The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-04-04
CITY NEWS.
From Saturday Mornings Dailyl


Bs1GE-couoRED beads are new novelty.
TLToS amt been around 10 see us this year.
THE Narrow Gauge IS rushed with business
1T costs the city about SOD per month for
gas.
COUNTY school examinations take place to-
day.
PEAcocK grenadine is something new and
pretty.
YESTERDAY wasn't good day for fires by
any means.
POLICE business has been good for the past
few days.
YESTERDAY was bad for wagons and hardly
THE market is reasonably well supplied
with vegetables.
THE District Court has adjourned over until
next Monday.
THE Sisters Fair will be held the week fol-
lowing Easter.
AGAIN are our streets reduced TO The old IA
miliar condition.
AND now what we can expect Is rousih5
crop Of ice in August.
DEPUTY County Clerk Diefendorf sun re-
mains on the sick list
THE south end of the roadway at the SIKH
street bridge has been fenced up.
THE registry last Tuesday and "wednesday
was not So heavy as was expected
FIFTEEN dollars in fines Were assessor vi
the police court yesterday morning.
Tup endemic of suicides, murders ana
sudd,.n deaths seems TO have sUDs.ded.
NEW Market Square was well covered with
hay, wood and corn wagons yesterday.
THE receipts in the offices of the city and
County Treasurers were light yesterday.
SOME of the crowns of the new Spring bon
nets are covered with network OF beads
THERE promises TO be some sensational de.
vesopments at the police court this morn
ing.
HOUSE cleaning is in progress, and the men
folks begin 10 feel that there's no place like
home.
THrIrY car loads Of freight for our mer'
chants were received by the Rock Island yes
~terday.
THE Kansas City, ST. Joseph & Council
Bluffs road is bringing immense quantities o
freight into the city now.
1T was l,,ue Friday yesterday as regards the
weather. Business was good, and large mum
bers of farmers were in town.
HANDSOME toilet mats are made Of rows o
metal ribbon and lace insertion, the edg,
finished with a border Of lace.
THElatest wrinkle in desert knives consists
in their being carved in a beautiful manner
each being differently decorated.
NEW tea sets are made with high stand;
and more slender than formerly; those II
Iepousse work are the handsomest
BELATED pedestrians take the middle o.
the streets when they are in certain localities
being afraid TO trust the sidewalks
Born the city and county jails are well pat
ronized now, and have nearly as many "a
they can accommodate comfortably.
MARY ANDERSON plays in Omaha tonight
and in St Paul Monday and Tuesday nights
appearing in Minneapolis, Mimi, "Wednesday
evening.
If the elements will be so kind as TO let NJ
some time, the bridge across Three-mlis
creek on Cherokee street, west OF broadway
Will be repaired.
A NOVEL design for dinner cards is out
They are painted in diagonal bands OF dlfier-
ent colors and designs, with bow Of ribbon
to match each card at the top.
Now that the roads throughout the county
are passabIe, II was quite time that some
thing should be done to put them back into
their normal condition again.
THIRD street, between Choctaw street and
the bridge, is in as bad condition a. can be
possibly conceived. 1t is one OF the wors'
sIoughs in the city, and hardly passable fol
teams.
THE Rock Island brought in thirty-two
loaded cars OF freight for Leavenworth mer
chants Yesterday. If this doesn't designate
that our business men are buying something
what could?
THE disheartened tramp who set out for thu
country, last week, has returned again, dis
gusted, declaring that life in the rural dis
tricts. where he can see he isn't wanted, ant
where watch dogs and double-barrellcd shot
guns abound, is anything but agreeable.
THERE was a small runaway on Yves
Seventh street, last night, about dark, th'
driver OF the wagon, a lad named Baker, be
ing thrown out and severely bruised. Tn