The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-06-10
THE EAGLES BULLETIN BOARD.

The telegraph company having announced
that it would send all ballots and all exciting
or important transactions in the Chicago
Convention to principal stations to be bulle-
tined, and the editor Of the EAGLE being the
associate press agent for Wichita, felt some
pride In the matter, and after Il conference
with Lloyd B. Terrell, their gcntlemanly and
prompt superintendent, who agreed to sit up
night and day IL necessary to see us through
and furnish us the dispatches, our business
manager got up bulletin board in front Of
this office. The first dispatches were chalk.
| ed on a few moments after the converting Of
| the convention last "Wednesday. From that
| time on it proved the centre Of attraction Of
the city. For hours, crowds and squads
would stand staring at its mysterious words
| and more mysterious figures. But on Mon
day when the ballots commenced coming the
! squad increased to crowd and then jam
until all the sidewalk for a half block and
half the street were taken up by hundreds Of
men. The crowd held on from ten O'Clock
| tall four and again from seven O'Clock till A.
| ter eleven at night. We believe about every
subject under heaven was discussed in the
interim, politics and religion predominating.
with no light sprinkle Of whisky and the
constitutional amendment. We don't want
| drank; it WAS only discussed, for that was .
sober. genteel crowd, made up Of the best
men OF the town and county. The Jokes
that were cracked, the stories told, and the
Presidents made, would oil book rs big rs
the Bible. Democrats and Greenbsckers
| were plenty, too, only to see of course. but
In reality interested to know the name of the
man who will lay out Samuel Jones T., Of
| Gramercy Park, he of cypher dispatches,
next November. In such q crowd, Of course
| there was no quarreling or unseemly action,
| and il was pleasure to carry the dispatches
to il. Tuesday morning, after receiving the
10Th and 30th ballots there was hitch in the
wires, aud for two and half mortal hours
not word could be got. At last, our opera
tor asked the Newton Office what he knew.
lie answered backed, take an oath to keep
mum, and guess. We told him to guess Gar.
field. The answer came back swift rs light
ming, "it's Garfield But q moment after
ward We were at the board and wrote across
it the name, Garfield. For . moment the
crowd looked ineredulous, then up went
hats In \ moment more another dispatch
was handed us which read: ''3Gth ballot,
Connecticut throws II votes for Garfield. In
diana % votes for Garfield, Tennessee Z votes
for Garfield. TOtal-Grant 81, Blaine ~,
Garfield ST.
Then came the following from our big
hearted friend:
CHICAGO, juno s, 4:43 p. m.
To N. n. Kurdock::
The child is born: his name il Garfield.
J. NJ. STEELE.
In behalf Of our citizens and in our own we
thsnk Mr.. Terrell for his promptness and
patience. Many Of the dispatches were re-
ceived under great difficulties, there being
nm insufficient number Of wires to this point,
but with little delay all the important news
WAS promptly received and bulletined.
Several papers are publishing a. a ''ro-
nance" that young lady from Leavenworth
went to Italy and there married an Italian
music teacher, the further particulars being
that the happy couple now reside in Kansas
and have nice little baby born in this State.
We see nothing remarkable in this. Babies
are about as apt TO be born in Kansas as any
State we know of.-.4cAisos cAsapios.
Our experience is that they are more apt
than in any other State. The particular baby
above alluded to was born in Wichita, and 10
. darling.