White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-06-23
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"~Sa"Sou ShtOhiCic saws tuat
among the incidsAss Of Memorial Day at Airing.
ton was one showing the love ofa great Cap
tain Tor his fallen comrades-ore which es-
capped the many eyes of the press. but which
was witnessed by two of the ladies Of the Com.
mittee "u Decorations. After the crowd had
departed. the carriage of the President drove
TO the lar en'i OF the cemetery, vhere the Pres
iient aiishtei. and. taking q large basket of
flowers from the h ,njs of Mrs. Grant, scattered
them upon the graves ofthe soldiers.
u A car load Of emigran.s arrived in Wa
thena on the 2ad. They are direct from Prus-
ssia, and have purchased land three miles west
OF Wathena. The Reporter understands that
another inatallas snt sill arrive in few DAYS.
T Deacon Nathaniel Willis. who died in
Boston. May 26th. would have completed his
ninetieth yekr had he lived eleven Gays Ion
ger. He was the son of the founier of the
Chilhcothe Gazette, the father of the late N.
T. Willis, R. G. Willis. and Fanny Fern, and
himself the founder Of the Boston Recorder
now united with the Congregationalist. The
Recorder was established 10 1876, and the
honor Of being ths Oldest religions paper in the
United States has been claimed for is.
u The Times and Conservative remarks
that since susp ension Of judgment was asked
in Speer's case. two U 8. Courts have met, and
yet no action has been commenced against
Speer. 1t concludes that "the suspension
threatens to be as long and heavy as the de-
falcation."
O II is singular instance of the total want
of second class f.ial affection in the Brule
Sioux Indians, that while Spotted Tail and the
rest are constantly talking about their Great
Father at Washington, they ignore the very
existence of their Great Grandfather at CIV
ington.
! T A Massachusetts msn, who had never
before seen the elephant, insisted, when cir
Gus procession passed through his town last
week, that the elephant was walking backward.
u Thomas Jefferson runs baber shop in
New Haven. Thomas always stood we'll at
the pells.
" A colored gentleman in Texas went into
a blacksmith's chop with his coat tail full of
powder. He came out through the roof.
IL The Oswsgo Democrat says: "ver.
dgris river is beautiful stream, with verv
high banks and limestone bottom. 1t is full
of the finest f,h, and its banks are skirted with
heavy timber. There are oaks and walnut
trees five feet in diameter in abundance"
Il A small boy in B,ston showed his rare
talent for devising means cf cruelty By shut
ting two little girls in barn and Getting two
large dogs upon item. The shrieks Of the
children called the neis ,bors, and they we're
rescued. bas only after they had been terri.
bly, lacerated by the half maddcned brutes.
u James Black, of washi gton. Arkansas.
now an old man and hopele-sly blind. made the
original bowie knife. according to tie plan fur.
nished him by the celebrated Col. Bowie.
P Red Cloud is on his way to Washington
to smoke the pipe Of peace with his Great
Father. the President. He will find that when
il comes to doing the official smoking for the
Government. Gen. Grant is decide6lyEhe ablest
President We have ever htd.
D When Lydia Thompson vas making ur
her company of the Forty Thieves" at Nlblo's
she was told that the most accomplished actors
in that role were to be found in the custc m
house and the Office of the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue. Lydia declined to employ them,
though, on the ground that the Government has
more to steal then she has.
u Pittsburg has real nice pious old lady
nnder arres: for stealing a large illustrated
Bible. She said hers was too fine print. and
she corldn't get any consolation out Of it.
u Misfartunes never come singly. man
over in Indiana, last week, lost his wife and
his family physician on the same day. He is
now searching for their remains with double.
barrel shot-gu with the intention Of buryng
them both in the same grave.
II The Albany Evening Journal (Rcpubli-
can, referring to the late New York State elec.
tion, says that less than ffty per cent. of the
vote of the State was cast on the 18th. and less
than forty per cent Of the Republican vote
found its way to the ballot boz. In the strictly
rural districts the average was even less than
this 1t was the busiest season with the far.
m.rs. and they permitted the election to 60 by
default. It will not be so in November.
" Because Senator S:ewart advocates keep
ing Georgia out until she shows "fruts meet
for repentance" the Savannah Republican
THINKS changing would be too good for him"
Yet hanging wasn't nearly good enough for the
traitors who took that State out in 1861, seized
the Government fort and arsenals and helped
to organize bloody rebellion. 1t is very un-
pleasant to refer to these little vsgaries of
onr Southern friends, but political opponents
cannot be too poiutedly rebuked.-Phis Press.
p The editor of an Iowa paper believes
that any one man can start out and mary
tuents women in his town before night.
| p A Michigan woman recovered BY Law
all the money her husband spent in liquor
saloon for six years. The prohibi:ory liquor
Law of the State does not regard liquor as pro
perty, and the woman recovered the money on
the ground that it had been paid TO the liquor
vcnder without consideration.
| u One Of the Yanktou SisuI Chiefs calls
himself" Bill GoosequiII." The Detroit Trib
une says: "This 10 evidently rude attempt
by the poor un:stored red man TO pay tribute
to the name and fame Of William Penn"
u "General' Gleason on Saturday receiv.
ed this dispatch from Toronto: "Hov are you
on for eoap7 Thee is potato and red her
ring ready for you here; come on. r. Lang I"
Gleason didn't 60. With good many other