The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-09-17
suNDRY AND DIVERS.

When we nave remarks 70 make on
the Morse Feie, it is diabolical Of the CON.
positor TO set i; up "horse feet"
Pooh! Turkey i. sending Us hsrem
scandal for news. There's harem scare'em
enough here already, thank You.
If there is any virtue in coun.sr-irri.
tsnts, Mr.. Beecher ought to be exempt from
hay fever this season.
The Tax Union of South Carolina has
been convened to meet in Columbia, On the
10Th of this month.
The new gold belt about the Black
Hills is thirty miles wide. This must be
the championship belt.
Brigham Young swears he has but ore
wife. Very we'll; then Celestial marri-
ages" and social harlo,ry are identical.
"Sunset" Cox said at tie last session Of
Congress, that "a single hofnet, il he felt
good, could break up camp-meeting.
The Courier-Jounal inquiries: ''Are
the American people all turning to hands
and teet?' No; Io:Lolisville they are all
eare.
1t is limited tina. Thurlow Weed will
emerge from his retirement, aud accept the
Republican nomins,icn for Mayor of New
York city.
The Boston Post ha, taken possession Of
it, fine new PREMISE. Aside from its poll
tics il is one of the bes. news. apers in the
country.
The sgc of letters. Oae hundred and
,hir,y-three sacks Of mail from London for
Australia passed through Chicago on Tnes
day for San Franci-co.
The experiment, Of planting trees along
the line Of the ST. Paul T. Pacific Ri rosd
has been successful. All the varieties have
thriven excellenlly.
The friends of Howard University in
dignantly deny that the institution is finan
cially crippled, as has been Represented by
recent Democratic dispatche'.
-It's all very we'll to laugh at the Penn
sylvania Du,chmen who vote for Andrew
Jackson, but the Cincinnati Republicans
have Just voted against James Monroe.
The late deceased Sup ,rin;endent Of the
New York Assay Office has bsques,h.d to
the Government large and very valuable
collection Of gold and silver ores.
The new Republican paper projected
10 New York has advanced 30 far that the
first issue is announced for some day between
the 14,h and 2lst of this month.
-Spurseon has college for the educa-
and an orphan asylum attached to his tab
ernacle.
A patron of poor hotel in the country
said everything he obtained there was cold
but the water, and everything was sour but
the pickles.
Our ball-players abroad have been
beating the Irishmen at cricket, by 81 10
81. That's more than Dublin on them
N. Y Commercial
Fred Douglass paper slys the troubles
at the South, 80 far az the negroes are re-
sponsible for them, are chiefly due TO a few
bad leaders.
1T strikes the Detroit Free Press that
most of the papers are giving Old John
Harper's horsss three Lies of obituary no.
tice TO one fer old John:
The Young Ladies' Christian Associa-
tion of New York is tryi,g to obtain a week
ly half-ho!iday for the female employees in
the stores and warehouses.
"A breach Of promise case was recently
tried in London. in which a gentleman sued
a lady, and the jury gave verdict in his
favor-damages. half cent.
An old maid is lot without power. A
writer says he has known one such to iu,n a
steamboat excursion into an occasion of
gloom and defPondency.
The Chica 90 Public Library, founded
Jest afrcr the great fire, has now $4,000
books. 1t is supported by tax of one-
filth of a mill, which already givss an in
come Of s65. 0G0 year.
The appointment OF Il successor, as Min
lister to Rnssis, Of Jewell, will probably be
made during the present week. 1t is thought
that the selection will lie from New Eng
land.
-Ns!ionil Bank rotes and legal tender
noes canno; be sent in the same packages
for redemption, as they are counted in d.
ferent branches. ard express charges are
charged 10 different accounts.
The rapid growih of our American
e,rous strides Of the British metropolis. Lon
don now oon'ains 1900, 900 people. I, al
most equals Paris, New York and Brooklyn
combined into ore.
The theory OF subterranesn river, CON
meeting the waters of Like Superior ard
L Ike Ontaric, is revived. II is regarded IS
absolutely necessary TO account for the pres.
ence of salmon end herring in the lakes
above Niagara Falls.
Foreign governments have discosered
that the engraving and printing in this coun-
Try for currency or bank note issues and p s.
tai asrvice IL not only superior 10 anything
that is done in The several foreign nations,
bat i, much cheaper, and orders are row
being executed in tire United States for
japan. Spsin, Italy, Greece ard several
ether governments.
The wicked New York HERALD thinks
that the new Christian vocabulary at Ply
mouth Church might even justify the mem
Der, in new ccnjugaticn Of the verb $50
damn" Thus.
damn. We damn Moulton.
Thon damnest. You damn Mouitou.
Moulton is damned. Moulton damns a..
Mr.. Comb, of Harper's Ferry, alluded
to Rsv. John J. Kahn as a eort Of a Beecher.
This raised Kahn. The reverend gentleman
did 10: sit down on the ragged edge of de-
spair, mortgage his house for $1,000, with
he was dead, AID go forth while the clouds
were flying to select six members of his CON-
grega,ion and ten thousand dollar lawyer
to Whiewash him. He only wrote one let.
ter, and Mr.. Combs replied to it BY the fret
mail IS follows:
In repo, ting such infamou. tales I have
done an incalcuiable injury TO the charac-
ter of this reverend gentleman, whose repu.
talion is pure and blameless; and regret
me- st sincerely the harm which have done
BY circulating these base ISLANDERS; and do
fully and freely apologize for this injury to
the character of q Christian, gentleman,
and minister Of God.
And ftill the s.o!en 10y o! Philadelphia
Charlie R,ss-is unhesrd o.. Although
500, coo has bsen offered, the kidnappers
remain relentless. Tie Police are utterly
Without clue an! slmost without hope.
The latest prore s;tion is to find him through
agency. The believer in
hi, means OF grace IS 10 less parsonage
han Prof. Alex. Hermann, the exponent Of
modern nercomancy, tie producer Of full
yrown rabbits from ihinbles. and creator of
,old fishes, with water and glohss TO match.
rom pocket handkercbisf or fix hats. He
ha. offered to find the missing boy, assum-