The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-22
HERE AND THERE.

Illinois proposes to raise 5000 for
the Garfield monument fund.
| rO'Connor win lecture at Omaha on
the 25th of the present month. There is
always a disaster of some kind hanging
over that town.
Atyphoon visited China. raising the
waters of the sea and driving them in
land four miles. One town was entirely
su Emerged and swept away with ali its
Inhabitants, numbering 5000.
Eighty newspapers in Nebraska have
declared in favor offemale suffrage. This
Is 2 significant commentary upon the
rolling-p pin as an instrument of intimida-
lion. RID FL - i =
The question OF the renewal of large
number of Irrational bank charters which
expire this year, is mooted. Now is
the time for the Hon. Daniel Webster
VOORHEES, to turn lose his great mind.
The cheapest riding in the world is
on the underground railroads of Lon
don. Some of them carry workmen
twelve miles for penny-two cents.
The passengers last year numbered no,
O0O, 700.
There will probably be no effort at
legislation against the Galnesborough
hat asiOngas ladies prudentiy abstain
from patronizing that class of entertain
ments which are especially designed for
the delectstion of elderly gentlemen of
meagre hirsute and impaired vision.
Great numbers of Mexicans are gath
cred at PasO del Norte to participate in
the sixteen days feast OF San Guado-
lupe, with bull fights. Americans who
have witnessed these festivals. assert that
they are almost as exciting and inter
esting as session of congress.
President Arthur is an Episcopalian,
Secretary Felinghuysen is an elder in
the Dutch Reform church, while il is
said that two Presbyterians are about to
be offered cabinet positions. We are
fearful that the new administration will
not be overly popular with Col. Inger-
soil.
One of the most remarkable auction
sales of concert tickets ever held in the
United States was that for 1.-THE Mes
siah" at Cincinnati, In which Patti is to
appear. The total receipts for three
days were $16.592. 10, of which $1,000 40
represent premiums, averaging about 81
per seat.
The late census of Japan shows a to-
tai population of very nearly $4,000, 900.
The MikadO and his family are shown
at the head of the statistics as twenty
men and seventeen women. Yeddo, of
the vastness of which the old geogra-
phies used to tell such tales, contains
only 957, 121 inhabitants. Kioto APP
proaches it closely with S22,09S, and
Ozaka comes next with $50, 66S.
At recent golden wedding in New
York, plumber electrified the company
by presenting. with his congratulations
and good wishes, his bill, receipted
in full. This is the most munificent gift
of a brilliant season, and, though doubt
less well meant, it furnishes painful il
lustration of the wild and reckless ex-
travagance which is corrupting the
American character.
SiemerTing, the Berlin sculptor, has
signed the contract for the execution of
the equestrian statue of Washington, TO
be placed in Paramount Park. at Phila-
delphia. The Society of the Cincinnati
will bear the expense of the work, which
o1,o
fed for its completion is ten years,
which, with the amount 20 be paid,
ought to secure a most excellent result.
The Chicago Tribune has gone into
the primer business. The following is
a specimen of its efforts in that direc i
ton: "What strong Gate. The man
who built it has five Daughters, ali IN
married. Do you tumble, children"
The custom which prevails at Lin
coin, Nebraska, of obliging the inmates
of the penitentary at that place to listen
to amateur concerts whenever singers
can be secured, will, it is hoped, have a
very salutary effect in staying the flood
of crime which is sweeping over that
state.
THE rum-venders of Omaha have been
INDUCING in some altitudinous kicking
over the "Slocumb law" which requires
them to pay license of $1,000, but as
their only alternative was to "put up"
or shut up, some forty of them have de-
posted the requisite amount in the city
treasury to secure the privilege of keep
ing open.
Mrs. Garfeld's correspondence is
| something enormous. For some tune
past it is estimated that she has written
or dictated on an average $50 letters
day. The franking privilege extended
to her by congress for life, is quite an
important item. Such action, however,
on the part Of congress has long been
customary in similar cases.
If the people of this country can be
made to grasp the vital fact that the
name of the new speaker of the house is
pronounced "Kifer," and that President
Arthur's bed-chamber in the White
House Is the one formerly occupied by
Nellie Grant, the safety of our Republi-
can institutions may be regarded as as
sured for at least another year.
The Rev. Mr.. Talmage defines Guiteau
ism as ''able-bOdied beggary, disguised
as borrowing" and thinks that
such vermin as the assassin should
be extirpated from society. Gut
teau, on the other hand, denom-
mates Mr.. Talmage a crank, liar and
an adulterer- Wehave always observed
that reciprocity is the law of admiration.
On exhibition in q Eureka, Nevada,
bakery is a piece of petrified wood,
about the size of a very big mans head.
1t assays $500 TO the ton in silver,
horn silver glistening all over it. About
one-half of the singular specimen Is the
clearly marked bark of the fossil tree
with leaves embedded therein and
tinged with copper stains, the other part
beng the grain Of the wood, seemingly
nut pine, plainly defined.
It is the general belief that the
verdict in the cadet Whitaker
court martial was unfavorable to
him, and recommended his dis
missal from the academy, but that the re-
view of the proceedings by Judge Adj
vocate General Swain, and the report
thereon by the secretary of war, will re-
suit in the president setting aside the
findings of the court and ordering the
reinstatement of Whitaker.