The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-23
OVER THE STATE.

The amount of personal property tax
able inAtchison is $517,O27.
Seven hundred elm trees have been set
out on the Abilene fair grounds this
season.
The Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe
railroad is building new bridge across
the Kaw at Topeka.
Real estate to the amount of $175, 600
changed hands in WyandOtte county
during the month of April.
A vein of coal, seven and one-half feet
thick, has been discovered in the north
ern part of Republic county.
Col. John C. Carpenter, United States
revenue collector, was delegate to the
recent state Sunday school convention
at Humboldt.
There are 500 prisoners at present in
the penitentiary. This is the largest num-
Der imprisoned there since the prison
was established.
Miss Mary Griffin, of Lawrence, who
has been blind since infancy-twenty
three years-recovered her eye sight one
day last week.
The state board of charities have reap
pointed Mrs. T. c. Bowles matron of the
deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe. A
very excellent appointment.
One of the exodus party, who had
brought horse with him all the way
from Vicksburg, had it stolen the first
night he stayed in AtchisOn.
An attempt was made to burn the
Catholic convent at Wyandotte, last Fri.
day night, and the sisters were obliged
to escape in their night clothes.
A southern gentleman, possessed of
means, has bought and stocked a consid
cradle farm near Prairie City, Kansas
and given it to two cOlored families
formerly his slaves.
A boat loaded with colored refugees
pulled up to the wharf at Leavenworth
one day last week, and the mayor and a
number of citizens gave the captain 500
to take them up to AtchisOn.
The A, T. s. S. F. railroad are going
to establish weather signal stations along
its line. They will be twenty-five miles
apart, and will be under the supervision
of the signal corps at Washington.
Charles Caldwell was stabbed in the
right side and killed in George Strobel's
saloon at Leavenworth, last Saturday
night. There were a dozen men in the
saloon, but no one knew who did the
deed.
An individual who had jumped g
claim belonging to a man named Shell
don, south of Great Bend, was waited or
by committee of twenty incensed resi-
dents and gave certain length of time
in which to skip. He skipped.
In Barton county a little girl, five years
old, fell feet downward in well As feet
deep and IL inches in diameter. The
father, after some time, conceived the
idea of letting his little boy, seven years
old, down after her. This was done, the
boy being let down head first. Botl
were drawn up and found to be un
harmed.
Post Office changes IN Kansas during
the week ending May IL, 1879, furnish
ed by VIM. Van Week, ofthe post offic.
department.
ESTABLISHED.
Sutphen's Mill, Dickinson county
William H. Sutphen, p. n.
POsTNAsTERs APPOINTED.
Allegan, Rice county, Richard Nod
croft, p. M; Clarence, Barton county
William Lambocker, P. NJ; Diana, Sedg
wick county, John c. VanGieson, P. N
Eskridge, Waubunsee county, Mrs
Mary ]. Sanford; Morgan Chase county
John Cox; Ozaukie, Jefferson county
Joseph II. Swing; Pomona, Frankie
county, Mrs. Tirza ]. Mackey; Twil
Falls, Greenwood county, Samuel S
Coleman; Valley Brook, Usage county