The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-01
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house has been placed In position
Necktie parties are among the diver
sions in Labette comfy. The Blenders
want to fight shy of their old camping
ground.
Eureka Sun: Wheat is up and looking
splendid in many parts of the county.
The recent rain has been of immense |
benefit TO grain already sown.
Two thousand people attended the Re- |
publican rally ut Chetopa on the 18th |
inst. Speeches were made by Governor
ST. John, Col. Hallowell and others.
The new school edifice IN course of |
construction in Fredonia will cost up |
wards If ten Thousand dollars, and will
be one of the finest in southern Kar as.
Champion: The cOlOred Republicans
of Atchison have been quietly at work
and have organized Garfield and
Arthur club of their own. One hun
drcd and fifty-six names have been en-
rolled.
A man was tried in Wilson county the
other day for disturbing the peace of a
family" by shooting dog. The defend
ant was acquitted, thus settling the ques-
ton that a dog is not member of u
family.
Madison News: A company from
Emporia have been inquiring into the
prospects of the hotel business in Madi-
son with the view of entering into that
business at this place. They will build
this fall.
Burlington Patriot: Ten 10 fifteen good
stone masons and brick layers can find
plenty OF work to do in their line, until
snow falls, in our city. The building
boom in Burlington never was so
brisk, aud masons all feel their oats.
Eureka Sun: The project of dividing
the county and of making Madison the
county scat, is beng discussed by many
in the north md Of the county. The
project is proposed, VIC are informed,
chiefly in the interests of Madison.
The editor of the Chetopa Advance is
II true patriot. He says: "If you have
to put up one less ton of hay by attend
ing the primary election attend and let
the hay GO" We suppose he thinks it
is better to lose the hay than to let the
country "go TO grass"
Burlington Independent; There arc
eight deaf and dumb, four insane, four
blind, and two idioiic persons in Colfey
county. One of the insane and two of
the idiOtic are black; the others white.
Five of the whites and three of the
blacks are county charges.
The Topeka Daily Post, the little
Democratic fire-crackcr which some
brainy competitor of DIR. Struggled
started TO publish at the capital some
months ago has snuffed out The cause
of death is said to have been a compli-
Gated case of starvation and wind collie.
Mcpherson Republican: The branch
of the A. T. & s. F., from Florence to
this city is now doing very good freight
business. Their freight train, as il left
this city on Monday, had eighteen cars
of grain and other productions of this
country, and that is about the size OF
their trains usually.
AtchisOn Champion: The Roscoe Trib-
une man says the starter of the story
that lie had offered TO sell his paper 10
the Greenbackers is "pusillanimous
wretch" and "full fledged liar" and
''too low to be classed as villain" This
is severe language, but it must be re-
membered that the provOcation is very
great.
Topeka Capital: Hon. Stewart L.
WOodford and wife will arrive in the
city fair week and remain the guests of
Judge and Mrs. NC Mcfarland dur
ing their visit in Topeka. The address
by General WOodford will be delivered
on the seventh of October on the subject
Impressions of the South" Everybody
should hear him.
Dodge City Times: The restoring OF
freight rates and the cattle fever will
check shipments from Caldwell and
Hunnewell. This gives Dodge City a
chance, and there is prospect that 3d.
900 head of cattle Will be shipped from
this point this fall. This would make q
shipment of at least 1900 cars of stock,
and give Dodge City one month of good
fall business.
Topeka Capital: The meeting of the
Democratic and Greenback executive
committees, which was to have taken
place in Topeka, Wednesday, for the
purpose of pulling Ross and Vrooman
off and substituting Fusion candidate
for governor, evidently did not occur
The fact there was to have been such 8
meeting lie pronounced a street rumor by
the leading Democrats of the city.
Usage Chronicle: On Saturday last &
miner in the employ of the Usage Goa
and Mining Co. at Scranton, was in
stantly killed 10y the fall of the roof ir
the room in which he was working a
Scranton. lie was an entire stranger il
this section. By letters in his pocket!
it was found that he was from Illinois
His friends were Immediately telegraph
ell for, but up to Sunday no answer wa!
received. He was buried on the follow
T ing day.
, Atchison Champion: Some labOriou
and painstaking fool went TO work ant
made rebel flag with eleven stars ant
three bars, and raised it one dark nigh
!, on the Greenback pole at Fredonia
When the citizens saw the COniederat
banner in the MOI ming, they tore it down
tore il up, and tore around for hour.
This is what the idiot who raised til
7 flag might have expected. II was apprC
, pirate, however, that the Confederate eT
sign should have fiuttered from th
: Greenback pole; both hags represent
"lost cause"
Burlington Independent: The sem
/ annual meeting of the Presbytery, c
r Emporia, will be held in this city, in th
{ Baptist church, on October 9th and GIL
s In this Presbytery there are thirty-tw
ministers and fiffy-fve churches. TIL
n Presbytery is bounded on the south b
q the Indian territory, and on the mort
It partially by the Kaw river. II include
It Burlington and Emporia on the east, an
v Newton and Wichita on the west TIL
number Of delegates to the Presbyter
If proper is about eighty, of which alool
e my are expected. This religious badly
D. q very important one, and the publ
!, | will be benefited by attending the Sc
" sions, which will be open To all II
u sermon, at the opening. will be pFeaehe
{ by The retiring Moderator, Rev w. 4
Pocock, Of EldoradO'