The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-01-06


From fifteen acres Of ground this year he
gathered 1000 bushels Of corn-nearly 20
bushels per acre, husked corn. From seven
acres OF wheat he harvested an average Of 80
bushels per acre from IA acres Of oats he |
gathered Al bushels pei, acre, and so on.
When ahe Ute commissioners returned to
Los Pnos, from Denver, they found fourteen |
hundred savages waiting to receive their In. |
stalIments Of ST each. just after the silver |
was disbursed, white man arrived with the |
body of johnson. the Indian who was killed |
by the freighter, Jackson, and for two days |
the widest demonstrations OF rage were
made, when the commissioners hed To Den
yer, which they reached after rough trip. l
| Kansas has made Il, 9O5 ,344 pounds OF but |
ter and 7O3, Az pounds Of cheese this year.
King Kalaka,,a, Of the Sandwich Islands. |
who is soon to start on q long foreign trip, |
will probably be in this country by February
| A Toledo naturalist has satisfied himself
beyond doubt that the average cat travels
distance OF eight miles every night. when
there is no earthly reason for her moving q i
rod.
Gen. Garibaldi lies day alier day on . small
iron bed, ia simply furnished room, hooking
on the sea. He wears the round cap Of his
portraits, and holds paper fan whercwith
to drive away the 1ies-strange and Piteous
occupation Of u once SO doughty warrior.
His eyes are bright, his complexion fresh aud
healthy, his hair white, his beard pepper and
salt. He Is sadly paralyzed. even his hands
being stiff and contorted.
The South ought 10 be especially interest
ed in Keeping the Kansas advensurers out Of
Indian Territory, the New Orleans Picayvss
remarks, because the Indians expelled from
the South were settled there, and have be-
come somewhat civilized in their new homes.
whereas the tribes Of the West and North
west have been annihilated or their wretched
| remnants hurried from place TO place by
| troops. 'it $3.50 i'"
Andrew Bazaar says that lady who owns
an amable husband was asked how she had
ever brought him to such perfection; where
upon she sweetly answered that she did 1t
chiefly with croquet mallet.
|
An explanation Is given of the insoience Of
the Grand Turk. He knows that the ''Great
Powers" dare not assail him-dare not go to
war. They have no surplus revenue, and Q
material increase in the public debt Of the
different Nations would lead to the speedy
i repudintion OF the whole, and the consequent
ruin Of every royal aud noble house in Eu.
rope. s.H r'"ttla.
There is talk In Western Missouri Of Eiak-
ing new state. to be called West Missouri,
out Of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and
Tenth congressional districts-51 counties in
all. Their total vote for President was 1872
1t3. or this, Hancock had 9J, G65. The total
vote Of the State for President was 1924
The proposed new State, il is believed, would
be Republican in 1894.
"Father," asked q young Insu who will
vote two years hence, ':whst IL civil service
reformy' "Getting the other fellows man
out Of Office and getting your own in" re-
piled the well-postcd father.
Not long ago Senator Hamlin and Horace
Maynard. now Postmaster General. were talk
ing OF the unsatisfactory life a public man
leads. He may work all Of his useful days
in the public harness, and when exhausted
he is turned out. Ike retired canal horse,
TO die. Maynard complained that he had
been n quarter Of a century In public life aud
was now poorer than when nc entered.
"Well," replied Hsmlin, 81 am not. had
nothing when commenced and have got
| nothing now
The first thing Gen. James Il. Steedman
noticed when he saw Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden
! the other day, on u prancing steed, was his
| remarkable robustitude.
Springer and Sparks are both from Illinois, |
and both are well named. One Is full Of
bounce. the other is full Of fire. and both are
humbugs.
Col. W. +. Elkin, the last but one Of the |
famous ''loMg nine,' headed by Abraham
Lincoln, In the Illinois Legislature in 1879 ~ |
died in Decatur. Illinois. last week. Ninian
w. Edwards, Of Springfield, alone survives.
The aggregate height Of the ''long uine' was
precisely hfty-four feet. They secured the
removal Of the capital from VAndaka 70
SREtukuctu- Sos. GStNtu Wes tsSssiSat"ct w
Mrs. Gov. Routt, Of Colorado.
Gen. o. o. Ho,7ard, the new commandant
At West Point, had an unpleasant experience
while cadet At that school. He was ostra-
cised, or ''sent 10 Coventry" for nearly two
years by his class, Of which Gusts Lee was
the leader. Howard's offense was in the rec
ognition o: his guardians son as . social
equal, who was then q sergeant In the corps
of engineers stationed at West Point. How
ard committed an additional oGcnse against
the pro-slayery cadets at West Point BY his
10 the extension Of slavery. The
General thinks there must be an sbandon-
mcnt OF this policy Of separation, and that
without surrcndcring discipline there must
be closer relation between the officers and
cadets. The spirit Of caste must be broken
down /,
The Postotiice Department recently ordered
m inquiry into the abuse Of the frankiDg
privilege. Ii has developed that one day
hiring the campaign nine mail bags were re-
ce.ved ut Washington from New York. ander
The frank Of Senator Wallace, containing
over eighty thousand empty envelopes. or.
namentesi by the signatures u thirteeA Dem
'cratic senrtors or members. the inteatiOa Q
being T. oil them with printed documents Tor Q
distribution Throughout the country
The New York Triasa<. amer carefully can q
'assing the returns Of the recent election in /,
and comparing the Republican :,
Iotc with the colonel population. comes to !.
ne conclusion that there eau be no reasonable :,
loubt that il the election had been a. fairly
Conducted in all parts OF Mississippi as it was
n Alcorn aud Pototoc counties. the State h
veuld have chosen the Garfield electors by 4,
majority Of over % NJ and returned solid I
Republican delegation to Congress.
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