The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-06
OVER THE STATE.

Kansas.
A new opera house is to be built al
Humboldt.
Leavenworth is excited over the sub
ject of city sewerage.
Hiawatha will soon have a public Ii.
brary of 1000 books.
Lawrence is threatened with vista.
tion from Oscar Wilde.
The keno field at Atchison is white
for harvest. So says the Champion.
Jewell county has thirteen divorce
cases ready for the April term of court.
The trains of the Santa Fe will stop
at Newton for meals after The first OF
May.
Wamego and Westmoreland are hav-
ing war over who shall have the county
seat of Pottawatomie county.
The Madison News favors the nomi-
nation of Hon. Edward Tucker for
congressman from this district.
Captain j. B. Johnson's gubernatorial
boom is gaming considerable momen.
tum in different parts of the state.
Four of the county school superir-
tendents in Kansas are ladies-those of
Anderson, Chase, jackson and Sedgwick
counties.
A man in Cowley county protects his
sheep against wolves at night by plac-
ing dummy in the corral with II light
ed lantern in its hand.
From nearly every county in the state
comes the gratifying report that the
taxes are being more promptly paid this
year than for long time past
An old man in southern Kansas writes
Senator Plumb letter of six to eight
pages every day. The Winfield Courant
One Mankato doctor has presented
another with fine case of surgical in
are not very common to the profession.
The local board of immigration at
Salina is circulating the report that the
young ladies of that town throw their
arms around the gentleman in the streets
in broad day light.
George Washington is a candidate for
the office of city marshal at Chetopa.
There is something unique in the associ-
alton of such a name with Kansas pol
itics.
81 see that Whittier puts the late Mr..
LongfellOw at the head of American
poets. 1t is very evident that John G.
is not convcrsant with the literature of
Kansas"-George Brewer Peacock.
A correspondent of the Salina Herald
says that Hon. H. c. Speer is the only
classical scholar who has ever held the
office of state superintendent of public
instruction. Did we hear an order from
Allen B. Lennon for pistols and coffee
for two?
Petitions for the release of Mason who
attempted the life of Guiteau, are being
extensively circulated and signed in
numerous Kansas towns. We regard
this as an over appreciation and undue
encouragement of very poor marksman-
ship.
The Newton Republican favors two
Republican state conventions. one for
the nomination of the four congress
men. and the other for the nomination
of state officers. 1t declares that to nom
mate congressman and state officers in
the same convention would be bad DO
litical blunder.
Three masked men entered the resi-
dence OF Robert Geiz, four miles from
Parsons, the other night, and demanded
his money. They were laboring under
the hsllucination that Getz was a retir.
ed editor. In this they were mistaken,
and succeeded in securing only So.
Nicodemus is a negro colony of 367
families in Graham county. There are
two churches, two schools, and several
stores; but the remarkable fact about
Nicodemus is the entire absences of
money. ALI the trading is done with
the produce of the farms.
Atchison Champion Milt Reynolds
writes from Washington that "politics is
hell's own profession, shifting, chang.
ing, precariOus business that has ruined
more young men than all other call
ings." This reminds US that We have
heard fearful denunciations Of intem-
perance from men who had unnumber-
ed fingers of whisky inside.
A much larger area than usual is be-
ing sown in oats in Harvey county this
spring, and preparations are being made
for planting an unusual acreage of corn,
and an extensive crop of millet will al
SO be put out. The wheat crop never
was better this season of the year, and
with continuation of present favorable
conditions, the farmers OF Harvey county
will add many thousands to their pres.
ent abundance.