The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-10

Fiy ike hop-yard ia the August air;
And iwenty grim ghosts whisper her sslaei =,
Dear sylph! are wore that Wig before "e oie"-
To vboH respondent unabashed the beauty
.'Git cut, YOU sPooEs' guess know H''
"a, 49,. = .. her r,,eut charms revealing,
Her D0som heaves with ootton-batting ieeILsi
Her .al,e teeth gnasA with gltia-percha lfei
Urr Gtl-e eyes fash with fabricated hrei
she drops her patent chgnon IN chaif'
Then jainI- % pick il up
But ] iOr1eAr-
LADIES are rapidly discarding sailor hats
So ihey have grown too common.
-.ArrEarELoNs are coming in TO marke
Dos the thousands, and -ell at the buyers Owl
prices.
luscious grapes are now selling at TEL
cents per pound IA this market. Peaehei
and grapes will be sold by the ton here TIN
season.
THE contes; among tie towns on the Ger
tril Branch road now s, where shall passen-
ge.. between Atchisou and the hundred
IL lie terminus, stay over Sunday
Mr.. J. Il. HALLowELL has assumed
editorial control Of the Baxter Springs SIN
tad. Mr.. Hallowell is one of Kansas best
citizens, q member Of the Republican State
Central Committee, and will give the people
Of Baxter good paper.
THE shipment of Texas cattle Is becoming
a feature Of importance on the NJ, K. * L.
road Long trains, containing twenty-three
cars and upwards, pass up daily for the
Eastern market. Cotton Is also being ship
ped in large quantities.
Mr. JUD. MARSHALL started last eve
ming Tor Parker, to he absent about month.
We hope he will not be wooed and won by
the beautiful landscapes and other attractions
OF Southern Kansas, because we need jus.
such men IN Leavenworth.
The sale of condemned Government
horses at the Fori yesterday passed off brisk
~. The stock sold very high, and brought,
on an average, as high as $50. Some large
sized safes sold for $50 each, and $4,000
gunny lacks were bid off at 81 800. 4 large
number of people were present.
MUGroRD, Of the Oxford KS Times,
Offer Photographic marriage certificate
and one years subscription to the TINES,
gratis, TO the first couple getting married in
that county, and says, I'VE desire to patron
ize home industry ana manufactures, and go
our whole length on home Institutions"
We have been shown very fine sample
of the Kansas Queen apple, grown by Mr..
Burrell Atkinson, of South Leavenworth.
The seed was planted in 1858, and the tree
has borne for the four last years The apple
shown Us was IL inches in diameter,
beautiful red in color, and delicious in flavor.
Mr. Atkinson Is one OF our most enterpris-
ing fruit raisers
TIE Douglas County Agricultural Associ-
alton are 10 award, through committee,
valuable premium to the handsomest lady,
and the affair i t. I've managed in this deli
cate manner:
There need be no declared intention ON the
part OF any lady TO compete for the rich
prize, but every lady who enters the TAR
grounds will be subjected unknowinsly to
the scrutiny Of the committee, ara will in
fact he 4 competitor.
THE stencil arising from some Of the gut
tiers along Commercial street is enough TO
breed Z peslileuce 1t is dreadful. Why
dos not the City Marshal, or the Street
Commissioner, or some one whose duty 1t rs,
fave the cutters cleaned out and the pools OF
81. gnaEt water and rotten vegetables abol-
ished.-iiciis0n Champion.
That J. very good for the only business
street cf any Importance in town. We
are poor down here, but We keep clean.
MANY of our exchanges are warning peo-
pie against eating vegetables, fruit, ETC., in
warm weather, and to look out for cholera
morbus and all that Sor; Of thing Common
sense teaches us that the best way 10 get sick
is to become frightened half to death about
cholera; then, like an idiot, change your
whole course of living that you have been
accustomed TO for years, in twenty -four
hours. Il this don't get you down, consider
yourself tough.
PERHAPS some people think the dogs are
ignorant of all that is contemplated towards
their destruction. We have case in point
that shows them as keenly alive 10 their in
t-resis As Johnny Martin of Atchison is to
the welfare OF jackson County. Yesterday,
Marshal Robertson and Officer Grover made
their appearance at tie corner of Fifth and
Delaware streets, when a dog that was
chained under 4 wagon near by Immediately
climbed up hind wheel of the vehicle and
rat down on the hub, placing the wagon bed
between him and the officers.
the state University.
We hear good accounts of this Institution,
with its able faculty of nine instructors, Its
fine collection of apparatus, exceeding four
teen thousand dollars in value, and its supe-
rior accommodations for laboratory practice
in physical sciences. Ii is certainly well
prepared TO do thorough work in the educa-
tional field which il occupies. The next
session begins Wednesday the 9th of Septem-
Der next, as will De seen from an advertise
meni in another column. We cordially
commend the University TO The favorable
notice Of our readers.
Serious Accident.
Shortly after the close Of the circus yester-
day afternoon, little boy named Phelps
was riding pony across the sidewalk on the
north side Of Miami, between Broadway ard
Eighth streets, when suddenly little girl,
named Braunhold, approached from behind
and frightened the animal. The pony kicked
and broke her arm little below the elbow.
He then began ''buc, ing" at a terrible
rate, throwing his rider several feet in the
air and causing him to fall heavily to the
ground. The little fellow was picked up by
officer Grover and carried into the house of