The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17
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Blaine plays billiards.

| Blaine plays billiards.
The Car plays whist at Ems
Congress will adjourn next Saturday.
Tine debt OF ST. Louis is only SIC, ,3l9,.
600.
The Centennial frecrackers cost So.
100000.
1t costs a man $50 to insult lady in
st. Louis. 1t costs him his life out West.
When Boston feels like it, she consume
two thousand tons OF ice per day.
-Brignoli, the great tooter, weighs three
hundred pounds.
indianapolis ice dealers are trying to
get up corner upon the congealed fluid.
james Gordon Bennett is said to have
spent $500 on his yachts
Sam Bowie taps the Saratoga Springs
mildly.
James Ashbury, the owner Of the yachts
Cambria and Lavonia, arrived in New
York from Liverpool on Saturday.
The Sioux tribe numbers 60,OOO. Crook,
with his :, 800, will nave no trouble in get
ting away with this small band.
knott was first Fryed, then Hailed on,
then frozen by Hoar frost. He hasn't
been Hurd from since.
-"Let no guilty man escape" Mr.. TIL
den, paste that in your hat. You will not
escape.
New York imported, during July S2O,-
600, 900, while Boston took IN a little over
three, and Philadelphia less than two mil
lions Of dollars.
Hon. J. Riley Weaver, United States
Consul at Antwerp, is now on visit TO his
parents and friends in Westmoreland
county.
Rev. ". W. Newton, OF Trinity Church,
Newark, has declined third call from st.
PauPs Church, Boston, at a salary Of So
600 year.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, is the
inventor OF the common hand sterescope,
and he gave it to the world without the
protection OF a patent.
Robert johnson, publisher of the New
York Ereaing Mail was thrown from his
carrisge at the Catskiil Mountains recently
and severely injured.
Bishor-elect William Stevens Perry, of
the diocese of Iowa, has received the hon
orary degree of LID. from William and
Mary College, Virginia.
Archbishop Bayley, OF the archdiocese of
Baltimore, will spend few months in rest
and recreation at Newark, y. j., the scene
of his old labors.
The Chicago Tribune intimates that
after the Indian war is over, "Sitting Bull
will drop around at the newspaper offices to
see who wrote these articles" Gone TO
Iurrup.
A young man named Ernest Davis, a
hard case, son Of Samuel Davis, promi-
nent merchant of Barry, Mo, was shot and
killed, Monday, by Vim. Mallory, another
merchant of the place.
Sixteen hundred Cleveland girls, many
OF them not yet thirty-iive years Of age,
have pledged themselves not TO associate
with young men OF tippling habits. A
great reformation is now looked for.
Capt Richard Yeaton, of Belgrade,
Maine, aged seventy-seven, and his wife, |
aged seventy, gathered siNty-four members
OF their family about their board the othe
night, including fourteen children, with
their husbands or wives, thirty-four grand
and two great grandchildren
Paul Boynton is to swim around the
world. lie is to 60 by way of Genoa. Ven
ice, Vienna, Moscow, ST. Petersburg, South
Russia, Turkey the Suez Canal, Bombay,
Calcu;ta, Madras and Java to Australia,
" xhenc. he will return to New York by the
Isthmus of Panama.
1T is the boast Of Lydia Tettro, Of
Washington, Mass, that, in thirty-seven
vea ~ of married life she has given birth to |
twenty-five children, ten boys and fifteen
girls, with bu, one PAIR Of twins. Sixteen
are living, two having died in infancy, and
even are getting their growth. The grand
children already number thirty-three- Mr..
rsttro herself was one Of a family OF ak
teen, and married at that age.