The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-05-29
TNeeklp Gimes
THURSDAY MAY %. 1879.
CITY NEWS.
From "Wednesday morning.. Daily.I

| From "Wednesday mornings Daily.l
THE real estate market is getting briskei
as the record of transfers show.
| THE trees In the court house yard are doin
the nselves proud by an enormous third yea
| growth.
| JOE CRANsroN, the hackman, was thrown
out of buggy yesterday afternoon and ser
fously injured.
TAx-PAYISS is picking up. The count,
treasurer received near y four hundred dol
| lars in taxes yesterday.
GEORGE STROBE is building handsom
brick residence, two-stories high, at the cor
ner OF Fourth ana Elm streets.
FIVE prisoners were brought in from For
Scott by the officers of Bourbon county ant
\ consigned 10 the penitentiary yesterday.
THERE is filthy, disease breeding pond OF
Ottawa street, between Third and Fourth
streets, which calls loudly for abatement a
once.
The locusts are filling the air with thei
singing. They are especially plentiful II
fruit trees, but do no damage except to small
trees.
SAM LUCAS and party passed through the
city to Atchison, yesterday morning. de
says his company played TO good house In
Wyandotte, Monday night.
JOS PHI MCCCoK, yesterday afternoon
about three o'clock, shot a dog in North
Leavenwort1 which he thought displayed
the trst symptoms of hydrophobia.
1T was reported that a colured laborer EN-
ployed upon the Fourth street extension had
two fingers nearly mashed of by a rock fall
ing upon Them, and that he Will probably
lose Inem-
YESTERDAY evening commenced the WELL
known Jewish celebration of Shevtroth, o:
the Feast of Weeks" kept in commemor-
atIon OF the giving Of the law by Moses from
MI. sinai.
The general news Yesterday, as given 10
the reporter. seemed to be that 1t was al
mighty hot. Frequently the Almighty Is
name won d be sp-IIed with big u IN Inen-
tioniDg the matter.
THE weather and every thing else was pro-
pitious yesterday for the picnic by the Chill.
dren of the Cathedral at Rieger's Grove, and
the little ones ana larger ones enjoyed them
selves immensely.
n. J. BAREToN, a stranger in a strange
land, felt the power of the law fasten upon
him yesterday, from Officer Cunningham s
grip, who jailed him as y1grant. He Will
be tried to-day.
CONTINUED flattering reports of the success
OF the Saengerfest comes IN from ali leigh
borhood cities. If the Atchisonian language
were general unucrstODus IL IulSui De well 10
says tnat the oaengerfesi "Doufns.
Mrs. OyERToN, an aged co!ored lady living
at the southern limits of the city, ran a long
rusty spike into her right foot about noon
v. sIeTday. The wound is dangerous one,
A. II.e physician thinks lock jaw wiII ensue.
1T is said to he an unerring rule, that dogs
whose tails cCrl 10 the right are never subject
to hydrophobia, but those which turn to the
left are almost invariably subject to II. To
prevent hydropbooia, Kill all leit-curled
dogs.
YESTERDAY was remarkable for the con-
tinued heat The Thermometer att O'Clock
was s29 In the shade. At ST Louis,
Sunday, the thermometer was at 81 for six
hours, while At New Orr. ans II was only So
and ia Dubuque, Iowa, 5s-.
SADIE MCBETH, for being an inmate of a
house of ili.fame, and for not spelling her
name in The true Shaksperian way, was held
10 answ er on a bond OF $40, which she ex-
poets to forfeit, and every one else expects II,
Its the way II Is always done.
Mr.. ii. Z. SCOTT was seriously cut by falling
upon piece of glass in his store on Shawnee
street, Monday afternoon The cut was made
in one of his legs, and was SO serious that
Drs. Van Duyn and Callahan we're summon
ed tie faluted before they reached him
from loss Of blood, but IS nog getting along
nicely.
A BOY who had unhitched a team he was
driving at the corner of Fifth and Olive
street last evening with the exception of one
ride away, came near having a serious cause
to repent Ills careiessness, as lhe team started
TO run away, but were stopped by pS stand
ers.
WHILE neighboring towns are blowing and
their upward tendency with