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"BUFFALO BILL" has written a letter from London to Col. W.M. RAY a "chum" of Mr. CODY on the plains. In it occurs the following, which is respectfully referred to the Queen and the Royal family of England of every other nation possessed of a silly sovereign.
"Well, every since I got out of the mudhole in New Orleans things have been coming my way pretty smooth, and I have captured this country from the Queen down-- am doing them to the tune of $10,000 a day. Talk about show business! There never was anything like it ever known, and never will be again, and with my European reputation you can easily guess the business I will do when I get back to my own country. It's pretty hard work with two or three performances a day and the society racket at receptions, dances, etc. No man - not even Grant - was received better than your humble servant. I have dined with every one of the royalty, from Albert, Prince of Wales, down. I sometimes wonder if it is the same old Bill Coady, the bullwhacker. Well, Colonel, I still wear the same sized hat, and when I make my pile I am coming back to visit all the old boys. If you meet any of them, tell them I ain't got the big head worth a cent. - I am over here for dust. Will be glad to hear from any of them. Write me again. Your old-time friend,
BILL CODY."
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Says Cleveland Must be Nominated by the Democrats at the Next Convention.
Mrs. Parsons Grows Wrathy and Asserts a Desire for Independence and Freedom.
Lynched in Indiana by an Angry Crowd - Lost in a Snow Storm
Land Decisions.
WASHINGTON, July 10. -- A general principle of long standing and considerable importance in the administration of public land matters is reaffirmed by Acting Secretary Muldrow in his ruling upon the case of James Young, a homestead entry man of Salt Lake City. Its purport is that no amount of cultivation and improvement and no showing of good faith in other respects can stone for the lack of actual....
court room and then the crowd walked away leaving the body swinging.
Married but Once.
OMAHA, Neb., July 19. -- A Washington dispatch to the New York World of several days ago in relation to Buffalo Bill and his married life does Mr. Cody great injustice. Mr. Cody was married but once, some twenty-five years ago, to a German lady at Leavenworth, Kan., and his daughter by that marriage is now with him in London. In the first place, Mr. Cody never married Col. Whitely's widow, and, in the next place, he never knew her. J. C. Richmond, a young lawyer in Washington, became acquainted with Col. Whitely and his wife before the colonel's death. Subsequently Richmond came West and located at Pueblo, Col., in the practice of his profession. After the Colonel's death a correspondence took place between Richmond and the widow Whitely, which resulted in their marriage at the Grand Central hotel in Denver is in th early '70s. After a brief period of bliss in Pueblo, Mr. Richmond obtained a divorce from his wife. She went west, and soon after died in San Francisco, Cal.
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PRESS COMMENT.
"Deeds, not words," is the motto of the real estate man. - Washington Critic.
Give a weakling punch enough and he will soon make a Judy of himself. -New Orleans Picayune.
If all men were to pay as they go there would be less going and more paying.-Lowell Citizen.
Mrs. Cleveland could carry Utics unanimously if there was such a thing as her candidacy for an office. -Utica Observer.
There are 2,400 unmarried women in the foreign missionary field. That shows what may be done with part of the superfluous female population. -Boston Post.
The croton-oil divorce case has been settled at Gloucester by payment of lawyers' fecs. It sometimes looks as if almost anything might be settled that way. -Philadelphia news.
A Spanish officer has invented a war boat that will stay under water four days. The great trick in this country is to get one that will stay above water that long. -San Francisco Alta.
One of the curios phenomena attending the Concord school is the sudden intered the daily newspapers take in the most abstruse and useless sort of philosophy. -Boston Transcript.
The Hon. William F. Cody writes from London to say that he has not got the big head. Yet we must bear in mind that am ind who has the big head never knows it. -Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Henry George now assails the Chuchman. It might have been more prudent for Mr. George to complete the annihialition of the pope before commencing on the Episcopalians. -N.Y. Sun.
The organs which continually refer to Roscoe Consling as a disappoined man do not know whatthey are talking about. He never set out to be President, but he knows a man who did. -Chicago Herald
The only way to keep party organization straight in municiapl affairs is to let them know that there is an alert, determined and active body of independent citizens who will bolt unfit party combinaitons.-Chicago News.
If a young man can'tcrowd himself into the good graces of the Standard Oil Company, or marry a heiress, the next best thing to do is to set up business as a claim agent. The pension laws have done something for crippled soldiers, but they have also made the pension agents rich and prosperous. -Philadelphia Recod
In Minnesota, the number of saloons is diminsihed under high license, hwile in Rhode Island it is increasing under prohibition. There is a moral in all this, but there is no necessity for stating it. Practica termperance reformers know it and prohibitionists wouldn't beleive it. -Philadelphia Press.
There does not appear to be any reason for suspecting that a large number of government disbursers have been recreant to their trust, even contructively, but, in view of the developments of the last few months, those who have respected the proprieties most scrupulosuly will doubtless be the first to welcome and investigation which will remove from them every shadow of the general debut and suspicion. -Washington Star.
Mr. Pickering is one of the few men who deem it a crime to spend money for ornament. He is entirely unable to appreciate the fact that the glory of a city consists in its architectural monuments and its beautiful streets and parks. Freedom from debt is not the only desirable condition in life. The Digger Indian doesn't owe much, and yet he is not a creature to be envied. The decayed and constantly decaying Oriental cities are not bonded to death. As a matter of fact, the nations, cities and men who ow the most seem to get along best. -San Francisco Chronicle.
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Buffalo Bill and La Crosse Frank. While Buffalo Bill, or Bill Cody, as the true [?] westerner prefers to call him, is the [?] of the hour among British royalty and no [?], he has nowhere in all this great country [?] who is prouder of his success than [?] Frank Powell, the long-haired major of Crosse. It is not long since I saw the ma lounging about the rotunds of the Leland [?], and the thought struck me that Buffalo [?] would have done well to have persuaded [?] warm friend to accompany him on his European tour. Major Powell is proud to call himself the [?] brother of the famous scout. They first [?] acquainted on the plains years ago [?] Powell was a surgeon in the army, and [?] attachment has grown deeper with time streams their channels deeper wear." Dr. [?] and Mr. Cody are not unlike in physi appearance, both being magnificently [?] men and in the neighborhood of six [?] tall, and each weighs in the vicinity of 200 [?]. They open a bottle every time they [?], and discuss the old times like a couple [?], overgrown children, for they are sim [?] itself. Bill and I used to wear buckskin and eat [?] and beans, "said the major to me on [?] "but nothin's too good for us now: we drink wine and dress in broadcloth if we [?] But Bill aint what he used to be, he once a true child of nature, educated by plains, but long contact with civilization worn the charm off." I fear the major scarecely be able to recognize his child or are when the latter gets back from hob [?] with dukes and princes and driving old Deadwood coach with the Princess of [?] on the box beside him. The native [?] will all be lost.-Chicago Mail.
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Buffalo Bill's Head Not Turned.
Buffalo Bill has written a letter to a friend in New Orleans, describing his success in England. He says: "I have captured this country from the queen down- am doing them to the tune of 10,000 [British pounds] a day. No man- not even Grant- was received better than our humble servant. I have dined with every one of the royalty, from Albert Prince of Wales, down. I sometimes wonder if it is the same old Bill Cody, the bull-whacker." The admirers of Buffalo Bill, in this country, will be glad to know that "it is the same old Bill Cody the bull-whacker," for he says: "I still wear the same sized hat, and when I make my pile I am coming back to visit all the old boys."