White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-12-30
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~ssn tne - NtOe90 OemOcreb, Weus W SeW
York last year snd started, on the Is b Of Au-
guss, the New York Democrat On the llth
Instant he announced that thencsfor,h his pa
per would be sold at one cent. per copy. two
esnss having been the price sp 70 that time
Yesterday the telegraph informed rs that to-
morrow the publication Of the Demsc'at 10 tn
be permanently iscontinued. il VAS said
Pomeroy started the enterprise with . cash
capital Of one hundred thousand dollars. He
will probably quit it with no capital at all.
p The maddest man in Indiana lives at
Patoka. He told his wife he vas going down
cellar to Commit euicide. and did 60 down
stairs and fred broadside into the pork bar
rel. His wife kept right on knitting, and after
while the man came up stairs swearing that
the woman hadu' { got any feeling.
p A gentleman in Portland had his finger
badly poisoned the other day BY the prick Of
quill tooth pick which he carried in his vest
pocket. The doctors say he will be lucky if
he saves his hand.
u Capt. George W. Harris. ("Sut Love
two ago. died rather mysteriously. and it il
believed at Knoxville that he was poisoned
While on his way from Richmond. Virginia. t"
his home at Decatur. Georgia, he was found
lying between two seats in railroad car in an
insensible condition near Bristol. He was
shown no attention until he arrived at Knox
vile, where he was taken to a hotel. and where
be had many friends, who did all they could
for him. In answer 10 question of ore Of his
physicians he uttered the word "poison," which
was the only word he spoke after he arrived at
Knoxville. There we're half dozen doctors
present, one of whom thought Capt. Harris had
died of apoplexy, while the rest ascribed his
death to morph;a. No post mortem examina-
tion was made.
pThe year 1870 will have 50 Saturdays.
1t comes in and goes out on Saturday.
| u There are now to be seen, through power
ful glasses. six clusters Of spots upon the sun.
E' Max Kl;nger. the murderer who was
sentenced to be hung, upon being notified that
the Governor bad granted a respite till March
IL, said, aid rather hear that than have sau-
sage for breakfast"
6 Eleven men we're sentenced to.be hang
ed in the State Of New York during the pres.
ent month. Thus far only two Of these have
suffered the penalty. The rest are getting off
one after another, by writs Of error. aud com
mutations.
T We happened to mention tn one Of the
brightest members Of the So:osis that the so.
ciety had iudorsec Mrs. Mcfarland, when she
denied The charge Indignantly, saying that any
woman who could Not manage two men At once
with sufficient tact to keep them from shooting
each other, deserved neither sympathy nor re-
spect. and would never have the approval oi
the Sorisis.
O. An Iowa woman helped her husband 10
raise seventy acres Of wheat last year. She
bossed the Job from the parlor and be did the
work.
D Postmaster Jones, of New York, is re.
ceiving numerous subscriptions from merchants
and others, to defray the expenses of McFar-
iand's trial 1t is charged thet one OF Richard
sons legal advisers offered $500 to 9 New
York lawyer employed in securing secret and
Illegal divorces. fer evidence proving adul-
tery against Mcfarland. Richardson's friends
admit that this offer was made, and $50 Of the
money was paid down. The peIjured witnesses
were not forthcoming, and Richardson's rep
resentative refused to advance any more mon
ey. The affair was then dropped. and the di.
voice was afterward obtained in Indiana.
p The President, it is believed. will soon
recommend a plan for the establishment Of a
telegraphic pestal system. Experts say q pay
ing business can be conducted on a uniform
tariff Of three cents for ten words, to any part
of the country.
IL The Sublime Porte still keeps that med,
i@val functionary known as Court Astrologer,
as well as Sultan's dwarf.
i u The Augusta Constitutional calls Beech.
er "the sanity corporosity of Osawattomie
Browns ordnance Office"
| T Judge Baldwin. killed by the Pacific
Railroad accident, missed the previous train BY
negiecting 10 wind his watch.
|
"squeezing machine" in Dundee yarn fac.
tory recently, and came out lifeless, but twelve
feet long.
u Three of our successful novelists are wo.
men Of Southern birth. viz: Mrs. Terhu:e,
"1fsrion Harlaud." Mrs. E. D. E. N. South
worth, and Mrs. Augusta j. Wilson, nee Ev-
ans.
IL A lady in Utica, New York, carried to
newspaper an accom-. of her own suicide by
drowning. and, after the item was published. in
flesh, blood, AID bones she appeared at the ed
itor's sanctum and demanded contradiction.
u Mark Twain is thas described by q
Rochester paper: "He has well cut face.
deep set and laughing eyes. a smooth chin, and
graceful moustache. He ha. also witty way.
as well as witty words. Very delicate and
kinder sad like is the characteristic Of his de-
livery, and while others laugh, he looks more
ike crying"
| T A Presbyterian clergyman in Pontiac. !
Michigan. in his sermon Sunday or two ago,
warned his hearers to beware of modern inf
delity In the person Of Henry Ward Beecher
and in the New Yok Independent.
u A disappointed young man whose girl
had "gone back" on him, went to Mu.catine
drug itore the other night, and called for .
doee Of cold poison. The druggist surmised his
purpose. and. without rsyins anything, gave
him, instead Of poison. . po"erful emetie. Il
had good effect, ~ he soou threw up his sad
spirits and begged Justify for his life.