The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-23
need be few cries of hard times in the cot

need be few cries of hard times in the cot
ton states next winter.
WHEN they do get prosperity at home,
which can only come 10 them through in |
dustry and domestic quietude, We look for |
the Inauguration of intimate trade re-
lations between the states Of the South and
the North.
SoME wise man has given utterance to
the thought that the idea OF teaching every
girl to thump the piano and every boy to
be bookkeeper, will make potatoes worth
81 per bushel in twenty years
The Fourth Annual Fair of the Neosho
Valley District Fair Association takes place
nj Neosho Falls, September 9th, 18th, 10th,
9th and 18th, and from present appearances
il will be the most successful ever held.
At the close of Uncle Jimmy WINS. adj
ministration, Barnum will purchase the
s'blue Jeans" OF which We have heard so
much, and expects to reap rich harvest
through their exhibition
WHEN the Canadians put III a claim OF
over fourteen Williams against our fishing
interest. they were told Ia go TO Halifax,
where American representatives would be
sent TO discuss the matter.
ten; State prison i elevated by the presence
OF two bankers and an opportunity exists to
add thereto the weight cf some life insur-
ance companies.
THERE are thousands Of people IN this
country who are curious to know under
what civil service reform rule the Secretary
OF the Interior IS trying to remove Sitting
Ball from his position in Canada.
DI,Z, si-,ce hi elevation 10 the Presiden-
cy o; Mexico, has raised the second Install
ment Of 300 900 due the United States on
account of the awards of the Mexican Claims
Commission.
If We may believe current opinion, 1t Is
not Mcmahon who is mcditating the threat
ened oopD deai, but the Bonapartists, and
that McMahor himself viii be the victim
instead OF the victor.
IT has been fully demonstrated that fire
cscapes, attached TO hotel windows, are a
wise speculation, but they are not superln-
duciyc to the payment OF bills by transient
GUESTS.
THERE is real danger that Howard will
telegraph General Mcdowell to death
What he really ought TO do is to dispatch
| the Nez Perces: but he doesn't seem to
know it.
ME-. GLADSTONE is for peace. Likewise
Mr.. Disraeli, the only difference between
them being that the latter may be compelled
10 drift into war. Is Lord Aberdeen drifted
in 1851.
THE King of Holland having reigned
twenty-nine wears, thinks of resigning in
favor of his son, who is in his twenty-sev-
enth year.
DoN'T say that INSURANCE companies are
| passing in their checks" when referring TO
those which have failed. Their checks are
Yorthless.
GEN. HOWARD is at Bannock, and Gen.
Gibbon is at Deer Lodge, while Chief JOS
| epb is strolling around promiscuousiy, steal
ing everything he can lay his hands on.
TIE strike craze still continues to possess
the Pennsylvania coal-miners in the region
around Wilkesbarre and Hazleton. Else
where all is quiet.
THE Democratic majority in the new
Legislature of Kentucky is about sixty,
only hall As much as in the last Lesisla-
| ture.
IL the last twelve months eighty-two
| thousand persons were arrested IN New
York, of whom thirty-two thousand were
arrested Tor drunkenness and vagabondage.
RussIA's grain crop for the present season
| is unexcelled, but the most magnificent har-
vest for many seasons is being reaped by
death
THE Chicago Pos stands up merely long
enough to remark, that if We may believe
| Gen. Howard. the Nez Perces Joseph is like
I,,a,,h-.ha-al
INDIANA is being secured for eniigrants
to 90 to Mississif At one meeting in In
| dianapolis, recently, one hundred heads Of
| families said that they were willing 10 go.
THE Mexican Minister thinks the recent
outrage on tho RiG Grande was the work Of
tramps.
SENATOR MORTON is resting easier, and
his physicians give every encouragement Of
4 speedy recovery.
IL is current report that the Russians are
| about 20 Tirnova new leaf Its about time,
or they soon won't have any to turn over.
LABOR reform is not so much needed as 4
reform Of those who won't work when they
| get it.
BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS, being temper
arily sat down upon by the newspapers,
has given up writing for the present.
We hayethe Philadelphia Time word for
| it, that the workirgmens candidate for gov
ernor OF Ohio is i colored man.
REPORTS OF several failures in the silk
trade at Lyons, France, are telegraphed
from London, one of which was 81 600 900.
THE Washington Star says that Fernan-
do Wood has declared for Sayler for Speak
er.
RESPECTFULLY inscribed TO the great an
nihilator:
10, the poor Howard, whose untutored mind
Permits the Nez Perces TO leave him behind
THE collapse of insurance companies
works dearth of stable blotters