White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-03-28
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VI A postage stamp tied With cobwsb is
the last bonnet OF Paris.
U Astronomers say that brilliant meteor
ic shower will occur about the 10Th of August
the present year.
" 1t costs 81 to bring ton Of merchan-
disc from Liverpool to this eeuntry, and e..
ss4 to bring ton Of letters.
" If Washington had lived In this gensa-
tion be couldn't have been great man. says
an exchange.
p young man in Hartford was fined so,
the other day, for kissing couple of ladies.
after they had told him "shey were no such
girls"
T We have now Eve legal holidays
Christmas. New Years. Twenty second ofFcb-
rusry. Fourth Of July and TwensY.Fifth Of
November.
II 1t is believed that Governor Browulow
cannot live much longer. His present nervous
disorder grows more and more threatening.
~ Nasby in Boston dined with the Saturday
Atlantic Club, and saw Colonel B. make lob.
ster salad. Next to the "great origin" they
are the things to do in Boston town.
U After the LIST Of March the name of
Poland is never to be mentioned in Russian
dispatches, which will refer instead to the "De-
partmeut of varsovia." aet
T A horse shoe is being prepared BY . Mis-
souri, blacksmith for the Paris Exposition,
made of raw ore fiom the Iron Mountain
.One-half the shoe is finished, whilst the other
half shows the ore as it is dug from the mine.
II Theodore Clay, son of Henry Clay, has
for over thirty years been an inmate of the lu.
patio asylum at Lexington. Kentucky. He be-
came insane from disappointed affection.
D- 1t is reported that the "watex,' Of an
Artesian Well at Corpus Christi, Texas, which
the people Of the place have been using for
various disorders, turns out to be pure kerosene
oil.
70 A correspondent says the city of Norfolk.
Va, looks for all the world as if it had been
dug up in fossil state out of the ruins of a
very ancient instead of very late "Coufeder-
acy."
u The editor of the Pittsburg Gazette says
from a conversation With Gen. Sheridan, he
thinks the latter is of the opinion that before
affairs are permanently settled at the South,
another appeal will be made to the sword.
u The United States Senate has confirmed
N. G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
piee Louis v. Bogy, rejected.
GrMARRIED.-Captain Rufus Ford. of the
Miss ii River Packet line, was on Tuesday
of last week united in matrimonial ties to Mrs.
L. C. NJ. Childs. of Niagara Falls, New York.
u The ThAL OF SURRArr.-No time has
vet been fixed for the trial of Surratt, and the
impression prevails among the members Of the
bar that the case will be put over to the neat
term of court, when Chief Justice Carter will
preside.
u DEBow Nor DEAp-Mr. r. G. Barnweli,
associate editor of DeBow's Review. contra
diets the statement that Prof. De3ow is dead,
and says it was Franklin DeBow, brother of the
editor-who died in New Jersey few days
since.
u Rich IN CANDIDATES. Boston Trav-
eier says that Massachusetts has six candi-
dates for the Presilency-Sumner, Wilson,
Banks, Butler, Boutwell, and Andrew-and as
many more men who wsud not object to the
second place on the Republican ticket-Eliot,
Dawes, Hoar, Bullock, Bigelow and Devens."
u As an illustration of the number of idle
men in Chicago, Illinois, it is stated that, on
Wednesday, load of hay upset in the street,
and that, within fifteen minutes, there were
sever thousand grown persons in the vicinity
of the accident, besides a large number of
boys and girls.
~ SUFFRAGE IN NEw.JrRsEY.-A report has
been presented to the New Jersey Legislature,
by Mr. Murphy, of Newark, in favor of
change in the State constitution by striking
out the words "white and MALE" thus confer
rihg upon the women and negroes the right of
suffrage. There seems to be strong feeling
on the part Of many members of the House,
both Democrats and Republicans, to strike out
the word white, but not to entail upon the wo-
men the duty Of going to the polls.
D- The proprietors and guests of Parting
tons saloon, on Broad Street, Richmond, we're
startled few nights since BY . tremendous
noise. A search revealed that Q rat, in at
tempting to steal one of . lot Of oysters. had
his tail caught BY another oyster. His ratship
ran all over the house endeavoring to get rid
of his unusual appendage, which refused to let
CO. The rat, worn down by his exertions, be-
came an easy conquest, and was killed.
p MARMAeE LIcENsEs-The late Legisla-
ture provided for the Probate Judges granting
marriage licenses. 1t takes effect when the
statutes are published--in May or June. John
T. Morton, Probate Judge Of Shawnee County,
has furnished US with forms for blank certif-
Gates, returns, &C., including blank book
which the law requires shall be kept. The
fact that the forms are prepared by Judge
Morton will make every one confident that they
are In accordance with Law, a. he is noted for
his care in such matters.-1epeks Record
r A gentleman in New York was 20 thor. |
oughly loyal daring the war that be re named |
four Of his feminine children, between the ages |
of three and nine years, New York, Massaehu- |
setts, Ohio and Iowa, after the most patriotic
States in the Union. Since then he has had |
two more girls, and ehristened them Indiana |