The trial of the proprietor of the City Restaurant, on the charge of entering at night, with evil intent, a room in which one of his waiter girls slept, was to have begun yesterday before Squire White. The girl, however, failed to appear as prosecuting witness. It was stated she had left the city. The case was accordingly dismissed.
Thursday evening an express car of the Hannibal and St. Joseph express train, eastward bound, capsized near Liberty, and fell over into a ditch alongside of the road. There is no accounting for how the accident happened, as the locomotive nor any other of the cars were thrown off. The express car was badly damaged, but fortunately no one was hurt. The westward bound night train was detained several hours by the accident.
Three Chinese arrived yesterday from San Francisco via the K. P. R. R. At the Union Depot they were objects of considerable interest.
Great auction land sales at Ottawa, November 10.
In Harlem, yesterday afternoon, there assembled a mixed audience of Republicans, white and colored, Democrats and Brown men, to listen to a debate on the political issues of the day. The Republican speakers were Maj. Warner, of this city; Capt. J. H. Richards, candidate for Sheriff of Clay county; Mr. Wm. Brining, of Clay, candidate for county clerk, and Mr. James Love, of Clay, candidate for the State Legislature. On the democratic side were Judge Routt, of Liberty, Capt. Thomas McCarty, and O. P. Moss, who is the Democratic candidate for Sheriff of Clay county.
The regular meeting of the teachers in the Kansas City Public Schools will be held this morning at 9 o'clock, in the rooms of the Board of Education, in Vaughan's Diamond Building. The following topics will be discussed: How to teach composition, art of reading, punctuation and pausation, reduction of decimals, intellectual arithmetic, school management, miscellaneous business.
To-day the Evening News of this city is just one year old, and in so short a space of time, on a very small money capital, but on a capital which is much better, strong hearts and willing and able hands, it has grown to be an institution that the city may well be proud of. It is the only evening paper in the city, and is undoubtedly one of the best in the State.
