White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-29

Speaker COBB Was D0xt eaiou O"s, sAA sPo>o
eloouently in favor Of standing by the Repubii-
can party. We did mot know there was 20 much
pi.t and good stuff generally in CoBB. The o 1
plause that interrupted his remarks, showed
vbere the sympathies of the mass Of the audience
lay.
a random discussion then followed, but COBB
h.,d bis ground, and the "Reformers" did not
make point.
Th.re in doubtless some disaffection in the Re-
,,b,;c.n r.nks: but no more than is usual when
= Pr,sideut il . csndidste for reelection. We 10
member that BAN. WOOD and the crowd with
which he trains got up Convention in Kansas,
in 1854 snd sent Delegates to a National Conven-
ton - .6ominate FRKEMoNT against LINCOLN.
They viii effect about - much now, and they did
then.
McMEEKM of the Teft House, gave grand
dinner, yesterday, to his boarlsrs and invited
Ruests He said he wanted to show that he could
set up something better for the people of Kansas
than was got up for the Grand Duke, without
charging the State cent for it. He 6afa mag
nifcsnt bill Of fare, consisting of every eatable
drinkable, and delicacy imaginable. It is the
general verdict that the affair was grand sue
cess.
AssouAr-J. A. BERRY, the Missouri bush
whaeker, who sued Union officer for $4,000 for
arresting him, and recovered about $50, and who
has since been bobbing around in Kansas, start
ing Democratic papers, has just absconded from
Humboldt, leaving his swindled creditors in the
lurch, and his family dependent upon the charity
of those whom l,e has wronged. His Surviving"
partner in the publication of the Humboldt States
man, gives him a parting notice, in which he
says:
"Asr obtaining the good u. q the people be psosu,sd
70 puSshment By law and fearing chat justice would close
in upon him he left these parts between two days. leaving
ftis fraud :nd the Of confidence man and vito
deserter Of the deepest dye"
We know how it is ourself having been under
the necessity, some nineteen years ago. of per-
forming like Office for runaway partner, who,
although he left no wife, left probably half q
dozen widows and maidens who had promised to
be his wife, and also sundry tailor's, store, and
board bills. Since then, we have forsworn part
ners-of the male persuasion.
Y Wooden hotels are in q streak Of bad luck,
1t this season of the year. few nights since,
the Brevoort House, in Leavenworth, was burn
ed down; and on Sunday night, February 25th,
| the Scandinavian Hotel, in Atchison, the proper
ty of W. W. GUTHERIE, nearly opposite the Mass
asoit House, was burned.
| II H. B. BUCKINGHAM, of the Concor,lia En-
pire, is ono of the Delegates to the Republican
National Convention. Friend Buck having done
us the honor to recommend us for an honorable
position, we can now have the pleasure of con-
graduating him upon the honor that has been
conferred upon him.
~ Ex-senator GRIMES, of Iowa, died at his
home in Burlington, on the 7th inst. He differs
from the other Republican Senators who voted
to save ANDY JOHNSON, only in the particular
that he is buried, and the others are not.
n We see it stated that Rev. ID. p. MITCHELL
was arrested and fined, few days ago, at Man
haitian, for selling chestnuts without license!