White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-07-25
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" The Prince of Wales is said TO have 20.
Gently called upon the editor of Punch. "a.
cuesting him to desist from caric.turing HI.
mother, saying that be considered some thing.
which had appeared in Punch as highly ai,r,.
specsful to her Majesty
!, r A private letter from A.. Il. Stephen,
Gays: am in bad health, have been quite an
invalid for several months-i mean much more
of an invalid than usual with me. ! have been
suffering from neuralgia as never did before.
This has inserfered materially With my work.
B DR.. Lincoln Goodale of Columbus, is the
only survivor Of all who came to Marietta in
l7ss-the first year Of the settlement. He
will be eighty 1--WE years Of age on the 25sh of
this month. He came to Marietta with his
parents, with the first women and children of
the settlement, in August. l7ss. :
" monument to Sir Francis Drake is to
be erected in Berlin. A wealthy citizen Of
Berlin has applied 10 the municipality of tha.
town for site on which to erect a statue So
Francis Drake, as the in,roducer Of the potato
into Europe, and offers to subscribe $ll.2fa
toward it. Potato lovers. abroad are expected
now to open their hearts and their purses.
u At the recent annual meeting of the
French Freemasons, the question was raised.,
whether not the use of the formula "to the
glory of the great Architect of the Universe"
was to be held obligatory in all cases. After
a warm debate the formula was retained by
vote of one hundred ag gainst sixty seven, 's7.
u A new island, twenty miles long, has
been discovered in the North Pacific Ocean.
exactly in the track Of vessels for San Francis
CO from Japan and China. Several wrecks
have been found on the leland. among others
that of the ship Canton, which has never been
heard from since lSl6.
PosraoE THEN AND Now Thirty years ago
the postage of letter from London to the Isle
Of MIN was Is. 81. to Lerwick, in Scotland,
Is. Sd; and to Glenary, in Ireland, Is. 81.
The postage of letter to Australia or New
Iceland is now only Cd.
u Napoleon and the Sultan are reported to
be distant cousins. The Emperor's mother
was daughter Of Josephine by her first hus-
band. while the Sultan's grandmother was .
cousin to Josephine, having been captured by
an Algerine corsair and sent to the seraglio at
Constantinople.
u Excavations on the site of Palatine near
the palace Of the Casars, at Rome, have caused
the discovery of the ancient grotto Lupereal.
where Romulus and Remus we're snckled by the
wolf, and which disappeared among the ruins
of the middle ages.
u There is an apple tree on the premises
of John Kohler, in North Whitehall township.
Lehigh County. Penn, which is over 100 year,
old. Last year this tree bore over 100 bushels
! of apples. 1t is 50 feet high, and So feet IN
diameter, two feet above the ground.
r u A correspondent Of the Charleston Mer-
: curry. who saw Mr.. Seward, on the recent South
q ern trip. says Of him: "He looks as if his rev.
J eric loft was always in fermesi auL himself
e up among the c 'bwebs solving some problem.
| can lik'n him to nothing created save sly,
gray, old rat sitting on the corner of his hole
and diagnosing a bag Of corn"
IL An Addendum to the Jchn Brown song.
runs thus:
, "We'il bail JEFF. Davis with hundred thousand
dollar bond.
With the names of Gerrit Smith and Horace.
: Greeley thereupon, .
And well feast the gallant traitor when the
: cruel war is done,
As we go marching on
~ A Kansas correspondent OF the Cleveland
Herald OF the 25th ul,., says: All new coun-
tries are provcrbially unhealthy but this is
healthy-so healthy that a, the new city of ST.
lima. the proprietor Of one of the rival "addi-
tons" after waiting n reasonable length Of
time for somebody to "drop off," killed q man
to start grave yard on his claim.
~ A BROOKLYN gentleman offers to contract
with the Government for the effectual "remov-
al" OF the indians on the plairs, at cost abso-
'uteiy triding, compared with the military op-
erations as at present carried on. His plan is
very simple, being the establishment of few
dis,illeri.s. in each tribe.
u Horace Greeley has the honor of Q bsss
.fde domination for President in 1863 His
name is borne at the masthead of the Min
nesota Southwest, published in Blue Earth
City, and printed in blue. Does this indicase
rthe blueness of the candidates prospect i7oa
Gr Horace Greeley, in his testimony before
the Judiciary Committee. declares that Il wss
through the irauence Of Mr.. Shea. one OF the
counsel of JEFF. Davis, that he ~as inducrd 10
go upon the bond. He denies that any Pred
Dental or Cabinet influence was brought to bear
upon HIM. He also asserted his belief that the
time for trxir,o Is6 n.v;s m 49, 49,, o,,.,,.>..