The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-15
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sult a. a sumptuary law. The demand for Wall
Whitmans poems is now sctiNe-
~ Tie New York Tribune remarks that Don
Cameron has at last made blunder so large that be
can see il himself.
v Governor Crittenden, Of Missouri. has beer
made an LID, possibly for doctor1ng the laws IN
the case of Jessee James.
" William Peak. the father and leader Of the
Peak Family Bell-Ringers, is a drunken Nagrant IN
New York.
II There is talk OF buying the Craigie house,
Washington's headquarters and Longfellows home,
| az Presidents residence for Harvard College.
~ 1t is said that Bob Ingersolls private lfs ID
blameless and that he is very charitable Can the
same be said Of all his eriticsi-Bosion Giobe.
- Either Cameron must be killed. politically. OF
he will destroy the Republican party in Pennsyiva-
nia.-Nec York Nail and Express.
~ Don Cameron is like young calf with wee.
vii in its He is trying to scratch the of side oi
his head with his left hind foot.
rRCameron might resign and 20 to the people for
'.yindication- His friend, Conkling can give him
few points to the graceful way TO dothis-De"rer
Tribune.
- Editor George H. Gorham for First Assistant
Secretary of tue Interior is predicted by the Wash
inston correspondents. Thus the Stalwarts mount
guard. and the people patiently bide their time
Springfield ReptbtiodH.
Y5-Senator Cameron's recent visit to Philadelphia
to order the Independents and the business men to
the machine whipping post, promises to become me,
boss leader-PhiIaaeiphia Times.
~ the late James Wick gave $4,000 worth Of
seed to the farmers of Kansas in the great grasshop
per year. and annually spent in charity is said no
less sum than slOOOO.
from the north of ireland TO Norway, TO keep the
ieebergs and cold currents away from the European
coasts, and modify the weather. Esds can pur-
chase the idea and cultivase il in Congress, with ter
rapin suppers.
e The Wilmington Star says that the people Of
North Carolina have never elected n man as Govern
or who was not native of the State. One Cover
WAS born abroad, but he was chosen by the Leg
islature.
~. clock once owned BY William Penn, and
now in the possession Of Mr.. George W. Childs, Of
Is well known is to be presented by him to the Penn
Club Of that city, where it will no doubt be highly
priced.
IF When Deacon Smith was n young man, he
greatly troubled with n sour stomach. II was
during that period that the Deaeons moral creed
was formed, and he has never wavered in his high
resolve ia put his sour stomach into tho political
framework of America.
70 The Oldest deed in America, is said to be in
the possession Of Major Leland, of New York. Ii
written eighteen years after the discovery Of the
New World by Columbus. This document is a con-
veyanee of Fishers Island, near the mouth Of the
Sound, from certain Indian chiefs, to the celebrated
navigator, John Cabot, whose signature it bears
w That the fools are not all dead is illustrated
by the discovery Of three Of kind in Somerset, lnd
The postmaster at that place found a couple that
wanted to get married. and the Justice of the Pence
and minister being out of town, the postmaster mar
ried them, he says, according TO the postal laws
in such made and provided" The action of
the Postofice Department at Washington is looked
for in the premises
" Another historic mansion in New York is to
be sold. The dwelling known the Jane AcCrea
house. in Fort Edward, is the property in question.
Jane McCrea was living in the house in l1.7, when
she left her home join her lover Lieutenant Da-
yid Jones, of Burgoynes army, and was slain near
by, the indian guide being her murderer. The pro-
sent occupant has been in the house since l99s.
~ On May "a. Queen Victoria completed her 63d
year, age which has been exceeded by eleven only
of tine soveroisns of England dating from the Nor
man conquest, viz: Henry l., Henry Ill, Edward l.,
Edward Ill, Queen Elizabeth James ii. George /,
George H., George I'LL, George w., and William w.
On the 10Th of June next, her majesty will have
reigned over the United Kingdom for forty five
years. reign which in length has been exceeded by
three only of the Kings of England, viz Henry Ill,
Edward Ill and George iii.
" A London paper tells how, when n certain
Dean of Chester all ready to perform marriage
between persons of high standing the bride wns
very late. When she reached the altar, to the ques
distinct tones, Il will not" On retiring with the
Dean to the vestry, she explained that her late ar
rival not her flt, and that the bridegroom had
aceosted her at the church with Cd d-n You, II
this is the way you begin you'll find il to your cost
when you're my wife" So she decided TO remain
single.
ry- large lot of letters and manuscripts in the
hand d-wrting of Daniel Webster has been discovered
in an old junk shop in the lower part of Boston. The
bale of old paper stock in which they were discover
ed, came from New Bedford, and among the papers
are nine foOlscap pages which, in Mr.. Webster s
own hand. is the opening portion of Millard Fill
mores inaugural. There is also the original copy Of
his famous Fourth of July Oration, delivered at Sal
sbury, y. H. The papers will be given into the Gus
tody of the Smithsonian Institute.
~ Judge wylie of Washington, in sentencing u
Young to the penitentiary for larceny, last
week, said he could not see how young man eosld
get a trade now, account of the trade combina
tions, which prevent boys from becoming appren-
tices. lie said every parent in the land should put
his dewn these organizations. which have the
effect Of bringing skilled labor here from abroad
aud Of causing universal idlcness among youths,
which drives them Ia crime.
~ In 1874 Fanny Kemble, now resting quietly at
Butlersville, Philadelphia, got up q benefit at
the ST. James Theatre, London, for the distressed
peasanry of Scotland and Ireland, which is notable
In the annals of the drama. The play was The
Hunchback," Nandenhotf 1.-THE cldcrl playing Master
W'aHer, Fanny Kemble Julia, and Henry Greville
(deadD and Sir Henry DE Bottle tstii lvinsl, two
celebrated amateurs, playing Aodss and 7iiiset In
the front row the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Duke of Wellington and Rachel, who was the n ma
king her first professional visit to London.
ET- bachelor named TAFT, residing near Wabash,
has for many years declined to dispose of any Of the
wheat produced on his farm The idea has taken
lodgment in his mind that he is to be married, and
the father of large family, and he il just as amb
tiops to raise large crops and store them up as the
average American citizen is to accumulate noun
tains of silver and gold Mr. TAFT is further possessed
with the idea that great famine will visit the land
in the faro future and that he will then need every
pound Of his wheat to supply the wants Of his fami-
ly.-Chiodgo Times.
II Twenty persons were sent to the Ohio peni-
tentiary, one tay last week. from Cincinnati. and
still the Democrats talk about carrying the Old Buck
eye State at the next election.
= A Maryland State Senator who was accused
of voting the Democratic ticket, brought sut for IL
bel and the jury awarded him damages in the sum
of $1,000 Justice occasionally gets to the front in
this country even south of Mason and Di1ons line.
rRIt is said the Lord Frederick Csvendish, who
was recently assassnated iu Dublin park, spent some
years ago, entire summer in Missouri, shooting
and fishing in the southern part of the State In all
other respects his life seems to be singularly free
from reprOach.
- The effort to put John Calvin and Deacon
Smith into the Constitution has met with 4 slight
check.
" New Hampshire man has borrowed water
from a neigh bor's well, hundred rods away, for
twenty-five years.
u Mr. Evarts SAYS that Mr.. Filley made a mis-
take in getting out his 300 medals in bronze They
should have been composed of beaten brass.
~ s.Gastle Garden" says the New York Herald,
has become n veritabe Tower of Bablc, and there
is probably place of the size in all the world
where many languages are heard at the same
time
~. Two ear loads of scrap iron loaded at Peoria,
H. were found to consist entirely of things stolen
from the railroad company over whose line tine an-
dacious thieves proposed TO ship 1t to market.
- Some one has been stealing firewood from the
LeRoy Reporter. One occasionally hears OF even
meaner man than old Christiancy.
rf- The editor of the Logan Enterprise has bought
a farm. We infer that our contemporary must be
running a hog yard in connection with his news
paper
- The sister Of Walter Scott's "Maidie"-whose
story DIR. John Brswn beautifully told as Pet
Mariorie--has Just died. She was Mis- Elizabeth
Fleming, and seventy two years old. Mis-. Flem-
min.s mother was the Youngest daughter of James
Rea, a noted surgeon. Rea's second daughter mar
ried Keith of Ravelst0n. and at her house Sir Wal
ter almost daily met the Fleming sisters.
II The st. Louis papers claim that there is a
man in that city who has not been known to smile
for twenty years. II only fair that the
of the wretched gentlemans otherinlaw shonid ac-
company this item, S pledge Of good faith.
r- II is rlimored that the St. Joseph Herald is to
have a new editor who will hail from Detroit. 1t
seems that the cruel assassination of Jesse james
has so preyed upon the mind of the present incum-
bent that he is obliged TO retire from the tripod
= The gloomy announcement is made that Mrs
De Geer Call has been engaged to stump the State
in the interest of the third term movement. The
Irish it seems, not the only people who are in
hard luck this year.
ly- Governor Litt!efed, of Rhode Island, is
man Of the people. having in his early days worked
in cotton factory at Matte of the villages which
have grown up around the Sprague mills. While
Littlefeld was toiling at the spindle. William
Sprague was Governor. BY turn Of fortunes
wheel. Sprague becomes n bankrupt, and Littehed
n Governor.