The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-25
OVER THE STATE.

great Republic.
OVER THE STATE.
Caldwell is preparing plans and spec
i6cations for the biggest kind Of boom
in the spring.
The Kansas City Journal has the hardi
hood to remark that rock candy soaked
In whisky will be favorite confectiOn
in Kansas from this time on.
Nearly everybody in Parsons has sign
ed a petition to the council asking that
body to call an election to vote $50 goo
in aid of the southeastern railroad.
Metaphorical extremes meet in La
bette county, "Piety Hill" and Hog
Wallow" being the suggestive names of
communities located within its borders
There is a movement on foot to change
the name of Medicine Lodge. since the
saloons have been closed and the council
has refused to grant license for selling
liquor.
Dodge City is agitated over the second
advent. A malicious contemporary sug-
gests that the great need of the town is
an interest In the first coming of the
Savior.
The Arkansas river rarely rises. but
when it does 1t plays sad havoc with
anything in its path. Sterling, Nlcker-
son and other towns in the Arkansas
valley mourn departed bridges.
Sumner county is credited in the GEN.
aus reports of Kansas with three SIAM
csc, the only representatives of that ma
tionality IN the state. It will be super
nuous to state that they are not twins.
A man named Hugger was nominated
for trustee in township caucus in Elk
county, and every woman in the town
ship turned out and worked for him.
There's something in name after all.
A Pueblo gentleman, who lost 1000
sheep in a recent storm has found them
in Kansas, about three hundred miles
from where they were kept, and is as
tonished to learn that they are in good
condition.
II II COuCSdC0y CNCh ny S1O NNANCA ~
the Topeka Commonwealth, that the
temperance bill passed by the state leg
islature will not interfere with the cul-
ture or consumption of apples of The
wine-sap variety.
A meeting was held in Topeka last
week to establish a uniform system of
grain inspection for the state, based on
Illinois grades. 1t Is intimated that
this is an effort to build up markets on
Kansas soil in opposition 10 Kansas
City elevators.
Under the head of game, the Alma
Herald remarks that "desrs are being
sleighed by the dozen" in that vicinity
The editor of that paper should emigrate
| to Texas. His evident aversion to cor
rect photography would be fully appre
cIated by the cow boys and greasers.
A medical scientist. OF distinguished
attachments, has announced his inten-
ton to begin collecting material for a
work on 1.-THE Pathology of Kansas"
about the first of May, the date upon
which the temperance bill supplemental
~ to the amendment goes into effect.
A severe blow is aimed at Kansas emil
! grafton in the following Interior ADVICE
vouchsafed by an eastern exchange:
Ambitious young Republicans should
move into a close state. There is not
much chance CT getting an appointment
while living in state sure to go Repub-
lican."
A ch .ss club has been organized at
Hutchinson. II will take three hun-
bred ana twenty.seven years to complete
the series Of games now arranged for,
and il is feared that the boys will then
be too much engrossed in a scheme for
lowering the mercury to pay any aiten.
ton to the final score.
The Catholics protest against the pro,
hlbltion bill which passed the Kansas
house Wednesday, and only needs the
governors signature to become law
on the grounds that by preventing them
from using wine at communion il inter
feres with their worship. They propose
to test that much of the law at the earl
lest opportunity.
4 Kansas paper says that colony o
manageable ladies OF Galena are max
i. ing preparations to move To Colorado II
the spring. This Is only shrewd al
vertising dodge on the part of the girls
and the fellows who are not sharI
enough to see it, will find themselve
! working in double harness come o
= these fine mornings.
The supplemental bill OF Mr.. Click
Of Atchison, to compensate owners O
G property rendered valueless by temper
O anee legislature, looked extremely fla
e after It had been sat down upon by on
e hundred stalwart solons in the Kansa
s house. II might be pious idea for tn
g author OF such bFazen scheme tn hir
hole and crawl into it.
Il Rev. Mr.. Vail, Methodist clergyma
e at Wichita, Is agitating the folIowin
# novel question in that city: "How mes
f perditiOn may we go, and yet reac
z heayenY" We confess the conundruI
l. Is too many for us, but enlightenedthe'
II logians, who have given the maItG
it much prayerful research, think thu
Q Lesdville or possibly Kansas City, al
on the very remotest boundaries of S
r. curity.
lie To show how the news Of the passaa
n Of the temperance bill was received
er our larger cities, we clip the Followir
2 from the IAavenworth Times. am n
er the largest towns II will become, after
II frantic effort in its behalf. a dead lette
le Even now we doubt If majority of Il
1t people Of the state approve of the la'
e. In less than two years we prophecy tn
70 . very large majority will condemn
: If not actually favor its repeal"
e Kansas City Journal: Mrs. Susan Pc
y ! ~, of Massachusetts, has bean down