White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-05-13
Gbinsampjiss.


'isibls in North America during the present
'entury. The center of the line of totslity
1ii pass though Springfield. Illinois, and
rear Desmones, Iowa. Both ofthe stations
Is we'll as many others, viii be occupied by
coast survey parties. Congress has appro- !,
priated 5000 to defray the exp eme of obser.
vations Prof. Winlock. director of Harvard
Observatory, is making arrangements for
viewing the eclipse and noting It's features at
Ky. The observation will last !
between two aud three minutes.
HA young lady in Boston recently gave
her father, an old respected merchan I, a let
ter 10 post, containi ng her acceptance OF an
offer of marriage. The forgetfui old gentle
man carried the letter in his pock ct a week,
much TO the perplexi.y Of the young lady, who
did rot receive an answer. and greatly to the
anguish of the impatient and despairing lover.
u The Louisville Courier Journal says the
negro is as much chattel as he was before
the war; that then he belonged to the white
man, but he belongs to the devil. A Western
paper thinks that may be true, and still the
negro's condition be improved.
u Iowa plants every three years forest
of 1000 600 trees. and within considerably less
than half dozen years a5. 600 900 forest trees
have been planted and are now growing in the
north west.
Il The first known case in which a diplo-
matte appointment, actually made by Presi-
dent Grant, has been declined, is that of Mr.
]. R. Clay, the colored Loui.ianian. nominated
for the mission to Liberia. Mr.. J. NJ. Llngs-
ton, another colored man, whose capacity.
education and habits, render him every way
fit for the post, is likely now to receive the
nominal tion. Should he decli ne, the President
must be careful not to tender it to any of the
white men about Washington-unless he
wants it promptly taken.-Tribune.
u The New York Herald has the following
editorial on this important topic:
There is a movement in high chicken quar-
tiers. started since the poultry show, to have
the hens assert themselves before the word in
series of resolutions pointing ou. that the
roosters do all the growing and fighting and
roost on the highest perches, and yet lay no
eggs, and this is oppressive and unjust TO the
hens.
u The Meriden (Conn.) Republican says
that, on Sunday, April 25, a citizen of that
place, as he stood on the street, noticed dark
object apparently falling from a gre at height,
and striking in the street between him and
the Meriden House. On examination it prov
ed to be the she'll of land turtle, with the
flesh all picked out, fresh blood remaining in
side. But the upper and under shell remain
ed and we're each ten inches long. Some large
bird, probably. in passing overhead, dropped
it. The she'll had engraved upon its back the
letter "W" and 1850.
U' San Francisco thief re Gently levied
black mail upon a mourner, by stealing the
bones Of a deceased Chinamau and demanding
SO much money for their restoration. As a
Chinaman never gets to heaven unless his
remains rest in the soil of the Flowery King
dom, the demand was complied with.
u Don PIArr says "Gov. Coz, in the
comparatively unimportant place of Secretary
Of the Interior, is really the controlling spirit
in the Cabinet. He not only controls the pol
icy. but the patronage of the administration,
both his own and other departments, in great
er degree than any other member Of the Cab
met"
p 1t is said that every farmer of l6o acres
in eastern Kansas is underlaid with |, 500, 900
tons of coal, or nine times more fuel than if
the surface were covered with heavy timber.
u Robert Randolph, who pulled General
Jackson's nose, in 1882, because he had been
removed from office by the hero of New Or
leans, died in Washington few days ago
p Forney writes from Richmond "No
Northern man need'be under the slightest ap-
prehension of personal danger in Virginia
He is as safe as he would be in New York,
New England or in Pennsylvania, but he can.
not obtain entrance into the 'irst families
to support the exploded and baleful theories
that produced and encouraged the rebellion"
u The Philsdelphia Press having dared
Mrs. Cady Stanton 20 tell her age, that lady
replies categorically: "Mrs. Stanton was fifty
three the 18th day of last November. She |
believes in a woman's right to grow old, hence |
she neither paints nor dyes. nor cares to be con-
sidered one hour younger than she is. More
over, she allows Mr.. Stanton the greatest lati. |
Jude in thought, word and action, even to be- |
ng great Republican advocate of the fifteenth |
B The Observatore Romano says that Plus
TX. is now engaged in negotiation with Gen.
Grant, with view to sending Nuncio to
This prelate would not only re.
present the Court of Rome in the capital of the
United States, but would also exercise an in |
iuence upon Catholicism in that country which, |
n the opinion of the Observatore, is destined |
% surpersede all other religions, and to con- |
rol the conscience Of nine ten tbs ofthe Amer.
can people.
u Ancient mines, that we're worked over
bree hundred years ago- by the Spaniards,
,ave lately been re- e-discovered in New Mexico.
When the Indians compiled their abandonment,
he workings were closed with masonry and
he walls covered with earth Some rich de-
Telopments are expected.
&c The ghost pictures 20 much talked of
ately, are said to be produced BY using an old
,late, from which another picture has been
,xpunged.