The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-15
KANSAS.
The .iHii- Noaopoiist Is tl,e

The .iat- MoRopoiia is tl,e name Of 4 paper
soon 10 be started a, I.adore.
LAWRENCE Is excited over Mr.. K 4.
Hayes dog, who killed 3s5 rats inside of an
hour.
The new nursery south Of town mile or
two promises to be one Of the most complete
in the State. The Proprietors have grown
up in the b,isine-S.-Larrenoc Journal.
THE prairie fires have nightly illumlned
the horizon in this vicinity for Il week or two
past. No particular damage, however, has
been done beyond the destruction Of grass
which will make feed for cattle little scarce
-W'abdunsc Herald
BAPTIZISG.-Rev. Mr.. Skeels baptized n
number Of converts into the faith Of the
Christian Church. a; a school house on Mid
die Creek, five miles from Ottawa, on Sun
day last.-O.dra Journal
Work is progressing on the new Masonic
building, and the second story is nearly COM
ple;eh. State Register.
THE colored men Of Council Grove have
organized debating society
\ COLONY is being formed at Cumber-
land, Maryland, to emigrate to Kansas.
The Neosho Falls Adrerti.r saws that
Woodson County is settling up with great
rapidity.
The Sedalia Il Fort Scott road was COM
pleted up to the city limits of Fort Scot, on
Thursday last.-Larrenee Journal.
A TOPEKA boy has, during the last five
months, made a collections of one hundred
and forty-five different kinds of native" and
foreign postage stamps. OF these he obtained
only eleven from dealer. The collection
comprises the stamps of every civilized ma
ton.
PERRY, Of the Garnet Paindeaier, VEN
lures the following prediction:
"a late trip through a portion of the
State satisfies US that Baker, or somebody
else connected with the Record, will be cleo
ted to the Office of State Printer By the COM
ing Legislature. There is no doub, Of it,"
THE editor of the Mound City Sentinel has
Al his house seventeen cats, which are offered
for sale upon reasonable terms. Let him
send them to Paris.-Scat.
THREE Crawfords, father and two sons,
living near Wichita, have been arrested and
are now in irons at Eldorado, charged with
the murder Of Jack Corbin, james Smith,
and the two Booth brothers, who were muir
dered on the night Of November s,h, 1870.
THE following from the Journal displays
state Of affairs in Ottawa truly lamentable.
Some Eastern confidence men must have
found their way to the interior Of Kansas:
A land agent from lola. ''who ought to
have known better" was the victim Of the
fzcinations Of three card monte on THURSDAY
last, at the Ottawa Union Depot. The young
man left his friend in the possession of $50,
and went home a lighter If not a wiser
man.
A gentleman mailing from Des Moines,
Iowa. was victimized in the sum of SO at the
depot on Thursday last, by one Of those ''se-
NAL travelling companions" 20 often encoun-
tered on railway trains. Beware of chance
games-because stranger has no "chance."
OSF MILE DAY.-The l., L. 4 G.
Railroad is rapidly extending southwark.
The management lay an average Of one mile
Of track day. The line Of track is far ad-
vanced toward the southern climes now that
the winter season will not materially affect
its progress.
GAs.-Norh Lawrence is to he lighted by
gas Ottawa will do likewise at no distant
day, as company is now being organized
for that purpose.
We will soon have to build new school
house as the present. one barely accommo-
dates the children in attendance, and scarce
" one-half the children in thedistrict attend,
-Neosho Falls AdpeTtiser.
No SroP.-Work continues OF. buildings
vet unfinished, and there i nothing 80
strange in the fact, for winter is coming, so