The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-06-07

Chicago was organised - Q town
Aug. 10. 1854
Senator Ingals b whiting relatives
q BIZ old hone. near Bnst60.
Mary Audeeso0 hes gone 10 Europe
for two yeass' stsdy asd sest.
A Kansas City weather prophet
says this will be . dry year, notvith-
standing the vet spsing.
Ex-senator Conkiing has been In
Kansas City on Law business, and the
people Of that town are liOnising him.
II h aid that Mesrs. Chasles
Scribner's 6ons expect to establish Q
new magazine In New York In opp0-
sition u the Oewts1y.
The reformed Presbyterian Synod
at Pittsburg Monday rssolved against
the uae Of t0bacCO - N offensive habit,
causing useless waste Of money, and
prohibited it, manufacture and sale.
Senator Anthony h now considered
. convalescent from his recent ilineas,
and h congratulated upon his narrow
escape. He h the father Of the United
States SENATE, and one Of IL most uss.
full. - well ~ unObtfuAive. mesnben.
Bayard Taylos's old home, Cedar
cron. In Chester county. Pennsy lvania.
II now the property Of DR.. Richard
Lewis. Of Philadelphia Dr. Lewis ix Q
brotheF-in-lAw Of General Alfred w.
Elle.. Of EIdOrado, and In the owner Of
considerable real estate In Kansas.
Gen. John A. Halderman, minister
Ia BankOk, II al,Out 10 bring on war
between Siam and this government by
refusing Ia float the United States flag
ut half mast upon the 0ccasiOn Of the
death Of one OF the noted citizens Of
that nation. The general II expected
10 do his duty.
At FishkIll Village, near Newburg,
n. ", was celebrated Saturday the
centennial anniversary Of the disband.
ment Of Washington army ON June
2. l7s3. There was large attendance.
and addresses were made by Benson
Looming. the historian, and other
prominent gentlemen.
In Crawford county, Kan, are two
tree plantations Of SO scres each. Ca
talpa Il the favOrite TREE, and Ii being
cultivated for railroad ties by the Fort
Scott 4 Gulf Railway EOinpany; Q
block Of lOO, 100 seedlings planted four
years ago range from ten Ia fifteen feet
in height; In circumference the trees
range from eight to eleven inches.
The NeW Aexican. Of Santa Fe,
writes its own obituary. II says:
THE NeW INexican this morning II
dead, and IL IL the liveiiest corpse ever
hauled to . newspaper graveyard"
Lack ar revenue was theI cause. Every
subscriber will have his balance due
returned to him, and the paper thus
closes its existence with homo. It
was too good paper for the town.
DALLAS, Tex, June A cyclone
struck Greenville, Hunt county, Sat
urdsy night. deinOiisbing the Meth.
odist church, completely destroying
three fine residences aud unrOofinx
and otherwise iniuring forty or fly
others. Many persons are reported
injured. but the only death was that
of small c0lOred child. The damage
is estimated ut from $4,000 to 90. 900.
The eloquent colored orator, Hon.
J. Milton Turner. ex minister to Lii
beriR, Is about to head . colony Of
ChOctaw negroes from their present
homes In the ChOctaw nation to Okla
hoMs in the Indian Territory. He
has selected the location and expects
To start in couple Of weeks. He says
the portion Of Oklahoma selected for
the settlement proposed Is the finest
country ON the continent.
A game Of base ball by electric light
WAS played Saturday night on the
grounds mt Fort Wayne. md. Some
difficulty was experienced Ia catching
fly halls. but the batsnien had no
trouble In seeing the ball come from
the pitcher. When the ball became
dirty IL had 10 be changed for new
one. ~ the Infield players could not
easily discern the earth eolored
sphere.
Some fellow has raised the question
whether the Washington monument
could Withstand q tornado, such rs, he
Gays. they have out West. Perhaps IL
might weather one like We had here,
hut such u one ~ they had In Indiana |
or Georgia would tumble II down
This Ii an indirect argument against |
the removal Of the cApitOl-a ghost |
that always hnunts WsshingtOnian.
City journal.
II II reported from Mexico. whether |
reliable or not we are unable 10 say.
that the government Of that country |
has made new contract with Jay |
Gould and Gen. Grant. by which the
Mexican Central and Mexican South
ern railroads are to be consolidated.
and the Mexican Southern, which
formerly had no subsidy, In to receive
81 .OD per kilOmeter Of road actually
built.
A current rumOr In New York city |
has IL that Mrs. Frank Leslie IL about
10 marry . person known In society ~
the Marquis de Luville. A newspaper
announced that he was the
Of Madame Tussand, Of wax
work fame, and no marquis ut all, and
It Ii said that he has gone abroad TO
get proof Of what he claims IN be. Mrs.
Leslie hns IN income Of 81, 900 Q year
hardly enough To keep dude mar
kee.
There IL u be . gathering OF all the
ltOumanian gypsies In the country 1t
Utica in July to do honor tn their
queen, whose name Ii Mary Lowell,
Who In now with hand i0 camp ut
At least this In what
Der son. who il chief Of the band, says.
According to his story Queen Mary,
who has just arrived In this country
% look after the welfare Of her subjects
= recognized by all the wandering
ribes Of ROumania. She Is 20 years
Id, and succeeded to the sovereignty
lpon the death Of her mother, Queen
Anne. many years ago.
Topeka, Kan, June 1.-The county
lttorney Of this county, A. H. Vance.
lied to-day, In the supreme cOurt, .
mo trdrrdnt0 petition Of charges |
lgaiDst Joseph Wilson. mayor Of To-
'eka. The action Ii based on seven
harges, presented to the court In de-
all, praying the court to declare the
mayor To have forfeited his once, aud
o be forever disqualified from holding
ny ONCE Of trust or profit hereafter.
q the state. The action arises out Of
be refusal Of the mayor to obey the
.rovisiOns Of the prohibitory Law. and
he case 10 important, a. testing the
emedies Of the people against the
ublic Officers who refused to do their
worn duty. |.
Following Q present estimate OF {
arnings it might be easy to convert !
he Brooklyn bridge into free cause
ray before enough years have gone
y 30 make repairs necessary. Some q
ewspaper statician computed the re- {
eipts tnr one day ct s, 500, the tariff Z
q foot passengers being estimated ct Z
| 800. and that on vehicles 1t 81 800.
hat vOuld make the frat venps reye- L