The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-02-24
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his name.
~ The Centennial is rapidly nearing and it is about
begin scratching mp relationship with some Phil
adelphia family.
~ The Hon. Dr. Edwards was buried at Wheeling.
W Va Tuesday. 1t is said that in his john Quincy
Adams expired.
- The hard substance that Massachusetts boy
struck in hay-mow with pitchfork was the head of
sleeping tramp.
drew stTaSs The lawyer whom fortune failed to smile
moved for a new trial-
- Ghunny Bahag is Of the native princes Of Cey
lon Ethn logical query-Perhsps this is where the ek
sons ori sinated.-N. Y. Graphic,
- They're going toinvestisaie the Freedmen Bank
Hail ynnr noses Nelc BEDFORD Hereury Nonsense;
there isn't scent left.-BostoH Post
-. Mrs Peabody of Worcester, formerly Of rark's
Island Iowa is confident she owns the original nag leap
tbat warmed the head of the infant William Penn
- President Washington described the masked Penn
syIvania nshtriders of the whiskey rsoeSh P "a, S
armed banditti. Perhaps 'he'e II "" ' 80
his idea.
- Robert Toombs can't cut his finger or bark MS
sbins or accidentally sit down bot stove now
ont ttin Violently excited and threatening to leave
this cursed country forever.
~ Mr. James H. Mason of Taunton Mass. aa has
family Bible inherited from his mother which
from Sir Thoras Davis. Lord Mayor OF London In i"'
in which year il was printed
- nine tree under which Washington took dinner
bGii on his way to Rome n. Y, still stands in
the town Of Herkimer n Y All the pines in the neigh
bOrhood have gradually been cut away
- gentleman of Castleton has in his possession the
dinner bell which used call Horace Greeley TO ms
when he learning the printer TRADE RAD
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~ A Russian rfuraist claims to have found living
manmoths in Siberia He has seen tve small ones tSsse
feet high eighteen feet long and having sks elSht 70
ten feet in length The brute hauns great caves ana
feeds on grass etc.
gg Why does General sherman tell the pnShew ut. ~ My ay
wife and family strong Catholics but am not wien
he adds to this This however, il nobody business
Why volunteer the information and then ten us II Is ~
| of our business g-tin. GGze1e
~ Hank Monk the California stage driver, who hs
ures in the welLworn story of Horace Greeley 9nco
ir %e rsD e O tocE B% prisoner scrubbed him clean
| and dresse d him in new clothes
- There is some talk holding great International
Pker CONGRESS next wear at which proposition will he
submitted to add snpernumerary siru 70 tne y,
honor of the author of the late great WORK on P"Aer
/ be called the Deuce of Schenck-
- Revolutionary relics will command high prices at
Centennial expo sitios and in view oi TINS Tact sey
eraI New England capitalists about to put up esaD
iSments for the manufacture of canes and things that
belonged to the patriot fathers
| - A distinguished doctor Of divinity accuses Mr.
Henry Eer@h nf in6Ieity but all the beasts of the field
praise him. The honest respect and affection OF manly
Newfoundland Mastif is worth more than that OF many
| men. and harder To gain.-GTdph'e
- The 9TH Of March 1s77, will be Sunday. and con
sequently the Great Unknown VIII be nausuTa'ed on
Monday This has happened but twice in our history
frst in lsaI when Monroe naugurate and again in
| 1919. when General Taylor assumed the duties.
- This statement recently made under oath 6y
Catholic priest ON Wards island II believe have di
vine authority To secure Protestant ehfeh Io lhgr
mothers and make them Catbolcs deny the
right Of the Protesa ut minister TO to do the same
Chicago Tunes Zoe mou sGs ogapo says Mr. SPrlnge,r
O"c ighat'ia Hggn!too replies slI. ~ w. III
their sprerbrs pto neomprehensble Greek and Latin
SIC transit ipccacUdahd rOHed non eohtPos "ehtis
| II There man up in Ohio whose name is ID Thew
Wright There is advantage he has in writing his
in that way- the people of his were
been ire nobody would ever suspect him oil being
| the ineendary.
| - Judge skinner who was appointed Postmaster of
Union Square Oswego County in 1873 by President John
Quincy Adams has held that position up q" the present
time. He in his eightieth year and has served
four years in the Legislature two in the Assembly
| and two in the Senate
| - Pittsbnrg clergyman last Sunday evening,
took for his The SouthSide young lady who SAID
recently that she would tO dance IL she were ilnae
for it, He should take for his text next Sunday evening
The New Jersey minister Of the Gospel who deter
mined to reduce of his hoc even II 1t killed the poor
| girl
| "a Charley Ross father has received from phi
lantropst few mysterious words which he is repea
at midnight while he walks around the four quarters Of
mediate return OF his But Mr. Ross obstinately
refuses try this simple Recommendation Of course he Is
| still bcreaved.
~ Said a Cousressmans wife, the other day Tin
disappointed Washington. Why, at home when George
E r'i ted he'd my hs t rs nsr nr % aT S m %sr ~ bn
when get three hundred Co and their wives
together. don't count much needn't have worried
| so about my dresses"
~ The war vessel Kearsarge bnilt at cost to
and the greater part Of the s2 probably seaage
And she has been repaired at cost Of ibl25s-
just s3l4 l 80 than her original cost This be
all right and proper but can convince that the 80
cents wasn't sealage
"a monument to three Waterloo celebrities is he
erected at Cassa in Nottnghsmshre. where they
born. The giants Shaw the Life Guarlsman, who
defended the British enlors till he fell wappnstnu who
took the cOors from Shaw and after slain and
Wheatly the Light Dragon, who finally saved the flag
\ and escaped unscathed.
- A young woman in Cincinnati, who in the
crush the Robinson Opera House escaped from
the deadly peril in which she supposed herself to be- by
had left her opera glasses and mu behind and bTavry
fought her back and secured her treasures What is
| life without opera glasses and muffs ]!
~ II is said of Wnsow. the Boston focgeT. that
night he left his wife the sitting and went to lock
longer than he should have been sought him and
found him lying sensees the floor He recovered in
day or two to attend To business A few months
| his library.
~ Mr. Squires of Oregon will furnish rare specimens
| of timber for the Centennial exhibition "a fir plank
twelve feet wide and hundred feet long, spruce
hrnloek five feet He furnish larger planks trans
Poration he furnished and huge panks Of hard wood
including the famous Shittm wood of which Noah is said
| to have built the ark.
| ~ The Staunton Tindiedtor's composition the
ground hog The srouIdh1s was ont wednesday: lie
saw his shadow. He ran back in his hole There will be
awful weather for the next six weeks Many will
damn The gronndhog But he DC Tl % not @ care NJ ne Is ~ his
much eurng goes outside 1t is the same with ground
| hogs as with grown persons
g@ The other day of hose sharpers who play
/ the pride o fools a modest VI. C., lesirn. n
sketch Of his life that he might publish in forthcom
ing book called The Lives of Dstn gushcd Statesmen
to that effect and the " c replied when
shall have become distinguished that the world de-
mands biography, it will be written without effort
| my part, or solicitation yours
~ The other morning short, stumpy rushed in
at the door of the White House with gun his shouI
der and dropping the it the floor struck an
attitude, and demanded in the of the people
see the President He insansy beieyei that ls neigh
fashioned musket with flint lock he had mIrehed
| Washington, to ask that troops be sent to his aid
r almost Incredible story is told a representa-
tive of the whose stores destroyed by
the great fire in New York When became evident that
their could b. saved detective John H. Britton
asked To and bring ont box of valuable bonds
which they Indicated lie did a great risk and
f.l fiuIgl Ink