The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-22
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

Brooklyn's horse disease is shielding.
At San Diego, Cal, fruit trees ale cover
ed with blossoms.
Fresh strawberries in The New York mar
ket-Sl per basket.
A grand horse and colt exhibition viii
take place at Petsluma, Cal, On Saturday,
March p.
The plums grown in Martin county,
Minnesota, will be converted into brandy
this year.
Rolled steel axles for railroad cars are
being e1perimentally tried on the Lehigh
Valley railroad.
One OF the editors OF the Davenport
iowa Gazette is about 10 enter upon The
career oil a singing evangelist.
Maud Williams, for many wears past
the most notorious woman in Davenport,
has reformed, repented, ami been baptized.
The excavation oi Twentieth street, in
Denver, Col, for city purposes, revealed the
presence OF gold in paying quantities
The orders OF the town oI Superior, Wis
and OF Douglas county, in which it is ioca-
ted, are Unacceptable at more than 20 per
cent. of their face.
A number OF disreputable characters
| hanging about Reno, Nevads, have been
served with notices 10 emigrate within ~
hours, signed with the ominous "G0I."
The Pennsylvania oil country seems to
be overstocked with laborers. The Eden
/ burg Herald saws about one person in fifteen
seeking employment at that point gets IL
Ii is announced that the First National
bank OF Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
will close up lis business, there being no
profit in it.
A company has been organized TO con-
struct railway and telegraph lines from
| Trinidad TO Ell Moro, Col, and work will
be commenced "a soon rs the frost leaves
the ground.
| On Sunday, at a meeting held in the
Kansas City Academy OF Music, $1,000 was
subscribed toward a building Tor the use OF
4 the Young Mems Christian association OF
the place named.
The fish OF Wallows lake in California
are blood red in color and very tat. There
are only four lakes known in which this
fish is fcund-Payette, in Idaho, lake in
Maine, one in Scotland, and Wallows
| lake.
4 party of Chinese fishermen caught sight
OF a sea serpent near the Coronado islands,
in the Pacific, on Feb. 81. Length OF body,
80 feet length of head, 10 feet length q
tail, loo feet; diameter, 5 feet; color, |
brown.
E1-Judge Carpenter, Of the Supreme |
Court OF South Carolina, and T. 7. Sawyer, |
ex-assistant secretary of the United States
treasury, were among the victims Of raid |
. hxvs he,
Washington on Monday night.
The Poughkeepsie N. " Eagfe chroni-
cles the elopement, on Friday, oil the wife |
Of Chas. Smith, Of Pleasanton Valley, with |
jeremiah Shaw, of the same place. The |
runaway woman left not only her husband, |
but three email children, aged respectfully |
,, 5 and wears.
The fifth wife OF a good-for- nothing hus- |
band, who told fortunes Tor 4 business, ad- |
vises all widows and maidens" TO beware |
OF him. She describes him as "a little,
siruiting, laxative. feeble, meagre, hatch |
et-faced fellow, with spindle shanks, and |
little warped in the back.
Eight children belonging TO miners iami-
lies living at Stockton, Carbon county, Pa.
were poisoned on Monday last, by eating |
root which they dug up in a swamp.
Millie Bevins, aged .; Gussie Jones, aged |
q, and May Davis, aged ., died. Hopes |
are entertained oil the others recovery.
Over nine thousand horses, six hundred |
and forty-three asses, and thirty five mules
were eaten in France last year. The first
horse-butchery was established in 1866.
and the consumption of this savory meat
has increased yearly. The healthy carcass
is worth $40.
An exchange thinks the artist OF the so
ciety sketches in the Grdplic must be very
sweet on a round faced girl, as he never
puts any other in his pictures. Probably
they are the only kind round when he
square thing by them.-NoF. EeIaId.
Ii was probably unfortunate for Symmes
OF the by berhorean-hole theory, that he did
not find, for his sunny vacuum, new Greek
and Latin name. Mares "paleocrwatic'
sea" has learned length that gives the
icebergs 8 second growth, and chills the en-
thusissm OF the friends of plain "symmes
hole"
Talk about America and England being
Christian nations, there il not a Christian
nation that would make room for CHS. il
He should come. Not a city on the face of
the earth would invite Him 10 come il il
was put TO q popular vote There is no
room for Him. The world doesn't want
Him. Not only that, but how MANY
churches there are that would not hsye
Him.-Moody TO the Bostonians.
A servant girl, who had been admoni-h.
ell by her mistress to be very careful in
''washin' up the best tea things, was over
hesr3 shortly afterwards indulging in the
following soliloquy while in the act of
wiping the sugar basin: "If / was to drop
this 'sie basin, and was to catch il, / sup
rese j shouldn't catch it hut / suppose II
1 was to drop il, snd wasn't TO catch il, |
reckon | should cstch it,
The Chicago man doesn't know what 10
do with his elk ha; when be goes to church.
He keeps it on the rack at home, but it
keeps him on the rack in meeting, for the
lady in the next pew uses it for foot.tooI.
the msn on the other side takes il for
cuspador. the little boy drums on il with
his new shoer. his wife whirls il out into
the aisle in the trail Of her dress, where the
deacon mistakes il for black dog and
kicks it sccordinsly.-New York Graplir.