The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-01-09
TIfYNG1MlJIGS.

~ The Late Henry Wells bcsan tie express busi-
hess IN early life. carrying isrka=es from Albany Ia
Bnnaio in carpet sack.
~ An old rabbit has lived for years unmoleste in
| a crmctery near Eardstown. Ky. The negroes, be-
leving that he represents the spirit of evil
say they would starvc to death rather than eat him.
riags of President Hayes parents. is still living in
Adams, Jefferson County, New York. nearly ninety
| four years Of age.
| ~ Henry w. Baehe. who died suddenly in Bristol.
| Rhode lsianfl the other day, descendant Of
Sarah liache- the only dauglterof Benjamin Franklin.
~ Bret Harte got only so for his Luck of Roar
Ing Camp. and other stories palished in the Overland
Monthly, while for 'Gabriei Conroyr the Scribners
paid him s5.oJo.
- Charlotte Brontc's piano is advertised for pri-
yHte sale III England.
IVA statue of Admiral ColigIy is TO be erected by
subscription in the Louvre Quadrangle. in Paris, near
thOlomew massacre.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Child one of the odes. residents
of BOSTON died there Friday. aged nnety-seven. She
| remembered seeing General Washiu.t but never
| saw a railroad
| .5-A man shot at in Colts Station, Ohio by a
highwayman but the bullet lodged in a book, and he
was uniIjured. The book not Bible that his
mother had given him, but comic song book and it
was not next his heart, but in his coattail pocket
.gA curious petition has just been laid before the
Municipal Council MarseiIes begging that the cler
gy be forbidden to sound the death kne every Friday
in eonn,emoration of the publication of NJ Ernest
| Renan's Life of Jesus
| rgCaptan Julius BazelIc. who had served as an
officer with honor under the First Napoleon died in
the st. Lawrence County, New York, o-house last
| week. at the age of 96.
| rY'A Boston physician tore up the prescription
that he had written for boy with dphtheria
| the mother had money TO pay for it, and within
| few hours the hoy died for lack of medicine
| ~ Mr. Sinclair Roberts. aged eighty, of Carter
County, Ky has ehristened his infant son John Wilkes
Booth.
| lg The New York Nail thinks Talma se has missed
Ha Ell,
stories for the New York Weekly the Police Gazette
Iv-A prominent North Carolina Republican tells q
Washington correspondent that the Republicans stand
good chance of carrying his State IN 1880.
~ Jesse Pomcroy. the boy murderer, is losing his
mind and failing in health. Remarkable tales have
been told of Pomeroys mental acuteness and thirst
for knowledge. but the truth is that the boy murderer
! Is shallow Drained. though cunning.
20 The Mobile Register sneeringy remarks that
"the Presidents haul of Old Line Wings doesn't
to have paid him for the hook and line, and like all
uniueky fishermen he's disposed to get mad about it,
q The lady who made the first pair of trousers for
the lamented William Pitt Fessenden died recently at
New Gloucester. Me-, at the age of nnetysix years.
| Her name was Judith Rowe.
| -y-A piece of Anne of Austrias skin will soon he
! in the market. Her body burnt in church she
founded and the piece of skin said to have been
taken from her arm in 1900 by physician and pre-
served in her family until now. 1t is III inches by 4,
and resembles gdnts dc Srcde.
- One only remains. Let there be q united
North. Let there be exhibition of power The
south respects power, and viii respect nothing else
Kindness Is wasted upon it--Bost0n Irurclirr.
.JThe banner of the Democratic party ought to be
a combination of the cipher dispatch and the tissue
paper ballot with the legend, 'Reforu is necessary
I--Nemphis f1enn.) Inaiaaehe (Dem.)
rg'An English court has decided that a servant
girl can not be compelled to attend upon family
prayers unless she engaged to do among her other
duties If she goes to cook, she not be made to
remain TO pray against her will.
- JIM Anderson is the city editor of all Eu-
reka Nevada paper Immediately upon his arrival
all the reporters were discharged. Jim. undertakes
TO invent fifty per cent. faster than they could
gather it, The offer was accepted.
70 The stone used to patch decaying portions of
the Cathedral of Cologne show signs of decomp0si-
ton An old legend has it that the plan of the cathe
dral was furnished by the devil and that the cathedral
can, therefore, never be completed.
10 In New Haven, Ct. and Providence. r. l.,
ramps who seek from the authorities food and shelter
must earn them with and at the municipal
wood piles. The number of tramps in the latter city
has in consequence fallen off one-half.
20 Governor Bishop started in the grocery business
$40 600 in debt but by patient attention topolitcs,
he has changed the figures TO slO0oO0 on the same
side of the ledger.
,Y May Rogers has prepared .Waverly Diction-
ary which is now in press at Chicago 1t is an alpha
betca arrangement of all the in Sir Walter
Scott's novels, with descriptive analysis of each
character, and illustrative selections from the text.
~ Billy Ballou, companion of Mark Twain in
ing It," is dead. He a gold adventurer in the
early days of the Pacific coast but usually had bad
luck, and latterly became drunkartl. He had a
thorough education, and was, at his best. clever
writer for San Francisco newspapers.
- The blunder which was committed in South
Carolina this year in making that State .'tOo unani
NOUS is worse than crime 1t has cost us at the
polls many votes and will cost many unless
the habit is given up.-Iroy Press fDearJ
20 Horace Greeley laughed at because he in
sisted that .the way TO resume is to resume" To-day
the country is the verge of resumption by
ing. The way to stop Southern outrages is to stop
them.-Cfied Republican.
y1The Old South Congregational Church at Hal |
lowell. Maine. which destroyed by fire December
=, built in 1896 Its organ made in London,
and was set up by the who from England |
TO erect the in the Old South Church in Boston
At the time of the fire the bell gave the first alarm
20 In the year 1854 Horace w. Tabor was stone |
cutters Augusta Me. Now he is Lieutenant
elect of Colorado, whittier he went in 1859 engage
in mining, and is reported to be worth S2,000OOO.
CS One hundred years ago. the 25th of February |
next. NIncennes. Ind then British post under com
mand of Col. Hamilton, was captured by detach- /
ment OF the American army commanded by Colonel |
grand centennial celebration.
.V7A man in Lexington, Va, mailed letter to a |
fictitious name in Japan with request that it he re-
turned if not called for and started by the way of
the Atlantic. His object was to how long it would
be in going around the world Ii came back by the |
way of San Francisco in just 100 days.
20 1t would he interesting to know how many
in Boston get their living by making overaiis
at sixty cents dozen, but those in position know
say the number is larger than is generally supposed
And some of them also support families of small |
children. II is in giving assistance to persons of this
class that charity does its hest workostoR Trureer
ilS New York Democrats excited because Mr.
Psbury superintendent of the State prisons refuses
to them in the interest of the Democratic party
As he runs them now. the prisons devoted to fur
nishing Democrats with board. lodging and employ |
ment, and what more can they reasonably aski-De-
Loif Post aud Tribune.
~ An exchange says: new swinde upon farmers
is Just reported. 1t is perpetrated follows A
sleek looking fellow calls about meal time and repre-
sents himself as government agent to gather crop
statistics. He is of course invited in and fed when
after gathering his sham report, he offers paw his
meal or lodging the may be- For a single
meal he is perfectly willing pay a dollar and usu-
ally hands the farmer n so bl taking - in GOOD
money. and leaving bogus Sl0
tg-Our ''Old Ironsides.- the Constitution is still
having good time of it over in French waters On |
Sunday there pleasant gathering upon her decks
of Americans who had run down to Havre. Minister
Noyes, Gen. Mccormick and other notables were
along. The Constitution decorated with bunting
and all on board wore n holiday appearance. Capt
Badger set out collation. and to the delight of sew
eral Frenchmen, they were permitted TO dance with
the ladies as the evening approached.
Mr. Pages bill to secure the enforcement of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments the Constitu-
on is all right in spirit, but it of energy
TO draft II. Is purpose is to reduce the number Of
Representatives from South Carolina to two. beeause
the colored voters Of the State have been sfranchis
ed by Democratic frands and terrorism. The House