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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

The Keystone Restaurant, No. 81 Main
street, is dishing up eatables that would sat
isfy almost any epicurean. The gentlemanly
proprietOrs, Mes>rs. Reese & Prang, are ac-
commodating, smiling and clever, and attend
with alacrity to their customers. You do not
have to wait long for a tip-tol, warm meal, set
up in clean dishes, and plenty of it. Remem-
Der, We hungered, No. 81 Main street.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

The event every Saturday afternoon in
Wichita is a horse race. The track is just
north of. and in plain view OF the town. Last
saturday the race was between a Texas horse
and Wichita mare. The mare won the race.
and il is said over thousand dollars changed
hands. Ii was estimated that over one thou
sand men were present. besides some five ear
riage loads of soiied doves. So great was the
rush that Main street for an hour or 50 seemed
almost deserted.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

FOUND-The best place to buy groceries,
and 10 mistake-La Fetra Bros. 1-tf
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

CITY AND COUNTY NEWS.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

The style and intelligence of the people who
are setting up the homesteads and building up
the frontier towns of Southwestern Kansas
are often a subject of remark by those just in
from the east on tours of pleasure or business.
Ii is no uncommon thing to see in Wichita, in
lumber wagons, As neatly and fashIonably
attircd ladies, as intelligent men and women,
as can be pointed out in the streets of more
pretentious cities east. The great majority of
those living on homesteads in this section Of
the state are people of refinement and taste
splendid people, who will make this valley
paradise ere many years. To give an idea of
this class we put i'm print letter received by
the New York Store this week, which en-
plains itself. We give give it rerJatim ct liter
alum, except the name, which was not fur
nished:
NEAR WINFIELD, Kan. July ). 1872.
Proprietor Ne,c York Store. Wichita, Kan.
SIR: l bought a bill of goods amounting to
near S25 at your place yesterday (the 4th) in
the forenoon, and amongst other things |
bought nine yards of Indian Head sheeting, at
fifteen cents per yard. which, ON arriving at
home, found had not been put up with the
rest OF my purchases. 1 was waited on by
tall, slim, nobby young man with black
moustache. am lady of al least twenty-five
years, fleshy, and good looking, but had not
been got up in much st, e that morning, as |
had ridden to town in freight wagon. paid
for the things, and tbc clerk promised to put
the bill in with the goods, but neglected it,
Please send the missing article and bill with
the bearer of this and oblige, Yours,
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

Just received, car load of choice family
flour, at the Diamond Front. 13-tf
The very best Of ice cream, lemonade and
soda water can be procured at o. Martinson 4
Co.'S No. 81 Main street. jel4-tf
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

Our friends would do well to get to go to LA
Fetra Bros for good things to eat. 7-tf
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

HOUSES FOR SALE Or KEsT.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12

If you wish to buy boots and shoes of the
latest styles 90 to Alleys, No. 80 Main street.
With goods of the finest material. with every
style and variety, he can suit you to a charm
with perfect fits at prices that defy competition.
Giee him call eff
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-12
IMPROVED AND UslMpRoyeD CITY PROPERTY.

CORE vDEucE SOLICIT
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
freed by a Bear.

A Missouri settler, on the Union Pa.
cific Railroad, strayeda q few steps in
the woods recently, in quest Of squir-
rels, provided with only single barrel
ed shot gun. The first game he saw
was bear of monstrous proportions
and unmistakable caunibal notions. He
let fly at Bruin as the amiable creature
advanced, but missed him. There was
race literally for limb or life, and the
hunter succeeded, just as the cavernous
Jaws of the beast touched his skirts, in
swinging upwards on hospitable limb,
where he thought he was secure, for
time at least. The bear, batfled in his
onset, adopted a Fabian policy, grimly
waited, sitting on his launches, in
vicious contemplation for the moment
when his victim should descend. Bears
like mortals lose patience, and when
the hunter was attempting to climb
higher, the brute was enabled to seize
one leg and tore the foot almost entirely
off. The wretched man rendered al
most frantic with pain, thrust one foot
in hollow place In the tree, and seiz.
ing his knife, made strike at the BEARS
head. The bear with one vigorous
sweep of his paw, struck the weapon
from the mans hand; for moment
the poor wretch gave up for lost, but
suddenly he remembered that his spocket
was filled with salt, which he had in
tended for sheep. AT once salt was
his safety. AS the bear thrust his head
up, a handful of salt was dropped
squarely into his wicked eyes, and with
howls of pain he fell scraping and claw
ing the ground. Dealing this out in
homeopathic system at each onset of
the bear, the hunter passed the day and
night, until finally long after noon of
the next day, the people, alarmed by
his long absence, searched the woods
and rescued him from his perilous posi-
finn
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

ABOUT DoGs.-A ranchman in Color
ado has a sagacious dog which the own
or frmly believes can count. He has
seven yoke, or fourteen working oxen,
and when not in use these are turned
loose with large herd of cattle. When
ever they are required he speaks to his
dog the same as he would to boy, and
tells him to go and drive in his oxen.
The dog Immediately starts of and does
the job as well as anybody. On one
occasion during the last season when the
dog had the cattle nearly in, he was no.
ticed to suddenly leave them and run
back to the herd as fast as he could go
| which was three-quarters OF a mile
away. This excited some surprise, but
it was soon discovered he had driver
in but thirteen, and had gone back tC
correct his oarelessness by bringing IL
| the fourteenth.
An instance OF rare honesty, ant
showing how dog may desire to pa.
his board bill, recently occurred il
Fitchburg, Mass. A lady saw a dos
frequently about her house picking uI
odd bits which had been thrown out
and one day she called him in and fet
him. The next day he came back, ant
as she opened the door he walked In ant
laid an egg on the floor, when lac wa
again fed. The following day lac brough
his egg TO pay for his dinner, and on tn
fourth day, he brought the old hen her
self, who it seems had failed to furnisl
the required egg
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

ANECDoTE OF Tom CoRwIN.-When
the late Tom Corwin was quite young
man he was elected Member of the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
and early in the session he brought in
a bill for the destruction of the public
whipping post. He made an earnest
speech in favor of the measure, to which
an elderly member replied as follows !:
"Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is not SO
old as am, and has not seen as much
of Impractical operation of the system of
punishment which he desires to abolish
When lived in Connecticut, if a fellow
stole horse, or cut up other antics, we
used to tie him up and give him a real
good thrashing and he always cleared
right out, and we never saw anything
more of him. It's the best way of get
ting rid of the rogues that ever was
tried, and without expense to theState." b"
Mr.. Corwin, who never failed to carry
his point by a joke, if the argument was
against him, only made brief reply :
"Mr. Speaker, 1 have often been puzzled
to account for the vast emigration from
Connecticut to the West; but the gen.
tleman last up has explained it to my
satisfaction" 1t is almost needless to
say that Mr.. Corwin's bill passed by an
overwhelming majority.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

AWIsE SPoUsE.--A lady Of this city,
of French parentage, bright, witty, and
good, became the wife OF gentleman
whose business called him regularly
every summer to Paris. In his youth
his pace had been rapid, and the lady's
relatives gave many shakes of the head
when talking of the marriage. He told
her very frankly that he had been of
naughty habits, but promised to be
proper. And he made very good hus-
band. On each return from Paris he
brought her some nice little present
sometimes bonnet, sometimes a dozen
of Alexandre's, sometimes dress. But
on this, his eighth return, he surprised
her by placing in her hands a magnifi'
cent lace shawl, the cost of which could
not have been less than seven or eight
hundred dollars. Well might her bright
eyes sparkle, as they did, ever the ex-
quisite gossamer-like gift. Putting an
arm tenderly around his neck and Civ
ing him O soft, sweet kiss, she said :
"Ah, what a good, kind husband you
are, to bring me such beautiful pres.
ent but, Charley dear with a roguis b
smile, s."how bad you must haze been
in Paris this last time!" She knew
him !-EDIToR's DRAWER, in Harper''
Magazine for April
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

A SLIGHT MISTAKE BY A HUNTER.
This is what happened to North Caro-.
lima coon hunter while "the brilliant
November moon was riding in the azure
vault, affording her queenly light :" He
was out hunting in what are termed the
slow lands" when the h0arse notes of
his dog told him that the varmint, what
ever it was, had taken to tree. Ap.
preaching, and not wishing to spend his
strength in telling the tree, he conclud-
ed to climb ii. No sooner said than
done; up he went and just about the
time he was making ready to give the
"critter' shake out, down the animal
came with sudden rush, and avoiding
the dogs, reached another tree and en-
sconced himself amid its branches.
Nothing daunted, our hunter again pur-
sued him this time he obtained a clear
view OF the unknown, and came to the
conclusion that it was the biggest rae
coon that ever he saw. Again the some
thing descended with fearful rapidity
and again he was up another tree. This
time, however, his bulk was clearly
perceptible and the ath-dealing dou
BILE barrel brought him down. 1t was q
huge tiger cat, vulgarly called "wild
cat ID DissOaYi Democrat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
Things We Like to See.

We like to see young ladies who are
bitter enemies kiss each other very af-
fectionately when they meet. 1t re-
minds us of man named Judas who
lived several years ago. We like to see
fashionabiy dressed lady promenad-
ing the streets wearing blue silk dress,
trailing yard behind her in the mud
it cleans the streets so nicely. We like
to see young men very polite and oblig.
ing to other young ladies, who are
scarcely civil to their sisters at home
it proves that the lords Of creation
are void of deception. We like to see
little boys come to church in the eve.
ming, and amuse themselves by sticking
pins in their sleepy neighbors-it shows
that they are not burying their talents
in the earth! We like to see man ia
variably throw his newspaper, boots
and hat on the floor for his tired wife to
pick up-it is evidence that he remem-
bers his promise to "cherish her!" We
like to see the choir during divine SER
vice, spend their time in whispering
and telling stories-it helps us to appre.
ciate the sermon, and convinces US that
they are capable of singing with the
spirit and with the understanding al
So" We like to see young ladies keep
their jaws in constant motion, endeav-
oring to masticate huge ball of chew
ing gum-it looks so ladylike! We like
to see man sporting fast horses, while
he owes the printer and gives nothing
to the minister-it looks honorable
There are many other things we would
like to see, bat we forbear.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
J0L. DEM. -. VOL, XXXVI.. NO. l6,
David Garrick and the Mastiff.

One very sultry evening in the dog.
days Garrick performed the part OF
Lear In the first four acts he re.
ceived the accustomed tribute of ap.
| plause; at the conclusion of the fifth,
when he wept over the body of Cordelia,
every eye caught the soft infection.
AT this interesting moment, to the
astonishment Of all present, his face
assumed new character, and his whole
frame appeared agitated by new pas.
sion. 1t was not tragic, it was evident
ly an endeavor to suppress laugh.
In a few seconds the old attendant
mobiles appeared to be affected in the
same manner, and the beauteous Corde-
liza who was lying extended on q Grim
son couch, opening her eyes to see what
occasioned the interruption, leaped from
her sofa, and with the majesty of Eng.
land the gallant Albany, and tough old
Kent, ran laughing off the stage.
The audience could not account for
this strange termination of tragedy in
any other way than by supposing that
the dramatis personG were seized with
sudden frenzy but their risibility
had different source.
A fat Whitechapel butcher, seated in
the centre of the front bench of the pit,
was accompanied by his mastiff, who,
being accustomed to sit on the same seat
with his master, at home, naturally
supposed that he might here enjoy the
same privilege. The butcher sat very
far back; and the dog finding fair
opening, got on the seat, and fixing his
forepaws on the rails of the orchestra,
peered at the performers with as upright
head and as grave an air as the most
sagacious critic of the day.
Our corpulent Straightforward was
made of melting stuff, and not being
accustomed to the heat of play house,
found himself oppressed by large and
well-powdered Sunday periwig, which,
for the qualification of cooling and wip-
ing his head, he pulled off and placed
on the head of the mastiff.
The dog, being in so conspicuous a
situation, caught the eye of Mr., Garrick
and the other performers. A mastiff in
a church warden's wig was too much !;
it would have provoked laughter in
Lear himself, at the moment of his
deepest distress. No wonder then that
it had such an effect on his representa-
tive.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

A HINT.-Some time ago there lived
gentlemen of indolent habits, In Sus-
sex, who made business in the winter
season of visiting his friends extensive.
ly. After wearing out his welcome in his
own immediate vicinity, he thought he
would visit an old Quaker friend, some
twenty miles distant, who had been a
schoolfellOw of his On his arrival he
was cordially received by the Quaker,
he thinking his visitor had taken much
pains to come so far to see him. He
treated his friend with great attention
and politeness for several days, and, as
he did not see any signs of his leaving,
he became uneasy, but he bore it with
patience till the morning of the eighth
day, when he said to him.;
"My friend, 1 am afraid thee will
never visit me again."
"Oh yes, SHALL" said the visitor !;
81 have enjoyed my visit very much
| shall certainly come again.
may" said the Quaker, ~ thiak
thee will not visit me again"
"What makes you think l viii! not
come again ?" asked the visitor.
"If thee dost never leave" said the
Quaker, show canst thee come again ?"
His visitor left.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
POetical.
Only a Kiss.

ONLY n kiss-a trine slight
Just eager lips one moment blent,
Two faces lit with kindly light
ono thrill across two pulses sent.
strangers, so few bright, short hours pastl
Strangers tomorrow, as before?
All, not whereer our fate be cast,
hold thee, love, forevermore.
How small n thing can change the day!
Can wake dependence from its gloom,
Crimson TO life its sullen gray,
And bid our soul. flowers blush and bloom.
You've touched my brow with fesal wine,
With honor ploud as crowned kings
The lips that once were pressed to thine
Arc sacred from all meaner tlines.
Others shall know what l but guess,
And keep the joy l snatched day;
But memory guards thy one caress
For mine, mine only mine for aye.
When souls have touched in lips that meet.
They part not sullen, sad, and cold;
SIN clings an influence subtly sweet,
one touch that fuses dross 10 gold.
Count 1t no loss, or lavis waste,
The little pearl you careless spend
Cleans not the cup we only taste?
Must joy delay till loves at end?
Safe in my heart thy jewel lies,
Relic and type-ny sum Of bliss.
Near thee or far. keep my prize,
Thy disappearance thy only kiss
"UagcnIaty" in Ndy Gald1y
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
BLOOMSBURY PA, FRIDAY, JUNE Z, 1872.
The Strength of the Law.

You have thousands of readers writes
correspondent at Nashville, Tennes.
see) who appreciate good thing at the
expense even of that "bulwark of our
liberties" the trial by jury. The Hon.
N B, for many years before
the war, and at present, our highly re.
spected circuit judge, while perhaps as
good niSi priuS judge as has ever worn
the judicial ermine, is at the same time
one of the most genial of men. No one
enjoys or can tell good story better
than he. This one / think well worthy
of preservation in your treasury of good
things the Editors Drawer. Not many
years ago, the judge says, man was on
trial at Waynesburg, in this State, on a
charge of murder. The evidence for the
State in-of itself fatally defective-the
defendant on his part, by the testimony
of several unimpeachable witnesses, es.
tablished perfect "alibi." The judge
and every one else supposed the prose.
cutting attorney would thereupon give
up the case. But no he was an obsti
nate fellow, whom the defendants
counsel had made mad, and, moreover,
he chad no use for" the defendant any
way, and argue the case he would.
Court adjourned till the next morning.
Meanwhile our attorney. general spent
a good portion of the night in ransack-
ing the books for "bloody cases." more
especially those in which the Judges
had INDUCED in a vast deal of rhetoric
in their descriptions of the horrible ma
ture Of the crime of murder. These
extracts he read to the jury in his speech
the next morning, quoting also freely
from the Old Testament as TO the prop.
er disposition to be made of the mur-
derer, and closed up in perfect confla-
grafton Of English adjectives in giving
his own notions as to the indeScri5aJIe
Nervousness of the crime of murder.
The Court then charged the jury briefly
who, after few moments retirement,
brought in verdict of" "Guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree!" OF course a
new trial was granted. Defendants
counsel, however, was naturally curl
GUS to know how the jury could have
found that verdict, and so, walking up
to one Of the most intelligent of the
twelve, he said to him, "How on earth
did you find that verdict? ? on what ev-
ideace did you base it?"
"Ohn' said the juryman; "thar
wa'n't nothing in the evidence that
teched him but, you see, the laaO aCas so
- gn-EDIToR's DRAWER, in
Karper'S Magazine for June.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

MORE novelties are the result of ac-
cident than is generally supposed. The
origin of blue tinted paper came about
by mere slip of the hand. William
East, an English paper maker, once up
on time set his men to work and went
at dinner Mrs. East accidentally let a
blue bag fall into one of the vats of
pulp. Alarmed at the occurrence she
determined to say nothing about it.
Great was the astonishment of the
workmen when they saw the peculiar
color of the paper, and great the anger
of Mr.. East when he returned and
found that q whole vat of pulp had
been spoiled. After giving tho paper
made from it warehouse room for four
years, Mr.. East sent it up to his agent
in London to be sold "for what it would
fetch" "For what it will fetch !" said
the agent, misunderstanding the mean
ing; "well it certainly is novelty, bat
he must not expect too much" So he
sold the whole at an advance upon the
market price, and wrote to the mills
for as much more as he could get. The
surprise Of Mr.. East may be imagined.
He fastened to his wife, who found
courage 10 confess her share in the for
tunate accident, and to claim a reward
which she received in the shape of q
new cloak. Mr.. East kept his secret
for short time, supplied the market
with the novel tint, until the demand
far exceeded the supply, and other ma
kers discovering the means used, com
peted with him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

AT Louisville, Kentucky, last year,
the canvasser for the City Directory
visited, among other places, the Office
of the American Merchants Union Ex'
press Company, land made careful note
of all names and residences of the
clerks, officers and attaches of the COM
pany as they were given to him. In
the list appeared the following: "Ter-
hume, Peter, with A. M. U. Ex. Co.,
BIDS. Louisville Hotel" The name OF
the agent was to appear in large letters,
the extra charge of one dollar being
paid at the time. In due time the di
rectory appeared, with Peter Terhune,
ESD, as the agent of the company, in
large type. The canvasser had, how
ever, made a mistake in the name. Pc.
ter was in reality an attache of the of.
flee, but was dog, belonging to one OF
the clerks, who had given the name to
the canvasser in fun. Strangers in the
city, who have business at the Office,
invariably ask for Peter Terhune, and
letters of all kinds on business or pri.
vate matters, come addressed to the
dog, who, it is reported, bears his blush.
ing honors with great meekness.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07
NATURAL CURIOSITY IN VIRaINIA

NATURAL CURIOSITY IN VIRGINIA.
Llts,sS naturde, or the play of nature
is found as frequently in the vegetable
as in the animal kingdom. A vegetable
curiosity has been found In Virginia,
in the shape of bamboo root, which
held in one position presents, clearly
defined in outline, and recognizable at
a glance, BULBS head and three cows
heads. Reversing it a sleeps head ap
pears to view, exact and faithful to
nature, as if carved by some skilled
hand. The heads of two African an
telopes, boar's head, a grey hounds,
a bull dogs, squirrel sitting on a
stump, and tobacco worm, are seen
when the root is held in other positions.
This freak of nature is said to be on
exhibition in Richmend. If we are to
have such outlaws or monsters, we pre-
fer them to be vegetable rather than
animal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-06-07

HERE is a specimen of circumstantial
evidence and the "beauty Of the laws
delay" :" A boy of sixteen was acquit-
ted the other day In the superior court
of Massachusetts,, of charge of plac-
ing distractions on railroad, but nc :
until he had been in prison fifteen
months waiting for his trial. 1t was f.
nally proved that he was in fact engag-
ed in removing the distractions placed
on the road by some unknown person
when arrested, and for thus preventing
terrible accident he was imprisoned
over year. r...f. ..