White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-04-23
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IT Mrs. Pancake. Of Peoria, ILL.,. has got .
,i,o,ee from her husband, Geo. II. Pancake.
That tattens him.
ia tar title question having been in Gti-
cation forty eight years in an Ohio court, has
lately been decided.
~ lanes Robinson, Of Detroit, ceiored
citizen, vas uipped in the bud sss other day,
At the age of Il6 years.
u Mrs. alphabetical southwerth claims to
have read all the books that the industrious
Harper house has published
IL One reason Why Gen. Grant is so fond
ef fast borses, probably is because he thinks
he can run pretty well himself.
II A Republican County convention in Ill
inois, has resolved "that we do not desire
President whose mouth, like the Mississippi
river, is always open"
p The late Msryiasd Legislature. in re-
v;s.ng the schorl law Of tss State, abolished
the provision by which the sourtn Of July was
made holiday in the schools.
p The oldest doctor in the world, Prof. r.
verdugo, Salamanca, Spain, died lately, aged
one hundred and Eve years. He had practiced
medicine eighty years.
q The first iron front in St. Paul will be
put up this summer 1t is to be manufactured
at the Novelty Iron Works, New York, and
delivered at 81. Paul, costing one-third less
than cut stone.
U Brick Pomeroy cas- an intelligent nation
al debt Theory. he says: This financial prob,
lem is to big a thing to be handled. excep. in
one way. This whole debt has got to be
sponged out"
u A Merchant in Ripley. Tennessee
thought to play practical joke on his clerk
by "playing robber." fIe broke into his own
store, when the clerk fred through the doc,
severely wounding the merchant.
u AMusrNESrs.-Tn Cheyenne there is one
gambling shop which contains sixteen faro and
roulette banks and one keno bank. There
are in the house, besides, six billiard tables
! frr the amusement of those who don't care t.
trust themselves in reach of the "tiger's'
claws.
u STAMPS on LErTEKs Under the Intern
al Revenue laws, letters acknowledging tn
receipt Of either drafts. checks, or money
exceeding twenty dollars, are subject to
stamp duty of two cents, the same as if form
al receipt had been given for so much money
This is fact not generally known even t
good business men.
II The Louisville Courier "regrets to lear
that hundreds Of young men are leaving th
interior portions Of the State for the ipexhsus
ibls fields of wealth in the far West" Gu,
cling whlskey and damning the Rumps
democratic" bat persisted in will runin Ker
lucky.
H A curious case was lately decided
Ohio. A man offered to vote at an election
but the judges refused his ballot on the grouu
that he was nonresident. The mans vii
is an inmate of lunatic asylum, and the inte
ligent judge desided that that was where h
residence must be. He brought suit aud Z,
covered damages, however.
u A Democratic stump speaker at Nashu,
N. H., the other day, drew a flask of whiske
from his pocket, turned out glassfull, an
holding it up before his appreciative audience
told them that if Hartman was elected, tt
tax on that amour. Of the precious beverag
would be twenty five cents. The oldtim
Democratic argument, and a clincher upon h
hearers.
T James E. English, who has been r,
elerted Governor of Connecticut. was, durin
the war, burnt in digy by the Democracy {
his State, because he avowed his belief tha
the rebellion ought to be crushed, and becass
he sustained and voted in favor Of the Emar
cipation amendment to the Constit Ition, an
acted generally With the friends Of the Unior
u Speaking OF "slush,"' Radical raseality
"high taxes" &C., We should like to know
the Democratic Central Committee is willin
to give bonds that its candidate, il electst
will not steal the school fund, rob the Insan
Asylum, burn the Usage bridge, and NOV
"
The last Democratic Governor did these thing,
and people will hesitate to vote for anoihe
without some security.-lMissouri State Time,
u Under the head Of "S,artling Rumors,
the Montgomery Advertiser has the following
blood curdling editorial shred:
a rumor is published as coming fron
Washington that the Radicals there are spec
slating on making all possible capital out o
the remnant of Thad. Stevens life BY assassi
mating him and creating the impression tina
the murder is a deed of the rebels. They al
que that this would but shorten his life BY
few useless days, while the benefit to 'th
cause would be incalculable.''
Coon Bur USYALAraBLE ADvrcE.-The fol
lowing note in the Kokomo, Indiana, Tribune
caused the removal of its editor, T. C. Phil
lips, from the Special Mail Agency, Of Tndi
ana.
"it is time for you, Andrew Johnson, to b
going. Take With you your man servant
Seward; your maid servant. Grandmothe
Welles; your ass, Alexander W. Randall, an
fee to the mountains, where your face ma
be seen no more for ever"
u II Andrew johnson can defy one Law
he can defy all laws. If he can arbitrarily d.
pose one officer. he can depoee al officer, in
clsding the Congress Of the people: and by th
same power he can himself continue in oilic
and become the peoples Dictator. One usur
patton quietly submi.se to paves the way 70
another. 1t is the fret step in the direction @