Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-22
LIVE NEWS,

Secretary Lamar would like 10 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 S90,l55.
Colonel Thomas Ochiltree will bios
som out as a 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 23,0OO,000 pounds
of leaf tobacco.
New Jersey expects to send 10
market 2,500, 900 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
Surratt do not cOuntenancc the propo-
sitlon TO erect monument 10 her.
Edward Camphausen, of Pennsyl-
vania, the new United States consul
to Naples, will sail for Bremen August
5th.
a Tammany man says the only way
TO get office is through the presidents
private secretary, Daniel Lamont.
Wilkie Collins regards 'Armada!e"
as Dickens did David Coppertield''-
the favorite of his own productions.
George w. Childs will give BAN
quet To the Mexican editors ut Bel
mont mansion, Philadelphia, Monday
evening.
The British Bible sOcie'y issued the
New Testement al cents a copy. In
nine months 100000 copies have been
sold.
Ii is said that Alexander Stevens
left behind him a journal containing a
record of his prison experiences in
Fort Warren.
Cluverius, 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 il 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, 10 celebrate the ami
versary of the completion of the first
Atlantic cable.
Lady Randolph Churchill is now
sand 10 be about to complete her tri-
umphs by bringing her husband over
to Newport and exhibiting him TO adj
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
Kingsley, and displays, like Julian
Hawthorne, an instance of inherited
literary powers.
The editor of the Mcpherson (Kas.)
Press counted five whisky bottles
ranged on the counsel-table at the ell
bows of the lawyers in the court
house of that place the other day.
Kansas is the state of prohibition and
ST. 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
in-law entered the opposing armies.
Gen. Cooke was opposed to Gen.
Stuart only once on the battle field.
1t is an interesting fact that many
American men of letters are not col |
lege graduates Walt Whitman.
" nipple, Trowbridgc. Field, Parton.
Bayard, Taylor. Eggleston. Harte. |
Howells, James, Aldrich. La.hrop. |
Stockton, Pratt. Cable. Crawford. |
F,wcett. Glider. Harris. Carleton. |
Mark Twain, Stoddardt and Bur
roughs, it is said, have gained all their
knowledge and culture outside of col
lege walls.