The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-10
OVER THE STATE.
Corn 40 cents at Burlington.


Burglars are displaying considerable
enterprys at Newton.
The new iron bridge over the Kaw at
Lawrence is progressing rapidly
Usage City shipped 500 cars of coal
during the month of October.
Wichita is TO virtually lose the st.
Louis and Francisco road and il will go
from Augusta to Newton.
A boy named Wilson accidentally
shot himself fatally the other day while
out hunting in Usage county.
We are sorry to say so, but the Doug
lass, Butler county, Index is the worst
looking paper geographically in the
state
The latest railroad rumOr is To the ef-
feet that the Santa Fee company will
build a road from Ola,he TO Leaven-
worth.
Gov. st. John says there are no whisky
house drummers travelling in Kansas.
That is something TO be thankful for
anyhow.
The state coal mines ut the peniten-
tiary furnished the state institutions
with thirty-six carloads of coal last
month. After supplying the state in
situations, the cash receipts for coal
were s., 4O453.
Reports from every part of the state
show that the public schools are over
crowded. AS long as this condition of
affairs continues the chances of a revo-
ton In the politics of Kansas are, to say
the least, somewhat scaly.
The Daily Tribune, a now Greenback
paper, made its appearance at Topeka
last Thursday. 1t is hoped that before
the winter is over every well-regu-
lated family at the state capital will
have private journal of its own.
Commonwealth Mr.. c. W. Potwin,
of GAINESVILLE, who owns seventy acres
of land lying just west of the Ward
tract, is going to plat it and sell sub
urban lots. Hewill lay out the streets
after an attractive design and have small
parks at the intersections of them.
The Commonwealth continues to pre-
serve an uproarIous silence regarding
the advent at Topeka of the new Capt.
tai. The latter institution has probably
failed to ''catch ON" to the fact that
Father Bakers advertising terms are
strickly cash paid in advance.
Abe Steinbarger, who recently pur-
chased the Winfield Telegram, has
changed the name of that paper TO the
Daily Courant. The ear marks of the
new proprietor are becoming very per-
ceptible, and, we are glad to add, to the
entire satisfaction of has patrons.
Topeka is to have another new opera
house. 1t is said the smell of hash pro-
ceeding from the boarding house kept in
a portion of Crawford's new opera house
is too strong TO be agreeable to the Olfac
tories of the hlgh-toned TOpekans, and
hence a new building. 1t ought to be
remembered by people putting up build
ings of this character that no class of SO
ciety are so hard to please, or have such
exquisite tastes as those who have sew
oluted'' from the useful position in So
ciety known as "hash Singer"
Chase County Leader: One of those
pleasant affairs came off last Saturday
evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jabin Johnson, that day being the
fifteenth anniversary of the marriage of
the host and hostess. Between eighty
and ninety guests were in attendance,
from town and country, including re-
latives and friends from Ohio and Wis
consin. A long list of presents to Mr..
and Mrs. Johnson appears in the
Leader.