The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-09
SUM MARY.

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| Boston is to celebrate her 250Ih ami
versary next year.
| The Duchess de Callers has Just
given the Comte de Paris 81, eco worth Of
| property in Paris.
The United States frigate Wyoming,
which has been cruising in the Black Sea,
has arrived at Girgen;i, Sicily.
American beef shipped to England
and sold at wholesale at four cents per
pound il changed to English and Scotch
beef, and brings fourteen cents per pound.
The vanguard of General Csnipero's
army has forced the Chilians to evacuate
Calams, and has defeated the corps Of
Colonel Ruiz. The Peruvian and Bolivian
aImies are marching on San Pedro di Alta
bama.
The International Agricultural EShi-
bitiop, Msnitobs, was opened by Lieutenant
Governor Csuchop. Hon. Norqusy, Premier
OF Manitoba, and a number of United
States officials from Fort Pembina were
present.
The city of Boston advertised for pro-
posals to build tunnel one and q half
miles long to Moon Island in the har-
Dor, through which the entire sewerage OF
the city will be discharged, one hundred
and thirty feet below the bottom OF the
harbor.
The Liverpool Post says that, in conse
quence OF the prevalence of foot and mouth
disease among l 800 head of sheep which
have recently arrived there, the Privy
Council is about to issue an order placing
American sheep in the same category with
cattle.
-Fusd Psshs, who took the frman of
investiture TO the new Khedive Of Egypt,
was we'll paid tor his services, inssmuch as
besides presents Of jewls, etc, he received
$4,000 from Tewhk Pasha, a like cum
from the Khedive's mother, 500, 900 from
his mother and $50. coo from the Egyptian
government.
An atfray has occurred on the Danube
at point between Orsovs, in Servia, and
Tekia, in Servia. between Austria snug
glers and Servian custom house officers, in
which ten men were killed. Reinforce
ments have been sent to Orsova, az il is
feared the fighting will be renewed. Nsvi-
CATION OF that part OF the Danube is tenn
porarily unsafe.
"A family at Salem, Ill, were as;onished
the other day by the receipt Of box con-
tanning the body of their daughter, who
had 70. long before been married ia Mis-,
souri, and had died there. Her husband
afterward explained that she wanted to be
buried at home, and he thought the family
would know enough to bury her if they
received her.
yellow fever fetched q romance at
Oak Grove, Tenn, up with good shower
of sorrow. A dispatch says that John A.
Bailey, young man aged "a years, WAS
engaged to Mis- Rella Manning. He came
to Memphis several times within the past
three weeks and purchg ied several srticles,
which we're to be used in making the bridal
trousseau of Miss Manning She vas
stricken with the fever on September 18th,
and died five days afterward.
The New York World believes that the
circumlocution office has been abandoned
in the management of the Bank Of Eng
land. We notice in the London journals OF
September l. a report of the half yearly
general court" held on the preceding day
sin the bank parlor, Threadneedle street."
All the proceeding, including the reading
OF minutes, only lasted four minutes. In
this short time a halfyearly dividend OF
81 l5s. per cent. was declared, and the sum
Of the half-yesriy profits wss announced as
1896, 3Sl, leaving the surplus or ret at
e3,02l $50. Such short accounts may in
deed make long frie..ds.
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iIe ia1 80" -. La. -.
an I fna 10 p p Sx;,s.r,.nJ M ba-S
o on sh na !, f a.,in.,sd 70 I.Ha - odo 400
Paoan,Iv 70 Id Ia 49, ~ Hons:
nroner,y in the Rue dAIbs in Paris and
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