White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-01-11
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u The Colorado Legislature has rattle the
constitutional amendment, with but one dissent
ing voice.
p Secretary Sevars has gone on . voyage
70 the West Indies for the benefit his health.
He viii be absent few weeks.
q q The steamer Constitution, bound from
Savannah for New York, with "A passengers
and 10 bales Of cotton, ran aground on the 26th
ult., and is . total losss. Forty Of the persons
on board we're drowned.
p General Champion Vaughan publishes a
card in the Milwaukee Sentinel denying that
be recently attempted suicide in Sc. Louis. He
had taken an overdose Of medicine, which made
him temporarily delirious. He was found in
this state on the street BY policeman. and
taken home, where he soon recovered. This
incident wss exaggerated by the reporter Of n
st. Louis paper into an attempt 1t suicide.
sp The whole town of ShafYer, Pa, on Oil
Greek, few miles below Titussille, was burn
ed on Christmas day. The local papers give
additional particulars. The fire bro g out in
the afternoon in the Ocean House, and spread
With alarming rapidisy. The people went 10
work 70 save property and check the progress
of he flames. but the buildings we're mostly
wooden, and many of the bystanders got drunk
instead of helping 10 stay the conhagraiion. In
the evenings fight took place, in which one
man was killed. The loss exceeds $lDO 900,
on which there is not more than 1000 in.
surance. -..-
p The debt of Boston is SIC, ,02l ,I6s 0s.
T The Indians in New Mexico are becom.
ing quite troublesome. -.
70 Geo. A. Dingley, of Waterville, Me-. has
been sentenced TO six months imprisonment for
dsing business Is retail liquor dealer witbous
. license, as provided BY the Internal Reyeane
Law of the United States.
TA young ''swell"i in London, who dissi-
pated fortune Of 81, 900 year, now earns IS
a week as . stage driver.
T The portrait of Mr.. Lincoln painted under
the auspices Of Brady, the New York photo
graphist, has gone 10 Europe. having been pur;
chased By m Englishman for 1000. H..
r On Christmas morning, every gable. gate
way, orban-doof in Norway is decorated with
sheaf Of corn fzed on the top of q tall pole,
from which it is intended the birds shall make
their Christmas dinner. .- --.-..r-..
u Dec 18th, Mr.. Hardin, of Union County
went to JODesbOro, and, upon his returning
home, his team became unmanageabIe, and ran
away, throwing him from the wagon, and break
ing his neck, death ensuing almost instantly.
q The young ladies of Aurora. Ind, have
held meeting and passed the following resoiu.
tion: Resolved, That if We, the young ladies
Of Aurora, don t get married this year, some
body will be to blame.
q A grocerin New Haven, in moving an old
counter recently found two mice nests made
entirely of bank bills and fractional currency
On pulling them to pieces, sixty or seventy
long missing dollars turned up. All the bills
we're more or less mutilated, but some fifteen
or twenty dollars worth we're saved.
P An old lady, ofconsiderabie property, has
just died. near Sheffield. England, who Fever
washed her face till the dirt peeled of in fakes
who had never allowed her rooms to be swept
or cleaned for seventeen yesrs-shose sole At
tendant was an IDIOT lad, and whose principal
food was putrid meat
T One of the largest slave holders in south
em Kentucky has gone mad on accent of the
liberation of his slaves, and is now an inmate
Of the lunatic asylum at Hopkinsville, KY. He
was probably worth one hundred thousand dol
lars, Independents of his slaves.
T The Washington correspondent of The
Leavenworth Bulletin SAYS that Major h. c.
Loring, who raised a company in Missouri, last
spring, for Hancock's Veteran Reserve Corps,
has cheated his company oat Of their bounty
money. He had them credited to Chicago, for
which he drew 500 for each recruit, amount
ing in all to over 81, 900, with which he de-
camped.
u Smuggling between Switzerland and
France is reduced to . science. You buy .
watch of Geneva watchmaker. He askes
you: "Will you take it with you, or shah We
deliver il ss Paris 7'' you answer that you
prefer it delivered at Paris, he gives you note,
with which, when you arrive at Paris, you 60 to
an appointed place and receive your watch. a.
innocent ofthe payment of the duty as when il
left the goldsmith's hands in Geneva.
u James Duncan Graham, brother-in.lav of
Maior. Gen. Meade and Colonel of limited