White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-06-10
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puzzled Treasury officials, who want Congress
TO pass law about it. There are plate, dis-
monds, velvets. gold and silver coin, and all
manner of heir looms, that. alter being frst
rsvished from the bummers BY an inexorab'e
sand very uncommon) Provost Marshal, we're
BY him turned over to the Treasury, and have
thence forth been safely locked up in the trip
iy-wslled vaults. Southern Senators say their
constituents want it all back, and the Trea-
sury guardians don't see any law for it.-Hsv
York Tribune.
u funny discovery has Just been made in
Washington. Nearly hslfa century ago
vault was built beneath the capitol to receive
the remains of Washington; but the body was
not deposited there. The vault is called the
"crypt;" and it appears that ever since an
officer has been paid for watching the empty
vault, He is called the "euperintendent o. the
crypt" and. according to the statement, his
duties we're to sit near the crypt daily from 9
a. m, to 3 p. m, to see that snly one gas bur-
ner was used. He has been employed in this
useful occupation precisely 40 years.
IL PMcE OF BsANs.-The heirs Of Noah
Webster receive twenty ave thousand dollars
annually from the sale of the Dictionary.
Harper l. Brothers pay Marcus Wilson an
annual copyright Of sixteen thous md dollars;
and the same house has paid Anthon, Barnes.
Robinson, Abbott. Motley and Prescott, or
heirs, upwards of fifty thousand dollars each.
copyright on the works. Charles Scrbner b
Co., paid Headley fifty thousand dollars, prior
to 1859, and to DE-. Holland (Timoihy Tit
comb,) they have paid . larger amount.
T The Pennsylvania Legislature, by Law
approved February 26tb. 1863. has provided
that where no demand has been made for the
payment of ground rent or other charge upon
land for twenty lone years. and no aeknow,
iedgment of the existence thereOf has been
made within that period BY the tenant, re,
lease or eItngushment of the claim shall be
presumed, and the Court of Common Pleas,
under proper proceedings and proof, may de.
cree such extinguishment. The Law also ap
plies to parts of ground rents apportioned
either by deed or by implication from the acts
of the parties.
p Cooley of the Lady's Book has received
letter addressed Ella Cooley.
u Lowell Mason and Mrs. Harrison Gray
Otis are the only persons invited to the Bostor
Jubilee as honarary guests.
U- As late as 1924. the United States mai
was thirty-two days in passin: from Portland t
New Orleans.
u The news of the death of Napoleon
Bonaparte at st. Helena. May 5th, 1921
reached New York on the 18th Of August
p The news of the battle of New. Orleans
January 9th, 1915. was twenty inc days il
reaching Philadelphia. Sixty years ago, th,
regular mail time between New York an,
Albany was eight days.
u In making excavations for the improve
ments Of Madrid, shocking discovery has bee
made near Porte de Fuencarrat. The groun
at depth Of moro than three feet and cover
ing surface Of about forty feet, was literaii
composed Of ca rhonsted human bodies, bein
5 the remains of the funeral piles of the oil
inqni.iton which w.s established upon thi
] spot, and where it's victims were burned
There we're also found many skulls, bones, &c
which have been carefully deposited in one
. the cemeteries Of Madrid. A great number
! instruments of torture we're also found.
/. p The Lancaster (Misscuri) Excelsit
knows girl in Schuyler County, who, "or
night last Summer. attended q bal. dance
llnight. went home in the morning. got breal
. fast, dinner and supper for ten harvest hand
did two weeks washing and the milkin,
made calico dress, practiced her music LEI
son, went blackberying. gathered a gallo,
walked to town in the evening ~ attend
J CONCERT, and walked home again before be-
. time" SEGA
, u How TO CAxc,L STAMPS 1T has bee
e recently decided with the regard to afixing an
:. cancelling int. ssl revenue stamps, that in a
: cases the persoh making and delivering, I
Z giving the intsrum 4, matter, or thing to +
$ taxed. shall apply the stamp; that the enti,
: surface Of the stamp shall be exposed to view
, and shal! cancel the came by writing with in
{ upon each stamp, or BY u-hmechanicai near
as the commissioner may hereafter require, Il
, order that such cancelled stamps cannot agai
t be used.
T Mr.. II. T. Helmbold. the well know
druggist Of New York city, returns for tb
year an income of $I52. .205. All this com.
from advertising. Mr.. HeImbold's expent
. iture for advertising averaged over $40 600
, week. -if' st 'ie-
II Dr.. O. N. Creel, Who was in attendant
; at the late conv ention of Ohio editors, is th
0 only rsivor Of the jury who sat in tie &
0 nous trial Of Aaron Burr, at which Chief Ju,
tice Marshall presided.
Z. D Rev. Gilbert Haven, D. D., is eredite
with the statement in the late Equai R;gb'
!. Convention, that he should never be safisfie
: until he ssw black woman President of III
United States, With q white husbaod. At thi
rate Of progress the efforts 70 say, somethis
sensational will sooa b serious daft on III
Doctors system. %; " .gf II faa e,o-
n The President has appointed Is cad.
At large to West Point, the drummer b,y Job
. Glen. Of Ohio. who At the, batsIe of Chicks
magua dropped his drum for musk e. and shc
? rebel OslsseL he - nov but ssventee
years Of age. 90 y
u The young men Of Chicago ere s.id )
be classified according b thsir skill a. veleci
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