Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-02

Lobster red is the fashionable color 70
= holiday noses
: Profanity is the first cousin to crime. Dc
$ not use cuss word this year.
3 Gloves are worn very long now-by thos,
: who cannot afford to buy new ones.
1t is a delusion to suppose that Wife
=, presents to her husband are not charged W
to him.
Spend your money in the place that give
you a chance TO earn it. A New YEA
maxim.
At A great deal of blowing about the weigh
g. of hogs is now being INDUCED in around tn,
,e grocery store.
4. Mr.. +. X. Stone left yesterday for few
weeks visit with friends and relatives al st
:. Clairville, Ohio.
The sunshine OF yesterday was cheerful
"a though the north wind was unpleassntly
V familiar and the mercury concealed rather
previous.
~ The amount of fines collected in the police
q court during the year just closed amounts
to Sl2,2226.S0. or ali average of Sl,0lS.90
per month.
A &c. Crago, delivery clerk for the Royal
oil company, is quite sick with threatened
diphtheria. though now improving under the
care of DIR. Bibbee.
Dr.. L. J. Jones has taken possession of
his new home on the corner of Third and
y River streets, where he will be permanently
located hereafter.
The Fl Scott railroad company provided
special car yesterday to take the BARLEY
Cambell Galley Slave party to Fl Dorado
where they played last night.
From developments noted in certain
quarter yesterday it is hereby predicted that
some one of our ex-county officers will to-
day receive handsome present.
A religious cyclone has struck the Quakers
of Millerton and vicinity, and large numbers
Of conversions are daily being made to the
Friends" from the heretofore unwashcd.
Last night was clear, crisp and beautifully
light and the sleigh bells quite frequently
told that advantage was being taken of the
rarity and luxury of Kansas sleigh ride.
The moon last night seemed to take a
hand in the general rejoicing over the ad-
vent of New Year and quite early in the
evening appeared very nearly or quite full.
Though the gift be ever SO small and void
of intrinsic value. yet it is pleasant to know
that We are remembered and are appreciated
enough 20 call forth even small exertion
or sacrifice from our friends.
County School Superintendent b. ID.
! Hammond has gone to Topeka to attend the
; stale teachers institute that convenes there
: to-day. He was accompanied by Mrs. H.,
/ who will visit friends in the capital city.
Meeting of the Ladies Relief corps No.
40, G. A. K, will be held at the court room
on Friday, January 3, at o'clock.
, Mrs NJ. C. TopD, Pres.
Mis-. :. Z. MITCHELL, Sec'y.
A large block of ice sat on the corner in
front of the Wichita National bank last
evening labelled in large black letters,
Keep cool" No doubt the advice was OBJ
served by those who read it-and those who
did not.
, Len Abbott came up from Udall yester-
day to finish some business connected with
his removal to that place. He is afraid it
will be lonesome for him in little Udall, af-
ter residing so bng in the metropolis of the
valley.
Mr.. Carey. wife and son, of Hamilton
county, Ind, have just arrived in the city
and are looking for farm. This family
are of the sturdy old stock of Quakers, and
if they can be suited in property they ex-
pect to make this their future home.
If MAY Flower" Of Goddard, wants to
DE heard through the EAGLE let him or her
send their own proper name and then we
viii decide as to what is best. SO far as
'Sunfower' is concerned he sent his name
and if he m:srepresented anybody the fact
can be established, but not anonymously.
Some unknown writer sends us a note
containing clipping from the Tacoma cir
cular, published in the EAGLE, and then asks /
US: Is it any more destructive to drag a
womrn from her crazy quilt to the polls
than TO drag a man dead drunk from sa-
loon to vote hims" Our answer is: Most
assuredly.
Mr.. j. Mccormick, yard master of the
Fort Scott and Wichita railway, met with q
painful accident yesterday afternoon while
engaged in coupling cars; his right hand be-
ing caught between the bumpers badly
crushing the third and fourth fingers. His
physicians are in hopes that the fingers will