The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01

DOoBo ClIy Is 10 nave SGeam HOUR
ing mill.
Wolf hunting is the rage throughout
Kansas.
Diptheria is raging fatally at Clay
Center.
Hiawatha is to have q new 10000
court house.
Manhattan is to have a public park
near the depot.
A man in Wilson county has cap
tured eleven wild cats, besides wife.
Rush county script is worth only
fifty cents Oh the dollar.
Reynolds, the Murphy advocate, is
about to attack Dodge City.
In Kansas there were $s,5OO,OOO
spent for whisky and tobacco in 1877.
Judge Kingsbury, OF Burlington, has
$50 pound Berkshire hog that sucks
a COW.
An unsuccessful attempt has recent
ly been made to purchase the Atchieon
Champion.
The Central Branch road has a party
of surveyors between Concordia and
Cawker City.
A successful religious revival has
just closed at the Methodist church in
Minneapolis.
The county commissioners of Saline
county have rescinded the order
offering 500 for each horse thief cap
tured.
1t is suspected that Morris, the
Woodson county wife beaten and
shooter, has been lynehed.
Burlingame Is q candidate for coun-
ty seat of Usage county, and is making
a vigorous fight.
There is about 1000 Sunday schools
in the State of Kansas, with 10000
teachers and 10000 scholars.
A Chicago man has just bought eight
sections of land In WoOdson county, OF
the M, K. & T. railway.
Rush Center was elected county
seat of Rush county at the recent
contest, by a majority of seven.
Mr.. Shields, of Jackson county, was
killed recently by glance blow from
an ak, while trimming hedge.
The editor OF the Thayer Headlight
had $1,000 in the First National OF
Kansas City, at the time of its suspen-
sion. That's very likly story, indeed.
A Wamego preacher kissed one OF
his lady parishIoners and she respond
ed by knocking him down with a polk
er. Good!
Lawrence recently unloaded itself OF
thirteen tramps by ordering them to
work on the streets. They all left.
Burlington is to be headquarters for
he workshops and offices of the Kan
sas City, Burlington 6 Santa Fe rail-
road.
The Hayes Sentinel favors President
Anderson, of the Manhattan agricul-
tural College, for Congress from the
first district.
w. Howard, a young man, while
hunting recently in Sedgwick county,
about twelve miles north of Wichita,
was killed by the bursting of the gun
The wife of DIR. h. ]. Canniff, form
erly of Lawrence, died at Ouray, Col
orado, on the 10th inst. The doctor
was once grand master Of the Odd Eel
lows of Kansas.
A funerel procession on the way to
the Burlington cemetary got stuck in
the mud, and the pail bearers were
compelled to take the corpse from
the hearse and carry it to the grave.
A suit has been decided in the dis
rrict court of Miami county about the
location of certain piece of land, the
difference amounting to less than $40,
which has cost nearly $500.
A man named Wadner, in Chautau-
qua county, a few days ago, while
drunk, was allowed to lay in a wagon
all night by the owner, who was also
drunk. The next morning WadneI
was found dead.
At the district conference OF the M
E. church recently held at Sabetha, the
Rev. w. L. Leak, of Doniphan, was
expelled from the ministry and from
the church, on charge of "immoral
conduct" and the Rev. S. S. BeyerI
was deprived of exercising his func.
tions as local preacher, on account o.
, "visiting saloons or billiard halls
, That's the county that Sol. Millel
lives in.
The Leavenworth Times says tina
r there lives in little log cabin east o
! the depot at Tonganoxle, a dolores
man named Samuel Asher, who is IL;
: years old; was ten years old at tn,
I commencement of the great American
} struggle in 1775, and remembers how
d his master talked to his fellow slaves
: at that time. He never "saw Genera
! Washington" He does remember tina
in the summer of 1s45, while he wa
f working in tobacco field in Tennes
3 see he became blind. HIS mind is per
: fectly clear on many subjects and h
eonverses freely.
. The moral people of Council Grove
emboldened at their temperance sue
\ cess, are now endeavoriRG TO proven
hunting and fishing on the Sabbath.
! Mrs. Nance, of Abilene, desires in
3 formation concerning her husband
John Nance, who left last Christina
: taking with him her six children, tn
: oldest girl seven years old, but quit
small, and troubled with spinal dis
ease. Address Mrs. Nance, Abilene
Kansas.
Eddie Beal, son of Hiram Beal, @
: Riley county, while rabbit hunting
! with brother, the other day, had hi
: left cheek torn entirely away to tn
q bone, and about three-fourths of hi
o upper lip, and the lower part of on
: side and the middle of his nose, beside
: four teeth knocked out, by the acciden
: tai discharge of gun.
The Chetopa Herald, Burlingto
Daily Star, Parsons Daily 0utIoo
have all "taken a WALK to 'tths