The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-10
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

The New York Herald is making it
hot for Mr.. Boss Kelley.
1t Is stated that congressman De La
Matyr is going to move to Florida.
The associated press Is giving us some
very thin tafy about Garfield's health.
The Herald says Wall street is now a
sea of speculation and commercial nc
tiYity.
A delegation of Creek Indians has
gone TO Washington to oppose every
scheme for the settlement OF Oklahoma
The papers are still talking nicely
about Prof Munsell for speaker. He
certainly will be one of the leading can
didaies.
We believe the case of Georgia is the
frat instance we have heard of where the
Democrats lost any electoral votes by
stupidity.
Congressman orth, of Indiana, says
the woods are full of candidates for U.
S. senator in that state, and gently init
mates that his lightning rod is up.
Ohio men should always travel with
swallow-tailed coats in their grip-sacks.
There is no telling when they viii be in
vited to 8 state dinner.-Cinclnnati Com
mercial
Maune Loo, mountain in the Ha-
waiian islands. is in eruption. Some
fears are expressed for the safety of Hilo.
-Ex.
w. hc,o ,la, is,.l, ,,,,,,o ,.,iII 10 sa,-ad
President Hayes is not a candidate
for senator in Ohio, and is not going
to Europe, as has been stated. He is GO
ing back to Fremont. Ohio, to take a
rest.
Gen. Garfield has rented his Wash
ington house to ex-Gov. Pound, of Wis
consin, which is construed to mean that
he does not lntend to appoint him 10 a
place in the cabinet.
Judge A. w. Tourgee, the author of
"a FOOLS Errand" and "Bricks Without
Straw" is announced to enter the lecture
field after January 1. His subject will
be "The Ben-Adhemite Era"
II is stated that Mrs. Langtry, the
English beauty, is coming to America,
and will bring her hubby with her. She
will meet handsomer women before she
has walked three squares on Broadway.
General Garfeld's decision not to
make up his cabinet till February will
be disappointment to many promising
senatorial candidates who were hoping
he would take other senatorial candi
dates out of the way.
| There Is an animated Democratic DIS
cussion in progress on the question, Is
the Democratic party dead or alive
The weight of the argument and smell
are in favor of the affirmative, but tht
| question will probably DO decided the
other way.-N. \. Tribune.
The Rev. Z. E. Hale admires the pub
Tic school system of Massachusetts,, but
is constrained TO remark that when the
pupils, after careful training, can spell
scholar in more than a hundred differ
ent ways, something is wanting.
Judge Scofield, of Washington, wrote
to General Garfild that he supposed
most of 0he Generally correspondent,
| Just now was in the spirit of the THE
on the cross, who said: 10 Lord, re
member me when Thou enterest into
Thy kingdom" This amused the Gen
eral greatly.
The electoral system is u method o
choosing president which the people
appear to know less about the anort
they use il. II has now been employed
at twenty-four presidential elections, anC
yet the blunders increase quadrennially
II is a strange method of election il
which some stupid printer or ignoran
chairman of Il county committee MAJ
vitiate the whole count by some child
Ish oversight York Tribune.
I a young man from Ohio has met witt
serious mishap. He had read tina
Ohio had become 'thc mother of pres
dents and was seized with the worth
ambition to reach that lofty position
: He ut once hired out as a driver of
: canal boat, aud had just succeeded i
getting the mules started when one {
: them reached round and kicked hi
: brains out.
A paragraph has been going III
: rounds of the newspapers that Generi
l john A. Suffer. the discnvcrer of gold
California, who died in Washington T
), Gently, was buried beside the grave
+ his wife in the Moravian cemetery
: Litiz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Suffer III
y written a letter saying that she is M
l. dead, has not been buried, and will pre-
f General Suffers claim for $4,000 befo
congress for payment
Ex-Governor Allen Wright, of Il
Is Choctaw Nation, has gone east with sc
!. eral Indian children who are to
n placed at school, lie reports that Il
\ Choctaw council, which has just clos
N its session, passed very important r.
Al olution, adopting the freedmen as CT
\ gems of the nation, subject to the apprC
70 al Of the government of the United Stat
= Governor Wright is graduate of Uni
"a College, of the class of 1852, and also
n Union Theological Seminary. When
20 boy he attended the last scalp dance ii
~ his people ever had. 1t followed v
N tory in Kansas over the Osages.
le Every once in n while New Engla
person delivers lecture in which
tells the American people exactly wi
10. they must do to be saved. The N
Of England person cannot for the life
him understand whatthe universe wOl
lat do without his advice. He says that
re- Mr.. Garfield would satisfy the natio
ne that is, satisfy the New England j
- turer-he must make his cabinet to C
respond with the names that he propos
Ia He does not exactly name Whittier
use secretary of state, nor Longfellow
oh secretary of war, but he comes as neaI
O. such nonsense as he can. The n
England man who tells his opinions
On lecture and expects that the wo
to shall grasp them is sometimes rat
I'VE humorous.-N. Y. Herald
nd
de- OVER THE STATE.
re- Winfield is proud Of her schools.