The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-23

4CSC COnLucuCCS OCRss 3tus
Valley Falls has separate schools for
white and coIored children.
Burlingame has just elected a lady
treasurer on the school board.
Prof Palmer, OF Wyandotte, is arrang-
ing to open an academy there.
The L. l.. & G. Railroad has been sold
to G.. ii. NettletOn, tor $4,000
Cherryvale Globe, PIatt & Bufiugton
editors and prOprietors, is the latest.
Two Swedes, father and son, died from
intoxication at Manhattan last week.
Crawford county has three scholars in
the deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe.
Five divorces were granted at the late
term Of the District court in Lynn Co.
They are drilling for coal at Valley
Falls. None has been found at 100 feet.
The United Brethren Annual Confer.
erence has just been in session at Parsons.
The Central Branch railroad is to be
pushed forward to Cawker City without
delay.
The residence OF F. A. Belts, q promi.
nent lawyer of OsWego, was burned last
week.
The Holton Recorder says the apple
crop in Jackson county will be light this
season.
in the different counties, August 26, 81,
and %.
The Morris County Exposition Compa-
ny has leased q tract of land for a fair
ground.
A commercial traveller named Guym
was recently robbed of SO by two men
in Elk county.
Hon. T. q. Henry Of Dickinson county,
is the Republican nominee for the State
Senate in his district.
A Burlingame correspondent of the
Usage City Free Press, speaks OF croquet
as "Pesbyterian billiards."
Usage City is agitating the county-seat
question again. They are talking up q
new town to appear as q candidate.
Mr.. Geo. Smith, living about eight miles
south of Lawrence, has about fifty trees
Of Turkish prunes in full bearing.
The Kirwin Chief has been purchased
by j. j. McClymont, who will change its
name and make it q democratic paper.
A store at Wellsville, Franklin county,
and boarding house adjoining, were de.
stroyed by fire Sunday night Of last week.
Topeka is to have q new greenback pa.
per to be called the Free Discussion. Ten
thousand copies OF the first number will
be issued.
Mr.. G. H. Failyey, a graduate Of the
agricultural college, takes Prof. Kedzie'l
place there in charge of the chemical de
partment.
The Gulf Railroad Co. is collecting fo1
exhibition at Kansas City, specimens O
agricultural products raised along thu
line Of their road.
The Ottawa night Waterman, Monday
night, was attacked and overcome by {
party of roughs. They made their escape
on the arrival of help.
1t has been decided in the district cour
of Allen county that the owners Of barbeC
wire fences are liable for the damage
which they do to stock.
They are talking of Rev. T. W. Hender
son, editor OF the Colored Citizen, Tope
ka, fer Lieutenant Governor. He will b.
the 'sdark horse'' in the race.
The Dickinson county legislative can
didates have pledged themselves to worl
for q reduction and equalization Of freigh
rates on the Kansas railroads.
The lndustrislist Journal appears will
a column favoring spelling reform, ami
illustrates its position by making the or
thOgrphy Of the article, Ia Josh Billings
Anew coal shaft has been sunk at vii
liamsburg, and IL inch vein Of fine quail
ity coal found in thirty-six feet. A sid
track will be laid to 1t Immediately, an,
mining pushed to the. utmost.
Much excitement was caused at o ttaw
lately on account of the disappearance @
an old man named Moore. 500 citizen
were out IN search of him, and he was &
nally found asleep in q haystack abou
twelve miles out.
J. H. McMahan has obtained judgmen
against the Memphis q Northwestern riI
road company, and has caused an order O
sale to be issued against the road bed be
tween Thayer and Fredonia. It viii
probably be bid in by the Cherokee 4
Parsons Railroad Co., who viii continu
their line westward over it.
A fellow who travelled through tn
State some time ago IS Rev. r. 8. Wade
. great temperance apostle, has sine
started an intelligence ONCE at Atchison
and is now In the Atchtson jail unde
charge OF obtaining money under falls
pretenses.
A number Of our stbloods'' are in tn
habit Of making Sunday night pilgrima
ges to our neighboTIng, city over tn
| branch to see their fair duIcaneAs, and Il
crossing the creek at the old bridge Their
Is nothing LEFT but scantling to walk on
! Each fellow in coming home makes it
rule to nix said scanf1ing 80 1t will dunn
the next returning swain into the creek
Several fellows have found rock at tn
bottOm.-Galena Miner.
The Alma News says that at Col. San
ford 8 house, Eskridge, on Thursday, Au
gust 1st, Mary Sanford, q young lad,
about seventeen years OF age, playful,
pointed . pistol at q negro child aged on
year and nine months, and shot the chIlc
through the lungs. the bullet coming on
through the back. Death Immediately
ensued.
Burlington rejoices over one dead.bea
lesA. L. G. Smith, the wind mill fellow
/ grip-saek IN hand, lit cut for the Rock,
Mountains In search Of other pasture
green, leaving plenty Of unfuckY credit
ors holding his promise 70 pay. Wha
are those paper fellows to do who Adver
! tised his shoddY musical instrumenfsf-
Patriot.
A couple Of Normal Institute students
at Troy, while hunting for geOlOgica
specimens. discovered what seemed to b.
the organic remains OF burglary, consist
ing Of matsriaIs Of nrst class vgatel
maker and jewellers shop. There werr
hammers, pineers, pliers, drills. flies
Vfses, watch wheels, hair springs, rings
studs, and various other articles, cnnsid
erably the worse for rust. They wer,
evidently deposited there by some on,
who had gone through = Wateh-maker'l
establishment.
We learn from the Chsse County Lead
er that an an Irishman, named Nike Lang
rof, who worked on the railroad sectioE
south OF Toledo. went TO EmporIa q
| transact some business and has not beer
heard Of since. He had about 80 with
him when he left, and there Is still due
him about $50 by the railroad company
1 Mr. 0.f,rru wfe1, -kn..s ~ frarr1asl Z.