The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

Inc new attorney-generai is described
as rather dandyish in the matter of dress.
The Boston Post says the President is
the ablest politician in Washington
today.
The next thing we hear Guiteau will
be on the bench and Judge Cox in the
prisoners box.
The franking privilege extended to
Mrs. Garfield includes all letters received
as we'll as those sent by her.
James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, has intentions on the
north pole and a new German princess.
1t is intimated by the political gossips
at Washington that the House commit
tees show traces of Don Cameron's fine,
Italian hand.
The New York Tribune thinks that,
after poor Scoville's experience q broths
er-in-law will be more, Stunned than
mother-in-law.
The public will suspend Judgment
relative to the size of Attorney General
Brewster until after he has measured
arms with the star reuters.
Mr.. Chauncey 1. Filley, whose little
boom as postmaster general "died
a-bornin'. " has the sympathy of his nu.
merous friends in his sad bereavement.
There is said to be no male descedant
of the Sumner family. Its only repre-
sentatives are the three nieces of the
great Senator-the-daughters of his sis
ter, Mrs. Julia Hastings.
The appointment to the Chicago col
lectOrship of Jesse Spaulding who is said
to be "double-and-twisted" stalwart,
will not tend to enhance Joe Mediil's en-
joymert of the Christmas festivities.
If the periodical clamor of the Demo
cratic party for civil service reform were
not so obviously stimulated by the crav.
ings of an empty political nav, the conn
try might give it a more patient hearing
The Buckeye state, besides capturing
the speakership is handsomely repre-
scented on the most important Heuse
committees. There seems to be no i'm
mediate danger of Ohio seeding from
the Union.
Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, who
was state treasurer for six years, is
charged with a shortage of &75, 600 in
his accounts. He claims that he can
vindicate himself. but We are afraid his
politics are awfClly against him.
To employ a theatrical metaphor, ii
seems that Riddleberger has ''collared"
proscenium box and gold-mounted
opera-glass. 1t is q source of consola-
ton, however. TO know that Gorham
still occupies a seat in The peanut
gallery.
Danford confides to q representative
of the Topeka Commonwealth that he
will have from $4,000 to $4,000
AFTER all his affairs are settled up, even if
he does not contest the validity of the
papers which he was forced to sign
while under duress at Caldwell. The
Colonel" has always been noted for his
facility in the direction of "expeditinR"
his assets.
The Ohio man at Washington is said
to attain his numerical maximum at the
Ebbitt house, which is headquarters for
Buckeye politicians. In the depart.
ments he is found only in proportion to
the population Of his state or its repre-
sentatiOn in congress. He isnot 50 prev
alent there as the New Yorker or Penn
sylvanian, though il must be conceded
that he makes q tOlerably fair third.
Mr.. Dunmire, the husband of uiteau's
''ex-wife," is reported az having told q
friend that if the assassin had insuIted
this lady while she was on the witness
stand that would have ended the trial.
The prevailing sense Of regret over the
fact that the faulty of the scurrilous pris-
oner did not betray him into such an In
discretion cannot be construed e q re-
Election upon the chivalry Of the Amer
lean people.