The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-01-12
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CITY HAR1Ts.
Hogs-s5.50 to s6.0o.
} wheat-No. 2, sl.l5; No. 3, so; No. 4. so
to IS.
Corn-4S.
Oats-3O to IS.
Butter-e0 to ..
Potatoes-$1.50 to %l.7o.
Eggs-l5 to 20.
Hay-s3.5O to s4.o0.
/ Mr.. A. ]. Granger, it is said, lost fifty-eight
yaluble sheep from the same cause by which
the cattle died few weeks since, 1. e., turn
ing into stalk fields. As soon rs the sheep
were taken from and kept out of the stalks
no more trouble was experienced.
A number of our business men received
letters by Mondays mail which they should
have had on Friday. We can make no ex-
PLANTATION, further than that the matter came
In pouch by Mondays train. The matter
will be traced up and the delinquent reported.
Donavin's Tennesseeans gave the best en-.
tertainment of purely vocal music ever heard |
In this city, last Saturday evening. We will
not particularize singers where all were so |
good. There was no blur in the harmony, |
but all was perfect. Donayin's Tennessee
ans lie one OF the few companies that travel |
on its merits Charles CITY haselligencer
Stereopticon exhibition ut the Presbytcri.
an Church on Wednesday evening, at "A
O'Clock. Intense illumination, equal to the
| electric light. Views twelve feet square Of
America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and
Wichita, London, Washington and other
large cities. Photographs of eminent and
handsome people of Wichita. Admission
| adults, % cents children, 10 cents.
The Emporia Ntics appeared in an illustra-
ted edition for the holidays. in which the
wonderful growth and prosperity of that
city for tho past year was admirably set
forth. Empora has passed through her
sweat, and now, with her water works, gas
works. street railway, ETC., is taking u place
among the leading towns of Kansas. The
illustrations of her finest residences did not
do justice to the subjects. No photo-litho-
graph process can.
Mr. FechEeimer, . merchant and manu-
faeturer of San Francisco, and brother-in-
law of Mr.. NJ. Block, of this city, spent last
Monday in Wichita. Mr.. F., who is a wealthy,
wide-awake and agreeable gentleman, de-
clared that he was charmed with our climate,
which seemed to him a rival Of the Pacific
coast. He left on Tuesday for New York
(ifv m trsf hay @I,o |
Pacific route.
The resignation OF Mr.. Miles as teacher in
the city schools, and the election of Miss
Cook, necessitated considerable Of a change
among the teachers. Mrs. Alice Sites was
assigned to Mr.. Miles room, Miss Harrie J
Smith to Mrs. Sites room, Miss Emma Cook {
to Miss Smiths room, Miss Billings to Miss
HusOn's room, (the wooden building in Sec {
ond ward,) and Miss Huson to the room east I
of the railroad.
1t has been a long time coming, but has
got around ut last--an endorsement, We :
mean, of the EAGLES position that the ex- !,
IRENE weather Of the past year was attribu-
table to the presence of the comets. A Sci
enlist in New York institution declares
that the tail of the brightest comet fell with
In the earth's annual circuit, and that the ex- :
treme heat of the summer came of that con- =
tiguity.
Among the new county subscribers receiv-
ed this week, three are out and out, up and
down Democrats. Barring the EAGLES stall
wartism, said one Of them, it is the best farm y
and family journal in the State. This good 5
opinion is fattering. The EAGLE has
large number of Democratic readers. so
large. in fact, that if they should suddenly
array themselves against us and our Repub-
lean patrons, it would make n family row OF :
huge old proportions.
Lane Fisher and X. b. Clark came up from
heir rancho, located in the Medicine Lodge
country, last week. They report cattle as
loing finely on the range. The boys haye =
heir own fun living on choice game this !. =
winter They have killed upwards of TWEEN :, :,
" deer and four bears, and wild turkeys,
iucks, chickens, etc., unnumbered. The T
asst Bruin killed weighed upwards of six
hundred pounds, and was as fat as hog,
hey rendering upwards of ten gallons of oil III
rom his carcass.
December WAS wonderful month. The
average range of the thermometer was sew
.ral degrees higher than in thirty years.
Many rose bushes and other deciduous plants p
till set out their leaves. The first week of
January has proved just as warm, although
heavy rains are reported in the eastern
;tatee, and sections in which the thermome-
er has gone down from ten TO thirteen de- %
Trees below zero. That the winter will be D
loubt Two or three days last week this va. Il
ey was enveloped in thick, gray and almost /.
mpenetrablc fog, such as settles along the NJ
,anks OF New Foundand.
The concert given last evening by the Ten +
lesseeans, at the Congregational Church was !,
me of the most entertaining musical affairs
ven given in Yankton. The Tennesseeans, =,
lways among the best OF their profession, q
AVE improved with their years of practice c.
nd have reached a degree of perfection ~
which can only be attained by an a.scmblage r,
f genuine artists. There has been nothing NJ
n the musical line which has so completely NJ
elighted our people as last nights enter Az Az
ainment. The church was crowded with P
eople, and the audience was of thorough. p;
7 appreciative nature.-Daily Press. ~
The skin of Goldfish is now used for making Sc
loves. 1t is in order for the Wichita EAGLE "
D remark the thrill of joy which will run
Trough ''codfsh Topeka on receiving this ca
Intelligence. --Eidorddo Times ola
Won't Topeka society beam like peony
yer that announcement, though. The man %
tho will now succeed in compromising re
od-Ilang- Fish-Ilang perfume will win the
gratitude Of the denizens of
mall potatoes.
Last Sunday night, or Monday morning AZ
ather, fire was discovered in the barber ar
hop of Jerry Gordy, on the north side of
douglas avenue near Rnssell's livery stable. y,
he building, small frame affair, was con. ID
umed. as was also the adjoining one occu- Ca
led by Henry Schrump as . confectionery
tore and bird market. Both of these men
re poor and lost everything. Several fine Ca
anary and other birds belonging to Schrump d,
hnrned Tho fol io1 nf itaI