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Show LEADVILLE --- Leadville is still alive, and though possessing all the necessary adjuncts of a western mining camp, still seems progressing toward Christian enlightenment and conduct. An exchange says that gambling hells and barrooms are more numerous than any other places of business, the pistol and the knife are in common use, highwaymen rob the stages close by, and desperate adventurers abound; but opposed to these things is a strong desire for law and order, schools and churches are being established, and it is thought that the civilization of Leadville will soon be accomplished. ---- People in Prussia may not do exactly as they please. Certain of the highly connected persons of the kingdom have come to grief through breaking down some of the barriers between the different classes. The trouble is that a number of leading financiers and social high dignitaries of the Imperial Court of Berlin gave a banquet recently in honor of a Miss Leona Dare, a tight rope dancer, who has been creating a sensation in the Prussian capital. Word of the festivity reached the ?? and the Crown Prince, and the latter was so angered with two of the nobles present -- one of them a prince, the other a Count and a relative of certain great statesmen of the kingdom -- that he sent word of his wish not to see either at court again. |