The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-12-30
EDIroRIAL NOTES.

The Richmond Enquirer has employed |
printers.
TIE famous mandate, "Let no guilty |
man escape" came from Grant.
NJ. H. B. now signs herself NJ. H. F.
Stephen Fiske is responsible for the change.
In the membership of Plymouth church
there are now $50 more women than men.
Ex-SrEAKER Blaine was in early life
Professor of Mathematics in Drennon col
lege, Kentucky.
SHOULD the Pope live until next May,
he will celebrate the fftieth anniversary of
his conservation as Bishop.
President GRANT is making arrange
ments to eell his St. Louis farm for S237,-
600.
The first annual exhibition Of the Mis-
souri, Valley Ponltry and Pet Stock Associ-
alton opens in this city to-day.
The Prince Of Wales has an income Of
only S575, 900 per annum, and he couldn't
afford to pay his own expenses in India.
NEXT to Leavenworth, we regard st.
Louis As the most proper place to hold the
next National Republican Convention.
The advertisements in Newspaper are
not only an index to the state Of trade, but
. reflection of the tastes Of . community.
JESSE PoMEKoY has confessed to having
read sixty dime novels, in view OF which
fact the wonder is that he did so little kill
ing.
The Chicago and St. Louis newspapers
have begun to quarrel about the place OF
holding the National Convention next
year.
VEsUvIUs is about to open the season
with protracted and attractive eruption,
which will draw crowds of sight-seers to
Naples.
The Emperor Of Brazil will start on his
North American and European tour next
March the Goth, embarking for New York
on board the Henlius.
| CARDINAL MANNING, in a recent lecture,
said that in no country in the world was
the administration of justice more unim-
peachable than in England.
GENERAL LANE, candidate for Vice
President in 1860, is now farmer in Ore
gon. His son is Representative in Con-
gress from the same State.
SENAroN JOHN A. LOGAN has not been
able to sit up since his arrival in Washing
ton, but it is believed he will be upon his
feet again before the Congressional vaca-
tion ends.
Rev. H. n. WRIGHT, a Methodist, and
Rev. Mr.. Bocock, . Baptist minister Of
Bellmore, L. l., have gone to law-the
former suing the latter for assault and bat
terry.
The shade of poor Andy johnson will
be resurrected in the Senate on the 1lth oi
January. Eulogies will be delivered al
that time upon the life and services Of the
deceased.
The Democrats of Congress threaten to
pass Blaine's School Amendment 10 the
Constitution and thus remove the question
from our politics. Let them do it. 1t may
he possible that good can come out oi
evil.
The house rents are going down all over
the country. In New York city a number
of three year leases which expire at the
end of the wear, have been renewed at a
reduction of thirty - thirty-fve per cent
THE four women who were nominated by
the Republican party in Boston, have just
been triumphantly elected to the School
Board of that city. One goes in for three
years, two for two years. and one for one
year:
. THE Council Grove Republican thinks
that Hon. John Francis should be the mex.
nominee OF the Republicans for State
Treasurer. Mr.. Francis seems TO be the
honest man the Governor saves for emer-
gencies.
The Hon. John Young, of Canada, read
manifest destiny" backwards. He doesn't
believe that Canada is destined to become a
part Of this glorious Union, but thinks il
rather more likely that this glorious Union
is destined to he annexed to Canada.
The New York Sun, with some malevo-
lence, asserts tina, Mr. Beecher was not
present at the New England dinner, be-
cause he had been privately informed that
he would not he welcome.
The Parsons Suns holiday edition is a
great success. Mr.. Reynolds has labored
hard, and has succeeded in preparing a
number of the Sun which is great adver-
tisement for Labette county.
THE Postmas,er-General says the state
ment made in New York sensation news
paper, that he belonged to the Order OF the
American Union is wholly without truth.
He said, laughinsly that he belonged TO the
81. o. L." instead of the 20. A. u"
We print in another column an article
| IRON the Gtooe- -De,nocrdf, on the grasshopPer
question. We believe that the CD. has
no reasons for its fears, but it is always
best to be prepared for such emergencies.
Kansas farmers will do we'll to read the ar
ticle.
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, who is
now living in Baltimore, will probably be
appointed to position in the service of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
with the title of General Superintendent or
General Manager.
| Ir is understood in Washington that
Mesr. Kerr and Blaine, the present. and
the late Speaker, are preparing elaborate
political essays, covering the whole field Of
the present situation, which will be deliv-
cred in the House in the shape of speeches,