The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-01-02
CITY NEWS.

from Tuesday Mornings Daily
NoRE snow is predicted.
IT YVES cold Yesterday morning.
The hotels are doing a good business
now.
TRAVEL on all Of the railroads is good
now.
Nor much doing in the Probate Court
Yesterday.
THINGS in general are very quiet in
police circles now.
Irvas warmer last night than 1t has
been for some time past.
TIE A,banaeum met at the residence Oh
Mr.. S Loewenthal last night
TIE boy choir IN the Episcopal Church
(S< Paul's) IL steadily improving.
THE District Court has adjourned until
after New Years, and will convene next
Thursday morning.
THERE wa. but one real estate transfer
recorded in the Office Of the Register OF
Deeds yesterday.
The holidays 30 far have been very pleas
sntly spent, and there surely has been no
dearth OF amusements.
Miss Fannie Marshall, of Lexington,
No, is visiting relatives here. She leav1
Tor ST. Joseph next thursday.
SCORES of teams we're engaged in hauling
ice from the river yesterday. The Ice har-
vest this year will be big one.
THE boys we're skating on the river yes
terday in places, although the ice Is not 80
smooth as il has been in former years.
The Metropolitan Band psraded Christ
mas afternoon in their new uniforms, pre-
senting quite handsome appearance.
A FEW runaways and sleighs broken
down we're all that broke into the quietude
and sanctity of last Sunday. Nobody
hurt.
The thaw OF Sunday and the subsequent
freeze yesterday made it unsafe for accident
insurance agents to try 10 drum up much
business.
Now is the time to begin to think about
swearing off" on the fret Of the New Year.
Of good resolutions.
UNLESS the present snow il shortly REIN
forced the prospects are good for a suspen-
sion Of the magnificent sieighing which we
have been enjoying for two or three weeks
past
The warm atmospheric influences of
yesterday afternoon had most di.hearten-
ing effect upon the snow, which became
perceptibiy thin in place along the streets
The trial of young O'Neill, of this city,
who shot the Rev Mr. SHANNON at Empo-
ria during the railroad troubles some
months ago, has been postponed until the
March term.
The Ice CATERERS put in all the day
Sunday in crIbbing ten inch ice A il was
a uiarter of Ii. ce-sity, and all the officers OF
the law like ice cream aud cold butter in
summer, no one WAS disturbed.
AN ice team b-iGnging 10 John kopp
broke through in the slough Sunday after
noon, but WAS rescued af.er some difficulty.
The quicksand in the slough Is very treach-
eTous
In the police court yesterday morning
Geo. Duncan, who shot Pat Montgomery
hast week, was fined so for carrying con-
cealed weapons. The wounded man was
not badly hurt, and not Prosecuting Dun
can the latter was released.
THE committee appointed at the tsx-psy-
ers' meeting last Friday night to consult a.
10 the beet compromise plan TO be adopted
in regard to our bonded Indebtedness had
two sittings yesterday in the city clerks Of
fee. At the meeting in the morning the
plan of compromising at a rate not toex
coed fifry cents on the dollar, interest AT 3
per cent, WAS the one receiving the most
consideration and attention, but no d, finite
conclusion was arrived at. The night sit
ting Of the committee Was had with closed
doors, no one being admitted.
EOll MeasuFe.