The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08

The mission Sunday school on Seconl
avenue is still looking up, and the al
tendance is highly gratifying. consider
ing the remoteness of Christmas ant
the auspicions character OF the weathe
for playing marbles.
Patrick Flynn died at the residence Q
his mother, near the old round house
Tuesday afternoon, of pneumonia, q
the age Of twenty-one years. The fnner
al took place from the. Catholic churcl
Thursday at 10 O'Clock, a. m.
NorrcE.-owing to new duties i'm
posed by the late school law. / will b.
unable TO be in my office more than ont
day in each week. Those desiring Il
see me will please call Saturdays.
o. b. WHARTON. County Supt.
Those who desire TO take lessons in
vocal music will find the card of Mis-.
Letta Waterbury in our locals. Miss w
has letter of recommendation from DIR
Zeigfeld, president of the institution
from which she graduated, in Chicago
Eureka Herald: Hon. A. GilIett wa.
in town yesterday. Mr.. Gillett is getting
to be quite an extensive granger He
expects 10 cultivate six hundred acres OF
corn and millett this year. and then he
proposes to feed the crop to his own cat
tie.
Mr.. II. L. Finley, who resided in the
western part of the county on Jacobs
creek, died Friday morning of lung fever
and was buried Saturday at the Pleas
ant Hill cemetery. He was quite pop
ular man in the community in which he
lived
Kansas City Journal: The Emporis
News says that the most elegant sleeper
on the Santa Fe road is named Emporia
If any one should say that Emporia
was the most elegant sleeper On the
Santa Fc, we appreheBd tn ere would be
trouble.
MARRIED.-Alfred p Chance and
Cora b. Gray, daughter of Fl. H. Gray,
were married by Judge Culver at Mr.
Gray's residence, two miles east of the
city, Tuesday evening. The happy event
was Witnessed by quite an attendance OF
friends, who thoroughly enjoyed them.
selves.
A stranger from Arkansas, whose
name we were unable to learn, died al
the European hotel at the Missouri
Pacific junction, on Saturday morning
and was buried the same day He came
in Friday evening, and complaining Of
being i'll, took to his bed and died in a
few hours.
Let the unhaliowed monopolies which
are reaching out their iron fingers and
clutching the vitals Of the country, trem-
Bile in the fancied security Of their
strongholds. The Young Mems Debat-
ing Club "knockod the stufin'" out
of every bloated corporation in the coun
try Monday evening.
At the meeting of the Union Loan and
Building Association, held at the courl
house last Saturday evening. j. NJ
Griffith, J. X. Tyler and w. F. Chalfant
were reelected directors for the ensuing
year, Howard Dunlap, secretary, and ]
S. Watson, treasurer. The board theT
organized by re-electing ]. N. Griffith
president and ]. X. Tyler, vice-presi
dent.
Thos. H. Stanley, of Americas, who
was some time ago selected as delegate
from this part of Kansas to the Asso
ciated Indian Committee of the Friends
church, which meets at Baltimore on tn,
9Th inst, started on his journey Saturday
morning. He will be gone about sil
weeks. He was accompanied by his
son, Thomas Wistar Stanley, who viii
attend West Town boarding school, neal
Philadelphia.
We take pleasure in calling the atten
ton of our readers to the excellent arti
Gle by C. H. Wilmington on the "West
ern Frontier" published elsewhere in
this issue. 1t is carefully prepared anC
contains many valuable suggestions
which might be utilized in the solution
of a very perplexing problem. Mr.
Wilmington is sound thinker and Wig
orous writer, and his views are Away:
worthy of attention.
We have several times referred to the
controversy between Police Judge Bach
eller, the city and the marshal, in which
the police judge deposited the money
held by him in the district court, as thu
city and Marshal both claimed it. Thu
district court decided that Mr. Fleming
as marshal was entitled to the money a
contested for by Mr.. Bachelor, thu
completely vindicating the course takel
by him in this matter.
We are glad to note from the Com
monwealth that change has takel
place in the proprietorship of tn
a good farm paper. The Farmer hs
played Il sort of position of second fid
die" to something else, for several year
and has been poorly edited, as a genera
thing, since the days of Geo. T. Anthem
and Dr. Chase. There is a big field
Kansas for live farmers paper.
1t seems almost marvellous that in S
thrifty community as this it shout
not have occurred TO some enterprisin
capitalist to buy up snug bunch
Texas cattle and turn them loose upo
the town. The scheme would rival
economy the ordinary methods of stOcl
culture, as it would obviate the expeni
of herder and utilize the advantages
hay cured and delivered free of charge /
the farmers in the vicinity of the town.
Messrs. John Parkinson and Robe
Atkinson, of Ottawa, were in the eli
Friday. and held a conference with
number of our citizens, in relation to Il
Kansas City g. Emporia railroad. The
gentlemen represent that a number
the interested townships in Frank
county have voted bonds in aid of tn
enterprise, and that Ottawa is moving
the matter, though the amount she
willing TO pledge herself for has not y
been determined upon. We are glad
learn that there exists sensible apr
citation of the benefits of the propos'
road, all along the line, fact whi'
agurs well for its early construction.