The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-21
OVER THE STATE
The railroad has raised the price of
9 land et na- acro ~ caI;no oorn41

The railroad has raised the price oil
It's land 81 per acre in Saline county.
2.39S is the population of Eldorado,
within the corporate limits of the town.
There seems TO be "loDg felt want''
for newspaper at Lawrence. We have
not not heard of one being established
there, one of the kind that "has come to
stay" since last Friday.
We are not bOthering ourselves at all
about the governor question, but just
out of curiosity We should like to know
what the editor who mentioned Jetmore,
of Topeka, as q candidate, has against
the people of this state?
After sweliering through several of
the hot days of last week and this, the
editor of the Atcbison Champion coolly
prints this language on Tuesday: "There
has so far been no hot weather such as
is required to make the corn grow fast. -
Girard Press: Crawford county has
not an open saloon within Its borders,
and yet it shows an increase in popula-
ton during the past year. of 1,641. This,
too, IN spite OF the statement made
by Gov. Click last fall that prohibition
is depopulating the state. The COVER
nor will please notice the figures.
Inter Ocean: Attorney Bliss init
mates that there may be several more
star. route suits tried, and it Is evident
that he is willing to keep it up as long
as Uncle Sam will pay $3.50 day and
expenses. But Mr.. Bliss can go. He
has already made fortune out of these
cases, and the government has paid his
hotel bills-long enough. It il just as
wicked for Bliss u eonspire TO defraud
the government by obtaining larger fees
than his services are worth as It was for
Mr.. Dorsey to take more pay than his
services as a mail contractor were worth
Globe Democrat: New England is
still coming west a Connecticut
school agent reports over fifty schools in
he state with less than three pupils. and
over $50 schools with less than ten pu-
pills each. This means, of course. . loss
Of population In these districts, for
which the gain in cities and manufac-
uring villages, principally through inn
is little more than an equiv
llent The rural regions once had
BOYS and girls What has become of
hem? Well, they are TO be found in
Ohio, IN Michigan, in Minnesota, in
Iowa, in Wisconsin Their boys and
girls I'll the school houses of new north
western prairie states, instead of the
'ugged New England hills. New Eng
and is becoming little more than land |
" factory towns and foreigners.
The New York journal gives list of
gealthy cOlored people in that city and
Brooklyn which shows that the whites
10 not monopOlize ali the money in |
hose cities. An ex-confederate colonel,
EAo was 9 former elave-oWner ana Il |
low q driver of q horss-csr, said for
ner slaye of his in New York could |
lraW his check for $3.50. 900. Those two
men have experienced the ups and |
Towns Of life, surely. There arc four or
I've colored physiciaas in New York |
md Brooklyn who have each practice
Il $4,000 or $4,000 . year. Several |
lIher colOred men are mentioned who
re worth from $4,000 to $300.O00.
several have summer houses e the VA.
ering places and live in brown stone |
palaces in New York. DR.. p. A. White |
ave his daughter check 70 5000 on
Ter wedding day, and John Tenyck |
ave $1,000 to ST.. Philips colored |
hurch at one time. "The swell colored |
dub IN the city Is The Ne~ Yolk and |
Newport Ugly Meas Fishing club" It's |
Wealy members represent So OO0. 900, |
they 60 on an annual fishing trip TO |
Newport and Martha's Vineyard, and |
lave dinner every month They ca
eFtain all distinguished col9red visitors |
0 tie city. Am ing their guests have |
ken exc overnnr Pinchback aud many |
.il=rian bish.,ps. The Meme, lRi,s is |
nsrss sp ar yonag c.I.'rti men whose
iaIaries are nni l. a IIisn 81 .0o0 year
fhe Bo!len,isa Cab IS composed 81 |
al .rsi men who write cor living. It's
nrmbeFs. who Include ssvrai pets.
zane musiIs from the fur nrwsnae, y |
Il the c. l1r.si sssopis 10 New York. the |
2au,nr. lh,: Progressive Annriieaai. The |
3inbe aud the SufragIss The club
asv Is every S4:p.dsy night. and srnokes |
md drinks betr. IN igaitaiif;n at the old |
Boheinl Ian club 10 which Walt tghiI
nan. AFtemus Ward, HenEy 0ltasson
md FIszjames O,BFien belonged.