The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-24

padded bathing dresses
Two freight Cars al the three-foot gauge
will 70 on a common fat Ear Of the wide
gauge.
THE Kansas City papers are calling each
other liars We vote aye, without rising to
explain.
TRAVEL. is now very heavy to and through
the city Every omnibus is full, and the hO-
tel- do not complain Of dearth Of custom.
1T j, now almost impossible to rent good
dwelling house in this city. Nearly every
desirable residence is occupied.
We learn from Northern Kansas that the
mills at Doniphan were burned to the ground
on Monday last The amount Of loss is not
announced
The Topeka commonwealth Of the 18th
says: Yesterday the Kansas Pacific Rail-
way Company paid the compromise taxes Of
SO, 900 for 1867 and 1861
MELONS are plentiful and high priced
Dcnucr Ners.
They have succeeded ice water here a.
matter of economy.
An effort is being made to make = postal
route of the K p road east of Brook6eld.
1t would be a great improvement, and the
change is urgently demanded.
The air was decidedly Octob-rish early
yesterday morning, and much thicker gar-
ments than were worn the previous day felt
very comfortable.
MANY Of our merchants have already ex-
pressed determination to buy heavier stocks
of goods on the strength of a general in
crease Of business, resulting from more en-
railroad prospects.
The Chicago & Southwestern Road now
lacks only fifteen miles Of completion, and it
is expected that the event Of driving the last
spike will occur mile or two beyond Cam
eron within ten days.
The Pc-'ofhce department has removed
from the mail service on the Kansas Pacific
road, Messrs. Hanks and jerks. We I'M
derstand that still other changes will take
place.
RETUaNs from Reno township indicate
two vo,es or and eighty-six against the rail-
road proposition. Stranger precinct gave
seventy mine for and nine against.
JOHN WEIR, of this city, and Clay Will
liams. brother of tho Attorney General, Of
Topeka have been sworn in as route agents
on the Kansas Pacific Railway, vice Hanks
and Jenks, removed.
ABARE-HEApED, bare-footed little boy as
a worshiping congregation in a
town, "n a recent Sunday, by
rushing into church and exclaiming:
where is my papa ? The pigs are out"
That boy must have been a councilman, by
he name of Tom l..
THE faintest possible touch Of Indian Sum-
ner was noticeable in the air yesterday
The day was a beautiful one
refreshing and invigorating all
Who had been affected by the extreme heat
If the previous few days. Summer is los
ny its grip.
THE press of the State speak in highly
terms of the unity among the |
people Of Leavenworih as evinced last Tues |
Law. All seem to rejoice that the clouds
hat have 40 long hung over our city are
.learing away
W. ii. SELLS, Of Lawrence, started for
springfield, ILL.,, on Wednesday to make ar
'angements with Mr.. Weddell, owner Of
Kitty Clyde" for a race with Ger.
MITCHELL Fun ahead. if the match is
made
FoRp. the Topeka murderer, was face
ious cuss n soon as he got beyond the
hadow of the gallows, and remarked, while
coming down on the train the other day,
hat ait was mistake to suppose that i'm
,risonment Was worse than hanging"
THERE is growing feeling in our city in
avor OF more manufactures. This ia
ound Nothing 40 much aids in building
Up city and peopling it with industrious
.itizens. Let no means be neglected that
will contribute to an increase in the number
md efficiency of manufactures in Leaven-
worth.
IF any one has Lost mule about fourteen
,ands high, five or six wears old, with the
,rand "A e. on left shoulder, and $50 on
he let side of the jaw, he can hear of his
property at the Police headquarters. Per
IONS who have not lost any mule will not
need TO go there at all.
Gov HARVEY having committed the SEN
ence Of Mary Jane Scales and Ford, the
Topeka mnrderess and murderer, TO i'm |
prisonment for life, the prisoners were
brought down on the train yesterday morn
ng and delivered to the Warden at the PEN |
Tertiary.
Two men, named johnson and Fisher, |
yesterday caught a catfish weighing ITO |
pounds I, was abou; FIVE fee; long. The |
,ditor of the Parsons Sun weighs ninety |
light pounds. We intend no reference to |
but why not contras, the lightest |
nan and heaviest FISH in he state?
RowELL's Nemspape' Reporter, published
n New York, weekly, is one Of the best pc
iodicals We get. Ii is full 0: articles and
tens of vital interest to the profession, in
luding all the changes in proprie,orshiP /
nd locality alr over the country. Every
newspaper man should have it.