The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-11-05
HERE AND THERE-

The time-Iock TO which General Han
c.'ck's mouth Is set has finally run
down.
The next national Thank sgiving proc.
lamaiion will be issued by Presiden,
Garfield.
1t is now announced that Barnum
wants To build a 'joss'' house in Gar
fields back yard
The Christian church, of which Gen.
eral Garfield is member, has 100000
communicates in the United States.
The Democratic party cannot fo7ge
the endorsement of the people to 4 GER
tificate of its ability or good character.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Information
wanted-of the man who invented Bill
English as a vice president A reward
will be paid for his production at the
morgue, New York city.
New York Tribune; 1t is a good
deal like using dynamite to split a
pumpkin for Garfield to declare that
Chinese letter a forgery, but the result is
about the same TO Barnum as it would
be to the pumpkin.
A brick famine is reported in the west
which is seriously interfering with the
building boom. This condition of af-
fairs is doubtless the legitimate sequence
of the monopoly, by the Democratic par
ty, of the mud supply for the past four
months.
New York Tribune: The decent
Democrat who is proud Of his party at
this moment, and who takes genuine
pleasure in working and voting with il,
would earn very handsome chrome by
making Il statement TO that effect, and
swearing TO 1t.
The Cincinnati Commercial has made
the significant discovery that nobody
ever presided over the United States
senate who used nitrate of silver for hair
oil. This fact may not be wholly de-
void of interest ID the Democratic can
didate for vice president.
The Globe Democrat ventures the hope
that there will not be Democratic post
master in the country thirty days after
the 4th of next March. The suspicion
has been formulating for the past three
years tina. Mccullough was not in active
sympathy with the civil service reform
of President Hayes.
If the Hancock boomers who present
ed the superb candidate with that $50
gold pen had supplemented the gift with
a waste basket accompanied with the re-
quest that all epistolary efforts of the
recipient should be consigned to that re-
ceptacle, the Democranray might have
been in better form to-day.
If the departed can return to earth the
shade of Morey may be expected to re-
visit the glimpses of the moon long
enough TO harrow up the souls of the
Democratic leaders who are using his
defenseless name for the accomplishment
Of such base purpose as the Chinese
letter forgery contemplated
James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor
of that truly independent" journal, the
New York Herald. has been "blind" for
q week or more, and the metropolitan
press is just now enlivened with u
graphic account of his protracted debauch
at one of Gotham's first-class hotels. We
have no doubt that the humblest printer
in the composing room of the Herald of
fee could, under the inspiration of a
sufficient amount of whisky, convert
himself into swine with the same dex-
trous facility so frequently man.
ifested by his wealthy employer, and a
publication of Benefits bestial indul-
gences, while the equally meritorious
DRINKS of his more modest typos are
permitted to escape popular attention is a
discrimination between capital and labor
against which we protest.