The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
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A few days ago, at Carthage, No., DIR.
Abbott and Assistant Surgeon Gum cb To-
reformed large rattlesnake and extracted
its fangs. The snake was captured bv Mr..
Stafford. near Carthage, who grasped 1t in
hands and securely Gagged it without idjury
to himself. The attempt at dentistry was
failure. His snakeship would not hold
still, and when the teeth came the head
was with them.
as Samuel ]. Tilden here ?" said 4
driving-park yesterday, rising in his car
riase, that the question might be heard by
all. @No," said several persons. "Then,"
his driver, II think it will be safe. Drive
in."-Roehesr Democrat.
The Weziiehe Post calls Col. Valentine
Baker an Eisenbahnvagennothzu
suchnochrietsel. If be had known that
that was the Dutch for it, and that it
| would have been slung at him, he proba-
bly, would never have committed the as
sault On Miss Dickinson.
A clergyman named Weaver, Of Wayne
county, New York, has been dismissed from
the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal
church, at Fairville, where he preached for
q time, for improper conduct toward q much
respected lady who was q member OF his
church.
A resident of Auburn, y. Y, has n hedge
of deadly Magistrates about his garden.
The potato bugs on their travels toward
his potato patch, few nights since, stopped
at the hedge to lunch. They ate freeley of
the polsonous nightshade, and Immediately
turned up their toes.
Murad w. sold a number of the wives
left behind by the late lamented Abdul
Az at public auction, the other day. They
sold comparatively we'll.
Two suits to recover damages for injuries
received by falls, occasioned by the condl-
tion of sidewalks, are pending against the
city Of Bloomington. One is for SlO,UO0,
and the other for 5000.
Some Of the Philadelphia hotels have
discovered a new way of increasing their
bills. They charge a dollar extra for
rooms without bedbugs.
Some cooked human bones exhibited in
the London Museum Of Natural History,
are playfully alluded to as "relics OF a
Fejee picuic."
Robert Burns Begg, of Kinrose, son Of
Robert Burns youngest sister, died n few
day. ago. He was we'll known Scottish
teacher.
The 10th anniversary of the Emperor
Williams entrance into the Prussian army
will occur Jan. /, 1877. He began militia
ry life before he was 10 years Of age.
Minnesota seems to be good State to
emigrate from. She has been ravaged by
the grasshoppers four years in succession.
Robert Drummond, of Louisville, Ky, q
machinist, suicided by means Of morphine
Sunday.
Dispatch per medium from Horace
Greeley: "Catch Nick Smith and punch
his head for me-"
The Republicans are confident they can
carry the State of California by at least
10000 majority.
Dom Pedro is making things lively in
England, and the queen spends most of hel
time asking where he is now.
Thomas Cox, long-shore man, of New
Orleans, has saved eleven persons from
drowning in the last two years.
Henry w. Pieper, prominent citizen o.
South Boston, has disappeared and fou
play is feared.
Chares Dunkel, of South Chicago, acci.
dentally shot himself Sunday, while hunt
ing, inficting a mortal wound.
CT. Keyes, q brakeman, fell from {
freight train Sunday night, near Aurora
ILL.,, and was killed.
The Prince of Wales has altered hi
plume. The two sides which used 10 over
hang now stand upright and parallel.
In all probability We will have the fas
mail trains again.
They are painting the Exposition build
ing red.
The dime novel leads to many suicides