The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-04

the suggestiveeoguomen OF Dick Turpin.
The cause of the assault was the remark |
in the paper that Tnrpin had a. unsav-
DRY reputation.
They have some very smart business
men in CofEeyviiIe. Last week young
man Was struck by Iightaing-ln a field
near Parker and when the people began
10 flock to the spot 20 lOok at the victim,
they found s-nAn standing by the corpse
trying to sell lightning rods to the
crowd. ftA
We understand that the Gould Pioneer
has been suspended. Now that there is a
prospect Of the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law in Greenwood county, We
should not be at all surprised to hear of
like fate overtaking large portion of
the other business houses Of the city of
Gould
That procession which never ends has
\ received another recruit from this vi
yicily. The Eureka Republican reports
that on Thursday of Last week, a Mrs.
Green. who resided i've miles from
Gould, was literally roasted alive She
was attempting TO kindle a fire in her
cooking stove with coal oil, when an
explosion took place, and in an instant
she was enveloped in a blaze.
/ The people of Coyley county are q all
torn up" over the discovery that the old
/ county officers doctored the census re-
turns of 1878 by raising them S85, SO
/ as to obtain an increase of salary. The
| commissioners have instructed the
county attorney TO institute suit against
all parties benefited, for the amount over
drawn. with seven per cent, interest from
the time the money was drawn from the
| treasury. afI s sl -,,d
Winfield Courier - We have said that
an information charging the sale Of a
spirit level containing alcohol as q vi
olation Of the prohibitoFy law. should be
quashed at once on the ground that spir-
it levels are not used as q beverage We
may have to take that back, for last week
some one broke the walls in spirit level
at the McDougai building and drank abe
spirits contained In them. sa3i4 81
Peabody Gazette About sir Thousand
bushels Of new wheat have been shipped
from this place thus far this season
Prices this week range about twenty
cents higher than during the same week
last year, from eighty two to eighty three
cents being the ruling price. There is
marked difference in the weight of this
and last years crop, the new wheat be-
ing mostly of light grade.
Junction City Union: Capt William
Cottrlll, of Mobile, Alabama, the most
distinguished turfman in the south, Wis
tied the Damon breeding and training
stock farm in Dickinson county last
week, and made some valuable purchas-
es of Col. c. A. Lewis, the manager.
They are all thoroughbreds, were bred
on the Damon farm, and are expected to
do credit to themselves and Kansas on
the eastern turf. "-' ~
Leroy Armstrong, at one time editor of
the Burlington Independent, is supposed
to have been drowned while in bathing
at Leavenworth on the 2lst He had
entered the army recently, and going
down to the Missouri 10 swim on the
evening mentioned he failed to return,
and his clothes having been found next
day on the banks of the stream and no
tidings from him having been received
up TO date, it is feared he found grave
in the Missouri. He leaves a wife and
family in Burlington.
Mr.. r. w. Cook has left at the Office
of the Eureka Herald a cotton bloom
taken from stock grown from seed
which he had planted sixty-four days
previous. The stalk had twentY-four
of these flowers on, or the squares from
which they open. This, Mr.. Cook says,
is good growth in so short time, and
at the rate it has been growing he thinks
it will produce heavily, and unless we
have unusually early frost will duly ma
ture. He only had few seeds and
planted them as an experiment. He
has had extensive experience in raising
cotton in Texas and from the appear
ance Of this he is inclined to think that
cotton can be made success here.
1
Winfield Telegram: Lennox, the no
toriOus forger, in the county jail, prac-
ticed little strategem on the sheriff the
other day that must be noted down TO
his credit as being 8 shrewd and cum
ming sharper. Sheriff Shenneman hav-
ing received some inquiry concern
ing this fellow, concluded to have
some photographs made of him
and send them TO the inquiring
parties. He informed Lennox of his in
tention. and a few hours after he went
to take him out for that purpose. He
found that his man had broken lamp
= chimney and with the sharp edge of the
glass cut off the whiskers from one side
of his face, so as to make him unrecog-
nizable almost.
A tall chicken story from the Eureka
Herald: DR.. Huntington reports case
of involuntary incubation. On Mon
day of last week one ofthe boys brought
six eggs from the stable and placed them
where the eggs are usually kept in the
house. On Thursday chicken was dis
covered emerging from one of the eggs.
A second and a third came the same day,
; and by Friday morning chicken had
come forth from every one of the six
J eggs. The eggs might have been cared
for by her before they were removed
, to the house, but there is no doubt that
the steady high degree of temperature
: caused the process started by the hen 70
continue until the chickens came forth
When we come to think of it and re.
i, member how hot it has been, our princi.
pal cause of surprise after all is that the
chickens should be Matched raso.
, Another by the same man: Judge
Clark has turkey gobbler that is dis
porting himself in a very unsettled
manner. A turkey had carefully formed
q nest and deposited dozen eggs in il
and began to 'set" on them, when along
comes Mr.. Gobbler and "yanks" her of
and takes possession himself, declaring
by his manner that he will do all the
"Settin" necessary TO be done around
that nest He has remained faithful for
/ ten days or two weeks, and will doubt
less hold out to the end. When deprived
Of her nest the hen went off short dis
lance and made another, and when she
: got four or five eggs in it went to work
on her own hook, and from latest ac-
counts looked determined to outset the
gobbler.
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