The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-16
OVER THE STATE.
SaIina has 3 500 Inhabitants.

The new Santa Fe freight depot at
Atchison will be the best on the road
between Kansas City and Pueblo.
The Kansas City, Lawrence s. South.
ern railroad has put new train on the
road from Kansas City TO Winfield.
Thieves are so bountiful in Cherokee
county that the people have to organize
vigilance committees to take care of
them.
One of the inducements offered TO i'm
migrants to Nemaha county by the
Courier is, that it has "the best Jail in the
state''
A little girl in Miami county was so
severely bitten on one of her feet by
hog recently that the foot had to be am
putated.
There are now residing in Manhattan
twenty-seven ministers and ex-ministers
of the gospel, and yet the town went for
whisky.
VIM. Bishop, of Salina, gentleman
of excellent qualifications, is a candidate
for state superintendent of public in
struction.
A little Lawrence girl, who informed
the guests at her sisters wedding, that
"Sallie was marrying for money" gave
the bride away.
Mr.. Millington, of the Winfield Cour-
Ter, has turned over the private papers
of Col. James Montgomery, to the state
historical society.
Two Ute chiefs who are witnesses be-
fore the United States grand jury at To-
peka, will travel with Sells circus when
it starts out on the road.
A j. Heisington, editor of the Great
Bend Register, has been appointed re-
gent of the State Agricultural College to
succeed T. G. Henry, of Abilene.
The effect of baby-talk upon the dawn
ing faculties of the infant mind, is the
subject upon which the Topeka editors
have turned loose their colossal intel
lects.
Brother Baker. of the Commonwealth,
admits that the great needs at the recent
state convention at Topeka were sufficient
hotel Accommodations, and greater mum
Der of Grant delegates.
The prisoners in the Shawnee county
Jail took vote on their politics last
Monday and out of the sixteen confined
all were Democrats but two and they
were both colored men.
The exodusters at Topeka are busily
engaged in gathering green's. Unless
they are color-bIind they will not fail to
scoop in the numerous white citizens
who have been victimized by confidence
men at the capital this spring.
The wheat prospects of Dickinson
county are very tiattering as the recent
rains have refreshed everything greatly
The wheat was injured somewhat few
weeks ago by the cold weather, but the
damage can hardly be discerned. The
farmers are busily engaged in ploughing
and other spring work.
The oldest living native of FredOnia
in this state, is little girl aged tel
years. Her limited stock of reminiscen
ces, as well as the natural impulse of thu
child to tell the truth, will render tn,
task of instituting those meteorological
comparison switch it is the duty of thu
"oldest inhabitant" always to furnish
rather difficult.
The Grant kickers at the Topeka con
vention should be rendered some sub
slantial remuneration for the great bene
fits accruing to the state as the result o
their recalcitrant efforts. Kansas has beer
well advertised heretofore but the third
term sticklers have given it q send-of
that will be worth millions to our flour
ishing commonwealth.
An Ottawa man died and left fortun
of $4,000 to a poor nephew, and thu
ovcrjoyed legatee judiciously wore
pair of boots size and half too small
to the funeral, in order that his raptur
might be seasoned with a becoming de
gree of solemnity and a proper ObseI
vance of the prophecies of the narrowing
occasion thus be secured.
Post Office changes in Kansas during
the week ending April 10. 1880, furnish
ed by VIM. Van Week of the post ofic
department:
EsTABLIsHED-Aral. Butler county
Mrs. Caroline Dunbar, p. M; Cells
Rawlins county, H. B. Franklin, P. NJ.
Constant, Cowley county, John w. FeU
quay, p. NJ; Haskell, Anderson county
Mitchell B. Clark, P. NJ; Kepferlt
Cheyenne county, George L. Dunn, F
M; Nonpareil, Reno county, Jane
Gagnebin, P. NJ; Trego, Trego county
Theodor Highlander, p. N.
DIsCoNTINUED-Delta Jewell county
| PosTMAsTERs APPoINTED-Banvill
Big Creek, Russell county, Herman
Reichardt; Chard, Neosho county, 6
w. Crees; Cornell, Anderson county
Anthony Flusche; Eden, Atchison couI
ty, Joseph Vollmer; Godfrey, Bourbo
county, Charles NJ Wilson: Gorhan
LabeIte county, Eli Sperry; Twin FALL
Greenwood county, Walter Smithers.
The bids for erecting the State Reforr
School near Topeka were opened o
Thursday and the contracts for the m;
son, carpenter work and plasterlng weT
awarded-the first to Topeka and the la.
two to Lawrence parties. The aggregai
cost of those items of construction wi
be $26,57s. The appropriation wa
$35,OO0, for which the state board was {
"build and equip" a reform school fo
boys within five miles of Topeka. Som
of the appropriation was expended i
visiting institutions in other states an
incidental expenses, but there will /
enough left after paying the contracts Il
for plumbing, heating and furnishin
enough of the building to accommodai
the officers and forty people. A porto
of the building, large enough to accom-
modste sixty inmates, will be left unfiI
, ished until after the meeting of the le
islature.