The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-14

The number of hogs slaughtered and
sailed in Chicago for the month of No
vember, Is $4,000 against $50, 600 for the
corresponding period year ago.
A large amount Of the stock OF the
Atchison, Topeka 6 Santa Fe road has
been put upon the market of late, which
insraiIroad circles is unaccountable.
II happened 10 be cloudy where Gail
Hamilton wass slopping.on :he day of
the transit of Venus, but she expects 70
get another chance at the business in
the year 20O4.
Over fifty couples celebrated Thanks
giving in Cincinnati by getting mar.
ritd. The percentage of insane people
in Ohio is increasing with alarming
rapidly.
The advocates of personal liberty"
will be stimulated io'renewed vigilance
by an attempt which Is being made in
New York to stop the sale Of tobacco
and cigars 10 school children.
The Kansas City, Fort Scot; & Gulf
railroad is already completed to point
seventy miles southeast of Springfield,
on direct line to Memphis. II is
leugthening out to one of the most i'm
portant lines IN the west.
There are indications of II general
pooling of parallel through railroads III
the country. The Ohio plan prohibit
ing such consolidate N is the way 10
prevent that evil The object of the
pooling is to stop competition.
A Democratic editorat Smith Cen Ter
pleasantly characterizes "An esteemed
contemporary" as mole-cyed sIinker."
And yet George William Curtis has the
infinite gail To cast reflections upon the
elegance of western Journalism.
An Atchison divine is recurring upon
"PiIls and Patients" This subject. in
a great variety of instances, describes in
metaphoricai but accurate terms the re.
lalion existing between the occupant OF
the rostTunl and mis- forbeariDg hearers
An enterprising furniture dealer at
Atchison offers costly and handsome
cradle 10 the first baby born i'll that city
in 1888. The fulility of speculation up.
on the identity of the lucky infant is
sufficiently obvious to fix public atten
ton.
Col. TT. Peter, of Usage City, owns
thirty thousand acres of coal and iror
lands in Alabama. and it is believed by
those who have investigated the subjec
that he can manufacture pig iron cheap
er than it can be made at any othe
point in the country.
A wild man with hair all over hi
body and sporting a caudle appendag'
has been seen by a number of person
near Ottumwa, Iowa 1t will be re
membered that the prohibitory amend
ment recently passed in that state ha
been declared unconstitutional
Lawrence is rapidly looking up
Among her latest achievements is TO sc
cure the location of the Indian Industr
i al school authorized to be estat
lished by the last session of cor
grese. The board of trade {
that city had telegram from Congress:
man Haskell saying the location at Law
renee is settled. This is believed TO b
a good thing for Lawrence, as it will il
!, sure large expenditure OF money Their
, The successful application of The Pre-
cesses for making sugar from sorghum
' discovered by Professors Scoville an
4 Weber, Of the Illinois State Industrii
s University, has caused great excitemei
o all over the state and farmers are &c
ting ready to go into the sorghum sugl
business, which will give them larg,
e profit to the acre than any other DR.
II duct On $50 acres the company vi
IS have been using the new processes his,
e produced 1e5, 600 pounds of sugar an
b q. 500 gallons Of molssses, valued
It $4,000, or an average of $7e to Il
acre.