The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-09
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The comment of cOlored preacher on
the text 81 is more blessed to give than to
receive" is Inimitable for its point as well as
eloquence: ''Pve known many church to
die cause it didn't give enough, but ] never
knowed a church to die cause it gave too
much. Dey don't die dat way. Bredren,
has any of you ever knowed 4 church to die
cause it gave too much? If you do, just let
me know, and I'll make a pilgrimage to that
church, and I'll climb by the soft light of
de moon, W the moss covered root, and I'll
stand dar, and lift up my hands TO heaven,
and say, blessed are de dead dat die in de
Lord"
-Seator Summers letter to the colored
people, read a, the Columbia, Is. e. Con-
veniion, contains the following interesting
passage: "a hotel is legal institution, aud
so is common school. A such, each must
be for the equal benefit of all. How can
there be any exclusion from either on account
Of color? Is it not enough to provide
separate accommodations for colored citizen
even if in all respects As good as those OF
other persOns-equa!ity is not found as an
equivalent, but only in equality. The right
to vote will have new security when your
equal right in public conveyances, hotels and
common schools is Il. last established. The
civil rights law needs a supplement 10 cover
such cases"
Justin Mccarthy writes from London:
''the British rough has got it thoroughly
into his head that his wife is his property To
beat and kick a. he Pleases, and unless he
actually and deliberately kills the woman,
having formally announced his intention b.,
foreband, he never sufferers more than u
few weeks imprisonment. The beast would
be more severely punished il he were to break
a pane of glass in shop window. The pa
pers positively overflow with these crimes
Just now II is almost supertiuous to single
out any particular Case as al illustration, for
they are all the same. In no country save
England alone, do sIch things occur 10
the same extent, and the fac; is hideous
disgrace To our laws and our society"
At TitusvilIe new oil we'll has been
discovered. 4 correspondent from that
vicinity says that TOR nine hours ii Flowed Il
beautiful amber and rose tinted oil, OF sixteen
degrees gravity, as large as stoyepipe, at
the rate Of four hundred and thirty-seven
barrels per hour. The oil is 80 heavy that
it loaned a perpendicular column OF six
inches in diameter that would push Its way
up several hundred feet into the air, when,
becoming partially melted by the suns rays,
and overcome by its own weight, it would
break off near the ground, and fall over like
an immense tailow candle struck with a
club" This is an important and doubtless
profitable discovery.
Portland, Me-, during the last two years
has lost large and important industry.
That CITY for long time was depot for
sugar and molasses from Cuba, but the it'd
portation of these articles has now nearly
ceased. Every year hundred and fifty
cargoes OF molassss were brought to Port
land, to be used in refining sugar; but the
manufacture of sugar in that city has been
abandoned. The refining Of sugar is chiefly
carried on in PHILADELPHIA, New York, Bal
timore, ard Boston, there being engaged in
the business fifty firms, employing an aggre-
gate capital Of twenty-five million dollars.