The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-27
4 SENATORIAL SCANDAL AND RO-
NANCE.

From the Philadelphia Press.
There is new and not particu-
larly fragrant scandal linked with
the United States Senate. This
time it is not charge of bribery
nor of any political crime. The
offence is social one and the story
ST it quite romance. Some TWEEN
/ ty or thirty years ago there lived in
Franklin, Butler County, this State,
all intelligent and industrious young
man, John Nipple, who combined
the professions of school teacher
and lawyer, and who met with
much success i'll their practice.
! Growing prosperous he abandoned
school teaching, which is n OF associ-
ated with prosperity, and becoming
| a junior partner of the Hon. John
Thompson, devoted himself entirely
to law. In the same village there
lived a young and pretty maiden,
1 between whom and the young ped
agogue III the days of his adversely
there existed All intimacy which, as
time heightened, ripened into affec-
ton on her part. Whatever might
have been the young mans earlier
feelings and intentions toward the
maiden, they underwent q change
as he began TO grow rich and re-
spectacle. His sweetheart was
pretty, but poor and ignorant, and
he played her false. There was the
usual scandal and nine days village
talk, and perhaps other moral and
physical forces brought to bear upon
the young man, for, so the story
goes, there was u marriage ceremony
i'll Franklin 10 which he was one of
the parties, but not of his own free
will.
This affair brought the young man
under cloud, and put an end to
his brilliant prospects. lie was
gifted with large ambition, and nat
urally became depressed under
these circumstances. Consequently
nobody was surprised when it was
discovered one bright morning that
John Nipple had abandoned his
wife (his practice had already aban-
doned him), and shaken the dust of
Franklin from his feet. From time
to time letters reached his old
! friends, giving his whereabouts in
| the far West, and informing them
that he had resolved to begin life
anew. At irregular intervals, too,
he RENTED small sums of money
to his wife. Soon both his letters
and remittances ceased, and nothing
was heard of him till 1867, when
the wife was called upon by Nipple
former law partner, the Hon. John
Thompson, politician of some
note i'll the western part of the
State, and an elector upon the Re-
publican presidential ticket LAST
year. Thompson told her that nip
pie desired divorce, but that, as
he had no grounds upon which Ia
ask for it, she would have to make
the first application. He offered
her $500 10 do this and 10 release
Nipple from all claims she might
] have against him. She consented,
was granted.
Now comes the senatorial scandal
and the romance. John II. Mitchell,
who takes his seat in the United
States Senate as representative Of
i Oregon in December next, turns
out 10 he the Butler pedagogue
lawyer, faithless lover, aud truant
husband. At all events, he signs
his name John Nipple Mitchell,
and acknowledges that Franklin
was his birthplace. The people oil
that town, aud, indeed of all West.
ern Pennsylvania, believe that the
two are one and the same. and AIRS
Horn, formerly Nipple, is entirely
, convinced on the point. Senator
Mitchell has thought it worth hi,
while to deny the story, but ha!
done so in a vague and unsatisfac
tory manner, promising to be more
, specific at some future time. VIVA
the Senate will do about it cal
only be surmised, bnt it contain!
greater sinners than Mitchell, eYeI
If it should be proved that he il
guilty of everything his old friend
alleged against him.
We have received a letter from
g female cousin now going to school
I at Xassar college, aud as the episil,
I contains Information of a startling
: character, il is thought best to pub
3 fish part of it. After a request t.
e send her down box of soft slate
: pencils ard gum-drops TO cat, shr
] sayc eve do have Such fun here
: All the girls are made TO participat
: in outdoor exercises, and we row
] on the lake. ride horse back. turl
: handspFings, run foot-races ant
: have heaps of fun. Belle Hastin!
e can climb thirty foot smooth pol
r in two minutes. Nell Vivian (yol
j remember herr can turn a hand
o spring and not make q wrinkle i
e her dress. | put beau tiful heat
! on Mary Dodge yesterday in th
e boxing ROOM"
i The late DIR. Marshall Hall, O
!, England, said: ''If 1 were serious
i ly ill of consumption, l woul
a live out of doors day and night
l. except in rainy weather or mid
= winter; then I would sleep in a
e upholstered log house. Physi
II has no nutriment, gasping for nj
e cannot cure you, monkey caper
:, in gymnasium cannot cure vol
>. and stimulants cannot cure. Wins
consumptiyes want is air, &c
; physic-ppre aiE, not indicate
Of air-plenty of good meat an
J. bread"