White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-08-05
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III The Doniphan Republican saws:

fhom some cause or other, the work on the
Aschison and Nebraska road is not going for
ward with the rapidity that might be desired
We hope the matter will be rigbted, and that
the work will go forward so that the sound oil
the engines whistle will be heard in White
Cloud within the year 1869.
O SHARP PRAcrIcE-The District Attorney
OF New York has discovered that certain fnan-
ciers have been in daily habit of hiring all the
money in the banks. paying regular interest,
and leaving the principal as security. They
thus prevent the banks from lending, and COM
pei borrowers to pay high rates of interest.
About thirty brokers have been Indicted for
usury. ~
u The Bourbous of the nineteenth GEN.
tury-the Democratic party. They learn
nothing and forget nothing Why didn't the
Democratic Convention of Pennsylvania out
into their platform few resolutions against
The United States bank, or the tariff, or the
abolition OF slavery, or any other antedilurian
Proposition7-N. Y. Sun.
The Detroit Post aittily protests against
Secretary Boric's order changing the names
ola number of our war vessels to the hack
s'ssed ones of the British nary-Medea, Tor
nado. Fury, GDryon. E.na. ETC. IL saws that
these names, once intended to inspire terror,
have lost their significance. and suggests that
sneh hames as Cholera and yellow Fever, and
Nitro Giycerine. and Susan B. Anthony. and
Anpa Dickinson would convey some idea Of real
horror, force and fear.
-p man from Xepia, Ohio. was registered
at the Ives House few DAYS since He was
looking u2a situation as pr stmaster. Helearn- (
ed from some soutce that there was a one
armed man held the rost"fice at an interior
town, and he was en- route TO zee about il.
He will get it undoubtedly -Sedalia Basoo.
GT man, nov temporarily in Nova Scotia,
does not know to what country he belongs
His father was Irish and his mother German.
He was born in Canada. was naturalized in the
United States, became a Confederate BY re-
bellion, aud is by residence and attachment a
Mexican.
II The peasant who. few years ago, saved
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waited to the nobility for his conduct, and re-
ceived an enormous fortune, with all possible
honors. But he could not endure the dazzling !,
glory of his rev life, and SO be took to drink,
became sot, and has just hung himself So b
be lost his own life by saving that Of the a
Car.
I Jefferson Davis, the would-be founder
OF an American empire, is seeking charity II
an Paris. The Paris Pays says that himself !,
and family are very poor, and that the French
admirers of the ex President of the S 'uthern !
Confederaey should take steps to relieve their
wants
DTom Hood died in 1915 aged forty six |
years. He was buried in a cemetery near Lon.
oon' where an unusually beautiful and tasteful | o
monument covers his remains, 10 the erection d
OF which, a prodigious number of the best a
hearts in the British Empire contributed.
% The Democratic argument against Gen. Z
Grant in Iowa is "brother in-law." The argu. =
ment against him in Mississippi is "brother a
ln-law" The agument against him generally W
Is "brother in-law." General Grant ought to Pr
make himself acceptable TO the Democracy a,
To do this why don't he Kill his brother in law bl
st once, and have done with t7-Chicaqo Post. X
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Or'It is stated that Asa Packer, nominee of hi
The Pennsylvania Democracy for Governor, in
bought his nomination by offering the party q;
managers one hundred thousand dollars where o,
with to carry on the campaign. The Demo- d,
cracy is the "poor mans partyI" They des- W
'ise the dictated bond holder" Yes, they do. a n
But they love his ducats.
u The Old "Temple Farm" near York ii
Town, Virginia, upon which Lord CORVALLIS =,
surrendered his forces and signed the articles M
't equalization, has Just been sold BY public va
.uction. II contains from faur 10 five b,rsr.d DE-
'cres' and is said to be one of the best cnIti-
rated farms in that portion of the State. II ad
brought Ss.0O5. sit
VI The old original Moses smote rock and az
Drought forth water. The modern Moses is lie
recommended to perform the contrary miracle =,
viz. dry up. IN
" The Buffalo Express says: "As, P,ck. us
er is. old and infrm. But it makes No Diff. W
'hce' IL is not Packer who is running FOR ar
Governor of Pennsylvania-it is twenty mil vi
ors" CO
ed
" The stone on which Wilmington sat m
with his cat and heard the bells prophecy has to
been renovated and inclosed. to
u The prosaic farmers of Orleans County. W,
N. y, have combined to exterminate the ST
daisies. Shadow of Burns. m
W Some of the newspapers are making a W,
great outcTy about the religious opinions of w
certain Democratic candidates OF Ohio. There 81
snt religion enough in the whole party to ed
make fuss about.
u The income of Mrs. Colt widow Of the
great pistol maker, is said to be $500. 900. ia
Tbs iuceme report shows the going Of of many Of
reYolvsrs. wi
u The first time writer in the Cincinnati
Times saw Thomas Buchanan Reed, he was m
FASTING theatre bills for srrolling compny,
Of which he Was one.
W The New York Herald saws, 1--WE have
iad too much o. johnson; let him sion s,pnr~
ng and write his book" Rather let him F."
Fnte bis epitaph, and get under it.-Detroi,
Tribune CO
" Anna Dickinson is described BY Sac.
Famen.o correspondent as having "wonderirl de
yes, IKE the o1-syed Juno" She rode
considerable distance, during her overland
Quincy. 90; the engine. Being OK eyed, we
resume she rode on the COW catcher.
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