The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-25

PAIRS for some time and now viii rank
among the besi IN tue state. j. A.
Thompson did the work.
PERSONAL Thornton Clark and wife
today leave for their new home in I'LL
nois. We wish them prosperity. .-Sona-
than Ruby has been employed TO teach
the Niver school on Otter creek. A good
selection. Jacob Prnitt having bought
a half interest in livery stable in Bur-
lington, eoniesnplafes a removal TO that
place soon. George Stump, brother
in-Iaw of James MeCnlloch, who has
been visiting here for some time, return
ed TO Colorado this morning. =. ID. p.
Bond has been quite i'll for some days,
hut we are pleased TO learn of his i'm
provement. Last FRIDAY, as Homer
Harris and gentleman named Cooper
were hunting, the latter fired at flock
of black birds, one shot hitting Harris
in the left eye. It's force was nearly
spent. however. and it is probable that
the eye may be saved. DIR. Dumbauid
removed the shot.
TUESDAY, August %
A ROMANCE OR A TRAGEDY ?-Some four
years ago strange woman accompanied
by young child made her appearance
here and began the erection of house,
some six miles southeast of this city.
The work was done by men who were
strangers, who came in the night, who
would give no Information concerning
themselves or the woman, and who dis
appeared as mysteriously As they came.
People were given to understand that
their absence WAS more desirable than
their presence, yet few of the more
curious ones examined the house, and
the woman was strange, her
purposes strange and her actions
strange, yet the house was stranger still
II was built Of stone, the walls two feet
thick, no windows except in the second
story; doorway six feet wide was filled
with an oak door four inches in thick
ness and plated with iron a large eleva
tor run from the cellar to the roof the
use of which was a mystery; running
east from the main cellar was an under
ground room, walled upon the sides and
above with slabs of stone, and in one
corner OF this room was spring of liv-
ing water; this room was closed by a
door similar To the one in front; the
house when completed, was in the night
filled with furniture Ofthe finest descrip-
ton, as attested by those who afterwards
saw it. The woman took up her resi-
dence in this strange hahitation and
was seldom seen; no person
40 to
the house, and several times when
came 10 the door on business,
they were met by cooked revolver and
= demand made as TO their business.
No one was allowed To conc inside and
very rarely the woman made trip To-
this place, dressed in silks and bedecked
with lewelry, always accompanied by
the child, To whom she was cruelty per
sonified, making him walk 10 and from
town and whipping him when he did
not walk as fast as she Thus things
ran on for about two years, when
one night the neighbOrhoOd was
startled by discovering the house in
dameS Soon all that was left was the
ruins, which still stand
black and drear, upon the bare prairie.
Who was she? Whence came she. were
questions as unanswerable as what was
her fate, for from that time nothing has
been seen of the persons who thus
aroused the curiosity of the neighboB
hood, and strange are the tales told To
this day, of the actions OF this mysteri:
Ous being.
PERsoNAI-Dr. Hunneywell, BROTH
er-in-law of Judge Bachelor, WAS
in town yesterday. He lately came
from Maine and is much pleased
with Kansas. DIR. G.. w. Sutton start
ed yesterday for Mcpherson, where he
will remain for some days Yesterday
rs VIM. Duckett was hauling rock he
ell from the wagon and the front wheel
passed over his leg, injuring him quite
badly. :. D.. A. Stahl, candidate for
treasurer, was yesterday in town calling
IN his many friends. =. . E. Beck, of En-
noria Gamma doxrn THE tnorni0u