The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-06-13

lie salary OIL the mayor Oh ihuiAhaiVh
is fixed at S, 500.
President Grant will move 10 Long
Branch week from next Saturday.
Counter :.irri;aiion-TLe sentiment in
s gpp1x e Sy the manner OF the average ''
The Japs who are pursuing their studies
at the Chicsgo University wear their plugs
with reckless grace.
Mr.. Edmund Yates has most incOnsist-
emily given up his place in the English post
Office in order to devote himself to letters.
-Ex-Mayor Opdyke of New York has
had to pay a fine OF $3.50 for failure to attend
on jury duty and giving no good reason
therefor.
Tom Scott might have been president Of
Erie if he would abandon his Pennsylvania
connection. But Tom would not.
A convict in the Michigan penitentiary
has Just fallen heir to nearly $1,000. 600, BY
the death of his father. His sentence ex-
pires in August.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett leaves awife
and two children-as son and daughter
and fortune of ten million dollars.
Is Tie ldtes5l ultAbtNdA otoA 81
Paris. She has been the reigning belle Of
French society and she sings merely because
she likes TO.
There are some rich men even in rugged
Scotland. The Bairds, who stand at The
head OF the iron masters there, make al
clear profit annually 81, 500, 600.
| The S,einways offered their workmer
the use of S,einway Hall, in which to hold s
mass meeting to discuss Il strike for wages
higher than they think they can pay them
Gilmore has princely notions of the value
of music. For instance, he offered Mil'
Tietjens S2i 900 to sing two peices of musi'
elch day at his jubilee. for twelve cohsecu
tive days, or 81 200 4 song. Tie!jens wa
Obliged to decline the muniGcent offer, no
being able 10 break her European engage
stances when he made the ofier.
Not Time Of Singing.
| From the Naiiop
i,-eems pretty plain that this is not 10
a singing campaign. We do not see
hint OF that enthusiasm with which some c
the astonished Reformers were at first dis
posed to console themselves. The valuabl
| cicLfcilt vi 1hu WHICH H !" ~ SUI
posed Mr.. Greeley's nomination would brin
into the canvass is altogether missing; an
were it not SO much easier to foresee thing
after they have come to pas', we should MAJ
vel that anything else was expected. N
joke is irresistibly funny and delightful afie
two weeks contemplation. The mood {
the public is cynically cool; the people al
pear p.everseiy indisposed TO he amused
Mr.. Greeley must stand before the countr
entii civ denuded of all his ludicrous Or a
tractive accidents; bis white hat and Ovel
coat will not hurt him, but they will M
help him. At first glance, the state Of III
proper mind would appear to be apathetit
but this impression is superficial. The PEE
pie DO not believe that anybody's election
necessary to the salvation of the countr,
The country has been saved, at least f.
some time TO come.
| MAYOR MEDILL is credited with a geo
story at the expense Of the Liberal Republ
GALS In conversation with a friend, Ii
other dav, he said that two or three-an
especially one-of the half dozen Radio;
supporters of Mr.. Greeley, in Chicago, r,
minded him of an old farmer in Ohio. II
old fellow was walking alongside his wasoI
one day, when the horses took fright an
ran away, dragging him over the ground
very unpleasant manner. As he went u
the road in this style, he kept shouting vi,
orously to those whom he passed: "Hel
me let 60. Help me let go!' And so, col
cluded the Mayor, most Of the Liberal II
publicans are being dragged along by Il
Greeley movement, all the lime mental
calculating, Help me let co.
OSE Of the funniest things that has hal
pened is the utter dismay and prostratiOn
the whole-or nearly the whole-of the lit
conclave at Cincinnati who started I'll
movement" They never dreamed of sue
a cataclysm. They only kindled lin
blaze to warm themselves into comiortab
state Of expansion, and had no ide, that Ii
surrounding prairies were SO combustibl,
The CONSERVATION Of the novice who, i'd
peeping into his masters books, found hin
self face TO face with demon be had uncOr
sciously raised, with no knowledge of I'll
spell TO lay him again, was no greater tina
that which they experienced. Poor liltl
gentlemen,-W Washington Capital.