Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-24
LIVE NEWS.

Secretary Lamar would like TO be
back to the Senate.
Miss Cleveland. it is reported, will
soon visit Newport.
The Mexican editors will reach the
National capital Tuesday.
The General Gordon memorial fund
now amounts to $90,155.
Colonel Thomas Ochiltree will bios
som out as lecturer in October.
The August Century will contain
General Grants article on "Vicks-
burg.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is
spending the summer at Narragan-
sett Pier.
During the tobacco season Lynch
burg (va.) has sold 23,OOO,OO0 pounds
of leaf tobacco.
New Jersey expects to send 10
market 2,5O0, 600 baskets of peaches of
good quality.
Senator Payne, of Ohio, will be the
alumni orator at Hamilton College,
Clinton, n. Y, next year.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist of
Harper's Weekly, has gone to Europe
for rest and recreation.
Editor Dana. of the New York Sun,
grows the finest and largest straw
berries in the United States.
The relatives and friends of Mrs.
Surraft do not countenance the propo-
sition TO erect a monument to her.
Edward Camphausen, of Pennsyl-
vania, the new United States consul
to Naples, will sail for Bremen August
5th.
A Tsmmany man says the only way
TO get Office is through the presidents
private secretary, Daniel Lamont.
Wiikie Collins regards "Armadale"
as Dickens did David Cnpperfieldn-
the favorite of his own productions.
George W. Childs will give a ban
quet to the Mexican editors ut Bel
mont mansion, Philadelphia, Monday
evening.
The British Bible society issued the
New Testement at cents q copy. In
nine months $50, 600 copies have been
sold.
Ii is said that Alexander Stevens
left behind him o journa. containing
record Of his prison experiences in
Fort Warren.
Ciuverius, the Richmond murderer.
spends his time reading the Bible and
eating the fruits which sentimental
women send him.
In the novels produced during the
past year ii is estimated that 372 of
the heroines have been blondes, and
only 100 brunettes.
A Virginia Democrat was present.
ed with triplets by his wife and he
named them Cleveland, Hendricks,
and Reform. They will not live long.
Cyrus W. Field will give banquet
in London on the evening Of Wednes-
day, August 5, TO celebrate the ami
versary of the completion of the first
Atlantic cable.
Lady Randolph Churchill is now
sand to be about 10 complete her fri-
nmphs by bringing her husband over
to Newport au6 exhibiting him to ad-
miring Americans before the season
is over.
Lucas Malet, the author of the new
novel Colonel Enderby's Wife," is
discovered TO be daughter of Charles |
and displays, like Julian |
an instance of inherited |
literary powers.
The editor of the Mcpherson (Kas.(
Press counted 1--WE whisky bottles
ranged on the c0unsel-tsble at the ell.
bows of the lawyers in the court
house of that place the other day.
Kansas is the state Of prohibition and
81. John.
Mrs. j. E. B. Stuart, the widow of
The dashing confederate cavalry gen.
eral, is visiting her father, Gen. Philip
ST. George Cooke, of Detroit. Mrs.
Stuart married six months before the
war broke out, and the father and SON.
n-law entered the opposing armies.
zen. Cooke was opposed to Gen,
Stuart only once ON the battle field.
II is an interesting fact that many
American men of letters are not col
eye graduates. Walt Whitman,
Nhipple. Trowbridge, Field, Parton,
3ayard, Taylor, Eggleston, Harte.
iowells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop,
stockton, Piatt. Cable. Crawford, ,
fawcett, Glider, Harris, Carleton,
dark Twain, Stoddardt and Bur-
Oughs, it is said, have gained all their
knowledge and culture outside of col
eye walls. Ii