The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-01-09
NEWS sND OTHER ITEMS.

Mr.. Yell IL Tie name oil no'-v poll
tician in Texas.
The Dcmocrct has taken Missouri from
its heading, and pat St. Louis in its place.
Cows have taken the "z,o;" at Circle
vile. What next?
American demoise,les at school in
Rome, are accused OF flirting with handsome
cardinals.
1t required almost two columns in the
Washington Chronicle to mention the ladies
who "received" on New Years day.
The Lawrence Standard thinks once
every two years is often enough for the Kan
sas Legislature to met.
The Democrats oil the Missouri Legisla-
ture are working together harmoniously.
The Kansas City Times is rejoiced.
st. Louis steamboa,men are fearing an
ice gorge that will'destroy the steamers at
the levee,
A correspondent wants some one TO tell
him who Richard III was before he was
"himself again."
The Shrewsbury Chronicle England
publishes a fac simle of its Grst number,
printed Just one hundred wears ago.
There is just now numerous inquiries
about Senator Pomeroy. He was expected
Yesterday, but didn't arrive. His Secre-
tarys think he is snow bound.
MIR. Til,on Gays, in his last Golden Age,
that there is too much Beecher in the
Christian Union, but he doesn't say the other
cross thing-,ha. there is too little Christian
union in Beecher.
The reason that Forrest did not retire
from the stage was because he believed that
men lived longer in active life,--'just like a
ship" said he; "she'l II last twice as long on
the ocean as she will in the docks"
Lacy Stone will no, lecture this winter.
She is engaged upon an exhaustive commen-
tary on the ancient legend Crock the cradle,
Lucy" with Illustrations drawn from person.
al experience.
Henry Neigcs, the Peruvian Jim Fisk,
Vanderbilt and Drew combined, recently
presented President Bilfa's wife with $780,
600 upon her birthday, while that lady's
daughter received on the same anniversary
check for only $4,000.
Miss Addie Taylor received $50, 900 for
nursing Frenchman who was down with
the smallpox. Eli the girls are now look
-, e. s;,L Erapchnan
A Leavenworth retail firm, Jsggard x
Foster, took whole page for their adver-
ti-emen,, January LIST, in each Of their local
papers. Their sales since have run up 20
thousand dollars dav.-EGnsas City Jour
nat.
Kate Field tartly says: 1; is a crime,
apparently, to be a contrai;o. The world
has gone mad over sopranos. Only shrek
on c alt, and YOU bring down the house.
Sing a c,n,ralto largo, with exquisite
phrasing ard voice, and applause will be
comparatively mild. Truly, as has been
said, are now ia loud, whereas formerly 1t
was Ion
The epiz ,o!y has appeared iuthe Rocky
Mountains. The Denver Neus of the LIST
has dispatch from Georgetown, Colorado,
which saws that the Colorado Stage Company
has Withdrawn It's coaches. No mails or
food have been received for two days
Bread,,uiIs are high and fears Of a famine
prevail.
The Virginia City Enterprise, noticing a
rumor that diamonds had been found at the
mouth of Si1-mile Canyon, makes the fol-
lowing emphatic decision "Ihe report
may be true; but The man who attempts to
sell share of the stock in this market will
be shot" 1t ia evidently not healthy place
for diamond stock jobbers in Virginia City.
New Orleans people are singing gaily Of
the beauties of the Gulf climate, and plying
the northern people who are looking down
the glass tube for the mercury. lis in
being ccntenied with ones lot. The sailor
while being dashed in terrific storm on the
ocean, exclaimed in the most sympathetic
tones "Lord pity those unhappy folk who
live at home in houses"
A member of the Kansas Legislature.
while slipping his wine in Topeka saloon
received a perfumed note. 1t read:
DGAR-: am waiting anxiously for
YOU at the restaurant. / must see
you. Come and meet Immediately, your
own dear LAURA.
The gallant knight did not give second
perusal to the charming invitation, but
dashed out of the saloon, and flushed with
love and eagerness to meet the unknown
writer, soon reached the restaurant, and in a
jify had clambered up pair Of stairs, and
found himself in the presence of a woman
who had a few minutes before entered one Of
the private apartments Of the restaurant.
What ensued remains a mystery, but when
the disconnected legislator walked out there
were standing within few rods a jolly set OF
roeues, who having noticed the woman going
INFO the restaurant, about the time the legis.
lator went into the beer-house, had con-
ceived the ides OF improvising the meeting
as good practical joke.
The distress that prevails in Kansas City
is increasing, rather than diminishing. The
people speak out through the papers and
declare that all the published accounts Of
trade prosperity are the merest "bosh"-|
empty and false. Now comes a citizen in
the Necs, of that place, writing as follows:
Now it is mot necessary 10 remind the
reader that money is very scarce or that there
il many a poor family in our city suffering
for the necessaries of life. On the approach
of cold weather our public work CEASES, rail-
roads stop grading, and the poorer classes
are Obliged to use up their scanty earnings
in order to get through the winter. They
complain Of hard times. Money has been
drawn out of the county instead Of in Il, and
We are not alone, almost every portion of
the United States makes the same complaint. |
Collecioss find it hard to make colieciiors.
landlords hard to obtain their rents. and
merchants hard to dispose of their good,
AImose every 6eanch Of business b suffering
IN conseaueqce Of the geneEd cry Of hard I
timeo." fSh&1f Ge common, and The rich |
= q b d.y 8 b Hanger Of becoming d.
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