The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-08


The President has approved the
bill passed by both houses Of Congress
giving Mrs. Hancock q pension Of
s., 600 year.
A bill was introduced In the house
authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to receive ia the name Of
this United States as = gift from JO-
seph ". DFexel, the cottage at Mount
Mc3regOr In which General Grant
spent his last days.
Prince Bismarck says he regards
Pope Leo XIII. rs one Of the shaTpesl-
sighted and mOat Intelligent states.
men Of the age.
General Lew WalIaee's new lecture,
Turkey and the Turks" will be
given for the first time in TndianapO-
lie, on April 7.
A l3-yesr- old girl who died some
time ago In North Georgia, had never
her father said, heard Of death, or
knew there was such q thing.
Prof. Seymour, OF Yale College has
sailed for Europe for the purpose Of
taking charge OF the American school
ct Athens.
Warden Hatch, Of the Jackson,
Mich, yenitentiaTy has made an en-
gagement with the MikadO Company
for q return engagement at the prison.
The knights Of Labor In Hartford
are said 70 contemplate nominating
Mark Twain for Mayor Of that city.
Mark IL said to be the LATEST man IN
ChristendOm.
Mr.. J. H, Parnell, brother Of the
Irish leader, has lately planted 500
acres more in peaches on bis Georgia
farm, making q total Of 300 acres In
that fruit.
Eliza Ricarby, q rich woman Of
New Orleans, LETT tWO-thirds Of her
estate 10 another woman on condition
that she takes csre OF q little dog be-
longing 10 the deceased.
Although he owns valuable proper
" In Paris DR.. Echlieman has Just
paid $4,000 for an estate on Pots
dam street, Berlin, which he will
make his permanent home.
The Due diAumale is negotiating to
Moorish castle at Lisbon, to be q
home for himself and the COmte de
Paris Ia case OF their expulsion from
France.
Plans are in yrocess Of formation
for eanvassing Philadelphia for funds
for erecting q monument TO Gen. Nc
Clellan in FairmOunt Park. Only
81, COO is desired from the general
public.
Here lies the body Of John Nc
Lean Hayward, q man who never
voted. or such is the kingdom Of
Heaven" This Is the epitaph which
q citizen Of Wayland, Mass, left lbe.
hind him, and which, Il Is asserted,
bis executors intend to inseribe over
his grave.
The health Of John Kelley IL i'm
proving rapidly. He is now able to
walk about the house, and on pleas
ant Afternoons INDUCES IN a drive
around the park. The family physi-
clan has relinqushed his regular
visits. The family have not yet de-
cided whether or not to go South.
A scarcely credible rumOr is extant
in Washington 10 the effect that Sec
rotary Lamar will have his hair cut
when warm weather comes. 1t will
be the only second time for twenty
years. The last time il was cut was
IN 1876, when he fell asleep in q st.
Louis barberis chair and woke up to
hnd himself looking much like ordi-
nary people.
Mrs. Whitney. the mother Of Anne
Whitney, the sculptor, Is living at
WATERFOWL, Mass., at the age Of l0l
years. A few days ago she surprised
the family by walking int the break
fast-rOOm ct an unusually early hour.
"Why, mother" exclaimed her
daughter, ibid you come down stairs
alOne?" why, yes, replied the en-
ergetio centenarian II should think
1 was old enough 10 come down stairs