The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-07

"A fine dog at Brentwood, Tenn, during
an encounter with rsttlesnake the other
day, was hitten under the eye and almost in
stantly killed.
Each of the JUNIOR counsel in the Itch
borne Gaze, now on their way to Australia in
search Of further evidence, receives S2,625
and his expenses
Agnes Norman, aged Is, who Vas in
dicted in London for having murdered five
children, but was convicted only of IN at
tempt to strangle little boy, has been sen
fenced to ten years penal servitude.
A boy sixteen yean old, named King,
became weary on the second night of his con-
inement in the lookup in Lewiston, Me-,
and with nail made saw of 4 case-knife
With which be cut of the bars of his cell,
He had nearly escaped when the police dir
covered what he was dong, and put him in
another cell. In short while be had nearly
worked out of this cell, badly smashing the
walls as well rs cutting the bars. They then
put him in third cell, with bracelets on his
wrists, and went on their rounds. In forty
minutes King had Gu. of two bars and made
his escape.
"A four year old, living just outside Of
New York, was saying the Lords Prayer at
his mothers knee. After he had finished
she said to hin, "Now. Sunny, ask God to
make you good hoy" The child hesitated,
grew thoughtful, and, after few min,tes,
looked up and whipered-'Ifs no use
mamma, He won't do it, tell you; I've
asked him ever 50 NANNY times"
A curious statistican discovers that there
are nearly FIVE hundred more Republican
journals published in the United States than
Democratic ones Seeing how large q por-
ton of the unterri6ed are unable to read the
disparity is by no means remarkable.
Sparkle writes from Saratoga to the
New York Maa, that the favorite employ
ment of the ladies at this time is working in
bright colored worsteds. The usual amount
Of labor performed by these industrious Ia
dies after dinner may be estimated as averag-
ing three stitches day.
On losing several ingen3in the machin-
cry, a few days ago, little girl employed in
one of the Natick. X. l., mills, instead Of
crying, heroicly asked. "Will this stop me
working for my sick father?"
IL Il
thinks that one man or woman writes all the
letters in all the papers from all the watering
places, as they are all alike.
The preventers Of cruelty to animals in
Georgia, and the lovers Of native music, are
lifting voice for the hooking bird. The
Young of these birds are invariably taken
from the nest as soon as found, and sent to
the North or to Europe, where they sell at
high prices, and, as every brood thus dis
posed of is Withdrawn from production, a
sensible diminution in the number Of these
glorious warblers il noted. The Legislature
is called on for ZONE preventive measure.
Judge Fisher was the only member Of
the Supreme Court Of Wyoming who dis
scented from the decision that women have
the right TO sit as jurors under the provis-
ions of the existing Territorial laws. Chief
Justice Howe rendered an opinion, that I'M
der the Fourteenth Amendment, women in
the United States have the same rights as
men, in respect to suffrage and Office hold
ing.
Miss Lydia Nye rivaled the best march
ing time of Sherman, the other day, by
walking over the mountain roads Of Yer
mont thirty miles in eight hours.