The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-28
BRES lIlkS.


The most venerable journal in Edin-
burg, Scotland, is the Courant, started in
1905. and edited till ITO by Daniel Defoe.
AT the burial OF Walter Montgomery,
his wife knelt over his grave and dropped
therein the orange flowers worn at her we'd
ding two days before.
Name the longest day in the year, ="
said Nashua teacher to young hopeful OF
FIVE summers. Sunday" responded the
little victim of blue law.
-"Rarer than the phoenix" says De
Quincy, sis the virtuous man who will con-
sent to lose q good anecdote because it is q
lie"
A single firm of furniture manufactur-
ers in Vienna employs over 1000 workmen,
and produces annually about $50, 600 pieces
of furniture.
A thrifty citizen of Lewistown, Me-,
saved dollar The other day by unscrewing
and returning the handles of his wife,
coffin
The inventor of stem winding watches
Henry Rothfelder, committed suicide in New
York last week, on account Of domestic diff
ficulties.
Ninety and and one hundred and six
were the respective ages of 4 welded couple
out in Indiana. They were married without
the consent of their parents, but the divorce
lawyers have but little hopes of making
anything out of them.
The Tribune thinks that one agricultural
exhibition, such as that at Nashville, Tenn,
organized and CARR d out by colored men, is
worth more to the race than a c5re Of ne
groes in Congress.
A correspondent wants TO know the hes,
way 10 become a literary man. Well, the
quickes; way is for him to take a voyage to
sea. He will then very likely become con-
tribu,or TO the Atlantic. Y. Leader.
A. VI. Yerger, who murdered Col.
Crane, Northern man in Mississippi, q
year or two ago, but has never been indicted
for tn; cline, is now desoting his talent to
journalism, having jus, started a paper in
Baltimore. He il an anti-departure Demo
eat.
Boston rascality breaks out early. The
Courts have just sentenced Timothy Sugura-
RE, who ia nine years old, for burglary, and
Edward L. ingalls,, ten years old, for steal
ing five horses.
A high instep suggests good blood, and
even the ladies OF shoddy Can now CONVEX,
themselves into blooded sristocrats by the
adoption of the padded instep boot which
has become the fashion.
-Vanderpool, who has stood three trials
for the murder OF his business partner, Her
bert Field, in Michigan, about two years ago,
has at last been acquitted, his last trial last
ing several weeks The circums,antial evil
dence against him was very strong, and it
was hardly expected that his counsel would
succeed in establishing his innocence so
thoroughly as they have done.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition is
said to be, in some respects, the greatest in
dustrial display ever witnessed in this coun-
Try.
The suicide of Prof. Mahan, Of West
Point, is believed to have been occasioned BY
chagrin at having been displaced from the
chair he had occupied at West Point for
more than forty years. The pay of q
Brigadier General On the retired list is said
to have been offered to him, but the offer
was rejected. The venerable Professors
m .mory will be cherished BY all who knew
hun, and especially by The graduates Of the
Military Academy who pro6ted BY his in
s,ructiona.
james Parton ID called piece Of Fanny
Ferniture, BY an exchange.
-Ex-Judge Sidney H. Stunt, who died
OF Friday evening in New York, was one
A correspondent has been figuring up
the miles of existing telegraph wires. II
appears there are 45O, 900 miles in Europe;
] &c, 900 in America; IA, 900 in India; 10, 600
in Australia, and 80, coo of submarine cable.
Total, 6s4, ZOO miles, to which additions
are being made at the rate of 100000
miles per year. At this rate of increase it
will not be many yean till all communion
tons are made by Lightning, and nearly as
cheap as they were conducted years ago by
mail.
Of the most widely known criminal lawyers
in the State He has been connected with
The deense of nearly every important GRIM
inal case in the New York courts for the past
fifteen years, and has served with honor as
Police Magistrate and City Judge. He de-
Tended the murderers Ferris, Jerry O'Brien
and John Rel, and at the time Of his death
was the counsel for Foster.
The rising generation progresses. A
child of eleven, named Richard Robinson,
,,ole horse the other day in Yorkshire,
put up at an inn twenty miles away, got |
drunk there, smoked himself sick with |
cigars, but sold the horse for 4 good round |
,um and made of. Master G. Washington
of Staten Island, has done even
,raver deeds. Although barely l9. he has
lctually married three different women. The
bird time brought him to grief. The cere-
nony of marriage had been only inst con.
luded, the bride being farmers daughter
n her teens, when q matron of forty FIVE
presented herself and claimed Washington
IS her own. He has been locked up for ex-
which, all things considered,
lie will perhaps think the best thing that
ould happen TO him.
The Labor Exchange in San Francisco,
as in three yean found employment for
yer G, coo women, and more than twice tina
lumber Of men.
IsalsaDs Rleasea.
Italy 10 pleased II being selected - one of
be arbitrator under the Treaty OF Wash.
nston for the settlement Of the Alabama
lsims. That the King Of Italy should Be
n. \ IL i