White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-05-26

oil nastiness, Baxter will suffer, this Summer,
sure. About half the houses are restaurants
and hotels. and the proprietors expend oil their
surplus cleanliness on their front rooms, and
make swill pens of the back ones. went to
the rear of our hotel, tn attend to some busi-
ness: the stencil emaaaiing from the kitchen
was Terrible, and made me think OF the seven
tS-t~o stenehes of Cologne. Coleridge speaks
OF, but couldn't recall the quotation. rush
ea out and met one OF the most scholarly men
OF tn" State. AMI said to him: "What is il
Coleridse saws about the stinks Of colognel'
He said: 3" i den't recoilect the quotation. but
l know what you mean-you've been to the
rear Of the Virgins House,"
THE MAIN SHOW
was at large grove about half q mile from
town. 1t was fraud and humbug. People
went there to celebrate the completion of
railroad, but demagogues and shysters, insects
which an unwise Providence doesn't sqnelch,
took hold Of the matter, and ran it as poiti
cal barbecue. The first speaker heard was
DR.. Daniord. Esq, Surgeon General of Kansas.
He is Allopath. | believe: any how. he drench-
ed that suffering audience with diarrhes of
words; be Inflicted them with inappropriate
and infelicitous SMILES; he bored (but with.
out succe-s) for water; and he galloped the
6ery steed Of his eloquence around the audi-
ence "promiskous like;" but he didn't let
upon that admiring throng single idea-he
had been unwsll. and was suffering from cos
tiveness in the brain, l suppose. didn't stop
to hear any more sreeches-Darford filed me
hut / heard, from the wretched reporters,
what followed. Kalloch spoke, and said some
thing which displeassd the Leaguers, where
upon the great Sanford, the blatant nincom.
poop Of the Neutral Lands, mounted the stage
and waded into every body, particularly Joy:
road. over which this chief of shysters almost
daily rides Oh free pass, No. 500. Follow
ing Danford and Sanford came Hanford, a Col
by courtesy, and restaurant keeper by proses
sion. Well, he lit out in fine spread eagle
style, and invited the people to accept the
hospitali:ies os Baxter Springs. and then cha,g
ed me IS cents for a very, very common meal
After the speech making came the barbecue
dinner, which was really very fine affair
All the viands AMI meats that could be FRO
cured were placed on the table, aud, as tn,
crowuing glory of the meal. they served up ,
roasted OK, whole; and have no doubt tina
if the generous people had caught my Iunati
with the ACCORDION, they would also have Civ
en- us a roasted ass, whole. The dinner wen
of in very fine shape, and everybody wen
away sat; fed and happy.
| After The barbecue. S. d. Topey, Cheroke,
| chief, of the local department of the Lawrenc
Tribune. and Col. Periratetic John Horner
Seminole chief, Of the Chetops Advance, ha
a canoe race in Spring River, which no en-
vent to see. Both claim to have won tn
race. If they had drowned themselves,
world have added largely to the pleasure Q
the occasion.
saw only one thing in B.xter worthy Q
special comment, and that was sign. Th
weary and foot-sore traveller, who has jour
seek q new place in the untried West, will b
waited on the wings Of Imagination to th
home of his boyhood, as be reads, through hi
fast fallin: tears. upon magnificent sign boar
which spans the sidewalk, this touching vel
come
"U you rant to get meal like your Mofhe
used 10 cook-fILE LEFT, MARCH ~
1t was the most pa;hetically ludicrous sign
ever saw.
! believe I've told you all know about tn
celebration. The guests went home Thursda,
night. but remained until Saturday, and wen
to Usage Mission, about which place vii
write you soon. GROUND HOG.