The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-30

that all the saloons of that town were
running in open defiance of the amend
ment.
Eureka is going to have big time On
the Fourth T. L. Davis. Esq, will de
liver the Grafton, and among the other
features will be foot race by boys I'M
der II years of age; first premium, 81,
second 81: also sack race, hurdle race,
blindfold wheelbarroW race, slow mule
race. catching a creased pig, all for pre-
miums, and the exercises 10 close with
a grand display of fire works.
Winfield Courier We heard of farm
er the other day looking for money
loaner to pay off a $7OO mortgage which
had two years yet TO run. AS this was
little unusual, we made inquiry and
learned that two years ago with the above
borrowed money he had purchased
calves. The other day he sold the
outfit, now twO-ycar Olds, paid off his
Indebtedness and had six or eight hun
dred to again buy calves with. Doesn't
this strike the average granger as a bett
ter scheme than wheat raising year after
year.
Eureka Herald: The Building Asso-
citation made the first offer of money
last evening, but there was no applica.
tiOn for il. Money is getting pretty
cheap when nobody wants il at eight
per cent. It is becoming more difficuit
every day to loan money ON proper So
curity. We know of $500 that lay in
the bank for three months IN this place
and was offered at nine per cent, and
was finally returned to the owner in the
east because there was no one who could
give the requisite security wanted it at
that rate.
Eureka Herald: The increase in the
number Of cattle in this county in the
past year US shown by the statistics We
published last week is very gratifying.
The increase is over 5000 as compared
with last years returns. This is the
heaviest increase we have had in any
one year for more than five years. What
is still better the class of cattle that
make this addition arc of q superior Or
der. Many OF them are high grades.
and quite number are thorOughbreds,
so the increase in value is proportion
ately greater than that of numbers.
Cattle will doubtless always keep the
lead as the most valuable interest in
Greenwood. Nature and the inclination
Of our people seem to he in perfect har-
mOny on this point.
A very remarkable thing is related of
q Lawrence man who one night put an
eye-stone-Which is small shell taken
from the head of crab-into his eye in
order TO remove ciRder which had got
into it and was paining him: In the
morning the cinder had disappeared. So
had the eye-stone. He could find moth
ing of them, searching high and low.
He wondered if he hadn't lost his eyes,
too. For years it was mystery to him
where that eye-stone had gone. Lately
he began to feel a hard substance at the
end of his finger. He remembered the
eye-stone and the truth began to dawn
on him The stone had slipped down
behind his eye and worked its way into
his finger. He showed it to a friend,
and his friend thought it was a wart.
But he was not convinced, and US it was
growing harder and coming nearer the
surface, he went to adoctor. The doctor
looked ut it a moment and then pro-
noanced it TO be-a wart. And the man
is still inquiring Of all his friends, if
they have seen an eyc-stone anywhere
around.