The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-16


Maxon. Secretary OF State Grange. gets
away with every body on mail.
If man were not overly nice about
his veraeiiy. he might ASSERT that last
sunday was fine day-one % our italian
spring days.
-BirdsaII "strnck his gait AT the
-pelling school last Friday night.
The scaffold on which Frank Mccain
aud Newt Dougherty we've laThing, broke
be other day, when Frank threw up his
nand with his ''little hatchet'' in IL, and
ince then Newt has carried chair IIp.''
-SmOake Cranes Smiths ImpeereaI
> It Seegawrs.
-Quii-So, e. ridge Is not going to the
u sex Hills lie is going to the council
MI tue fG-t Vacancy that happens
The -'spprts'' are nIying u pretty
els time now. rhey wear good clothes
nd DON'T have 70 work.
The back numbers Of the NEWS with
ion kankIn's biography are all exhaust
-. -EMPoRIA NEws.
so Is the subj City Tray
Ter.
Wen bet Mr.. Rankin can outspell you.
Hank Pearsall and j. Henson put up
their money on cherry trees for the street.
Our young folks had fine buggy
ride last Saturday.
Frank Lanstrum represented THE
NEWS Oh the Texas excursion.
We are sorry we did not have q tick
ct to the free entertainment "set up'' by q
couple OF our BARRIERS on Commercial
street the other day. There had been
bad blood" for some time, and vsriOus
invitations had passed 20 meet outside
the city limits, but both could never get
ready at one and the same time. 1t was
impossible for them TO s'bottIe their
wrath" longer. So one day last week
they met on the sidewalk above the ex-
press office, and with one accord waded
In. We cannot, perhaps. do better than
quote the graphic languag. OF Missisou-
ri poet who described similar occur
renee:
''IIe pitched into him aud HIM pitched in
to he
The way they tit it was sin and caution
Tor 10 See.
They fought twelve rounds. but we
have not time for details. The enter
tainment was witnessed 10y a large con-
course Of spectators, who were much de-
lighted. 1t beat all the spelling schools
for fun. There is no telling how long
they would have continued, had they not
been interrupted by the appearance Of a
constable, who came up and merely re-
marked ''This must be stopped" One Of
the BARRIERS went to a butcher shop and
dressed his eyes with fresh beef. This Is
all we know about 1t.
-Sedgwick and the other young men go
to spelling school just for the misses.
One of Whittier's cli6rmIng poems,
''School Days" Is devoted to showing the
regret of brown-eyed New England girl
at having spelled down
the little boy
Her Chi idlsh favor singled.
"l'm sorry that 1 spelt the word,
hate to go above you,
BecHuse"-the brown eyes lower fell
because, you see, love you"
Still memory to gray-hGired man
That sweet child face Is showing;
Dear girl, the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
He lives to learn ia LIES hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament the triumph and his loss
Like her-because they love him.
Last week woman who lives on q
farm near the city, charged a neighbor
with Improper conduct while she had
fallen In 1it, out in the field. A jury
trial before Justice Bachelor resulted in
an acquittal. The charge was evidently
unfounded, and the next time that man
sees woman squirming around In fit,
he will let her lay and fit IL out by her.
self.