White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-08-29
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W Aheooofe Aison' describing Benjamin
Wade, says he has trough heun nose.o
u Gen. Sheridan thinks the var is not vet
over.
u One thousand dollar Confederate bond.
are used for newspaper wrappers.
u Horace Greeley receives one hundred
dollars column for his autobiography in tho
Ledger.
u Greeley is older than was supposed. He
begins the record of his busy life, in the Led
ger. about $50 years ago.
T Mr.. Jones went to sleep on window sill
in Cleveland, fell to to the ground and leaves
an interesting widow. ..a
u General Breckinridge, gray headed and
blase, is living on the courtesy Of relatives in
Paris.
p Alfred B. Street is almost the only na-
tive born New Yorker who is known as poet.
u English school teachers manage to keep
soul ard body together on an average salary of
$500 year.
~ The Oquawsa Piainaealer nominates Pc
troleum v. Nas6s for President in 1868, and
Josh Billings for Vice President.
II The Sultan didn't know how to shake
hands when he arrived in Eosiand: General
Grant Il inks he was fool for Learning.
u The Chicago Tribune predicts that the
Republicans will carry twice as many States in
the South as the Democrats will in the North
next fall and at the Presidential election. A
very safe prediction.
U At one Of the stations of the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad. two sacks Of -four and ten bar
rels of ale were recently delis cred. The ques-
ton is, what do they intend to do with 50 much
iour2
B"Recollections Of Busy Life" is said to-
be The heading under which Horace Greeley
viii soon write his autobiography. Let no evil
minded conpositor interpolate Body's after
Brsy-Fhiladelphia Bulletin.
B Fourteen years ago, Mr.. Bonner Of the
New York Ledger, was employed by Hiram
Fuller, in the Office Of the New York Mirror.
The former is now enjoying the rich frhi.s of
energy and enterprise With an income Of 5000.
0cc year, and the latter is used up secess-
ionist in London jail
u 1t Is a fact of which our people should be
proud, that there is not dram shop in the
County. Who wonders that our County is out
of debt, and that We have over FIVE thousand
dollars in our County Treasury, Is there an
other County in the West that can say as muchi
-Brorn Co. Sentinel.
T A relative of the "Grest American Pic
Bitter" at Lee, Mass, the other day undertook
was opening six, aid vas beaten only four
points the opener having completed his task
while the eater was boiling his forty. fourth
clam. The pie bitter will bite through sixteen
bakers turnovers placed in pile a. once!
u The Boston Post snappisily says two
clefgyuhen in this city have discovered that they
are the victims of bronchitis. The doctors say
the only cure is moth in Paris. OF course
they are $4,000 preachers. Bronchitis won't
touch brethren on low salaries.
U The Portsmouth Tribune SAYS that &
consistent" Dem5crat of that town was heard
to observe, the other day, that johnson was
durned fool for appointing that Nasty to a
postofice. for eoery letter he rrote done the DEM
ocrafie party more harm than good. ....
u 1t is said the Indians on the plnins have
an ingenious way of setting fire to houses with
their srrows. They wrap with a rag some DOW
der on The heads of their arrows. and on the
tip Of their arrow heads place percussion cap.
When the arrow strikes the object to be fred
the cap is exploded and the po~der and rag ig.
nltei. The rag burns long enough to set any
combustible with which il may come in contact
on fire.
II A young lady Of respectable family "a
Pittsburg, was arrested by the police. recently,
Disguised as neeress, having blackened her
face and neck with oil and charcoal Il seems
that she was suspicious of another young lady
being on too intimate tarms with her lover, and
she expected to surprise them in Disguise
Such is the force ofJealousy.
D f. E. Brewster is the name of the liar
who recently published in the Chicago Tribune,
q SANDER on the Kansas people which has been
widely copied in Eastern papers. He says Kan
sas men don't wear clean clothes or "exercise
with their feet" II he shows his face in Kan
'as again, he viii probably End more lively feet
lhan he has any inclination to see or feel. Pass
him round.-Leap. Conservative.
u MrsrEnoUs DIsAr.EAaAscx-Greatan anx-
ety is felt at the non appearance this morning
Of Mr.. F. Drake, the gentlemanly aad urbane
receiver ofthe Western Union Telegraph Com
'anys Office in this city. It is feared that some
hing serious may have happehed to Mr.. Drake,
,s when last seen was going in the direction of
be river. We but express the public sentiment
'hen We say that any misfortune befalling Mr..
Drake would be regarded as public calamity.
R<psBliesa.
u Theodore Tilton says in the last Inds.
,endent .
The West is twenty years ahead Of the East;
Tot in wealth, in culture, in refinement; but In
'nergy Of progress. in warmth of temperament.
md in that sagacious instinct which is quick TO
ecognize the spirit Of the age. Heretofore We
ave been in the habit of looking to the Eastss
he fountain of Radical ideas; hereafter We
must look to the West.
b A young friend who was at the cars
Q they came from Peoria, Monday evening.
ellis us that he noticed man leaving the train
nth large sized bag IN his arms. which he
'as carrying very carefully. Stepping 20 the
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