The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-18

@Csoqs in OEegoa were never better than
Ills ysaE. s-s'S - 8 Jsl.
"A swarm If bses scaled on man in
Illisois aaA selsled him. -
The Nevuk Common Coanc;l has juf
aufhorised Sunday horse-canL
-"L'Etoile da Nosd" has been revived
At The Loadoa Royal Italian Open, with
Madame Pssai-C aux in The psiseiPal Part.
An Indiana girl took her fathers horse
to aid her elopement, and was arrested for
stealing the animal By her gEievsd parest d,
An extensive business in cement is car
RED on in Clarke County, Indiana, on the
banks Of the Ohio, and large quantities are
exported.
"A nine composed Of New York reporters
cricketerx, On the 10Th instant.
-Part Of the original manuscript Of ''Oii-
yer Twist" was sold by auction fortnight
ago, and was bought by Mr.. John Forster
for fifty pounds. r
-Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" has
been brought out in Italian at the Drury
Lane Opera on London, with every mark
of success"
-Mesrs. eye and Mapleson, formerly
rival opera managers in London, who have
for some time past been partners, have now
dissolved.
Anna Dickinson's friends deny that she
ever planned, or thought Of planning joint
lecture tour with Olive Logan.
jersey City has ghost, and the New
York Star gives a very sensational picture OF
the beast at a window: two persons are to be
seen escaping, with horror depicted on their
faces.
There is an erroneous paragraph aflOai
that Mr.. Gladstone's salary is to be raised to
$4,000. The subject was raised in the House
of Commons, but was dropped without action
being taken.
Meetings are called in Iowa counties to
organize companies for the purpose Of de
feating the collection Of taxes to Pay the in
terest on railroad bonds.
M. Albert Wolf, one Of the most bril-
liant writers on the staff of the Paris FigHo o,
is Prussian, and has retired to Interlachen
until the war shall be over.
The shipments of coal from Maucl,
Chunck and Port Delaware, by the Morris
Canal, Ear exceed those Of last year. The
canal is in perfect running order A branch
railroad is constructing to connect with the
canal
The Darmstadt Gazette, the official or
gan Of the government Of Hesse, comment
ing on the French Emperor's declara-
ton that he had no idea of agrandizement,
and said that only born idiot would believe
in Napoleon.
An association of landowners has been
formed in San Francisco to defend suits
against the pettifogger, who make bust
ness Of threatening owners, whose titles they
suppose to be imperfect, for blackmail p,lr-
poses. There wretches sometimes offer to
withdraw claims against estates valued at
| thousands of dollars for fifty or one hundred
dollars, and honest land holders frequent
~ pay the claims rather than 20 to law.
Now there is to be an end Of the practice.
speaking of poor Provost aradol a
Paris correspondent says he leaves three
children entirely destitute. He was fondly
attached to them, and nothing but madness
could have induced him to leave them penni-
less and unprotected. Besides, he was not
at all responding or low-spirited man.
He had just attained to the height Of his
ambition, for he had long desired and solicit
led the elevated diplomatic post which Count
Daru at fr4 objected tOgive him, on account
of there being several unemployed minis
ters plenipotentiary. 1t is said that a SUBJ
scription will be opened for his family.