The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-03
SHORT EDITORIALS.

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-Rochefort is said to be crazy, and it is
expected that he will not live long.
Capt. Michael Gleeson, Of the old Chi
caso Irish brigade, and one Of the most con-
spicuous defenders Of Lexington, under Null
ligan, died in that city on the 23d instant.
Parker, the retired Indian Commits
sioner, will devote himself to the practice
of law.
The victims of cancer who have been
anxiously looking forward to time not far
distant when they would be able to procure
. supply of the South American specific
''cundurango," will be pleased to learn that
DR.. d. NJ. Bliss, Of Washington, expects to
furnish, very soon, all who may be in need
! OF it.
The Great Camp Meeting commences
at Shawneetown on the 18th OF August.
The grounds occupy five acres, and are fitted
up better than any other in the West.
Bret Hart talks of settling in New
Jersey.
If the following is not the champion
fib, We shall be pleased 10 meet its superior.
II Bonner sees it and il really a practical
printer he will nail it:
Robert Bonner, OF the New York Ledger,
is Tor wasl fast type-setter, having on one
occasion performed the extraordinary feat Of
setting 81, 500 ems Of solid type in twenty
hours and twenty-eight minutes.
The New York Mail refers to ''the late
homicide in Chicago" Goodness gracious,
which one do YOU mean?
Kalamazoo horse fair.
Greeley says that blue vitrOl vines are
dangerous things to suck sherry cobblers
through, and that it spoiIs hops to plug
them as you do waiermelons.
The census returns show that the num-
Der of persons of Chinese birth in the United
States year ago was SO, 1856. As the aggre-
gate Of The population of the country at the
same time was IS, 549,9 1887, we find that
population, or less than one-sixth Of one per
: Mt.
The dignified Prussion Government has
fined Berlin publisher for selling carica-
sa-es of Louis Napoleon and Eugene attired
"a moun,ehanks, and the poor fellow would
like to know Of whom he can make fun if not
of the enemies of his country.
-Gran,s villa at Long Branch is two
story frame building, handsomely furnished
throughout, and is said To have cost S35 900.
-Four dollars per day is the average
price at all the seaside hotels.
A man of extraordinary nerve is heard
of in Danyiile, New York. He boarded at
one house thirty-6ve years, steady.
Little tea parties and ten o'clock sup
pers are the mos, fashionable entertainments
given al Newport this season.
The double baby of Morris county, o.,
is dead
The Chicago Common Council are going
in a body to spend the month of August at
Salt Lake. 1t is understood that their pur-
pose is to strike decided blow at polygamy
by distributing Chicago divorces among the
Mormons At the usual fee of fifty cents
apiece, they expect to pay their travelling
expenses, and realize handsome profit.
The New York papers will have their
little jokes about Col. james Fisk. The
Times says of him, that he is ''first In peace,
first in war, and first in the pockets of his
oountrymen."
-Belvue (Ohio) Guzette announces an
other "meanest man" in that country. He
paid sixty cents for two quarts Of live po-
tato bugs, and scattered them boadcast over
the patch of neighbor, against whom he
had a grudge.
Santa Clara County, California, is irri-
gated from immense artesian wells. This
yea, over three hundred acres were devoted
to strawberry culture, and from 1900 to s.
900 pounds of berries were produced to the
acre, which sold at an average Of Eve cents'a
pound. San Francisco alone, during the
season, consumed over 70, 1000 pounds day,
and the strawberry men are growing rich.
A leading Philadelphia doctor takes
upon himself the duty of correcting the
theory that blackberries are useful or HARM
less in cases where children are convalescing
from diarhea or cholera infantum. He
saws: "From close observation during
several years, meantime enjoying a large
practice, 1 am forced to believe thai there is
no other one cause so fatal to life in these
complaints as eating blackberries.
1t is estimated that the corn crop Of |
Iowa this year will amount to 100, OOO, 900 |
bushels. A Des Moines paper says: In all
our experience We have never seen such
corn crop as is standing in this part Of
Northern Iowa. Not an average Of dozen
hills to the acre is missing, and now the corn
in hundreds Of fields stands go high that an
ordinary Iowan, say six feet in his stockings,
could not be seen in passing through the
fields.
The New York Evening Mail says that
ON the morning Of the 18th inst. porter
by a merchant in that city, in
formed him that he would not work that day
but meant 10 take the life Of an Orangeman
before night. His employer tried to dis
SAUCE him from his frantic folly, but he
would not listen to reason. The first intelli-
gence that his employer got about his porter
was that he had fallen, perforated with sew
eral bullets. --a-..
Sheep farming is said to be making
great progress in Oregon. There are no
pun in the wool, or scab or toot-rot on the
sheep; the fleece is so naturally clean and
rec from impurities that unwashed, it only
oses five per cent more than the washed
xool of other States. The pure Costwold
heep are coming into great repute, yielding
leeoes that average ten pounds, and not un-
run up to twelve OK fourteen
POUNDS. The Costwold and Merino are fire.
luently crossed to advantage. The sheep in ,
he Willamet and the Upper Columbia val
eys are unsurpassed in weight and as to e1-
ellence for meat - veil as in the weight
ength, strength, and 6neness of staple Of :
heir wool.
1t Is stated that Dr. Livingstone has mot |;
Iad any brooches to speak Of for four yean, :,
he merchant tailors of UjUi rsfnaing 10
redit him. With little paint, hovevez, '