The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-03-07
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z While the Grand Duke Nicholas was reviewing
the prisoners after the taking Of Pevna. caught
the magnificent Arab horse Of Turkish officer. He
aferward sent Of his Adjutants to the latter to
ask he would sell it, orders having been given that
the captured officers should retain their horses The
for immediateiy after the animal had been remarked
by the Grand Duke, Roumanisn officer had come to
him and ordered him TO give It up. He bad refused
The Officer then drew his revolver, and threatening
to shoot him, forced him to comply with his demand
Io,sans.sly for The Tarti.h officer, the Roum.nian
ty was soon discovered, and found be none other
than q stat officer attached to Gen. Skobelef. He
had forthwith to surrender his llgotten spoil.
severely rcproved, and has been Obliged to leave
dquarters, owing to the odum into which he has
' fallen.
II Although the armed vessels of all other nations
American war vessels have entered the straits and
sailed up to Constanfinople three occasions with
out protest from the Porte. The first instance ives
figate George Washington in 1900 the second frig-
ate Of twenty gunA 1910; and the third, the fgste
Wabash. Captain Barron, who in 1858 passed up to
that the United States not of the sgners of
the treaty of Paris. He was nevertheless received
ed a Government outside Of the European system
probably operating in his favor.
n Look at your bonds. and see how many of
them read payable ''in gold just how payable in
COIN got to read payable in gold" is not well under
| stood. They were bought for greenbacks, and we
will redeem them a. upon their face ain coin. Even
Senator Blaine who voted against the reconciliation
OF silver does not doubt this right but thinks that
the present time il 10 inexpedent to assert it. If the
President vetoes the BILL which Is by means Ger
tain, We should not be surprised to see Blaine
out in the interests of the people, and give his for
| the measure.
~ 1t is rumored from st. Petersburg that the
Car is seriously ndisposed-weak and 80 thin that
he sits pillows and soft cushions to prevent the
bones from coming through the skin He Is depressed
| q deaf
No Romanof has lived beyond sixty, and he will be
sixty in April When his slater died, some two years
ago. she reminded him of this and told him he must
be prepared to 20 before he sixty They say her
words made a great impression upon him then, and
now that he is not well they constantly recur to him.
| y 1t is announced from Washington that the Sill
yer Bill is gaining friends, and that it will pass Con-
gress with large majority. of course it will pass
it ought to pass it lisa matter of justice that it should
may not sign it. but it will undoubtedly become law
all the same. Every day the injustice of the debase
ment of silver becomes more and more apparent The
banks refuse to take it at its nominal value and yet
the bunk of small trade is carried with sver-Ioy
| ~ ~ Press.
| ~ Blaines onslaught upon the great and truly
good State of Massachusetts, and the lively manner
in which he stirred up Dawes and Hoar, on Tuesday
last leads the New York World say that the occur
renee may awaken Massachusetts to sense of the
secondary position into which she has gradually drift
ed by conhding her interests to second rate 1t
says Blaine rhymes well enough with Hayne, but that
Webster.
cV 1t is q curious and suggestive illustration ofthe
changes brought by time and the condolences of
this life that George B. Mcclellan and George H.
Pendleton, Democratic candidates for President
and Vice President. should, after fourteen years of
retirement return to public life together the one
| Governor, and the other q Senator. Mcclellan
and PendletOn. The names may again be coupled
before many more years have passed-PhiLadeiphia
| Times.
| ~ Another savings Bank has failed. This time
It'll Massachusetts concern, located at Taunton,
ahr aaf
which it had mortgages: From reading the New
York Times, we were Of the opinion that only in the
West had property declined run0usly destroy
Massachusetts bank found that property has depreci
| ated in the East.-iS. Louis Journal
~ The Hiawatha HeruM says Col. Phillips got
drunk there three or four years ago The Herald has
been dilatory in making mention of the matter Such
old DRINKS as that hardly worth mentioning Tho
four years old are worthless except in the light of
relics II is one Of the strange things in this world
that politicians nearly always get drunk at temper
ance towns.-AarysriAe Ne,es
Y Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon Sunday
night spoke Of the late Pope "that dear and good
Sid man who had Just gone to heaven from the pcnt
that instant Gods angels bore him gently as little
child in the arms of its mother into the presence of
his Savior It was not because he Pope, but be-
of the Pope was all love-"
Those who expect the passage of the Silver
Bill to bring sudden prosperity upon the country are
that comprised in the terms time. labor and thrift
The country suffers from the tremendous waste the
war and from the improyidence which resulted from
imitation. 1t must recover by returning to a sound
currency by the adoption of better habits-by earn
ing more than it spends
y 1t is time that the shallow and living preteuse
that President Hayes has no personal aims to
that he is trying to create party of his own and
strengthen it by his selections for official positions
and is equally evident that he has been imposed
upon by the set of political tramps and vaga-
bonds that ever disgraced an administration docket
-Uhea RepwbiieaR.
q New York World: Brumidfs sketch for the
allegorca fresco of War" for the dome of the Capt.
toll representa- Freedom striking down the enemies
Of the Republicthe faces of the enemies being those
Breckenridge, Lee, and 'sStonewalT' Jackson. Dor
trayed as filled with dismayed anger and impotent
hate The painter says that this resemblance pure
Il New York World: The hero of Plevna has |
been claimed by France and America, and now an |
Irish journal comes forward with an elaborate story
70 prove that Sueiman Pasha is one Patrick Sullivan,
bad how much more ingenious it would have been to
have claimed the defender of Plevna aforesaid as an
Smans!
n As a good deacon of one of the city churches |
was circulating the contribution box yesterday an old
faded piece Of paper was laid in it bya prominent
member OF the congregation, at which the deacon
note of the deacon for 80 and interest which the
holder unable to collect had turned into the treas
ury of the Lord.-Washingsos Post.
q An Eastern writer says the Murphy Movement \
depends upon the collection of few dollars from the
audience Impecnnious fellows in Indiana have made
IN tins way rs high a. SIS night Other impecuni |
Gus fellows caught up the scheme and speakers were
willing all over the land to wear blue ribbons and
speak for the collections.
"rli bet make him break IL in n v.eL " ..;a
Troy youth when he saw q companion, urged by bis
betrothed, take the pledge at q public Temperance
meeting The effort was successful, and when the |
In hfa Qaraaoa he l.