White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-08-04
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u Astronomical people say tbas she planet
Saturn is nGv vieibls y tie naked eye On
clear evenings. coniug to The n~ridian sithia
half an hour OF n midnight. II b shout ~ ensy
degrees east of the constellation tnowa -
Scoipi0, and is very favsrably sitsated for tel
escopic obsersatiou, iss rings presenting
magnificent appear.ncs. IN the earl. morning
there are three prominent planetary bodies vis-
ible. Venus rises about two hours and forty
minutes before the sun, and Jupiter and Mars,
very nearly In conjunction. 1se one hour and :
hall before sunrise. os about three O'Clock.
u very severe battle was fought last
week between herd OF swine and den Of
rattlssnakes on . farm near Columbus. Ohio.
The former we're victorious. fi.ts-5s-l b.
u TIE la.t report issued BY the Depart
ment Of Aguicul,urs says: "Kansas, formerly
stigmaiizel a, desert, perfeess an arerags
crop Of superior quality in year Of general
drought. "A large yield. heavier than for
years psst,' 10 reported from Doniphan: 'an
exna crop As 20 quality and qsaniity in Co6ey ."
1 The Toledo Blade says: 1--WE received
a call this forenoon from Hon. Judge Carey Of
wysndot C.un.y. probably the Oldest Ohioan
living. Judge Carey vas brought to this State
Wien only yrass Of age. and being nov 70.
has been . resicent Of Ohio - yeare. Judge
Carey represented the Crawford County dis.
ricr in the 3lss C'rngress. and the ouly Re-
publican every elected to Congress fr,m that
d'strict. He plain, practical man, a farmer.
a ainnch Rcptb ican, and one Of the heavy men
of his section"
u careful Penhsylra nian waited till his
wife went 10 the barn for hen eggs, and then
tried his new gun with load of buckshos at
the side of the barn a. q target. The doctor
picked tue shot out Of her, and the husband
will have to await the slow process Of divorce
before he can marry the woman Of bis choice.
u Lisa coiucii enee that on Tire 18th Of
July, 1870. the work Of American reconstruc
ton vas completed BY the restoration of Geor-
gia to the Onion, and that on the came day
the peace Of Europe was broken for no man
knows how long.
u A Vermont deacon was arrested and fined
the ether day for nothing in the world but
bircLing up fath-rle.s boy, to whom he was
guardian. BY the side Of his horse, and lashing
him an the way home TO make him keep up. as
punishment for going short distance out Of
town to participate in game Of base ball.
u vassar College has a fund Of $50. 900
whose interest is appropriated to ineigent stu
dents. The neate.t thing about it is that the
names Of those who receive its help are never
disclosed, that the fund may not involve any
pccuarity in their relations to the other pupils.
p Senator Carpenter, in an address to the
Law students Of Columbia college at Washing
tnn, the other day eaid: "Whstever else you
determine. le.ve this city Of Washington;
leave this city rs the beloved of the Lord ard
from the cities ofthe plain" Bat the sena-
tor has not resigned bis seat yet in order to
get away.
p The rag business was too picayunish for
Soathern dignity in the old. time. Bat since
the war It is one Of the established features of
trade in Dixie.
T A g host who had been disturbing people
in Piitsburg was warned in the paprrs that he
was. known.and would see trouble il he didn't
make himself scarce. He hasn't been seen
eince. Which shows how closely ghosts keep
the run Of the papers.
q The Freemasons Of the Grand Lodge
Of Iowa have amended their laws 40 as to ad-
NIT colored PEOPLE to the order. This. it is
thought may probably result in excluding the
Grand Lodge Of Iowa from Masonic intercourse
with other Grand jurisdictions.
q Next year completes thousand years
since Alfred the Great, founder of the Uni.
vers;ty Of Oxford. ascended the Ensli.h throne.
Tie English are proposing to celebrate the
occasion.
T Rev. Mr.. Dcmorest 10 under trial by the
general synod Of the Reformed Church, at
Newark. N. J.. on charge Of "preaching dry
and uninteresting sermons"
P The only surviving memer Of "Lafay-
etie's escort" lives in South Carolina. "He
sa,s"a good mary shiugs which people are
asked to believe. His story is as likely as
those Of most prod;gies uho are discovered
when the days that distinguished them are be-
yond every ones memory.
u The Cleveland Herald denounccs 81 NJ"
as the Gre,t American Dead Beat, and tells
him to Depart. absquatulate, vam".e this
rancte. travel, dust. light out, GIT. O mighty
ph,losophic Bore! &c up in balloon, go where
the wnodbine t~ine,h. 20 where the lion roa.
rr,h and the whansioodIe nourne,h for its
6rst born. 6, to Clicago and join the White
Stockings. 20 anywhere else. in or out Of ere.
alton: Gu By railroad, steamboat, carriage.
wagon or drsy; g. BY mail, express or tele
grsph; 60 on your ear or any other vay-only
CO."
% The original DecIarsti,n of Indepen.
dence. nov in the Patent sfiee at Washing-
ton. is nearly illegible from the fading Of the
ink.
uA highly genteel Chicsgo woman OBJ
jects 70 having her name on the iame census
book With her servants.
q A Californian cured ratilesrske bite
BY drinking . gallon Of whisky. The snake
died.
U The premature explosion Of blast in Van
Vert, Ohio, hois,ed man named Lepsic OFT
Of q we'll. in company with . few cart loadI OF
hard pan.
q R. Toombs, Of Georgia, 10 coming North
not. As has been erronesusly stated, for the
purpose of lolding . roll call at the foot Of
Bunker Hill M,numeut,