The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-08-13

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. form convention by A. Harris, +. A. kar
and n. A. English.
The attention of our readers is directed {
number OF legal notices to be found else
where.
Mrs. ID. Z. Alexander, accompanied by he
! daughter and mother started east for visi
this week.
Heavy rains must have fallen in the north
west night before last. The atmosphere
! again cool and refreshing.
Mr. n. LarIx. Of the 81. Nicholas hotel, Q
Decatur, Illinois, and brother to our whien
Peter l.. Is visiting our city.
The Southern hotel of this city is being re
: fitted up by the proprietor. Mr.. Scott, with
view TO opening up a hotel on the Europea'
plan.
". l.. Houston. living six miles north o
) town, on the Big river, desires to hire tweni,
men to pu, up hay. Apply Immediately a
his house.
L. L. West. our worthy i. NJ, ha. gone /,
Leesburg. Highland county, Ohio. on visit
He will be absent two or three weeks. FraIh
Todd is helping in the post Office.
Miss Lizzie Mead gave birthday party t
her schoolmaies and young acquaintance las
saturday, which proved happy affair tor til,
masters and misses for blocks around.
George kaizer, who has been running
branch shop in Ellsworth the past summer
returned to Wichita last week, glad enough tc
get back TO where there was 4 show of lii,
and business.
August Wagner and Sol Weiderman have
dissolved partnership, and August Wagner
| will continue the butcherng business in his
own name on and after Monday next.
Mozart from whose instrument no eli.
liyening strain has fell for long time, favors
Us with a refrain this week, the notes of which
are partly sacred but principally otherwise.
| Messrs. Wheeler d. Sheets are building q
very nice and commodious residence on the
banks of Chisholm near their new mill TIE
building is cottage design and is already en-.
! closed.
get the teachers institute set for the 9th day
Of August and which will meet in Wichita.
The supcrtendent desires TO make it an entire
success.
A match game of base ball between the
Sedgwick City club and the new organization
Of this place, came of yesterday afternoon up
on the grounds of the latter, the result 0.
which We have not been put in possession OF.
| The attention of our new base ball club j.
invited 10 touching obituary. In rhyme, dcd-
| icated to the memory of j. Smith, Esq, the
champion, who is supposed to have formerly
| belonged TO the Douglas Avenue nine, to be
found on the first page.
The commissioners appointed by the dis
rrict court to enquire into and determine the
damages done to parties by the daming OF the
Little river by Wheeler and Sheets were in
session yesterday. The commissioners are
| W. J. Ilobson, W. G. Hobbs and II. l.. Jack
son.
Castor beans, quite a quantity of which
were raised in this vicinity last year and ship
| ped to ST. Lonis, have lately doubled up III
price, being quoted at $3.50 per bushel.
orasshOppers being naturally subject TO too
! frequent alrine discharges can't stand the cas-
tor oil bean. but we hope our green corn ana
cotton may give them the bloody fluX.
VIM. Gritfensticn tried 10 smoke the hop
progresses out OF his garden by burning olu
hay. One can imagine his surprise when he
H.
load to find the eternal bugs sitting along Oh
the fence warming themselves aud waiting Tor
| him TO come on and stir up the fire.
The stone work Of the county jail is pro-
crossing rapidly, and the foundation of thr
entire building will be completed to-,iay
rwenty-six cords o; stone was used for III,
work. The mason contractors, Msssrs llar-
tell & Iongbottom, have made 10000 brick
which they fired yesterday, aud they will mex,
week commence to lay up the supcr>tructure.
The iron work or cells will not be placed H.
position until the building is enclosed
\ new firm, composed CT two well known
citizens, c. g. Ludlum and W. G. Crawford,
for the purpose of wholesale dealing in -four
feed. gain etc, came into existence this week.
they are erecting building on Douglas ave.
adjoining the Eagle block on the east wher,
they may be found. That they will succee,
We have no doubt, both being first class men
and they advertise in the EAGLE, whicl.
shows enterprise aud good sense.
We met quite good sized lad the other da,
Dsn Npin at Snh
manly little heart would break. In answer :,
a question he informed us in broken sentence.
that his mother was dead. the only friend b,
had on earth except tour brother, aud sister
all younger than himself. His mother was
widow woman. supporting five children will
her needle. but ovcrtaXing her phy,ica
strength. she was taken with typhoid fever
and the grief stricken boy had told us the rest
Her name was White. and even after she wa,
confined to her bed she sat up in bed and sew
ed each day until She could no longer hold VI
her head. The children will be taken BY i
Mrs. Swarensen 10 the former home of the
mother near Independence, Missouri.
A ire was discovered on Monday afternoon
in the rear OF Geo. 4. Harris Il Cos soda fat
tory, which destroyed some fifty tons of ha,
ami hut for the exertions of the fire compan,
must have swept away the factory building,
IL appears that spark of fire from little fur
nance used by the factory, communicated Will
dry manure pile. and although 1t was dis
covered on the instant, SO high was the wind
that the hay stacks near by were sheet OF
flame before il could be arrested The ha,
stood close 10 the building which was scoreh-
ed and damaged considerably The loss i,
about five hundred dollars. The fire depart
ment was promptly on hand and staid until
all danger was passed.
By or through some purported confession
published in the Wellington Press the South
western Stage company and some of its agent
are implicated in the late horse stealing for
which the offenders were hung by a mob. al
account of which we published last week. Mr.
Trrrill. the agent At this place, informs us thai
this confession is grossly libclous and that IN,
circumstance, c.,cd TO bear ont the charge ar,
only partially true. but tor the most part
wholly untrue. We would be slow TO believ,
that such men rs Parker. Tisdalc. I,rsill or
their agents would countenance such work.
The Wichita base bali club has been organ
lied, fully. with sixty names enrolled. The
iir,; nine will be uniformed with gray suits
trimmed I'm red. red belts red starkin,.