White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-11-04
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II The Detrois Tribune says: .Ths Buf.
falo Express wants to know why the Demo.
cratic procession at Syracuse. lately, carried
the American aag. We will remind The Ex.
press that it is an old dodge of the Democracy.
AT Bull Run, q troop Of them cane dswn 90
our boys with the stars and stripes flying, until,
under It's cover, they had taken them by sur.
prise, when the stat was reversed, and the
rebel Hag was revealed. II the Ezprss will
examine these Democrats dag staff, it viii al.
ways find the rebel eolon at the other end"
~ Mr.. Coz. of Minnesots. recently address
ed Democratic Convention with trsnor in
his voice. tsars in his eyes. and tzibalssioa In
his heart. "For long time." he said. eve
have been sighting the Niger aud have ges
whipped. We have had Niger thrust at ~
until We are black in the facs The nigsse las
been curse, and Am tired Of him. he has
filed our belly full, and taken our legs o6
short"
C George Hough. Of Con cord. New Hamp-
shire, paid note for money borrowed Of .
neighbor. took It home and auug is in the Ore.
A few hours afterwards the gentleman Who had
loaned tn . money came into Hougb's house.
ard surprised him BY laying the identiesf note
before him! 1t had gone mp the chinney vith.
out burning. and been waited back By the visd
to the original owner.
IL In the township Of Western, 10 Henry
County. ILL.,, bull snake WAS killed which
measured eight feet six inches in length, and
one foot 10 circumference. In the same neigh.
borhood man discovered that young COW
belonging to him came home at night for more
than week robbed Other milk. Oa Watching
for the thief, he was al'sd with surprise and
horror at seeing one o.thess huge snakes suck.
ing her.
u E1-Secretary McCulloch, On salary Of
eight thousand dollars year, and in the sx-
pensive city Of Washington. saved enough 70
build him magnificent residence, and Il 10
said, also, that he laid aside millions ofdollars
for future use. He sold gold secretly. Bout
well does not.
IL The wife Of prominent Philadslphian.
writing from Baden Baden, says Of Mn. Lin.
coln: 1--WE have passed many happy, sad hours
together. The first night We spent In Frank.
fort We sat talking all night long. until the
bright day dawned in ct the window Of her
cherries, desolate room. Not othaving seen her
since met her in her sick room. after Mr..
Lincoln's death, of course the me eting quite
overcame her. For while tears and sobs,
such as never witnessed. rent her snsuishsd
heart. She is as great mourner new - she
was the day she lest the best ofhusbands. The
Duke of Nassau aud many of the nobility have
called upon her. but she declined receiving
them. Her life is the loneliest ever saw"
U- In one Georgia town the hogs have found
out that when steamer touches at the wharf
some corn is usually scattered about. Accord.
ingly, the sound Of q steamers whistle drives
the entire hog population to river side.
u Hinton Rowan Helper. Of the past In
pending Crisis, is trying to make tho Connect.
cut Yankees listen to bis lectures. The i'm
pending Crisis is now in bis pocket.
II A correspondent of the Portland Prsss
slys there is a man IN Poetss. Ms4 sho dssi.s
the war was 50 much opposed to giving aid and
comfort to the country while struggling to per.
petuate its existence, that he left OF drinking
liquor, IA habit he had INDUCED in to an alarm
ing extcnt,f because the government was dei-
wing a revenue from it, and has since main.
tanned a sober life.
%. A Cincinnati reporter went 10 review
e1.Pres't johnson on the Senatorial question,
and this is what he got for bis trouble: "As
general thing. all men ought TO marry while
and habits become fixed, and they are hard to
change to suit another. Ibelieve. Ike Frank
lia, that matrimony ousht To be encouraged.
But at the present day yosng man who has
not inherited fortune. and one Who must rely
upon his own efforts for every cent he gets. will
find difficulties in the way"
u Some ofthe farmers Of Doniphsn County,
are boasting ofyield Of six hundred boshsls Of
potatoes to the acre.
% The Hebrew community Of Lepdon has
been admonished by its Rabbi 10 dssi& from
the practice Of inserting the Christ:sn year up
on the tombstones Of their relatives IN addiden
to the NJ ,siac year. as in this manner they i'm
pliedly recognize the Christian era.
IL Mrs. Mercy Bryant. of Freedsa. o.. has
kept suit Of grave clothes ready for Afty years.
having knit the stockings Of 6ne csstso seventy
years ago. She used them the other day at {,
the age of ninety three.
p The Boston Journal says that drupken-
ness is just a. common in the stsests Of that
city as ever. ard that intoxicating Iiqaors 6ow
just as freely as when there vas no restraint 10
their sale.
II The oldest man In fsdiaaa. Mr.. Bssjsmin
Scalf, q resident Of MilIersburg, ElthsFs Ceun.
~. vas born on the iosh day Of May. i7sl. In
Johnson County, North Carolina. He livsd In
Tennessee in 1927, meyed TO Mcdowell coun-
~ in 1893, and thence 10 his present residssee
In 1852. He 10 -faxnar. ssiii Of sosnd nind.
and has been member Of the Msshodise Church
for forty six yeas. $50
Ur The Indians In Kansas regard savmiIls
as an invention Of the Evil One. and they scalp
he employees and burn the nillsto aasist Chriss-
iaaity. -..<as
~ An old French soldier named Louis Cha.
'aribeyre, who fought throughout the can
'signs Of Italy. Africa and Msxies. aoa escaped
rom the latter country at the clsss Of Maxi-
nilian's career. TO Mobile. died II that city
ast week, and was buried on Saturday.
p A Wisconsin man sss into hssnst's