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Show STATE SEWN. KANSAS. Newton has a $5,000 cnibeEnicmetft sensation. Cherokee county wants a jail and poor houso. No signs of the horse disoasc at Leavenworth. Kmporia is having a touch of the epizootic. Tho Wichita "B caoon" has become a blackened brand. Waterville has a wolf in its fold, and a goose pen too. Wild cats are prowling about the streets of Lawrence. The hen epizootic is sweeping the roosts at Fort Scott. A putty aud glue factory has been cstab.ished in Wyandotte ccunty. Wild turkfiy, venisun and buffalo are a drug in the Wichita market. Mad dogs aro scouring through the counties of Atchison and Jackson. Winter wheat all along tho lino of the Kansas Central is looking promising. promis-ing. A live deer is onoof tho prizes to bo drawn at a Catholio church fair at Sa- hna. Ellsworth is shipping buffalo meat direot to Eoghnd for the bulls to bellow bel-low over. Shawnee county has a litllo matter of $276,474 in the way of taxes to pay this year. Some fellow lately stole the grave-digger's grave-digger's tools io Highland cemetery, at Junction city. Tho Carboodalo road is completed and Lawrence is in communication with the coal fields. The Oxford "Press" sayB 1,000 school-marms are wanted in the country west of the Arkansas river. IOWA. Epizoo intensifying at Des Moines. Venison eight cents a pound at Dubuque. The indebtednss of Council Bluffs is $234,570 5S. Mrs. Aylwood, of Monroe, took strychnine for saleratus, and died. Scott oounty has 10,000 horfics valued at over $390,000. Mt. Pleasant rejoices in the possession posses-sion and profits of three broom factories. factor-ies. A musical convention will gather at Aoamosa, Dec, 21, and oontiaue four days, A man in Dallas county has made arrangement to start a henerv with 2,000 hens. The Davenpott "Gazette" glories in a subscriber who has taken that paper for thirty years and four months. A sleigh line has boeo started on the Mississippi, for publio travel, between Davenport and Rock Island. A Wapello lady has destroyed the numbers of "Harper's Weekly" which she had saved during the campaign, because she considered that its oarioa-tures oarioa-tures contributed to Mr. Greeley 'b death. During the past season the woolen factory at Oakland, in Henry oounty, manufactured 33,000 yards of goods, and used io so doing 40,000 pounds of wool. It made 400 pair of blankets and 6,000 pounds of yarn. S. W. Sanderson, of Lyons, went to bed at Dubuque, a night or two ago, with his stockings on, in the toes of which he had deposited $150. When he awoke in the morning his stockings were partly drawn and to his astonishment astonish-ment the money had taken wings. NEBRASKA. Kearney Junction is starting a private pri-vate bank. Fremont is improving fast one suicide sui-cide last week. D. Rnflr U WHincr Si VI Lm in Pawnee oounty. One Ashland farmer is wintering 3,200 Texas cattle- Eight buffaloes took a Sunday train through the village of Sydney. An iron bridge costing $7,000 is to bo erected across tho Blue river, at Milford. None but temporary detentions from snow have thus far been experienced by the Union Pacific this winter. Omaha at length feels like Chicago in her recent glory. "A horse," aaya the "Bee," "can't be had for love or money." Another Iowa preacher has been playing thrce-ard monto at Omaha, and retires under tho conviction that it sharpons a man to go west. |
