The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-20
STATE ITEMS.

Ellsworth is talking paper mill.
The wife of Bishop Vail is hopelessly |
blind.
A monument for Alfred Gray is pro
posed.
Everybody at waterville has signed
the temperance pledge.
A large Catholic cathedral is being
constructed At Usage Mission.
The Mcpherson Freeman reports three
tourths of the peach buds uninjured.
Twenty-Five houses were erected in
Mcpherson during the month of Jan
ualy.
Eleven Democratic editors were in
Clyde last week. seeking a location for
paper.
Dickinson county has one million
bushels of corn of last years crop still
on hand.
Kirwin claims population of 1900,
with no church buildings and only four
saloons.
Jay Gould has purchased the rolling
mills at Topeka, and will soon set them
TO work again.
A school for young ladies. under the
auspices of the Sisters of Loreito, is be-
ing established ut Parsons.
Prosecutions have been instituted
against several saloon keepers at Parsons
for selling liquor to minors
F. c. Montgomery, of the Hays City
Sentinel. has been appointed census
enumeration for Ellis county.
John r. Wright, recently county clerk
of Mcpherson county, has been appoint
ed postmaster ut Mcpherson.
A pure young short-horn bull on the
agricultural college farm at Manhattan,
aged 81 months, weighs go pounds.
Nine young men of Lecompton, sons
of "first families, have been arrested and
fined for disturbing religious meetings.
Rev. a. J. Kirk, United Brethren
preacher, of Ottawa, has been arrested
on the charges of swindling, seduction
and wife desertion.
Ozias Bailey, formerly pork packer
at White Cloud, has recently sold Saint
Louis & San Francisco railroad stock
amounting to half million dollars, cash.
A delegate temperance convention, to
last three days, is TO be held at Cawker
City, commencing February oath. Four
teen counties in northwestern Kansas
will be represented there.
Lyman Richardson, colored man at
Topeka, has obtained a verdict OF $4,000
damages against the Kansas Pacific rail
way company for injuries received by
being run over by an express train last
August.
Mrs. Judge Hanback,, of Topeka, was
robbed at the union depot, Kansas City,
on Thursday, while eating her breakfast
in the dining hall The theft is suppos-
ed to have been committed by one of the
WATERS.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
| ment of the three supervisors of the cen
sus for Kansas, to-wit: First district,
r. Dwight Thacher; second, ID. j.
Evans; third, Charles NJ. Kellogg. Also
James NJ. Haworth as Indian inspector.
Now how much will James Gordon
Bennett give towards equipping the Ok
lahoma brigade for opening the Indian
Territory KANSAS City Times.
He will probably give good piece of
advice, like Mr.. Hayes does; that IL. to
stay at home and mind your business.
Mr.. Cooper, of Sherman, Clay county,
has about 800 cottonwoods, which he
planted in the. spring of 1868. One of
these trees is two feet in diameter and
it would make two loads of wood Many
of the trees are IS feet high and two
feet in diameter, probably majority of
them would produce load of wood
apiece.
Post office changes in Kansas during
the weeklending Feb. II, 1880; furnished
by VIM. Van Week, of the post Office de-
partment:
EStablished-Way, Davis county, Geo.
\. Gale, p NJ; Liebenthal, Rush coun-
~, Peter Deppersmith. p. NJ.
Discontiuued-FTui Chase Co.
Postmasters appointed-Center, Chau
tauqua county, Clark Walker; Cheever
Dickinson county, Thos. c. Ayers: Par
aliel. Riley county, Geo. Mckinley; Ru
raj, Jefferson county, Nelson Under
Wuod.