The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-12
OVER THE STATE.

Garnet Is agitating the opera house
question.
Kansas towns are largely infested
with thieves and burglars.
The INDECENT of Osborne county now
sun themselves on 81 ZOO farm.
Stock throug hout the country is pass
ing the winter in excellent condition.
Four thousand acres will be put in
flax in Miami county this year.
Ranking according to population,
Kansas is the TIVE ntietR state in the C1-
ion.
One hundred hales of cotton, grown
near Independence, have been marketed
this season.
This season Kansas has grown a Won
derfully large crop of amateur dramatic
companies.
The public schools of Usage county
contributed to the Garfield monument
fund about $.7.
A Barton county farmer this year real
lied 1880 net cash from one hundred
acres of broom corn.
It is reported that winter wheat is
looking excellent throughout the entire
northern part of the state.
There isn't man. married or single, IN
Cherryvale, but what has recently been
vaccinated That town has two female
doctors.
Domestic infeIicity runs high in Cof-
| fey county. There are six divorce cases
docketed for the January term of the dis
trict court.
The municipal authorities in most of
the towns and cities of Kansas have Ia
ken precautionary steps toward prevent
ing the spread of small pox.
A company with a capital stock of
county. Its object is to open up and
develop the coal resources of the county.
The Adams express company offer
liberal reward fSr the arrest OF j. F.
Higgins, the absconding express mes
senger who ran between Joplin and
| Girard.
With prospective marriage in high
life, breach of promise suit among the
upper crust and the peregrinations of an
itinerant corn doctor, Parson society is
all broken up.
The WoOdson county Post is authority
for the statement that Rush county has
/ a paper that was suspended and been re-
vived eleven times. Truth crushed TO
earth shall rise again" 81 tz
An exchange says: "The churches Of
Winfield are all made up of women"
THIS explains why our friend Steinberg.
er, of the Courant, would never content
himself with living in Howard. %
Burlington has new paper, theWeek-
ly Republican, published by Aessrs. He
brOn & Sweesy. The first number, is
4 sued January 4th. is well edited, and has
the appearance of being under a skillful
management.
There is nothing small about the citi-
zens of jefferson county. Last week q
man made an unsuccessful attempt to
steal coat at Nortonville. This fact
becoming public. the citizens gave the
poor man a coat-of tar and feathers.
Notwithstanding the temperance law.
the ladies of Wichita, with a view of
persuading their husbands TO come
home, anyway, by IL O'Clock at night,
have formed a club for this purpose-it's
about three feet long.
A well-known young lady of Parsons,
according to the Sun, attracts much
attention by wearing one white
and one black stocking, and the
wonder among the boys is, hoy the ed
; itor of the Sun was first to make the dis
covery.
/ 1t is estimated that in Kansas there
are go sinners who never attended a
, church oyster supper. This knocks the
, stuffing out of the Universalisi's theory
: that immediate punishment is meted
out TO the transgressor.
The Hutchinson News man has made
the discovery that that city is not the
!, agreat moral oasis in The Arkansas VAL
ley desert of sin and iniquity'' it is ne
ported to be. having learned that whis-
ky drinking, poker playing and "buck-
ingn the tiger is extensively INDUCED
in. on the sly, by the upper crust of that
! city.
: An Irishman named Bryson. took an
overdose Of Kansas pop at Florence
!. New Years eve, and mounting his horst
started for his home. six miles north
: west of that place. The Peabody Ga
( zetie says. '.his 1ifeless body was found
r by the roadside the following morning.,
!. where he hAd probably fallen from his
horse.''