White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-10-27
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reports the folosing occurrence: Mr.. o. d
Newman, Of this place, vas stabbed some
thirty years ago in the back with knife, BY .
man u:th whom he had difficulty. A few
DAYS ago. while in his field, he felt something
sticking out Of his back, and called . negro to
zee What it vas. The negro looked. and tslG
Nr. New it vas q knife blade. Nr. New-
IN an reached around and pulled out piece of
Gi'k blade ov.r t~o inches long, ~h.eh had
been there since 1886.
q Mr.. Henry Cooper. oae Of TIE first men
"ho boarded the American vessel in the cele
brated action betseen the Shannon and T. e
Chesapeake. died a lev days ago, at an advan-
ced age, in a London poor house.
q Henry Ward Beecher owns S25 900
house in Brookylen. 30 900 farm in Peekskiil.
and half the Christian Union newspaper
T~enty five years ago be had 70 wait some
times . week before he could pay postage on a
home letter. His salary Was $50, half pay
able in provisions.
u man was arrested in Cheyenne for
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man whom he had killed in the street The
offender proved that, from the position in which
the unfortunate man was standing. It was i'm
possible to shoot him so that be would fan In
any other position than across the walk. He
vas discharged.
q The body Of Mrs. Catherine Nipple,
who died at Monrovia, Kansas, four years ago,
vas recently found in complete state of petri
faction. The face was almost two shades dar-
ker than when in its natural state. and looked
as If il had been vanished.
II A nan in Michigan saw mill bet ten
dollars he could sit down within quarter of
an inch of circular saw for half an hour. The
teeth of the saw "reached out" for him, and
made twils Of him in less than fraction of a
sec"nd. He never told his love They say
those saw teeth do reach out the worst way
WREN there is mans fingers or anything near.
u 1t is reported that Gen. Beaureg ard is in
France assisting in the defence against the
Prussians. II bis desire to assist France is
really sincere. and he has improved none since
the Rebellion, let him get command in the
Prussinn army and do the bet be can for the
Prussians. .,.
u The New York Evening Pest says: It
is the opinion Of many persons that the late
unprecedented freshet in the James and She
unndoan rivers vas not cansed by continued d
rain, but BY something like the bursting of a
water spout on or about their headwater., and
their sources are not very great distance
apart. The Rocd came down in the Shenan.
doth in great waves succeeding each other
pidly.
U The venerable Horace Binn.y, of Phil.
adelrhia. is said 10 be the Oldest livirg gras.u.
ate Of Harvard University. He was in the class
Of 1897.
e A man at Altoona. Pa, eusrccted his
wife Of being too much 90, and to prove it he
put spikes in tie window sill Of her bedroom,
and went away fer two days. but returned at
O'Clock the nexs morning, and raped at her
coor. He heard the window 60 up, and finally
got in. to 6l.d pieces of shirt tail and skin on
the nails in the window. He told his wife she
vas fraud.
u The will Of the late Mr.. weare Marston,
of1Gorth Hampton, N. H., contained certain
provision that his executor should select "six
true D, mocrats" to carry him to the grave, Who
should be paid from his estate six collars each,
and that 10 funeral service should be held over
bis remains unless sons minister could be
found tn ccndnct .rch services "wko had never
preached political or war sermons" He vas
buried according to his request on the 18th Mt
A clergyman Of the required stripe could nor
be found in that region.
U A Chicago paper asserts that Lee. who
drew the Crosby Opera house in a lottery sew.
eral years ago, tas fur broih,ra. all of them
in the pe misunderstanding. Three ofrhem.
like him. draw houses; one as house mover,
the second IS tragediLn. and the third as an
architect. The fourth is in the army, and
draws his sword and his rations.
u At a recent sa,e Of old coins in New
York, one cent piece OF 1880 brought thirty
Eve dollars.
gT 1t was regarded as . strong case Of ,ir
cumst tartiai evidence in Pittsburg court. the
other day, when the plaintiff produced the
skillet with which, his wife struck him. and show.
ed the jury how nicely tie three legs fitted in.
to the hoes in his head.
u Max Twain wants to have an srmisti.e
proclaimed until his map of Paris is translated
into French al German. ard supplied to both
armies.
z TIE Chinese in CaIifornia know there il
. war in Europe about something or other;
their wonderfully keen. little piggish eyes have
noticed that when the French rejoice, tie Irish
do the same. but when the Germans are glad
the Irish are sorry; they know to their bloody
cost that the Irish do not like John China man
70. ~hen the Germars shoot cannon and rvig
ID an urco@non quantity Of lager beer. the
Chinese Gre OF crackers. Hy scarlet ard dra
goon kites, snd in various wars create beaut,
for ashes. AID the oil ofjoy for mourning.
op Mary Kruupasitiskosoki ~as reenty
divorced from her husband at JeiYersonvilIe,
Ind. and nov finds relief in her maiden name,
~ A letter dropped Into the New Bedford
Mas.) postofice last week. addressed to
"Heavenly Father" is detained for non pay.
ment Of postage.
% "To Providence aud Way Stations' vas
the inscripsion on . sign placed over the chanel
door at Trinity COLLEGE. Hartford. lately. Il
vas stolen from the railroad depot.
u George Frarcis Train telegraphs from
Port Said. Egypt. Octnber "a: 81 shall pin |
he French amy at Msr.eiiles on the 18Th
nst-" Prussia sili. Of eouse, give up the