White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-03-17

Post Once Contract Bureau. Certain irrcgu-
lssisiss are alleged to have occurred in the pos
al eoatrscs business. and one Of the House
Committees 10 I'D to have eoas aessss evi
dsaes implicatiag 5000 oaeials N tr1sactioos
not in the least credltAbls.
u One of The Pisss Indian. pr.'iiess ascth-
er nood speedily ..lite the one 1870 years ago, |
when It raiusd forty day. and forty nights, and
oil the people got into the big boat built BY
Columbus."
% The Detroit Advertiser remarks that the
Labor Reform ticket 10 New Hampshire is on
y lion. skin through which the Democratic
ears tower Iiks, . pair Of poplars, r9,vr
ip The New York Herald ..ys tSat q sslli
known lady at Washington, Who dresses ele.
gantly. gives magnificent dinucrs. and enter
ssins charmin.iy. nov and then numbers q
guest who very well remembers (for 1t vas not
50 very Ion: ago) when she presided at the
counter of large beer saloon in the iaseri or
OF Pennsylvania. t-a'. s'.'
u Possmasters and other persons through
out the country are in daily receipt OF spe-
ciously worded circulars from O.oide Wttcbdea
lers in Ne~ York city. to invest, or to act as
agents, for some 80. called celebrated Oroide
Watch. Our readers will save them selves, aud
! prehaps thsir friends. fsom humbuseery 10 this
/ matter. BY remembering th It Oroide is simoly q
high sounding word for 6ysss tha; Oroiae 10 brass
-only brass and nothing mere. The brass IL
tincturrd with some preparation to prevent its
eoloring. and is called Oroide, bu: the value
per pound 10 the same as the original brass.
p William schooly. otherwise known as
Father Scbooley. an uncle of William H. Sew
ards wife, died rencentlY at Ypsilanti, Mio,ii-
gan. aged one hundred and two years. What
he remembered hearing Washington say was
ELISA hard thing obrins up men to be sIaugh-
tered"
4 u Butler is anxious to stump Whittenoe .
district in behalf of hisre. election, but White.
more says Butler nsnaged his case 90 BADLY
before Congress thatheis fearful he would de.
feat him before the people.
T An editor in Missouri has got the FIT
teenth Amendment awfully mixed up. HI
calls is the "FiAeenth Bedamment" -ij'''
| r. The Fat Contributor Gays that he ha'
made $4,000 BY Iecturing this winter. and
would hare made more If he couid only lee
: ture and tend door at tho sane time.
u A Northen paper: says. "The Duke o.
Praslin 10 about to marry Miss Lily Forbes, Of
this city. Who 10 the Duke Of Praslia 7" HI
is . brother of"Lori Ain'ley' and an uncle o
the "cou.in Of Bismarck"
u Revels has taken kindly to the fraukins
privilege, nm : %. .-u. i,..ta,.s. s.
] u Poo an.ehs~ 10 Chinese for Anson Bur
3 lingame. -. ''
. u The Cincinnati Commercial indicates il
preference for Gen. George II. Thomas q
Grants successor in 1872. r-
u Il 10 stated that there are 1000 colore
voters in Delaware. enough to give the Re-
. publican party . sure majority.
u The colored citizens of New Yok ar
7 TO celebrate the passage Of the Fifteenf
q Amendment, With Fred Douglas, Wendell
b Phillips and Senator Revels as speakers.
U Mr.. Ryder, of Duchess County. Ne,
York, has been duly declared insane, becaus
he carried q roll bank bills 10 his lat au
wore dirty shirt.
o u A correspondent Of the New York Trit
o une relates that when Whittemore was arraigr
ed for peddling cadesships, a lady in the gal
e lery exclaimed. II do hope they'll expel hin
= It's time that ciergymen we're taught that the
must be honest ana moral, ~ well as other pee
ple."
e p Penns. .lvania is n, longer the stronghold
o Of the .Quskers. Within the last forty -ysal
thirty-seven meeting houses have been aban
' doned. -fgeSfg tIh-1FEr
II Tn Milwaukee Sentinel says that o
Friday MN named DInes, purchased, at al
!. express slse. a. paAEage of unclaimed goodl
= for the sum Of four dollars. On opening it b
: found himself The nwner OF twelve pianin
a machine knives, each valued a: ten dollar.
Another gentleman bought a package viii
contained a soldiers overcoaf, in the cola
lapel of which 6fty dollars in greenbaok> ha
" been safely slowed away for rainy day"
II "Shoo Ply" The Nes York CONNER
. cial Advertiser says (and we are bound I
n believe that staid old j,ufnal) that a spirtn'
IL medium in that city declares that ''Shoo Fly
,e was composed BY Byron's sho.t and dedicate
" to Harriet Be-cher Stowe.
u The candidate of The Independent fe
next GoversOr of New York 10 susan B. An
thony. ''
4 u A wealthy farmer Of 81. Paris. Ohit
I. committed suicide recently. No reason fc
., the rash act Is given; ba. paper csntainin
!. one Of Mr.. Greeley . article on "What I KIM
5. About Farming" vas found tight. c.asped
J, his right hand.
'' " Mi.s Bstsey Thomas. vho died in Pori
:. land, Me-. few lays since. was, the Arsr
y says, directly descended Gom ancestors Vi
y we're executed a. witches at Salen. She VI
:. s6 ysars of age. snd has seen Portland t.is
burned. once By the English. through Csptai
Mowatt. and again In 1866. She 10 survive
= BY her brother Elias, ssed SO. and her siss,
I. Happy, in her Tooth year. All three we're boz
!. in Portland. and they have always lived tber
0. q The New York Evening Mail calls Mi
Anthony the "Msdien Mars" Incorrect s,
san Is not one Of the Nss Of The country.
>, u Mrs. AugustaJ J. Evans, author Of tho,
= ineonprshensibie bondlss Of nonsense. '.S
!. Elmo" and "vsshi," !" is engaged upon . sequ
To the latter work, shich, it 10 said. sll rend,