The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-08-18
Dog days.
Hot winds.
Moonlight faded.
The evenings lengtheD.

Mibs rstta bfOWn IL NlsitfHS iIieh'
In Illinois.
tits past the l5th-now for that coo
frosty weather.
Quite cool this morning, and ever
indication of rain.
There il room for that cool spe
somewhere i'm here.
There is considerable sickness nov
among the children.
H. J. Parker and family have n
turned from Colorado.
A brother of Mr.. A. X. Head
visiting In this county.
Considerable wheat has been mar
keted during the past week.
A bill-poster for the State Fair pu
In Tuesday billing the town.
District Court for this county com
mences one week from next Monday
DR.. Bones team ran away last sun
day, damaging the wagon considera
bly,.
Col. s. NJ. Palmer and family ar,
expected home about the first of next
month.
Judge Foster has gone East on lii
tie trip for recreation and pleasure
purely
Mr.. and Mrs. Carver and Mrs +
L. Bond are expected to arrive thi,
evening
Ii Is claimed that yesterday was the
hottest day of all the hot days Of the
season.
Judge Hanback, returned from a
short business visit to Chicago last
Sunday.
Rev. DIR. Davis started for Europe
last Monday night. He expects to sail
the 9Th.
Mn. y. Powell started for SPRING
field, Illinois, on last Wednesday
morning.
Frank Peck furnished us some very
handsome apple samples from his
fruit farm.
+. Durant went 10 Denver last Mon
day, to join his wife, who is now Io.
Gated there.
The officers of the various school
districts in the county were elected
last Thursday
Mr.. Joe Wellington has purchased
the lot next south Of Col Culp's resi-
dence, Santa Fe
VIM. X. Mannon is recovering from
q long spell Of sickness, and will soon
be able to attend to business.
Capt. Cook, the Saline county man
who slapped that fellow Morrison, has
been nominated for the Legislature.
Mrs. w. J. Hayes, wife of the assist
ant cashier Of the First National, ar
rived from Pennsylvania last week.
A runaway Of the best style known
to the art last Saturday. The team
went flying down Santa Fe like me-
teor.
Two coaches of Salins people to Bis
marck by Tuesday mornings o'clock
train. A large number also by the 9
O'Clock train.
Well-regulated Thermometers have
shown the mercury to range from lO20
to l060 in the shade for the past three
or four days.
Wheat prices start off finely this
year. surely. III there is lack of
quantity, or quality, the prices look
well, any way.
Mr. Henry Kingman, Of Fairbury,
Illinois. q brother of Mr.. c. A. King
man, Is visiting here. He is accom-
panied by his wife and child.
Thefarmers experience great trouble
In getting their wheat threshed. For
some reason the supply of threshers
IL no where near equal to the demand
Mr.. Arson Miller, county commits
aioner, started for New York yester-
day morning, He went on private
and will he gone several
weeks.
We learn that Thomas Woodside-
one of the early settlers of Mcpherson
and well known here-died
of heart disease at his farm
Ia that county. l.
Rev. and Mrs Vim. Smith have the
'ympathy Of lage circle of friends in
he loss of their infant daughter, Ger
lie, who died last Sunday morning, of
cholera infantum.
Notwithstanding the very unfavor-
able dry weather which has damaged |
he corn crop 80 much, it is believed
hat there will be q larger crop this
year than last year.
o. p. Hamilton has received an or
Ter to subscribe 5000 for James A.
Hawks, of the firm of Hawks 4 Bal
ard, Of Circleville, Ohio, TO the Topc. |;
q, Salina & Western.
The editor OF this paper Is I'm receipt r
Il . very polite invitation to attend =
he great jubilee this week Mt bismarck c
Erove. and be the guest of the Bis }
nArck Fair Association. v
Hon. VIM. A. Phillips returned G
ON Washington last Sunday. He q
- warmly welcomed by his fellow l"
tisens, who were pleased To see him ~
ljoying most excellent health.
Last Monday considerable wheat Il
Id At one dollar per bushel i'm this u
y, and corn was selling readily on o1
le streets at 81 cents per bushel-the "
Ighest price paid here since 1874. m
E" Passengers for Topeka, Council
rove and Lincoln Center should take
% Leavenworth. Topeka 4 South
estern train" will lie sung before
any mOnths.-Learenscor Pres.
Abilene's moneyed men have suffic-
Mt confidence In the Topeka, Salina
Western to invest s75,OOO in the
pital stock Of the syndicate. And
o road will not touch Abilene, either.
Ms Mary Hancock and Mr. f