The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-06-22


Frem ten to fifteen minutes after the resu
of each ballot was announced by the Pres
w dent OF the Cincinnati Convention 1t wa
placed on the EAGLE bulletin board, for tn
accommodation and information of the lare
Is crowd that stood anxiously waiting.
We take pleasure in calling the attention
e our readers TO the card of ID. b. Emmer
Having been acquainted with him numbe
is of years we know him to be gentleman
ability and Integrity, and business entruste
to his care will be promptly attended to.
Two American gentlemen OF African d.
scent had "set-too' Saturday, which result
ed in considerable hair wool pulling and ey
bunging. One of them was taught also tbs
e he had better be little more guarded in hi
conversation about the others sister.
J. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ere
/. G. Smyth, recently from Madison. Wisconsin
= in Wichita, few days ago. Fred is as en-
: thusiastic as ever. but alas his love is divide
between McCormick's harvesting machin
and Peerless, Kansas.-Fo,enes Herald.
y Mr.. W 5. Bailey, OF the West Side, know
ing the want of a three-horse .evener for a
purposes, but more particularly on harvest
ers, reapers and mowers, has perfected on
and tested it on his wheat last week, don
away with all side draft. Every farmer want
one. He has applied for patent.
Hargis says that folks need not 90 to tn
Arkansas Hot Springs any more, but visit til,
Kansas hot springs ut the mills. He think
the waste water that flows from their new
steam condenser, boiling hot, at the rate o
5 forty gallons per minute, has healing proper
D ties in it. Try course, G.. F., and see il i
is not good for the asthma.
The Kansas City journal Of Commerce, of th,
, 10th inst, displays its usual amount OF enter
prise and gives a diagram of the hall in whicl
the National Convention was held, together
with the section each State occupied. Tn,
Kansas delegation occupied a position abou
the center of the building between New
Jersey and Missouri.
The ladies ofthe Presbyteriaa Church pro
pose TO have a lead bex deposited it the corner
stone OF their new church: said box to con.
tain letters and small articles addressed to
posterity one hundred years from now. Any
one who may desire TO can have the privilege
OF addressing or writing letter to their folks,
to be delivered July 4th, 1876, by paying q
small amount of postage.
c. Ii Irwin, of the firm of Irwin & Davis,
hyerymen. drove one of their teams into the
Little river Saturday evening for the purpose
OF washing the carriage. The stream was high
from the recent heavy rains. The current
was swift and the team was carried down and
the horses, which were valuable, were
drowned. Not a pleasant introduction to
these gentlemen, who so recently came TO our
city and commenced business.
Mr.. A. J. McKibbep, of st. Louis, Michigan
has been in the city for more than a week
past, on his return from an extended tour
through California and Oregon, including the
famous Willamette Valley He says he was
disappointed with the Pacific coast, and is
surprised at this part OF Kansas. He returns
to his home in Michigan for the purpose OF
disposing OF his property when he viii settle
IN the Arkansas Valley.
! NJ a tOlOTcu man VINO has
been engaged in fishing in the Little river, in
formed us Tuesday that some one had put
some kind Of acid on his net which had eaten
great many of the threads and almost de-
stroyed hissnet. Shame on the man who
would so far forget himself and his duty TO
his neighbor as TO commit an act of that kind.
Wesley will be ready for business again to-
day or tomorrow.
Levy Mclaughlin came to this town one
year ago last March, went on quarter sec
ton of raw prairie and commenced work
Last Saturday he told us the result OF his year
and a halls work was harvest of sixty acres
OF Early May and Walker wheat pronounced
by the milers 10 be number two; ten acres Of
rye; several hundred trees. fruit and orna-
mental, and all but twenty acres of the one
hundred and sixty ready for fall wheat. The
success of such men is sure, they cannot fail
The telegraph office, which is at present
located in the Occidental Hotel, will be moved
about the first Of next month farther down
Main street. into l.. b. Farrel's building.
Mr.. Farrell will take charge of it being
an operator, Mr.. Drake, the pres
ent operator, will return to his home in west
ern New York, taking with him the VOL
wishes OF many of our citizens, for by his
courteous manner and gentlemanly deport-
ment he has won the admiration of a host Of
our citizens, who will regret to see HIM leave.
A little girl, living near Eureka. while
playing IN a harvest field. was bitten on the
In NV
Swede, who was working in the field at the
time, got some milk from a COW standing near
by, and inserted a small straw in each OF the |
holes made by the fangs of the snak,, and |
poured some milk into the straws, which |
counteraeted the poison, and within an hour |
the child was playing around as usual. This |
occurrence was .related to us by an eve |
We have read and heard great deal about
tramps, but did not expect that such "a thing
would ever reach this country. But we were
for they are here among us and
have visited quite number of houses in the
city. They, too, seem TO understand Just
where to 90 TO do their begging; seem to
have a natural instinct in that direction, and
that is TO make a raid on house when there
are no men around They ought to be ar
rested and not allowed to roam around the
city, soaring women and children out of their
wits by their impudence and ungainly APP
pearance.
Various and many were the conjectures and
IDEAS expressed by different persons in the
arge crowd as they stood around the EAGLE
bulletin board, which was placed at the foot
81 the stairs, and on which the dispatches
were posted as they came in. Not until the
bird ballot was reached did tho Hayes men
eel eonfident-then they began to show their
pocket book. and call for bets. and when the
inal dispatch was posted, cheers loud and long
went up. The only dissatisfaction we heard
was by our Democratic friends who
seemed extremely anxious that Blaine should
receive the nomination, for they thought they
Gould beat him, but Hayes would be too much
or them.
The Commonwealth of the 18th says: "Quite
last night our office was visited
~ Marsh Murdoch and Mrs Murdoch. The
vain explained that they were on their way
o Philadelphia, that owing to the juicy condi-
ion of the fertile soiltheir train was detached
n the vicinity of Carbonate and so re-
NAMED till late in the afternoon. On arriving ,
t Topeka they wisely concluded to stop over
Until morning. They described the rain all
long the Santa Fe as tremendous. At Em-
'oria Commencement Day at the Normal /
chool had to be postponed. The Marais des |
;ygnes was full up to the stringers of tn e rail-