The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-06-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.

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PERSONS AND THINGS.
Mrs. Kate Chase Spratre now sign
herself Mrs. Katherine Chase.
Mrs. Garfield and her children, Mis-.
Mollie and Irwin, will spend the sum
mer at Mentor.
A small cyclone struck the western
part of Springfield. Illinois, Friday
night. demOlisking fences, houses snt
trees, but iDjuring no person.
A Berlin piano firm has bOugh,
most Of the oxen piles lately takeT
out Of the Rhine ut Mayence, and be
lieved to be part Of bridge mentioned
by Cesar.
The decree of divorce obtained by
Maj Nickerson has been annulled BY
the Philadelphia court OF common
pleas on the ground Of fraud. Nicker
son Is 10 he cOurt-martialed.
The church which Eugene intends
building at Marlborough, England,
in memory Of her son will cost $50 600
The collins Of Napoleon LII aud the
Prince Imperial will be placed In this
church.
The trial trip of Jay Gould's new
yacht, the Atlanta, Saturday, was
very successful, and she is believed Ia
he the fastest deep sea-gOing yacht
afiOat. At times the log showed her
to be running sixteen knots an hour.
The bell of the Congregational
church at Newton, Conn, has been
used liz years, and the golden rooster
on top of the building has bullet
marks made by soldiers of the revolu.
ton. shooting at it while passing
through.
Mrs. Eliza Eddy, of Boston, be-
questhed So 900 to Miss Susan b.: An
thony and Lucy Stone Blackwell for
the wOmans' rights cause. She trusted
them wholly to use the money as they
see fit, and without putting them un-
der legal restraint.
BOnapartism has fallen into such
disfavOr with the French government
that this year. for the first time in
nearly half q century. the anniversary
Of Napoleon Is death May 5th) was
passed by without mass being said
over the remains where they repose
in Paris
The late Prince GOrtschakOfi always
wore ring given to him by Queen
Hortense in 1919, when she was COM
PEELED, at the instance Of the Tuscan
Government, to make a rapid retreat
from Florence. and he, acting rs
Count Felsen for Marie AntOinette,
mounted the box and drove her car
riage-horses.
The Agricultural Department ut
Washington says the condition of win
ter wheat throughout the entire
area In unusually low, being IS per
cent for June, against So for May,
while i'm June 1852, the figures were
~ per cent Spring wheat averages
high I'm all districts. being 50 per cent
the same as reported Mt this time last
year.
DUBLIN, June s.-Timothy Kelly,
convicted Of participation in the Ph0e.
nix Park murder, was hanged at Xii
mailman jail at 8 o'clock this morn.
ing. He was the fifth executed for
those murders and the last one con-
victed. There WAS q large crowd out
side the prison but no disturbance.
He died without making any state
ment.
Orange peel Is said to be the kind
ling Of the future. When dry IL IL
very infiammable, and serves admirs-
bly, for lighting fires. A NAH In
Manchester, England. has discovered
this fact, and is going into the bust
ness OF collecting and preparing this
useless and wasted article for
use. Cannot something be done with
banana skins.
b. ]. Gilmore, formerly land com.
missioner Of the Kansas division of
the u. p. railroad, now assistent man.
Ager of the Platte Land and Irrigation
ut Denver, was In Els
worth last week looking after his
stock interests in this country. Mr..
Gilmore owns . large tract Of land
six miles southeast Of the city, on the
old Harker reservatiOn.-EX lsporfh
Reporter.
Judge Kline, nominated for gov
srnor by the Iowa Democrats, was q
until 1872. when re fol-
lowed the Greeley movement and
irifted into the Democratic party. He
was . candidate two years ago, and
was defeated by about 60 900 majority.
Having been nominated ON . strict
license platform, he expects to capture
! great many v0tes from the Republi.
an party, because Of its prohibition
1t Is an almost invariable rule that
men who make money easily spend Il
The Rev. Henry Ward
'asy come easy go habit. He earns
more than $SO,0Wa year. and yet
lever has any money. He buys what |
'ver pleases his fancy without regard
o Its utility or his necessity for Il.
he paid $50 for . book recently,
IL only means one more lecture"
A large colony of Dunkards IL about |
o settle In Northern Kansas. They
Ne about TO build three churches In |
Brown county, near Sabetha and Nor |
Ill. Their recent meeting 1t Bis |
narck grove opened the eyes Of thous-
nds Of them 70 the beauties and Cd
'Antnges Of Kansas. and thossaands Of /
hem will probably be sdded 10 the
population Of the state within the /
ext few year. They are . desirable
les Of people In any community.
hey are moral, Intelligent, obey the
Avs strictly and are very thriity.-
ransas Gty Journal
ST. LOUIS, June ll.-Despatches
rom Tyler and Maco, Texas, say that
eports ere current In we'll Informed
abroad circleR that . scheme b on
,ot by which II 10 expected that Jay |
lould will secure control Of the Texas
st. Louis marrow guags railroad. II
aid dissensi0ns have broken out n
be directory Of the rod and that
here b likely 10 be . default In the
ayment Of the Interest on the co...
'ructiou 6onds due July nnt. which
~ result In the appointment Of . re-
eiver for the Rod and ultimately In