The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-31
state News.

Usage Mission has a population of
1 ,22O.
Wabaunsee county has cotton plan
tation.
An opera house 36x96 is being
erected at Beloit.
The Clay Center Dispatch is now
printed on power press.
Forty cows in LeaVenworth have
died with ''cloVer collie"
Eleven druggists in Topeka have
obtained license to sell liquor.
The Blue Rapids paper mill is turn
ing out over ton of paper a day.
The Blue Rapids plaster mill is be-
ing put into running order again.
The Burlingame cheese factor1r Is
turning out twenty cheeses daily.
The Santa Fe road will soon. ba steel
rallied from Kansas City to Topeka.
A colored man has been, elected a
member of the city council OF Chetopa.
General Rice, of the Paola Republi-
can, is delivering temperance lectures.
The cheese factory at Bala, Riley
county, consumes 1000 pounds of milk
daily.
Nearly one hundred COWS have died
at WYsndotte this spring from eating
white clover.
Fourteen opossoms were killed in
one hen house, by one Kan, one night
recently, at Chanute.
/ The grocery firm of II. w. Baker 6
fCo., at Topeka, disposes of %, 600 bar.
rels of salt annually.
Sam McClsrey, while blowing ir
Marion county, last week, uncovered {
den of seventeen rattlesnakes.
The Wilson county agricultural soci
ETY. has invited Bob Ingerson to deIiv
er an address at its next fair.
w. J. Mcintosh unearthed a coupl
of old smooth-b bore, ffint-loek muskers
while blowing In Marion county, las
week.
A moustT0sity in the shape of DO,
whose head is larger than all the re
main der of his body, is exhibiting Il
western Kansas.
The name of Coyote station, on tn
Kansas Pacific, has been changed t
Collyer, and a colony of Chicago pee
Eple Is settling there.
i Twenty wagons loaded with drie
bu ffalo meat, and drawn by sevent
lIyoke of oxen came into Dodge CITY
one day last week.
l. The depot of the Leavenworth, Law
renee 8 Galveston railroad at ChAnut
was struck by lightning and burne
down, Friday a week.
Eghty-six new houses were bui
In Abilene, last year, and already tn
year nearly forty new ones are undt
kway or in contemplation.
4 A "temperance' lecturer frOza Ell
went to Hays City, ono day last weel
to advocate the "cause," but befoI
speaking time he was to drunk for u
terance. r
IL w. p. Montgomery, of the Hays Gil
/ Sentinel has gone to Pittsburg, p
{ He is delegate to the PTesbyteria
General Assembly, and viii be absel
about three weeks.
, 1t is settled that cattle yards are
> be constructed at once at Buffalo, Coz
! county, and that it is expected to be Il
main shipping point of Texas cattle Q
!. the Kansas Pacific road
The power press on which was prin
! ed the Leavenworth Public Press, hi
! been seized by the sheriff, on a writ
!. attachment sued out by d. r. Anthem
in connection with q libel suit.
Nj. r. Jordon, a young attorney
:
! taking poison. He had been the
! about six months, and leaves a wife
| Ffedonia, Kansas. Ill health ar
|. domestic infelicity.
, At a meeting of the State tempe
ance society at Olathe, about one hui
J dred delegates were present, an
!: twenty counties were representa-
q Colonel J. p. st. John, of Olathe, wS
: chosen president, and w. n. HarTi
: of Lawrence, secretary for the ensuin
T year.
: A correspondent of the Manhatta
|. Enterprise says that Dickinson count
\ has q Mormon church in q Roma
: Catholic community. The membei
: of that society seem to abjure poly
! gamy. The dance parties which the
7 approve of and attend, commence wit
= prayer and end with the benedictfOl
Before the editors of this State stal
? on that Central Branch trip, the
should fully understand that that bI
9 snake den is located near Concordia.-
l Peabody Gazette.
{ VIII the Atchison brethren see ths
the Gazette man is provided with ssa1
!, tidote."
II The flood at Fort Scott, on Saturda
night week ago, was the most disas
trous that has vitibed that section fc
. twenty-shree years. The water wa
up TO the floor of the Gulf House.
submerged large sectious of bottOE
land, and destroyed several vaIuabI
crops Of wheat, and some large gar
dens. There were several small house
completely submerged. The NJ, K. 4
, T. road was so badly damaged tI1a
trains were abandoned.