The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-10-12

But 1t 10 pasdme, nevertheless, this pri-
vats equipage and smooth front Of vrinkled
war. A pleasant one too, and blest always
with the approving smiles of the happy fair.
But enough has BEEN said. We simply
meant to chronicle one of the signs of the
times, and evidences of returning peace,
when men once more resume the sword and
gun - instruments of amusement and not of
death.
EDlrORIAL HIsCELLAxY.
English experience is said to show thai, out
of every thirty colts from thoroughbred
stock, but one proves fast.
-Four brothers Who went to the polls to-
gether, in North Castine, Me-, at the late
election, are aged respectively SO, IS, 20, and
e. years.
The Boston Times learns that the elite of
Boston literary society have determined in
advances, TO set their faces against the top boots
unclaimed finger-nails and staggering gait Of
joaquin Miller.
In the military journals Of Prussia there
is little discussion going On over the organ
ization Of the suffers a. = part of the military
system. The object is to remedy the uncer-
tainty and dishonesty Of the present free ar
rangement.
The St. Louis Republican says: Tf the
persons now called to the lar receive their
just dues, polygamy in Utah has received its
death blow, and must either cease to exist al
together, or be transplanted to q more con-
genial cline, outside federal jurisdiction.
The Ohio Stale Journal saye that the Dem
ocratic factions in Ohio are ierceIy quarrel
ing. The friends of Pendleton and Thur
man are working to destroy the prospects Of
either for the Presidency.
There we're 4, 632 Germans driven out
Of France at the opening of the late war,
and despoilel Of their property. The French
have to now pay them an indemnify, which
is about four million thales divided chiefly
among the Prusians, Bavarians, Saxons,
Wurtemburgers, Badensers and Hesians,
together with thousand Others from the
nineteen remaining States of the Empire.
The collapse of the Cuban rebellion has
been frequently announced, but, on the con-
trary, the Cubans are busily prosecuting the
war against Spain. There is more work
now and less fuss and feathers.
Frank Leslie has a singer. The scene
is the front veranda of a handsome New
York residence. The characters are Miss
Jones, the young lady of the house, and a
nobby-looking young man with eyeglasses
and side whiskers, wearing the apron, and
carrying the implements of glazier, to
whom Miss Jones says:
my dear Andy, l canno. consent to mar
rying you while You are nothing but poor
glazier."
Andy-"Poor glszier, indeed Pm a
millionaire. I've just got the job of put
ting pane Of glass in the Comptroller
Office"
w. B. Washburne, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,,
was born in 1920. His father, when he was
five years old, left him in poverty. He
managed to receive a collegiate education
graduating at Yale, in "A, in the same class
with Senator Ferry of Conn.,, and Gov
Haight of California. He was in the State
Senate, and has been in Congress since 1862.
His election to the GubernatOrial Chair is
certain.
The La Crosse (Wis.) DenOerat reports
the water. 20 lowfin the channel of the Mis-
sissippi river that steamboats, have to keep
up continual whistling in order to drive
cows out of the channel. Many captains are
having cow-catchers put on their boats"
The Universities have been telling
Us that there was no hell; and now here
come the Spiritualists to overturn that
blessed hope by the revelation that poor
Henry J. Raymond is still editing a daily
newspaper.
The Detroit Post is authority for the
that the shores of Lake Superior
md upper Lake Michigan will, it is said,
Don become the residence Of large number
4 Icelanders.
1t is noted Is a remarkable coincidence
hat three steamships, the Baltic, the City of
and the Wyoming, arrived at Liv-
rpool on Sunday last, each having made
he passage in nine days. With improve
oents in model and machinery, and the adj
antages Of experience, there is reason to
hink that the time will continue to he
hortened.
joaquin C. H. Miller ought to be a toll
rable poet, for as q protector Of pros. :. =
sight to behold. Listen to this eflu,ion:
England! The terms Of the expression
( thanks are threadbare. Permit me to
~ simply, thank you. stood by Mag
"a the other day, and kissed my hand to
anada, and with the experience OF the last
< months rushing across my memory,
i'd, hat in hand, England, 1 thank you"
"A Hagerstown prper records terrible
sc of glanders in human being. A man
,med Martin, living near Wevrrtcn, in
'ashington County, Nd, accidentIy got
me of the virus from the nose or mon,h OF
glandered horse into cut upon one Of his
umbs, and short time thereafter was taken
til frightful spasms, succeeded by fearful
knees and prostration. Medical assistance
u obtained, and, although every reason
lie attention was given the man, he died in
most horrible manner some six or seven
ys afterward. His body became mass Of :
GERS, and at the time Of dissolution the
sh literally fell in pieces from the bones.
The profits of the milk business in Boston
, said to be enormous. One contractor is
ted to have realized SO, 900 in ten years,
4 could now dispose of his contracts for !
., 900 additional. Even thepoor milkmen 8
70 drive from door to door in the gray of Il
} morning, are compensated for cold !
gers and blue noses by the handsome G
fits they make, 500 bonus per can being L
price usually received by the party SELL Q
out his route. At this rate, milkman :,
ing one hundred cans would realize the r.
nd sum of $4,000. lie
We have again accounts Of several n
adful shipwrecks on the coast Of England. ~
. year has been specially disasterous to n