The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-16
HERE AND THERE.

Let us have peace, and the continued
patronage of Kansas.
Kansas City seems TO have had no
view to the possible contingency that St
John might be loaded.
General HancOck's resignation and
Jere Blacks letter of acceptance still lin
ger in the tardy future.
God made the country, but the con
tract for Chicago seems to have been let
out to the census-takers.
The Democratic journals seem to be
somewhat slow in awakening to the in
genious suspicion that General Garfield
abducted Charlie Ross.
This wet weather is good thing for
the Garfield boom, for if there is any
thing Republican likes and a Demo
crat abhOrs it is plenty of water.
II is intimated that General Han
cocks free-trade procliYitics are with
him a personal matter, arising from the
oppressive duty on French corsets.
The Ku-klux organizations of the
south are developing high degree OF
efficiency, and the patriotic work oil
"wiping out sectional issues" goes brave
ly on.
Dead men tell no tales" Poor old
MI. Tilden could not help but think Of
this when lac took his farewell LOOK al
the remains of his dear, lamented Neph
ew Pelton.
Considering the antipOdal views OF
the bard money and imitation Demo
Gratis, il seems decidedly fortunate fnl
the party that General Hancock wa:
born twins.
Drink" has brought Charles Readt
$4,000. This is the only instance in al
the annals of time where it ever kept tn,
wolf from the door, OF sayed a man from
the poor house.
The army worm got away with thu
Democratic party under the Leadership
of Mcclellan in 1868, and will send it t,
| the deMnitioD bow-wOws on the sam,
principle in November.
1t is generally understood that liz
rules governing the forty days fast o
DIR Tanner does not restrain him from
free indulgence in a standard brand O
ecclesiastical ice cream,
1t is said that some of St John's mor
prominent competitors in the guberna
torial race ARE just spelling to be snul
bed. Can't Kansas City get NJ anothe
reception for their hcnetit2
The lively rate at which negfo eemi
tries in some portions of the south ar
settling up would seem to indicate tina
the sectional issue" is. to say the leas
II pretty lively kind of corpse.
Four murderers were hanged for thei
crimes in different states of the Unto
on the 9th inst. Ii seems almost supe
tluous to add that Ohio led off with
gery interesting execution al OlnGinnaI
Emotional insanity seems 10 he a
suming the form OF an epidemic in TeI
as In IL shooting ARRAY in Atascos
county the other day one man was Il
stantly killed and others were badl
wounded.
The fearful apprehension that I'll
starving lunacy Of d.. Tanner may tax
the form of general mania has induce
number of free lunch proprietor
throughout the country to make assign
ments for the benefit of their creditor
Dr. Tanner, who Is engaged IN the il
teresting experiment of starving himse
for a period of forty days, is spoken {
as an eligible candidate for Unite
States marshalship, under the Anderson
vile policy of the present Democrat
congress.
A bust view of General Hancock e.
cased in an embroidered corset woul
make a charming companion piece
the wood cut of the hypothetical fat ma
whose stalwart proportions are made
illustrate the sanitary properties of He
mans liver pad in the patent mediciI
advertisements.
The Globe-Democrat says the Republ
cans of Missouri can send four membe
to the next Congress, and probably fly
, This is not so bad for state, nine.tentl
of whose male population pick the
teeth with a twO-tined fork and whe
, the women run barefOoted nine mont
out of the year and chew dog-leg t
bacco
) A Kansas candidate seated upon
, barbed wire fence stands mighty goG
chance of being struck by lightniI
these days. But the weak part of Il
f program lies in the fact that the pr
- cess renders him utterly ineligible
f any position within the gift of the pc
, pie who dwell on this side of the swelliI
t Jordon.
There can be no enduring OF sol
, harmony in the Democratic party
New York until Samuel Jones Tild,
, and John Kelley swap saliva and shal
y hands officially" over the bloody chasl
, There is absolutely nothing that t
/, spectacle of these two great leaders pu
Q licly chewing each others necks won
D not sOlidhy.
= Nephew Pelton has paid the comm
debt of nature and passed beyond t
q twilight judgments of this world TO I
!. light of an omniscient tribunal. T
= prospect of rest in the grave must ha
: been sweet, indeed, to the man who,
4 two long, weary years, has gone up a
i, down on the earth bearing the weight
f Mr.. Tilden's sin, and upon whom it "
i sought Ia shoulder the burden of