The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-01-25
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THURSDAY, JANUARY % 1872.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY % 1872.
THERE were twelve new cases ofsmall po:
a Omaha last week.
COPIES Of The WEEKLY TrlEs, done u
in wrappers ready for mailing, may be ha'
at the counting room; price five cents; sent
them TO your Eastern friends.
A BUTCHER up town was selling builal'
meat yesterday, killed by Alexis-ai least h
said the Grand Duke did it. He did Rus
sian busine 9.
A SQUAD of men broke open the O5ka-
loosa jail few nights ago, and let out pris
oner named Mitchell recently found guilty 0
shooting with intent to MAIN.
THE name OF one of the Grand Duke
suite is said TO be Shovelof. We guess h
will, in all probability, if he goes travelling
much On the Union Pacific Road.
FIVE wagon loads of bridge timber for tn
narrow gauge, across Stranger, was startet
out yesterday. Some Of the timbers are sixty
feet long.
The iron On one of the trestles OF the
Lawrence railroad bridge wa, laid Wednes
day, and one span. viii he completed by to-
morrow night.
THERE is tail, slim fellow named Zine
over in Platte county. When he is pretty
well along in years people will call him cold
lank Zine"
RELIGIOUS revivals are going on at St.
Joseph, Atchison, Kansas City, Lawrence
and Topeka. Large additions of members
have been made 10 the churches
MRS. Lucy PosEY, of Vincennes, Ind,
is roaming through the Missouri Valley in
search of her truant husband, james, who is
said to be the discoverer OF Pcsey County.
UPWARDS of go invitations to the Leap
Year Party have been sent out. We learn
that large number OF persons from n dis
tance are expected.
The latest amatory expression between
lovers is You are my gum drop" This
saccharine favored appellation has been re.
Gently adopted, ard promises TO become
popular.
LARGE numbers O: people continue 10 yisl.
the Narrow Gauge cars, ard everybody who
sees them are highly leased with the exam
ination. The general desire rre,aiIs to have
a ride in them.
THE work Of putting iron ON the second
span of the bridge, Will commence next
week. The iron for that span is al. here,
and that for the third span is nearly ready
for shipment.
ATTESTio,, is called to tie advertisement
of the St. Louis Piano Company On the frs,
page of to-day's paper. This is western
institution, AMI as such receives large
share Of western patronage. Their worl, is
warranted and has stood the test Of thorough
trial. Prof.. Hoffman is agent in this city,
No. 800 Delaware street.
AND now comes the champion skunk
killer of kansas-Valeniine Briggs-with
his fourteen victims, slain with an axe, du-
ring the past year, in Nemaha County. We
should think the change OF atmosphere
would be sufficiently marked to merit a
place in the weather report.
"SoJoURSER TRUTH is the name of a
man now lecturing in Kansas City. He
could only be called ''sojourner" there, for
truth could not abide in that place long as
apermanent residen;.-.S. Louis Dispstch.
Considerable ignorance displayed in the
first sentence, and en- unusual regard for
truth III the last.
If some men are asked TO advertise, they
say it doesn't DO them any good-iha, pa
per has no influence. But let the editor
write half dozen lines against them, and
they Immediately institute legal proceedings
laying the damages at $4,000.
A STORY comes TO us from Topeka OF 4
man having drawn pistol on high official
for improper attention 10 the formers wife.
The papers al the capital are silent on the
subject, and therefore We are unable so vouch
for its truth. To insure the personal safety
of our Topeka correspondent, We will state
that the rumor did not come from him.
THE Topeka Commonwealth says tha; Rev
d. p. Mitchel's daughter went into the
stable few days ago to hunt eggs, and in
passing a mule was severely kicked. Subse-
guently the mule turned around and tramp.
ed and kicked her. Although injured seri-
ousiy, We are pleased to learn that Miss
Mitchell is slowly recovering.
TIL. Kansas City Journal has The follow
ing notice of two ladies of our ciiy-who
thee are We have not learned:
A couple of LeayeDworth ladies gave a
select reading at the Spiriiualist Sociable a,
Lyceum Hall, last night. The pieces read
were fine selections, and they were very fair
ly rendered, considering that the readers
claim only to be amateurs.
THE greatest food ever known in the Mis-.
souri, and Kansas Valleys was in 1885, when
the water was thirty feet above the common
level. Other accounts say that the water in
1874 raised 10 ihiriy-eishi feet seven inches.
Noted froshets also occurred in ISIS and
1897. La 1874 rain fell over Kansas and
Western Missouri for thirty DAYS. There i:
an unusual quantity of snow in the moUn.
tains this year, and the water may get a lit
tie high before July.
THE L. S. Piano Company make iheil
bow to the people of Kansas, through til,
columns of this mornings TINES. I'll,
Pianos manufactured by this company ar,
highly recommended By leading merchant.
and bankers throughout the cast, and ar,
sold al the lowest price OF any piano of lik.
value in the country. Two hundred arC