White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-08-15
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VI ine ourns district in Charleston is used
as a COW pasture.
The New York Express has discovered that
this Is great year for snakes.
II Horace Greeley announce. hi. nurooss
never aghu to be candidate for Office.
p The population Of the city of London i,
as great as that Of the Whole Of Scotland.
%, The centre Of the United States b., bee,
fixed at Columbus, Nsbraska, ninety ak miles
west Of Omaha.
, u In 1865 Andrew johnson said "whep.
ever you hear a man prating about the Consti-
tuition. spot him. lie is traitor
p Beecher goes in for female suffrage. He
says if there must be old women In Office he pro-
fers the genuine article.
u Idaho has population of 10000, and
not minister Of the Gospel. Thst3 nothing.
Paris has Notre Dome church in it.
u Lotta's real name is Charlotte CrabIree.
She is natire Of California. ~
u A Terrible affection ha. overtaken Tom
Thumb-he las begun to grow
u 1t is quite true that President johnson
has had several attacks Of choler-a.
U"He leaves five wive. and seventeen chill
dren to mourn his loss" arc the concluding
words Of a Utah obituary notice.
IL red cedar post is standing in Sharon.
j., which is not at all decayed, though it
was put in its present position in i749-lls
years ago.
II ldlewild. the home of the late N. p.
Willis, will be opened as a young lahiss' semi
harry next month.
T A New Yorker who has been travelling
IN Maine. says every place he visited in that
State was watering place. Nothing but wa
Ter was TO be obtained.
u To avoid cholera, Gays the doctor, take
care Of FOUR Diet. IN other words, mind your
peas and q-cutntersi.
IL A Russian novelist has 90, $500 for
story called Smoke
u Rear Admiral S!eSart was 80 years old
on Sunday. He was born in Philadelphia, July
%, 1878, and entered the service March 9.
1898.
T Gen. Rousseau is to have command at
Walrussia. He will hereafter be known as
Gen. Wolrosseau.
u 1t is stated that Grnrral Mcclellan will
be home in November also, that GRAFT is his
choice for President.
B The elephant belonging to Forepaugh's
menagerie walked from Boston to Albany last
week. He accomplished the entire distance
24O miles-in four days.
| D The Houston (Texas) Telegraph says
"The Greenville Is. c. Enterprise comes to
us with $1,000 Confederate bond wrapper
around it,"
! u In clearing out reservoir at st. Louis.
used for supplying the city with water. tho
bodies or skeletons of 80 children we're found
The effect os this discovery upon the stomachs
of the people is not stated.
IT Z farmer in Wisconsin has been poisoned
by picking and eating strawberries, sf er kill
ing potato bugs with his fingers. An awful
warning to people who don't wash their hands
Dr An Eastern paper locates Paradise at the
head Of sehcc Lake, where are grnaite noun
tains covered with blueberries, water abounding
with trout. and scenery unsurpassed BY any in
New England.
&c The Boston Transcript says General
Sheridan has one of the sncs.' ntinds in tho
and seizes upon the vital prints q fs situation
with unerring certainty"
IL The Washington Chronicle thinks the ju-
~ in the Surratt ease will not nsrce. 1t says:
"Surratt is more likely to get cicrkship in
one of the departments in fer weeks than be
is to be hanged for his crimes"
III One of Brownlows's best efforts is his
description Of John Slidell. He says: .'He
bears face upon him that the Almighty put
there on purpose 80 that no judge Of hunsrna-
ture, either In England or A merics, .hosld ever
take him for an honest man."
u Several Americans residing at Sitks
have written a letter tn Secretary Seward.
thanking him for his services in securing the
purchase Of Russian America, and assuring him
that the country is in every respect . mosfvsl-
liable acquisition.
. II ANSWER A Fou.-The Democrat asks
us the old slang question, that had we dsugh
ter, and two young men-one white and the
other black-should ask her hand in marriage
which of the two rivals we would favor. Il
would be owing altogether 10 circumstances.
If the white man was the editor Of the Demo
crat, We should favor the negro. We hope the
Iool is answered according to his folly.-Piqsa
Journsl. ~
.TLincoln City, the new Capital Of Nebras-
ka, has been permanently located about hfty
miles west of Nebraska City, between Yankee
Hill and the town Of Lancaster. in Lancaster
county. upon sections %, Is and 26, township
range 6. It is on an air line from the nearest
point on the Union Pacific Railroad 80 miles,
rom Plattsmouth As, from Nebraska City IS,
from Omaha so, from BrownvilIe So.
" On Friday last, says the Glasgow Tines
'fshe 18th. . band Of forty winnsbsso Indians.
warriors. squaws. bucks and papoosss-in sish.
'anoes, landed Just below the mouth of Gssgg's
,reek. below Glasgow, and eamped. They sre
IN their way to Wisconsin, from whence they
moved some four years ago to White Cloud.
Kansas. and are begging their way back 70
heir old home. They remained It'll Tussday
morning, giving two "exhibitions." Saturday
nd Monday nights, including the Screen Corn
lance. )" the "ScaIp Dance, !" the "war Dance"
&C., which we're veil attended, and realised