The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-05-12
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In Leavenworth and Atchison, the salaries
Of policemen has been fixed at 80 per month.
Dodge City seems to be up In arms about
the liquor business, and those engaged in the
traffic say they don't propose TO obey the law.
Therefore they have provided themselves
with shooting irons and defy the prohibition
amendment.
The Leavenworth Times gives 1t as its
opinion that the prohibition law cannot be
enforced in that city. Nine saloons refused
to obey the law. That paper says compro-
mise is being fixed up by the prohibitionsts
and liberals which will countenance the sale
Of beer and more innocent drinks.
Five hundred acres of land around York
town have been purchased by the committee
| association formed to celebrate the centcnni-
al celebration Of Lord CORVALLIS surrender.
The land will be beautifully laid Cd as pa
radc and camp ground for the French and
American soldiers. The new buildings will
be erected near the site OF the village. Viz
GINA is anticipating lively celebration OF
this anniversary.
Professor Proctor's prophecy Of the end OF
the world on account Of this years comet.
recalls the story that when MIR. II. W. Elmer
son was informed some years ago by an exeit-
cd gentleman that the end OF the world was
at hand he calmly replied: swell, imagine
We can get along very well without it,
There being some discussion over the reli-
gious views of Admiral Farragut, his widow
says: Though my husband was not a men-
Der OF the church until within 4 few years
previous to his death, he never ate a meal
without first asking God to bless it, and new
or undertook any great work without invOk-
ing His aid.'
The choice Of Sir Stafford Northcotc TO
| succeed the late Earl of BeacOnstield as lead
| er Of the Conservative completes in the Eng
fish political drama a situation full of con-
trasts. The Liberal leader is n man whom
Macauiay long ago described as the rising
hope of the Tcrics, and the new Conservative
leader owes allegiance to that party rather in
| name and form than in spirit. Both in his
sympathies and training he is Tar too modern
| to be genuine Tory, and is not one whit
more Conservative than most Of the leading
Wings.
Nicholas, the Grand Duke who has been
cxilcd from Russia for his supposed relations
| with the Nihilists, is cousin of the Car
and an iuveterate scapcgOat. His cscapade
with the American adventures, Miss Hattie
Blackford, better known as Fanny Lear,
brought him into unenyiab,e nOtoriety. He
was the black sheep Of the Romanons, and
what with stealing diamonds, playing Don
Juan and engaging in Nihilist plots, there
was no other resource left but to put him
where he can do no further harm to himself
or the ruler of the Russias.
Mr.. Ogura Jiro. member of the japanese
Legation at Washington, is visiting LeXing-
ton and the Bluegrass region Of Kentucky
for the purpose Of making observations to
report 10 the home government Of the blood
ed stock for which Kentucky is famous. He
will give particular attention to bloodcd
horses. lie represents the japanese as anX-
ious to increase their trade with the United
States, and thinks it not improbable that
bloodcd horses and cattle will be shipped to
Japan in large numbers as a result of his
present visit.
There is an ingenious young man at Mar
iha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, who recently
invented clock motion attached TO small
trap door, by which means his horse is regu-
LARRY fed The stable being some distance
from the house, this plan was invented to
save the time and trouble of going so fire.
quently TO look after the wants Of the horse.
II is found to work admirably and to the great
satisfaction of the animal who seems TO prize
regularity in the receipt of his rations.
General Malone got at the marrow of the
matter when he said 10 correspondent Of
the Chicago Tribune that the BourbOns Of
Virginia want to save enough from the wreck
Of slavery '.to enable them TO reduce the col,
ored people OF to-day to the serviie condition
Of the free negroes in the South before the
abolition Of slavery" But they will have
to abandon that purpose or else drop the
poor prc,ense of being in favor of free and
fair election, and an honest count. They
will not be allowed to blow hot and cold in
the same breath.
The ''grasshopper bulletin is fast taking
rank with the stock and market reports in
Importance on the Pacific coast. Indications
at present favor thc.ranchmen. Black spi-
ders, which prey upon the hoppers, have
made their appearance in great numbers, and
are described by an imaginative Nevada jour
nalist as sitting cross-legsed under every
blade Of grass, patiently waiting for the
gra,sbopper eggs to hatch, when they make
short work of the newly-fedgcd grasshop-
pers.
In December last Lord Bcaconstield wrote
to Mr.. Francis Heath, who had sent him his
new volume on the condition Of the peasant
nv and on trees "With regard TO trees,
passed part of my youth in the shade Of Burn
ham beeches, and have now the happiness OF
living amid my own green retreats am
not surprised that the ancients worshippsd
trees. Lakes and mountains, however glori-
Gus for time, in time weary; sylvan seem
cry never pals"