The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-01
Edwin Adams, the actor, ia dead

Edwin Adams, the actor, ia dead.
Gen. Forrest, of Confederate cavalry
fame, died few day ago.
Seventy-one Of the members Of the
present House Of Congress served in
the Confederate amy.
J. c. Fraker, the embezzIing Wichita
bank president, has been sentenced to
five years Imprisonment.
Bob IngcrsoIl is the son Of 8 clergy
man, and was brought up in the most
rigorous school of orthodoxy.
The avearge slope or descent OF Kan
sas is seven and one,half feet to the mile,
from northwest TO southeast
Alice Blaine, daughter of Senator
Blaine, accidentally shot herself in the
face with a revolver, Saturday OF last
week
Among tho delegates elected to the
Atohison County Republican Conven-
ton, which met on the 18th inst, was ex-
Senator Pomeroy.
PeudIeton, Ewing, Ward, Cook, Nor
gan, Bishop, Hurd, Gaithar, Hoadly,
Groesbeck, Warner, Hunt, Jewett-all
want 20 be Senator from Ohio.
Ii man eaters $50 acres of land in
Kansas, plants 40 acres in forest trees,
and cutvates it eight years, he secures,
thereby, title to the whole 100 acres.
Hon. z. Bonobrake, Auditor of Kan.
sas, will please accept our thanks for u
,opy Of the statement of the claims of
Kansas against the general Government.
Hon. D. C. Haskell, our Representa-.
tive from the Second District, has been
dangerously i'll, with Brighfs disease Of
the kidneys, in Washington, but is now
considered convalescont.
If Paris dispatches are to be credited,
France was only saved from the shook
of another coup d etat by tho refusal of
tho Compt do Chamborc to wade TO tho
throne through the blood of his slaugh.
tered countrymen.
DR.. A. P. Tenney, formerly assistant
Superintendent of the Jacksonville, III,
Insane Asylum, has been appointed
superintendent of the Kansas State Asy-
lum for tho Insane, at Osawatomie, and
and will at once enter upon his duties.
Dom Pedro, Emperor OF Brazil, is
again At homo after an absence o! 3 year
and half. He is the only potentate In
tho worlds history who has absented
himself from bis country for so long a
period purely for personal relaxation
and enjoyment.
The Russians are making further pro
gres, in Europe, and have deoreed the
organization Of about loo, 900 more Cos
sacks This shows increased determ in.
alton on their part to continue the war
to the bitter cad. Plevna is yet besleg.
cd and will, probably, soon fail
Tho war is progressing iavorably to
tbs Russians The defeat OF Muktar
Pasha IN ASA with loss OF 20 600 men,
has unoovore Rsrs, which is again sur.
rounded with tbs Russian troops and
will probably De obliged 10 surrender.
As soon IS IL gives up, we may expect
that Erzeroum will follow, and then
Crebizoni will be menaced and Cons,an.
unopIc itself IN danger
The President has issued proclama.
ton appointing Thursday, the 29th day
OF November next, as a day Of national
thanksgiving and earnestly recommends
withdrawal from al secular cares and
labors by the people OF the United States,
AID that they meet together on that day
IN taeir respective places oi worship.
there TO give thaRks and praise 70 81.
mighty God tor His mercies. and o. he.
voutly beseecb their continuance