White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-03-07
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u The Supreme Court of New Jersey has |
decided that liquor bill is not legal debt.
u A man in Jackson, Mississippi, gave his
intended money to buy her bridal outfit. and the
following morning she married his brother.
D The Boston Adyertiser insinuates that
William T. Sherman is responsible for the an.
tipathy the South entertaius for military
bill.
u In Washington County, Tenn, twenty
miies northeast Of Jonesboro, is an ancien.
birch tree, on the bark of which is still legiblc
the following inscription: "l77I-D. Boon
killed bar"
Ut The Democracy Of Ohio have nominated
their State ticket eight no.ths before the elec.
tion-like the man who said that when he died
be wanted to starve to death, so that he would
hare long die efh!
T An English manufacturer, lecturing to
his neighbors on this country, on his return
from tour, said that one of the first memo
randa which he made in his diary, after seeing
the United States was, that it was no use to
send fool to America.
~ A Wisconsin paper advocates printing
without spacing out the lines or using hyphens,
but letting each line take care of itself, wheth-
er it breaks word or not. The proposed sys-
TEN has no justification, as the specimens Civ
en- by the paper in question show.
u One of the leading. insurance men of
Hartford says, that "four more such months of
heavy losses as the insurance companies have
had during the past few months will seriously
impair every company in the country, and ef-
fectually break down many"
/ IL An influential gentlemen from Alabama
writes, that with a good Union newspaper,
sufficiently well sustained to get fair start,
Alabama would throw majority of her white
population for the Republican candidate for
President, in 1868. The world moves.
T Howell Cobb. Of Georgia, is at Washing
ton, and converses freely with the Republicans
on political affairs. He frankly avows that he
thinks it the true policy of the South to submit
quietly to whatever is proposed by Congress.
but to form no political alliances, and to de-
vote herself sholy to the work of recupera-
ton.
B The London Reviews comment upon the
ocean yacht race is as follows:
"The Yankees, who can boast that they
have made the bigges. national debt e, er made
in the same time, that they have carried on
the biggest civil war, received the biggest
thrashng. and crushed the biggest rebellion
e. er known, may now claim the glory Of hav-
ing had the biggest yacht race
G- The worlds history contains no instance
of extraordinary development more rapid or
more marvellous than that Of Chicago. Yes
terday, frontier fort in the centre of wild
and useless territory to-day, the commercial
emporium of six States. the granary Of the
world, itself the greatest grain market, the
greatest lumber market, the greatest live stick
market on the face of the earth
&C The New York Evening Gazette says
that half of the manuscript of Henry Ward
Beecher's story is to be in the hands of his
publisher this week. His title is reported to
be "The Call of the Clergyman" and will
contain much of his life and many Of his expe-
riences in the early days of the West, when he
wa. poor and fighting his way through the
world. He receives half of the sum named
(S25, ,000) for his book on the completion of
the manuscript, which will be ready before the
end of March.
u A man who represented himself to be
the Cashier of National bank at Washington.
insulted young girl on the Atlantic and Great
Western cars, between Calmanca and Cleve-
land, on Wednesday evening. The girl asked
protection ofthe passengers, when two or three
of them seized the scoundrel, took him to the
rear Of the car, and, as the train was going at
only moderate rate Of speed, dropped him Off
In the midst of the fracas he attempted to draw
q revolver.
&c The natural phenomena of the last few
mospheric philosophers. Tremendous falls Of
snow in nearly all parts of the country, alter
nations Of excessive cold and almost summer
heat, and destructive freshets in various eec-
tons from the extreme East to the Western
frontier, have combined to render the winter
Of ls66-67 memorable in the annals of meteor.
ology.
IL GovERNoR Acknowledgement Morton
of Indiana, the Senator elect, still laborers un
der painful PHYSICAL difficulty, which con-
strains him to address his audiences seated |
During the recent exciting campaign in that
State he made some of his ablest speeches !
while occupying chair. In this he resembles
the celebrated George McDufie, Who was shot
through the body in duel, and was ever after |
compelled to speak literally from his seat
Governor Morton is however, in the vigor of
bis intellect, and his friends predict for him
long and useful life.
II The table on which the Declaration Of
Independence was signed has been for years
in the Pennsylvania State Library at Harris |
burg. The resolution Of Col. McCreary, offer. |
ed few days since, to have the Hancock |
chair removed to Independence Hall. in Phiia-
deiphia, called out = resolution on Friday from |
Colonel Quay. to have the table also removed
to the same place. The table is an ordinary |
old fashioned looking affair, with some half
dozen small drawers, and now occupies an un-
obtrusive position in one corner Of the State
Library. The resolution for its removal was
passed.
p A gentleman in California having made