The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04

ME-. Feliy has secured the agency at
Emporia for the celebrated Charter Oak
stoves aud has just received a car load of
them
If there is any tying to the old prov
erb, we shall expect TO see March pranee
out on her hind feet, in the most approx
ed circus style.
Quite party of young folks from To-
peka, passed through Emporia Tues
day, ON their way TO Florence 10 attend
a masquerade ball.
The shrinkage in hogs has not rem
dered it any easier for a lady 10 pass
the man who appropriates the whole of
The street crossing.
President WEIGH, OF the State Normal,
has received letter stating that Profcs-
sor Proctor will be IN Emporia on the
evening of the 14th.
The mumps, which are prevailing to
a considerable extent in Emporia, have
had the check TO tackle Rev. Mr.. Tom
linson, the Baptist minister.
Hall, Waite & Go. inform US that they
sold a piano and two organs Tuesday.
At that rate the month bids fair 10 be n
good one for this music house.
The snow blockade must still prevail
in some of the back townships. There
are five prizes in Suppe's first drawing
still unclaimed at the 90 cent store.
Mrs. Terry, a colored lady, died of con-
sumption at the residence of her hus
band, on north Commercial street, Mon
day evening, and was buried Wednesday.
by mutual agreement between the fac
ulty and the ministerial association the
lectures at the Normal Sunday afternoon
have been discontinued for the present.
The exercises of the Philomathean
society of the high school were devoted
Friday TO program bearing exclusi-
vely upon the history of George Wash
ton.
Harry Leibfreid, the popular tonsorial
artist, of south Commercial street, will
preside over the barber shop at the Ho-
tel Coolidge. Harry and the public are
both to be congratulated.
Prof. Snow, of the State University at
Lawrence, will deliver the next lecture
in the State Normal school course, on
Friday evening. March 4th. Subject,
"Prchistoric Old Settlers
Id Fox & Co. received large con-
signment of plate glass, from St Louis
Tuesday, which came in over the Mis-
souri, Pacific. 1t will be used in their
new front in the Bruner block.
The bibles ordered through the WEIGH
branch of the Lyon county bible society
have arrived, and can be obtained by
calling upon the deposition, w. j. Jones,
at the Office of register of deeds.
No council meeting Tuesday even
ing That gas ordinance must be in the
nature of a boomerang, judging by the
careful manner in which some of our
city fathers seem to be lodging it.
The recent rise in the Cottonwood
filed the creeks tributary thereto with
back-water, furnishing more plentiful
supply of water for stock than has been
know in this section for over a year.
Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati
| Commercial, calls a dinner without wine
n frigid absWdity." We suppose he
would denominate Emporia under the
prevailing conditions, an "arctic atroc-
ity"
Harry Leibfried, The Emporia dog
fancier, recently realized $3.50 out Of a
single litter of puppies. 1t seems that
the raw material, if properly marketed,
pays better than converting it into bo-
| lognas.
The March term of the district court
convened Tuesday morning, with Judge
Graves on the bench. The most of the
day was consumed in calling the docket,
which contains 161 civil, 10 criminal and
three city cases.
| ANOAhAAi Slub, lhC
direction of Professor Sogard, added
much TO the enjoyment of the audience
which assembled to hear the lecture of
Rev. Mr.. Kirby, last Sunday afternoon,
by the excellent music rendered on that
occasion.
William Clayton, brakeman on the
Santa Fe road, crushed his arm at Cot
tonwood on Saturday night while coup
ling cars, injuring it 50 severely as to
necessitate amputation, and the mutilat-
ed member was taken off Sunday be-
tween the elbow and shoulder.
Messenger Fiske, of the Wells Fargo
s. Co.'S. express, was taken suddenly i'll
with congestion at the round house Sun
day, and had to be taken in a carriage
from the train to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, where he makes his home. We
are glad to learn that he is better
We are in receipt of an invitation to a
grand musical convention and festival to
be held at Burlingame on March 8, o, 10
and II, under the auspices of the Bur.
|
s. Perkins, of Chicago, will preside as
director, and feast of harmony and
flow of melody may be expected.
The young mems debating club, al
their meeting Monday, very wisely
concluded that the elective franchise
should be governed by property quail
fication in all cases save where a vote il
taken to issue bonds to encourage rail
roads, build water and gas works, and
r aid in the construction of other public
improvements.
: President WEIGH, of the State Normal
4 assures of us of his Willingness to un
3 derwrite policy upon our life, if W,
announce that Proctor is positively
8 coming, though the date cannot be cer
tainly fixed upon until the Professo
Classics all those new stars which h
discovered when he was shaken up il
that railroad accident on the Wabash.
The disturbance in eastern mOnetar,