The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-08-07

Gs: r I'd Vatican and sdds that Biz '
msIck Will not yield any essential point in
the Flsks laws TO secure the modus ririendi.
The London TINES publishes . review
OF the agricultural products. Hay and
other fodder crops throughout Eoslsnd and
Wales are many millions Of pounds short
of the average value. The worth OF bar
ley Is nearer i've pounds to ak pounds than
ten pounds per acre. the average value Of
other years.
A telegram from Blount SPRING., Als.
announces the death, Moudsy night, Of
Capt. Chas. B. Church, a prominent citizen
OF Memphis. The deceased is a we'll kn, wn
steamboat owner, having before the war
commanded several large steamers plving
between Memphis and New Orleans. Par
alysis caused his death.
AT murder trial in Leicester, England,
the preceding justice, Lord Thesiger, told
the Jiry that not every form OF insanity
would show that the man who committed
crime was ignorant Of the nature OF his &C..
The moral powers of a man mentally At
1ected might be left untouched, 20 that he
might know that he was doing wrong.
Two women were caught in mems
clothes stealing rare plauts from q conserv-
story at Pittstield, Mass, and . visit BY
officers TO their home, a few miles from
the town, revealed the fact that it was
filled with stolen flowers. Unable to hon
estly crafty their love Of the beautiful,
they had put on trousers and become thieves
to 60 70.
Comparing the total exports of whea
and corn during 1873 and 1878 9, from
the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Boston. the business Of New
York fell of from 70 3 per cent in 1873
to sos per cent. in 1889; Baltimore rose
nom l2.7 to 25.l per cent; Pnilsdelphis
rose from rs to 17.9, and Boston from IA
to per cent.
The British revenue returns reflect the
times. Unmanufsctured tobacco fell of
nearly two million pounds; tea increased BY
ak and half million pounds; wine de-
creased one and half million gallons;
brandy, nearly one hundred and eighty two
million gallons. The consumption Of tea
and cocoa has largely and steadily in
creased OF late years.
Strange things will occasionally hap
pen A deaf mute, aged z, residing a.
Lancaster, Pa, and Who had never uttered
sound, was run over by a wagon on Mon
day last. He was not seriously injured.
and the singular fact ia that when he found
himself under the feet of the horses he cried
out Justly. His parents now hope he will
recover his speech.
The Toronto Times says: upon no
branch of Canadian business has disasters
falling more thickly during the last five or
ak years than on the dry goods trade,
equally in wholesale and retail houses.
More caution is being manifested in buying
"a we'll "a selling. One of the greatest
hindrarces to Improvement has been the
steady increase which has been going on in
value"
-Rumors have h,eu abroad that the
Exchange Bank, of Montreal, whose capital
has been impaired by the management
almost equal to that of the Consolidated,
will GO into liquidation. The manager
stated that the directors, who hold about so
per cent. of the stock are all rich men,
would carry il through. 1t has met all de
mands upon II 80 far. The 500 shares are
selling for $50.
"A gentleman from Mississippi says
that Jefferson Davis will make mint Of
money ont of his hook. which is to be pnb-
lished this fall by the Appletons. The
general expectations il that it will have q
tremendous sale, and bring the author q
handsome income. As to the Senatorial
election. it ia authoritively stated that Gen.
ersl Bafksdale, the strongest candidate ex-
cept Davis, will withdraw upon the fret
intimation that Davis wants the place, and
that in this event the ex-President of the
Confederacv will have the entire vote of
Democrats in both branches OF the Legisla-
ture.
A dispatch from Capetown July Is,
via Madeira, says: General Creslock' q
cavalry have burned Ondini and Mug
wende, on the eastern line of the British ad.
vance. Dabulmarzi. Cetewayo's brother,
and several other important chiefs, have
surrendered to Lord Chelmsford. The
movement Of troops retiring from the neigh
borhood OF Ulundi was eyTected to be re-
tarded by heavy rains and increasing trans
portation, difficulties which would prevent
any readvance this season. even ii snch
movement was necessary. Ekowe ia to be
re-occupied. The naval brigade has been
re embarked for England. Volunteers
originally raised for the campaign against
Secaenne have been ordered into positions
between Fort Weder and Derby, tn the
north of Iululand, 40 "a to cut of Cete-
wayo's retreat northward, and prevent raid.
by the ZIlus in the neighborhood of the
Intombi and Assegai rivers Puff Adder,
an importsnt chief on the northern border
Of Cape Colony has been captured"