The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-30
OVER THE STATE.

OVER THE STATE.
The Leavenworth Sunday Herald is
dead.
Gold has been discovered in Osborne
county.
The exodusters at Dunlap have tie
measles.
Lawrence is enjoying protracted
meeting.
A cotton convention is to be held in
Chetopa.
Atchison is working up an agricultur-
al exposition.
Now Atchlson wants water works and
an opera house.
The Presbyterian church at Hayes
City is completed.
There are nearly 1000 men on the pay
rolls of the Santa Fe.
The Catholics are to build new $15,-
900 church at Topeka.
The project of boring for coal at Sail
ma has been abandoned.
Hon. George \. Crawford, of Kansas,
is very sick IN New York.
The Santa Fe railroad machine shops
at Topeka employ $50 men.
Judge Foster will build Il ten thousand
dollar residence in Topeka.
The first Presbyterian church in De
catur county has been organized.
The Methodists of Topeka are going
to build $4,000 church in the spring.
The scarlet fever has broken out among
the inmates of the deaf and dumb asy-
lum at Olathe.
They now call Milt Reynolds, who
has charge of the exodusters at Parsons,
"Ole Clothes"
Plankinton & Armour, at their pack
ing house in Kansas City, Kansas, en-
ploy 1000 men.
Salinas latest railroad scheme is a
connection with the Burlington & Mis-
souri, railroad in Nebraska.
The Universalist society at Delphos
are making preparations to rebuild their
church near their old church site.
w. b. Strong, general manager of the
A, 7. s. S, F. railroad, spent only twenty
days of last year at his home in Topeka
The machinery at the furniture facto
nv at Oswego cost $1,000. The factory
turns out u car load of furniture in two
days.
Fred. NJ. Spaulding, the defaulting
clerk of Leavenworth county, has beer
sentenced to the penitentiary for four
and half years.
: Capt. Henry King Will have Kansa:
, sketch in Seribner's Monthly, in thu
r course of a few months, entitled, "Ovel
Sunday at New Sharon"
A son of Samual Lappin, late treasur
er of Kansas, has been sentenced to thu
rock pile in Topeka for ten days, for at
tempting to rob n woman.
Nine saloons were pulled" at Leaven
, worth by the police, one night last week
and twenty-five minors, found therein
NCIC ldhCH ~ TIT CdlAOOOSCs
We see the statement that W. T. Nc
h Elroy, of the Humboldt Union, has beeI
9 appointed postmaster at Humboldt w
, trust this is true. Nc is The man win
will serve the people well in that capaci
p ty, and deserves the Office
A wealthy German doctor became en-
; amOred with young German girl livini
:. in the southeastern part OF Dickinso
i county, but she did not smile on his sui
Y A little more than five months ago Ii
4 took fifteen hundred dollars and starte
l. for the Indian territory. Before leavin
Is lie gave the parents of the girl a pape
n stating that if he did not return in 81
months he would be dead and that al
e his property wonld go to the girl II
II was very wealthy and has not yet retureC
n AT Prairie City, Douglas county, r,
IT Gently, during the absence of a youn
g man who had been sent TO Baldwin Cit
4 to obtain some whisky for a party
lie Irish people who were indulging in
Al wake over Il corpse, some mischievoT
$ boys removed the corpse 10 an adjoinin
k room and one Of them took the place
lie formerly occupied ON the table Whe
N the young man with the whisk Y returne'
er the party assembled around the suppose
L. corpse to take drink, and while in til
j. midst of their hilarity the corpse
al threw off his sheet, sat up and demande
ID some whisky. The women screechei
lie and implorcd the mercy of the holy vi
to gin and the ynung nan who got IL
IN whisky jumped through a window. tai
e ing with him sash, glass and all, an
to hasn't been heard from since
u Post otilee changes in Kansas durin
At the week ending january "a, 1880, fu
Sc nished by VIM. Van Week, of the po
is Office department:
IN ESTABLISHED.
&c BitleTtown, Lyon county, Lloyd o
IN trum, p M; Purity, Reno county. Wn
w Bruce. P NJ; Morley, Osborne coui
IL ~. David r. Morley, p n.
Id DISCONTINUED.
IA COonsville, Linn county; Hamilton
81 Greenwood county; little Oak, Jewe
county.
NAMES CHANGED.
Bovard, Crawford county, to Coalvalt
d Thomas, Anderson county, 10 Cornell.
or PosrNAsTERs APPOINTED.
s. Alum Creek, Ellsworth county, Cha
fl Dodd; Grinnell, Wallace county, JOSEF
ig Corette; Hollenberg. Washington coul
sti u, ]. II. Newell; Mcpherson, GcPhe
ut soR R6snsr, John r. Wright; Morton
at Norton eauniy. JOEL II simmons: O
&c btsFne, Osborne county, Robert Il. Hays
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