White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-12-09
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being erected AZ 81 LOUIS. we are giau Oh
this Gen. Lyon in 1861, then only poor infant
~ Lieutenant, was one Of the few officers OF
the regular establishment who compreheaded
the trouble before the country. His brief ad
minissration saved Missouri to the Union, and
we have made great men, soldiers and states
men, out Of material since then that Lieuten-
ant Lyon could have furnished with brains from
little finger. He died too early in the war
for his great merits as a soldier and patriot to
be understood -Pins5urg Commercial
r Hoxo. TO Wnox HoNoa Is DuE.-A
rich man, Just stepping into the grave, bur
dened with more money than he has known
all his life what to do with, is extolled to the
skies for his lsgac;es and bequcsts here and
there-at home and abroad. Now, why all
this laudation7 ID NOS the poor servant girl.
who can scarce keep herself comfortably clothed
and yet every Sunday puts her litsls pittance
religiously into the contribution box, more de-
serving of praise1 And yet Who ever takes
this other than as a matter Of course, save Him
who see;h even the widow's mite?
IL 1t is said "there can be but two political
parties, the Democratic and the Opposition .
Those are all that are necessary to light the
ba tiles of right. Opposition to Democracy IN
cludes the keeping Of all the commandmants'
and every known virtue.
IL There is colony of two hundred and
sixty eight Indians living in Tama County
Iowa, who retain all the old usages and Gus
toms of their nation, and refuse TO become
civilized. They own and occupy tract OF the
best land in Tama County, and their vigwams
and savage paraphernalia present marked
contrast to the fine farms and handsome cities
which surround them.
u In Is4l ]. Ross Browne mailed letter
from Louisville, KY, weighing one ounce. up
on which the unpaid postage was one dollar TO
Mr. VIM W. Saowdon, editor Of the Ladies
Companion. New York. Mr.. S. refused to
take it out of the pos.-office, and it was sent
to Washington among the dead letters. twas
accidentally picked up the other day among
some Of the literary rubbish Of the Department
and at once forwarded To the writer.
II At the ceremony of unveiling the Bishop
Brownell statue in Hartford, one Of that IRE
weren't class of creatures known as reporters
asked of student who that 'old rooster" was
directing the students attention professor
near at hand. The reply, which would have
upset any one but reporter, was: "Thaf'
my father, Prof. -"
u The four surviving American poets, borr
in the last century. are natives Of Massacbu
setts. They are Richard II. Dana, born a
Cambridge, November Is, 1857; Charl.i
Sprague, born at Boston, October. 26,l77l; Johr
Neal. born at Portland, (then portion of Mas
sachusetts), in 1894; and William Cullen Bry
ant. born at Cummington. November 3. 1877
r Grace Darling's brother William. wh'
succeeded his father as keeper Of the Long
stone island, las just died.
T Gen. Hamilton has not been drunk bu
once in the last ten years, neither has he beel
sober but once during that time.-HoustO'
Times.
PA stormy sufumn, "the Oldest inbabitant'
says, may be followed by a comparatively mild
winter. However isis may, be we have Ger
tainly since the middle Of September had q
remarkably stormy autumn-the most des-
tructive in its foods and winds throughout the
States, from Maine to Texas, aud from Con
necticut to California, of any on record. We
think, too, that the elements having thus eI
pended their wrath in September, October and
November, there is some reason for the theor,
that the winter months will be comparatively
mild. At all events We hops so.
U The answer to numerous inquiries az to
the whereabouts of Indian summer is that il
has gone to "reserva tion.''
IL A South Carolina editor writes editorial
on perfumed note paper, and has the copy saved
to deposit among the adhives Of the family.
T During the battle near. Atlanta on the
e2d Of July. in which our troops fought from
one side Of their fertilization and then the 9TH
er. rebel officer succe edsd in getting close up
against the Union works, when q Colonel OF
Iowa volunteers leaped from the parpet. grasp
ed the rebel by the collar, ard hoisted him
bodily into the Union lines. The rebel, Co
lionel Lampley. Of the forty fifth Alabama. died
few weeks afterwards. The captor was Co.
lionel Belknap. now Secretary of War.
u Mrs. Ames brought the subject to its f.
nest point, when she said at the Cleveland
convention last week. that, "When women ap-
preached the ballot box, the ballo.-box will
put on its moral clean shirt"
II The colored individual in Jail at Daren-
port. Iowa for committing a rape upon little
girl, lis said to be The identical colored cuss
that the Muscatine Courier vas rejoicing over
the other day, a. one colored citizen in Iowa
who voted the Democratic ticket clear through
" After next Christmas the marriage of
first cousins will be Illegal in New Hampshire.
it is expected that ministers will be in great
demand on Christmas Eve.
p Nasby visited a suspender factory at
W aterbury. Connecticut. and said to the pro-
hs.or, on leaving: "Wha: Q misfortune II
would be if pants should 60 out of fashion"
u Brick Pomeroy Gays: "The editor Of
the Tribune takes his defeat as q blind pig
takes its milk. without grunt or squsal We
like Horace. God didn't make that noble he al
of his fr n'thins. The Democratic majority
raiSed down upon him in this city didn't start
him siuk-no more than trickling mcIasze,
over = stove griddle. or ~am rain would set
in tremor the statue Of Washington at Union
Square"