The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-14
OVER THE STATE
Tramp doctors are the latest.

liam y 0OSVOIS dIc the I3teSI-
Salina has five elevators in operation.
A French colony has settled at Topeka
Dickinson county erected 500 houses
last year.
TIE st. Marys Democrat has turned
up its toes.
A Salina minister received 80 cents for
marrying couple.
Coal has been discovered six miles
northwest of Salina.
There are 1000 children in attendance
at the Topeka schools
The Salina girls have just commenced
to wear striped stockings
Eleven brick and stone buildings are
in course of erection at Clay Center
Salina offers $4,000 to the Presbyteri-
an college if they will locate it at that
place.
A woman in male attire has been OPP
Grating in the cattle business in King
man county.
Twenty-Five deserters have recently
been added TO the convict corps at
Leayenworth.
Mr. Rasher, of Abilene, was knocked
down in Kansas City, on the 25th ult.,
and robbed of $25.
One hundred and ten barrels of game
came into Parsons by express, on Mon
day and Tuesday evenings of last week
The total amount of bills allowed by
the commissioners of Salina county from
December 10, 1878, to January 90, 1879,
was $7,549.35. They're going it.
Judge McClain, of Indianapolis, a
half brother of Governor St. John, is in
Kansas, and wishes to purchase SOC, 900
acres of land for an English colony
Warner, late of the Independence
Kansan, has become partner of L. j.
Perry's, In publishing patent outsides"
for newspapers, at Kansas City, Kansas.
Nearly two thousand snakes have
been exhumed from a winter grave by
the workmen on the Central Branch
AN~0 ~ Oot1AAS7
Glen Elder, Mitchell county.
As Joseph Bartlett was going home
from Humboldt, one night last week
and when near Coal creek, he was trip
ped by a rope across the road, and fell
down. Three men then attacked and
robbed him of$11.
st. Marys, Pottawattomie county, Kan
sas, suffered great loss on the Sd, by
the burning of the Catholic college there
1t was built in 1871, at a cost of $4,000,
was thoroughly furnished, and contain
ed SO boarding students and the faculty.
The fire broke out in the roof near a
chimney, and the building and contents
were totally destroyed.
The Salina Advocate publishes the fol-
lowing list of farms which are in the
immediate vicinity of that city: Haxton
Il Baldwin, near Solomon City, 5000
acres, $500 in wheat. Kingman Bros,
southeast of Salina, 200 all under cnlti-
vation- Crippen s. Donegan, 1890 acres,
1900 acres under cultivation. Hawks &
AoIlolO1 SOuIucdSL VI OaIlIld, O,UUO acres,
1900 under cultivation.
Post-off1ce changes in Kansas during
the week ending Feb. 8, 1870, furnished
by VIM. VanVleek of the post-office de.
partment:
ESTABLISHED.
Bath, Norton county, VIM. Dobbie, P
NJ; Danes Mill, Brown county, Pryor
Plank, P. M; Round Mound, Osborne
county, Richard B. Taylor, P. NJ; st.
Mark, Sedgwick county, Antoine Kas-
mierski, P M; Wild Horse, Grham coun-
ty, Nate Dillinor, P NJ
DISCONTINUED.
Black Bob, Johnston county; Jones'
town, Allen county.
POsTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
Ashmead, Ellsworth county, Munson
NJ. Church; Lowell, Cherokee county, T.
K. Ronnsavell; Ohio Grove, Ottawa,
county, Otto Bernbeck; Tehama, Clarke
county, Elma Wheeler.