October 30, 1870.

     Rain, rain, rain!  Mud, mud, mud!  How long is this ere sort o' thing to last?  It's getting rather "teejus."  It's rather "too much of a good thing."

     The land-slide on Delaware street has been removed.

     More of the Bluff street sidewalk has tumbled in, and if the rains continue a while longer, doubtless the whole arrangement will crawl down the bank.  The superstructure is a beautiful monument to the departed glory of our city fathers, and as lasting as they deserve.  Pity they are not buried at the base.

     "Cheek," the notorious little "cheek," whose latest exploit here was that of burgling an apple stand on Main street, near Eighth, has left the city, after promising Marshal Speers never to return.  May he keep that promise good.

     Before the Recorder, yesterday, three culprits were tried for fighting, two for drunkenness, one for disturbing the peace and one for using offensive language.  The total amount of fines and costs footed up the respectable sum of $44.20.

     Yesterday a man was "chiseled" out of $70 by the three card monte swindle.  The game was played on the railroad train coming from Ft. Scott.  Deputy Marshal Malloy went around, last night, with the victim, to the different hotels to see if the two thieves who perpetrated the theft were around.  But they kept shady.

     The river is rising slowly.  The Mary McDonald is due to-day, and will doubtless return to St. Louis to-night.  The United States snag boat S. Thayer, which has been up in the mountains at work all summer, passed down yesterday.

     Last night, during the drenching rain, Officer Gillooly discovered a drunken man lying in a gutter on Third street, near Grand avenue.  The fellow was plastered from head to heel with the mud in which he had been wallowing.  We were shown into the cell in which he had been placed.  His hair was full of mud, his face was thickly covered with it, his clothes were saturated with it, and, in short, he was the most wretched looking object.  He will feel proud of himself when he wakes up to-day from his drunken stupor and sees himself as others see him.

     A dog fight yesterday afternoon, on the corner of Fourth and Walnut, attracted, for the space of ten minutes, the absorbed attention of about a hundred loafers.

     We mentioned yesterday the fact of the loss of $200 in bills and $400 in drafts, by a passenger on the Missouri Pacific railroad, who had stowed the treasure in his boot and then lost it in the car when he took his boot off to ease his feet.  By mere accident, he has recovered nearly the entire amount lost.  John Emrise, a young boot black of this place, who is better known as "Limpy," found the money and drafts and put off for Paola.  "Cheek" was on the same car and told Mr. Fred Mitchell, the well known lawyer of this city, that "Limpy" had the money.  Of course it took but a short time to induce "Limpy" to give up the money, and as he chose to return here yesterday, he was promptly put in the calaboose.  He had spent some of the funds -- the balance was returned to the owner.

October 29, 1870.

     Recent rains have put a stop to building and street improvements.  Yesterday was damp, drizzly, dull and disagreeable.

     Kansas City demands many things.  One of her wants is an Inspector of Buildings.  The duties of such an officer are important.  The public interest and safety loudly demand that we have -- what other cities have -- an Inspector of Buildings.

     P. T. Barnum, the humbugist, bet upward of a hundred dollars playing faro in Wyandotte when he was there.

     A man lost $600 by carelessness while riding on the Missouri Pacific train early yesterday morning.  The half-crazed man came tearing through the rain to the headquarters of the police at 2 o'clock a. m., saying he had put the $200 in money and $400 in drafts inside one of his boots for safekeeping.  He stated that after he had been riding some time, his boot pinched his foot, and he pulled the boot off, not thinking of the money.  As the train neared the city he pulled the boot back on, got off the cars, came up town, got his supper, and was about to pay the landlord when it flashed across his mind that his money had dropped to the car floor when he pulled his boot off.  Officer Gillooly went with him to the telegraph office on the State Line, where a dispatch was sent to Atchison, asking that a search be made for the money when the train arrived there.  No word had been received in reply up to a late hour last night.

     For the latest in books, periodicals and papers call upon G. W. Welkert & Co., corner of Main and Fifth streets.

     Mr. James Parton is stopping at the Broadway.  He remains in the city till Monday night, when he gives at Frank's Hall his popular and highly entertaining lecture entitled, "One Hundred Years Ago."

     In river news, the Dance left yesterday morning with a fair cargo and a cabin full of passengers.  The Fannie Baker passed up with a load of wood for Leavenworth.  The Mary McDonald will be up tonight from St. Louis, and return to-morrow morning.

     Thursday night while some emigrants were disembarking from the steamer Walter B. Dance at the foot of Delaware street a horse fell off the staging into the river, and the stern of the boat had to be turned out in the stream to enable the deck hands to pull him out.  This they eventually  succeeded in, but the poor brute was stone dead.  The boat promptly paid the owner for him, his full value of $100.

     Our readers will have noticed many improvements in the "make-up" of the Journal.  Mr. McNab, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, is now connected with this paper as foreman of the news room.

     Theatre to-night at the Opera House; meeting of workingmen at Turner's Hall, and Colonel Claiborne's speech at Frank's Hall.

     A rustic youth of Clay County, whose hands were stained a shade darker than the old tile which he wore, brought a load of hulled walnuts, some twenty bushels or more, to market yesterday morning.  He did not get the price first asked, which was owing undoubtedly to the successful raids which the city boys have made on the walnut trees of this vicinity.  His disappointment much distressed him.

October 28, 1870.

     We are having Indian summer in all its beauty and loveliness.  This fine weather is good for business, which is active throughout the city.

     Squire Ranson yesterday united two loving couples in the bonds of wedlock. 
 "Four souls with but one pair of thought,
      Four hearts that beat as two."

     Last night, Harry St. Clair and James McCabe opened the Crystal Palace saloon and restaurant under Watkins' Bank, corner of Second and Main streets, with a regular old-fashioned "blow out."  They invited the members of the press and their particular friends to a repast of oysters in every style of preparation, and other choice viands, and the whole was accompanied with that delicious inspiration for the sparkling champagne.  Many were present and partook of the hospitalities of the gentlemen mentioned and we doubt not that the Crystal Palace will become a favorite resort for the lovers of good eating and choice drinking.

     Old papers, suitable for wrapping, for sale at this office.

     The miserable scribblers, who hang upon the verge of journalism by an inscrutable provision of Providence which permits papers to be published in such places as Leavenworth and St. Joe, still repeat their stale falsehoods regarding Kansas City.

     Yesterday afternoon Officer Halpin attempted to arrest a brawny fellow, who was making a disturbance on Third street, near Grand avenue.  But the man showed fight, and tried to disable and disarm the policeman.  But his effort proved a disastrous failure.  In self-defense, Halpin drew his "billy" and struck the big assailant on the head.  The man was severely hurt by the blow and bled profusely.  He gave up the contest and went quietly to the calaboose.

     Mr. Samuel Hartman of this city, was lately at Olathe, and was presented with two cabbages raised in that vicinity.  The united weight of the two was forty-two pounds.  This is a good item for the cabbage heads of the Leavenworth press.  They are welcome to it.

     Hazelep & White, south side of the Public Square,, have constantly on hand fruits, fresh Baltimore oysters, and game of all kinds -- ducks, quails, antelope -- in short, whatever you want.

     On the Levee yesterday a very small and very dirty-faced household angel aged about three years, sat down in the middle of the street to quietly devour a section of ginger bread, when a sow, feeling in need of a lunch, came up and most insolently proposed to assist in the disposal of the unctuous viand, when the child's maternal first cause came to the rescue and abruptly terminated the suspicious piece of effrontery.

October 27, 1870.

     The wind was on high yesterday, and like a deceitful man, was throwing dust in people's eyes.

     The public square is much improved in appearance since the disappearance of the apple stands.

     A trio who proposed to shoot, cut, and generally maltreat each other Tuesday night, were hobnobbing together yesterday the best of friends.

     We hear that Mr. Frank has sold his interest (being two-thirds) in the block on the corner of Fifth and Main streets, Franks Hall being a part of the transfer.  Thatcher & Case are said to have paid $45,000 for the property.

     Among the deer belonging to Col. McGee, and that have the liberty of the lawn in front of his residence, is a big buck that of late has shown a disposition to attack any person coming near it.  Yesterday it came near killing a woman and her little boy.  Mrs. Campbell, a poor woman living on the Levee, came to Mayor McGee's office yesterday to apply for some relief in her destitution.  He was not in his office down town, and she proceeded to his house.  Entering the front gate with her two children, a little boy and girl, she was proceeding along the walk to the house, when the buck saw her and made a savage attack upon her.  The woman was thrown to the ground, the enraged animal standing over her, and about to assault her with its sharp antlers, when the little boy pluckily came to the rescue, and tried to drive the buck away.  The animal, however, made a sudden lunge and brought the boy to the ground, so near his mother that it held guard over both. The screams of the poor woman attracted the attention of Captain Ferree, living near.  He courageously "went for" the buck, and there was a furious struggle, but Dr. Jones came to the relief of his neighbor, and the two succeeded in getting a rope around the enraged animal's neck and securing it.   The woman was severely bruised, and the boy hurt in several places.  We advise people to keep away from Colonel McGee's grounds until he chooses to take proper measures to prevent similar attacks on callers from that vicious pet of his.

     Policeman Halpin had a number of prisoners under his charge breaking rock yesterday.  To encourage their flagging efforts he took a hammer frequently, and showed them how the trick was done.

     In yesterday's paper we published the fact that a man had been killed by the cars near the Sherman House on the levee.  A coroner's inquest has been held and the following further facts were elicited.  The man's name was Robert A. Emenert but was better known by the soubriquet, Salty Bill.  He came from New Orleans but his parents reside in Canada, and he has been working for some time in the employ of Mr. Sweet, the sand boatman.  Though thought to be an accident, some are inclined to the belief that he had been foully dealt with and placed on the track in order to hide a murder.  Following the inquest the body was buried by the railroad company.  The coroner's jury have reserved their verdict until to-day, at 2 o'clock p. m.

     Yesterday morning a man was trying vigorously to put aboard the express car of the train bound for St. Louis, a black and a red pig -- the last quite a curiosity.  He made more fuss over "them pigs" than was at all necessary, greatly to the irritation of the express men, and the amusement of bystanders.

October 26, 1870.

     A substantial sidewalk is being laid down in front of D. L. Shouse's property, on Main near Seventh.  Let others follow his example -- only not be so long in getting around to it.

     We noticed yesterday thirty-one immigrant wagons passing up Main street.  Nearly all of the movers were bound for the Osage lands, that have recently been open to settlement at very low figures.

     Yesterday was a busy one on every thoroughfare of our city.  The bustle of business, the hum of traffic, the work of grading, the blithe ring of the carpenter's hammer and the mason's trowel, were seen and heard on every hand.

     John Madden was fined yesterday for drunkenness $5.60.  Oh! but he was a mad 'un.  Three others suffered a similar fate.  One went to the calaboose; the others went down in their pockets for $5.60 each.

     A woman living in McGee's Addition was fined, yesterday, $7.60 for assaulting a servant girl.

     A man was run over and killed by the cars of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, last night near the Sherman House.  The body was terribly mangled.  The lateness of the hour precluded the possibility of our giving particulars.

     For the past two nights a broad strip of sky from the eastern to the western horizon, has been at times of a deep red color, then fading and again flaming forth in strange, wild beauty.  Last night, about 11 o'clock, it was particularly vivid.  The superstitious will say it presages battle and death -- or a national disaster of some nature.

October 25, 1870.

     Attention is called to the change of time on the North Missouri Railroad.  The "through express" leaves for the East at 1:55 a. m.; the "night express" at 4:50 p. m., and the "mail and express" at 6:45.

     Mr. Thomas, well known in this place as the former city editor of the Times, returned yesterday to his old camping ground.  He has been, recently, engaged on the Missouri Democrat.  We are glad to see our late fellow quill-driver looking so hale and hearty, and wish him the best of success in whatever he undertakes.

     The Israelites of this city are to have a grand ball in the course of a week or two.  So Madam Rumor has it, and the same veracious lady avers that the proposed ball will be one of the most elegant ever given here.

     At seven o'clock yesterday morning a man named J. S. St. Clair, stopping at the Broadway Hotel, shot himself through the heart, and fell backward from the window in which he was sitting, to the ground.  An examination proved that he had fastened about his neck two valise straps, and attached them to the bed.  Determined to put an end to his existence he took three methods to accomplish his purpose, so that if one failed, and if two failed, there would still be a third.  Accordingly he prepared for strangulation, took position in the window, leaning out with the revolver in hand.  He evidently intended, if his pistol shot failed to kill him, to throw himself backward and choke to death, and if the leather strap broke he would fall to the ground and break his neck in this manner.

     Buffalo lunch and Quincy lager beer this morning, at 10 o'clock, at the "Delmonico," Mr. John L. Keep, proprietor.

October 23, 1870.

     The steamer W. J. Lewis will arrive this morning from St. Louis an d will return during the day.

     The Bluff Street sidewalk is going to pieces -- an elegant specimen of the manner in which Kansas City street contracts are fulfilled.  The sidewalk from Fifth Street to Broadway are also in a wretched condition and some day will result in a serious accident to pedestrians.  Of a dark night one may well be inclined to consider it the "Broadway that leadeth to destruction."  Let us have no more frauds in contracts for sidewalks.

     The beautiful play of "Man and Wife," from Wilkie Collins' novel of that name will run all week at the Opera House.

     The apple stands that for so long a time have "graced" the west side of the public square were hauled away yesterday.  The one that was "snaked" through Main Street in the forenoon created considerable interest in the breasts of a number of urchins.

     Captain Comingo didn't appear at Turner's Hall last night.  He was "sick," so it was stated, and consequently failed to come.  The Democracy felt, of course, sadly disappointed.

October 22, 1870.

    Workmen are grading Locust Street.

     Antelope hams and steak can be had at J. Sporledge's, southwest corner of Main and Ottawa.

      A turntable for the street railway company is being put down at the corner of Fourth and Main streets.  We hope soon to see the line in complete running order.

     The Rev. S. D. Bowker will preach at the M. E. Church in West Kansas City at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening.

     The Rev. Dr. Campbell, the new minister of the M. E. Church (South), has arrived in the city, and will preach at the Fifth Street Methodist Church this morning and evening.

     The Israelites of this city have rented the first part of the upper story of Sharp's building on Main street, and it is to be fitted up in good style as their place of worship.  Rev. M. R. Cohen, Rabbi, will have pastoral charge of the new organization.

     T. M. Cagney, car inspector of the Missouri Valley Railroad, called on us yesterday.  The road cannot boast of a more sociable, genial gentleman.  In the hands of such competent men the affairs of the road are safe.

     Doctor Fitzpatrick, who has been on a visit to Indiana for the past two weeks, we are pleased to announce, is home.

     Married, on the 7th inst., Mr. Francis Gregg to Miss Annie Waddell of St. Joseph.

     There will be preaching tomorrow at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. by the Rev. J. Stewart in the United Presbyterian Church, on Walnut Street, near Tenth.

October 21, 1870.

     Laurel Street is nearly all "sidewalked."

     Catholic Festival at Frank's Hall next Monday night.

     Captain Comingo, a Democratic candidate for Congress, speaks tonight.

     There is a perfect mania on the sidewalk question.  Lumber is in demand.

     Mr. Roe Johnson claims a sweet potato raised on the Shawnee Mission farm weighing ten and three quarter pounds.

     The meeting to take action on the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee takes place at Long's Hall tonight, and a general attendance is desired.

     The Rev. J. W. Lewis and family left the city yesterday evening for St. Louis, his new field of labor.  Mr. Lewis has been in charge of the M. E. Church (south) of this city for the last four years, and has gained hosts of friends.  There is a universal feeling of regret that he is called away.

     Gen. J. O. Shelby is in the city, stopping at the Pacific.

     Col. P. Donan, of the Lexington Caucasian, was in our office yesterday.

     Mr. Lynch has just opened one of the most magnificent restaurant halls in the West, at the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets.

     A new reliable and excellent firm has just opened business in this city, in the staple and fancy grocery line.  It is styled West & Hall, comprised of Mr. John H. West of the Custom Mills, and Mr. Theodore F. Hall, late with Bennet, Gregory & Co.  Their place of business is under the Ferguson House, corner of Twelfth and Grand Avenue.

October 20, 1870.

  The building of Messrs. Askew, Du Bois & Co., will soon be ready for occupancy.

     P. T. Barnum, the great showman, was in the city yesterday bound for the buffalo regions.

     Mr. H. T. Wright has placed upon our table a copy of Josh Billings's "Farmers' Almanax" for 1871.  It is rich, rare and racy.

     Grading streets is now in order in many parts of our city.  Workmen commenced grading Fifth Street, between Charlotte and Locust last Monday.  The residents in that part of the city are high glee over the prospects of soon having pavements.

     We were shown a sweet potato yesterday by Mr. John Gilday, raised on St. Mary's Mission farm, (Father Ward) weighing ten pounds, and measuring twenty-four inches in circumference.  What size do pumpkins grow in that region?

     Mr. C. H. Vincent has opened the books of "The Great Western Land Office Company" in Room No. 2 of Hart's new building.  He has a complete abstract to the title of every foot of land in Jackson County.  Mr. George M. Winship at present presides over the books.

     Mr. William Shannon, Jr., Democratic candidate for the legislature in Douglas County, Kansas, and one of the directors of the Lawrence Standard, was in the city yesterday.

     The following prominent railroad gentlemen and Eastern tourists were in the city yesterday, at the St. James:  J. F. Joy, Hudson E. Bridge, T. McKissock, W. O. Seers, F. A. Hill, George A. Wells, Philip Taylor, James Wilson, D. W. Sherwood, Fletcher Howell, John Fish, T. W. Downs, D. M. Reed, T. B. Hodtckiss and P. T. Barnum.

October 18, 2025

   Twenty car loads of cattle were shipped yesterday for St. Louis.

     A party of one hundred Chinamen  passed through the city yesterday on the way to the Southern States.

     The sociable of St. Paul's Church will be held tonight at the residence of B. McLean, Esq., on Wyandotte Street, second door north of Ninth.  All are invited.

     Messrs. J. F. Joy, A. Bridges, and other prominent railroaders will be in the city today in consultation on matters pertaining to that department.

     We have so far inadvertently omitted the name of Mr. John D. Crafton from the county ticket.  At the meeting of the county executive committee this gentleman received the nomination for supervisor of registration.  His name will now be found on the ticket.

     A few weeks ago we announced the establishment in Kansas city of an Academy of Music.  We now take great pleasure in the fact that much success has already attended the enterprise.  The meeting of the amateur class last night was well attended and passed off with much zeal and satisfaction.  Gottschalk's "Last Hope" performed by Prof. Moeller on that splendid McPhail piano was truly enchanting.

     Mr. G. W. Buckingham, the genial and sprightly city editor of the St. Joseph Gazette, paid us a visit last evening.

     Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather, quite a number of persons assembled at the Fifth Street Methodist Church last night in the last social gathering, at least for some time, in which their beloved pastor, the Rev. J. W. Lewis, will be permitted to join them.  That gentleman has been in charge of the church for the last four years and has endeared himself to every member of his congregation and hence the parting was of a most tender nature.  Mr. Lewis has been appointed presiding elder of the St. Luis District and leaves for that city tomorrow.  He is succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Campbell.

October 16, 1870.

   A large party of immigrants passed through the city yesterday.

    Quails, wild ducks, fresh fish and oysters in large quantities at the Continental Restaurant, on Fourth Street, between Main and Delaware streets.

     The proprietor of the Arthur House in Liberty proposes giving a grand ball this week. Extensive preparations are being made for the occasion, and we doubt not that a large crowd will be in attendance.

     Mr. J. W. Dunlap, B. L., will deliver the opening address of the medical college of Kansas City at the Rev. Mr. Madeira's church on Grand Avenue tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.  The occasion will be interesting.

     The walls of a house in the process of construction on the corner of Tenth and Wyandotte streets, belonging to Messrs. Bruenert & Woecher, blew down yesterday morning, injuring two of the workmen.

     Jennison's horses are taking nearly all of the purses at the St. Joe races.

     Married, at the Noland House in Independence, Mo., October 6, by the Rev. M. M. Fisher, Dr. T. S. Memminger of Kansas City and Miss Maggie Williams of Decatur, Ill.

      We understood that a train ran off the track near Harlem last evening, slightly injuring several persons.

     The Rev. Mr. Campbell, the new minister of the M. E. Church (South), will arrive in the city some time this week and will preach next Sabbath.

October 15, 1870.

   Owing to repairs now going on on the English Lutheran Church on New Delaware Street there will be no services there tomorrow.

     Last evening the Unitarian Society gave another sociable in their room in the Coates's Opera House.  This one, like the rest, was a success and well attended.  About 9 o'clock Volrath's magnificent band arrived, and dancing commenced, which was kept up until a late hour.

     Mr. G. W. Thomas, the gentlemanly representative of the substantial wholesale grocery establishment of  Thomas Ryan, St. Louis, was in the city yesterday.

     The Second Ward in Lawrence has seven churches.

     Wood is selling for $5 a cord in Lawrence.

     Married on the 29th of September by the Rev. N. A. Rankin, Mr. John T. Shuck to Miss Sarah B. Washington, all of Johnson County.

     Samuel D. Vaughan & Co., real estate agency, office in Vaughan's Diamond.

     The Hectors of our city were beaten at baseball yesterday by the Athletics of Lexington.  The score was 32 to 20.

October 14, 1870.

   The hotels were all full yesterday.

     Col. John Doniphan, Col. Jim Burns and the Hon. E. H. Norton of Platte, are in the city.

     Col. J. T. Child of the Richmond Conservator, and Col. Mark DeMotte of the Lexington Register are also here.

     Mr. George B. Clark, editor of the Journal, Potosi, Mo., we are glad to welcome to our city.

     Some inhuman monster poisoned a very fine dog belonging to Stephens & Son yesterday.  A reward of $25 is offered for the detection of the perpetrator.

     We trust our citizens will not forget the lecture at Long's Hall tonight.  Mrs. J. Smilie Wilson speaks in opposition to woman suffrage, and we hope the ho use will be filled to the utmost capacity.  She has the reputation of being an excellent lady lecturer.  Then, remember tonight in Long's Hall.

     There will be a sociable this evening in the Tenth Street room at Coates's Opera House, given by the ladies of the Unitarian Society, and we can safely promise all who may favor the ladies with their company a very pleasant evening.

      There will be a meeting of the ex-Confederate soldiers at the law office of Capt. T. A. Gill, over Mastin's Bank this evening at 7:30 o'clock to make arrangements for a memorial meeting some evening next week, to take action in regard to the death of Gen. Robert E. Lee.  It is desired that there be a full attendance.

October 13, 1870.

     Now is the time to lay in your winter supply of wood.

     A train of wagons left the city yesterday for Galveston, Tex.

     We understand that a salute will be fired at 10 o'clock this morning by Messrs. Snyder and Daenzer in honor of the Liberal candidate for governor, Mr. B. Gratz Brown.

     Gas pipes are being laid on Walnut Street between Fifth and Sixth streets.  On account of the track of the street cars, the pipes are being laid on the east side of the street.  This we understand is a great inconvenience to the men employed in the street car work, which will be finished to Twelfth Street by the middle of next week.

     Col. V. Marmaduke and Capt. William M. Price of Saline County are stopping at the St. James.

     Colonels Woodson and Routt of Clay County are also in the city.

     Mr. C. J. Nesbitt of Plattsburg and Mr. T. P. Holloman of the Clay County Democrat called on us yesterday.

     Mr. William E. Johnson sold yesterday three thousand head of cattle to a gentleman in Chicago.  The average price was from $36 to $39 a head.  The cattle were bought in Texas by Mr. Johnson at $26.50 a head.  This is what we call a handsome speculation.

     The meetings and amusements tonight are somewhat of a varied character.  A. Allen's negro minstrels ho ld forth at Frank's Hall.  At the Opera House "The Hunchback" will be rendered.  Hon. B . Gratz Brown speaks at Turner's Hall.  Last, but we hope not least, are the services at the Rev. Mr. Madeira's church.

October 12, 1870.

     Deputy Marshal Dowd returned yesterday morning from St. Louis.

     Hon. B. Gratz Brown speaks in the city tomorrow.

     Yesterday the office of Justice Ransom was enlivened by a marriage.  Mrs. Annie Clawson promised to "love, honor and obey" Mr. Joseph G. Simpson.

     Doctor Pike has been appointed as a special policeman at Coates's Opera House for the express purpose of keeping those "naughty boys" in bounds.  The doctor understands his business and we advise refractory boys to be on the lookout.

     The train on the Kansas Pacific Road failed to come in on time yesterday.  A stock train which had run off the t rack two stations west of Topeka was the cause of the detention.

     A goodly number attended Coates's Opera House last night.  "East Lynne" was the play, and it is no exaggeration to say it was rendered in a manner that has never before been equaled in this city.  Tonight "Ingomar" will be placed on the boards.  We should imagine that this is one of the best pieces in which Mr. Pope appears, and the simple announcement should be sufficient to attract a large number to the opera house.

     Messrs. John S. Porter and William E. Johnson have returned from Texas.  They left last spring for the Lone Star State and report times brisk in that portion of the country.  These gentlemen visited Texas for the purpose of buying cattle, and we learn that they shipped 223 carloads for Chicago.

     Capt. D. H. Porter has retired from the editorial corps of the Bulletin.  He was an enterprising newspaper man and a genial gentleman, and we regret to learn his determination to bid farewell to the quill.

     The delegates from Jackson County to the liberal Republican convention are requested to meet at the office of John K. Cravens, on Fifth Street, at 10 o'clock this morning.

October 11, 1870.

     "East Lynne" at the opera house tonight.

     A. Sumner & Co., dealers in Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, pianos and organs, have removed to 1123 Main Street, about one square above the Junction.  They now occupy one of the fine large rooms in Swope's new building, which has been fitted up and furnished for them.  The business is under the management of our esteemed friend, C. D. Hank.

     The river is falling slowly.  The Mary McDonald arrived from St. Louis Sunday heavily laden with merchandise for our merchants.  The Kate Kearney arrived the same day from St. Joseph and passed on up to Lexington.   The W. J. Lewis came up from St. Louis yesterday morning with a large party of emigrants, wagons, household goods, etc.  The Mountaineer of the Star Line is due tomorrow from St. Louis.

     Hon. J. M. McMichael of Plattsburg, Clinton County, was in the city yesterday.

     Professor Galloway's hop which was to have been last night has been postponed until Friday evening.

     Next Monday evening occurs one of those delightful affairs engineered by our Catholic citizens. It is gotten up for the benefit of Father Halpin's Church, and, as always has been the case, we may expect a perfect success.

     A perfect sea of mud last night was the result of the rains of the previous twenty-four hours.  Notwithstanding this, the attendance at Coates's Opera House was fair.  The play was "The Lady of Lyons," one of the best pieces that has ever appeared upon any stage, and altogether the company performed it not only in a creditable, but in a superior manner.

     Six weddings a week is about the average in Olathe.

October 9, 1870.

     Marshal Speers came home from the St. Louis Fair yesterday.

     The track of the Denver Road is now laid eighty-two miles from St. Joseph, five miles beyond Seneca.

     The Synod of the Old School Presbyterian Church will meet in this city next Tuesday at the church of the Rev. Mr. Madeira.  It is expected that about one hundred delegates will be in attendance.  The services will continue through the week.

     This week just opening bids fair to be lively.  Every evening there will be a dramatic entertainment at Coates's Opera House; Wednesday Allen's Minstrels begin performances at Frank's Hall; Thursday a Brown meeting takes place and the Hon. B. Gratz Brown speaks the same day; Friday the Democratic congressional convention meets in the city, and many other meetings not yet on the program will occur.

     Deputy Marshal Malone has at last completed the census of the city with the following result:

     First Ward...11,559
     Second Ward....11,112
     Third Ward....4,027
     Fourth Ward....32,286

     According to this our city has a population double that of Omaha, twelve thousand more than Leavenworth and ten thousand more than St. Joseph.

     The Rev. J. G. Roberts will preach today at 11 o'clock in the morning and at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the Congregational Church on Grand Avenue.

     Married on the 4th inst. at the residence of the bride's mother in this city by A. Porter, Mr. P. I Waldo of California to Miss Lucy Mills of Independence.

     It was a merry party, principally members of the press, who met at the Coates Opera House last night to witness the effect of the scenery and the general appearance of the opera room by gaslight.  Among those present were Messrs. Van Horn, Abeel, Reilly, Hicks, Boreman, Whitehead, Jones, Hise, Col. E. R. Hamilton, W. H. Keller, Thomas H. Frame, E. H. Allen, W. S. Ide, J. H. Bagwell, Wallace Pratt, John K. Cravens, T. B. Eldridge, H. J. Hayden and J. L. Parkinson.

October 8, 1870.

     Monday night Professor Galloway gives another hop.  The affairs are un-exceptionable and attended with great pleasure.  The best of music will be on hand and no pains spared to render the entertainment a success.

  The ladies of Kansas City and vicinity are invited to attend the grand opening of French bonnets and hats at Mrs. L. Rounds's on Sixth Street today, October 8.

     Mr. M. Dearing, formerly of the Arthur House, Liberty., Mo., and widely known throughout the country as an excellent landlord, has taken charge of the Pacific House in this city and is having it refinished and improved in every conceivable manner.  His arrangements will be completed within a few days, making it one of the best houses in the West. 

     Samuel Jewett of Independence took the premiums at the St. Louis Fair in three classes of sheep.

     We had the pleasure of meeting this morning Mr. John Gilday, who has just returned from an extended trip through New Mexico, much improved in health and general looks.  He is back in most excellent time from his New Mexico trip to go the whole railroad ticket at the election to bring out today at least fifty voters.

      A. J. Norman has just returned from the Eastern markets, where he has been purchasing his fall stock.  We notice the sidewalk in front of his store is piled high with boxes of new and fresh goods, which will be ready on short notice for the inspection of his numerous customers.

October 7, 1870.

     A large number of residence houses are going up in Thomas's Addition.

     Horace Greeley is stopping at the St. James Hotel.

     Hon B. Gratz Brown speaks in this city next Thursday.

     Tomorrow several races will come off at the Driving Park.

     A Pullman palace car passed through the city yesterday for the Denver Road.

     Mr. Eaton of the firm of Tracy & Eaton, publishers of the "Guide to the Great West," was in our office yesterday.  The work is highly recommended and almost indispensable to those traveling westward.  Mr. Wright at the postoffice has the book for sale.

     Col. James Curtis, a prominent lawyer of Keokuk, Ia., formerly of Colorado; E. H. Rawlings of Kansas, also one of Colorado's pioneers, and Mr. A. Cassell of Lexington Ky., called on us yesterday.  All expressed themselves as pleased with our city.

     Mr. J. E. Munford of St. Louis, an extensive owner of real estate in this city and Kansas, is staying with his nephew, Dr. Morrison Munford.  We are pleased to welcome such gentlemen to our city, and while St. Louis would keenly feel the loss of such an estimable citizen, we nevertheless express the hope that he may make this city his permanent home.

     Omnibuses will run from the corner of Grand Avenue and Ottawa Street and the corner of Fifth and Main streets to Coates's Opera House before and after the performance.  Fare ten cents.

October 6, 1870.

     Horace Greeley lectures at Frank's Hall tonight.  Nearly all the seats have been sold.

     Mr. Dan Geary, city clerk, Mr. John Donnelly, city engineer, and Mr. James E. Marsh, alderman, and a number of others left yesterday to attend the St. Louis fair.

     Justice Ransom's court was enlivened yesterday by a marriage ceremony.  The parties were Mr. John Hawkins and a beautiful Shawnee maiden, Susan Rogers.  They looked as happy as persons generally do on such occasions.

     F. B. Nossinger and T. J. Bigger will kill about five hundred sheep next Friday and will sell the hams at Bigger's pork house next Saturday at fifteen cents each.  This is the cheapest meat ever offered on this market.

     Last night our little neighbor of Harlem was the scene of a pleasant gathering to witness the nuptials of Mr. Charles McBride of this city to Miss Nannie C. Mimms of Harlem.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev. X. X. Buckner.

     Several of our citizens are visiting in Ottawa, Kas., among them Mr. D. C. James.

     Dr. J. Lykins, a member of the city council, has been appointed a delegate to the southern commercial convention.

October 5, 1870.

     Mr. Parker has just commenced the erection of a fine business house on Delaware Street, between Third and Fourth.

     There will be an oyster supper and festival at the Grand Avenue M. E. Church this evening.  An interesting time is expected.

     The popular and gentlemanly head clerk at the St. James Hotel, Mr. D. A. Moreau, was made the recipient of a valuable gold watch chain yesterday from a jeweler in the city.

    The Walter B. Dance came up from St. Louis yesterday, the first boat for several days.

     Mr. Foote of the firm of W. H. How & Co., newspaper agents, St. Louis, was in the city yesterday and gave us a call.  He represents one of the best houses in the country and withal is a polite and genial gentleman.

     Mr. George Bowman of the Forest City Independent was in the city yesterday, stopping at the St. James.

     Married, at the residence of William Holmes on Wyandotte Street, October 4th, by Elder William Holmes, Mr. George W. Summers of Miss Kate Williams, both of Parkville, Mo.

     Yesterday two beautiful cars were placed on the street car tracks opposite the St. James Hotel, and we presume that today or tomorrow travel will begin over that line.  The words, "Walnut Street and Grand Avenue," are at the top of the cars, and below, "Kansas City and Westport," and are numbered respectively "2" and "4".  They will each seat fourteen persons very comfortably, but we presume, as in the case of all other growing cities, the cry will be:

     Never full, pack 'em in;
     Move up, fat men; squeeze 'em thin;
     Trunks, valises, boxes, bundles;
     Fill up gaps as on she stumbles.
     Market baskets without number,
     Owners, easy, nod in slumber.
     Thirty seated, forty standing;
     Toes are trod on, hats are smashed,
     Dresses spoiled, hoopskirts crashed.
     Thieves are busy, bent on plunder.
     Still we rattle on like thunder.
     Packed together, unwashed bodies,
     Bathed in fumes of whisky toddies.
     Aren't we jolly?  What a blessing;
     A horsecar hash with such a dressing!

October 4, 1870.

     Four hundred tickets have been sold to the Horace Greeley lecture.

     Mr. R. W. Hilliker returned yesterday from an extended visit to Omaha.

     The "Germania," the new singing society of our city, was definitely constituted last evening.

     A new business house is being erected on Fifth Street, between Wyandotte and Broadway.

     A buggy came in collision with an omnibus in West Kansas City yesterday.  It boasts of only three wheels now.

     S. S. Baker, 700 Main Street, will open on Wednesday his great Boston Dollar Sale.  One of the attractive features of their superb stock is the fine collection of German and American chromos.

     On next Saturday evening the magnificent opera house of Col. Kersey Coates will open with a first class dramatic troupe.  Mr. Charles Pape, recent manager of the St. Charles Opera House of New Orleans, and known all over the Union as one of the best managers in the country, is in charge, and under his admirable management it cannot but prove a success.  Tickets for the entertainment can be purchased at the opera house Wednesday, and thereafter at different places in the city.  Parties will do well to secure seats early.

     The new street cars have arrived and from the rapid manner in which the tracks are being put in the proper condition will presume they will be running in a few days.

     There are nearly 100 street lamps in use in the city.  We hope soon to see this number multiplied by ten.

     The huge iron girder was erected yesterday on Bullene & Emery's new building at the corner of Seventh and Main streets.  In the basement of this building also there is a most excellent spring, which runs vigorously and which is as clear as a crystal.  The outlet is the sewer on Delaware Street.

October 2, 1870.

     The Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad will be completed to Iola, Allen County, by October 10.

     The Good Templars of the state will hold a grand convention at Lawrence on the 10th of October.

     The location for a colony of one hundred families from New Haven, Conn., has recently been selected in Mitchell County.

     A convention of the editors of Southern and Southwestern Kansas is to be held some time this fall.  This is a meeting that meets with our approval.

     Eleven emigrants arrived this week in Burlington, direct from Sittingbourne, England.  The party consisted of men, women and children.

    The following gentlemen are elected officers of the State Agricultural Society for the ensuing year:  President, I. S. Kalloch; vice-president, O. S. Lernard; secretary, Alfred Gray; treasurer, Thomas Murphy.  Executive committee, G. A. Crawford, James I. Larimer, S. T. Kelsey, J. K. Hudson, I. N. Insley.

October 1, 1870.

     Hon. B. Gratz Brown speaks in the city on the 13th inst.

     Hon J. M. McMichael of Plattsburg and Colonel Woodson of Liberty were in the city yesterday.

     The mud and rain have operated wonderfully against runaways of late, but yesterday evening they broke out all of a sudden again.  George Pearson of near Westport drove a  2-horse wagon into the city loaded with corn.  After disposing of the contents he left the team unhitched at the corner of Eighth and Main streets.  Presently the horses started, and when they reached Ottawa Street they were going like a young hurricane.  The furious pace of the horses started Mr. George Bummers's buggy into a panic also, and a milk wagon had a wheel taken off evenly, the contents of the can inundating the streets of the square.

     On next Thursday evening Horace Greely lectures at Frank's Hall on the subject, "Self-Made Men."  The price of admission has been fixed at $1 for the entire body of the hall and at seventy-five cents for the gallery.  Sale of seats will commence at 10 o'clock this morning at Weikert & Co.'s book store, corner of Fifth and Main streets.

     Frank's Hall was literally packed last night -- all of the seats were sold and the galleries crowded.  No wonder -- the far famed troupe of Dupres & Benedict was there, and those present joined in laugh after laugh at their comicals, until the sound was almost a continuous roar.  It is impossible to particularize when everything rendered was so near perfection.

     Mr. Mallowe announces that the census of the City of Kansas will be completed tomorrow evening.  If anyone has been slighted he will take great pleasure in correcting the error.  A note through the postoffice will reach him.  We understand that a large number have been left out in the cold, and for the interest of our city we sincerely trust they will make themselves known.