The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-03-29
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Legislature only Twelve are natives OF
the state
/ Mr.. James G. BIaine's youngest
son. James G.. Blaine, Jr., IL st school
at Exeter, y. H.
Colorado Tabor claims to have
made his marx ~ senator. He did
IL with a diamond on pane OF glass.
Col. IngersolI's father once offered
PRAYER that occupied an hour and sew
enteen minutes in its delivery. He
must have been praying for his son.
An American drank twenty-eigbt
glasses of lager In Washington. on .
wager, Msnday evening, in thirty
minutes. beating German. who gave
I out after pouring down twenty-five
| glasses
Ex-senator Gordon, Of Georgia. has
/ become rich since he resigned his seat,
and il j. now said hopes TO be returnd
/ to the senate from Florida, In which
state he has recently located. rs the
\ successor of Senator Wilkinson Call.
The celebrated William and Mary
/ college Is closed. Last year IL only
/ had one student. and he found the
/ mental and physical strain 81 making
| il lively for the neighborhoOd too try
/ ing To he carried out through q col
iege course.
Resilient. of Colorado are now claim
| ing that no native Of the state has
| ever died there of consumption. the
large number of deaths OF that disease
| being of those who have gone there
| for relief from pulmonary difficulties
! acquired elsewhere.
Young Thomas 4. Scott. son of the
| late Pennsylvania railroad King. il get
ting away with the million left in u
pretty lively manner. In a game Of
poker few nights ago he held four
! queens, and lost $1,000 on the hand.
\ straight flush took him in.
The Boston Commonwealth quotes
Governor Ben Butler as saying in justi-
iication Of his continuing to attend u
his law practice: Governor Talbot
did not stop his wooden mills when
Governor why, then, should j stop
my jaw mi II when ! am GOVERNOR
Boston, March pa Paris cable.
gram says: The new tariff on paint
ing- OF 81 per cent. AL yalorein, and
the cxcmpting OF all works of art and
paintings by American artists, II
creating a strong feeling. Leading
French artists have called "A meeting
To protest.
1t j. now learned that the attempt
To blow up the London Times building
was meant in all kindness. IL WAS not
intended that very much damage
should he done, the perpetrators sim
ply wanted 20 shake up the paper q
little and see If they couldn't put some
life into il.
The Princess DDlyorouki was stay
ing in Berlin recently at the Central
Hotel accompanied by her three chill
drcn, their gOverne>s and huge dog.
Several members Of the Russian arts
tOcTacy IN Berlin sent her flowers and
LEFT their cards. but officially she was
not recognized.
1T. Louis, March 2i-This afternoon
!. 4. Blackman. a postal clerk on the
Missouri Pacific road, was arrested for
cmhezEling sample packages Of mcr-
chandi-c sent through the mails |
BiacliuIan has been long time In the |
railway postal service, and - AN ex- |
me uber of the Kansas Legislature.
The emigration to Kansas this |
sprin. is believed To bc much larger |
this spring than last. During the |
Union Pacific Railway company has |
sold over 5000 acres of land. all Ia
actual settlers. This l. 80 per cent In
crease over the sales during a like pc
Rod last year.
- Louis, March 2i.-Letters from
Southwest Missouri say that wheat In |
that section j. badly winter killed and
will not yield more than half crop. |
Adviccs from other parts Of the state
give much more favorable accounts,
aud say the crop l. generally In very
fine condition.
Kansas City. March 2I.-The Jour
nails jefferson City special says: The
governor this evening approved the
Downing high license dram shop bill.
notwithstanding the strong pressure
brought 10 bear by the opponents Of
the measure. He prefers that the
constitutional questions involved be
settled 10y the courts.
The tunnel under the English Chan
mel has been finished To "a mile and q
quarter of the French coast. and the
engineers promise Ia have ears run
ming through ii within two years.
The fishes in the channel will Ice de-
prived of great deal of food when
this tunnel i finished.
United States postage stamps bear
the faces OF Washington, Franklin.
jefferson, Jackson. Clay, Webster,
Hamilton. Commodore q. III. Perry,
General Winfield Scontt, Edwin NJ.
stanton. Lincoln and Garfield. The
new cent stamp will bear the head
of Washington, aud not Of Grant, as
reported. The face of no living per
son is ever put on these stamps.
The Boston C6BgrcydtiOndiist re-
cords a. "A significant fact that recent
~ Major Burke, proprietor of the
New Orleans Times Democrat, had
the sporting news omitted one day In
order to make rooG for a column on
the organization for the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of
Louisiana. But the next day 200
Subscribers stopped the paper.
West Liberty, Ia, March 2i-H.
:. Farrell editor of the Iowa City Re
publican. bought at auction in Quaker
settlement. near here to-day. the old
wagon ia which John Brown used to
carry runaway negroes from Missouri,
and in which the arms used ut Har-
per's Ferry were brought to this place
and shipped n carpenters tools. II
will be used as n delivery wagon.
a girl IL years of age is the captain
of a hand of Los Angeles. Cal. hood
lums. whose exploits have made them
a 'ierrnr of certain section of the
city. They are not only thieves. but
burglars, ~ they recently cut a pane
of glass from a jewelry window and
distracted n large quantity Of valua-
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