The Coffeyville Weekly Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 2

BHnlros's Trouble; WIT ANT) WISDOM. he had earnestly condemnedthe reopen THE COIFEYYILLS JOURNAL. Publiclied every Saturday, 7. A. PZFFEE, Editor and Proprietor!" 7 can guuerany ieu man's going to do next When he puts the light-' I ed end of a cisrar in his month bv mis- i take.

i v- At Boston, on the 16th, Mr. Charles Geory purchased in United States bonds and was followed to his store by three men, two of engaged his attention while the third stole the bonds from Geory 's coat which was hanging near by, and all three escaped. Strange Xeaths. Homer, they tell us, died of a broken heart because he could not guess a riddle. The old gentleman had been warned by an oracle that if he did not, mind what he was about he would be Last night, just after Blinkus and his wife were snugly stowedL away in bed, Mrs.

B. thought she heard the front door slam. I Hubbie, dear, do you hear that front door slammin'?" No, dearie, I locked itv just before I wound up the clock." I didn't see you go out in the hall.1 But I did, love." think you must Well, I know when I locked the door, dammit!" "Now, yoii shan't swear at me. That door is open and you know it. Sposen the burglars get in and carry off all the silver.

We'd be in a nice fix." i They'd be worse off with the old plated stuff. Besides, who ever heard of a burglary above A Street. If you don't get up and lock that door I'll rush out and scream for the police; I'll 'rouse the neighborhood, if it's the last act of my life." i Blinkus, somewhat alarmed at the threat, rose up and began to fumble around for a match. The matches' are at the end of the washstand, love." Blinkus passed at the place designated and broke a soap-dish. I never saw such an awkward man since I was borri," quoth Mrs.

from just as B. stumbled back over a spittoon, and sat down in it so orcibby that it was smashed into forty pieces. Lord ejaculated Mrs. B. Blinkus next struck his toe against a towel-rack, and an oath dissolved itself into the darkness.

Then he stepped on the -baby's rattle and ran' one of the points into his foot half an inch. Jumping aside lie upset the center-table and began to flounder out toward the hall. His young hopeful's chair was there, and he fell over it six different times before he reached the door. Was it open?" queried a voice from the bed. Sb, "Oh! it must have been something else heard." Fearful Adventure.

John Hancock, foreman of the repair gang of tne Uity Waterworks, ana brother to Superintendent Hancock, had a narrow escape from a horrible death this afternoon. Tne 24-inch pipe leading from the jn-eat reservoir to higher brook, has for some time needed repairs and a coffer-dam having been built to shut off the water, Mr. Hancock crawled into the pipe at the reservoir end, in-tendim; to go throujrh its entire length, to ascertain precisely what repairs were necessary After getting about a quar ter of a mile he found that a section of pipe, having sunk somewhat in quicksand, had not emptied itself, and that it would be impossible to crawl through to the higher brook end without danger of drowning. Of course he could not turn about, and he had no other alternative than to back out a very slow, tedious and painful process. It was intensely cold inside the pipe, "and he' soon became benumbed, and so announced in a feeble voice to the men at either end, who were listening, and were becoming extremely anxious for his welfare.

Meantime the coffer-dam was leaking badly, and the men had to work with all their might at the pumps to prevent the water from flooding and drowning Mr. Hancock. The danger, became so great that; a cart-load of saw-dust was dumped behind the dam, and bags of sand were thrown into stop the leak. After a while Hancock became so exhausted as to be unable to speak in reply to the( shouted inquiries as to his progress. Hour after hour passed, and a large number of persons gathered expecting that the man never got from the pipe alive.

Finally, after an imprisonment of five; and a half hours, he baeked out alive, yet trembling and nearly dead. Boston Journal. The ex-Empress Eugenie, when recently about to visit her mother, the Countess of Montijo, in Spain, asked permission from' the French Republican Government to pass through France. It was readily granted. The son of 'Mr.

Camondo, a Paris banker, bears ah ex-traordinary likeness to the son of Louis Xapoleon, and on visiting different cities is frequently recognized as the Prince Imperial, and sq in the local papers. Accompanying complaints are always made regarding the laxity of the Government in allowing the young man to. visit France. tj The American Naturalist reports two remarkable instances of vitality in snails. One snail, of the specieBullirnus Pal-lidior, lived for two years, two months, and; sixteen I without food, and at the end of jthat period; appeared: to be in pretty good health.

Another, Helix Veatckie, lived without food from 1850 till Both of these species of snails are indigenous to nearly rainless ing of old issues between the North and the South, believing that the time had come for complete reconciliation and the permanent pacification of the South: by the removal of aR causes of IThis nolicvvhe said, had I Jbeen NaUonal Reput nomination, and fully endorsed by him in his letter of acceptance. In conclu sion he added I do not know whether I shall succeed jfci carrying it putbe-. cause there are Northern and Southern men who, in various ways, may possibly thwart me Vliut'of' one thing I am con- fident, namely 1 think it my duty, to trj'jto carry out the policy, and I am going to do it." "Accokdiisg to returns received by the Secretary of the Pork Packers' Association, the. number of hogs packed in the West during the past vpinter season was (5,051,030, against 4,874,125 last season. The 1 decrease in the average weight is reported at 2.64 pounds, and the decrease in the average yield of lard 1 23 pounds.

The packing during the summer season of 1876 was reported at 2,291,328 hogs, an increase of 1,053,389 as compared with the previous summer. The increase in the average weight was 9.60 and the increase in the J-ield of lard 64-100. The Coroner's inquest in the case of the St; Louis Southern Hotel disaster was begun on the 16th. Among those absolutely known to have been lost were the following: Rev. A.

R- Adams, of. Stockcross, Berkshire, England George Frank Gouley, Grand Secretary Masonic fraternity of Missouri; Kate Reilly, Kate Doolan and May Moran, servants Henry Hazen, of the Auditor's Department, Missouri Pacific Railroad Mrs. WJ S. Stewart, of St. Louis Mr.

Andrew E. Eistman, of St. Louis; Mr. Charles G. Teenan and Mr.

Skidmore Hayden, of St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. H. J.

Clark, and child and servant, of Massachusetts, and William Felix Munster, of Englnd. The latter committed' suicide under derangement brought on by intense excitement. PERSONAt AND POLITICAI. 3Vade Hampton took possession of the Court-house at Columbia, S. on the 11th, and all State papers were transferred to him.

A letter from Rome says that Mr. Walter, proprietor of the London Time, while passing through Puerpo del Papolo, ou the 4th was attacked by three men armed with stilettos and robbed, but not hurt. The' outrage has created quite a sensation, 100 persons being arrested on suspicion. On the 1.3th, the President appointed John G. Gosper, of Nebraska, Secretary of Arizona, and Jacob" J.

Bowman Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of -Utah. Edgar for the murder of the ballet girl, Mabel Hall, was sentenced, on the 14th, to be hanged on June 1st next. The remains of George Frank Gouley, late Grand Secretary of the Missouri Grand Lodge of Freemasons, and a victim of the Southern Hotel disaster, were interred Sunday, the 15th, with the most impressive ceremonies. The funeral was probably as large as any that ever took place in St. Louis, the procession having been estimated as three miles long.

TELE GRAPHIC NOTES. 4 John Linley, engineer, and J. Hans-foder, a were killed, on the 11th, by the explosion of the locomotive Bright" in Indianapolis, Ind. A severe storm occurred on the coast of Virginia, oh the 8th, and lasted till 11th, destroying many vessels and scattering wrecks In every direction.1 The explosion of sulphur hi the Middle Creek (Pa.) mines near Tremont, the 10th, burned seven men, Some" -i On the nioriiin of the 11th, at Clifton, Ontario' the Custom-house block was burned The 1 building was I occupied by PriceHoIland the Dominion Telegraph Company; Bunting, sugar mercljmts It; Law, grocer; Odd Fellow and Free Mason lodges and other offices. The upper part of $he building was occupied by Her Majesty's customs.

Orders "have been issued by the Indian Bureau to proyiderations for 15,000 hostile recently brought in by Spotted TaiL; These Indians come in: on the same terms os'ottiers of the hostiles. Their arms and horses will be taken from them, but in other respects they will be treated the same as the-Indians who have remained at the vi By the caving in of the "Blue Point Graham Mine, at Smartsville, Tuba County, CaL, on the 12th, seven men, B. F. Henderson," Jas; II. Monk, 3Iichael Sweeney, David Hotham, Michael McWilliams, Thomas McDonald and Samuel Steinman, were instantly killed.

Six others were more or less injured. The Jury in the case of W.H.Ottman, charged with the larceny of a package jfrom the Treasury Department, and with receiving stolen being but, failed to agree, and were discharged. An attempt was made at Philadelphia, on the" 16thf to cowhide Col. A. K.

McClure, editor of tlie Times thf assailant being Xat. 3IcKay, Gbveniment'cdiitractor, assisted by two friends. McKay I and 'another were arrested, the third escaping. Blue glass, Jias achieved i another triumph. It cured a book agent of lock-' 3aw, but it was pale as a ghost when it got through.

"Take notice that when this post is out of sight, it is not safe to pass this road," was the intelligent warning placed on a spot in a road in Cambridgeshire. Eno-land. verv liahlfi tn flooded. t. a a A minister down in the center of the State is lecturing on "How to If he can only tell some simple way to get the ace and two, bowers into one's hand without being found "out, the lecture-ought to pay.

A little boy of our acquaintance, who had just learned that the names John and Jack were used interchangeably, took occasion, not unnaturally, to call his sister's attention to a picture of "Jack the Bantist Sundav-SchoQl Times. Why are embassadors the most perfect people in the 'world? Because they are all excellencies. -Why is sympathy like 'blind man's buff? It is a fellow feeling for fellow-creature. Why is the sun like a good loaf? Because it's light when it rises, Why is a 4 crow a brave bird? Because ho never shows the white' feather. Why is a sawyer like a lawyer? Because which ever wTay he goes, down comes the dust.

Why are washerwomen silly people? Because they put out their tubs to catch soft water when it rains hard. AVhv is a man who doesn't lose his temper like a schoolmaster? Because he keeps cool like invalids they Why are umbrellas like pancakes? Because they are seldom seen after Lent. Whv is a drunkard hesitating to sign the pledge like a skeptical Hindoo Because he doubts whether to give up the worshiii of Jug-or-not? Why can not two slender persons ever become great friends? Because they will always be slight acquaintances. Doctors will have their little jokes, andsometimes they are as sharp as their lances. A case in point occurred 'the other day.

A traveling Punch and Judy exhibition stopped to give a show, and soon quite a crowd was attracted by the maneuvers of the puppets and the chin-whacking of their, proprietor. came to the door of his residence to see what had caused the crowd to congregate, and a couple of moments later his neighbor, Dr. McChesney, also came out on a similar errand. Mussey is a pillar of the. old school medicine, while McChesney is a shilling lirht among the disciples of and both are given to twitting each other whenever the opportunity occurs.

What is that over there said McChesney, pointing to a' box, around were clustered the amused I am not positively certain, Doctor," said Mussey, but "judging hastily fr6m the -surface indications, I think it is a Home-opathic Theater." It needless to state that Dr. McChesney did not hunger for any more information from his medi cal brother at that junctures- THE MARKETS. ST. LOUIS, April 17, 1877. Beeves-Choice $5-i0g 6.00; Good to lrime, Cows and Heifers, $2.754.25 Corn Fed Texans, 5 Hogs shipping, $4.755.10.

SHEEP Common to Fancy, $2.306.00. Flouk Clioice Country, S.XX, WHEAT Red, Nd. 2, No. S.fl.TJ' 1.73M. Corx No.

2 Mixed, 4613c. Oats No. 2, 3636ic. Rye No. 2, 76 78c.

Timothv Seed Irime, Tobacco Planters' Lugs, $3.005.50 Dark Shipping Leaf, $4.007.50. Hay Choice Timothy, $120 13.00. Butter Choice Dairy, 24j325c. Eggs Fresh, 1010Kc. Pouk Standard Mess, $16.00 16.25.

WootA-Tuh-washed, Choice, 343360'; Vn washed Combing', 2324c. i Cotton Middling, lle. NEW YORK. Beeves Native Steers, 12.00. Sheep Common to Choice.

Hogs Live, $5.75 6.00. Flour Good to Clioice, f7.3537.50. -Wheat No. 2 Chicago, f-- -Corx Western Mixed, Ungraded, Oats Vestem Mixed, 43 Pork Mess, 15.75S 16.00. Cottox Middling, lXc.

v. CHICAGO. Beeves Common to Choice. f3.8535.75; Common to Choice, $5.3535.75. Sheep Common to Choice, S3.756.00.

Flour Choice Winter, Choice Spring Extra, $6.757.25. Wheat Spring, No. 2, $L44 2l- Spring No. 3, fl.3(ii1.37. Corn No.

248s48Ke. Oats NoS, 3737Xc.fa RTE No. 2, 7980c. Pork Mess, 15-W 15.75. KANSAS CITY If v.t Flour XX to Patent, $2.75 1.10.

Corn Meal 0yoc. BEEVEs-rNative steers, 4.155.00; Native Cows, Wheat No. 2, $1.47 15. COUX No. 2, 34 i 35c i 4 MEMPHIS.

Flour Choice, $9.00 9.25.: Corn Mixed, 5455c oats White, 5052c. Cotton Middling, lOc. -NEW ORLEANS. A i Flour Choice Family, y.0039.50.. Corn White, 57i58c.

Oats St. Louis, -'IUt Prime. $15.75 16.00.' Pork New Mess, $16.00160 Bacon 63 6Kc. Cotton Middling, i- sTOJt ICtt. The United States troops were withdrawn from the Couit-house at Columbia, S.

at noon oa the 10th. Gov. Chamberlain consequently resigned the contest with Hampton, and issued an address to the Republicans of the State, denouncing the PresidjenOor hi3 action in the A fire broke out in, the Southern, JIo- tel, St. Louis, at Qt minutes af ter 1 o'clock on the morning of the destroying the Jriteriof Itas estimated, at an early hour Jn thei mornr ing, that fully twenty lives lost, including guests and employees. Of the former, there were 300 in.

the building at the time of the conflagration, and 150 of the -latter. In efforts to save life, a number of persons not living at the hotel perished. The.South-ern Hotel; was the property of Robert Campbell, but was leased and by Breslin, Darling who took charge of it a little than a year, ago. Before that, it was 'managed for, several years by Laveille, Warner Co The furnishing was valued in round figures at 200,000 The insurance i3 under--stood to be about i The building was valued at It was six stories high, the main structure having a front of 225 feet on Walnut Street, and a depth of 75 feet on Fifth and Fourth. A wing 60 feet wide extended back from the middle' of the main building to Elm Street 100 feet.

In this wing, was the billiard-i'oom on the first floor, the dining-room on the second, the kitchen and storerooms in the basements, guests' rooms and' the "help" apartments on1' the fourth and fifth and sixth floors. The building was a little more-, than ten; years old. A terrible tragedy was enacted in 'Oil City, the. afternoon of the 12th. About 2 o'clock David bookkeeper for James Milford, and Mrs.Car-son entered the parlor of the Petroleum Hotel They were soon followed by J.

M. Carsor, the woman's husband, who at once drew a revolver and fired at Mikesell, with fatal effect, the ball striking him just below the left eye. Carson surrendered to the authorities and was lodged in ail All the parties moved in high society were considered re- spectable. The alleged pause of the shooting is that Mikesell on too intimate terms with Mrs. Carson.

The inquest into tliri' Jewett tragedy was finished at New' York on the 12th, and the Jury returned the olio wing verdict We find that George W. Jewett came to his death by the explosion of a iiand-grenade at 182 Front Street, on Thursday, April 5,. 1877, brought to tlie'oflice Orville T. Jow-ett, and that said Orville D. Jewett came to his death by a pistol wound caused by the firing of; a pistol by said Orville D.

at 182 Front Street, Thursday, April A Washington dispatch, of the 13th, says that the Cabinet on that day virtually decided the Louisiana question. Its conclusions were telegraphed to. New Orleans to, Gen. Emery, and amounted simply to this 5that whether the Commission secures a plan of settlement or not, the troops will be withdrawn at an early It was thought in the Cabinet that the Commisssion would fail to accomplish any The Pres-: ident looks' upon i the situation there, as i he i did upon i that in South as merely a political one, and! not! a legxil one. The Louisiana Commission had telegraphed the President that they found that Packard's was the ctejure Government of Louisiana, but that he exercised iio civil powers outside of the State-house in New Orleans.

They also submitted, a plan lor a fusion Legislature and the election of a Republican as one of the S. Sena, tors. 4 Thisn it is understood, means the election pf Packard, who, so far. as learned, has not agreed to it. rf The number of transient guests missing from the Southern Hotel, St.

Louis, through the late has been reduced to four. A A dispatch from Deadwood says that it is reported that Crazy Horse's band of Indians have taken the field again.vThey passed near Spear fish, on the' 14th, on their way West, 100 mounted in war paint. President Hayes, in an interview with an Associated Press reporter, on the 15th, said that he had no conceal nients regarding his Southern policy which had.ieen foreshadowed in both his written and oral utterances, wherein killed by a riddle, and his day came. Seeing some young fishermen in a boat, he unfortunately asked them what sport they had had, to which they replied that As many as we caught we left as many as we could not catch we carry awav with us." This was too much for the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey he guessed and guessed till he, could guess no longer, and finally died of sheer vexation. Aristotle went oft" in precisely the same way, because he could not understand a more interesting riddle set by nature, the cause of the ebbing and flowing of the Euripus, Others relate that he angrily threw himself into the stream.

Diodorus, the immortal inventor of the horned" and 44 sophism, having met with his match in one Stilpo, who caught" him with another sophism which he was un able to solve, went home, wrote a book about it, and died of despair. Philetas had reduced himself to such a state of tenuity by reflection and study that he was obliged to wear lead soles to his boots to keep himself from being blown away, or possibly from rising like a balloon into the heavens of invention; however, the end of Philetas was, as Suidas solemnly informs us, evaporation he positively evaporated. Anacreon was choked with a grape-stone. Sophocles is said by some to nave come to tne same enu, though according to others he died of joy at being victor in his last tragic con test. Euripides was torn into pieces by dogs, hounded, on by some women, in revenge for his mysogynism.

JEschylus was killed by an eagle dropping a tortoise on his bald head, the king of birds mistaking the shining poll for a stone, and applying it to uses other than Melpomene would sanction. Ibycus, the great lyric poet, was murdered by robbers and Sappho flung herself from the Leucalian rock to cure her love for Phaon. Honest Hesiod also cameito a melancholy end, but having been flung into' the sea his corpse was solemnly brought back to shore on the backs of some dolphins. Lucretius, as we all know from Tennyson's fine poem, was poisoned by a love philter, and finally finished himself off -with his own hand, as also did his first English editor and Rev. Thos.

Creech. Pietro Aretino, a celebrated Italian litterateur of the Renaissance, came to a singular end. He was drinkinsr and eniovinsr himself with certain other eccentricities, and one of them telling a story which certainly ought not to have amused either the narrator or his friends, Aretino leaned back in his chair to laugh with full freedom, slipped and dashed out his brains on the marble floor. Sir George Ethridge, author of Sir Topley Flutter," Love in a Tub," brought a similar life to a similar conclusion. He was lighting some who had been to pay him a visit, and as he stood doing so he tumbled down stairs and broke his neck and so," as the notes to Grammont put it, fell a martyr to jollity and civility." Peter Motteaux, the translator, of Rabelais, came to a very mysterious end; and" the mystery which surrounded the death of! Edward Richard Clarence, and many Kings and Princes, both in ancient and modern history, has never been cleared up.

Demosthenes poisoned himself, but no one knows how. jTerrible as -it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that if a complete list were drawn up of "men of mark in the world's history, reckoning all nations and all times, it would appear that at least a quarter of them died not like other men, and that very nearly; another quarter committed suicide. Tiiey were out walking," enjoying the cool and refreshing air. The bright moon cast its rays 'oyer the lady, giving her an almost angelic appearance, and imparted to her flowing curls a still more golden hueV One of her soft white hands rested in his, and ever and anon slie met his ardent gaze with one of pure love. Suddenly a change came over her features; her full red lips, trembled as if with, suppressed sighs the muscles of her faultless mouth became convulsed she gasped for breath, and, snatching her.

hand from the soft pressure of his, she turned away, buried her face in her cambric handkerchief, and: sneezed! A Meridian dealer-has received an order from a Georgia 'colored minister for a pair ot boots 20 1-iinches long and six inches wide. Fact..