The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-03-21

cSNte So.Sts, tuit Il NiSAiSucc COnlittet
organized some years ago, is TO De revived.
A colony OF eighty-two German fami-
lies is expected to arrive from cincinnati
to-day and settle in the western portion OF
the State
The second term OF the Winchester
Academy will close on the 18th inst with a
grand entertainment to which everybody
has been invited.
MIR. James Maggie and family, OF
Pennsylvania, are among the new settlers
who have located in Jefferson county, near
Winchester, this spring.
Cattle that have been penned up all win
ter in Topeka will be permitted their free
dom on and after to day. So says the mar
shal and the Commonwealth
Pursuit after the Freemans who are
accused of stealing a herd of stock from
Mr.. Michael Horan, in Wyandotte county,
is being kept up with indefatigable energy.
An Old Settler Dead.
Mr.. Edmund Campbell, eighty years OF
age and an old resident of Shawnee county,
died near Tecumseh recently. His wife is
nearly eighty years old.
ton Daily.
lHolton Signal.l
Covered wagons, containing emigrants,
are passing through town almost every day.
The greater number are bound for the
homestead country.
Disappointed His Audience.
Mr.. Nenson, temperance lecturer, dis
appointed large audience in Lawrence the
other night by failing to put in an appear
ance.
Swallowed n Pin.
A little daughter of Mr.. Robert Steele's
family at Lawrence, swallowed a pin last
Monday. The instrument stuck fast in the
child's throat and caused the most excruti-
ating pain.
To he Taken LcavenVorth.
tWyandotte Herald, l3.l
Mr.. Pamby will be removed to Leaven-
worth as soon as he is able to undertake
the journey.
Contract Awarded.
The Wyandotte Herald says that the con-
tract for carrying the mail from Wyandotte
TO Tonganoxie has been awarded TO V. w.
Parker at 800.
A Fortune iO Leave % YOur Children.
lFoId County Globe, I2.l
Plant trees and let them grow up with
the count Y. They may not grow to matur-
ity in your time, but they will be for
tune to leave to your children.
D~Mur>ka Travelling Alone.
lima De Murska, the singer, arrived in
Atchisun, night before last, on her way TO
Omaha, accompanied only by her birds
and poodle dogs, according to the Champion.
The Times RePresensed Everywhere.
Manhattan Enterprise, l3l
Mr.. y. T.. Stevens, representative Of the
Leavenworth TINES, made this Office a
pleasant call last week. He is shrewd
and successful canvasser, and having had
long experience, thoroughly understands
his business.
kansas BrOOm Corn.
Fort Scott Monitor.l
Kansas broom corn will find 4 ready
market in Europe in few more seasons.
Like everything else Kansas has for sale,
her broom corn is the best. 1t is now worth
Sl2,50 per bale, and scarce at that price.
Is A. IT should Re.
From the Peabody Gazette.
Col. Anthony, editor OF the ZINES. has
been appointed postmaster at Leavenworth,
which is as it should be.
ssIIug'' Parties Taking the Place Of
Mum SOcials.
The following is going the rounds :"IIug"
parties has taken the place of mum socials;
valuable acquisition to the church. Ten cents
4 hug, or three for a quarter will become
popular in wholesale way, for the sake OF
economy.
Trees To shade she Winchester Acadic.
my in FEATURE.
Winchester Argus, H.
The Academy Board have resolved to
set the Academy site in trees, this spring
a row all around near the bound ,ry. And
they also invite the citizens, each, to plant
a tree in the midst thereof, as a growing
monument Of their generosity. Take hold
of it,
Citizens Meeting as Topeka.
The citizens meeting at Topeka Wednes-
day, was well attended, and after the pas
sage of resolution, not to vote for any one
who is a violator Of the law, the assembly
adjourned, to meet Saturday evening, when
n report from n committee of twelve from
each ward ward will be heard.
Douglas County 10 Have n Bond
Convention.
The various counties interested in the
compromise OF their outstanding indebted
ness are steadily making preparations for
combined course of action. A delegate
convention of the tax payers OF Douglas
county will be held at Lawrence on April
%.
Wyan6Otte COunty's share In the
state school Fund.
lWyandotte Herald, lI.l
The semi-annual division of the state
school fund for 1873 has been made. The
amount due this county is S3,12O65. The
quota is less than usual, but the amount at
the payment to be made in August will be
somewhat larger.
Horse Thief Captured.
A Paola horse thief was arrested by Mar
shal Dustan in Topeka Tuesday. He gave
his name a. Jones and tried to sell the
horse to DIR. Huntoon for SAG. The
Commonwealth says he could not give good
title and was locked up on suspicion. The
news from Paola to look out for horse
thief, came afterward.
Divorced and Married Again to Get
Rich.
An exchange speaks OF a novel plan
"How to hold two homesteads is the great
question with the average Kansan. Not
long ago a man and his wife came to Kan
sas to settle. To enable them to pre-empt
two-guarter sections of land, they were di
vorced. each pre-empted their claim, and
as soon as their claims were made good
they were REMARKED, thus obtaining 800
acres of land"
Excitement at n Bapttzing.
Topeka Commonwealth, 1871
Two colored men were baptized in the
Kansas river on Sunday. The immense
crowd of people who were spectators broke
down the sidewalk leading to the east side
of the bridge, on this side Of the river. BY.
Jewell, who is policeman on the bridge,
fixed it up Monday morning.
ACurious Petrefacsion
Winchester Argus, AL
Prof. Tillotson, OF Winchester, has
very curious petrihcatiou. 1t is a shell,
spirilform, about three inches long. 1t is
SO near perfect, that bit of wire, put into
break near the small end OF the spiral
went quite through to the other side. The,
specimen came from the centre of a solid,
gray limestone, about six inches thick,
which was broken by J. NJ. Adams, in
building a stone fence. The fragments and
shell were given by him to Prof. Tillotson
A Prospect for an Increase In the
Price OG Land.
Lawrence Standard, Il.
Mr.. Place reports at headquarters this