White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-02-20
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U Dickens wears 20 much chain, 10 snahls
HIN 70 survey his audience.
u Il Is 50 cold in Montana that eggs freeze
aaAsr the hens.
u George Y. Deaf. brother In. law of
0sseral asass. 10 s.hiidass for Congress i.
Arisona.
u 4 lean horss aba ! snan boy have o.
gsnissd An express eo&pany 10 Hartford. Ind. !.
and deliver packages for Eve cents.
GT The Union beagss Of Philadelphia has
ordered hundred thousand copies Of Senator
N rton's recent speech on reconstruction for
eircuistion in Penusylvania.
The Cecil tDel.) whis says: "The rich n.n
With whip. and the poor man ri,h hoe, is
the Democratic idea of the milleuiuui"
u A married woman, named s.r.h Jane
Haris. recently eloped from Iowa City, Iowa,
with man who was blind, humpbacked, and
had sore leg and no money.
u Governor Marshall of Minre.ots urges
the Legislature of Minnesota to submit the
question Of equal suffrage for the third tine TO
the people.
D- The Madison (wis.) Union reads the La
Crosse Democrat Gnfamous) ou. of the party;
but the Union dies and the Democrat lives
sufficient commentary on what copperhead-
ism is. 'S~ -
70 B. F. Downing. Of Lexington. Ky. an
nounces himself as an independent candidate
for sheriff, and considers his claim indisputable,
as he "once slcp, with Andrew Jackson"
p The Charleston Coures is delighted with
Senator Doolittle. His late speech in Con-
gress, the editor says, "reninds US of the purer
and better days of the Republic"
T A Washington special says: "some one
asked Thsd Stevens this afternoon what he
thought of General Grant no~. His reply was,
He is bolder man than I thought him; we
will let him into the church now"
p Negrophobia has resced such . pitch
among the Democratic members of the Ohio
Legislature, that one Of them, it is said, will
shortly introduce bill to strike out the colored
sailor from the boat in Po~elI's painting oil
Perry's Victory, in the Ohio State Capitol.
p Senator Doolittle, in letter to the edit.
or Of the JsnesviIle Gazette, in 1862, said
CAS- we have war, and the rebels will inss. upon
war, under the proclamation of the President
I would make . negro territory of the United
States. beginning with South Carolins."
T The rebe! papers of Kentucky are taking
the ground that the "prccess Of abolishing slav
cry has been revolutionary" that the ra,ifca.
ton thereos BY the seeded States was compul
sorry, and that the whole matter will be consid
cred when military power shall be Withdrawn
| q Thurlow Weed relates that "when Mr.
Lincoln intimatei, at Springfield, in December
1860, his intention to appoint Gideon wellel
Secretary Of the Navy, We earnestly urged hin
to trsnsfer any good fgure-head from the bow
Of a ship to the navy department as an imsgin
ary Secretary. leaving Admiral Jos. Smith t.
do the work"
p A young Jerseywomsn eloped with he
fathers coachman the other day. On return
ing for the customary reconciliation and bless
ing, the girls clothes we're passed out to her
ard she was told to 60 and return no more.
~ The lady proprie tors of the Revo lutiol
in New York, have employed Madame Dem
crest to fit out squad of little Irish girls il
the Fenian coIcrs, and send them into the stree
selling the "woman's paper" They call o,
the police to protect the little newsgirla.
T A long bearded miller at Logan, Ohio
the other day carelessly suffered his aowin,
honors to get caught in a revolving shaft
Bracing himself promptly. his beard went b,
the roots.
II Alta lecture in Brooklyn, the other even
ing, gentleman arose and asked the lecture,
to wait a few minutes until couple of ladie.
near him had finished talking. The request
was applauded and the nuisance abated.
u A scamp who operates on new principle
is now making tour of the towns of Ontario
He collects al the razors, knives and scissors
he can to grind, and disposes of them in 10,
at "clearing sale" when he starts for another
locality.
U The Hiawatha Sentinel says that Ira J.
Lacock, Esq, Of that place, has sold lands in
Brown County owned BY non residents, during
the past week, amounting in. the aggregate, to
over 1000. These lands have all been pur,
chased by actual settlers.
B- The White Cloud Chief denoauces the
attempt to enfranchise O'Driscoll. of Doniphan
County. We entirely agree with the opinion i,
expresses on the question. There 10 nothing in
Mr.. o'Driscolis case which should commend
him to special exemption from the disabilities
imposed upon rebels.-Afeaissn Clsmpisa.
u MRs. LINCOLN INSANE letter.
from Chicago, state that Mrs Lincoln is insane
beyond all doubt. She recently cold all the
furniture in her house, and has twe old men as
body guard. believing she will be robbed and
murdered. Her mania is for selling things,
and the dread lest she come to want Allher
friends are said to be conscious of her mental
condition, but think that. 10 long - she is
harmless, her removal to . lunatic asyluu
would increase her arrangement.
u Peter Cartwright, the eccentric pioneer
preacher, is in bis Sd year. He bas beea q
member Of the Methodist Church for 81 years,
and minister for more than 60 years. In his
younger days he was powerful man. and KEEP,
rowdies in check at camp meetings and other
religious assemblies. and on more than one oc-
casion he handled the ring leaders 50 roughly
they were glad to keep out Of his Rax ever af.