseased
pork.
Professor Wherrel, formerly princi-
pal of the Leavenworth normal school,
is about to open a normal school at
Paola.
A saloon-keeper down in Eldorado,
announces by placard that he has for
sale "sigars, towbacko, and ballOny
sawsig."
The river and harbor appropriation
bill gives $4,000 to improve the Mis-
souri, river at Atchison, and $4,000 at
st. Joseph.
Judge B. w. Perkins, of Oswego,
the smallest man, physically, on the
Kansas bench, is lately the father of
twins. Smallest
The sheriff of Bourbon county has a
horse that goes to the pump and lifts
water himself by working the handle
with his mouth.
Ridenour g Baker, wholesale groc-
ers of Lawrence, are erecting large
warehouse at Kansas City, at an ex-
pense of $4,000.
Sophie Jackson, in Franklin county,
has had a RIB broken and her life
threatened with death, by being acct
dentally hit with base ball.
Topeka saloons are now closed on
Sundays and drug stores there are to
be prohibited from selling the fluid on
| ly OR medical prescriptions.
A daughter Of George Griffith, near
Williamsburg, Franklin county, aged
nine years, was burned to death by q
prairie fire, one day last week.
A. Fl. Wheeler, late deputy sheriff
of NeoshO county, has been arrested
and sent to Eureka in irons for steal
ing and other slight indiscretions
while in office.
A Dunkard preacher in NeoshC
county has been ''indiscreet'' with q
married sister aged sixty years. The
irate husband cracked the skull of the
untaithful shepherd.
A school girl in Atehison named
Miss Harper went insane and jumped
into the river because she had beer
Tilted by her lover. She was rescued
from a watery grave by friends.
By the recent destruction of the tarl
of Mr.. ELAN, near Black Jack, Doug
las county, by lighting, FIVE head O
horses and entire supply of corn an
oats were destroyed.
Phosphate of lime has been discoY
f cred in great quantities near Wan
keeny, on the X. T.. road, 32l mile
west of Kansas City. 1t is a valuabl
fertilizer.
= The State of Kansas has 1,243, 10
| acres planted in wheat the pres
? ent year. An average of twelv
= bushels an acre-and present indics
= tiens justify the belief that the averag
a yield will reach this figure, if it dee
4 not far exceed it-would give 1897
SI2 bushels of winter wheat as tn
product of the crop of 1873.
, A few weeks ago Mr.. 81. H. SAwyel
a prominent citizen of Wyandotte, an
Mrs. Sarah E. Mooney, grass wido'
. of Kansas City, were arrested for con
hitting adultery, on q charge prefer
ed by a son of Sawyer, and were triet
found guilty, fined, and discharged a
ter paying the fine. Since then bot
parties have been divorced from the
former mates and on Thursday of la
week they married and now live
Wyandotte, the same city where Saw
yer's former wife and family are livin
1t The law ought to prohibit divorce
people from getting married for fl,
years after divorce is granted.