The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15
Rouhwest.

EldOradO business men are talking
abOHt gas.
The Murphy movement begins al
Douglas Feb. Is.
Most of the Southwest papers tax,
Tom Ryan in theirs.
T. L. Nixon has purchased an inter
in the Wichita Herald.
Coal has been discovered at Rox
bury, Mcpherson county.
Reynolds, the temperance lecturer, 4
to visit Wichita about March 1st.
The Eldorado Times invites the la
dies to come and see the editors posies
| The MennonItes of Mcpherson coun
ty are sueing debtors by the wholesale
The new stained glass windows fol
the Methodist church at Arkansas City
cost STA.
w. B. Grimes, of Fulton, Texas, il
moving on Dodge City with is, 600 heai
of cattle.
Albert A. Chamberlain, of Arkaasal
City, recently Joined the Knights o.
Honor, and died on the 9Th, from par.
alysis. His widow and three children
will get $1,000 from that order. This
is the first knight of Honor who has
died in Kansas.
We are pleased TO learn from the
Marion County Record, that people in
Kansas are noted solely in accordance
with their supply of brains and per-
sonal worth, and that no distinctions
are made on account of wealth because
this rule, if only put into practice,
would of course put editors at the top
of the heap.
C. J. Fry of Barton county has lost
ID out of 1 800 sheep, since last No
vember.
Barton county has German immi-
grafton society, composed of Germans.
A colony of 40 colored persons from
South Carolina, arrived at Great Bend,
last week, to settle in Barton county.
The Unien Sabbath school of Marion
Center is happy over present of 100
books, from Cincinnati.
Sedgwick county sent a silver and
greenback petition of ! ,305 names to
Congress.
w. C. Woodman has lectured on
finance to large audience of his fell
low citizens in Wichita, and proposed
a financial plan which the meeting
adopted, and the Eagle heartily APP
proves.
Woodman is president of the Arkan-
sas Valley national bank, and that is
all right, but what we want to inquire
is this-suppose he sawed wood for a
living, and proposed precisely the
plan he has, what attention or endorse
ment would it have received in Wichi-
ia or elsewhere, and what would then
have been the Eagles opinion of it.
Chase County has a German immi-
grafton society.
In Chase county, on the %, Lot.
Leonard sold 16 hogs months old av-
eraglng 326 pounds.
Wichita is having a grand revival.
Lawrence, the Ex-Treasurer of Rice
county, who was charged with robbing
the county safe and embezzling the
funds of the county, was tried al
Hutchinson and found guilty of en-
bezzling $4,000. The motion for a
new trial was oYerruled and Judge
Peters sentenced Lawrence to three
years in the penitentiary at hard labor
The Augusta Gazette heartily ap-
proves the Matthews resolutions to
pay all debts in the old silver dollar OF
4I2% grains, and emphatically endors-
es the proposition to make the silver
dollar contain just 435 grains.
Tho Augusta Gazette says if any new
men are in order for Congress, that it
I would suggest as most eminent and
capable, L. B. Murdoch, A. l.. Red
den, or E. i. Aiken, of Butler county.
IT'S brilliant trio, but we will have
to stick to Ryan.
Recently young child In Marion
Center died from trying to swallow a
sewing machine needle, and last week
three year old daughter of Essie
Williams nearly choked to death in
trying to swallow a mt from a small
iron bolt.
A discovery recently made near
Lsrned, in this State, raises the ques-
ton how long does it take sandstone to
form? The Larned Press says that q
few days ago Mr.. William Kunkle, who
lives about six miles northwest of that
place, while working in some sand
stone, broke a large one in two, and in
the center of 1t found a part of a tin
cup. How long since was it that the
cup dropped therea In what
stage of process was the stone at that
time2 And was 1t anterior to the ad-
vent of the white man on these plains {
Under the head of "Watchman, Tell
us of the Night" the last Cottonwood
Falls Leader got off an interview OF
citizens of that town ala Kansas City
papers, on the effect of the late bank
smash up in that city. 1t was a good
| one.
Our friend j. F. Kirker, Superin-
tendent of the Cottonwood Falls
schools, was married on the 9th, by
Rev. Paul F. Jones, to Miss Lydia
Moore, near Cottonwood Falls.
Four men were arrested in different
parts of the State last week for steal
ing horses in and near W ichita.
The Dodge City Times nomInates
NJ. NJ. Lewis as q candidate for Con.
gress from this district. Is the Times
trifiing on this matter viii some
one arise and tell US who the thunder
M. NJ. Lewis is, anyhow.
1t is said by persons just from
Wichita, that the editor of the Eagle is
in fearful state of mind because the
Kinsiey train robbery did not take
place at Wichita. Kinsley mustn't do 50
any more if she does not want to ex-
cite Wichita's jealousy.
Beyond the Reach OF Human Skill
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