The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-09-12

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Inafse hSs . 1buted loco to the
yellow lever sagsrers.
t fost2sst4k Fillss,. o. st. Louis, has
ibssa resaes 81 6snssl Hayes. takes
Ills p3see. Wheeo1Do4 the Globe Dem
locsus xsvss d Skti0k Of triumph.
The public debt statement for Au.
gust shows decrease in tho public
debt of over Sc, 40O. 900, the largest re-
duction for any single month since
May, 1877.
In Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin,
about forty greenback. papers have re-
Gently started and died.
The accessible property in San Fran
cisco has declined eleven million dol
lars in the past year.
Kamaga, of the Hutchinson Interior,
has sold his interest in that paper and
is candidate for Superintendent Of
Public Instruction.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage, at Plymouth Church, Lawrence,
on the 18th inst, of Hon. C.G. Foster,
Judge of:the United States District
Court of Kansas, and Miss Angie, the
accomplished daughter of Hon. r. w.
Ludington, ex-Mayor of Lawrence.
1t is officially stated that within the
next thirty days the rolling stock of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road will be doubled.
Wyatt NJ. Reddiug, the brave tele-
graph operator at Grenada, Mississip-
pi, died on Sunday last, OF yellow fe-
yer, after sickness of three days. He
was twenty-three years of age.
The average daily attendance at
Camp Bismarck was said to have been
thirty thousand.
Gold is lower than at any time since
'61.
The Central Branch of the Union
Pacific was finished to Beloit last
week.
A new bug has appeared in Connec-
ticut which alarms the farmers. 1t
goes ravenously at the corn, and. be-
ginning at the top, goes to the butt,
destroying every kernel.
President Hayes abandoned his trip
to Bismarck, and only went to Fargo.
| The annual State Sunday School
Convention for Kansas, will be held at
Topeka on the Esd, oath and 25th of
October. DIR. Vincent, the most dis
tinguished of living Sunday School
men, will be in attendance, together
with others whose names are familiar
10 all. The executive committee
promise an unusually attractive pro-
gramme.
1t is understood that as soon as all
formalities are completed, Condor aud
MILDLY, released Fcnian convicts: will
be Saken in charge by the American
legation and sent immediately to the
United States, should they elect to re-
side here.
The Mayor of Memphis has tele-
graphed the Secretary of War that he
fears that there will be riots in that
city, and asks that two companies OF
troops be sent there.
The issue in Massachusetts,, as de-
fined by the Hartford Courant, is,
"Butler or no Butler"
Toombs, of Georgia, it is whispered
in Southern Democratic circles, will
enter politics in 1880, as candidate
for Governor.
The Prohibitionists of Massachu-
sets are again in the field this year,
but it is said that they will not cast
more than one-third as many votes as
they did last year.
Judge Shellabarger, counsel for Sec
rotary Sherman, has information from
sources which he considers worthy OF
consideration, TO the effect that a fcti-
tious document has been prepared,
and will be produced before the COM
mittee by former mistress of E. l..
Weber, purporting to be the verita-
bic Sherman letter." This is the doc
umcnt referred to in the dispatches
some days since.
immediately after Eliza Pinkston
closed her testimony before the Re-
turning Board, she identified four
men, who, she said, were among those
who murdered her husband and child.
Two were arrested and brought be-
fore Judge Evans, Republican, for
examination, Their counsel applied
to Judge Able, Democrat, for writ
of habeas corpus and secured their re-
lease. Since November, 1877, the
Democrats have held all the county
Offices. and the accused men have
never been tried, and no allusion has
been made to the crime by judge or
grand jury.
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