The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-16
HERE AND THERE.

Tilden repudiates Finley, but not. let
us hope, Finley's bills.
Let the country thank God and take
courage. The peach crop and Samuel
Jones Tilden are still safe.
Hon. VIM. A. Howard, governor of
Dakota, died at Washington on the 18th,
at the age of sixty-seven years.
One county in Pennsylvania has in
structed for Hancock, but the news fails
to revive his late promising boom.
Edison replies, wait" That's poor
consolation for the man whose gas meter
is turning itself inside out in favor of the
company.
The Harrisburg Car Manufacturing
Company's planning mill and ten dwell
ings were burned on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
None of the barrels of -four sent to
Queen Victoria from this side ever reach
her. Her steward trades them off for
dried apples and then eats the apples.
There is no call for any man in this
country TO lecture on Socrates OF any
other ancient duffer. What we want to
know is how the peach crop will turn
out.
1t is all DOnnelly's fault He never
yet took a position in the political field
that there did not straightway arise from
that particular spot a stencil of unen-
durable pungency
1t is to secretary Sherman's credit that
he not only frankly avows himselfa can
didate. but deliberately constructs plat.
form so that the country need have no
doubt as to what he stands on.
In order to encourage his young war
riors, Sitting Bull has announced that
each one of them may have wife for
every white persons scalp he brings in
That beats all the boOms yet invented.
If Jay Gould can read the Kansas
City Times for week and then refuse IL
run up the shutters on his railroad shop
he has harder cheek than discrimi
mating public has given him credit with
possessing.
Mr.. 7. A. Hendricks is a lawyer from
taste as well as training. 1t is SAID thai
as boy at school he was IN the habit Of
arguing imaginary law cases as he walk
ell to from the temple of learning"
VIM. NJ. Escott, secretary of the Cana
dian Investment and Agency Company
of Montreal, who left that city, last De
cember, having embezzled 7,4OO, o
which he took $4,000 with him, hai
been arrested at Chicago.
Mr.. Thurman wants the theft of KEEL
logg's seat postponed until after the pres
idential election. But the postponemen
will be sufficient proof of the intention
to commit the crime, and will hardly
prove good Investment.
The Presidents nomination of DIR. An
CELL, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter PlenipOtentiary TO China, has BEEF
confirmed by the senate. The Doctor
name probably suggested the prophet,
of his appointment as a representative I,
the Celestial Empire.
DR.. Ferdinand Meyer has skipped tn
town of Madison, Illinois, having, as
alleged, vaccinated a considerable mum
Der of persons in that town with viFu
taken from the body of smallpox pa
tent, thereby causing rapid spread G
the disease and securing large numbe
of patients.
a little colored girl on Long Island
who attempted 10 poison farmers fam
! ly by seasoning their tea with Pari
. green, knows how she came to do it. Sh
looked through hole in the fence whe
two men were being hanged for murder
Moral: Stop up the holes in the fenc
when hanging is going on. Otherwis
don't hang the man.