The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-08
WASHINGTON.
Murphy AT tEae National Capt.
aaE-FenaEe Rede3trIan-
isKa-WeAe POEnE.
WAsHINGroN, Feb. 5.

1sKa-NVesE Point.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
Murphy opened his temperance ball
here on Sunday last, TO the largest au-
dience ever in Lincoln hs IL. Hundreds
were unable to gain adj 'ttance, and
policemen were stationed at the doors
TO prevent attempted iDgre<s. His lee
ture was full of eloquenct pathos and
telling hits, and by the time be con-
cluded, his audience was in a state of
the highest enthusiasm, cheering aud |
appIauding him again and again. He
is TO remain here four weeks, leeturing |
daily in the public halls and churches,
and Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton rooms. So far he has had much |
success, and if he can only be the
means of prohibiting liquors from the
capitol, ne will have proved public
benefactor. With liquors barred from
the capitol restaurant and committee
rooms, we fancy many of the solons
will moderate their appetites to the IN
doubted good of their constituents and
the country. We have never seen
body of legislators here or in the States
but what offer.d Il fine field for the
temperance lecturer, and we certainly
give Murphy our wishes that he may
succeed in removing the signboards of
the whiskey seller which are carried in
the faces of many of eur law makers.
On the Goth ult., Miss Bertha Won
Hillern finished her second great walk,
completing one hundred miles in ten
minutes less than twenty eight hours,
the time to which she was limited.
The large Odd Fellows hall was filled
with admiring, enthusiastic ladies dur
ing the last four hours OF her walk,
who applauded her vigorously at the
end OF each mile, and at the conclusion
crowned her with a wreath of flowers.
So easily does Miss Won Hillern ac-
complish her feats, which are SO nearly
incredible to the ordinary mortal, that
old soldiers should see for themselves
how she does it. Our young ladies are
making nine days wonder out of this
and are giving sweeping displays OF
pedestrianism all over the city. But
we do not learn that they are discard
, ing heels to their shoes, or initiating
Miss Won HIllern's great temperance
and prudence in diet, and we predict
that at the end of the nine days moi
one of a dozen of the walking clubs
, lately organized will be in existence, al
the plain diet essential to prolonged
effort will starve out all the members
The House has been consideriMg the
West Point appropriation bill, which
invoked extended and interesting de
bate. Ben. Butler expressed the opin
ion, in his speech, that the Indians
!, not our troops, did the chasing in thu
e West, and that % of our army officer
? are in this city trying to escape tn,
! govt He was very severe on our arm!
= system, and said that his son, now II
8 West Point, should not remain in tn
;. army to go into garrison life with moth
D ing to do but lay limp of sugar oil
the table, and bet whether a fly will
= first light upon his lump before it will
e light upon the lump of sugar of one o
{ his comrades. He was sending hin
= to West Point because in the next gen
s Grafton there would be war, and b,
: wanted his son stamped with the pat
! emit of nobility, given by a military ed
h ucation at West Point. Old Ben, lik
: Gen. Kearny, seems averse to garrison
j duty, and doubtless shares the latter
! expressed belief that the reason VIII,
we failed in the beginning of our lat
. civil war was because the brains of on
5 generals had become ossified com
: handing two company posts on tn
e frontier. Mr.. Batter will throw brick
and seemingly care little whom the!
hit, and his structures upon the aristo
cratic tendencies of West Point viii
find good many admirers. 1t is some
what singular that in nearly every in
stance our successful Generals wer
!, those who had escaped the perniciou
effects of garrison duty. FLEIx.