White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-01-02
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u The New York San calls George Francis
Train a .sosial soda fount."
q Fanaeu.'s family still have an estate in
Minorca. whence bis father emigassd hisher.
p Somebody has discovered that lrishnen
Lever work at the tobacco trade.
p Professor" Crouch, who wrote "Ksth-
leen Mavourueen," is teaching music in New
Orleans.
u An original letter Of Columbus has been
discovered in Europe. and purchased for the
Maine Historical Society.
IT A South Carolina paper uses thousand
dollar Confederate specie bonds for wrappers.
p The "hor" skate is the las. invention.
The heat comes from chemical arrangement.
u A Drunken vagrant, in Baltimore, was
once one of the wealshiest and nest beautiful
heiresses Of the city.
" The Cunard steamers names all end in
"a," the Innau line are all "ci.ies," and the
Glasgow line all end in en-"
U One Of the sro orators in the Louis
lana Convention threatened to thrash . report
er the other day, for not reporting his speech
faithfully.
u A Chicago divorce case rests on the
complaint that >aasf haSbanA made her get up
in the middle Of the night AID make the bed
over.
" Since the split among the strong minded,
Lucy is supposed to have been Anna Dickin-
sons Rejected Stone."-N. Y. World.
u "The Honorable Mrs. Norton" well
known as an author. has fallen heir to fortune
Of . quarter Of million dollars. The property
WAS acquired IN the East India trade.
II A Cincinnati gas company pays ten cent?
bushel for its COAL makes iss gas out of It, and
sells the coke for twelve cents bushsl.
IL The New Orleans Times says the follow
ing spiteful tolst was gives at the Broker:
dinner in that city last week: "Gen. Butler
The only living representative Of the wealth o
New Orleans"
r 1t Is stated that the fragment Of Maxi
milian's skull which was removed In the pro
cess Of embalming bis body. has been stolen
and was replaced BY wooden plug.
p The TitusvilIe Herald man, speaking o.
the sugar weddings. thirty days after marriage
says the vinegar wedding occurs about yea
after marriage generally, but has commence,
sooner.
u In a late speech, Senator Wilson, o.
Massachueetts, located Waterloo in Spain
We wonder he didn't put it in Milne, and de
clare Neal Dow the Conquerer of that might,
battle-or, Old John Brown. 1t is only il
New England that you can tnd thoroughly edu
Gated N en-.
" The Pasaamsquoddy Indians, located IL
Vermont, have a representation in the Legis
lature. The two delegates now filling the seat.
are named Peaspole Sabattus and Sockabesiar
.Swassisn.
IL The New York Tribune publishes two
solid columns of names of voters at the recen,
election, "ho cannot be found at their pretended
places of residence, or elsewhere; indeed such
persons never hsd sAy existence save on paper,
being cunningly registered to swell the "great
Democratic gains in the Empire State"
H The grim old joker at the White House
suggests. in his Message, that if we are uo:
going to make any more use of gold and silver
as money, it would he well to dispense with the
expense of the mints. 1t is rather odd to hear
johnson talk Of doing without mints of any
kind. or course he duesn', include julsps.
u A controversy is going on at the North
west a. to the spot where Lewis and Clark held
their famous council with the Isdians, from
which Council Bluffs derives its name. 1t is
that the council was held at Fort At
kinson, and that testimony is conclusive that
the Fort was built in 1922. OH the spot where
Omaha now stands.
hA crazy man has made his h,ms in hol.
low log, about a mile from Msdison, Ohio, and
refuses all assistance from the townspeople,
who offer him food and shelter He converses
only Of wafer, and says "tbe commissioners
,re gting to make all the creeks of the country
'f the uniform depth of twenty feet, with
width of sixty feet"
u SEKDY.-We have in our Office two cop
es Of the "Kansas News" dated September
md Dec, 1858, published BY Plumb l. Stotler,
smporis, Kansas. By them We learn that C.
=. Eskridge has just been sppointed District
Clerk BY Judge EIm,re. and that Joel X.
Goodwin. H. Miles Moore and others. have
ust reinforced the pro slavery Democracy, BY
anticipating in the Leavenworth Convention.
lave yoa any use for the papers. Jake 81
2sdiesI.
u The New York Leader Of the 18th says:
One Of the Tribune's staff, who has very care
ully examined the immense msss Of RepubIi-
an exchanges received by that paper, says
hat, SO far as he has gone. sixty three journals
ave expressed their preference for Grant, thir-
cen for Salmon P. Chase. four f,r Sheridan
nd six for scattering. and for the Vice Presi.
eucy twelve support William d. Kelley, seven
chuyler CoIfax, four Geo. S. Boutwell,, four
ieuben E. Fensoo, two J1hn A. Bingham, aud
x scattering"
U A Chicago paper, speaking Of Che oppo-
tion of the New York Tribune To the nomi.
alton Of General Grant says, at vii ienomin
,usly f.il in its base efforts" Really, does
lie General own the olfies Of President. that It
ecomes "base" TO prefer anybody elsef Il
his the spirit in which the Republican party
an 60 into nominating conre ention with hope
harmonious resultsf Prophecy IL a cheao rif