The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Secretary Lincoln has a little Sc
named Abraham.

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can blame the poor heartcrushed
woman
jeff Davis, who visited that country a
short time since for the purpose of bring
ing back his daughter, has returned from
Europe.
In the allotment of seats in the House.
Congressman Farwell, of Chicago, chose
the one formerly occupied by President
Garfield.
The Guiteau trial should bs drama
tized. 1t would make the most side
splitting farce that has ever been put
upon the boards.
Ex-President Hayes has authorized
the Washington Republican to say that
he does. not contemplate a trip TO Eu-
rope, as is again reported
The President is imbued with the sens
ible idea that every man who votes
ought to be able to read his ballot. Mr..
Arthur never was much of a Democrat.
Danford is probably the best advertised
\ IaaB in the western country. He should
certainly lecture or run for Office after
he has adjusted matters with his depos-
| itors.
The approaching marriage of David
Davis TO the sister of his deceased wife
is announced. 1t is very rash man
who will take his chances on more than
one mOther-in-law.
Isaac Basseti, doOr-keeper of the
United States Senate, has been in the
service of that body for fifty years. He
was first appointed, through the in
fiuence of Daniel Webster, as page.
Judge Bingham, American minister
to Japan, has been informed that he
will be rendered the chief judgeship of
a new court which that government will
shortly establish for the trial of offenses
by foreigners in its open ports.
It is said there arc not less than 10,
900 F. F. VS. in Washington who are
seeking the spoils of office. The Vir-
ginians claim that they have the best
right to- the offices from the fact that
Arthur's wife was born on their sacred
soil.
Hawkeye: Mr. Allen G. Thurman is
practicing law quietly in Ohio with one
eye open. He doesn't care when the po-
litical lightning may strike him. And,
what is more, he doesn't know.
You just bet your large boots he doesn't
know.
General Rush, the new Republican
governor of Wisconsin, is q selfmade
man, gong to Wisconsin while it was
yet a Territory and beginning life as
a stage-driver. He drove the stage so
carefullee that he is now to be the ruler
of the Badger army and navee.
There is a rumor that Blaine is about
TO buy handsome house in New York
and make that city his future home.
To see the Plumed Knight and Roscoe
Conkling dwelling IN the same town
will be almost as engaging spectacle
as two women living under one roof
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg writes TO
friends in Chicago that she will wed
bIr. Whitney next May, and will thence
forth reside in Europe. She has sold
her property on the Hudson and in
Chicago. The gossips put her fortune
in dollars and cents at fully 100000.
The president thinks the Indian should
have the full protection of the laws, and
recommends legislation for the punish
ment of trespassers on his domains.
Have Dave Payne and the Kansas City
Times no rights which the chief execu-
tive is bound to respect9
A commemorative silver plate has
been placed upon the pew formerly oc-
cupied by President Garfield in the
Christian church in Washington City.
1t is inscribed with his name and the
dates of his birth and death. Since his
death the pew has been draped in
mourning, and is TO be kept thus draped
as long as the church stands.
Mrs. Garfield has been elected the first
honorary member of the New Shaks-
peare society, of London, "as slight
tribute of admiration for the loving de-
votion shown by her during the long
and painful illness of the late president"
Prince Leopold, duke of Albany, one of
the vice-presidenls of the society, was
appointed to communicate the resolu-
tion.
A dispatch received by Secretary
Blaine from Baron Won Steuben says
the latter has called his sen, born a few
days ago, "Blaine Steuben." There
have been a good many wild rumors
afloat about Mr.. Blaine retiring TO pri-
vate life, but man may always be set
down as a political possibility as long
as people insist upon naming their ba-
bies after him.
1t is said that when Mr.. Conkling
heard, at the dinner table, of the defeat
of HIscock, the HalEbreed candidate
for speakership of the house from New
York, he read the dispatch with placid
smile, and then sent it to friends IN an
other part of the room. The statement
that My Lord Roscoe is out of politics,
is probably true in Pickwickian sense.
1t is stated on good authority that
Mrs Scoville, the sister of the assassin,
received letter from him some days
i, before the Sd of July, in which he in
formed her of his intention to murder
the president, and that she telegraphed
her husband to return to Chicago, which
he did, and heard of the assassination on
his arrival, Had she telegraphed to
Washington instead, the deed of blood
would have been averted.
President Arthur is both a good shot
and q good fisherman, and follows
President Hayes in that respect, who
hunted all over the Sandusky marshes
, when boy, and kept at it until he
} reached the presidency. Mr.. Hayes once
Joined the cod and mackere. feet to the
. Newfoundland banks, and spent a sea-
son in that tempestuous and dangerous
, occupation. Washington was one oil
, the best sportsmen of his day, and
raced horses, like General Jackson, and
shot every description of bird and beast
in Virginia.
The Princess of the Piute Indians
OF Nevada, commonly called Sarah
Winnemucca, was married last Tuesday
, night at the Russ House, IN San Fran.
, cisco, to l. 81. Hopkins, an ex-soldier of
the United States army, who arrived
there from Arizona on November 8. The
bridegroom informed reporter that as
far back as 1879, during the Bannock
? kaovarafe, l.a 81. d. !
was smitten with her charms. Since
then mutual feeling has inspired them
and, an opportunity presenting itself