The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-11-08
MoRE NOTES FRoN xA11ooH.

ne ssys something about it Ia bis paper.
ds wassover here about Two weeks ago,
md We end in his Home Journal some
notes on EmpOris. which We publish
below:
Tbe,ride from BurliDgame to Emporia
cannot be surpassed Tor beauty or pleas.
antness. We met the genial leader of the
troupe on the way, who,
though trying 10 sing up what We are try /
ing 10 tslk down, Is man of genial aud
generous impulses. and, when female SUI.
frage Is .'PlaYso out" will return with
ne" zest TO the songs of liberty which he |
has sung SO long, and with which he has |
done so much for tue emancipation of the |
oppressed To sing for the down tvodden
and oppressed is one of the gTandest uses
10 which this divine talent can be put: TO
sing for ''Womsn's righIs'' is TO undertake
to Orgsnize Utopia. OF Emporia We need
not speak particularly. Il speaks for it.
self. Il has improved remarkably since
We were there q year ago. The court
house Is the most common ouS and ele
gait one in the State. The Normal
School building attracts the travellers At
tention from = distance Of milee, and
warns him that he is approaching civili-
zttipn and cul ure. the large and ele-
gan, boarding house. constructed in con
nection with it, is nearly complsted
New buildings for business are going up
on the principal street. and tasty and ele
CANT Cottages are rapidly DO ting ali Ihe
sur oundirgs. Emporia is in every re-
spect lovely and attractive place. 8 OF.
l-r of course is one of it's Institutions.
Without him and THE News, Emporia
would never have been what it is aud we
suppose the good people there have ense
enough to know and appreciate this. Esk
ridge i ssO at bis old post on the cor
ner diligent in business. yet finding time
To FIRE Eu occasional sockdologer at tbe
''peruicious proposition" He is a man
OF mind. and the mark lie has already
made in Kansas viii! not grow less as tim,
wtars away. Plumb is also here, young
vigorous aud active 10 mind aud body
He is again a candidate tor Topeka. and
though encouulering opposition, will b.
triumphantly lie elected. He is a pro
gressIve man, wide awake TO all improve.
menle, and that of course makes some en-
emies. especially amobg those who are
averse to going ahead. But his district
cannot aff rrd TO l0>e or slight him, and
viii not do it. OF the meeting at Em2o
ria We need only say that il was a tplen.
did success. In SIZE. enthusiasm. aiten
ton. order, IN everything that goes TO
please a speakers heart. the meeting as
all that could be desired. and We may add
just vi at we anticipated Religious mat
t'r, are much there as when We were
there lie ore. Nj. MacBurney breaches
to the Methodist church, and of course
speaks 10 large aud Interested cougrega
tlons. The Baptist cause is very nearly
extinct. Our old friend Mantor,-undel
whose hospiIabls roof We found lodging
and at whose well furnished table, presto
ed over by wife who is satis6ed with III,
sphere OF home and lot of woman. the
wants of our inner man were abundanIly
supplied still sighs and cries over tn
desolaliou OF the Baptist Zou. We user
10 hear Of an old Maine Deacon who wa
captain Of a coasIing vessel which plieC
bstwern his home and Providence Thu
Deacon, like good many others of hi
profession. had main eye TO business
| ~ NNENs ~ 60 ~ q lAbaAS tC1ASlO
With 1t, even If ii was doEs in very bus
mess way. His letters home. when b,
was absent on his coasting trips, after be.
ing flied with the ordinary busin 80 de
'aiI, always closing thu: ''P. S -ZioI
is very low We should think this T.
might apply TO the Baptist cause II
EN- poria.
Considerable interest is felt in EmpoIi,
about the campaign for he Judgsship il
the ninth judicial district. TINS is thC
district created by S. N. Wood, E "a, las
winter a. Topeka, and SO created, It was
understood at the time, as to render his
election to the judg-ship certain. Their,
seems now however TO be some uncertain
~ as to whether the Judicial ermrns viii
fall upon his shoulders. He has a com.
petitOr in the person of VIM. R Browu,
Esq. recently OF Emporia, young man
OF good legal attain meuts, character and
promise, aud he is said To be giving Mr.
! Wood a bard tn sic for the champion ship.
Not having been on the ground, We OF
course cannot judge correctly, but the
canvass will attract general attention
throughout the S:aie, aud there are many
who will feel. it Mr.. Wool is defeated
that he righleously come 10 grief. A
man of extraord,uary ability. he seems
10 have little disp ,si;Ion to use it Tor use
iul purposes; a man capable of accom-
Piirhi"g great thing for himself and The
State, he SCENE be better salis fed with
the part of iiIrle joker; ana has fooled
away precious time and Irified with eplen
did opportunities. Al We hope is that il
elected he will use MIA Office we'll, and
purchase with it gcOd reward of fame;
but if DEFEATED, that be will see that in
Iegrity, steadiastnesS, devotion to princi
| pies and 10 friends are as necessary &c
success as brilliant talents or cunning